20 Years At Hull House Jane Addams TWENTY YEARS AT HULL-HOUSE WITH AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOTES BY JANE ADDAMS HULL-HOUSE, CHICAGO AUTHOR OF "DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL ETHICS," "NEWER IDEALS OF PEACE," "THE SPIRIT OF YOUTH AND THE CITY STREETS," ETC...

  A Book of Golden Deeds Charlotte M. Yonge                               PREFACE As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame...

  A BOOK OF SCOUNDRELS CHARLES WHIBLEY To the Greeks FOOLISHNESS I desire to thank the Proprietors of the `National Observer,’ the `New Review,’ the `Pall Mall Gazette,’ and `Macmillan’s Magazine,’ for courteous permission to reprint certain chapters of this book. INTRODUCTION There are other manifestations of greatness than to relieve suffering or to wreck an empire. Julius Csar and John Howard are not the only heroes who have smiled upon the world...

  A Brief History of the United States John Bach McMaster [Illustration: GEORGE WASHINGTON. Painted by Rembrandt Peale.] PREFACE It is not too much to assert that most of our countrymen acquire at school all the knowledge they possess of the past history of their country...

  A Brief History of the United States Barnes and Co. Produced by Robert Prince, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franksand the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. [Illustration: GEORGE WASHINGTON AND HISTORICAL SCENES] [Illustration: PLYMOUTH ROCK]        * * * * * PREFACE...

  A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land Of Virginia Thomas Hariot   A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia, ’of the commodities and of the nature and man ners of the naturall inhabitants: Discouered by the English Colony there seated by’ Sir Richard Greinuile Knight’ ’In the yeere 1585...

  A Day In Old Athens William Stearns Davis Preface This little book tries to describe what an intelligent person would see and hear in ancient Athens, if by some legerdemain he were translated to the fourth century B.C. and conducted about the city under competent guidance...

  A Footnote to History Robert Louis Stevenson PREFACE AN affair which might be deemed worthy of a note of a few lines in any general history has been here expanded to the size of a volume or large pamphlet. The smallness of the scale, and the singularity of the manners and events and many of the characters, considered, it is hoped that, in spite of its outlandish subject, the sketch may find readers. It has been a task of difficulty...

  A Forgotten Empire: Vijayanagar; A Contribution to the History of India Robert Sewell Preface The two Portuguese chronicles, a translation of which into English is now for the first time offered to the public, are contained in a vellum-bound folio volume in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, amongst the manuscripts of which institution it bears the designation "PORT. NO. 65...

  A HALF-CENTURY OF CONFLICT FRANCIS PARKMAN VOL. II CONTENTS CHAPTER XV. 1697-1741...