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Tactics, Volume 1 (of 2). Introduction and Formal Tactics of Infantry
by William BalckThe first volume of “Tactics,” which appeared in its first edition in 1896, and for which the preparatory work reached back more than a decade, now appears in its fourth edition in a completely changed form. The lessons gained in war and improvements in weapons have corrected many earlier views. While the Boer war confused the views on infantry com..
The Tournament—Its Periods and Phases
by R. Coltman ClephanThose students of arms and armour who have Mr. Clephan’s work on Defensive Armour, Weapons and Engines of War in their libraries will expect to find valuable material for study when they find his name as author of a work on the Tournament. And in this they will surely not be disappointed. It is perhaps a novel experience for one who has for some ye..
Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal Vol. 10
by Various AuthorsTrial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal Vol. 10..
Elementary Botany
by George Francis AtkinsonThe present book is the result of a revision and elaboration of the author’s “Elementary Botany,” New York, 1898. The general plan of the parts on physiology and general morphology remains unchanged. A number of the chapters in the physiological part are practically untouched, while others are thoroughly revised and considerable new matter is added..
Harper's Electricity Book for Boys
by Joseph H. AdamsIf a handy-book of electricity like this had fallen into the hands of Thomas A. Edison when he was a newsboy on the Grand Trunk Railway, or when he was a telegraph operator, he would have devoured it with the utmost eagerness. To be sure, at that time, in the early sixties, all that we knew of electricity and its applications could have been told i..
Historical record of the Twenty-second, or the Cheshire Regiment of Foot
by Richard CannonHistorical record of the Twenty-second, or the Cheshire Regiment of Foot containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1689, and of its subsequent services to 1849.The character and credit of the British Army must chiefly depend upon the zeal and ardour by which all who enter into its service are animated, and consequently it is of the ..
The New Astronomy
by S. P. LangleyThe New Astronomy's author S. P. Langley's specifies in his introductory remark as I have written these pages, not for the professional reader, but with the hope of reaching a part of that educated public on whose support he is so often dependent for the means of extending the boundaries of knowledge.It is not generally understood that am..
Intelligence in Plants and Animals
by Thomas G. GentryNothing is more charming to the mind of man than the study of Nature. Religion, moderation and magnanimity have been made a part of his inner being through her teachings, and the soul has been rescued by her influence from obscurity. No longer doth man grovel in the dust, seeking, animal-like, the gratification of low and base desires, as was his w..