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Recollections of the Civil WarWhen one writes a book, a preface is in order. Mine shall be by way of explanation. The only apology I have to offer for writing this little personal pronoun I story is the very simple one that it is...

Sir Isaac BrockAs this book is published, Canada is celebrating her fiftieth birthday. The thoughts of all of us travel back along the line of those fifty years since Confederation swept away all divisions and made the people of what is now Canada one...

Harper's Young People, September 20, 1881 - An Illustrated Weekly "Now, right about face!" September cries, "Right about face, and march!" cries she; "You, Summer, have had your day, and now, In spite of your sorrowful clouded brow, The children belong to me. "Come,...

The Warfare of ScienceIn its earlier abridged form this address was given as a Phi Beta Kappa oration at Brown University, and, as a lecture, at New York, Boston, New Haven, Ann Arbor, and elsewhere. In that form, substantially, it was published in The...

Botany: The Science of Plant LifeTHIS book is for those who want some general knowledge of the plant world, without necessarily caring for the technical details upon which such knowledge is based. If it leaves the reader with an impulse to follow the subject...

Briefe an Ludwig Tieck (4/4) - Vierter BandGabriele, 3 Bde. (1820.) Die Tante, 3 Bde. (1823.) Sidonia (1828.) Erzhlungen, 11 Bde. (182532.) Reise durch England und Schottland (1813.) Reise durch das sdliche Frankreich, 2 Bde. (1817.) Kunsthistorische Werke &c. Sie war, seitdem sie sich...

Briefe an Ludwig Tieck (3/4) - Dritter BandGeboren 1783 zu Sore, einer der bedeutsamsten dnischen Philologen, Historiker und Kritiker. Er bereisete in den Jahren 1819 und 1830 sowohl Deutschland, als Frankreich und Italien; wurde schon 1823 Professor der Litteraturgeschichte an der Universitt; war von...

Doing Their Bit: War Work at HomeBY THE Rt. Hon. DAVID LLOYD GEORGE, M.P. I hope that Mr. Boyd Cables book will have a wide circulation, both amongst our troops who will learn from it how their comrades at home are doing their bit,...

Anno Domini 2000; or, Woman's DestinyGeorge Claude Sonsius in his early youth appeared to have before him a fair, prosperous future. His father and mother were of good family, but neither of them inherited wealth. When young Sonsius finished his university career, the small...

Rudiments of Conchology - Intended as a familiar introduction to the science."This box and its contents are the gifts of my cousin Jane," replied Lucy: "she said that I might have her whole collection, if I could find any pleasure in looking at shells...

Our Greatest Battle (The Meuse-Argonne)During the war we had books which were the product of the spirit of the hour and its limitations. Among these was my "America in France," which was written, while we were still expecting the war to last through the...

"Buffalo Bill" from Prairie to Palace: An Authentic History of the Wild WestAn association of some thirty years with the subject of these pages, a familiarity with his history gained by opportune meetings and conversations with comrades now living, and those since deadwho were...

"My Visit to Tolstoy": Five DiscoursesTranscriber's Notes: Blank pages have been eliminated. Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the original. A few typographical errors have been corrected. The cover page was created by the transcriber and can be considered public...

The Expert Waitress: A Manual for the Pantry, Kitchen, and Dining-RoomThis text includes characters that require UTF-8 (Unicode) file encoding. If the apostrophes and quotation marks appear as garbage, make sure your text readers character set or file encoding is set to Unicode (UTF-8)....

The Birch and the Star, and Other StoriesThe realistic stories in this book, given for the first time to American children, were written in the Norwegian by Jrgen Moe and in the Swedish by Zacharias Topelius. Both authors have won fame in their native...

Stellar Evolution and Its Relations to Geological TimeThere are two, and only two, conceivable sources from which the prodigious amount of energy possessed by our sun and solar system can possibly have been derived. Not only are these two sources radically distinct in their...

Der schmale Weg zum Glück Der Roman ist einzeln nur in der Originalausgabe des Verlages Georg Mller Aktiengesellschaft Mnchen zu haben / Die Hausbchereiausgabe wurde gedruckt bei der Hanseatischen Verlagsanstalt A.-G., Hamburg 30 und Wandsbek / Printed in Germany / Copyright 1921 by Georg...

Past Redemption: A Drama in Four ActsJohn Maynard. Act I. Mixed pants and vest, blue striped shirt, collar rolled over vest, without necktie, straw hat, bald gray wig, heavy gray side-whiskers. Act II. and IV. Add a dark coat. Harry Maynard. Act I. Neat...

Motor Matt's Submarine; or, The Strange Cruise of the GrampusIssued 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,...

Elements of PhysiophilosophyCONCEPTION OF THE SCIENCE. 1. Philosophy, as the science which embraces the principles of the universe or world, is only a logical, which may perhaps conduct us to the real, conception. 2. The universe or world is the reality of mathematical ideas,...