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The Haunters of the Silences: A Book of Animal LifeRoberts Charles G. D., Sir The Haunters of the Silences: A Book of Animal Life Prefatory Note THE present collection of stories dealing with creatures of the wilderness differs from its companion volumes, "The Kindred of the Wild" and "The Watche...

Genius in Sunshine and ShadowBallou Maturin Murray Genius in Sunshine and Shadow PREFACE The volume in hand might perhaps better have been entitled "Library Notes," as the pages are literally the gathered notes of the author's library-hours. The reader will kindly peruse these pages remembering t...

Medical Life in the NavyStables Gordon Medical Life in the Navy Chapter One. By Rail to London. Little Moonface. Euston Square I chose the navy. I am not at all certain what it was that determined my choice; probably this – I have a mole on my left arm, which my gossiping old nurse (rest the old ...

The Van Dwellers: A Strenuous Quest for a HomeAlbert Bigelow Paine The Van Dwellers: A Strenuous Quest for a Home I. The First Home in the Metropolis We had never lived in New York. This fact will develop anyway, as I proceed, but somehow it seems fairer to everybody to state it in the first sent...

Kings in ExileRoberts Charles G. D. Kings in Exile LAST BULL That was what two grim old sachems of the Dacotahs had dubbed him; and though his official title, on the lists of the Zoölogical Park, was “Kaiser,” the new and more significant name had promptly supplanted it. The Park authorities – pe...