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The World of HomerIn 1895 I published Homer and the Epic (pp. 424), containing a criticism of Wolf's theory, if theory it can be called, which is the mother of modern Homeric criticism. I analysed, book by book, the Iliad and the Odyssey, observing...

The Road to the OpenGeorge von Wergenthin sat at table quite alone to-day. His elder brother Felician had chosen to dine out with friends for the first time after a longish interval. But George felt no particular inclination to renew his acquaintance with Ralph...

Soldiering in North Carolina - Being the experiences of a 'typo' in the pines, swamps, fields, sandy roads, towns, cities, and among the fleas, wood-ticks, 'gray-backs,' mosquitoes, blue-tail flies, moccasin snakes, lizards, scorpions, rebels, and other reptiles, pests, and vermin of the 'Old North...

William Gilbert, and Terrestial Magnetism in the Time of Queen Elizabeth - A DiscourseWilliam Gilbert, the father of electrical science, was born in Colchester in 1540. Educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he took his degree as Doctor of Medicine in 1569, he...

L'Illustration, No. 2512, 18 Avril 1891lus de Chambres, pas de grand procs la mode, aucun gros scandale, aucune premire sensationnelle: rien. Le calme. Mauvaises semaines pour les chroniqueurs. Ce qu'il leur faut, c'est le tapage, les morts illustres, les drames nouveaux. Mais, pour le...

A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 2 (of 2)One remarkable circumstance among those which specially characterised the great intellectual movement in Italy in the sixteenth century, was the large part taken in it by women. The writers of literary history,a class especially abundant to...

A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 1 (of 2)The degree in which any social system has succeeded in ascertaining woman's proper position, and in putting her into it, will be a very accurate test of the progress it has made in civilisation. And the...

Rakentaja Solness: Kolminäytöksinen murhenäytelmä Rakennusmestari Halvard Solness. Rouva Aline Solness, hnen vaimonsa. Tohtori Herdal, perheen kotilkri. Knut Brovik, entinen arkkitehti, nykyn Solnessin apulainen. Ragnar Brovik, Knut Brovikin poika, piirustaja. Kaija Fosli, Solnessin sisarensa tytr, konttoristi. Neiti Hilde Wangel. Erit vallasnaisia. Vke kadulla. (Vaatimattomasti sisustettu...

Scott's Lady of the LakeWalter Scott, the ninth of a family of twelve children, was born at Edinburgh in August, 1771. His first consciousness of existence dated from the time when he was sent, a lame, delicate child, to Sandyknowe, the residence of his...

Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Vol. 2 (of 2) When a youth, with a voracious appetite for books, an old lady, who kindly supplied me with many, put one day into my hands Crabbe's Borough. It was my first acquaintance...

Poésies Complètes - Tome 2Note 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. En quelque sorte que ce soit, il...

Dartmoor Dartmoor is a fine-sounding name, and no one would wish to displace it; yet in one sense it is a misleading and inappropriate designation of the great central Devonshire moorland. The moorland is not distinctively the moor of the Dart, any more than...

English Coast Defences - From Roman Times to the Early Years of the Nineteenth Century[vii] The intricate coast-line of England, so difficult for an enemy to blockade, so difficult at every point for combined naval and military forces to defend against raiders, presents to...

Time and Time-TellersTime cannot be thoroughly defined, nor even properly comprehended by mankind, for our personal acquaintance with it is so brief that our longest term is compared to a span, and to 'the grass which in the morning is green and groweth up,...

A Secret Inheritance (Volume 3 of 3)The investigations in the course of which Emilius related his version of what had passed between him and his ill-fated brother--I use the phrase to give expression to my meaning, but indeed it is hard to say to...

A Secret Inheritance (Volume 2 of 3)"I travelled for many months alone. I made acquaintances which never ripened into friendships, and seldom did twenty-four hours pass without my thoughts wandering to Silvain. Thinking it not unlikely that one or both of the brothers had...

A Secret Inheritance (Volume 1 of 3)My earliest distinct remembrances are of a mean and common home in London, in which I lived with my parents and a servant named Fortress. She was a young woman, her age being twenty-four or five, but her...

L'Illustration, No. 2511, 11 Avril 1891e suppose un tranger, un Anglais, Australien, ou Tonkinois, n'ayant jamais vu Paris, et dbarquant pour la premire fois sur nos boulevards. Il lit tout d'abord les affiches. L'affiche moderne c'est le programme de la vie courante. Il dchiffre...

The "Ayesha," being the adventures of the landing squad of the "Emden"Copyright, 1917, by RITTER & COMPANY All rights reserved, including the translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian First Printing, January, 1917 Second Printing, February, 1917 THE PLIMPTON PRESS NORWOOD MASS U S...

Duizend en één Nacht. Arabische vertellingen. Vierde deelOverduidelijke druk- en spelfouten in het origineel zijn gecorrigeerd; deze zijn voorzien van een dunne oranje stippellijn, waarbij de Brontekst via een zwevende pop-up beschikbaar is. Variaties in spelling (met/zonder accent, met/zonder spatie, met/zonder koppelteken) zijn behouden....