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Bees, Shown to the ChildrenDEAR ANNIE AND KATIE,When I was a little boy I often wished that my soldiers would come to life. I used to think how grand it would be if only I could have a city of little people on the...

Greensea Island: A Mystery of the Essex Coast He shook his head. "I'm not the second officer of the Neptune; I've got work to do. We are expecting another bundle of Dagoes on board at three o'clock, and I must be around to examine...

The Cruise of the "Scandal", and other stories To offer a volume of short stories to the countrymen of Edgar Allan Poe and O. Henry is an operation which requires nerve. According to my publisher it also requires "a foreword" which I find, after...

Kadonnut mies 1. Viimeinen juna itnpin 2. Kenen muotokuva tm on? 3. Mahdollinen omaisuus 4. Timanttinen kaulaketju 5. Poliisilaitoksen luettelo 6. Mustenytteit 7. Musta samettinauha 8. Fligwood's Rents 9. Lkepullo 10. Salaperinen vieras 11. Lady Riversreade 12. Toisella nimell madame Listorelle 13. Kuka hn...

Legends for Lionel: in pen and pencilALL Lions have tails: somelike the one hereremarkably long ones. Some Lionels I know have Legends instead. The Lionel for which these were made is a great devourer of them, and he also has an appetite for pictures...

De NapoléonNapolon est le souverain spectacle de laction. Comme elle, odieux et admirable. Mais la grandeur emporte tout. Et ceux qui ont lme puissante, pardonnent tout la puissance. Toute sorte de contradictions en lui, mais toutes accordes. De l quon le hait et quon...

An elegy written among the ruins of an abbey WHERE sighs the Zephyr to yon lonely Tree, A solemn Grove its leafy Mantle spread: Where bend yon mouldring Turrets oer the Sea, A venerable Dome once reard its Head. The solemn Grove, the venerable...

A Molitor-ház: Detektivregényvek ta jtszott egyedl egy karambol-partiet. A jtk azonban az llitsa szerint elkeseredett mrkzs volt kt fl kztt, akikrl csak annyit lehetett tudni, hogy az egyiket Antalnak hivjk, a msikat Olivrnek. Antalrl s Olivrrl val minden egyb kzlse egszen elmosd s homlyos...

In Texas with Davy CrockettThe towering stacks of the steamboat Mediterranean sent their clouds of smoke, black and wind rent, across the sky; her sharp bow cut the yellow waters of the Mississippi and dashed the spray as high as her rails. Hes on...

Plet: A Christmas Tale of the Wasatch A tale from out my western life you say? Something to while the Christmas Eve away; And something, too, to suit this festal time, With two old bachelors, long past their prime, Who as they sip in...

The Preaching of Islam: A History of the Propagation of the Muslim FaithEver since Professor Max Mller delivered his lecture in Westminster Abbey, on the day of intercession for missions, in December, 1873, it has been a literary commonplace, that the six great religions...

Der geistliche Tod: Roman. - Zehnte Auflage.Abend war es, ein schner, warmer Sommerabend. ber den Feldpfad, der vom Bahnhof in das Dorf fhrte, schritt ein junger Mann. Ein groer schwarzer Neufundlnder folgte ihm auf dem Fue. Der Ankmmling stand still, entblte das Haupt und...

The Last Fight of the Revenge17 Which is the greatest name upon the roll of English ships? Which is the most sure of a lasting and effectual renown? There was a day when all England would have given but one answer. If you ask...

The Book of ChristmasCAROLS are still sung in almost numberless churches, lights glow on altars bound and wreathed with spruce and holly, trees are set up in innumerable homes, and mobs of merry children sing and dance around them, stockings take on grotesque shapes...

Silver RagsIn a small, flat-bottomed boat, about fifty yards from the shore, crouched a young girl of perhaps sixteen years, her face blanched with terror as she gazed into the depths beneath and uttered again and again that piercing cry: Something dark rose slowly...

Researches Chemical and Philosophical; Chiefly concerning nitrous oxide - or dephlogisticated nitrous air and its respirationIn consequence of the discovery of the respirability and extraordinary effects of nitrous oxide, or the dephlogisticated nitrous gas of Dr. Priestley, made in April 1799, in a manner...

Memories of My Life - Being My Personal, Professional, and Social Recollections as Woman and Artist My mother was fond of traveling: she would go from Spain to England, from London to Paris, from Paris to Berlin, and from there to Christiania; then she...

Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee - Giving an Account of Her Call to Preach the GospelI was born February 11th, 1783, at Cape May, State of New Jersey. At the age of seven years I was parted from my parents, and...

Wie Hadleyburg verderbt wurde: Nebst anderen ErzählungenVor vielen, vielen Jahren war Hadleyburg in der ganzen Gegend wegen seiner Rechtschaffenheit allgemein bekannt. Es hatte sich diesen Ruhm, der seinen grten Stolz ausmachte, schon seit drei Generationen unbefleckt erhalten. Damit der Stadt nun auch in Zukunft...

Wireless PossibilitiesThe effects of history upon the advance of science are often noted, but the result of the march of progress is more often entirely neglected. It would seem desirable that the future should be studied with reasonable accuracy if we are to protect...