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For God and Gold It is not to be denied that the usual practice in ushering into the world a long-hidden manuscript has been to give some account of its existence in its former state, and of the manner in which it came to...

Maiden Mona the Mermaid: A Fairy Play for Fairy PeopleORooster the Audacious.High Cockolorum. Master of the (rocking) Horse. First Lord of the Shaving Brush. Gold Stick in w(h)aiting to the King, and a warm stick, in plaster to Coquettina, Q.E.D.; R.S.V.P.; R.I.P.; etc., etc.,...

Good Councell against the plague - Shewing sundry present preseruatiues for the same, by wholsome fumes, drinks, vomits, and other inward receits: as also, the perfect cure (by implaysture) of any that are therewith infected. Now necessary to be obserued of euery housholder, to...

Arnold's TempterThe arrival in Philadelphia of a gentleman with credentials from Dr. Franklin to the Secretary of Congress, who had much influence with the French Court, and who had bills of exchange for twenty thousand pounds sterling created stirring comment among the fashionables. He...

An Irish Crazy-Quilt: Smiles and tears, woven into song and storyCopyright, 1890, By ARTHUR M. FORRESTER. {3} TO THE FELONS OF IRELAND, THE BRAVE AND FAITHFUL FEW, Who have been Exiled or Imprisoned or Executed Because they Loved their Native Land more than Home...

Le Petit Art d'Aimer - en quatorze chapitresCe nest pas la premire fois quune des aimables personnes qui me veulent bien poser des cas desthtique amoureuse, me confie que la solitude lui est pesante et quelle souhaiterait davoir un amant. Il fut un temps...

Fuxloh; oder, Die Taten und Anschläge des Kasper Dullhäubel: Ein SchelmenromanFuxloh lag ganz hinten in der Welt zwischen den rtern Blaustauden und Grillend, abseits von den breiten Straen duckte es sich verloren in den Wldern, ein gar rauhes Dorf voller Tannen. Obst trug dort...

A Serpolette: RegényA kk hajraj msodik divizija az imnt kapott az els divizi zszlshajjrl parancsot. A forr augusztusi nap alatt azonban a hadgyakorlat vge fel kzeledett. Nyugat fell pontosan ltszottak mr a tmad vrs hajraj fstlg kmnyei. A visszatr pnclos cirklk sietve menekltek be...

The Wrecking Master"A thick night and no mistake, Dan. It's as black as the face of a Nassau pilot. We ought to be nearing the coal wharf by now. Of course they wouldn't have sense enough to leave a light on it to give...

Studies of childhoodThe following Studies are not a complete treatise on child-psychology, but merely deal with certain aspects of childrens minds which happen to have come under my notice, and to have had a special interest for me. In preparing them I have tried...

Water pollution—Wellsin many a sequestered nook, where the beauty of the scene gave to the soul its grandest appreciation of natures handiwork; but the poets song and the painters canvas are too often the false airs and the tinsel drapery of Momusfun and folly....

Mordred and Hildebrand: A Book of TragediesEntered according to the Act of the Parliament of Canada in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, by William Wilfred Campbell, Ottawa, in the office of the Minister of Agriculture, at Ottawa. Sir Mador. Twas at...

The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 10 - Or, Flower-Garden DisplayedThis species of Justicia, long since figured in the Hortus Malabaricus, and described in the Species Plantarum of Linnus, has been introduced to the Royal Garden at Kew, since the publication of the Hortus Kewensis, by...

Out of This WorldWhen the Earth supply ship set down upon prison planet Number Seven last week, a curious state of affairs was found: the prisoners below mining the ore as usual, the overseer dead, and every indication of some stark drama having taken...

The Star-MasterI write this narrative now to add the true details to what you have all read and heard blared by the newscasters around the world. I have been extolled as a hero although I did nothing except try to keep from getting killed....

The Cosmic DerelictIt was Tug Skelly's fault that the Starways freighter, Lucifer, four hours out of Orion City, was running behind time; and Captain Christopher Douglas, Starways' newest and youngest Old Man, found it hard to maintain the dignity befitting a transgalactic skipper, as...

Asteroid of the DamnedThe excited glitter of the Palladian's luminiferous eyes died dispiritedly. MacCauley turned his back on the slight-bodied asterite and rapped his thumbnail against his drained glass. The bartender, a heavy and humorous man, expertly refilled Mac's glass with oily, musky, milk-white...

The Sabbath Breaker Reclaimed; or, a pleasing history of Thomas BrownOn a fine Sabbath morn, in the sweet month of May, When the hawthorn in blossom was seen; When perfumes filled the air, and all nature lookd gay, And the fields wore a livery...

Ugor ÁgnesHiszen ilyen cskon fordul meg okos emberek llitsa szerint is, minden a nap alatt: a hboru, a mvszet, a civilizci, st bizonyos agyafurt tudomnyos praktikval meg is lehet llapitani, teszem a szerelmi csk hboruv val fejldsi evolucijnak minden egyes mozzanatt, sszes jelensgeivel egytt:...

From Dixie to Canada: Romances and Realities of the Underground RailroadThe quiet of a midsummer night had settled down over the city of Washington, when, in August, 1839, a dusky form came, with stealthy tread, from among some buildings not far away, and cautiously...