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Russia: Its People and Its LiteratureRussia: Its People and Its LiteratureEmilia Pardo Bazn, the author of the following critical survey of Russian literature, is a Spanish woman of well-known literary attainments as well as wealth and position. Her life has been spent in association with men of mark, both...
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Ten Months in the Field with the BoersTen Months in the Field with the BoersTo you, General, who, from the Paradise of the Valiant, can read in my heart the sentiments of respect and affection that guide me, I dedicate these lines in token of the profound admiration of your former...
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One of Clive's Heroes: A Story of the Fight for IndiaOne of Clive's Heroes: A Story of the Fight for IndiaI have not attempted in this story to give a full account of the career of Lord Clive. That has been done by my old friend Mr. Henty in With Clive in India. It...
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Ian Hamilton's MarchIan Hamilton's MarchThis book is a continuation of those letters to the Morning Post newspaper on the South African war, which have been lately published under the title 'London to Ladysmith via Pretoria.' Although the letters had been read to some extent in their...
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La SorcièreLa SorcièreSprenger dit (avant 1500): Il faut dire l'hrsie des sorcires, et non des sorciers; ceux-ci sont peu de chose.Et un autre sous Louis XIII: Pour un sorcier, dix mille sorcires. Nature les fait sorcires.C'est le gnie propre la Femme et son temprament. Elle...
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Makers and Romance of Alabama HistoryMakers and Romance of Alabama HistoryThe present volume is intended to be a substantial contribution to the history of Alabama, by giving expansion to the recorded lives of its foremost citizensmen who alike on the field and in the forum, on the bench and...
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Current History, Vol. VIII, No. 3, June 1918Current History, Vol. VIII, No. 3, June 1918 - A Monthly Magazine of the New York TimesFour weeks of comparative calm on the western front intervened after the furious fighting that had continued throughout the preceding month. The Germans made several desperate efforts to...
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Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester: A BiographyHumphrey, Duke of Gloucester: A BiographyIt was Polydore Vergil who first drew attention to the fatality of the Gloucester title. It was borne by luckless King John, Thomas of Woodstock earned a violent death, Thomas le Despenser was beheaded, while in days later than...
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Old Times in Dixie Land: A Southern Matron's MemoriesOld Times in Dixie Land: A Southern Matron's MemoriesI have not written these memoirs entirely for the amusement or instruction of my contemporaries; but I shall feel rewarded if I elicit thereby the interest and sympathy which follows an honest effort to tell the...
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Rasputin the Rascal MonkRasputin the Rascal Monk - Disclosing the Secret Scandal of the Betrayal of Russia by the Mock-Monk Grichka and the Consequent Ruin of the Romanoffs. With official documents revealed and recorded for the first time.In the following pages I have attempted to take the...
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The Oppressed EnglishThe Oppressed EnglishIn the comic papers of all countries the Englishman is depictedor was in the days of peaceas stupid, purseproud, thick-skinned, arrogant, and tyrannical. In practice, what is he? The whipping-boy of the British Empire. In the War of to-day, for instance, whenever...
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The Spell SeriesThe Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the PhilippinesBeing an Account of the Historical and Political Conditions of Our Pacific Possessions, together with Descriptions of the natural Charm and Beauty of the Countries and the strange and interesting Customs of their Peoples. It is...
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The Audiencia in the Spanish ColoniesThe Audiencia in the Spanish Colonies - As illustrated by the Audiencia of Manila (1583-1800)The audiencia was primarily a judicial tribunal. It has been considered almost entirely as such by these modern historical writers who have referred to it in passing. Its legislative, administrative,...
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British Secret Service During the Great WarBritish Secret Service During the Great WarThis book is not published with the sole idea of increment to its builder; it presumes to venture beyond. When old machinery is continued in use year after year with no thought for wear and tear, no effort...
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The Tale of a Field HospitalThe Tale of a Field HospitalWar is ever the same: an arena, aglare with pomp and pageant, for the display of that most elemental and most savage of human passions, the lust to kill, as well as a dumb torture place where are put...
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English Lakes: Water-ColoursEnglish Lakes: Water-Colours CAMBRIDGE. By William Matthison CHANNEL ISLANDS. By Henry B. Wimbush CHESTER. By E. Harrison Compton CORNWALL. By G. F. Nicholls ENGLISH LAKES. By A. Heaton Cooper ESSEX. By Burleigh Bruhl ETON. By E. D. Brinton GALLOWAY. By J. Faed, Junr. HAMPSHIRE....
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The English Lake DistrictThe English Lake District Mere under mountain lone, like a moat under lowering ramparts; Garrulous petulant beck, sinister laughterless tarn; Haunt of the vagabond feet of my fancy for ever reverting, Haunt of this vagabond heart, Cumbrian valleys and fells; You that enchant all...
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Annals of a FortressAnnals of a Fortress[Pg v]The Fortress whose transmutations during successive ages are so vividly described in the following pages is an ideal one; its supposed situation is on the Cousin, an affluent of the Sane. The practical genius of the author indicates the position...
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The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 3The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 3The plural of caste names and a few common Hindustni words is formed by adding s in the English manner according to ordinary usage, though this is not, of course, the Hindustni plural....
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In the Days of Washington: A Story of the American RevolutionIn the Days of Washington: A Story of the American RevolutionIt was an evening in the first week in February, 1778. Supper was over in the house of Cornelius De Vries, which stood on Green Street, Philadelphia, and in that part of the town...
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