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Historical Record of the Fifth Regiment of Foot, or Northumberland Fusiliers - Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1674, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1837The character and credit of the British Army must chiefly depend upon the zeal and...

Malva: KertomusLauhkean tuulen hellt hyvilyt synnyttivt meren pintaan hienon vreen, mihin auringon hikisev loiste heijastui kultaisena kimmeltin kohti taivaan sine. Taivaan ja meren vliseen avaruuteen kaikui laineitten ilakoiva loiske, kun ne viskautuivat hiekkasrkn matalaan rantaan. Tuo laineitten synnyttm omituinen svel auringon loisteessa pilyvn meren...

Captain ChubThat settles that, groaned the captain of the Crimson nine as the long fly settled gracefully into the hands of the Blues left-fielder. The runner who, at the sound of bat meeting ball, had shot away from second base, slowed his pace and...

Early Man in the New WorldIn the twelve years since Early Man in the New World appeared, in 1950, a good deal of archaeological water has passed under the bridgeor over the land-bridge that led the first immigrants into the Americas. Because I had...

The American Missionary — Volume 34, No. 8, August, 1880relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the Corresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields to the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the American Missionary, to Rev. C....

Ameboid movementThe manner of movement common to amebas has attracted the attention of biologists ever since the discovery of ameba by Rsel v. Rosenhof in 1755. In his description of Der kleine Proteus he records the observation that the various form changes which the...

Old Man Savarin Stories: Tales of Canada and CanadiansMy thanks are here due to Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co., N. Y., for liberty to include in this volume sundry stories from "Old Man Savarin"; to the American Baptist Publication Society, Philadelphia, for liberty...

Tableau historique et pittoresque de Paris depuis les Gaulois jusqu'à nos jours (Volume 2/8)Ce quartier est born, l'orient, par les rues Planche-Mibrai, des Arcis et de Saint-Martin exclusivement; au septentrion, par la rue aux Ours aussi exclusivement; l'occident, par la rue Saint-Denis, depuis le...

Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne, Taken from Original SourcesFrom the time of Dean Swift downwards to our own days many Political Histories of the Reign of Queen Anne have been written, but its Social Life we have been left to gather...

A Tour Through Old ProvenceBY A. S. FORREST WITH 108 ILLUSTRATIONS IN HALF-TONE AND LINE DRAWN BY THE AUTHOR LONDON S T A N L E Y P A U L & CO. 31 ESSEX STREET W.C.{4} PRINTED BY HAZELL, WATSON AND VINEY, LD.,...

William Wycherley [Four Plays]William Wycherley was, before Congreve arose to surpass him, the most eminent master of that artificial school of Comedy which commenced with the restoration of Charles II., and which may be said to have perished, in a blaze as of a...

War and the Arme BlancheI have read with the greatest interest Mr. Childerss illuminating book War and the Arme Blanche. My opinion of the subject with which it deals is already so well known throughout the army that I need not labour to say...

Francis Parkman. "One of the convincing tests of genius is the choice of a theme, and no greater felicity can befall it than to find one both familiar and fresh. All the better if tradition, however attenuated, have made it already friendly with our...

Le Coq d'Or (The Golden Cock): An Opera in Three ActsThis book contains the text of the opera both in French and in English. The original presented the two languages on alternating pages. This is impractical to reproduce in an e-text. Instead, the acts...

Kuningatar Hanhenjalan ravintola Alkuperinen, 18:nnen vuosisadan kauniiseen tapaan tekstattu ksikirjoitus kantaa alaotsaketta: Herra apotti Jrme Coignardin elm ja mielipiteet. (Julkaisijan huomautus.) Tarkoitukseni on kertoa elmni ihmeellisist tapauksista. Niiden joukossa on monta kaunista ja monta kummallista. Muistutellessani niit jlleen mieleeni min epilen itse uneksineeni. Olen...

Secrets of the BosphorusBY this time the American people have probably become convinced that the Germans deliberately planned the conquest of the world. Yet they hesitate to convict on circumstantial evidence, and for this reason all eye-witnesses to this, the greatest crime in modern...

For the DefenceLaurence Jen was a retired major, a bachelor, and the proprietor of a small estate at Hurstleigh, in Surrey. On leaving the service, he decided--not unwisely--that it was better to be a Triton in the country than a minnow in town; and...

Rund um Süd-Amerika: ReisebriefeDie vorliegenden Briefe erschienen whrend meiner Reise vom Dezember 1912 bis zum Juli 1913 in der Moskauer Deutschen Zeitung. Auf wissenschaftliche Grndlichkeit, oder Vollstndigkeit in irgend einer Beziehung knnen sie nicht die geringsten Ansprche erheben. Trotzdem habe ich mich entschlossen, sie...

The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 47, May 22, 1841A merry morning to Father Connellan! Well, I dare north, south, east, and west, of our sweet county of Wexford, to produce such another comfortable domicile as this of your reverence; and the proof...

The Gentleman Who Vanished: A Psychological Phantasy'Tis ill to tamper with the unseen world Lest those habitate the sphere's invisible Should make us sport for their ironic jeers, And by some trick beyond the thought of man Entangle all the issues of our lives....