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How They Succeeded: Life Stories of Successful Men Told by ThemselvesTHE GREAT INTEREST manifested in the life-stories of successful men and women, which have been published from time to time in the magazine Success, has actuated their production in book form. Many of these...

Fábulas y cuentos en verso - SelecciónHace tiempo que el Instituto-Escuela tropieza con bastantes inconvenientes para que las lecturas literarias de sus alumnos sean todo lo extensas y variadas que es menester; la misma dificultad tocarn, en ms o menos grado, todos los profesores...

Agnes Mary Clerke and Ellen Mary Clerke: An AppreciationLady Huggins in her original draft of the obituary notice of my sister Agnes, which appeared in the Astrophysical Journal, included some words of personal appreciation and of reference to her family which were omitted from...

The Peril and the Preservation of the Home - Being the William L. Bull Lectures for the Year 1903For many years, it has been my earnest desire to found a Lectureship on Christian Sociology, meaning thereby the application of Christian principles to the social,...

A Theory of the Mechanism of Survival: The Fourth Dimension and Its ApplicationsThe highly speculative and extrapolatory character of this book will be evident to all who are bold enough to read it. I wish to make it perfectly clear that I have no...

Cameo CuttingThe art of cutting Cameos in shell is of so very recent birth, compared with that of working in precious stones, that a claim to consideration in setting forth the method and practice may justly be preferred. Yet my little treatise, which is...

Calling World-4 of KithgolThe Star was obscured by blowing sand, and Yorgh could not see much of The World either. The wolly he rode snorted in panic at the howl of the sandstorm. Finally, the big hunter swung down to the ground and dragged...

Tonight the Stars Revolt!In the Black Pools he found the 50,000-year-lost wisdom of the Ancients. For a day Red Angus held victory in his sword-hand. But it was too short a glimpse, too elusive a thought to bolster the star-rabble against the Citadel's iron...

La fiaccola sotto il moggio Appare un'aula vastissima nella casa antica dei Sangro costrutta sul dosso ineguale del monte. Alla robustezza della primitiva ossatura normanna tutte le et han sovrapposto le loro testimonianze di pietra e di cotto, dal regno degli Angioini al regno...

John Cheap, the Chapman's Library. Vol. 2: Religious and Scriptural - The Scottish Chap Literature of Last Century, ClassifiedAt the Reformation one half of the lands of Scotland were the property of the church. David I. had made over almost the whole of those...

Witch of the Demon SeasGuide a black galleon to the lost, fear-haunted Citadel of the Xanthi wizardsinto the very jaws of Doom? Corun, condemned pirate of Conahur, laughed. Aye, he'd do it, and gladly. It would mean a reprieve from the headsman's axea few...

Sargasso of Lost StarshipsFar out in limitless space, Valduma, queen of the voluptuous half-life, plied her deadly trade ... a Lorelei of the black void, beckoning adventurous spacemen to death and destruction with her beautiful siren lure. Basil Donovan was drunk again. He sat...

Boys of Other Countries In my travels about the world I have made the acquaintance of a great many children, and I might tell you many things about their dress, their speech, and their habits of life in the different countries I have visited....

Home-made Toy Motors - A practical handbook giving detailed instructions for building simple but operative electric motorsAn Electric Motor is a device for transforming electricity into mechanical power. A generator, or dynamo, is constructed in almost the same identical manner as a motor but...

The Ambassadors From VenusThe first ship landed in a plowed field fifty miles from the city, just beyond the signs that warned of radiation. Rather circular in shape, it was fully sixty feet across and twenty feet in thickness, its color a burnished green....

Swordsman of Lost TerraProud Kery of Broina felt like a ghost himself; shade of a madman flitting hopelessly to the citadel of Earth's disinherited ... to recapture the resonant pipes of Killornweapon of the godsbefore they blared forth the dirge of the world. The...

Enchantress of VenusLaughing, she cast him down into the hideous depths, beneath the seas of flaming gas, to where dead blossoms swayed, whispering, over strangely jumbled ruins.... But there he found the secret of her power, and came surging backup from the depths, up...

Nuori Suomi I-III: Novelleja ja kertomuksia suomalaisilta kirjailijoilta Kun idin ainoa poika on tullut fennomaaniksi, silloin Agata-kulta, hn kyll tiet saavansa kokea elmss. Ajatella Emilini viikottain ja kuukausittain paljaitten raakain talonpokain parissa, pieksut jalassa ehkp paljasjaloinkin. Olisihan voinut lhett jonkin Karhusen tahi Huttusen? Nykyiseen...

Dogtown - Being Some Chapters from the Annals of the Waddles Family Set Down in the Language of Housepeople[2]Waddles, lying on the sunny side of the lilac hedge, was also waiting for this important evening happening; and though nothing in his appearance told that...

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1030, September 23, 1899 SOLITUDE. THE HOUSE WITH THE VERANDAH. UPS AND DOWNS. CHRONICLES OF AN ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN RANCH. IN THE TWILIGHT SIDE BY SIDE. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. AYONT THAE HILLS. SHEILAS COUSIN EFFIE. THE PLEASURES OF BEE-KEEPING. GIRLS...