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The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones

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John Mastin


This is a good basic introduction to gemstones and their analysis. Admittedly a lot of the scientific tests have been superseded, but the ba…

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour

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Robert Smith Surtees


Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour is a delightful comic satire of the fox-hunting fraternity of the mid 19th Century. Surtees takes great pleasure …

Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel

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Margaret Herschel


For many people, the name Caroline Herschel will be unfamiliar, but she was one of the most significant women on the English scientific scen…

Stein-Brucker Meets Berram Greene - and Death

In Cupid in Africa

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Percival Christopher Wren


Bertram Greene, brilliant student, aesthete, intellectual and shy, decides to make his military father proud of him at last and joins the co…

Gardiner Greene Hubbard

In The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 - 12. December 1897

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National Geographic Society


The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol VIII, the December Number.It includes the following articles:A Special Announc…

Pomes Penyeach

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James Joyce


James Joyce published three volumes of poetry during his lifetime including Pomes Penyeach. This simple booklet was published in 1927 in Par…

The Man in the Green Hat

In The Sleuth of St. James Square

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Melville Davisson Post


Slightly connected detective stories which are developed in a rather unusual way. The solutions are logical and less miraculous than those o…

A Lincoln Conscript

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Homer Greene


A heartwarming novel which visits the last two years of the American Civil War. The center of the story is the conflict of emotions and deed…

III: ''Over the Hills and Hollows Green''

In A Spring Harvest

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Geoffrey Bache Smith


G.B. Smith is best known for his close friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien, who would go on to write the fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings. He w…

17 - Chapter 5 - The Depot Journey, Part 4

In The Worst Journey in the World, Vol 1

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Apsley Cherry-Garrard


The Worst Journey in the World is a memoir of the 1910–1913 British Antarctic Expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott. It was written and publ…

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