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The Lore of the Honey-Bee

Tickner Edwardes

Modern bee-keepers, athirst for the Americanisation of everything, give little heed nowadays to the writings of one whom Bacon has called “the chastest poet and royalest that to the memory of man is k..

Werwile of the Crystal Crypt

Gardner F. Fox

Travis remembered the polyps in the Venusian water-caves where he'd almost lost an arm before he got past them to bring the museum the only specimen of the primal undine race of Venus ever seen above ..

A history of Italian literature

Richard Garnett

The comparative—though only comparative—paucity of authors in Italy is so far favourable to the historian working on a small scale, that it allows a more expansive treatment of the greatest men, and a..

Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1914

William Stanley Braithwaite

The great secret of life is to discover by a process of related effects, this common reality of experience. Most of mankind grope blindly in the dark, and miss it, and by a kind of frenzied and pitiab..

Base-ball Ballads

Grantland Rice

A collection of poems written by Grantland Rice:The Song of the Base HitOn the Road to Rooters’ Row“Till the Last Man Is Out”The BushersThe Climax of Fan JoySongs of Swat—“You Uster Bat .300”The ..

Old Greek Education

J. P. Mahaffy

There have been only two earlier nations and one later which could compete with the Greeks in their treatment of this perpetual problem in human progress. We have first the Egyptian nation, which by i..

The Boston cooking-school cook book

Fannie Merritt Farmer

Food is necessary for growth, repair, and energy; therefore the elements composing the body must be found in the food. The thirteen elements named are formed into chemical compounds by the vegetable a..

The Old Ones

Betsy Curtis

The older doctor looked oddly at the younger. "There must be something wrong in Block Nineteen. We'll call a meeting of staff. You can't cover up this sort of thing, Doctor. Everybody probably knows i..