Lost Leaf Publications: 69 books

Cover of The Phantom Airman (Illustrated)
by Rowland Walker
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013

Contents:  CHAPTER The Secret of the Schwarzwald The Wonder 'Plane "Tempest" of the Aerial Police A Midnight Consultation The Aerial Liner An Up-to-Date Cabin Boy A Duel with Words Sons of the Desert The Phantom Bird The Brigand of the Eastern Skies The Air-King's Tribute The...
Cover of Lost in the Wilds of Brazil (Illustrated)
by James H. Foster
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013

CHAPTER I A Startling Discovery “LOOK here, Joe. There’s something stirring. I know the signs. Our dads wouldn’t keep together constantly, studying maps and reading books and making frequent trips to the museum, for nothing. It——” “You’re right, Bob. They certainly must have...
Cover of Rossetti (Illustrated)
by Lucien Pissarro
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013

“Masterpieces in Colour” Series Artist.    Author. VELAZQUEZ.    S. L. Bensusan. REYNOLDS.    S. L. Bensusan. TURNER.    C. Lewis Hind. ROMNEY.    C. Lewis Hind. GREUZE.    Alys Eyre Macklin. BOTTICELLI.  ...
Cover of The Vegetable Lamb (Illustrated)
by H. W. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013

THE VEGETABLE LAMB OF TARTARY; A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant TO WHICH IS ADDED A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF COTTON AND THE COTTON TRADE CONTENTS. Line PAGE CHAPTER I. The Fable and its Interpretation    1 CHAPTER II. The History of Cotton and its Introduction...
Cover of The Forest of Mystery (Illustrated)
by James H. Foster
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013

CHAPTER I The Chinaman BANG! Crash! “What was that?” Joe Lewis had turned suddenly, every nerve on edge. His eyes tried to penetrate the darkness of the San Francisco night. “Sounded like an automobile accident,” came from Bob Holton. “Come on. Let’s go around and see.” The two...
Cover of The Fair God (Illustrated)
by Lew Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013

THE FAIR GOD OR, THE LAST OF THE ’TZINS A Tale of the Conquest of Mexico NOTE BY THE AUTHOR. A personal experience, though ever so plainly told, is, generally speaking, more attractive to listeners and readers than fiction. A circumstance from the tongue or pen of one to whom it...
Cover of The Riddle and the Ring
by Gordon MacLaren
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013

Contents: THE LITTLE MAN IN BLACK. AN AMAZING OFFER. PANIC. THE EMERALD RING. THE POWER OF AVARICE. AS IN A DREAM. NEW GRACE AND DIGNITY. THE GATES OF CHANCE. A WOMAN IN DISTRESS. SHIRLEY RIVES. HIDE AND SEEK. PUZZLED. THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE. FOLLOWED. THE GIRL WHO VANISHED. ANOTHER WOMAN. BEYOND...
Cover of The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals (Illustrated)
by Edmund P. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Sources—Amira’s distinction between retributive and preventive processes—Addosio’s incorrect designation of the latter as civil suits—Inconsistent attitude of the Church in excommunicating animals—Causal relation of crime to demoniacal possession—Squatter...
Cover of Harper's Young People, November 9, 1880 (Illustrated)
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013

An Illustrated Weekly Vol. II.—No. 54.    Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York.    Price Four Cents. Tuesday, November 9, 1880.     $1.50 per Year, in Advance. JACK-O'-LANTERN. BY MARY E. FOLSOM. Who is this nabob...
Cover of La Piccola Fonte
by Roberto Bracco
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013

Author's Note: Signora, la vostra sensibilità di grande interprete dell'anima vi ha messa in diretta e immediata comunione coi miei personaggi, sicchè voi avete scritto di questa opera mia con quello stesso fervore spirituale che, facendo passare l'altrui vita a traverso il vostro...
Cover of Joe Miller's Jests, With Copious Additions (Illustrated)
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2013

Author Preface: A few years ago, at a dinner party in England, a very good story was told by one of the company, who represented the hero of the anecdote as a well-known nobleman then living. This story was immediately pronounced to be an “old Joe.” On this, a warm discussion took place,...
Cover of Life Of Mozart, Vol. 3 (Illustrated)
by Otto Jahn
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013

Fac-simile No. 2 is of the original MS. of "Das Veil-chen," now in the possession of Mr. Speyer, of Herne Hill (see Vol. II., p. 373). Fac-similes Nos. 3 and 4 are sketches illustrative of Mozart's method of composing. Sketch I. is described in Vol. II., p. 425. Sketch II. is of part of...
Cover of Intimate China (Illustrated)
by Mrs. Archibald Little
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013

INTIMATE CHINA The Chinese as I have seen them.        PRELUDE. FIRST IMPRESSIONS. PAGE Arriving in Shanghai.—My First Tea-season.—Inside a Chinese City.—Shanghai Gardens.—In the Romantic East at last!    1 CHAPTER I. ON THE UPPER YANGTSE....
Cover of The Correspondence of Madame Princess Palantine, Marie-Adelaide De Savoie, and Madame De Maintenon (Illustrated)
by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013

Contents:  Introduction by C.-A. Sainte-Beuve    1   Translator’s Note    35   CORRESPONDENCE OF MADAME: I.     Letters of 1695-1714     39 II.     Letters of 1714-1716     64 III.  ...
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