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Canada in Flanders, Volume III In writing this preface to Vol. III of "Canada in Flanders" I am saying good-bye to my task as author of the first two volumes. The increasing pressure of other duties has made it impossible for me to pay...

Canada in Flanders, Volume II The narrative of the Second Battle of Ypres was written on the spot and immediately after the action. It was not until long afterwards that it was possible to collect and collate the whole of the battalion diaries. The...

Canada in Flanders, Volume I FIRST EDITION . . Printed January, 1916. SECOND EDITION . . Printed January, 1916. THIRD EDITION . . Printed January, 1916. FOURTH EDITION . . Printed February, 1916. FIFTH EDITION . . Printed February, 1916. SIXTH EDITION . ....

Typesetting - A primer of information about working at the case, justifying, spacing, correcting, making-up, and other operations employed in setting type by handTHERE is a prevalent notion that setting type by hand is not now as important a part of the printers vocation...

The Dark Ages, and Other PoemsMen call you dark. What factory then blurred the light Of golden suns, when nothing blacker than the shades Of coming rain climbed up the heather-mantled height? While the air Breathed all the scents of all untrodden flowers, And...

Autour de la lunePendant le cours de l'anne 186., le monde entier fut singulirement mu par une tentative scientifique sans prcdents dans les annales de la science. Les membres du Gun-Club, cercle d'artilleurs fond Baltimore aprs la guerre d'Amrique, avaient eu l'ide de se...

Pattie's Personal Narrative, 1824-1830; Willard's Inland Trade with New Mexico, 1825, and Downfall of the Fredonian Republic; and Malte-Brun's Account of MexicoThe grandfather of the author of this Journal, was born in Caroline county, Virginia, in 1750. Soon after he was turned of twenty-one,...

Gudrun: A Mediaeval EpicThe epic poem of Gu-drun is one of the most important early literary works of the German race. It is attributed to the latter part of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century, and to a date a little...

The Playwork BookFar enough below the surface, in every one of us there lives, very often almost forgotten, the child, who, like Peter Pan, "never grows up." It is this everlasting child in us that keeps the keys which open for each his Kingdom...

The German Lieutenant, and Other StoriesAugust Strindberg. Born at Stockholm, January 22, 1849; died there, May 14, 1912. A Swedish dramatist and novelist, a leader of modern Swedish literature. Among his plays are "Master Olof" (1872), "Gilletshemlighet" (1880), "Fadren" (1887), "Froken Julie" (1888), "Glaubiger"...

The Scottish Parliament Before the Union of the CrownsThe History of Institutions scarcely requires to-day, the eloquent defence with which the Bishop of Oxford prefaced his great book, almost thirty years ago. His own work has proved more than sufficient defence for his field...

The Story of the Atlantic CableBY CHARLES BRIGHT F. R. S. E., A. M. Inst. C. E., M. I. E. E. AUTHOR OF SUBMARINE TELEGRAPHS, SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DURING THE VICTORIAN ERA, THE EVOLUTION OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH, 1837-1897, THE LIFE STORY OF SIR...

The Girl in IndustryNumbers Employed.The whole number of girls employed from 10 to 21 years of age amounted in 1911 to over a million and a half, or about 40 per cent of the total female population of that age. If, however, we restrict...

Germany's Vanishing ColoniesIn giving his readers a very concise and reliable description of "Germany's Vanishing Colonies," the author performs a useful public service. To the travelled man who may have seen something of these Colonies the work carries conviction; for others it has a...

An American Girl in Munich: Impressions of a Music StudentHere I am in my Mecca at last after a "calm sea and prosperous voyage." Would that you were with me to share my pleasures, and, yes, I am selfish enough to add, my troubles,...

Vita di Andrea Doria, Volume II Prima di voltargli le spalle, la fortuna qui mandava a Carlo la suprema blandizie, facendogli incontrare da un lato due galeotte turchesche, di cui la prima il capitano Cigala genovese mand a fondo con le artiglierie, la seconda...

Vita di Andrea Doria, Volume I Questo libro della Vita di Andrea Doria, come pegno di fratellanza, testimonio di gratitudine per l'onesto ospizio, e augurio certo che i popoli, esperti nelle moltiplici arti delle varie tirannidi, s'incammineranno di ora in poi senza deviare nel...

The Vitality of "Mormonism": An AddressWhy does "Mormonism" persist? Determined attempts were made both openly and by stealth to strangle the system at its birth, to destroy the mustard seed at the time of the planting; and, as the fact of its survival has...

In the Name of Liberty: A Story of the TerrorIn the month of August of the year 1792 the Rue Maugout was a distorted cleft in the gray mass of the Faubourg St. Antoine, apart from the ceaseless cry of life of the thoroughfare,...

Trooper Bluegum at the Dardanelles - Descriptive Narratives of the More Desperate Engagements on the Gallipoli PeninsulaAmong the legacies, good and evil, tragic and inspiring, which the Great War of Nations is destined to hand down to posterity, one of the most valuable and...