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CHAPTER III

In Syria: the Desert and the Sown

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Gertrude Bell


Gertrude Bell's Syria: The Desert and the Sown describes her travels in the Levant (also called Greater Syria) during the first years of the…

CHAPTER III - An Abortive Group-Meeting

In A Girl Among the Anarchists

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Olivia Rossetti Agresti and Helen Rossetti Angeli


Helen and Olivia Rossetti were rather precocious girls in Victorian London. While still extremely young, they published a renowned anarchist…

Peter's Parentage

In Joan and Peter

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H. G. Wells


This is satirical look at the English educational system and society in the early twentieth century and the effect of World War I on them by…

The Shadow on the Moon

In The Knights of the Square Table

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Seckatary Hawkins


Here is a mystery story for boys of all ages - from nine to ninety. It is a typical Seckatary Hawkins tale, told by the young scribe who tak…

The Hope of the Gospel

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George MacDonald


Perhaps most well-known for his fairy tales and fantasy stories such as The Golden Key and Phantastes, or for his poetry, George MacDonald w…

A Short and Easy Method of Prayer

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Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon


Originally published in 1685, Madame Guyon’s A Short and Easy Method of Prayer is considered a classic of Christian mysticism, influencing g…

St. George and St. Michael, Volume 1

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George MacDonald


’St. George and St. Michael’ is a little-known historical romance telling the story of a young couple who find themselves on opposing sides …

Pearl (Jewett translation)

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The Gawain Poet and The Gawain Poettranslated Bysophie Jewett


Written in the 14th century by the Gawain poet, 'Pearl' is an elegiac poem reflecting on the death of a young daughter, pictured as a pearl …

Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man (version 3)

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Patanjali


This is Charles Johnston's translation of and commentary on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Johnston's interpretation of this seminal yogic te…

The Story Of A Needle

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Charlotte Maria Tucker (A. L. O. E.) and Charlotte Maria Tucker


A story told, through the viewpoint of a sewing needle, about family life and siblings. The narration from the needle tells how he was made …

The Gentle Art of Faking

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Riccardo Nobili


IIn analysing the Faker one must dissociate him from the common forger; his semi-artistic vocation places him quite apart from the ordinary …

Revelations of a Spirit Medium

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A. Medium


Written anonymously by "a working 'medium' for the past twenty years", this little book was an inspiration for a young Harry Houdi…

Rhymes for the Nursery

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Ann Taylor


This early 19th-century children's poetry collection by Jane and Ann Taylor is little-known today, but contains the original version of Twin…

The Pianoforte Sonata

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John South Shedlock


John S. Shedlock covers the history of what might now be called the keyboard sonata, from Kuhnau's Sonata in B flat from 1695, believed at t…

An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae

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Edward Jenner


This collection of three publications details Edward Jenner's investigations into the connection between smallpox and coxpox, and the creati…

The Mesmeric Guide, for Family Use

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S. D. Saunders


Aimed at "those who judge of a Science by its practical utility and think that one minute spent in applying it to the benefit of mankin…

Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten)

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Oskar Pfungst


Oskar Pfungst book is a detailed piece of investigative journalism looking into Clever Hans, an Orlov Trotter horse that was claimed to have…