Picture Logic. Alfred James Swinburne
1899. An attempt to popularize the science of reasoning by the combination of humorous pictures with examples of reasoning taken from daily life. With original illustrations from drawings by the author engraved on wood by G. Pearson. Contents: What
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English Biography (1916). Waldo H. Dunn
Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1916 года (издательство "London [etc.] J. M. Dent & sons, limited; New York, E. P. Dutton & co.").
Samuel the Seeker. Upton Sinclair
1910. Sinclair, American novelist, essayist, playwright, and short story writer, whose works reflected his socialistic views. Among his most famous books is The Jungle, which launched a government investigation of the meatpacking plants of Chicago,
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The Music Master. Charles Klein
1909. Novelized from the play as produced by David Belasco. The book begins: Anton Von Barwig rapped on the conductor’s desk for silence and laid down his baton. The hundred men constituting the Leipsic Philharmonic Orchestra stopped playing as
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The Social Engineer (1911). Edwin Lee Earp
Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1911 года (издательство "New York, Eaton & Mains; Cincinnati, Jennings & Graham").
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Blix. Frank Norris
It had been easy to promise Blix that he would no longer gamble at his club with the other men of his acquaintance; but it was ""death and the devil,"" as he told himself, to abide by that promise. More than once in the fortnight following upon his
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Old French Romances. William Morris
Therewith they went their ways to the Court of the Count and found him not there, because he was gone to Bericain to visit Amis his fellow, and comfort him of the death of his father. And when he found him not, he departed sore troubled, and said
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Sterne. H. D. Traill
Sterne alighted from the York mail, just as Byron ""awoke one morning,"" to ""find himself famous."" Seldom indeed has any lion so suddenly discovered been pursued so eagerly and by such a distinguished crowd of hunters. The chase was remarkable
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The Kentucky Warbler. James Lane Allen
1918. With frontispiece. Allen was born on a farm near Lexington, Kentucky. As a young boy, he lived the life of the Southern ante-bellum gentry, but by the time he was a teenager the Civil War and Reconstruction had ushered in a new era for both
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The Early History of Charles James Fox. George Otto Trevelyan
1881. Charles James Fox, our first great statesman of the modern school, was closely connected with scenes which lie far back in English history. His grandfather, if not the most well-graced, was at any rate one of the best paid, actors on the
Why Lincoln Laughed. Russell H. Conwell
1922. Genius is often defined with complacent assurance as the ability and disposition to do hard work. That is frequently the truth; but it is not always the truth. Abraham Lincoln did much of the many kinds of hard work, but that does not account
Naturalism And Religion. Rudolf Otto
Edited With An Introduction By Rev. W. D. Morrison. Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1907 года (издательство "New York: G.P. Putnam; London, Williams and Norgate").
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Religion And Health. James J. Walsh
Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1920 года (издательство "Boston: Little, Brown, and company").
The Poetry of Tennyson. Henry Van Dyke
1893. A collection of essays by Van Dyke, American clergyman, educator and author, on Tennyson and his poetry. He writes in the preface: I believe that Tennyson is one of the great poets,-great in the clarity and beauty and nobility of his style;
The Redemption of David Corson. Charles Frederic Goss
1900. American clergyman and novelist begins: Hidden away in this worn and care-encumbered world, scarred with its frequent traces of a primeval curse, are spots so quiet and beautiful as to make the fall of man seem incredible, and awaken in the
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The Town Traveller. George Gissing
Here, on the quiet pavement shadowed by the College of Surgeons, she lingered in expectancy. Ten was striking, but she looked in vain for the figure she would recognize -- that of a well-dressed, middle-aged man, with a white silk comforter about