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At the Gate of Samaria It was a severe room, scrupulously neat. Along one side ran a bookcase, with beaded glass doors, containing, as one might see by peering through the spaces, the collected, unread literature of two stern generations. A few old prints,...

Peggy O'Neal Doubtless I shall tell this tale but poorly, since I have no skill of writing or rhetoric and must, for the most part, proceed by blunt sentences and short one-syllable words to the end that I be understood. This record is worth...

Stories from the Chap-Book - Being a Miscellany of Curious and Interesting Tales, Histories, &c; Newly Composed by Many Celebrated Writers and Very Delightful to Read. THE wind stirred the tops of the maple trees in the Quinsby front yard, and the old man...

The Story of Paul Jones: An Historical Romance This is in the long-ago, or, to be exact, in July, 1759. The new brig Friendship, not a fortnight off the stocks, is lying in her home harbor of Whitehaven, being fitted to her first suit...

The Double LifeI WAS passing through the waiting-room of the Morning Journal on a certain evening last year when my attention was drawn to a man seated in a corner. He was dressed in black and his appearance was that of the deepest dejection....

The Bride of the Sun As the liner steamed into Callao Roads, and long before it had anchored, it was surrounded by a flotilla of small boats. A moment later, deck, saloons and cabins were invaded by a host of gesticulating and strong-minded boatmen,...

Marjorie Dean Macy's Hamilton ColonyI wish it would hurry up, and come, then. Captain was to be home from the beach yesterday. She hasnt happened. Leila owes me a letter. That hasnt happened yet. I havent heard from her for over a month, or...

Right Half HollinsPut some glue on your hands, Chick! advised Tommy Parish in a clear, carrying voice from his seat in the front row of the stand. The sally gained a ripple of laughter from the somewhat apathetic audience. Bert Hollins, huddled under a...

The Celtic Christianity of Cornwall: Divers Sketches and StudiesIn one of the most brilliant of modern books its author[1] calls attention to the common fallacy which assumes that if you can find a principle which gives an adequate explanation of three different facts it...

Tarzan, apinain kuningas: Seikkailuromaani Afrikan aarniometsistäI. Merell. II. Koti ermaassa. III. Hengen kaupalla. IV. Apinat. V. Valkoinen pikku apina. VI. Otteluita viidakossa. VII. Tiedon valo. VIII. Puunlatvasta metsstmss. IX. Ihminen ihmist vastaan. X. Metsnpeikko. XI. Apinain kuningas. XII. Ihmisen jrki. XIII. Hnen oma heimonsa....

The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 08, August 22, 1840The bold and nearly insulated promontory called the Hill of Howth, which forms the north-eastern terminus of the Bay of Dublin, would in itself supply abundant materials for a topographical volumeand a most interesting...

The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 07, August 15, 1840To the observing and imaginative traveller, our island must present a great number of peculiarities of aspect which will not fail to excite his notice, and impress themselves indelibly upon his mind. The scantiness...

The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 06, August 8, 1840It is a melancholy truth that this most interesting portion of the human race is rapidly disappearing from the surface of the earth. War, its murderous effects centupled by the destructive weapons acquired from...

Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 1, July 1850It may be universally affirmed that every thing having shape either grows or is put together, is a living organism or a contrived machine; and the radical distinction between minds in all the modes of their operation,...

The Borzoi 1920: Being a sort of record of five years' publishing[The followingreprinted from the Athenum (London) of June 11th, 1920, and translated by S. Kotliansky is part of Gorkys preface to the first catalogue of World Literature, the publishing house founded by him...

Veien til Skjønhed, Sundhed og et Langt LivJeg har lagt meget Arbeide og stor Omhyggelighed paa Udarbeidelsen af dette Vrk. Derfor sender jeg det ogsaa ud i Verden under sikker Forvisning om, at det har en vigtig Opgave at udfre, hvad Menneskeslgtens legemlige Forbedring...

AeneidiAlkulause. Ensimminen laulu: Aeneaan tulo Karthagoon. Toinen laulu: Troijan hvitys. Kolmas laulu: Matka-sadut. Neljs laulu: Dido. Viides laulu: Kilpaleikit. Kuudes laulu: Manala. Seitsems laulu: Aeneaan saapuminen Italiaan ja hnen vastustajansa. Kahdeksas laulu: Aeneaan liittolaiset. Yhdekss laulu: Sodan alku. Kymmenes laulu: Sota. Yhdestoista laulu: Sotilakko...

Why Armenia Should Be Free: Armenia's Rôle in the Present WarDr. Pasdermadjian, the author of this pamphlet, is a native of Erzeroum, and a member of a family which, both in the past and in the present, has been an object of barbarous persecution...

Annie Laurie and AzaleaThe long red clay road, winding down from the cabin where the McBirneys lived on their high shelf of Tennyson mountain, was frosted delicately with white, and by the roadside the curious frost flowers lifted their heads, as airy-fine as fern....

Principles of Public Health - A Simple Text Book on Hygiene, Presenting the Principles Fundamental to the Conservation of Individual and Community HealthThe earliest history of remote ages describes methods employed in combating disease, and down through all the centuries the struggle against infection...