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The Hunter Hercules, or, The Champion Rider of the Plains: A Romance of the PrairiesIt was a beautiful scene. Not a cloud marred the vast blue dome of heaven. Autumn reigned supreme in the Lone Star State, where brave Houston fought, and valiant Bowie...

The Texas Hawks; or, The Strange DecoyOne glance would decide this. The soiled and blood-stained garments of the half-score figures gathered around the cheerful, crackling fire, in attitudes of careless ease, for the most part with pipe in mouth, the half-picked bones and fragments...

Winter Butterflies in BolinasThe Monarch Butterfly Anosia Plexippus is a familiar object in many parts of 4 the United States, but the fact that it migrates, covering in its flights hundreds and even thousands of miles, is not generally known. This butterfly appears in...

Our Atomic World: The Story of Atomic EnergyNuclear energy is playing a vital role in the life of every man, woman, and child in the United States today. In the years ahead it will affect increasingly all the peoples of the earth. It is...

Ticket to the StarsI was sitting in the dining-bar of the Thousand Lights, in New York, watching Kelly as the woman walked into the bar. There was a ripple, an undercurrent of sensation. Not because of the way she looked, not because of her...

Blessed Event"He upsets me, doesn't he?" Lester said defensively. He sat in the lounge chair by the window, and the light from the reading lamp, slanting across his face, sketched in the lines of consternation with dark shadows. "Just look at that class paper!"...

Onnen kannel: Historiallinen kertomusAamuaurinko kultasi selt ja salmet, saarien rannat ja kevisen metsn. Siin lahdelman rannalla, riippakoivun alla seisoi Kultarannan emnt, ennen nuoruudessaan maankuulu Impi. Hnen olennossaan oli vielkin jotain pehmet, kaunista, vaikka aika olikin taivuttanut hiukan kumaraan hnen solakan vartalonsa ja sirotellut lunta...

One Hundred CartoonsBrilliant and powerful interpretations of our times, by the man whose recent change from the New York Sun to the New York Evening Post gave the latter newspaper opportunity to congratulate itself on the good fortune which had enabled it, when for...

ElbeszélésekSohasem voltam gy megelgedve tanul koromban lakssal, mint avval, melyrl sz van. A szoba gy dikosan egyszer volt; de nyjas, tiszta. Mg egy pr virgcserp is dszlett az ablakban, valami nvnyrvkkal, melyek mindegyre iparkodtak bimbt, virgot, illatot produklni; de sohasem sikerlt nekik a magas...

The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen Vol. 05 (of 11)In a speech delivered at Copenhagen in 1898, Ibsen said: It is now thirty-four years since I journeyed southward by way of Germany and Austria, and passed through the Alps on May 9. Over the...

The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen Vol. 04 (of 11)The publication of Brand, in March 1866, brought Ibsen fame (in Scandinavia) and relieved him from the immediate pressure of poverty. Two months later the Storthing voted him a yearly poet-pension of 90; and with...

The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen Vol. 03 (of 11)Brand was written in the summer of 1865, at Ariccia, near Rome. Fifteen months before, Ibsen had left Christiania, a voluntary exile, eager to escape from the narrow Scandinavian world, and burning with the sense...

No-Time-Land: A Story for Girls and BoysBut his mothers sad, grieved expression seemed to haunt him all day, and his little sisters voice echoed so in his ears, that the fishing was not altogether such an enjoyable[6] time as he expected. He got back...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 37, Vol. I, September 13, 1884Readers of newspapers must have frequently observed in the advertising columns of most of the daily journals lengthy prospectuses setting forth in roseate terms the why and the...

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1026, August 26, 1899 FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD. THE HOUSE WITH THE VERANDAH. GIRLS AS I HAVE KNOWN THEM. IN THE TWILIGHT SIDE BY SIDE. FROCKS FOR TO-MORROW. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. THREE GIRL-CHUMS, AND THEIR LIFE IN...

The Abergeldie Winter Book1st rowMiss the last 4 chain stitches, and work a plain crochet stitch into the next stitch of the foundation chain; then (make 2 chain, miss a stitch of the foundation and work 1 plain crochet stitch, 5 times); turn back....

Természet, ember, társadalom: Válogatott tanulmányokHazja, a hatrtalan lehetsgek fldje letben az egyik sarkot kpviseli a teljes fldhztapads, az anyagi javak, a tke, a gyakorlati, gazdasgi tevkenysg, az zlet, a haszon, a verseny, az rzki, durva vagy legraffinltabb lvezetek mindennl tbbre becslse s llekzetvev, gigszi...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 38, Vol. I, September 20, 1884On the western side of Trafalgar Square, beneath the shadow of the great sea-lion Admiral Lord Nelson, might have been seen, until recently, the statue of a pensive-looking...

Wolf-Cap; or, The Night-Hawks of the Fire-Lands: A Tale of the Bloody FortNot a sound disturbs the stillness of the wood; but just at the edge of the meager clearing that lies before the cabin, a little river flows northward with a low noise,...

An Address to the People of New-England - Representing the very great importance of attaching the Indians to their interest, not only by treating them justly and kindly, but by using proper endeavours to settle Christianity among themPrinted in Boston, 1753. Being a Conclusion...