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The Three Trappers; or, The Apache Chief's RuseIt was now quite late in the afternoon, and Fred Wainwright reined up his mustang, and from his position took a survey of the surrounding prairie. On his right stretched the broad dusty plain, broken by some...

Guide to Rocks and Minerals of IllinoisThe rich prairies that gave the state its nickname are themselves derived from ancient rocks, worn and changed by millions of years of action by weather, water, wind, plants, and animals. Unmeasured depths of rock underlie the prairies,...

Memoirs of Bertha von Suttner: The Records of an Eventful Life (Vol. 2 of 2)So now there existed in the capital of Germany a Peace Society, about which as a center branch societies would presumably group themselves in all the larger German cities. The...

Stray Feathers From a Bird Man's DeskIn looking back over the preparation of these sketches I feel as though each evening I'd gathered up the bits and pieces left over from the day's work and fashioned them into designs for my own amusement and...

Machine-Gun TacticsThis book, which was begun five years ago, is now published because I feel that, with all its faults, it may bring into greater prominence the latent possibilities of the machine gun, and the vital necessity for the most complete organisation and tactical...

The Norse King's Bridal - Translations from the Danish and old Norse, with original balladsIn these translations from the Danish I have adhered strictly to the metres of the original; this, however, is not the case with those from the Old Norse. The original...

The Art of Story-Telling, with nearly half a hundred storiesIn preparing this book the author has sought to awaken a keener perception and a higher appreciation of the artistic and ethical value of story-telling; to simplify some of its problems; to emphasize the true...

The Church of Sancta Sophia, Constantinople: A Study of Byzantine BuildingSancta Sophia is the most interesting building on the worlds surface. Like Karnak in Egypt, or the Athenian Parthenon, it is one of the four great pinnacles of architecture, but unlike them this is...

Horæ Nauseæ[1] Who this Harris was, is a point about which the commentators are at variance. Some say, but erroneously as I think, that he was the puer, the minister, of the poet. But this is not probable, for to such persons odes were...

Sorrow in SunlightLooking gloriously bored, Miss Miami Mouth gaped up into the boughs of a giant silk-cotton-tree. In the lethargic noontide nothing stirred: all was so still, indeed, that the sound of someone snoring was clearly audible among the cane-fields far away. And, inconsequently,...

Among Cannibals: An Account of Four Years’ Travels in Australia and of Camp Life With the Aborigines of QueenslandIn the year 1880 I undertook an expedition to Australia, partly at the expense of the University of Christiania, with the object of making collections for...

Zoo'n Nonna!Domine Dauteville zat dien avond in zijn sanctum. Niet dat dit vertrek in zijn woning iets had, dat rechtens aanspraak kon maken op den naam heiligdom Alleen in zooverre althans was het woord toepasselijk, dat het verboden terrein was, behalve voor de enkele...

Antony van Leeuwenhoek, de ontdekker der infusorien, 1675-1875Op den 24sten September van het jaar 1874, bij gelegenheid der 47ste Vergadering van Duitsche natuuronderzoekers en artsen te Gratz ving Dr. Ferdinand Cohn, Hoogleeraar aan de Universiteit te Breslau zijn redevoering Over de onzichtbare vijanden in...

The Wild North Land - The Story of a Winter Journey with Dogs across Northern North AmericaPeople are supposed to have an object in every journey they undertake in this world. A man goes to Africa to look for the Nile, to Rome to...

VeniceVenice herself is poetry, and creates a poet out of the dullest clay. It was a poet who spoke, and his clay was instinct with the breath of genius. But it is true that Venice lends wings to duller clay; it has been her...

The Seven Lively Arts... But, beside those great men, there is a certain number of artists who have a distinct faculty of their own by which they convey to us a peculiar quality of pleasure which we cannot get elsewhere; and these, too, have...

Peril of the StarmenBut he said nothing. His anguished thoughts whirled like a dust storm, handling and rejecting ideas like bits of paper. The remote and inaccessible Scientists were beyond accounting. Perhaps only this planet would serve. Perhaps there was insufficient time to locate...

The Sling and the StoneOn the morning of the first day, floating in the cold of space, they inflated the station. It puffed up tightly to a silvery doughnut, and four men whose names were Krylov, Mirkov, Stolyakhin and Davchenko went to live inside....

The Plagiarist From Rigel IVI glanced at him skeptically. The machine was a Remington Noiseless, with italics, probably worth a little over a hundred new, and it couldn't have been more than a year or two old. "Keys even," he said, still smiling. "A...

The Scandalized MartiansDavid Fry resigned the following day. Tortured and abused actors and actresses celebrated for three days and three nights. Dwight Howard didn't have to accept the resignation as Fry was bound to Silver Studios by an iron clad contract. But a director's...