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Historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South America (Vol 2 of 3) - Containing travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and resultsFORMERLY PRIVATE SECRETARY TO THE PRESIDENT AND CAPTAIN GENERAL OF...

History of the Royal Sappers and Miners, Volume 1 (of 2) - From the Formation of the Corps in March 1712 to the date when its designation was changed to that of Royal EngineersIn 1836, soon after Lieutenant Robert Dashwood, R.E., was appointed Acting...

Historical and Descriptive Narrative of Twenty Years' Residence in South America (Vol 1 of 3) - Containing travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and resultsThe interest which the late successful revolution in Spanish America...

The Law of Storms - The various phenomena by which their approach can be ascertained with certainty, and practical directions to mariners for the avoidance of their fury, compiled from various sourcesIn the Northern Hemisphere, when the Polar and Equatorial currents of air are...

Mrs. Maybrick's Own Story: My Fifteen Lost YearsThe jurys verdict of guilty was rendered on August 7, 1889. The evidence at the trial, as well as the learned judges summing up, was reported almost verbatim in the English press. The result was that, not...

The Peddler Spy; or, Dutchmen and Yankees. A Tale of the Capture of Good HopeFew writers of sea stories throw around the personages of his narratives so much that is novel in character as this pleasing author. His plot and incidents, too, are widely...

A History of Spanish LiteratureSpanish literature, in its broadest sense, might include writings in every tongue existing within the Spanish dominions; it might, at all events, include the four chief languages of Spain. Asturian and Galician both possess literatures which in their recent developments...

"Semmering 1912"Bergesregionen, dort wo nichts mehr gedeiht als Krummholz, sturmgebogen, ist seit jeher meine Mrchenwelt! Nach 40 Jahren fand ich das wieder auf dem Falzarego-Passe, Tre Croce, Pordoijoch-Pa. Weigraue Felstrmmer, schwarze triefende Erde, Zirbelkieferwlder bis an die Hotels herankriechend. Von Felsen trufelt, rieselt es,...

Robert Greene: [Six Plays]"Why should art answer for the infirmities of manners?" asks Thomas Nash in defending the memory of his dead comrade, Robert Greene, against the attacks of Gabriel Harvey. Some such consideration as this has been needed to rescue Greene's fame from...

The GuardsmanHalloween! Religion, romance and mischief give life and color to the name. But in the mind of the American boy mischief is the predominating thought when the name is spoken. It is still a mystery why this particular night should have been chosen...

The Boy Fortune Hunters in ChinaThose readers who have penetrated far into the Chinese Empire, as has the author, will be quick to discover that he has substituted for the name of the Thibetan Province one that will not be recognized. The reasons for...

Vingt-cinq poèmes le gant blanc lpreux du paysage le sel se groupe en constellation d'oiseaux sur la tumeur de ouate dans ses poumons les astries et les punaises se balancent les microbes se cristallisent en palmiers de muscles balanoires bonjour sans cigarette tzantzantza ganga...

The Faery Queen and Her Knights: Stories Retold from Edmund SpenserOnce upon a time there might have been seen a gentle Knight, riding across the plain. He was clad in armour of proof, and on his arm he carried a silver shield. A shield...

Dave Porter's Great Search; Or, The Perils of a Young Civil EngineerDave Porters Great Search is a complete story in itself, but forms the thirteenth volume in a line issued under the general title of Dave Porter Series. As my old readers know, this...

The Boy Fortune Hunters in the South SeasTheres one thing certain, said my uncle, Naboth Perkins, banging his fist on the table for emphasis. If we dont manage get a cargo in ten days well up anchor an quit this bloomin island. Here it...

Outpost in the Wilderness: Fort Wayne, 1706-1828Early Fort Wayne played an important and definite role in the history of the old Northwest. Its unique position as a portage site between the Wabash and Maumee rivers made the Wabash route one of the natural waterways...

The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity - A Modern Philosophy of Life Developed by Scientific MethodsThe aim of the following discussions is to reduce the act of cognition, by analysis, to its ultimate elements and thus to discover a correct formulation of the problem of...

Ambrose Lavendale, Diplomat It was a few minutes after one o'clockthe busiest hour of the day at the most popular bar in London. The usual little throng of Americans, journalists, men of business and loiterers, were occupying their accustomed chairs in one corner of...

A Colored Man Round the WorldThe Author of this book, though a quadroon, is pleased to announce himself the Colored man around the world. Not because he may look at a colored mans position as an honorable one at this age of the world,...

The Boys' and Girls' Herodotus - Being Parts of the History of Herodotus, Edited for Boys and GirlsImagine yourself in the city of Athens near the close of the year 446 B.C. The proud city, after many years of supremacy over the whole of...