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Trout Flies of Devon and Cornwall, and When and How to Use ThemIt will be remarked that the Flies furnished by the makers, do not, in all cases, exhibit the same tints as those shown in the drawings; this arises from the difficulty of...

It Takes a Thief"The ancient gods, our Fathers, rode down from the heavens in the Firebirds of the Sun. Coming into the world, they found no air for the breath of their souls. "How shall we breathe?" they asked of the Sun. And Sun...

WestminsterThese papers in their original form first appeared in the Pall Mall Magazine. Additions have been made in some of the chapters, especially in the three chapters entitled The Abbey. As in the book entitled London, of which this is the successor, I do...

The Holyhead Road: The Mail-coach Road to Dublin. Vol. 1The olden days of travelling, now to return no more, in which distance could not be vanquished without toilthose are the days mourned by Ruskin, who had little better acquaintance with them than afforded by...

Dreamer's WorldIt seemed incredible that a man who had advanced to Stage Five in the Dream Continuity Scale, and who had been in anesthesia most of the time, could suffer seventy-two hours of boring, drab, dreary and revolting reality. And still be sane. She...

History of Central America, Volume 2, 1530-1800 - The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 7 Other archaic letter substitutions include "b" for "v" and "i" for "y" and vice versa. These have been left as printed. Origin and Character of the ConquerorThe Triumvirate...

Stage-coach and Mail in Days of Yore, Volume 2 (of 2) - A picturesque history of the coaching ageThe Bristol Mail opened the mail-coach era by going at eight miles an hour, but that was an altogether exceptional speed, and the average mail-coach journeys...

Stage-coach and Mail in Days of Yore, Volume 1 (of 2) - A picturesque history of the coaching ageThe lines quoted above are not remarkably good as poetry. Nay, it is possible to go farther, and to say that they are exceptionally badthe product...

Riceyman Steps: A Novel Lilian Mr. Prohack The Roll-Call The Pretty Lady The Lion's Share These Twain Clayhanger Hilda Lessways The Old Wives' Tale Denry the Audacious The Old Adam The Matador of the Five Towns Helen with the High Hand The Gates of...

The Parthenon at Athens, Greece and at Nashville, TennesseeWhose intelligent and untiring interest made possible the reproduction of the Parthenon at Nashville; in memory of those who are gone, and in appreciation of those who are living, this booklet is gratefully dedicated The Parthenon...

My RubaiyatI will drop the mask and tell you the secret of my verses. You say they impress you as being uneven and unfinished. I heartily agree with you. As I have stated in my announcement to the public, a poem of the scope...

The Housekeeper's Valuable Present; Or, Lady's Closet Companion - Being a New and Complete Art of Preparing Confects, According to Modern PracticeDURING the course of my apprenticeship with Messrs. Negri and Gunter, in Berkeley Square, many housekeepers to noblemen and gentlemen, on special occasions,...

Gloves, Past and PresentMost men, apparently, take their gloves for granted. In these days the little refinements of civilization are accepted among us without a thought; but in so doing we lose a great deal of enjoyment which we never were intended to overlook....

Histoire de la caricature au moyen âge et sous la renaissanceA dire vrai, j'aurais mauvaise grce me plaindre du manque de sympathie des esprits srieux pour cette srie commence dj depuis longtemps; cependant il est bon de rpondre un honorable membre de l'Universit, mu...

Pussy and Her LanguageWhen, in the fable, that humorous progenitor of the human species, according to that slicker, slyer and still more humorous, practical joker, Darwin, the monkey, cast about him in a sudden emergency for some useful utensil adequate to the purpose of...

Resurrection SevenThe seventh tub shook gently, stimulating the hypothalamic region of Eric's brain for the first time in almost two centuries. After a time, his limbs trembled and his body began to shiver. The liquid in which he floated boiled off at a temperature...

History of Central America, Volume 1, 1501-1530 - The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 6 General ViewTransition from the Old to the New CivilizationHistorical Sketch of SpainSpanish CharacterSpanish SocietyProminent Features of the AgeDomestic MattersThe New WorldComparative Civilizations and SavagismsEarliest Voyages of Discovery. How...

A Little Colored Boy, and Other StoriesBosh! you women folks are so everlastingly simple and silly that you encourage the boy in his mischief; and Farmer Warner set down the milk pail with such a thud that the milk slopped over into the sauce...

The Child in Human ProgressTHE introduction of Dr. Jacobi has saved the author from the onerous task, ofttimes a graceless one, of writing extended prefatory remarks. It was in the course of some researches into the origin of the Child Protection movement in this...

Tales from the Gesta RomanorumYou have here, my good friends, sundry moral and entertaining stories, invented by the monks of old, and used by them for amusement, as well as for instruction; from which the most celebrated poets, of our own and other lands,...