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The Cabinet Minister: A farce in four actsIt is well known that Mr. Pinero holds decided views of his own as to the nature and function of farce; indeed, he claims for it a wider scope and a more comprehensive purpose than have ever...

The Home Life of PoeIn considering this book, will the reader especially note that it is not a "Life" or a "Biography" of Poe, of which too many already exist and to which nothing can be added after the exhaustive works of Woodbury and...

The Wonderful VisitOn the Night of the Strange Bird, many people at Sidderton (and some nearer) saw a Glare on the Sidderford moor. But no one in Sidderford saw it, for most of Sidderford was abed. All day the wind had been rising, so...

1914, and Other PoemsThese poems have appeared in New Numbers, the old Poetry Review, Poetry and Drama, Rhythm, The Blue Review, The New Statesman, The Pall Mall Magazine, and Basileon. Acknowledgements are due to the Editors who have allowed them to be reprinted. ......Buy...

The Salvaging of CivilizationThe present outlook of human affairs is one that admits of broad generalizations and that seems to require broad generalizations. We are in one of those phases of experience which become cardinal in history. A series of immense and tragic events...

La zampa del gatto - Teatro in prosa vol. IIPer guarentire la propriet artistica e la propriet letteraria, l'Autore e l'Editore hanno depositato copie di questo libro alla R. Prefettura di Torino, e si sono uniformati a tutte le disposizioni della Legge vigente. La...

Resa a discrezione - Teatro in prosa vol. IIPer guarentire la propriet artistica e la propriet letteraria, l'Autore e l'Editore hanno depositato copie di questo libro alla R. Prefettura di Torino, e si sono uniformati a tutte le disposizioni della Legge vigente. Ma intanto...

The Autobiography of Thomas Platter, a schoolmaster of the sixteenth century.I came into this world on the Shrove-Tuesday of the year 1499, just as they were coming together for mass. From this circumstance, my friends derived the confident hope that I should become a...

Das Judengrab; Aus Bimbos Seelenwanderungen: Zwei ErzählungenAnmerkungen zur Transkription: Es wurde grte Sorgfalt darauf verwendet den Text originalgetreu zu bertragen. Lediglich offensichtliche Fehler wurden korrigiert. Smtliche vorgenommenen nderungen sind markiert, der Originaltext erscheint beim berfahren mit der Maus. Eine Liste aller nderungen befindet sich...

Geschiedenis van het tijdperk van 25-jarigen vrede: 1849-1874Overduidelijke druk- en spelfouten in het origineel zijn gecorrigeerd; deze zijn voorzien van een dunne rode stippellijn, waarbij de Brontekst via een zwevende pop-up beschikbaar is. Variaties in spelling en opmaak zijn behouden. Een extra verduidelijking of...

Rodman the Keeper: Southern SketchesTHE sketches included in this volume were written during a residence in the South, which has embraced the greater part of the past six years. As far as they go they record real impressions; but they can never give the...

Estrellas Propícias Title: Estrellas Propcias Author: Camilo Castelo Branco Release Date: September 21, 2010 [EBook #33788] Language: Portuguese Credits: Produced by Rita Farinha, Alberto Manuel Brando Simes and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public...

Mice & Other PoemsIF the mental attitude of any critic has ever, in his approach to a first book of verse, been conciliated by an appreciative notice from some older pen, I should say (speaking out of no little experience) that either the author...

De Reis om de WereldHier en daar zijn, ter verduidelijking van den tekst, eenige noten bijgevoegd. Een uitvoerige alphabetische index van de in het geheele werk voorkomende namen en vreemde woorden, volgt aan het einde van het tweede deel. Men zal in dit deel...

Sonnets from the PatagonianWith the Allied cause crumbling away it is high time we thought of aesthetics. As a triste jest I said that to you the other day, and your reply was a plea to let you write a preface for a new...

De Wedergeboorte van NederlandOverduidelijke druk- en spelfouten in het origineel zijn gecorrigeerd; deze zijn voorzien van een dunne rode stippellijn, waarbij de Brontekst via een zwevende pop-up beschikbaar is. Variaties in spelling (bv. met/zonder trema, met/zonder afbreekstreepje) zijn behouden. Errata zijn in de tekst...

Victory out of Ruin There is a joy in battle; but the greatest of all joys is to take some part, however humble, in the fight for the triumph of righteousness. There is a thrill such as can be found nowhere else in facing...

Stand Up, Ye Dead Two years ago the writer published a book called The Great Discovery. It seemed to him in those days, when the nation chose the ordeal of battle rather than dishonour, that the people, as if waking from sleep, discovered God...

Our Admirable Betty: A Romance THE BROAD HIGHWAY THE MONEY MOON THE AMATEUR GENTLEMAN THE HONOURABLE MR. TAWNISH Fcap, 4to. Illustrated in Colour by C. E. BROCK. THE CHRONICLES OF THE IMP BELTANE THE SMITH THE DEFINITE OBJECT LONDON & EDINBURGH SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON...

Manhãs de CascaesEra a guarda avanada do grande exercito alado do vero, hunos do ar que invadem os nossos quartos de cama zombando perfidamente de todas as nossas precaues e dilacerando-nos a carne com o seu pequenino spide, agudo como um punhal. Entram os...