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The Chemical Constituents of the Active Principle of the Ava Root

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Alice A. Ball


The Chemical Constituents of Piper Methysticum or The Chemical Constituents of the Active Principle of The Ava Root is the text of a Master’…

The Kingdom of the Heavens

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Charles Nordmann


Thought is the most swift and subtle of vehicles. Let us therefore use that craft to reach a trysting-place in the skies. The light which r…

Lecture 05 - The Two Great Sculptors - Water and Ice

In The Fairyland of Science

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Arabella Buckley and Arabella B. Buckley


"I have promised to introduce you today to the fairy-land of science, -- a somewhat bold promise, seeing that most of you probably look…

Dinners and Dishes

In Reviews

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Oscar Wilde, ed. Robert Ross and Oscar Wilde


Wilde’s literary reputation has survived so much that I think it proof against any exhumation of articles which he or his admirers would hav…

THE UTILITY OF STOVEPIPES

In The Three Musketeers

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Alexandre Dumas


The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d…

Chapter 34

In Howards End (version 2)

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Edward Morgan Forster and E. M. Forster


The Schlegels frequently encounter the Wilcoxes. The youngest, Helen, is rejected by the younger Wilcox brother, Paul. The eldest, Margaret,…

33 - In the Sun--A Harbinger

In Far from the Madding Crowd

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Thomas Hardy


Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and offers in ample measure the details of English rural life that Hardy so…

Part 1

In The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

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Thomas H. Huxley and Thomas Henry Huxley


Thomas H. Huxley, an English biologist and essayist, was an advocate of the theory of evolution and a self-proclaimed agnostic. A talented w…

Bold Speculations on Murder

In Can You Forgive Her?

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Anthony Trollope


“Can You Forgive Her?” is the first in a series of six Trollope novels dealing broadly with 19th Century English political scene. It introdu…

Chapter III

In Dead Men's Money

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J. S. Fletcher


This classic mystery produces its first dead body during a clandestine midnight meeting. Already nothing is what it seems... (Summary by Ges…

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