How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
This preface, though placed at the beginning, as a preface must be, should be read at the end of the book. I have received a large amount of correspon...
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ENGLISH HISTORY
Brightly written; there is not a dull or unnecessary line from beginning to end. The amount of information is surprising, and it is sure to be popular...
The Moon and Sixpence
I confess that when first I made acquaintance with Charles Strickland I never for a moment discerned that there was in him anything out of the ordinar...
The Thousand and One Nights
It has been related to me, O happy King, said Shahrazád, that there was a certain merchant who had great wealth, and traded extensively with surroundi...
Napoleon Bonaparte
In introducing the present edition of M. de Bourrienne's Memoirs to the public we are bound, as Editors, to say a few Words on the subject. Agreei...
WOODWORK JOINTS
To be successful in woodwork construction the possession of two secrets is essential—to know the right joint to use, and to know how to make that join...
THE TEN BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE
During the last years of his life, Professor Morgan had devoted much time and energy to the preparation of a translation of Vitruvius, which he propos...
ON WAR
THE Germans interpret their new national colours—black, red, and white—by the saying, "Durch Nacht und Blut zur licht." ("Through night and blood to l...
KNOTS SPLICES and ROPE WORK
The history of ropes and knots is so dim and ancient that really little is known of their origin. That earliest man used cordage of some kind and by h...
STORIES OF THE OLD WORLD.
THE son of Cretheus, Æson, bequeathed the kingdom of Thessaly to his brother Pelias, to keep for Jason, his son, whom he had sent to be taught by Chir...