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The Saddle Boys at Circle Ranch; Or, In at the Grand Round-UpIm beginning to think so myself, and Bob Archer looked meaningly at his chum, as though a suspicion might be forming in his mind to the effect that there was a practical joke...

When Sarah Went to SchoolAcross the angle of the post-and-rail fence at the lower corner of the Wenners' yard, a board had been laid, and behind the board stood a short, slender, bright-eyed young girl, her hands busy with an assortment of small articles...

The Mystery Hunters at the Haunted LodgeThe High School at Cloverfield was quiet as the hands of the clock approached the three-oclock hour. Then a gong pealed out and the building became a very beehive of sound. The thump of many feet and the...

Safar Nameh, Persian Pictures: A Book Of TravelWarum bin ich vergnglich, O Zeus? so fragte die Schnheit. Macht ich doch, sagte der Gott, nur das Vergngliche schn. Und die Liebe, die Blumen, der Tau und die Jugend vernahmens, Alle gingen sie weg weinend von...

The Relief of ChitralThis book is the joint production of two brothers, who are constantly being mistaken for one another, who happened to be present together in the same campaign and to both act as correspondents of the Times in that campaign. The chapters...

Sir Joshua Reynolds' Discourses - Edited, with an Introduction, by Helen ZimmernSir Joshua Reynoldsto whom is the name unfamiliar? to whom, hearing it, does not appear in mental vision the equally familiar autograph portrait of the deaf artist? This picture, painted originally for Mr....

Nursery Comedies: Twelve Tiny Plays for Children*** Four of the following little plays, viz.: "Cat and Dog," "The Wigwam," "Rather a Prig," and "Foolish Jack" (from Grimm), are adapted from the Petit Thtre des Enfants, by the same author. Three of them, "Cinderella," "The...

Die Jobsiade: Ein komisches Heldengedicht in drei Teilen Fast ein Jahrhundert ist verflossen, seitdem die Jobsiade, natrlich nur der erste, abgerundete und abgeschlossene Theil, 1784 im Druck erschien; in vielen Tausenden von Exemplaren ist das komische Heldengedicht verbreitet, mehr als drei Generationen haben sich...

The Ballads and Songs of Yorkshire - Transcribed from Private Manuscripts, Rare Broadsides, and Scarce Publications; with Notes and a GlossaryThe present work is a selection from the Ballads and Songs of my native county, and I trust the publication may not be deemed...

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 109, October 19 1895At the Grosvenor Square Criminal Court the case of Lady d'Edbroke came on for hearing at the head of the list. Interest in this alleged crime in high life drew together a vast galaxy of...

Proofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe - carried on in the secret meetings of Free Masons, Illuminati, and reading societies.Being at a friend's house in the country during some part of the summer 1795, I there saw a...

The Belle's StratagemIn the following Comedy, my purpose was, to draw a Female Character, which with the most lively Sensibility, fine Understanding, and elegant Accomplishments, should unite that beautiful Reserve and Delicacy which, whilst they veil those charms, render them still more interesting. In...

Birds and All Nature, Vol. 4, No. 5, November 1898 - Illustrated by Color PhotographyALL nature is attuned to music. Man may seek the fields, the forests, the mountains, and the meadows, to escape from distracting noises of the city, but nowhere, not even...

Birds and All Nature, Vol. 3, No. 3, March 1898 - Illustrated by Color PhotographyTHE happiness that is added to human lives by love for the lower creatures is beyond telling. Ernest von Vogelweide, the great German lyric poet of the middle ages, so...

Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 3TO THE FIRST EDITION. VOL. III. Grateful for the favourable reception the two preceding volumes of this work have met from the lovers of Natural History, it is with pleasure that I now present them, though late, with this...

Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 2TO THE FIRST EDITION. VOL. II. To gratify a laudable curiosity, and lead the mind to the exercise of one of its noblest faculties, was the motive that first encouraged me to publish a work of this kind. How...

Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 1TO THE FIRST EDITION. VOL. I. It is universally allowed that the study of nature is one of the most pleasing employments that can engage the mind of man. The entertainment it affords is as infinite as the variety...

The Eternal FeminineYes, thats my bag. I left it at the lace counter. Thank you. Please give it to me. What? I must prove property? Why, dont you see its mine? That twisty silver monogram on the side is really E. C. S. Thats...

Deering of Deal; Or, The Spirit of the SchoolThe Author desires to state that none of the characters in this story, either boys or masters, are portraits. The incidents are entirely fictitious, and Deal School, though it shares certain topographical features with the school...

Four Short PlaysRachel and Carteret sitting in their comfortable drawing room, Rachel in armchair R.C. near a table, cutting a book with a paper-knife. Carteret on small sofa, L.C., with a little table near him on which is an ash-tray. He is smoking, and...