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Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera; Or, Thrilling Adventures While Taking Moving Pictures "Who is it, Koku?" inquired Tom, looking up from his work-bench in the machine shop, where he was busy over a part of the motor for his new noiseless airship. "Any...

Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers; Or, The Secret of Phantom Mountain Well, Tom Swift, I don't believe you will make any mistake if you buy that diamond, said the jeweler to a young man who was inspecting a tray of pins, set with...

Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship; Or, The Naval Terror of the Seas Ned Newton, the chum and companion of Tom Swift, gave vent to a whistle of surprise, as he gazed at the young fellow sitting opposite him, near a bench covered with...

Spoon River Anthology MCumber, Daniel McDowell, Rutherford McFarlane, Widow McGee, Fletcher McGee, Ollie MGrew, Jennie MGrew, Mickey McGuire, Jack McNeely, Mary McNeely, Paul McNeely, Washington Malloy, Father Marsh, Zilpha Marshal, The Town Marshall, Herbert Mason, Serepta Matheny, Faith Matlock, Davis Matlock, Lucinda Melveny, Abel...

Poems and Songs of Robert Burns Robert Burns was born near Ayr, Scotland, 25th of January, 1759. He was the son of William Burnes, or Burness, at the time of the poet's birth a nurseryman on the banks of the Doon in Ayrshire. His...

Penelope's English Experiences - Being Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton Here we are in London again,Francesca, Salemina, and I. Salemina is a philanthropist of the Boston philanthropists limited. I am an artist. Francesca is It is very difficult to label Francesca....

Melmoth Reconciled There is a special variety of human nature obtained in the Social Kingdom by a process analogous to that of the gardeners craft in the Vegetable Kingdom, to wit, by the forcing-housea species of hybrid which can be raised neither from seed...

The Rhythm of Life, and Other EssaysThe Rhythm of Life Decivilised A Remembrance The Sun The Flower Unstable Equilibrium The Unit of the World By the Railway Side Pocket Vocabularies Pathos The Point of Honour Composure Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes James Russell Lowell Domus...

Alexandria and Her Schools - Four Lectures Delivered at the Philosophical Institution, EdinburghI should not have presumed to choose for any lectures of mine such a subject as that which I have tried to treat in this book. The subject was chosen by the...

Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger MARTIN HYDE CHAPTER I. I LEAVE HOME CHAPTER II. I LEAVE HOME AGAIN CHAPTER III. I LEAVE HOME A THIRD TIME CHAPTER IV. I LEAVE HOME FOR THE LAST TIME CHAPTER V. I GO TO SEA CHAPTER VI. THE...

The Autobiography of a SlanderAt last the tea came up, and so With that our tongues began to go. Now in that house youre sure of knowing The smallest scrap of news thats going. We find it there the wisest way To take some...

The Riddle of the Rhine: Chemical Strategy in Peace and WarPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove...

Bygone Beliefs: Being a Series of Excursions in the Byways of Thought THESE Excursions in the Byways of Thought were undertaken at different times and on different occasions; consequently, the reader may be able to detect in them inequalities of treatment. He may feel...

In Defense of Women As a professional critic of life and letters, my principal business in the world is that of manufacturing platitudes for tomorrow, which is to say, ideas so novel that they will be instantly rejected as insane and outrageous by all...

The Soul of a Bishop IT was a scene of bitter disputation. A hawk-nosed young man with a pointing finger was prominent. His face worked violently, his lips moved very rapidly, but what he said was inaudible. Behind him the little rufous man with...

The Mysterious Island Are we rising again? No. On the contrary. Are we descending? Worse than that, captain! we are falling! For Heavens sake heave out the ballast! There! the last sack is empty! Does the balloon rise? No! I hear a noise like...

Kai Lung's Golden Hours Homo faber. Man is born to make. His business is to construct: to plan: to carry out the plan: to fit together, and to produce a finished thing. That human art in which it is most difficult to achieve this...

Lavender and Old Lace A rickety carriage was slowly ascending the hill, and from the place of honour on the back seat, the single passenger surveyed the country with interest and admiration. The driver of that ancient chariot was an awkward young fellow, possibly...

Queen Victoria On November 6, 1817, died the Princess Charlotte, only child of the Prince Regent, and heir to the crown of England. Her short life had hardly been a happy one. By nature impulsive, capricious, and vehement, she had always longed for liberty;...

The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll If you (presuming you are of the sex that does such things)if you had gone into the Drapery Emporiumwhich is really only magnificent for shopof Messrs. Antrobus & Co.a perfectly fictitious Co., by the byeof Putney, on...