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Gaspar the Gaucho: A Story of the Gran ChacoGaspar the Gaucho: A Story of the Gran ChacoSpread before you a map of South America. Fix your eye on the point of confluence between two of its great riversthe Salado, which runs south-easterly from the Andes mountains, and the Parana coming from the...
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Shining FerryShining Ferry "Dear Sir,In answer to yours of the 6th inst., I beg to inform you that in consequence of an arrangement with the Swedish firms, by which barrel-staves will be trimmed and finished to three standard lengths before shipment, we are enabled to...
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Gudrid the Fair: A Tale of the Discovery of AmericaGudrid the Fair: A Tale of the Discovery of AmericaThis tale is founded upon two sagas, which have been translated literally and without attempt to accord their discrepancies by York Powell and Vigfussen in their invaluable Origines Icelandicae. As well as those versions I...
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Reminiscences of a South African PioneerReminiscences of a South African PioneerThe reminiscences set down in this volume have been published serially in The State of South Africa, in a more or less abridged form, under the title of "Unconventional Reminiscences." They are mainly autobiographical. This has been inevitable; in...
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The White Lady of Hazelwood: A Tale of the Fourteenth CenturyThe White Lady of Hazelwood: A Tale of the Fourteenth CenturyOn the crowded canvas of the fourteenth century stands out as one of its most prominent figures that of the warrior Countess of Montfort. No reader of Froissarts Chronicle can forget the siege of...
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Beauties of TennysonBeauties of Tennyson THE BROOK. SONG FROM "MAUD." A FAREWELL. SONG FROM "MAUD." BREAK, BREAK, BREAK. FROM "LOCKSLEY HALL." SONG FROM "MAUD." SONG FROM "THE PRINCESS." LILIAN. RING OUT, WILD BELLS. FROM "THE PRINCESS." SONG FROM "THE PRINCESS." FROM "ENOCH ARDEN." FROM "ENOCH ARDEN."...
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RookwoodRookwoodDuring a visit to Chesterfield, in the autumn of the year 1831, I first conceived the notion of writing this story. Wishing to describe, somewhat minutely, the trim gardens, the picturesque domains, the rook-haunted groves, the gloomy chambers, and gloomier galleries, of an ancient...
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The Samuel Butler Collection at Saint John's College, CambridgeThe Samuel Butler Collection at Saint John's College, Cambridge - A Catalogue and a CommentaryThe Butler Collection was not all given to St. Johns at once. I sent up some pictures and some books in 1917; and at intervals I have sent more, always...
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Songs of ChildhoodSongs of Childhood The Romantic poets rediscovered a pastoral and Biblical dream: that a child was the most innocent and the wisest of us all. Wordsworth hailed him as "Mighty Prophet! Seer blest!" And in the next generation Victorian novelists took that dream seriously...
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Chance: A Tale in Two PartsChance: A Tale in Two PartsI believe he had seen us out of the window coming off to dine in the dinghy of a fourteen-ton yawl belonging to Marlow my host and skipper. We helped the boy we had with us to haul the...
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The Hunters' Feast: Conversations Around the Camp FireThe Hunters' Feast: Conversations Around the Camp FireOn the western bank of the Mississippi, twelve miles below the embouchure of the Missouri, stands the large town of Saint Louis, poetically known as the Mound City. Although there are many other large towns throughout the...
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The Car of DestinyThe Car of Destiny This was a sore subject. It is not my fault that my father was as recklessly brave a general, and as obstinately determined a partisan as Don Carlos ever had. If I had been born in those days, it is...
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Pickwickian StudiesPickwickian StudiesThis ancient Inn is associated with some pleasant and diverting Pickwickian memories. We think of the adventure with the lady in the yellow curl papers and the double-bedded room, just as we would recall some side splitting farce in which Buckstone or Toole...
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Eight Illustrations to Shakespeare's TempestEight Illustrations to Shakespeare's Tempest - Designed by Walter Crane Title: Eight Illustrations to Shakespeare's Tempest Subtitle: Designed by Walter Crane Author: Walter Crane Release Date: November 15, 2007 [EBook #23479] Language: English Credits: Produced by Sam W. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team...
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The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 - PoetryThe first canto of The Island was finished January 10, 1823. We know that Byron was still at work on "the poeshie," January 25 (Letters, 1901, vi. 164), and may reasonably conjecture that a somewhat illegible...
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The Bishop's SecretThe Bishop's SecretIn his earlier works, notably in "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab" and "The Silent House in Pimlico," Mr. Hume won a reputation second to none for plot of the stirring, ingenious, misleading, and finally surprising kind, and for working out his...
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A Life of William ShakespeareA Life of William Shakespeare - with portraits and facsimilesThis work is based on the article on Shakespeare which I contributed last year to the fifty-first volume of the Dictionary of National Biography. But the changes and additions which the article has undergone during...
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Edward BarryEdward Barry - South Sea Pearler A wild, blustering day in Sydney, the Queen City of the Southern Seas. Since early morn a keen, cutting, sleet-laden westerly gale had been blowing, rattling and shaking the windows of the houses in the higher and more...
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Lady Betty Across the WaterLady Betty Across the Water To the people of that great, delightful, and hospitable land which gave Lady Betty the time of her life and inspiration, this story of her visit is admiringly Dedicated by Betty Bulkeley and C. N. and A. M. Williamson...
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The Return Of The SoulThe Return Of The Soul - 1896 Theories! What is the good of theories? They are the scourges that lash our minds in modern days, lash them into confusion, perplexity, despair. I have never been troubled by them before. Why should I be troubled...
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