Public Domain

Athletics and Games of the Ancient GreeksFew kinds of labor develop the body in a symmetrical manner. This is true even in an elementary division of labor. The carpenter and the blacksmith usually have strong, large shoulders and arms, but small and weak legs....

Abury, A Temple of the British Druids, With Some Others, DescribedHISTORY is political wisdom, philosophy is religious. The one consists in the knowledge of memorable things, and application of that knowledge to the good conduct of life: in embracing the good, and avoiding the...

Sidewinders From SiriusGaylord Kram, Vice-colonel of Intelligence, Terrestrial Federal government, sat pondering one of the worst poker hands he had ever witnessed, and he had witnessed a goodly number in his 38 years, when he should have been sweating blood over his tottering government's...

Lady Into Hell-CatThe inspector suddenly became respectful. "Oh, you're that Heydrick?" He referred to the credentials on his desk. "What's a pirate-chaser like you doing on an assignment like this? Seems like picking up fugitive murderers for the disintegrators is a job for the...

The Diamond Sutra (Chin-Kang-Ching) or Prajna-Paramita The Diamond Sutra is one of the most valued and widely read philosophical works in Buddhist literature. It is very popular amongst ardent Buddhists in China, and excepting the Lotus of the Good Law, and the Leng-Yen-Ching,1 perhaps...

Vajra-chhediká, the "Kin Kong King," or Diamond Sútra[Presented December, 1863]. True words (Dhrai) to be used for cleansing the mouth previous to a perusal of this work. True words (Dhrai) (fit for) the pure condition of Being. Om! Lam! Afterwards follow eight invocations to...

Josiah Allen's Wife as a P. A. and P. I.: Samantha at the Centennial. - Designed As a Bright and Shining Light, to Pierce the Fogs of Error and Injustice That Surround Society and Josiah, and to Bring More Clearly to View the Path...

Granada and the Alhambra - A brief description of the ancient city of Granada, with a particular account of the Moorish palaceThe generous appreciation with which my larger book on the Alhambra was received by both the Press and the public in Spain and...

Az élet diadala: NovellákMikor elmentnk Glckner Amlirt, mr vge volt uram isten, szegny kis bs lete elmult s minden, s mr csak a krhzba mentnk el rte, st a hullahzba mentnk el rte, mert mr ott fekdt a kert legvgn, az utols pletben, trelmesen...

Koszorú a román népköltészet virágaibólA ki gynyrkdni tud a szabad termszet szpsgeiben; a ki megbmulja a vadregnyes tj mesterkletlen alakzatait; a kit meglep a nyilt mezn egy rvcska, egy harangvirg, egy nefelejts, vagy akr egy pipacs rikit pirossga, az gynyrkdni fog azon vadvirgokban is,...

Valkoinen päällikkö: Kertomus Pohjois-MeksikostaKaikki ovat ne jo aikoja sitten hvinneet maan plt; niiden nimet on unohdettu, ja vhn vaan tunnetaan niiden historiaa, sit surullista kohtaloa, mik tuli nitten kerran niin onnellisten pikkuyhteiskuntien osaksi. Tarinoita niist vaan en kulkee. * * * * * Ern...

Riches and Poverty (1910)THE present edition of "Riches and Poverty" revises my estimates of the distribution of the wealth of the United Kingdom down to the year 1908. The effect of the revision is to show that in the five years that have elapsed...

Honor Bright: A Story of the Days of King CharlesOne fine autumn morning a long time ago, a little boy lay stretched in the broad seat of a latticed window, gazing earnestly with his great dark eyes on the scene before him. The window...

La PoupéePuisque vous aimez les antiquaires, me dit mon ami Ange Laurentier, chez qui je passais cette semaine dextrme automne, allez donc jusqu la Tremble; on ma affirm que le fou qui habitait, ou plus exactement, qui se cachait dans ce pavillon dlabr, tait...

Buffalo Bill's Weird Warning; Or, Dauntless Dell's RivalIt is now some generations since Josh Billings, Ned Buntline, and Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, intimate friends of Colonel William F. Cody, used to forgather in the office of Francis S. Smith, then proprietor of the New York...

A Twentieth Century IdealistNature herself is an idea of the mind and is never presented to the senses. She lies under the veil of appearances, but is herself never apparent. To the art of the ideal is lent, or, rather, absolutely given, the privilege...

Az oszlopbáró: RegényValamikor az n des szleim is j mdban voltak; ltni ugyan ebbl a szp s kedves llapotbl n mr mitsem lttam, de hogy a dolog a legtisztbb valsg: onnan mondhatom, mert anym, mikor varrt, s egyszer-egyszer holmi j kocsi pomps lovakkal el-elsurrant...

A monograph on sleep and dream: their physiology and psychologySome papers on the Phenomena of Sleep and Dream, read before The Psychological Society of Great Britain, having excited much interest and caused considerable discussion, I was requested to put them into the more formal...

A West Point Treasure; Or, Mark Mallory's Strange FindHe was a tall, handsome lad, with a frank, pleasant face, and a wealth of curly brown hair. He wore a close-fitting gray jacket and trousers. The uniform of a West Point plebe, as the new...

From the Land of the Snow-Pearls: Tales from Puget SoundSome of the stories in this book appeared originally in McClures, Lippincotts, Leslies Weekly, Short Stories, The Black Cat and The New Peterson. I am indebted to the publishers of those periodicals for the kind...