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Notes and Queries, Number 66, February 1, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
Various
An unusual network of curious minds across Britain exchanges insights on rare manuscripts, obscure local folklore, linguistic roots, and disputed biographical facts.
Observations on the Causes, Symptoms, and Nature of Scrofula or King's Evil, Scurvy, and Cancer: With Cases Illustrative of a Peculiar Mode of Treatment
John Kent
A nineteenth-century medical tract combines stern diagnoses with rustic remedies, promising relief from deep-seated bodily afflictions through botanical treatments and plain sense.
Oliver Cromwell
Samuel Rawson Gardiner
A titan of English history is weighed not by myth, but by the practical limits of power.
On the Method of Zadig: Essay #1 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition"
Thomas Henry Huxley
A quiet observation of footprints in the sand leads to a profound revelation about how human beings unlock the deepest secrets of nature's lost past.
Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VII (of 8)
John Henry Newman
The pursuit of holiness is a difficult, narrow path, requiring the constant denial of worldly ambitions and a steadfast devotion to the unseen realities of the Christian faith.
Penelope's Postscripts
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
An observant American artist frames her European travels through vivid vignettes of humor, quiet sentiment, and sharp domestic insight.
Poems of Pleasure
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Love is a fiery, cosmic force that transforms human souls, elevating the faithful to angelic heights while threatening to drag the careless into despair.
Post-Prandial Philosophy
Grant Allen
Civilisation relies entirely on the practical arts, yet society's rules are routinely set by men who merely hunt and fight.
Quill's Window
George Barr McCutcheon
A smooth-talking stranger comes to an Indiana farming community under false pretenses, manipulating its people and charming its wealthiest heiress while hiding a history of deceit that eventually catches up to him.
Reminiscences of Travel in Australia, America, and Egypt
Tangye, Richard, Sir
A Victorian industrialist finds his antidote to travel fatigue in the discipline of the pen, transforming long-distance steamship voyages and overland treks into a sharp-eyed chronicle of a changing nineteenth-century world.
Robert Browning: How to Know Him
William Lyon Phelps
A master key to one of England’s most challenging poets, this guide unlocks the human heart behind the complex verse. It turns difficult art into an accessible, lifelong friend.
Salem Chapel, v. 1/2
Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
An ambitious young Nonconformist minister arrives in a quiet provincial town, where the petty demands of his narrow congregation quickly collide with high-society romance and a devastating family scandal.
Satellite Communications Physics
Unknown
A handful of basic high school physics principles, when applied by persistent laboratory scientists, can reach into the darkness of space to orbit a working global communications network.
Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians: First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 17-56
John Wesley Powell
The struggle to explain the natural world is a universal human impulse, driving the evolution of thought from the mythic personifications of ancient cultures to the structured inquiries of modern science.
Sketches New and Old, Part 1
Mark Twain
Absurdist bureaucracy, small-town posturing, and everyday misadventures collide in a world where good intentions prompt immediate disaster and sheer villainy reaps full social prestige.
St. George and St. Michael
George MacDonald
A tragic civil conflict divides a quiet nation, forcing childhood sweethearts to choose between their clashing allegiances to throne and conscience.
Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land: With a Particular Enumeration of the Advantages Which These Colonies Offer for Emigration, and Their Superiority in Many Respects Over Those Possessed by the United States of America
W. C. (William Charles) Wentworth
A native son’s fiery blueprint for Australia’s future demands that Britain transform a brutal penal colony into a self-governing empire of free enterprise.
The American Missionary
Various
A Christian society’s monthly journal records its work funding Southern schools, West African missions, and Western outposts while making the case for racial equality and moral reform.
The Anzac Book
Unknown
Under the relentless sun and cold autumn gales of Gallipoli, soldiers huddled in hand-dug earthworks face down mortar fire, illness, and impossible terrain, fashioning art, humor, and dignity directly out of the ashes of campaign hardship.
The Art of Lecturing: Revised Edition
Arthur M. (Arthur Morrow) Lewis
A guide for the aspiring public speaker, this manual offers a practical, no-nonsense look at the craft of lecturing, from the mechanics of voice training to the strategic art of the debate.
The Art of Soul-Winning
J. W. (John Wilmot) Mahood
Uncertainty, awkwardness, and the fear of intrusive meddling often paralyze believers who wish to share their faith directly with others.
The Bay State Monthly
Various
A tapestry of New England life unfolds through biographical portraits, colonial land disputes, Revolutionary histories, and the vibrant civic institutions of a rising nineteenth-century society.
The boys' book of buccaneers
A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) Verrill
A framed history of Caribbean sea-robbers unveils the grim realities behind famous piratical legends, contrasting popular romantic myths with historical record.
The Canadian: Photoplay title of The Land of Promise
W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
A proud, penniless Englishwoman marries a rough Manitoba farmer to escape domestic drudgery, only to find that survival on the harsh Canadian prairie forces a complete reckoning with her pride, her independence, and her heart.
The Chapter Ends
Poul Anderson
A lone survivor refuses to abandon a dying cradle of humanity when the galaxy leaves Earth behind.
The Comforts of Home
Ralph Bergengren
Domestic absurdities become quiet comedy when a writer turns his eye upon cellar stairs, stubborn bureaus, and the unfeeling monster lurking in the furnace room.
The finding of Jasper Holt
Grace Livingston Hill
Stranded on the Western plains after a train derailment, a minister's daughter must rely on a mysterious local outcast to lead her to safety.
The Gate of Remembrance: The Story of the Psychological Experiment which Resulted in the Discovery of the Edgar Chapel at Glastonbury
Frederick Bligh Bond
A psychological experiment in archaeology, conducted through automatic writing, leads to the discovery of a lost chapel at Glastonbury Abbey.
The hand of Providence
J. H. (Joseph Harvey) Ward
God directs the entire tapestry of human history, using even fallible empires, fallen churches, and heroic revolutionaries as instruments to prepare the earth for the eventual restoration of His true divine kingdom.
The hindered hand
Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs
A young African American woman faces a monstrous white loan shark, choosing between lifetime domestic servitude and sending her destitute mother to prison.
The Ladies' Knitting and Netting Book
Miss Watts
Precise instructions and exact counting yield a seamless, hands-on workshop in early Victorian needlecraft.
The Line of Love
James Branch Cabell
A line of mortal lovers yields to the illusion of romance, capturing brief, skyey heights of adoration before settling into the sensible, compromising world.
The Man with the Double Heart
Muriel Hine
A young man's diagnosis of a rare cardiac anomaly leaves him convinced he possesses two distinct emotional natures, driving him into romantic entanglements until life forces him to abandon medical myth for genuine devotion.
The Mystery of M. Felix
B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon
A dead man vanishes from a locked room in London, leaving behind a web of lies, a ruined woman, and a dark secret spanning eighteen years.
The Observations of Henry: Illustrated
Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
A sharp, observant London waiter recounts the quiet dramas, scandalous hoaxes, and unexpected romantic reconciliations he witnessed across decades of service.
The Radio Detectives Under the Sea
A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) Verrill
Two young radio enthusiasts are swept into a dangerous Caribbean chase involving hidden submarines, high-tech gadgetry, and ruthless international fugitives.
The Readjustment
Will Irwin
The Readjustment is a quiet, observant study of social migration and the friction between youthful ambition and internal character. It captures the transition of a young man and two women as they navigate their places in early twentieth-century San Francisco.
The River's Children: An Idyl of the Mississippi
Ruth McEnery Stuart
The Mississippi River acts as a silent, powerful guardian over the lives of those who dwell along its banks, binding together a fractured society through the dual forces of danger and grace.
The Rover Boys on a Tour
Edward Stratemeyer
Young collegiate brothers turn a winter debt crisis and high-society road trips into an energetic, cross-country pursuit of an elusive thief.
The Rover's Secret: A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba
Harry Collingwood
Steeped in the salt spray and high-stakes drama of the nineteenth-century Royal Navy, this forgotten sea tale delivers a classic, sweeping adventure across the treacherous pirate-infested waters of the Caribbean.
The Sailor
J. C. (John Collis) Snaith
A boy escapes a childhood of unthinkable violence by running away to sea, only to find that every world he enters requires a different kind of survival.
The Spook Ballads
William Theodore Parkes
Strange ghosts, rogue suitors, and scheming scoundrels cross paths in a world where spectral encounters are met with caustic wit, satirical schemes, and lighthearted, rhyming absurdity.
The Subterranean Brotherhood
Julian Hawthorne
A gentlemanly writer steps into the shadows of a federal prison and uncovers an invisible empire of routine cruelty, broken men, and silent endurance.
The Surgery of the Skull and Brain
Louis Bathe Rawling
Precision engineering meets human frailty at the edge of the surgical blade. Early neurosurgery demanded rigorous anatomical knowledge, calm hands, and a willingness to confront massive diagnostic uncertainty.
The Tale of Timber Town
Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus) Grace
The rugged landscape of a frontier gold-mining town serves as the backdrop for a sprawling narrative of fortune, deception, and the complex entanglements of the human heart. It is a story where the allure of sudden wealth tests the moral boundaries of every inhabitant.
The Ties That Bind
Walter M. Miller
A long-isolated fleet of human conquerors returns to a peaceful Earth, bringing the dormant horrors of forgotten history with them.
The Treasure-Train
Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
A high-society heiress overhears a conspiratorial whisper behind a palm tree in a hotel tearoom, sparking a chain of encounters with modern crime.
The United States Since the Civil War
Charles Ramsdell Lingley
A nation emerging from the Civil War attempts to rebuild its democracy while transforming into a corporate power, navigating class conflicts, party machinery, and world war.