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The ProtectorThere is nobody real surprised when some scientist writes an article in the Sunday supplement about the primitive tribes of Anestha dying out probably. The Anesthon natives is freaks, anyway, and folks just naturally figure they can't last long in stiff competition. If...

JaywalkerAt last she was on the gangplank, entering the mouth of the spaceshipand nothing could ever stop her now. Not unless she broke down completely in front of all these hurrying, Moon-bound passengers, in plain sight of the scattered crowd which clustered on the...

Germany's Fighting Machine - Her Army, her Navy, her Air-ships and Why She Arrayed Them Against the Allied Powers of EuropeBut a few weeks ago the author of this little book was in Germany studying the land and its institutions and full of admiration...

Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 20 (of 20)MR. PRESIDENT,Before the vote is taken I desire to make one remark. I was struck with the suggestion of the Senator from Ohio [Mr. Sherman], the other day, with regard to the proposition which comes from...

The Diggers: The Australians in FranceFrom the day on which The Children of the Dead End came into my hands, I have been amongst the most devoted of your worshippers. In this and in your later books, your genius has won world-wide recognition, and...

Le musée du Louvre, tome 1 (of 2)NOTRE tonnement est toujours aussi grand, en parcourant notre admirable muse du Louvre, de le voir si peu frquent. Trop souvent le bruit des pas y rsonne comme en un temple sans fidles. Dans ce merveilleux sanctuaire...

BrittanyBrittany can hardly claim the attention of the tourist as a superlatively beautiful country. The way in which trees are clipped and tortured out of shape disfigures the sylvan landscape; and of mountain scenery there is none. The ranges of the Montaignes Noires and...

The Geological History of PlantsFORMS OF WATER: A Familiar Exposition of the Origin and Phenomena of Glaciers. By J. Tyndall, LL. D., F. R. S. With 25 Illustrations. $1.50. PHYSICS AND POLITICS; Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of Natural Selection and...

La Biblia en España, Tomo II (de 3) - O viajes, aventuras y prisiones de un inglés en su intento de difundir las Escrituras por la Península Llegada a Madrid. Mara Daz. Impresin del Testamento. Mi proyecto. El corcel andaluz. Se necesita un criado....

La Biblia en España, Tomo I (de 3) - O viajes, aventuras y prisiones de un inglés en su intento de difundir las Escrituras por la PenínsulaToms Borrow, de familia de labradores establecida desde muy antiguo cerca de Liskeard, en Cornwall, se fug de...

Three Days in the Village, and Other Sketches. - Written from September 1909 to July 1910.Something entirely new, unseen and unheard-of formerly, has lately shown itself in our country districts. To our village, consisting of eighty homesteads, from half a dozen to a dozen...

Anecdotes of the Learned Pig - With Notes, Critical and Explanatory, and Illustrations from Bozzy, Piozzi &c. &c.THE Editor is indebted to mere accident for his acquaintance with the following prightly performance; and, as it eemed to have been the Authors intention to have...

The Pipes of War - A Record of Achievements of Pipers of Scottish and Overseas Regiments during the War, 1914-18The history of the bagpipes as a military institution is a long and honourable one, inseparable from that of Scottish troops, Highland and Lowland, wherever...

Moral Poison in Modern FictionI have not systematically searched modern fiction to illustrate or support the arguments of this book. Every novel quoted, or even mentioned, has come before me in the day's work, as a reviewer. It is scarcely necessary to add that...

Le père humilié: Drame en quatre actesLa scne est Rome, le jour de la fte de Saint Pie, le 5 mai 1869, qui est aussi l'anniversaire de la mort de Napolon. Fte travestie dans les jardins de la Villa Wronsky d'o l'ont domine toute...

Le pain dur: Drame en trois actesDans ce drame, qui a, comme partie de son sujet la Rupture des barrires et la Rencontre des races, des Juifs ne pouvaient pas ne pas figurer. C'est eux peut-tre que ce cong de leur antique assujettissement rituel...

L'otage: Drame en trois actesL'Abbaye des moines Cisterciens de COUFONTAINE achete par SYGNE. Au premier tage la bibliothque: c'est une grande et haute pice, claire par quatre fentres sans rideaux, aux petits carreaux verdtres. Au fond, entre deux hautes portes, sur le mur blanchi...

The Ghost Camp; or, the AvengersA wild and desolate land; dreary, even savage, to the unaccustomed eye. Forest-clothed hills towering above the faint, narrow track leading eastward, along which a man had been leading a tired horse; he was now resting against a granite...

The Novel; what it isMY answer can only be a statement of opinion, which I make with much deference to the prejudices of my brethren. Whether it will be of interest to general readers I do not know; but the question I propose is...

Picture BrideMy brother, Perry, always was a bit cracked. As a kid, he almost blew up our house doing experiments. When he was eighteen, he wrote poetry, but fortunately that didn't last long and he went back to science. She wasn't bad. Not bad...