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Wies OngelukMet een ruk keerde ze zich om, zoodat ze met haar rug naar het storend licht kwam te liggen. Maar het hielp haar niet, de morgenzon wierp hare stralen op den muur en belichtte het behang zoo scherp, dat het haar door hare...

Ships at WorkA ship is a marvellous thing. It took shipsand the men who sail themto circle the world and tie it all together into one round ball. Brave seamen from a thousand ports have faced storms and unknown dangers, first to make the...

Captain John SmithThese books present in the form of vivid and fascinating fiction, the early and adventurous phases of American history. Each volume deals with the life and adventures of one of the great men who made that history, or with some one great...

A Manual of Shoemaking and Leather and Rubber ProductsThe author was asked in 1908 by the Lynn Commission on Industrial Education to make an investigation of European shoe schools and to assist the Commission in preparing a course of study for the proposed shoe...

Kotto: Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry CobwebsContents Old Stories: The Legend of Yurei-Daki In a Cup of Tea Common Sense Ikiry Shiry The Story of O-Kam Story of a Fly Story of a Pheasant The Story of Chgor A Woman's Diary Heik-gani Fireflies A...

Ski-runningSince the first edition of this book was produced two years ago popular interest in the sport has increased by leaps and bounds. We have endeavoured to keep pace with the times, and the present volume is an attempt to give a really complete...

The Black Lion Inn Years ago, I came upon an old and hoary tavern when I as a fashion of refugee was flying from strong drink. Its name, as shown on the creaking sign-board, was The Black Lion Inn. My coming was the fruit...

Slaves of Freedom The excessively thin man glanced up from the puddle of lime that he was stirring and regarded the excessively fat man with a smile of meek interrogation. Nother bucket o mortar, Willie Ooze, and dont you put your ead on one...

Suur-isänmaa: Romaani menneisyydestä, nykyisyydestä ja tulevaisuudesta 1. Rintamalla. 2. Nuori sankari. 3. Ihmisten ilmoille. 4. Vaikea matka. 5. Kodin lmp. 6. Muuan vainaja. 7. Jhyviset. 1. Testamentti. 2. Anoppi. 3. Kotitarkastuksia. 4. Professori. 5. Soittoniekka. 6. Omituinen vieras. 7. Kustaa III. 8. An Elise....

Storm in a TeacupTo-day autumn rainbows burnt low on the ferny hills and set their russet flashing. Then hailstorms churned the river into a flurry and swept seaward under a grey cowl. They came with a rush of wind, that brought scarlet leaves from...

Sir Rowland Hill: The Story of a Great ReformIn Gladstone's 'musings for the good of man,' writes John Morley in his Life of the dead statesman (ii. 56, 57), the Liberation of Intercourse, to borrow his own larger name for Free Trade, figured in...

Die selige Christina von Stommeln Die selige Christina von Stommeln, die vielgenannte und vielfach verkannte hervorragendste Vertreterin des beschaulichen Lebens im Clner Erzbistum aus dem dreizehnten Jahrhundert, ist in letzter Zeit infolge der seitens des h. apostolischen Stuhles erfolgten Besttigung ihrer unvordenklichen Verehrung Gegenstand...

The Peoples of IndiaIt is necessary, once more, to remind the reader that the peninsula of India has an area and population roughly equal to the area and population of Europe without Russia. Everyone who has learnt geography at school is familiar with the...

Barbara Winslow, RebelWhether James, Duke of Monmouth, would have succeeded in his enterprise had a different fortune attended his army at Sedgemoor, is a favourite subject for speculation among historians and others who interest themselves in the consideration of such strange chances as have...

Owen Clancy's Run of Luck; or, The Motor Wizard in the GarageIssued Weekly. Entered as Second-class Matter at the New York Post Office, according to an act of Congress, March 3, 1879. Published by Street & Smith, 79-89 Seventh Ave., New York. Copyright, 1914,...

Die organische Chemie in ihrer Anwendung auf Physiologie und PathologieDr. der Medizin und Philosophie, Professor der Chemie an der Ludwigs-Universitt zu Gieen, Ritter des Groherzogl. Hessischen Ludwigsordens und des Kaiserl. Russischen St. Annenordens 3ter Klasse, auswrtiges Mitglied der Knigl. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Stockholm,...

The Book of the V.C. - A record of the deeds of heroism for which the Victoria Cross has been bestowed, from its institution in 1857 to the present timeThe celebration this year of the Jubilee of the Victoria Cross may be offered as...

The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 49, June 5, 1841Our metropolitan readers, at least, and many others besides, are aware of the magnificent but not easily to be realised project, recently propounded, of erecting a town on the east side of Malpass or...

The Curse of Kehama, Volume 2 (of 2) Original page numbers are given in curly brackets. Footnotes have been relocated to the end of the book. Passages originally rendered in small-caps have been changed to all-caps in the text version of this work. The...

The Curse of Kehama, Volume 1 (of 2) In the religion of the Hindoos, which of all false religions is the most monstrous in its fables, and the most fatal in its effects, there is one remarkable peculiarity. Prayers, penances, and sacrifices, are supposed...