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Promoting good citizenshipMr. Bryce has for a long time been a man of international prominence. His wide influence is undoubtedly due to many causes, but it may, in general, be traced to two characteristics: Mr. Bryce is a humanist who sympathetically watches the progress...

The story of ironBilly Bradford might stand still, looking away off at the mountains, and wish, but William Wallace was quite another boy. There had been a time when Billy hadnt felt that there were two of him. Then he had lived in the...

The improved antidote, supposed to be more active in expelling poison, than a late invention, by the Rev. Sir Harcourt Lees, Bart. in which the Catholics are vindicated from his abuse, and their claims for unrestricted emancipation, consideredTitle: The improved antidote, supposed to be...

The charm of Reynolds This picture was given to the National Gallery in 1866. The figure on the left is the Rev Geo. Huddersford, who, before he took orders, studied art with Sir Joshua. The other figure, with violin in right hand, is J....

MiniatürökA nyolcadik, alighogy kiszllottan a patyolat- s hsplykbl, a tornyos gyerekszkben frglkedett, tiszta kk szeme fnylett az rmtl, repdes tekintgetse szntelen volt, mint a cszmadr nfeledt fecsegse, szemecskinek villan, kk horgait sorjzva hnyta a srga udvaros lmpaernyre, a feketn csng mennyezetre, a nyitott ablak...

The voice at JohnnywaterThe telephone bell was shrilling insistent summons in his apartment when Gary pushed open the hall door thirty feet away. Even though he took long steps, he hoped the nagging jingle would cease before he could reach the phone. But the...

Le joug: romanRoman PARIS J. FERENCZI ET FILS, DITEURS 9, Rue Antoine-Chantin, 9 {2} IL A T TIR DE CET OUVRAGE Cinq exemplaires sur papier pur fil des Papeteries Lafuma numrots de 1 5 Copyright 1925, by J. Ferenczi et Fils. Tous droits de...

The Kobzar of the Ukraine - Being select poems of Taras Shevchenko done into English verse with biographical fragments by Alexander Jardine HunterNearly twenty years ago the translator of these poems was sent by the Presbyterian church as a medical missionary to a newly...

Un explorateur brésilien - Deux mille kilomètres de navigation en canot dans un fleuve inexploré et complètement dominé par des sauvages féroces et indomptables (extrait du Journal du capitaine de frégate baron de Teffé) Deux mille kilomtres de navigation en canot dans un fleuve...

The strollerAll sorts of things come in on a space freighter. Even in the old days grocers were always finding twenty-foot pythons curled cozily inside bunches of bananas from South America; and what sort of undesired stowaways do you suppose you get when you...

The time-raiderIn beginning this account of our great adventure, it must be understood that I attempt no complete history of the matter. There will be gaps, many gaps, in the continuity of my story, for that story remains, after all, simply a record of...

Mad Anthony's scouts; or, The rangers of KentuckyA tall, spare specimen of the backwoodsman, who was sitting by a smouldering camp-fire, had arisen and grasped the hand of a genial-faced Irishman, who was also clad in the habiliments of the forest. "I was jist...

Young Grandison, volume 1 (of 2) - A series of letters from young persons to their friendsIndeed any instruction which has not evidently this tendency, will be found not only useless but pernicious; if it be allowed that a smattering of knowledge can never...

The naval cadet: A story of adventures on land and sea I. The Hermit of Kilmara II. The Night came on before its Time III. The Storm IV. Story of the Skye Clearings V. A Terrible Adventure VI. In Search of Adventure VII. Lost...

Windmills: A book of fablesProphecy of an event is unlikely to be interesting after it and this may be the reason why my prophetic utterances regarding the Great War took the form of Satire. The first of these fables has a history. It was...

Skit-tree planetThe communicator-phone set up a clamor when the sky was just beginning to gray in what, on this as yet unnamed planet, they called the east because the local sun rose there. The call-wave had turned on the set. Bob Wentworth kicked off...

Quest to CentaurusCaptain Alfred Weston entered the room and nodded curtly to the men at the conference table. Doctor Edwards, holding forth at the head of the table, nodded as though he had not seen the over-polite greeting. He waved the newcomer to an...

Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire, (Vol. 20/20) - faisant suite à l'Histoire de la Révolution FrançaiseProduced by: Mireille Harmelin, Keith J Adams, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by...

Esztike kisasszony professzora: RegényA ki a kilenczvenes vek elejn pnzt ment betenni vagy kivenni az Els hazai takarkpnztr-ba, a knyvecske alrsakor lthatott egy hossz csontos kezet kinylni rte. Ez volt a Plffy Albert keze. Magas, hrihorgas, sovny ember lt a rcs mgtt, hosszszr pipbl...

Nick Carter Stories No. 157, September 11, 1915: A human counterfeit; or, Nick Carter and the crook's double.Extraordinarythat doesnt half express it. I know of no word that would. To some extent, Nick, at least, mens motives are usually discernible in their conduct. But...