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British Canals: Is their resuscitation practicable?The appointment of a Royal Commission on Canals and Waterways, which first sat to take evidence on March 21, 1906, is an event that should lead to an exhaustive and most useful enquiry into a question which has been...

InfatuationPhyllis Ladd lost her mother at twelve; and this bereavement, especially terrible to an only child, brought with it two consequences that had a far-reaching effect on her character. An ardent, high-strung nature, acquainted so early with a poignant sorrow, gets an outlook on...

Babylon, Volume 3 In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of day. Within its...

Babylon, Volume 2 Another year had passed, and Colin, now of full age, had tired of working for Cicolari. It was all very well, this moulding clay and carving replicas of afflicted widows; it was all very well, this modelling busts and statuettes and...

Babylon, Volume 1 Whar's Hiram, Het?' Deacon Zephaniah Winthrop asked of his wife, tartly. 'Pears to me that boy's allus off somewhar, whenever he's wanted to do anything. Can't git along without him, any way, when we've got to weed the spring peppermint. Whar's...

Fanny Campbell, The Female Pirate Captain: A Tale of The Revolution All books should have a preface, for the writer is sure to have something to communicate to the reader concerning the plot of the story or some subject relating to it which he...

Windfalls In offering a third basket of windfalls from a modest orchard, it is hoped that the fruit will not be found to have deteriorated. If that is the case, I shall hold myself free to take another look under the trees at my...

Johnny Nut and the Golden Goose This Tale is rendered, a little freely, from Trente-six Rencontres de Jean du Gogu, in Contes dun Buveur de Bire, par Charles Deulin. (Sixime Edition. Paris: Dentu. 1873.) The late M. Deulin told with much humour, and probably...

The Dance of Death he writer of these pages is not foolish enough to suppose that he can escape strong and bitter condemnation for his utterances. On this score he is not disposed to be greatly troubled; and for these reasons: Firstlyhe feels that...

Blood Royal: A Novel Chiddingwick High Street is one of the quaintest and most picturesque bits of old town architecture to be found in England. Narrow at either end, it broadens suddenly near the middle, by a sweeping curve outward, just opposite the W...

The Shakespeare Myth Halliwell-Phillipps says: "It was not till the Jubilee of 1769 that the tendency to the fabrication of Shakespeare anecdotes and relics at Stratford Museum became manifest. All kinds of deception have since been practised there." IT is now universally admitted that...

The Shakespearean Myth: William Shakespeare and Circumstantial Evidence M. Guizot, in his History of England, states the Shakespearean problem in a few words, when he says: "Let us finally mention the great comedian, the great tragedian, the great philosopher, the great poet, who was...

Vine and Olive; Or, Young America in Spain and Portugal - A Story of Travel and AdventureVine and Olive, the fifth volume of the second series of Young America Abroad, contains the history of the Academy Squadron during the cruise along the shores of...

A Defence of Virginia - And Through Her, of the South, in Recent and Pending Contests Against the Sectional PartyTo the conquerors of my native State, and perhaps to some of her sons, a large part of the following defence will appear wholly unseasonable....

The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological StudyI. We shall meet, in the course of this work, many different definitions that have at one time or another been given to religion. Some were assigned from the point of view of physics, others from that...

Unaddressed LettersI HAD a friend who loved me; but he has gone, and the great gulf is between us. After his death I received a packet of manuscript with these few words: What I have written may appeal to you because of our friendship,...

Kuuselan KukkaPohjois-Suomessa oli merenrannalla kaunis Niemen talo, jota hallitsi kuudenkymmenen vuoden vanha ukko. Tm talo ei ollut iso, vaan sen haltia oli toki rikas ja mahtava, sill hn oli uutterasti tyt tehnyt, ja erittinkin oli hn kalanpyynnll rikastunut, sill kalan-saalis oli hyv, ja ukko...

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 66, No. 410, December 1849The idea of associating history with some specific locality or institution, has long ago occurred to the skilful fabricators of romance. If old walls could speak, what strange secrets might they not reveal! The thought suggests...

The Motor Boys After a Fortune; or, The Hut on Snake IslandDear Boys: I wonder if any of you are superstitious, or if you believe in signs? I, myself, do not, but as this happens to be the thirteenth book in the Motor Boys...

Sixty Squadron R.A.F.: A History of the Squadron from its FormationThis book tells the story of Squadron No. 60 of the Royal Flying Corps, afterwards of the Royal Air Force. When the war began, in August 1914, the Royal Flying Corps was a very...