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Sagen van den RijnToen de intusschen overleden boekhandelaar Friedrich Heijn te Keulen mij ongeveer tien jaren geleden verzocht, de meest bekende Rijn-sagen te schrijven, moest ik mij zelf en den uitgever eerlijk bekennen, dat daarmede nauwelijks een leemte aangevuld zou zijn. Toch gaf ik...

Jack Straw in Mexico: How the Engineers Defended the Great Hydro-Electric PlantFive members of the D club had gathered in Jack Straws room on the top floor of Phillips Hall the last Saturday afternoon before the end of the Spring term. They had not...

McGonigal's WormWhen it happened, it happened unnoticed. Though it affected all chordata on Earth (with a possible exception to be noted in a moment), nobody knew of it, not even the Prince of all chordata, Man himself. How could he have known of it...

SuperjoemulloyJoe Mulloy lounged in the plushest chair in his luxurious office. All around him, on the walls, on the ceiling, even in strategic spots all over the floor, there were mirrors. Joe sneered at the place where the mirrors were most profuse; twenty or...

The Empresses of ConstantinopleIn concluding an earlier volume on the mistresses of the western Roman Empire I observed that, as the gallery of fair and frail ladies closed, we stood at the door of the long, quaint gallery of the Byzantine Empresses. It seemed...

The Philosophy of Health; Volume 2 (of 2) - or, an exposition of the physical and mental constitution of man Respiration in the plant; in the animalAquatic and arial respirationApparatus of each traced through the lower to the higher classes of animalsApparatus in manTrachea,...

The Church Year and KalendarThe Churchs Year, as it has been known for many centuries throughout Christendom, is characterised, first, by the weekly festival of the Lords Day (a feature which dates from the dawn of the Churchs life and the age of the...

Don't Think About ItTommy wasn't really a timid child. Sometimes he didn't understand things and was puzzled. More often, grown-ups couldn't or wouldn't understand things that were perfectly clear to him and he was more puzzled. Occasionally such things worried and even upset him...

A Belle of the Fifties - Memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-1866. Put into narrative form by Ada SterlingThe memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, by which title Mrs. Clement C. Clay, Jr....

The Empresses of RomeThe story of Imperial Rome has been told frequently and impressively in our literature, and few chapters in the long chronicle of mans deeds and failures have a more dramatic quality. Seven centuries before our era opens, when the greater part...

Satujen maailma I: Suomen kansan sadut I kokoelmaOlipa kerran ukko ja akka, vanhat kumpikin, niin vanhat, ett elm en vain pienell langalla heiss pysyi. Ei heill ollut lapsia, mutta eivt he sit surreet, vaan olivat tyytyvisi oloonsa. Ukko metsst lintuja pyysi, akka jrvest kaloja....

"Muru": Huvinäytelmä yhdessä näytöksessäSTORMFELT (Vet hnet nauraen luoksensa ja hyvilee hnt). Mit se Muru siell puuhaa? Kas niin, Muru lhn nyt rupea juonittelemaan, vaikka min laskenkin vhn leikki sinun kanssasi. Kyllhn me muuten olemme hyvi ystvi. (Vet nenliinan hnen suustansa ja suutelee hnt). Se...

Komet und Erde: Eine astronomische ErzählungWas wir hier erzhlen wollen, ist kein Phantasiegebilde, das aus den Gefilden einer oft nur zu schpferischen Einbildung hervorgegangen ist; vielmehr haben eingehende Studien das Material hierzu geliefert, und auf wissenschaftlichem Boden ist unser Bericht gewachsen. Der Komet, den...

Our National Parks In this book, made up of sketches first published in the Atlantic Monthly, I have done the best I could to show forth the beauty, grandeur, and all-embracing usefulness of our wild mountain forest reservations and parks, with a view to...

The Contact PointLieutenant Lloyd spotted the first alien in the ruins of the strange red Martian city on the second day of exploration. His first impulse was to call out to the other menbut then, afraid his voice would startle the creature down at...

Comedias escogidasNi el carcter atribudo Moratn, ni mucho menos sus obras, concebidas despacio, y ms que limadas, sobadas con meticuloso esmero de artfice, haran sospechar lo azaroso y revuelto de su vida trashumante. Sin el arraigo que slo dan en Espaa heredados patrimonios, fu...

Captains of Harley: A School StoryHe was glad that nobody had come to see him off, for he had now the satisfaction of knowing that his own father was a father more worth having than any other he had seen yet. Also he could...

Paimenpoika alppimajallaKun on jttnyt maantien, joka kulkee yls pitkin Prttigaun pitk laaksoa, saa viel aikamatkan nousta jyrknnett tullakseen Fiderisin kylpylaitokselle. Niin vaivaloisesti lhtten ponnistavat silloin hevoset vuorta ylspin, ett matkustaja mieluummin nousee ajopeleist ja kiipe jalan vihrelle kukkulalle. Pitkhkn nousun perst saavutaan ensin Fideris-nimiseen...

Paris tel qu'il estCette union, admirablement assortie, ne tarda pas tre heureuse; tout fait prvoir l'heureux poux qu'il aura la joie de voir son nom perptu d'ge en ge, et que du haut du ciel, leur demeure dernire, ses nobles aeux vont sourire. D'o...

The Rainbow CatTO HIS GREAT ASTONISHMENT, HE SAW NO GIANTESS, BUT A VERY NASTY-LOOKING OLD WIZARD WITH A LONG GREY BEARD AND AN ENORMOUSLY TALL HAT, WHO SAT IN A LARGE ROOM IN FRONT OF A GREAT OPEN FIRE. THERE was once a cat...