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The Demagogue and Lady Phayre I F you are coming my way, Goddard, we may as well walk back together, said the Member, putting on his fur-lined coat. Mr. Aloysius Gleam, member for Sunington, was a spare, precisely dressed little man on the hither...

The White Dove Sylvester Lanyon looked at her half in amusement, half in wistfulness. There was no doubt whatever of her sincerity. Therein lay the pathetic. To reply that the shadow of death and suffering clouded life's glory was too obvious a rejoinder. So...

The Yankee and the Teuton in WisconsinWisconsin in its racial character is popularly known to the country at large as a Teutonic state. That means the state has a German element, original and derivative, which numerically overshadows the American, English, Irish, Scandinavian, and other...

Ein Sommer im OrientDas Original wurde in Frakturschrift gesetzt; diese wird hier in Normalschrift dargestellt. Antiquaschrift wird in der vorliegenden Ausgabe kursiv dargestellt. Abhngig von der im jeweiligen Lesegert installierten Schriftart knnen die im Original gesperrt gedruckten Passagen gesperrt, in serifenloser Schrift, oder aber...

Las transformaciones de la sociedad argentina y sus consecuencias institucionales (1853 à 1910)1. Correspondencia entre las instituciones y la sociedad que las adopta.2. Las transformaciones de la sociedad argentina, reveladas por la historia, la sociologa y la geografa, y su correspondencia con las instituciones.3....

Marjorie in CommandMrs. Maynards health was not quite up to its usual standard, and her husband had decided to take her for a short Southern trip. They would be absent from home about six weeks, and Miss Larkin, a friend of Mrs. Maynards, was...

Mirèio, a Provençal PoemTHIRTY odd years have come and gone since the curious litterateurs of Paris were excited and charmed by the apparition of Frdric Mistrals Mirio. A pastoral poem in twelve cantos, composed in the dialect of the Bouches du Rhne, and first...

The Sagamore of Saco Chapter I. Standing Alone. Chapter II. The Fatal Omen. Chapter III. Sorrowful Misgivings. Chapter IV. The Net-weaver. Chapter V. The Elect. Chapter VI. Apollo and Diana. Chapter VII. A Family Conclave. Chapter VIII. The Spiders Webs. Chapter IX. The Fatal...

One Thousand Ways to Make MoneyNew articles in all lines of trade are constantly appearing. Inventors of mechanical appliances, authors of books, proprietors of patent medicines, introducers of something novel in groceries, and promoters of new departures in dry and fancy goods, are all...

Marsena, and Other Stories of the WartimeIt was not alone his flowing black hair, and his broad shirt-collars turned down after the ascertained manner of the British poets, which stamped him in our humble minds as a living brother to "The Corsair," "The Last...

Fossil Butterflies - Memoirs of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, I.Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson of New York City, to-day elected a member, sympathizing with the purposes of our Association in the advancement of science, and seeing the new crop of young and...

Old Virginia and Her Neighbours, Vol. 1 (of 2)In the series of books on American history, upon which I have for many years been engaged, the present volumes come between "The Discovery of America" and "The Beginnings of New England." The opening chapter, with...

Studies in Greek Scenery, Legend and History - Selected from His Commentary on Pausanias' 'Description of Greece,'The Englishman in Greece who pays any heed to the remains of classical antiquity is apt, if he be no scholar, to wonder who a certain Pausanias was...

The Busy Woman's Garden BookThis little book has a very definite aima big aim too, though two little words or even one will serve to define itTo help, or better still, perhapshelpfulness. It does not aim to tell everything there is to tell about...

Schetsen uit de DierenwereldDe Schetsen uit de Dierenwereld, die hierbij het vaderlandsche publiek worden aangeboden, zijn een nederlandsche bewerking van een engelsch boek, getiteld: Wild Animals, bevattende een twintigtal prachtige gravures van J. W. en Edward Whymper, naar teekeningen van den beroemden Joseph Wolf,...

Die schöpferische PauseAlles was der berlieferung wert erscheint, ist entweder Gekonntes oder Gewutes. Jede berlieferung hat die Absicht, die Jngeren zu ihrer eigenen schpferischen Leistung und zur eigenen liebenden Weisheit zu fhren. Wer zu solch eigenem Knnen, eigenem Lieben, eigenem Wissen kommen will, mu...

London Labour and the London Poor, Vol. 1The present volume is the first of an intended series, which it is hoped will form, when complete, a cyclopdia of the industry, the want, and the vice of the great Metropolis. It is believed that the...

An Illustrated Handbook of Mount Vernon, the Home of WashingtonPortrait of George Washington By Chas. Wilson Peale Bequeathed to the Mount Vernon Ladies Association by the late Miss Jane Boudinot, in whose familys possession the portrait has been since 1788, when it was painted...

Godey's Lady's Book, Philadelphia, Volume 48, March, 1854The advantages which the civilized world owe to the invention of paper are beyond calculation, and almost out of the reach of thought. The great blessing of knowledge which it has conferred on mankind, together with its...

Reminiscences of Prince Talleyrand, Volume 2 (of 2)You have begun, malgr vous, said I to C., the next time we met tte--tte, the vie anecdotique of the prince, which I have always felt sure would prove so full of interest. Your strange story of...