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The Great Boer War

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Great Boer War is a non-fiction work on the Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle and first published in 1900 by Smith, Elder & Co. By the end of the war in 1902 the book had been published in 16 edi..

The Makers and Teachers of Judaism

Charles Foster Kent

The period represented by this volume is in many ways the most complex and confusing in Israel's history. The record is not that of the life of a nation but of the scattered remnants of a race. It was..

Democracy and Social Ethics

Jane Addams

t is well to remind ourselves, from time to time, that "Ethics" is but another word for "righteousness," that for which many men and women of every generation have hungered and thirsted, and without w..

The Coverley Papers

Addison

The following selection comprises all numbers of the Spectator which are concerned with the history or character of Sir Roger de Coverley, and all those which arise out of the Spectator's visit to his..

The Enchanted Typewriter

John Kendrick Bangs

The Enchanted Typewriter is a collection of short stories by the American author John Kendrick Bangs, written in 1899 in the style that has become known as Bangsian fantasy. Bangs attributes many of t..

A Modern Idyll

Frank Harris

The Rev. John Letgood, having seated himself in an armchair, looked at her intently before replying. She was well worth looking at, this Mrs. Hooper, as she leaned back on the cushions in her cool whi..

Green Tea; Mr. Justice Harbottle

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Though carefully educated in medicine and surgery, I have never practised either. The study of each continues, nevertheless, to interest me profoundly. Neither idleness nor caprice caused my secession..

The Daughter of the Chieftain - the Story of an Indian Girl

Edward S. Ellis

The Daughter of the Chieftain : the Story of an Indian Girl is a fictional work of Edward Sylvester Ellis, an American author who was born in Ohio and died at Cliff Island, Maine. Ellis was a tea..