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War Days in BrittanyWar Days in Brittany By decree of the President of the Republic, the silver medal of the Reconnaissance Franaise was conferred on Mrs. Elsie Deming Jarves for the devotion she showed since the beginning of the war to our wounded. "Mrs. Deming Jarves, since...
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Un jardin sur l'OronteUn jardin sur l'OronteA la fin d'une brlante journe de juin 1914, j'tais assis au bord de l'Oronte dans un petit caf de l'antique Hamah, en Syrie. Les roues ruisselantes qui tournent, jour et nuit, au fil du fleuve pour en lever l'eau bienfaisante,...
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Beautiful EnglandThe Heart of Wessex As all the world is beginning to realize, that portion of the country immortalized by Thomas Hardy, in his great romances of rural life, lies in one of the most delectable regions of south-west England; and although, for the purpose...
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Beautiful BritainThe Isle of ManEither Ruskin or WordsworthI forget for the moment whichsays somewhere that the English Lake Country begins where its mountains first become visible over the sands of Morecambe Bay. This, indeed, is a proper rebuke to the foolish modern tendencyso entirely subversive...
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Impressioni d'AmericaImpressioni d'America Alle dieci della mattina il grande bastimento si stacca dal Dock e move lentamente rasentando i muraglioni bianchi del porto: scricchiola quasi compresso nella stretta di un ponte girante e procede cauteloso nei bacini senza dar fumo n fischi, la macchina inerte,...
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Hector GraemeHector GraemeThe dull November afternoon was fast drawing to a close. Patches of white mist lay in the hollows of the elm-dotted park; the outlines of stately tree and russet copse were rapidly merging into the surrounding grey. Already a flicker of light was...
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Ten Years in India, in the 16th Queen's Lancers, and Three Years in South Africa, in the Cape Corps LeviesTen Years in India, in the 16th Queen's Lancers, and Three Years in South Africa, in the Cape Corps LeviesThe most pleasant memories of my boyhood are clustered around the old family fireplace, in our home in Brighton, England, when my father, gathering us...
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Souvenir Album of the Great European WarSouvenir Album of the Great European War - With Pictorial Maps of the BattlegroundsThe pictures in this album are reproduced from actual photographs taken in Europe, many of which have already appeared, in more or less crude form, in the newspapers. Believing that these...
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Rivers of Great Britain. The Thames, from Source to SeaRivers of Great Britain. The Thames, from Source to Sea. - Descriptive, Historical, PictorialThe Source of the ThamesEarly Names of the RiverSeven SpringsThames HeadThe Churn and its CourseThames and Severn CanalCrickladeCastle EatonIngleshamFairford and the ColnLechladeThe First LockSome Thames FlowersOld BuscotHarts WeirBird LifeRadcot BridgeEddying Pools...
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Voimaihminen: Vaiheita Chilen vapaussodastaVoimaihminen: Vaiheita Chilen vapaussodastaJoseph Conrad on puolalaista sukujuurta, syntynyt jouluk. 6 p:n 1857, ja varsinaiselta kansalaistoiminnaltaan kauppalaivan kapteeni. Alituisilla kiertelyilln maapallon etisimmisskin satamissa on hn harvinaisessa mrin tutustunut maailman eri seutuihin ja kansoihin, ja se tuntemus on luonut pohjan hnen v. 1895 alkaneelle jokseenkin...
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William Oughtred: A Great 17th-Century Teacher of MathematicsWilliam Oughtred: A Great Seventeenth-Century Teacher of MathematicsIn the year 1660 the Royal Society was founded by royal favor in London, although in reality its inception took place in 1645 when the Philosophical Society (or, as Boyle called it, the Invisible College) came into...
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Six Major ProphetsSix Major ProphetsA few years ago it occurred to me that there were living on the same planet and at the same time as myself some interesting people whom I had never seen and did not know so much about as I should. Since...
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Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 - Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin countiesNo history of Walla Walla and of this section of the northwest would be complete without extended reference to Dr. N. G. Blalock, who not only figured...
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Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 1Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 1 - Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin countiesA land of scenic charm, of physical interest, of fertile soil and ample resources, of climate in which living is a delight, of two great rivers and...
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The Hardy Country: Literary landmarks of the Wessex NovelsThe Hardy Country: Literary landmarks of the Wessex NovelsDorsetshire, the centre of the Hardy Country, the home of the Wessex Novels, is a land literally flowing with milk and honey: a land of great dairies, of flowers and bees, of rural industries, where rustic...
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Early Scenes in Church HistoryEarly Scenes in Church History - Eighth Book of the Faith-Promoting SeriesMany deaths have occurred within the last few years among the veteran members of our Church. Numbers of persons have recently passed away who were connected with the Church during the early years...
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The Vintage: A Romance of the Greek War of IndependenceThe Vintage: A Romance of the Greek War of Independence "'COME AND SIT DOWN'" "'I AM FATHER ANDRA,' HE SHOUTED" "HALF CARELESSLY SHE THREW INTO THE BOAT THE ROSES SHE HAD PICKED" "SHE KISSED HIM LIGHTLY ON THE FOREHEAD" "MITSOS SURVEYED HIM WITH EASY...
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Pottery and Porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876Pottery and Porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876WHAT we have attempted has been to gather and present, in a way to be easily understood, the most important facts respecting Pottery and Porcelain. The study of this interesting subject has...
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Across IcelandAcross IcelandThese notes, besides describing a journey made during the summer of 1900 across Central Iceland from the north-east to the south-west, give an account of further travels by land in the west, and by sea along the coast and into the fjords of...
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'Neath Verdun, August-October, 1914'Neath Verdun, August-October, 1914 The author of this work, Mr. Maurice Genevoix, is a second-year student at the Ecole Normale, Paris. Having finished the second year of his course and, incidentally, completed a study "on Maupassant," he was in a position to regard with...
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