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The Further Adventures of O'Neill in HollandBrown J. Irwin John Irwin The Further Adventures of O'Neill in Holland CHAPTER I WHERE DID O’NEILL’S DUTCH COME FROM? We had all heard something of Jack O’Neill’s adventures in Holland; and the members of our informal little club in Trinity College Dubl...

A Bayard From Bengal. Being some account of the Magnificent and Spanking Career of Chunder Bindabun Bhosh…Anstey F. A Bayard From Bengal / Being some account of the Magnificent and Spanking Career of Chunder Bindabun Bhosh,… CHAPTER I FROM CALCUTTA TO CAMBRIDGE OVERSEA ROUTE At sea the stoutest s...

Mr. MunchausenBangs John Kendrick Mr. Munchausen / Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder EDITOR’S APOLOGYandDEDICATIONIn order that there may be no misunderstanding as to the why and th...

A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor GirlRowland Helen A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl FOREWORD A SMALL phial, I doubt not, could contain the attar of the epigrammatic literature of all time. Few of the perfumes of this diminutive form of wit and sati...

Mr Punch's Model Music Hall Songs and DramasAnstey F. Mr Punch's Model Music Hall Songs and Dramas / Collected, Improved and Re-arranged from Punch INTRODUCTION The day is approaching, and may even now be within measurable distance, when the Music Halls of the Metropolis will find themselves unde...

The Haunters of the Silences: A Book of Animal LifeRoberts Charles G. D., Sir The Haunters of the Silences: A Book of Animal Life Prefatory Note THE present collection of stories dealing with creatures of the wilderness differs from its companion volumes, "The Kindred of the Wild" and "The Watche...

Genius in Sunshine and ShadowBallou Maturin Murray Genius in Sunshine and Shadow PREFACE The volume in hand might perhaps better have been entitled "Library Notes," as the pages are literally the gathered notes of the author's library-hours. The reader will kindly peruse these pages remembering t...

Medical Life in the NavyStables Gordon Medical Life in the Navy Chapter One. By Rail to London. Little Moonface. Euston Square I chose the navy. I am not at all certain what it was that determined my choice; probably this – I have a mole on my left arm, which my gossiping old nurse (rest the old ...

The Van Dwellers: A Strenuous Quest for a HomeAlbert Bigelow Paine The Van Dwellers: A Strenuous Quest for a Home I. The First Home in the Metropolis We had never lived in New York. This fact will develop anyway, as I proceed, but somehow it seems fairer to everybody to state it in the first sent...

Goat-FeathersEllis Parker Butler Goat-Feathers GOAT-FEATHERS No human being ever tells the whole truth about himself. We seem to be born liars in that particular, all of us, and I am no different. I'm starting out now to tell the bitter, agonizing truth about myself, but before I am through I sha...