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Letters of Felix Mendelssohn to Ignaz and Charlotte MoschelesThe letters addressed by Felix Mendelssohn to my father came into my possession in 1870. After Mendelssohns death, my father had carefully arranged them in a special manuscript book, and had supplemented them with an index...

Fairview Boys and Their Rivals; or, Bob Bouncer's SchooldaysHe was well named, was this Bob Bouncer. On this bright September morning, Bob looked full of vim and go. He skipped along the pretty village road like the active lad he was, bounding through life...

Torpedo War, and Submarine ExplosionsThe original of 1810 is very scarce, only one copy having been sold at auction in many years: nor are copies to be found in any but a few of our libraries. Fulton's claims for his invention have been fully...

Viitta: KertomusNikolai Vasiljevitsch Gogol syntyi v. 1809 Vh-Venjll, jossa hnen isns eli kirjailijana. Jo nuorena ylioppilaana tytyi hnen isns kuoltua itse ruveta elttmn itsen ja hn siirtyi silloin v. 1828 Pietariin, jossa toimi virkamiehen, opettajana, nyttelijn ja sanomalehtimiehen. Mutta hnen mielens paloi kirjallisiin tihin,...

My Reminiscences of East AfricaIN all the German colonies, though but a few decades old, a life full of promise was discernible. We were beginning to understand the national value of our colonial possessions; settlers and capital were venturing in; industries and factories were...

The Brownie Scouts in the CircusAll of it, answered Connie Williams. A friendly smile took the edge from her answer. She had deep blue eyes, curly blond hair, and was growing so fast that her pinchecked Brownie uniform soon would be too small for...

The Brownie Scouts at Snow ValleyLets not pay any attention to her. This advice came from Jane Tuttle, another member of the Rosedale Brownie Troop. With a toss of her long, yellow pigtails, she went on snipping papers. Veves just trying to act silly...

Is Spiritualism Based on Fraud? - The Evidence Given by Sir A.C. Doyle and Others Drastically ExaminedOn March 11 of this year Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did me the honour of debating the claims of Spiritualism with me before a vast and distinguished audience...

The Wyandotte Convention: an addressIt is often charged that participants in assemblages of this character are apt to exaggerate the importance of the occasion they commemorate, and after the manner of one of our poets, sing in chorus: "I celebrate myself." Perhaps I can...

Round-and-Round TripWhen the passengers from Epseri II had been chauffeured from the Centaur Queen to the administration building of the spaceport, the man whose papers identified him as Robert L. Winstead trailed the others to the Interstellar Travel Agency counter. His taking an unobtrusive...

Don't Look NowThey were both typical advertising men, down to the motorskates strapped beneath their shoes. Their faces were so utterly undistinctive as to seem fuzzy. Each carried a large flat briefcase with a coil antenna sticking out. Big Carl came driving up the...

The Romance of the London DirectoryWhen the enterprising and energetic editor of The Fireside wrote suggesting that he should print my articles on the London Directory, published at various intervals during the last two years in that magazine, I was somewhat taken aback. I...

Julian Mortimer: A Brave Boy's Struggle for Home and FortuneTHE SUN was just sinking out of sight behind the western mountains, and the shadows of twilight were beginning to creep through the valley, when two horsemen, who had been picking their way along the...

Wau-Bun: The "Early Day" of the North-WestThe Publication Committee of the Caxton Club certify that this is one of an edition of two hundred and fifty-six copies printed on hand-made paper and three copies printed on Japanese vellum, and that the printing was done...

Star-Crossed LoverSo help me, I'm not really a fiend, a monstrous murderer or a Bluebeard. I am not, truly, even a mad scientist bucking for a billing to top Frankenstein's. My knowledge of science ends with the Sunday magazine section of the paper. As...

Big BabyThe dancing green blip traced an erratic course upon the glossy gray screen, the jagged-line pattern repeated over and over, its outline going from dim to sharply emerald brightness to dim again before fading. The technician cut the switch. There was a sustained...

The Topaz Story Book: Stories and Legends of Autumn, Hallowe'en, and ThanksgivingNature stories, legends, and poems appeal to the young readers interest in various ways. Some of them suggest or reveal certain facts which stimulate a spirit of investigation and attract the childs attention...

Bird Life GlimpsesIn the autumn of 1899 I came to live at Icklingham in Suffolk, and remained there, with occasional intervals of absence, for the next three years. During the greater part of that period I kept a day-to-day journal of field observation and...

The Vision of Dante: A story for little children and a talk to their mothers - (Second Edition)Is not the reason why the Divine Comedy is called a world poem to be found in these significant facts: it portrays the sudden awakening of a...

The Mentor: American Pioneer Prose Writers, - Vol. 4, Num. 6, Serial No. 106, May 1, 1916What do we really know of themthese library gods of ours? We know them by name; their names are household words. We know them by fame; their fame...