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Military Manners and CustomsIn the present volume I have attempted within the limits of the historical period and of our European civilisation, and without recognising any hard and fast line between ancient and modern, Christian and Pagan, to allude, in the places that seemed...

L'Illustration, No. 2510, 4 Avril 1891E parlais l'autre jour d'une danseuse au nom bizarre qui donne aux femmes du monde et aux futures toiles du Moulin-Rouge des leons de danse excentrique. Depuis que la Goulue a fait cole et enseign Mlle Rjane l'art de...

Held to Answer: A NovelI The Face That Did not Fit II One Man and Another III When the Dark Went Away IV Advent and Adventure V The Rate Clerk VI On Two Fronts VII The High Bid VIII John Makes Up IX A...

Hell's Hatches"Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or morehe as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea...

The Dare Boys with General GreeneStephen Angus Cox, the author of the Dare Boys Series is specially equipped through long study and research to write upon the life and adventures of these two daring sons of the revolutionary period. Every item of historical reference...

From a Swedish HomesteadIt was a beautiful autumn day towards the end of the thirties. There was in Upsala at that time a high, yellow, two-storied house, which stood quite alone in a little meadow on the outskirts of the town. It was a...

The Seashore Book: Bob and Betty's Summer with Captain HawesNow I will tell you how Bob and Betty spent the summer at the seashore with Captain Ben Hawes. Captain Hawes was an old sailor. After forty years' service on the high seas he had...

Nineteenth Century QuestionsShortly before his death, Dr. Clarke selected the material for this book, and partly prepared it for publication. He wished thus to preserve some of his papers which had excited interest when printed in periodicals or read as lectures. The distinction is...

The Indians of the Painted Desert Region: Hopis, Navahoes, Wallapais, HavasupaisWild, weird, and mystic pictures are formed in the mind by the very namethe Painted Desert. The sound itself suggests a fabled rather than a real land. Surely it must be akin to Atlantis...

Plantation ReminiscencesFor several years I have felt a desire to write these reminiscences, but did not conclude to do so until receiving, a few months ago, a letter from Mr. Martin F. Tupperthe English poetin which he wrote: Let me encourage you in the...

True Ghost StoriesThe following little book endeavors to bring together a number of ghost stories of the more startling and dramatic type,but stories, nevertheless, which seem to be well authenticated; and which have been obtained, in most instances, at first hand, from the original...

SwedenThe kingdom of Sweden occupies the eastern and larger part of the Scandinavian peninsula, covering an area of one hundred and seventy thousand six hundred and sixty square miles, with a population of somewhat more than five millions. Sweden is of nearly the same...

The Golf Courses of the British IslesThe illustrations were each presented with a full page caption, and were separated from the text by blank pages. In this text, these illustrations were moved to fall at paragraph breaks and are enclosed in horizontal rules. Some...

In the Days of Giants: A Book of Norse TalesSix of these Tales, namely, The Magic Apples, The Dwarf's Gifts, The Quest of the Hammer, In the Giant's House, Balder and the Mistletoe, and The Punishment of Loki are, by the courteous permission of...

Motion Pictures, 1960-1969: Catalog of Copyright EntriesThis catalog consists of two parts: Motion Pictures, 1960-1969, which is a list of main entries under title, and a Name Index. Motion Pictures, 1960-1969 The items which constitute each entry in this section are given below in...

Le crime d'OrcivalLe 9 juillet 186.., un jeudi, Jean Bertaud, dit La Ripaille, et son fils, bien connus Orcival pour vivre de braconnage et de maraude, se levrent sur les trois heures du matin, avec le jour, pour aller la pche. Ils se rendaient...

The Expositor's Bible: The Second Book of Samuel About 400 pages in each Volume. Prices for either series, six volumes, $6.00. (Orders for 2 or more series same rate will be sent by Express, prepaid.) (Separate vols. $1.50, postpaid.) Descriptive circular sent on application....

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 68, No 420, October 1850The idea of this work is happily conceived, and carried into effect, in the two volumes before us, with no little judgment and ability. The subject is one interesting, useful, and important; and the author was...

Mémoires de Luther écrits par lui-même, Tome IILuther fut tir de son abattement et ramen la vie active par les dangers qui menaaient la Rforme et l'Allemagne. Lorsque ce flau de Dieu, qu'il attendait avec rsignation comme le signe du Jugement, fondit en effet...

Mary of Plymouth: A Story of the Pilgrim Settlement The purpose of this series of stories is to show the children, and even those who have already taken up the study of history, the home life of the colonists with whom they meet in...