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Apples in Appealing Ways [1969]Apples that go to pieces when cooked are usually best for applesauce; those that keep their shape are best for baking whole. Tart apples are good for cooking; sweeter apples, for eating raw. Early summer apples are especially good in...

Tumbling for AmateursAnticipating the present tendency of the American people toward a healthful method of living and enjoyment, Spaldings Athletic Library was established in 1892 for the purpose of encouraging athletics in every form, not only by publishing the official rules and records pertaining...

Across the Vatna Jökull; or, Scenes in Iceland - Being a Description of Hitherto Unkown RegionsHaving traversed several parts of Iceland concerning which nothing has hitherto been known, I have ventured to publish the few following pages, giving an account of my journey across...

Le Martyre de Saint SébastienUn jour d't, au pays des Marses, en ma terre d'Abruzzes, j'coutais sous le portail d'une glise un charmeur de serpents jouer son air magique sur un os de cerf cinq trous qu'un anctre avait retrouv, parmi des cendres, des...

Thackeray's London: a description of his haunts and the scenes of his novelsThackeray does not give the same opportunities for the identification of his scenes as Dickens. The elaboration with which the latter localizes his characters, and the descriptive minuti with which he makes...

Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 3, No. 29, January, 1922 - America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and FilosophyWhiz Bangs greatest bookThe Winter Annual Pedigreed Follies of 1921-22hot off the press. Orders are now being mailed. There will be no delay as long as the...

A Son of Courage 1 Billy Wilson's Strategy 2 A Shower of Fish 3 Appraising the New Teacher 4 The Message Croaker Brought 5 A Wilderness Merchant 6 The Ruse That Failed 7 The Rabbit Foot Charm 8 Luck Rides the Storm 9 Moving...

A Popular History of England, From the Earliest Times to the Reign of Queen Victoria; Vol. IV King James had abandoned England, fleeing from the storm which he had raised, obstinate in his ideas and holding persistently to the hope of a return, which...

Historical and Descriptive Guide Through ShrewsburyThis Historical Guide has no pretensions to the value of either a full history or a complete handbook of Shrewsbury. It consists simply of a sketch of the historical associations of Shrewsbury, and of a directory just sufficiently complete...

West Point ColorsSome of my friends in a certain cadet class beset me to write a West Point story; promising me incidents at will, a plot, a name, and a tactical officer for "the villain." Perhaps it was because I declined this last sensational...

The Stranger in Shrewsbury - or, an historical and descriptive view of Shrewsbury and its environsA lovely spot For all that life can ask! Salubrious! mild! Its hills are green: its woods and prospects fair! Its meadows fertile! And to crown the whole In...

Devonshire WitchesDevonshire bears powerful evidence to the theory of Mr. Buckle, that the climate and scenery of a country tend to influence the creed of the people. Our miles of broad and almost deserted moorland, the deep valleys, the dark combes, and our stormy...

Vieilles Histoires du Pays BretonLa lgende de la mort chez les Bretons armoricains. Nouvelle dition avec des notes sur les croyances analogues chez les autres peuples celtiques, par Georges Dottin, professeur-adjoint l'Universit de Rennes. 2 forts volumes in-12, LXX-347-456 pages. 10 fr. C'est en...

A Boy's Experience in the Civil War, 1860-1865My father, a skillful physician by profession, was by taste and inclination a controversal writer, a contributor to the newspapers, mixing up in the stir of the times. Before the Civil War his energy was devoted to...

Dramatis PersonæAlthough it would be presumptuous to introduce the work of Arthur Symons, a word or two about this particular collection may not be out of place. A number of these essays have appeared in representative American and English periodicals, but their preservation here...

Gypsy Coppersmiths in Liverpool and BirkenheadWhen you want to find a Gypsy the police are more likely to be able to give you his address than directories, bankers, or ministers of religion; and it was a Liverpool policeman who sent me to the back...

Money-making men; or, how to grow richI FEAR City people are very mercenary in their views and habits. It is natural that they should be so; they come into the City to make money, and that is all they are thinking of while they...

The Man From SiykulMyra Horn awoke from her nap on the couch in the control room and looked at her husband. He was hunched over the Simplimatic 50-Button control board of their sleek Skypiercer space-launch, peering through the vision shield with a grim intensity....

The Road Past Kennesaw: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864This publication is one of a series of booklets describing the significance of historical and archeological areas in the National Park System administered by the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. It is printed...

A First Book in Writing EnglishIt sometimes happens that the study of the principles of composition is left until the overcrowded last year of the high school, under the plea that facts ought to precede generalizations. Is it not better to have the pupil...