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SlaveryThe first question to be proposed by a rational being is, not what is profitable, but what is Right. Duty must be primary, prominent, most conspicuous, among the objects of human thought and pursuit. If we cast it down from its supremacy, if we...

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 109, August 3, 1895"As you are the guest of the Government," was the immediate reply, "you will not be allowed to pay your moneyexcept indirectly to the collector of Revenue; but there is nothing to prevent you from...

Training for the Trenches - A Practical Handbook Based upon Personal Experience During the First Two Years of the War in FranceSince the Great European War broke out, printing presses have been busy producing text books, handbooks and guides for soldiers. Military authorities and...

An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton - Comprising All the Autobiographic Passages in His Works, the More Explicit Presentations of His Ideas of True Liberty.Milton's prose works are perhaps not read, at the present day, to the extent demanded...

The Library of Work and Play: HousekeepingYou should have seen the china-closet. It was under a bent root, and all the dishes were white with violet markings. One might have thought they were big and little and middling-sized clam-shells, if one had not seen...

Nabul, Our Little Egyptian CousinOur little Egyptian cousins are the descendants of one of the most ancient races on earth, but they are very wide-awake to-day in more ways than one. Little Egyptian boys and girls are as keen and bright as their cousins...

Memorabilia Mathematica; or, the Philomath's Quotation-Book v Every one knows that the fine phrase God geometrizes is attributed to Plato, but few know where this famous passage is found, or the exact words in which it was first expressed. Those who, like the author,...

The Passenger PigeonFOR the last three years I have spent most of my leisure time in collecting as much material as possible which might help to throw light on the oft-repeated query, "What has become of the wild pigeons?" The result of this labor...

Kinship and Social OrganisationThese lectures were delivered at the London School of Economics in May of the present year. They are largely based on experience gained in the work of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to Melanesia of 1908, and give a simplified record...

Wanderings in Corsica: Its History and Its Heroes. Vol. 1 of 2 It was in the summer of the past year that I went over to the island of Corsica. Its unknown solitudes, and the strange stories I had heard of the country and...

An Old New Zealander; or, Te Rauparaha, the Napoleon of the South.I have been constrained to write the story of "An Old New Zealander" largely to gratify the frequently expressed desire for a more comprehensive sketch of Te Rauparaha's career on the part of...

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, November 1899 - Volume LVI, No. 1Much has been written of late about "the real problems of democracy." According to some "thinkers," they consist of the invention of ingenious devices to prevent caucus frauds and the purchase of votes, to...

The Boy Spies of Philadelphia - The Story of How the Young Spies Helped the Continental Army at Valley Forge On the morning of April 2, 1778, three boys, the eldest of whom was not more than sixteen years of age and the youngest...

Diderot et le Curé de Montchauvet - Une mystification littéraire chez le baron d'Holbach, 1754Note sur la transcription: Les erreurs clairement introduites par le typographe ont t corriges. L'orthographe d'origine a t conserve et n'a pas t harmonise. Les numros des pages blanches n'ont...

Ferdinand Lassalle: Eine Würdigung des Lehrers und KämpfersDie vorliegende Schrift wurde von mir in ihrer ersten Gestalt im Jahre 1891 verfat, als eine Einleitung zu der damals von der Buchhandlung Vorwrts veranstalteten Sammelausgabe von Reden und Schriften Lassalles. Der Umstand, da ich zu jener...

The Pillars of the House; Or, Under Wode, Under Rode, Vol. 2 (of 2)Captain Harewood was gone. There was a good deal of truth in Wilmet's plea that much pain might have been saved if she had been allowed to abide by her first...

Packing and PortagingAuthor of "The Lure of the Labrador Wild," "The Long Labrador Trail," "Saddle and Camp in the Rockies," "Across the Mexican Sierras," etc. Ordinarily the verb to pack means to stow articles snugly into receptacles, but in the parlance of the trail...

Aus einer kleinen Garnison: Ein militärisches ZeitbildDenn heute war Musikabend, zu welchem sich einmal in der Woche die engeren Freunde des Hauses versammelten, soweit sie musikalisch waren. Diesmal aber hatte man noch einige Familien dazu gebeten, damit sich alle von der erfolgreichen Ttigkeit der...

The Exiles of FalooOverhead a blue sky without a cloud; in the distance the sound of the surfa muffled bass which broke on the tink of the bell at the French Mission or the scream of the parrot on the broad verandah of the...

Forward, Children!Forward, Children! is a gripping anti-war novel. It brings vividly back to life the experience of WWII tank warfare as it was fought and endured by soldiers in the tank corps. The novel is also a story of love in French Ermenonville, where...