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THE FALSE DAUPHINS IN FRANCE: HÉBERT

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)

A Living God

In Gleanings in Buddha Fields

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Lafcadio Hearn


Lafcadio Hearn was one of the first Westerners to live in Japan during the early Meiji era, and a prolific writer. Although chiefly known fo…

Whether Genius is Conscious of its Powers

In The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

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William Hazlitt


The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things is a posthumous collection of essays by William Hazlitt, organized by his grandson, Wi…

Molière

In Among the Great Masters of the Drama

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Walter Rowlands


In "Among the great masters of the drama; scenes in the lives of famous actors; thirty-two reproductions of famous pictures with text&q…

The Aurora Borealis and Telegraph Cables

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 097

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Scientific American


"One does not care to walk over a rug or carpet that displays a scene in perspective, neither does one wish to gaze into a landscape wr…

Photographing Snowflakes

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 056

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Wilson Alwyn Bentley


Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the impact of World War I on human …

Srinivasa Ramanujan, His Early Life

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 067

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E. H. Neville


Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. Two U.S. Presidents are remembered in "A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madi…

The California Woodpecker

In Birds, Vol. I, No 4, April 1897

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Various


Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems…

The Mandarin Duck

In Birds, Vol. I, No 1, January 1897

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Various


Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems…

B. The Longevity of Man. 19. Duration of Life in past Time

In On Comparative Longevity in Man and the Lower Animals

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E. Ray Lankester


A prize was recently offered in the University of Oxford for an Essay on Longevity, and was awarded to the little treatise now published. In…

Dialogue between the Earth and the Moon

In Essays and Dialogues

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Giacomo Leopardi


"We would no more choose to feed the minds of our countrymen and women with the despairing utterances of the pessimist poet, than we wo…

Chapter III — MEDIAEVAL MEDICINE, Arabian Medicine

In The Evolution of Modern Medicine

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Sir William Osler and Sir William Osler


This is the manuscript of Sir William Osler's lectures on the "Evolution of Modern Medicine," delivered at Yale University in 1913…

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