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... portraits . ( Harper . $ 1.75 . ) Boston Gazette . art . - A Child's History of England . OF the countless histories of England for young people which have been prepared for either home or school use during the past half- century there ...
... portraits . ( Harper . $ 1.75 . ) Boston Gazette . art . - A Child's History of England . OF the countless histories of England for young people which have been prepared for either home or school use during the past half- century there ...
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... portraits ( Harper . $. description of the revolting Voodoo rites is in- teresting and vivid , but without the details that make this form of worship so offensive to civil- ization . The party progresses gradually from the seacoast and ...
... portraits ( Harper . $. description of the revolting Voodoo rites is in- teresting and vivid , but without the details that make this form of worship so offensive to civil- ization . The party progresses gradually from the seacoast and ...
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The illustrations include some rare portraits ( Harper . $ 1.25 . ) From Page's " Red Rock . " " I WARN YOU I'LL SING SOMETHING REAL BA - AD . " SHE GAVE HIM A ROLLING - PIN AND HE SET. From " An Angel in a Web . " Copyright , 1898 , by ...
The illustrations include some rare portraits ( Harper . $ 1.25 . ) From Page's " Red Rock . " " I WARN YOU I'LL SING SOMETHING REAL BA - AD . " SHE GAVE HIM A ROLLING - PIN AND HE SET. From " An Angel in a Web . " Copyright , 1898 , by ...
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... portraits of the author hitherto unpublished . The Authorized Life of Thackeray has never been written , because it was the novelist's ex- pressed wish that there should be no biography . But his life is in his books , and of each book ...
... portraits of the author hitherto unpublished . The Authorized Life of Thackeray has never been written , because it was the novelist's ex- pressed wish that there should be no biography . But his life is in his books , and of each book ...
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... portraits of Car- roll and his friends , and with reproductions of a number of his drawings . THE HOME PUBLISHING COMPANY has just ready " Jack Curzon , " a new novel by Archi- bald Clavering Gunter , dealing with the taking of Manila ...
... portraits of Car- roll and his friends , and with reproductions of a number of his drawings . THE HOME PUBLISHING COMPANY has just ready " Jack Curzon , " a new novel by Archi- bald Clavering Gunter , dealing with the taking of Manila ...
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Page 94 - The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.
Page 16 - THE stranger who would form a correct opinion of the English character must not confine his observations to the metropolis. He must go forth into the country; he must sojourn in villages and hamlets; he must visit castles, villas, farm-houses, cottages; he must wander through parks and gardens; along hedges and green lanes; he must loiter about country churches; attend wakes...
Page 83 - Nations guides Thy blind obedient keels to reach The harbor where thy future rides! The guns that spoke at Lexington Knew not that God was planning then The trumpet word of Jefferson To bugle forth the rights of men. To them that wept and cursed Bull Run, What was it but despair and shame? Who saw behind the cloud the sun? Who knew that God was in the flame?
Page 73 - Next, Camus, reverend sire, went footing slow, His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge, Inwrought with figures dim, and on the edge Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe.
Page 24 - That slew the ox, That drank the water, That quenched the fire, That burned the staff, That beat the dog, That bit the cat, That ate the kid, That my father bought For two pieces of money : A kid, a kid.
Page 47 - Bible in Spain; or the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula.
Page 64 - It is immense — there is no other word. I've never read anything that equals it in its deep-sea wonder and mystery, nor do I think that any book before has so completely covered the whole business of whale-fishing, and, at the same time, given such real and new sea pictures. I congratulate you most heartily. It's a new world you've opened the door to.
Page 72 - Of sun and moon, and that the affrighted globe Should yawn at alteration.
Page xvi - The Story of the Railroad. By CY WARMAN, Author of " The Express Messenger," etc. With Maps and many Illustrations by B. West Clinedinst and from photographs. The Story of the Cowboy. By E. HOUGH, Author of " The Singing Mouse Stories,
Page 96 - OLIVER CROMWELL: A HISTORY. Comprising a Narrative of his Life, with Extracts from his Letters and Speeches, and an Account of the Political, Religious, and Military Affairs of England during his Time. By SAMUEL HARDEN CHURCH.