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Jack Straw, Lighthouse BuilderIn presenting this account of Jack Straws latest adventures it has been my good fortune to have the friendly advice of Dr. Raymond Haskell, Superintendent of the Third Light House District, and William H. Moon of the Lighthouse Service. I have...

Tratado de Ortografía Valenciana ClásicaHace ms de cincuenta aos que renaci en Valencia el cultivo de nuestra lengua peculiar. Son muchos los escritores que la emplean, sobre todo para la poesa, y an no se han puesto de acuerdo sobre cosa tan esencial como...

Arabic Thought and Its Place in HistoryARNOLD (Sir E.): Indian Poetry and Indian Idylls. Containing The Indian Song of Songs, from the Sanskrit of the Gita Govinda of Jayadeva; Two Books from The Iliad of India (Mahabharata); Proverbial Wisdom, from the Shlokas of the...

The Radio Girls at Forest Lodge; or, The Strange Hut in the SwampGood for you, Amy, he said, returning to his plate of ice cream with renewed vigor. People either hate Aunt Emma or love her. I am glad you have decided on the...

Fors Clavigera (Volume 2 of 8) - Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great BritainI would wish you a happy New Year, if I thought my wishes likely to be of the least use. Perhaps, indeed, if your cap of liberty were what...

This and That and the OtherSince I am assured that this book requires a Preface I must attempt to write one, but I cannot conceive upon what lines it should run unless they be an apology for writing of so many things, and in...

The Training of Wild AnimalsThe big and little men and women of the jungle have ever fascinated me. As a child, I used often to romp with cubs attached to the traveling menageries of my parents and grandfather. Most of my boyhood, and virtually...

A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions - Shewing the nature and measures of crown-lands, assessements, customs, poll-moneys, lotteries, benevolence, penalties, monopolies, offices, tythes, raising of coins, harth-money, excize, &c.; with several intersperst discourses and digressions concerning warres, the church, universities, rents & purchases, usury...

The Old Church ClockA BRIEF history of the following homely little tale may perhaps be not less interesting, and more edifying, than the tale itself. It was written originally for the pages of The Christian Magazine, (a cheap monthly publication, intended for circulation especially...

The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, 1636?-1674, from the original manuscriptsIt is with a more than ordinary degree of pleasure that I have undertaken the task of introducing to readers of the present day the writings of a hitherto unknown seventeenth-century poet. Centuries had...

Gli Uomini Rossi: Romanzo Disse un ispirato, una volta, che Adamo, in siriaco, significava rosso e volle da ci dedurre la remotissima origine del partito repubblicano. La deduzione dest fra gli scienziati tedeschi interminabili dispute; si form a mano a mano una biblioteca su...

Das Leben der Bienen Es ist kein Buch ber Bienenzucht, kein Handbuch fr Bienenzchter, was ich hier schreiben will. Jedes Land besitzt treffliche Werke dieser Art, und es wre zwecklos, sie noch einmal zu schreiben. In Frankreich hat man die Werke von Dadant, Georges...

Daybreak in Turkey - Second EditionOne of the obstacles which lie in the path of the European when he wants to arrive at the true opinion of the Oriental is that the European, especially if he be an official, is almost always in a...

Flaming YouthMen writers when they write of women, do so without comprehension. Men understand women only as women choose to have them, with one exception, the family physician. He knows. He sees through the body to the soul. But he may not tell what...

La kialo de la vivoLa homo instruita, la pensulo, sentas la vanecon de la dogmoj, kaj li konstatas kun timego la profundegaon fositan de la eltrovoj de la scienco, profundegao kiu lin forigas por iam de la sanktaj tekstoj, se li amas iom la...

Politikai divatok: RegényHiba mondjk neknk, vlaszsztok kln a magnletet a kzlettl; tudjatok rzelmesek lenni, mint a nmet, praktikusok, mint az angol, elmsek mint a franczia; kltk azok, a nlkl, hogy politizlnnak. Irjatok gy, hogy az elmondott mese ne legyen feltnen magyar trtnet, tele a...

Al mia fratineto: Letero pri la seksvivoVi certe iomete miros, ricevante tiel longan leteron de via fratego, kaj ne komprenos, kio estas la kazo. Eble vi pensas, ke nepre ekzistas tre serioza kaj grava motivo, ar vi ja ne estas dorlotata per miaj leteroj;...

Der Sohn: Ein Drama in fünf AktenIch bin zwanzig Jahre alt und knnte am Theater sein oder in Johannisburg Viadukte bauen. Weshalb mu es an der Formel fr den abgestumpften Kegel scheitern! Alle Professoren waren mir gewogen, sogar der Direktor sagte mir vor. Ich...

The Tahquitch Maiden: A Tale of the San JacintosTahquitch Mountain is one of the peaks of the celebrated San Jacinto range. Its contour is peculiar, and on its summit is a huge rock known as Tahquitch Rock. The Indians aver that this rock covers...

Kaksi pakolaista: Austraalialainen kertomusSquatteri [Squatter'eiksi nimitetn Austraaliassa suurien lammas- ja sarvikarjalaumojen omistajia, joilla tavallisesti on vuokralla suunnattomia aloja aro- ja ruohomaata. Squattereja on thn asti pidetty Austraalian ylimyksin. Suom. muist.] Powellin perhe Murray-joen varrella Austraaliassa oli kauhun vallassa. Mustan poliisivoiman pllikk, luutnantti Walker, oli...