Excerpt from Radiant Motherhood: A Book for Those Who, Are Creating the FutureIt is commonly said that most women marry for Children, and not out of a personal love, and there is more truth in this saying than is good for the race. To-day, alas, many women cannot find the perfect and sensitive mate their' hearts' desire and they hope in any marriage to get Children which will mitigate the conse quent loneliness of their lives. Sometimes they m...
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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 ...
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 ...
Excerpt from Catalogue of the Mesozoic Plants in the British Museum (Natural History): The Cretaceous Flora, Part II. Lower Greensand (Aptian) Plants of BritainThe second part of the Catalogue of the Cretaceous Flora deals with the remains of plants from the English Lower Greensand, and shows the importance of a careful study of even the most unpromising fossils. Most of the specimens described are merely fragments of wood, but their microscop...
Excerpt from Ancient Plants Being a Simple Account of the Past Vegetation of the Earth, and of the Recent Important, Discoveries Made in This Realm, of Nature StudyThe number and the importance of the discoveries which have been made in the course of the last five or six years in the realm of Fossil Botany have largely altered the aspect of the subject and greatly widened its horizon. Until comparatively recent times the rather narrow outlook ...
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 ...
Excerpt from Botany or the Modern Study of PlantsIN our daily life we have no difficulty in distinguishing plants from animals, and we are also seldom in doubt as to the difference between a life-containing and an inorganic thing. It is true, of course, that at the ex treme limits of the series, among the very simplest forms, it is sometimes difficult to separate plants and animals, but in most cases there can be no doubt as to which of the tw...
Excerpt from The Study of Plant LifeAs a result of the present efforts to raise the standard of education in this country, many different Methods of Teaching are receiving our grave consideration. So insistent are their advocates, that we stand in some danger of forgetting that learning. Rather than teaching, is the essential factor in education. It is not the know ledge given us ready-made by the teacher, but that which we learn, acquiring it...
Excerpt from Man, Other Poems, and a Preface"Love made me Poet, And this I writt, My harte did do yt, And not my witt."(From an old inscription in Burford Church, written by a simple woman on her husband's tombstone.)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. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art te...
Excerpt from Conquest or a Piece of Jade: A New Play in Three ActsDear Mr. Delightfulest-Manager-in-the-World, -I am sending you this play printed instead of type-written because I think you will find it much easier to slip into your pocket and read, and also because I don't know your address, and printed books have a way of finding people without being addressed which typescripts have not yet learnt. So instead of sending my play round, in wh...
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Excerpt from A Journal From Japan: A Daily Record of Life as Seen by a ScientistThis daily journal was written primarily because I well knew that time would force the swiftly passing incidents and impressions to blur each other in my memory. Then want Of leisure tempted me to send the journal home to friends in place of letters, and the two or three for whom I originally intended it widened the circle by handing it on to many others, until it ...
Excerpt from Wise Parenthood a Sequel to Married Love a Book for Married PeopleThe Study of Plant Life, zud edition. Illustrated. Published by Blackie. 3s. 6d. Net.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. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preservin...