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About thirty years since, several of "The Bab Ballads" (most of which had appeared, from time to time, in the pages of Fun) were collected by me, and published by Messrs. George Routledge and Sons. This volume passed through several editions, and, in due course, was followed by a second series under...

A Treatise wherein is shown that there are in existence on earth rational creatures besides man, endowed like him with a body and a soul, that are born and die...

The title and table of contents of this volume contain all that I have to say in regard to its character. My only apology for again appearing before the public is to be found in the treatment which I have heretofore experienced from the critics. With one exception, the more prominent periodicals of...

The Cumbersome Horse Mr. Vincent Egg and the Wage of Sin The Ghoollah Cutwater of Seneca Mr. Wick's Aunt What Mrs. Fortescue Did "The Man with the Pink Pants" The Third Figure in the Cotillion "Samantha Boom-de-ay" My Dear Mrs. Billington

First in my thought as I wrote this little book were the young people in the West, who enjoy the blessings of their religion, without realization of the persecution of their missionaries on the fighting line. Perhaps if they read my description of religious conditions in the East, they will more highly...

Tubal-cain is a person mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, in Genesis 4:22. He was a descendant of Cain, the son of Lamech (not the other Lamech, father of Noah) and Zillah. He was the brother of Naamah and half-brother of Jabal and Jubal.

SONGS FROM ALICE IN WONDERLAND. How doth the little Crocodile You are Old, Father William Twinkle, twinkle, little Bat! Pig and Pepper The Lobster Quadrille 'Tis the Voice of the Lobster Beautiful Soup The Queen of Hearts Who Stole the Tarts? SONGS FROM THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS. Jabberwocky Tweedledum...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Alice in Wonderland tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. It is considered...

In issuing this volume of my Mathematical Puzzles, of which some have appeared in periodicals and others are given here for the first time, I must acknowledge the encouragement that I have received from many unknown correspondents, at home and abroad, who have expressed a desire to have the problems...

Book of the Marvels of the World or Description of the World , in Italian Il Milione (The Million) or Oriente Poliano and in English commonly called The Travels of Marco Polo, is a 13th-century travelogue written down by Rustichello da Pisa from stories told by Marco Polo, describing Polo's travels...

At Pension Madeleine How Honor Found Her New Name The Mountaineers The Outgoing Bimbo In the Châlet of the Rocks Zitli The Mountain Fireside Story-Telling Courtship and Castle-Building Farewell to the Châlet Stormy Weather The Way to Coventry The Strange Old Lady The Bombshell The Apples of Atalanta The Blaze of Glory

I profess a certain vagueness of remembrance in respect to the origin and growth of The Tragic Muse, which appeared in the Atlantic Monthly again, beginning January 1889 and running on, inordinately, several months beyond its proper twelve. If it be ever of interest and profit to put one's finger...

The two old men sat in the library, eyeing the blue envelope that lay on the end of the long table nearest the fireplace, where a merry but unnoticed blaze crackled in the vain effort to cry down the shrieks of the bleak December wind that whistled about the corners of the house. Someone had come...

Samuel Merwin, Sr. was an American playwright and author. He attended Northwestern University and between 1905 and 1911 he worked as associate editor and finally editor of SUCCESS magazine. In 1907 the magazine sent him to China to investigate the opium trade.