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Rob of the Bowl: A Legend of St. Inigoe's. Vol. 1 (of 2)Rob of the Bowl: A Legend of St. Inigoe's. Vol. 1 (of 2) The tale related in the following pages refers to a period in the history of Maryland, which has heretofore been involved in great obscurity,many of the most important records connected with...
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Pan Michael: An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and TurkeyPan Michael: An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and TurkeyThe great struggle begun by the Cossacks, and, after the victory at Korsun, continued by them and the Russian population of the Commonwealth, is described in With Fire and Sword, from the ambush on...
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Contemporary SocialismContemporary SocialismIn the present edition the original work has not only been carefully revised, but very considerably enlarged. The chapters on "The Progress and Present Position of Socialism" and "Russian Nihilism" contain a few sentences retained from the first edition, but otherwise they are...
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Four Years in FranceFour Years in France - or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic FaithEight and twenty years ago, when I became a catholic, I was told that I...
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Count FrontenacCount Frontenac - Makers of Canada, Volume 3The author of the following work desires to acknowledge his obligations to two preceding writers who have dealt with the life and times of Count Frontenac, the late Mr. Parkman, and M. Henri Lorin. The merits of...
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Caught by the TurksCaught by the TurksMy pilot ran his engine to free the cylinders from the cold of night, while I stowed away in the body of the machine some necklaces of gun-cotton, some wire cutters, a rifle, Verey lights, provisions, and the specially prepared mapprepared...
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'Midst the Wild Carpathians'Midst the Wild CarpathiansHungarians regard Az rdly arny kora as, on the whole, the best of Jokai's great historical romances, and, to judge from the numerous existing versions of it, foreigners are of the same opinion as Hungarians. Few of Jokai's other tales have...
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The Clan Fraser in Canada: Souvenir of the First Annual GatheringThe Clan Fraser in Canada: Souvenir of the First Annual Gatheringhe chief object aimed at by the publication of this little volume is to furnish, in a concise and inexpensive form, information regarding the Clan Fraser not readily accessible to clansmen in Canada. It...
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Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western FrontNotes of a Camp-Follower on the Western FrontThe enclosure behind the palings had been a parade-ground in piping times; and British squads, from the pink French barracks outside the gates, still drilled there between banks of sterilised rubbish and lagoons of unmedicated mud. The...
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The Little Red FootThe Little Red FootThe day Sir William died there died the greatest American of his day. Because, on that mid-summer evening, His Excellency was still only a Virginia gentleman not yet famous, and best known because of courage and sagacity displayed in that bloody...
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The Blue Grass Seminary Girls on the WaterThe Blue Grass Seminary Girls on the Water - Or, Exciting Adventures on a Summer Cruise Through the Panama Canal The speaker was Shirley Willing, a typical Kentucky girl, slender of figure, vivacious of manner, and extremely pretty. With her father, she stood on...
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The Deluge: An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. Vol. 2The Deluge: An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. Vol. 2 The war with cannon was no bar to negotiations, which the fathers determined to use at every opportunity. They wished to delude the enemy and procrastinate till aid came, or at least...
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Les PrécurseursLes PrécurseursLe livre que voici fait suite au volume: Au-dessus de la Mle. Il est entirement compos d'articles crits et publis en Suisse, depuis la fin de 1915 jusqu'au commencement de 1919. Je les ai runis sous le titre: Les Prcurseurs; car ils sont...
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Beknopte geschiedenis van het vaderlandBeknopte geschiedenis van het vaderlandHet land, welks geschiedenis de volgende bladzijden zullen behelzen, heet Nederland. Het ligt aan den mond van den Rijn, den IJsel, de Maas en de Schelde. Behalve dat het de wateren dier stroomen op zijn bodem ontvangt, krijgt het nog...
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Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth CenturyVirginia Architecture in the Seventeenth CenturyIn the green, southern land which today comprises the Commonwealth of Virginia, there flourished three centuries ago the fine art of architecture, and it is with that subjectthe art of building in good design, with sound construction, and for...
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Abraham Lincoln's ReligionAbraham Lincoln's ReligionHad this lowly born Kentucky boy been ushered into the world centuries ago in England, doubtless he would have become the father of a royal family, the founder of a kingly dynasty, the pioneer of a courtly line whose proudest boast would...
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Little Folks of North AmericaLittle Folks of North America - Stories about children living in the different parts of North America You all know the story of Columbushow, more than four hundred years ago, he sailed from Spain out into the west; and also how the people, as...
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Chaucer and His EnglandChaucer and His England No book of this size can pretend to treat exhaustively of all that concerns Chaucer and his England; but the Authors main aim has been to supply an informal historical commentary on the poets works. He has not hesitated, in...
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A Journal of the Expedition to Carthagena, with NotesA Journal of the Expedition to Carthagena, with Notes - In Answer to a Late Pamphlet Entitled, An account of the Expedition to CarthagenaThe following Sheets contain an Answer to a Pamphlet, which appeared on the Close of the last Session of Parliament, and...
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Stage-coach and Tavern DaysStage-coach and Tavern DaysIn reverent and affectionate retrospective view of the influences and conditions which had power and made mark upon the settlement of New England, we are apt to affirm with earnest sentiment that religion was the one force, the one aim, the...
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