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La leggenda di Saladino Il giovine erudito italiano, che ha pubblicato il breve studio del quale abbiamo letto il titolo,[1] non considera il suo se non come un saggio provvisorio e preparatorio; avrebbe in animo di riprenderlo pi tardi per allargarlo e domanda che...

Home Life in All Lands—Book III—Animal Friends and HelpersIn the earlier volumes of this series, man, as the maker of and dweller in the home, was dealt with in the varied aspects of his existence. But man is not the only occupant of the...

Uttara, the Legend of the TurquoiseThree of the most powerful and most beautiful of all the gods, Indra, Surya and Soma, had fallen foolishly, hopelessly in love with a mortal woman. She was the daughter of a Brahmin priest, a twice-born man, and so...

Watson's Jeffersonian Magazine, January, 1907is a mutual old line legal reserve company organized and doing business under The Legal Reserve Compulsory Deposit Law of Indiana, which is acknowledged by the best Insurance Authorities to be the most complete law for the protection of the...

Roberts' Chester Guide [1858]The visit of the Royal Agricultural Society of England to Chester in July, 1858, seems a fitting occasion on which to present to the public an entirely NEW EDITION of the CHESTER GUIDE, which has been carefully revised throughout, with the...

The Saint of the SpeedwayIf the reader will cast a thought back to the classic sea mystery of the Marie Celeste, it will be clear how much this book owes its inception to the extraordinary derelict, the mystery of which remains unsolved to this...

Bennie and the TigerA fair little English boy lay sleeping in the shady verandah of his Indian home. The servant who was left with him was unfaithful to her trust, and, while he slept, wandered away in search of pleasure. A treacherous tiger, prowling...

Luxurious Bathing Treatises and disquisitions sufficient to form a library of no inconsiderable dimensions have been written during the last three centuries on the subject of baths: boiling, freezing, variously medicatedincluding tar-water, steam, and spray; milk, whey, broth, mud, sand, and even earth-bathsin which...

Adventures in ThriftThe incidents, the stores, the organizations and the individuals described in this book are real, not fictitious. At the time that this book goes to press, each one of the societies mentioned is actively engaged in the task of reducing the cost...

The Life of Col. James GardinerThe Colonels mother was a lady of very excellent character; but it pleased God to exercise her with uncommon trials; for she lost not only her husband and her brother in the service of their country, but also her...

To a Youth at SchoolYour parents regard you with tender affection and anxious hope. Should it please Almighty God to spare your life, you will certainly be an instrument of increasing the great mass of sin and misery, or the small sum of piety...

Maria TheresaAmong the famous queens of the worldCatharine II of Russia, Elizabeth, Anne Boleyn, and Victoria of England, Mary Queen of Scots, Isabella of Spain, Louise of Prussia, Marie Antoinette, Marie and Catharine di Medici of France, and others, Maria Theresa of Austria holds...

"Let Us Have Peace" - Remarks of Logan H. Roots on the Assassination of Hon. James Hinds, Delivered in the House of Representatives, Washington, D. C., on Friday, January 22, 1869.The sad subject occupying the attention of this honorable body is one that bears...

Historias BrazileirasEm meiados do anno de 1861, o vaporsinho Alpha, sahindo da capital da provincia de Matto-Grosso, desceu para Corumb, e, por ordem do presidente de ento, o coronel Antonio Pedro de Alencastro, demandou a fz do rio Mondego ou Miranda, cuja corrente foi...

The Birds of Australia, Vol. 5 of 7If we regard the White Cockatoo of Van Diemens Land, that of the continent of Australia, and that of New Guinea as mere varieties of each other, this species has a more extensive range than most other...

Kristiina Lauritsantytär 2 (of 3): EmäntäIltaa ennen Simonin-messua laski Baard Petrinpojan laiva Birgsin lahteen. Nidarholman apotti oli itse ratsastanut rantaan sukulaistaan Erlend Nikulauksenpoikaa vastaan, tahtoen samalla toivottaa tervetulleeksi tmn kotiin tuoman nuoren vaimon. Vastanaineet aiottiin majoittaa yksi Viggin apotin omina vieraina. Erlend talutti kalmankalpean,...

Kuisma ja Helinä Heli hienohelma, neitsyt nuori, orpo, ottotytr Sankolassa seisoi luhdinsolass' sunnuntaina, piv lempesti likkyi kasvoillaan, olkapill vlkkyi kaunis kassa. Nuori tuomi tuoksui luhdin luona, varjo valui Helin suortuvilta, kun hn liinan sitoi leuvan alle, sinikirstust' otti virsikirjansa, rippilahjan itse rovastilta. Haassa linnut...

Links With the Past in the Plant WorldMY object in writing this book is primarily to call attention to some of the many questions which are raised by an enquiry into the relative antiquity of existing plants, and to illustrate the nature of the...

Nivernain kaunotar: Kertomus eräästä vanhasta aluksesta ja sen väestöstäAlphonse Daudet (s. 1840, k. 1897) kuuluu nykyaikaisista ranskalaisista kirjailijoista kaikkein suosituimpiin. Hn on etelranskalainen; todella herkullisella huumorilla, mutta samalla sydmellisell lmmll on hn kuvannut rakkaita maakuntalaisiaan pienehkiss novelleissa, joista tss mainittakoon "Taraskonin Tartarin", ja samoin...

A Journey Round My Room THE author of the Voyage autour de ma Chambre was the younger brother of Count Joseph de Maistre, a well-known writer upon political and philosophical subjects. Chambry was the place of their birth, but their family was of French...