title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
Adventures Among Books | Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 | en | | Adventures among books -- Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson. -- Rab’s friend -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Mr. Morris’s poems -- Mrs. Radcliffe’s novels -- A Scottish romanticist of 1830 [T.T. Stoddart] -- The Confessions of Saint Augustine -- Smollett -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The paradise of poets -- Paris and Helen -- Enchanted cigarettes -- Stories and story-telling -- The supernatural in fiction -- An old Scottish psychical researcher [G. Sinclair] -- The boy. | | | 1999-12-01 |
Side Show Studies | Metcalfe, Francis | en | | The liberty of Franz and the rebellion of Fuzzy Wuzzy -- The bite of a rattler and the sad fate of Big Pete -- The amorous baboon -- Feeding the serpents and a grand transformation -- The lioness skirt dance and the inconsiderate python -- The animal barometer and the eternal feminine -- Making a star lion and an interrupted temperance meeting -- Kalsomining an elephant -- The hypnotic bear and the sentimental lecturer -- The tragedy of the tigers and the power of hypnotism. | Herford, Oliver, 1863-1935 [Illustrator] | | 2007-11-19 |
Log-book of Timothy Boardman
Kept On Board The Privateer Oliver Cromwell, During A
Cruise From New London, Ct., to Charleston, S. C., And
Return, In 1778; Also, A Biographical Sketch of The Author. | Boardman, Timothy, 1754-1838 | en | | | Boardman, Samuel Ward, 1830-1917 [Contributor] | Oliver Cromwell (Ship); United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Naval operations; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal narratives | 2008-07-12 |