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Hosiery ManufactureThis work is being issued at a period of unparalleled development in the industry of knitted fabrics, when our British manufacturers are straining every nerve towards attaining a dominating position in this vital branch of the production of textile goods. It is highly...

The Overland Route to the Road of a Thousand Wonders - The Route of the Union Pacific & The Southern Pacific Railroads from Omaha to San Francisco, a Journey of Eighteen Hundred Miles Where Once the Bison & the Indian ReignedOver the wagon trail...

Dick Kent at Half-Way HouseAuthor of Dick Kent With the Mounted Police, Dick Kent in the Far North, Dick Kent With the Eskimos, Dick Kent, Fur Trader, Dick Kent With the Malemute Mail, Dick Kent on Special Duty, Tom Blakes Mysterious Adventure, The Valdmere...

Birds and BeastsIt was now nearly six years since the day chance had brought them together as members of the same company. Jack had come straight from the African forests; he had crossed the seas, and set foot on the continent of Europe for...

Kansa ja sen kuninkaat: Kertomuksia nuorten ja vanhain luettavaksiI. Lukemattomien kivikirveiden pllikk. II. Vanha Ane. III. Adilsin kultasept. IV. Ingjald Ilkemielinen. V. Lodbrokin pojat. VI. Ansgarius. VII. Kilpineito. VIII. Sigrid verin kosijat. IX. Arnljot Jllilinen. X. Kreikan kuninkaan talonvahti. XI. Vanha Sverker. XII. Vetehinen....

WolfbaneCitizen Germyn dressed himself in the clothes proper for the appreciation of great workssuch as viewing the Empire State ruins against storm clouds from a small boat, or walking in silent single file across the remaining course of the Golden Gate Bridge. Or as...

Someone to Watch Over MeLen Mattern paused before the door of the Golden Apple Bar. The elation that had carried him up to this point suddenly wasn't there any more. Lyddy couldn't have changed too much, he'd kept telling himself. After all, it hadn't...

The Oregon QuestionI had been a pioneer in collecting facts and stating the case. The only materials within my reach consisted of the accounts of voyages previously published, (including that of Maurelle, in Barrington's Miscellanies), of the varied and important information derived from Humboldt's...

Beyond BedlamThe opening afternoon class for Mary Walden's ego-shift was almost over, and Mary was practically certain the teacher would not call on her to recite her assignment, when Carl Blair got it into his mind to try to pass her a dirty note....

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 730 - December 22, 1877'So many men so many minds' has been a proverb long before our days, and will be to the end of time and human history; and uniformity of sentiment is the...

The SpoilersGLENISTER gazed out over the harbor, agleam with the lights of anchored ships, then up at the crenelated mountains, black against the sky. He drank the cool air burdened with its taints of the sea, while the blood of his boyhood leaped within...

NacogdochesThis booklet is an enlarged and revised reprint of two earlier booklets, one prepared by Mr. Blake and the Reverend George L. Crocket in 1936 as a part of the Celebration of the Texas Centennial. The second booklet was published in 1939 by the...

Personal Reminiscences of the War of 1861-5 - In Camp—en Bivouac—on the March—on Picket—on the Skirmish Line—on the Battlefield—and in PrisonWhen I first undertook to write my war experiences, I had no thought of ever publishing what I wrote. It was only intended as...

Les questions esthétiques contemporainesCe ne sont pas toutes les questions esthtiques contemporaines qui sont traites ici, mais quelques-unes peut-tre des principales et assurment des plus nouvelles. Quesprer de lemploi du fer en architecture? Comment rendre, en sculpture, le vtement moderne? Quelle place faire la...

Motion pictures, 1912-1939: Catalog of Copyright EntriesMotion Pictures, 1912-1939, is a cumulative catalog listing works registered in the Copyright Office in Classes L and M between August 24, 1912, and December 31, 1939. Prior to that period motion pictures were registered in the category...

Die naturwissenschaftlichen Grundlagen der Poesie. - Prolegomena einer realistischen AesthetikDie nachfolgenden wissenschaftlichen Studien behandeln in selbststndiger Abrundung das, was nach meiner Ueberzeugung im ersten Buche jeder neuen, unserm modernen Streben gerecht werdenden Aesthetik seine Stelle finden msste. Realistisch nenne ich diese Aesthetik, weil sie...

Never Come MidnightAcross the void came a man who could not ever have been bornfrom a world that could never have been conceivedto demand his birthright of an Earth that would have to die to pay it! "I see." However, Peter Hubbard knew that...

Meeting of the MindsThe Quedak lay on a small hilltop and watched a slender jet of light descend through the sky. The feather-tailed jet was golden, and brighter than the sun. Poised above it was a glistening metallic object, fabricated rather than natural, hauntingly...

The Place Where Chicago WasIt was late December of 1983. Abe Danniels knew that the streets and sidewalks of Jersey City moved under their own power and that half the families in America owned their own helicopters. He was pleased with these signs of...

My Brother, Theodore RooseveltThis Preface I write to my fellow countrymen as I give into their hands these intimate reminiscences of my brother, Theodore Roosevelt. A year and a half ago I was invited by the City History Club of New York to make...