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A Year with the Birds

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W. Warde Fowler


William Warde Fowler was a true polymath; although his early studies focused on natural history, he became a well-known authority on the his…

The Astral Plane: Its Inhabitants, Scenery, and Phenomena

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C. W. Leadbeater


Few words are needed in sending this little book out into the world. It is the fifth of a series of Manuals designed to meet the public dema…

William Blake

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G. K. Chesterton


From the author’s introduction: "Blake’s life of Blake … would have been full of symbolic wild beasts and naked women, of monstrous cl…

Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot

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Wilkie Collins


Two travellers, the writer of this book, and an artist friend who is the companion of his ramble, explored Cornwall together, on foot in the…

Practical Mysticism (Version 2)

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Evelyn Underhill


I write only for the larger class which, repelled by the formidable appearance of more elaborate works on the subject, would yet like to kno…

Orthodoxy (Version 3)

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G. K. Chesterton


… [In] its pages I have attempted in a vague and personal way, in a set of mental pictures rather than in a series of deductions, to state t…

Bamboo and the Turtle

In A Chinese Wonder Book

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Norman Hinsdale Pitman


The Chinese Wonder Book is a compilation of Chinese folk tales for children full of moral values and insightful stories of China's culture a…

Bell's Telephonic Researches

In Little Masterpieces of Science - Invention and Discovery

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George Iles


A collection of essays on various inventions and scientific discoveries, this volume of Little Masterpieces of Science from 1902 includes to…

The Hive

In Bees, Shown to the Children

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Ellison Hawks


A very good introduction to the bee, including its physical and behavioral characteristics. Most appropriate for children. - Summary by Kevi…

My Real Estate

In A Rambler's Lease

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Bradford Torrey


The writer of this little book has found so much pleasure in other men's woods and fields that he has come to look upon himself as in some s…

CHAPTER XIII.— Other Branches of the Work

In Invisible Helpers

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C. W. Leadbeater


Even in this incredulous age, and amidst the full whirl of our nineteenth-century civilization, in spite of the dogmatism of our science and…

BERLIN—6 P.M. TO 7 P.M.

In Around the clock in Europe: A travel sequence

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Charles Fish Howell


In this travelog, the author takes us on a tour of European cities, giving snapshots at given times of the day from midday til midnight.

George William Frederick Hegel, by William T. Harris

In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 18

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William T. Harris


The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…