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The Crime of Henry Vane: A Study with a MoralWho was Vane? said I, and what did he do? Which commandment did he break? He must have made merry with them allor, rather, have kept them all to get such a judgment in this...

La grande artère de la Chine: le YangtseuI. Le Yang-Tseu-Kiang et ses affluents.II. La navigation sur le Yang-Tseu.III. Essai de navigation vapeur sur le haut-fleuve.IV. Les rives du fleuve et leur aspect; dangers de la navigation sur le haut-fleuve.V. Climat.VI. Les provinces arroses par...

Helena O conselheiro Vale morreu s 7 horas da noite de 25 de abril de 1859. Morreu de apoplexia fulminante, pouco depois de cochilar a sesta,segundo costumava dizer,e quando se preparava a ir jogar a usual partida de voltarete em casa de um desembargador,...

Der Bürger Ehrenwort! sagte er heftig zu sich selbst und las wieder den Titel der philosophischen Abhandlung. Seine Hand, die das Geld hielt, war na. Der Blick zuckte fortwhrend von der Broschre zum Ziffernblatt. Der Zeiger stand knapp vor fnf. Und nahm seinen Schritt...

The Hunter's Lodge CaseComing from a convalescent influenza patient, I hailed the remark as showing a beneficial optimism. I myself had been the first sufferer from the disease. Poirot in his turn had gone down. He was now sitting up in bed, propped up...

LenteHet was op een voorjaarsavond, gezellig tegenover elkander zittende, dat wij aan den praat raakten over ons album No. 3, dat toen pas was uitgekomen en in slechts enkele weken zijne bestemming gevonden had door gansch het land.Zoon album met de plaatjes, teksten, en...

Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 18Le texte de ce volume est conforme celui de ldition originale: Le Horla Paris, Paul Ollendorff, 1887, moins Sauve dj publie dans la Petite Roque avec addition de: Le Voyage du HorlaUn Fou (indits). Le Horla...

A láthatatlan ember: Fantasztikus regényAz idegen februr elejn rkezett, szeles, tlies napon, szakad hban, ez volt az utols hess abban az esztendben s gyalog jtt a bramblehursti vasuti llomstl, kis fekete pakktska a keztys kezben. Tettl talpig be volt burkolva s puha kalapjnak szles,...

Salve Venetia, gleanings from Venetian history; vol. IIGLEANINGS FROM VENETIAN HISTORY BY FRANCIS MARION CRAWFORD WITH 225 ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOSEPH PENNELL IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd. 1906 All rights reserved {iv} Copyright, 1905, By...

La corte de Carlos IVSin oficio ni beneficio, sin parientes ni habientes, vagaba por Madrid un servidor de ustedes, maldiciendo la hora menguada en que dej su ciudad natal por esta inhospitalaria Corte, cuando acudi a las pginas del Diario para buscar ocupacin honrosa....

The Laugh MakerYou can laugh too much. You can be too cheerful. You can look too much on the sunny side of life. You wont believe this and neither did Bobby McTabb. But McTabb proved it out. It took the girl to help himKitty...

The Fourth DimensionI have endeavoured to present the subject of the higher dimensionality of space in a clear manner, devoid of mathematical subtleties and technicalities. In order to engage the interest of the reader, I have in the earlier chapters dwelt on the perspective...

Ballads and Other Poems - Fourth Edition, Revised[1] In writing a ballad the secrets of success are definiteness of aim, directness of execution, and singleness of idea. The language must be simple, but so vigorous that every word tells; the metre must also be...

The Proofs of Christ's Resurrection; from a Lawyer's StandpointThe present treatise is intended to give what the author has often felt the need ofa compact and thoroughly reliable statement of the principal historical facts to the authenticity and integrity of the New Testament writings...

"Bobbie", a Story of the ConfederacyHe always said he never knew which was worse, his name or his nose; but as he could get rid of neither, he accepted both in his own bright, happy way, and that ended the matter with him. Peter...

A Child's History of the World This page is not for you, boys and girls. It is for that old man or womantwenty, thirty, or forty years old, who may peek into this book; and is what they would call the In common with...

A dramatization of Longfellow's Hiawatha: A spectacular drama in six actsIs submitted this portrayal of the primitive life of the American Indians in their native forest home. Fully realizing how rapidly the race is becoming extinct before the onward march of civilizing influences, and...

The King Who Went on Strike Is it not strange so few Kings abdicate; and none yet heard of has been known to commit suicide? Fritz the First, of Prussia, alone tried it, and they cut the rope." he King leant against the stone...

The Man Who Saved the EarthWe read of the days when the powers of radium were yet unknown. It is told us that burns were produced by incautiously carrying a tube of radium salts in the pocket. And here in this story we are...

Old Ninety-Nine's CaveTourists in the Shawangunk region are unanimous in pronouncing it one of the most beautiful spots east of the Mississippi, and in some respects unique on this continent. Mokonk and Minnewaska need no eulogy from any pen, Sams Point tells its own...