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A Year with the Birds

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W. Warde Fowler

William Warde Fowler was a true polymath; although his early studies focused on natural history, he became a well-known authority on the his…

The Astral Plane: Its Inhabitants, Scenery, and Phenomena

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C. W. Leadbeater

Few words are needed in sending this little book out into the world. It is the fifth of a series of Manuals designed to meet the public dema…

William Blake

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G. K. Chesterton

From the author’s introduction: "Blake’s life of Blake … would have been full of symbolic wild beasts and naked women, of monstrous cl…

Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot

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Wilkie Collins

Two travellers, the writer of this book, and an artist friend who is the companion of his ramble, explored Cornwall together, on foot in the…

Practical Mysticism (Version 2)

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Evelyn Underhill

I write only for the larger class which, repelled by the formidable appearance of more elaborate works on the subject, would yet like to kno…

Orthodoxy (Version 3)

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G. K. Chesterton

… [In] its pages I have attempted in a vague and personal way, in a set of mental pictures rather than in a series of deductions, to state t…

Twelvth Sunday: Israel in the Wilderness

In Captivating Bible Stories for Young People

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Charlotte Mary Yonge

Noted author and historian, Charlotte Mary Yonge, presents Bible stories written for children in simple language. There are thee 52 stories…

Chapter 7 - Fleas and plague

In The Flea

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Harold Russell

A scientific study on the life cycle, and functions of the common insect, the Flea.- Summary by Elijah

The Elusive Companion of Parson White

In Tales of the Long Bow

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G. K. Chesterton

These tales concern the doing of things recognized as impossible to do; impossible to believe; and, as the weary reader may well cry aloud, …