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Vähäinen kertomus Muinais-Suomalaisten pyhistä menoistaKussakin kansassa her jo aikaseen joku jumaluuden tieto ja ksitys. Vaan kukali sukukunta edestyy sivistyksen tiell, sikli muuttuu ja muodostuu entinen uskoutensakin; ja jommoinen kansa tietonsa ja laatunsa puolesta itse ompi, arvoin semmoisia ovat ne jumalatkin, joita se mielessns kuvaelee...

Tietoja maailman kansoista, heidän tavoista, uskonnoista ja vaiheistaSek uskontomme pyht alku-tiedot, ett muutkin kansojen vanhimmat muistojutut viittaavat siihen, ett ihmis-kunnan alku-per on ollut Keski-aasiassa. Siell on luontokin niin runsaasti jakanut kauneuttansa, ett nmt paikkakunnat Moseksen kirjoissa tydell oikeudella kutsutaan "Paratiisiksi" eli "Jumalan puutarhaksi". Pyh...

Instead of the Thorn: A NovelOn a June evening, Mr. and Mrs. Radcliffe were entertaining their New York friends the Lindsays at dinner at the South Shore Club. The dining-room, with its spacious semicircle of glass, is a place where Chicago may entertain New...

The Hermit of MarsWhen Martin Devere was 23 and still working on his Master's, he was hurt by a woman. It was then that he decided that the only things that were worthwhile in life were pure art and pure science. That, of course,...

Suomenkielinen Runollisuus Ruotsinvallan aikana - ynnä Kuvaelmia Suomalaisuuden HistoriastaAineet, joista nyt yleisn ksiin lhtev teos on kyhtty, nimittin suomenkieliset runot ja virret, ovat nykyisin aikoina kertyt Pohdon toimen kautta ja hnen perintnn tulleet yliopiston haltuun. Sen tallessa lytyvt melkein kaikki tss mainitut runoelmat. Muutamat...

Ravished Armenia - The Story of Aurora Mardiganian, the Christian Girl Who Lived Through the Great MassacresOne of the most striking photographs of the deportations that have come out of Armenia. Here is shown a column of Christians on the path across the great...

The Masked WorldAt ten million miles, it was a sullen yellow eye. At one million, a scarred and evil leer. Outside the smoking circle our landing-jets had sterilized, it was a hideous veil of hairy black tentacles and huge sallow blooms, hiding the riddle...

Devlin the BarberThe manner in which I became intimately associated with a fearful mystery with which not only all London but all England was ringing, and the strange, inexplicable Being whom the course of events brought to my knowledge, are so startling and wonderful,...

Extracts from the Diary of William C. Lobenstine, December 31, 1851-1858Christian Lobenstine or William C. Lobenstine, as he called himself later on in this country, was born in Eisfeld, Dukedom of Meiningen, on November eighth, eighteen hundred and thirty-one. He was the youngest in...

A Hitch in SpaceWell, Im a pretty nice guy and so having two of me in the ship didnt seem a particularly bad idea. At first. In fact thered be advantages of it, I thought. For instance, Jeff liked to talk a weary lot...

NumantiaThis is an attempt to render for the first time into readable English verse the one great drama of Cervantes. It was presented on the Madrid stage about the year 1586, during the reign of Philip II., and was received with great applause as...

The Art of LivingRogers, the book-keeper for the past twenty-two years of my friend Patterson, the banker, told me the other day that he had reared a family of two boys and three girls on his annual salary of two thousand two hundred dollars;...

The World's Earliest Music - Traced to Its Beginnings in Ancient Lands by Collected Evidence of Relics, Records, History, and Musical Instruments from Greece, Etruria, Egypt, China, Through Asyria and Babylonia, to the Primitive Home, the Land of Akkad and SumerTHE MAKING OF SOUND...

Language: Its Nature, Development and OriginThe distinctive feature of the science of language as conceived nowadays is its historical character: a language or a word is no longer taken as something given once for all, but as a result of previous development and at...

Der Weltverkehr - Telegraphie und Post, Eisenbahnen und Schiffahrt, in ihrer Entwickelung dargestelltDer vorliegende Text wurde anhand der 1887 erschienenen Buchausgabe so weit wie mglich originalgetreu wiedergegeben. Zeichensetzung und offensichtliche typographische Fehler wurden stillschweigend korrigiert. Ungewhnliche sowie inkonsistente Schreibweisen wurden beibehalten, insbesondere wenn diese...

His Honour, and a LadyThe Sahib walks! said Ram Prasannad, who dusted the office books and papers, to Bundal Singh the messenger, who wore a long red coat with a badge of office, and went about the business of the Queen-Empress on his two...

When You Giffle...I was a little bit worried when I saw Captain Hannah again. I thought he might have decided he wanted his elephants back, and I'd grown sort of attached to them. Although I couldn't break the baby of the habit of nibbling...

The God-PlllnkGrg and Yrl had journeyed all night, with their eyes on that distant glinting speck in the sky. Over cold-crusted sand dunes and jagged crater walls they had flowed, crept, bounded, oozed, toward the spot where the God must land if its course...

The Turquoise Story Book: Stories and Legends of Summer and NatureThe beauty of the world gradually reveals itself to the child who forms the habit of observation. Through companionship with Nature, supplemented by the reading of books which foster an interest in the ever-varying...

William—An EnglishmanWilliam Tully was a little over three-and-twenty when he emerged from the chrysalis stage of his clerkdom and became a Social Reformer. His life and doings until the age of twenty-three, had given small promise of the distinction of his future career; from...