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The Future of the Women's MovementThose who open this book expecting to find in it a romantic sketch, rather in the style of Erewhon, of what the civilisation of the twentieth century is likely to be after women have won their freedom, will be...

Brazil, the River Plate, and the Falkland Islands - With the Cape Horn route to Australia. Including notices of Lisbon, Madeira, the Canaries, and Cape Verde.Cursory Retrospect of South American Discoveries.Their difficulties then, how to be estimated at present.Their interest to this age as...

Fairy Tales from Gold Lands: Second SeriesIn the pleasant Christmas-time I greet the children everywhere. To some I shall not be a stranger, for we have met before, not face to face, but in the pages of the last years little book. In the...

Memoirs of John Abernethy - With a View of His Lectures, His Writings, and Character; with Additional Extracts from Original Documents, Now First PublishedIn publishing a third edition of these Memoirs, I have to express the grateful sense I entertain of the indulgence with...

KuolemaIvan Jegorovitsh Shebekin yksityisess virkahuoneessa, suuressa oikeuspalatsissa, jossa paraikaa oli ksill Melvinskin juttu, kohtasivat toinen-toisensa heti istunnon jlkeen oikeuden jsenet sek yleinen syyttj. Syntyi keskustelu kuuluisasta Krasovskin asiasta. Fjodor Vasiljevitsh kiivastui ja koetti todistaa, ettei asia ollut tuomiovallan ratkaistavissa, Ivan Jegorovitsh vitti pinvastoin pysyen...

Practical Training for Running, Walking, Rowing, Wrestling, Boxing, Jumping, and All Kinds of Athletic Feats - Together with tables of proportional measurement for height and weight of men in and out of condition; etc. etc.Notwithstanding that so many books have been written on Physical...

Birds of BritainThe study of Nature has of late years enormously increased, and there is probably no branch of its varied and inexhaustible interests which appeals more strongly to young and old than the fascinating study of Birds. Every one feels more or less...

History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 2 of 2)The introduction of the Italian style into Portuguese poetry was unaccompanied by any remarkable struggle or sensation. No mention is made by writers on general literature, of the existence of a party strenuously opposed to...

Musketry (.303 and .22 cartridges) - Elementary training, visual training, judging distance, fire discipline, range practices, field practices1. The experience gained at the front in the present campaign may be divided broadly under two heads: Firstly, the test under war conditions of the general...

SailingMore, probably, could be written on boat-sailing than on any other sport; for this pursuit owes much of its extraordinary fascination to the fact that its science is practically infinite; the most experienced sailor has always something new to learn, and is ever acquiring...

Maurin des MauresPubli Paris, le cinq fvrier mil neuf cent huit. Privilge du droit dauteur aux tats-Unis, rserv en vertu de la loi sanctionne le 3 mars 1905, par Ernest Flammarion, diteur Paris. Lequel dbute comme un proverbe de M. Alfred de Musset et...

Meine Mission nach Abessinien - Auf Befehl Sr. Maj. des Deutschen Kaisers im Winter 1880/81 unternommenDer vorliegende Text wurde anhand der 1883 erschienenen Buchausgabe so weit wie mglich originalgetreu wiedergegeben. Typographische Fehler wurden stillschweigend korrigiert; ungewhnliche und altertmliche Ausdrcke bleiben gegenber dem Original unverndert....

The Little London Directory of 1677 - The oldest printed list of the merchants and bankers of LondonTo the Merchants and Traders of the City of London. Gentlemen, Although the publishing of the ensuing Pamphlet (or Catalogue) may at the first view, seem to...

Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique, t. 1Je vous adresse mon Ornithologie, comme un foible tmoignage de mon estime et de ma reconnoissance; si votre vj modestie sen trouve offense, vous pardonnerez au motif bien pur qui a dict mon offre. Jaurois voulu me dispenser...

Jules of the Great Heart - "Free" Trapper and Outlaw in the Hudson Bay Region in the Early DaysManou stopped on a snow hill, and looked back over the way he had come; then, steadying himself against the heavy northwest wind, he took off...

Investigation of Communist activities in Seattle, Wash., area. Hearings, Part 3(2) The Committee on Un-American Activities, as a whole or by subcommittee, is authorized to make from time to time investigations of (i) the extent, character, and objects of un-American propaganda activities in the...

Frederick the Great and the Rise of PrussiaIn the Austrian and Prussian capitals to-day the traveller may mark the contrast between two great statues, in each of which the meaning of a reign is set forth with happy instinct. In the heart of imperial...

The Catholic World, Vol. 23, April, 1876-September, 1876. - A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and ScienceFollowing the example of older nations, the United States has been accustomed to keep at foreign courts and capitals certain diplomatic agents whose presence there seems to be...

Jonah's LuckIt was the close of a chilly autumn day; and under a lowering grey sky the landscape of river and marsh and low-lying hills looked forbiddingly forlorn. White mists veiled the wet earth; the road, running between withered hedgerows, was ankle-deep in mud,...

Investigation of Communist activities in Seattle, Wash., Area, Hearings, Part 2(2) The Committee on Un-American Activities, as a whole or by subcommittee, is authorized to make from time to time investigations of (i) the extent, character, and objects of un-American propaganda activities in the...