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Sonia Married"As a clownish Fellow was driving his cart along a deep miry lane, the wheel stuck so fast in the clay, that his horse could not draw it out. Upon this he fell a bawling and praying to Hercules to come and help...

Private Journal of Henry Francis Brooke - Late Brigadier-General Commanding 2nd Infantry Brigade, Kandahar Field Force, Southern Afghanistan, from April 22nd to August 16th, 1880The following Journal or Diary was written by my dear Husbandto use his own words"for you, of course, first, but...

The Romance of Modern Mechanism - With Interesting Descriptions in Non-technical Language of Wonderful Machinery and Mechanical Devices and Marvellously Delicate Scientific InstrumentsIn the beginning a man depended for his subsistence entirely upon his own efforts, or upon those of his immediate relations and...

Secrets of the Sword[Pg 2][Pg 3] Why have I written this book? I will tell you. For of all the subjects that might have occurred to me, this I am sure is the last in the world on which I should have ever dreamed...

A Little Pilgrimage in ItalyIt is no matter. But in fact we did meet one July day of sweltering sunshine in Genoa, the Western Gate of Italy, which is a city of grateful shadows, whose narrow streets defy the brilliant sun. This is a...

The Octoroon; or, Life in Louisiana. A Play in Five actsScene I.A view of the Plantation Terrebonne, in Louisiana.A branch of the Mississippi is seen winding through the Estate.A low built, but extensive Planter's Dwelling, surrounded with a veranda, and raised a few feet...

Lancashire Sketches - Third EditionSince the second issue of this volume, the matter it contained has been revised and corrected; and considerable additions have been made thereto. But, even yet, the writer is sensible of many crudities remaining in this, his first venture upon...

Mesék és regéklmodd mg az elmult vilgban szletett. Ifj szz volt mg, mikor a nagy vilgromls bekvetkezett. s mg most is az; ifj s szz, s mg most is l e fldn, s mg most is lmodd-nak hjjuk t. Hogy hol l s miknt...

Stories of Exile Ethan Brand; The Swans of Lir; A Night in a Workhouse; The Outcasts of Poker Flat; The Man Without a Country; Flight of a Tartar Tribe It is not more difficult for the mineralogist to define a metal, than for the...

Drawings of RossettiLONDON. GEORGE NEWNES LIMITED SOUTHAMPTON STREET STRAND W.C. NEW YORK. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Transcriber Notes: The caption on Plate XXXIII was changed to FORD MADOX BROWN. The caption on Plate XXXV was changed to STUDY FOR QUEEN GUINEVERE. In LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS,...

Der lebende Leichnam: Drama in sechs Akten (zwölf Bildern)Kinderfrau: Er ist sehr unruhig. Es ist recht bel, da die gndige Frau ihn selbst nhrt. Sie hat so ihren Kummer, und das Kind leidet darunter. Was mu das fr eine Milch geben, wenn die gndige...

The Boy Allies with Pershing in France; Or, Over the Top at Chateau ThierryTwo hundred yards west of their refuge were the American lines. Sprinters such as Hal and Chester could easily have covered the distance in half a minute; and it was not...

The Secret Life: Being the Book of a Heretic"Ici l'on voulut que tout ft simple, tranquille, sans ostentation d'esprit ni de science, que personne ne se crt engag avoir raison, et que l'on ft toujours en tat de cder sans honte, surtout qu'aucun systme...

Tahiti: Roman aus der Südsee. Vierter BandJoranna! und die Palmen rauschten dazu ihre leise wehmthige Weise, und wie grollend, zrnend tnte der dumpfe Donner der Brandung ihm in's Ohr Joranna! Und doch ja auch nur fr wenige Tage! rief er dann pltzlich sich abwendend...

La mirabile visione: Abbozzo d'una storia della Divina Comediao mia citt paterna, tu non sai forse nemmeno chi io mi sia; chi sia questo tuo figlio che t'offre il suo umile libro. un uomo esso, per dirtene alcunch, n tristo ora n lieto, n...

Pekka Puavalj: Luonteenpiirteitä purkupäiviltäPekka Puavalj oli jo yli kuudenkymmenen. Hn oli niit maailmasta hvivi, joissa nkyvt viel luojan sormien jlet selvin, ihanina, luonnollisina kuin kirveen jlet karkeassa veistoksessa. Hn oli luontoa kuten kp on koivuansa. Turkkipahanenkin, pieksut, kaikki oli hness hnen omaaitsens, hyvnsuopaa, kuten...

Earliest Years at Vassar: Personal Recollections The more I recall of the early times, the more unwritable any account becomes by reason of the personal element. The charm and delight lay chiefly in the close confidence of mutual friendly relations. "A chiel amang us...

Evolution in Art: As Illustrated by the Life-histories of DesignsNotwithstanding the immense number of books, dissertations, and papers which have been written on pictorial and decorative art, I venture to add one more to their number. I profess to be neither an artist nor...

The Senses and the MindNote.The American Sunday-school Union have made an arrangement with the London Religious Tract Society, to publish, concurrently with them, such of their valuable works as are best suited to our circulation. In making the selection, reference will be had to...

The Judgment Books: A StoryThe terrace to the south of Penalva Forest lay basking in the sunshine of an early September afternoon, and the very bees which kept passing in and out from the two hives beneath the laurel shrubbery to the right seemed...