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Från vargtider och vallpojksår: En samling minnen från forna dagars Östra Nyland Ur minnesgoda ldringars hgkomster har jag samlat dessa spridda drag frn en frgngen tid. De synas mig kunna frdjupa vr kunskap om frhllanden, tnkestt och personligheter i de stnylndska svenskbygderna i frflutna...

Zeniths Kokbok: En samling recept för användning av Zeniths margarin hufvudbestndsdelen i en mltid vl i de flesta hushll r brd, s inser man ju ltt vikten af, att brdet r godt. Och godt brd erhlles ej utan goda ingredienser: mjl, jst, socker, kryddor...

WichitaWatch Wichita Win is the city motto that has been adopted by Wichita and there is every proof that the community is justifying it. In 1900 Wichita had a population of 25,000; today its population exceeds 63,000, and there are good grounds to believe...

Striped Coat, the SkunkLest I be misunderstood in calling this wonderful little animal mans best friend among the furry creatures of the wood, let me at the outset draw attention to the fact that, far from putting a bounty on its destruction as some...

The Murray River - Being a Journal of the Voyage of the "Lady Augusta" Steamer from the Goolwa, in South Australia, to Gannewarra, above Swan Hill, Victoria, a Distance from the Sea Mouth of 1400 MilesLest this description of the River Murray should appear...

A Day in a Colonial HomeThe average home to-day has conveniences to meet the demands of comfortable living. The heating and lighting are good. In nearly every home may be found a living room where the family assembles for rest and recreation. Here they...

The Secret of Wyvern TowersBeing an account of the circumstances that shadowed the happiness of Felix Drelincourt--Why two persons proclaimed themselves guilty of a fearful crime, on account of which a vagabond's life was placed in jeopardy--The blotting out of an identity brought about...

Fabulae, virginibus puerisque aut narrandae aut recitandae[Transcriber's Notes: This text marks a few vowels as long which are considered short by the Oxford Latin Dictionary/OLD (or vice versa). This affects the following words: (i) the text uses 'mm' (long i); OLD considers 'imm' (short...

The Spanish Galleon - Being an account of a search for sunken treasure in the Caribbean Sea.MY name is William Morgan, and I am a lineal descendant of that William Morgan who was a brother of the famous Welsh buccaneer, Henry Morgan. I mention...

A Barren Title: A NovelIt was a sunny February afternoon when Mr. John Fildew put his nose--aquiline and slightly purple as to its ridge--outside the door of his lodgings for the first time that day, and remarked to himself, with a shiver, that the...

Ladies' manual of art; or, profit and pastime. - A self teacher in all branches of decorative art, embracing every variety of painting and drawing on china, glass, velvet, canvas, paper and wood the secret of all glass transparencies, sketching from nature. pastel and...

Heroines of the Modern StageThe following pages give some account of those actresses who stand out today as the most interesting to an English-speaking reader. The Continental actresses included are those who gained international reputations and belonged to the English and American stage almost...

A Literary & Historical Atlas of America[vii] When General Hamilton spoke in the Federalist over a century ago of "an empire, in many respects the most interesting in the world," meaning the United States of America, he did not, he could not, foresee the...

The Bookbinder in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg - An Account of His Life & Times, & of His CraftIn October 1770 the inventory of the personal estate of Lord Botetourt, His Majestys Governor General of Virginia, contained a catalogue of books in the library at the...

Church Needlework: A manual of practical instructionMiss Hands reminds me that it was at my suggestion, as Editor of The Treasury, that she undertook the writing of the articles which form the basis of this volume. My confidence in her fitness to write such...

La fabrique de mariages, Vol. 4Cest un lieu plus singulier encore que son enseigne... Ne vous tonne-t-il pas un peu quil y ait un rapport quelconque entre madame la marquise de Sainte-Croix et le chteau de la Savate? Plus que jamais... Je disais lautre...

Verdun to the Vosges: Impressions of the War on the Fortress Frontier of FranceAt the beginning of September, 1914, I was commissioned by The Times to go to France as its representative on the eastern frontier, and it so happens that, during the war,...

Tales from the OperasThe want of a book, which, while preserving all the force and spirit of the original Operas, attempts the relation of the several narratives in a graphic and pleasing style, has often, probably, been felt by the patrons of the lyric...

The Forest Beyond the Woodlands: A Fairy TaleDAVID was the son of an honest wood-cutter. He lived with his father in a little cottage on the border of the woodlands. Away, away as far as the eye could see stretched great tree-covered hills and...

A daughter of JehuThe June sun, lighting up the yard of the big white house, lights up a pretty scene. To begin with, the yard is pretty in itself, with its stretch of emerald lawn, its trim gravel sweep, its linden tree, in which...