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The Fiction Factory - Being the experience of a writer who, for twenty-two years, has kept a story-mill grinding successfullyIt was in 1893 that John Milton Edwards (who sets his hand to this book of experiences and prefers using the third person to overworking...

Egoists, A Book of Supermen - Stendhal, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Anatole France, Huysmans, Barrès, Nietzsche, Blake, Ibsen, Stirner, and Ernest HelloThe fanciful notion that psychical delicacy is accompanied by a corresponding physical exterior should have received a death-blow in the presence of Henry Beyle, better...

Matkakertomuksia Karjalan kankahiltaLhdemme saattomiest tiedustelemaan. Tapaamme kolme miest venett rantaan vetmss, ovat juuri kalalta tulleet. Eivt halua lhte saattamaan eivtk uskallakkaan pienoisella veneelln yritt tuimaan tuuleen. Tulee rantaa kohden toinen vene. Siin ukko ja akka istuvat Pyydmme taas saattomiest. Ei halua ukko lhte, akka...

The Panama CanalOf all subjects now occupying the attention of the world at large, and of importance not only to the State of California, but to all the territory west of the Rocky mountains and the islands and coasts of the Pacific Ocean, over...

The Putnam Hall Rebellion; or, The Rival RunawaysMy Dear Boys: This story is complete in itself, but forms the fourth in a line known under the general title of Putnam Hall Series. As I have said before, this series was started at the request...

The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of natural history and rural life (Illustrated)THOSE who delight in roaming about amongst the fields and lanes, or have spent any time in a country house, can hardly have failed to notice the custodian of the woods and covers,...

South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 8 (of 8) - South Africa and Its FutureEveryone who has followed the story of the War in South Africa from start to finish will assuredly have acquired a keen and lasting interest in the land which...

Harvey's Views on the Use of the Circulation of the BloodThe writings of William Harvey, as published by him, and the letters published as part of his works, are all in Latin. The passages from Harvey's works which appear in English in the present...

Essay on the Life and Institutions of Offa, King of Mercia, A.D. 755-794The following Essay, hastily prepared, andthough some time has elapsed since its compositionnow hastily corrected for the press, was successful during the year 1836 in gaining an honorary premium, established by William...

Ceremonies of the Pomo IndiansIt has been at least twenty years since the last of the Pomo ceremonies was held in a truly aboriginal fashion. Elaborate ceremonies of a more recently introduced "Messiah" cult were held as late as perhaps fifteen years ago, but...

Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the WorldThe two arch enemies of happiness and prosperity are the Devil and the Grafter. The church is fighting the Devil, the law is fighting the Grafter. The great mass of human beings, as they...

The Gastronomic Regenerator: A Simplified and Entirely New System of Cookery - With Nearly Two Thousand Practical Receipts Suited to the Income of All ClassesTHE sale of three editions of the Gastronomic Regenerator in less than nine months, is so gratifying to my feelings,...

HennerThere is no one who has not chanced, sooner or later, to pass the window of some picture dealer and find himself irresistibly attracted by a canvas forming a patch of fluid gold, a luminous vapour bathing the white body of a woman, white...

ParodieënHet was dien morgen een ochtend van ideale schoonheid en atmosfeer. De keizerlijke Villa lijnde zich uit als een droom van marmor, als een eindeloos uitgemeten stuk groen biljartlaken spreiddede zich het grasveld, als een architecturale fabula volgden porticos op porticos, schakelden nymfea zich...

Miten Uli-renki tulee onnelliseksi: Romaani1. Isnt her; renki tekee tyhmyyksi. 2. Kirkas sunnuntai kauniissa talonpoikaistalossa. 3. Pieni kouluutus iseen aikaan. 4. Miten huono tytt avaa rengin korvat hyvn isnnn sanoille. 5. Sitten tulee vihamies ja kylv ohdakkeita nisuun. 6. Miten pallopeli pelastaa Ulin ohdakkeista....

Der Weltuntergang: Eine Phantasie aus dem Jahre 1900 Es war im Sptsommer des Jahres 1899. Als ob das sterbende Jahrhundert allen brigen noch in letzter Stunde den Rang ablaufen wollte, hatten sich die Ereignisse in den Neunziger-Jahren in fieberhafter Hast gejagt. Das Flugproblem war...

The New Glutton or EpicureSince the former introductions were written much success has been attained in further advancing the reforms advocated in the A. B. C. Life Series. Professor Chittenden has published his report on the Yale experiments in book form in both America[1]...

Elementary Instruction in the Art of Illuminating and Missal Painting on Vellum - A Guide to Modern Illuminators THE beautiful "Art of Illuminating," which sprang up with the early dawn of Christianity, and attained its highest perfection in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, owes...

East-West Trade Trends - Mutual Defense Assistance Control Act of 1951 (the Battle Act); Fourth Report to Congress, Second Half of 1953 Note on Strategic and Nonstrategic To help protect the security of the free world, the United States and certain other countries have...

The American Journal of Science and Arts, Volume 50 (First Series) - General Index to Forty-Nine VolumesThe project of the American Journal of Science and Arts was first suggested by Col. Gibbs, in November, 1817, during an accidental interview on board the steamboat Fulton...