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Farquharson of Glune"The potter, also tempering soft earth, with labour fashioneth every vessel for our service, and of the same clay he maketh both vessels that are for clean uses, and likewise such as serve to the contrary; but what is the use of...

Historical Record of the Second, or Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot - Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in the Year 1661, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1837The character and credit of the British Army must chiefly depend upon the...

Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Volume 3Thr. Believe me, sir, this tale of things being at their worst is common to all times. Your judgment has gone astray upon a contempt for Csars follies, or a hatred of his mothers crimes. Measure Nero but...

Svante Niilonpoika Sture ja hänen aikalaisensa I: Kuolon enkeliMuuan palvelija kulki linnanpihan poikki, kdessn palava soihtu, ja hnt seurasi mies kaapuun kriytyneen; tm, joka ilmeisesti pelksi loiskahtavansa rapakkoon, koetti tarkkaan astua yht jalkaa palvelijan kanssa ja pyshtyi vihdoin puolitiess keskell vesiltkk, johon hn oli...

The Scaring off of Teddy Dawson: A Comedy in One Act Living room of a small house in an East End sidestreet. Door direct to street back centre. Next it, window. Door to house l. Kitchen range R. Dresser with crockery l. Centre is...

Graft: A Comedy in Four Acts A small room on the first floor, awkwardly overcrowded with the entire furniture of a cottage, a pile of which is stacked in the left corner and covered with a sheet; the plain iron bed is right, the...

Garside's Career: A Comedy in Four Acts Interior of an artisan cottage. Door centre, leading direct to street, door right to house. Fireplace with kitchen range left. Table centre, with print cloth. Two plain chairs under it, one left, one centre, facing audience. Rocking-chair...

Dealing in Futures: A Play in Three Acts The Scene is laid in an outlying Lancashire village and the action of the play takes place within a space of twenty-six hours. The dining-room of Jabez Thompson's; the room is luxuriously furnished and combines comfort...

Hepplestall's RUMMAGING at a bargain-counter, I came across an object which puzzled me, and, turning to the shopman, I asked him what it was. He took it up contemptuously. That, he said. Dear me, I thought Id put it in the dust-bin. Its fit...

The Price of Coal - A Play The Price of Coal came from a Manchester author; it was in Lancashire dialect, but was freely translated into that of Lanarkshire, before its first production on Monday, November 15th, 1909. The whole week was foggy, dense,...

Three Lancashire Plays: The Game; The Northerners; Zack In another age than ours play-books were a favourite, if not the only, form of light reading, and the novel, now almost universally preferred, is the development of the last century. But a writer of plays...

Lives of Famous London Beggars - With Forty Portraits of the Most Remarkable.The present work is very far from being offered as a general view of that peculiar branch of pauperism, which includes the many wandering classes of mankind that are supported by the...

Reminiscences of Leo Nicolayevitch TolstoiReminiscences of Leo Nicolayevitch Tolstoi, by Maxim Gorky, was originally published in Russian in Petrograd in 1919. The first half of the book, consisting of notes, had been written between 1900 and 1901, when Tolstoi, Gorky, and Tchekhov were living...

The Bet, and other storiesThe Russian dishes mentioned in "A Tedious Story" have no exact equivalents. Sossoulki are a kind of little dumplings eaten in soup; schi is a soup made of sour cabbage; and kasha is a kind of porridge. It was a...

Work [Travail]'Work' is the second book of the new series which M. Zola began with 'Fruitfulness,' and which he hopes to complete with 'Truth' and 'Justice.' I should much have liked to discuss here in some detail several of the matters which M. Zola...

The Christmas Dream of Little CharlesOne Christmas eve, little Charles Estabrook hung his stocking carefully by the chimney corner, and, after saying his prayers, got into bed, and soon fell asleep. Charles was a good little boy; he was fond of horses, and took...

An Enquiry into the Life and Legend of Michael ScotAfter some considerable time spent in making collections for the work which is now submitted to the public, I became aware that a biography of Michael Scot was in existence which had been composed as...

Latest Magic, Being original conjuring tricksThe tricks described in the following pages are of my own invention, and for the most part are entirely new departures: not only the effects produced, but the appliances by means of which they are produced, being original. From...

Chess Generalship, Vol. I. Grand ReconnaissanceExcept the theatre of actual Warfare, no spot known to man furnishes such facilities for the practice of combined strategy, tactics and logistics as does the surface of the Chess-board. To those familiar with the Science of Strategetics, it...

The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 3 (of 7)Engraved by R. Woodman.ERSKINE.From the original Picture by Hoppnerin his Majestys Collection at Windsor.Under the Superintendance of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.London, Published by Charles Knight, Ludgate Street, & Pall Mall East....