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Though my last edition of Hints on Revolver Shooting was published only four years ago, I find it now necessary, owing to the advance of the automatic pistol, to revise it thoroughly and to add new chapters. Till quite recently, the automatic pistol had many defects, both as to balance and as to safety,...

Halloween is one of the most awaited and celebrated holiday for the Christians and it comes just second in popularity to Christmas. Millions of people indulge in celebrating, treating and merry making in the festive season, but very few are aware of the history and the true origins of Halloween. The...

When it comes to Christian morality tales, most people think of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Before Pilgrim's Progress, there was The Summoning of Everyman (more commonly known as Everyman); much like Bunyan's classic work, Everyman uses allegorical characters to examine the question of salvation...

An obscure manuscript from the early fourteenth century containing a cookbook, a cookbook unknown in its time and lost until the nineteenth century. Not so extensive or so elegant as Taillevent's "Viandier", it nonetheless includes recipes for a variety of period dishes, made with familiar...

The Turba Philosophorum, also known as Assembly of the Philosophers, is one of the oldest European alchemy texts, translated from the Arabic, like the Picatrix. It has been claimed that it was written as early as the 12th century. In print, the title occurs in the Auriferae artis, quam chemiam vocant, antiquissimi authores, sive Turba philosophorum of 1572, and later works.

WITH THE CHOICE, OR, THE Pleasures of a Country-LIFE. Dedicated to the Beaus against the next Vacation. London: Printed and Sold by H. Hills, in Black-fryars, near the Water-side. 1709. Price One Penny. Wedlock, oh! Curs'd uncomfortable State

Authentic collection of stories told by many different tribes of Inidans.

ABRAM, Naked, or having scarce Cloaths enough to hide Nakedness. -- ABRAM-COVE, a lusty Rogue, with hardly any Cloaths on his Back: a Tatterdemallion. -- ABRAM-MEN, Otherwise called Toms of Bedlam, shabby Beggars, patched and trick'd up with Ribbons, Red-Tape, Fox-tails, Rags of various Colours; pretending...

ST. GOTTHARD The Petrified Alp A photograph of a snow-capped mountain near the source of the Rhine, with a small waterfall and trees in the valley below it. Aus dem Quellgebiet des Rheines Near the Source of the Rhine Au pays du Rhin The man died suddenly and was deeply mourned by his wife and child....

The Wisdom of the East Series EDITED BY L. CRANMER-BYNG Dr. S. A. KAPADIA TRANSLATED FROM THE CHINESE OF THE HSIAO CHING FIRST SECRETARY TO THE CHINESE LEGATION

THE LADIES O Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please. And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When patn and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou f Sir Walter Scott THEY talk about a woman's sphere as though it had a limit ; There's not a place...