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History of the Fan IT is, perhaps, a little singular that up to the present no work making any pretension to completeness has appeared in English dealing with that little instrument so intimately associated with both civil and religious life of the past, the...

Romantische Lieder Und hat an Bord ein Knigskind, Das steht mit langem Haar im Wind Und ringt die adlig weien Hnde. Die Fahnen flattern stolz und rot, Aber die Fahrt ist aus und das Fest zu Ende, Und der Brutigam tot. Und am Balkon...

Garden Cities of To-Morrow - Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform"In these days of strong party feeling and of keenly-contested social and religious issues, it might perhaps be thought difficult to find a single question having a vital...

Lammermoorin morsianENSIMMINEN LUKU. TOINEN LUKU. KOLMAS LUKU. NELJS LUKU. VIIDES LUKU. KUUDES LUKU. SEITSEMS LUKU. KAHDEKSAS LUKU. YHDEKSS LUKU. KYMMENES LUKU. YHDESTOISTA LUKU. KAHDESTOISTA LUKU. KOLMASTOISTA LUKU. NELJSTOISTA LUKU. VIIDESTOISTA LUKU. KUUDESTOISTA LUKU. SEITSEMSTOISTA LUKU. KAHDEKSASTOISTA LUKU. YHDEKSSTOISTA LUKU. KAHDESKYMMENES LUKU. YHDESKOLMATTA LUKU. KAHDESKOLMATTA...

The Wars of the Roses; or, Stories of the Struggle of York and LancasterAbout the middle of the ninth century a warrior named Tertullus, having rendered signal services to the King of France, married Petronella, the king's cousin, and had a son who flourished...

The Adventures of Captain John Patterson - With Notices of the Officers, &c. of the 50th, or Queen's Own Regiment from 1807 to 1821 Encouraged by the very flattering manner in which your Majesty condescended to present the 50th with the Colours which they...

LockeIn writing the chapters on Locke's Life, I have derived much information from the biographies of Lord King and Mr. Fox Bourne, especially from the latter, which contains a large amount of most interesting documents never before printed. In a work like the present,...

The Data of EthicsA reference to the programme of the "System of Synthetic Philosophy" will show that the chapters herewith issued constitute the first division of the work on the Principles of Morality, with which the System ends. As the second and third volumes...

Perseverance Island; Or, The Robinson Crusoe of the Nineteenth CenturyIn all works of the Robinson Crusoe type, the wreck is always near at hand, the powder dry and preserved, and the days for rafting the same ashore calm and pleasant. This unfortunate had no...

The Motor Boys Over the Ocean; Or, A Marvelous Rescue in Mid-AirDear Boys: It hardly seems possible that I have written as many as eleven volumes of this series, yet such is the case. The present book is just one short of a dozen,...

Osservazioni sullo stato attuale dell'Italia e sul suo avvenire Queste pagine non sarebbero state, me vivente, pubblicate, se avessi minor fiducia nella indulgenza e nella benevolenza de' miei lettori. Se le mie osservazioni sembrassero ad essi senza fondamento, male esposte, inopportune o superflue, essi...

Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish SharperILLVSTRATED WITH ONE HVNDRED AND TEN DRAWINGS BY DANIEL VIERGE TOGETHER WITH COM- MENTS ON THEM BY JOSEPH PENNELL AND AN ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF QUEVEDO BY HENRY E D W A R D W A...

The CopperheadIt was on the night of my thirteenth birthday, I know, that the old farm-house was burned over our heads. By that reckoning I must have been six or seven when I went to live with Farmer Beech, because at the time he...

Belle Powers' Locket"Really, it makes the heart younger, warmer, better, to bathe it afresh in such familiar, natural scenes, where benevolence of most practical and blessed utility is seen developing itself, from first to last, in such delightful symmetry and completeness as may, and...

The Story of the Pullman CarOf the many books from which information was drawn for the preparation of this volume the author wishes to make particular acknowledgment to The Modern Railroad, by Mr. Edward Hungerford, to the article "Railway Passenger Travel," by Mr. Horace...

Henry Ford's Own Story - How a Farmer Boy Rose to the Power that goes with Many Millions, Yet Never Lost Touch with HumanityTwenty-six years later a little neighborhood on the edge of Detroit was amused to hear that the man Ford who had...

Comic Arithmetic"Good wine needs no bush," and, therefore, little by way of preface is necessary to this Work. "He who is ignorant of arithmetic," says Archimedes, "is but half a man." Therefore, for the sake of manhood, which drapers'-boys and lawyers'-clerks attempt by means...

The Valkyries CONTENTS CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION: THE HOUSE OF HUNDING CHAPTER II THE COMING OF THE STRANGER CHAPTER III THE STORY OF THE STRANGER CHAPTER IV THE RECOGNITION CHAPTER V THE STRIFE OF WOTAN AND FRICKA CHAPTER VI SIEGMUND'S LOT IS CAST CHAPTER VII...

The Religion of Ancient ScandinaviaThe native religion of the ancient Scandinavians was in its main features only a special form of that common to all the Germanic peoples, and this again was only a particular development of primitive beliefs and practices characteristic of the...

The Dreadnought of the Air IT was Thursday afternoonMake and Mend Clothes Day as it is known in the Royal Navy. H.M.S. "Royal Oak," a Super-Dreadnought now relegated to the second class, lay at moorings off Singapore. Two cables' length ahead of her swung...