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L'Assassinat de la Duchesse de PraslinNote sur la transcription: Les erreurs clairement introduites par le typographe ont t corriges. L'orthographe d'origine a t conserve et n'a pas t harmonise. Les numros des pages blanches n'ont pas t repris. Le premier, l'auteur de ce livre...

Vacation days in GreeceDuring a residence of eleven years in Greece I have formed the habit of writing to certain periodicals descriptions of my journeys. The occasion for making a book out of these articles was the suggestion on the part of many members...

Dorothy Dixon Wins Her WingsAt the water's edge, a girl of sixteen stopped in the act of launching a small skiff. She straightened her lithe figure and faced about, her brown hair blowing in the breeze, turning a pair of snapping grey eyes inquiringly...

Ballades and Verses Vain XXXVI.BALLADES: BALLADE DEDICATORY BALLADE OF LITERARY FAME BALLADE OF BLUE CHINA BALLADE OF THE BOOK-HUNTER BALLADE TO THEOCRITUS VALENTINE IN FORM OF BALLADE BALLADE OF SUMMER BALLADE OF AUTUMN BALLADE OF OLD PLAYS BALLADE OF ROULETTE BALLADE OF FRRE LUBIN...

Fresh LeavesEvery writer has his parish. To mine, I need offer no apology for presenting, First, a new story which has never before appeared in print; Secondly, the hundred-dollar-a-column story, respecting the remuneration of which, skeptical paragraphists have afforded me so much amusement. (N....

Mis contemporaneos; 1 Vicente Blasco IbáñezVive el insigne novelista la derecha del paseo de la Castellana, muy cerca del Hipdromo, en un pintoresco hotelito de planta baja, cuya fachada irregular se abre en ngulo al fondo de un pequeo jardn. Aqu y all, lo...

Palæography - Notes upon the History of Writing and the Medieval Art of IlluminationExtended from a Lecture, delivered at a Conversazione of the Sette of Odd Volumes, at the Galleries of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, 12th December, 1893 Of the...

The Autobiography of a Thief "There is no man doth a wrong for the wrong's sake, but thereby to purchase himself profit, or pleasure, or honour, or the like; therefore why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?...

Rhymes for Harry and His Nurse-MaidIt is with feelings of great humility, from a sense of her own deficiency in the important duties of a mother, that the writer of the following rhymes submits them to the public. Her wish is to convey a...

The Siberian Overland Route from Peking to Petersburg, - Through the Deserts and Steppes of Mongolia, Tartary, &c.The following work has but moderate claims, I fear, to public attention; and it would probably not have seen the light at all but for the urgent...

How Robin Hood Once Was a Wait: A Miracle Play or Christmas MasqueThis little sketch was prepared very hurriedly in order to give scope to the volunteer efforts of certain of the younger members of the community who had undertaken to provide the entertainment...

Peter Parley's Own Story - From the Personal Narrative of the Late Samuel G. Goodrich, ("Peter Parley") Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by THE HEIRS OF S. G. GOODRICH, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the...

Village Annals, Containing Austerus and Humanus: A Sympathetic TaleIT was in that season of the year when nature wears an universal gloom, and the pinching frost arrests the running stream in its course, and gives a[6] massy solidity to the lake that lately curled...

PersönlichkeitWIR stehen dieser groen Welt Auge in Auge gegenber, und mannigfach sind unsre Beziehungen zu ihr. Eine derselben ist die Notwendigkeit zu leben: wir mssen den Boden beackern, uns Nahrung suchen, uns kleiden, und zu allem mu uns die Natur den Stoff liefern. Da...

How to Travel - Hints, Advice, and Suggestions to Travelers by Land and Sea all over the Globe. In preparing this volume for the press the author of "How to Travel" has endeavored to supply a want whose existence has long been apparent to...

Aavoilla ulapoillaI. Sisarukset. II. Drakoniset parannukset. III. Tiili-Simson. IV. Voittajallakin on voittajansa. V. Jlleen kotosalla. VI. Tutkintopiv. VII. Is ja poika. VIII. Friskon poika. IX. Ensi matka. X. Rantarosvojen parissa. XI. Kapteeni ja miehist. XII. Joe yritt karata. XIII. Ystvykset. XIV. Osterisrkkin rill. XV....

The Shakespeare-Expositor: An Aid to the Perfect Understanding of Shakespeare's PlaysIn reading and criticising the plays of Shakespeare, we must always bear in mind that they were written for the stage, not for the closet, to be acted, not to be read. Shakespeare, as...

The Persian Mystics: Jalálu'd-dín RúmíI desire to thank Mr. R. A. Nicholson for his kind and generous permission to use selections from his Dvni Shamsi Tabrz, and also his publishers, the Cambridge Press. I am deeply indebted to Mr. E. H. Whinfield for allowing...

The Persian Mystics: JámíIn the preparation of this little volume much depended upon the kindness and generosity of certain Oriental scholars, who have allowed me to reproduce some of their translations from Jm. I have attempted to give their best work in so far...

Reminiscences of a Liverpool Shipowner, 1850-1920The following sketches were contributed to the Liverpool Press (Liverpool Daily Post, Liverpool Courier, Journal of Commerce), and they are now published at the request of many friends. Advantage has been taken of the opportunity for revision, and to...