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Practical AgitationThis book is an attempt to follow the track of personal influence across society. The first three chapters are taken up with discussions of political reform, the fourth chapter with contemporary journalism. The results of these discussions are then summarized in the chapters...

Augustus: The Life and Times of the Founder of the Roman EmpireAugustus has been much less attractive to biographers than Iulius; perhaps because the soldier is more interesting than the statesman; perhaps because the note of genius conspicuous in the Uncle was wanting in...

Export CommodityThree of the hairless bipeds stood in front of the frame building talking. Concealed by the brush beyond the road, Henig studied them carefully. These were the dominant species on this primitive world, unspeakably grotesque things. The pale, white skinned animals had a...

Story of the automobile: Its history and development from 1760 to 1917 - With an analysis of the standing and prospects of the automobile industryWhat did Benjamin Franklin have to do with the automobile? a great many readers of this book will ask. Benjamin...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 48, Vol. I, November 29, 1884In Memory of Theodore. Died November the 20th, 18, aged three years, I am not going to tell you about the tragedy this little life represented, and how...

Sarah of the Sahara: A Romance of Nomads LandLong, long after their echoes have died away the cries of my desert men ring on my ears. Still do I see myself as, in a cloud of dust, at the head of my band of...

Der Fall Vukobrankovics Am 28. Oktober 1918 begann der erste Proze gegen die 24jhrige Brgerschullehrerin Milica Vukobrankovics de Vuko et Branko vor den Wiener Geschworenen. Die Angeklagte war beschuldigt, in der Familie des Landesschulinspektors Rudolf Piffl den Speisen Arsenik beigemengt und eine Phosphorpille angefertigt...

A babonák könyveMert a romlatlan npben minden jra meg van a hajlam; csak legyen, aki elmjt a mvelds al megmunklja; s megszabadtja lelkt s kedlyt az elfogultsgtl, az elitletektl s egyb szz fajta burjntl, melyek szivben minden nemes helyet elfoglalva tartanak. Ezen tudattl volt...

At the Queen’s MercyNevertheless, something within me spurs me onward; for, to tell the truth, I am loath to die leaving no record of the sights that I have seen; sights to brand the memory and stir the blood, and doings to turn one...

A Point of TestimonyBert Bayliss was the funniest detective you ever saw. He wasnt the least like Vidocq, Lecoq or Sherlock, either in personality or mentality. And perhaps the chief difference lay in the fact that he possessed a sense of humor, and that...

Short Story-Writing: An Art or a Trade?Moods may be uncomfortable, and sad, and painfully disturbing, but, on the other hand, they make pleasant music occasionally. Here I sit in the dusk, looking out into the street that is ordinarily so familiar to me, but...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 47, Vol. I, November 22, 1884Considering the world-wide reputation of the Bank of England, it is remarkable how little is generally known as to its internal working. Standing in the very heart of...

Historical Record of the Thirty-sixth, or the Herefordshire Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1701, and of its subsequent services to 1852The natives of Britain have, at all periods, been celebrated for innate courage and unshaken firmness,...

Early Carriages and RoadsOnly some three hundred and fifty years have elapsed since wheeled conveyances for passengers came into use in England; but, once introduced, they rapidly found favour with all classes of society, more especially in cities. The progress of road-making and that...

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian StoriesThe stories in this book deal with peoples of widely different surroundings and habitsome with dwellers on the sea-shore, whose skies are often obscured by rain and fog, who draw their living from the sea, and...

Monumentum Ancyranum: The Deeds of AugustusSuetonius in his Life of Augustus tells us that that Emperor had placed in charge of the Vestal virgins his will and three other sealed documents; and the four papers were produced and read in the senate immediately after...

Lord Lister No. 0004: De millioenenschat in de DoodkistCharly Brand, de vriend, of, zooals hij genoemd werd, de secretaris van den lord, had zich schijnbaar geheel verdiept in de Nowoje Wremja, doch in werkelijkheid luisterde hij echter ook naar zijn buren. Maar Charly kende...

Nem én kiáltokMost, hogy kidobom magambl ezeket az rsokat, kvetel, res tr marad bennem j, szebb, szeretbb csillagzatok utn. Hegyre kell menjen az, aki a vilgokat term frl szaktani akar. S n rzem, hogy hegy n alattam, de bizonyos is, hogy hegy n azalatt,...

The Last Duchess of BelgardeIN the great, green old garden of Madame, the Countess of Floramour, sat her granddaughter, little Mademoiselle Trimousette, wondering when she was to be married and to whom. Such an enterprise was afoot, and even then being arranged, but nobody,...

La metamorfosis, o, El asno de oroEl arcediano de Sevilla Diego Lpez de Cortegana, escriba a fines del siglo XV, al frente de su traduccin de El asno de oro, las siguientes noticias biogrficas del autor de esta novela latina: Lucio Apuleyo, de noble...