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The Open Polar Sea - A narrative of a voyage of discovery towards the North pole, in the schooner "United States"PLAN OF THE EXPEDITION.FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT.APPEAL TO SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES.AID SOLICITED.PUBLIC LECTURES.LIBERALITY OF VARIOUS SOCIETIES AND INDIVIDUALS.VESSEL PURCHASED IN BOSTON.INTEREST MANIFESTED IN THAT CITY.DIFFICULTY IN OBTAINING...

The Cruise of the Training Ship; Or, Clif Faraday's PluckWait a bit until we get him served and spliced, Dodge. Hes kicking like a steering wheel in a noreast gale. There, thats it. Another turn about his arms and well have the rat dead...

The Story of MilkThe conception of this Story of Milk dates many years back. In his life-long study of problems connected with dairy farming and milk industries in two of the worlds greatest dairy countries, Denmark and the United States, the author has felt...

The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. 01 (of 11)The eleven volumes of this edition contain all, save one, of the dramas which Henrik Ibsen himself admitted to the canon of his works. The one exception is his earliest, and very immature, tragedy, Catilina,...

Wood WanderingsTO-DAY the September west winds have begun the fall house-cleaning by sweeping the tops of the pine woods. All the morning the little brown scales which nestle close to the base of each pine leaf as it grows, protecting it from the withering...

Med Luftskib til Mars: Fantastisk Fremtidsfortælling Den anden af de talende var aabenbart Officer. Hans runde, godmodige Ansigts sunde, friske Farve og hans kraftige og smidige Legeme viste tydeligt, at han tilbragte strste Delen af sin Tid med Sport i fri Luft. Sport var...

The Tale of GenjiREADERS of the Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan, translated by Madame Omori and Professor Doi, will remember that the second of the three diaries is that of a certain Murasaki Shikibu. The little that is known of this ladys...

The Great Harry Thaw Case; Or, A Woman's SacrificeA great trial has come to a close. It has attracted the attention of the entire civilized world for three widely separated and distinctly defined reasonsthe unusual degree of heart interest underlying the tragedy that brought...

The Junior TrophyThe train from the west that bore Bert Bryant to New York was two hours late, for all the way from Clinton, Ohio, where Bert lived, the snow had been from four inches to a foot in depth. Consequently he had missed...

The Little Review, April 1915 (Vol. 2, No. 2) I want to write about so many things this time that I dont know where to begin. At first I had planned to do five or six pages on the crime of musical criticism in...

Kihlatut"Vai niin," pikkuseni; sinki jo olet tydess puvussa, lausui iti tyttrelleen. "Min melkein arvaan mik sinua nyt on ajanut hereille nin aikaiseen. Luuletko todella issi koteutuvan merimatkaltaan tnn, niinkuin patruuniki vhn toivoi? Voi toki sit iloa, mik meill sitten olisi; ei mailmassa suurempata ainakaan...

Florida trails as seen from Jacksonville to Key West and from November to April inclusiveAS SEEN FROM JACKSONVILLE TO KEY WEST AND FROM NOVEMBER TO APRIL INCLUSIVE BY WINTHROP PACKARD Author of Wild Pastures, Wood Wanderings, etc. ILLUSTRATED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE AUTHOR AND...

The Millbank Case: A Maine Mystery of To-dayTHEODORE WING had no known enemy in the world. He was a man of forty; well-to-do, as they say in New England; a lawyer by profession, and already mentioned for a county judgeship. He was unmarried, but...

Dirty Work for DoughgodNo, sir, says Mike Pelly. No more female teachers for Paradise. Cause why? Cause all the fool punchers fall in love with her and ruin her educational qualitiesthats why. We dont no more than get a she teacher, until all the...

Pictorial Beauty on the ScreenIf I look upon a motion picture as a kind of substitute for some stage play or novel, it seems to me a poor thing, only a substitute for something better; but if I look upon it as something real...

The Interpretation of DreamsSince the appearance of the authors Selected Papers on Hysteria and other Psychoneuroses, and Three Contributions to the Sexual Theory,[A] much has been said and written about Freuds works. Some of our readers have made an honest endeavour to test and...

The Continent of the Future: Africa and Its Wonderful Development - Exploration, Gold Mining, Trade, Missions and ElevationThe tide of modern civilization and religious development is sweeping round the globe. With the rapid advance of India, the unparalleled strides of Japan, and the steady...

Søren Hjorth: Inventor of the Dynamo-electric PrincipleSince the Life and Works of Sren Hjorth, the Dane was published in the Danish technical journal the Elektroteknikeren, in 1907, a statement concerning Hjorths rights of priority to the invention of the dynamo-electric principle has been sent...

Creepin’ TintypesThere aint no question but what me and Dirty Shirt Jones would like to go back to Piperock. Sort of a call of the wild, I reckon, and at that there aint many places wilder than Piperock. Me and Dirty started in to...

CindersJames Worthington Steele was a man of importance. In the affairs of the C. M. & G. Railroad he was E pluribus unum, XXXX, bottled in bond; which is quite some label in these Volsteadian days. To Mrs. James Worthington Steele, a lady of...