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Our Little Quebec CousinThe traveler who comes to visit on the island of Montreal gets no correct idea of the beauty of it all until he has climbed to the top of Mount Royal, which rises directly behind the great city of Montreal in...

Among the Birds in Northern ShiresAuthor of Rural Bird-life The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of the British Islands British Sea Birds Curiosities of Bird-life The Migration of Birds The Migration of British Birds Bird-life in a Southern County &c The present volume must...

The Boy Allies with the Terror of the Seas; Or, The Last Shot of Submarine D-16Into the periscopewhich protruded slightly above the surface of the water while the submarine was still submergedcame the vision of a sinking warship, and the sight, enlarged by powerful...

Der Kunstreiter, 1. BandAuf der Hauptpromenade der Residenzstadt *** herrschte heute, bei dem auerordentlich freundlichen und warmen Wetter, reges Leben. Dieser Platz lag am entferntesten von dem Metreiben, das gerade jetzt die brige Stadt erfllte, und zahlreiche Equipagen fuhren auf und ab, whrend das...

A-B-C of Vegetable GardeningNot everybody has a garden. Some deny themselves the pleasure and the profit of one because they have never had any experience in gardening, and have somehow got the impression that special training is necessary to make a success of the...

South American Jungle TalesIn South America there is a river called the Yabebir; and it flows through the city of Misiones. In this river there are many rays, a kind of mud fish like the salt-water skate; and the river, indeed, gets its name...

The Relations between the Laws of Babylonia and the Laws of the Hebrew Peoples - The Schweich LecturesIt has long been held that the laws of the Israelites, as revealed by God to Moses, by him embodied in the books of the Pentateuch and...

Twos and ThreesStuart Heron laid down the ponderous volume of Nietzsche, and smiled up lazily at his juvenile uncle-by-marriage: Oh, were a depraved family! Not half an hour ago I caught Babs behind the drawing-room screen, reading Ella Wheeler Wilcox. And this man is...

The Turned-About GirlsAt Chicago, on a hot afternoon in early summer, two little girls got aboard the car on the Limited that was bound through to Boston. Both little girls had bobbed brown hair and brown eyes and both were going on eleven, but...

Tales and Legends of the TyrolThe Tyrol, the land of glory and tradition, the wonder-garden of the world, so often visited but so little known, forms the theme of the following volume; and in dedicating it to the public the authoress feels certain of...

Sonia: Between Two WorldsAt the age of three-and-twenty Charles Templeton, my old tutor at Oxford, set himself to write a history of the Third French Republic. When I made his acquaintance some thirty years later he had satisfactorily concluded his introductory chapter on the...

The Boy Allies on the North Sea Patrol - Or, Striking the First Blow at the German FleetAs he sprang through the door, at the far end of the room he saw a little man in a red sweater, unmistakably an American, apparently battling...

A Little Change: A Farce in One SceneEDWIN. Now, thats just what I object to. I dont like the suns about here; these blazing agricultural suns make such a fuss about retiring for the night. Theyre not content unless theyve everybody looking at em....

Vasco, Our Little Panama CousinBoth old and young are interested in the work that the United States is doing on the narrow strip of land connecting North and South America,digging the Panama Canal, a highway for the nations. The country is small, but the...

Our Little Arabian CousinOur little Arabian cousins live in a far-away land, where all the manners and customs of life are very different from our own. The little Arab children of the desert are quite different from those who live in the towns, as,...

The Christian Hymn Book - A Compilation of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Original and Selected, by A. Campbell and OthersThis Hymn Book is the result of an agreement between Alexander Campbellthe former proprietor of the Christian Hymn Bookand the Christian brotherhood at large,...

The Kindred of the Wild: A Book of Animal LifeA BOOK OF ANIMAL LIFE by CHARLES G D ROBERTS Author of The Heart of the Ancient Wood The Forge in the Forest A Sister to Evangeline Poems etc Copyright, 1900, 1901, 1902, by The...

Dynamite Stories, and Some Interesting Facts About ExplosivesSOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT EXPLOSIVES An explosive material consists of a combustible and of an oxidizing agent for burning the combustible. Hence it contains within its own substance the necessary oxygen for its combustion, so that it...

Shinto (the Way of the Gods)As compared with the great religions of the world, Shinto, the old Kami cult of Japan, is decidedly rudimentary in its character. Its polytheism, the want of a Supreme Deity, the comparative absence of images and of a moral...

A Revision of the Treaty - Being a Sequel to The Economic Consequence of the PeaceThe Economic Consequences of the Peace, which I published in December 1919, has been reprinted from time to time without revision or correction. So much has come to our...