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The Reformation and the Renaissance (1485-1547) - Second EditionThis series of English History Source Books is intended for use with any ordinary textbook of English History. Experience has conclusively shown that such apparatus is a valuablenay, an indispensableadjunct to the history lesson. It is...

The Flower-Patch Among the HillsVirginia and her sister Ursula are my most intimate friends. Virginiareally quite a harmless girlimagines she has a scientific bias. Ursuladomesticated to the backboneled a strenuous life in the pursuit of experimental psychology, till she switched off to wash hospital...

ÉmancipéesIl nest pas dcrivain qui sintresse plus que vous, mon cher ami, aux questions fminines, qui les ait tudies avec plus de pntration et de hardiesse, et les possde mieux. Lloge que lrudit anthologiste Vinet adressait Sainte-Beuve peut en toute assurance vous tre appliqu:...

Connecticut Wide-Awake SongsterFor the accommodation of my numerous friends in various parts of the country who prefer not to be at the expense of frequent visits to New York, I have made arrangements with some of the most reliable houses in the city to...

Madeleine, jeune femmeDans mon prcdent roman, La Jeune fille bien leve, j'avais compos sans arrire-pense le rcit de la vie d'une jeune fille leve comme on l'tait assez communment en province au sicle dernier. Et c'est le problme de l'ducation de la jeune fille...

Billy in BunburySift together flour, cocoa, sugar, salt, cinnamon and baking powder. Add raisins, then milk slowly to make a smooth batter. Add shortening and mix thoroughly. Put 1 tablespoon batter in each greased muffin tin and bake in moderate oven (400) for about...

Deutsche LandschaftenNach eigenen Uvachromaufnahmen des Verlages wurden wiedergegeben: Die Drahtziehmhle (Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin) Frnkische Landschaft beim Dorf Kalkreuth (Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin) Nrnberg Husergruppe von St. Johann bei Nrnberg Dorf Kalkreuth Altes Schlo in den Dolomiten Trient (smtlich Kunsthalle, Bremen). Mit Genehmigung der G. Grote'schen Verlagshandlung, Berlin,...

A Captive at Carlsruhe and Other German Prison CampsThe good folk of the town would have[16] slipped bread into our hands, but our German guards pressed them back with their rifles. Bayonets and rifle butts could not prevent them, however, from flinging us words...

Geschlecht und Charakter: Eine prinzipielle UntersuchungDieses Buch unternimmt es, das Verhltnis der Geschlechter in ein neues Licht zu rcken. Es sollen nicht mglichst viele einzelne Charakterzge aneinandergereiht, nicht die Ergebnisse der bisherigen wissenschaftlichen Messungen und Experimente zusammengestellt, sondern die Ableitung alles Gegensatzes von Mann...

Crito"In compliance with the desire of the Publishers, a Latin version has been annexed, that of Marsilius Ficinus, a Florentine, born A.D. 1433, and educated by Pletho, under the patronage of Cosmo di Medici, for the express purpose of translating the writings, and reviving...

Princess Badoura: A tale from the Arabian NightsThe Sultan Shahriar stands out to fame as the greatest monogamist in all history. Having been deceived by his first wife, he caused her to be put to death, and then proceeded to avenge himself upon a...

Proceedings of the New York Historical Association [1906]At the Seventh Annual Meeting of the New York State Historical Association, held at Lake George on the 22d day of August, 1905, a quorum being present, the President, James A. Roberts, called the meeting to order,...

Footprints of the Red Men - Indian geographical names in the valley of Hudson's river, the valley of the Mohawk, and on the Delaware: their location and the probable meaning of some of them.The locatives of the Indian geographical names which have been handed...

Advanced Bridge; The Higher Principles of the Game Analysed and ExplainedIn the study of any game, the foundation of success must be a thorough acquaintance with the principles of play. This once attained, future progress becomes easy and rapid. Many writers on Bridge have...

Two diaries From Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February-May, 1865 - Journals kept by Miss Susan R. Jervey and Miss Charlotte St. J. Ravenel, at Northampton and Pooshee plantations, and reminiscences of Mrs. (Waring) Henagan; with two contemporary reports from federal officials.From Middle...

La solitudeBrugg est une jolie petite ville du canton d'Argovie, situe au confluent de l'Aar, de la Reuss et de la Limat. Je passais l, il y a quelques mois, par une de ces fraches matines d't qui rpandent tant de charme sur les...

The Flag, and Other Poems, 1918[A] The name of Newfoundland is never pronounced by its inhabitants or their neighbors of the Maritime Provinces with the accent on the middle syllable, as is the usage elsewhere. It is pronounced as though written Newfnland, with the...

A Rebel's RecollectionsLunching one day with Oliver Johnson the best "original abolitionist" I ever knew, I submitted to him the question I was debating with myself, namely, whether I might write this little volume of reminiscences without fear of offending excellent people, or, still...

I, the UnspeakableIt was the voice that always came, low, intense, seductive, the sound of your hand on silk ... and to a citizen of Northem, a conformist, it was shocking. I was a conformist then; I was still one that morning. I awoke....

Babes in the BushSternworth lives in New South Wales, not New Zealand, returned he rather testily. I have told you more than once that the two places are a thousand miles apart by sea. Yes! it is from old Harley. When he was chaplain...