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NoémiNow only did Jean look up, and what he saw made him drop his half-finished shaft and forget it. What Jean saw was this: a girl at some distance above him on the face of the rock, swaying a long-handled hammer, with which she...

The Smuggler Chief: A NovelThe present is the most powerful story which Gustave Aimard has yet written. While there is enough of startling incident and hairbreadth escapes to satisfy the greatest craver after sensation, the plot is carefully elaborated, and great attention is paid...

Chroniques de J. Froissart, tome 1/13, 1re partieFroissart est un monde. Au triple point de vue historique, littraire, philologique, on pourrait mme ajouter romanesque et potique, le chroniqueur de Valenciennes reprsente peu prs seul pour le commun des lecteurs un sicle presque entier, et...

Wolkenüberflaggt: Gedichte E. W. Lotz wurde 1890 in Culm a. d. W. geboren, lebte in Wahlstadt, Karlsruhe, Pln und im Kadettenkorps Lichterfelde. Mit 17 Jahren wurde er Fhnrich im Infanterie -Regiment Nr. 143 zu Hamburg, nach dem Besuch der Kriegsschule in Cassel Leutnant im...

A Company of Tanks"The words of an eye-witness, flowing naturally from first impressions, are frequently more expressive, and convey ideas more just than studied descriptions; though the language may often be such as it would scarcely be allowable in other persons to write." The...

The World's Great Sermons, Volume 09: Cuyler to Van DykeTheodore Ledyard Cuyler, Presbyterian divine, was born at Aurora, New York, in 1822. He took his degree at Princeton in 1841, and studied theology in Princeton Seminary. He was ordained to the ministry in 1848,...

Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 2 of 2) - With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present ConditionPausanias1 appears to have had great interest in the history of the Messenians; for his history of their wars is more minute and animated...

The Queen of the Savannah: A Story of the Mexican WarIf the reader will have the kindness to take a glance at a numerous cavalcade, which is debouching from a canyon and scaling at a gallop the scarped side of a rather lofty hill,...

Fairy Realm: A Collection of the Favourite Old Tales Told in Verse THE five favourite fairy legends which M. Gustave Dor has illustrated are so well known, have been so often told, and in so many different ways, that it was a matter of...

Kungahällan kuningattaria ynnä muita kertomuksiaJos matkamies, joka on kuullut kerrottavan vanhasta Kungahllan kaupungista, osuu sen muinaiselle paikalle Nordre-joen varrelle, hn aivan varmaan kummastuu suuresti. Hn ihmettelee, ovatko kirkot ja linnat voineet hvit olemattomiin kuin sulava lumi vai onko maa ne niellyt. Hn on joutunut...

Bessie among the MountainsEntered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by ROBERT CARTER AND BROTHERS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. UP, up! What a height it was,...

The Mother's Dream, and Other PoemsWe were shown a beautiful specimen of the ingenuity of birds, a few days since, by Dr. Cook, of this borough. It was a birdsnest made entirely of silver wires, beautifully woven together. The nest was found on a...

Military schools and courses of instruction in the science and art of war, - in France, Prussia, Austria, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Sardinia, England, and the United States. Drawn from recent official reports and documents. Revised EditionThe second and longer Table of Contents was printed...

Psychologie und Logik: zur Einführung in die PhilosophieDie Philosophie ist die allgemeine Wissenschaft, welche den Zweck hat, Sicherheit, Einheit und Zusammenhang im Gesamtgebiet unseres Wissens herzustellen. Auch die einzelnen Wissenschaften entspringen diesem Bedrfnis, aber ihr Gebiet ist ein beschrnktes und sie gehen teils von...

The World's Great Sermons, Volume 07: Hale to FarrarEdward Everett Hale, Congregationalist divine and author, was born in Boston in 1822. He was graduated at Harvard in 1839 and became a Unitarian preacher in 1846 at Worcester. In 1850 he removed to Boston, where...

Mother Nature's Toy-ShopMother Nature is every bit as fond of the little folks in her human family as of the grown-ups, and while she prepares untold joys for lovers of the outdoors among men and women and larger boys and girls, she never forgets...

The World's Great Sermons, Volume 06: H. W. Beecher to PunshonHenry Ward Beecher, preacher, orator, lecturer, writer, editor, and reformer, was born at Litchfield, Connecticut, in 1813. He was by nature and training a great pulpit orator. Mr. Beecher kept himself in perfect physical...

The War with Mexico, Volume 2 (of 2)Right-side page headers contained descriptions of the current topic covered by the two open pages. These were retained and are placed as marginal notes. The choice of that position is not always obvious and should be regarded...

The War with Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2)As every one understands, our conflict with Mexico has been almost entirely eclipsed by the greater wars following it. But in the field of thought mere size does not count for much; and while the number of...

Das himmlische Licht: Gedichte O helle Himmelssge hinein nach London, wie ein Bergwerk liegt die Stadt unterm fallenden Licht, Diamanten ber den Gitterluken der Bank von England, o roter Tower in Whitechapels Schwei, sechstausend Mann morgens fnf in den Docks, drben die Felsen des...