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Legends: Autobiographical SketchesHunted by the furies, I found myself finally in December 1896 fixed fast in the little university town Lund, in Sweden. A conglomeration of small houses round a cathedral, a palace-like university building and a library, forming an oasis of civilisation in...

Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 107, September 22nd, 1894 Dear Mr. Punch,When I announced my intention of running over to Paris for a few days, my friend Buzzard looked at me with a stony contempt. "To Paris?" he said, "at this time of...

Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 107, August 25, 1894My Good Mr. Punch,I notice that in spite of all London being out of town, a number of persons have been holding, or propose holding, a meeting condemnatory of the House of Lords. I fancy,...

Birds of the PlainsIt is easy enough to write a book. The difficulty is to sell the production when it is finished. That, however, is not the authors business. Nevertheless, the labours of the writer are not over when he has completed the last...

Maan ympäri 80 päivässäVuonna 1872 talossa N:o 7 Saville-row kadun varrella, Burlington Gardens samassa talossa, jossa Sheridan kuoli 1816 asui Phileas Fogg, esq.,[1] ers Lontoon Reform-Club'in kummallisimpia ja etevimpi jseni, vaikka hn nytti panneen silmmrkseen olla tekemtt mitn sellaista, joka vetisi huomiota puoleensa. Tss...

Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidæ, or Parrots - The greater part of them species hitherto unfigured, containing forty-two lithographic plates, drawings from life, and on stoneA header for each page with a plate was added to match the plate numbers in the List...

Memoirs of John R. Young, Utah Pioneer, 1847They place in memory's clasp, truths we have read, Beautiful words, of both living and dead. Helping us cherish, and nurse as they grow, Elysian plants, from thoughts that we sow. Bringing to memory, and waking to...

There She Blows! Or, The Log of the ArethusaThe story embodied in these pages is not to be regarded as a mere "yarn." It is rather a series of illustrated sketches of actual life on the ocean, made up of real incidents and introducing...

The Sayings of Confucius - A New Translation of the Greater Part of the Confucian AnalectsThe object of the Editors of this series is a very definite one. They desire above all things that, in their humble way, these books shall be the ambassadors...

The Story of the AlphabetIf this little book does not supply a want, it fills, however imperfectly, a gap; for the only work in the English language on the subjectCanon Isaac Taylor's "History of the Alphabet"is necessarily charged with a mass of technical detail...

Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 03Le texte de ce volume est conforme celui de l'dition originale: La Maison Tellier Paris, Victor Havard, 1881 avec addition de: Les Tombales (Ollendorff, 1891) Ma Femme, Les Conseils d'une grand'mre (indits). (L'ordre des nouvelles seul...

The Castaways of Pete's Patch - (A Sequel to The Adopting of Rosa Marie)When the biggest lake there is chooses to go on one of her very best rampages, even the bravest of mariners make as speedily as possible for safe harbors. At midnight,...

The Ingoldsby Country: Literary Landmarks of the "Ingoldsby Legends"AUTHOR OF "THE BRIGHTON ROAD," "THE PORTSMOUTH ROAD," "THE DOVER ROAD," "THE BATH ROAD," "THE EXETER ROAD," "THE GREAT NORTH ROAD," "THE NORWICH ROAD," "THE HOLYHEAD ROAD," "THE CAMBRIDGE, ELY, AND KING'S LYNN ROAD," AND "STAGE-COACH...

The Story of VeronaTHE story of Verona is no simple record of a simple town with a continuous rule guiding her fortunes and directing her destinies. Her tale is mingled with that of other nations and languages; and Greek, Ostrogoth, Longobard and Frank have...

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, September 1899 - Vol. LV, May to October, 1899In an article on the plague in this journal, in May, 1897, the writer answered this question as follows: "Yes, there is danger; but this, being foreseen, may be easily avoided. Thorough...

The Submarine in War and Peace: Its Development and its PossibilitiesJules Verne, in 1898, cabled to a New York publication: "While my book, 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,' is entirely a work of the imagination, my conviction is that all I said in...

The Lead of HonourBeyond the gleam of the torch basket at the masthead, the bosom of the great Father of Waters widened into a sea, infinite in its solitude, desolately vast in the impending gloom of the purple night. An orange coloured moon hovered...

Vanishing Landmarks: The Trend Toward BolshevismWhen the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather and on an unknown sea he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude and...

Human OriginsThe reception which has been given to my former works leads me to believe that they have had a certain educational value for those who, without being specialists, wish to keep themselves abreast of the culture of the day, and to understand the...

A plain and faithful narrative of the original design, rise, progress and present state of the Indian charity-school at Lebanon, in ConnecticutThat Charity and disinterested Care for the Souls of Men, which make so amiable a Part of your Lordship's Character, and give a...