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Will Somers, the Boy DetectiveHis claim to good looks was indisputable. A bright black eye gave character to a face of classical outline, straggling curls of dark hair hanging low over his olive-hued cheeks and brow, while his nose and mouth had all the...

The Girl Scouts at Singing SandsIn the front seat beside the driver, Miss Louise Ward, troop leader, twisted sideways to smile at the six girls who rode directly behind. All were attired in the neat, green uniform of the organization, but each member of...

Rip Van WinkleThe following tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker, an old gentleman of New York, who was very curious in the Dutch history of the province, and the manners of the descendants from its primitive settlers. His historical...

The Russian Army and the Japanese War, Vol. 2 (of 2) - Being Historical and Critical Comments on the Military Policy and Power of Russia and on the Campaign in the Far EastWhen war seemed likely, the following scheme for the strategical distribution of...

Josie O'GormanJosie OGormans appearance was one of her greatest assets. To the general run of young girls who look upon beauty as the one and only attribute necessary for success in life no doubt this statement would sound absurd. Certainly there was little in...

Wehman Bros.' Vaudeville Jokes No. 1.This new and revised edition has been compiled to the present time, and contains valuable information for a foreigner to know before becoming a citizen of the land of his adoption. This practical volume embraces the following, viz:Declaration of...

A Practical Hand-book of Drawing for Modern Methods of ReproductionIt is with a peculiar satisfaction that I inscribe this book to yourself, for to you more than to any other occupant of an editorial chair is due the position held by process in illustrating...

Colección de Documentos Inéditos Relativos al Descubrimiento, Conquista y Organización de las Antiguas Posesiones Españolas de Ultramar. Tomo 9, De Los Documentos Legislativos, IIEn el original, la referencia bibliogrfica referente al documento Nm. 105 est incompleta mientras que la del documento Nm. 120 no...

Ben Bruce: Scenes in the Life of a Bowery NewsboyThese words were spoken in a stern voice by Jacob Winter, and emphasized by a heavy frown. The speaker was rather an undersized man, with a rugged, weather-beaten face. He had seen but fifty years,...

A Summer in Maryland and Virginia; Or, Campaigning with the 149th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. - A Sketch of Events Connected with the Service of the Regiment in Maryland and the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Or Campaigning with the 149th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. A Sketch of...

The Sexual Life of Our Time in Its Relations to Modern Civilization - Translated from the Sixth German EditionIt seems at first sight as if Nature had endowed man with the procreative impulse solely with a view to the preservation of the species, and...

A Change in the CabinetSIRor to speak more correctly, the Right Honourable Sir T. Charles Repton, Bart., M.V.O., O.M., Warden of the Court of Dowry, a man past middle age but in the height of industry, sat at breakfast in his house: a large...

A Righted Wrong: A Novel. Volume 3 (of 3)An unusually beautiful day, in an exceptionally beautiful summer, and a grand old mansion, in all its bravery, wearing its best air of preparation and festivity. Even in the merest outline such a picture has its...

A Righted Wrong: A Novel. Volume 2 (of 3)It will probably be entirely unnecessary to inform the intelligent reader what was the nature of the contents of the letter which James Dugdale had handed to Mrs. Hungerford. Retrospect, present knowledge, or anticipation will convey...

A Righted Wrong: A Novel. Volume 1 (of 3)"Good-bye, my dear; perhaps not for ever, though: I may make my way back to the old country once more. You will tell my old friend I kept my word to him:" and then the speaker...

The ImpersonatorHe opened his eyes. He couldn't remember having ever seen humans before, but he recognized them instantly. Nor could he remember having seen anything before, yet he felt a warm familiarity with all that fell into viewthe light panels set flush with the...

The Vegetable; or, From President to PostmanThis is the living room of Jerry Frosts house. It is evening. The room (and, by implication, the house) is small and stuffyits an awful bother to raise these old-fashioned windows; some of them stick, and besides its...

The Book of Shells - Containing the Classes Mollusca, Conchifera, Cirrhipeda, Annulata, and CrustaceaIn describing that portion of the system of Natural History which embraces the Vertebral Animals,namely, the Mammalia, the Birds, the Reptiles, and the Fishes,the arrangement of the Baron Cuvier was adopted....

In an Unknown Prison Land - An account of convicts and colonists in New Caledonia with jottings out and homeThe Cachots Noirs were never opened except at stated intervals,once every morning for inspection, and once every thirty days for exercise and a medical examination...

John Chinaman on the RandBY DR. JOHN CLIFFORD, M.A., LL.B. I have read the following account of the importation of Chinese coolies into South Africa with the keenest pain and sorrow. It is an authentic story of one of the foulest tragedies in our...