Public Domain

Roy Blakeley's Funny-bone HikeThis is going to be the craziest story I ever wrote. But anyway every word of it is trueexcept a few small words. Even the punctuation is true. But I have to admit the story is crazy. Its the craziest story...

Cassell's book of birds; vol. 3PAGE THE CLIMBERS. The CLIMBING BIRDS (Scansor):The Tenuirostral. The FLOWER BIRDS (Certhiola). The BLUE BIRDS (Creba):The Sai, or Blue Caereba. The PITPITS (Certhiola):The Banana Quit, or Black and Yellow Creeper. The HONEYSUCKERS (Nectarinia):The Abu-Risch. The FIRE HONEYSUCKERS (thopyga):The Cadet....

The Noble RogueTranscriber's Notes: Blank pages have been eliminated. Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the original. A few typographical errors have been corrected. The cover page was created by the transcriber and can be considered public domain. M. Legros,...

Advice: A Book of PoemsSome of the poems which compose this book have appeared in the Yale Review, the Smart Set, the New Republic, Reedys Mirror, the Dial, the Touchstone, the Little Review, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, the Century, and the New York...

Joosef vakkamestariMiss kauniita, vihreit laidunkunnaita kohoaa taivaalle toinen toisensa perst ja miss laaksot niiden lomassa ovat loistavien punaisten ja sinisten keskukkien peitossa, siell on pieni kyl nimelt Altkirch. Siisti, valkea pikku kirkko punaisine tornineen ja puutalot yltympri seisovat tuulensuojassa vihret taustaa vasten, sill kyln...

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 02 of 12) 1. Tree-spiritsGreat forests of ancient Europe; tree-worship practised by all Aryan races in Europe; trees regarded as animate; tree-spirits, sacrifices to trees; trees sensitive to wounds; apologies for cutting...

La Vita Italiana nel Settecento: Conferenze tenute a Firenze nel 1895 Uno dei fenomeni che colpiscono maggiormente i lettori di storia quando riflettono sta nella costante accelerazione degli svolgimenti sintetici d'ogni natura, a misura che ci allontaniamo dalle epoche primigenie; sta nella sempre maggior...

The Messiah of the CylinderIf I recall the conversation of that evening so minutely as to appear tedious, I must plead that this was the last occasion on which I saw Sir Spofforth alive. In such a case, one naturally remembers incidents and recalls...

A Tour of Historic RichmondTo appreciate Richmond one must, before all else, remember that this old town has roots planted deep in the history of our country. Richmond was founded in 1737 by William Byrd II, of Westover on the James, forefather of two...

Gatlinburg and the Great SmokiesIn the Fall of 1940, Ernie Pyle and that girl who rode with him (his wife, Jerry) came to Gatlinburg and Ernie wrote eleven columns for the Scripps-Howard Newspapers about the village of Gatlinburg, the native people and a trip...

Fort Robinson: Outpost on the PlainsAs men of the Sioux Expedition marched out of Fort Laramie in the cold March weather of 1874 they probably had more than a few misgivings about the outcome of their adventure. They were headed for one of the...

Larry Dexter, Reporter; Or, Strange Adventures in a Great CityMy Dear Boys.Those of you who were interested in the first story of this series, telling how Larry Dexter rose from a copy boy to become a reporter, may desire to follow his further adventures...

A Historical Sketch of Company "B," Eighteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry - Three Months ServiceThe company was recruited by Frank Buell, at Marietta, Ohio, who was at the time Captain of the Union Blues, an independent company of the Ohio militia. It was enrolled...

The Purchase of the North Pole - A sequel to "From the earth to the moon"To my extreme regret, Mrs. Scorbitt, said J. T. Maston, I am obliged to say so. That there have been many remarkable female mathematicians, especially in Russia, I willingly...

SheavesBy E. F. BENSON Author of The Angel of Pain, Dodo, etc. FOURTH EDITION New York Doubleday, Page & Company Copyright, 1907, by Doubleday, Page & Company Published, October, 1907 All Rights Reserved Including that of Translation into Foreign Languages Including the Scandinavian {1}...

Harper's Round Table, December 29, 1896Augustus Albumblatt, young and new and sleek with the latest book-knowledge of war, reported to his first troop commander at Fort Brown. The ladies had watched for him, because he would increase the number of men, the officers because...

Stories of the EastMany people did not like Jessop. He had rather a brutal manner sometimes of telling brutal thingsthe truth, he called it. "They don't like it," he once said to me in a rare moment of confidence. "But why the devil shouldn't...

The New Jersey Law Journal, January, 1922 - Vol. XLV. No. 1. Jan., 1922At least three decisions of nation-wide import were made by the United States Supreme Court in December. The first, American Steel Foundries v. Tri-City Trades Council we give, probably in full,...

PoemsMost or these verses have appeared in the papersThe Nation, New Statesman, Cambridge Magazineto the editors of which I tender customary dues. Also, in 1917, a dozen were brought together to make a little book, Ad Familiares, of which a hundred copies were printed...

George WashingtonAmong all the numerous life stories written by Ferdinand Schmidt for the delectation and education of German youth, none surpasses that of Washington. The author has condensed his material, drawn from the most authoritative sources, in a masterly manner, and presents it in...