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Neighbourhood: A year's life in and about an English villageIf you love the quiet of the countrythe real quiet which is not silence at all, but the blending of a myriad scarce-perceptible soundsyou will get it in Windlecombe, heaped measure, pressed down, and running...

The Civil War Battles of Chickamauga and ChattanoogaThe following pages have been written after a careful study of the Official records and other Civil War library books to which I have had access over a period of years, and not upon the recollection of...

Girls in BooklandInside this world in which we live there is another world, a very wonderful world, that is ours for the taking. Many things in the world we live in every day are denied to us. Maybe for the reason that we cannot...

EmlékezésekNaplt soha sem vezettem. Rendszeres s sszefgg emlkiratot ksziteni nincs szndkom. Pedig taln rdemes volna. Az n emlkirataim taln rdekesebbek s taln fontosabbak volnnak, mint sok aprbb s nagyobb ember emlkirata, a mely nlunk vagy msutt megjelent. De bizony nem nmagam miatt. Hiszen nagy...

Benjamin FranklinThe Franklins of Boston were poor, numerous, lively and intelligent. There were seventeen children in all, seven by their fathers first wife, who had died after Josiah Franklin brought her from England to America; and ten by his second wife, Abiah, Benjamins mother....

Building and Flying an Aeroplane - A practical handbook covering the design, construction, and operation of aeroplanes and glidersThis book was transcribed from scans of the original found at the Internet Archive and at Google Books. I have rotated some images. Tables are treated...

The Horse of America in His Derivation, History, and DevelopmentGeneral View of the Field Traversed. In undertaking to fulfill a promise made years ago, to write a history of the American Trotting Horse and his ancestors, I am met with the inquiry: What were...

The Adventures of a Woman HoboThat is what Dr. Graves said to me to-day and he is in a position to know what he is talking about. But I cant believe it! Why, I can do the work of two women. Havent I supported...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 744, March 30, 1878The corvette Lyre, one of Her Majestys vessels, is to be imagined as lying at anchor off the mouth of the river Langhat, in the Straits of Malacca, a long heavy ground-swell...

Humorists of the Pencil: Phil MayMrs. Brown: Oh yes, my Lady, he do Preach quite beautiful; but then, you see, he dont Practise. So when my poor old Man be troubled with the Rheumatics, I have to send for the Doctor in the Village,...

Don Juan három éjszakája: RegényA hotel mgtt stt fenyerdk mentek a hegynek fel. A fenyerdkn tl mr a zord hegy meztelen kteste ltszott. A hotel eltt szles terrasz volt; messze el lehetett rla ltni a siksgra. A terrasz szkein s padjain fehrruhs s tarkaruhs...

Revolving Lights: Pilgrimage, Volume 7 In the ordinary novel, the novelist stands on the banks of the river of life chronicling how and when people arise, and how it is that things happen to them. But Miriam (the central figure of Dorothy Richardsons work)...

The Little Review, May 1914 (Vol. 1., No. 3) It is well-nigh incredible that Edwin Bjrkman, of his own free will, should have written the open letter to President Wilson on behalf of American literature which appeared in the April Century. Whenever a man...

Eugenie, Empress of the FrenchIn a recent interview at her villa in the Riviera, the ex-Empress Eugnie is reported to have said: I have lived; I have been; I do not ask more. I ask not to be remembered. Between my past and my...

The Peacock Feather: A RomanceThe sea, which all day long had lain blue and sparkling, was changing slowly to a warm grey shot with moving purple and gold. The sky flamed with crimson and amber. But gradually the vivid warmth sank and faded; day...

The Astonishing Adventure of Jane SmithThe dining-room of Molloys flat had not been built to receive twenty-five guests, but the Delegates of twenty-five affiliated Organisations had been crowded into it. The unshaded electric light glared down upon men of many types and nationalities. It...

Autographs for Freedom, by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Thirty-five Other Eminent WritersFew better evidences of the deep interest which most of the leading minds in America take in the question of slavery can be afforded than are contained in this book. The ablest...

The Tyranny of Shams This book is a frank criticism of most of the dominant ideas and institutions of our time: a confession of faith in nearly all the more daring heresies which hold, so to say, the firing line of our literature: a...

Jean de Thommeray; Le colonel EvrardCest toi, sur chrie, mon refuge et ma consolation, que je ddie ce rcit, commenc sous tes yeux. tions-nous assez tristes et malheureux alors! Tu mas appris que les plus mauvais jours, lorsquils sont traverss prs des tres quon...

The Horse and His RiderThe writer of this little volume deems it only fair to forewarn his readers that he is not, and never has been, an inhabitant of that variegated region in creation commonly called "the sporting world." He has never bred, raced,...