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Excerpt from The New Psychic Studies in Their Relation to Christian Thought The clergy, as a class, suffer themselves to linger far in the rear of an intelligent and aecom plished laity, a. Full age behind the requirements Of the time. Let them not shut their eyes' to the danger which is Obviously coming. The battle Of the Evidences will have as certainly to be fought on the field of physical science as it was contested in the last age on tha...

Excerpt from Dancing A few lines only are necessary to explain the object with which these volumes are put forth. At the time when the Badminton Library was started no modern. 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 historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct t...

A pussycat purchased at a pet shop, and abandoned. Concerned with his stray cat tag, and the desire to belong to a human, Franc initiates an adoption process, and follows his intuition. His intelligent approach combined with uncomplicated feline logic, helps him to achieve his goals, and simultaneously portrays a heart breaking picture of a family saga. It is then, when we begin to wonder about our frailties, and the unconditional love anima...

Excerpt from The Reign of Rubber But the Old days of competitive reticence are past. Because, perhaps, of the harmony engendered of the World War, rubber men are more friendly with each other. Exchange of ideas has been found of mutual value. Research in each of the many units of the rubber industry has developed to the point where it may be said that there are few secrets left. Thus the time has now come when the makers should take their fri...

Excerpt from Collected Poems, 1897-1907 Craven, Messmates, The Death of Admiral Blake, VÆ Victis, Minora Sidera, Laudabunt Alii, Homeward Bound, Gillespie, Seringapatam, A Ballad of John Nicholson, The Guides at Cabul, 1879, The Gay Gordons, He Fell Among Thieves, Ionicus 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 impor...

Excerpt from First the Blade: A Comedy of Growth 'Once upon a time' - and we pull in our deep chairs, you quietly, I with a quick impatient jerk that scrabbles up the hearth-rug and worries your tidy soul. But you yourself have forgotten the blinds! Draw them close, lest the Zeppelins catch us at our story-telling, whilst I put the carpet to rights again and pile up logs (we sawed them ourselves, didn't we?) upon the fire. One must save the e...

Excerpt from The Complete Housekeeper 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 historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the or...

Excerpt from Ancient ManSo I took my faithful Corona and five bot tles of ink and a box of matches and a bale of paper and began to work upon the first vol ume. If all goes well there will be eight more and they will tell you what you ought to know of the last six thousand years.But before you start to read let me explain what I intend to do.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more...

Excerpt from Ballads and Sonnets Sonnets Were deep within us, and the thoughts that fill And widen out our being, as the grey Morning unfolds itself before the light. 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 historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, ...

Excerpt from The A B C of Electricity There is also a need for such a book among a large part of the adult population, for the reason that there have been great and radical changes in this science since the time they completed their studies, and they have not the time to follow up the subject in the advanced books. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks....

Excerpt from Ben Blair: The Story of a PlainsmanGreat splendid animals were the men who gathered there, hairy, powerful, ~strong-voiced from combat with prairie wind and frontier distance, devoid of a super ¿uons ounce of ¿esh, their trousers, uniformly baggy at the knees, bearing mute testimony to the many hours spent in the saddle, the bare unprotected skin of their hands and faces speaking likewise of constant contact With sun and storm.Abo...

Excerpt from Brief History of Rome The first part of this book, taken from the Brief History of Ancient Peoples, gives a résumé of Roman history, manners, customs, arts, literature, architecture, religion, etc. In accordance with the modern method of historical teaching, the political portion is limited to the important events, that room may be made for some account of the life of the people. The divisions on Civilization and Manners and Cu...

Excerpt from Ramona: A StoryWhat gentle, suave courteous tones and the calm dark eyes rested on Juan Canito with a look to the fathoming of which he was as unequal as one of his own sheep would have been. He could not have told why he instantly and involuntarily said, Beg your pardon, Schora.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproducti...

Excerpt from Dancing: A Complete Instructor and Guide to All the New and Standard Dances, With a Full List of Calls for All the Square Dances, The Necessary Music for Each Figure, Etiquette of the Dances, and One Hundred Figures for the German Stand with the heels together, the feet forming a right angle, with the weight of the body thrown principally upon the balls of the feet. Let the arms hang easily at the sides. The torso should incline ...

Excerpt from The Lords of the Ghostland, Vol. 1: A History of the IdealIndra was triple. Triple Indra, the Veda says. In that description is the preface to a theogony of which Hesiod wrote the final page. It was the germ of sacred dynasties that ruled the Aryan and the Occidental skies. From it came the grandiose gods of Greece and Rome. From it also came the paler deities of the Norse. Meanwhile ages ¿ed. Life nomad and patriarchal ceased. Fr...

Excerpt from Agastya in the Tamil Land Tamil Academy and writing the first Tamil Grammar - Two more strata of legends (4) his visits to Indonesian Islands, (5) his travels to Siam and Cambodia - his marrying Yasomati additional legends by later Pure-mic writers Agastya's attempt to plant Aryan religious rites in the South - high veneration in which Agastya's name is held - Tamil race adopting him as their spiritual guide. About the Publisher...

Excerpt from British Africa: With Four MapsWhat are to be the relations of the white man with the native, and what will be the part of the latter in the development of the Continent whose destinies have been taken out of his hands? This is not the only racial question that has to be solved in the present and the future.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks....

Excerpt from The Art of Public SpeakingIt is of some importance, therefore, to those who take up this volume with open mind that they should see clearly at the out-start what is the thought that at once underlies and is builded through this structure. In plain words it is this.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 import...

Excerpt from Mr. Donnelly's Reviewers During the progress of these pages through the press, the author, William D. O'Connor, Assistant General Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service, passed suddenly away from the conflicts and controversies of life. He had suffered for a long time from partial paralysis. He was regarded as a confirmed sufferer, and the announcement of his death at Washington on the morning of May 9, 1887, came as a sad sur...

Excerpt from What Sculpture to See in Europe Then, too, the general tourist in a sculpture gal lery gives very little thought to the marred and broken pieces of marble, however rare the work manship, unless special points of value are brought to the attention or some hint given as to their meaning and purpose. My aim in this book is to arouse an interest in masterpieces even if broken by the despoiler or marred by the restorer. To accomplish...