Higs Publishing: 28 books
Two Years Before the Mast
With an introduction and notes by Homer Eaton Keyes, B.L. Assistant Professor of Art in Dartmouth College
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
by James Knowles
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Arthur was the first born son of King Uther Pendragon and heir to the throne. However these were very troubled times and Merlin, a wise magician, advised that the baby Arthur should be raised in a secret place and that none should know his true identity.
As Merlin feared, when King Uther...
by Andrew Lang, Robert Kirk
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
THE bibliography of the following little tract is extremely obscure. The title-page of the edition of 1815, which we reproduce, gives the date as 1691. Sir Walter Scott says in his Demonology and Witchcraft, (1830, p. 163, note), "It was printed with the author's name in 1691, and reprinted,...
THE WHITE HOUSE COOK BOOK (1887)
The Whole Comprising A Comprehensive Cyclopedia Of Information For The Home, Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
In presenting to the public the "WHITE HOUSE COOK BOOK," the publishers believe they can justly claim that it more fully represents the progress and present perfection of the culinary art than any previous work. In point of authorship, it stands preëminent. Hugo Ziemann was at one...
How to Analyze People on Sight
Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2012
These excerpts from almost 100 years old book will help improve your skill of reading people. How to Analyze People on Sight was written by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict in 1921. Read on and see if their theories are still applicable today. The authors wrote:
Modern science...
Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking
PROVEN RECIPES FOR TRADITIONAL PENNSYLVANIA Dutch FOODS since 1683
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
In 1683 the Plain Sects began to arrive in William Penn’s Colony seeking a land of peace and plenty. They were a mixed people; Moravians from Bohemia and Moravia, Mennonites from Switzerland and Holland, the Amish, the Dunkards, the Schwenkfelds, and the French Huguenots. After the lean years of...
Persuasion
With Austen for Beginners A Memoir of Jane Austen, illustrations, Free Audiobook Links
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
Jane Austen (1775-1817) was an English writer who wrote many classic romantic fictions with her most famous novels being Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. It was not until well after Austen’s death that she gained fame for her writing and she is now considered one of English literature’s greatest writers.
Histoire de Pierre Lapin
Livres d'images pour enfants, des Bedtime Story parfait, A Picture Book enfants magnifiquement illustrés selon l'âge 3-9 (French Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
En 1893, Beatrix Potter a écrit The Tale of Peter Rabbit dans une lettre l'image pour un petit garçon qu'elle connaissait qui avait été malade pendant une longue période. En 1901, elle a poursuivi en privé imprimer 250 exemplaires de l'histoire dans le temps...
California Mexican-Spanish Cook Book Selected Mexican and Spanish Recipes
( Original Recipes since 1868 )
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
An announcement that my lesson for the day would be Spanish dishes, invariably brought record-breaking crowds in any city in the United States, and a demand for recipes induced me to search for the best to be found.
My three years' stay in California has enabled me to learn how to prepare...
THE ITALIAN COOK BOOK
The Art of Eating Well : Containing Over Two Hundred Recipes For Italian Dishes Original Recipes with linked TOC
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
PRACTICAL RECIPES OF THE ITALIAN CUISINE PASTRIES SWEETS, FROZEN DELICACIES AND SYRUPS
One of the beneficial results of the Great War has been the teaching of thrift to the American housewife. For patriotic reasons and for reasons of economy, more attention has been bestowed upon the preparing...
Twenty-four Little French Dinners and How to Cook and Serve Them
Original Recipes since 1919 with linked TOC
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
The Little Dinners of Paris are world-famous. No one can have sojourned in the fascinating capital in its normal days without having come under their spell. To Parisien and visitor alike they are accounted among the uniquely characteristic features of the city's routine life.
Much of the...
Domestic French Cookery, 4th ed.
Original Recipes since 1832 with Active Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The design of the following little book is to furnish receipts for a select variety of French dishes, explained and described in such a manner as to make them intelligible to American cooks, and practicable with American utensils and American fuel. Those that (according to the original work) cannot...
Ice Creams, Water Ices, Frozen Puddings Together with Refreshments for all Social Affairs
Original Recipes with linked TOC
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In this book, Philadelphia Ice Creams, comprising the first group, are very palatable, but expensive. In many parts of the country it is quite difficult to get good cream. For that reason, I have given a group of creams, using part milk and part cream, but it must be remembered that it takes smart...
DAVE FEARLESS AND THE CAVE OF MYSTERY
OR ADRIFT ON THE PACIFIC
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
CONTENTS CHAPTER I SPLENDID FORTUNE CHAPTER II FOUL PLAY CHAPTER III MR. SCHMITT-SCHMITT CHAPTER IV A PAIR OF SCHEMERS CHAPTER V DOCTOR BARRELL'S "ACCIDENT" CHAPTER VI THE PILOT'S PLOT CHAPTER VII THE MYSTERIOUS...
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