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Instructions for Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers of Cavalry, on Outpost DutyThe Commanding Officer of a Picquet, as soon as the same has been given up to him, should take care to have the names of his men written down, as well as the Regiment...

The Works of Richard Hurd, Volume 3 (of 8)The former editions of these Dialogues were given without a name, and under the fictitious person of an Editor: not, the reader may be sure, for any purpose so silly as that of imposing on the...

Harper's Young People, February 28, 1882 - An Illustrated Weekly Sparkling and light Are the snow-drifts white In the glow of the winter's morning, And the icicles gleam In the sun's bright beam, Each tree and shrub adorning. Rosy and fair In the frosty...

Venäläisiä talonpoikiaJo toista vuotta olemme kirjoittaneet ja lukeneet bolshevismista, mutta epilemtt valaisee tt yhteiskunnallista arvoitusta osaltaan mit suurimmassa mrin Tshehovin kertomus "Venlisi talonpoikia". Ne, jotka Venjn vallankumouksen puhjetessa vartosivat uuden ajan aamunkoittoa, uutta kulttuuria, eivt olisi niin perinjuurin erehtyneet, jos Tshehovin kertomus olisi paremmin...

Regina von Emmeritz: Näytelmä viidessä näytöksessä Se varsin varmaa on, en sit kielt saata, jo tnne Ruotsin tie ky kohti Frankinmaata, on heidn Breitenfeld, on lyty joukkomme. Harz turhaan harjojansa nostaa myrskylle: Tulen Ilmenausta, siell vlkkyi Ruotsin rauta; Schleusingenissa mua uhkas kahleet, hauta, ja...

The Athelings; or, the Three Gifts. Vol. 1/3 Book I.Chapter I., II., III., IV., V., VI., VII., VIII., IX., X., XI., XII., XIII., XIV., XV., XVI., XVII., XVIII., XIX., XX., XXI., XXII., XXIII., XXIV., XXV., XXVI., XXVII., XXVIII., XXIX., XXX., XXXI., XXXII., XXXIII., XXXIV....

The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 24, December 12, 1840The ruins of the old castellated Mansion of Donegal are not only interesting as affording, to use the words of Sir R. Colt Hoare, a good subject for the pencil, but still more as...

The Santa Claus' Book of Games and Puzzles - A Collection of Riddles, Charades, Enigmas, Rebuses, Anagrams, Labyrinths, Acrostics, etc. With a Hieroglyphic PrefaceThe enigma is of such ancient and respectable origin, that I shall ask no one to excuse me for offering this...

Russian Memories It is perhaps a little superfluous for one of my years to write an introduction for one so well known and so much esteemed and admired as Madame Novikoff. And yet it may seem just, if it does not seem vain, that...

The Birth and Babyhood of the TelephoneThomas A. Watson was born on January 18, 1854, in Salem, Massachusetts, and died December 13, 1934, at more than four-score years. At the age of 13 he left school and went to work in a store. Always...

PoemsThe poems contained in the following pages must be taken as parts of a whole, being intended to be distinct only in their subjects. This will account for the same measure being used throughout. Of these pieces, the only one which has been previously...

Master and MaidOn the second Friday of term Anthony Bevan, whom all his world called "Bruiser Bevan," Housemaster of "B. House" in Hamchester College, sat at dessert with three of his prefects. They had exhaustively discussed the prospects of the coming football season, had...

Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 2 (of 2)At the distance of a little more than a mile from that part of the city of Lancaster where Mr. Buchanan had lived for many years, and a little beyond the...

Vacation Rambles Dear C- So you want me to hunt up and edit all the Vacuus Viator letters which my good old friends the editors of The Spectator have been kind enough to print during their long and beneficent ownership of that famous journal!...

Two Dianas in Somaliland: The Record of a Shooting Trip It is not that I imagine the world is panting for another tale about a shoot. I am aware that of the making of sporting books there is no end. SimplyI want to write....

Journal of a West India Proprietor - Kept During a Residence in the Island of Jamaica The following Journals of two residences in Jamaica, in 1815-16, and in 1817, are now printed from the MS. of Mr. Lewis; who died at sea, on the...

In the Strange South Seas MOST men have their loves, happy or hopeless, among the countries of the earth. There are words in the atlas that ring like trumpet calls to the ear of many a stay-at-home in grey northern citiesnames of mountains, rivers,...

The Wise and Ingenious Companion, French and English; - or, A Collection of the Wit of the Illustrious Persons, Both Ancient and ModernSEntences, witty Repartees and Jests, have ever been esteemd by all civilized Nations: The ancient Greeks and Romans have shewn what account...

Fort Concho: Its Why and WhereforeMany people who visit the Fort Concho Museum and look over the parade ground and buildings of old Fort Concho, naturally ask the question, Why did the United States Government build a fort in this place, and what did...

The Dreadnought Boys in Home WatersAUTHOR OF "THE BOY AVIATORS' SERIES," "THE DREADNOUGHT BOYS ON BATTLE PRACTICE," "THE DREADNOUGHT BOYS ABOARD A DESTROYER," "THE DREADNOUGHT BOYS ON A SUBMARINE," "THE DREADNOUGHT BOYS ON AERO SERVICE," "THE DREADNOUGHT BOYS' WORLD CRUISE," ETC., ETC. The racket...