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The World of ChanceFrom the club where the farewell dinner was given him, Ray went to the depot of the East & West Railroad with a friend of his own age, and they walked up and down the platform talking of their lives and...

The magic of jewels and charms Jewels, gems, stones, superstitions and astrological lore are all so interwoven in history that to treat of either of them alone would mean to break the chain of association linking them one with the other. Beauty of color...

Colville of the Guards, Volume 3 (of 3) I. The "Flying Foam" II. Ellinor III. The Gale IV. Alone! V. In the Bala Hissar VI. The Fort of Mahmoud Shah VII. The Fugitive VIII. The Ghilzie IX. A New Snare X. The House by...

Colville of the Guards, Volume 2 (of 3) I. The Queen's Shilling II. In London III. No. 60, Park Lane IV. 'So Near and Yet So Far!' V. 'Some Day.' VI. Jack Shows His Teeth VII. The Daughter of Nox VIII. Mrs. Deroubigne IX....

Colville of the Guards, Volume 1 (of 3) I. Birkwoodbrae II. Mary's Adventure III. The Introduction IV. Robert Wodrow V. The Dunkeld Family VI. The Visit VII. Dreams and Doubts VIII. A Truce IX. Colville's Warning X. A Garden-Party at Craigmhor XI. In the...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 46, Vol. I, November 15, 1884Deer-stalking has for many a long year been looked upon as the king of sports; and in Scotland, a large area of land has from an early period...

Vándorlásaim és élményeim PersiábanKzpzsiai utazsom leirsa kzzttelekor azt igrm a hazai olvasnak, hogy ksbben, ha vndorbotomat valami nyugalmas hajlk szgletbe tmaszthatom, majd akkor tbb vi kborlsom trtnett egsz terjedelmben akarom elmondani, a mivel klnsen Kzpzsia hatrorszgai s az irodalmunkban hinyz keleti szomszdorszgok ismertetsre czloztam....

We Were There at the Normandy InvasionTOWARD sunset on the first day of June, a small black car rattled past a crossroads sign in a tiny village in northwestern France. The sign pointed to the near-by town of Sainte Mre glise, about two miles...

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 10 - The OpinionatorTHOSE who read no books but new ones have this much to say for themselves in mitigation of censure: they do not read all the new ones. They can not; with the utmost diligence...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 45, Vol. I, November 8, 1884The greatest physical convulsion of recent times occurred on the morning of the 27th of August last year, the scene of the catastrophe being a small island in...

A Matter of EthicsFader's Fadeless Formulae had offered him a position, not a job, to take charge of its research department, at ten thousand a year, twice what he was paid at Faderfield Junior College to teach chemistry. All this was in the letter....

3½ Monate Fabrik-ArbeiterinAls eifrige Kmpferin fr unser gutes Recht habe ich vielfach Gelegenheit gehabt zu sehen, da fast alle deutschen Frauen unter den Kmpferinnen, auch die tchtigsten, die Kirche am Turm anfangen zu bauen, d.h., sie bercksichtigen bei ihrem Streben immer nur das Frauenstudium...

The Voyage of Vanishing MenOther men before him had gone out into the far, dark places. Three previous expeditions had gone out and vanished completely. Then the Venture IV went out and out and out countless miles and light-years and whatever else it isand...

Moonlight and RobotsThad Morgan looked around his little room. The two deactivated robots and the framework that suspended the limp suit hardly left room for him to move around. At the moment he felt mildly disgusted with this whole convention. He asked himself why...

Hunting License"I do hope that they don't get airsick," replied Thomas Thurman from his comfortable chair in front of the fire. He took a long stick and began poking the embers closer to the coffee container. William Karsten turned around and looked at his...

Flight Perilous!It was the best assembly area the jammed ship could offer. Here the commander with a short turn of his head could meet any pair of eyes in the nine-man crew. They had met here before, in a more friendly atmosphere, soon after...

Jane--Our Stranger: A NovelIt is a pity we do not die when our lives are finished. Jane may live another twenty yearsa long time to wait, alone between two worlds. Jane is forty-three, I am five years older, Philibert is fifty-six, my mother nearly...

NaplegendaMindent, ami kivlik a megszokott rendbl, a vad ember termszetflttinek, isteninek tart: a rendkivli embert is. E rendkivli ember lehet: egy erejrl s btorsgrl hires fnk, lehet egy kivl idegen, ki mvszetet s tudst hoz, lehet magasabb fajbeli, gyzelmes hdit Flelemmel tekintenek fl re...

The History of Philosophy in Islam1. In olden time the Arabian desert was, as it is at this day, the roaming-ground of independent Bedouin tribes. With free and healthy minds they contemplated their monotonous world, whose highest charm was the raid, and whose intellectual...

Child Life and Sex Hygiene: A Remarkable MessageSending this little book out into the world is like sending out one of my children, for as they came from my heart, so has it. My heart has ached for my children as it has been...