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Life's Undercurrent

In Mountain Idylls, and Other Poems

Read by George Emerson


Alfred Castner King


"The author of this unpretentious volume has long questioned the advisability of adding a book to our already inflated and overloaded l…

Georgic I

In The Georgics: A Poem of the Land

Read by George Emerson


Virgil


A poem by the Latin poet Virgil, the second of his three known works. "Georgic" means "to work the land," and on such ma…

The Mass

In The Catholic's Ready Answer

Read by Emerson Wells


Rev. M.P. Hill and Rev. M. P. Hill


A popular vindication of Christian beliefs and practices against the attacks of modern criticism. Ninety-eight topics, in alphabetical order…

A Long Vacation

In Puss in Boots, Jr. and Tom Thumb

Read by Laurel Emerson


David Cory


David Cory is the author of more than 40 childrens books. This book is in his series of Puss in Boots, Jr. The roots of the legend of Puss i…

The Giant Maiden - Germany

In Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 02

Read by Laurel Emerson


Marie Harriette Frary


This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…

Section 32: Bruadar and Smith and Glinn

In Legends of Saints and Sinners

Read by Laurel Emerson


Douglas Hyde


"I have called the present volume "Legends of Saints and Sinners," which to a certain extent it is; but I mean it for a book …

The Death-Bed of a Saint

In Life of Saint Gerard Majella

Read by Emerson Wells


Rev. O. R. Vassall-Phillips


Saint Gerard Majella was an Italian lay brother of the Redemptorists. His only ambition was to be like Jesus Christ in his sufferings and hu…

The Little Hurts

In Rhymes of Childhood

Read by Laurel Emerson


Edgar A. Guest


Not nursery rhymes, but poems about different scenes of childhood. Poems about Grandpa, Grandma, story time, castor oil, “Wait till your pa …

Ch.27 The Legal Position of Hare and his Wife

In The History of Burke and Hare, And of the Resurrectionist Times

Read by Catherine Emerson


George Macgregor


From the preface: ".....of all the criminal events that have occurred in Scotland, few have excited so deep, widespread, and lasting an…

Chapter II — GREEK MEDICINE, Alexandrian School

In The Evolution of Modern Medicine

Read by Catherine Emerson


Sir William Osler and Sir William Osler


This is the manuscript of Sir William Osler's lectures on the "Evolution of Modern Medicine," delivered at Yale University in 1913…

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