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On December 1, 1851, Charras[1] shrugged his shoulder and unloaded his pistols. In truth, the belief in the possibility of a coup d'etat had become humiliating. The supposition of such illegal violence on the part of M. Louis Bonaparte vanished upon serious consideration. The great question of the day was manifestly the Devincq election; it...

When The Young Adventurer was published, a year since, as the initial volume of The Pacific Series, it was announced that the second volume would be The Young Pioneer. This has been changed to The Young Miner, in order to avoid confusion with a book bearing a title somewhat similar to the one first proposed....

I was riding along one autumn day through a certain wooded portion of New York State, when I came suddenly upon an old stone house in which the marks of age were in such startling contrast to its unfinished condition that I involuntarily stopped my horse and took a long survey of the lonesome structure. Embowered in a forest which had so grown in...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. L'oeuvre de Darwin comprend, outre ses travaux biologiques, trois ouvrages consacres specialement a la geologie. Ils ont paru sous le titre general de Geologie du Voyage du Beagle[1] et forment comme une trilogie embrassant l'etude des constructions...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Come, sit thee by me, love, and thou shalt hear A tale may win a smile and claim a tear - A plain and simple story told in rhyme, As sang the minstrels of the olden time. No idle Muse I&'ll needlessly invoke - No patron&'s aid, to steer me from the rock Of...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. La Grenadiere is a little house on the right bank of the Loire as you go down stream, about a mile below the bridge of Tours. At this point the river, broad as a lake, and covered with scattered green islands, flows between two lines of cliff, where country houses built uniformly of white stone stand among...