Lost Leaf Publications: 69 books

THE OLDEST ENGLISH BOOK ON HUNTING  WITH A FOREWORD BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONTENTS chap.        page Illustrations    ix Introduction    xi Foreword to the First Edition    xix I.    The...

A NEW AND FACETIOUS Introduction to the English Tongue Author Preface: It may be considered a strange wish on the part of an Author, to have his preface compared to a donkey’s gallop. We are nevertheless desirous that our own should be considered both short and sweet. For our part,...

CONTENTS CHAPTER I Mrs. Robin's News  II Getting Acquainted  III Morning Tattoos  IV The High-Hole  V Too Much Cousin  VI Mr. Flicker's Plans  VII The Two Neighbors  VIII An Early Call  IX Mrs. Robin Worries  X Obeying Orders  XI A Very Short Fight ...

Preface: Preface This little book will interest the Pittsburgher of 1916 chiefly because the parts and pieces of which it is made were written by men who were living here or who passed this way in 1816. The three newspapers of the day—the Gazette, the Mercury, and the Commonwealth—have...

CAKES & ALE A DISSERTATION ON BANQUETS INTERSPERSED WITH VARIOUS RECIPES, MORE OR LESS ORIGINAL, AND ANECDOTES, MAINLY VERACIOUS Author Preface: A long time ago, an estimable lady fell at the feet of an habitual publisher, and prayed unto him:— “Give, oh! give...

Introduction The weasel's agility and speed take it in and out of retreats, over obstacles and across open places in amazingly rapid fashion and are responsible for the animal's actions being described as "quick as a flash." The common long-tailed weasel of the United States measures...

Author Preface: In this volume I have attempted to give an architectural[v] description of all the cathedral churches of England, Wales, and Scotland, together with a brief history of each see. In order to include any adequate account of each church and bishopric in one volume of portable...

Introduction: The following pages comprise the series of articles which appeared, during the last season, in the columns of the Utica Morning and Weekly Herald. It is not claimed that they exhaust the several questions discussed; but it is believed that they constitute the most practical treatise...

Rambles in Rome An Archaeological and Historical Guide TO THE: MUSEUMS, GALLERIES, VILLAS, CHURCHES, AND ANTIQUITIES OF ROME AND THE CAMPAGNA. Author Preface: he object of our work is to describe in a practical manner the points of interest in and around the...

TEATRO VOLUME SESTO LA PICCOLA FONTE — FOTOGRAFIA SENZA.... NOTTE DI NEVE — LA CHIACCHIERINA PROPRIETÀ LETTERARIA I diritti di riproduzione e di traduzione sono riservati per tutti i paesi, non escluso il Regno di Svezia e quello di Norvegia. È assolutamente proibito di rappresentare...

CONTENTS Volume I   (1) The Editor’s Introduction   (3) Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph   (9) The Journal   (11) Volume II    (141) Volume III   (287) Cecilia’s Narrative &c. being a Supplement to Mrs. Arnold’s Journal  ...

MATERNITÀ — IL FRUTTO ACERBO 3ª EDIZIONE RIVEDUTA PERSONAGGI: La marchesa Claudia di Montefranco Il marchese Alfredo di Montefranco Maurizio Dorini Il duca di Vigena Rosalia Teresa Suor Filomena Olghina Filippo Decio, domestico di Maurizio Dorini Un servo del marchese di Montefranco...

Erstes Buch 1 Einige Ordonnanzen, die die Treppe emporeilten, blieben plötzlich wie angewurzelt stehen, ein junger ordenglitzernder Hauptmann mit rosigen Wangen, eben im Begriff sich zu schneuzen, verbarg in äußerster Hast das Taschentuch, und nur einem Drillichkittel gelang...

Author's Preface: Tired Nature’s sweet restorer, balmy sleep. —Young. The regularly recurring incidence of natural sleep forms one of the most important subjects for physiological investigation. Were it an event of rare occurrence, it would excite a degree of astonishment and alarm equal...