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The Far North: Exploration in the Arctic RegionsIn May 1845, Sir John Franklin sailed from England with the ships Erebus and Terror, on an expedition to attempt the discovery of a North-West Passage, or water communication between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, to the...

Harper's Young People, January 24, 1882 - An Illustrated Weekly The wind may blow the snow about, For all I care, says Jack, And I don't mind how cold it grows, For then the ice won't crack. Old folks may shiver all day long,...

La guirlande de Julie: augmentée de documents nouveauxNote sur la transcription: Les erreurs clairement introduites par le typographe ont t corriges. L'orthographe d'origine a t conserve et n'a pas t harmonise. Les numros des pages blanches n'ont pas t repris. C'est non-seulement au matre,...

Über die weiblichen BrüsteDer vorliegende Text wurde anhand der 1806 erschienenen Buchausgabe so weit wie mglich originalgetreu wiedergegeben. Zeichensetzung und offensichtliche typographische Fehler wurden stillschweigend korrigiert. Ungewhnliche sowie inkonsistente Schreibweisen wurden beibehalten, insbesondere wenn diese in der damaligen Zeit blich waren oder im Text...

Library IdealsWISCONSIN, a true cradle of freedom and successful government, has fostered several librarians who were true humanists. Dr. Peckham was one. Dr. Thwaites was another. Henry E. Legler was unlike either of these, but greater than either in his continued and unabated activity...

Marjorie Dean at Hamilton ArmsGood morning, Uncle Brooke. I have brought my friend, Marjorie Dean to meet you. I hope you are feeling your splendid best today. Miss Susannas voice, gently modulated until nothing remained of its natural quick, brisk quality, filled Marjorie with...

Frank's Ranche; Or, My Holiday in the Rockies - Being a Contribution to the Inquiry into What We Are to Do with Our Boys I cannot but dedicate this little volume to you who have been my pleasant travelling companion for many thousands of...

Hephaestus, Persephone at Enna, and Sappho in LeucadiaScene.The white-rocked promontory of Leucate, on the Island of Leucadia, overlooking the Ionian Sea. High on the cliff, in the background, towers the Leucadian Temple to Apollo, white and gold in the waning sunlight. Sappho, of Lesbos,...

PoemsWritten June 10th, 1898, to commemorate in verse the great achievement of Richard P. Hobson and his crew of seven men, in sinking the steamer Merrimac, in the mouth of Santiago harbor, island of Cuba, under orders of Admiral Sampson. A Spanish physician on...

Jane Austen and Her Times Of Jane Austens life there is little to tell, and that little has been told more than once by writers whose relationship to her made them competent to do so. It is impossible to make even microscopic additions to...

Society in America, Volume 1 (of 2)"To seize a character, even that of one man, in its life and secret mechanism, requires a philosopher; to delineate it with truth and impressiveness is work for a poet. How then shall one or two sleek clerical...

An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History and Literature (8 of 8)Hereafter followeth the Battle of Agincourt and the great Siege of Rouen, by King Henry of Monmouth, the Fifth of the name; that won Gascony, and Guienne, and Normandy. [See Sir Harris Nicolas's...

The Medici Balls: Seven little journeys in Tuscany HY the Medici family assumed the well-known device of red balls on a field of gold, is one of the vexed questions of heraldic history. Some hold that as the saints, Cosmo and Damian, who appear...

The Decameron (Day 6 to Day 10) - Containing an hundred pleasant NovelsHaving (by your Honorable command) translated this Decameron, or Cento Novelle, sirnamed Il Principe Galeotto, of ten dayes severall discourses, grounded on variable and singuler Arguments, happening betweene seaven Noble Ladies, and...

The Decameron (Day 1 to Day 5) - Containing an hundred pleasant NovelsThe Philosopher Zeno (Right Honourable, and my most worthily esteemed Lord) being demaunded on a time by what meanes a man might attaine to happinesse; made answere: By resorting to the dead,...

Adventures of a Telegraph Boy; or, "Number 91" I. PAUL, THE TELEGRAPH BOY. II. THE CORTLANDT STREET FERRY. III. OLD JERRY THE MISER. IV. A STRANGE COMMISSION. V. AN EXCITING INTERVIEW. VI. PAUL MAKES A STRANGE DISCOVERY. VII. PAUL RESOLVES TO MOVE. VIII. PAUL...

The Two MarysMY name is Mary Peveril. My father was the incumbent of a proprietary chapel in that populous region which lies between Holborn and the New Roada space within which there is a great deal of wealth and comfort, and a great deal...

The Fun Library, vol. 8: Stage, Study & StudioThe life of what still passes in London for Bohemiain and about the theatres, the studios and the literary clubsfigures conspicuously in the pictorial humour of our time. It is but natural that the artist in...

Vandyke Brown: A Farce in One ActSCENE.Mr. Bobbinss Lodgings. Chamber, C. D., backed by a windowdoors, R. and L.table, R., chairs, books, newspapertable, arm chair R. of table, chair L.table against flat, R., with bust of Shakespearetable against flat, L., with vase of flowers....

Travels and adventures in South and Central America. First series - Life in the Llanos of Venezuela To Young America: Smart, as the world over, you are acknowledged to bein which opinion I most heartily concur, having myself spent among you the best part...