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John Baring's HouseSitting on the doorstep, Elizabeth Scott leaned her head against the stone wall of the old house. The June twilight was closing in and a hard days work was done. Three meals had been prepared and half of the large garden had...

Making the NineThe cordial welcome given to Following The Ball by boy readers and parentssevere critics both, though from very different standpointshas led to the writing of this second story, in which baseball has a sufficiently important part to suggest the title. The authors...

A Candid History of the JesuitsIt is the historic custom of the Church of Rome to enlist in its service monastic or quasi-monastic bodies in addition to the ordinary clergy. In its hour of greatest need, at the very outbreak of the Reformation, the...

Träldomen i Norden: Ett blad ur den Svenska artbetsklassens älsta historiaInnan Sverge blef ett rike under en konung, bildade hvarje landskap ett litet rike fr sig. Vstergtland var ett land fr sig och stergtland ett land fr sig. P samma stt voro Sverges friga...

Seventeen Years in Paris: A Chaplain's StoryIn sending forth this brief account of my long chaplaincy in Paris, I desire to say that I do so at the request of many friends, who were kind enough to express their interest. It is not intended...

St. Andrews Ghost Stories - Fourth EditionMany years ago, about the time of the Tay Bridge gale, I was staying at Edinburgh with a friend of mine, an actor manager. I had just come down from the paint-room of the theatre, and was emerging...

Ruby: A Story of the Australian BushCHRISTMAS DAY in the Australian bush! Not the sort of Christmas Day we dwellers in bonnie Scotland or merry England are accustomed to. The sun is blazing down in remorseless strength upon the parched ground, where the few...

Historical record of the Seventeenth Regiment of Light Dragoons;—Lancers - Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1759 and of its subsequent services to 1841.The character and credit of the British Army must chiefly depend upon the zeal and ardour, by...

The Mail CarrierDan Evans, who was trudging along the dusty road, with his eyes fastened thoughtfully on the ground, and his mind so wholly given up to meditation that he did not know what was going on around him, stopped suddenly when these words...

A Sketch of the Life of Elizabeth T. Stone and of Her Persecutions - With an Appendix of Her Treatment and Sufferings While in the Charlestown McLean Assylum, Where She Was Confined Under the Pretence of InsanityFeeling that the public is very much deceived...

Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Volume 5D. (reading to audience). The bearer, my servant Ricardo, having hurt his challenger in a duel, I beg for him a few daysprotection in your court, till some consequent rancour be appeased. Let my long silence and absence...

Hämähäkkilaakso ja muita kertomuksiaPuolenpivn tienoissa joutui kolme takaa-ajajaa kuljettuaan virran uomassa ern mutkan ympri kki nkemn hyvin leven ja avaran laakson. Hankala, kiemurteleva, vierukivinen vesivako, jota pitkin he niin kauvan olivat tavotelleet karkureita ksiins, leveni tss laajaksi rinteeksi. Sama sisllinen tunne sai heidt nyt...

A Book of Gems, or, Choice selections from the writings of Benjamin FranklinThe writings of no man among the Christian Brotherhood have been so universally popular as those of Benjamin Franklin, save the extended writings of Alexander Campbell. Franklins volumes of Sermons, Debates and...

The Future of the Women's MovementThose who open this book expecting to find in it a romantic sketch, rather in the style of Erewhon, of what the civilisation of the twentieth century is likely to be after women have won their freedom, will be...

Brazil, the River Plate, and the Falkland Islands - With the Cape Horn route to Australia. Including notices of Lisbon, Madeira, the Canaries, and Cape Verde.Cursory Retrospect of South American Discoveries.Their difficulties then, how to be estimated at present.Their interest to this age as...

Fairy Tales from Gold Lands: Second SeriesIn the pleasant Christmas-time I greet the children everywhere. To some I shall not be a stranger, for we have met before, not face to face, but in the pages of the last years little book. In the...

Memoirs of John Abernethy - With a View of His Lectures, His Writings, and Character; with Additional Extracts from Original Documents, Now First PublishedIn publishing a third edition of these Memoirs, I have to express the grateful sense I entertain of the indulgence with...

KuolemaIvan Jegorovitsh Shebekin yksityisess virkahuoneessa, suuressa oikeuspalatsissa, jossa paraikaa oli ksill Melvinskin juttu, kohtasivat toinen-toisensa heti istunnon jlkeen oikeuden jsenet sek yleinen syyttj. Syntyi keskustelu kuuluisasta Krasovskin asiasta. Fjodor Vasiljevitsh kiivastui ja koetti todistaa, ettei asia ollut tuomiovallan ratkaistavissa, Ivan Jegorovitsh vitti pinvastoin pysyen...

Practical Training for Running, Walking, Rowing, Wrestling, Boxing, Jumping, and All Kinds of Athletic Feats - Together with tables of proportional measurement for height and weight of men in and out of condition; etc. etc.Notwithstanding that so many books have been written on Physical...