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Medley Dialect Recitations, Comprising a Series of the Most Popular Selections in German, French, and ScotchPupils in public schools on declamation days are limited to five minutes each for the delivery of "pieces." There is a great complaint of the scarcity of material for...

Woman and Puppet, Etc.About twelve years ago Oscar Wilde dedicated his beautiful Salome thus: mon Ami Pierre Lous. At that time not many gentlemen in England knew the name of the writer who was to become famous throughout the Land of the Mind as...

The Mentor: The Story of Coal, vol. 6, Num. 6, Serial No. 154, May 1, 1918While the vegetable origin of coal is beyond question, two rival views are current among geologists to account for the deposit of ancient plant material in the form of...

My Memoirs, Vol. VI, 1832 to 1833Preparations for my Fancy Dress BallI find that my lodgings are too much after the style of SocratesMy artist-decoratorsThe question of the supperI go for provisions to la Fert-VidameView of this capital town of the Canton, by night,...

Allen & Morton's West-London Directory for 1867When this work was commenced, there were ominous signs that the low price Directories published for this district had not answered the expectations of their proprietors, nor given satisfaction to the public. These and other reasons were indicative...

A Chautauqua IdylI have read Miss Livingstons little idyl with much pleasure. I cannot but think that if the older and more sedate members of the Chautauquan circles will read it, they will find that there are grains of profit in it; hidden grains,...

The SentimentalistsRhadampsicus and Nodalictha were on their honeymoon, and consequently they were sentimental. To be sure, it would not have been easy for humans to imagine sentiment as existing between them. Humans would hardly associate tenderness with glances cast from sets of sixteen eyes...

Nice Girl with 5 HusbandsTo be given paid-up leisure and find yourself unable to create is unpleasant for any artist. To be stranded in a cluster of desert cabins with a dozen lonely people in the same predicament only makes it worse. So Tom...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 726 - November 24, 1877It is vexing, even saddening, to think how large an amount of discovery, invention, and skill is applied to the murderous purposes of war. As we advance in civilisation, armies become...

Amadis of Gaul, Vol. 2Amadis and Galaor were within two leagues of London when they saw Ardian the Dwarf coming towards them as fast as horse could gallop. Never trust me, quoth Amadis, if he comes not with the news of some great mishap...

RunolaF nationer torde fr det nrvarande hafva, och f torde hafva haft, s mnga egentliga folkskalder som den Finska; och likvl sakna Finnarne hvad s mnga andra folkslag deremot ga, ett Sagans land fr sina Skalder, en Sngens , ett Guda-hem, om ock skapadt...

Heroines of "Mormondom" - The Second Book of the Noble Women's Lives SeriesIT affords us much pleasure to be able to present a second book of the "NOBLE WOMEN'S LIVES SERIES" to the public. It will, we feel confident, prove no less interesting than...

The Mormons: A Discourse Delivered Before the Historical Society of PennsylvaniaA few years ago, ascending the Upper Mississippi in the Autumn, when its waters were low, I was compelled to travel by land past the region of the Rapids. My road lay through the...

Book of Mormon Stories. No. 1. - Adapted to the Capacity of Young Children, and Designed for Use in Sabbath Schools, Primary Associations, and for Home ReadingThis little work containing Book of Mormon stories, is issued as a companion volume to the "Simple Bible...

The Spy: The Story of a Superfluous ManWhen Yevsey Klimkov was four years old, his father was shot dead by the forester; and when he was seven years old, his mother died. She died suddenly in the field at harvest time. And so strange...

Kallun kestit: Kolminäytöksinen ilveilySARKANEN, elkemies, koroilla-elj, ontuu leini. EETLA SARKASKA, hnen vaimonsa, siisti, hiljainen, mahtava. KALLU, sahan tymies, hanurin soittaja. HILMA, hnen morsiamensa, vuosipalveluksessa nimismiehell. LENSMANSKA, nopea, kovakourainen, pttvinen. PATRUUNSKA, sivistymtn, mutta sivistyneiss naimisissa. HRASDINSKA, hieno, ei ole koskaan kynyt talonpoikaisessa tuvassa. NIMISMIES. KOLME...

Rattle OKThe star salesman for mankies and the gentleman who was in charge of the janitors were putting on a display of Burmese foot-wrestling in one corner of the general office. The janitor foreman weighed fifty pounds less than the Burma gentleman, who was...

The Deep OneFor centuries, the rains swept eight million daily tons of land into the sea. Mountains slowly crumpled to ocean floors. Summits rose again to see new civilizations heaped upon fossils of the old. It was the way of the Earth and men...

A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs - Comprising French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese and Danish, with English Translations and a General IndexWhile engaged in editing my Handbook of English Proverbs, it occurred to me that a Collection of Foreign Proverbs, arranged in monographs, and brought...

Did Betsey Ross Design the Flag of the United States of America? - Publication of the Scottsville Literary SocietyOn Saturday, the fourteenth of June, 1777, the Continental Congress, then in session in Philadelphia, adopted a resolution which reads as follows: Resolved, that the flag...