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Chapter 3 - The Telephone Proves Its Utility and Instability - Part 1

In The Daredevil of the Army - Experiences as a ''Buzzer'' and Despatch Rider

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Austin Patrick Corcoran

At just twenty-six years of age, the author – A P Corcoran had already led an adventurous life, having twice sailed around the world, experi…

Sir John Carder's Cigars

In The Burglars' Club: A Romance in Twelve Chronicles

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Henry Augustus Hering

'He's one of us,' the burglar explained. 'You see, we are men who have pretty well exhausted the pleasures of life. We've all been in the Ar…

How the Wheels of a Watch Go Round

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 102

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Eva March Tappan

"It is difficult for the human mind to take a comprehensive view of a subject." This is how librarian Arthur Bostwick begins his e…

Chapter I c: The Stimuli and Sources of Dreams Part 2

In The Interpretation of Dreams

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Sigmund Freud

A neat book on dream analysis by the founding father of psychoanalysis. This book is about the inner theater and the workings of the mind in…

Spain and Gibraltar by Dwight L. Elmendorf

In The Mentor 2

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Dwight L. Elmendorf

The Mentor Association was established to increase interest and knowledge among the public in the areas of art, literature, science, nature,…

The Threepenny Problem

In The Problem Club

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Barry Pain

The Problem Club is an infamous London Club which meets once a month to discuss a given problem. The problems have nothing to do with mathem…

Front Matter

In The Complete Confectioner

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Hannah Glasse

The original version of Hannah Glasse’s ‘The Complete Confectioner’ was first produced about 1760 but the publication referenced here is fro…

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