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A Fall of GlassIt should have been difficult. Under the circumstances it was a masterpiece of pocket picking. What made it possible was Humphrey Fownes' abstraction; he was an uncommonly preoccupied individual. He was strolling along a quiet residential avenue: small private houses, one...

Mystery of the Chinese RingBiff Brewster was suddenly awakewide awake. The gray light of dawn outlined the window of his first-floor bedroom. Somethingor someonewas outside. He felt sure of it. Something had prodded him out of his deep sleep with startling suddenness. For a...

Address delivered at the quarter-centennial celebration of the admission of Kansas as a stateIn Grecian mythology it is related that Zeus, warned by an oracle that the son of his spouse, Metis, would snatch supremacy from him, swallowed both Metis and her unborn child....

La Marquise de Boufflers et son fils, le chevalier de BoufflersNote sur la transcription: Les erreurs clairement introduites par le typographe ont t corriges. L'orthographe d'origine a t conserve et n'a pas t harmonise. Les numros des pages blanches n'ont pas t repris. Au...

JamiesonThey lived in a small house beside the little Wolf river in Wisconsin. Once it had been a summer cottage owned by a rich man from Chicago. The rich man died. His heirs sold it. Now it was well insulated and Mrs. Jamieson and...

Opiniones - Obras Completas Vol. XEn este libro, como en todos los mos, no pretendo ensear nada, pues me complazco en reconocerme el ser menos pedaggico de la tierra. Van aqu mis opiniones y mis sentires, sobre cosas vistas e ideas acariciadas. Todo expresado...

All the People"Possibly I am the limit." The politician smiled frostily. "The only limit is time, speed of cognizance and retention. I am told that the latter lessens with age. I am seventy, and it has not done so with me. Whom I have...

Plumfieldin pojat1. Kymmenen vuotta myhemmin. 2. Parnassos. 3. Jo viel kerran pulassa. 4. Dan. 5. Kesloma. 6. Jhyvissanoja. 7. Leijona ja karitsa. 8. Josie nyttelee merenneitoa. 9. Tomin uutiset. 10. Demi vakiintuu. 11. Emilin kiitosjuhla. 12. Danin joulu. 13. Natin uusi vuosi. 14. Plumfieldissa...

Between the Larch-woods and the WeirLooking up at it from the river bank by the weir (the self-same weir beside which Wordsworth sat when he wrote his famous Lines), you can only glimpse the chimneys and angles of the roof, so buried is the...

The Border Boys Along the St. LawrenceThe Border Boys Across the Frontier, The Border Boys with the Mexican Rangers, The Border Boys with the Texas Rangers, The Border Boys in the Canadian Rockies, The Border Boys on the Trail. All right, responded Ralph Stetson...

What We Saw at Madame World's Fair - Being a Series of Letters from the Twins at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition to Their Cousins at HomeFOR many years it has been the dream of Madame World to have a canal cut through the narrow...

The Mentor: Shakespeare's Country, Vol. 4, Num. 8, Serial No. 108, June 1, 1916It is the everlasting glory of Stratford-upon-Avon that it was the birthplace of Shakespeare. Situated in the heart of beautiful Warwickshire, it nestles cosily in an atmosphere of tranquil loveliness, and...

GourmetUnable to get out to the ballgame and a long way off from the girls, men on ships think about, talk about, bitch about their food. It's true that Woman remains a topic of thoughtful study, but discussion can never replace practice in an...

AloysHe had flared up more brightly than anyone in memory. And then he was gone. Yet there was ironic laughter where he had been; and his ghost still walked. That was the oddest thing: to encounter his ghost. It was like coming suddenly on...

Stirring Incidents in the Life of a British Soldier: An AutobiographyIn laying the history of my life and travels before the public, I deem it right to state that I am past the middle age; this I feel compelled to mention, because it is...

"The Greatest Failure in All History" - A Critical Examination of the Actual Workings of Bolshevism in RussiaLike the immortal Topsy, this book may be said to have just growed. In it I have simply assembled in something like an orderly arrangement a vast...

Essays Literary, Critical and HistoricalFour of the five essays which make up this volume have appeared during the past few years in the American Catholic Quarterly Review and the Champlain Educator. The author begs to acknowledge particularly his indebtedness to Dr. S. E. Dawsons...

Poems in Many LandsThe kind reception my first small volume of Songs in the South met with, has induced me to include a few of those poems in this more complete volume of early lyrics. I have to acknowledge the permission to reprint one...

Justice de femmeVoici du papier, de l'encre... un porte-plume... Qu'est-ce qu'il vous faudrait bien encore?... Est-ce tout?... Aurez-vous assez chaud ici?... Le valet de chambre veillera au feu. Mais, s'il ne venait pas temps, sonnez, n'est-ce pas? Cette citation par trop use semblait ici...

From Kitchen to Garret: Hints for young householdersIn presenting this book in a completed and augmented form to the public, I think a few words of explanation are necessary, lest the way in which the chapters are written may lay me open to a...