title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories | Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 | en | | The Birthmark -- Young Goodman Brown -- Rappaccini's Daughter -- Mrs. Bullfrog -- The Celestial Railroad -- The Procession of Life -- Feathertop: A Moralized Legend -- Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent -- Drowne's Wooden Image -- Roger Malvin's Burial -- The Artist of the Beautiful | | Short stories; New England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 1996-04-01 |
Half-hours with the Telescope
Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a
Means of Amusement and Instruction. | Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1837-1888 | en | Preface:
The object which the Author and Publisher of this little work have proposed to themselves, has been the production, at a moderate price, of a useful and reliable guide to the amateur telescopist.
Among the celestial phenomena described or f | Chapter I.
A Half-Hour on the Structure of the Telescope
Chapter II.
A Half-Hour with Orion, Lepus, Taurus, etc.
Chapter III.
A Half-Hour with Lyra, Hercules, Corvus, Crater, etc.
Chapter IV.
A Half-Hour with Bootes, Scorpio, Ophiuchus, etc.
Chapter V.
A Half-Hour with Andromeda, Cygnus, etc.
Chapter VI.
Half-Hours with the Planets
Chapter VII.
Half-Hours with the Sun and Moon | | Astronomy; Telescopes | 2005-09-28 |
The Indian Fairy Book
From the Original Legends | Mathews, Cornelius, 1817-1889 | en | | The Celestial Sisters -- The Boy who Set a Snare for the Sun -- Strong Desire and the Red Sorcerer -- The Wonderful Exploits of Grasshopper -- The Two Jeebi -- Osseo, the Son of the Evening Star -- Gray Eagle and his Five Brothers -- The Toad-Woman -- The Origin of the Robin -- White Feather and the Six Giants -- Sheem, the Forsaken Boy -- The Magic Bundle -- The Red Swan -- The Man with his Leg Tied Up -- The Little Spirit or Boy-Man -- The Enchanted Moccasins -- He of the Little Shell -- Manabozho, the Mischief-Maker -- Leelinau, the Lost Daughter -- The Winter Spirit and his Visitor -- the Fire-Plume -- Weendigoes and the Bone-Dwarf -- The Bird Lover -- Bokwewa the Humpback -- The Crane that Crossed the River -- Wunzh, the Father of Indian Corn. | McLenan, John, 1827-1866 [Illustrator] | | 2007-08-05 |