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The Molecular Tactics of a CrystalBY LORD KELVIN, P.R.S. PROFESSOR OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW AND FELLOW OF PETERHOUSE, CAMBRIDGE Being the Second Robert Boyle Lecture, delivered before the Oxford University Junior Scientific Club on Tuesday, May 16, 1893/ WITH TWENTY...

Mémoires de Céleste Mogador, Volume 1Note sur la transcription: Les erreurs clairement introduites par le typographe ont t corriges. L'orthographe d'origine a t conserve et n'a pas t harmonise. Les numros des pages blanches n'ont pas t repris. Lorsque j'ai crit ces mmoires en...

Tour of the American Lakes, and Among the Indians of the North-West Territory, in 1830, Volume 1 (of 2) - Disclosing the Character and Prospects of the Indian Race Why should this book be written? To give information. But was it proper to come...

The Brighton Boys in Transatlantic FlightThe speaker was Jack CarewBig Jack Carew, they had called him at Brighton. The descriptive prefix had clung to him throughout all the changes and vicissitudes of the Great War, and the indications were now that he would continue...

Les fleurs animées - Tome 1IL y a plusieurs manires daimer les fleurs. Les savants les aplatissent,les desschent et les enterrent dans des cimetires nomms herbiers, puis ils mettent au-dessous de prtentieuses pitaphes en langage barbare. Les amateursnaiment que les fleurs rares, et les...

The S. P. MysteryJean Gordon rushed into the house, her face all aglow. There was some fire within which made her eyes bright and the sharp wind, which came from lakes not too far away, gave her rosy cheeks and nipped her nose as...

Everglades Wildguide - Handbook 143The shimmering waters of the everglades creep silently down the tip of Florida under warm subtropical skies. In a vast, shallow sheet this lazy river idles through tall grasses and shadowy forests, easing over alligator holes and under bird rookeries,...

SoundIn the following pages I have tried to render the science of Acoustics interesting to all intelligent persons, including those who do not possess any special scientific culture. The subject is treated experimentally throughout, and I have endeavored so to place each experiment before...

Famous Composers and Their Works, Vol. 1The originals of the illustrations reproduced for this work were collected from museums, conservatories, antiquaries, public and private libraries, and other authentic sources in England and on the Continent, by Mr. Arthur J. Mundy, who spent several months...

Anecdotes of the American Indians - Illustrating their Eccentricities of CharacterThe character of the aboriginal inhabitants of the western continent is in many respects remarkable and striking. It possesses great interest for the student of history as well as the observer of human nature....

Handbook to the Mennonite HymnaryWith Illustrations From the Hymnary St. Augustine, 354-430, gave a definition of a hymn, which has been widely accepted: A recent definition, accepted by the Hymn Society of America, is that of the late Carl F. Price: L. F. Benson,...

Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt Book - Designed as a Supplement to Her Treatise on Domestic EconomyThe following objects are aimed at in this work: First, to furnish an original collection of receipts, which shall embrace a great variety of simple and well-cooked dishes, designed...

The Desert Mounted Corps - An Account of the Cavalry Operations in Palestine and Syria 1917-1918It gives me great pleasure to write a few words of introduction to Lieut.-Col. Preston's History of the Desert Mounted Corps, which I had the honour to command. In...

L'expédition de la Jeannette au pôle Nord, racontée par tous les membres de l'expédition - volume 2 - ouvrage composé des documents reçus par le 'New-York Herald' de 1878 à 1882Premire entrevue de M. Jackson et des survivants de la Jeannette.Joie cause ces derniers...

Retail Shoe SalesmanshipIn the preparation of this volume the plan has been to present the principles of shoe salesmanshipnot an abstract or generalized treatment but a specific statement of the principles as they apply directly to the daily efforts of the retail shoe salesman....

How a Farthing Made a Fortune; or "Honesty is the best policy"Few children, if any, who read this tale will probably be able to form any idea of such a wretched home as that in which lived little Dick Nason, the ragman's son. There...

HernachIm Frhjahr 1905 bergab mir mein Onkel Wilhelm Busch in Mechtshausen zur Aufbewahrung als ein Geschenk fr meine Mutter, seine Schwester, das eingesiegelte druckfertige Manuskript von Hernach mit der Bemerkung, da es nach seinem Tode verffentlicht werden knnte. Von diesem Buche ist in demselben...

The Pearl FishersThe scene of this romantic story is laid in Paris and its time is in the year 1770. The central figure is Comte de Rochefort, who chances to discover a plot to prevent Mme. du Barry from being presented at court. Later...

Among the An-ko-me-nums, or Flathead Tribes of Indians of the Pacific CoastI have been requested to write a few words of introduction to this deeply interesting volume, and I gladly comply, although the task may seem to be quite superfluous. Thomas Crosby, or anything...

The New German ConstitutionIt is a pleasure to introduce M. Brunet to the American public. He is a French scholar of the finest type, careful, objective, and sincere. The present work on the German constitution bears the impress of these high qualities. In this...