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The Laughing Willow - Verses and Pictures Von Hindenburg has wired to say Our noble troops have won the day Captured a Russian Samovar And several tons of caviar Vodka a fabulous amount And Droskys more than we can count The greatest battle of...

The Scarlet Bat: A Detective StoryThe man who had spoken first went down like a log. He was a red-headed creature, with a rasping voice and an aggressive manner, evidently one of those who bullied his way through the world, for want of a...

The Bride of Mission San José: A Tale of Early California I. A Serenade in the Moonlight II. The Lion and the Lamb Lie Down Together III. A Dip into the Past IV. A Stranger Visits Seor Mendoza V. Another Stranger Makes a Visit...

An Appeal to the People in Behalf of Their Rights as Authorized Interpreters of the BibleThere is an obvious crisis approaching, in the religious world, on questions of the highest moment. In past time such periods of change have been preceded by a slow...

Pyrometry: A Practical Treatise on the Measurement of High TemperaturesThe term pyrometerformerly applied to instruments designed to measure the expansion of solidsis now used to describe any device for determining temperatures beyond the upper limit of a mercury thermometer. This limit, in the common...

Mastro da Ballo Nel testo si fa riferimento a figure che dovevano illustrare i vari passi di danza: le illustrazioni non sono per presenti nel manoscritto di cui si presenta qui la trascrizione, sostituite da semplici riquadri vuoti, che si scelto di omettere. Tutte...

Parizinami dedias i tiun verketon, kiel malgrandan pruvon de amikeco: i ne prezentas ian valoron, krom la deziron vulgarigi, kvankam malprecize kaj neperfekte, la historian pecon, tiel bele kaj majstre versigitan de la genio de la senmorta angla poeto Lord Byron! Dum la regado...

Bläck och saltvattenJag nskar honom lycka i hans djrva fretag att under krigstider utge annat n krigsromaner eller mer eller mindre politiska ting. Men hans mnniskovnliga avsikt med utgivandet torde vara att med dessa berttelser verrsta krigsbullret. Vid Nybrovikens kaj lg gubben Vemans hskuta...

Goodbird the Indian: His StoryIn 1907, I was sent out by the American Museum of Natural History, to begin anthropological studies among the remnants of these peoples, on Fort Berthold Reservation; and I have been among them each summer, ever since. In 1908, and...

From Dublin to Chicago: Some Notes on a Tour in America"From Dublin to Chicago." You can take the phrase as the epitome of a tragedy, the long, slow, century and a half old tragedy of the flight of the Irish people from their own...

The General Historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles (Vol. I) - Together with the True Travels, Adventures and Observations, and a Sea GrammarJohn Smith "was borne in Willoughby in Lincolneshire, and a Scholler in the two Free-schooles of Alford and Louth."...

A Book of American Explorers IT has always seemed to me that the narratives of the early discoverers and explorers of the American coast were as interesting as Robinson Crusoe, and were, indeed, very much like it. This has led me to make a...

The World's Greatest Military Spies and Secret Service AgentsThe romance of war in its most thrilling form is exemplified in this narrative of the adventures of The Worlds Greatest Military Spies and Secret Service Agents. Much has been published upon the subject of espionage,...

Pigments, Paint and Painting: A practical book for practical men In days gone by, the painter who served the usual term of apprenticeship was deemed to have done all that was required to qualify him for his trade. He may have learned little or...

Schen: Studien aus einer chinesischen WeltstadtDer vorliegende Text wurde anhand der 1913 erschienenen Buchausgabe so weit wie mglich originalgetreu wiedergegeben. Typographische Fehler wurden stillschweigend korrigiert; ungewhnliche und altertmliche Ausdrcke bleiben gegenber dem Original unverndert. Rechtschreibvarianten wurden nicht vereinheitlicht, sofern die Verstndlichkeit des Textes dadurch...

History of Greece, Volume 01 (of 12)The first idea of this History was conceived many years ago, at a time when ancient Hellas was known to the English public chiefly through the pages of Mitford; and my purpose in writing it was to rectify...

The American Missionary — Volume 35, No. 12, December, 1881relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the Corresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields to the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the American Missionary, to Rev. G.D....

Tower of Ivory: A NovelJohn Ordham had been in Munich several months before he met Margarethe Styr. Like all the young men, native and foreign, he chose to fancy himself in love with her, and although both too dignified and too shy to applaud...

Pumps and Hydraulics, Part 1 (of 2)Gourd, Cauldron and Pipkin. The very small degree of antiquity to which machine tools can lay claim appears forcibly in the sparse records of the state of the mechanic arts a century ago. A few tools of a...

Ruth's Marriage in Mars: A Scientific NovelI am a Catholic-Psychic, and believe in the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of Saints (this is a fact to me for I have often seen my saints and heard them), the forgiveness of all sins, the resurrection...