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Mystery of the Ambush in India By ANDY ADAMS Contents It was sunset along the Calcutta waterfront. The reflection of the vivid tropical sky turned the murky water of the Hooghly River into a rippling rainbow. The river was alive with a variety of...

The Old Chelsea Bun-House: A Tale of the Last CenturyIt is a sad Thing when a Lady of Quality, who has been a Toast in her Youth, and has seen the white-gloved Beaux, as Mr. Pope calls them, bowing to her from the Pit,...

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Die Moral des Hotels: TischgesprächeGesprche mit mir zu Tisch! Wie schn lt sich an der Tafel reden, wenn die Runde liebenswrdig, wenn das Essen gut und der Appetit nicht verdorben ist! Wie frhlich lt sich nach einer edlen Flasche philosophieren, wenn man aus feiner...

AymerisCET ouvrage, le premier que jaie crit, devait paratre en 1914. Jtais en train den rdiger les parties Enfance et Jeunesse, daprs des notes et sans prtendre composer un roman, quand je rencontrai Joachim Gasquet, dont jeusse souhait que le nom figurt en tte...

Folksångerna om Robin Hood: Akademisk afhandlingEn fremling, som uppehller sig ngon tid i London, underlter vl icke gerna, ifall han har sinne fr folksng och folkmelodier, att beska Evans' Music and Supper Rooms i Covent-garden. Bland de mnga snger, hvilka hafva bifallet fr dagen...

World in a BottleI heard the siren in my phones. I glanced out the left side of my helmet to find a blue-clad figure on a motorcycle looming up beside me, waving me toward the shoulder. A law-abider to the last gasp of asphyxia,...

The Back of Our HeadsOn the other hand, that particular cell or entity which this report deals with exhibited at all times marked individualityeven eccentricityand will hereinafter be referred to as "she." This is because "she" invariably assumed a female form when visiting us,...

Arcturus Times ThreeTrial-and-error familiarization with new life-forms is dangerously impractical on a far planet, where the representation of Earth men may be a solitary five-man crew. The loss of even a single man constitutes, in effect, obliteration of one-fifth of that planet's Earth-population. This...

Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 1 (of 3)To avoid duplication, the page numbering in the publisher's Book Catalog at the back of the book has a suffix C added, so that for example page [23] in the Catalog...

Honoré de BalzacBalzac's short stories, which we call in French nouvelles are, generally speaking, not the best-known or the most popular part of his work; nor are they the part best fitted to give a true and complete idea of his genius. But some...

A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the Years 1808 and 1809 - In Which is Included, Some Account of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Mission, under Sir Harford Jones, Bart. K. C. to the Court of PersiaThe history of...

Kadonnut maailma Mun aikeeni on vain t: Tahdon poikaa miehenlaista sek miest poikamaista lyhyen hetken viihdytt. Mr E. D. Malone pyyt saada ilmoittaa, ett professori G.E. Challenger on peruuttanut sek julkaisua koskevan kieltonsa ett haasteuhkansa solvaavan kirjoitustavan johdosta sek ett hn, tultuaan vakuutetuksi siit,...

Big Bend National Park, TexasThe major attractions at Big Bend National Park in west Texas are the Rio Grande and its canyons, the Chisos Mountains, and the Chihuahuan Desert. Part 1 of the handbook gives a brief introduction to the park and its history;...

The Sorceress, v. 2 of 3A Novel. BY M R S. O L I P H A N T, AUTHOR OF THE CHRONICLES OF CARLINGFORD, THE CUCKOO IN THE NEST, ETC., ETC. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: F. V. WHITE & Co., 31,...

Henry Smeaton: A Jacobite Story of the Reign of George the First.By the side of the large piece of water in St. James's Square, looking at the playing of the fountain, (which was afterwards congealed into a great ugly statue,) and watching the amusements...

Preferred RiskThe liner from Port Lyautey was comfortable and slick, but I was leaning forward in my seat as we came in over Naples. I had been on edge all the way across the Atlantic. Now as the steward came through the compartments to...

The Bee-keeper's Manual - or Practical Hints on the Management and Complete Preservation of the Honey-bee.Twelve years have elapsed since the original publication of the Bee-keepers Manual. For the fourth time the author is called upon to revise his little book, and he still...

Vitruvii De architectura libri decemTranscribers Note: It would be wise to approach this book with a reference guide to Latin scribal abbreviations to hand. The Unicode characters used to render these are not supported by all fonts and may not display correctly. Additionally, there...

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