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Folklore of Wells: Being a Study of Water-Worship in East and WestFor literary conceits and dreams of authorship there is no more powerful antidote than the tedium of official life. It radically cures all such morbid propensities. This little book, however, owes its inspiration...

Coffee and Chicory: - Their culture, chemical composition, preparation for market, and consumption, with simple tests for detecting adulteration, and practical hints for the producer and consumerA practical essay on the culture and preparation of coffee for market in the various producing countries of...

The Wild Elephant and the Method of Capturing and Taming it in CeylonIn this volume, the chapters descriptive of the structure and habits of the wild elephant are reprinted for the sixth time from a larger work,1 published originally in 1859. Since the appearance...

The Steam Engine Familiarly Explained and Illustrated - With an historical sketch of its invention and progressive improvement; its applications to navigation and railways; with plain axioms for railway speculatorsThere are two classes of persons whose attention may be attracted by a treatise on...

India Impressions, With some notes of Ceylon during a winter tour, 1906-7.Although many books descriptive of India and Indian life have recently appeared, even a short visit to that wonderful country presents so extraordinary a series of spectacles to the European, especially to one...

Ocean Steamships - A popular account of their construction, development, management and appliancesSlow Growth of the Idea of Steam PropulsionModels Shown at the Liverpool Exhibition in 1886Claims of Precedence in the Invention of SteamboatsWhat Fulton AccomplishedThe ClermontThe Voyage of the Savannah in 1819The First...

The Gentle Art of Faking - A history of the methods of producing imitations & spurious works of art from the earliest times up to the present dayCollectomania may with some reason be looked upon as a comedy in which the leading parts are...

Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1It is well known that amongst the Buddhist Scriptures there is one book in which a large number of old stories, fables, and fairy tales, lie enshrined in an edifying commentary; and have thus been preserved for...

Sinhalese Folklore Notes, CeylonThe Sinhalese beliefs, customs and stories in the present collection were contributed by the writer to the Indian Antiquary fourteen years ago in a series of articles under the title of Glimpses of Sinhalese Social Life; they are now offered, amplified...

The Art of Bookbinding: A practical treatise, with plates and diagramsBookbinding carries us back to the time when leaden tablets with inscribed hieroglyphics were fastened together with rings, which formed what to us would be the binding of the volumes. We might go even...

Narrative of the Operations of a Detachment in an Expedition to Candy, in the Island of Ceylon, in the Year 1804 - With Some Observations on the Previous Campaign, and on the Nature of Candian Warfare, etc., etc., etc. As it appears generally incumbent...

Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 5 of 7MARAKKYAR.The Marakkyars are described, in the Madras Census Report, 1901, as a Tamil-speaking Musalman tribe of mixed Hindu and Musalman origin, the people of which are usually traders. They seem to be distinct from the...

Memoir of Hendrick Zwaardecroon, commandeur of Jaffnapatam (afterwards Governor-General of Nederlands India) 1697. - For the guidance of the council of Jaffnapatam, during his absence at the coast of Malabar.This Memoir of Commandeur Zwaardecroon was, as stated, compiled and left by him in 1697...

Curiosities of the American StageThis book, as its name implies, is a series of chapters from the annals of the American Theatre; and it considers Plays and Players more particularly in their less familiar aspects. It does not pretend to be critical; and the...

HookersThe characters in this story are real, live, and living people, and most of them are still in the fair city of Juarez, plying the oldest trade in the world, and were known personally by the Author, who studied them for several months in...

The Numerical Strength of the Confederate Army - An examination of the argument of the Hon. Charles Francis Adams and othersThe distinguished soldier and critic whose name appears on the title page argues, as do various other Northern critics, that the usual Southern estimate...

The Curry Cook's Assistant - Or, Curries, How to Make Them in England in Their Original StyleBy A. Egmont Hake, Esq. [TRUE COPY.] The author of this little work has asked me to write him a Preface, and I gladly do so, especially if...

The Bright Side of Prison Life - Experience, In Prison and Out, of an Involuntary Soujouner in RebellionThe author's name and reputation may sell this bookmiracles have happened; but he does not intend to permit the possible deception of a confiding public into the...

The Pearl of IndiaThat many readers evince a growing satisfaction in contemplating foreign lands through the eyes of experienced travelers, the favor shown to previous books by the author of these pages abundantly testifies. Mutual profit is therefore the outcome of such a work;...

The Buddhist Catechism In token of respect and affection I dedicate to my counsellor and friend of many years, Hikkaduwe Sumangala, Pradhna Nyaka Sthavra and High Priest of Adam's Peak (Sripada) and the Western Province, THE BUDDHIST CATECHISM, in its revised form. I hereby...