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Narrative of a Recent Imprisonment in China after the Wreck of the KiteTO THE FIRST EDITION. My only apology for launching this unvarnished narrative upon the world is, that, after my return to England, I wrote for the amusement, and at the request of...

A Treatise on the Art of Midwifery - Setting Forth Various Abuses Therein, Especially as to the Practice With Instruments: the Whole Serving to Put All Rational Inquirers in a Fair Way of Very Safely Forming Their Own Judgement Upon the Question; Which It...

Selections from the Writings of KierkegaardCreditable as have been the contributions of Scandinavia to the cultural life of the race in well-nigh all fields of human endeavor, it has produced but one thinker of the first magnitude, the Dane, Sren . Kierkegaard[1]. The fact...

DisenchantmentNow that most of our men in the prime of life have been in the army we seem to be in for a goodly literature of disappointment. All the ungifted young people came back from the war to tell us that they were "fed...

The Man on the Other SideRuth Courthope Seer stood on her own doorstep and was content. She looked across the garden and the four-acre field with the white may hedge boundary. It was all hers. Her eyes slowly followed the way of the sun....

A King's Daughter: A Tragedy in Verse REYNARD THE FOX: A POEM RIGHT ROYAL: A POEM ENSLAVED, AND OTHER POEMS KING COLE, AND OTHER POEMS THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: A POEM DAUBER: A POEM GOOD FRIDAY: A PLAY IN VERSE THE FAITHFUL: A PLAY LOLLINGDON...

Land at Last: A NovelIt was between nine and ten oclock on a January night, and the London streets were in a state of slush. During the previous night snow had fallen heavily, and the respectable portion of the community, which, according to regular...

The Boy Travellers on the Congo - Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey with Henry M. Stanley "Through the Dark Continent"As indicated on the title-page, "The Boy Travellers on the Congo" is condensed from that remarkable narrative, "Through the Dark Continent," by one...

The Green Mirror: A Quiet StoryTheres the feather bed element here brother, ach! and not only that! Theres an attraction herehere you have the end of the world, an anchorage, a quiet haven, the navel of the earth, the three fishes that are the...

Maradick at Forty: A TransitionThe grey twilight gives to the long, pale stretches of sand the sense of something strangely unreal. As far as the eye can reach, it curves out into the mist, the last vanishing garments, as it were, of some fleeing...

Jeremy and Hamlet - A Chronicle of Certain Incidents in the Lives of a Boy, a Dog, and a Country TownThere was a certain window between the kitchen and the pantry that was Hamlets favourite. Thirty years agothese chronicles are of the year 1894the...

The Young Enchanted: A Romantic Storyto me over the past Decillions. There is no better than it And now. What behaves well In the past or behaves well To-day is not such a wonder. The wonder is always and Always how there can be...

Histoire de France - Tirée de DucoudrayCe livre est tir des diffrents cours d'histoire de Ducoudray et peut tre considr comme un livre de Lectures Franaises sur l'histoire de France plutt que comme une histoire de France. Les histoires de France ne manquent pas,...

The Missing Pocket-Book; Or, Tom Mason's LuckFort Worth, August 5, 18. One hundred and seventy-five thousand head of cattle are being slowly drifted and driven from the drought-parched sections of Northwestern Texas into Jacks County, along the waters of the West Fork of Trinity....

Prisoners of War in Britain 1756 to 1815 - A record of their lives, their romance and their sufferingsTwo influences have urged me to make a study of the subject of the prisoners of war in Britain. First: the hope that I might be...

A Plea for MonogamyCommon sense indicates, happiness and health demand, science proclaims and society is beginning to insist that men and women understand and apply the palpable truth of the sex relations in their married life.Dr. W. F. Robie. We are living in an...

Jerusalem, the City of Herod and SaladinVery few words are needed to introduce this volume. It is intended to give a history of the city of Jerusalem from about the year 30 to the present time. This period includes the siege and capture by...

Star-land: Being Talks With Young People About the Wonders of the HeavensIt has long been the custom at the Royal Institution of Great Britain to provide each Christmastide a course of Lectures specially addressed to a juvenile audience. On two occasions, namely, in 1881...

Saratoga National Historical Park Junior Ranger ProgramThe War for American Independence, or American Revolution (1775-1783), was probably one of our countrys most difficult conflicts. Great Britain was a very powerful nation. It had many advantages over its rebelling colonies. This new American independence suffered...

The Bakhtyār Nāma: A Persian Romance The Persians, like all Eastern nations, remarks Sir John Malcolm, delight in Tales, Fables, and Apothegms; the reason of which appears obvious: for where liberty is unknown, and where power in all its shapes is despotic, knowledge must...