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By: H. Bolingbroke Mudie (1880-1916)

Book cover The Esperantist, Vol. 1, No. 3
Book cover The Esperantist, Vol. 1, No. 5
Book cover The Esperantist, Vol. 1, No. 2

By: Irvin S. Cobb (1876-1944)

Book cover Cobb's Bill-of-Fare

By: James Anthony Froude (1818-1894)

Book cover Short Studies on Great Subjects

By: John Fiske (1842-1901)

Book cover The Unseen World and Other Essays

By: Charles William Eliot (1834-1926)

Book cover Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American

By: Lord Redesdale (1837-1916)

Tales of Old Japan by Lord Redesdale Tales of Old Japan

Tales of Old Japan by Lord Redesdale is a collection of short stories focusing on Japanese life of the Edo period (1603 - 1868). It contains a number of classic Japanese stories, fairy tales, and other folklore; as well as Japanese sermons and non-fiction pieces on special ceremonies in Japanese life, such as marriage and harakiri, as observed by Lord Redesdale. The best know story of these is "The Forty-seven Ronins" a true account of samurai revenge as it happened at the beginning of 18th century Japan...

By: Agnes Repplier (1855-1950)

Americans and Others by Agnes Repplier Americans and Others

A collection of sometimes biting, always clever commentaries on some of life's foibles -- as apt today as when Ms. Repplier wrote them in 1912. Though less know to modern readers, Repplier was in her prime ranked among the likes of Willa Cather. Note: Section 13 contains the word niggards. I put it in print here so that it will not be mistaken for a racial epithet when heard. (written by Mary Schneider)

By: Kate M. Foley

Book cover Five Lectures on Blindness

The [five] lectures were written primarily to be delivered at the summer sessions of the University of California, at Berkeley and at Los Angeles, in the summer of 1918. . . they are the outgrowth of almost a quarter of a century spent in work for the blind, and were written from the standpoint of a blind person, seeking to better the condition of the blind. They were addressed not to the blind, but to the seeing public, for the benefit that will accrue to the blind from a better understanding of their problems. (Extract from the Forward by Milton J. Ferguson)

By: Arthur Christopher Benson (1862-1925)

Book cover At Large
Book cover Escape, and Other Essays
Book cover Joyous Gard
Book cover The Thread of Gold

By: Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell (1847-1922)

Book cover Essays

By: Izaak Walton (1593-1683)

The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler

The Compleat Angler is a celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in prose and verse. Walton did not profess to be an expert with the fly, but in the use of the live worm, the grasshopper and the frog "Piscator" could speak as a master. There were originally only two interlocutors in the opening scene, "Piscator" and "Viator"; but in the second edition, as if in answer to an objection that "Piscator" had it too much in his own way in praise of angling, he introduced the falconer, "Auceps," changed "Viator" into "Venator" and made the new companions each dilate on the joys of his favourite sport.

By: Joseph R. Buchanan (1814-1899)

Book cover Buchanan's Journal of Man, April 1887 Volume 1, Number 3
Book cover Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 Volume 1, Number 2
Book cover Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9
Book cover Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 Volume 1, Number 10
Book cover Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 Volume 1, Number 11
Book cover Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 5
Book cover Buchanan's Journal of Man, May 1887 Volume 1, Number 4
Book cover Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1
Book cover Buchanan's Journal of Man, August 1887 Volume 1, Number 7
Book cover Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8
Book cover Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12

By: Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)

Woman in the Nineteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition, and Duties of Women by Margaret Fuller Woman in the Nineteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition, and Duties of Women

Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) was an American feminist, writer, and intellectual associated with the Transcendentalist movement. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845) is considered the first major feminist work in the United States. Her life was short but full. She became the first editor of the transcendentalist journal The Dial in 1840, before joining the staff of the New York Tribune under Horace Greeley in 1844. By the time she was in her 30s, Fuller had earned a reputation as the best-read person in New England, male or female, and became the first woman allowed to use the library at Harvard College...

By: Robert Baldwin Ross (1869-1918)

Book cover Masques & Phases

By: Maurice Henry Hewlett (1861-1923)

Book cover In a Green Shade A Country Commentary

By: Mary H. Northend (1850-1926)

Remodeled Farmhouses by Mary H. Northend Remodeled Farmhouses

"There is a certain fascination connected with the remodeling of a farmhouse. Its low, raftered interior, its weather-beaten exterior, never fail to appeal. Types vary with the period in which they were built, but all are of interest. In this collection, which has been pictured with great care, pains have been taken to show as many different types as possible, so that the student will be able to find numerous interesting details that can be incorporated into his contemplated remodeling." [opening lines of Preface]

By: Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810-1889)

Book cover The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper

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