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The Warden of the Marches Just a little scrap. Dick, I am getting dreadfully worried about herher letters have been so strange for such a long time, and now the writing is so queer. She always seems as if she hadnt a moment to...

Unnoticed LondonThe following brief account of a few of the things that have interested me in London is not intended for the use of the inveterate sightseer, for whom so many admirable and complete fingerposts to the study of old London have been written,...

Delaware Tom; or, The Traitor GuideWe call the readers attention to a scene, that, if not romantic, is at least attractive and interesting; a wagon-train of emigrants, as is attested by the quantity of driven stockhorses, cattle and sheep. The presence of women and...

Overweight and UnderweightDesirable weight is a very individual thing. It may be described as the weight at which a person both looks and feels his best. Height, bone structure, and muscular development must all be taken into account. Because no two people are alike,...

Icarus; or, The Future of ScienceIn the last few years the study of Radioactivity has brought about amazing advances in our knowledge of the properties and nature of the Atom; and into this fascinating wonderland of the infinitely small yet infinitely complex and infinitely...

Blackguard Carl Felman stepped from a train at the Union Station of a midwestern American city. His young face, partly obscured by a blonde stubble of beard, was a passive concealment, and his thin lips and long nose did not hold that stalwart sleekness...

Waarheid en droomenOnopzettelijker en met minder bepaald plan om als een afzonderlijk, zelfstandig, deftig boek, op eigen beenen, de wereld der openbaarheid in te treden, is wel zelden eenige letter-arbeid zijne wandeling onder de menschen begonnen. Het was een tweetal vrienden, die, tot mijne...

Mrs. SiddonsIn spite of Mrs. Siddonss professed shrinking from the celebrity that biographers would confer upon her, and her preference for the still small voice of tender relatives and estimable friends, we know that she bequeathed her Memoranda, Letters, and Diary to the poet...

Turkey, the Great Powers, and the Bagdad Railway: A study in imperialismThe Chester concessions and the Anglo-American controversy regarding the Mesopotamian oilfields are but two conspicuous instances of the rapid development of American activity in the Near East. Turkey, already an important market for...

Mancala, the National Game of AfricaThe comparative study of games is one that promises an important contribution to the history of culture. The questions involved in their diffusion over the earth are among the vital ones that confound the ethnologist. Their origins are lost...

Uzoni Margit: Regény fiatal leányok számáraUram! Egy vn leny kldi nnek ezt a knyvet. Nvendk leny voltam, mikor az els szt lertam e knyvbe, vn leny vagyok most, hogy knyvem utols oldalra rom: vge. Igen, vge. A knyv betelt s annak, mit letembl regnynek,...

The Geography of New JerseyThe original inhabitants of New Jersey H were Indians of the Delaware tribe, which belonged to the Algonquin family. The early white settlers were of different nationalities,Dutch, Swedes, English, and French. The geographical names of the state are interesting reminders...

The Little Review, June-July 1915 (Vol. 2, No. 4) Nothing succeeds like an indiscretion. I was indiscreet enough last winter to speak my mind (a little of it) about The Little Review, The Dial, Poetry, The Drama, and the audience to which these papers...

Curiosities of Music: A Collection of Facts not generally known, regarding the Music of Ancient and Savage NationsMusic has been broadly defined by Fetis as the art of moving the feelings by combinations of sounds; taken in this broad sense it may be considered...

Hidden CountryGeorge Chanlers offer of a position as literary secretary of his Arctic expedition came to me one fine May morning when I was sitting at my desk, glooming from an eighteenth-story height down upon the East River, and dreading to begin the days...

De kár megvénülni! Regény egy vén öcsém-uram élményei utánElszr azt a czimet akartam adni ennek az iznek, (mely, fjdalom! rm nzve nem regny), hogy egy becsletes ember gonosztettei. Mert ht n az vagyok: becsletes ember; egyb czmem sincs: se tisztelt hazafi, se szeretett polgrtrs,...

A Fable for CriticsThe Knickerbocker Press, New York {iii} Reader! walk up at once (it will soon be too late) and buy at a perfectly ruinous rate A FABLE FOR CRITICS; OR, BETTER, (I like, as a thing that the readers first fancy may...

List, Ye Landsmen! A Romance of IncidentSailors visit many fine countries; but there is nonenot the very finestthat delights them more than the coast of their own native land when they sight it after a long voyage. The flattest piece of treeless English shoresuch...

X Marks the AsteroidBigger Bailes sat at a beer-bottle-colored glass desk in his underworld retreat, announcing his intent to claim the reward money that for eighty-five years had been piling up at compound interest in the Terra-First National Bank of New York. "Ralph Unterzuyder...

Repeat PerformanceI groaned as I recognized the voice. As I went to the door I hastily reviewed last night's activities. Two wallets on the subway that had netted seventeen bucks, one in an elevator at the Morrison that had added forty-five bucks. An all...