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Dixie - Or, Southern Scenes and Sketches is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks...

On Canada's Frontier - Sketches of History, Sport, And Adventure is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as a...

bTitle:/b Our Great West: a study of the present conditions and future possibilities of the new commonwealths and capitals of the United States.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, pa...

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Excerpt from On Canada's Frontier: Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure, and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-Traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada IF all those into whose hands this book may fall were as well in formed upon the Dominion of Canada as are the people of the United States, there would not be needed a word of explanation of the title of this volume. Yet to those who might otherwise infer that what is here related ap...

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Excerpt from The MillionairessFour Hundred, at home in the Carlton Club in London, asked to put up at Government House whenever they stop in their travels, and on the friendliest terms with the Whistlers, Sardous, Roseberys, Ibsens, Rostands, Lenbachs, Kip lings, and men of cultivation and renown every where. Beekman was. Yet he and Chester were great friends, touching each other at a dozen sym pathetic po-ints, and frank as boys with one an o...

Excerpt from A Prince of Georgia and Other Tales Dreams, did I call her amusements? Then both women were dreamers, because Miss Ethel was a poor girl ¿oated above the trials of her posi tion by her fond hopes, for she knew that her aunt liked her better than any relative she had, and she aspired to become her heir. And now she was about to cross Europe and penetrate Asia - she who until a month before had never been twenty miles from Cincinna...

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Excerpt from Our Great West: A Study of the Present Conditions and Future Possibilities of the New Commonwealths and Capitals if the United States IF the territory described in the following pages was part of any other region than our W'est, it might be said of this book that it is a description of certain new States at the close of the nineteenth century. That is what it was intended that it should be, but the inpouring of population, and th...

Excerpt from Dixie: Or Southern Scenes and Sketches The chapters which make up this volume first appeared in harper's magazine and harper's weekly as a series of papers upon the development of what may well be called Our New South and its resources. The descriptions of scenery and present conditions are my own, but the state ments which are of the most value and importance to a student of the material resources of the country are such as were...

Excerpt from An American With Lord Roberts These records of the South African war, in continuation of my former volume, "Towards Pretoria, " are practically fresh, and are mainly on subjects of wide interest. They include material which has never been published anywhere, as well as much that has not before been presented to the American public. Even those chapters which originally appeared in the "Daily Mail" as letters from the front have, ...

Excerpt from Along the Bowstring, or South Shore of Lake Superior They traveled and they traveled And the next thing they did spy Was the moon behind a hill-top, And that they left behind - look a' thar! Now, the one he said it was the moon But the other he said 'nay, ' So they 'lowed it was a green cheese With the rind all cut away - look a' thar! - College Song. One of the most original of my acquaintances said to me once that he had spe...

Excerpt from People We Pass: Stories of Life Among the Masses of New York City The first seven of these short stories were published in Harper's Magazine. The one called "Low Dutch and High" is here put forth for the first time. While the stories were being published in the Magazine, one critic quite honestly declared that he - or she - questioned the extent of the author's familiarity with the life he was treating. On the other hand, a talen...