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Highland LegendsBy associating them with a name so universally revered I give them value; whilst I afford to myself an opportunity of expressing my admiration of those many virtues and amiable qualities which have rendered it so much beloved in your person by all...

A Wreath of Indian StoriesThe following stories have been written by A. L. O. E. since her arrival in India, for the use of native readers. It is deemed most desirable by those who thoroughly know the people, that their minds should be trained...

The Vigil of Brunhild: A Narrative PoemBrunhild, died A.D. 613 The intervention of women in the course of the worlds history has nearly always been attended by those events upon which poets delight to meditate: events of sinister and tragic significance, the chief value...

Round about a Pound a WeekI am glad to take this opportunity to acknowledge the use I have made of a manuscript written by Mrs. Charlotte Wilson, Hon. Secretary of the Fabian Womens Group. The manuscript was founded on a lecture, entitled The Economic...

For the Love of Lady Margaret: A Romance of the Lost ColonyAnd so this was the end? Well, no matterI had lived my little dayhad played my part. The bell had tapped; the curtain had fallen; and so the scene must end. How many...

Poesias Eroticas, Burlescas, e Satyricas de M.M. de Barbosa du Bocage - não comprehendidas na edição que das obras d'este poeta se publicou em Lisboa, no anno de MDCCCLIII.Foi apenso ao final do livro um ndice Exaustivo dos Poemas Contidos Neste Volume. Poemas para...

Jungle in the SkyThe big man looked at home among his trophies. Somehow his scowl seemed as fierce as the head of the Venusian swamp-tiger mounted on the wall behind him, and there was something about his quick-darting eyes which reminded Steve of a...

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Joel Chandler Harris 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...

China und Japan: Erlebnisse, Studien, BeobachtungenDer vorliegende Text wurde anhand der 1900 erschienenen Buchausgabe so weit wie mglich originalgetreu wiedergegeben. Typographische Fehler wurden stillschweigend korrigiert. Ungewhnliche und altertmliche Schreibweisen bleiben gegenber dem Original unverndert; fremdsprachliche Zitate wurden nicht korrigiert. Umlaute in Grobuchstaben wurden in...

The privilege of painA very suggestive and intriguing title is The Privilege of Pain. Those who know a good deal about the subject will doubtless raise the eyebrow of incredulity, while those who have lived in blissful ignorance will be curious if not wholly...

Finding Themselves - The Letters of an American Amy Chief Nurse in the British Hospital in France New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1918 All rights reserved {iv} Copyright, 1918, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1918. Norwood Press J. S....

Flora von Deutschland - Ein Hilfsbuch zum Bestimmen der zwischen den deutschen Meeren und den Alpen wildwachsenden und angebauten Pflanzen Blblatt. = Blumenblatt. Blkr. = Blumenkrone. Bltn. = Blten. br. = breit. -f. = -frmig (eif. usw.) fiedersp. = fiederspaltig. fiedert. = fiederteilig. Fr....

Infinity's ChildThe sense of taste was always first to go. For a week Buckmaster had ignored the fact that everything he ate tasted like flavorless gruel. He tried to make himself believe that it was some minor disorder of his glandular system. But the...

The History of Battery H First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery in the War to Preserve the Union 1861-1865On the 27th of June, 1891, a meeting of the surviving members of Battery H was called in the City of Providence, R. I., and the...

The Land of Content It was earliest spring, and almost the close of a day whose sunshine and warmth had coaxed into bloom many timid roadside flowers, and sent the white petals of farmyard cherries trembling to earth like tiny, belated snowfalls. Already the...

A Parisian Sultana, Vol. 3 (of 3)It will not, we trust, have been forgotten that in the month of March, 1873, the Count de Pommerelle paid a visit to Dr. Desrioux, whom he found bowed down with grief, in consequence of the death of...

A Parisian Sultana, Vol. 2 (of 3)In a few moments the little European flotilla was rounding the Ras-el-Khartoum, the junction of the White and Blue Niles, and very soon it passed the three large mimosas, called usually the "tree," the rendezvous for all boats...

A Parisian Sultana, Vol. 1 (of 3)A charming retreat, one of a luxurious suite of apartments in the Boulevard Malesherbes, the abode, evidently, of a woman both young and of elegant tastes. One glance round the room sufficed to establish the innate refinement of...

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Benjamin Franklin Pages 1 and 4 of The Pennsylvania Gazette, Number XL, the first number after Franklin took control First page of The New England Courant of December 4-11, 1721 "I was employed to carry the papers...

Jean-Christophe I - SarastusVastasyntynyt liikahtelee kehdossa. Vaikka vanhus on sisn tullessaan jttnyt puukenkns oven pieleen, narisee permanto hnen astellessaan: lapsi alkaa vikist. iti kohotaikse sngyst ja kumartuu sit rauhoittamaan; isois sytytt lampun, hapuillen epvarmasti hmrss, ettei pienokainen hertessn peljstyisi pime. Liekki valaisee vanhan Jean-Michelin...