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George Meredith: A Study

Hannah Lynch

It is our habit to class under the name of light literature all fiction, from that of Richardson to the ephemeral stories of the latest London favourite, though, as a matter of fact, even that histori..

Mandalay to Momien

John Anderson

The journal of our ill-fated companion, recently published in China, and received in this country when this work was completed, unfortunately does not carry him on to Tali-fu, but his impressions of t..

Bee Keeping for Profit. A New System of Bee Management (1880)

Lizzie E. Cotton

ince the day I introduced my Controllable Hive and new system of bee management to the notice of the public, the worthless bee hive swindlers and their tools have been boiling over with wrath against ..

Bee Keeping for Profit. A New System of Bee Management (1891)

Lizzie E. Cotton

In my early efforts at bee keeping, I met with many failures and heavy losses, from being confused by the contradictory teachings of selfish or ignorant bee keepers, and from a lack of that personal k..

Fighting King George

John T. McIntyre

The distance by water to this point was much shorter than by road; the skiff had lowered its sail and run its nose up on the sand before the dragoons reached the spot. Captain Deering was just about t..

Hand-book of Sanitary Information for Householders

Roger Sherman Tracy

There is no evidence to show that the emanations from fresh house-slops, or the excreta of healthy animals, are injurious to health, but it has been proved that when these matters decompose they becom..

Shepherds of the Wild

Edison Marshall

Perhaps he lacked the basic stuff. The Old Colonel was a little despairing: he had begun to fear that in this lay the true explanation. But perhaps—and this was the old man’s hope—the matter got down ..

Stories from the Crusades

Janet Harvey Kelman

The Crusades are long past, yet to-day there are men who see visions of good and who wish to bring them down to earth. With them are others who fight selfishly as did Bohemond and Baldwin long ago. Bu..