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Stories Pictures Tell. Book 8Art supervisors in the public schools assign picture-study work in each grade, recommending the study of certain pictures by well-known masters. As Supervisor of Drawing I found that the children enjoyed this work but that the teachers felt incompetent to...

The Dabistán, or School of manners, Volume 3 (of 3) - translated from the original Persian, with notes and illustrationsThese sectaries are followers of Musaylima. The people of Islam, the true faith, qualify Musaylima 2 as the Liar.[2] These sectaries call themselves also Rahmnah;...

The Dabistán, or School of manners, Volume 2 (of 3) - translated from the original Persian, with notes and illustrationsSection the firstconcerning the orthodox Hindoo system. As inconstant fortune had torn away the author from the shores of Persia, and made him the associate...

The Dabistán, or School of manners, Volume 1 (of 3) - translated from the original Persian, with notes and illustrationsIt is generally known that sir William Jones was the first who drew the attention of Orientalists to the Dabistn. This happened five years after...

The sexual life of woman in its physiological, pathological and hygienic aspectsThe sexual life of womanthe appearance of the first indications of sexual activity, the development of that activity and its culmination in sexual maturity, the decline of that activity and its ultimate extinction...

Thirty Years From Home; or, a Voice From the Main Deck - Being the Experience of Samuel LeechNarratives of service, a century ago, written by private soldiers, are rare, but such by common sailors are almost unknown. Samuel Leechs narrative Thirty Years from Home,...

Il romanzo della morte Il pranzo volgeva al suo termine, in mezzo alla gioia e alle conversazioni sempre pi animate e festose. I convitati, per la maggior parte studenti dell'Universit, futuri medici e futuri avvocati, ma pi medici che avvocati, avevano naturalmente un buon...

Ni ange, ni bêteAu temps o le roi Louis-Philippe rgnait sur les Franais, M. Bertrand d'Ouville, rentier et archologue abbevillois, revenant un matin d'Amiens en diligence, se trouva seul dans la voiture avec un jeune homme grave et barbu, dont le chapeau en tronc...

Deep-Sea PlunderingsWarned by previous experience, I do not propose to make any apology for the publication of these stories in book form, but I hope my generous critics will at least pardon me for expressing my gratitude for the way in which they have...

Ocean TrampsI met Billy Harman on Circular Wharf, Sydney, so many years ago that I think he must be dead. He is the chief person in the first six stories of this book, which have appeared illustrated in an English, an American and a...

The Happy-go-lucky MorgansMy story is of Balham and of a family dwelling in Balham who were more Welsh than Balhamitish. Strangers to that neighbourhood who go up Harrington Road from the tram must often wonder why the second turning on the right is called...

Dernières lettres d'un bon jeune homme à sa cousine MadeleineMon cher docteur, ceci n'est pas prcisment un livre, mais un volume d'ides que j'ai publies en divers temps, o et comme j'ai pu. Les unes ont paru en brochure, les autres l'Opinion nationale, d'autres...

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night—Volume 05 [Supplement]I take the liberty of placing your names at the head of this Volume which owes its rarest and raciest passages to your kindly refusing the temporary transfer of the Wortley Montague MS. from...

Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1913Poetry is one of the realities that persist. The faade and dome of palace and temple, the monuments of heroes and saints, crumble before the ruining breath of time, while the Psalms last. So when another year passes and...

Down the Scale or Up...Not skinniness! Its no light matter, Hortense, this question of figures. You can figure on that. Even the new styles wont hide the awful fact that you bulge where you shouldnt, OR that you own no curves where you should....

Place Names in KentWhen I was a school boy at Canterbury, in the fifties and sixties, my first interest in philology was evoked by Trench on The Study of Words, and by the more elaborate pioneer work, Isaac Taylors Words and Places, while oral...

The Hoofs of Pegasus The thanks of the author are due to Winfred Douglas for his criticism and help in arranging the material in this book; and to the editors of Poetry (Chicago), Contemporary Verse, The Literary Review and The Bowling Green for permission...

Be Kind to One AnotherLily Stuart and Ellie Graham were very near neighbours, and very dear friends. They attended the same school, and [Pg 3]when that was over, they spent most of their leisure time in playing with each other. Ellie's younger sister, May,...

Le Grand Silence Blanc: Roman vécu d'Alaska N Montpellier, en 1884, il y fit de compltes tudes classiques o, de bonne heure, le dmon qui le hante introduit un grain de fantaisie. Il publie quatorze ans ses premiers vers et prononce au mme ge...

Le Banian, roman maritime (2/2)Un seul officier, charg de veiller la manuvre, reste immobile sur le pont, un il fix sur le compas qu'il observe prs du timonier, et l'autre il errant sur les voiles dont il pie le battement et le FASEYAGE; car...