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Das grüne Gesicht: Ein Roman Neugierig geworden, oder um der Menge nicht lnger als Zielscheibe zu dienen, die ihn in hollndisch brenhafter Plumpheit umdrngte und ihre Glossen ber seinen Gehrock, seinen blanken Zylinder und seine Handschuhe machte, lauter Dinge, die in diesem Stadtteil Amsterdams...

L'Illustration, No. 2518, 30 Mai 1891ne partie du Paris qu'on appelle le tout Paris--le dessus du panier de ce Paris--devait avoir, cette semaine, et n'aura qu'un peu plus tard, son joujou, un joujou trs artistique et trs lgant. Il s'agit de cette reprsentation donne...

The History of the 51st (Highland) Division 1914-1918In compiling the History of the 51st (Highland) Division I have been beset by various difficulties, which have contributed towards the long delay in its publication. In the first place, it has been written in circumstances in...

Romances of Old Japan - Rendered into English from Japanese Sources THE QUEST OF THE SWORD THE TRAGEDY OF KESA GOZEN THE SPIRIT OF THE LANTERN THE REINCARNATION OF TAMA THE LADY OF THE PICTURE URASATO, OR THE CROW OF DAWN TSUBOSAKA LOYAL, EVEN...

The Gasoline MotorThere are certain events that must happen in a gasoline motor before the engine will run of its own accord. For instance, to obtain successive power impulses, the charge must first be admitted to the cylinder and compressed; it must then be...

Wounded and a Prisoner of War, by an Exchanged OfficerAlready on the shore side the skyline showed oddly-shaped shadows growing grey in the first movement of dawn. From the quay a single lamp threw its scarce light on the careful evolutions of the ship,...

The Romance of Plant Life - Interesting Descriptions of the Strange and Curious in the Plant WorldPlants which moveSensitive PlantA tourist from NeptuneThe World's and the British harvestWorking of green leavesPower of sunshineWork done by an acre of plantsColtsfoot, dandelion, pansies, in sunshine and...

Horae subsecivae. Rab and His Friends, and Other Papers "Squeeze out the whey," was the pithy and sharp advice of his crusty, acute, faithful, and ill-fated friend, William Taylor of Norwich, author of English Synonyms, to Southey, when that complacent and indefatigable poet and...

Secrets of the Late Rebellion, Now Revealed for the First Time This not a General History of the War, but of Special Incidents not Heretofore PublishedMost of the Actors GoneWhence the Facts Contained in this VolumeChanges Since the WarFacts Herein Mostly NewOld Facts used...

Seets i' Paris - Sammywell Grimes's trip with his old chum Billy Baccus, his opinion o' th' French, and th' French opinion o' th' exhibition he made ov hissen O them'at read this book an are disappointed becoss aw've described noa 'Seets' but what...

Bulldog Carney I've thought it over many ways and I'm going to tell this story as it happened, for I believe the reader will feel he is getting a true picture of things as they were but will not be again. A little padding...

An American Girl in London I have written this account only secondarily and at the instigation of publishers, for Americans. Primarily, I wrote it for the English people. I composed it in their country; it was suggested by their institutions, and it is addressed...

McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, September 1908, No. 5[Translator's Note.] The suppressed memoirs of General Kuropatkin are in four bulky volumes and contain, in the aggregate, about 600,000 words. The first three volumes are devoted, mainly, to a detailed review of the three great battles...

Parasites: A Treatise on the Entozoa of Man and Animals - Including Some Account of the EctozoaMy introductory treatise on the Entozoa having long been out of print, it occurred to me that instead of attempting another edition it would be better to write...

The Voyage of the "Deutschland"The voyage of the submarine merchantman "Deutschland" has, for a long time past, been the subject of eager speculation among the nations of the Old and New worlds. The wildest rumours regarding the fate of our cruise have appeared in...

The Mahogany TreeThis characteristic picture of the author of "The Mahogany Tree" is reproduced from a drawing made by the distinguished illustrator, Mr. Edmund Dulac, for the cover of the menu of a dinner of the Titmarsh Club of London. It is reprinted here...

Very Woman (Sixtine): A Cerebral NovelThey were slightly acquainted already. They remembered having met during the past winter in the Marigny Avenue Salon, that haunt of miscarried glories, and, during the past week that they had been staying at the Chteau de Rabodanges (among...

Grif: A Story of Australian LifeIn one of the most thickly populated parts of Melbourne city, where poverty and vice struggle for breathing space, and where narrow lanes and filthy thoroughfares jostle each other savagely, there stood, surrounded by a hundred miserable hovels, a...

Western Bird Guide: Birds of the Rockies and West to the PacificThe numbers and names used in this book are those adopted by the American Ornithologists Union, and are known both in this country and abroad. The lengths given are averages; our small birds...

Origin of Cultivated Plants - The International Scientific Series Volume XLVIIIThe knowledge of the origin of cultivated plants is interesting to agriculturists, to botanists, and even to historians and philosophers concerned with the dawnings of civilization. I went into this question of origin in...