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It's Your Fairy Tale, You Know HE childrens room of the Library was very still. Once in a while a murmur arose at the delivery desk, or some squeaky-shoed small feet crossed from open shelves to reading table. Occasionally a helpful child leaned across...

Helianth. Band 1 - Bilder aus dem Leben zweier Menschen von heute und aus der norddeutschen Tiefebene Georg, zum Abgrunde des Sommers hinabgesunken, lag in der Tiefe des Grillenmeers. ber ihm hoch, in einer schnen Ewigkeit gab es einen Vormittag, Insel der Sonnenfriedlichkeit, und...

Joseph Pennell's Pictures of the Wonder of Work - Reproductions of a Series of Drawings, Etchings, and Lithographs, Made by Him about the World, 1881-1915, with Impressions and Notes by the Artist Work to-day is the greatest thing in the world, and the artist...

Iceland: Horseback tours in saga landTranscribers Note: Obvious printers errors have been corrected. Discrepancies in spelling and hyphenation have generally been left as is, unless there was an overwhelming majority for one option, in which case an error was assumed and rectified. This Foreword,...

The Etymology of Local Names - With a short introduction to the relationship of languages. Teutonic names.Languages, says the author of The Cosmos, compared with each other, and considered as objects of the natural history of the human mind, being divided into families according...

Ontrein tarinoitaHn oli matkalla Karjalan pyhill mailla omin silmin nhdkseen sit, joka oli lapsuudesta saakka hnen mielikuvitustansa kiehtonut. Salon kapeata polkua hn astuu ja kun hn silm taakseen, siell perss pyrkiv toveriaan, kuvastuu kasvoille malttamaton ilme, joka kuitenkin pian vaihtuu hymyksi ja leikiksi; hnt...

Dictionnaire d'argot fin-de-siècleCest donc un Dictionnaire vcu, tudi sur le vif. Sil nest pas aussi savant que ceux de MM. Jean Rigaud, Alfred Delvau et Lordan Larchey, il a au moins le mrite de ntre pas fantaisiste; il nest pas lcho attnu par une...

L'amiral Du Casse, Chevalier de la Toison d'Or (1646-1715) - Étude sur la France maritime et coloniale (règne de Louis XIV)Possdant, parmi mes papiers de famille, quelques documents sur la marine militaire et marchande, sur les colonies franaises et trangres, ainsi que sur les...

La IlíadaDOCTOR EN FILOSOFA Y LETRAS Y EN DERECHO, CATEDRTICO NUMERARIO DE LENGUA Y LITERATURA GRIEGAS EN LA UNIVERSIDAD DE BARCELONA, INDIVIDUO CORRESPONDIENTE DE LA REAL ACADEMIA DE BUENAS LETRAS DE LA MISMA CAPITAL No sin temor pongo en tus manos esta versin en...

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX. No. 1004, March 25, 1899Miss Colbourne was expecting a visitor to tea. Not to the ordinary lodging-house meal which was prepared for herself every evening, but to a special four oclock tea, every detail of which was arranged...

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX. No. 1003, March 18, 1899 OUR HERO. OUR LILY GARDEN. IN THE TWILIGHT SIDE BY SIDE. SOME NEW GUITAR MUSIC. A VICE-REGAL DINNER-PARTY. ABOUT PEGGY SAVILLE. GOOD CHEER FOR WOMEN WORKERS. OLD ENGLISH COTTAGE HOMES; HIS GREAT REWARD....

Ambition and SuccessIn a factory where mariners compasses are made, the needles, before they are magnetized, will lie in any position, wherever they are placed, but from the moment they have been touched by the mighty magnet and have been electrified, they are never...

The Passing of Mars: A Modern Morality PlayOnce, long ago, a peasant greatly desired to visit his king that he might obtain of him judgment and equity, and perhaps find favor. But he said within himself, I am a faulty man; a homespun smock...

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX. No. 1005, April 1, 1899A lady came out of a little house set in the corner of a quiet street on the northern edge of Bloomsbury. The house she left was tiny and odd-shaped, and seemed to have...

Romancero selecto del CidLa historia literaria nos seala, como objeto de incomparable nombrada, los hroes que ocupan el primer lugar en las grandes y poco numerosas epopeyas, hijas legtimas del genio de un pueblo. Al retratar el poeta venusino, y por cierto con colores...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 735, January 26, 1878Somewhat more than forty years ago, Mr Baillie Fraser published a lively and instructive volume under the title A Winters Journey (Tatr) from Constantinople to Teheran. Political complications had arisen between Russia...

Through Unknown Tibet In publishing the following account of a journey across Tibet and China, it has been my object to describe in a simple manner all that I did and saw from beginning to end, in the hope that some future traveller may...

Fresh Every Hour - Detailing the Adventures, Comic and Pathetic of One Jimmy Martin, Purveyor of Publicity, a Young Gentleman Possessing Sublime Nerve, Whimsical Imagination, Colossal Impudence, and, Withal, the Heart of a Child. JIMMY MARTINS heart persisted in acting like the well-known eyes...

The Saint of the Dragon's Dale: A Fantastical TalePATTER, patter,the rain had beaten all day on the brown roofs of Eisenach. The wind swept in raw gusts across the rippling ocean of pines and beeches which crowded upon the little town from many a...

Doctor IzardIT was after midnight. Quiet had settled over the hospital, and in Ward 13 there was no sound and scarcely a movement. The nurse, a strong and beautiful figure, had fallen into a reverie, and the two patients, which were all the ward...