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By the time the Velveteen Rabbit is dirty, worn out, and about to be burned, he's almost given up hope of ever finding the magic called Real.

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In this book a range of artists share their very diverse approaches to painting in watercolour, to give the reader an idea of how adaptable and enjoyable this medium really is.

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The Place of the Lion by Charles Williams Platonic archetypes begin to appear around an English country town, wreaking havoc and drawing to the surface the spiritual strengths and flaws of individual characters. If it's not stopped, the entire world will be destroyed by their terrifying power. What happens when the cosmic Forms start pulling our world into theirs? One of the weirdest - and most provocative - novels ever written.

Romantic theology is the working out of ways in which an ordinary relationship between two people can become one that is extraordinary, one that grants us glimpses, visions of perfection. In experiencing romantic love, we experience God: He has been in the experience from the beginning, and the more we learn about it, the more we learn also about Him. -adapted from the Introduction and the Sequel Charles Williams was one of the finest-not to m...

A remarkable object has fallen into the hands of the abominable scientist Sir Giles Tumulty. Once positioned at the center of the crown of King Solomon, it is a stone of astonishing and terrifying power, capable of good and evil alike. Anyone who touches it can move through time and space, perform miracles, and heal or kill. The stone can replicate itself, and does so during the course of Sir Giles's inhuman experiments, subsequently falling i...

Excerpt from The American Student and the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford University: A Manual of Information What appears in the following pages was gathered, for the most part, during a seven weeks' visit at Oxford, England, in the summer of 1903 for the purpose of finding out all I could in that time about the famous University located there. In my search for information I was treated with the utmost courtesy by the many persons - professors...

Excerpt from The Climate of the South of France: As Suited to Invalids, With Notices of Mediterranean and Other Winter Stations The object of the first edition of this book was to give a brief and impartial survey of the Climate of the South of France, and of its varieties best suited to pulmonary invalids, and the fact that a second edition is now called for, shows that such an account, when written in a spirit free from local interest or bi...

Excerpt from The Prophetic Ministry for Today I feel that there is due to the readers of these lectures, if there be any, a word of explanation already given to the hearers of them, as to the conditions under which they were written. The good ladies of a certain church society in my diocese publish annually a calendar of the church year. On the calendar is a motto or text, intended to inculcate the strict economy of time. But instead of bein...

Excerpt from The Tariff Laws of States, of the United States: Explanatory Notes, Citations From Decisions of the Courts and the Treasury DepartmentIt is authoritatively stated that only the extreme pressure of time incident to a night-session of the Tariff Conference Committee, almost at the close of the last session of Con gress, prevented the bill, proposed by the Tariff Commission, for the establishment of a Customs Court, from becoming a l...

Excerpt from The Cliosophic Society Princeton University a Study of Its History in Commemoration, of Its Sesquicentennial Anniversary The committee constituted, early in the year 1915, by the Cliosophic Society to prepare for the proper celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society, decided that the principal feature of the commemoration should be the publication of a history of the Society. A special ...

All Hallows' Eve is the story of a man and woman whose love was so great it could bridge the gap of death, of evil so terrible as to be unmentionable, of a vision so beautiful it must be true. Opens with a discussion between the ghosts of two dead women wandering about London. Ultimately explores the meaning of human suffering and empathy by dissolving the barrier between the living and the dead through both black magic and divine love. A youn...

Excerpt from The Armenian Campaign I can safely assert that the Turkish authorities in this part of the Ottoman dominions are most tolerant towards their Christian and Jewish subjects, and I have not heard of one single case of ill-treatment or collision. In fact, as far as I can judge, the Mahommedans are far more for bearing towards the Christians than the latter are towards the Mussulm'an. The Christians have the same rights and privileges...

Excerpt from The Life Administration of the Right Hon. Spencer Perceval: Including a Copious Narrative, of Every Event of Importance, Foreign and Domestic, From His Entrance Into Public Life, to the Present Time, A Detail of His Assassination, &C, , &C, , &C, , With the Probable Consequences of the Sudden Overthrow of the Remains Of Though in this account of Mr. Perceval's administration of public affairs it has been the chief object of the c...

Excerpt from On Heat in Its Relations to Water and Steam: Embracing New Views of Vaporization, Condensation, & Explosions Surface bubbling, Incipient ebullition, "General mass" of a liquid, True cause and source of ebullition, Experiments on ebullition, The direct cause of bumping and explosions, Effect of the presence of vapor in excess of saturation, Experiments with vapor in excess of saturation, Vapor in water, What ebullition results fro...

Excerpt from The Will of Thomas Browne: Mercer, Cheapside, London, Father of Sir Thomas Browne of Norwich, Remarks on the Early Life of Sir Thomas Browne, Together With the Oration Delivered by Him at the Inauguration of Pembroke College, Oxford, 1624, Also the Will of Sir Thomas Browne, 1679 First, and principally, I do commit my soul unto God hoping to be saved by the merit and bitter death and passion of my Lord and Saviour Christ Jesus, a...

Excerpt from Industrial Report on Lead, Zinc and Iron: Together With Notes on Shannon County and Its Copper Deposits Notes on the supposed gold deposits of Northern Missouri have also been given in the appendix. I must acknowledge, in this connection, the very efficient assist ance rendered in the laboratory by Mr. A. W. Hare. His zeal and industry have enabled me to make a much fuller presentation of the chemical illustrations of the work t...

Excerpt from The Vegetable World There is no study which has been clothed with so much fictitious tediousness, and none which has been so much neglected, as that of Botany, or an inquiry into the Vegetable World. This has not only been tho case with children and youth, but those of more advanced years have neglected to take an interest in one of the most fruitful and grateful sources of instruction, - a source which is filled with so much won...

Excerpt from The Return of the Prodigal: A MonodramaThe fatted calf he's killed and called you in That you might share in his compassionate joy That I, unworthy, whom he long had mourned As lost forever to him, was returned!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the...