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The earliest history of remote ages describes methods employed in combating disease, and down through all the centuries the struggle against infection has been going on. The science of health as applied in recent years reveals wonderful progress in the avoidance of disease, and in the control of the...

Prompted by the interest which has arisen since the publication of former editions of this comedy, the author takes occasion to state that "The Merchant Prince of Cornville" was written between the years 1875 and 1879. It was circulated and read in manuscript copies until 1895, when, at the request...

An Old Acquaintance in a New Rôle Hansel Declares for Reform Mr. Ames Tells a Story School Against Town Hansel Meets Phineas Dorr The Cause Gains a Convert The First Skirmish Mr. Ames States His Position The Second Skirmish Hansel Leaves the Team Hansel Makes a Bargain Three in Conspiracy Fairview Sends a Protest The Spirit of the School The Game with Fairview

Content: Its educational and psychological basis Form: Its patterns in words, sentences and stories STORIES: Two-Year-Olds: Types to be adjusted to individual children. Content, personal activities, told in motor and sense terms. Form reduced to a succession of few simple patterns. MARNI TAKES A RIDE...

Alice fing an sich zu langweilen; sie saß schon lange bei ihrer Schwester am Ufer und hatte nichts zu thun. Das Buch, das ihre Schwester las, gefiel ihr nicht; denn es waren weder Bilder noch Gespräche darin. "Und was nützen Bücher," dachte Alice, "ohne Bilder und Gespräche?" Sie überlegte sich...

Among the many books about the Polar regions there is none quite like this, dealing with the gradual progress of exploration towards the north along the different areas of advance within the Arctic Circle. The subject is always interesting, for few regions have been the scene of more persistent effort...

THhelife-saving crew were giving an exhibition drill. A number of people, mostly women and children, were scattered about the beach (for since the failure of the lumber and salt, that had expanded Liddington into a city with four paved streets, the only important events were band concerts and crew...

The old civilisation of India was a concrete unity of many-sided developments in art, architecture, literature, religion, morals, and science so far as it was understood in those days. But the most important achievement of Indian thought was philosophy. It was regarded as the goal of all the highest...

It has very forcibly been brought home to me that not only young officers joining their units from training establishments, but also those who have been in France and have come back wounded, are often very ignorant on those points in minor tactics which they have not learnt through actual experience...

Concha Argüello, Sister Dominica by Gertrude Atherton The Ford of Crèvecœur by Mary Austin A Californian by Geraldine Bonner Gideon's Knock by Mary Halleck Foote A Yellow Man and a White by Eleanor Gates The Judgment of Man by James Hopper The League of the Old Men by Jack London Down the Flume...

Captain Beatty, just before leaving for the Dardanelles, asked me to write a preface. I think that the best preface will be to answer, as far as I am able, several questions which were frequently put to me on my return to civilization after the conclusion of the Special Commission Court. These questions...

John Poole, an English playwright, was one of the earliest and best known 19th century playwrights of the comic drama, the farce. Paul Pry is considered his most notable work, while Hamlet Travestie, performed as a burlesque, was the first Shakespeare parody since the Restoration.

This book is ahandbook on industrial subjects being published by the Popular Mechanics Co. Like the magazine, these books are "written so you can understand it," and are intended to furnish information on mechanical subjects at a price within the reach of all. The texts and illustrations have been...

As the liner steamed into Callao Roads, and long before it had anchored, it was surrounded by a flotilla of small boats. A moment later, deck, saloons and cabins were invaded by a host of gesticulating and strong-minded boatmen, whose badges attested that they were duly licensed to carry off what...