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The Heir I really feel quite guilty, said the Master of St Saviours College to the distinguished foreigner whom he was escorting to the Senate House. Your time in Cambridge is so short that every moment must be needed for your work. Pray do...

Nick Carter Stories No. 136, April 17, 1915: The Man They Held Back Issued Weekly. Entered as Second-class Matter at the New York Post Office, by Street & Smith, 79-89 Seventh Ave., New York. Copyright, 1915, by Street & Smith. O. G. Smith and...

The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: a romanceChapter Preface Chapter ITHE FLIGHT FROM BOSWORTH FIELD Chapter IITHE CONFERENCE Chapter IIIELIZABETH OF YORK Chapter IVLADY BRAMPTON Chapter VTHE INTERVIEW Chapter VILAMBERT SIMNEL Chapter VIITHE BATTLE OF NEWARK Chapter VIIITHE DISCOVERY Chapter IXTHE DECOY Chapter XTHE ESCAPE...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 52, Vol. I, December 27, 1884Those who profess to know all about slavery will tell you that the negro was a thousand times happier as a slave than he is as a freeman....

The Young Supercargo: A Story of the Merchant MarineProduced by: davidkpark; Sue Clark; the image following page 211 provided by The Young Supercargo: a Story of the Merchant Marine. 1898. Courtesy of Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, Special and Area Studies Collections, George...

Brief Guide: National Gallery of ArtThe National Gallery of Art belongs to all the people of the United States of America. Established by a joint resolution of Congress, it is supported by public appropriation. The Board of Trustees consists of four public servants, ex...

Belshazzar: A Tale of the Fall of BabylonOn a certain day in the month Airu, by men of after days styled April, a bireme was speeding down the river Euphrates. Her swarthy Phnician crew were bending to the double tier of oars that rose...

The Life of the ScorpionIn April, when the Swallow returns to us and the Cuckoo sounds his first note, a revolution takes place among my hitherto peaceable Scorpions. Several whom I have established in the colony in the enclosure, leave their shelter at nightfall,...

The Sacred Beetle, and OthersIn the building of the nest, the family safeguard, we see the highest manifestation of the faculties of instinct. That clever architect, the bird, teaches us as much; and the insect, with its still more diverse talents, repeats the lesson,...

Uit ou Reisbeskrywinge: Dagverhale en ander letterkundige bronne oor die KaapDie doel van hierdie uitgawe is om dele van die Suid-Afrikaanse Geskiedenis in n meer direkte en aanskoulike vorm aan skole en die algemene lesende publiek te gee. Ons meen dat dit in n...

Vámbéry Ármin vázlatai Közép-Ázsiából - Ujabb adalékok az oxusmelléki országok népismereti, társadalmi és politikai viszonyaihozSemmi sem teszi btrabb az embert, mint a siker, de klnsen a vratlan s nem remlt siker. Midn Kzp-zsiai utazsom-at legelszr angol nyelven kzz tevm, korntsem hittem volna, hogy az...

The Stolen Brain; Or, A Wonderful CrimeNick Carter stands for an interesting detective story. The fact that the books in this line are so uniformly good is entirely due to the work of a specialist. The man who wrote these stories produced no other...

KeijukainenJerome Klapka Jerome, syntynyt papinpoikana Lnsi-Englannissa v. 1859, on anglosaksilaisen kirjallisuuden suosituimpia humoristeja, ja hnen jutelmansa ovat levinneet kaikkiin sivistysmaihin. Hn on saavuttanut tll alalla johtavan asemansa helposti, mutta oikean uransa lytminen vaati hnelt ankaraa ponnistelua, kun hn aivan nuorena siirtyi Lontooseen hankkimaan itsenist...

Nick Carter Stories No. 133, March 27, 1915: Won by Magic; or, Nick Carter's Mysterious Ear.How to Send MoneyBy post-office or express money order, registered letter, bank check or draft, at our risk. At your own risk if sent by currency, coin, or postage...

Priscilla of the Good Intent: A Romance of the Grey FellsTHE blacksmiths forge stood just this side of the village as you entered it from Shepston, and David Blake, the smith, was blowing lustily at his bellows, while the sweat dripped down his face....

The Butterflies and Moths of TeneriffeWhen the author left England, in the autumn of 1892, for a winters sunshine in Teneriffe, it was by no means her intention to write on the Lepidoptera of that Island. Soon after her arrival, however, she was struck...

Drinks of the WorldFrom the Cradle to the Grave we need Drink, and we have not far to look for the reason, when we consider that at least seventy per cent. of the human body is composed of water, to compensate the perpetual waste...

The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 10 (of 12)We are very much of Mr. Dunlops opinion,that life has few things better, than sitting at the chimney-corner in a winter evening, after a well-spent day, and reading an interesting romance or novel. In fact,...

The Obedient ServantThey quarreled at breakfast. This was not strange because they quarreled often. But it bothered him after he'd called for his car and was on the way to his office, he realized she was the only one left. The realization came suddenly...

Mystery at Mesa FlatThe murder was committed ten minutes before the Otarkian ship lifted for the long trip back to the mother-planet. It was discovered ten minutes after blast off. The killera great lout of an upper-hillman, signed on the last moment to fill...