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Julia France and Her Times: A NovelThe entrance of a British cruiser into the harbor of St. Kitts was always followed by a ball at Government House in the little capital of Basse Terre. To-night there was a squadron of three at anchor; therefore...

The Man with the Iron HandLet us picture in imagination the history of the Great Valley of the Mississippi as a splendid drama enacted upon a giant stage which reaches from the Alleghanies to the Rockies and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf...

Marion: The Story of an Artist's ModelCONTENTS: Chapter I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI, XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX, XXX, XXXI, XXXII, XXXIII, XXXIV, XXXV, XXXVI,...

Dictionnaire critique et raisonné du langage vicieux ou réputé vicieuxIl ne faut quun mauvais mot pour se faire mpriser dans une compagnie, pour dcrier un prdicateur, un avocat, un crivain. Un mauvais mot, parce quil est ais remarquer, est capable de faire plus de...

The Pirate of Jasper PeakThe long Pullman train, an hour late and greatly begrudging the time for a special stop, came sliding into the tiny station of Rudolm and deposited a solitary passenger upon the platform. The porter set Hugh Arnolds suitcase on the...

The Boy's Hakluyt: English Voyages of Adventure and DiscoveryThis account of Richard Hakluyt and his narratives of English exploration and adventure, from the earliest records to the establishment of the English colonies in North America, has been prepared at the instance of Edwin D....

Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Volume 62. THE F.O.B. A Comedy in the Latin manner and partly translated from Terence. By Robert Bridges. Published by Geo. Bell & Sons, Covent Garden, and J. & E. Bumpus, Lim., Holborn Bars. 4to. [1894.] The scene is...

Die Ammen-Uhr: Aus des Knaben WunderhornDieses bescheidenen Bchleins Geschick gleicht wohl dem jenes Bootes, von dem man als einer Nuschale spricht, so hinauseilt aufs strmende Meer und zwischen hochgehenden Wogen talauf und talab geschleudert wird. Und es verschwindet am Ende gar neben den dickbauchigen,...

The Romance of Wills and TestamentsBy way of preface it is necessary to explain the sources from which the material for the following pages is taken. The chief feature of these essays consists, I think, in the large amount of original matter rescued from...

Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social EvolutionThis book is written to offer a simple and natural explanation of one of the most common and most perplexing problems of human life,a problem...

A Class Room Logic - Deductive and Inductive, with Special Application to the Science and Art of Teaching This treatise is an outgrowth of our class room work in logic. It has been published in the hope of removing some of the difficulties which...

Outlines of Jewish History from B.C. 586 to C.E. 1885 THESE Outlines of Jewish History are the result of a proposal which was made to me, some two years back, by the administrators of the Jacob Franklin Trust, to write a book which should...

Running Free COPYRIGHT, 1913, 1915, 1917, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Published September, 1917 COPYRIGHT, 1912, 1913, 1917, BY P. F. COLLIER & SON, INCORPORATED COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY I arrived in Santacruz in the early evening, and as I stepped out...

Ssanin: Roman Der Vertrag ber die deutsche Ausgabe des Ssanin wurde im Frhjahre 1908 abgeschlossen. Der Name des Verfassers dieses Romanes, der in Ruland, wie es in der Vorrede des Mitbersetzers Andr Villard des nheren ausgefhrt ist, ein so kolossales Aufsehen erregte, war damals...

Bumper the White Rabbit in the WoodsAll little boys and girls who love animals should become acquainted with Bumper the white rabbit, with Bobby Gray Squirrel, with Buster the bear, and with White Tail the deer, for they are all a jolly lot, brave...

Seventeen trips through Somáliland - A record of exploration & big game shooting, 1885 to 1893Somliland, the new British Protectorate, is in some respects one of the most interesting regions of the African Continent. In the present daily life of its natives we have...

Wild Life at the Land's End - Observations of the Habits and Haunts of the Fox, Badger, Otter, Seal, Hare and of Their Pursuers in CornwallThe sports described have led me to some of the wildest and weirdest spots of West Cornwall. There are...

Adventures in Holland and at Waterloo; and Expedition to PortugalAbout thirty-three years ago, Thomas Knight (the author of this work) published a very interesting account of his adventures. A few members of the Stock Exchange bore the principal portion of the expense of printing...

The Doom of LondonThe editor of The Daily Chat wondered a little vaguely why he had come down to the office at all. Here was the thermometer down to 11 with every prospect of touching zero before daybreak, and you can't fill a morning...

Soldiers and Sailors - or, Anecdotes, Details, and Recollections of Naval and Military Life, as Related to His Nephews, by an Old Officer.Soldiers and Sailors.Recruiting Sergeant, Officer and Jack-tar.Generals and Admirals.Which is the braver, the Red Coat or the Blue Jacket?Cavalry and Infantry.Engineers, Artillery,...