title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
Saved by the Lifeboat | Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael), 1825-1894 | en | | | | Royal National Life-Boat Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck (Great Britain) -- Juvenile fiction; Shipwrecks -- Juvenile fiction; Ships -- Safety regulations -- Juvenile fiction; Lifeboats -- Juvenile fiction; Search and rescue operations -- Juvenile fiction | 2007-11-06 |
Heretics | Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 | en | | Introductory remarks on the importance of orthodoxy -- On the negative spirit -- On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and making the world small -- Mr. Bernard Shaw -- Mr. H.G. Wells and the giants -- Christmas and the aesthetes -- Omar and the sacred vine -- The mildness of the yellow press -- The moods of Mr. George Moore -- On sandals and simplicity -- Science and the savages -- Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson -- Celts and celtophiles -- On certain modern writers and the institution of the family -- On smart novelists and the smart set -- On Mr. McCabe and a divine frivolity -- On the wit of Whistler -- The fallacy of the young nation -- Slum novelists and the slums -- Concluding remarks on the importance of orthodoxy. | | Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936; Apologetics | 1996-03-01 |
The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes | | en | | Feodor Jagor's Travels in the Philippines (the out-of-print 1875 English translation corrected from the original German text) -- The state of the Philippines in 1810, by Tomas de Comyn (William Walton's 1821 translation modernized) -- Manila and Sulu in 1842, by Com. Chas. Wilkes (Narrative of U.S. exploring expedition 1838-42, v. 5) -- Manila in 1819, by Lieut. John White (from the "History of a voyage to the China Sea") -- The peopling of the Philippines, by Doctor Rudolf Virchow (O. T. Mason's translation; Smithsonian institution 1899 report) -- People and prospects of the Philippines, by an English merchant, 1778, and a consul, 1878 (from Blackwood's and the Cornhill magazine) -- Filipino merchants of the early 1890s, by F. Karuth. | Craig, Austin, 1872- [Editor] | | 2004-01-01 |