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Recollections with the Third Iowa RegimentAt the solicitation of some of my comrades, the pages of this book were for the most part compiled from a diary which I kept during most of the two years I served with them, and which was written...

Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 3. The Reaction in FranceA certain aggregation of personages, actions, emotions and moods, ideas and works, which make their appearance in France, find expression in the French language, and influence French society at the beginning of the...

Sparky Ames of the Ferry CommandThe air above the Brazilian jungles along the dark waters of the Rio Branco in northern Brazil was full of sound. The roar and thunder of many motors beat down upon the sea of waving treetops until it seemed...

Mr. Punch's Dramatic SequelsHow Admetus was saved from the disagreeable necessity of dying by his wife Alcestis, who was permitted to die in his stead, and how Heracles, in gratitude for Admetus hospitality, wrestled with Death for her and restored her to her husband,...

Brief Lives, Vol. 2[A]Mr. Ingelbert was the first inventer or projector of bringing the water from Ware to London[1] called Middleton's water. He was a poore-man, but Sir Hugh Middleton[2], alderman of London, moneyed the businesse; undertooke it; and gott the profit and also...

The Works of William Cowper - His life, letters, and poems, now first completed by the introduction of Cowper's private correspondenceWhen an author, by appearing in print, requests an audience of the public, and is upon the point of speaking for himself, whoever presumes...

The Doctor's Red Lamp - A Book of Short Stories Concerning the Doctor's Daily Life IN PREPARING this book of short stories concerning the doctors daily life, the editor has availed himself of the counsel of his staff of editorial associates, and he trusts...

Motor Matt's Triumph; or, Three Speeds ForwardIssued 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, New York, N....

Brief Lives, Vol. 1Aubrey sought and obtained an introduction to Anthony Wood in August 1667. He was keenly interested in antiquarian studies, and had the warmest love for Oxford; he had been a contemporary in Trinity College with Wood's brother, Edward; and so was...

Una DonnaLa mia fanciullezza fu libera e gagliarda. Risuscitarla nel ricordo, farla riscintillare dinanzi alla mia coscienza, un vano sforzo. Rivedo la bambina chio ero a sei, a dieci anni, ma come se lavessi sognata. Un sogno bello, che il menomo richiamo della realt...

The Rock of the LionThe Rock of the Lion is not a history of the siege of Gibraltar, although the story of that immortal siege of 1779-83 has been closely studied and followed in preparing this book for young readers. The writer has used...

Sí sé por qué: NovelaEn el expreso, con un recelo casi de terror, conoc ayer estos que habrn de ser mis compaeros de buque: Albert, cnsul; Carlos Victoria, el famoso dramaturgo, y Alejo Hugo Martn, attach militar en la Argentina. Oh, mi forzosa intimidad...

L'Illustration, No. 1604, 22 novembre 1873Histoire de la semaine. Courrier de Paris, par M. Philibert Audebrand. Nos gravures: Panorama de la bataille de Rezonville, 16 aot; Mort de l'amiral Trhouart; Charles Gounod; La femme deux ttes; L'hiver. La Sur perdue, une histoire du Gran...

The Friar's Daughter: A Story of the American Occupation of the PhilippinesThis is a story founded on truth. Practically every incident told about really happened; yet some liberty has been taken with the arrangements of these incidents into a story. Events are sometimes grouped...

Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 2. The Romantic School in GermanyThe task of giving a connected account of the German Romantic School is, for a Dane, an arduous and disheartening one. In the first place, the subject is overwhelmingly vast; in the...

The Story of the Crusades First published December 1910 by GEORGE G. HARRAP & CO. 39-4l Parker Street, Kingsway, London, W.C.2 Reprinted September 1913 Reprinted in the present series: March 1912; May 1914; January 1919; March 1924; January 1927; November 1927; July 1930 I....

A List of Educational Works Published by Methuen & Company - June 1900Messrs. Methuen will be glad to send Prospectuses of any of their Series; and bon fide Teachers may obtain Free Specimen Copies of many of the Books, and Specimen Copies of others...

Battle of the Crater; and Experiences of Prison LifeI have been asked by the Society under whose auspices we are gathered to-night to tell you something of my personal experiences in the Battle of the Mine, or of the Crater, as it is sometimes...

Ekkehard: Kertoelma kymmenenneltä vuosisadaltaJo vuosikymmeni ovat esi-isiemme jlkeenjttmt historialliset muistomerkit olleet kaikenpuolisen tutkimuksen esinein; parvi ahkeria myyri on kaivanut keskiajan maaper joka suuntaan ja uutteran kaivamisensa tuloksena tuonut pivn valoon sellaisen joukon vanhoja aineksia, ett kokoojat itsekin siit usein joutuvat ihmeisiins; kaunis ja aivan...

The Dreadnought Boys on Battle PracticeNed Strong wheeled from the gaudily colored lithograph he had been admiring, and turned to a red-headed youth of about his own agealmost eighteenwho stood beside him in the postoffice and general store at Lambs' Corners, a remote village...