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The Old World and Its Ways - Describing a Tour Around the World and Journeys Through EuropeThis volume is published in response to numerous requests from many sections, and my purpose is to put in permanent and convenient form the observations made during travels...

Plays by August Strindberg, First SeriesTo the first volume of his remarkable series of autobiographical novels, August Strindberg gave the name of "The Bondwoman's Son." The allusion was twofoldto his birth and to the position which fate, in his own eyes, seemed to have...

Choix de contes et nouvelles traduits du chinoisAu point o en sont aujourd'hui les tudes orientales, ce qu'on attendrait d'elles, ce serait sans doute quelque chose de mieux qu'un volume de nouvelles et de contes.Les Chinois d'ailleurs ne font pas entrer dans le domaine...

Edda: taruopillinen alkuosa; Gylfin harhanäky (Gylfaginning)1. Gylfi oli ern miehen nimi, hn oli kuningas ja viisas ja loitsutaitoinen mies. Hn ihmetteli suuresti sit, ett Aasakansa oli niin taitava, ett kaikki kvi heidn mielens mukaan. Hn mietti, johtuisiko se heidn omasta olennostaan, vaiko niist jumaluusvoimista,...

Road Scrapings: Coaches and CoachingIn offering these pages to the public, my object has been confined to imparting such advice, in matters connected with coaching, as has been suggested by long experience; whilst, in order to dissipate as much as possible the dryness of...

Seikkailu saaristossa: Laulunsekainen huvinäytelmä kahdessa näytöksessäPRINSSI (kulissien takaa). Kiinnit vene lujasti, Otto! Min sill'aikaa kyn vhn vakoilemassa. (Astuu nyttmlle.) Kallioita ja yh kallioita! Tm maa on kauttaaltaan kivest. Tuossa on tupa, mutta elmst ei merkkikn. Otto, olemme Suomessa. Me olemme joutuneet taikalinnaan. PRINSSI. Mutta...

The Adventurous Life of a Versatile Artist: HoudiniHARRY HOUDINI, "the World's Handcuff King and amazing Prison Breaker," a title universally and unanimously bestowed upon him, has had a career as adventurous and romantic as the most imaginative writer could possibly conjure. Indeed, this wonderful...

The Life of an Insect - being a history of the changes of insects from the egg to the perfect being.Chapter I.The Nest.The Microscope and TelescopeTerror caused by InsectsDeath-watchLife-boat of EggsThe Water BeetleFloating Ark of EggsThe Gnather difficultiesher Egg-raftThe Sand-boring WaspTowers of rubbishCaptive CaterpillarsWood-boring...

The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and MankindTHIS Outline of History is an attempt to tell, truly and clearly, in one continuous narrative, the whole story of life and mankind so far as it is known to-day. It is written...

Our English Towns and Villages1. A little boy, who had been born in a log cabin in the backwoods of Canada, was taken by his father, when he was about eight years old, to the nearest settlement, for the first time in his life....

History of the Anglo-Saxons, from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest - Second EditionAlmost every historian has set out by regretting how little is known of the early inhabitants of Great Britaina fact which only the lovers of hoar antiquity deplore, since from...

Josh Billings, Hiz SayingsEntered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by G. W. CARLETON, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York The mule is haf hoss, and haf Jackass, and then kums tu...

Alaskan tyttöKieltymyst on ollut monenlaista tss maailmassa. Mutta pohjaltaan on kieltymys aina samaa. Kummallista on siin vain se, ett miehet ja naiset luopuvat rakkaimmastaan koko maailmassa jonkun vielkin rakkaamman vuoksi. Niinhn Abel uhrasi laumansa esikoisia ja niiden ihraa. Lauman esikoiset ja niiden tali oli...

The Secret of the TotemThis book is the natural sequel of Social Origins and Primal Law, published three years ago. In Primal Law, Mr. J. J. Atkinson sought for the origin of marriage prohibitions in the social conditions of early man, as conceived of...

The Ghost WorldIn the Iliad,[1] after the spirit of Patroclus has visited Achilles in his dream, it is described as taking its departure, and entering the ground like smoke. In long after years, and among widely scattered communities, we meet with the same imagery;...

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, July 1899 - Volume LV, No. 3, July 1899The popular mind persists in thinking that there is a wide difference between science and knowledge in general. Yes, there is a wide difference, but it is just the difference that there...

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 109, October 26, 1895Sir Augustus Anglo-Operaticus has done well at Covent Garden, and will probably go one better. To Miss Alice Esty, as Elsa, in Lohengrin, we say "Esty perpetua." All are good: and the houses have been...

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 108, March 16, 1895First Member. I am heartily glad that the committee decided to change the name of the club from the Handicap to the Toy, as it has brought an influx of such extremely eligible members. The...

Muistojen komeroistaI. Syksyn tullen II. Kyllhn valtesmanni mun tuntoo III. Sep hauskaa Kah! IV. Reipas emnt V. Hollijuttu VI. Herastuomarin kertomus VII. Manu-papista VIII. Tapaninpiv Mkelss 1870-luvulla IX. Rasmus Reilu X. Tynorjat XI. Kerran ykulussa XII. Kesinen matkamuistelma XIII. Rikoslapsi XIV. Tammisen ensimminen korvo...

Thomas Dekker - Edited, with an introduction and notes by Ernest Rhys. Unexpurgated EditionThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms...