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Crimson Clover: Growing the CropProbably the most important characteristic of crimson clover is its ability to grow and make its crop during the season when the land is not occupied by the ordinary summer-growth crops. In sections where it succeeds, crimson clover can be...

Nameless RiverIt was Springtime in the Deep Heart country. On the broad slopes, the towering slants of the hills themselves, the conifers sang their everlasting monotone, tuned by the little winds from the south. Great caons cut the ridges, dark and mysterious, murmuring with...

Studies in the Wagnerian DramaA number of words in this book have both hyphenated and non-hyphenated variants. For the words with both variants present the one used more times has been kept. It was also detected that some names have two different spellings. That...

The Haven Children; or, Frolics at the Funny Old House on Funny StreetDaisy Havens was awakened from a sound sleep, one bright June morning, by a fearful banging on her bedroom door, and as she rubbed her sleepy eyes, and curled herself up for...

Autour des trônes que j'ai vu tomberFille ane d'un grand homme et grand roi, dont la magnifique intelligence a enrichi son peuple, je n'ai d que des infortunes mon origine royale. A peine entre dans la vie, j'ai t due et j'ai souffert. Je...

Forest Glen; or, The Mohawk's FriendshipThe story here presented not only grasps those terrible vicissitudes in which the frontier life of our forefathers was so prolific, but at the same time conveys many useful lessons and incentives to manly effort, and much curious information...

Treasure of the BrasadaGLENN CRAWFORD, whose pallor and feverishly glowing eyes mark the three months he has just spent in a hospital as the result of an accident he suspects was planned, has the restless animal lines of body and negligible hips of one...

Harry Joscelyn; vol. 2 of 3THERE is nothing that grows and strengthens with thinking of it like the sense of personal injury. Harry Joscelyn had been very angry when he left home; but he was not half so angry at that moment as when...

Mythology in MarbleIn this practical age it is not to be supposed that busy people in general have time to make a thorough study of mythologic science: but to share understandingly the love of sculpture now awakened in the public mind, and for a...

Boys of the Central: A High-School StoryFreemana slender, pale-faced boyoccupied the seat directly in front of Crawfords. He rose promptly and began where Reed had left off, but in a moment he stopped, the color rose in his face, he hesitated, stammered and dropped...

The White Comrade, and Other Poems So this green land is England! Her we saw Radiant and smiling in our early dreams, A land by love dream-haunted. Now we come With stranger vision than our youth could give To the great shelter of her...

The New Joan, and Other Poems These are chiefly songs of women's work, but there is a Christmas song for soldiers. The music of life is stilled to-day. Only the bugle note is heard. To the men in the trenches it means action, organized...

Morning in the West: A Book of Verse Cun-ne-wa-bum"one who looks on stars" (Feel the singing wind from out the western hills) "The tip-end of a swan's wing is her fan, With a handle of porcupine quills." Here is the artist's name, Paul Kane;...

Sir George Arthur and His Administration of Upper Canada The last Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada before the Union of 1841 was Sir George Arthur. To most Canadians of to-day he is little more than a name, but still he played an important part in...

Un Turc à Paris, 1806-1811 - Relation de voyage et de mission de Mouhib Effendi, ambassadeur extraordinaire du sultan Selim III (d'après un manuscrit autographe)[1] Le titre d'effendi correspond celui de monsieur. D'origine byzantine il signifie seigneur. Il a conserv cette acception pour dsigner...

The Soul EatersFirebrand Dennis Brooke had one final chance to redeem himself by capturing Koerber whose ships were the scourge of the Void. But his luck had run its course, and now he was marooned on a rogue planetfighting to save himself from a...

The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, October, 1913 - Vol. LXXXVI. New Series: Vol. LXIV. May to October, 1913Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation have been retained, but punctuation and typographical errors have been corrected. Passages in English dialect and in languages other than English have not...

Men Who Have Made the EmpireThe Epic of England has yet to be written. It may be that the fulness of time for writing it has not come yet, or it may be that Britain is still waiting for her Homer and her Virgil....

Histoires magiquesNerveuse et pauvre, imaginative et famlique, Douceline fut prcocement caresseuse et embrasseuse, amuse de passer ses mains le long de la joue des garonnets et dans le cou des fillettes qui se laissaient faire comme des chattes. Elle se mettait, propos de rien,...

The American Missionary — Volume 37, No. 12, December, 1883 John H. Washburn, Chairman; A.P. Foster, Secretary; Lyman Abbott, A.S. Barnes, J.R. Danforth, Clinton B. Fisk, S.B. Halliday, Edward Hawes, Samuel Holmes, Charles A. Hull, Samuel S. Marples, Charles L. Mead, S.H. Virgin, Wm....