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Hayti; or, The black republic.Whilst in Port-au-Prince, a Spanish colleague once remarked to me, Mon ami, if we could return to Hayti fifty years hence, we should find the negresses cooking their bananas on the site of these warehouses. Although this judgment is severe,...

En Pénitence chez les Jésuites: Correspondance d'un lycéenJe nai pas t lev sur les genoux de la Compagnie de Jsus. Cest lUniversit qui sest applique la premire dgrossir ma jeune intelligence et la former. Je lui sais gr de ses louables intentions. Mais la...

The Christmas BishopChristmas morning, blue-black, pricked with stars against the Bishops window panes. Westbury lay asleep beside its curving river, the great old houses with gardens that ran terraced to the bank, the churches, the college, even the new teeming tenements at the bending...

Sandman's rainy day storiesPrincess Cantilla lived in a castle like most princesses, but she was not a rich princess, for her father had lost all his lands and money by quarreling with other kings about the length and breadth of his kingdom and theirs....

Hiên le MaboulJavais lu de lui quelques pages manuscrites, Heures Khmres, et javais t frapp et sduit par la force et la dlicatesse des impressions, la nettet quasi photographique des paysages, les grces dun style toujours harmonieux, la fois original et simple. Les pages...

Journal of William H. Richardson, a private soldier in the campaign of New and Old Mexico, under the command of Colonel Doniphan of MissouriI left my home on West River, Anne Arundel County, Md., the 11th November, 1845, for a southern tour, and after...

Smoking flaxSmoking Flax is a story of the South written by a young Kentucky woman. Undoubtedly in the South its advent will be saluted with enthusiastic bravos. What will be the nature of its reception in the North it is hazardous to predict. One...

Puppies and kittens, and other storiesDaily Graphic.Wonderland through the camera. Mrs. Carine Cadby has had the charming idea of telling in The Dolls Day exactly what a little girl who was very fond of dolls dreamed that her dolls did when they had a...

Lost in the backwoods Cyril had never passed through such a terrible minute in his whole life as that one during which his father remained silent, instead of replying to his fierce assailant's demand. A short while before the train-boy, passing down the outside...

Elastic and non-elastic narrow fabrics - and a chapter on narrow fabrics made on knitting machinesWhen we think of the discovery of rubber vulcanization and the effect it has had on world affairs our minds naturally turn to the big things, such as the...

Danton: A studyAn historian of just pre-eminence in his university and college, in a little work which should be more widely known, has summed up the two principal characters of the Revolution in the following phrases: the cold and ferocious Robespierre, the blatant Danton.[1]...

Le vote des femmesCe livre, qui relate les efforts faits en France depuis plus dun sicle pour faire entrer les femmes en possession de leurs droits politiques; envisage le vote des femmes tous les points de vue, il rfute les objections qui y sont...

A handbook of systematic botanyThe present translation of Dr. E. Warmings Haandbog i den Systematiske Botanik is taken from the text of the 3rd Danish Edition (1892), and from Dr. Knoblauchs German Edition (1890), and the book has been further enriched by numerous additional...

A spray of lilac, and other poems and songsIf an apology for venturing to offer them to the public in collected form be deemed necessary, I can only urge the plea of the poor but hospitable Dervish, He is a generous host who freely...

John Sobieski: Lothian prize essay for 1881Strangeness of Polish history.The Kingdom or Republic of Poland has always seemed a strange phenomenon in European history, partly from the aboriginal character of its population, and partly from its exceptional constitution. The ancient Sarmatians, who occupied the...

The motherIN the kitchen of the small thatched farmhouse the mother sat on a low bamboo stool behind the earthen stove and fed grass deftly into the hole where a fire burned beneath the iron cauldron. The blaze was but just caught and she...

Poor Jack: A play in one actThus am I confounded by words of my own choosing, for in truth I have raised one; and not for me, as for Dame Sylvia, does Chivalry blow upon a silver horn to drown the squeakings of that...

The violin and the art of its construction: a treatise on the Stradivarius violinIn giving publicity to this treatise on the construction of the violin, I believe I am only meeting the wishes of many, both professionals and amateurs, who are desirous of learning...

The case against evolutionAs a result of recent investigations on the sex chromosomes and chromosome numbers in mammals, Theophilus S. Painter reaches the conclusions that polyploidy cannot be invoked to explain evolution within this class. After giving a table of chromosome numbers for 7...