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The Highlanders of Glen Ora

James Grant

We had met repeatedly in our mutual rides, rambles, and wanderings, and the impression she made upon me, when acting as her guide to the old ruined chapels, towers, and burial-places, the high cascade..

The Lake Regions of Central Africa - A Picture of Exploration, Vol. 1

Sir Richard Francis Burton

I had intended this record of personal adventure to appear immediately after my return to Europe, in May 1859. The impaired health, the depression of spirits, and worse still the annoyance of official..

Automatic finger control

Anonymous

A Scientific Method that gets at the very foundation of Musical Skill. Discloses fully the secrets that make it possible to learn to play any instrument easily and quickly. Taught only by the U. S. Sc..

Fifty Great Cartoons

Frank Beard

The church can scarcely be said to be somnolent. It is awake and active. But its activities are too frequently spent in affairs that do not relate to its mission which is to fight the hosts of sin in ..

In Caverns Below

Stanton A. Coblentz

Like many of life's crises, it was all over in a minute. Yet it seemed infinitely prolonged, seemed packed with the experience of hours, of days, almost of years. I can still relive the dagger-shaft o..

Ruysbroeck and the Mystics

Maurice Maeterlinck

The life of Jean von Ruysbroeck, like that of most of the great thinkers of this world, is entirely an inner life. He said himself, “I have no concerns outside.” Nearly all his biographers, Surius amo..

The Dead-Line

W. C. Tuttle

Jack went back to the corral, where he leaned on the fence and tried to decide what to do. Naturally his sympathies were with the cattleman. He had been born and raised in the Lo Lo Valley, steeped in..

The Lake Regions of Central Africa - A Picture of Exploration, Vol. 2

Sir Richard Francis Burton

The moisture-bearing wind in this part of Africa is the fixed south-east trade, deflected, as in the great valley of the Mississippi and in the island of Ceylon, into a periodical south-west monsoon. ..