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The Story of a Donkey - abridged from the French of Madame la comtesse de SégurThe author of this book was the daughter of that Count Rostopchine who was governor of Moscow when it was burned in 1812, and Napoleon was obliged in consequence...

Anecdotes of Big Cats and Other BeastsThe ideal hunter, like the ideal soldier or mountaineer, seaman or worker of any kind, leaves nothing to chance; yet in anticipating events he realises the limits of human foresight and remains continually wide-awake. Wellington has quoted Marshal...

Fort Sumter: Anvil of War - Fort Sumter National Monument, South CarolinaEarly on the morning of April 12, 1861, a mortar shell fired from Fort Johnson in Charleston Harbor burst almost directly over Fort Sumter, inaugurating the tragic American Civil War. Two years later,...

The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy, January 1862This being the first number of the new series of The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy, some reference to the action of the Society in relation to the change from a Quarterly to an Annual...

Prärielif: Sannsagor och lögnhistorier från vilda västernP fulla femtio mils omkrets frn Harristown, fanns ingen vackrare flicka n Jessie Murray. Lng och sttlig var hon, med hr, som glnste som guld i solskenet, och ett par djupa bl gon under mrka gonbryn. Och s...

The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, January 1885, No. 4President, Lewis Miller, Akron, Ohio. Chancellor, J. H. Vincent, D.D., New Haven, Conn. Counselors, The Rev. Lyman Abbott, D.D., the Rev. J. M. Gibson, D.D.; Bishop H. W. Warren, D.D.; Prof. W. C. Wilkinson, D.D.; Edward Everett...

The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, December 1884, No. 3President, Lewis Miller, Akron, Ohio. Superintendent of Instruction, Rev. J. H. Vincent, D.D., New Haven, Conn. Counselors, Rev. Lyman Abbott, D.D.; Rev. J. M. Gibson, D.D.; Bishop H. W. Warren, D.D.; Prof. W. C. Wilkinson, D.D. Office...

Daniel Boone, BackwoodsmanThe backwoods town in colonial daysThe place of the backwoodsmen in the march of progressBoone and his descendants among the leading pioneersHow the backwoods fighters forced the boundary westwardThe frontier farmer was necessarily hunter and fighterThe character of the backwoodsman and his...

Aatteiden mies: Piirteitä August Fredrik Soldanin elämästä3. Insinriupseerina Dnaburgissa. Sietmttmi oloja. Valtion varas. Kaipausta parempiin oloihin. "Tahtoisin oppia ajattelemaan." Lohduttava kirje islle. Alakuloisuutta ja sisllisi taisteluita. Onnuz ja Ahriman. Vnrikki August Tavaststjerna. Frans Liszt. Kynti Afzeliuksen luona Wendeniss. Siirtyminen Pietariin. 4. Apuopettajana Sota-akatemiassa. Keltussa....

Night Operations for Infantry - Compiled for the Use of Company OfficersAlthough in recent years there has been a marked increase in the practice of night operations, yet I doubt if the majority of officers have realized that the changing conditions of war tend...

Yorkshire Vales and WoldsThe Yorkshire Post says: All lovers of Yorkshire scenery, and especially coast scenery, will welcome Mr. Gordon Homes Yorkshire Coast and Moorland Scenes.... The illustrations, as we have said, are wonderful examples of colour printing, and many of the moorland scenes...

Poro-kirjaHuolimatta siit valitettavasta tosiasiasta etten ole kynyt Lapinmaassa poroelmn valtakukkuloilla rohkenen julkaista tmn vaatimattoman kokoelman itpohjalaisia sanomalehtiptkini ja pororetkimuistelmiani etupss tyydyttkseni sek kotiseudullani ett muuallakin maassamme sken hernnytt uteliaisuutta porourheilun suhteen. Samalla pyydn anteeksi herroilta lappalaisilta etten tll omalla kirjallani voi tyydytt heidn vaatimuksiaan...

The Prophet's MantleO be the son of a noble of high position, to be the heir to vast estates in a western province, and to a palace in the capital, to have large sums safely invested in foreign banks, to be surrounded by every...

The Puzzle in the Pond - A Judy Bolton MysteryTHE VANISHING SHADOW THE HAUNTED ATTIC THE INVISIBLE CHIMES SEVEN STRANGE CLUES THE GHOST PARADE THE YELLOW PHANTOM THE MYSTIC BALL THE VOICE IN THE SUITCASE THE MYSTERIOUS HALF CAT THE RIDDLE OF THE DOUBLE...

The Black Ghost of the HighwayThe roads at the crossing were wide and smooth, with cool woods on either side, but beyond them to the left rose the high, jagged, yellow-and-black mass of the mountains, bare on their upper reaches, and wooded in the...

The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, November 1884, No. 2President, Lewis Miller, Akron, Ohio. Superintendent of Instruction, Rev. J. H. Vincent, D.D., New Haven, Conn. Counselors, Rev. Lyman Abbott, D.D.; Rev. J. M. Gibson, D.D.; Bishop H. W. Warren, D.D.; Prof. W. C. Wilkinson, D.D. Office...

More Italian Yesterdays A Friend in RomeA story of two ways of lovingAgla and BonifaceBecome ChristiansA new lifeBoniface endures terrible torturesMartyrdomDeath of AglaChurch of St. BonifaceAlexis, the pilgrimHis travelsReturn to RomeA ragged beggarHis death and burial in St. Bonifaces ChurchSt. Alexis MonasteryTrials of the...

Italian Yesterdays, vol. 2 PAGE A Friend in RomeA Story of Two Ways of LovingAgla and BonifaceBecome ChristiansA New LifeBoniface Endures Terrible TorturesMartyrdomDeath of AglaChurch of St. BonifaceAlexis, the PilgrimHis TravelsReturn to RomeA Ragged BeggarHis Death and Burial in St. Bonifaces ChurchSt. Alexis MonasteryTrials...

Italian Yesterdays, vol. 1 It has not been easy to find a title for the collection of memories, personal and otherwise, which this book contains, but I hope that the reader will feel that in calling it Italian Yesterdays, I have honestly tried to...

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