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Castle Blair: A Story of Youthful DaysI find "Castle Blair" a bright, breezy story for children, most entertainingly told. The scenes are laid in Ireland. A bachelor uncle makes a home at Castle Blair for the children of his brother in India, in the...

Camp Cookery. How to Live in CampThe first thing to parties bent on roughing it is the selection of a tent, which can be hired of any of the sail-makers, for any length of time, and at a reasonable price. For a party of...

Busy BrowniesThe Fairy Queens palace had been destroyeda wind that had swept through the forest carrying trees before it, and spreading ruin as it traveled, had lifted up the Fairy Queens home and dashed it all to pieces. Poor little Queen; how sorrowful she...

Biographical Sketches of the Generals of the Continental Army of the Revolution New York, Oct. 5, 1888. Dear Mrs. Leiter,According to promise, I have sent you by express to-day a list of the general officers in the Revolution who were commissioned by the Continental...

Beyond the Old Frontier: Adventures of Indian-Fighters, Hunters, and Fur-TradersTo-day the vast territory lying between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean is occupied by many millions of people. Fifty years ago, except on the Pacific slope, it had few white inhabitants. Then it...

Ariosto, Shakespeare and CorneilleEvviva L'Italia! Italy, Britain's ancient friend and loyal ally, has been an important factor both in winning the war and in bringing it to an earlier conclusion. The War! That greatest practical effort that the world has ever made is now...

A Party in Mother Goose Land: A One Act Play for Primary ChildrenTeachers are discovering that no matter how much novelty there is in their entertainment, how well it is arranged, how thoroughly drilled, if they want to hold the active interest of the...

A Loyal Little Red-Coat: A Story of Child-life in New York a Hundred Years Ago In the introductory chapter of The History of the People of the United States, Mr. McMaster announces as his subject, The history of the people from the close of...

A Little Queen of Hearts: An International Story A few years ago, when my first story saw the light, a little fellow, a stranger to me then, but who has since proved himself the truest of friends, wrote me a most welcome letter. He...

A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times.In presenting the following humble attempt at history-writing to the reader, I am selfish enough to admit a preference for his tender mercy rather than for his critical judgment. I would ask him to remember that there...

A Few Suggestions to McGraw-Hill Authors. - Details of manuscript preparation, typograpy, proof-reading and other matters in the production of manuscripts and books.The McGraw-Hill Book Company was formed on July 1, 1909, by a consolidation of the book departments of the McGraw Publishing Company...

The Whip Hand: A Tale of the Pine Country A THICK, wet night on the southwest coast of Lake Michigan a dozen years ago; a wind that sweeps over the pitching lake and on over the dim white beach with a rush that whirls...

Cowardice Court He's just an infernal dude, your lordship, and I 'll throw him in the river if he says a word too much. Never mind, Tompkins. He has no right to fish on this side of that log. The insufferable ass may own...

Wayfaring Men: A Novel I wonder what will become of Ralph Denmead, said Lady Tresidder, it is one of the saddest cases I ever heard of; the poor boy seems to be left without a single relation. Yes, said Sir John, musingly. Just the...

Shot With Crimson An odd sort of paralysis seemed to have gripped every one in the room,paralysis of the mind as well as of the body. A man sitting near the fireplace glanced sharply, apprehensively at the huge beams in the ceiling and muttered:...

The Light that Lies Sampson had been uncommonly successful in evading jury service. By some hook or crook he always had managed to get off, and he had begun to regard his trips down to General or Special Sessionscoming with monotonous regularity about three...

Black is White The two old men sat in the library, eyeing the blue envelope that lay on the end of the long table nearest the fireplace, where a merry but unnoticed blaze crackled in the vain effort to cry down the shrieks of...

Olga RomanoffAnd so they waitedwaited while the ages-old snow and ice melted from the bare, black rocks under the fierce breath of the fire-storm; while the ocean of flame seethed and roared and eddied about them, licking up the seas and melted snows, and...

Josef Balsamo: Historiallinen romaani Ludvig XV:n hovistaJohdanto. I. Vanhus. II. Kasvientutkija. III. Monsieur Jacques. IV. Jacques-herran ullakkokamari. V. Kuka Gilbertin isnt oli. VI. Noidan vaimo. VII. Pariisin porvaristo liikkeell. VIII. Kuninkaan vaunut. IX. Pahanhengen vaivaama. X. Kreivi de Fenix. XI. Hnen ylhisyytens kardinaali de...

A Valiant Ignorance; vol. 2 of 3 - A Novel in Three VolumesThe oppressive autumn weather continued for the next week and more, but the atmosphere in the house at Chelsea gradually cleared; at least, the electrical disturbances which had, as a matter of...