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The History of the British Post OfficeThe History of the British Post OfficeIn justice to those principles which influenced the policy of the Post Office before the introduction of penny postage, it is perhaps unnecessary to call attention to the fact that no opinion as to their desirability or otherwise...
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Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Volume 01 (of 14), 1898Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Volume 01 (of 14), 1898All persons interested in advancing the cause of Mississippi history are eligible for membership in the Society. There is no initiation fee. The only cost to members is annual dues, $2.00, or life dues...
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Pomo Bear DoctorsPomo Bear DoctorsOne of the most concrete and persistent convictions of the Indians of a large part of California is the belief in the existence of persons of magic power able to turn themselves into grizzly bears. Such shamans are called bear doctors by...
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Mediæval BywaysMediæval BywaysOriginal research amongst the legal and other documents preserved in the Public Record Office, and similar depositories of ancient archives is a pursuit which our friends politely assume must be very interesting, chiefly because they cannot believe that any one would undertake so...
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The Gates of India: Being an Historical NarrativeThe Gates of India: Being an Historical NarrativeSince the gates of India have become water gates and the way to India has been the way of the sea, very little has been known of those other landward gates which lie to the north and...
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The Survey of LondonThe Survey of LondonStows Survey of London, from its first publication in 1598, has taken rank as the first authority on the history of London, but this very fame has been the cause of some injury to the unity of the work, owing to...
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Beautiful IrelandUlsterUlster is a province much talked of and little understooda name about which controversy rages. But to those who know it and who love it, one thing is clearUlster is no less Ireland than Connaught itself. No better song has been written in our...
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The Story of the Zulu CampaignThe Story of the Zulu CampaignSome apology or explanation may be deemed requisite, for delaying the publication of this "Story of the Zulu War" for more than a year after its conclusion. The little book itself was written very shortly after the capture of...
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BrittanyBrittanyThe gray and somewhat uninteresting village of Douarnnez undergoes a change when the fishing-boats come home. Even with your eyes shut, you would soon know of the advent of the fishermen by the downward clatter of myriads of sabots through the badly-paved steep streets,...
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Prophetical, Educational and Playing CardsProphetical, Educational and Playing CardsIf an apology is needed for writing again on the subject of playing cards, the excuse may be offered that new lights have been turned on the subject, so that there is fresh information to lay before the public, derived...
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Rambles on the RivieraRambles on the RivieraTHIS book makes no pretence at being a work of historical or archological importance; nor yet is it a conventional book of travel or a glorified guide-book. It is merely a record of things seen and heard, with some personal observations...
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Engraving: Its Origin, Processes, and HistoryEngraving: Its Origin, Processes, and HistoryThe author of "La Gravure," of which work the present volume is a translation, has devoted so little attention to English Engraving, that it has been thought advisable to supplement his somewhat inadequate remarks by a special chapter dealing...
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De nijlbruidDe nijlbruidDe Nijl-bruid behoeft geen voorrede. Alleen voor vakgenooten merk ik op, dat ik op gezag van den hoogleeraar De Goeje besloten heb bij mijn vermoeden te blijven, dat namelijk het woord Mukaukas niet voor den naam, maar voor den titel gehouden moet worden...
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The Mystery of Mary StuartThe Mystery of Mary StuartMr. Carlyle not unjustly described the tragedy of Mary Stuart as but a personal incident in the true national History of Scotland. He asked for other and more essential things than these revelations of high life. Yet he himself wrote...
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ChinaChinaIn attempting even a slight sketch of China, its physical features, or some of the manners and customs of the various peoples whom we designate broadly as the Chinese, the writer is confronted with the difficulty of its immensity. The continuous territory in Asia...
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Rambles in NormandyRambles in NormandyTHE following pages are not intended to be a record of all the historic and picturesque features of the ancient province of Normandy. The most that is claimed is that they are the record of a series of ramblings in and off...
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Recollections of the Civil WarRecollections of the Civil War - With the Leaders at Washington and in the Field in the SixtiesMr. Dana wrote these Recollections of the civil war according to a purpose which he had entertained for several years. They were completed only a few months...
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CheshireCheshireThe aim of the present volume in the Oxford Series of County Histories for Schools is to assist the study of the progress of the English people by an examination of local antiquities, visits to ancient sites and buildings, and suggestions of big national...
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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 - Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those...
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In het rijk van Siameezen en MaleiersIn het rijk van Siameezen en MaleiersEn telkens, iederen avond, wanneer de donkere, tropische nacht in zwoel verlangen zijn jubelend lied aanheft, is dat ter eere van Mata hari, die ter ruste is gegaan, en die iederen komenden ochtend opnieuw ontwaakt. En ook onder...
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