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Down The Rhine by Oliver Optic (William Taylor Adams) Down the Rhine, the sixth and last volume of the first series of "Young America Abroad," is the conclusion of the history of the Academy Squadron on its first voyage to Europe, with the excursion of the students and their friends...

Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort by R. E. Dennett "Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort... contains more than 30 traditional stories from French Congo which were collected by the Folklore Society of London." Ever since the Folk-Lore Society did me the honour to ask me to write...

Illustrations of Masonry by William Morgan This book has a controversial backstory which is part of the mythology of anti-Freemasonry. 'Captain' William Morgan, the author, was a disappointed Freemason in Batavia, New York. Rejected by the local lodge, he announced that he was going to publish...

The Institutes Of Vishnu Translated by Julius Jolly This Hindu law book contains descriptions of yogic practises, and a moving hymn to the Goddess Prajapati. The Vishnu-smriti or Vaishnava Dharmasâstra or Vishnu-sûtra is in the main a collection of ancient aphorisms on the sacred laws...

The Satapatha Brahmana, Part V 
by Julius Eggeling THE present volume completes the theoretic exposition of the sacrificial ceremonial, and thus brings us to the end of our task. The remaining six chapters of the last book of the Brâhmana form the so-called Brihad-âranyaka, or great forest-treatise,...

The Satapatha Brahmana, Part IV 
by Julius Eggeling

 THE present volume completes the exposition of the Agnikayana, or construction of the sacred Fire-altar. Whilst to the general reader the section of the Brâhmana treating of this ceremony, and extending over no less than five of its...

The Satapatha Brahmana, Part III
 by Julius Eggeling THE first of the three Kândas contained in the present volume continues the dogmatic discussion of the different forms of Soma-sacrifice, in connection with which two important ceremonies, the Vâgapeya and Râgasûya, are considered....

Nine Tattvas (Principles) by Pravin K. Shah The nine tattvas, or principles, are the single most important subject of Jain philosophy. It deals with the karma theory of Jainism, which provides the basis for the path of liberation. Without the proper knowledge of this subject, a person can not...

The Masculine Cross and Ancient Sex Worship by Sha Rocco "This short book on ancient 'Phallic worship', as the Victorians called it, contains much which is covered in the other entries in this literature. Jennings has a compelling thesis about the role of sexuality in ancient religions...

Diabetes Delicacies by Kanchan Kabra This book presents a collection of recipes which a diabetic can relish without feeling guilty. Each recipe has been furnished with a view to the nutritional requirement of the individual. It contains vitally important facts like the importance of exercise,...

A B C Of Cooking by Kanchan Kabra • Glossary Of culinary terms • Glossary to Indian names • General Instructions • The revelent conversion table • Equivalent weights and measures

Karezza, Ethics of Marriage by Alice B. Stockham "Karezza is a book by Alice Bunker Stockham, MD (b. 1833). She was one of the first women medical school graduates in the USA and wrote a very popular book on women's reproductive health, which was translated into several languages. This...

The Suppliants By Aeschylus and tr. by Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead An extraordinary drama of flight and rescue arising from women's resistance to marriage, The Suppliants is surprising both for its exotic color and for its forceful enactment of the primal struggle between male and female,...

The Story of Beowulf by Strafford Riggs "This is a long out-of-print retelling of the Beowulf saga. A prose translation, it captures the mood of the original without being self-consciously archaic. The black and white illustrations are stylized and sometimes a bit cartoonish, and nicely dimensionalize the story."