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Rank and Talent; A Novel, Vol. 2 (of 3) Why, Sir, 'tis neither satire nor moral, but the mere passage of an history; yet there are a sort of discontented creatures, that bear a stingless envy to great ones, and these will wrest the...

Dick & Fitzgerald Catalog (1866) Dick's Games of Patience; or, Solitaire with Cards. New and Revised Edition. Containing Sixty-four Games. Illustrated with Fifty explanatory full-page Tableaux. This treatise on Solitaire embraces a number of new and original Games, and all the Games of Patience...

A Lady's Tour in Corsica, Vol. 2 (of 2) Sainte Lucie di Tallano is the halting-place for the forest of Bavella. From thence you can mount up to the Bocca; starting early, and spending the whole day in the forest, returning again to sleep...

A Lady's Tour in Corsica, Vol. 1 (of 2) The popularity of Corsica is increasing so rapidly, and information regarding the island is so difficult to obtain, that these sketches may not be unacceptable to intending travellers. [1] A LADY'S TOUR IN CORSICA. It...

Travelling SketchesThat men and women should leave their homes at the end of summer and go somewhere,though it be only to Margate,has become a thing so fixed that incomes the most limited are made to stretch themselves to fit the rule, and habits the...

Lily Norris' Enemy"Really, it makes the heart younger, warmer, better, to bathe it afresh in such familiar, natural scenes, where benevolence of most practical and blessed utility is seen developing itself, from first to last, in such delightful symmetry and completeness as may, and...

Torpedoes and Torpedo Warfare - Containing a Complete and Concise Account of the Rise and Progress of Submarine WarfareThe information has been obtained while practically engaged in torpedo work at home and abroad, and from the study of the principal books which have already...

The Complete Cynic - Being Bunches of Wisdom Culled from the Calendars of Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford, Addison Mizner Title: The Complete Cynic Subtitle: Being Bunches of Wisdom Culled from the Calendars of Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford, Addison Mizner Author: Ethel Watts...

Alphabetical Catalogue of Books in General Literature and Fiction [1913]ADAMS (W. DAVENPORT). A Dictionary of the Drama: A Guide to the Plays, Playwrights, Players, and Playhouses of the United Kingdom and America, from the Earliest Times to the Present. Vol. I. (A to G)....

The Pioneer TrailSome years ago the author of this book was enabled to gratify an ambition to record in artistic form something of the scenes and something of the incidents of the memorable pilgrimage, The Westward March, from the once borders of civilization to...

The Elements of Qualitative Chemical Analysis, vol. 1, parts 1 and 2. - With Special Consideration of the Application of the Laws of Equilibrium and of the Modern Theories of Solution.In venturing to add another book on Qualitative Chemical Analysis to the long list...

Alcoholic Fermentation - Second Edition, 1914The problem of alcoholic fermentation, of the origin and nature of that mysterious and apparently spontaneous change which converted the insipid juice of the grape into stimulating wine, seems to have exerted a fascination over the minds of natural...

The Mystery GirlQuite aside from its natural characteristics, there is an atmosphere about a college town, especially a New England college town, that is unmistakable. It is not so much actively intellectual as passively aware of and satisfied with its own intellectuality. Not that...

The Mentor: Italy Under War Conditions, Vol. 6, Num. 23, Ser. No. 171, January 15, 1919 BY THE MENTOR ASSOCIATION, INC., AT 114-116 EAST 16TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. SUBSCRIPTION, FOUR DOLLARS A YEAR. FOREIGN POSTAGE 75 CENTS EXTRA. CANADIAN POSTAGE 50 CENTS...

Lady Lilith"Fatalism is a doctrine which does not recognise the determination of all events by causes in the ordinary sense; holding, on the contrary, that a certain foreordained result will come about, no matter what may be done to prevent it...." Barbara's first action...

Harper's Young People, March 8, 1881 - An Illustrated Weekly"There isn't much about sugar I don't know," replied Jerry Buntley, modestly, with a pull at his dog-skin gloves to make them fit tighter. "You just ought to see a real sugar plantation once." "I...

Colonel Thomas Blood, Crown-stealer, 1618-1680 The story which follows is, without doubt, one of the most curious and extraordinary in English history. It is, in fact, so remarkable that it seems necessary to begin by assuring the cautious reader that it is true. Much...

The Secret Memoirs of Bertha Krupp - From the Papers and Diaries of Chief Gouvernante Baroness D'AltevilleOn a bright August day of 1902 the neighbourhood of Villa Huegel, overlooking the forest of smoke-stacks, cranes, masts and other erections that silhouette the town of Essen,...

The Complete Poems of Sir John Davies. Volume 2 of 2.A very few 'slips' have met my eyes on a final reading. They areas says an ancient Divine"as easily corrected as espied." Nevertheless they are here recorded that the Reader of his charity may...

The Complete Poems of Sir John Davies. Volume 1 of 2.I. BIOGRAPHICAL. As in other instances, the first thing to be done in any Life of our present Worthy, is to distinguish him from other two contemporary Sir John Daviesesnon-attention to which has in...