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This edition features • portrait • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS I. Early Training II. The Gunboats III. The Bridge IV. The Jetties V. The Ship-Railway "Captain James Buchanan Eads (1820 – 1887) was a world-renowned American civil engineer and inventor, holding more...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS. PART I. The History of the Bow. CHAPTER I. ORIGIN OF INSTRUMENTS. FRICTIONAL VIBRATION. THE BOW DISTINCT FROM THE PLECTRUM. THE TRIGONON. BOWING WITH VARIOUS OBJECTS. CHAPTER II. ORIENTAL ORIGIN OF THE BOW. INDIAN,...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Index CONTENTS Introduction The hula The halau; the kuahu--their decoration and consecration The gods of the hula Support and organization of the hula Ceremonies of graduation; debut of a hula dancer The password--the...

NARRATIVE OF THE SUFFERING & DEFEAT OF THE NORTH-WESTERN ARMY UNDER GENERAL WINCHESTER: MASSACRE OF THE PRISONERS; SIXTEEN MONTHS IMPRISONMENT OF THE WRITER AND OTHERS WITH THE INDIANS AND BRITISH PREFACE. ...I think it proper that the rising generation should know what their fathers suffered,...

STANDARD-OPERAGLASS CONTAINING THE DETAILED PLOTS OF ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY ONE CELEBRATED OPERAS WITH CRITICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL REMARKS, DATES &c. &c.

This edition features • a linked Table of Contents and linked Footnotes CONTENTS (abridged) PART I.    COWBOY YARNS Out Where the West Begins The Shallows of the Ford The Dance at Silver Valley The Legend of Boastful Bill The Texas Cowboy and the Mexican Greaser Broncho...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and linked Index CONTENTS Preface.  Beethoven's Harbingers.  Symphony, No. 1, Op. 21.  Symphony, No. 2. Op. 36.  — The Adagio  — The Allegro  — The Larghetto  Symphony, No. 3....

This edition features a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS I. - A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE. H. R. Fox Bourne II. - HIS CAREER IN THE INDIA HOUSE. W. T. Thornton III. - HIS MORAL CHARACTER. Herbert Spencer IV. - HIS BOTANICAL STUDIES. Henry Trimen V. - HIS PLACE AS A CRITIC. W. Minto VI. - HIS WORK...

CONTENTS FOR VOLUME FIRST. I. YOUTH. AUTOBIOGRAPHY PARENTS DEATH IN THE HOUSE OVERWORK THE WORLD OF BOOKS FIRST FRIEND SCHOOL-LIFE SELF-CULTURE II. CAMBRIDGE, By J.F. Clarke FRIENDSHIP CONVERSATION.—SOCIAL INTERCOURSE STUDIES CHARACTER.—AIMS AND IDEAS OF LIFE III. GROTON AND PROVIDENCE. LETTERS...

This edition features illustrations. "The histories of “A Boy I Knew” and the “Four Dogs” are absolutely true, from beginning to end; nothing has been invented; no incident has been palliated or elaborated. The author ... has laughed over it, and he has cried over it; it has appealed...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS (abridged list) CHAPTER I — COLONIAL WOMAN AND RELIGION The Spirit of Woman — The Suffering of Women — The Era of Adventure — Privation and Death in the First Colonial Days — Descriptions...

This edition features a linked List of Plates. LIST OF PLATES. Psittacus badiceps. Bay-headed Parrot. Plyctolophus rosaceus. Salmon-crested Cockatoo. ——galeritus. Greater Sulphur-crested Cockatoo. ——sulphureus. Lesser Sulphur-crested Cockatoo. ——Leadbeateri. Leadbeater's Cockatoo. Calyptorhynchus...

The Emancipation of Massachusetts The Dream and the Reality This edition features a linked Table of Contents. CONTENTS PREFACE CHAPTER I. THE COMMONWEALTH CHAPTER II. THE ANTINOMIANS CHAPTER III. THE CAMBRIDGE PLATFORM CHAPTER IV. THE ANABAPTISTS CHAPTER V. THE QUAKERS CHAPTER VI. THE...

This edition features a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes. CONTENTS Introduction The Forgotten Bit of Fulminate Hell Swazey Breaks up the Dance The Poet’s Uplift How Bender Lowered the Price of Dynamite Foolhardy Kruger Discharging Pat Lines to a Lady He Separated The Well-Digger’s Casualties The...