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Fourth Book: Poems 256-258

In The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Pieces In the English Language

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Francis T. Palgrave


Palgrave's principal contribution to the development of literary taste was contained in his Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics (186…

Borrowed Scenes

In Danger! and Other Stories

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


This is a volume of short stories by the famous Arthur Conan Doyle. - Summary by Carolin

Chapter 6

In A Half Century of Conflict

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Francis Parkman, Jr.


Francis Parkman (1823-1893) is one of the great nineteenth century United States historians along with William Prescott, John Lothrop Motley…

A Valentine (Sent to a friend..) - Read by JK

In A Valentine

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Lewis Carroll


This poem is taken from Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll. (Summary by David Lawrence)

The School of Life

In The Calendar and Other Verses

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Irving Sydney Dix


Written by poet Irving Sydney Dix in 1913 for "evidence of my love for and interest in the greatest of all the arts," this little …

Sarojini Naidu

In Figures of Several Centuries

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Arthur Symons


Arthur Symons talks through the histories and works of poets, playwrights, scholars and scribes. He provides both personal experience and cr…

Shut Out

In The Talking Horse And Other Stories

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F. Anstey


A collection of short stories by famed humorist and Punch magazine staff member, F. Anstey, pseudonym for Thomas Anstey Guthrie. They range …

Chapter 1 - The Jews

In The History of Prostitution

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William Sanger


Common sense asks for a full investigation of all the evils attending prostitution. In the every-day affairs of life, any man who feels the …

Chapter XIII - Victory of the Americans over Burgoyne at Saratoga, AD 1777 - Pa…

In The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World

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Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy


This work is Edward Creasy's best known fundamental work of history. It describes in detail 15 battles of world history, beginning with the …

Chapter V. The Kosher Problem

In With the Judæans in the Palestine Campaign

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John Henry Patterson


From the Preface: The formation of a Battalion of Jews for service in the British Army is an event without precedent in our annals, and the …

Part 2 Chapter 3

In Tom Petrie's reminiscences of early Queensland (dating from 1837). Recorded by …

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Constance Campbell Petrie and Thomas Petrie


Tom Petrie (1831-1910), explorer and grazier, arrived in the then convict settlement of Moreton Bay in 1837. His reminiscences of what was t…

James Monroe

In Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable

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Jean S. Remy


Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable is a halting account in presidential history - quite literally! From Washington to Jac…