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Paris Nights, and Other Impressions of Places and People The first invitation I ever received into a purely Parisian interior might have been copied out of a novel by Paul Bourget. Its lure was thus phrased: Un peu de musique et dagrables femmes. It...

The City of Pleasure: A Fantasia on Modern Themes One of the three richly-uniformed officials who were in charge of the captive balloon, destined to be a leading attraction of the City of Pleasure, murmured this name warningly to his companions, as if to...

Teresa of Watling Street: A Fantasia on Modern Themes Since money is the fount of all modern romantic adventure, the City of London, which holds more money to the square yard than any other place in the world, is the most romantic of cities....

From the Log of the Velsa THE skipper, who, in addition to being a yachtsman, is a Dutchman, smiled with calm assurance as we approached the Dutch frontier in the August evening over the populous water of the canal which leads from Ghent to...

The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, December 1883After the fall of the Western Empire the Franks step into the foreground and show themselves of all the German tribes the most capable of founding a stable government. From the first they were distinguished from the others by...

Dix-sept histoires de marinsDaignez m'excuser d'abord: je sais merveille que vous ne lisez jamais de prface. Mais ne vous y trompez point: ceci n'a pas la vanit d'en tre une. Je serais fort embarrass d'avoir vous vanter, comme il faudrait, le poil de mon...

Vacation Camping for GirlsThere are some considerations in camping which are staple; that is, questions and needs all of us have to meet, just as there are staple foods which all of us must have. No one knows better than the old camper, who...

Blue Shirt and Khaki: A ComparisonThere is obvious reason for a detailed comparison between the fighting men of the United States and Great Britain. They have more in common than either army has with the soldiers of any other18 nation. They have both during...

The Logic of HegelThe present volume contains a translation, which has been revised throughout and compared with the original, of the Logic as given in the first part of Hegel's Encyclopaedia, preceded by a bibliographical account of the three editions and extracts from the...

Little Songs of Long Ago: More Old Nursery Rhymes Irregular spelling, punctuation, and numbering preserved. Ads from inside the dust jacket have been placed at the end. Midi, PDF, and MusicXML files have been provided for the songs in this e-book. To hear a...

Don Quixote of the Mancha, Retold by Judge ParryThis is the story that Miguel de Cervantes, Spaniard, published in 1605, which the world has been reading again and again ever since. Once upon a time there lived in a certain village in a province...

Niagara, and Other PoemsThe above lines were written September 3, 1901, and printed the following afternoon in the Buffalo Commercial, an hour or two before President McKinleys arrival in the city the evening before Presidents Day at the Pan-American Exposition. ......Buy Now (To Read...

Colony Treatment of the Insane and Other DefectivesThe subject of this paper might be called "Employment as a means of treating and caring for the insane and other defectives" the colony being the means of finding agreeable and profitable work for the inmates. As...

Erdgeist Ein Tierbndiger tritt, nachdem der aufgezogene Vorhang einen Zelteingang hat sichtbar werden lassen, in zinnoberrotem Frack, weier Krawatte, langen schwarzen Locken, weien Beinkleidern und Stulpstiefeln, in der Linken eine Hetzpeitsche, in der Rechten einen geladenen Revolver, unter Zimbelklngen und Paukenschlgen aus dem Zelt:...

The Wooden Hand: A Detective Story"Ah well, Miss Eva, I 'spose your pa'ull come home to spile things as he allays have done. It ain't no wonder, I ses, as you sits moping by the winder, looking double your age, and you only twenty,...

The White Room"Eleven o'clock and a windy night!" might have been the cry of a medival watchman at that hour on the 24th July 19--. Constable Mulligan was more reticent, as it formed no part of his duties to intimate publicly the time or...

The West Indies and the Spanish MainI am beginning to write this book on board the brig , trading between Kingston, in Jamaica, and Cien Fuegos, on the southern coast of Cuba. At the present moment there is not a puff of wind, neither...

The Federal Reserve Monster ITH "charity toward all and malice toward none" we indite this volume of criticism of the Federal Reserve "Bunking" System as it is "practiced" in America. We are not posing as a modern David, nor do we underrate the size...

Strong and Steady; Or, Paddle Your Own Canoe"Strong and Steady" is the third volume of the "Luck and Pluck Series." Though the story is quite distinct from its predecessors, it is intended to illustrate the same general principle. Walter Conrad, the hero, is unexpectedly...

A Book of Nimble Beasts: Bunny Rabbit, Squirrel, Toad, and "Those Sort of People"I know a Boy Scout who has never seen a weasel. Many weasels, I fancy, must have seen that Boy Scout. And I know a Girl who has never seen a...