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Emily Sarah Holt (1836-1893) was an English novelist who wrote about 50 books, mainly for children. "Our Little Lady" is one of around 30 books that she wrote about life and faith in the Middle Ages.The story "Our Little Lady" is told from the perspective of Avice, one of the elder women in the book and she recounts how she had become a nursery-maid in the Royal Palace, first at Windsor, and then later at Westminster. Central to the story is one of the princesses she had to look after, "our little lady", and who was a most beautiful child, but had been born deaf and dumb (but for three words that she could utter). She had various gestures with which she communicated, but the sadness was, that they never could teach her to pray. Yet they were sure she spoke to Christ in her own way and that when she died as a young child she spoke to God in Heaven. This edition retains the original illustrations and contains several helpful footnotes.

A famous novel by Edith Maude Hull, an English novelist of the early twentieth century. This is her most popular and was the basis for the film of the same name starring Rudolph Valentino in the title role.

In 1781 Friedrich Schiller's "The Robbers" (Die Räuber) was published and it signaled the start of Schiller's first period of his works (1781 - 1785). Fittingly, the first two poems of this collection were originally introduced in this play. It is also noteworthy that the poems were first published in an anthology (now a literary rarity) together with poems by some of his contemporaries. They contain amongst other things the beautiful and impassioned "Laura Poems" as well as the dramatic sketch "Semele". All of these poems give an excellent insight into Schiller's early - Sturm und Drang - lyrical beginnings.

Is It a Crime for a U.S. Citizen to Vote? Susan Brownell Anthony (1820-1906) was a heroic American civil rights leader who was pivotal in enabling American women to vote; unfortunately it did not come to pass until fourteen years after her death. She was co-founder of the first Women's Temperance Movement with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as President. She also co-founded the women's rights journal, The Revolution. She averaged 75-100 speeches per year, traveling the length and breadth of the United States, as well as speaking in Europe. This book is a Biography that she helped Ida Husted Harper to write. It contains a great number of personal letters, public addresses and letters from her contemporaries spanning fifty years. The book traces the evolution of the 19th century women's suffrage movement. This edition contains both volumes of the autobiography, including the appendix and three indexes as well as copious footnotes, autographs and illustrations.

We don't usually associate golf with poetry. This little book was first published in 1867 by members of the Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society, one of the oldest golfing societies in the world. The poems capture the passion of the golf enthusiast and the pleasure of the game played on the well-known St Andrews golf course.

A collection of writing by Edmund Burke, Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher. It includes "A Vindication of Natural Society," "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful with an Introductory Discourse Concerning Taste, and Several Other Additions," and "Observations on a Late Publication, Intituled 'The Present State of the Nation.'"

Anne seems to be entering womanhood for good now, as she heads off to the long awaited college. All sorts of surprises are to come, from marriage proposals and story selling to grumpy cats. Anne is getting independence in her very own cottage, but is she yet ready to accept a proposal?

The catalogue of a special exhibition of Persian and other Islamic Art held in New York in 1926, written by the collector, Hagop Kevorkian, and illustrated in black and white.

Two important linked studies of the life history and ecology of the woodrat, Neotoma floridana, from the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History publications, dated 1956. They have been carefully re-typeset; all the original black and white figures and tables are included.

The piercing wonder of man's climb to higher intelligence -- a breathtakingly ingenious story, by the winner of two major Science Fiction awards.

What Katy Did is the story of a twelve year old American, tomboy, Katy Carr. She is always getting into trouble, but wants, someday in the future, to be like her invalid aunt, aunt Helen; kind, pretty and, above all, good. But sooner than she thinks she is given a chance to reform and be good, though not in quite the way she expected.

"The Magnetic Lady, or Humors Reconciled", a Caroline era stage play, is the final comedy of Ben Jonson. This edition has been reset in an easy to read font. It is not a scan or OCR edition.

A very popular book which provides a great introduction to the ancient Roman life, political system and religion.

"Saint Patrick for Ireland," first published in 1640, is notable as an early development in Irish theatre. The play was written and performed during Shirley's stay in Dublin in the years 1637-40. Shirley, one of the most prominent and successful London playwrights of the previous decade, moved to Dublin during the long closure of the London theatres, from May 1636 to October 1637, due to an epidemic of bubonic plague. It was performed in the autumn of 1639, at the Werburgh Street Theatre in Dublin, "the first Irish playhouse."

"Monism as Connecting Religion and Science" explores the theory of metaphysics and theology, maintaining that there is but one reality, namely, matter, whether matter be an agglomerate of atoms, a primitive, world-forming substance or the so-called cosmic nebula out of which the world evolved. It was written by Haeckel, a German contemporary of Darwin and also a biologist, naturalist and philosopher. "Life and Matter" is a criticism of Haeckel's work, written by Sir Oliver Lodge, a renowned British physicist living between 1851 and 1940.

This, volume XIX of the complete works of John Ruskin, contains 'The Cestus of Aglaia' and'The Queen of the Air' and other papers and lectures on art and literature 1860-1870.

"Under the Red Robe has the most dramatic opening of any historical novel I know" Conan DoyleUnder the Red Robe is set in seventeenth-century France during the reign of Louis XIII, King of France. It follows Cardinal Richelieu's ascendancy which are marked by political games and conflicts of interest.

Libraries In theMedieval and renaissance periods is the Rede Lecture, delivered on the 13th June, 1894 by John Clark, an expert in libraries, their history and archaeology, author of the book "The Care of Books".This book includes a list of illustrations, a list of Lantern Slides and sidebars indicating topics.

Stories of New Jersey are beautifully written tales that evocatively tell the history of New Jersey from the Lenni-Lenape Indians and Dutch colonists to the Mexican War. Frank Richard Stockton has mastered the stories of the legendary figures of New Jersey, whilst these legends can be found elsewhere, no one else retells the stories with such vibrancy and beauty. In this book are found the colonials who both fought the Indians and traded with them, you will find New Jersey's very own Tea Party, early inventors, schoolmaster and, doctors. This edition is entirely faithful to the book that appeared in 1896, which remained in print until 1945 due to its popularity, and is fully illustrated.