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SheavesBy E. F. BENSON Author of The Angel of Pain, Dodo, etc. FOURTH EDITION New York Doubleday, Page & Company Copyright, 1907, by Doubleday, Page & Company Published, October, 1907 All Rights Reserved Including that of Translation into Foreign Languages Including the Scandinavian {1}...

Harper's Round Table, December 29, 1896Augustus Albumblatt, young and new and sleek with the latest book-knowledge of war, reported to his first troop commander at Fort Brown. The ladies had watched for him, because he would increase the number of men, the officers because...

Stories of the EastMany people did not like Jessop. He had rather a brutal manner sometimes of telling brutal thingsthe truth, he called it. "They don't like it," he once said to me in a rare moment of confidence. "But why the devil shouldn't...

The New Jersey Law Journal, January, 1922 - Vol. XLV. No. 1. Jan., 1922At least three decisions of nation-wide import were made by the United States Supreme Court in December. The first, American Steel Foundries v. Tri-City Trades Council we give, probably in full,...

PoemsMost or these verses have appeared in the papersThe Nation, New Statesman, Cambridge Magazineto the editors of which I tender customary dues. Also, in 1917, a dozen were brought together to make a little book, Ad Familiares, of which a hundred copies were printed...

George WashingtonAmong all the numerous life stories written by Ferdinand Schmidt for the delectation and education of German youth, none surpasses that of Washington. The author has condensed his material, drawn from the most authoritative sources, in a masterly manner, and presents it in...

The Seventy's Course in Theology, First Year - Outline History of the Seventy and A Survey of the Books of Holy ScriptureTo become a Seventy means mental activity, intellectual development, and the attainment of spiritual power. The first three opening lessons of this year's...

The Geologic Story of Mount Rainier - A look at the geologic past of one of America's most scenic volcanoesEunice Lake, northwest of Mount Rainier. The lake lies in a small bedrock basin that was scoured out by a glacier between about 15,000 and...

The Gray Shadow - A Mystery Story For BoysThis curious bit of philosophy coming from the lips of Johnny Thompson, youthful world traveler and adventurer, even to himself seemed strange. Yet here he was barking his wares at the Greatest of all Carnivals. He...

Daniela"Tm on teidn kolkkanne", sanoi ern huvilan portinvahdin vaimo Bergstrassen varrella Badenissa astuessaan ern asuntoa etsivn herran edell. "Jokaisella asukkaalla on oma kolkkansa puutarhassa; nm molemmat penkit phkinpuun alla kuuluvat siihen asuntoon, jonka juuri nytin teille." "Hyv, armollinen herra. Arvasinhan min, ett ottaisitte tmn...

Virginia Dare: A Romance of the Sixteenth CenturyThe author would like to remind the readers of the romance of Virginia Dare, that if they go back in memory to their schooldays, and the details of their American history, they will remember that Governor White...

The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 2 (of 6)Birds which take their departure from us, and whither they go; the thrush, the blackbird, and the starlingbirds which lose their feathers during their retirementthe turtle-dove and the ring-dovethe flight of starlings and swallows THE Euxine1...

The Priest and the Acolyte - With an Introductory Protest by Stuart MasonSO [5] many copies of The Priest and the Acolyte have been sold by unscrupulous publishers and booksellers under the implication that it is the work of Oscar Wilde that it has...

Studies in Life from Jewish ProverbsA writer of many books once said to me that he regretted every preface he had written. Seeing that I have the highest respect for his talents, I am constrained to take to heart the moral, which (particularly in...

Three Sailor Boys; or, Adrift in the PacificSure enough, a lurid, red sun was setting in a bank of heavy, black clouds, which had already obscured his lower half, and the surface of which was flecked with little, white, fleecy dots, moving rapidly, which...

Ships & Ways of Other DaysIn Sailing Ships and their Story I endeavoured to trace the evolution of the ship from the very earliest times of which we possess any historical data at all down to the canvas-setting craft of to-day. In Fore and...

The Preparation & Mounting of Microscopic ObjectsIn bringing this Handbook before the public, the Author believes that he is supplying a want which has been long felt. Much information concerning the Preparation and Mounting of Microscopic Objects has been already published; but mostly as...

BoschgeheimenDit boekje is slechts een nieuw hoofdstuk uit het schuwe, wilde leven in bosch en veld, waarvan Het Boschvolkje, Op Eenzame zwerftochten, Dierenleven in de Wildernis, Kijkjes in het Dierenleven het begin vormden. Het wordt gaarne gegeven als antwoord op dien roep om meer...

Les animaux et leurs hommes: Les hommes et leurs animauxLa beaut ou la laideur ne nous paraissent pas ncessaires. Nous nous sommes toujours autrement soucis de la puissance ou de la grce, de la douceur ou de la brutalit, de la simplicit ou du...

The Raid of Dover: A Romance of the Reign of Woman, A.D. 1940That is the crux. England is being wounded by Englishmen; and the events imagined in this story are only a concrete example of the possibilities foreshadowed by Mr. Balfour (Jan. 24th, 1910)...