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An Address Given in to the Late King James by the Titular Archbishop of Dublin - From the General Meeting of the Romish Bishops and Clergy of Ireland, Held in May Last, by That King's Order. Wherein Several Things Relating to the Popish Designs...

Cicero: Letters to Atticus, Vol. 1 of 3The letters contained in this volume cover a large and important period in Ciceros life and in the history of Rome. They begin when he was 38 years of age; and at first they are not very...

The Battle of the RiversOn a scale before unknown in Western Europe, and save for the coincident operations in the Eastern theatre of war, unexampled in history, the succession of events named the "Battle of the Rivers" presents illustrations of strategy and tactics of...

By the Way: Travel Letters Written During Several Journeys Abroad New material has been added in this edition including sojourns in Turkey, Greece, Austria-Hungary and Germany. While not intended in any way as a guide-book, this volume will be found especially helpful to those...

Una sfida al Polo FILIALI: Milano 34, Via Carlo Alberto Roma 27, Via delle Muratte Napoli Largo Monteoliveto Pisa Sottoborgo, 7 DEPOSITI: Genova Edoardo Spiotti Bologna Ditta Nicola Zanichelli Torino S. Lattes & C. Pareva che una subitanea folla si fosse impadronita di quelle...

The Anti-slavery Harp: A Collection of Songs for Anti-slavery MeetingsThis song is said to be sung by Slaves, as they are chained in gangs, when parting from friends for the far-off Southchildren taken from parents, husbands from wives, and brothers from sisters. My child,...

The Billiard Room MysterySeeing Bathurst this evening, after a lapse of eight years, has given me a most insistent inclination to set down, for the first time, the real facts of that cause clbre, that was called by the Press at the time, the...

Ariel DancesAriel, quiet but alert, lay in her steamer chair, one of the most inconspicuous of the several hundred passengers the Bermuda was bringing to New York. No one would be likely to look at her twice or give her a second thought, as...

The Play of ManIn this work my aim is to present the anthropological aspects of the same subject treated of in my psychological investigation of animal play, published in 1896, which may be said to have been a pioneer attempt in its department. In...

A Little Girl in Old Chicago It is one of the compensations of Providence that after the storm and stress of active life is through, one can go back to the beautiful world of memory and live over the earlier joys with a delight...

Cossack TalesA historical sketch placed before a work of fiction must seem, to many, a very inconsistent thing, and yet the title of the present volume, "COSSACK TALES," obliges the translator to give a short account of this sometime warlike race. Such an account...

The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 07 (of 12)The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things, appeared anonymously in 1826 in two volumes (9 5 inches), published by Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street. The imprint behind both title-pages is London: Printed by...

Bill Bolton and the Winged CartwheelsYou and I, Bill, said Osceola, are on top of the world and throwing rocks at rainbows! The young Seminole chief, stooping quickly, picked something out of the short grass at the side of the Bolton driveway. A couple...

The River of Life, and Other StoriesAlexander Kuprin was born in 1870. He attended the Cadet School and the Military College at Moscow, and entered the Russian Army as a lieutenant in 1890. Seven years later he resigned his commission to devote himself to...

Henry the FifthHenry was born in the castle of Monmouth on August 9th, 1387. He was the eldest of the six children of Henry of Lancaster by Mary de Bohun, younger daughter and co-heiress of Humphrey de Bohun.1 Humphrey, as the last male descendant...

Grounds of Natural Philosophy: Divided into Thirteen Parts - The Second Edition, much altered from the First, which went under the Name of Philosophical and Physical OpinionsAll Books, without exception, being undoubtedly under your Iurisdiction, it is very strange that some Authors of good...

John Vytal: A Tale of the Lost ColonyNo epoch in American history is more essentially romantic than that in which, for a few years, less than one hundred colonists from England lived on the island of Roanoke, off the coast of old Virginia. Nevertheless,...

Gibraltar and Its Sieges, with a Description of Its Natural Features.HE year 1704 was the year of Blenheim, that wonderful victory of Marlboroughs which dissipated Lewis the Fourteenths dreams of universal empire. As stars are extinguished in the light of dawn, so in the...

Erämaan kultaaEsipuhe. I. Vanhat ystvt. II. Mercedes Castaeda. III. Pako ermaahan. IV. Forlorn River. V. Ermaan ruusu. VI. Yaqui. VII. Valkoisia hevosia. VIII. Blanco Sol juoksee. IX. Keskeytetty lepohetki. X. Rojas. XI. Laavan ja kaktustasankojen poikki. XII. Helvetinkuilu. XIII. Forlorn Riveriss tapahtuneita muutoksia. XIV....

Hans Holbein VELAZQUEZ. By G. C. Williamson, Litt.D. SIR E. BURNE-JONES. By Malcolm Bell. FRA ANGELICO. By G. C. Williamson, Litt.D. G. F. WATTS, R.A. By C. T. Bateman. WATTEAU. By Edgcumbe Staley, B.A. GEORGE ROMNEY. By Rowley Cleeve. HOLMAN HUNT. By G. C....