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The Bagpipers

The Bagpipers

by George Sand

If I were to tell you in my language and yours certain things which you have heard and understood in theirs, you would find those very things so unlike what is natural to these people that you would accuse me of unconsciously putting something of my own into the relation, and of attributing to the peasantry reflections and feelings which they could..

The Curtiss Aviation Book

The Curtiss Aviation Book

by Glenn Curtiss

The time has come when the world is going to need a new type of men–almost a new race. These are the Flying Men. The great dream of centuries has come true, and man now has the key to the sky. Every great invention which affects the habits and customs of a people brings about changes in the people themselves. How great, then, must be the changes to..

The Moon -  A Popular Treatise

The Moon - A Popular Treatise

by Garrett Putman Serviss

The reader familiar with astronomical literature will doubtless remark a certain resemblance between the plan on which this book is written and that of Fontenelle’s “Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds,” a French classic of the eighteenth century. The author freely acknowledges that it was the recollection of the pleasure which the reading of ..

A Tragic Idyl

A Tragic Idyl

by Paul Bourget

Neither these princes nor their neighbors noticed the presence at one of the tables of a man who had borne the title of King in one of the states improvised on the Balkan Peninsula. Men had fought for this man, men had died for him, but his royal interests seemed now to be restricted to the pasteboard monarchs on the table of trente-et-quarante. An..

Labour and the Popular Welfare

Labour and the Popular Welfare

by W. H. Mallock

The landed rental of the country is given by me as something under a hundred million pounds. It has been asserted that were the ground-rents in towns properly estimated, the true rental would be found to be a hundred and fifty million pounds or a hundred and eighty million pounds. It is no doubt difficult to differentiate in town properties the tot..

Learning and Other Essays

Learning and Other Essays

by John Jay Chapman

An expert on Greek Art chanced to describe in my hearing one of the engraved gems in the Metropolitan Museum. He spoke of it as ‘certainly one of the great gems of the world,’ and there was something in his tone that was even more thrilling than his words. He might have been describing the Parthenon or Beethoven’s Mass,—such was the passion of reve..

Poems

Poems

by Lionel Johnson

A collection of poems written by Lionel Johnson.WINCHESTERTO MORFYDDPLATO IN LONDONIN FALMOUTH HARBOURA FRIENDA BURDEN OF EASTER VIGILBY THE STATUE OF KING CHARLES AT CHARING CROSSLALEHAMOUR LADY OF FRANCEIN MEMORYTHE PRECEPT OF SILENCEHILL AND VALEGWYNEDDA CORNISH NIGHTMYSTIC AND CAVALIERPARNELL..

The Passing of Morocco

The Passing of Morocco

by Frederick F. Moore

For several years I had been watching Morocco as a man who follows the profession of ‘Special Correspondent’ always watches a place that promises exciting ‘copy.’ For many years trouble had been brewing there. On the Algerian frontier tribes were almost constantly at odds with the French; in the towns the Moors would now and then assault and someti..