Adventures Among Books

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Longmans, Green, 1905 - 312 pages
This volume contains chapters on gothic novelists Ann Radcliffe and Nathaniel Hawthorne, as well as a chapter on the supernatural in fiction.
 

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Page 272 - And slowly rolled her eyes around; Then drawing in her breath aloud, Like one that shuddered, she unbound The cincture from beneath her breast: Her silken robe, and inner vest, Dropt to her feet, and full in view, Behold! her bosom and half her side — A sight to dream of, not to tell!
Page 25 - Square post 8vo, 5s. net. THE ROOTS OF THE MOUNTAINS, wherein is told somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale, their Friends, their Neighbours, their Foemen, and their Fellows-in-Arms.
Page 8 - Vol. I., THE WESTERN ALPS: the Alpine Region, South of the Rhone Valley, from the Col de Tenda to the Simplon Pass. With 9 New and Revised Maps. Crown 8vo., I2s. net. HINTS AND NOTES, PRACTICAL AND SCIENTIFIC, FOR TRAVELLERS IN THE ALPS: being a Revision of the General Introduction to the ' Alpine Guide '. Crown 8vo., 3s.
Page 34 - Hints to Mothers on the Management of their Health during the Period of Pregnancy and in the Lying-in Room. By T.
Page 13 - Second Series). On the Production, Preservation, and Killing of Game. With Directions in Shooting Wood-Pigeons and Breakingin Retrievers. With Portrait and 103 Illustrations. Crown 8vo., 121.
Page 63 - I remember I went into the room where his body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a-beating the coffin, and calling ' Papa ;' for, I know not how, I had some slight idea that he was locked up there.
Page 135 - With hue like that when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.
Page 35 - Woodcuts. 2 vols. 8vo., 2os. net. LEGENDS OF THE MONASTIC ORDERS, as represented in the Fine Arts, comprising the Benedictines and Augustines, and Orders derived from their Rules, the Mendicant Orders, the Jesuits, and the Order of the Visitation of St. Mary.
Page 5 - Photogravure Plates and 33 other Illustrations. Medium 8vo., 2is. net. Smith.— CARTHAGE AND THE CARTHAGINIANS. By R. BOSWORTH SMITH, MA With Maps, Plans, etc. Cr. 8vo., 3s.
Page 16 - Ladd (GEORGE TRUMBULL). PHILOSOPHY OF CONDUCT: a Treatise of the Facts, Principles and Ideals of Ethics. 8vo., 21s. ELEMENTS OF PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY. 8vo., 21s. OUTLINES OF DESCRIPTIVE PSYCHOLOGY: a Text-Book of Mental Science for Colleges and Normal Schools.

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