The Lamp: A Review and Record of Current Literature, Volume 29Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904 |
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... photogravure frontispiece , Tennyson's In and from 10 to 14 illustrations in each volume . Bound in limp lambskin , gilt top , $ 1.25 net a volume . Shakespeare's Complete Plays and Poems 3 vols . Illustrated . $ 3.75 net . Beaumont and ...
... photogravure frontispiece , Tennyson's In and from 10 to 14 illustrations in each volume . Bound in limp lambskin , gilt top , $ 1.25 net a volume . Shakespeare's Complete Plays and Poems 3 vols . Illustrated . $ 3.75 net . Beaumont and ...
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... photogravure . 8vo , $ 2.00 cleverness . LI'L ' GAL By Paul Laurence Dunbar Author of " When Malindy Sings , " etc. Containing negro lullabies and songs about children Thoroughly representative of Mr. Dunbar's best work . Illustrated by ...
... photogravure . 8vo , $ 2.00 cleverness . LI'L ' GAL By Paul Laurence Dunbar Author of " When Malindy Sings , " etc. Containing negro lullabies and songs about children Thoroughly representative of Mr. Dunbar's best work . Illustrated by ...
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... photogravure portraits , plan , etc. $ 4.00 , net . ( Postage extra . ) FETICHISM IN WEST AFRICA S Forty years ' observation of Native Customs and Superstitions By the Rev. ROBERT HAMILE NASSAU , M.D. , S.T.D. INCE 1861 , with the ...
... photogravure portraits , plan , etc. $ 4.00 , net . ( Postage extra . ) FETICHISM IN WEST AFRICA S Forty years ' observation of Native Customs and Superstitions By the Rev. ROBERT HAMILE NASSAU , M.D. , S.T.D. INCE 1861 , with the ...
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... photogravure and other illustrations . 4to , $ 7.50 net . A handsome book on this famous woman written with the charm and historical accuracy that characterize the author's previous volumes . The Most Illustrious Ladies of THE ITALIAN ...
... photogravure and other illustrations . 4to , $ 7.50 net . A handsome book on this famous woman written with the charm and historical accuracy that characterize the author's previous volumes . The Most Illustrious Ladies of THE ITALIAN ...
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... PHOTOGRAVURE BY HARRISON FISHER and border decorations in elaborate color by Margaret Armstrong Octavo , cloth , $ 2.00 ' HE dainty wit and inimitable cleverness of Mr. Ford's love stories , and the attractive form in which they have ...
... PHOTOGRAVURE BY HARRISON FISHER and border decorations in elaborate color by Margaret Armstrong Octavo , cloth , $ 2.00 ' HE dainty wit and inimitable cleverness of Mr. Ford's love stories , and the attractive form in which they have ...
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Page 205 - JENNY kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in! Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kissed me.
Page 98 - Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death. Prais'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for love, sweet love — but praise! praise! praise! For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.
Page 414 - Take heed of an unactive vain spirit ! Recreate yourself with Sir Walter Raleigh's History : it's a Body of History ; and will add much more to your understanding than fragments of Story.
Page 22 - An old looking-glass. Somebody finds out the secret of making all the images that have been reflected in it pass back again across its surface.
Page 36 - I conjure my friends on no account to make me the subject of any monument, memorial, or testimonial whatever. I rest my claims to the remembrance of my country upon my published works, and to the remembrance of my friends upon their experience of me in addition...
Page 209 - If I were a woman, I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me, and breaths that I defied not...
Page 253 - OLD CLOCKS AND WATCHES AND THEIR MAKERS. Being an Historical and Descriptive Account of the different Styles of Clocks and Watches of the Past in England and Abroad, to which is added a List of 10,000 Makers.
Page 21 - A person to be writing a tale, and to find that it shapes itself against his intentions ; that the characters act otherwise than he thought ; that unforeseen events occur ; and a catastrophe comes which he strives in vain to avert.
Page 504 - ... dealing with the Ohio River in the Revolution, the rise of the cities of Pittsburg, Cincinnati, and Louisville, the fighting Virginians, the old-time methods of navigation, etc. "A wonderfully comprehensive and entirely fascinating book.