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Falling in Love; With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of ScienceGrant Allen Falling in Love; With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science PREFACESome people complain that science is dry. That is, of course, a matter of taste. For my own part, I like my science and my champagne as dry a...

Adventures of Sherlock HolmesA. Conan Doyle Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Adventure I A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA I TO Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he fel...

The Mountains of CaliforniaJohn Muir The Mountains of California CHAPTER I THE SIERRA NEVADA Go where you may within the bounds of California, mountains are ever in sight, charming and glorifying every landscape. Yet so simple and massive is the topography of the State in general views, that the ...

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...

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 349, Supplement to Volume 12.Various The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. / Volume 12, No. 349, Supplement to Volume 12 PREFACE The present sheet completes the TWELFTH VOLUME OF THE MIRROR. This circumstance alo...

The Picture of Dorian GrayWilde Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray CHAPTER I The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the ...

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 337, October 25, 1828Various The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction / Volume 12, No. 337, October 25, 1828 THE MIRROROFLITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.Cheese Wring (To the Editor of the Mirror.)In presenting...

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 281, November 3, 1827Various The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction / Volume 10, No. 281, November 3, 1827 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF ALL NATIONS. NO. XIV The first of the above engravings represents one of the Body Gu...

Daniel WebsterHenry Cabot Lodge Daniel Webster DANIEL WEBSTER [NOTE.—In preparing this volume I have carefully examined all the literature contemporary and posthumous relating to Mr. Webster. I have not gone beyond the printed material, of which there is a vast mass, much of it of no value, but w...

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...