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bTitle:/b Who is the Man? A tale of the Scottish Border ... Third thousand.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, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include ar...

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Excerpt from Our Financial Upheavals, Their Cause and CureIt is not to be denied that the railroad pioneer who went into the wilderness and risked his capital and business reputation in its commercial development played an important part in the building up of the country, and that in proportion to his risks he was entitled to a larger profit than the man who stayed at home and took no risk whatever. Not only had the pioneer his uses - he was e...

Excerpt from My Friend Pasquale, and Other StoriesI was wending my way homeward from Hamp stead Heath one Saturday afternoon in the early summer time, when I found myself, on recovering from a lengthened reverie, midway on the Old North Road at a point now occupied by the Mid land Railway Terminus at Saint Pancras.My day's work at the bank was finished and with it all the duties of the week, and I felt that sense of relief and buoyancy which, ...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.