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Bermuda HousesThe architect of today, in designing small houses, is beset with many exactions and complications. The high standard of living with its embarrassing variety of materials and appliances at the architect's disposal, the certainly high cost of labor and the desire for mechanical...

Uncle Wiggily Goes Swimming; Or, How the Frog Boys Surprised the Fox1. One day, as Uncle Wiggily was hopping through the woods, he looked toward a pond and saw Bully and Bawly No Tail, the frog boys, jumping from the end of the spring...

Postscripts It is probable that with the presentation of these, among the earliest of the writings of William Sidney Porter (O. Henry), there is nothing left to be added to the total of his work, and that they will close, as they in a...

Voyages du Capitaine Lemuel Gulliver, En Divers Pays Eloignes, Tome II de IIIDescription des Laputiens. Quelles sortes de Sciences sont en vogue chez eux. Ide abrege du Roi & de sa Cour. Manire dont lAuteur y est reu. Craintes & Inquitudesauxquelles les Habitans sont...

Experimental Mechanics - A Course of Lectures Delivered at the Royal College of Science for IrelandI here present the revised edition of a course of lectures on Experimental Mechanics which I delivered in the Royal College of Science at Dublin eighteen years ago. The...

The Footprints of the Jesuits"The Jesuits, by their very calling, by the very essence of their institution, are bound to seek, by every means, right or wrong, the destruction of Protestantism. This is the condition of their existence, the duty they must fulfill, or...

Superstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland - Collected Entirely from Oral SourcesThe object aimed at in the following pages is to put before the reader a statement, as complete and accurate as the writer can attain to, of the Superstitions and Antiquities...

Sex & Character - Authorised Translation from the Sixth German EditionAll thought begins with conceptions to a certain extent generalised, and thence is developed in two directions. On the one hand, generalisations become wider and wider, binding together by common properties a larger and...

Two, by Tricks: A NovelIt was the week after Ascot, and town was full. Society, which had been amusing itself with the cancans of the season--such as how the Duke of Pimlico, who had been hitherto regarded as the greatest screw in the world,...

How to Teach Reading in the Public Schools[17] [18] [19] It must be clear that no progress can be made in the teaching of any subject unless the teacher possess a definite standard of criticism; and, furthermore, it must be granted that the teacher...

Through Afro-America: An English Reading of the Race ProblemThe problem of the twentieth century, says Mr. W. B. Du Bois, is the problem of the colour line. That, no doubt, is the view of a man born within the veil; but, whatever our point...

Magic and FetishismIt is by no means easy to do justice to such a large, comprehensive, and at the same time vague subject as magic in the small compass of a Primer, and part of even that small space had to be devoted to...

The MesneviThe historian El Eflk was a disciple of Cheleb Emr rif, a grandson of the author of the Mesnev. rif died in A.D. 1320; but as the dates of rifs successors are carried down to A.H. 754 (A.D. 1353), when Eflks collection of...

Jack Miner and the Birds, and Some Things I Know about NatureMy reason, dear reader, for writing this book, I will assure you is not to expose my A, B, C education, but simply because my many friends have requested me to put into...

Beskrivelser og tegninger af Øster Marie Kirke med særlig hensyn til den oprindelige form.ster Marie Kirke paa Bornholm ligger ved Veien mellem Rnne og Svanike, omtrent en Mil fra den sidste. Den hrer til en Gruppe af Kirker, ialt 15, som omtrent samtidig ere...

The Man Who Killed the WorldIn his little tower, perched at the very peak of the great terraced pile of buildings which was his home and his citadel, Peter Groff sat brooding with hatred. The city, its factories, its vast plowed fields, lay stretched...

How to Cook in Casserole DishesThere is no doubt that the fashion of cooking in casseroles or earthenware dishes has come to stay in this country; and it is hardly a matter of surprise when the advantages of this form of cookery are really...

Food and Flavor: A Gastronomic Guide to Health and Good LivingIt is not often that an author is so fortunate as to have a subject which is of vital importance to everybody, without exception. Everybody eats, and everybody wants to enjoy his meals; yet...

Le sang de la sirèneJe mets ce livre sous vos auspices, madame, dabord parce quil ne saurait y en avoir pour lui de plus favorables, ensuite, parce que jai toutes raisons de croire que votre sympathie lui est davance assure. Il voque, en effet,...

The Space FlameCargyle wiped away the blood from a flesh wound over one eye. The body of a mutineer lay half across the threshold of the small cabin. They'd gotten that close to him. They were out there in the corridors, the mutineers, searching...