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To Sup With the DevilThe two men sat across from each other in soft leather chairs. Flames from the fireplace before them licked upward and shadows danced on walls and ceiling. The corners were in complete darkness. "Oh yes," Henry nodded, setting his goblet...

A Prose English Translation of Vishnupuranam - (Based on Professor H. H. Wilson’s translation.)That Purna in which Parsara, beginning with the events of Varha Kalpa, expounds all duties, is called Vaishnava and is said to consist of twenty-three thousand stanzas. But the actual number...

The Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society (Vol. VII)I take great pleasure in here presenting Volume VII of the Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society. It is hoped the book will be found equal, in point of general interest, to those preceding it and...

Frank Reade, Jr., With His New Steam Man in Central AmericaWell, that is strange, exclaimed Frank Reade, Jr., with a whistle of surprise. I am positive that is my old friend, Buckden, whom I knew at college. Upon my word, this breaks me all...

Literary Pilgrimages of a NaturalistDown in Marshfield early morning brings to the roadside troops of blue-eyed chicory blooms, shy memories of fair Pilgrim children who once trod these ways. They do not stay long with the wanderer, these early morning blooms. The turmoil and...

The Cyclopedia of the Colored Baptists of Alabama: Their Leaders and Their WorkIn turning to the subject under consideration it seems fitting that we should first review those facts and events which gave us our denominational existence. Such a course, it seems to the...

Death-Dealer, the Shawnee Scourge; or The Wizard of the CliffsThe former would have thought that he had stumbled upon a veritable What-Is-It?; while the latter would have declared that he had at last found the long-looked-for connecting link between the human and brute creation....

A Queen of Nine Days It has been laid upon me as a very solemn duty by the late Lady Jane Dudley, or Grey as she is usually called, to whom I owe obedience and fealty born of love, which is all the more...

The Life and Works of Joseph Wright, A.R.A., commonly called "Wright of Derby"THE name of Joseph Wright, of Derby, once of high repute among English Artists, has, during the last half-century and more, sunk, altogether undeservedly, into a state of semi-oblivion. The Exhibition at...

Bevezetés a filozófiábaFilozfia az a gondolkod munka, melyet az ember azrt vllal, hogy a mindennapi lettapasztalatot s a tudomnyos kutats eredmnyeit egysges s ellenmonds nlkli vilgnzett egyestse, amely alkalmas arra, hogy az rtelem szksgleteit s a kedly kvetelmnyeit kielgtse. Minden filozoflsnak kzs clja kezdettl...

Notes and Queries, Number 205, October 1, 1853 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.So sung old Thomas Weelkes in the year 1608, and so echo we in the year 1853! What with "spirit-rapping," "table-moving," "Chelsea ghosts," "Aztec children,"...

Notes and Queries, Number 200, August 27, 1853 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.For the following list of the English, Irish, and Scotch knights of the Order of St. John, who are mentioned in the records of this...

Notes and Queries, Number 199, August 20, 1853 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc."Negotiis pares."] An expression of Tacitus. In Ann. vi. 39., he says of Poppus Sabinus: "Maximis provinciis per quatuor et viginti annos impositus; nullam ob...

The Enchanted CrusadeJust as daybreak burst over the rim of the desert, the dying man heard the crunch of horses' hooves on sand. He lifted his head and croaked as loudly as collapsing lungs would let him, saying thrice over, "In the name of...

South Sea YarnsIn the great bure of Raiyawa there was a story-telling. The lying-places filled three sides of the housemats spread upon grass four feet wide,and between each lying-place was a narrow strip of bare earth sprinkled with wood-ashes, on which three logs, nose...

The Wright BrothersOn December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the first power-driven heavier-than-air machine ever to achieve sustained flight rose from its starting track and in 12 seconds soared through the air for a distance of 120 feet. Short as this flight...

The Phantom Rider; or The Giant Chief's Fate: A tale of the old Dahcotah countryIt was a bleak, windy day in November. The shrill blasts wailed through the forest trees like the last despairing cry of a lost spirit, and gust after gust beat...

The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A psychological interpretation of mythologyThe prominent civilized nations, such as the Babylonians, Egyptians, Hebrews, and Hindoos, the inhabitants of Iran and of Persia, the Greeks and the Romans as well as the Teutons and others, all...

Barren GroundPart FirstBroomsedge Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII Chapter IX Chapter X Chapter XI Chapter XII Chapter XIII Chapter XIV Chapter XV Chapter XVI Part SecondPine Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter...

The Antelope Boy; or, Smoholler the Medicine Man - A Tale of Indian Adventure and MysteryThis party consisted of the two surveyorsOwen Blaikie, a bluff, middle-aged Scotchman, long since naturalized to this country, and Cyrus Robbins, a shrewd young Yankee, twelve United States soldiers...