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The Shogun's DaughterMy first cruise as a midshipman in the navy of the United States began a short month too late for me to share in the honors of the Mexican War. In other words, I came in at the foot of the service,...

Women's Suffrage: A Short History of a Great MovementMary Wollstonecraft[1] started the demand of women for political liberty in England, Condorcet in France,[2] and the heroic group of anti-slavery agitators in the United States. It is true that Horace Walpole called Mary Wollstonecraft "a...

Across the Andes - A Tale of Wandering Days Among the Mountains of Bolivia and the Jungles of the Upper AmazonThanks are due to Harper and Brothers and to the Century Company for permission to incorporate as chapters in this volume, articles appearing in...

Psychological WarfareThe present edition of this work has been modified to meet the needs of the readers of the mid-1950s. The material in the first edition following page 244 has been removed; it consisted of a chapter hopefully called "Psychological Warfare and Disarmament." A...

Fall and Holiday Trade, Season 1900-1901, Nerlich & Co. Illustrated CatalogueWe take pleasure in submitting herewith our Fall and Holiday Trade Catalogue for the Season of 1900-1901. In compiling this list we have endeavored to include as large a portion of our immense range...

Harper's Young People, August 9, 1881 - An Illustrated Weekly You youngsters who haven't heard of Picnic Sam, Just huddle up around here where I am, And listen sharp while memory wanders to him, And brings out what he seemed like when I knew...

Le vergini: commedia in quattro atti Salotto in casa di Delfina. Porte ai lati e al fondo. Sul davanti, a destra una tavola e due poltrone, a sinistra un divano. In fondo, in un angolo, il pianoforte coi lumi accesi. Sulla tavola pure una...

The Orphan's Home Mittens, and George's Account of the Battle of Roanoke Island - Being the Sixth and Last Book of the SeriesIt was now the second week in January, 1862. One evening, Aunt Fanny came to see the children. In an instant, she...

De complete werken van Joost van Vondel. Vorstelijke warande der dierenDe treffelijkheid en nuttigheid der fabelen, verstandige lezer! is zoo groot, dat ze met geene woorden kan uitgedrukt noch beschreven worden; 't welk alsins door hem zelven[3] klaar is: want onder de zelven let...

Birds and Nature, Vol. 08, No. 5, December 1900 - Illustrated by Color PhotographyAmong the birds of prey (Raptores) none are better known, more written about or more cosmopolitan than that nocturnal division (Family Strigidae), which includes the two hundred or more species of...

The Russian Story Book - Containing tales from the song-cycles of Kiev and Novgorod and other early sourcesI have gone right into the heart of Holy Russia, to Kiev and Novgorod and the borders of the Caspian, in an endeavour to show by means...

The Daughters of the Little Grey HouseShe was sitting before the ancient mahogany dressing-table in herand Wythie'sroom, unblushingly regarding herself in the mirror, while the fingers of both hands, supporting her brilliant face, experimented with changes in it by pushing up the delicate eyebrows...

We and Our Neighbors; or, The Records of an Unfashionable Street"You don't say so!" said Miss Dorcas, her elder sister, flying across the room to the window blinds, behind which Mrs. Betsey sat discreetly ensconced with her knitting work. "Where? Jack, get down, sir!"...

The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles.Some portions of this book have already appeared in print. Of these, the most important is the catalogue raisonn of early Norman castles in England which will be found in Chapter VII., and which was originally published...

Album für Freunde des Bergbaues, - enthaltend eine Folge von vierzehn bildlichen Darstellungen aus dem Berufsleben des Berg- und Hüttenmannes.enthaltend eine Folge von vierzehn bildlichen Darstellungen aus dem Berufsleben des Berg- und Httenmannes. Entworfen und nach der Natur gezeichnet von Eduard Heuchler, Professor der...

Vita di Guarino VeroneseVita di Guarino Veronese Primi anni e primi studi di Guarino Guarino a Costantinopoli Guarino a Firenze Guarino a Venezia Guarino a Verona Guarino a Ferrara Primo quinquennio Guarino a Ferrara Secondo quinquennio Guarino a Ferrara Ultimo ventennio Indice dei nomi...

Norma Kent of the WACSShish, she managed to whisper. Then all was silent where, row on row, fifty girls were sleeping. Fifty! And Norma had spoken to barely half a dozen of them! It was all very strange. Strange and exciting. Yes, it had...

Sun, Sand and Somals - Leaves from the note-book of a District Commissioner in British SomalilandAfrica is gradually becoming so civilised that there are few places left where the adventurer (the man who holds a human life as cheaply as the sportsman holds that...

Harper's Young People, August 2, 1881 - An Illustrated Weekly"'STRAYED.A boy from the home of the subscriber; and any one returning him will be suitably rewarded. Said boy is about eleven years old, has short light hair, a turned-up[Pg 626] nose, and face very...

Take It from Dad"Yes," to the first, and, "I can but I won't" to the second. I didn't send you to Exeter to have you leave in a week; and as for the factory, I guess it can stagger along a couple of years...