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The Billiard Room MysterySeeing Bathurst this evening, after a lapse of eight years, has given me a most insistent inclination to set down, for the first time, the real facts of that cause clbre, that was called by the Press at the time, the...

Ariel DancesAriel, quiet but alert, lay in her steamer chair, one of the most inconspicuous of the several hundred passengers the Bermuda was bringing to New York. No one would be likely to look at her twice or give her a second thought, as...

The Play of ManIn this work my aim is to present the anthropological aspects of the same subject treated of in my psychological investigation of animal play, published in 1896, which may be said to have been a pioneer attempt in its department. In...

A Little Girl in Old Chicago It is one of the compensations of Providence that after the storm and stress of active life is through, one can go back to the beautiful world of memory and live over the earlier joys with a delight...

Cossack TalesA historical sketch placed before a work of fiction must seem, to many, a very inconsistent thing, and yet the title of the present volume, "COSSACK TALES," obliges the translator to give a short account of this sometime warlike race. Such an account...

The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 07 (of 12)The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things, appeared anonymously in 1826 in two volumes (9 5 inches), published by Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street. The imprint behind both title-pages is London: Printed by...

Bill Bolton and the Winged CartwheelsYou and I, Bill, said Osceola, are on top of the world and throwing rocks at rainbows! The young Seminole chief, stooping quickly, picked something out of the short grass at the side of the Bolton driveway. A couple...

The River of Life, and Other StoriesAlexander Kuprin was born in 1870. He attended the Cadet School and the Military College at Moscow, and entered the Russian Army as a lieutenant in 1890. Seven years later he resigned his commission to devote himself to...

Henry the FifthHenry was born in the castle of Monmouth on August 9th, 1387. He was the eldest of the six children of Henry of Lancaster by Mary de Bohun, younger daughter and co-heiress of Humphrey de Bohun.1 Humphrey, as the last male descendant...

Grounds of Natural Philosophy: Divided into Thirteen Parts - The Second Edition, much altered from the First, which went under the Name of Philosophical and Physical OpinionsAll Books, without exception, being undoubtedly under your Iurisdiction, it is very strange that some Authors of good...

John Vytal: A Tale of the Lost ColonyNo epoch in American history is more essentially romantic than that in which, for a few years, less than one hundred colonists from England lived on the island of Roanoke, off the coast of old Virginia. Nevertheless,...

Gibraltar and Its Sieges, with a Description of Its Natural Features.HE year 1704 was the year of Blenheim, that wonderful victory of Marlboroughs which dissipated Lewis the Fourteenths dreams of universal empire. As stars are extinguished in the light of dawn, so in the...

Erämaan kultaaEsipuhe. I. Vanhat ystvt. II. Mercedes Castaeda. III. Pako ermaahan. IV. Forlorn River. V. Ermaan ruusu. VI. Yaqui. VII. Valkoisia hevosia. VIII. Blanco Sol juoksee. IX. Keskeytetty lepohetki. X. Rojas. XI. Laavan ja kaktustasankojen poikki. XII. Helvetinkuilu. XIII. Forlorn Riveriss tapahtuneita muutoksia. XIV....

Hans Holbein VELAZQUEZ. By G. C. Williamson, Litt.D. SIR E. BURNE-JONES. By Malcolm Bell. FRA ANGELICO. By G. C. Williamson, Litt.D. G. F. WATTS, R.A. By C. T. Bateman. WATTEAU. By Edgcumbe Staley, B.A. GEORGE ROMNEY. By Rowley Cleeve. HOLMAN HUNT. By G. C....

Die Welt der PlanetenDie Gesellschaft Kosmos will die Kenntnis der Naturwissenschaften und damit die Freude an der Natur und das Verstndnis ihrer Erscheinungen in den weitesten Kreisen unseres Volkes verbreiten. Dieses Ziel glaubt die Gesellschaft durch Verbreitung guter naturwissenschaftlicher Literatur zu erreichen mittels des...

Letters and Discussions on the Formation of Colored Regiments, - and the Duty of the Colored People in Regard to the Great Slaveholders' Rebellion, in the United States of AmericaAt the beginning of the great struggle between the Government of the United States and...

Washington the Model of Character for American Youth - An Address Delivered to the Boys of the Public SchoolsThe address which forms this little book was not intended for publication. It was prepared to be delivered at the celebration of the Public Schools on...

Elements of Trench Warfare: Bayonet TrainingWith a view to securing a wide distribution of the book I desire to secure a representative in every organization in the Army. I have an attractive proposition to make to competent parties. Chapter X.Service in the Trenches: Preparations...

In Pursuit of SpringSo far the life of men moving to and fro across the bridges was like the old life that I knew, though down below upon the sparkling waters many birds were alighting, or were already seated like wondrous blossoms upon the...

Anatomy of the CatAlthough the cat has long been in common use for the practical study of mammalian anatomy, a clear, correct, not too voluminous account of its structure, such as should be in the hands of students in the laboratory, has remained a...