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It is a great book, simply written, wherein the Christian author dares honestly to face the fact that the words of the bible can not be accepted in their literal meaning, and yet he has been able to preserve for us the deep, underlying spiritual truths of the Good Book. Contents: Chapter 1 - The Creation...

A Narrative from the Mexican War. There is hardly a book that gives so intelligent and lively a description of the actualities of the war in Mexico, and hardly a work in the English language which presents so interesting a picture of a soldier's life - his round of conversation, his employments, his...

This compilation consists of the best-known hand-written fairy tales by Mr. Lang. These are Prince Prigio, a literary and comic fairy tale written in 1889, the follow-up called "Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia" and a collection of short fairy tales under the name of called "Princess Nobody."...

ST. AUGUSTINE was an indefatigable preacher. He considered regular preaching an indispensable part of the duty of a bishop. To his homilies we owe most of his exegetical labors. The homilies were delivered extempore, taken down by scribes and slightly revised by Augustin. They retain their colloquial...

"Mr. Dresser has written many books, all of them good — very good—but we consider 'The Greatest Truth' the best. The book is filled with very high teachings, and reveals an extraordinary insight into the perfect ways of that inner life and that higher power that we all desire so much to understand."—Eternal...

This study of human nature has been written with the conviction that every man desires fullness of life, hence is willing to undertake any investigation which promises to put him in surer command of his resources. It endeavors to disclose various lines of development in such a way as to arouse enthusiasm...

'Angelo, Tyrant of Padua' is a drama by Victor Hugo. The French writer finished it in 1835. The historical work portrays the chief magistrate of the Italian city Padua, Angelo.

Marion De Lorme the heroine, and Didier the hero, are simple figures, and more like those to be found in the 'Hernani.' Didier is another brother of the Giaour, — mysterious, melancholic, misanthropic. Like Hernani, he is a wanderer on the face of the earth, and has great capacity for suffering....

Victor Hugo wrote the dramatic libretto for the opera "La Esmeralda" in 1836. Although the premiere of the opera was a failure, the libretto, based on Hugo's novel 'The Hunchback of Notre-Dame', is still worth a read.

"Fallen Among Thieves" is a classic of the early Victorian crime fiction and offers a splendid country-house murder plot featuring detective John Barman. This is part 1 out of 3, A Legacy Of Vengeance

Swami Abhedananda was a prominent leader of the Vedanta Society in New York and imperative in spreading knowledhe about the Vedas. He was influenced by the famous mystic Ramakrishna Paramahansa and his writings about Yoga, Spirituality and Vedanta Philosophy are still in high demand today. This edition...

In this useful little book some interesting details are given as to the method and history of crystal gazing. The author thinks the injunctions to be found in the Laws of Manu and elsewhere, not to look into deep water, are meant to suggest its dangers. He has collected a large amount of material...

The telling of the everyday life of a slave on a plantation in Tennessee by one of the family she had served lends a charm to Aunt Dice: The Story of a Faithful Slave, by Nina Hill Robinson. The characters are drawn with a firmness that gives them photographic quality; a charming picture of life on...

J. M. Barrie tells the first adventures of Peter Pan in the form of a fairy story, settles the first questions of children in regard to their advent into the world, by picturing a pre-existence on an island in fairyland. Barrie's observation of life is so thoroughly that of the artist that there is...