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Walter Crane's Painting Book: anboco presents interesting, highly entertaining and exciting literature of great writers and authors.

'An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog', although it is announced as an elegy on a dog, is more properly a satire on an elegy. In summary, we are presented with a good and pious man, a good Christian, who appears to be a fine example of Christianity and well-liked by the townspeople. anboco presents interesting, highly entertaining and exciting literature of great writers and authors.

Robert Falconer, school-boy, aged fourteen, thought he had never seen his father; that is, thought he had no recollection of having ever seen him. But the moment when my story begins, he had begun to doubt whether his belief in the matter was correct. And, as he went on thinking, he became more and...

My reasons for believing that a new exposition of Vico's philosophy is required may easily be inferred from the observations on the effects of his work and the biographical notes which form respectively the second and fourth appendices to this volume. Here I merely wish to state that my exposition is...

The Story of the Drama Cell No. 12 The Crime and the Public Monsieur Caillaux's Examination The Campaign of the “Figaro” Calmette v. Caillaux The “Ton Jo” Letter Agadir L'Affaire Rochette “The Truth, The Whole Truth ...” About French Politics Before the Last Act of the Drama

As a preface to the present work, which, perhaps, more than another requires one, I adduce the letter of a friend, by which so serious an undertaking was occasioned. "We have now, my dear friend, collected the twelve parts of your poetical works, and on reading them through, find much that is known,...

The author of these sketches desires to say that they were written, not for the special student of literary biography, who is already familiar with the facts here given, but rather for those busy people who have little time for reading, yet wish to know something of the private life and personal history...

Some years ago, in conversation with an artist whose works, perhaps, alone, in the present day, unite perfection of drawing with resplendence of color, the writer made some inquiry respecting the general means by which this latter quality was most easily to be attained. The reply was as concise as it...

A Little Tour in France is a book of travel writing by Henry James. Originally published under the title En Province in 1883–1884 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly, the book recounts a six-week tour James made of many provincial towns in France, including Tours, Bourges, Nantes, Toulouse, Arles and...

The North American continent, at the time of its discovery and early settlement, had a waterfowl population which was one of its many wonders. So far as the evidence shows, no equal area of the earth's surface ever supported such vast numbers of so many different ducks and geese, and this situation persisted...

Harriet Beecher Stowe Helen Hunt Jackson Lucretia Mott Mary A Livermore Margaret Fuller Ossoli Maria Mitchell Louisa M Alcott Mary Lyon Harriet G Hosmer Madame de Staël Rosa Bonheur Elizabeth Barrett Browning "George Eliot" Elizabeth Fry Elizabeth Thompson Butler Florence Nightingale Lady Brassey Baroness Burdett-Coutts Jean Ingelow

It tells the story of Henry Esmond's twin grandsons, George and Henry Warrington. Henry's romantic entanglements with an older woman lead up to his taking a commission in the British army and fighting under the command of General Wolfe at the capture of Quebec. On the outbreak of the American War of...

A large portion of the public, and especially that smaller section of the community, the readers of books, will not easily forget the shock, as universal as it was unexpected, which was produced at Christmas, 1863, by the almost incredible intelligence of the death of William Makepeace Thackeray. The...

Edwin Lefèvre was an American journalist, writer, and diplomat most noted for his writings on Wall Street business: The Woman and Her Bonds, The Break in Turpentine, The Tipster, A Philanthropic Whisper,The Man Who Won, The Lost Opportunity, Pike's Peak or Bust, A Theological Tipster.