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The Story of ManhattanThe Story of ManhattanHere the history of New York City is told as a story, in few words. The effort has been to make it accurate and interesting. The illustrations are largely from old prints and wood engravings. Few dates are used. Instead, a...
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The AmuletThe AmuletIn the "Amulet," Hendrick Conscience has worked up an incident which occurred at Antwerp, in the 16th century, into a story of great power and deep interest. It was a dark and bloody deed committed, but swift and terrible was the retribution, strikingly...
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Blackfeet Indian StoriesBlackfeet Indian Stories Those who wish to know something about how the people lived who told these stories will find their ways of life described in the last chapter of this book. The Blackfeet were hunters, travelling from place to place on foot. They...
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Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And PsychicEvolution Of The Japanese, Social And PsychicThe tragedy enacted in China during the closing year of the nineteenth century marks an epoch in the history of China and of the world. Two world-views, two types of civilization met in deadly conflict, and the inherent...
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Fields of VictoryFields of Victory It is a bold thing, I fear, to offer the public yet more letters based on a journey through the battle-fields of Franceespecially at a moment when impressions are changing so fast, when the old forms of writing about the war...
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Unhappy Far-Off ThingsUnhappy Far-Off ThingsI have chosen a title that shall show that I make no claim for this book to be "up-to-date." As the first title indicates, I hoped to show, to as many as might to read my words, something of the extent of...
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Les compagnons de JéhuLes compagnons de JéhuNous ne savons si le prologue que nous allons mettre sous les yeux du lecteur est bien utile, et cependant nous ne pouvons rsister au dsir d'en faire, non pas le premier chapitre, mais la prface de ce livre. Plus nous...
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With Marlborough to Malplaquet: A Story of the Reign of Queen AnneWith Marlborough to Malplaquet: A Story of the Reign of Queen AnneThe object of this series is to encourage a taste for history among boys and girls up to thirteen or fourteen years of age. An attempt has been made to bring home to...
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Sir Mortimer: A NovelSir Mortimer: A Novelut if we return not from our adventure," ended Sir Mortimer, "if the sea claims us, and upon his sandy floor, amid his Armida gardens, the silver-singing mermaiden marvel at that wreckage which was once a tall ship and at those...
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Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New AmsterdamPeter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam It is impossible to understand the very remarkable character and career of Peter Stuyvesant, the last, and by far the most illustrious, of the Dutch governors of New Amsterdam, without an acquaintance with the early...
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Overland through Asia Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar LifeOverland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar LifeFourteen years ago Major Perry McD. Collins traversed Northern Asia, and wrote an account, of his journey, entitled A Voyage Down the Amoor. With the exception of that volume no other work on this little...
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Indrukken van FinlandIndrukken van Finland - De Aarde en haar Volken, 1906Suomi is de zachte, welluidende, droomerige naam, dien de Finnen hun land hebben gegeven. Het is de naam van het land, dat in den laatsten tijd onze aandacht tot zich trekt, welks strijd voor vrijheid...
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La fille du capitaineLa fille du capitaineMon pre, Andr Ptrovitch Grineff, aprs avoir servi dans sa jeunesse sous le comte Munich[1], avait quitt ltat militaire en 17 avec le grade de premier major. Depuis ce temps, il avait constamment habit sa terre du gouvernement de Simbirsk, o...
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Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732), Author of "The Beggar's Opera"Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732), Author of "The Beggar's Opera" John Gay was a considerable figure in the literary and social circles of his day. He was loved by Pope; Swift cared for him more than for any other man, and the...
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Great Britain and the American Civil WarGreat Britain and the American Civil WarThis work was begun many years ago. In 1908 I read in the British Museum many newspapers and journals for the years 1860-1865, and then planned a survey of English public opinion on the American Civil War. In...
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TaorminaTaormina - De Aarde en haar Volken, 1906Wanneer men Itali herhaaldelijk heeft bereisd en zich eenigszins gemeenzaam heeft gemaakt met zijn volk en zijn taal, met zijne zeden en gewoonten, wanneer men daarbij zijn hollandsche pietluttigheid heeft achtergelaten en zich heeft afgewend om met...
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Minkä mitäkin ItaliastaMinkä mitäkin ItaliastaSinne tullessa on halu pst piviseen eteln kiihtymistn kiihtynyt. Yht samaa suomalaista talvea oli ollut melkein sinne saakka. Unkarikin, jota palanen vilahdukselta sivuutettiin, nytti lumen peittmlt tasangolta. Ja Wieniss oli lunta yht paljon kuin Helsingiss tammikuun pyryjen aikana. Miehen korkuiset kinokset kohosivat...
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Minkä mitäkin TyrolistaMinkä mitäkin TyrolistaPolkupyr ja Reinin rannatne nyt eivt oikeastaan sovi yhteen. Yksi maailman runollisimpia ja romanttisimpia seutuja ja tuo vihoviimeisten aikain keksint, tuo kaikista uusin kulkukapine, jonka rumuudesta ja eprunollisuudesta on niin paljon puhuttu. Pienen aasin selss tai sukkelajalkaisen kimon rattailla, jalkaisin tai korkeintaan...
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Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 - Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous WomenWe are not sent into this world to do anything into which we can not put our hearts. We have certain work to do for...
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The Siege of KimberleyThe Siege of Kimberley - Its Humorous and Social Side; Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902); Eighteen Weeks in Eighteen ChaptersThe famous Ultimatum had gone forth to the world. War had come at last. We, in Kimberley, were in for itthough happily unconscious of our destiny until...
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