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Motor Matt's Close Call; or, The Snare of Don CarlosIssued Weekly. By subscription $2.50 per year. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1909, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C., by Street & Smith, 79-89 Seventh Avenue,...

The Duke in the SuburbsThe author, who is merely an inventor of stories, may at little cost impress his readers with the scope of his general knowledge. For he may place the scene of his story in Milan at the Court of the Visconti...

The Machine That FloatsBill Morrow fished his cigarettes out, shook one loose, and poked it between his lips. He lighted it with hands that shook badly, he leaned back on the workbench and blew smoke in a long, heavy sigh. It worked. It worked...

An Outline of the Phonology and Morphology of Old Provençal1. The language here studied is, in the main, that used by the poets of Southern France during the 12th and 13th centuries. The few works that we have earlier than the 12th century must,...

Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor - Series One and Series Two in one VolumeNothing can form a stronger contrast in modern times, than Asiatic and European Turkey. The first preserves its character unchangedmen and things still display the...

Cities of Belgium - Grant Allen's Historical GuidesTHE object and plan of these Historical Handbooks is somewhat different from that of any other guides at present before the public. They do not compete or clash with such existing works; they are rather intended to...

Jeppe Niilonpoika eli Talonpojan ihmeelliset seikkailut - Viisinäytöksinen huvinäytelmäLudvig Holberg syntyi 3 pn jouluk. 1684 Bergeniss, silloisen Norjan vilkasliikkeisimmss meri- ja kauppakaupungissa. Hn polveutuu luultavasti talonpoikaissuvusta Trondhjemin tienoilta. Mutta hnen isns oli mennyt sotilasuralle ja kohonnut everstiluutnantiksi saakka. Holberg ji jo nuorena orvoksi vanhemmistaan,...

Suomen herännäisyyden historia XIX:llä vuosisadalla I. 1796-1835Lukijalle. I. Savon hernnisyyden alku. II. Paavo Ruotsalaisen nuoruudenaika. Hnen ensimminen kyntins Jaakko Hgmanin luona. III. Paavo Ruotsalaisen toinen kynti Hgmanin luona. IV. Paimenni Lounais-Suomessa 19 vuosisadan vaiheessa. V. Henrik Renqvistin koulu- ja ylioppilasaika. VI. Hernnisyyden leviminen Pohjois-Savossa...

Early Renaissance Architecture in England - A Historical & Descriptive Account of the Tudor, Elizabethan, & Jacobean Periods, 1500-1625It should, perhaps, be observed that although this book is entitled Early Renaissance Architecture in England, it deals with much the same period as that covered...

Little Prudy's Cousin GraceGrace Clifford and Katharine Hallock were such dear friends, and spent so much time together, that you could not think of one without thinking of the other, and people linked their names together, and spoke of "Grace and Cassy," just as...

Geiriadur Cymraeg a Saesneg ByrAmcan y Geiriadur hyr bwn yw rhoddi ychydig gymorth i efrydwyr Cymraeg y canol oesoedd. Denwyd fi at y gwaith, oherwydd nad oes Eiriadur hawdd ei gael i lenyddiaeth Cymreig y cyfnod rhwng Gruffydd ab Cynan a Beibl 1588. Fy...

Puck on Pegasus - Fourth Edition The custom of inditing a preface is one which is perhaps more honoured in the breach than in the observance: nevertheless, I cannot allow the present opportunity to pass without returning my hearty thanks and acknowledgments to my...

Cruikshank's Water Colours It is fair to characterise the three suites of original water-colour drawings, as executed by our artist, as unique examples of the great George Cruikshanks special individual proficiency as an exponent of this branch of technical dexterity. Moreover, it may be...

Carols of Cockayne - The Third Edition, 1874 The following trifles have already made their appearance in various periodicals. The limit of their pretension is obvious from their individual brevity and collective title; with few exceptions, they were intended simply as drawing-room songs. Without...

The Constable De Bourbon On a fine day, in the early part of June, 1523, a splendid cavalcade, consisting of three hundred well-mounted gentlemen, habited in velvet, and each having a massive gold chain round his neck, entered the Forest of Fontainebleau from the...

Chetwynd Calverley - New Edition, 1877 One summer evening, Mildred Calverley, accounted the prettiest girl in Cheshire, who had been seated in the drawing-room of her father's house, Ouselcroft, near Daresbury, vainly trying to read, passed out from the open French window, and made...

"Honest Abe": A Study in Integrity Based on the Early Life of Abraham LincolnHE who seeks to understand the character and achievement of Abraham Lincoln must begin with a study of the mans honesty. At the base of his nature, in the tap-root and...

My Memoirs, Vol. I, 1802 to 1821The translator has, in the main, followed the edition published at Brussels in 1852-56, in the Preface to which the publishers state that they have printed from "le manuscrit autographe" of the author. They furthermore print a letter...

A Lincoln ConscriptOn the second day of July in the year 1863 the Civil War in America was at its height. Late in the preceding month Lee had turned his face northward, and, with an army of a hundred thousand Confederate soldiers at his...

The Boy Scouts of the Field HospitalAUTHOR OF BOY SCOUTS OF THE SIGNAL CORPS, BOY SCOUTS OF PIONEER CAMP, BOY SCOUTS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, BOY SCOUTS OF THE LIFE SAVING CREW, BOY SCOUTS ON PICKET DUTY, BOY SCOUTS OF THE FLYING SQUADRON, BOY...