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Maid—To OrderThe willowy blonde behind the desk blinked blue eyes and frowned. "But Mr. Cornith," she insisted, "you fit Miss Lucy Hollowell's specifications perfectly. She even specified that the man must be very exacting, meticulous and choosy. Certainly you are being all of that...

The Builders"Looks as completely dead as all the rest," he said to his companion. "New City has a big enough population anyhow, as far as I'm concerned. Not that it's important, I suppose. There's always plenty of space in which to expand, but you...

With John Paul JonesIt was about noon on a day late in September in the year 1777. A group of young men and boys were lounging upon some benches in the shade of two big buttonwoods directly across from the quaint old State House...

Daughters of MenOf your kindly interpretation of the laughter here and there in this volume, purporting to be a picture of modern Greek life, I have no doubt. You at least know that I lack neither friendship nor sympathy with your race. We like...

The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. I, Nos. 1-4, 1867In concluding the first volume of this Journal, the editor wishes to say a few things regarding its contents, even at the risk of repeating, in some cases, what has already been said. He hopes...

KeetjeEt je me levais de mon vieux canap, et prenais au portemanteau tout un attirail de prostitue, quune fille morte de tuberculose avait laiss chez nous. Je mettais les bottines talons dmesurs, la robe trois volants et trane, un trait de noir sous les...

Ystävän kirjaI. Ensimmiset valloitukset. 1. Kummitukset. 2. Valkopukuinen nainen. 3. Min annan tmn ruusun sinulle. 4. Edvardin lapset. 5. Rypleterttu. 6. Kultasilm Marcelle. 7. Huomautus, kirjoitettu pivnkoitteessa. Joulukuun 31 p:n 188-. Miten hartaasti sit mielessni toistelenkaan ja miten vakavalta ja tyteliselt se tuntuukaan! Se...

Metsästysretki: Draamallinen tuokiokuvaNykyaikaisen aistikkaasti sisustettu makuuhuone. Taustalla alkoovi, jossa kaksi levet ja matalaa vuodetta. Niiden edess avaralaskoksiset uutimet, jotka voi vet vuoteiden eteen. Siell tll taiteellisen muotoisia shklamppuja. Keskell huonetta tilapisesti siihen nostettu ruokapyt ja sen ymprill kaksi tuolia. Vasemmalla katsojista mukava sohva, sein-...

Die Umsegelung Afrikas durch phönizische Schiffer ums Jahr 600 v. Chr. Geb. Es giebt wenige Fragen in der Geschichte der Geographie, welche Gegenstand so lebhaft und so andauernd gefhrter Debatten gewesen sind, wie die nach der Wahrheit des herodoteischen Berichtes ber die Umsegelung Afrikas,...

Histoire du Canal de SuezJe me suis rendu avec empressement laimable invitation de mes collgues de la Socit des gens de lettres. Dailleurs, cest toujours avec un grand plaisir que je reviens dans ce quartier des coles. Je ne puis oublier que cest lcole...

Preliminary Report on Gowganda Mining Division District of Nipissing OntarioThe portion of the Montreal River region with which the present report deals lies in the extreme western part of the District of Nipissing, in the neighbourhood of N. Lat. 4745, and about 85 miles...

Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State For the Home Department, from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an Inquiry Into the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain; With AppendicesOn the 14th May, 1838, the Poor Law Commissioners presented to Lord...

Im Gold- und SilberlandIn dem vorhergehenden Bande[1] habe ich den Leser ber die Prrieen, das Felsengebirge und durch die Alkaliwste in die Hauptstadt des damals neu errichteten Territoriums Nevada, nach der Stadt Carson gefhrt. Es war eine hlzerne Stadt; ihre Einwohnerzahl betrug zweitausend. Die...

De Chineesche Filosofie, Toegelicht voor niet-Sinologen, 2. Lao Tsz'Vr mijne vertaling van de Tao Teh King te lezen, is het eerst nog noodig, eenige nadere bizonderheden omtrent dit werk te weten, en zich een denkbeeld te vormen van wat vertalingen uit het chineesch over...

Ben, the Trapper; Or, The Mountain Demon: A Tale of the Black HillsIn a deep defile among the Black Hills, far out on the western plains, three men had made a camp. They were of that wonderful race who have done more to develop...

World of the MadHe walked slowly through the curling purple mists, feeling the ground roll and quiver under his feet, hearing the deep-voiced rumble of shifting strata far underground. There were voices in the fog, singing in high unhuman tones, and no man had...

The BarrierThere were maybe ten or fifteen people to see him off. They weren't cheering. They stood in the gray curtain of rain, hunched over with their hands in their storm-coat pockets. Behind them was the vague bulk of the Experimental Station. And beyond...

The Boy Scout Pathfinders; Or, Jack Danby's Best AdventureDing-dong! Ding-dong! Ding-dong! Ding-dong! clashed the great bell on the locomotive, and with much creaking and clanking and letting off of steam, with iron scraping on iron and one last, long drawn whistle of the air-brakes,...

Race Distinctions in American LawAmerica has to-day no problem more perplexing and disquieting than that of the proper and permanent relations between the white and the colored races. Although it concerns most vitally the twenty millions of Caucasians and the eight millions of Negroes...

Voyage aux PyrénéesMais jai des torts graves, et qui me rabaissent fort. Je nai gravi le premier aucune montagne inaccessible; je ne me suis cass ni jambe ni bras; je nai point t mang par les ours; je nai sauv aucune jeune Anglaise emporte...