Proveedor: Keeping Fit All the Way - Walter Camp The number of men who "keep fit" in this country has been surprisingly few, while the number of those who have made good resolutions about keeping fit is astoni-shingly large. Reflection upon this fact has convinced the writer that the...

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Proveedor: The Life of King Henry the Fifth - William Shakespeare CHORUS. O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...

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Proveedor: A Happy Boy - Bjornstjerne Bjornson "A Happy Boy" was written in 1859 and 1860. It is, in my estimation, Bjornson's best story of peasant life. In it the author has succeeded in drawing the characters with remarkable distinctness, while his profound psychological insight, his perfec......

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Proveedor: Great Astronomers - R. S. Ball It has been my object in these pages to present the life of each astronomer in such detail as to enable the reader to realise in some degree the man's character and surroundings; and I have endeavoured to indicate as...

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Proveedor: The Ascent of the Soul - Amory H. Bradford Subjects which a few years ago were regarded as the exclusive property of cultured thinkers, are now common themes of thought and conversation. Psychology has been popularized. Materialistic doctrines are at a discount even in this age of physical......

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Proveedor: Isobel - James Oliver Curwood At Point Fullerton, one thousand miles straight north of civilization, Sergeant William MacVeigh wrote with the stub end of a pencil between his fingers the last words of his semi-annual report to the Commissioner of the Royal Northwest Mounted Po......

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Proveedor: Castles in the Air - Baroness Emmuska Orczy My name is Ratichon - Hector Ratichon, at your service, and I make so bold as to say that not even my worst enemy would think of minimizing the value of my services to the State. For twenty years now...

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Proveedor: Making the Most of Life - J. R. Miller According to our Lord's teaching, we can make the most of our life by losing it. He says that losing the life for his sake is saving it. There is a lower self that must be trampled down and trampled...

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Proveedor: The Blithedale Romance - Nathaniel Hawthorne The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly man of rather shabby appearance met me in an obscure part of the street....

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Proveedor: The Ghost - Arnold Bennett I am eight years older now. It had never occurred to me that I am advancing in life and experience until, in setting myself to recall the various details of the affair, I suddenly remembered my timid confusion before the...

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Proveedor: The Door in the Wall And Other Stories - H.... One confidential evening, not three months ago, Lionel Wallace told methis story of the Door in the Wall. And at the time I thought that so far as he was concerned it was a true story. He told it me...

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Proveedor: The Valley of the Moon - Jack London You hear me, Saxon? Come on along. What if it is the Bricklayers? I'll have gentlemen friends there, and so'll you. The Al Vista band'll be along, an' you know it plays heavenly. An' you just love dancin'- Twenty feet...

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Proveedor: Contrary Mary - Temple Bailey The big house, standing on a high hill which overlooked the city, showed in the moonlight the grotesque outlines of a composite architecture. Originally it had been a square substantial edifice of Colonial simplicity. A later and less restrained t......

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Proveedor: Man of Many Minds - E. Everett Evans Cadet George Hanlon stood stiffly at attention. But as the long, long minutes dragged on and on, he found his hands, his spine and his forehead cold with the sweat of fear. He tried manfully to keep his eyes fixed...

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Proveedor: Pearl-Maiden - H. Rider Haggard It was but two hours after midnight, yet many were wakeful in Caesarea on the Syrian coast. Herod Agrippa, King of all Palestine-by grace of the Romans-now at the very apex of his power, celebrated a festival in honour of...

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