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Snagged and Sunk; Or, The Adventures of a Canvas CanoeJoe Wayrings voice rang out loud and clear, and the words of his song were repeated by the echoes from a dozen different points among the hills by which the camp was surrounded on every...

The Pennsylvania Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy, April 1853 The separation of one prisoner from another is the only sound basis on which a reformatory (prison) discipline can be established with any reasonable hope of success.Fifth Report of Inspectors of English Prisons. PHILADELPHIA:...

The Catholic World, Vol. 06, October, 1867 to March, 1868. [Transcriber's note: This text is derived from archive.org/stream/catholicworld06pauluoft/catholicworld06pauluoft_djvu.txt Page numbers are shown in curly braces, such as {123}. They have been moved to the nearest sentence break.] Under the head Rome or Reason we...

Seekers in Sicily: Being a Quest for Persephone by Jane and PeripateticaWhen this book was writtenin the spring of the yearthe Land of the Older Gods was unmarred by the terrible seismic convulsions which wrought such ruin in the last days of 1908. Very...

The Law's Lumber Room (Second Series)This is an entirely distinct book from the first series of the Laws Lumber Room. The subjects are of more general interest, they are treated with greater fulness of detail, most are as much literary as legal; but I...

Signers of the Declaration - Historic Places Commemorating the Signing of the Declaration of IndependenceNearly two hundred years have passed since America proclaimed her independence. Yet this action and the beliefs and hopes motivating those responsible for it are as central to us as...

The Rainbow BridgeThere was always room for one more in the Home for Little Pilgrims. Especially was this true of the nursery; not because the nursery was so large, nor because there was the least danger that the calico cats might be lonesome, but...

La reine Victoria intime - Ouvrage illustré de 60 gravures d'après des photographies et des documents inéditsJolie fleur de mai.Sur les fonds dor de la Tour de Londres.Ni un nom ni lautre, Victoria.Claremont.Lorpheline de Sydmouth.La Cour de poupes de la princesse Drina.Poupes vivantes.150.000 francs...

Kaarle ja Sigismund II: Lehti kääntyy - Historiallis-romanttinen kuvaus 1. Koti. 2. Karannut. 3. Salajuoni. 4. Vieraassa maassa. 5. Ystvykset. 6. Laiva tuuliajolla. 7. Mit Suomi krsi. 8. Hovielm. 9. Verituomio. 10. Uutta kylv. 11. Kotona. 12. Jesuiittain metkuja. 13. Sotaretki vielkin. 14. Hornankuilu....

Arbeiders: RomanIn het zuidwesten en over de baai, aan welke Christiania gelegen is, was de hemel helder en blauwachtig wit. De zonnestralen glinsterden in de door den wind zacht bewogen golfjes, waartusschen men echter strepen waters zag zonder eenige beweging. Uit welke streek het...

Letters That Have Helped Me"Seeking for freedom I go to that God who is the light of his own thoughts. A man who knows him truly passes over death; there is no other path to go"Upanishads. In the Path for May, 1887, we find...

Richard Judkins' Wooing: A Tale of Virginia in the RevolutionI was sitting in an arm chair with my feet upon the hand rail of the verandahvery much at my easewhen Major Bullbeggor rode around the bend of the turnpike and came into view. I...

The SpiderThe exterior of The Athenian Club, Pall Mall, represents an ordinary twentieth century mansion, which it is; but within, the name is justified by a Grco-Roman architecture of vast spaces, marble floors, painted ceilings, and pillared walls, adapted, more or less successfully, to...

Peggy on the RoadWith a grateful sigh Peggy Lane lowered her aching feet into the delicious warmth of a dishpan filled with hot water, bath crystals, and Epsom salts. In other rooms exactly like hers throughout the big brownstone house near New Yorks Gramercy...

History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) After the complete consolidation of the monarchies of Castile and Arragon by the accession of Charles of Austria, the grandson of Isabella and Ferdinand, there appears to have been, for a short time, a...

The Confession: A Novel"Since he has begun to give us doctrines, he has lost all his art," they say and shake their heads, "We can get all the doctrines we want from the platform of the Social Democratic party or from the theorists of...

Who Was Lost and Is Found: A NovelOne of the most respected inhabitants of the village, rather of the parish, of Eskholm in Mid-Lothian was Mrs Ogilvy, still often called Mrs James by the elder people who had known her predecessors, who had seen...

Peggy Goes Straw HatEight hours after leaving New York City, the rickety old Pathways Bus lurched to a bouncing halt in a small Adirondack mountain town. Peggy Lane rose from her seat and somewhat shakily managed to collect her handbag, a small suitcase, a...

A Hardy NorsemanYou say your things are all ready, Cecil? Then Ill just go below and do up my Gladstone, and put it in your cabin. We shall be at Bergen before long, they say. The conceit of women! he exclaimed, with a smile...

From Dan to Beersheba - A Description of the Wonderful Land, with Maps and Engravings and a Prologue by the Author Containing the Latest Explorations and Discoveries This book was written in a period when many words had not become standardized in their spelling....