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Rules for a Dictionary Catalogue - U. S. Bureau of Education Special Report on Public Libraries—Part II, Third EditionThere are plenty of treatises on classification, of which accounts may be found in Edwardss Memoirs of Libraries and Petzholdts Bibliotheca Bibliographica. The classification of the...

The World of Dreams[x] [xi] INTRODUCTION WHEN we fall asleep we enter a dim and ancient house of shadow, unillumined by any direct ray from the outer world of waking life. We are borne about through its chambers, without conscious volition of our own;...

W. Kent & Co's Annual Catalogue, April 1859The Merrie Days of England; Sketches of the Olden Time. By Edward M'Dermott. Illustrated with Twenty large Engravings from drawings by Joseph Nash, George Thomas, Birket Foster, Edward Corbould, etc., and ornamented with numerous initial letters and...

A Short History of AstronomyI have tried to give in this book an outline of the history of astronomy from the earliest historical times to the present day, and to present it in a form which shall be intelligible to a reader who has...

The Marriage of ElinorJohn Tatham, barrister-at-law, received one summer morning as he sat at breakfast the following letter. It was written in what was once known distinctively as a ladys hand, in pointed characters, very fine and delicate, and was to this effect: Dear...

Comediettas and FarcesI HAVE been asked to write a few words of Preface to this little book of Plays. I may state that two are original; for the remainder (being too old an offender in this respect to do otherwise), I thankfully admit my...

The Defensive Armour and the Weapons and Engines of War of Mediæval Times, and of the "Renaissance."This volume has grown out of some notes printed in the Archologia liana in 1898, and added to as any new facts and lights presented themselves to me....

Mound State Monument, Moundville, AlabamaThe Black Warrior River winds slowly among the rolling southern foothills. On the banks of this river many centuries ago there flourished a great Indian metropolis. Here dwelt a pleasant and contented people whose story is not of warring braves...

Broken to Harness: A Story of English Domestic LifeThe office of the Statesman daily journal was not popular with the neighbours, although its existence unquestionably caused a diminution of rent in its immediate proximity. It was very difficult to find--which was an immense advantage...

The Story of Spanish Painting BY CHARLES H. CAFFIN AUTHOR OF HOW TO STUDY PICTURES THE STORY OF DUTCH PAINTING ETC. LONDON, W. C. T. FISHER UNWIN 1, ADELPHI TERRACE 1910 {iv} Copyright, 1910, by The Century Co. Published November, 1910 Printed in the...

Feminism in Greek Literature from Homer to AristotleThere is a question sometimes put to scholars, a doubt often latent in scholars mindsHow was it that Greek civilisation, with all its high ideals and achievements, fell so easily before what seems at first sight an...

George Crabbe: Poems, Volume 3 (of 3)The very miscellaneous nature of the contents of this third and last volume of the present edition of Crabbes Poems obliges me to trouble the reader with a rather lengthy series of prefatory remarks. Before, however, entering on...

Minna and Myself Our thanks to the following publications, for their kindness in permitting us to reprint, in this volume, poems that have appeared in their pages: The Little Review; Poetry; the New Republic; the Century; the New York Tribune; the Touchstone; the Seven...

Legendary Tales of the Highlands (Volume 3 of 3) - A sequel to Highland RamblesTo understand my story the better, gentlemen, you must yemaygine to yourselves a snug well-doing Nairnshire farmers onstead,1 situated in the parish of Auldearn, with a comfortable dwelling-house, of two...

North of 36There had been the usual mealtime silence of the cattle hands, broken only by rasp or chatter of steel on tin; but as the tall girls shadow fell at the door of the log house Jim Nabours, foreman of Del Sol, rose...

Mr. and Mrs. SênIn this day of kaleidoscopic changes, of brand-new ultra smartness, of emancipations so tremendous, so upheaving, so incalculably far-reaching that to some they almost seem to forecast the end of all things, still there are old bulwarks of customs, of character,...

The Desert HealerThe slanting rays of the afternoon sun, unusually powerful for the time of year, lay warmly on the southern slopes of a tiny spur of the Little Atlas Mountains, glowing redly on the patches of bare earth and naked rock cropping out...

The Seven ConundrumsThe wind, storming up from the sea, beat against the frail little wooden building till every rafter creaked and groaned. The canvas sides flapped and strained madly at the imprisoning ropes. Those hanging lamps which were not already extinguished swung in perilous...

Angels' Shoes, and Other StoriesThe Horado, huge, torpid vein of the back-country, after taking tribute of a thousand miles of jungle was suddenly released into the ocean, whose clear and fertile depths it stained with the earths rot and detritus. Where these two encountered...

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic work is discovered and reported to you within...