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The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 48, October 7, 1897The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 48, October 7, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and GirlsOn the 18th of September, after a conference of three hours, the ambassadors and Tewfik Pasha signed their names...
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The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 51, October 28, 1897The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 51, October 28, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and GirlsIn the face of the letters and petitions from his admirers in Cuba, and the demonstrations made by the...
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Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1The following pages contain the results of the author's travels and residence in the western parts of Australia, between the years 1837 and 1840, during which period he traversed extensive regions unknown...
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The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 47, September 30, 1897The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 47, September 30, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and GirlsIt is said that the Sultan of Turkey has at last made up his mind to do something for...
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The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 46, September 23, 1897The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 46, September 23, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and GirlsThe Afridis are reported to have held a council of war, and have decided to return to their homes...
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The Theater (1720)The Theater (1720)The Theatre, by "Sir John Falstaffe", is according to its author a continuation of Richard Steele's periodical of the same name. Shortly after Steele brought his paper to a close on April 5, 1720, the anonymous author who called himself "Falstaffe" appropriated...
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Salambo: Ein Roman aus Alt-KarthagoSalambo: Ein Roman aus Alt-Karthago Die Sldner, die er in Sizilien befehligt hatte, feierten den Jahrestag der Schlacht am Eryx durch ein groes Gelage. Da der Feldmarschall abwesend und die Versammlung zahlreich war, schmauste und zechte man auf das zwangloseste. Die Offiziere hatten sich...
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Come Rack! Come Rope!Come Rack! Come Rope!Very nearly the whole of this book is sober historical fact; and by far the greater number of the personages named in it once lived and acted in the manner in which I have presented them. My hero and my heroine...
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Washington IrvingWashington IrvingIt is over twenty years since the death of Washington Irving removed that personal presence which is always a powerful, and sometimes the sole, stimulus to the sale of an author's books, and which strongly affects the contemporary judgment of their merits. It...
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Puck of Pook's HillPuck of Pook's HillThe children were at the Theatre, acting to Three Cows as much as they could remember of Midsummer Night's Dream. Their father had made them a small play out of the big Shakespeare one, and they had rehearsed it with him...
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The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 44, September 9, 1897The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 44, September 9, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and GirlsAlbert Ross Parsons, President, American College of Musicians, writes concerning his son, aged 10: "The bound volume of the...
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The Record of a Regiment of the LineThe Record of a Regiment of the Line - Being a Regimental History of the 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment during the Boer War 1899-1902The story as told is an everyday account and a record of the work of the men of the 1st Battalion...
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VellenauxVellenaux - A NovelThe consideration and favor accorded to the writer's former works by a generous reading public, has induced him to try his hand as a novelist, and the present effort "Vellenaux" is the result. The Book, although essentially one of fiction, contains...
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A Short History of ScotlandA Short History of ScotlandIf we could see in a magic mirror the country now called Scotland as it was when the Romans under Agricola (81 A.D.) crossed the Border, we should recognise little but the familiar hills and mountains. The rivers, in the...
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The City of Delight: A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of JerusalemThe City of Delight: A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem Although it was a late winter day the old man was clad in the free white garments of a midsummer afternoon, for to the sorrow of Philistia the cold season...
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A Sea Queen's SailingA Sea Queen's SailingFew words of introduction are needed for this story, excepting such as may refer to the sources of the details involved. The outfit of the funeral ship is practically that of the vessel found in the mound at Goekstadt, and now...
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The Pleasures of EnglandThe Pleasures of England - Lectures given in OxfordIn the short review of the present state of English Art, given you last year, I left necessarily many points untouched, and others unexplained. The seventh lecture, which I did not think it necessary to read...
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"I was there" with the Yanks in France"I was there" with the Yanks on the western front, 1917-1919These Sketches were made during a year's service as a camion driver with the French army in the Chemin-des-Dames sector and a year's service with the A.E.F. as an infantry private on special duty...
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The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773The Yankee Tea-party; Or, Boston in 1773In explanation of the plan of this work, it may be stated, that such an occasion as that upon which the outline events happened seemed to us most proper for the object in view. A Fourth of July...
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A Dutch Boy Fifty Years AfterA Dutch Boy Fifty Years After IN WHOSE LIVES ARE FOUND THE SOURCE AND MAINSPRING OF SOME OF THE EFFORTS OF THE AUTHOR OF THIS BOOK IN HIS LATER YEARS Along an island in the North Sea, five miles from the Dutch coast, stretches...
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