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The Good Hope - (In "The Drama: A Quarterly Review of Dramatic Literature")To those content with convenient superficialities the plays of a dramatist such as Heijermans are easy of definition. He is dismissed as a realistic writer, a playwright of the naturalistic school, a...

Saint Vincent, with notes and publishers' pricesThe large number of collectors, not only in this country, but also on the other side of the Atlantic, who now make the postal issues of the various West Indian Colonies of Great Britain the object of their...

Partial PortraitsThe following attempts at literary portraiture originally appeared, with three exceptions, in American periodicalsThe Atlantic Monthly, The Century, and Harpers Weekly. The paper on Emerson was contributed to Macmillans Magazine, that on The Art of Fiction to Longmans and that on M. Guy...

Diana TrelawnyDiana Trelawny was a great heiress in the ordinary sense of the word, though the term was one which she objected to strongly. She was rather a great proprietor and landowner, no longer looking forward to any inheritance, but in full possession of...

CarpetsIn treating of carpet manufacture, which involves the employment of looms and other machinery of a complicated nature, I was confronted with the problem, how far it was necessary or desirable to explain and illustrate mechanical devices. Upon consideration, it seemed advisable, having regard...

Sun and Shadow in SpainBY MAUD HOWE Author of Roma Beata, Two in Italy, Etc. WITH PICTURES FROM PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOR BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1908 {iv} Copyright, 1908, By Little, Brown, and Company. All rights reserved Published November, 1908 The...

Les évangiles des quenouillesMaintes gens sont au jour d'huy qui alleguent et auctorisent leurs parolles et raisons par les euvangilles des quenouilles qui gaires ne scevent de quele importance et auctorit elles sont ne qui en furent les sages doctoresses et premieres inventerresses. Et...

Observations of an Illinois Boy in Battle, Camp and Prisons—1861 to 1865 The story contained in this book is a true one. It was taken from letters, memoranda and memory. The author has in his possession twenty-nine letters written by him while in the...

Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling - Illustrated by numerous incantations, specimens of medical magic, anecdotes and talesThis work contains a collection of the customs, usages, and ceremonies current among gypsies, as regards fortune-telling, witch-doctoring, love-philtering, and other sorcery, illustrated by many anecdotes and instances,...

Essays of an Americanist - I. Ethnologic and Archæologic. II. Mythology and Folk Lore. III. Graphic Systems and Literature. IV. Linguistic.The word Essays appears on the title of this book in the sense in which old Montaigne employed itattempts, endeavors. The articles which make...

The History of Thomas HickathriftThere seems to be some considerable reason for believing that the hero of this story was a reality. The story tells us that he lived in the marsh of the Isle of Ely, and that he became a brewers man...

The Story of Valentine and His BrotherTwo ladies were seated in a great dim room, partially illuminated by fits and starts with gleams of firelight. The large windows showed a pale dark sky, in which twilight was giving place to night, and across which...

Reading: How to Teach ItThe teacher of children must know how to guide her work so that the seemingly trivial beginnings shall tend toward a goal whose attainment is worth striving for. Hers is a day of small things. The child does not see...

Use of the Dead to the LivingThe following pages contain an article extracted from the Westminster Review, an English periodical of considerable reputation. On its appearance in Great Britain, it excited great attention; and, indeed, has been there reprinted in a cheap form for...

Lady Car: The Sequel of a LifeT H E S E Q U E L O F A L I F E BY MRS OLIPHANT AUTHOR OF CHRONICLES OF CARLINGFORD ETC. NEW EDITION LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1890 All rights reserved {1} Lady...

The Appreciation of Music - Vol. 1 (of 3)This book has been prepared in order to provide readers who wish to listen to music intelligently, yet without going into technicalities, with a simple and practical guide to musical appreciation written from the listener's rather...

Harper's Young People, July 11, 1882 - An Illustrated WeeklyToby coaxed and scolded, and scolded and coaxed, but all to no purpose. The monkey would clamber down over the end of the tent as if he were[Pg 578] about to allow himself to be...

The South Devon CoastIf the map of Devon be measured across in a straight line, it will be found that, from Lyme Regis, where it joins Dorsetshire, to Kings Tamerton on the River Tamar, where Devonshire at its westernmost extremity looks across to Saltash,...

Sicily in Shadow and in Sun: The Earthquake and the American Relief WorkTHE EARTHQUAKE AND THE AMERICAN RELIEF WORK BY MAUD HOWE AUTHOR OF ROMA BEATA, SUN AND SHADOW IN SPAIN, TWO IN ITALY, ETC. With numerous illustrations Including pictures from photographs taken in...

Joseph Rogers, M.D.: Reminiscences of a Workhouse Medical OfficerThe author of the brief narrative which I have edited, and have seen through the Press, passed away before the printing of his work was completed. What he wrote was composed under the presence of a...