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;
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
My Life and Some Letters. Mrs. Patrick Campbell
1922. With illustrations. The memoirs of Mrs. Patrick Campbell (Beatrice Stella Cornwallis-West). From Chapter One: My father and my mother, Maria Luigia Giovanna Romanini, fell helplessly in love at their first meeting: my mother could not speak a
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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
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
The Fortunes Of Oliver Horn. F. Hopkinson Smith
If you were his friend, and most men who knew him were, he would have slipped his arm through your own, and after a brief moment you would have found yourself poring over a detailed plan, his arm still in yours, while he showed you the outline of
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Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher. Henry Jones
1899. The purpose of this book is to deal with Browning, not simply as a poet, but rather as the exponent of a system of ideas on moral and religious subjects, which may fairly be called a philosophy. Mr. Jones is conscious that it is a wrong to a
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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.
The Punishment And Prevention Of Crime. Edmund F. Du Cane
1885. Contents: Criminals and Punishments; Punishments in the Middle Ages, Capital Executions; Gaols in Former Times; Modern Prisons; Transportation; Penal Servitude; Supervision, Discharged Prisoners’ and Societies; The Preventive System,
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A Musical Motley (1919). Ernest Newman
Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1919 года (издательство "London: John Lane; New York: John Lane company").
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Music. Mary Weeks Burnett
Principles of Occult Healing: A Working Hypothesis Which Includes All Cures, by Mary Weeks Burnett. Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1891 года (издательство "London: Augener").
Tremendous Trifles. G. K. Chesterton
So it was, certainly, with the Bastille. The destruction of the Bastille was not a reform; it was something more important than a reform. It was an iconoclasm; it was the breaking of a stone image. The people saw the building like a giant looking
The Durable Satisfactions of Life. Charles W. Eliot
1910. Eliot, American educator and President of Harvard University, presents his religious and ethical views in this slim volume. Contents: The Durable Satisfactions of Life; The Happy Life; John Gilley; Great Riches; and The Religion of the
Human Nature In Politics. Graham Wallas
If he had been pressed, Macaulay would probably have admitted that there are cases in which human acts and impulses to act occur independently of any idea of an end to be gained by them. If I have a piece of grit in my eye and ask some one to take