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EvolutionFor many of the illustrations the Publishers are indebted to the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (from Gnther's Vom Urtier zum Menschen) and Herr Wilhelm Engelmann (from Haeckel's Anthropogenie). Acknowledgment is also made to Messrs. Watts & Co., London, the Publishers of the English Edition of Haeckel's...

Ten years' digging in Egypt, 1881-1891Although the discoveries which are related in this volume have been already published, yet there is to be considered the large number of readers who feed in the intermediate regions between the arid highlands and mountain ascents of scientific...

The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schiltberger, a Native of Bavaria, in Europe, Asia, and Africa, 1396-1427If any reliance is to be placed in a MS. marginal note that appears on a page of an old edition of the Travels of Schiltberger, presumed to...

Arminell: A Social Romance, Vol. 3Giles Saltren caught an express and whirled down into the west. He had not taken a ticket for Orleigh Road Station, as he did not choose to get out there, but at the nearest town, and there he hired...

Arminell: A Social Romance, Vol. 2Giles Inglett Saltren had promised his mother to say nothing to any one of what had been told him, but the temptation had come strongly upon him to tell Arminell that he was not the nobody she and others...

The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. 02BEINGTHE LETTERS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, SILAS DEANE, JOHN ADAMS, JOHN JAY, ARTHUR LEE, WILLIAM LEE, RALPH IZARD, FRANCIS DANA, WILLIAM CARMICHAEL, HENRY LAURENS, JOHN LAURENS, M. DE LAFAYETTE, M. DUMAS, AND OTHERS, CONCERNING THE FOREIGN RELATIONS...

Le chat de misère: Idées et imagesL'autre jour, dans un salon qui ouvre de plein pied sur un jardin, on trouva, roul en boule, un chat, mais quel chat! Un tre efflanqu, galeux, si las de la vie qu'il semblait indiffrent tout, sauf sa...

A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, Now Entituled the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 03 (of 17)Limited to one thousand numbered sets, of which this is Shahrazad continued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that...

The Hand of the Mighty, and Other Stories Acknowledgments are due to Short Stories, Munsey's Magazine, The Century Magazine, The Bellman and The American Magazine for permission to reprint certain stories included in this volume. Vaughan Rester was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey,...

The Unbidden Guest Arabella was the first at the farm to become aware of Mr. Teesdale's return from Melbourne. She was reading in the parlour, with her plump elbows planted upon the faded green table-cloth, and an untidy head of light-coloured hair between her...

The Young Guard Most of these pieces appeared during the war. The usual acknowledgements are tendered to The Spectator in three cases and The Times in two, as well as to Land and Water, The Cologne Post and sundry School Magazines. ......Buy Now (To...

The Fortune of the Landrays THE boy on the box was surfeited with travel. Glancing back over the swaying top of the coach, he had seen miles upon miles of hot dusty road, between banked-up masses of forests or cultivated fields, dwindle to a...

The Ballad of Ensign Joy You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days of receipt...

Tubal Cain Published, April, 1918, in a volume now out of print entitled 'Gold and Iron,' and then reprinted twice. ALEXANDER HULINGS sat at the dingy, green-baize covered table, with one slight knee hung loosely over the other, and his tenuous fingers lightly gripping...

Rex Kingdon on Storm Island[Transcriber's note: the page number in the Frontispiece's caption was not linked because the caption's text does not appear anywhere in the book's main text. The Frontispiece may have been re-used from another book.] How would you like to spend...

Esperanto-Germana frazlibro de la ĉiutaga vivo - Deutsche und Esperanto-Gespräche über AlltäglichesEn Francujo la unua a malgranda matenmano havas lokon enerale je la sama horo kiel e ni kaj konsistas el kafo (kun lakto) a okolado, pano (bulko) kaj butero. e la dua matenmano,...

Arminell: A Social Romance, Vol. 1Sunday-school on the ground floor of the keepers cottage that stood against the church-yard, in a piece nibbled out of holy ground. Some old folks said this cottage had been the church-house where in ancient days the people who...

EksyksissäOn ihmiskohtaloja, jotka tuntuvat meist niin kummallisen liikuttavilta, ett me tahdomme pyshty niiden eteen ja pyyt tuntemattomilta voimilta anteeksiantoa. Tm tunne, joka on syvempi kaikkea sit, mit kutsutaan sliksi, sislt samalla tietoisuuden, ett meill itsellmme on onnellisempi osa ja ett kuitenkin meidn ja kysymyksess...

Harper's Young People, January 17, 1882 - An Illustrated WeeklyPercy Vance was a stranger in the town and a new scholar at the grammar school. His age was set down in the roll-book as twelve, but judging from his height the girls thought he...

Venna Hastings: Story of an Eastern Mormon ConvertFirst in my thought as I wrote this little book were the young people in the West, who enjoy the blessings of their religion, without realization of the persecution of their missionaries on the fighting line. Perhaps...