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The Spirit of ChristmasVan Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933enChristmas stories; Christmas2005-01-03
The Spirit and the Word A Treatise on the Holy Spirit in the Light of a Rational Interpretation of the Word of TruthSweeney, Zachary Tayloren2005-02-10
SketchesDisraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881enThe Carrier Pigeon -- The Consul's Daughter -- Walstein--Or A Cure For Melancholy -- The Court Of Egypt -- The Valley Of Thebes -- Egyptian Thebes -- Shoubra Eden And Lebanon -- A Syrian Sketch -- The Bosphorus -- An Interview With A Great Turk -- Munich -- The Spirit Of Whiggism2006-11-13
Crooked TrailsRemington, Frederic, 1861-1909enHow the law got into the chaparral -- The blue quail of the cactus -- A sergeant of the Orphan Troop -- The spirit of Mahongui -- The essentials at Fort Adobe -- Massai's crooked trail -- Joshua Goodenough's old letter -- Cracker cowboys of Florida -- The strange days that came to Jimmie Friday -- The Soledad girls.Western stories; West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction2005-04-01
Odd Craft, CompleteJacobs, W. W. (William Wymark), 1863-1943enThe money box -- The castaway -- Blundell's improvement -- Bill's lapse -- Lawyer Quince -- Breaking a spell -- Establishing relations -- The changing numbers -- The persecution of Bob Pretty -- Dixon's return -- A spirit of avarice -- The third string -- Odd charges -- Admiral Peters.Owen, Will, 1869-1957 [Illustrator]Humorous stories, English; Sailors -- Fiction; England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction2004-04-01
Frenzied FictionLeacock, Stephen, 1869-1944enMy revelations as a spy -- Father Knickerbocker: a fantasy -- The prophet in our midst -- Personal adventures in the spirit world -- The sorrows of a summer guest -- To nature and back again -- The cave man as he is -- Ideal interviews -- The new education -- The errors of Santa Claus -- Lost in New York -- This strenuous age -- The old, old story of how five men went fishing -- Back from the land -- The perplexity column as done by the jaded journalist -- Simple stories of success, or How to succeed in life -- In dry Toronto -- Merry Christmas.2005-07-01
Old Indian DaysEastman, Charles Alexander, 1858-1939enThe love of Antelope -- The madness of Bald Eagle -- The singing spirit -- The famine -- The chief soldier -- The white man's errand -- The grave of the dog -- Winona, the woman-child -- Winona, the child-woman -- Snana's fawn -- She-who-has-a-soul -- The peace maker -- Blue Sky -- The faithfulness of Long Ears -- The war maiden.Indians of North America -- Fiction; Dakota Indians -- Fiction2008-07-05
Sketches in Lavender, Blue and GreenJerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka), 1859-1927enReginald Blake, financier and cad -- An item of fashionable intelligence -- Blasé Billy -- The choice of Cyril Harjohn -- The materialisation of Charles and Mivanway -- Portrait of a lady -- The man who would manage -- The man who lived for others -- A man of habit -- The absent-minded man -- A charming woman -- Whibley's spirit -- The man who went wrong -- The hobby rider -- The man who did not believe in luck -- Dick Dunkerman's cat -- The minor poet's story -- The degeneration of Thomas Henry -- The city of the sea -- Driftwood.Short stories, English; Manners and customs -- Fiction2000-06-01
Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the FilipinosKayme, SargentenThe anting-anting of Captain Von Tollig -- The cave in the side of Coron -- The conjure man of Siargao -- Mrs. Hannah Smith, nurse -- The fifteenth wife -- "Our lady of Pilar" -- A question of time -- The spirit of Mount Apo -- With what measure ye mete -- Told at the club -- Pearls of Sulu.Philippines -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; United States -- History -- Philippine-American War -- Fiction; Americans -- Philippines -- Fiction2008-02-26
Flower FablesAlcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888enThe frost king, or, The power of love -- Eva's visit to fairy-land -- The flower's lesson -- Lily-Bell and Thistledown -- Little Bud -- Clover-Blossom -- Little Annie's dream, or, The fairy flower -- Ripple, the water-spirit -- Fairy song.Fairy tales -- United States; Children's stories, American; Short stories; Flowers -- Juvenile fiction; Flowers -- Juvenile poetry; Fairies -- Juvenile poetry1994-09-01
Folk-lore and Legends: GermanAnonymousenGaffer Death -- The Legend of Paracelsus -- Hans in Luck -- The Grey Mare in the Garret -- The Water Spirit -- Peter Klaus -- The Legend of Rheineck -- The Cellar of the Old Knights in the Kyffhauser -- The Fisherman and his Wife -- The Mouse Tower -- The Dancers -- The Little Shroud -- The Arch Rogue -- Brother Merry -- Fastrada -- The Jew in the Bush -- The Elves -- The Conclave of Corpses -- Legends of Rubezahl, or Number-Nip -- The Hunter Hackelnberg and the Tut-Osel -- The Alraun -- The Goose-Girl -- Hans Jagenteufel -- The Waits of Bremen -- The Flaming Castle -- The Monks at the Ferry -- Doctor All-Wise -- The White Maiden -- The Sturgeon -- St. Andrew's Night.Folklore -- Germany; Tales -- Germany; Legends -- Germany2008-12-11
HereticsChesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936enIntroductory 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; Apologetics1996-03-01
Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885VariousenON THIS SIDE. by F.C. BAYLOR OUR VILLE. by MARGARET BERTHA WRIGHT THE PRIMITIVE COUPLE. by M.H. CATHERWOOD PARADISE FORBIDDEN FRUIT THE FLAMING SWORD PROBATION. by FLORENCE EARLE COATES THE PIONEERS OF THE SOUTHWEST. by EDMUND KIRKE A PLEASANT SPIRIT. by MARGARET VANDEGRIFT FISHING IN ELK RIVER. by TOBE HODGE ON A NOBLE CHARACTER MARRED BY LITTLENESS by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES THE SCOTTISH CROFTERS. by DAVID BENNETT KING MY FRIEND GEORGE RANDALL. by FRANK PARKE THE WOOD-THRUSH AT SUNSET. by MARY C. PECKHAM A FOREST BEAUTY. by MAURICE THOMPSON OUR MONTHLY GOSSIP Daniel Webster's "Moods." by F.C.M. Feuds and Lynch-Law in the Southwest. by J.A.M. The Etymology of "Babe." by S.E.T. LITERATURE OF THE DAY Recent Fiction.2004-12-30
EssaysMeynell, Alice Christiana Thompson, 1847-1922enWINDS AND WATERS: Ceres' Runaway -- Wells -- Rain -- The Tow Path -- The Tethered Constellations -- Rushes and Reeds -- IN A BOOK ROOM: A Northern Fancy -- Pathos -- Anima Pellegrina! -- A Point of Biography -- The Honours of Mortality -- Composure -- The Little Language -- A Counterchange -- Harlequin Mercutio -- COMMENTARIES: Laughter -- The Rhythm of Life -- Domus Angusta -- Innocence and Experience -- The Hours of Sleep -- Solitude -- Decivilized -- WAYFARING: The Spirit of Place -- Popular Burlesque -- Have Patience, Little Saint -- At Monastery Gates -- The Sea Wall -- ARTS: Tithonus -- Symmetry and Incident -- The Plaid -- The Flower -- Unstable Equilibrium -- Victorian Caricature -- The Point of Honour -- THE CHEARFUL LADIE OF THE LIGHT: The Colour of Life -- The Horizon -- In July -- Cloud -- Shadows -- WOMEN AND BOOKS: The Seventeenth Century -- Mrs. Dingley -- Prue -- Mrs. Johnson -- Madame Roland -- THE DARLING YOUNG: Fellow Travellers with a Bird -- The Child of Tumult -- The Child of Subsiding Tumult -- The Unready -- That Pretty Person -- Under the Early Stars -- The Illusion of Historic Time.English essays; English literature1998-08-01
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.)VariousenAnatole Dubois at de Horse Show, by Amsbary -- The Billville Spirit Meeting, by Stanton -- The British Matron, by Hawthorne -- The Champion Checker-Player of Ameriky, by Riley -- Colonel Sterett's Panther Hunt, by Lewis -- A Cry from the Consumer, by Nesbit -- The Curse of the Competent, by Finn -- Darby and Joan, by Honeywood -- The Day We Do Not Celebrate, by Burdette -- The Deacon's Masterpiece; or, The Wonderful "One-Hoss Shay", by Holmes -- The Deacon's Trout, by Beecher -- A Disappointment, by O'Reilly -- Distichs, by Hay -- Down Around the River, by Riley -- Enough, by Masson -- The Experiences of the A.C., by Taylor -- The Feast of the Monkeys, by Sousa -- The Fighting Race, by Clarke -- The Grammatical Boy, by Nye -- Grizzly-Gru, by Ironquill -- John Henry in a Street Car, by McHugh -- Laffing, by Billings -- A Letter from Mr. Biggs, by Howe -- A Medieval Discoverer, by Nye -- Melons, by Harte -- The Menagerie, by Moody -- Mrs. Johnson, by Howells -- The Muskeeter, by Billings -- My Grandmother's Turkey-Tail Fan, by Peck -- Myopia, by Rice -- An Odyssey of K's, by Nesbit -- The Old Maid's House: In Plan, by Phelps -- The Organ, by Beecher -- Partingtonian Patchwork, by Shillaber -- Pass, by Ironquill -- The Pettibone Lineage, by Fields -- A Psalm of Life, by Cary -- The Purple Cow, by Burgess -- The Quarrel, by Kiser -- Similar Cases, by Gilman -- Simple English, by Rose -- Spelling Down the Master, by Eggleston -- Stage Whispers, by Wells -- Teaching by Example, by Saxe -- The Tragedy of It, by Noble -- The Turnings of a Bookworm, by Wells -- Wanted--A Cook, by Dale -- What Mr. Robinson Thinks, by Lowell -- When Albani Sang, by Drummond -- When the Frost is on the Punkin, by Riley -- Why Moles Have Hands, by Culbertsonn -- Wouter Van Twiller, by Irving -- The Yankee Dude'll Do, by Kiser.Wilder, Marshall Pinckney, 1859-1915 [Editor]American wit and humor; American literature -- Humor2006-05-28




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