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The Two Great Canyons: Excerpts From Letters Written on a Western JourneyThese excerpts from letters written for the Cedar Rapids Republican and Evening Times are dedicated, because she made all the ways pleasant ones and all the places happy ones for three menone of...

The Thirteenth LetterThe white-capped nurse dropped the curtains in place so that they completely shut out the night and equally prevented any ray of artificial light penetrating the outer darkness. Her eyes, blinded by her steadfast gaze into the whirling snow storm, were slow...

Un vaincuUne habitation pittoresque, pose au milieu du coteau qui domine la Loire et la Vienne, avait rsist aux ravages du temps et la manie destructive de lhomme. Forme primitivement des dbris dun chteau, modifie de sicle en sicle, elle tait irrgulire et charmante....

Anticipation1 A certain A. Buzaglo, who had a shop in the Strand, opposite Somerset House, frequently advertised in the newspapers in 1778. His warming-pans, for curing the gout, were highly recommended to the nobility. 2 Letter to Mason, 18 April 1778 (The Letters of...

A lángban álló szigettengerE kikt, Homr rgi Oetylosa, azon hrom mly beszgells egyikben fekszik, melyek az iniai s az gei tengerben ama platnfa-levelet kpezik, melyhez oly tallan hasonltottk Grgorszg dli rszt. E platnfa-levlen terjeszkedik szt a rgi Peloponnesus, az ujkori fldrajz Moreja. E beszgellsek...

Pictured Puzzles and Word Play - A Companion to the Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle BookAs each border is removed a fresh magic square remains, in which the numbers in the cells of each row, column, and diagonal add up to the same sum, while...

Yussuf Khans HeiratDer vorliegende Text wurde anhand der 1919 erschienenen Buchausgabe so weit wie mglich originalgetreu wiedergegeben. Typographische Fehler wurden stillschweigend korrigiert. Ungewhnliche und heute nicht mehr gebruchliche Schreibweisen bleiben gegenber dem Original unverndert; fremdsprachliche Zitate und Ausdrcke wurden nicht korrigiert. Umlaute in Grobuchstaben...

Les ObsédésEn dehors du bureau jai adopt, comme distraction, dcrivasser ce qui se passe autour de moi; oh! des petites manivelles sans prtention, faites pour moi seul. Et puis, je bouquine beaucoup; je ne suis pas trs homme de mnage. Marthe, livre cette palpitante...

The End of Elfintown Title: The End of Elfintown Author: Jane Barlow Release Date: April 20, 2022 [EBook #67883] Language: English Original Publication: GB: , United Kingdom: The MacMillan & Co.,1894. Credits: Charlene Taylor, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net...

The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen, Parts I and IIALEXANDER HERZEN was born in Moscow on March 25,[1] 1812, six months before Napoleon arrived at the gates of the city with what was left of his Grand Army. He died in Paris on January 9,...

Hilda Strafford: A California StoryProduced by: Carlos Colon, David E. Brown, the University of California, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) Scores of times he had tried to put...

With Perry on Lake Erie: a tale of 1812Some explanation regarding the method of dealing with facts as set down in this tale should, perhaps, be made. Let it first be understood that no liberty has been taken with the names or movements of...

Mayan NomenclatureIt has long been well known that the Mexican numeration is vigesimal, and, as far as I know, there is no proof that it was ever used in the calculation of long reaches of time. The Cakchiquel numeration is also vigesimal, and Brinton...

Gods of Modern Grub Street: Impressions of Contemporary AuthorsThose who dissent from Byrons dictum that Keats was snuffed out by an article usually add that no author was ever killed by criticism; yet there seems little doubt that the critics killed Thomas Hardy the...

Tom Watson's Magazine, Vol. I, No. 4, June 1905is the one historian through whom we get the point of view of the laborer, the mechanic, the plain man, in a style that is bold, racy and unconventional. There is no other who traces so...

Tom Watson's Magazine, Vol. I, No. 3, May 1905is the one historian through whom we get the point of view of the laborer, the mechanic, the plain man, in a style that is bold, racy and unconventional. There is no other who traces so...

Anatole: Regény1844-ben szletett, s minthogy a Toldy Ferencz fia volt, nevezetes irk s llamfrfiak krnyezetben ntt fel, szabadabb, nyitottabb gondolatvilgban. Szp szl barna ifju volt, hatalmas vllakkal, mint egy Herkules, fekete szemeibl izz fny lvelt ki, izmait er fesztette. Ha a regebeli ers Toldy...

Some English GardensThe publication of this collection of reproductions of water-colour drawings would have been impossible without the willing co-operation of the owners of the originals. Special acknowledgment is therefore due to them for their kindness and courtesy, both in consenting to such reproduction...

Volcanoes: What They are and What They TeachIn preparing this work, I have aimed at carrying out a design suggested to me by the late Mr. Poulett Scrope, the accomplishment of which has been unfortunately delayed, longer than I could have wished, by many...

Peculiar: A Tale of the Great TransitionIt is a small and somewhat faded room in an unpretending brick house in one of the streets that intersect Broadway, somewhere between Canal Street and the Park. A woman sits at a writing-table, with the fingers of...