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Balancing and Shoeing Trotting and Pacing HorsesThis is a plain, unvarnished and practical treatise on the art of balancing and shoeing trotting and pacing horses, unclouded by little known technical and scientific words and phrases, but written by the author, Wm. J. Moore, in...

Recollections of Captain Wilkie: A Story of an Old OffenderI had been so full of the fact that my long-expected holiday had come at last, and that for a few days, at least, the gayeties of Paris were about to supersede the dull routine...

Pest 1916Mostanban, (mskor zuzmars szakllu januriusban), midn a pesti tornyok ramutatin nem foglalhatnak knyelmes helyet a cskk, dlfel napsugr ltogatott el a vrosba, kedves, ajndkot hoz jvevny s a liget nagy fi fltt mr nem ltszanak titokzatos hieroglifjei a fekete galyaknak: egy fiatal hlgy...

Chester Water-Colours You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days of receipt of the work....

Old Ruff, the Trapper; or, The Young Fur-HuntersYoung Harry Northend remained by his lonely camp-fire in the wilderness, long after the dull, dismal day had dawned, in the hope that Little Rifle, his promised bride of the wilderness, as he loved to look upon...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern ProseThe poem of which the following pages offer a prose rendering is contained in a MS., believed to be unique, of the Cottonian Collection, Nero A. X., preserved in the British...

The Little Review, May 1915 (Vol. 2, No. 3) I have been much criticised for an article on Gabrilowitsch in the last issue. I have been told rather violently that I didnt know what I was talking about; that to say Gabrilowitsch had stood...

The Mysterious Box: Nuclear Science and ArtDr. Bernard Keisch received his B.S. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his Ph.D. from Washington University. He is a Senior Fellow with the Division of Sponsored Research of Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He is presently engaged in...

The VaultThe window slid up easilytoo easilyand Mike waited a long time, listening, before he made a move. The whole huge pile of the factory was still. There were no lights anywhere, except that dim one by the gate through the stockade. Lying quite...

A Life's Story, In Poetry. Other Poems Borne down by weight of ninety years My limbs have weaker grown; 'Mid joy and grief. 'mid smiles and tears How quick the years have flown. I look 'way back, a distant view, To years of long...

Free Opinions, Freely Expressed on Certain Phases of Modern Social Life and ConductSome of these social papers which are now collected together for the first time, have appeared before in various periodicals enjoying a simultaneous circulation in this country and the United States. Eleven...

A Treatise on MechanicsThe text of this e-book has mostly been preserved in its original form including some inconsistency of hyphenation and use of diacritics (aeriform/ariform). Three spelling typos have been corrected (arrangment arrangement, pully pulley, dye die) as have typos in equations on...

Good Health and How We Won It, With an Account of the New HygieneTen years ago, when I was a student at college, I fell a victim to a new and fashionable ailment called la grippe. I recollect the date very well, because it...

Peace with Honour Dick!Mabel North dashed at her brother, robbed him of his cigar, and, snatching away his newspaper, set her foot upon itif you imagine I allow you to smoke in the conservatory merely in order that you may shirk coming out with...

The Cornhill Magazine, Vol. I, January 1860When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with so excellent...

Mere Literature, and Other Essays All but one of the essays brought together in this volume have already been printed, either in the Atlantic Monthly, the Century Magazine, or the Forum. The essay on Burke appears here for the first time in print. A...

Death in Venice On a spring afternoon of the year 19, when our continent lay under such threatening weather for whole months, Gustav Aschenbach, or von Aschenbach as his name read officially after his fiftieth birthday, had left his apartment on the Prinzregentenstrasse in...

Woodland PathsTHE night was dark and bitter cold, though it was early March. Over in the dismal depths of Pigeon Swamp, where no pigeons have nested for nearly a half century though it is as wild and lone to-day as it was when they...

The Seven Ages of WomanOn a June morning in the year 1859 Sir Richard Flower of Barton Flowers in the county of Southampton decided that the weather was propitious for his annual progress on horseback round the confines of his demesne. The order was...

The Story of Greece: Told to Boys and GirlsDear little Joyce,One of the reasons why this book is to be your very own is that the story it tells begins in Wonderland, and that is a land in which you and all other little...