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Austria-Hungary Part III: From Maria Theresa to the downfall of Napoleon: Histo…

In The World’s Story Volume VI: Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Balkan States and Tur…

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Eva March Tappan


This is the sixth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Ta…

The Wives of Leo the Philosopher

In The Empresses of Constantinople

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Joseph Martin McCabe and Joseph Martin Mccabe


In concluding an earlier volume on the mistresses of the western Roman Empire I observed that, as the gallery of fair and frail ladies close…

The Scope and Value of Arctic Explorations

In The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 01. January 1896

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National Geographic Society and Adolphus W. Greely


The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the January Number. It includes the Introductory by the editor, John Hyde, and the…

Dedication & Prefaces

In Our Cats and All About Them

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Harrison Weir


The Englishman Harrison Weir organized the first cat show in England in 1871. In 1887 he founded the National Cat Club and was its first Pre…

Atlantis

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 095

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Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Ed.


"A legendary island in the Atlantic Ocean, first mentioned by Plato", is how the 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica descr…

Die Sieben in Rostock

In LibriVox 7th Anniversary Collection

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Ludwig Bechstein


To celebrate the 7 years of LibriVox , readers from all around the world have recorded 77 works they have selected, all of which have 7 in …

Of Boiling

In The Theory and Practice of Brewing

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Michael Combrune


This is an elaborate treatise on how to brew beer. That art is as noble today as it was in 1761, when this book was first published, and Mr.…

A Fly-Catching Plant

In Birds and All Nature, Vol. VI, No 1, June 1899

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Various


"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and br…

Mozart The Boy of Salzburg: 1756-1791

In Historic Boyhoods

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Rupert S. Holland


Most boys grow up to be honest, maybe even good, men, but do not stand out from the crowd. Occasionally, along comes a boy who is destined, …

Introduction

In The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 7: Anthropology & Medicine

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Francis Rolt-Wheeler


Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The seventh volume is on Anthropology written by the editor himself and on Medi…

Literary Composition

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 065

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H. P. Lovecraft


Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. A review of William Carlos Williams' "Kora in Hell" by Robert McAlmon is one …

THE FALSE HEREDITARY PRINCE OF BADEN

In Claimants to Royalty

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John H. Ingram and John Henry Ingram


A compilation of chronicles of the numerous impostors and impostures of kings, queens, and rulers. (Summary by Carmen H)

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