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The Manchester ManWHEN Pliny lost his life, and Herculaneum was buried, Manchester was born. Whilst lava and ashes blotted from sight and memory fair and luxurious Roman cities close to the Capitol, the Roman soldiery of Titus, under their general Agricola, laid the foundations...

The History of Esculent FishTranscribers Note: Page numbering in this book was misprinted, starting at 1 and running up to 36, before restarting at 33 on the next page. As the index refers to the incorrect page numbers, they have been retained. Called, in...

April twilights, and other poemsTHE verses in Part I of this volume are reprinted from an early volume, April Twilights, published in 1903. Those in Part II are of later composition, and for permission to republish them I am indebted to the editors of...

The Great Gatsby He didnt say any more, but weve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence, Im inclined to reserve all judgements, a habit that has opened up...

Drawings of David Cox HE greatest artists have expressed themselves so completely in their works, that the story of their lives adds little or nothing to our knowledge of their personality. We know very little about the life of Turneralmost as little, indeed, as...

The Girl Scouts' CaptainThe Girl Scouts at Miss Allens School, The Girl Scouts at Camp, The Girl Scouts Good Turn, The Girl Scouts Canoe Trip, The Girl Scouts Rivals, The Girl Scouts on the Ranch, The Girl Scouts Vacation Adventures, The Girl Scouts Motor...

Beyond the X EclipticEarthman was dying of boredom; Hope had become folly. Work merely a means to avoid insanity. And death was the great reward ... until Cragin, step-son of darkest space, dared the Barrier; dared to soar beyond the X Eclipticto the machine-planetwhere...

Beneath the Red World's CrustThe ancient leviathan heaved mightily in the vast buried cavern, pumping water upward as it had been told. Only hunted Nick Tinker knew that more than just water was coming to the dust-dry surface! The hot, high whine scorched past...

Turner's Sketches and DrawingsThe nature of our subject-matterThe difference between sketches and finished worksThe character of our subject-matter, as embryonic forms of artistic expression, prescribes the method of study we must adoptOur method is broadly chronologicalBut to follow Turners work year by year in...

KalevipoegMik sitten on tuo Kalevala, josta niin paljon puhutaan, jota niin paljon kiitetn ja ylistetn? "Kuuluu olevan tynn vanhoja pakanallisia loruja", sanoo muuan ni. "Se on paksu kirja, mutta hirven ikv lukea", sanoo toinen, joka on lukenut tukuttain nykyajan romaania eik Kalevalassa tapaa vivahdustakaan...

Fairy Tales Told in the BushOf these Fairy Tales told to children in the Australian bush, The Magic Gun and The Underground River, are original, but the others have been brought from the old country, not in book form, but in the memory of...

Gama Is Thee!On Venus, if one rings a doorbell, or bangs on a locked gate at night, it is adventure. You never know whoor whatwill answer your summons. The door swings slowly open and you brace yourself to look. Will it be maidor monsteror...

The Ethic of the AssassinThe monotonous cry of the kri-kri hushed with a clap of silence that snapped the young doctor upright in bed. Konrad had stolen his lovely wife. Was it a dream? His hand moved to find Kit's smooth, gently slumbering back....

The Emerald Story Book - Stories and legends of spring, nature and EasterThere is no richer theme for childrens stories than the miracle of Spring. The selections in The Emerald Story Book aim to serve the young readers interest in three ways. Some of...

Artificial Fire-Works - Improved to the Modern Practice, From the Minutest to the Highest BranchesI shall not pretend to say any thing here concerning the origin of Fireworks; those who are willing to be better informed of that point, may have recourse to the...

ChairPasse une robe blanche, toute blanche dresse comme laile dune barque... Vision pour llan de mon cur exalt... O vas-tu? Do viens-tu? Tu glisses sur lor du sable comme mon rve. Tu ondules, tu te penches, tu te balances, barque sur le flot. Mon...

A nagy háboru anekdotakincseA hbor humora! Ht van ilyen is? Ahol az ember a maga akaratval olyan fradsgokon vergdik t, amelyekben a l s igs kr tdvrzssel roskad ssze; ahol a nlklzsnek s szenvedsnek pohart mindig utols csppig kell kiinni; ahol a hall nem...

The Radio BeastsOne warm evening in July after the chores were done, I was sitting on the kitchen steps of my farmhouse, on Chappiquiddick Island off the coast of Massachusetts, idly glancing through the Boston Post of that morning, when for some reason the...

Mo-Sanshon!The world psychometric council finds you. Doctor Jonathan Ward, a paranoic with advanced delusions of persecution and of grandeur. Your belief in a super-insect menace threatening humanoid culture we find unsupported by logical evidence. You will be subjected to the reconditioning and readjustment clinics...

Golden Fleece: The American Adventures of a Fortune Hunting EarlTWO hours after Surreys letter came his sister Gwen rode over to Beauvais House eager to tell Evelyn the news of his luck in America. It was almost five oclock in the beautiful autumn afternoon,...