Public Domain

The Colored People of Chicago - An Investigation Made for the Juvenile Protective AssociationIn the course of an investigation recently made by the Juvenile Protective Association of Chicago upon the conditions of boys in the County Jail, the Association was much startled by the...

The Clockwork ManIt was just as Doctor Allingham had congratulated himself upon the fact that the bowling was broken, and that he had only to hit now and save the trouble of running, just as he was scanning the boundaries with one eye and...

The History of Patient Grisel, 1619The narrative of the Patient Griselda is one of the most wide-spread of the stories which have come down to us from the Middle Ages. It has been annexed to the highest literature by such poets as Boccaccio, Petrarch...

The White Chief of the Ottawa Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand nine hundred and three, by BERTHA WRIGHT CARR-HARRIS, at the Department of Agriculture. "The White Chief of the Ottawa" is not fiction. It is...

The Belgian Mother, and Ballads of Battle Time As gallant knights, as valiant-souled crusaders, You come from quests of peril o'er the sea; From conflicts stern, against the brute invaders, With laurels nobly won, you come to me. In contest grim, the mightiest of...

Boy Scouts with Joffre; Or, In the Trenches in BelgiumOn a warm day in October three motorcyclists were speeding over Long Island roads toward New York City. One of the group was apparently setting the pace for his fellows. He was at least a...

Illustrated History of Furniture, fifth ed. - From the Earliest to the Present TimeN the following pages the Author has placed before the reader an account of the changes in the design of Decorative Furniture and Woodwork, from the earliest period of which we...

The heir: A love storyMiss Chase lay on her immense red silk four-poster that reached as high as the ceiling. Her face was covered over by a sheet, but as she had a high, aristocratic nose, it raised the sheet into a ridge, ending...

Shibusawa; or, The passing of old JapanTO hope to understand in a few short years or even in a lifetime the development of the humane, refined, and notably progressive people of Japan would be presumptuous; yet, if I can in these pages contribute in...

Vocabulaire, Poèmes HOTEL DE FRANCE ET DE LA POSIE STOP SONNET DE LA BAIGNEUSE LA MORT DE L'AMIRAL MIROIR DES SPORTS PICE DE CIRCONSTANCE UN BONJOUR D'ARCACHON TRILLES OBJET DIFFICILE RAMASSER MYOSOTIS SOUVENIR DE NAPLES CIEL D'AVRIL CUME DE MER PAIN ENCHANT LA BELLE...

The Collected Writings of Dougal Graham, "Skellat" Bellman of Glasgow, Vol. 1 of 2The negligence of contemporaries by failing to appreciate the real worth of the great men of their time has often been a subject of remark. No special case need be cited...

The German Fury in Belgium - Experiences of a Netherland Journalist during four months with the German Army in BelgiumA FEW words by way of introduction. I had wished to publish this book a long time ago, because I think it my duty to...

Ninth Cavalry: One Hundred and Twenty-first Regiment Indiana VolunteersThe papers here collected were read by the Regimental Historian, from time to time, at Annual Re-unions of the 9th Indiana Cavalry. They are printed at the request of the boys of the regiment, and are...

Dark WindowsI was suddenly wide awake and listening. A gray light the color of wet charcoal lay over the chilled room. There it was again. Plain and sharp through the thin wall separating my room from that of old man Donnicker, the shoe-maker. Maybe...

The Wyoming Military Establishment. A History of the Twenty-fourth Regiment of Connecticut Militia - An Address Before the Tioga Point Historical Society, Delivered December 3rd, 1901Alsace-Loraine is a conquered province. The flag of Germany floats over it. Within the memory of most of us...

Der Wille zur Macht: Eine Auslegung alles GeschehensNietzsche hatte die Absicht, in einem zusammenhngenden Werke den Gesamtertrag seiner Lehre darzustellen. Die Titel des beabsichtigten Werkes und die Gesichtspunkte seiner Ordnung wechselten, aber die einheitliche Idee, seine Philosophie bersichtlich darzustellen, blieb bestehen. Es sollten keine...

Oregon, the Picturesque - A Book of Rambles in the Oregon Country and in the Wilds of Northern CaliforniaI know quite well that there have been books without end dealing with our great Pacific Coast, and I feel that a writer who adds another...

Vier Jahre in Spanien. Die Carlisten, ihre Erhebung, ihr Kampf und ihr Untergang.Der vorliegende Text wurde anhand der 1841 erschienenen Buchausgabe so weit wie mglich originalgetreu wiedergegeben. Typographische Fehler wurden stillschweigend korrigiert. Ungewhnliche und altertmliche Schreibweisen bleiben gegenber dem Original unverndert. Rechtschreibvarianten wurden nicht...

Drei Monate Fabrikarbeiter und Handwerksbursche - Eine praktische StudieDas Original wurde in Frakturschrift gedruckt. Passagen in Antiquaschrift werden im vorliegenden Text kursiv dargestellt. Abhngig von der im jeweiligen Lesegert installierten Schriftart knnen die im Original gesperrt gedruckten Passagen gesperrt, in serifenloser Schrift, oder aber...

A Wheel Within a Wheel - How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle, With Some Reflections by the WayFROM my earliest recollections, and up to the ripe age of fifty-three, I had been an active and diligent worker in the world. This sounds absurd;...