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A Librarian's Open Shelf - Essays on Various Subjects

Arthur E. Bostwick

The papers here gathered together represent the activities of a librarian in directions outside the boundaries of his professional career, although the influences of it may be detected in them here an..

Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog

Sofronio G. Calderón

Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog Con partes de la oracion y pronunciacion figuradaLanguage and Literatures: Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, OceaniaEnglish language -- Dictionaries..

Laughable Lyrics

Edward Lear

Hillarious, fantastic poems that I enjoyed reading to my two sons when they were little. Now I'd like to read them for anyone's children to enjoy listening to. Edward Lear was an English artist, ..

Preface to Shakespeare

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson's Preface to Shakespeare published in 1765 is a comment on the argument over the ancients and moderns. Johnson forwards his criticism with moral consideration and prescribes imitation w..

Poems of Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the ..

English Literature for Boys and Girls

H. E. Marshall

English Literature for Boys and Girls is a book of criticism written by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall, a British author, particularly well known for her works of popular national history for child..

A History of the McGuffey Readers

Henry H Vail

The literature of the English language is rich in material suited to this intent; no other language is better endowed. This material is fresh to every pupil, no matter how familiar it may be to teache..

A Middle High German Primer

Joseph Wright

The present book has been written in the hope that it will serve as an elementary introduction to the larger German works on the subject from which I have appropriated whatever seemed necessary for th..