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First published in 1914.

Part of the series Celebrated Crimes in Eight Volumes.

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important...

Edited by His Son The Earl of Beaconsfield.

First published in 1880.

If you had stood there in the edge of the bleak spruce forest with the wind moaning dismally through the twisting trees-midnight of deep December-the Transcontinental would have looked like a thing of fire, dull fire glowing with a smouldering warmth but of strange ghostliness and out of place.' (Excerpt from Chapter 1)

A Story of Life and Adventure in the Hudson Bay Wilds. First published in 1912

Author of Songs of a Sick Tum Tum.

The blow was with the flat of the hand and while it smarted it did not hurt much to speak of but it was sufficient to start impulsive Tom Dare into action and quick as a flash out shot his fist. It caught Lem Hicks between the eyes and knocked him down flat on his back.

Short excerpt: Man will not follow where a rule is shown But loves to take a method of his own:

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See! round the room, on every beam and balk, Are mingled scrolls of hieroglyphic chalk, Yet nothing heeded-- would one stroke suffice To blot out all, here honour is too nice, -- "Let knavish landsmen think such dirty things, We're British tars, and British tars are kings.

To the children of Australia in the hope of enlisting their sympathies for the many beautiful, amiable, and frolicsome creatures of their fair land, whose extinction, through ruthless destruction, is being surely accomplished

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A Story of Newport. First published in 1911.

In one of those very pretty suburban villas which are to be seen in the neighbourhood of all our large towns, Aunt Mary lived, at the time when my tale commences. Indeed she had lived there the greater part of her life, for her father, Mr. Livesay, who had been a highly respected merchant in London for a great many years, had, unlike the generality of this prosperous class, retired from business as soon as he had secured a moderate competency ...

Heedless of the hurt, moved only by the loveliness of the maiden, he hastened to pour over her locks the healing joy that he ever kept by him, undoing all his work. Back to her dream the princess went, unshadowed by any thought of love. But Cupid, not so light of heart, returned to the heavens, saying not a word of what had passed.

Fondly she noted the beauty of her charge, the heavy waving hair gleaming in the fading light a bronze-like amber, the white forehead, the arched brow, the glow of health upon lip and cheek, the slender neck, the slope of shoulders, and the outline of a perfect form.

Edited by George Willis Cook.