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The Memoirs of Admiral Lord Beresford First Published (2 vols.) . . . . October 6th, 1914 Second Edition . . . . November, 1914 Third Edition . . . . December, 1914 Fourth Edition (1 vol.) . . . . September, 1916 As...

Eighteenth Century WaifsIt was probably Solomon, who, in Ecclesiastes, cap. 12, v. 12, said, Of making many books there is no end. But, if this book had to have been written by him, he might, probably, have modified his opinion. I have read some...

Down the Orinoco in a CanoeTo read a book to which a friend has asked you to write a preface is an unusualnay, even a pedanticthing to do. It is customary for a preface-monger to look contemptuously at the unopened bundle of his friends...

Dick Kent in the Far NorthThree persons plodded along the snow-piled floor of a tiny canyon in the heart of the northern Canadian wilderness. The broad snow-shoes on their feet made their progress like that of so many huge crabs on a sea shore....

The Battle of Gettysburg: The Country, the Contestants, the ResultsFirst edition, 1931 Second edition, 1935 Third edition, 1938 Fourth edition, 1944 Fifth edition, 1945 Sixth edition, 1946 Seventh edition, 1946 Eighth edition, 1947 Ninth edition, 1949 Tenth edition, 1949 Eleventh edition, 1951 Twelfth edition,...

Forty-Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1930-1931, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1933.The operations of the Bureau of American Ethnology during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1931, were conducted in accordance with the act...

Harper's Young People, December 13, 1881 - An Illustrated WeeklyThe fight, begun a little after three o'clock in the afternoon that 24th of December, was still raging furiously when the hands of the big clock on the market tower pointed to half past four,...

The Mediæval Hospitals of EnglandWHILE we are justly proud of our institutions for the amelioration of the lot of the infirm and destitute, we are apt to forget that they are not the outcome of any modern philanthropic movement, but are rather Englands inheritance...

The Deserted Village The Illustrations in this Volume are copied, with permission, from a series of Etchings published some years since by the "Etching Club." Only a few impressions of that work were printed, the copper-plates were destroyed, and the book, except in a...

The Vanishing Point When you gaze up a railroad track, said Varensky, there's always a point in the infinite distance where, just before they vanish, the parallel rails seem, to join. If a train were ever to reach that point it would mean death....

The Raft Their virgins had no marriage-songs; and they that could swim did cast themselves into the sea to get to land, and some on boards, and some on other things. It was said of Jehane that she married blindly on the re-bound. She...

Back to Life It is hard to recapture the spirit of that day we entered Lille. Other things since have blurred its fine images. At the time I tried to put down in words the picture of that scene when, after four years slaughter...

Mrs Albert Grundy—Observations in Philistia I suppose about the name there is no doubt. For sixty years we have followed that gifted gadabout and gossip, Heine, and called it Philistia. And yet, when one thinks of it, there may have been a mistake after...

Bohemian Paris of To-day - Second Edition THIS volume is written to show the life of the students in the Paris of to-day. It has an additional interest in opening to inspection certain phases of Bohemian life in Paris that are shared both by...

Abner Daniel: A Novel HE young man stood in the field road giving directions to a robust negro who was ploughing the corn, which, in parallel rows, stretched on to the main road a quarter of a mile distant. The negro placed the point...

The Black Eagle; or, Ticonderoga"Among the minor trials of faith, few, perhaps, are more difficult to contend against than that growing conviction, which, commencing very soon after the holiday happiness of youth has been first tasted, becomes stronger every year, as experience unfolds to...

Historia de Gil Blas de Santillana: Novela (Vol 1 de 3)La famossima novela de Le Sage Gil Blas de Santillana fu traducida superiormente por el padre Isla, el autor de Fray Gerundio. Esta traduccin es la que publicamos. Hzola el padre Isla con la...

Darnley; or, The Field of the Cloth of GoldGeorge Payne Rainsford James, Historiographer Royal to King William IV., was born in London in the first year of the nineteenth century, and died at Venice in 1860. His comparatively short life was exceptionally full and...

Legendary Heroes of IrelandThese stories are offered in the hope that they may help promote the love of reading in our boys and girls. After all, our duty in teaching reading is not in the subject matter but in the desire. If we show...

Poems in ProseThe "Petits Pomes en Prose" are experiments, and they are also confessions. "Who of us," says Baudelaire in his dedicatory preface, "has not dreamed, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and without rhyme, subtle...