Confessions of the Czarina. Count Paul Vassili
1918. Illustrated. A fictionalized account of Czarina Alexandra written by Count Paul Vassili, the nom de plume of Princess Catherine Radziwill, whose personal life makes for interesting reading of its own. Her Highness, Princess Catherine
The Autobiography of a Quack and Other Stories. S. Weir Mitchell
1915. From the Introduction: The first two tales in this little volume appeared originally in the Atlantic Monthly as anonymous contributions. I owe to the present owners of that journal permission to use them. The Autobiography of a Quack has been
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The Biography Of A Baby. Milicent Washburn Shinn
American Child Psychologist Best Known For Her Seminal Systematic Observational Study Of A Child. Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1891 года (издательство "Boston and New York,
Both Sides of the Shield. Major Archibald W. Butt
1912. An influential military aide to President William Howard Taft and President Theodore Roosevelt, Archibald Butt is one of the most highly praised passenger-heroes of the Titanic tragedy. He ensured the safety and eventual rescue of countless
Health Through Will Power. James J. Walsh
1920. The will is the controlling factor in disease. Many another demonstration of the power of will has been furnished by the War. This volume is meant to help in the restoration of the will to its place as the supreme faculty in life, above all
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On the Study and Difficulties of Mathematics. Augustus De Morgan
1910. Augustus De Morgan was an important innovator in the field of logic. In addition, he made many contributions to the field of mathematics and the chronicling of the history of mathematics. He writes in the Preface that his object has been to
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Queed. Henry Sydnor Harrison
1911. With a frontispiece by R.M. Crosby. A best-selling volume by Harrison, a journalist, novelist and social critic. His novels explored southern culture and the social issues of his time including feminism, child labor, capitalism and cultural
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Sanitary And Social Lectures And Essays. Charles Kingsley
We talk of our hardy forefathers; and rightly. But they were hardy, just as the savage is usually hardy, because none but the hardy lived. They may have been able to say of themselves--as they do in a State paper of 1515, now well known through the
The Turtles of Tasman. Jack London
1911. Illustrated. American writer (real name John Griffith London). London grew up in poverty, earning a living through various legal and illegal means. He was a sailor and took part in the Klondike gold rush. These experiences provided much of
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Driven From Home. Horatio Alger Jr.
He congratulated himself upon being still the possessor of twenty-five cents in silver. It was not much, but it seemed a great deal better than being penniless. A week before he would have thought it impossible that such a paltry sum would have
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Science And Education. Thomas Henry Huxley
To this, his highest ideal of duty, Joseph Priestley sacrificed the vulgar prizes of life, which, assuredly, were within easy reach of a man of his singular energy and varied abilities. For this object he put aside, as of secondary importance,
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Tales And Sketches. John Greenleaf Whittier
""I am not desirous, even were it practicable,"" he said, ""to defend the use of opium, or rather the abuse of it. I can only say, that the substitutes you propose are not suited to my condition. The world has now no enticements for me; society no
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The Advance Of English Poetry In The Twentieth Century. William Lyon Phelps
Robert Browning, whose normality in appearance and conversation pleased sensible folk and shocked idolaters, summed up in two stanzas the difference between the popular conception of a poet and the real truth. One might almost take the first stanza
The Heart of the New Thought. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
1902. The summary of this book is the Power of Right Thought. What used to be vague and unreal becomes a lovable philosophy of the simplest construction. Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1902
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Heretics. Gilbert K. Chesterton
1914. Contents: introductory remarks on the importance of orthodoxy; on the negative spirit; on Mr. Rudyard Kipling and making the world small; Mr. Bernard Shaw; Mr. H.G. Wells and the giants; Christmas and the Aesthetes; Omar and the sacred vine;
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Past and Present. Thomas Carlyle
1909. Should humanity look backward to the past and try to recover the notion of goodness that seems to be lost or should humanity look forward and to the present to create a new enlightenment and spiritual prosperity? These are the mighty
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The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science. Judge Thomas Troward
1909. The purpose of this book is to indicate the Natural Principles governing the relation between mental action and material conditions, and thus to afford the student an intelligible starting point for the practical study of the subject.
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The Philosophy of Eating. Albert J. Bellows
1868. We have excellent practical treatises on agriculture and horticulture, and every intelligent farmer or gardener may learn what element is deficient, in order to successfully cultivate his grapes, his vegetables, or his grains; and having also
Count Frontenac and New France Under Louis XIV. Francis Parkman
1900. Parkman, American historian, studied and wrote about the history of Canada and the early Northwest. Parkman writes in the preface that the events recounted in this book group themselves in the main about a single figure, that of Count