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Lord's Lectures, Beacon Lights of History Volume 10. The series was first published 1883-1896. According to Wikipedia: "John Lord (18101894) was an American historian and lecturer. Born at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he graduated from Dartmouth in 1833 and then entered the Andover Theological Seminary,...

Short essay. Literary hoax, supported by fictitious letters. First published in 1887. According to Wikipedia: "William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent...

First published in 19012 According to Wikipedia: "Mary Hunter Austin (September 9, 1868 August 13, 1934) was an American writer. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, her classic The Land of Little Rain (1903) describes the fauna, flora and people as well as evoking the mysticism...

According to Wikipedia: "Mary Hunter Austin (September 9, 1868 August 13, 1934) was an American writer of fiction and non-fiction. For 17 years she made a special study of Indian life in the Mojave Desert, and her publications set forth the intimate knowledge she thus acquired. She was a prolific novelist,...

Mark is the son of a sea-captain, who has always longed to follow his father to sea. The old captain tells him that life at sea is pretty boring, but eventually agrees to take both Mark and his mother on his next voyage. Of course this turns out to be full of perils and adventures. Set in the Java...

First published in 1993 and released into the public domain by the author. According to the Introduction: "What follows is not mere theory, not something I read about or saw others do. These techniques are tested and workable. The next-to-last chapter of this book contains a complete plan of my 1992...

According to Wikipedia: "George Stuart Fullerton (1859 1925) was an American philosopher and psychologist. He was born at Fatehgarh, India; graduated in 1879 from the University of Pennsylvania and in 1884 from Yale Divinity School; and returned to Pennsylvania to be an instructor, adjunct professor,...

According to Wikipedia: "The World English Bible (also known as WEB) is a public domain translation of the Bible that is currently in draft form. Work on the World English Bible began in 1997 and was known as the American Standard Version 1997. The New Testament is considered complete and is available...

The 1790 translation of the classic first published in 1789. According to Wikipedia, "Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (26 August 1743 8 May 1794); the father of modern chemistry, was a French noble prominent in the histories of chemistry and biology. He stated the first version of the law of conservation...

According to Wikipedia: "James Napier (1810-1884) was a Scottish author of the nineteenth century. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Amongst his publications are: Manufacturing Art in Ancient Times, Notes and Reminiscences of Patrick, and Folk Lore or Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century (1879)."

According to Wikipedia: "Matthew Henry (18 October 1662 22 June 1714), was an English non-conformist clergyman. He was born at Broad Oak, a farmhouse on the borders of Flintshire and Shropshire. His father, Philip Henry, had just been ejected by the Act of Uniformity 1662. Unlike most of his fellow-sufferers,...

Unique and detailed first-hand account of Ethiopia in 1896-97 -- at the change of an era -- by a Russian officer with remarkable understanding for the many varied people who lived there and keen insight into their destiny. According to a review in "Old Africa": "Despite its bland title, this is the most...

Magazine about cooking and housekeeping from November 1921.

According to Wikipedia: "Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 August 25, 1900) was a nineteenth-century German philosopher and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, using a distinctive German language style and displaying...