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The Life and Work of James A. Garfield, Twentieth President of the United States - Embracing an Account of the Scenes and Incidents of His Boyhood; the Struggles of His Youth; the Might of His Early Manhood; His Valor As a Soldier; His Career...

Australasian Fossils: A Students' Manual of PalaeontologyGeological Department, The University, Melbourne. William Smith, the Father of English Geology, used to apologize for the study of palaeontology by claiming that the search for a fossil is at least as rational a proceeding as the pursuit...

Decimal Classification. Tables généralesCredits: Produced by Susan Skinner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Mundaneum and mediated by the artists of Algolit, a research project initiated by Constant.) ......Buy Now (To...

The Secret TombUnder a sky heavy with stars and faintly brighter for a low-hanging sickle moon, the gipsy caravan slept on the turf by the roadside, its shutters closed, its shafts stretched out like arms. In the shadow of the ditch nearby a stertorous...

Inter-Ocean Hunting TalesIn this volume will be found a series of articles which in recent years have appeared in Forest and Stream. The incidents recounted took place in widely separated parts of the United States and Canada. As time slips by there is a...

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Gustave Doré 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...

Young Crow RaiderBent Arrow drove himself forward with all his strength. For a few steps he seemed to be closing the gap between himself and the two older boys ahead. The next moment the old pain beat up through his right leg. He had...

Houston: The Feast Years. An Illustrated EssayHouston: one of The 12 Most Exciting Cities of North America, said Holiday in 1953one of the dozen, from Quebec in the north to Mexico City in the south, possessing that rare combination of qualities which has always...

Dancing Without an InstructorTime was when to be a dancer meant a thorough acquaintance with Mazourkas, Galops, Reels, Minuets, Polkas and other dances too numerous to mention; but nowadays one can get along very well with even a slight knowledge of but three: the...

My American DiaryThe publication of an American diary requires neither apology nor explanation, especially when it is more a record than a criticism. Besides, the best people seem to do it. I have upon my desk an old volume entitled: Travels in the United...

Harper's Round Table, August 25, 1896Jack Howard looked with some perplexity at the letter which he had just received from his chum Fred March. The latter had been spending a month of the long vacation at his uncle's, on the northern sea-coast, and that...

Socrate Questa monografia su Socrate (come l'autore stesso dice nell'avvertenza da lui premessa alla stampa) una memoria, presentata al concorso bandito nel 1869 dalla R. Accademia di scienze morali e politiche di Napoli e premiata nel 1870. Fu inserita, l'anno dopo, nel volume VI...

Peru as It Is, Volume 2 (of 2) - A Residence in Lima, and Other Parts of the Peruvian Republic, Comprising an Account of the Social and Physical Features of That CountryThe town of Cerro Pasco, about fourteen thousand feet above the level of...

Peru as It Is, Volume 1 (of 2) - A Residence in Lima, and Other Parts of the Peruvian Republic, Comprising an Account of the Social and Physical Features of That CountryIn this refined age and country, to make a graceful appearance as an...

Poisonous Snakes of KansasBecause of the greatly increased cost, due to the color plates, no free copies of this issue will be available. Extra copies may be obtained for 25 cents each, postpaid. Send orders to The Kansas School Naturalist, Department of Biology, State...

The Disappearance of Kimball WebbKimball Webb didnt look at all like a man who would disappear mysteriously. Though Im not sure mysteriously disappearing men, as a class, have physical characteristics in common. But one rather imagines them eerie looking, with deep, cavernous eyes and...

Der MädchenhandelDer vorliegende Text wurde anhand der 1911 erschienenen Buchausgabe so weit wie mglich originalgetreu wiedergegeben. Typographische Fehler wurden stillschweigend korrigiert. Ungewhnliche Schreibweisen, insbesondere bei Personen- und Ortsnamen, bleiben gegenber dem Original unverndert; fremdsprachliche Zitate wurden nicht korrigiert. Am 12. September 1905 wurde in...

Aristotle's History of Animals - In Ten BooksThe following Translation of Aristotle's History of Animals has been made from the text of Schneider. In a work of considerable difficulty it is hardly possible entirely to avoid errors; but it is hoped that those which...

Original Plays [First Series]The Story upon which The Palace of Truth is founded is probably as old as the Arabian Nights. The Princess is a respectful parody of Mr. Tennysons exquisite poem. It has been generally held, I believe, that if a dramatist uses...

Index of the Project Gutenberg Prose Works of Hector Berlioz 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...