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Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 38, Vol. I, September 20, 1884

Chambers' Journal

 The eastern practice of inoculation was first made known in this country by Lady Wortley Montagu, who was the wife of our ambassador at Constantinople, where she had seen it tried with good effe..

Wolf-Cap

Charles Howard

He leaped the little rivulet by which he stood while speaking, and threaded the forest mazes again. Presently he came upon a neat clearing, in the center of which, surrounded by a rail-fence, stood a ..

BRAND- The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen Vol. 03 (of 11)

Henrik Ibsen

Brand was written in the summer of 1865, at Ariccia, near Rome. Fifteen months before, Ibsen had left Christiania, a voluntary exile, eager to escape from the narrow Scandinavian world, and burning wi..

No-Time-Land - A Story for Girls and Boys

M. J. C. Fulton

Almost at the end of the passage Guy came to a large eight-day clock; he stood and gazed at it with surprise; and well he might. For the clock was fixed upon a long stick; in the centre of the clock t..

The Abergeldie Winter Book

Mlle. Riego De La Branchardiere

Work another Rosette the same, and join it to the same pearl of the previous Rosette as before; then keep the Wool as the back and join to the centre pearl of the last Rosette. Repeat the last Rosette..

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1026, August 26, 1899

Various Authors

    Lucy had her full share of the sweet womanly instinct of obedience. It is an instinct which is often strong in proportion to the strength of the whole nature. It works so natur..

Blessed Event

Henry Farrell

It all started on the night that young Freddie was born. Preparations for the little newcomer's arrival (though it was not known then whether it was to be Frederick or Frederica) had gone apace for se..

EMPEROR AND GALILEAN - The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen Vol. 05 (of 11)

Henrik Ibsen

Ibsen had been in Rome only two or three months when he wrote to Björnson (September 16, 1864): “I am busied with a long poem, and have in preparation a tragedy, Julianus Apostata, a piece of work whi..