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Alamainen: RomaaniDiederich Hessling oli hento lapsi, joka hyvin kernaasti uneksi ja pelksi kaikkea ja jonka korvia kovin srki. Hn jtti vastenmielisesti lmpimn huoneen talvella ja kesll ahtaan puutarhan, miss tuntui paperitehtaan lumppujen haju ja miss nkyi kultasade- ja seljapuiden pllitse vanhojen talojen puiset, savella...

Über die bürgerliche Verbesserung der WeiberMan sagt: der strengste Beweis der Wahrheit sei, wenn gewisse Dinge jeder Bemhung sie lcherlich zu machen und zu travestiren, widerstehen, und wenn sie trotz allem Lcherlichen, womit wir sie behngen, doch ehrwrdig bleiben. Wenn die krumme Linie die...

Short-Title Catalog of Publications and Importations of Scientific and Engineering Books - (August 1910) Title: Short-Title Catalog of Publications and Importations of Scientific and Engineering Books Subtitle: (August 1910) Author: D. Van Nostrand Company Release Date: January 7, 2017 [EBook #53911] Language: English Credits:...

The School and Society - Being three lecturesThe three lectures presented in the following pages were delivered before an audience of parents and others interested in the University Elementary School, in the month of April of the year 1899. Mr. Dewey revised them in...

A Short History of Newnham College, CambridgeThis little book is primarily intended for present and past students of Newnham College and for the numerous friends who have been helpers or sympathetic spectators of its early progress. At the same time I venture to hope...

The Diary of a Girl in France in 1821The child who wrote this quaintly-illustrated diary, eighty-three years ago, was the second daughter of William Browne, Esq., of Tallentire Hall, in the County of Cumberland. She was born there, February 15, 1807. Descended, on her...

The Universal Counterfeit and Altered Bank Note Detector, at SightThat this work merits the encouraging praise and high appreciation it has met with seems to be confirmed by its rapid sale and by the permanent, steady demand yet existing for it, as well now...

Pyhän Birgitan vaellusMissn ei Vetteri aukene autiommin. En ne taloa, en kalastajamajaa, ja saattaa kulua tuntikausia, ennenkuin joku purje sukeltaikse esiin tyhjlle ulapalle. Itinen ranta, joka ylpuolella Grennan puutarhojen nousee kkijyrkkn melkoisen korkealle, levenee Om-vuoren pohjoispuolella alangoksi, jota ei etmp katsellessa ulapasta erotakaan. Kirkkaalla...

NostalgiaTo my Husband Do you remember a young and attractive lady who called on us one day in the course of our first year's residence in Rome? Her visit was surprising; for I did not know the coronet-surmounted name on her card, and at...

SlaveryThe recent attempt of John Brown to incite an insurrection at Harper's Ferry has created no little excitement throughout the country. Strange and desperate as the movement was, it seems to have been the natural and necessary result of the long twenty years' war,...

Catalogue of Practical & Scientific BooksArmengaud, Amoroux, and Johnson.The Practical Draughtsmans Book of Industrial Design, and Machinists and Engineers Drawing Companion. Illustrated by fifty folio steel plates and fifty wood-cuts. 4to. Half mor. $1000 Ashton.The Theory and Practice of the Art of Designing Fancy...

A Soldier of the Legion - An Englishman's Adventures Under the French Flag in Algeria and TonquinSitting at the terrace of a well-known caf, on the main boulevard of the French capital, some time ago, I happened to glance down the columns of a...

The Merman and the Figure-HeadYes, if it pleases my fancy, he repeated, defiantly. What right have you, Ichabod Sterns, to object to that, I should like to know? If I chose to name her after the whole choir of all the nymphs that ever...

Historical Record of the Seventh, or the Queen's Own Regiment of Hussars - Containing an Account of the Origin of the Regiment in 1690, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1842The character and credit of the British Army must chiefly depend upon the zeal...

Eva's Adventures in Shadow-LandShe had been reading fairy-tales, after her lessons were done, all the morning; and now that dinner was over, her father gone to his office, the baby asleep, and her mother sitting quietly sewing in the cool parlor, Eva thought that...

Thomas CampbellReviewing Beatties Life of Campbell in the Quarterly in 1849, Lockhart expressed the hope that no one would ever tell Campbells story without making due acknowledgment to the best stay of his declining period. He would be a bold man who would think...

Trails of the PathfindersThree centuries ago half a dozen tiny hamlets, peopled by white men, were scattered along the western shores of the North Atlantic Ocean. These little settlements owed allegiance to different nations of Europe, each of which had thrust out a hand...

Christmas Speakin' at Skaggs's SkuleThese songs can be used in all manner of entertainments. The music is easy and both music and words are especially catchy. Children like them. Everybody likes them. Sheet music. Price, 35 cents each. HERES TO THE LAND OF THE...

Christmas at McCarthy'sThese songs can be used in all manner of entertainments. The music is easy, and both music and words are especially catchy. Children like them. Everybody likes them. Sheet music. Price 25 cents each. Five copies, $1.00. WE HOPE YOUVE BROUGHT YOUR...

The Peep of DayThis little work aims to be the very least of all;not in size, but in the humility of its contents. It aims at the superlative degree of littleness; and in this point seeks to resemble the least watch ever madethe least...