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Beeton's Book of Needlework

Mrs. Beeton

The Art of Needlework dates from the earliest record of the world's history, and has, also, from time immemorial been the support, comfort, or employment of women of every rank and age. Day by day, it..

Half-Past Seven Stories

Robert Gordon Anderson

Half-Past Seven Stories is a collection of stories for children written by Robert Gordon Anderson.Introduction--"The Top O' The Morning"I. The Little Lost FoxIi. The Big BobsledIii. The Jolly RogerIv...

Problems of Poverty - An Inquiry into the Industrial Condition of the Poor

John A. Hobson

Introductory note by the author: The object of this volume is to collect, arrange, and examine some of the leading facts and forces in modern industrial life which have a direct bearing upon Poverty, ..

Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1

Harriet Beecher Stowe

This book will be found to be truly what its name denotes, "Sunny Memories." If the criticism be made that every thing is given couleur de rose, the answer is, Why not? They are the impressions, as th..

The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - the Wisdom of Life

Arthur Schopenhauer

The Wisdom of Life in the common meaning of the term, as the art, namely, of ordering our lives so as to obtain the greatest possible amount of pleasure and success; an art the theory of which may be ..

The Good Ship Rover

Robina F. Hardy

The Good Ship Rover is a collection short stories for children written by Robina F. Hardy,a Scottish Victorian author, poet and Christian missionary. A gallant ship, some three feet in length, wi..

The Green Mummy

Fergus Hume

The Green Mummy is a mystery story written by English novelist Fergus Hume. Excepts from the book below:The young man smiled and frowned and sighed and laughed in the space of thirty seconds—something..

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

Mary Seacole

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands is a biography by Mary Seacole, a British-Jamaican business woman and nurse who set up the "British Hotel" behind the lines during the Crimean W..