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The Ocean and its Wonders (1874)
by Robert Michael Ballantyne.

Last month completed: The Playboy of the Western World
The next scheduled collaboration will begin in July.

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A History of Japanese Colour-Prints by Woldemar von Seidlitz
The Torrent and the Night Before by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Women of the West by Max Binheim
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1926) by Anita Loos
Appeal to the Wealthy of the Land by Mathew Carey
Attainder of Treason and Confiscation of the Property of Rebels by William Dexter Wilson
Remarks on the British Quarantine Laws by Charles Maclean
A Sportsman's Sketches by Ivan Turgenev
Studies in Lowland Scots by James Colville
Weird Tales/Volume 1/Issue 1
The Aquarium (Gosse) by Philip Henry Gosse
A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country by Matilda Betham
The Waning of the Middle Ages by Johan Huizinga (tr. Hopman)
War and Peace (Tolstoy) by Leo Tolstoy (tr. Maude)
The Hittites by Archibald Henry Sayce
Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg
Felix Holt, the Radical by George Eliot
A History of Wood-Engraving by George E. Woodberry
William Blake in his relation to Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Johanna Christina Emerentia Bassalik-de Vries
Book of Record of the Time Capsule of Cupaloy (Westinghouse Electric)
Unlawful Marriage by J. J. Janeway
A Treatise on Medical Astrology by F. R. White
Evisceration by Arthur Edward Prince
Fur and the Fur Trade by M. M. Backus
The Art of Modeling Flowers in Wax by George Worgan
On the Application of Sewage in Agriculture by Edward Haughton
Description of the Abattoirs of Paris by Richard Boxall Grantham
A Short Account of the Botany of Poole by Thomas Bell Salter
A Contribution to the Pathology of Phlegmasia Dolens by Robert Lee
The Real Cause of the High Price of Gold Bullion by Edward Cooke
A Few Plain Observations Upon the End and Means of Political Reform (anonymous)
Hand-book on cheese making by George E. Newell
The Plattner Story and Others by H. G. Wells
An Elementary Treatise on Optics by Henry Coddington
Floating City (1904) by Jules Verne
Biographia Hibernica by Richard Ryan
Guy Mannering by Walter Scott
The Present State of Peru by Joseph Skinner
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
Poems by "Cushag" by Margaret Letitia Josephine Kermode
One of Ours by Willa Cather
The Theory and Practice of Handwriting by John Jackson
Japanese Wood Engravings by William Edwin Anderson
The Examination and Confession of certain Witches at Chelmsford in the County of Essex by Hermann Beigel
Old Castles by Mary Smith
Principles Involved in the Preservation of Fish by Salt by Harden Franklin Taylor
Violin Varnish and How to Make It by Georges Foucher
The History of Ink by Thaddeus Davids
In Bad Company, and other Stories by Rolf Boldrewood
Tales of To-day and Other Days
French short stories
Mr. Punch's History of the Great War by Charles Larcom Graves
The War and the Future (Masefield, 1918) by John Masefield
Weird Tales Vol. 31, No 2.
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (Revised Edition, 1831) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Natural History, Fishes by Philip Henry Gosse
Natural History, Reptiles by Philip Henry Gosse
The Sikhs by John James Hood Gordon
Siberia and the Exile System by George Kennan
A Motor-Flight Through France by Edith Wharton
Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain edited by James Kennedy
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
Cyclopedia of Painting by George D. Armstrong
Cras credemus: A Treatise on the Cultivation of the Potato by James Torbitt
The Sclavonic Provinces of the Ottoman Empire by William Ewart Gladstone
The Milestones and the Old Post Road by George W. Nash and Author:Hopper Striker Mott
The Language of the Eye by Joseph Turnley
The Man Who Knew Too Much by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
A Bid for Fortune by Guy Boothby
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) by Frederick Douglass
The Melanesians: Studies in their Anthropology and Folklore by Robert Henry Codrington
The Place of Magic in the Intellectual History of Europe by Lynn Thorndike
The Maine Woods (1864) by Henry David Thoreau
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Ingram, 5th ed.) by John Henry Ingram
The Earliest Lives of Dante (Smith 1901) translated by James Robinson Smith
Thoreau: His Home, Friends and Books by Annie Russell Marble
The Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire by Thomas Wallace Knox
Savage Island by Basil Home Thomson
The Tourist's Maritime Provinces by Ruth Kedzie Wood
The Book of Scottish Song edited by Alexander Whitelaw
Women Wanted by Mabel Potter Daggett
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressall
Paper and Its Uses by Edward A. Dawe
The Post Office of Fifty Years Ago by Pearson Hill & Rowland Hill
Church Seats and Kneeling Boards by William Butterfield
A Treatise on Soap-Making by John Carmichael
True Stories of Girl Heroines by Evelyn Everett-Green
A Boys' Life of Booker T. Washington by Walter Clinton Jackson
The Boys' Life of Mark Twain by Albert Bigelow Paine
My Life and Loves by Frank Harris
Plutarch's Moralia (Holland) by Author:Plutarch
The Mythology of the Aryan Nations by George William Cox
The Fauna of British India: Birds Vol. 1 by Edward Charles Stuart Baker
How to Keep Bees by Anna Botsford Comstock
Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, a story of his life and work by Subal Chandra Mitra
Report of a Tour through the Bengal Provinces by J. D. Beglar
Poets of John Company by various authors
Poems by Alan Seeger
Wives of the prime ministers, 1844-1906 by Elizabeth Lee
The Panchatantra by Vishnu Sharma
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Fountains Abbey by George Hodges
The Comic English Grammar by Percival Leigh
The Kiss and its History by Kristoffer Nyrop
A course of six lectures on the various forces of matter and their relations to each other by Michael Faraday
A Voyage in Space by Herbert Hall Turner
Life in Motion by John Gray McKendrick
The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday
Moll Flanders and Roxana by Daniel Defoe
My Climbs in the Alps and Caucasus (1908) by Albert Frederick Mummery
How to Know the Ferns (7th ed) by Frances Theodora Parsons
Myth, Ritual, and Religion/Volume 1 by Andrew Lang
The Aborigines of Victoria and Riverina by Peter Beveridge
Chuang Tzŭ (Giles) by Zhuang Zi
The Descent of Man (Darwin) by Charles Darwin
Burma by Herbert Thirkell White
Journal of a Voyage to Greenland, in the Year 1821 by Author:George William Manby
Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Toru Dutt
Queen Mab by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Great Neapolitan Earthquake of 1857 by Robert Mallet
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Kopal-Kundala by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
The Under-Ground Railroad by William M. Mitchell
The Tales of a Traveler by Simon Skidelsky
The Life Story of an Otter by John Coulson Tregarthen
Athletics and Manly Sport by John Boyle O'Reilly
America's National Game by Albert Spalding
The Development of Navies During the Last Half-Century by Sydney Marow Eardley-Wilmot
Mount Seir, Sinai and Western Palestine by Edward Hull
An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Lydia Maria Child
A Lady's Cruise in a French Man-of-War by Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming
Great Speeches of the War by various authors
Secrets of Crewe House by Campbell Stuart
The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage by Joseph Dalton Hooker
Lake Ngami by Charles John Andersson
Pieces People Ask For edited by George Melville Baker
The Spirit of the Nation published by James Duffy
Character of Renaissance Architecture by Charles Herbert Moore
Embroidery and Fancy Work (anonymous author)
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
Sketches of the History of the Church of Scotland by A. Ranken
The First Report of the Lichfield Society by the Lichfield Society
The Truth About the Transvaal by Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen
The Coffee Publichouse by The Coffee Publichouse Association
The Descent of Bolshevism by Ameen Rihani
The Ethics of Urban Leaseholds by John T. Emmett
Notes on the Present and Future of the Archaeological Collections of the University of Oxford by Greville John Chester
Remarks on Some Late Decisions Respecting the Colonial Church by Mountague Bernard
Canterbury Papers by Association for Founding the Settlement of Canterbury in New Zealand
On the Pollution of the Rivers of the Kingdom by Fisheries Preservation Society
Hawarden Castle by George Thomas Clark
Why the Shoe Pinches by Georg Hermann von Meyer
Navvies and Their Needs by L. M. Evans
Weather Facts and Predictions - 3rd edition by George Frederick Chambers
How to Play Chess by Charlotte Boardman Rogers
Indoor and Outdoor Gymnastic Games by Albert Meader Chesley
Association Football and How to Play It by John Cameron
Stabilizing the Dollar by Irving Fisher
The First Voyage Round the World by Antonio Pigafetta
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan edited by Annie Shepley Omori
Marriage as a Trade by Cicely Hamilton
Maury's New Elements of Geography for Primary and Intermediate Classes by Matthew Fontaine Maury
Balthasar Hübmaier by Henry Clay Vedder
Natural History, Birds by Philip Henry Gosse
A Treasury of South African Poetry and Verse edited by Edward Heath Crouch
The Romance of Nature by Louisa Anne Twamley
Japanese Plays and Playfellows by Osman Edwards
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Cycle Industry by W. F. Grew
Mr. Punch's Book of Sports
English As She Is Spoke by Pedro Carolino
Japanese flower arrangement by Mary Averill
Tensing Exercises by Edward Barrett Warman
How to Write a Short Story by Leslie Quirk
The Early English Organ Builders and their work by Edward Francis Rimbault
Evolution of the Thermometer by Henry Carrington Bolton
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
The American Indian by Clark Wissler
The European Concert in the Eastern Question by Thomas Erskine Holland
Climatic Cycles and Tree-Growth by Andrew Ellicott Douglass
The Oak: An Introduction to Forest-Botany by Harry Marshall Ward
A Wayfarer in China by Elizabeth Kimball Kendall
A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica by James Hakewill
Twilight by Julia Frankau
Life of Octavia Hill as told in her letters by Octavia Hill
Homes of the London Poor by Octavia Hill
Our Common Land (and other short essays) by Octavia Hill
The Corsair by George Gordon Byron
The Merry Muses of Caledonia collected by Robert Burns
Sawdust and Spangles by William Cameron Coup
Natural History, Mollusca by Philip Henry Gosse
A Desk-Book of Errors in English by Frank Horace Vizetelly
A Desk Book on the Etiquette of Social Stationery by Jean Wilde Clark
Yule Logs edited by George Alfred Henty
English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the nineteenth century by Graham Everitt
Ninety-three by Victor Hugo
The World's Famous Orations (Ireland)
Picturesque New Guinea by John William Lindt
Picturesque Nepal by Percy Brown
The Life of Michael Angelo by Romain Rolland
The fairy tales of science by John Cargill Brough
The Female Prose Writers of America by John Seely Hart
The Art of Bookbinding by Joseph William Zaehnsdorf
The Harvard Classics; Lectures on The Harvard Classics, Volume 51 by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson
Our American Holidays - Christmas by Robert Haven Schauffler
The Fables of Florian by Florian
Triangles of life, and other stories by Henry Lawson
Picturesque New Zealand by David Paul Gooding
The Elizabethan People by Henry Thew Stephenson
Persia by Frederic Shoberl
Crainquebille, Putois, Riquet and other profitable tales by Anatole France
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
Bull-dog Drummond by Herman Cyril McNeile
The Craftsmanship of Writing by Frederic Taber Cooper
Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
The Passenger Pigeon by William Butts Mershon
Handel by Romain Rolland
The Suspension of Habeas Corpus during the War of the Rebellion by Sydney G. Fisher
Lundy's Lane Battle by Sir Gordon Drummond
On the Relative Motion of the Earth and the Luminiferous Ether by Albert Abraham Michelson and Edward Morley
M. K. Gandhi: Indian Patriot in South Africa by Joseph J. Doke
Frontiers by George Curzon
The Visit of Charles Fraser to the Swan River in 1827 by José Guillermo Hay
The Perth gazette and Western Australian journal, Volume 1, Number 2 by Charles Macfaull (editor)
Law and Authority by
Peter Kropotkin
The Myth of Occam's Razor by William M. Thorburn
Notes on equitation and horse training translation by George H. Cameron
An Act for the Amendment of the Laws with respect to Wills (UK, 1837)
Seven Poems by Edward Estlin Cummings
The Martyrdom of Ferrer by Joseph McCabe
Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
CORSETS: An Analysis by Emma E. Goodwin
Cakes, Cookies and Confections by
The California Home Economics Association
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
Plato or Protagoras? by F.C.Schiller
The Idea of Progress by William Ralph Inge
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
Old-Time Recipes for Home Made Wines Cordials and Liqueurs by Helen S. Wright
Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey by Arthur Hussey
The English Constitution (1894) by Walter Bagehot
A Dictionary of Music and Musicians vol 1 by George Grove
Omnibuses and Cabs by Henry Charles Moore
A Brief History of Modern Philosophy by Harald Høffding
Fables of Aesop and other eminent mythologists by Roger L'Estrange
Popular Science Monthly #86 (1915) by Various Authors
Lays of Marie de France by
Marie de France.
Poems (1890) by
Emily Dickinson.
On the Vital Principle (1855) by
Aristotle.
The Pilgrim Cook Book (1921) by
Pilgrim Ladies' Aid Society
Equitation by Henry L. de Bussigny
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame