Addresses in America. John Galsworthy
1919. English novelist and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932, Galsworthy became known for his portrayal of the British upper middle class and for his social satire. Contents: At the Lowell Centenary; American and Briton;
A Practical Physiology. Albert F. Blaisdell
We have just learned that the pitch of sound depends on the rapidity of the vibrations. This depends on the length of cords and their tightness for the shorter and tighter a string is, the higher is the note which its vibration produces. The vocal
The Superstition of Divorce. G. K. Chesterton
1920. This is a pamphlet and not a book; and the writer of a pamphlet not only deals with passing things, but generally with things which he hopes will pass. It is designed merely to note certain fugitive proposals of the moment, and compare them
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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
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
Members of the Family. Owen Wister
1901. Wister, an American writer whose stories helped to establish the cowboy as an archetypical, individualist hero. Members of the Family is a collection of more stories featuring the courageous, but mysterious, cowboy known only as the
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Methods of Study in Natural History. Louis Agassiz
1896. The series of papers collected in this volume may be considered as a compliment or commentary to my Essay on Classification, since I have endeavored to present here in a more popular form the views first expressed in that work. And although
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Rodney Stone. Arthur Conan Doyle
She spoke in a beautiful, rich voice, with the most heart-broken thrill in it, but I could not conceal from myself that she appeared to be one of the most robust persons that I had ever seen, and I was surprised to notice that she shot arch little
The Metaphysics of Nature. Carveth Read
1905. A philosophic text by Read, professor of philosophy of mind and logic at University College, London. Contents: Belief and Knowledge; Reality and Truth; Book I. Canonic: The Test of Truth: Historical; The Test of Truth: Analytic; Skepticism;
Cape Cod Folks. Sarah P. McLean Greene
1908. A minor work by Thoreau, Cape Cod illustrates the qualities that define his greatest works: his clarity and ease of style, and his concreteness as a naturalist and observer of nature and society. Compiled from magazine articles published in