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Fragments of a Faith Forgotten by G.R.S. Mead Some short sketches among the Gnostics, mainly of the first two centuries-a contribution to the study of Christian Origins based on the most recently discovered materials. "I have written so that the man of one language only may read from the...

Pagan Regeneration A Study of Mystery Initiations in the Graeco-Roman World BY Harold R. Willoughby "According to Harold Willoughby in Pagan Regeneration, the festival of Theoinia was celebrated by those families who were believed to be direct descendents of Dionysos' original followers,...

Bygone Beliefs by Herbert Stanley Redgrove Originally published in 1920. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

Tommy And Co by Jerome K. Jerome Peter Hope was tall and thin, clean-shaven but for a pair of side whiskers close-cropped and terminating just below the ear, with hair of the kind referred to by sympathetic barbers as “getting a little thin on the top, sir,” but arranged with economy, that...

The Dreams In The Witch House by H. P. Lovecraft "The Dreams in the Witch House" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror fiction. Walter Gilman, a student of mathematics and folklore at Miskatonic University, takes a room in the Witch...

The Street by H. P. Lovecraft "The Street" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in late 1919 and first published in the December 1920 issue of the Wolverine amateur journal. About The Author :- Lovecraft's major inspiration and...

Stage-Land by Jerome K. Jerome A fascinating book of curious habits and customs of people of the stage. About The Author :- Jerome K. Jerome, born on May 2, 1859, in Staffordshire, England, was an actor and teacher before becoming a popular novelist with The Idle Thoughts of an...

Fifty Christmas Poems For Children by Florence B. Hyett Christmas is both a sacred religious holiday and a worldwide cultural and commercial phenomenon. For two millennia, people around the world have been observing it with traditions and practices that are both religious and secular in nature....

The Mahabharata, Book 13: Anusasana Parva Kisari Mohan Ganguli, tr. Om! Having bowed down to Narayana, and Nara the foremost of male beings, and the goddess Saraswati also, must the word Jaya be uttered. It is of immense importance to the culture of the Indian subcontinent, and is a...

The Kasidah Of Haji Abdul El-Yezdi by Sir Richard Burton "This was written by Sir Richard Burton under the pseudonym of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi after his return from Mecca in 1854. Observant readers will note that the Kasidah contains many references to 19th Century scientific and philosophical...

Patriotism, or love of country, is one of the tests of nobility of character. No great man ever lived that was not a patriot in the highest and truest sense. From the earliest times, the sentiment of patriotism has been aroused in the hearts of men by the narrative of heroic deeds inspired by love...

The Wandering Host By David Starr Jordan "This is an allegorical tale about the search for spiritual meaning. Jordan was the first President of Stanford University."

Folk Tales of Brittany by Elsie Masson "This selection of folk-tales from Brittany by Elsie Masson, vividly illustrated by pen and ink drawings, is an enjoyable read. The usual folklore themes with Celtic influence are present and accounted for; humble peasants, magic livestock, enchanted...

The Money Master by Gilbert Parker It must be remembered that the story of The Money Master really runs for a generation, and it says something for Jean Jacques Barbille that he could travel through scenes, many of them depressing, for long years, and still, in the end, provoke no disparagement,...