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Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 109, September 7, 1895The Rural District Council at Chester resolved recently to station men on the main roads leading into the city to count the number of cyclists, with a view to estimating what revenue would accrue from...

A History of Roman LiteratureThis book is intended primarily for use as a text-book in schools and colleges. I have therefore given more dates and more details about the lives of authors than are in themselves important, because dates are convenient aids to memory,...

A short account of the extraordinary life and travels of H. L. L.---- - native of St. Domingo, now a prisoner of war at Ashbourn, in Derbyshire, shewing the remarkable steps of Divine providence towards him, and the means of his conversion to God...

Stray Pebbles from the Shores of Thought[That part of the Porter Manse containing the room referred to was built early in the last half of the seventeenth century. It was the house which Wenham (the first distinct township set offin 1639from Salem) gave to...

Sciopticon: Einführung in die Projections-KunstJahrelang haben wir unseren Jugendgenossen nicht gesehen. Jetzt treffen wir ihn wieder. Aber wir knnen ihn kaum erkennen: so hat er sich verndert. Er ist indess den Kinderschuhen entwachsen und zum Manne gereift. Von neuem bietet er uns seine Freundschaft...

Briefe aus dem hohen Norden - Eine Fahrt nach Spitzbergen mit dem HAPAG-Dampfer "Auguste Viktoria" im JuliDas kleine Buch enthlt in der ersten Hlfte Briefe, welche ich whrend einer Fahrt lngs der norwegischen Kste mit dem Endziel Spitzbergen auf dem Hamburger Prachtsdampfer Auguste Viktoria...

The Recollections of a Drummer-BoyAs some apology would seem to be necessary for the effort, herewith made, to add yet one more volume to the already overcrowded shelf containing the Nation's literature of the great Civil War, it may be well to say a...

The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volume 1 (of 5)This book contains material in multiple languages, and numerous examples of archaic, non-standard and dialect forms of English. Therefore no attempts to standardize spelling would be appropriate. The only changes made to the text are...

Peeps at Many Lands—IndiaTo the vast majority of European travellers Bombay is the gateway of India. It is here they get their first glimpse of the bewildering variety of races, of colours, of types, of customs, which make up India. After the journey through...

Livserindringerbenlyse trykfejl er rettet i denne e-bogsudgave af Johan Nicolai Madvigs Livserindringer, men forfatterens stavning er i vrigt bevaret. Den grske tekst er gengivet som trykt i originalen. En ordliste med rettelser er placeret sidst i bogen. I 1884 og Begyndelsen af 1885 nedskrev,...

Craft Gilds There is, as I understand it, a double object in the work of this Society; it interests itself in the preservation of ancient buildings, partly because they are monuments which when once destroyed can never be replaced, and which bear record of...

Random Shots from a Rifleman"To those who are unacquainted with John Kincaid of the Rifles,and few, we trow, of the old Peninsula bands are in this ignorant predicament, and to those who know him, we equally recommend the perusal of his book: it is...

Battles of the Civil WarIn all history of this American Republic, or perhaps any other nation, there was no conflict that was so terrible as our Civil war. Napoleon's efforts to bring into reality his dream of universal empire would not compare with it....

For Faith and FreedomThe morning of Sunday, August 23, in the year of grace 1662, should have been black and gloomy with the artillery of rolling thunder, dreadful flashes of lightning, and driving hail and wind to strip the orchards and lay low the...

Early American Poetry 1610-1820: A List of Works in the New York Public Library The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain. Copyright dates reflected an inconsistent use of spaces following punctuation in Roman numerals. This has...

Reise zur deutschen Front, 1915Gleich am ersten Abend der Reise, in Frankfurt, fat mich ein starker Eindruck. Hier sieht der mchtige Bahnhof aus wie eine Festungshalle. Ein von Westen kommender Zug schttet ein paar hundert Offiziere und Mannschaften aus. Meist sind es Leichtverwundete. Ein...

Angélique de Mackau, Marquise de Bombelles, et la Cour de Madame ÉlisabethNote 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....

Tales of My Time, Vol. 2 (of 3) - Who Is She? [concluded]; The Young ReformersOn calling lately at the house of a friend who was indisposed, I found him in his study wrapped in a dressing gown, and turning over, with pensive air,...

Les quatre livres de philosophie morale et politique de la ChineToute grande puissance qui apparat sur la terre y laisse des traces plus ou moins durables de son passage: des pyramides, des arcs de triomphe, des colonnes, des temples, des cathdrales, en portent tmoignage...

Anna Karenina, 2. BandDie Frstin Schtscherbazkaja fand, da es unmglich sei, die Hochzeit vor den Fasten, bis zu denen noch fnf Wochen waren, zu feiern, da die eine Hlfte der Ausstattung bis dahin nicht fertig zu stellen war; doch konnte sie nicht umhin, sich...