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Nat Goodwin's BookNat Goodwin's BookIn penning memoirs or autobiographing it is extremely difficult to avoid writing impersonally, yet I shall strive to avoid it as much as possible, not so much from a sense of duty as from a standpoint of mercy. I have never enjoyed...
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The Fantasy Fan, October 1933The Fantasy Fan, October 1933 - The Fan's Own Magazine You will note several improvements in this issue of THE FANTASY FAN over the first number. The most noticeable one, of course, is the fact that there are almost twice as many pages as...
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Merrie England in the Olden Time, Vol. 2Merrie England in the Olden Time, Vol. 2 My friends,continued Mr. Bosky, after an approving smack of the lips, and Thanks, my kind mistress! many happy returns of St. Bartlemy! had testified the ballad-singer's hearty relish and gratitude for the refreshing draught over which...
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Merrie England in the Olden Time, Vol. 1Merrie England in the Olden Time, Vol. 1 Youth is the season of ingenuousness and enjoyment, when we desire to please, and blush not to own ourselves pleased. At that happy period there is no affectation of wisdom; we look only to the bright...
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Arthurian romances unrepresented in Malory's "Morte d'Arthur", no. 3Guingamor, Lanval, Tyolet, Bisclaveret: Four lais rendered into English proseThe previous volumes which have been published in this series have contained versions belonging to what we may call the conscious period of romantic literature; the writers had not only a story to tell, but...
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The Fantasy Fan, September 1933The Fantasy Fan, September 1933 - The Fan's Own Magazine Every fantasy fiction magazine says: "This is YOUR magazine." Most fans like this phrase, for it provides a very welcome personal feeling on the part of the readers toward these magazines. The business of...
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The Covenant of SaltThe Covenant of Salt - As Based on the Significance and Symbolism of Salt in Primitive ThoughtIn 1884 I issued a volume on "The Blood Covenant: A Primitive Rite and its Bearings on Scripture." Later I was led to attempt, and to announce as...
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Reise in Südamerika. Zweiter BandReise in Südamerika. Zweiter Band. Man trgt sich in Chile mit vielfachen Gerchten ber die Gefahren, welche mit Reisen in der Cordillera verknpft sind, und in der That ist ein solches Unternehmen auch nicht ohne alle Gefahr. Abgesehen von den halsbrechenden Wegen, und von...
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Reise in Südamerika. Erster BandReise in Südamerika. Erster Band. Im April 1849 verlie ich Nrnberg. Schwer und hart war der Abschied von den Meinen. Hatte doch mein ltester Junge lange Zeit vor meiner Abreise halbe Nchte durchweint im Gedanken an meine Fahrt, und bei Tage sich heiter geberdet...
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The Religion of Ancient ScandinaviaThe Religion of Ancient ScandinaviaThe native religion of the ancient Scandinavians was in its main features only a special form of that common to all the Germanic peoples, and this again was only a particular development of primitive beliefs and practices characteristic of the...
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Little Classics, Volume 1 (of 18)Stories of Exile Ethan Brand; The Swans of Lir; A Night in a Workhouse; The Outcasts of Poker Flat; The Man Without a Country; Flight of a Tartar Tribe It is not more difficult for the mineralogist to define a metal, than for the...
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The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911)The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911) - Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855)Our American educational methods too frequently seek to produce the effect of polish upon a kind of sandstone information that will not stand polishing....
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Vasco, Our Little Panama CousinVasco, Our Little Panama CousinBoth old and young are interested in the work that the United States is doing on the narrow strip of land connecting North and South America,digging the Panama Canal, a highway for the nations. The country is small, but the...
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Shinto (the Way of the Gods)Shinto (the Way of the Gods)As compared with the great religions of the world, Shinto, the old Kami cult of Japan, is decidedly rudimentary in its character. Its polytheism, the want of a Supreme Deity, the comparative absence of images and of a moral...
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Origin Myths among the Mountain Peoples of the PhilippinesOrigin Myths among the Mountain Peoples of the PhilippinesBeliefs as to the origin of the earth, and of the men, animals, plants, and various topographical features found in it, seem to survive with greater persistence than any other trait of primitive culture. These beliefs...
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Peru in the Guano AgePeru in the Guano Age - Being a Short Account of a Recent Visit to the Guano Deposits, with Some Reflections on the Money They Have Produced and the Uses to Which It Has Been Applied It would be most pleasant to continue this...
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South America: Observations and ImpressionsSouth America: Observations and Impressions - New edition corrected and revisedWhoever read as a boy the books of old travellers in the Andes, such as Humboldt's Aspects of Nature, or pored over such accounts of the primitive American peoples as are given in Prescott's...
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Up the Orinoco and down the MagdalenaUp the Orinoco and down the MagdalenaRes ardua vetustis novitatem dare; novis auctoritatem; absoletis, nitorem; obscuris, lucem; fastiditis, gratiam; dubiis, fidem; omnibus vero naturam, et naturae sua omnia. Itaque etiam non assecutis, voluisse abunde pulchrum atque magnificum est. That is to say: It is...
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Theism being the Baird Lecture of 1876Theism; being the Baird Lecture of 1876The Lectures in this volume have been delivered in Glasgow, St Andrews, and Edinburgh, in connection with the Lectureship founded by the late Mr James Baird of Auchmedden and Cambusdoon. They will be followed by a volume on...
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Essays in RationalismEssays in RationalismWhether this little volume will find sufficient patrons to defray the cost of its production is at least doubtful. The writer whose essays it contains lived in obscurity and will never be popular. But he possessed a fine intellect, however frustrated by...
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