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Voyage du marchand arabe Sulaymân en Inde et en Chine rédigé en 851 - Suivi de remarques par Abû Zayd Hasan (vers 916), traduit de l'arabe avec introduction, glossaire et index par Gabriel FerrandLe manuscrit actuellement inscrit sous le n 2281 du fonds arabe...

Historical record of the Thirteenth, First Somerset, or the Prince Albert's Regiment of Light Infantry - containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1685, and of its subsequent services to 1848.The natives of Britain have, at all periods, been celebrated for...

The Frightful OnesRight then he was the scaredest he'd ever been in his life. Yet even as he watched the spaceship turning within the glow of its flaring jets, he kept thinking of his father's warning: It had been drummed into him ever since...

Fish FryOff Key West in the Florida Strait, with the bucking of the motor launch under the seat of my pants, and a rod and reel in my hands, I could relax. I mean really relax. Sometimes a cool current from the Gulf of...

Ki látott engem? VersekAdj valamit nkik, Uram, de mit krjek, hogy adj? Adj gyermek-veszt mhet nkik s tj nlkl val kebleket Annak okrt olyann lsznek, mint a reggeli kd, mint a reggel felkel harmat s mint a polyva, melyet a szl elhajt a szrrl...

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 373, February 19, 1887 SPRING: ITS TROUBLES AND DANGERS. A DAUGHTER OF SORROWS. VARIETIES. ADVERTISING SWINDLES. THE ROMANCE OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND. OUR TOUR IN NORTH ITALY. SILENCE IS GOLDEN, BUT A SOFT ANSWER TURNETH AWAY...

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 372, February 12, 1887Those who would follow the story of the dark days in the Temple, can do so best by the perusal of the record left by Madame Royale herself. Written with an almost naive simplicity,...

A Concise Practical Treatise on Artificial Fly Fishing for TroutIn the following humble effort I have endeavoured to communicate to the inexperienced lovers of artificial fly-fishing, as concisely as possible, and in a practical form, the result of my own experience of upwards of...

Style and the ManAT the word style the critics at once sit up and take notice. We are all sensitive to style; we either like to drift with an easy, lazy current, or we prefer to fight a turbulent, resisting tide; we enjoy contemplating...

Zeneszerző portrékAz elsbe tartoznak azok, akiket szletett zeneszerzknek neveznk, az abszolut muzsikusok. k mr szinte gyermekkorukban eljutnak a formk tkletes megrtshez. A msodik csoportba azokat sorolnm, akik inkbb mvszek, kltk s egyetemes trekvsknek: hogy kifejezzk magukat, csak egyik megnyilvnulsa a zene. k a dolog...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 42, Vol. I, October 18, 1884Coming along a woodland lane, a small round and glittering object in the brushwood caught my attention. The ground was but just hidden in that part of the...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 41, Vol. I, October 11, 1884One of the greatest economic problems of our time is associated with the double stream which has been setting westward across the Atlantic with steady persistence for some...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 40, Vol. I, October 4, 1884More than eighty years ago, Davy first produced and exhibited the arc-light to an admiring and dazzled audience at the Royal Institution; and forty years later, at the...

The Whole Truth and Nothing ButIm told that when you write a book with a title like this, you must let your readers know something about your life. Well, I was born into the home of David and Margaret Furry, one of nine children....

Three Spacemen Left to Die!Commander Al Andrews had closed and locked the energy-proof, neutralizing bulkheads against the creeping red glow that infected one quadrant of his circular space ship. Now he stood in the Control Center, in the mid-section of the revolving wagon-wheel ship,...

The Lake of Wine Some time in June of the year 1800 (as privately chronicled) there came a famous evening at Whitelaws Club in St. Jamess Street, off Piccadilly, London. There and thenaccording to the unattested evidence of an eyewitnessMr. Ladislaw lost his head,...

Second to None: A Military Romance, Volume 3 (of 3) I. WE TAKE THE FIELD AGAIN II. THE TWO PRESENTIMENTS III. BATTLE OF MINDEN IV. PRINCE XAVIER OF SAXONY V. THE BRIDGE OF FREYENTHAL VI. LES VOLONTAIRES DE CLERMONT VII. THE DUC DE BROGLIE...

Second to None: A Military Romance, Volume 2 (of 3) I. MARCH TO DOL II. A SKIRMISH III. HUSSARS AGAIN IV. MY NURSE V. NEWS OF THE ARMY VI. BOURGNEUF VII. LOVE AND ILLUSION VIII. I BECOME A SOUBRETTE IX. HAUTOIS X. THE BOUDOIR...

Second to None: A Military Romance, Volume 1 (of 3) In the following pages, and in delineating the character of my hero, I have chosen the ranks of the 2nd Dragoons, not because of any national partiality, but from the desire to describe the...

Samantha Among the Colored Folks: "My Ideas on the Race Problem"In preparing the new edition for popular sale it has been deemed advisable to change its title to Samantha Among the Colored Folks as one more in keeping with its character. Otherwise its contents...