English wild flowers : to be found by the wayside, fields, hedgerows, rivers,…

I HAVE tried to make this little volume worthy of being thought the indispensable companion of those who care to make the acquaintance of the flowers which blossom by the wayside, make gay our fields, haunt the brooks and streams, and stud alike with beauty the moorland and the mountain.

A classified English-Chinese vocabulary

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A beautiful collection of fine and rare books, autographs, manuscripts, minia…

Goethe, Joh. Wolfg. v. Dichter, geb. Frankfurt a. M. 1749, gest. Weimar 1832. L. s. Jena 22. Febr. 1797. 1 S. 8. Frs. 100.— Eigenhandige Unterschrift: „Goethe" auf einem Brief e, in dem er die Absendung eines „kleinen Aufsatzes iiber die Grundlage zu einer architektonischen Bibliothek" anzeigt. 34 Grillparzer, Franz, osterr. Dramatiker, geb. in Wien 1791, gest. das. 1872. Doc. a. s.…

Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz

WHEN we cast a glance over the totality ot the literary production of the seventeenth century, we ascertain that Memoirs occupy a large place in it. The explanation of the fact is obvious. At this moment the " Fronde " is profoundly agitating various classes of French society. It is natural, therefore, that this should incite contemporary writers to give us their historic personal confidences, …

Baptist missionary pioneers among Negroes : sketches

The sketches of the Home Mission workers contained in this book were contributed some years ago to HOPE, the official organ of the Fireside Schools. Believing they should be preserved they have been arranged for publication in book form which may be useful for study in missionary societies, and for general reading.

German self-taught with phonetic pronunciation

The Simple Yowels are : a, e, i, o, u, they are always pronounced ah, ay, ee, oh, oo, and never change their sound. Compound or Modified Yowels are indicated by two small points (") : — a (ae) pronounced as a in fate ; phonetics used are a, ae, e, at. d (oe) ,, like u in such ; phonetic is oe. u (ue) ,, like the French u ; phonetic is eu. It may be produced by holding the lips in a c…

Many minds

papers in this volume were originally com- 1 posed either as popular lectures to miscel¬ laneous audiences in Ontario Xoyoi tiqotqsjitixoC, or loyoi fjQixoi, or Xoyoi fiais/zxixoi, as an older sophist of Greece would have called them : or — in other cases — as lectures to University societies, authors’ societies and the like in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa : or, in the third case, wer…

"Geographia" Authentic atlas and guide to London and suburbs

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Martin Rattler

TARTIN RATTLER was a very bad boy. At least his aunt, Mrs. Dorothy Grumbit, said so ; and certainly she ought to have known, if anybody should, for Martin lived with her, and was, as she herself expressed it, " the bane of her existence, the very torment of her life." No doubt of it whatever, according to Aunt Dorothy Grumbit's showing, Martin Rattler was " a remarkably bad boy."

"Learn!"

ANG CHIH-TUNG, the Viceroy of Hupeh and Hunan, occupies a unique place among the officials of China at this time. He is a man of profound scholarship, wide information, great mental energy and restless activity. He is endowed with a strong will and no little courage and daring. As a public officer he is distinguished for his loyally, his purity, and unselfish devotion to the good of the peop…