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This collection includes nineteen fantastic fairy tales for children. The stories are: (1) Khing-Chu-Fu, (2) The City of Fortune, (3) The Garden of Health, (4) Carabi! Carabo!, (5) The Author of the Wall, (6) Devil’s Tournament, (7) The Treasure of the Dragon, (8) The Man with the Two Faces, (9)...

It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.  —***Leonardo da Vinci ***   In this Beginner's Psychology I have tried to write, as nearly as might be, the kind of book that I should have found useful when I was beginning my own study of...

   "Parables from Nature", a collection includes all 29 stories from the first, second, third, and fourth series, originally published in separate volumes for children that ages 6-12.        "THERE are two books," says Sir Thomas Browne, in his Religio Medici, "from...

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. He wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and conflicts of his day. In 1867 Trollope left his position in the British Post Office to run for...

   David Ames Wells (1828-1898), a prominent American financial economist, political activist and apostle of laissez faire, was a staunch advocate of free trade and the abolition of the tariff. "Wells wrote a large number of books, pamphlets, and articles ...    His chief interests were the...

   IN preparing a first book of American history, it is necessary to keep in mind the two purposed such a work is required to serve.        There are children whose school life is brief; these must get all the instruction they are to receive in their country's history from a book of the grade...

Robin Hood was the legendary hero of England who stole from the rich to help the poor. The stories about Robin appealed to common folk because he stood up against—and frequently outwitted—people in power. Furthermore, his life in the forest—hunting and feasting with his fellow outlaws, coming...

HE ARCTIC EXPEDITION of 1875 left England on 29th May, crossed the Atlantic to Davis Straits in a succession of storms, and entered the Arctic regions on 4th July. It sailed with orders to “attain the highest northern latitude, and, if possible, reach the Pole.”    In old times, when voyages...

**  PREFACE**   In the following pages an attempt has been made to emphasize the value of Embryology and Comparative Anatomy in elucidating the difficult and often complicated morphological problems encountered in the study of human adult anatomy.   Moreover, in addition to the direct...

For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Eveque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite. For a hundred francs a year, she cooked and did the housework, washed, ironed, mended, harnessed the horse, fattened the poultry, made the butter and remained faithful to her mistress—although...

"Do tell us a fairy tale, ganpa." "Well, will you be good and quiet if I do?" "Of course we will; we are always good when you are telling us fairy tales." "Well, here goes.—Once upon a time, though it wasn't in my time, and it wasn't in your...

This fourth novel of Boothby's Dr. Nikola series reveals that Nikola has discovered all of the facts necessary to extend a human being's life. He has studied science and magic secrets of Tibetan monks. He explains:   "It has been a long and tedious search, but such labour only makes success...

Spring always seems to begin on the morning that the Imp, in a bright pink nightgown, comes rushing into my room without knocking, and throws himself on my bed, with a sprig of almond blossom in his hand. You see, the almond blossom grows just outside the Imp's window, and the Imp watches it very...

  Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of previously-published short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840. ***   "Itself, by itself, solely, one everlasting, and single."***                   PLATO: SYMPOS. Part 1 Morella Lionizing William...