Books published in 1906
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The Scrap Book Volume 1 No 4
[english | 1906]Various Authors
Excerpts: [... constant smoking. Yet she could inspire the Prelude, which Chopin composed on seeing her approach in a garden in Minorca-the greatest piece of music ...... Bohemianism there is a serious philosophy apparent which elevates the characters of his romance to heroism. They followed one principle faithfully-so ...... New York Sun does not agree with Mr. Scudder. In the course of an ...]
Genres: [periodical | short story collection | fiction and literature] Downloads: 118
The Scrap Book Volume 1 No 3
[english | 1906]Various Authors
Excerpts: [... to rule over us without holding them to that strict accountability for the discharge of their trust which the common law and common sense alike demand. ...... nor their ridicule will weigh at all heavily upon the great majority, who look upon spelling as a means to an end, and to an end quite different from ...... the mouthpieces of pipes the horns themselves are split and pressed ...]
Genres: [periodical | short story collection | fiction and literature] Downloads: 89
The Scrap Book Volume 1 No 2
[english | 1906]Various Authors
Excerpts: [... since men of education first left the cloisters and went out into the world. President Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbia University, presents ...... century. Its only serious rival in the comic field has been Fliegende Bltter. There is, of course, the prevailing American view that Punch is dull. ...... Appleton's Magazine, states the case attractively:. After all, there is an ...]
Genres: [periodical | short story collection | fiction and literature] Downloads: 427
The Rover Boys On The Plains
[english | 1906]Edward Stratemeyer
Summary: [--I. Almayers folly. The inheritors an extravagant story by Joseph Conrad and F. M. Hueffer.--II. An outcast of the islands.--III. The nigger of the Narcissus.--IV. Lord Jim.--V. Typhoon and other stories.--VI. Youth a narrative: and two other stories.--VII. Romance a novel by Joseph Conrad and F. M. Hueffer.--VIII. Nostromo.--IX. The secret agent.--X. A set of six.--XI Under western eyes.--]
Genres: [mysterydetective | fiction and literature | adventure] Downloads: 160
The Results of Strikes in 1912 as Compared with Those of the Past
[english | 1906]Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Summary: [Lenin was the initiator of the central drama--the tragedy--of our era the rise of totalitarian states. A bookish man with a scholars habits and a generals tactical instincts Lenin introduced to the 20th century the practice of taking an all-embracing ideology and imposing it on an entire society rapidly and mercilessly he created a regime that erased politics erased historical memory erased ...]
Genres: [political | revolutionary | social history] Downloads: 271
The Religious Situation
[english | 1906]Goldwin Smith
Summary: [Goldwin Smith (August 13 1823 - June 7 1910) was a British-Canadian historian and journalist.]
Genres: [religion] Downloads: 168
The Religion Of Ancient Egypt
[english | 1906]W Flinders Petrie
Excerpts: [... was not a divine attribute. Nor was there any doubt that they might suffer while alive one myth tells how Ra, as he walked on earth, was bitten ...... found at first as separate units in different places, Isis as a virgin goddess, and Horus as a self-existent god. Each city appears to have but one ...... to feed upon. In the grave we find this belief shown by the jars of water, ...]
Genres: [religion] Downloads: 11
The Rainy Day Railroad War
[english | 1906]Holman Day
Summary: [The Rainy Day Railroad War by Holman Day. This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.]
Genres: [young readers] Downloads: 434
The Railway Children
[english | 1906]Edith Nesbit
Summary: [The story concerns a family who move to a house near the railway after the father is imprisoned as a result of being falsely accused of selling state secrets to the Russians. The three children Roberta Peter and Phyllis find amusement in watching the trains on the nearby railway line and waving to the passengers.]
Genres: [fiction | juvenile] Downloads: 236
The Question of Co operative Societies
[english | 1906]Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Summary: [During the next few years Lenin was essentially dictator (a ruler with unquestionable authority) of Russia. The major task he faced was establishing this authority for himself and his party in the country. Most of his policies can be understood in this light even though he angered some elements in the population while satisfying others. Examples of such policies include the governments seizing of ...]
Genres: [political | revolutionary | social history] Downloads: 74
The Princess Virginia
[english | 1906]Alice Muriel Williamson
Excerpts: [... pearl-framed ivory miniature of a beautiful, smiling girl, which always hung from a thin gold chain around her neck. They shouldn't have named me after ...... bold in me to pray for it. And I didn't. I was only refusing other chances.. Well, at all events, you have this one now. It is yours.. Not ...... the one private sitting-room the inn possessed. But if the ladies would put up ...]
Genres: [romance] Downloads: 435
The Pony Rider Boys In The Rockies
[english | 1906]Frank Gee Patchin
Summary: [The Pony Rider Boys In The Rockies by Frank Gee Patchin. Yes the country is full of caves. Some of them are so big that you would lose yourself in them almost at once while others are merely dens where bears and other animals live. Besides this there are many abandoned mines up the range further. All are more or less interesting and some for various reasons are dangerous to enter.]
Genres: [western | young readers] Downloads: 141
The Pony Rider Boys In Texas
[english | 1906]Frank Gee Patchin
Excerpts: [... he found himself almost the sole occupant of the street at that point, with his pony backed up against the curbing, tossing its head and champing ...... the cattle. We shall have to ride some of the bronchos when we are on duty.. I think I see somebody falling off, laughed Tad. Ever ride one of them, ...... and swung its sharp horns perilously near to the side of the horse, which ...]
Genres: [western | young readers] Downloads: 495
The Philippine Islands 1493 1898
[english | 1906]Various Authors
Excerpts: [... for greater economy and efficiency. He sends the king a copy of the new regulations thus made, with a statement of all salaried offices and paid employments, ...... Pedro de Monroy, adviser of the Holy Office, which was not situated there and, as such, he had kept him busy with matters pertaining to that holy tribunal, ...... son de Dios enemigos Jiron Camudio y tenorio. A quien ...]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 105
The Pecan And Its Culture
[english | 1906]H Harold Hume
Summary: [The Pecan And Its Culture by H Harold Hume. A great book on the Pecan and its impact on those who harvest this resource.]
Genres: [nature] Downloads: 35
The Passenger From Calais
[english | 1906]Arthur Griffiths
Summary: [The classic route to a mans heart is through his stomach--and she was just his dish.]
Genres: [fiction and literature | romance] Downloads: 128
The Origin And Permanent Value Of The Old Testament
[english | 1906]Charles Foster Kent
Excerpts: [... past generation the Old Testament has commanded equally with the New the enthusiastic and devoted study of the great body of biblical scholars throughout ...... means whereby the human vision is clarified so as to perceive it. Natural phenomena, environment, and above all experience, are also mighty agents ...... and expression in the remarkable code of Hammurabi (about 2250 B.C.). ...]
Genres: [religion] Downloads: 101
The Orange Fairy Book
[english | 1906]Andrew Lang
Excerpts: [... do without reading any of the book. This appears to be the philosophy of prefaces in general, and perhaps authors might be more daring and candid ...... and said to it:. 'Sipao, Sipao, I want a town as great as that of Insato, the King of Pita and I wish to be chief over it.'. Then all along the ...... give me but a piece. You know what is behind you, but you have no knowledge of ...]
Genres: [young readers | fantasy | audiobook] Downloads: 400
The Mummy And Miss Nitocris
[english | 1906]George Chetwynd Griffith
Summary: [The Mummy And Miss Nitocris by George Chetwynd Griffith. Oh what a perfectly lovely mummy Just fancy --the poor thing--dead how many years Something like five thousand isn t it And doesn t she look just like me I mean wouldn t she if we had both been dead as long ]
Genres: [pulp | science fiction] Downloads: 95
The Motor Boys Overland
[english | 1906]Clarence Young
Excerpts: [... Noddy Nixon, a town bully, who had robbed the mill of Amos Judson of one thousand dollars, which crime the Motor Boys were instrumental in fastening ...... Chicago. If you decide to let the boys go, they could accompany me that far, at least. It would be a good experience for them.. Oh, dad. Please let ...... to visit the injured miner. The physician took a seat in the auto beside ...]
Genres: [adventure | young readers] Downloads: 254