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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.

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.

CHEMICALS and I TOILET PREPARATION INDUSTRY. by -0 G. HASKELL, Ph.C., Dr. of Chemistry Silver Medal of the Red Cross Consulting, Research and Scientific Chemist. Chemical Adviser and Expert in Continental Toilet Preparation Industry. Mfg. Chemist. THIRTY-FIVE YEARS OF CHEMICAL EXPERIENCE. It is a good Jubilee, especially in a time when all nations and their industry have not yet improved after the Great War. The great discoveries in the Chemic...

PREFACE THE tales here told are written, not to glorify war, but to nourish patriotism. They represent an effort to renew in popular memory tho groat traditions - of the Imperial race to which we belong. The history of the Empire of which are subject, -the story of the struggles and sufferings by which it has been built up-is thc best legacy which the past has bequeathed to us. But it is a treasure strangely neglected. The Statc makes primary ...

Originally published in 1794, this early work on the American Military is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains details on the ranks, discipline, order and regulations of the American military. This is a fascinating work and thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in military history. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishin...

The early Chinese believed that jade had an immortality of its own and was impervious to decay. For them there was no substance nobler, purer, more durable, or more pre-eminently suitable for the fashioning of religious emblems and the embodiment of dogma. This fascinating book is a must-read for anyone interested in this history of jade, and contains a comprehensive outlining and analysis of the use and veneration of this stone in ancient Chi...

PREFACE THE fifth is a melancholy century a century of ruin and of tottering to a fall. The Roman Empire collapses in the West beneath the weight of assailants more unconscious of their strength than malignant in intention, the victim of its own internal weakness rather than of the blows which it received. In the East it still holds its ground, because it has not been seriously attacked. Though not as yet hemmed in by SIavs on the one side and...

GERARDS HERBALL TABLE OF CONTENTS vii Page v TO THE RIGHT HONOKABLE HIS SINGULAR GOOD LORD MASTER, SIR WILLIAM CECIL Knight, Baron of Burghley, Master of the Court of Wards Liveries, Chancellor of the Universitie of Cambridge, Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, one of the Lords of her Majesties most honorable Privy Councell, and Lord high Treasurer of England. MONG the manifold creatures of God right A Honorable, and my singular goo...

A few clays before his death he sent me all his notes for the present book, with the request that I would prepare the book for publication and see it through the press. In some ways this was not difficult for me to do. For more than twenty years we had worked at the hymns together. Again and again I had been allowed to go at leisure through the successive drafts of his commentary, criticizing and suggesting, so that I was fairly acquainted wit...

The author of this little book, Madame Marguerite Maury, is a lady of much experience in the teaching of Radiesthesia and in the practice of the art, particularly in its medical application. For many years she was a fully trained nurse and later took up massage in which she obtained conspicuously successful results. Some years ago, she happened to make the acquaintance of M. Louis Turenne, an engineer and a radiesthetist of great repute. Follo...

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.

PREFACE Howehold Physics was written primarily for girls. The principles of physics in such a book are of course the same as in a text-book for boys or for mixed classes. But in household Physics these principles are applied in such a way as to interest girls, by using examples and refererices with which they are thorouglly famiIiar. The work was developed in the classroom. At first the author used an outline, filling in with applications and ...

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.

This vintage book is a pictorial manual explaining how to design and construct model buildings. A highly accessible and novice-friendly guide, "Pictorial House Modelling" is ideal for the novice, and is highly recommended for anyone with an interest in model building. Contents include: "House Modelling in General", "Materials, Tools and their Manipulation", "Preliminary Considerations", "Simple Type Described Step by Step", "Foundations and Ba...

This volume contains the second volume of "Jack London". It is a fascinating and detailed biography of Jack London, written by his second wife, Charmian London. It primarily contains details about his life from 1904 to 1916, and will be of particular value to those with an interest in the life and mind of this seminal author. The chapters include: "Japanese-Russian War, Spring 1904", "Return from Korea - Divorce", "Spray Cruise - Glen Ellen fr...

PREFACE IT has been the purpose to bring together in this book the chief principles of art as they may be applied to the furnishing of homes of people of moderate means. Many volumes have been written upon the subject of house furnishing which describe in great detail the expensive furniture, rugs, and tapestries which can be purchased only by those few individuals who are also financially able to employ professional interior decorators and wh...

PREFACE THE rapid development of Applied Chemistry in recent years has brought about a revolution in all branches of technology. This growth has been accelerated during the war, and the British Empire has now an opportunity of increasing its industrial output by the application of this knowledge to the raw materials available in the different parts of the world. The subject in this series of handbooks will be treated from the chemical rather t...

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.

THE coining Day flushed all the orient, And more and more the purple dawnlight soard To radiant glory, as , Apollo trod, With breeze-blown locks, the long Olynlpian slopes, His harp upon his shoulders, as he came, Dashing away from him the diamond dews With his swift feet, that seemd afire with haste And joy. But the darkness on his brows Speaks but of pain and, were he not a God, Those twin pearls in his eyes were unshed tears , and those pal...

In exchange for the swords of the Wild Geese, France sent us back priests, or at least the learning that turned Irish boys into priests. She sent too, in later and not less disastrous years, Hoche and Humbert and both nations have good memories, and until a very little while ago they shared a common hatred. The Irish mind, is, moreover, like the French, lucid, vigorous and positive, though less methodical, since it nevcr had the happiness to u...