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Prisoners in Devil's Bog: A Skippy Dare Mystery StoryWhen Skippy Dare entered the big office building he found himself in an enchanted realm. He had never before visited one of these commercial palaces and he gazed about him in speechless awe. He found the...

Birds' Nests, Eggs and Egg-CollectingThe very kindly reception by the press, and a steady public appreciation, have led to this endeavour to make my little book more complete, by preparing an Enlarged Edition, including all British-breeding birds that have now any reasonable claim for...

Makers of British Botany; a collection of biographies by living botanistsThe present volume represents in somewhat expanded form a course of lectures arranged by the Board of Studies in Botany of the University of London and delivered during the early part of 1911 in...

A History of Bibliographies of BibliographiesIn the following essay I use the term "bibliography of bibliographies" only for works of universal scope. Accordingly I discuss neither such national bibliographies as Giuseppe Ottino and Giuseppe Fumagalli's Bibliotheca bibliographica italiana (Rome, 1889) nor such special lists...

Special Days and Their Observance - September 1919The day in each year known as Arbor Day shall be suitably observed in the public schools. The Commissioner of Education shall from time to time prepare and issue to schools such circulars of information, advice and...

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 10Cyril Torneur is known only as an author, none of the dramatic biographers giving any account of him. Winstanley quotes the following distich from a contemporary poet, by which it appears that he was not held...

Die Chronik der Sperlingsgasse Wenn es gewittert, verkriechen sich die Vgel unter dem Busch. Das wre fast als ein gutes und warnendes Beispiel auch fr dieses kleine Buch zu nehmen; es will sich aber nicht warnen lassen, und vielleicht darf es auch nicht. Als...

Pfarre und Schule: Eine Dorfgeschichte. Zweiter Band.Die kleine Gesellschaft bestand bis jetzt erst aus vier Personen, und zwar aus der Frau Oberpostdirector von Gaulitz erst seit wenigen Monaten vermhlt aus des Pastors rosigem Tchterlein Sophie, und den beiden Schwestern des Herrn Geheimeraths Seiffenberger aus...

HeidiThere is here presented to the reader a careful translation of "Heidi," one of the most popular works of the great Swiss authoress, Madam Johanna Spyri. As particulars of her career are not easily gathered, we may here state that Johanna Heusser was born...

A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) - The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc.My former volume, published by the Ray Society, treated only of the Lepadid, one family of the Cirripedia: I was induced to print it from...

Memoirs of the Empress Catherine II. - Written by HerselfSOME hours after the death of the Empress Catherine, her son, the Emperor Paul, ordered Count Rostoptchine to put the seals upon her papers. He was himself present at the arrangement of these papers. Among...

Twelve Naval Captains - Being a Record of Certain Americans Who Made Themselves ImmortalAmerican history presents no more picturesque figure than Paul Jones, and the mere recital of his life and its incidents is a thrilling romance. A gardener's boy, he shipped before the...

Basil EvermanRichard Lister's mother stood at the head of the stairs and called a little impatiently. She was a large, middle-aged woman who looked older than she was in the black silk dress and bonnet with strings which was the church- and party-going costume...

Mimi at Sheridan SchoolFor the first time in ever so long Mimi was rude! She shoved, pushed, crowded, stepped on other passengers toes, jabbed them with her elbows. She forgot that every other camper on the train was as eager to be at home...

The Cruise of the Make-BelievesTHE thin young man with the glossy hat got out of the cab at the end of the street, and looked somewhat distrustfully down that street; glanced with equal distrust at the cabman. A man lounging against the corner public-house,...

Harry Blount, the Detective; Or, The Martin Mystery SolvedIt was a beautiful May morningthe more especially in that part of Lancashire, immediately surrounding Hanley Hall, the magnificent residence of Mr. St. George Stafford. Yet Mr. Staffordthough an ardent lover of nature, sat down to...

The Story of NurembergI AM painfully aware of the defects of this little book, and still more painfully unaware of its errors. The best excuse for the mistakes that have surely crept in is the vast scope and variety of my subjectthe story of...

Revolutionary Reader: Reminiscences and Indian LegendsSince it is customary to write a preface, should any one attempt the somewhat hazardous task of compiling a book, it is my wish, as the editor, in sending this book forth (to live or die according to its...

The Story of MankindWhen I was twelve or thirteen years old, an uncle of mine who gave me my love for books and pictures promised to take me upon a memorable expedition. I was to go with him to the top of the tower...

The Manchester Rebels of the Fatal '45 All my early life being spent in Manchester, where I was born, bred, and schooled, I am naturally familiar with the scenes I have attempted to depict in this Tale. Little of the old town, however, is...