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by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009

Though my last edition of Hints on Revolver Shooting was published only four years ago, I find it now necessary, owing to the advance of the automatic pistol, to revise it thoroughly and to add new chapters. Till quite recently, the automatic pistol had many defects, both as to balance and as to safety,...
by C. S. Montanye
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009

SWELL NIGHT FOR MURDER BROADWAY had all the flash, sparkle and brilliance of a backwoods town buried deep in the sticks. Under the dimout regulations Dream Street looked like the main thoroughfare in Podunk. And to make it worse the sky was conspiring with the War Department. There wasn’t a moon or...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009

WITH THE CHOICE, OR, THE Pleasures of a Country-LIFE. Dedicated to the Beaus against the next Vacation. London: Printed and Sold by H. Hills, in Black-fryars, near the Water-side. 1709. Price One Penny. Wedlock, oh! Curs'd uncomfortable State
by Charles James Lever
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009

Hôtel des Princes, Paris. It is a strange thing to begin a "Log" when the voyage is nigh ended! A voyage without chart or compass has it been: and now is land in sight—the land of the weary and heart-tired! Here am I, at the Hôtel des Princes, en route for Italy, whither my doctors have sentenced...
by Charles James Lever
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009

TO ALEXANDER SPENCER, ESQ. If the public would only prove as indulgent to the faults and demerits of this volume as You have ever been to those of him who wrote it, I should be as sanguine of its success as I am now happy in dedicating it to the Oldest Friend I HAVE IN THE WORLD. Ever yours, most affectionately
by Charles James Lever
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009

TO SIR EDWARD LYTTON BULWER LYTTON, Bart., M.P. My Dear Sir Edward,—While asking you to accept the dedication of this volume, I feel it would be something very nigh akin to the Bathos were I to say one word of Eulogy of those powers which the world has recognised in you. Let me, however, be permitted,...
by Charles James Lever
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009

To LORD METHUEN. MY DEAR METHUEN, Some idle folk have pretended that certain living characters have been depicted under the fictitious names of these volumes. There is, I assure you, but one personality contained in it, and that is of a right true-hearted Englishman, hospitable, and manly in all his...
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009

LYRICS OF LOWLY LIFE TO MY MOTHER LYRICS OF THE HEARTHSIDE
by S. Weir Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009

DRAMATIC POEMS FRANCIS DRAKE A TRAGEDY OF THE SEA TIME, 1578 At sea, off the coast of Patagonia, on board the Pelican, the Elizabeth, and the Plymouth. DRAMATIS PERSON? FRANCIS DRAKE. THOMAS DOUGHTY, his friend. FRANCIS FLETCHER Chaplain. JOHN WINTER, Captain. LEONARD VICARY, Captain. WILLIAM CHESTER,...
by Evelyn Raymond
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009

THE STORM “Margot! Margot!” Mother Angelique’s anxious call rang out over the water, once, twice, many times. But, though she shaded her brows with her hands and strained her keen ears to listen, there was no one visible and no response came back to her. So she climbed the hill again and, reëntering...
by St. George Rathborne
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009

COMRADES OF THE TRAIL "We must be pretty nearly there now, Tom, I take it!" "I reckon we'll sight the dugout inside of half an hour or so, Felix; if the description, and the little chart old Sol Ten Eyck gave me, are correct." "Well, I'll sure be glad when we arrive, because this pack is getting heavier,...
by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 29, 2009

Explanation and Acknowledgment The charming and popular story of El Capitán Veneno, the fire-eater, has been well edited several times, but, after using the text in classes many times, the present editor believes that there is still room for personal preferences as to what should be emphasized. The...
by Fergus Hume
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009

A MODERN ARCADIA Certain portions of England yet remain undiscovered by Americans and uncivilised by railways. Colester village above King's-meadows, in a county which need not be named, is one of these unknown spots. No doubt before long the bicycle and the motor-car will enliven its somnolent neighbourhood,...
by William le Queux
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009

IS MAINLY MYSTERIOUS. “A woman—perhaps?” “Who knows! Poor Dick Harborne was certainly a man of secrets, and of many adventures.” “Well, it certainly is a most mysterious affair. You, my dear Barclay, appear to be the last person to have spoken to him.” “Apparently I was,” replied Lieutenant...
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