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Graham's Magazine, Vol. XX, No. 3, March 1842The settlement at Jamestown was begun in 1606. Among the earliest of the adventurers was the chivalrous Captain Smith, whose life was a romance even in those romantic days. He soon came to be the leader of...

De Camp Genealogy: Laurent De Camp of New Utrecht, N.Y., 1664, and his descendantsIn compiling the genealogical history of Laurent De Camp, an early Huguenot emigrant to the New Netherlands, and his descendants, I have been actuated not only by the desire to perpetuate...

Born to Good Luck; or The Boy Who Succeeded.Issued WeeklyBy Subscription $2.50 per year. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1905, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C., by Frank Tousey, Publisher, 24 Union Square, New York....

An Authentic History of the Cato-Street Conspiracy - With the trials at large of the conspirators, for high treason and murder, a description of their weapons and combustible machines, and every particular connected with the rise, progress, discovery, and termination of the horrid plotTo...

Modern Whaling & Bear-Hunting - A record of present-day whaling with up-to-date appliances in many parts of the world, and of bear and seal hunting in the Arctic regionsAn eighteen-foot spear is the lancehalf iron half wood. The pram is swung out; and Jensen...

The Young Ice WhalersThe speaker was a handsome, well-built boy of seventeen, with a frank, winsome face that ordinarily showed neither strength nor weakness of character,the face of a boy out of whom circumstances make much that is good, or sometimes much that is...

Lord Lister No. 0394: Het einde van Irwin StanleyOmstreeks drie uur in den middag vloog een vliegmachine met zeer groote snelheid over de huizenzee van New-York, in een richting van het Zuid-Westen naar het Zuid-Oosten, maar op zulk een groote hoogte, dat het zelfs...

Graham's Magazine, Vol. XX, No. 2, February 1842The scenery at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, is perhaps the most picturesque in America. The view given in the accompanying engraving is taken from the Blue Ridge, from whence the tourist enjoys the finest prospect of this delightful...

Lord Lister No. 0010: De beeltenis der IndischeDe voorzitter van de Londensche Vereeniging van Luchtreizigers, sir Warren, liep met groote stappen heen en weer in het smaakvol ingerichte clublokaal, terwijl een heer, evenals hij gekleed in sportkostuum, die een glas warme groc naast zich...

An Indian Ass Title: An Indian Ass Author: Harold Acton Release Date: February 19, 2022 [EBook #67441] Language: English Original Publication: GB: , United Kingdom: Duckworth,1925. Credits: Tim Lindell, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from...

Was der schwarze Hans erlebte: Kindererzählung aus der Heimat So alt war freilich unser Hans noch nicht; aber ber 100 und weit darber gingen seine Jahre. Genau wie alt er sei, wute er eigentlich selbst nicht; denn die alte Tanne, worin er jedesmal ein...

The Bee Keeper's Guide, Third Edition - Containing concise practical directions for the management of bees, upon the depriving systemIn again revising this little work for the press, I am not at all disposed to increase its size; for were I to do so,...

A United States Midshipman in the PhilippinesThe writer has attempted to describe in this volume the life of two young midshipmen of the United States Navy, serving in a small gunboat in Philippine waters. The fighting between the United States troops and the lawless...

Dr. Paull’s Theory: A RomanceHugh Paull, house-surgeon to a great City hospital, was seated at his writing-desk. During his spare time he was working at a treatise on nervous disease, the special subject which attracted him. It was a day when a certain public...

Autumn LeavesAutumn Leaves was in the hands of the Publisher (Bruce Brough) at the time of the Great Fire of April, 1906, and not a single page of the original manuscript was saved. I could only recall a few titles, and a line or...

The honey-bee: its nature, homes and productsIn these days of intense business-pressure, it is a good thing for men to cultivate hobbies. We say this, notwithstanding the fact that men with hobbies are likely to become bores, from thinking and talking too incessantly of...

Graham's Magazine, Vol. XX, No. 1, January 1842It was a golden morning in early summer, and a thousand birds were warbling on the landscape, while the balmy wind murmured low and musical among the leaves, when a young girl, attired in a rustic dress,...

Dixie KittenDixie kitten was a slender little cat with the softest, silkiest black fur imaginable; that is, you would think it was black when you first glanced at it; but if you looked a little more closely, you would see that here and there...

An Experiment in AltruismI mean, she answered, with her lips curling into her wickedest smile, that I have been talking with my cousin Paul. He explained, with an air of giving information, that what I need is faith. I cannot see that he is...

The Buckaroo of Blue WellsJames Eaton Legg hooked his heels over the rounds of his high stool, stretched wearily and looked out through the none-too-clean windows to where a heavy fog almost obscured the traffic. Heavy trucks lumbered past, grinding harshly over the cobbles....