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The Five Nations, Volume II... On the th instant a mixed detachment of colonials left for Cape Town, there to rejoin their respective homeward-bound contingents, after fifteen months service in the field. They were escorted to the station by the regular troops in garrison...

The Five Nations, Volume I... Consider that the meritorious services of the Sergeant Instructors attached to the Egyptian Army have been inadequately acknowledged.... To the excellence of their work is mainly due the great improvement that has taken place in the soldiers of H.H....

Reminiscences of Colored People of Princeton, N. J.: 1800-1900There are so few histories of colored people, so few records of their brave and honorable deeds in history, that I feel constrained to record a few facts relative to these people. It is only a...

New lands within the Arctic circle - Narrative of the discoveries of the Austrian ship "Tegetthoff" in the years 1872-18741. The ice-sheet spread over the Arctic region is the effect and sign of the low temperature which prevails within it. During nine or ten...

The Duke of BrittanyThe Duke of Brittany is the story of the brief but eventful career of Arthur, son of Geoffrey Plantagenet and Constance of Brittany. Geoffrey was the fourth son of Henry the Second of England and Eleanor, Duchess of Guienne. Upon the...

Birds of Heaven, and Other StoriesOf all of the more modern authors of Russia, perhaps none holds a higher rank than Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko. He was born in 1853 in Zhitomir, in the southern part of the Government of Volhynia. His works show an...

Roy Blakeley's Funny-bone HikeThis is going to be the craziest story I ever wrote. But anyway every word of it is trueexcept a few small words. Even the punctuation is true. But I have to admit the story is crazy. Its the craziest story...

Cassell's book of birds; vol. 3PAGE THE CLIMBERS. The CLIMBING BIRDS (Scansor):The Tenuirostral. The FLOWER BIRDS (Certhiola). The BLUE BIRDS (Creba):The Sai, or Blue Caereba. The PITPITS (Certhiola):The Banana Quit, or Black and Yellow Creeper. The HONEYSUCKERS (Nectarinia):The Abu-Risch. The FIRE HONEYSUCKERS (thopyga):The Cadet....

The Noble RogueTranscriber's Notes: Blank pages have been eliminated. Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the original. A few typographical errors have been corrected. The cover page was created by the transcriber and can be considered public domain. M. Legros,...

Advice: A Book of PoemsSome of the poems which compose this book have appeared in the Yale Review, the Smart Set, the New Republic, Reedys Mirror, the Dial, the Touchstone, the Little Review, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, the Century, and the New York...

Joosef vakkamestariMiss kauniita, vihreit laidunkunnaita kohoaa taivaalle toinen toisensa perst ja miss laaksot niiden lomassa ovat loistavien punaisten ja sinisten keskukkien peitossa, siell on pieni kyl nimelt Altkirch. Siisti, valkea pikku kirkko punaisine tornineen ja puutalot yltympri seisovat tuulensuojassa vihret taustaa vasten, sill kyln...

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 02 of 12) 1. Tree-spiritsGreat forests of ancient Europe; tree-worship practised by all Aryan races in Europe; trees regarded as animate; tree-spirits, sacrifices to trees; trees sensitive to wounds; apologies for cutting...

La Vita Italiana nel Settecento: Conferenze tenute a Firenze nel 1895 Uno dei fenomeni che colpiscono maggiormente i lettori di storia quando riflettono sta nella costante accelerazione degli svolgimenti sintetici d'ogni natura, a misura che ci allontaniamo dalle epoche primigenie; sta nella sempre maggior...

The Messiah of the CylinderIf I recall the conversation of that evening so minutely as to appear tedious, I must plead that this was the last occasion on which I saw Sir Spofforth alive. In such a case, one naturally remembers incidents and recalls...

A Tour of Historic RichmondTo appreciate Richmond one must, before all else, remember that this old town has roots planted deep in the history of our country. Richmond was founded in 1737 by William Byrd II, of Westover on the James, forefather of two...

Gatlinburg and the Great SmokiesIn the Fall of 1940, Ernie Pyle and that girl who rode with him (his wife, Jerry) came to Gatlinburg and Ernie wrote eleven columns for the Scripps-Howard Newspapers about the village of Gatlinburg, the native people and a trip...

Fort Robinson: Outpost on the PlainsAs men of the Sioux Expedition marched out of Fort Laramie in the cold March weather of 1874 they probably had more than a few misgivings about the outcome of their adventure. They were headed for one of the...

Larry Dexter, Reporter; Or, Strange Adventures in a Great CityMy Dear Boys.Those of you who were interested in the first story of this series, telling how Larry Dexter rose from a copy boy to become a reporter, may desire to follow his further adventures...

A Historical Sketch of Company "B," Eighteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry - Three Months ServiceThe company was recruited by Frank Buell, at Marietta, Ohio, who was at the time Captain of the Union Blues, an independent company of the Ohio militia. It was enrolled...

The Purchase of the North Pole - A sequel to "From the earth to the moon"To my extreme regret, Mrs. Scorbitt, said J. T. Maston, I am obliged to say so. That there have been many remarkable female mathematicians, especially in Russia, I willingly...