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In the general advance of technical knowledge and research during the last decade, the Soap Industry has not remained stationary. While there has not perhaps been anything of a very revolutionary character, steady progress has still been made in practically all branches, and the aim of the present...

My Neighbour Nelly, Lady Denzil, The Stockbroker at Dinglewood, The Scientific Gentleman, Lady Isabella, An Elderly Romance, Mrs. Merridew's Fortune, The Barley Mow, My Faithful Johnny.

A Tale of Two Cities set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former...

These little sketches must not be taken too seriously, and it must not be imagined that they describe the most prominent characteristics of the good sportsmen portrayed in them. We have only turned our attention to the lightest side of their 'Varsity careers because we think that the most amusing;...

The fact of the existence, within the valley of the Mississippi river and its tributaries, of many ancient monuments of human labor and skill, seems to have escaped the notice of the adventurers who first made known to the world the extent and fertility of that vast region. Except some incidental...

Charles Langbridge Morgan, playwright and novelist of English and Welsh parentage, author of The Gunroom. The main themes of his work were, as he himself put it, "Art, Love, and Death", and the relation between them. Themes range from the paradoxes of freedom, through passionate love seen from within and without, to the conflict of good and evil and the enchanted boundary of death.

"Look, what's coming!" and with a shout of delight the children of Cloverdale village left their play and rushed into the street. What do you think they saw? A tiny gilded coach drawn by two beautiful white kittens, with reins of blue ribbons covered with silver bells, and through the coach window...

In offering to the American public a new edition of Dinks and Mayhew on the Dog, which, I am happy to find, is largely called for, I have been induced to make a further addition, which will, I think, render this the most perfect and comprehensive work in existence for the dog fancier and dog lover....

Some portions of the following pages have already appeared in the monthly numbers of the Sanitary Engineer, and the complete work is now published with a view to assist Surveyors of Towns and others who are directly engaged in providing that house dustbins shall be regularly cleared, and streets kept...

There is nothing that is much more fun than a party, is there? Mother hasn't forgotten the days when she set a little table in the attic with the dolls' tea-set, and had cambric tea and jam sandwiches. As for a birthday party, why it doesn't seem a bit like a birthday without a frosted cake and pink...

PROLOGUE—The Young Man at the Stern A THICK, wet night on the southwest coast of Lake Michigan a dozen years ago; a wind that sweeps over the pitching lake and on over the dim white beach with a rush that whirls the sand up and away. Trees are bending up there on the bluff. The sand and the rain...

Lost Fire! Paul Looks Into the Matter Detectives A Suspicious Individual The Spy The Robbery Encounter Who Is Mr. Grey? Stumped! A Hunch A Bump on the Head Discovery A New Turn of Events Following Up Their Clues Paul Gets Into Trouble Parental Admonitions False Alarm! Captured! Escape! Convincing...

BEYOND THE HILLS OF DREAM MORNING OUT OF POMPEII MORNING ON THE SHORE BEREAVEMENT OF THE FIELDS A WOOD LYRIC AN AUGUST REVERIE IN THE SPRING FIELDS THE DRYAD PENIEL AFTERGLOW THE TREE OF TRUTH GLORY OF THE DYING DAY SEPTEMBER IN THE LAURENTIAN HILLS LAZARUS THE MOTHER DUSK THE LAST PRAYER PAN THE...

The object of this book is to give the English-speaking public, in a convenient form, as faithful and readable a copy as the translator was capable of making of a document unique in the literature of antiquity. Whether we regard the correspondence of Cicero from the point of view of the biographer...