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The Blue Balloon: A Tale of the Shenandoah Valley Thirty-three years ago, or, to be quite exact, in the month of May 1862, the great civil war in the United States of America was in full swing. The Federals had discovered that their boast...

Uit den Kunstschat der BakongosZij is immers een rijke bron voor een grondige kennis van de zeden, gewoonten, gebruiken, godsdienstige en maatschappelijke begrippen, bij een volk, dat ons meer dan eenig ander aan het hart moet liggen. Die bron is veilig en zeker: zij...

The Life of Jesus Critically Examined - (4th ed.)Wherever a religion, resting upon written records, prolongs and extends the sphere of its dominion, accompanying its votaries through the varied and progressive stages of mental cultivation, a discrepancy between the representations of those ancient records,...

Black PawlSPIESS, a born lubber who would never learn the way of the sea, bungled his simple share of the task of getting the mates boat away. Black Pawl, master of the schooner, was near by; and he cuffed the man. The buffet was...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 752, May 25, 1878The Coffyns or Coffins are a Devonshire family, said to have been founded by one of the followers of the Conqueror. In 1642 Tristram Coffyn, a son of this old house, sailed...

Souvenirs du célèbre marcheur Gallot, le roi des marcheurs. Première partieJ'avais collectionn de nombreuses notes, quasi quotidiennes. Un beau jour, il me vint l'ide de relire celles que je n'avais pas gares et que j'avais pu conserver au milieu de mes nombreuses et incessantes...

Betty Wales, Junior: A Story for GirlsGirls who have not followed the adventures of Betty Wales and her friends during their freshman and sophomore years at Harding College may enjoy a bit of an introduction to the circle, before beginning the story of their...

Return of a LegendThere, Dave Kort was the first wilderness tramp to be remembered. In warm seasons he'd plod into Port Laribee, burdened by a pack that only the two-fifths-of-terrestrial gravity put within the range of human muscles. He was a great, craggy old...

Is That You Xeluchli?It was a perfectly conventional tour, once around the Milky Way with stops at several of the major stars. It was supposed to take about eighty-eight million years so they planned to be back for supper. In the beginning the students...

My Valued Ruby: Poems Oh! my mighty love, for my people, friends, But theres a certain class of us that our minds doesnt blend, Though weve fought many a battle and it seems weve always won, But well be greater when the Star of...

Life at the Zoo: Notes and Traditions of the Regent's Park GardensIt may be said that some of the subjects of these notes are not obviously part of life at the Zoo, and this remark would be well founded. They have in the writers...

Lützow's wilde Jagd: Geschichtliche ErzählungEs war eine groe, herrliche Zeit, als im Jahre 1813 sich das ganze deutsche Volk erhob, um das Joch der franzsischen Gewaltherrschaft abzuwerfen. Der Brand von Moskau ward die Morgenrte der Befreiungskriege, und als das groe Gottesgericht ber die Heere...

Runoja: Uusi sarjaNiin liki kuin suinkin sun suuruuttas He tahtovat heitns nostaa. Ja sun valtas ja voimas ja kunnias He tahtovat kullalla ostaa. Ja Jumalan armoa julistain He kulkevat maita ja merta, Mut sun armos he mittovat miekoin vain, Ja tiens tihkuvat verta. Siit'...

Shannach—The LastEven in this grip of alien horror a man could not throw away his lifetime goal ... not stand idly by as endless rows of alabaster shapes, seated in their chairs of stone, thought-ruled this gargoyle planet from the dead blackness of deep...

Silkkilaiva: KertomusI. Anna Marja. II. Vanhoja papereita. III. Hampuria. IV. Juudaksen epistola. V. Havukkavuoren ukko. VI. Laskiainen kirkkotarhassa. VII. Kosinta. VIII. Piki-Juosepin onnellinen laivarikko. IX. Saaren uusi puoti. X. Yls herraa vastaan tuuliin. XI. "Anna-Marjan" tuho. XII. Hullu-Juoseppi. XIII. Sameli ja Havukanvuoren ukko. XIV....

Translations from LucretiusSix of the plays of Euripides are also issued in 2 volumes. Cr. 8vo. Cloth, 6s. net per volume. Vol. I.: Hippolytus, Trojan Women and Bacch Vol. II.: Medea, Iphigenia in Tauris, and Electra. ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number:...

La peurLe monde t'a peu compris; il t'a ft pour son plaisir et non pour ta valeur: quand tu as comparu devant lui, il a applaudi des effets sans discerner les causes et dans son enthousiasme provisoire pour ta voix, ton geste et ton...

The Virgin of ValkarionThe sun was low in the west and a thin chill wind was blowing along the hills when Alfric saw Valkarion below him. He reined in his hengist and sat for a moment scouting the terrain with the hard-learned caution of...

The Scientific Spirit of the Age, and Other Pleas and DiscussionsWe are all possessed of friends who, when any serious belief or matter of practical conduct is in question, take up at the outset a thesis of their own which they press on our...

The Pit of NympthonsHailard, director of Venusian Exports, was not given to unnecessary elaborations or complexities of speech. He let his attention stray from the girl to a tiny scale-model of the first rocket ship to land on Venus, and reflected bitterly that after...