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A novel of naval life in Napoleonic France. After forty years of piracy on Eastern seas, Citizen Peyrol returns to his native France, a country now ravaged and scarred by revolution and war. Looking for peace in which to end his days, he withdraws to a safe harbor in a remote farmhouse on Escampobar Peninsula, which looks out to the distant Mediterranean, where the lovely Arlette lives with her aunt and the revolutionary Scevola. But the arrival of young Lieutenant Real calls Peyrol once again to action in a mission of danger, patriotism and heroism. This was the last novel of Joseph Conrad, a Polish-born English novelist best known in his own time as a writer of sea stories. He is now more admired as a novelist of moral exploration and a master of narrative technique - a major 20th century novelist.

An anthology of Catholic poetry with works by Maurice Baring, Thomas Merton, Hilaire Belloc, Aubrey Beardsley, G. K. Chesterton, Padraic Colum, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Walsh, Alice Meynell, Joyce Kilmer, Michael Williams and others - over 128 poets with over 300 poems. "This is not a collection of devotional poems. What I have tried to do is bring together the poems in English that I like best that were written by Catholics since the middle of the Nineteenth Century. There are in this book poems religious in theme; there are also love-songs and war-songs. But I think that it may be called a book of Catholic poems. For a Catholic is not a Catholic only when he prays; he is a Catholic in all the thoughts and actions of his life. And when a Catholic attempts to reflect in his words some of the Beauty of which as a poet he is conscious, he cannot be far from prayer and adoration." Alfred Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918), he never used the first name, was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1886. He was educated at Rutgers College and Columbia University, and had a brief career as a teacher before moving into journalism. He worked on the staff of The Standard Dictionary from 1909 to 1912, and then became a special writer on the New York Times Sunday Magazine.

The English-born architect Calvert Vaux (1824-1895) moved to America in 1850 and within 20 years won a reputation as one of America's greatest landscape architects. He was co-designer (with Frederick Law Olmstead and others) of a number of New York City's principal parks (Central Park, Morningside and Riverside Parks, Prospect Park in Brooklyn), South Park in Chicago, and the Metropolitan and Natural History Museums in New York City. Vaux was a major influence in the development of a national architecture in America. Villas and Cottages, published in 1857, was his only book. It forms a record of his early work in the field of domestic architecture. It contains 39 designs for well-styled, efficient, and low-priced houses - rural and suburban cottages, villas and town houses built in the Hudson River Valley during the 1850s. Each design is supplemented with detailed floor plans, perspective views, a lively commentary, and vignettes illustrating various details; front and side elevations are included in many cases.

An amplification and extension of various lectures on the life of Daniel, by that prince of preachers and incomparable evangelist, Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899)."A small book, but big as regards the truth it contains. Every worker in the Lord's vineyard would be helped by reading it." - Railway Signal

Originally published under the title Experimental Glass Blowing for Boys in the early 20th century, this book contains a series of 80 "experiments" designed to teach the basic techniques of lampwork. The book discusses types of glass, how to cut, bend, and stretch glass tubes and rods, sealing a tube, blowing a bubble, joining tubes, how to cut window glass and bottles, boring a hole in glass, etc. The experiments include kids' stuff like squirt bottles, pea shooters and whistles, as well as more practical fare such as a drinking tube, siphon, nozzles, and a spirit level. Over 100 illustrations. At the time of original publication Carleton J. Lynde, Ph.D., was Professor of Physics at MacDonald College in Quebec, Canada.

This book was originally published in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in 1983. From the preface: "New innovations and wonders which are being made every day in the press, the growing up of real men or genuine writers, and emotional legends of love for people are unthinkable from the wise guidance and utmost care of the dear Comrade Kim Jong Il, a great leader and a benevolent teacher. "He is always among journalists and teaches them every detailed problem arising in their activities, and kindly leads them to write and compile excellent articles that arouse the sentiments of the masses in keeping with the Party's intentions. He also brings up journalists to be the Party's reliable writers under his wings and takes meticulous care of every facet of their life and activity... "This book introduces some of the legendary stories about eh dear leader, a great guide and teacher." Kim Jong Il (1942- ) is leader of North Korea (1994- ). Kim Jong Il succeeded his father, Kim Il Sung, who had ruled North Korea since 1948.

Contains poems by Manuel Acuna, Manuel Carpio, and Fernando Calderon, as well as numerous South American poems and translations in rhyme. Originally published in 1892.

Joseph Pennell was born in 1857 and died in 1926. He began his work as an illustrator by selling drawings of south Philadelphia to Scribner's Monthly in 1881. In addition to his extensive sketches of American cities, he went to the Panama Canal and sketched a number of construction sites. He taught etching at the Arts Students' league in New York, wrote several books, served as an art critic on the Brooklyn Eagle, and helped run the New Society of Sculptors, Painters and Engravers.Pennell is considered to have done more than any other one artist of his time to improve the quality of illustration both in the United States and abroad and to raise its status as an art. He produced more than 900 etched and mezzotint plates, some 621 lithographs, and innumerable drawings and water colors.

A collection of anecdotes about the amorous lives of the sixteenth-century French nobility, by an author writing frankly about the licentious world of the age he knew so well. Although the content is often of the most scandalous nature they give a wonderfully vivid picture of the author's times, are of high literary merit and of great historical interest.Pierre de Bourdeille, Seigneur de Brantome, was a French chronicler (about 1527-1614). Born at Perigord, he was for many years a traveler or soldier. He retired to his estate twenty years before his death, and used his leisure in writing his Memoirs. The author is vain and egotistical, but thoroughly naive and honest. The style is charmingly piquant, with frequent sallies of wit and flashes of eloquence. He is indeed a fascinating chronicler.

CONTENTSThe Elegies of PropertiusThe Satyricon of Titus Petronius ArbiterThe Kisses of Johannes SecundusThe Love Epistles of Aristænetus

Originally published in 1905, "this brief treatise on drainage engineering is intended for the use of those who are charged with the responsibility of making plans for and executing drainage improvements. It puts the experience and practice of years into a form which will be available to others who wish to quickly acquire the principles and practice of land drainage."Contents include:The Drainage Engineer - The Agriculturist and Soil DrainageSoilsLand Drainage PracticeLevelling And TopographyLaying Out Drains in the FieldFixing the Grade of DrainsMaps and RecordsGrading the Ditches for TileFlow of Water Through PipesSize of Lateral DrainsOpen DrainsDrainage of Barnyards, Cattle-Lanes, etc.Road DrainageDrainage DistrictsEstimates of CostBenefits and Profits of Land Drainage Not only an interesting historical reference, but quite handy information for today.

The Countess Zanardi Landi (1882 - 1935), writes of her relations with her mother, Empress Elizabeth of Austria and the Court of Vienna. "The Empress of Austria is constantly on a pedestal above the rest of the world, and her children are drilled to look upon her in that way. If she should wish to be present at their lessons, there is no such thing for her as going straight to the schoolroom. Her visit must be announced twenty-four hours in advance, teacher and pupils are dressed for the occasion, questions and answers are prepared, and at the end of the visit her Imperial Majesty graciously expresses her satisfaction to the teacher. "The Empress may not even select the persons who are to be about her children, nor the subjects which they are taught. She may never have a simple, informal meal with them nor indulge in a ramble with them out of doors. At all times they must remember that they are in the presence of the almost sacred person of the Empress. The inevitable result is that they are really hardly her children at all; neither has the natural affection of a child for its mother any opportunity for development."

CONTENTS:A Scandal in BohemiaThe Red-Headed LeagueA Case of IdentityThe Boscombe Valley MysteryThe Five Orange PipsThe Man with the Twisted LipThe Adventure of the Blue CarbuncleThe Adventure of the Speckled BandThe Adventure of the Engineer's ThumbThe Adventure of the Noble BachelorThe Adventure of the Beryl CoronetThe Adventure of the Copper BeechesThis edition is printed in specially-designed large type for easier reading, and is printed on non-glare paper.

This edition is printed in specially-designed large type for easier reading, and is printed on non-glare paper.

CONTENTS:The Silly Little MouseFurry-Purry Pussy-CatHenny Penny and the Ten DucklingsZoo BabiesA Little House Stood on a Hill Samuel Marshak was born in 1887. His start in literary life he owed largely to Maxim Gorky, in the circle of whose family he spent part of his youth. He first appeared in print in 1907, with lyrics of his own and translations of foreign poets. Marshak has been most prolific in the field of juvenile literature. He inculcates respect for the man who knows his job, respect for creative work. Marshak also wrote several plays based on Russian fairy tales and designed for the juvenile stage, including Twelve Months, for which he won the Stalin Prize in 1946.

Originally prepared in 1919 exclusively for Sears, Roebuck and Company, this book covers the selection and use of vehicles, implements and farm machinery; farm power and its applications; the principles and practices of farm engineering; and the arrangement, design, construction and equipment of farm buildings.

A collection of the author's popular poems of childhood.James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916) was an American poet whose most famous works, Little Orphant Annie (1885) and The Raggedy Man (1890), were written in an Indiana dialect.

CONTENTSDaredevils - Alexei TolstoyHate - Mikhail SholokhovTile Flag - Valentine KatayevHis Only Son - K. SimonovSnowbound - S. Sergeyev-TsenskiThe Duel - A Child Is Born - Spring - Nikolai TikhonovHis Sweetheart - Leonid SobolevCaptain Zhavoronkov - Vadim KozhevnikovKatya - Evgeni PetrovStout Heart - Boris LavrenevThe Surgeon - V. LidinLife - P. PavlenkoOur Hands Have Grown Heavy - F. PanferovThe Justification of Hate - Ilya Ehrenbourg

This is the third volume in the first trilogy of The Forsyte Chronicles. Originally the English edition was called Over the River, and the American edition was titled One More River In this volume, completed six months before his death in January, 1933, Mr. Galsworthy brings to a happy conclusion the story of "Dinny" Charwell, the most charming and completely realized of all Galsworthy heroines. The novel is one of strong emotions, dramatic situations, and continuous action - from the beginning in which Clare, Dinny's sister, fleeing to England from her sadist husband, falls in love and becomes hopelessly compromised with a penniless young Englishman; through the brilliant dialogue of the sensational divorce suit that follows; to the conclusion when Dinny "comes to shore on the far bank of her river" and gains contentment. The contrasting romances of the two sisters, each working out of the shadows into the light, are set against the background of modern English society that the author knew so well and portrayed with so much sympathy and penetration. John Galsworthy (1867-1933) devoted virtually his entire professional career to creating a fictional but entirely representative family of propertied Victorians- the Forsytes. He made their lives and times- loves and losses- fortunes and deaths so real that readers accused him of including as characters in his drama real individuals whom they knew. He was the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932.

CONTENTSThe Blessed Trinity, the Incarnation, etc.; Unity of the Church; Holiness of the Church; Catholicity; Apostolicity; Perpetuity of the Church; Infallible Authority of the Church; The Church and the Bible; The Primacy of Peter; The Supremacy of the Popes; Infallibility of the Popes; Temporal Power of the Popes - How They Acquired Temporal Power - Validity and Justice of Their Title - What the Popes Have Done for Rome; Invocation of Saints; Is it Lawful to Honor the Blessed Virgin Mary as a Saint, to Invoke her as an Intercessor, and to Imitate Her as a Model?; Sacred Images; Purgatory, and the Prayers for the Dead; Civil and Religious Liberty; Charges of Religious Persecution; Grace - The Sacraments - Original Sin - Baptism - Its Necessity - Its Effects - Manner of Baptizing; The Sacrament of Confirmation; The Holy Eucharist; Communion under One Kind; The Sacrifice of the Mass; The Use of Religious Ceremonies Dictated by Right Reason - Approved by Almighty God in the Old Law - Sanctioned by Jesus Christ in the New; Ceremonies of the Mass - The Missal - Latin Language - Lights - Flowers - Incense - Vestments; The Sacrament of Penance; Indulgences; Extreme Unction; The Priesthood; Celibacy of the Clergy; Matrimony

CONTENTSGolden Ties about the Golden CityThe Beginnings of a Great FortuneThe First Developments of the Formula for Sudden WealthThe Formula for Wealth as It was Worked in Chicago and New YorkThe Story of the Great Milwaukee DealThe Story of the Hocking Valley LootThe Story of the Two VirginiansThe Office Boy in High FinanceAdditional Light in the Judicious Mixture of Politics and Business that is Essential to the Best Playing of the GameTobacco and High FinanceThe Syndicate Comes InThe True Dimensions of a Great Money-making MachineThe Great Game of InsuranceThe Wreck of a Great PropertyThe Fathomless Mysteries of High FinanceThe True Functions of a "Holding Company"The Brunt of the BurdenThe Experiences of a WitnessSide-lights on Civilization in a Great CityCopartners in Guilt

Ten railroad stories - some of Spearman's best - originally published in 1901. Frank Hamilton Spearman (1859-1937) was a prolific writer of heroic fiction, and particularly railroad fiction. He is also the author of The Strategy of Great Railroads.

Many persons, otherwise well-informed, wrongly think that folklore relates to stories about "Jack and the Beanstalk," "Cinderella and the Glass Slipper," and other pretty legends of the kind told to keep good little girls and boys from howling at bedtime. The present tales are nothing of the sort. Full of homely jest and Rabelaisian humor, they deal with incidents that a child would find it impossible to understand. But their startling plainness of speech is not of the obscene kind that deliberately chooses a word because it is course. If the actors in these realistic scenes "call a spade a spade," it is because they have not learnt to veneer over, with hypocritical phrase, actions that to them are as innocent as eating and drinking. These tales have a two-fold value to the folklorist and observer, for whilst they stimulate his zeal to solve some of the questions which they raise, they also aid him with clues to some of the problems which have long puzzled him. Russia is, physically and intellectually, a barrier between Europe and Asia. On the one side Western civilization surges against it; on the other side it is laved by Eastern influences, rich in sensuous imaginings and legends that were old already when Europe was inhabited by a horde of savages.

This is a reprint of an 1891 manual intended to furnish the druggists of America with a concentrated collection of facts on the composition and manufacture of flavoring extracts, essences, syrups, and colorings. Amongst the formulas and instructions in this large collection are: extracts of vanilla, lemon, orange, chocolate, and coffee; essences of melon, pear, strawberry, peach, banana, and plum; syrups of grape, pineapple, raspberry, orange, walnut cream, coffee, chocolate, ginger, sarsaparilla, and root beer; fruit colorings; and ales, beers and wines, such as ginger beer, root beer, spruce beer, ginger wine, and mead.