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The South American TourI congratulate Miss Annie S. Peck, the publisher of this book, and those who consult or read it, upon the preparation of a work of this character. Interest in Latin America is now so rapidly growing throughout all the world, and...

Blacks and Bushrangers: Adventures in QueenslandA few words concerning the following narrative may not be out of place. Many years ago, and before the present township of Townsville, in Northern Queensland, was thought of, I found myself wandering in the neighbourhood of Mount Elliott,...

Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving - A Treatise Containing Practical Instructions in Cooking; in the Combination and Serving of Dishes; and in the Fashionable Modes of Entertaining at Breakfast, Lunch, and DinnerThe aim of this book is to indicate how to serve dishes, and...

The FloaterAs a Watchman in a man-made kind of observational meteor floating millions of miles from nowhere out among the planets, Barton had two main duties. To keep his sanity and to keep the watch. The second was simple. The gadgets all took care...

Thirty Letters on Various Subjects, Vol. 2 (of 2) THERE was never a poet more admired in his life or more despised after his death than Quarles. He was patronized by the best of his age while living, and when dead was first criticised,...

Thirty Letters on Various Subjects, Vol. 1 (of 2) WHETHER these are real letters, or whether the author chose to throw his observations into the epistolary form, is a point of no great consequence. The invention of a story to shew how they came...

Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social ReformerChuang Tz[1] belongs to the third and fourth centuries before Christ. He lived in the feudal age, when China was split up into a number of States owning a nominal allegiance to the royal, and weakly, House of...

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Jonathan Swift The Author gives some account of himself and familyHis first inducements to travelHe is shipwrecked, and swims for his lifeGets safe on shore in the country of LilliputIs made a prisoner, and carried up the...

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Edward Sylvester Ellis You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic work is discovered and reported to you...

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Stephen Crane You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic work is discovered and reported to you within...

The Island Camp But it was difficult to know exactly what to do! For to-day was the day on which the Lennox cousins were to arriveDick and Donald, who had been invited to spend the last weeks of the holidays with the Vaughans. The...

Seikkailujen saariKapteeni hymyili. "Tll kertaa osasitte lhemmksi totuutta kuin ehk luulettekaan, miss Deane", sanoi hn. "Eilen huomioita tehdessmme oli auringon ymprill harvinainen keh. Tn aamuna huomasitte kenties meren olevan peilityynen, ainoastaan joku maininki silloin tllin sit liikautti. Ilmapuntari putoaa nopeasti ja arvelen ennen pivn...

Nor Dust CorruptThe room seemed more a mausoleum than an office, but that was as had been intended. Perhaps thirty feet high, fifty feet wide, it stretched a good hundred feet in length. It was paneled entirely in jet black onyx, which gave a...

Excursions to Cairo, Jerusalem, Damascus, and Balbec From the United States Ship Delaware, During Her Recent Cruise - With an Attempt to Discriminate Between Truth and Error in Regard to the Sacred Places of the Holy CityThe Author had no intention during the cruise...

Israelin tyttäretPiha oli varsin hauska mttisine nurmikkoineen ja tuuheine vaahteroineen, jotka komeilivat kirjavassa syyspuvussaan, toiset lehdet vihrein, toiset jo punakellervin. Melkein olisi luullut maalla olevansa; ja missp sit juuri muualla olikaan, talo kun sijaitsi aivan pikkukaupungin laidassa. Kuitenkin nytti kadunpuolinen puurakennus yht pulskalta kuin...

American Masters of Sculpture - Being Brief Appreciations of Some American Sculptors and of Some Phases of Sculpture in AmericaTHE year 1876, the date of the Centennial Exhibition, is a landmark in the progress of American sculpture as it is in that of American...

History of the U.S.S. Leviathan, cruiser and transport forces, United States Atlantic fleet - Compiled from the ship's log and data gathered by the history committee on board the shipThe record of the U.S.S. Leviathan, queen of the troop transport fleet which made possible...

Observations on antimony - Read before the Medical Society of London, and published at their requestRemedies have often acquired reputation without sufficient evidence of their innocence and efficacy. Some have been introduced by an injudicious application of the theory of the schools, others by...

TizianDas Original wurde in Frakturschrift gesetzt. Passagen in Antiquaschrift werden im vorliegenden Text kursiv dargestellt. Abhngig von der im jeweiligen Lesegert installierten Schriftart knnen die im Original gesperrt gedruckten Passagen gesperrt, in serifenloser Schrift, oder aber sowohl serifenlos als auch gesperrt erscheinen. veranstaltet, von...

CubaDer vorliegende Text wurde anhand der 1899 erschienenen Buchausgabe so weit wie mglich originalgetreu wiedergegeben. Typographische Fehler wurden stillschweigend korrigiert. Inkonsistente und heute ungebruchliche Schreibweisen, insbesondere in Ortsnamen, sowie fremdsprachliche Zitate, bleiben gegenber dem Original unverndert. Das Original wurde in Franturschrift gesetzt; Passagen in...