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Remarks on the Present System of Road Making
by John Loudon McAdamRemarks on the Present System of Road Making : With Observations, Deduced from Practice and Experience, With a View to a Revision of the Existing Laws, and the Introduction of Improvement in the Method of Making, Repairing, and Preserving Roads, and Defending the Road Funds from Misapplication. Seventh Edition, Carefully Revised, With an Appendix, ..
The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. II (of 3)
by Athenaeus of NaucratisThe Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. II (of 3), by Athenaeus of Naucratis literally translated by C. D. YONGE, B.A. with an appendix of poetical fragments, rendered into english verse by various authors, and a general index. in three volumes...
The Life and Sufferings of Leonard Black
by Leonard BlackThe book was written substantially by Mr. Black himself, but, in consequence of his deficiency of education—growing out of the fact that his childhood and youth were spent in slavery—it needed considerable correction to fit it for the press. This work was kindly performed, gratuitously, by a friend of the author, who was, however, very careful to p..
The Social Ladder
by Charles Dana GibsonThis is the seventh book in the regular series of Mr. Gibson’s published drawings. Each book contains eighty-four of Mr. Gibson’s best cartoons, and all are uniform in size, shape and binding. Thanks are due Messrs. Mitchell & Miller for their co-operation in making this volume as representative and complete as possible. This book is published ..
Two-Legs
by Carl EwaldOnce upon a time, ever so many years ago, Truth suddenly vanished from out of the world. When people perceived this, they were greatly alarmed and at once sent five wise men in search of it. They set out, one in this direction and one in that, all plentifully equipped with travelling-expenses and good intentions. They sought for ten long years. The..
Wind in Her Hair
by Kris NevilleThey were all written a long time ago, even before the First Generation, by men back on Earth, but they seemed to be written just for us.... One was about a bird, and how it made the poet feel to watch it fly and hear it sing; it made him feel all warm inside.... And one was about a young girl who worked in the fields, reaping grain. That image see..
An Apache Campaign in the Sierra Madre
by John Gregory BourkeThe contents of this book, which originally appeared in a serial form in the Outing Magazine of Boston, represent the details of the expedition led by General Crook to the Sierra Madre, Mexico, in 1883; but, as the present military operations are conducted by the same commander, against the same enemy, and upon the same field of action, a perusal o..
English Folk-Song and Dance
by Frank KidsonA simple air of eight or sixteen bars may not appear difficult to evolve, or even worth evolving at all, much less of record; but when the matter is further considered, we have to acknowledge that seemingly trivial melodies have wrought effects which have upset thrones and changed the fate of nations. Where they have not had this great political in..