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Excerpt from The Secret Life: Being the Book of a HereticThe Fourth Dimension The Ant and the Lark The Doppelganger A Young Man's Fancy An Arabian Looking-glass The Cry of the Women The Beauty of Cruelty The Duke of Wellington' s Trees The Boy with the Goose.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

The author's wide travel in the Orient and her study of all available resources have combined to produce the three fascinating stories told here--the lives of three oriental geniuses: Shah Jahan, artist-emperor of India, Chien Lung, Manchu emperor of China, and Hideyoshi, a delightful parvenu and unselfish patriot of Japan. The author demonstrates great sensitivity to the distinguishing national characteristics and inner spirit of the countrie...

Excerpt from The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Vol. 2 of 2And, of course, I am studying Buddhism with heart and soul. A young student from one of the temples is my companion. If I stay in Japan, we shall live together. Will write again if all goes well.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work...

Excerpt from Old GreenwichThis brook - called by the Dutch, Bestavaar's Kill, and by the English, Manetta Water marked the boundaries of the bouwerje. Al though no longer visible it ¿ows in diminished volume in its old channel. Its east branch rises east of Fifth Avenue between Twentieth and Twenty-first Streets, whence it ¿ows in nearly a straight line to the southwest corner of Union Square thence in a slightly curving line to the junction w...

Excerpt from The Case of John Smith: His Heaven and His HellThe knights laughed a little, watching its fright ened ¿ight, but the King smiled not and fell to silence and deep musing. So at last the feasters too fell mute and went away quietly one by one, leaving the old Chieftain with his head sunk upon his breast.What ails my Lord?' asked the Seneschal who stood by the King's chair.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thou...

Excerpt from Japanese Letter: Edited With an IntroductionThen I got breakfast and went out again. The sum of my impressions was that Nagasaki is the prettiest seaport I ever saw full of picturesque ness and quaintness made for artists to etch and for photographers to photograph. But I could not buy anything I wanted, or find anything I wished to find in a Western line. Very few foreigners and no books nothing to pick up no supplies to be had e...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

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Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Excerpt from Japanese Letter: Edited With an Introduction Then I got breakfast and went out again. The sum of my impressions was that Nagasaki is the prettiest seaport I ever saw full of picturesque ness and quaintness made for artists to etch and for photographers to photograph. But I could not buy anything I wanted, or find anything I wished to find in a Western line. Very few foreigners and no books nothing to pick up no supplies to be had...

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Excerpt from The Secret Life: Being the Book of a Heretic The Fourth Dimension The Ant and the Lark The Doppelganger A Young Man's Fancy An Arabian Looking-glass The Cry of the Women The Beauty of Cruelty The Duke of Wellington' s Trees The Boy with the Goose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important histori...

Excerpt from The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Vol. 2 of 2And, of course, I am studying Buddhism with heart and soul. A young student from one of the temples is my companion. If I stay in Japan, we shall live together. Will write again if all goes well.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work...

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Excerpt from The Case of John Smith: His Heaven and His HellThe knights laughed a little, watching its fright ened ¿ight, but the King smiled not and fell to silence and deep musing. So at last the feasters too fell mute and went away quietly one by one, leaving the old Chieftain with his head sunk upon his breast.What ails my Lord?' asked the Seneschal who stood by the King's chair.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thou...