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Harper's Round Table, September 15, 1896The next few weeks worked a great and serious change in George. It was the first time he had seen death since he was ten years old, when his father died. That had made a great impression on him...

May Day; or, Anecdotes of Miss Lydia Lively - Intended to improve and amuse the rising generationMiss Lydia Lively was sitting one day in the parlour, upon a little stool, reading the History of Little Ann and Little James, when her Mamma, who had...

Harold's Bride: A TaleMany years ago a huge panorama of a vast extent of country was exhibited in London. Of what country it was memory retains no clear impression; but I recollect a remark made by the exhibiting artist. Referring to the tints of...

Abaft the FunnelThe measure of a man's popularity is not alwaysor indeed seldomthe measure of his intrinsic worth. So, when the earlier work of any writer is gathered together in more enduring form, catering to the enthusiasm of his readers in his maturer years,...

The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art - A Popular History of Medicine in All Ages and CountriesThe History of Medicine is a terra incognita to the general reader, and an all but untravelled region to the great majority of medical men. On...

Looking Further Forward - An Answer to Looking Backward by Edward BellamyEvery seeker after truth and reform is entitled to recognition, even if his ways and methods are not ours. Mr. Edward Bellamys book: Looking Backward, is an effort to improve the lot of...

BirthrightWhy was Cyril Kirk, highest man in his class, assigned to such an enigmatic place as Nemar? Of what value was itif anything? No one could tell him the answer. He wouldn't have believed them.... Cyril Kirk's first sight of the planet from the...

Modern Copper Smelting - being lectures delivered at Birmingham University, greatly extended and adapted and with and introduction on the history, uses and properties of copper.The lectures on Modern Copper Smelting embodied in this volume were delivered at the University of Birmingham to the...

Paris Anecdote - Avec une préface et des notes par Charles MonseletAVEC UNE PRFACE ET DES NOTES PAR CHARLES MONSELET DITION ILLUSTRE DE CINQUANTE DESSINS A LA PLUME PAR J. BELON ET DUN PORTRAIT DE PRIVAT DANGLEMONT GRAV A LEAU-FORTE PAR R. DE LOS...

The Quiet HeartContents: Chapter I., II., III., IV., V., VI., VII., VIII., IX., X., XI., XII., XIII., XIV., XV., XVI., XVII., XVIII., XIX., XX., XXI., XXII., XXIII., XXIV., XXV., XXVI., XXVII., XXVIII., XXIX., XXX., XXXI., XXXII., XXXIII., XXXIV., XXXV., XXXVI., XXXVII. And what for...

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Marguerite, Queen of Navarre 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...

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery 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...

BleedbackThe thing is over now, but I can't see a Teddy bear or a set of blocks in a department store window without shuddering. I'm thankful I'm a bachelor and have no children around to remind me of the utterly insane nightmare that a...

A Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, with a Sketch of Josephine, Empress of the French.The Life of Napoleon in this volume first appeared as a serial in Volumes III and IV of McClures Magazine. In 1895 on its completion in serial form it was published...

Kutnar, Son of PicTotan, hetman of the northern Spanish cave-folk, sat upon the threshold of Castillo, watching a party of men coming toward him up the mountainside. His people, to the number of eighty or more, were behind him gathered about a roaring fire....

The Aswân Obelisk - With some remarks on the Ancient Engineering(1) The unfinished obelisk of Aswn lies in a quarry on the south-east side of the medival Arab cemetery, being about twenty minutes walk from the Cataract Hotel. It is approached by a small...

Adventures of Martin Hewitt, Third SeriesIN none of the cases of investigation by Martin Hewitt which I have as yet recorded had I any direct and substantial personal interest. In the case I am about to set forth, however, I had some such interest,...

Rodent Control Aided by Emergency Conservation WorkThe Emergency Conservation Work Program has been of inestimable value in the control of prairie dogs, ground squirrels, pocket gophers, kangaroo rats, rabbits, and porcupines. The citizens of the West have been forced to carry on campaigns for...

Tactics and Duties for Trench FightingIt must be borne in mind that this book deals with principles and examples of methods of warfare, and not fixed rules. There are no fixed methods in warfare. Development in warfare means change of methods or the invention...

Computers on the Farm - Farm Uses for Computers, How to Select Software and Hardware, and Online Information Sources in AgricultureSoftware programs are also available in such areas as financial management, crop and field records, mailing lists for customers of certified seed and breeding...