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By: Charles James Lever (1806-1872) | |
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Paul Gosslett's Confessions in Love, Law, and The Civil Service |
By: Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1882-1944) | |
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Ancient Man The Beginning of Civilizations |
By: Alice Morse Earle (1851-1911) | |
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Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) | |
Home Life in Colonial Days
CHAPTER I HOMES OF THE COLONISTS When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable. The colonists found a land magnificent with forest trees of every size and variety, but they had no sawmills, and few saws to cut boards; there was plenty of clay and ample limestone on every side, yet they could have no brick and no mortar; grand boulders of granite and rock were everywhere, yet there was not a single facility for cutting, drawing, or using stone... | |
Curious Punishments of Bygone Days | |
Sabbath in Puritan New England | |
Customs and Fashions in Old New England | |
Stage-coach and Tavern Days |
By: Egerton Castle (1858-1920) | |
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The Light of Scarthey |
By: Johanna Brandt (1876-1964) | |
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The Petticoat Commando
In introducing the English version of this book I venture to bespeak a welcome for it, not only for the light which it throws on some little-known incidents of the South African war, but also because of the keen personal interest of the events recorded. It is more than a history. It is a dramatic picture of the hopes and fears, the devotion and bitterness with which some patriotic women in Pretoria watched and, as far as they could, took part in the war which was slowly drawing to its conclusion on the veld outside... |
By: H. S. Adams (1864-?) | |
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Making a Rock Garden
A short look at building a rock garden, right from the rocks themselves and how to arrange them, to choosing and placing the plants, touching wall and bog gardens, too. In this little monograph, the author is trying to draw the eyes of U.S. gardeners in to the intimate beauty of this neglected hobby.The original work has a number of attractive and useful photographs and drawings. |
By: Joe Tilden | |
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Joe Tilden's Recipes for Epicures
Major Joseph Tilden was in his time one of the most famous Bohemians and epicureans of the Pacific Coast. Ever since his death his many friends have been trying to learn the culinary secrets which made a repast of his devising so delicious. He had given his recipes to but few, and those few his most intimate friends and fellow spirits. One of the most favored of his old companions has given this complete collection of his recipes for publication.San Francisco, May, 1907.(Excerpt from text) |
By: Pío Baroja (1872-1956) | |
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Cæsar or Nothing | |
The Quest | |
Youth and Egolatry |
By: Annie F. Johnston (1863-1931) | |
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The Little Colonel's House Party
Lloyd Sherman, the "Little Colonel", is a girl of eleven whose mother invites three other girls to spend a month with Lloyd in her beautiful home in Kentucky. The children come from very different homes, but fall into the new ways very readily. The account of their escapades will amuse young readers. A bit of disobedience on the part of one spoiled girl leads to something of a tragedy, in which Betty, the nicest of the children, is the sufferer.This series for girls from the early 1900’s, begun... | |
The Little Colonel's Hero
In this sixth volume of “The Little Colonel Series” for girls, Lloyd is surprised with a gift for her twelfth birthday, of a summer trip to Europe. In Geneva she becomes friends with an old Prussian major and his Red Cross dog, a St. Bernard named Hero. Through many adventures, in the end the Little Colonel learns the true meaning of selfless duty. | |
The Rescue of the Princess Winsome A Fairy Play for Old and Young | |
The Story of Dago | |
Mildred's Inheritance Just Her Way; Ann's Own Way | |
Cicely and Other Stories | |
Big Brother | |
Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation
In this delightful story ”The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation” by Annie Fellows Johnston the Little Colonel, Lloyd Sherman. together with her friends Betty, Kitty and Allison are starting the schoolyear at a new school, Warwick Hall, a Boardingschool for girls in Washington. They find it a wonderful and stimulating place, make many new friends and have many experiences and also adventures there. But Lloyd comes down with high fever shortly before Christmas, and while home on Christmas Vacation she almost breaks down, and the doctor says she must not go back to school but stay at home to regain her health... | |
Ole Mammy's Torment | |
Mary Ware's Promised Land | |
The Legend of the Bleeding-heart | |
The Story of the Red Cross as told to The Little Colonel | |
Flip's "Islands of Providence" | |
Georgina of the Rainbows | |
The Quilt that Jack Built; How He Won the Bicycle |