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A Man's WomanFrank Norris A Man's Woman The following novel was completed March 22, 1899, and sent to the printer in October of the same year. After the plates had been made notice was received that a play called "A Man's Woman" had been written by Anne Crawford Flexner, and that this title had b...

CleopatraJacob Abbott Cleopatra PREFACE Of all the beautiful women of history, none has left us such convincing proofs of her charms as Cleopatra, for the tide of Rome's destiny, and, therefore, that of the world, turned aside because of her beauty. Julius Caesar, whose legions trampled the conqu...

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Old BalladsOld Ballads COME, LASSES AND LADS Come, lasses and lads, get leave of your dads, And away to the Maypole hie,For ev'ry fair has a sweetheart there, And the fiddler's standing by; For Willy shall dance with Jane, And Johnny has got his Joan,To trip it, trip it, trip it, trip it, Trip it...

The Slim PrincessGeorge Ade The Slim Princess I consented to deliver a message for himI WOMAN IN MOROVENIA Morovenia is a state in which both the mosque and the motor-car now occur in the same landscape. It started out to be Turkish and later decided to be European.The Mohammedan sanctuaries with...

The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present PowerJohn S. C. Abbott The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power PREFACE The studies of the author of this work, for the last ten years, in writing the "History of Napoleon Bonaparte," and "The French Revolution of 1789," have necessarily made h...

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Tales for Young and OldVarious Tales for Young and Old PREFACE When the older were considerably younger, and young in infancy, the following interesting Tales were written.W. & R.C.THE BRIDE'S JOURNEY BY MRS CROWEIn the year 1809, when the French were in Prussia, M. Louison, an officer in the...