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Your Affectionate GodmotherBy Elinor Glyn Author of The Point of View, The Reason Why, etc. Illustrated by Grace Hart D. Appleton and Company New York 1914 Copyright, 1914, by D. APPLETON AND COMPANY Copyright, 1912, 1913, by Harpers Bazaar, Inc. Published in England as...

At BayParis on a bright April morning. Can any city make a brighter, braver show under a clear blue sky and a brilliant sun, the chestnuts in the Champs Elyses and Tuileries gardens bursting into bloom, the flower-market of the Madeleine a mass of...

Fifteen Hundred Miles an Hour CHAPTER I. WE PREPARE FOR OUR JOURNEY CHAPTER II. WE LEAVE EARTH IN THE "SIRIUS" CHAPTER III. OUR VOYAGE BEYOND THE CLOUDS CHAPTER IV. AWFUL MOMENTS CHAPTER V. THE GLORIES OF THE HEAVENS CHAPTER VI. WE NEAR MARS CHAPTER...

Vies imaginairesLa science historique nous laisse dans l'incertitude sur les individus. Elle ne nous rvle que les points par o ils furent attachs aux actions gnrales. Elle nous dit que Napolon tait souffrant le jour de Waterloo, qu'il faut attribuer l'excessive activit intellectuelle de...

The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. I., No. 1, October, 1888It will contain memoirs, essays, notes, correspondence, reviews, etc., relating to Geographic matters. As it is not intended to be simply the organ of the Society, its pages will be open to all persons interested...

Representative English Comedies, v. 1. From the beginnings to Shakespeare v "'Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale ... nor ginger hot i' the mouth?' Or knowest not that while man, casting the dice with Fate...

Tales from a Famished Land - Including The White Island—A Story of the DardanellesCOPYRIGHT, 1916, 1917, BY THE REPUBLIC PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY THE AMERICAN RED CROSS SOCIETY COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY THE OUTLOOK COMPANY COPYRIGHT,...

The Garden of Eden: Stories from the first nine books of the Old TestamentSTORIES FROM THE FIRST NINE BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT BY GEORGE HODGES ILLUSTRATED BY WALTER H. EVERETT BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge COPYRIGHT, 1908...

The Sure to Rise Cookery Book - Is Especially Compiled, and Contains Useful, Everyday Recipes, also Cooking HintsSift baking powder and salt with flour, rub in butter, mix to a stiff dough, turn out on board, cut in two equal parts, roll out, spread...

Smokiana: Historical; Ethnographical To The Courteous Reader. Greeting The stream of Conquest has generally flowed from North to South. The Triumph progress of the Goddess Nicotina has been from West to East starting in the 16th. century she has now girdled our little orb...

The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, June 1883In the poem of Axel some of our readers may suspect that Tegnr has idealized the exploits and daring of Charles XII. and his enthusiastic guard of honor. Doubtless some allowance must be made for the exaggerations of time,...

Protection from Fire and Thieves - Including the construction of locks, safes, strong-rooms, and fireproof buildings; burglary, and the means of preventing it; fire, its detection, prevention, and extinction; etc.A SMALL book, embracing such subjects as herein treated of, is necessarily somewhat disconnected in...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 715 - September 8, 1877At all the tourist-towns abroad British visitors are much looked for; and it is amusing to see the mode in which inscriptions and advertisements are drawn up in English, or what...

Uusi katakombi ja muita kertoelmiaNuo kaksi kuuluisaa romalaisten muinaisjnnsten tutkijaa istuivat kahden kesken Kennedyn mukavassa kamarissa, jonka ikkunat olivat Corsolle pin. Y oli kylm, ja kumpainenkin oli vetnyt tuolinsa kehnon italialaisen uunin luo, joka lmmn asemesta pikemmin loi tunkkaisen kehn ymprilleen. Ulkopuolella levisi vilkkuvien...

The Mysteries of Modern London Unrecorded crimesThe mystery of the graveThe fascination of the unknownThe shady friends we makeThe romance of the railway carriageWho and what is your neighbour?How I find my way about A MYSTERY is, in a popular sense, that which cannot...

Kolme runokertomusta: Korinton piiritys. Mazeppa. Chillonin vanki.Byron, Shakespearen ohella ja jlkeen kuuluisin englantilainen runoilija, Napoleonin sotilassortovallan ja "pyhn allianssin" aikuisen taantumuksen ja vapaudenkammon kiivain ja kaunopuheisin vihollinen, on suomenkieliselle yleislle, pinvastoin kuin Shakespeare, ollut toistaiseksi miltei suljettu kirja. Ja kuitenkin on Byronin vaikutus maailmankirjallisuuteen...

The Merry Andrew; or, The Humours of a Fair.Make haste, make haste, but dont get into the crowd: for little boys are often trod upon, and even crushed to death by mixing with the mob. If you would be safe, by all means avoid...

Through South AmericaBy Hon. John Barrett, Director-General of the Pan American Union and formerly United States Minister to Argentina, Panama, and Colombia I have real pleasure in complying with the suggestion that I should write an introduction to this interesting and instructive work by...

Dissertationem de hominibvs post mortem sangvisvgis, vvlgo sic dictis VampyrenQuo praeclarior atque utilior censetur res, eo maiori in pretio non solum habenda, sed et omni modo promovenda est. An vero quaedam inveniri possit veritate praestantior, quae in nostrarum cogitationum convenientia cum externa sensione consistit,...

The Gods of the North: an epic poemThe argument of the poem by the author is the sole document that accompanies the original work; there are neither notes nor preface to the edition from which I have made my translation, and which is the...