The Japanese have many festivals, when parents and children drop their work to go to some famous garden or temple for a day's pleasure. Then there is the great boys' festival, the Feast of Flags, held on the fifth day of the fifth month ...
The early pioneer in Australia — called a “squatter” because he squatted on the land where he chose— enjoyed a ... I am tempted, in illustration of this, to quote from a larger work of mine, “Australia,” an instance of my own ...
"Peeps at Many Lands" from James Baikie. (1866-1931).
Peeps at Many Lands: Norway
Peeps At Many Lands: Ancient EgyptByRev. James Baikie, F.R.A.S.
His works include: Bushman and Buccaneer (1902) - a memoir of Harry [Breaker[ Morant - From the Old Dog (1908), Ramparts of Empire (1910), Peeps at Many Lands: Australia (1911), Oceania (1911), The British Empire (1911), Problems of the ...
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature.
"[...] It would naturally be supposed that a country which for so long a time exercised such influence upon the world at large would be extensive and densely populated.
It also has 2 chapters on fairy tales. With 16 full page illustrations. This book has 80 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1912.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there...
It would naturally be supposed that a country which for so long a time exercised such influence upon the world at large would be extensive and densely populated.