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Santa Claus' Frolics[The rising of the curtain discloses room, with a fireplace, C., on either side or above which are hung stockings of various sizes, from the babys little sock to Bridgets long and broad red, blue, or black hose. On the right of...

My Wife and I; Or, Harry Henderson's History[iii] During the passage of this story through The Christian Union, it has been repeatedly taken for granted by the public press that certain of the characters are designed as portraits of really existing individuals. They are...

Malay Magic - Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay PeninsulaThe circumstances attending the composition and publication of the present work have thrown upon me the duty of furnishing it with a preface explaining its object and scope. Briefly,...

Mein LiedIch mchte dich wrmen an meinem Herzen, und mu mich frchten, der menschlichen Leidenschaft strmische Gluten knnten versengen dein lockiges Haar. Denn du bist gewohnt des ewigen Frhlings milden Hauch; o Gotteskind, bei dir daheim mu es schn sein! Wie geht's ihr? Singt...

James Geikie, the Man and the GeologistThis biography of Prof. James Geikie is based upon his own letters, papers, and diaries, and upon information supplied by many of those who were closely associated with him, both during his earlier days on the Geological Survey...

Chats on Old EarthenwareFive years have now elapsed since the publication of my volume, "Chats on English China," and in the interval a great number of readers have written to me suggesting that I should write a companion volume dealing with old English earthenware....

Wala'y Igsoon.... (Sugilanon'g Binisaya)Napaminaw ko nga ang kamamohoan sa Kabisay-an sama lamang sa us ka sakayng nagalayg sa malinaw nga dagat ug waly Amihann nga timad-on: mamoo, magapaagas sa singt, magahago sa lawas, modawat sa isuhol kaniya ug.... wal nay laing gihunahuna. Si Marcos...

German Society at the Close of the Middle AgesThe close of the fifteenth century had left the whole structure of medival Europe to all appearance intact. Statesmen and writers like Philip de Commines had apparently as little suspicion that the state of things they...

Graham's Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 6, December 1852With regard to the antiquity and origin of this most beautiful and most important of the early Christian artsmost important, because to it can be traced directly the invention of typography, as it now exists, bringing knowledge...

The Knickerbocker, Vol. 57, No. 1, January 1861 PARIS: AND LIFE THERE. A MEMORY. HESPERUS. REVELATIONS OF WALL-STREET: A WINTER SCENE. THE OBSERVATIONS OF MACE SLOPER, ESQ. LIVING ALONE. THE TAXIDERMIST. THE LITTLE PEASANT. FAUNTLEROY VERRIAN'S FATE. THE MAN AT THE DOOR. THE VAN...

On the Construction of Catalogues of Libraries and Their Publication by Means of Separate, Stereotyped Titles - With Rules and ExamplesThis work is intended to explain the plan in operation at the Smithsonian Institution, for preparing and stereotyping catalogues; to furnish means of judging...

The Assyrian and Hebrew Hymns of PraiseAs in the case of the Hebrew hymns of praise, so also it is right to attempt to see the Assyrian hymns in relation to the whole body of Assyrian religious poetry. Assyrian communities and Assyrian individuals inevitably...

Kahden taalarin rahaKun katselet Suomen lntisen rannikon merikorttia, huomaat 64. ja 65. leveysasteen vlill noin kolme peninkulmaa rannikosta muutamia pieni saaria. Nm saaret muodostavat oikean pienen saariston tai paremminkin kariston, sill ainoastaan yhdell luodolla kasvaa puita. Vett on saarten lheisyydess vhn, ehk parikymment jalkaa...

Chapter of AutobiographyAt a time when the Established Church of Ireland is on her trial, it is not unfair that her assailants should be placed upon their trial too: most of all, if they have at one time been her sanguine defenders. But if...

Martin Luthers Geistliche LiederDa geistliche Lieder singen gut und Gott angenehme sei, acht' ich, sei keinem Christen verborgen, dieweil idermann nicht allein das Exempel der Propheten und Knige im alten Testament (die mit singen und klingen, mit dichten und allerlei Saitenspiel Gott gelobt haben)...

The Mercy of AllahIn the days of Abd-er-Rahman, who was among the wisest and most glorious of the Commanders of the Faithful, there resided in the City of Bagdad an elderly merchant of such enormous wealth that his lightest expressions of opinion caused the...

Petrarch's Letters to Classical AuthorsIt is hardly necessary to dwell upon Petrarchs extensive correspondence. He was the leader of the learned men of his age; and it is common knowledge that all his prominent contemporarieswhether in the political world, or in the religious world,...

The Islets of the ChannelWine, per doz.:Port, 18s. to 40s. Sherry, 18s. to 36s. Madeira, 50s. Marsala, 15s. Claret, 16s. to 75s. Burgundy, 30s. to 55s. Champagne, 30s. to 60s. Mountain, 20s. Hock and Moselle, 35s. to 55s. Muscat, 25s. Chablis and Barsac, 20s....

Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack - from the history of the first U.S. Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John FranklinFranklins two ships, the Erebus and the Terror, were supposed to be provisioned for three years. When this interval had passed without word...

What the "Boys" Did Over There - By "Themselves"IN ASSEMBLING the stories contained in this book we have endeavored to put in realistic and readable form some of the actual, and authentic, experiences of soldiers and officers of the Allied Forces, who have returned...