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L'Illustration, No. 2497, 3 Janvier 1891L'ILLUSTRATION Prix du Numro: 75 centimes. SAMEDI 3 JANVIER 1891 49e Anne.--N 2497 OCTAVE FEUILLET. D'aprs la photographie de Nadar. 'ANNE 1801 aura commenc lorsque paratront ces lignes. Oh! elle ne sera pas bien ge. Ne peine. Et dj...

King Robert the BruceThe present volume on King Robert the Bruce is the historical complement to the former volume on Sir William Wallace. Together they outline, from the standpoint of the leading spirits, the prolonged and successful struggle of the Scots against the unprovoked...

Pearse's Commercial Directory to Swansea and the Neighbourhood, for 1854Swansea is most delightfully situated in the centre of the Bay to which it gives its name, near the junction of the river Tawe with the sea. The town is protected from the chilling influence...

The Adventure Girls at K Bar OThe thing that went under the name of automobile wheezed into the ranchyard and rattled to a halt. With creaks and groans in every joint the car discharged its six very dusty, very weary occupants. Gale Howard returned...

Journeys and Experiences in Argentina, Paraguay, and Chile - Including a Side Trip to the Source of the Paraguay River in the State of Matto Grosso, Brazil, and a Journey Across the Andes to the Rio Tambo in Peru Including a Side Trip to...

Dust of the DesertRoads of men thread the world. They thunder with a life flood. They are vibrant with a pulse of affairs. By land and water and air they link to-day to to-morrow. But El Camino de los Muertos (the Road of the...

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 109, July 27, 1895 Reading one day in our "Organ," I was happy and quite at ease. A band was playing the "Lost Chord," Outsidein three several keys. But I cared not how they were playing, Those puffing...

Histoire de la Monarchie de Juillet (Volume 6 / 7) I. Bonne situation du ministre la fin de 1845. M. Thiers unit le centre gauche la gauche. Le National et la Rforme.II. L'opposition dans la session de 1846. Dbats sur les affaires du Texas...

To and Through Nebraska If you wish to read of the going and settling of the Nebraska Mutual Aid Colony, of Bradford, Pa., in Northwestern Neb., their trials and triumphs, and of the Elkhorn, Niobrara, and Keya Paha rivers and valleys, read Chapter I....

Sorretun voitto: Historiallinen kertomus"Sorretun voitto" perustuu todellisuuteen; ja tmn kertomuksen sankaritar lienee vasta muutamia vuosia sitte jttnyt maailman, vietettyns viimeiset vuosikymmenens tavattoman vaihettelevasta ja pitkst elmstns hiljaisessa yksinisyydess meren ymprimll Ahvenanmaalla. Ainakin tahtoo kansantaru yhdist samaksi henkilksi puheena-olevan vanhusvainajan ja nuoruutensa aikana romantillisista elmns...

Life of Wm. Tecumseh Sherman. - Late Retired General. U. S. A.The title of this work is hardly a fair index to the contents. The "Life of General Sherman," written with any reasonable detail so as to depict his formative period, the gradual development...

Story of the Bible Animals - A Description of the Habits and Uses of every living Creature mentioned in the Scriptures, with Explanation of Passages in the Old and New Testament in which Reference is made to themOwing to the different conditions of time,...

The Pilgrims' Way from Winchester to CanterburyTHIS account of the Way trodden by the pilgrims of the Middle Ages through the South of England to the shrine of St. Thomas of Canterbury originally appeared in the Art Journal for 1892, with illustrations by Mr....

South LondonIn sending forth this book on 'South London,' the successor to my two preceding books on 'London' and 'Westminster,' I have to explain in this case, as before, that it is not a history, or a chronicle, or a consecutive account of the...

Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United StatesIt is not the purpose of this book to present a few selections of oratory, laboriously prepared and polished, or occasional flashes of brilliant thought. From such efforts, prepared, perhaps, after days of study and...

Notes of a Journey on the Upper Mekong, SiamI have put together the following account of a recent journey made for the Siamese Government to the Mekong valley, chiefly for the reason that at the present moment, when the French have "rectified" their boundaries...

Jungle and Stream; Or, The Adventures of Two Boys in Siam 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...

Siam: Land of Free MenProofreading by users emil, rikker, dekpient. PGT is an affiliated sister project focusing on public domain books on Thailand and Southeast Asia. Project leads: Rikker Dockum, Emil Kloeden. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet...

The Penitente Moradas of AbiquiúThis study describes two earthern buildings and their special furnishingshumble but unique documents of Spanish-American culture. The two structures are located in Abiqui, a rural, Spanish-speaking village in northern New Mexico. Known locally as moradas, they serve as meeting houses...

Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, Sein Leben und Wirken. Erster TheilKaum mehr als die Hlfte dieses Zeitraums war ihm zu leben vergnnt: am 20. August 1873 werden es funfzig Jahre, da er im krftigsten Mannesalter den Seinigen und seinem Wirken entrissen worden ist. Und nur achtzehn...