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Four and Twenty Fairy Tales

Selected From TPerrault, and other Popular Writers

by Various
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016

BLUE BEARD THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD MASTER CAT; OR, PUSS IN BOOTS CINDERELLA; OR, THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER RIQUET WITH THE TUFT LITTLE THUMBLING PERFECT LOVE ANGUILLETTE YOUNG AND HANDSOME THE PALACE OF REVENGE THE PRINCE OF LEAVES THE FORTUNATE PUNISHMENT FAIRER THAN A FAIRY THE GOOD WOMAN...
Cover of The Montessori Method - Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education
by Maria Montessori
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016

In the period that has elapsed between the publication of the Italian and American editions, I have had, with my pupils, the opportunity to simplify and render more exact certain practical details of the method, and to gather additional observations concerning discipline. The results attest the vitality...
Cover of Indian Myth and Legend
by Donald A. Mackenzie
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016

This volume deals with the myths and legends of India, which survive to us in the rich and abundant storehouse of Sanskrit literature, and with the rise and growth of Brahmanism, Buddhism, Jainism, &c. The reader is introduced to the various sacred works of the Hindus, including the ancient invocatory...
Cover of The History and Romance of Crime, Millbank Penitentiary
by Arthur Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016

The Building of the Penitentiary Early Management The Great Epidemic The Penitentiary Reoccupied Serious Disturbances A New Regime Ingenious Escapes The Women's Wards The Millbank Calendar The Penitentiary Impugned Last Days of Millbank
Cover of Mother's Remedies: Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada
by Thomas Jefferson Ritter
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016

Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada Medicine is not an exact science, and it is reasonable to presume that even Time, with all its qualifying influences, will fail in its effects on this one branch of science. As the millions of...
Cover of Filipino Popular Tales
by Dean S. Fansler
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016

The folk-tales in this volume, which were collected in the Philippines during the years from 1908 to 1914, have not appeared in print before. They are given to the public now in the hope that they will be no mean or uninteresting addition to the volumes of Oriental Märchen already in existence. The...
Cover of Ski-runs in the High Alps
by F. F. Roget
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017

In 1905, when nearer fifty than forty, had I not been the happy father of a girl of seven I should have had no occasion to write this book. I bought, for her to play with, a pair of small ski in deal, which I remember cost nine francs. For myself I bought a rough pair, on which to fetch and bring...
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Short and Sweet

A Comic Drama, in One Act

by Adolphus Charles Troughton
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016

SCENE.—Short and Sweet's Lodgings, near the Crystal Palace—a handsomely furnished Apartment, door, C.—backed by landing and staircase, doors, L. 1. E. and 2 E.—fireplace, L. in flat—looking glass over mantelpiece—vases and ornaments on mantelpiece—fender, fireirons, &c.—door, R. 2...
Cover of The Butterfly Book
by W. J. Holland
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016

I. The Life-History and Anatomy of Butterflies The Eggs of Butterflies. Caterpillars: Structure, Form, Color, etc.; Moults; Food of Caterpillars; Duration of Larval State; Transformation. The Pupa, or Chrysalis: The Form of Chrysalids; Duration of Pupal Life; The Transformation from the Chrysalis...
Cover of The Wolf-Leader
by Alexandre Dumas
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016

ALTHOUGH the introductory chapters were not signed until May 31st, 1856, The Wolf-Leader is to be associated in conception with the group of romances which Dumas wrote at Brussels between the years 1852 and 1854, that is to say, after his financial failure and the consequent defection of his collaborator...
Cover of Works
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016

Edgar Allan Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story....
Cover of Poems
by Crocket McElroy
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016

POEMS OF PATRIOTISM. Our Country and Our Flag, The Flag of Hobson's Choice, The Old Soldier, Washington, A Voice for Freedom, The Reconcentrados, The Celebration, Ode to Ontario, The United States and Canada, Ode to Our Country, POEMS OF SENTIMENT. The Milk of Human Kindness, The Working Girl, The...
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My Secret Life

Bestsellers and famous Books

by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016

My Secret Life, by "Walter", is the memoir of a gentleman describing the author's sexual development and experiences in Victorian England. It was first published in a private edition of eleven volumes, which appeared over seven years beginning around 1888. The work itself is enormous, amounting to...
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German Atrocities

An Official Investigation

by J. H. Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016

The second chapter of this book has already appeared in the pages of the June issue of the Nineteenth Century and After. At the time of its appearance numerous suggestions were made—notably by the Morning Post and the Daily Chronicle—that it should be republished in a cheaper and more accessible...
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