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Nordenholt's MillionI suppose that in the days before the catastrophe I was a very fair representative of the better type of business man. I had been successful in my own line, which was the application of mass-production methods to a better pattern of motor-car...

The Safety First Club and the FloodThe one school which never needs a truant officer is the School of Experience. Whether we like it or not, we have to go to this school, all of us; but whether we shall profit by its lessons...

A happy New Year, and other verses[D] The Rev. William Hamilton, D.D., born in Londonderry in December 1757, Rector of Clondevaddock, on Mulroy Bay, gives several instances of the encroachment of the sea sand on fertile and inhabited land. The town of Bannow in...

A Tale of Two Monkeys, and other storiesThe late Dr. John Torrey, of Columbia College, was extremely fond of pets, and expressed admiration for the pretty little Brazilian monkeys with gentle, human faces and velvety, mouse-colored coats. A gentleman who heard it went shortly...

Uppoavia laivojaLaiturilla leikkii muutamia lapsia. Heidn huudahduksensa ja naurunsa ovat nekin kuin helet, riemastuttavaa vri ja pivnpaistetta. Muutamat heist uittavat pieni selluloosa-kaloja, toisilla taas on kaarna-veneit. Pari oikeata purjevenettkin on vesill ja niitten vaiheita seuraa toisinaan koko liuta, kalansa ja kaarna-veneens unhoittaen. Purjelaivain kadehditut...

The Grand Cham's Diamond: A Play in One Act All applications for permission to perform The Grand Chams Diamond in the British Empire (except Canada) must be addressed to Mr Allan Monkhouse, Meadow Bank, Disley, Cheshire. For permission to perform in America and Canada,...

The BerserkerAll of Big Jim Ostby's attention seemed on the cigar as he lit it, but it was not. He observed the faces of the men who passed him by, and the figures of those across the street, and up and down the sidewalk....

How to plan a library building for library work[For the first chapters of this book, I am largely indebted to an interesting and scholarly volume by John Willis Clark, entitled The Care of Books, published in the year 1901 at Cambridge, Eng. I am...

The Magic Cameo: A Love StoryPicture number one shows us a young man of about twenty-eight years standing on the veranda of a fine country residence that rises out of the midst of spacious and well-kept grounds, while stretching out and around on every...

Tarzan ja kultaleijona: Seikkailuromaani Afrikan aarniometsistäI. Kultaleijona II. Jad-bal-jan kasvatus III. Salaperinen kohtaus IV. Jalanjlkien tarina V. Kohtalokkaat tipat VI. Kuolema vijyy VII. "Sinun tytyy hnet uhrata" VIII. Muinaisuuden salaisuus IX. Kuoleman vasama X. Mieletn petos XI. Oudon suitsutuksen tuoksu XII. Kultaharkot XIII. Kummallinen...

Lodore, Vol. 3 (of 3) Ethel had slept peacefully through the livelong night; nor woke till a knock at her door roused her. A rush of feara sense of ill, made her heart palpitate as she opened her eyes to the light of day....

Lodore, Vol. 2 (of 3) Mr. Villiers now became the constant visitor of Mrs. Elizabeth and her niece; and all discontent, all sadness, all listlessness, vanished in his presence. There was in his mind a constant spring of vivacity, which did not display itself...

Lodore, Vol. 1 (of 3) In the flattest and least agreeable part of the county of Essex, about five miles from the sea, is situated a village or small town, which may be known in these pages by the name of Longfield. Longfield is...

The Etymology and Syntax of the English Language Explained and IllustratedLanguage consists of intelligible signs, and is the medium by which the mind communicates its thoughts. It is either articulate or inarticulate; artificial or natural. The former is peculiar to man; the latter is...

The CameroonsALTHOUGH the designs, which German philosophers conceived and German statesmen and strategists spent thirty years in perfecting, for the conquest of our Cape territories and the creation of a Greater Germany extending from the Mediterranean to Table Bay, are best illustrated and exposed...

Storia di Carlomagno vol. 2/2 I Franchi son governati in moltissimi luoghi da leggi differentissime; onde Carlo, avvedutosi del male, fatto imperatore, attese ad ampliar le leggi stesse, ed a correggere i loro difetti e le loro pregiudizievoli troppo late applicazioni. Pratiche con Roma....

Storia di Carlomagno vol. 1/2 Gli annali dei popoli presentano, a rari intervalli di tempo, certi uomini pi che tutt'altri famosi, i quali in s, a cos dire, compendiano la civilt d'un secolo intero, e lasciano, al loro inabissarsi nei tempi, una lunghissima catena...

Intelligence in Plants and Animals - Being a New Edition of the Author's Privately Issued "Soul and Immortality." Nothing is more charming to the mind of man than the study of Nature. Religion, moderation and magnanimity have been made a part of his inner...

My Arctic journal: a year among ice-fields and EskimosThis plain and simple narrative of a year spent by a refined woman in the realm of the dreaded Frost King has been written only after persistent and urgent pressure from friends, by one who shrank...

By Scarlet Torch and BladeTo all the joy that colors give beneath the sun and moon; to all pleasurable sounds and wholesome odors of the earth and air and sea; to the warmth and glow of genial firesides and to the bite of winter...