A further instalment of a budget of breezy little narratives—exciting, humorous, and curious—hailing from all parts of the world. This month's collection deals with a thrilling fight between a jaguar and a boa-constrictor, the tragic fate of a Canadian cowboy, and a night adventure in Japan.

Recognizing the importance of establishing for history an authentic text of the Trial of major German war criminals, the International Military Tribunal directed the publication of the Record of the Trial. The proceedings are published in English, French, Russian, and German, the four languages used throughout the hearings. The documents admitted in evidence are printed only in their original language. The first volume contains basic, official, pre-trial documents together with the Tribuna...

KITTY'S BASKET RIDE. TIME. THANKSGIVING AT GRANDPA'S. A QUEER PLACE FOR A BIRD'S HOME. LITTLE FIDGET. THE GOOD LITTLE MILKMAN. SIX NICE DUCKS ROBBIE'S DRUM. LITTLE MISS SONNET. THE PIPPIN-TREE. MOUSIE'S MATCH. DENNY O'TOOLE. AFRAID OF SPIDERS. WHAT BECAME OF THE SUGAR-PLUM? GOOD WORK FOR LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS. THE WREN'S NEST. BE GOOD, PAPA. THE SNOW FAMILY. CROSSING THE BROOK. GRANDFATHER'S SPECTACLES. FINDING BABY'S DIMPLES. PLAYING HORSE. NINE LITTLE PIGS. CONFIDENTIAL A ROSE THAT WILL ...

It is to be supposed that children do not read Prefaces; these are Bluebeard's rooms, which they are not curious to unlock. A few words may therefore be said about the Romances contained in this book. In the editor's opinion, romances are only fairy tales grown up. The whole mass of the plot and incident of romance was invented by nobody knows who, nobody knows when, nobody knows where. Almost every people has the Cinderella story, with all sorts of variations: a boy hero in place of a gir...

The experiences of EXPERIENCES of Walter Besant, Robert Michael Ballantyne, James Payn, Israel Zangwill, William Clark Russell, Morley Roberts, Grant Allen, David Christie Murray, Hall Caine, Marie Corelli, George R. Sims, Jerome K. Jerome, Rudyard Kipling, John Strange Winter, A. Conan Doyle, Bret Harte, M. E. Braddon, 'Q.', F. W. Robinson, Robert Buchanan, H. Rider Haggard, Robert Louis Stevenson

“The volume is unique in that it relates to a period about which American readers have known little.”—Boston Transcript.“With numerous illustrations from photographs”—A. C. McClurg & Co., Publishers.In response to repeated requests, the compiler now presents in book form the series of legends that have been made a feature of "The Hawaiian Annual" for a number of years past. The series has been enriched by the ...

ONE of the best things to be said of the stories in this volume is that, although they are not biographical, they are about real persons who actually lived and performed their parts in the great drama of the world's history. Some of these persons were more famous than others, yet all have left enduring "footprints on the sands of time" and their names will not cease to be remembered.In each of the stories there is a basis of truth and an ethical lesson which cannot fail to have a w...

JOHN RUSKIN has laid down some broad and simple rules which are especially applicable to DESIGN IN JEWELLERY AND FANS. He says, "Never encourage the manufacture of any article not absolutely necessary, in the production of which invention has no share." And, again, "Never encourage imitation, or copying of any kind, except for the sake of preserving records of great works." It is in the thorough belief of the soundness or these principles that the Editor has selected a number of representa...

Punch Among the Planets is presented here as a high quality classic work by Various written in the English language. Throughout the book has old style black and white illustrations which brings the story to life!Punch or The London Charivari, was an old famous illustrated magazine of humour, which was founded by journalists Henry Mayhew, Joseph Stirling Coyne, and Mark Lemon in 1841. Punch Among the Planets was taken from the Christmas edition of 1890 magazine."The Old Year...

From the Editior: This volume does not aim to contain all ?the best American humorous short stories?; there are many other stories equally as good, I suppose, in much the same vein, scattered through the range of American literature. I have tried to keep a certain unity of aim and impression in selecting these stories. In the first place I determined that the pieces of brief fiction which I included must first of all be not merely good stories, but good short stories. I put myself in the p...

"Many librarians have felt the need and expressed the desire for a select collection of children's Christmas stories in one volume. This books claims to be just that and nothing more. Each of the stories has already won the approval of thousands of children, and each is fraught with the true Christmas spirit." By the editor of this collection of stories, Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner.The Children's Book of Christmas Stories - The Original Classic Edition written by Various A...

Women of History is a further development of the idea which suggested the companion volume, Men of History, viz.: "To exhibit views of the world's great men and women, as set forth in the best words of the best authors—to convey, as it were, at once impressions of History and Literature, and lessons in Biography and Style." In the present case, it has not been considered necessary to attempt a classification of the subjects in the manner followed in the preceding volume, from the fact that...