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The Great Days of the Garden District, and the Old City of LafayetteThere has long been a need for the factual story of the old City of Lafayette and its fine residential area, the Garden District. What better opportunity to attempt to fill this...

Early Days in Fort Worth, Much of Which I saw and Part of Which I WasThis 2010 facsimile of the rare first edition is limited to 300 copies. B.B. Paddock created this work just after 1900, perhaps 1905 or 1906. It provides early Fort...

The Flow of Time in the Connecticut Valley: Geological ImprintsIn every region there is an evening drive which lures the city dweller from the cramped vistas of the office, the home, and the dingy streets to the limitless expanse of hills and valleys, where...

The House of Arden: A Story for ChildrenIt had been a great house once, with farms and fields, money and jewelswith tenants and squires and men-at-arms. The head of the house had ridden out three days journey to meet King Henry at the boundary...

'Midst Arctic Perils: A Thrilling Story of Adventure in the Polar RegionsLeslie Ward, the fifteen-year-old son of a distinguished electrical engineer, and his chum, Guy Anderson, were spending a holiday at the small fishing village of Pilgrimswick, situated on a remote part of the...

Harper's Round Table, May 12, 1896Thronged to the gates is the little town of Elis on this the night before the Olympic Games. Here are present not only men of every Grecian city and province, but strange wanderers from the uttermost corners of the...

Harper's Young People, May 9, 1882 - An Illustrated WeeklyToby watched anxiously as each wagon came up, but he failed to recognize any of the drivers. For the first time it occurred to him that perhaps those whom he knew were no longer with...

The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and CriticismTo anyone who is at all capable of experiencing the pleasures of justice, it is gratifying to be able to make amends to a writer whom one has vaguely depreciated for some years. The faults and foibles...

Scribner's Magazine, Volume 26, September 1899 The greatest glory of Canada is not its modern progress, but its vast and ancient wilderness. If you weary of the sameness and unprofitableness of every thing you know, go where I went last year, to the upper...

The Military History of the 123d Regiment Ohio Volunteer InfantryIn consenting to write the history of the organization, and the marches, skirmishes, battles and deeds of our brave old regiment, at this late date, is, I know, accepting an undertaking from which anyone might...

The Way They Lived Then - Serious Interviews, Strong Women, and Lessons for Life in the Novels of Anthony TrollopeSeveral pleasant hosts wearing the blue and orange scarves or bow ties of the Trollope Society were circulating through the crowd on a May evening...

The Details of the Rocket SystemHis Royal Highness the Prince Regent, to whose gracious patronage the Rocket System owes its existence, having been pleased to command the formation of a Rocket Corps, on the 1st of January, 1814, by augmentation to the Regiment of...

Regles pour les officieres du monastere de l'Annonciade, fondé à Genes l'année de notre Salut 1604Parce que la charit aprs Dieu commence par soi-mme, & ensuite s'tend envers le prochain. Il est ncessaire de voir premierement comment la Mere se doit comporter envers soi-mme,...

Constitutions pour les religieuses de l'ordre de l'annonciade céleste, fondé à Genes en l'Année 1604.Comme l'Etat Religieux est un des plus grands biens que l'homme puisse recevoir de Dieu en ce monde, soit que l'on le considere en soi, ou que l'on le compare...

Avis pour les religieuses de l'ordre de l'Annonciade celeste, fondé à Genes l'année de notre Salut 1604 - R'imprimés en ladite Ville, & accomodés à la pratique de l'observance des Constitutions; pour l'instruction des exercices spirituels, à l'usage des Monasteres du même Ordre.1. Que...

Orlando innamoratoSignori e cavallier che ve adunati Per odir cose dilettose e nove, Stati attenti e queti, ed ascoltati La bella istoria che 'l mio canto muove; E vedereti i gesti smisurati, L'alta fatica e le mirabil prove Che fece il franco Orlando per...

French Ways and Their MeaningThis book is essentially a desultory book, the result of intermittent observation, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. Having been written in Paris, at odd moments, during the last two years of the war, it could hardly be more...

New York: Its Upper Ten and Lower MillionChristmas Eve, 1823, was a memorable night in the history of a certain wealthy family in New York. The night was dark and stormy, but the tempest which swept over the bay, and whitened the city's roofs...

Chatto & Windus's List of Books, July 1878I say we have despised literature; what do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our...

The Legislative Manual, of the State of Colorado - Comprising the History of Colorado, Annals of the Legislature, Manual of Customs, Precedents and Forms, Rules of Parliamentary Parliamentary Practice, and the Constitutions of the United States and the History of Colorado, Annals of the...