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Lodore, Vol. 1 (of 3)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The party returned to town, and on the following evening they went to the Italian Opera. For the first time since her father's death, Ethel threw aside her mourning attire: for the first time also, sh..

My Arctic journal - a year among ice-fields and Eskimos

Josephine Diebitsch Peary

In reading the pages of this narrative it should be remembered that within sixty miles of where Kane and his little party endured such untold sufferings, within eighty miles of where Greely’s men one ..

The Cameroons

Albert Frederick Calvert

The establishment of the German East African protectorate forms a story that is intensely interesting, inasmuch as it reveals the duplicity of Teutonic methods in their relations with native races, Eu..

The Etymology and Syntax of the English Language Explained and Illustrated

Alexander Crombie

The Treatise, the second edition of which now solicits the notice of the public, is intended chiefly for the improvement of those, who have made some advancement in classic literature. That an acquain..

The Story of Alexander

Robert Steele

Perhaps you will find that there is too much fighting in the story: if so, remember that it was nearly the only game people played at in those days, so that it took the place of rowing or tennis, cycl..

The Youngest Camel

Kay Boyle

The early mornings were now a clear icy blue, but as the day advanced the heat blazed up as if a fire were sweeping across the heavens towards them. The youngest camel didn’t mind how hot it was and h..

By Scarlet Torch and Blade

Anthony Euwer

A number of the rhymes in the present volume have previously appeared in the Associated Press, Judge, Leslie’s, the Oregon Sunday Journal, and The Open Road. For permission to reprint the drawings the..

Moonglade

Marguerite Cunliffe-Owen

The parloir of the Sacred Heart Convent at Bryn is a cheerful place, and was full of sun-rays that morning. Plants carefully tended showed their green leaves and bright blossoms on the window-sills be..