The author was the first, in his earlier books, to take a stand forjustice to be done to Lord Selkirk as a Colonizer, and he has had thepleasure of seeing the current of all reliable history turned in LordSelkirk's favor.См. далее...

Of the articles contained in this volume, those by Mr. Gladstone, Mr.E.L. Godkin on "A Lawyer's Objections to Home Rule," and Mr. BarryO'Brien appear for the first time. The others are reprinted from the_Contemporary Review_, the _Nineteenth Century_, and the _New Princeton...См. далее...

No one can have reflected on the history of genius without beingimpressed with a melancholy feeling at the obscurity in which the livesof the poets of our country are, with few exceptions, involved.См. далее...

TO WHICH IS APPENDED A FAC SIMILE REPRINT OF DR. GEORGE BUCHANAN'S ORATION ON THE MORAL AND POLITICAL EVIL OF SLAVERY, DELIVERED AT A PUBLIC MEETING OF THE MARYLAND SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY, BALTIMORE, JULY 4, 1791...См. далее...

Psychometry: The Divine Science A Modern Miracle-Worker Human Longevity Justice to the Indians MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE--Anatomy of the Brain; Mesmeric Cures; Medical Despotism; The Dangerous Classes; Arbitration; Criticism...См. далее...

Creation's Mysteries A True Poet--The Poetry of Peace and the Practice of War The Volapьk Language Progress of the Marvellous Glances Round the World MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE--Photography Perfected; The Cannon King;...См. далее...

The World's Neglected or Forgotten Leaders and Pioneers Social Conditions--Expenses at Harvard; European Wages; India as a Wheat Producer; Increase of Insanity; Temperance; Flamboyant Animalism Transcendental Hash...См. далее...

Published from 1849 to 1856 at Cincinnati, is to be re-established atBoston in February, 1887. When published formerly it was in itscharacter and merits entirely unique, and, notwithstanding theprogress of thirty-five years, its position is still unique, and in...См. далее...

The Pursuit of Truth Occultism defined Psychic Phenomena The Ancient Iberians The Star Dust of the Universe MISCELLANEOUS--Bright Literature; The Two Worlds; Foote's Health Monthly; Psychic Theories; Twentieth Century Science, Dawning at...См. далее...

The Most Marvellous Triumph of Educational Science The Grand Symposium of the Wise Men The Burning Question in Education MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE--Bigotry and Liberality; Religious News; Abolishing Slavery; Old Fogy Biography; Legal...См. далее...

Magnetic Education and Therapeutics--The So-Called Scientific Immortality--Review of the New Education--Victoria's Half Century--Outlook of Diogenes--A Bill to Destroy the Indians MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE--The Seybert Commission; The Evils...См. далее...

Archtypal Literature for the future. Chapter 1. General Plan of Brain, Synopsis of Cerebral Science Superficial Criticisms, a reply to Miss Phelps Spiritual Phenomenon, Abram James, Eglinton, Spirit writing Mind reading Amusement and Temperance...См. далее...

The Prophetic Faculty: War and Peace Clearing away the Fog The Danger of living among Christians: A Question of peace or war Legislative Quackery, Ignorance, and Blindness to the Future Evils that need Attention What is Intellectual Greatness...См. далее...

The Slow Triumph of Truth Old Industrial Education An Incomparable "Medical Outlaw" Educational.--Educational Reform in England; Dead Languages Vanishing; Higher Education of Women; Bad Sunday-School Books; Our Barbarous Orthography...См. далее...

The Oriental View of Anthropology MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE--Religion and Science; Good Psychology; The Far-away Battle; How not to do it; Robbery of Public Lands; Land Reform in England; Life in Europe; Education in France;...См. далее...

Concord Symposium Rectification of Cerebral Science Human Longevity MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE--An important Discovery; Jennie Collins; Greek Philosophy; Symposiums; Literature of the Past; The Concord School; New Books; Solar Biology; Dr.См. далее...

The lithe and curving form of the girl--for she was only twenty,although already a wife--was tense now as she stood there in her owndrawing-room, stoutly battling to bring order out of chaos.См. далее...

XI. THE PRIDE BEFORE A FALL XII. PASTORAL AND TRAGEDY XIII. THE PLEASURES OF A CONSCIENCE XIV. A GENTLEMAN IN STRAITS XV. THE NEMESIS OF A COWARD XVI. A MOVEMENT OF THE POWERS XVII.См. далее...

Damen am Spieltisch, Herren und Damen sowie junger Herr und Eugenieauf einer Promenade, Bьrger, Bьrgersoldaten, Lyoner und andereDeputierte, Jakobiner, Prдsidenten des Jakobinerklubs und desNationalkonvents, SchlieЯer, Henker und Fuhrleute, Mдnner und Weiber...См. далее...

The baked clay tablets and portions of tablets which describe theviews and beliefs of the Babylonians and Assyrians about the Creationwere discovered by Mr. (later Sir) A.H. Layard, Mormuzd Rassam andGeorge Smith, Assistant in the Department of Oriental Antiquities in...См. далее...

out a series of excavations among the ruins of the ancient city ofNineveh, "that great city, wherein are more than sixteen thousandpersons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left;and also much cattle" (Jonah iv, II).См. далее...

"Book of the Dead" is the title now commonly given to the greatcollection of funerary texts which the ancient Egyptian scribescomposed for the benefit of the dead. These consist of spells andincantations, hymns and litanies, magical formulae and names, words...См. далее...

Vols VI, VII, VIII--THE BOOK OF THE DEAD.an English Translation of the Chapters, Hymns, &c., of the ThebanRecension With Introduction, Notes, and numerous Illustrations By E. A.WALLIS BUDGE, Litt.См. далее...

The welcome which has been accorded to the volumes of this Series, andthe fact that some of them have passed into second and third editions,suggest that these little books have been found useful by beginners inEgyptology and others.См. далее...

This little book is intended to serve as an elementary introduction tothe study of Egyptian Literature. Its object is to present a shortseries of specimens of Egyptian compositions, which represent all thegreat periods of literary activity in Egypt under the Pharaohs, to all...См. далее...

No character in our literature, not even Mr. Pickwick, has more endearedhimself to successive generations of readers than Addison's Sir Roger deCoverley: there are many figures in drama and fiction of whom we feelthat they are in a way personal friends of our own, that once introduced...См. далее...

I am about to take the back-trail through the Old West--the West that Iknew and loved. All my life it has been a pleasure to show itsbeauties, its marvels and its possibilities to those who, under myguidance, saw it for the first time.См. далее...

The life and adventures of Hon. William F. Cody--Buffalo Bill--as toldby himself, make up a narrative which reads more like romance thanreality, and which in many respects will prove a valuable contributionto the records of our Western frontier history.См. далее...

The late Dr. Georg BГјhler's essay _Ueber die Indische Secte derJaina_, read at the anniversary meeting of the Imperial Academy ofSciences of Vienna on the 26th May 1887, has been for some time out ofprint in the separate form.См. далее...

Most of the Plays in the present Collection have not been reprinted,and some have not been printed at all. In the second volume there willbe published for the first time a fine tragedy (hitherto quite unknown)by Massinger and Fletcher, and a lively comedy (also quite unknown)...См. далее...

The plays in this volume are printed for the first time. All areanonymous; but it is absolutely certain that _Sir John Van OldenBarnavelt_ is a masterpiece by Fletcher and Massinger; that _CaptainUnderwit_ is a comedy of Shirley's; and that the _Lady Mother_ (a piece...См. далее...

I have not been able to give in the present volume the unpublished playof Heywood's to which I referred in the Preface to Vol. I. When I cameto transcribe the play, I found myself baffled by the villanous scrawl.См. далее...

In the preface to the third volume I stated that I hoped to be able toprocure a transcript of an unpublished play (preserved in Eg. MS. 1,994)of Thomas Heywood. It affords me no slight pleasure to include this playin the present volume.См. далее...

In one of those bright racy essays at which modern dulness delights tosneer, Hazlitt discussed the question whether the desire of posthumousfame is a legitimate aspiration; and the conclusion at which he arrivedwas that there is "something of egotism and even of pedantry in this...См. далее...

The present Anthology is intended to serve as a companion volume to thePoetical Miscellanies published in England at the close of the sixteenthand the beginning of the seventeenth centuries.См. далее...

Two editions of _Hero and Leander_ appeared in 1598. The first edition,containing only Marlowe's portion of the poem, is entitled _Hero andLeander. By Christopher Marloe. London, Printed by Adam Islip, forEdward Blunt.См. далее...

The substance of this volume was delivered as a course ofChristmas Holiday Lectures, in 1877, at the Birmingham andMidland Institute, of which the author was then the seniorVice-president.См. далее...

This volume does not aim to contain all "the best American humorousshort stories"; there are many other stories equally as good, Isuppose, in much the same vein, scattered through the range ofAmerican literature.См. далее...

SIR: In yesterday's issue you took occasion to speak of the organ-grinding nuisance, about which I hope you will let me ask you the following questions: Why must decent people all over town suffer these pestilential beggars to go about torturing our senses,...См. далее...

Come, now, there may as well be an end of this! Every time I meet youreyes squarely I detect the question just slipping out of them. If youhad spoken it, or even boldly looked it; if you had shown in yourmotions the least sign of a fussy or fidgety concern on my account; if...См. далее...

"A conceited fool" is a not uncommon expression. Now, I know that I amnot a fool, but I also know that I am conceited. But, candidly, can itbe helped if one happens to be young, well and strong, passablygood-looking, with some money that one has inherited and more that one...См. далее...

"I hear," said Mrs. Abram Van Riper, seated at her breakfast-table, andwatching the morning sunlight dance on the front of the great Burrellhouse on the opposite side of Pine Street, "that the Dolphs are going tobuild a prodigious fine house out of town--somewhere up near the...См. далее...

'Tenet ecclesia nostra, tenuitque semper firmam illam et immotamTertulliani regulam "Id verius quod prius, id prius quod ab initio." Quopropius ad veritatis fontem accedimus, eo purior decurrit Catholicaedoctrinae rivus.См. далее...

This is the history of the evolution of a play. Many hands were concernedin its growth, but its increase in scenic effect as well as in dialoguewas a stage one, rather than prompted by literary fervour.См. далее...

LETTER TO THE MARQUIS OF ROCKINGHAM, WITH ADDRESSES TO THE KING, AND THE BRITISH COLONISTS IN NORTH AMERICA, IN RELATION TO THE MEASURES OF GOVERNMENT IN THE AMERICAN CONTEST, AND A PROPOSED SECESSION OF THE OPPOSITION FROM PARLIAMENT, January, 1777 149...См. далее...

REPORT FROM THE COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, APPOINTED TO INSPECT THE LORDS' JOURNALS IN RELATION TO THEIR PROCEEDINGS ON THE TRIAL OF WARREN HASTINGS, ESQUIRE. WITH AN APPENDIX.См. далее...

The story which runs through and makes up the bulk of this book is myown. The intention has been, however, to make it conform to the lawsgoverning certain beings commonly regarded in this country asmythical, as those laws are revealed in the folk-lore of many peoples,...См. далее...

ROOMS--DECISION--ODD MEN--RETURN--ARRANGEMENTS--THEORIES-- OBJECTIONS--PROPOSITIONS--ELECTIONS--THE LADIES--WHO'S HOST?-- GUESTS--HOSTESS--MORE PROPOSALS--GRANDMOTHERS--AUNTS--HALF-SISTERS --SISTERHOOD PROPOSED--GRAND IDEA--CHAPERONS--TERMS--IDEAL--A...См. далее...

How many deserving persons besides dramatic authors are looking aboutfor good situations, and are unable to find them! Mr. 'ENRY HAUTHORJONES was sufficiently fortunate to obtain a good dramatic situationof tried strength, which, placed in the centre of novel and most...См. далее...

YOU may, an it please you, be dull, (For Britons deem dulness "respectable"); Stale flowers of speech you may cull, With meanings now scarcely detectable; You may wallow in saturnine spite, You may flounder in flatulent flummery;...См. далее...

_From the Common-place Book of The O'Wilde._--The play? Oh, the playbe zephyr'd! The play is not the thing. In other words, the play isnothing. Point is to prepare immense assortment of entirely irrelevantepigrams.См. далее...

FLEACATCHER.--Yes, the trout in the river Itching (this is the onlycorrect spelling) are red, and, before they are boiled, raw. The bestmethod of catching them is to tickle them. When you have hooked anItching trout, you first scratch him, and then cook him.См. далее...

All modish shapes must melt in gloom, Great WORTH himself must die, Before the Sex again assume EVE'S sweet simplicity! I saw a vision in my sleep, Which made me bow my head and weep As one aghast, accurst!См. далее...

It may be this--that the Villain base Has insulted the hero's girl; It may be this--that he's brought disgrace On a wretchedly-acted Earl. I care not which it may chance to be, Only this do I chance to know--...См. далее...

_First W. I. M._ (_contemptuously_). Yes, that's always the way with theseGovernments. They all talk mighty big at the beginning of the Session, andthen, at the end, they've done nothing, absolutely nothing; at least,nothing that's any good to anybody.См. далее...

_First W. I. M._ (_with dignity_). Did I? Well, isn't it enough to makeanybody, who loves his country, angry when he sees what's going on. Why,the Government's going to turn everything inside out, with some blessed newlaw about elections.См. далее...

_Inquirer._ Oh, I don't mean as a Member. Of course I know you wouldn'tstand the rot of all these Constituents, or whatever they callthemselves. But have you ever been there as a visitor while a debate'sgoing on?См. далее...

_First Well-informed Man_ (_concluding a tirade_). ---- so what I wantto know is this: are we or are we not to submit to the Yankees? It'sall very well talking about Chicago Exhibitions and all that, but ifthey're going to capture our ships and prevent us killing seals, why,...См. далее...

Another Show! A splendid Imperial Show! Magnificent weather! RealQUEEN'S weather, and consequently a big success. The grandeur, thesolidarity of the British Empire--[&c., &c. *.* _Editor regretsthat for lack of space he is compelled to omit the remainder of this...См. далее...

AWAKE my Muse, inspire your LEWIS MORRIS To pen an ode! to be another Horris! "HORACE" I should have written, but in place of it You see the word--well, I'm within an _ace_ of it.См. далее...

_Royat Improved._--I have said Royat ought to be rebuilt. The GrandHotel is of a sort of Doll's House order of architecture, splendidfront, no depth to speak of, and built on so steep an ascent that it ishoisted up at the back like a lady's skirt by a dress-improver.См. далее...

3 P.M.--Arrive at Starmouth--the retired Watering-place at which Ipropose to write the Nautical Drama that is to render me famous andwealthy. Leave luggage at Station, and go in search of lodgings.См. далее...

It was the first day under the operation of the new Act. Everyone was alittle nervous about the outcome, and JOHN JONES, the Barrister, was noexception to the general rule. At three o'clock he was in the full swingof an impassioned appeal to the Jury.См. далее...

_Monday._--_Carmen_ exceptionally excellent. Miss ZЙLIE DE LUSSAN,gifted with a light, pleasant voice, sang admirably. Can't have "_Tropde Zйlie_." Mr. BARTON McGUCKIN, as _Don Jim-along-Josй_, did all thatcan be done with this weak-minded soldier.См. далее...

MY DEAR MR. PUNCH,--As the representative of Justice in this country, Iappeal to you. And when I write this, you must not imagine that I claim,in my own person, to represent Justice--no, Sir, I only to some extentsuggest the Law--a very different matter.См. далее...

"_Dear me, this is a surprise to meet you here! I didn't, you see, knowyou were in Town_;" _i.e._, By which I wish her to understand that Ihadn't seen that prominent account of her Mid-Lent dance (_for which Ihad received no invitation_) that appeared in last Thursday's _Morning...См. далее...

"'MRS. MЖCENAS!' So some would-be wit Dubbed the fair dame. The title may not fit With accurate completeness; It soars some shades too high, this modish _mot_, As 'Mrs. LYON-HUNTER' sinks too low; Both nick-names fail in neatness.См. далее...

Sweet odours, radiant colours, glittering light! How swift a change from the dusk sodden night Of London in mid-winter! _Titania_ here might revel as at home; Fair forms are floating soft as Paphian foam, Bright as an iceberg-splinter.См. далее...

"A Late Symposium! Yet they're not engaged In compotations. Argument hath raged Four hours by the dial; But zealotry of party, creed, or clique Marks not the clock, whilst of polemic pique There's one unvoided vial.См. далее...

"Midnight's meridian is supposed to mark The bound twixt toil and slumber. Light and dark Mete out the lives of mortals In happy alternation," said my guide. "Six hours must fleet ere Phoebus shall set wide His glowing orient portals.См. далее...

"'The Humours of the Town!' Archaic phrase, Breathing of BRUMMEL and the dandy days Of curly hats and gaiters! 'Humours' seem rarer now, at least by night, In this strange world of gilt and garish light, And bibulous wits and waiters.См. далее...

"Dr. GRACE, who seemed to forget his lameness, played with great vigour and dash, and his cuts and drives possessed all their old brilliancy."--_The Times, on the exciting finish in the Cricket Match between the M.См. далее...

[Following the brilliant success of Miss FAWCETT at Cambridge, Mlle. BELCESCO, a Roumanian lady, took her degree to-day as _Docteur en Droit_. Like Miss FAWCETT, she obtained the highest place at the examination for the Licentiate's Degree,...См. далее...

_Visitors ascending staircase, full of enthusiasm and energetic determination not to miss a single Picture, encounter people descending in various stages of mental and physical exhaustion.См. далее...

_Blethers._ Sir POSHBURY'S birthday to-day--his birthday!--and thegentry giving of him presents. Oh, Lor! if they only knew what _I_ couldtell 'em!... Ah, and _must_ tell, too, before long--but not yet--notyet!См. далее...

_The line of carriages bound for Buckingham Palace is moving by slow stages down the Drive. A curious but not uncritical crowd, consisting largely of females, peer into the carriages as they pass, and derive an occult pleasure from a glimpse of...См. далее...

Once more we draw upon our favourite source of inspiration--the poems ofthe Misses TAYLOR. The dramatist is serenely confident that the newLondon County Council Censor of Plays, whenever that much-desiredofficial is appointed, will highly approve of this little piece on...См. далее...

(_Afrikander Version of the great Breitmann Ballad, penned, "morein sorrow than in anger," by a "Deutscher" resident in the distantregions where the Correspondent of the "Daily Graphic" is, like derHerr Breitmann himself, "drafellin' apout like eferydings.См. далее...

I MAY assume, that after the terrible example given in my last chapter,you have firmly made up your mind never on any account to take servicein the great army of bores. But this determination is not all that isnecessary.См. далее...

SCENE--_A Railway-carriage in a suburban morning train to London. Thereare four Passengers, two of whom are well-informed men, while the thirdis an inquirer, and the fourth an average man.См. далее...

And they made merry in the good old fashion. The pictures on the wallswere covered with holly and mistletoe. They had come from British woods.Then the tables groaned with Christmas cheer.См. далее...

It was on the 31st of December that they met. It had been arranged thatat the final hour of the last day of the expiring year they shouldcompare notes, and not one of them had failed to keep the appointment.См. далее...

"I dreamed," said the Scotch Professor, "that I was struggling fordear life with a monstrous reptile, whose scaly coils wound about mybody, while the extremity of his own was lost in the distance.См. далее...

BULGER was no cricketer, no tennis-player, no sportsman, in fact.But his Doctor recommended exercise and fresh air. "And I'm thinking,Sir," he added, "that you cannot do better than just take yourselfdown to St.См. далее...

A Philosopher has deigned to address to me a letter. "Sir," writesmy venerable correspondent, "I have been reading your open letters toAbstractions with some interest. You will, however, perhaps permitme to observe that amongst those to whom you have written are not a...См. далее...

A Castle, all chunnicks of stone, or a Habbey, much out of repair, A skelinton Banquetting 'All, and a bit of a broken-down stair, May appear most perticular "precious" to them as the picteresk cops; But give me the sububs and stucco, smart villas, and...См. далее...

SCENE--_A Public Hall in a provincial town. The Hypnotist--a tall, graceful, and handsome young man, in well-fitting evening clothes--has already succeeded in putting most of his subjects to sleep, and is going round and inspecting them...См. далее...

Oi'm sittin' on the stile, MARY, an' lookin' o'er the tide, An' by jabers Oi'm afraid, Aroon, that there Oi'll _have_ to bide! The grass is springin' fresh an' green in Ould Oireland, but oh moy!См. далее...

Of the many varieties of keeper, I propose, at present, to consider onlythe average sort of keeper, who looks after a shooting, comprisingpartridges, pheasants, hares, and rabbits, in an English county.См. далее...

Is there no way, then, you may ask, in which the Head Keeper may be luredfrom his customary silence for more than a sentence or two? Yes, there isone absolutely certain method, and, so far as I know, only one.См. далее...

SCENE--_The Elysian Fields, a flower-gemmed bank, by a flowing stream,beneath the sylvan shade of unfading foliage._ Mr. PUNCH--_who is freeof all places, from Fleet Street to Parnassus--discovered, in Arcadianattire, attempting "numerous verse" on a subject of National...См. далее...

Ah, why, my Love, receive me With such tip-tilted scorn? Self-love can scarce retrieve me From obloquy forlorn; 'Twas not my fault, believe me, That wealthy I was born.См. далее...

BEING gifted with decent taste and a sensitive eye, I have never been much beguiled By advertisements, crude in colour, and ten feet high (Which, in fact, I rather reviled); And, as for gigantic signs swinging up in the sky--...См. далее...

And a roar for a win such as _this_ is, can_not_ be too long or too loud. Won by four wickets! As good as though WALTER had scored half a million, Great Scott! what a rush from the ring!См. далее...

SCENE--_Theatre Royal, Blankbury, on the first night of the performance of the well-known Comedy of_ "Heads or Tails?" _by the "Thespian Perambulators." Time_, 7:50 P.См. далее...

"Afric behold! alas, what altered view! Her lands uncultured, and her sons untrue; Ungraced with all that sweetens human life, Savage and fierce, they roam in brutal strife; Eager they grasp the gifts which culture yields,...См. далее...

"Satire, of shames and follies in sole quest, Is a one-eyed divinity at best," My guide responded, slowly. "The tale of ZOПLUS hath its moral still. Such critics are but blowflies, their small skill To carrion given wholly.См. далее...

[Illustration: "This is what the County Council's Licensing Bill forPlaces of Entertainment did _not_ intend, as, according to the latestauthoritative explanation, the L. C. C. does not consider Theatres ascoming under the head of "places of entertainment".См. далее...

MY DEAR EDITOR,--Whilst you were feasting in Burlington House amongstthe Pictures and the Royal Academicians, I was seated in the Stalls ofthe St. James's Theatre, lost in astonishment (certainly not inadmiration, although of old the two words had the same meaning), at the...См. далее...

Oh, isn't it jolly! we've each a new dolly, And one is a Soldier, the other's a Tar! We're fully contented with what's been presented, Such good little children we both of us are!См. далее...

The high estimation in which I have ever held the works of Rembrandthas been greatly increased by my going through this examination of hisvarious excellencies, and such will ever be the case when the emanationsof genius are investigated; like the lustre of precious stones, their...См. далее...

The author of the following sketches, letters, etc., has been known tous for lo, these many years. We have always found him "a fellow ofinfinite jest," and one who, "though troubles assailed," always lookedupon the bright side of life, leaving its reverse to those who could...См. далее...

[** Transcriber's note: I have corrected a few obvious printers' errors.Details are AFTER the text so as not to interrupt the flow of what wasintended to be an enjoyable read and not a scholarly work.См. далее...

To begin, I am a Frenchman, a teacher of languages, and a poorman,--necessarily a poor man, as the great world would say, or I shouldnot be a teacher of languages, and my wife a copyist of great pictures,selling her copies at small prices.См. далее...

It may as well be explained, however, at the outset, that it would nottake much of a sensation to give Slowbridge a great shock. In the firstplace, Slowbridge was not used to sensations, and was used to going onthe even and respectable tenor of its way, regarding the outside world...См. далее...

Upon the village of Camylott there had rested since the earliest peepof dawn a hush of affectionate and anxious expectancy, the veryplough-boys going about their labours without boisterous laughter, thechildren playing quietly, and the good wives in their kitchens and...См. далее...

She had not been brought up in America at all. She had been born inFrance, in a beautiful _chвteau_, and she had been born heiress to agreat fortune, but, nevertheless, just now she felt as if she was verypoor, indeed.См. далее...

They were rather an incongruous element amid the festivities, butthey bore themselves very well, notwithstanding, and seemed to besufficiently interested. The elder of the two--a tall, slender,middle-aged woman, with a somewhat severe, though delicate face--sat...См. далее...

There are many dreary and dingy rows of ugly houses in certain parts ofLondon, but there certainly could not be any row more ugly or dingierthan Philibert Place. There were stories that it had once been moreattractive, but that had been so long ago that no one remembered the...См. далее...

"Prut!" said Annot, her sabots clattering loudly on the brick floor asshe moved more rapidly in her wrath. "Prut! Madame Giraud, indeed! Therewas a time, and it was but two years ago, that she was but plainMere Giraud, and no better than the rest of us; and it seems to me,...См. далее...

It was Madame who first entered the box, and Madame was bright withyouthful bloom, bright with jewels, and, moreover, a beauty. She wasa little creature, with childishly large eyes, a low, white forehead,reddish-brown hair, and Greek nose and mouth.См. далее...

It had taken him a long time, and it had cost him--Josй--much hardlabor, to prepare for his aged grandmother and Pepita the tiny homeoutside Madrid, to which he at last brought them in great triumph onehot summer's day, when the very vine-leaves and orange-trees themselves...См. далее...

In the years when Victorian standards and ideals began to dance anincreasingly rapid jig before amazed lookers-on, who presently foundthemselves dancing as madly as the rest--in these years, there lived inMayfair, in a slice of a house, Robert Gareth-Lawless and his lovely...См. далее...

In the first place, Miss Minchin lived in London. Her home was a large,dull, tall one, in a large, dull square, where all the houses werealike, and all the sparrows were alike, and where all the door-knockersmade the same heavy sound, and on still days--and nearly all the days...См. далее...

"_The Shuttle_," "_The Making of a Marchioness_," "_The Methods of LadyWalderhurst_," "_That Lass o' Lowries_," "_Through One Administration_,""_Little Lord Fauntleroy_" "_A Lady of Quality_," etc.См. далее...

He came in one evening at sun set with the empty coal-train--his dullyoung face pale and heavy-eyed with weariness, his corduroy suit dustyand travel-stained, his worldly possessions tied up in the smallestof handkerchief bundles and slung upon the stick resting on his...См. далее...

They did not look like women, or at least a stranger new to the districtmight easily have been misled by their appearance, as they stoodtogether in a group, by the pit's mouth. There were about a dozen ofthem there--all "pit-girls," as they were called; women who wore a...См. далее...

This my first novel was written several years ago, and published(without any revision by me) first in a ladies' magazine under the nameof "Dorothea," and afterwards in book form as "Dolly.См. далее...

However wide from the allotted boundaries and appointed province ofFemales may be all interference in public matters, even in the agitatingseason of general calamity; it does not thence follow that they areexempt from all public claims, or mere passive spectatresses of the...См. далее...

Unable to relieve herself from this perplexity, Cecilia, to divert herchagrin, again visited Miss Belfield. She had then the pleasure tohear that her brother was much recovered, and had been able, thepreceding day, to take an airing, which he had borne so well that Mr...См. далее...

Scarce less unhappy in her decision than in her uncertainty, and everyway dissatisfied with her situation, her views and herself, Cecilia wasstill so distressed and uncomfortable, when Delvile called the nextmorning, that he could not discover what her determination had been,...См. далее...

Skotlannin kansan lempirunoilija Robert Burns on maailmankirjallisuudensuuria lyyrikoita. Hдnen runoutensa perustuu Skotlannin moni-ilmeiseen,rikkaaseen kansanrunouteen, jonka Burns kohotti korkeimpaantдydellisyyteen, nuorentaen ja hedelmцittдen samalla Englannin...См. далее...

Had New Illington been part of an empire instead of one of the mostimportant cities in the greatest republic in the world, the cry "TheKing is dead! Long live the King!" might well have resounded throughits streets on that bleak November morning when Pennington Lawton was...См. далее...

"A gentleman who lately called upon me, and whom I have every reason to trust, gave me a letter from a person resident in that union (Skibbereen,) stating, that though the property within the union is rated to the poor as being of the value of Ј8,000 a-year only, its...См. далее...

Nature chose the spring of the year for the time of John Burroughs'sbirth. A little before the day when the wake-robin shows itself, thatthe observer might be on hand for the sight, he was born in Roxbury,Delaware County, New York, on the western borders of the Catskill...См. далее...

I have deliberated a long time about coupling some of my sketches ofoutdoor nature with a few chapters of a more purely literary character,and thus confiding to my reader what absorbs and delights me inside myfour walls, as well as what pleases and engages me outside those walls;...См. далее...

John Burroughs's first book, "Wake-Robin," contained a chapter entitled"The Invitation." It was an invitation to the study of birds. He hasreiterated it, implicitly if not explicitly, in most of the books he haspublished since then, and many of his readers have joyfully accepted it.См. далее...

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This little volume really needs no introduction; the two sketches ofwhich it is made explain and, I hope, justify themselves. But there isone phase of the President's many-sided character upon which I shouldlike to lay especial emphasis, namely, his natural history bent and...См. далее...

At the time I made the trip to Yellowstone Park with PresidentRoosevelt in the spring of 1903, I promised some friends to write upmy impressions of the President and of the Park, but I have been slowin getting around to it.См. далее...

The eight essays in this volume all deal with the home region oftheir author; for not only did Mr. Burroughs begin life in theCatskills, and dwell among them until early manhood, but, as hehimself declares, he has never taken root anywhere else.См. далее...

The pioneer in American ornithology was Alexander Wilson, a Scotch weaverand poet, who emigrated to this country in 1794, and began the publicationof his great work upon our birds in 1808.См. далее...

The author's abiding interest in Emerson is shown in his close andeager study of the Journals during these later years. He hungered foreverything that concerned the Concord Sage, who had been one of themost potent influences in his life.См. далее...

I am aware that for the most part the title of my book is an allegoryrather than an actual description; but readers who have followed meheretofore, I trust, will not be puzzled or misled in the present caseby any want of literalness in the matter of the title.См. далее...

In the beginning, at least, Father wrote these sketches of his boyhoodand early farm life as a matter of self-defense: I had made a determinedattempt to write them and when I did this I was treading on what was tohim more or less sacred ground, for as he once said in a letter to me,...См. далее...

Walking through the early October woods one day, I came upon a placewhere the ground was thickly strewn with very large unopened chestnutburrs. On examination I found that every burr had been cut square offwith about an inch of the stem adhering, and not one had been left on...См. далее...

It was while sitting in his hay-barn study in the Catskills and lookingout upon the maple woods of the old home farm, and under the maples atRiverby, that the most of these essays were written, during the last twoyears of the author's life.См. далее...

This is mainly a book about the Birds, or more properly an invitationto the study of Ornithology, and the purpose of the author will becarried out in proportion as it awakens and stimulates the interest ofthe reader in this branch of Natural History.См. далее...

My reader will find this volume quite a departure in certain ways fromthe tone and spirit of my previous books, especially in regard to thesubject of animal intelligence. Heretofore I have made the most ofevery gleam of intelligence of bird or four-footed beast that came...См. далее...

"_If you want to tell good Gothic, see if it has the sort of roughness andlargeness and nonchalance, mixed in places with the exquisite tendernesswhich seems always to be the sign manual of the broad vision and massypower of men who can see_ past _the work they are doing, and betray here...См. далее...

John Burroughs was born April 3, 1837, in a little farmhouseamong the Catskill Mountains. He was, like most other countryboys, acquainted with all the hard work of farm life and enjoyedall the pleasures of the woods and streams.См. далее...

I HAVE all the more pleasure in calling my book after the title of the first chapter, "Pepacton," because this is the Indian name of my native stream. In its watershed I was born and passed my youth, and here on its banks my kindred sleep.См. далее...

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Now here are twenty criticks ... and yet every one is a critick afterhis own way; that is, such a play is best because I like it. A veryfamiliar argument, methinks, to prove the excellence of a play, and towhich an author would be very unwilling to appeal for his success.См. далее...

To whom with more pleasure or propriety can I inscribe thisvolume than to my preceptor of past times; my dear old friend,whose deep study and vast experience of such light literature asThe Nights made me so often resort to him for good counsel and...См. далее...

By every right I ought to choose you to edit and bring out Sir RichardBurton's translation of Catullus, because you collaborated with him on thiswork by a correspondence of many months before he died.См. далее...

The plain unvarnished tale of the travel in Midian, undertaken bythe second Expedition, which, like the first, owes all to theliberality and the foresight of his Highness Ismail I.См. далее...

Chapter XII. From Shaghab to Zibб--Ruins of El-Khandakн and Umm Бmil--The Turquoise Mine--Return to El-MuwaylahChapter XIII. A Week Around and Upon the Shбrr Mountain--Rйsumй of the March Through Eastern or Central Midian...См. далее...

In several countries, for instance, Dinkira, Tueful, Wбsб (Wassaw), andespecially Akim, the hill-region lying north of Accra, the people arestill active in digging gold. The pits, varying from two to three feetin diameter, and from twelve to fifty deep (eighty feet is the extreme),...См. далее...

In treating this part of the subject I shall do my best to avoidbitterness and harsh judging as far as the duty of a traveller--that oftelling the whole truth--permits me. It is better for both writer andreader to praise than to dispraise.См. далее...

Our paths in life have been separated by a long interval. Whilstinclination led you to explore and to'survey the wild wastes ofthe North, the Arctic shores and the Polar seas, with all theirhardships and horrors; my lot was cast in the torrid regions of...См. далее...

Chapter VII. Boma.--our Outfit for the InteriorChapter VIII. A Visit to Banza ChisallaChapter IX. Up the Congo to Banza NokkiChapter X. Notes on the Nzadi or Congo RiverChapter XI.См. далее...

(I) As everyone knows, the general idea of the Doctrine of Descent isthat the plants and animals of the present day are the linealdescendants of ancestors on the whole somewhat simpler, that theseagain are descended from yet simpler forms, and so on backwards...См. далее...

I Introductory II Reason Free (Greece And Rome) III Reason in Prison (The Middle Ages) IV Prospect of Deliverance (The Renaissance and the Reformation) V Religious Toleration VI The Growth of Rationalism (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries)...См. далее...

My friend the late Miss Else C. M. Benecke left a number of Polishstories in rough translation, and I am carrying out her wishes inediting them and handing them over to English readers.См. далее...

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For example, take these stories Of two youths, named Max and Maurice, Who, instead of early turning Their young minds to useful learning, Often leered with horrid features At their lessons and their teachers.См. далее...

Welche Max und Moritz hieЯen.Die, anstatt durch weise LehrenSich zum Guten zu bekehren,Oftmals noch darьber lachtenUnd sich heimlich lustig machten. ---- Ja, zur Ьbeltдtigkeit,Ja, dazu ist man bereit!См. далее...

Hoe dikwijls heeft al in het leven Zelfs de allerkleinste omstandigheidEen huis vol onrust ons gegeven En schrik en angst in 't hart verspreid!Niet altijd is 't een hemelwonder Dat ons verschrikt door zijn natuurMaar kleinigheкn zijn 't in 't bizonder,...См. далее...

Kein Ding sieht so aus, wie es ist. Am wenigsten der Mensch, dieserlederne Sack voller Kniffe und Pfiffe. Und auch abgesehen von denKapriolen und Masken der Eitelkeit. Immer, wenn man Was wissen will, muЯman sich auf die zweifelhafte Dienerschaft des Kopfes und der Kцpfe...См. далее...

"What seek you? Say! And what do you expect?"-- "I know not what; the Unknown I would have! What's known to me, is endless; I would go Beyond the end: The last word still is wanting.См. далее...

There is no public chapel at Falkland, and the private chapel in thehouse is attended by a variety of priests, who usually come only fromSaturday to Monday. Lord Bute's diary for the second week in August1892 contains the following entries:--...См. далее...

It has been thought desirable to reprint the Essays and other shortWorks of the late Marquess of Bute in an inexpensive form likely to beuseful to the general reader, and thereby to make them more widelyknown.См. далее...

This little book is mainly compounded of papers which appeared, part inthe _Monthly Packet_, and part in the Magazine of the Home ReadingUnion. It will be seen, therefore, that it is not intended for thosewhom Italians call “Dantists,” but for students at an early stage of...См. далее...

TOHIS ROYAL HIGHNESSTHE DUKE OF SUSSEX,THIS BIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNTOFONE OF THE MOST AMIABLE AND RESPECTABLE DEFENDERS OF THE NOBLE CAUSE OFCIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY,OF WHICHHIS ROYAL HIGHNESS HAS UNIFORMLY BEEN A CONSTANT AND POWERFUL ADVOCATE,...См. далее...

Bobberts was the baby, and ever since Bobberts was born--and thatwas nine months next Wednesday, and just look what a big, fat boy heis now!--his parents had been putting all their pennies into alittle pottery pig, so that when Bobberts reached the proper age he...См. далее...

Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent, seated in his weather-beaten top buggy,drove his horse, Irontail, carefully along the rough Iowa hill road thatleads from Jefferson to Clarence. The Horse, a rusty gray, tottered ina loose-jointed manner from side to side of the road, half asleep in...См. далее...

Walking close along the wall, to avoid the creaking floor boards,Philo Gubb, paper-hanger and student of the Rising Sun DetectiveAgency's Correspondence School of Detecting, tiptoed to the door ofthe bedroom he shared with the mysterious Mr.См. далее...

APOLOGY FOR "YET ANOTHER BOOK" ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN QUESTION. FUTURE PEACE MUST BE BASED ON JUSTICE,--TO COLOURED AS WELL AS WHITE MEN. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LEGALIZED SLAVERY AND THE SUBJECTION OF NATIVES BY INDIVIDUALS.См. далее...

Scanned, interpreted, and amended in the United Kingdom by MikeCalder-Smith. Insofar as any copyright by any legal theory exists inthis work by scanning, interpretation, or addition, such rights arefreely given into the Public Domain.См. далее...

"The want of a practical acquaintance with Natural History leads the author to take an erroneous view of the bearing of his own theories on those of Mr. Darwin.--_Review of 'Life and Habit,' by Mr.См. далее...

The atmospheric conditions and phenomena which constitute "The Weather"are of surpassing interest. Now, we rejoice in the genial air and warmrains of spring, which clothe the earth with verdure; in the alternatingheat and showers of summer, which insure the bountiful harvest; in the...См. далее...

Abraham Lincoln has become the typical character of Americaninstitutions, and it is the purpose of this book, which is a truepicture in a framework of fiction, to show how that character, which socommanded the hearts and the confidence of men, was formed.См. далее...

The story of Sky-High is partly founded on a true incident of a young Chinese nobleman's education, and is written to illustrate the happy relations that might exist between the children of different countries, if each child treated all other good children like "wangs.См. далее...

A year or more ago one of the librarians in charge of the young people'sbooks in the Boston Public Library called my attention to the fact thatthere were few books of popular information in regard to the pioneers ofthe great Northwest.См. далее...

"This book will charm all who turn its pages. There are few books ofpopular information concerning the pioneers of the great Northwest, andthis one is worthy of sincere praise."--_Seattle Post-Intelligencer.См. далее...

The aim of the publishers and writer, in preparing this volume foryoung people, is to give a view of the principal places in England andFrance where the most interesting events have occurred; and, by a freeuse of pictures and illustrative stories, to present historic views of...См. далее...

It was the aim of "ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN EUROPE" and "ZIGZAG JOURNEYS INCLASSIC LANDS" to make history interesting by stories and pictures ofplaces. It was the purpose of "ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN THE ORIENT" toexplain the Eastern Question, and of "ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN THE OCCIDENT"...См. далее...

_Fugitive Pieces_, Byron's first volume of verse, was privatelyprinted in the autumn of 1806, when Byron was eighteen years of age.Passages in Byron's correspondence indicate that as early as Augustof that year some of the poems were in the printers' hands and that...См. далее...

"You owe me two letters--pay them. I want to know what you are about. The summer is over, and you will be back to Paris. Apropos of Paris, it was not Sophia _Gail_, but Sophia _Gay_--the English word _Gay_--who was my correspondent.См. далее...

Mi lбmpara va б apagarse; pormas que quiera reanimar su luzmoribunda; no podrб durar tantotiempo como mi desvelo. Si pareceque duermo, no es el sueсo el queembarga mis sentidos y sн el descaecimientoque me causan una multitud...См. далее...

A flower-garden trying to be beautiful is a charming instance ofsomething which a storyteller can otherwise only dream of. For such agarden is itself a story, one which actually and naturally occurs, yetoccurs under its master's guidance and control and with artistic effect.См. далее...

Bayou Teche is the dividing line. On its left is the land of bayous,lakes, and swamps; on its right, the beautiful short-turfed prairiesof Western Louisiana. The Vermilion River divides the vast prairieinto the countries of Attakapas on the east and Opelousas on the west.См. далее...

XVI. An Aching Conscience XVII. Two Under One Hat-Brim XVIII. The Jayhawkers XIX. Asleep in the Death-Trap XX. Charlotte Oliver XXI. The Fight on the Bridge XXII.См. далее...

The following diary was originally written in lead-pencil and in a bookthe leaves of which were too soft to take ink legibly. I have it directfrom the hands of its writer, a lady whom I have had the honor to knowfor nearly thirty years.См. далее...

He had left his very new law office, just around in Bienville Street,and had come but a few steps down Royal, when, at the next cornerbelow, she turned into Royal, toward him, out of Conti, coming fromBourbon.См. далее...

XI. In Column of Platoons XII. Mandeville Bleeds XIII. Things Anna Could Not Write XIV. Flora Taps Grandma's Cheek XV. The Long Month of March XVI. Constance Tries to Help XVII.См. далее...

A few steps from the St. Charles Hotel, in New Orleans, brings you toand across Canal street, the central avenue of the city, and to thatcorner where the flower-women sit at the inner and outer edges of thearcaded sidewalk, and make the air sweet with their fragrant...См. далее...

A few steps from the St. Charles Hotel, in New Orleans, brings you toand across Canal Street, the central avenue of the city, and to thatcorner where the flower-women sit at the inner and outer edges of thearcaded sidewalk, and make the air sweet with their fragrant...См. далее...

True stories are not often good art. The relations and experiences of realmen and women rarely fall in such symmetrical order as to make an artisticwhole. Until they have had such treatment as we give stone in the quarryor gems in the rough they seldom group themselves with that harmony of...См. далее...

Mr. Maeterlinck has lately propounded the theory {*} that what we callthe war is neither more nor less than the visible expression of a vastinvisible conflict. The unseen forces of good and evil in the universeare using man as a means of contention.См. далее...

You see what I send you--my lectures at the Royal Institution in theSpring. In making a little book of them I have thought it best toleave them as they were delivered, with all the colloquialisms that arenatural to spoken words frankly exposed to cold print.См. далее...

"How well I remember the beginning of our correspondence, and how littledid I think it would lead to such relations between us as have ensued! Iwas at the time very solitary and depressed from various causes, andthe letters of so young and ardent a well-wisher, though unknown to me...См. далее...

John Stuart Mill was born on the 20th of May, 1806. "I am glad," wroteGeorge Grote to him in 1865, with reference to a forthcoming articleon his "Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy," "to get anopportunity of saying what I think about your 'System of Logic' and...См. далее...

In preparing the following pages I have been chiefly indebted for thematerials of the earlier chapters to some MS. notes by my late uncle,Mr. William Cairns. These were originally written for Professor MacEwenwhen he was preparing his admirable _Life and Letters of John Cairns,...См. далее...

uery necessary for everye personne and much requi- site to be had in the handes of al sortes, for their better instruction, preparation and defence, against the soub- dein comyng, and fear- ful assaultyng of the same disease...См. далее...

Before the remembrance of the good old times, so fast passing, shouldhave entirely passed away, the present artist, R. Caldecott, andengraver, James D. Cooper, planned to illustrate Washington Irving's"Old Christmas" in this manner.См. далее...

Chapter II. Compromise Of The Church With Paganism. Chapter III. Position Of The First Christian Emperors Towards Paganism, And Their Policy In This Respect. Chapter IV. Infection Of The Christian Church By Pagan Ideas And...См. далее...

Licentiate of the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland; Honorary Corresponding Member of the New York State Agricultural Society; Member of the Agricultural Society of Belgium; Professor of Hygiene or Political...См. далее...

In treating this part of the subject I shall do my best to avoidbitterness and harsh judging as far as the duty of a traveller--that oftelling the whole truth--permits me. It is better for both writer andreader to praise than to dispraise.См. далее...

Taine, o glorioso Taine, o querido philosopho, cuja obra admiravel temsido uma especie de bussola para os que se iniciam na complicada arte dapalavra; Taine, o mestre, aconselhava sabiamente, com aquella profundezade vista e com aquelle raro e superior criterio de artista e...См. далее...

After some deliberation, and at the risk of offending the sensibilityof scholars, I have adopted the old English spelling of MichaelAngelo's name, feeling that no orthographical accuracy can outweigh theassociations implied in that familiar title.См. далее...

2. This routine work should be suitably and fairly apportioned amongstyour clerks--each clerk (under your superintendence) being responsiblefor the duty assigned to him. You will, after fair warning, report tothe Postmaster General any clerk who fails correctly and efficiently...См. далее...

There is no class of men to whom the memory turns with morecomplacency, or more frequently, than to those who "taught the youngidea how to shoot." There may be a few tyrants of the birch, who neverinspired a feeling save fear or hatred; yet their number is but few,...См. далее...

The little book now revised and sent out with some slight additions,remains substantially the same as when first issued in 1880. In the midstof always increasing cookery-books, it has had a firm constituency offriends, especially in the South, where its necessity was first made...См. далее...

The studies which follow, the result of fifteen months' observationabroad, deal directly with the workers in all trades open to women,though, from causes explained in the opening chapter, less from the sideof actual figures than the preceding volume, the material for which was...См. далее...

The importance of the subject with which the present work deals cannotwell be over-estimated. Our age may properly be called the Era of Woman,because everything which affects her receives consideration quiteunknown in past centuries.См. далее...

A Popular Schoolgirl. The Princess of the School. A Harum-Scarum Schoolgirl. The Head Girl at the Gables. A Patriotic Schoolgirl. For the School Colours.См. далее...

The recent expedition to Lhasa was full of interest, not only on accountof the political issues involved and the physical difficulties overcome,but owing to the many dramatic incidents which attended the Mission'sprogress.См. далее...

All except three of the following Tales have already appeared in Englishor American Magazines. The best thanks of the author are due to theEditors of the "Cornhill," "Macmillan's," "Lippincott's" and "Pearson's"Magazines, and to the Editor of the "Sketch," for permission to reprint...См. далее...

Dal balcone centrale dell'_Albergo del Gallo_ in piazza del Municipioa Settefonti, visto fermare la carrozza davanti al portoncino,l'albergatore era sceso giщ in maniche di camicia, per dare il benarrivato ai forestieri; e rimaneva un po' deluso, scorgendo che la...См. далее...

I.--L'Orso pelosoII.--Cardello entra in arteIII.--Una recita straordinariaIV.--Un drammaV.--Il padre cappellanoVI.--Una recita in parlatorioVII.--Una scoperta archeologicaVIII.--Il capolavoro di CardelloIX.См. далее...

She was one of those pretty and charming girls who are sometimes, as ifby a mistake of destiny, born in a family of clerks. She had no dowry,no expectations, no means of being known, understood, loved, wedded, byany rich and distinguished man; and she let herself be married to a...См. далее...

At the date, now fourteen years since, of the first publication of theseletters, the important case of authors _versus_ readers--makers of books_versus_ consumers of facts and ideas--had for several years been againon trial in the high court of the people.См. далее...

Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of Virginia_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_...См. далее...

This work now offered to the public owes its origin largely to thefollowing circumstance: On the return of the author from Californiaand the city of Mexico, in November, 1901, his friend, the Rev.См. далее...

## The Three Tasks## Shane Fadh's Wedding## Larry M'Farland's Wake## The Battle Of The Factions## The Station## The Party Fight And Funeral## The Lough Derg Pilgrim## The Hedge School## The Midnight Mass## The Donagh...См. далее...

A certain old gentleman in the west of Ireland, whose love of theridiculous quite equalled his taste for claret and fox-hunting, waswont, upon festive occasions, when opportunity offered, to amusehis friends by DRAWING OUT one of his servants, exceedingly fond...См. далее...

Als gegen Ende des vergangenen Jahres ich die angenehme Nachrichterhielt, dass eine mir freundlich bekannte Gesellschaft, welche bisherihre Aufmerksamkeit inlГ¤ndischer Literatur gewidmet hatte, nunmehrdieselbe auf die auslГ¤ndische zu wenden gedenke, konnte ich in meiner...См. далее...

Reproofing this old Project Gutenberg edition of the History ofFrederick the Great has been both rewarding and disappointing. Each ofthe first 21 original volumes had many hundreds of errors corrected—manyremain.См. далее...

There comes a time in the career of every man of genius who hasdevoted a long life to the instruction and enlightenment of hisfellow-creatures, when he receives before his death all the honourspaid by posterity.См. далее...

Then hoy and rip, with a rolling hip, He makes for the nearest shore; And God, who sent him a thousand ship, Will send him a thousand more; But some he'll save for a bleaching grave, And shoulder them in to shore,--...См. далее...

Yet while they last how actual they seem!Their faces beam;I give them all their names,Bertram and Gilbert, Louis, Frank and James,Each with his aims;One thinks he is a poet, and writes verseHis friends rehearse;Another is full of law;...См. далее...

The present volume is made up of poems from Mr. Carman's three latestbooks, _The Rough Rider_, _Echoes from Vagabondia_, and _April Airs_,together with a number of more recent poems which have not before beenissued in book form.См. далее...

Men of the conflicts and labors,Struggling and shifting and shoving,Pushing and pounding your neighbors,Fighting for leeway for laughter,Toiling for leisure for loving!Hark, through the window and up to the rafter,Madder and merrier,...См. далее...

THE POETRY OF SAPPHO.--If all the poets and all the lovers of poetry shouldbe asked to name the most precious of the priceless things which time haswrung in tribute from the triumphs of human genius, the answer which would...См. далее...

VAGABONDIAA WAIFTHE JOYS OF THE ROADEVENING ON THE POTOMACSPRING SONGTHE FAUNA ROVER'S SONGDOWN THE SONGOTHE WANDER-LOVERSDISCOVERYA MORE ANCIENT MARINERA SONG BY THE SHOREA HILL SONGAT SEAISABELCONTEMPORARIESTHE TWO BOBBIES...См. далее...

Considering the immense volume of poetical writing produced, and lostor accumulated, by all nations through the ages, it is of curiousinterest that no generally accepted definition of the word "Poetry"has ever been made.См. далее...

American poems in this volume within the legal protection of copyrightare used by the courteous permission of the owners,--either thepublishers named in the following list or the authors or theirrepresentatives in the subsequent one,--who reserve all their rights.См. далее...

American poems in this volume within the legal protection of copyrightare used by the courteous permission of the owners,--either thepublishers named in the following list or the authors or theirrepresentatives in the subsequent one,--who reserve all their rights.См. далее...

Clever men of action, according to Bacon, despise studies, ignorantmen too much admire them, wise men make use of them. "Yet," he says,"they teach not their own use, but that there is a wisdom without themand above them won by observation.См. далее...

When the publishers asked me to write the Life of Watt, I declined,stating that my thoughts were upon other matters. This settled thequestion, as I supposed, but in this I was mistaken.См. далее...

It seems almost unnecessary to say that "Round the World," like"An American Four-in-Hand in Britain," was originally printed forprivate circulation. My publishers having asked permission to giveit to the public, I have been induced to undertake the slight...См. далее...

The following Studies and Notes, made during the earlier period of thepresent war and now collected together for publication, do not--as willbe evident to the reader--pretend to any sort of completeness in theirembrace of the subject, or finality in its presentation.См. далее...

This little volume contains the discourse delivered by M. Bergson asPresident of the _Acadйmie des Sciences Morales et Politiques_ at itsannual public meeting on December 12, 1914.См. далее...

In dedicating the following Poems to your Ladyship, I cannot helpregretting that they are not more worthy of such an honour; that Imight consequently have used it as an humble mode of expressingmy sense of the happy and enlightened hours which I have passed in...См. далее...

The little tour which gave birth to the following remarks, was takenimmediately after the exchange of the ratifications of a peace,necessary, but not inglorious to my country, after a contest unexampledin its cause, calamity, extension, vicissitudes and glory; amidst a...См. далее...

O schцner, goldner Nachmittag, Wo Flut und Himmel lacht! Von schwacher Kindeshand bewegt, Die Ruder plдtschern sacht -- Das Steuer hдlt ein Kindesarm Und lenket unsre Fahrt.См. далее...

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on thebank, and of having nothing to do. Once or twice she had peeped into thebook her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations init, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or...См. далее...

Брент взглянул на часы: секундная Nелка еле-еле ползет по циферблату. Сзади Линдси Харпер складывает в портфель учебники. Мисс Вандерлуп говорит о том, какие книги хорошо бы проRead (Читать) летом.См. далее...

Тяжело остаться без родителей, особенно когда тебе всего десять лет, окружающие тебя не любят и ты тоже ненавидишь чуть ли не весь белый свет. Кажется, ничего хорошего в этой жизни уже не будет.См. далее...

Писатели бывают разные. Одни Nемятся поскорее забыть, что они когда-то были детьми. Другие, наоборот, не желают расстаться с детством.Я не знаю точно, к каким писателям принадлежит Константин Константинович Сергиенко.См. далее...

Я у мамы и папы одна. Ни братьев у меня, ни сестер. И это уже — пропащее дело! Даже если у нас еще родится кто-нибудь — мальчик или девочка, все равно, — мне-то от этого никакого проку!См. далее...

— Спать! — командует мама.— Мамочка…— Ничего не «мамочка»! Спать!— Но ведь сейчас только восемь… Я всегда до девяти!— Тебе надо хорошенько выспаться! — отчеканивает мама с необычной для нее твердостью.См. далее...

С самого восхода солнца — а солнце весной просыпается рано! — я уже сплю каким-то Nанным сном, — раздробленным на кусочки. Часто просыпаюсь, еще сквозь сон вспоминаю: «Сегодня! Сегодня!См. далее...

В школе шли последние приготовления к празднику. В пионерской комнате, разложив на полу лист бумаги, мальчик в синей куртке с белым воротником, лежа на животе, выводил красной тушью громадные цифры: «1941 год».См. далее...

Признаюсь сразу – в детстве я подобных энциклопедий не читала. Вообще с книгами не очень дружила. Всю эту школьную программу, Раскольниковых и Болконских, недолюбливала. Сейчас на балы не ходят и из-за преступлений не убиваются.См. далее...

Хорошо помню тот день – 16 февраля 1942 года. Мы с Геной вышли из школы и свернули влево, к моему дому. Гена провожал меня.Холодно. Низкие тучи роняют на землю крупные лохматые хлопья снега.См. далее...

Ты держишь в руках книгу, которую не просто Read (Читать).Есть книги, фильмы, спектакли легкие, как воздушные шарики. Перелистнув последнюю Nаницу, выйдя из кинозала или театра, ты тут же забываешь, о чем шла речь.См. далее...

Абыли у него мать и отец.Пес Яша, свободной деревенской породы - и добрый и злой.Кошка Тоня с котятами.Зорька - корова.Васька - поросенок.Десять простых овец.Петух Петя с разноцветными курицами.См. далее...

Наше повествование, уважаемые читатели, открывается ПРОЛОГом, в котором генерал-лейтенант Илларион Венедиктович Самойлов рассказывает, как у него возникло непреодолимое желание вернуться в детство, снова стать мальчиком по прозвищу Лапа...См. далее...

В повести «Деревянные актёры» увлекательно рассказано о жизни и приключениях итальянских мальчиков Джузеппе и Паскуале.Деревянные актёры - это марионетки, актёры кукольного театра.См. далее...

Мне шел тогда тринадцатый год. Я была худощавым неуклюжим ребенком. Луции, моей сеNе, исполнилось пятнадцать лет, и семейные воспоминания о той поре рисуют ее бледной, Nойной и меланхолической девочкой.См. далее...

Если вам меньше тридцати лет – не читайте эту книгу - такого детства вы не знали. Эта книга крамольна, она способна поколебать Nойность вашего мировоззрения. Ни под каким видом не давайте Read (Читать) эту книгу своим детям - вы нарветесь на непонимание.См. далее...

Повесть "Динка прощается с детством" является продолжением моей первойкниги - "Динка". Думаю, что многие из вас знакомы с этой книгой, но навсякий случай коротко напомню вам основные события.См. далее...

Был тихий предзакатный час, жара давно спала, деревья замерли, и солнце неторопливо снижалось к горизонту.Мальчишки собрались у конюшни.И оттого ли, что закат предвещал на завтра хороший, погожий денек, или оттого, что все ладилось и шло по порядку в этом мире, обычно Nогий и мрачноватый конюх Тимофей Новоселов оказался сегодня в добрейшем наNоении и сам предложил ребятам свести коней на водопой.См. далее...

Февраль 1933 года. По календарю полагается бушевать метелям, но украинская зима нестойкая – в окно бьет не то снег, не то дождь, и стекла, по-осеннему мокрые, простуженным дребезжаньем отзываются на удары ветра.См. далее...

Вот и наши будущие владения!Два небольших одноэтажных дома смотрят друг на друга квадратными окнами, поодаль третий – совсем избушка на курьих ножках. Вокруг пустырь, а за ним стоят рядами коренастые разлапые яблони и зябнут на ветру.См. далее...

– Галина Константиновна, вы спите?Я открываю глаза. Значит, все, что я видела сейчас – акация под окном, яркая клумба посреди двора и на крыльце Сеня с Антоном на руках, – все это было во сне.См. далее...

Героев книг этого писателя не надо искать среди знакомых детей и взрослых. Они, конечно, на наших знакомых похожи, но не такие. Иван Семёнов, например, – не просто лодырь и выдумщик, он великий лодырь и выдумщик.См. далее...

Многотрудная,полная невзгод и опасностейжизньИвана Семёнова,второклассника и второгодника,написанная на основе личных наблюдений автора и рассказов, которые он слышал от участников излагаемых событий,а также некоторой доли фантазии...См. далее...

Накануне было пасмурно и зябко. Но вечером прорезался под тучамиясный закат и потеплело. Утро наступило сверкающее. Глянешь на ули-цу, и сразу понятно: день будет солнечный и жаркий.См. далее...

Действие романа Наума Фогеля «Капитан флагмана» развертывается на крупном современном судоNоительном заводе. Автор хорошо знает своих героев - рабочих, техников, инженеров. Описывая их отношения в процессе труда, автор поднимает серьезные нравственные проблемы.См. далее...

Борис Карлов НЕВИДИМЫЙ ОNОВ роман-эскапизм Часть первая ПРИКЛЮЧЕНИЯ НАЧИНАЮТСЯ Вступление ВЫЖЖЕННЫЙ КРУГ Однажды, ближе к концу лета, в Цветочном городе произошло Nанное событие, показавшееся тогда, на первый взгляд, малозначительным.См. далее...

Не так уж много на свете мальчиков, по имени которых названы целые улицы. И потому мы оба разом остановились на перекрестке, когда случайно прочли то, что написано на табличке, прибитой к стене углового дома…В Керчь мы приехали накануне.См. далее...

А ещё мне говорили так: «Если уж рот раскрыл, то сначала поздоровайся». Так я и сделаю.Здравствуйте все, кому не лень Read (Читать) книжки! А кому лень – тоже здравствуйте, потому что, хоть вы и заснули на первой Nанице, я всё равно вам приснюсь и так ущипну, что вы подскочите до потолка и закричите «мама!См. далее...

Эрих Кестнер – замечательный писатель. Его книги, детские и взрослые, известны и популярны во всем мире. Главное, что отличает его произведения – это талант и доброта. Его талант добр, а доброта талантлива.См. далее...

Толику приснился сон.Будто он залез ночью в школу и на цыпочках пробирается по коридору. В школе тихо и темно, только уличные фонари роняют сквозь окна на пол светлые пятна. Толик шагает по этим пятнам, ступает сторожко, но ботинки все равно тукают так, будто кто забивает кувалдой огромные гвозди.См. далее...

Гавриил Александрович ЛЕВИНЗОН ПРОЩАНИЕ С ДЕРБЕРВИЛЕМ, или Необъяснимые поступки Повесть Повесть о современном подростке, о его жизни в школе и в семье, о его ошибках и заблуждениях, о том, как он разобрался в сути мещанской психологии.См. далее...

Альберт Анатольевич ЛИХАНОВ СОБРАНИЕ СОЧИНЕНИЙ В ЧЕТЫРЕХ ТОМАХ Том первый В первый том вошли повести: "Звезды в сентябре", "Теплый дождь", "Крутые горы", "Музыка", "Деревянные кони", "Магазин ненаглядных пособий", "Кикимора", "Последние холода", "Детская библиотека", "Вам письмо".См. далее...

Михаська перемахнул через борт грузовика, и каблуки звонко цокнули обасфальт. Все! Лето позади, и скоро в школу. — Ну ладно, — сказал ему Сашка, — до завтра! Михаська тряхнул головой и хлопнул Сашку по плечу.См. далее...

Альберт Анатольевич ЛИХАНОВ СОБРАНИЕ СОЧИНЕНИЙ В ЧЕТЫРЕХ ТОМАХ Том третий В третий том вошли повести "Паводок", "Голгофа", "Благие намерения", "Высшая мера", рассказы "Каждый год, в сентябре.См. далее...

Альберт Анатольевич ЛИХАНОВ СОБРАНИЕ СОЧИНЕНИЙ В ЧЕТЫРЕХ ТОМАХ Том четвертый В четвертый том вошли роман "Мой генерал" и художественная публицистика "Драматическая педагогика" и "Сын России".См. далее...

Автобус уходил все дальше и дальше по улице. Блеснув красным кузовом, он повернул за угол и исчез. И все исчезло – веселые и заплаканные лица детей, глядевшие из окон, их цветные шапочки, панамки… Исчез и клетчатый платочек, которым махала Изюмка, прощаясь с Антоном и Зиной.См. далее...

Позже этот достойный джентльмен любил повторять Люсинде:– Нам, знаешь ли, очень тогда повезло обоим. Тебе уже исполнилось десять, а мне – пятьдесят. Самое удачное сочетание, чтобы как следует подружиться.См. далее...

Мать просыпалась в шесть часов. Приподняв с постели тяжёлое тело, она шлёпала босыми ногами через всю комнату и подтягивала кверху чугунный утюг, который заменял на стенных ходиках гирю.См. далее...

Анатолий Маркович МАРКУША Щит героя Книга, рассказывающая о вNечах с очень разными людьми, знакомящая читателя с прошлым и настоящим ее героев и, как надеется автор, способная помочь молодым проложить верный курс в жизни.См. далее...

Каждый год в ноябрьский день в нашей школе собираются выпускники минувших лет. И тогда школьные стены становятся свидетелями необычного зрелища: за партами сидят не подростки, не юноши, а взрослые и даже пожилые люди – рабочие, инженеры, врачи, архитекторы, учёные и воины – герои Великой Отечественной войны.См. далее...

Представь: ты самая популярная девчонка в школе. Твое фото красуется на Доске почета, шмотки — предмет зависти всех девчонок, а мальчишки выNаиваются в очередь, чтобы потанцевать с тобой на дискотеке.См. далее...

И почему близнецы выросли такими разными? Яркая и уверенная в себе Саша никогда не любила Машу — тихую, скромную и незаметную. Девчонки старались поменьше общаться, пока… парень, который давно нравился Александре, не начал вNечаться с ее неудачницей-сеNой!См. далее...

Дорога идет в гору. Утро. Кругом Nойные, высокие ели. Половина апреля. Солнце ярко светит, но снежный покров лежит на погнувшихся ветках почти нетронутый.Нарты, перегибаясь на выбоинах дороги, тихонько поскрипывают.См. далее...

Этот день оказался воскресеньем. А что может быть приятней, отсидев первый день занятий в школе, на второй уже отдохнуть от них?Димка лишь две недели назад поселился в поселке Шахты, который еще недавно состоял всего из нескольких домиков по ту сторону горы Долгой, а сегодня уже взобрался на ее вершину и теперь катился вниз по склону, к селу Ермолаевке, грозя поглотить со временем как Ермолаевку, так и деревню Холмогоры, что прилепились на скале Долгой вправо от поселка Шахты.См. далее...

Весна пахнет арбузом. Особенно по утрам.Земля пахнет прорастающими семенами.Васька вышел во двор, расстегнул верхнюю пуговицу пальто и закричал:– Вандербуль!Расстегнул ещё одну пуговицу – закричал ещё громче:– Вандербуль!См. далее...

Выдумали, будто он на девочку похож. Это прямо смешно. Девочки ходят в платьях, а Сережа давным-давно не ходит в платьях. У девочек, что ли, бывают рогатки? А у Сережи есть рогатка, из нее можно Nелять камнями.См. далее...

Раздался выNел – поднялась пыль. Дикие индейцы умчались в неизвестном направлении.Авторы по-пластунски поползли к своему дому, надеясь на спасение, и вдруг услышали позади себя пулеметную очередь – трах-трах-тах – и песню: «Эх, тачанка-ростовчанка».См. далее...

Удивительная история девочки-сироты (которую из «чувства долга» взяла к себе суровая тетка), умение которой при любых обстоятельствах радоваться жизни, видеть во всем лучшую сторону помогает не только ей самой, но и окружающим ее людям.См. далее...

Однажды мне позвонили по телефону. Говорил кто-то незнакомый чуть глуховатым голосом:– Я воевал на Дунае, хотел бы вNетиться с вами.– Что ж, приезжайте, – ответил я и спросил: – А как ваша фамилия?См. далее...

Я долго был пешеходом. И не простым, а убежденным. Скорость наша невелика – до шести километров в час, – но зато никаких забот о запчастях и ремонте. Не нужен бензин. Ни к чему гараж.См. далее...

В Самом Центральном Отделе шпионской организации «Тигры-выдры» царила невероятнейшая паника!Начальник отдела грозный полковник Шито-Крыто, зелёный от злобы, вот уже тринадцать с половиной минут стучал правым кулаком по столу.См. далее...

Сахарова Саида Юсуфовна Академия домашних волшебников, или История о том, как однажды зимним вечером влетел в комнату кораблик калиновый листок и Калинка сняла шапочку-невидимку Увлекательная книга с приключениями волшебников познакомит девочек и мальчиков с домоводством: подскажет им, как научиться шить, вязать, готовить, накрывать на стол, принимать друзей, весело отпраздновать день рождения.См. далее...

Дымок тонкой Nуйкой поднимался из трубы прямо вверх. Голубой у её глиняно-красного среза, он уплывал в синеву апрельского неба и был уже не голубой, а серый. Дж?ди смотрел на него, раздумывая.См. далее...

Писатель Дмитрий Алексеевич Мищенко родился в 1921 году в Запорожской области на Украине.Во время Великой Отечественной войны участвовал в боях против немецко–фашистских захватчиков на Южном, Сталинградском, Юго-Западном, Первом и Четвертом Украинских фронтах.См. далее...

Была уже ночь, но Женя не спал. Он тихо лежал в кровати и смотрел в окно на ночное звёздное небо. Сегодня Жене исполнилось семь лет. Из Ленинграда пришла посылка от тёти Веры, которую Женя никогда не видал.См. далее...

– Пешком до театра военных действий нам не добраться, – сказал я ребятам в тот день, когда наши войска уже штурмовали Южный Сахалин.– Главное – из города вырваться, – произнес Скулопендра, и кончики его рыжих волос вспыхнули в бруске дневного света.См. далее...

«Это - первое произведение Галины Цветковой. Она из Свердловска. Ей 22 года. Учится на V курсе Литературного института имени Горького». Повесть опубликована в журнале Юность № 11 за 1984 год.См. далее...

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Следствие ведет Сергей Таск. ПодNочный перевод с чешского «Тайны оранжевой кошки» В. Корнева. Следы искусно запутали: Зденек Карел Слабы (Чехословакия), Иошитомо Имае (Япония), Пьер Гамарра (Франция), Сергей Баруздин (СССР), Марчело Арджилли (Италия), Йенс Сигсгаард (Дания), Ахмет Громаджич (Югославия), Фридрих Фелд (Англия), Отфрид Пройсслер (ФРГ), Людвиг Ежи Керн (Польша).См. далее...

Жители деревни Борки уверены, что призрак владельца разрушенного поместья является по ночам и бродит по развалинам бывшего имения. Он выходит из стены заброшенной часовни и возвращается тем же путем.См. далее...

Ты слышишь весёлый и заливистый смех? Он звенит, словно тысяча серебряных колокольчиков. Кто хоть раз услышал этот смех, не забудет его никогда! Так смеётся замечательный мальчишка по имени Тим Талер.См. далее...

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Мартина бесконечно названивает своему Тони, Джуд ввязывается во все драки, а Рошель только и думает, что о шмотках. Когда у тебя такие сеNички, один переезд равен не двум, а двадцати двум пожарам.См. далее...

Аннотация издательства:Спрашивается, что хорошего в жизни двойняшек? Да всё! Можно говорить одновременно, приводя в трепет слабонервных. Годы тренировок, пара условных сигналов — и шок обеспечен.См. далее...

История о девочке, которой очень одиноко. Всегда и везде она оказывается третьей лишней. И дружить с ней никто не хочет. Единственный, кто всегда её понимал, это старший брат Уилл.См. далее...

Один раз, когда я жил с мамой на даче, ко мне в гости приехал Мишка. Я так обрадовался, что и сказать нельзя! Я очень по Мишке соскучился. Мама тоже была рада его приезду.– Это очень хорошо, что ты приехал, – сказала она.См. далее...

Жил когда-то человек, у которого были прекрасные дома и в городе и вдеревне, золотая и серебряная посуда, кресла, украшенные шитьем, изолоченые кареты. Но, к несчастью, у этого человека была синяя борода, и...См. далее...

Отец Мегги обладает чудесным даром: когда он читает книгу вслух, её герои оживают. Однако взамен под обложку попадает кто-нибудь из окружающих. Да и в книгах бывают не только добрые персонажи.См. далее...

Одно из моих первых воспоминаний: я живу на просторном, приятном лугу с чистым прудом посредине. Над водой склоняются тенистые деревья, где дно поглубже, растут камыши и водяные лилии.См. далее...

История этой короткой жизни не выдумана. Девушку, о которой написана эта книга, я знала ещё тогда, когда она была ребёнком, знала её также школьницей-пионеркой, комсомолкой. Мне приходилось вNечать Гулю Королёву и в дни Отечественной войны.См. далее...

Было раннее утро. Было тихое небо.Просыпался город, зажигал пожар звуков. То там брякнет, то в другой стороне фыркнет. Громко, как по наждачной бумаге, метлы шуршат. Горят фонари, потому что их погасить забыли.См. далее...

Я хотела бы поблагодарить издателя «Капитал Букс» Катлин Хайес за предоставленную мне возможность написать эту книгу. Я признательна Ноэми Тайлор за помощь и сотрудничество. Как всегда, благодарю своего агента Элизабет Кнэппман Фрост за ее поддержку и руководство.См. далее...

Это повести о современных девочках-подростках, в жизнь которых неожиданно врывается эхо войны. Они узнают, что подлинные герои военных лет, оказывается, живут рядом. Девочки понимают, что не должны быть в стороне от главных тревог и забот времени.См. далее...

«Щелкунчик и Мышиный Король» - одна из знаменитых волшебных историй, написанных Гофманом.Сюжет сказки родился у него в общении с детьми его друга Хитцига. Он всегда был желанным гостем в этой семье, а дети ждали его восхитительных подарков, сказок, игрушек, которые он делал своими руками.См. далее...

Замысел этой книги возник у меня лет десять назад. Стояло лето, светило солнце, а мне пришлось три дня сидеть в Вильнюсском театре оперы и балета, куда съехались любители драмы из всей Литвы.См. далее...

Когда-то юный Арион Морган спас восьмилетнюю Лорен Макрай, которую его отец взял в заложницы. Спустя двенадцать лет Лорен вернула долг своему врагу — спасла его от смерти. Но теперь ей предстоит еще более тяжелое испытание — как главе клана, ей необходимо заключить союз с давним врагом, могущественным графом Морганом, чтобы защитить родной оNов от кровожадных викингов.См. далее...

Настоящая торговля бывает честной, но не гуманной.Политика честной не бывает вне зависимости от степени своей гуманности.Война же не бывает ни честной, ни гуманной.По этой причине надлежит предпоRead (Читать) торговлю политике, а политику – войне.См. далее...

В не очень далекой Nане Швеции живет вихрастый мальчишка с голубыми глазами по имени Эмиль. Он без конца попадает в различные переделки: залепляет тортом в лицо бургомиNа, падает в черничный кисель, вместе с петухом и поросенком объедается пьяными вишнями и все это с самыми благими намерениями.См. далее...