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Mon Year Title and Author                                  [filename.ext] ###
A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright

Oct 1996 The Old Curiosity Shop, by Charles Dickens [CD#12][curioxxx.xxx]  700
Oct 1996 A Child's History of England, Charles Dickens CD11[achoexxx.xxx]  699
Oct 1996 Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin, R. L. Stevenson[RLS#33][fleemxxx.xxx]  698
Oct 1996 The Light Princess, by George MacDonald  [GM#2]   [ltprnxxx.xxx]  697

Oct 1996 The Castle of Otranto, by Horace Walpole [HP#1]   [cotrtxxx.xxx]  696
Oct 1996 Glaucus/The Wonders of the Shore by Chas Kingsley [glcusxxx.xxx]  695
Oct 1996 Stories from Everybody's Magazine, 1910           [10evmxxx.xxx]  694
Oct 1996 The Autobiography of a Quack, by S. Weir Mitchell [auqakxxx.xxx]  693

Oct 1996 Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Vol X     [10jwrxxx.xxx]  692
Oct 1996 Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Vol I     [01jwrxxx.xxx]  691
Oct 1996 Proposed Roads to Freedom, by Bertrand Russell[#1][rfreexxx.xxx]  690
Oct 1996 The Kreutzer Sonata, et al, by Leo Tolstoy/Tolstoi[krsonxxx.xxx]  689

Oct 1996 The Goodness of St. Rocque et al, by Alice Dunbar [stroqxxx.xxx]  688
Oct 1996 A Personal Record, by Joseph Conrad  [Conrad #11] [aprjcxxx.xxx]  687
Oct 1996 The Treaty of the European Union  [Maastricht]    [maastxxx.xxx]  686
Oct 1996 The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki     [abombxxx.xxx]  685

Oct 1996 Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War-Some Perspectives[nukwrxxx.xxx]  684
Oct 1996 The Compleat Angler, by Izaak Walton              [tcangxxx.xxx]  683
Oct 1996 Catalan's Constant [Ramanujan's Formula] [Math#15][ctcstxxx.xxx]  682
Oct 1996 Creatures That Once Were Men, by Maxim Gorky [#1] [crmenxxx.xxx]  681

Oct 1996 The Golden Threshold, by Sarojini Naidu           [gldthxxx.xxx]  680
Oct 1996 Poems, by Frances E. W. Harper                    [pfewhxxx.xxx]  679
Oct 1996 The Cricket on the Hearth, by Charles Dickens #10 [tcothxxx.xxx]  678
Oct 1996 Heroes, by Charles Kingsley [Greek Fairy Tales]   [ghrosxxx.xxx]  677

Oct 1996 The Battle of Life, by Charles Dickens[Dickens#10][batlfxxx.xxx]  676
Oct 1996 American Notes, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #9]   [amntsxxx.xxx]  675
Oct 1996 Plutarch's Lives, A. H. Clough, ["Dryden's Trans"][plivsxxx.xxx]  674
Oct 1996 Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [HTML]  [pgwhtxxx.xxx]  673C
(File Size:  45M unzipped)  (Note: The Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
(is in a text markup format similar to HTML.)


Sep 1996 The Secret Guide to Computers, by Russ Walter     [sgcwpxxx.xxx]  672C
Sep 1996 Phil, the Fiddler, by Horatio Alger, Jr.[Alger #8][phidlxxx.xxx]  671
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [XZ][pgwxzxxx.xxx]  670C
. . .
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [AB][pgwabxxx.xxx]  660C
Sep 1996 Paul The Peddler, by Horatio Alger, Jr. [Alger #7][ptpedxxx.xxx]  659
Sep 1996 The Fall of Troy, by Quintus Smyrnaeus [400 A.D.] [ftroyxxx.xxx]  658
Sep 1996 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Trans. by James Ingram [angsxxxx.xxx]  657

Sep 1996 Life of Robert Browning by William Sharp          [shabrxxx.xxx]  656
Sep 1996 Life and Letters of Robert Browning, by Mrs. Orr  [orrbrxxx.xxx]  655
Sep 1996 Grace Abounding to Chief of Sinners by John Bunyan[gacosxxx.xxx]  654
Sep 1996 The Chimes, by Charles Dickens        [Dickens #8][tchmsxxx.xxx]  653

Sep 1996 Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, by Samuel Johnson#2[rslasxxx.xxx]  652
Sep 1996 Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll #5[fntsmxxx.xxx]  651
Sep 1996 Pictures From Italy, by Charles Dickens[Dickens#7][picitxxx.xxx]  650

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[Just passed this mark this week. . .1.0026 trillion!!!]

With 15,530 eBooks online as of February 23, 2005 it now takes an average
of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.64 from each book,
This "cost" is down from about $.87 when we had 11,573 eBooks a year ago.
100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population!

At 15,530 eBooks in 33 Years and 07.75 Months We Averaged
      ~462 Per Year
        38.5 Per Month
         1.26 Per Day

At 574 eBooks Done In The 49 Days Of 2005 We Averaged
      11.7 Per Day
      82 Per Week
     332 Per Month

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[India will be following in the steps of China, and then will
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very important people, institutions and countries have been
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BRAIN DRAIN CHANGES DIRECTION
Whereas a few years ago the "brain drain" of Indian talent to the West
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industry in India is bringing home as many as 45% of the Indian
high-technology workers abroad. Some engineering schools are already
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Kalyanaraman of the prestigious engineering school IIT in Madras says:
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EDUCAUSE PUBLISHES FIRST WEB-ONLY BOOK
EDUCAUSE has published its first Web-only book, "Educating the Net
Generation," edited by Diana Oblinger, vice president of EDUCAUSE and
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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA

Recent revisions to SAT [Scholastic Aptitude Tests] were
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*STRANGE QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"They both thought they were above the law."
[re: Howard Hughes and President Nixon being
involved in the Watergate scandal]

Nixon will be elected "under our sponsorship
and supervision every step of the way."
Howard Hughes


*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK

India will will be following in the footsteps of China
in terms of industrial development, then Indonesia.


*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK

If you put your hand over the portion of the globe that
represents China, India and Indonesia, etc., half of the
world's population lives in the area represented.


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"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following. There would be:

57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
  8 Africans
  52 would be female
  48 would be male
  70 would be non-white
  30 would be white
  70 would be non-Christian
  30 would be Christian
   6 people  would  possess  59%  of the entire world's wealth
   and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
  1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
  1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
  1 would own a computer

I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.

I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.

If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.

I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.

BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.

This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge.  Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites.  Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security.  The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.


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Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850, by Various               15232
   [Subtitle: A Medium Of Inter-Communication For Literary Men,
    Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc.]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/2/3/15232 ]
   [Files: 15232.txt; 15232-8.txt; 15232-h.htm]

The American Missionary  Vol. XLIV. No. 2., by Various                   15231
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/2/3/15231 ]
   [Files: 15231.txt; 15231-8.txt; 15231-h.htm]

Mrs. Mink's Soldier and Other Stories, by Alice Hegan Rice               15230
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/2/3/15230 ]
   [Files: 15230.txt; 15230-8.txt; 15230-h.htm]

Resources of the State of Washington, 1909, by Ithamar Howell            15229
   [Title: A Review of the Resources and Industries of the State of
    Washington, 1909]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/2/2/15229 ]
   [Files: 15229.txt; 15229-h.htm]

Lady Good-for-Nothing, by A. T. Quiller-Couch                            15228
   [Subtitle: A Man's Portrait of a Woman]
   [Author AKA: Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch; Q]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/2/2/15228 ]
   [Files: 15228.txt; ]

Prince Lazybones and Other Stories, by Mrs. W. J. Hays                   15227
   Contents:
     The Adventures of Prince Lazybones
     Phil's Fairies
     Florio and Florella: a Christmas Fairy Tale
     Boreas Bluster's Christmas Present
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/2/2/15227 ]
   [Files: 15227.txt; 15227-8.txt; 15227-h.htm; ]

Nanon, by George Sand                                                    15226
   [Subtitle: La bibliotheque precieuse]
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/2/2/15226/ ]
   [Files: 15226-8.txt; 15226-r.rtf]

Andreas: The Legend of St. Andrew, by Unknown                            15225
   [Translator: Robert Kilburn Root]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/2/2/15225/ ]
   [Files: 15225.txt; 15225-8.txt]

With Steyn and De Wet, by Philip Pienaar                                 15224
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/2/2/15224/ ]
   [Files: 15224.txt; 15224-8.txt; 15224-h.htm]

Doctor Claudius, A True Story, by F. Marion Crawford                     15223
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/2/2/15223 ]
   [Files: 15223.txt; 15223-8.txt; 15223-h.htm]

Looking Seaward Again, by Walter Runciman                                15222
   [Author AKA: Sir Walter Runciman, Bart.]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/2/2/15222 ]
   [Files: 15222.txt; 15222-8.txt; 15222-h.htm; ]

A New Conscience And An Ancient Evil, by Jane Addams                     15221
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/2/2/15221 ]
   [Files: 15221.txt; 15221-8.txt]

Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2), by Ida Husted Harper  15220
   [Subtitle: Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From
    Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/2/2/15220 ]
   [Files: 15220.txt; 15220-8.txt; 15220-h.htm]

If Only, Etc., by Francis Clement Philips and Augustus Harris            15219
   Contents:
     If Only
     One Can't Always Tell
     Songs. After Victor Hugo, Armand Silvestre, Charles Rousseau and
       The Vicomte De Borelli
     Love Went Out When Money Was Invented
     A Puzzled Painter. (Written in Collaboration with the Late Sir
       Augustus Harris)
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/2/1/15219 ]
   [Files: 15219.txt; 15219-8.txt; 15219-h.htm]

The Woman Who Toils, by Mrs. John Van Vorst and Marie Van Vorst          15218
   [Subtitle: Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls]
   [Prefatory Letter From Theodore Roosevelt]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/2/1/15218 ]
   [Files: 15218.txt; 15218-8.txt; 15218-h.htm]

Sillankorvan emanta, by Hilja Kilpi                                      15217
   [Subtitle: Nelinaytoksinen naytelma - Tapaus lansisuomalaisessa
    talonpoikaissuvussa 1860-1870-luvulla]
   [Language: Finnish]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/2/1/15217 ]
   [Files: 15217.txt; 15217-8.txt]

Notes and Queries, Number 55, November 16, 1850, by Various              15216
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/2/1/15216 ]
   [Files: 15216.txt; 15216-8.txt; 15216-h.htm]

Magie bij de Grieken en de Romeinen, by Karel H.E. de Jong               15215
   [Language: Dutch]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/2/1/15215 ]
   [Files: 15215-8.txt; 15215-0.txt; 15215-h.htm]

Sevenoaks, by J. G. Holland                                              15214
   [Subtitle: A Story of To-day]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/2/1/15214 ]
   [Files: 15214.txt; 15214-8.txt; 15214-h.htm; ]

J. W. v. Goethe's Biographie, by H. Doering                              15213
   [Language: German]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/2/1/15213 ]
   [Files: 15213-8.txt; 15213-h.htm; ]

Bulletin de Lille, Jan. 1916, by Anonymous                               15212
   [Subtitle: Publie sous le controle de l'autorite allemande]
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/2/1/15212/ ]
   [Files: 15212-8.txt; 15212-h.htm]

Some Broken Twigs, by Clara M. Beede                                     15211
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/2/1/15211/ ]
   [Files: 15211.txt; 15211-8.txt; 15211-h.htm]

Darkwater, by W. E. B. Du Bois                                           15210
   [Subtitle: Voices From Within The Veil]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/2/1/15210 ]
   [Files: 15210.txt; 15210-8.txt; 15210-h.htm]

Clear Crystals, by Clara M. Beede                                        15209
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/2/0/15209/ ]
   [Files: 15209.txt; 15209-8.txt; 15209-h.htm]

Les mille et un fantomes, by Alexandre Dumas                             15208
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/2/0/15208 ]
   [Files: 15208.txt; 15208-8.txt; 15208-h.htm]

The New Physics and Its Evolution, by Lucien Poincare                    15207
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/2/0/15207 ]
   [Files: 15207.txt; 15207-8.txt; 15207-h.htm; ]

Torquemada en la hoguera, by B. Perez Galdos                             15206
   [Subtitle: El articulo de fondo; La mula y el buey; La pluma en el viento;
    La conjuracion de las palabras; Un tribunal literario; La princesa
    y el granuja; Junio]
   [Language: Spanish]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/2/0/15206/ ]
   [Files: 15206-8.txt; 15206-h.htm]

The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems, by H. L. Gordon                15205
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/2/0/15205/ ]
   [Files: 15205.txt; 15205-8.txt; 15205-h.htm]

Women Wage-Earners, by Helen Campbell                                    15204
   [Subtitle: Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/2/0/15204/ ]
   [Files: 15204.txt; 15204-8.txt; 15204-h.htm]

Un billet de loterie, by Jules Verne                                     15203
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/2/0/15203/ ]
   [Files: 15203-8.txt; 15203-r.rtf]

Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12), by Various                       15202
   [Editor: Hamilton Wright Mabie]
   [Subtitle: Myths and Legendary Heroes]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/2/0/15202 ]
   [Files: 15202.txt; 15202-8.txt; 15202-h.htm; ]

Szachy i Warcaby: Droga do mistrzostwa, by Edward Lasker                 15201C
   [Subtitle: Kompletne instrukcje dla poczatkujacych i wartosciowe
    sugestie dla zaawansowanych graczy]
   [Translation of Chess and Checkers: The Way to Mastership]
   [Tr.: Wojciech Oziminski]
   [Language: Polish]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/2/0/15201 ]
   [Files: 15201-8.txt; ]

Selections From the Works of John Ruskin, by John Ruskin                 15200
   [Edited With Introduction And Notes By Chauncey B. Tinker]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/2/0/15200 ]
   [Files: 15200.txt; 15200-8.txt; 15200-h.htm]

The Reformed Librarie-Keeper (1650), by John Dury                        15199
   [Introduction by Richard H. Popkin and Thomas F. Wright]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/9/15199 ]
   [Files: 15199.txt; 15199-8.txt]

Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. II. (of 12), by Burke   15198
   [Full author: Edmund Burke]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/9/15198 ]
   [Files: 15198.txt; 15198-8.txt; 15198-h.htm]

Notes & Queries No. 29, Saturday, May 18, 1850, by Various               15197
   [Subtitle: A Medium Of Inter-Communication For Literary Men, Artists,
    Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc.]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/9/15197 ]
   [Files: 15197.txt; 15197-8.txt; 15197-h.htm]

Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103, September 10, 1892,by Various  15196
   [Edited by Francis Burnand]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/9/15196 ]
   [Files: 15196.txt; 15196-8.txt; 15196-h.htm]

Rose of Old Harpeth, by Maria Thompson Daviess                           15195
   [Illustrated by W. B. King]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/9/15195 ]
   [Files: 15195.txt; 15195-8.txt; 15195-h.htm]

Out To Win, by Coningsby Dawson                                          15194
   [Subtitle: The Story of America in France]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/9/15194 ]
   [Files: 15194.txt; 15194-8.txt; 15194-h.htm]

Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892, by Various   15193
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/9/15193 ]
   [Files: 15193.txt; 15193-8.txt; 15193-h.htm]

Salomy Jane, by Bret Harte                                               15192
   [Illustrated By Harrison Fisher And Arthur I. Keller]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/9/15192 ]
   [Files: 15192.txt; 15192-8.txt; 15192-h.htm]

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom, by P. L. Simmonds      15191
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/9/15191 ]
   [Files: 15191.txt; 15191-8.txt; 15191-h.xhtml]

With the Harmony to Labrador, by Benjamin La Trobe                       15190
   [Subtitle: Notes Of A Visit To The Moravian Mission Stations]
   [On The North-East Coast Of Labrador]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/9/15190 ]
   [Files: 15190.txt; 15190-8.txt; 15190-h.htm]

When Buffalo Ran, by George Bird Grinnell                                15189
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/8/15189 ]
   [Files: 15189.txt; 15189-h.htm]

The Outdoor Chums After Big Game, by Captain Quincy Allen                15188
   [Subtitle: Or, Perilous Adventures in the Wilderness]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/8/15188 ]
   [Files: 15188.txt; 15188-8.txt; 15188-h.htm]

The Children of the King, by F. Marion Crawford                          15187
   [Subtitle: A Tale of Southern Italy]
   [Author AKA: Francis Marion Crawford]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/1/8/15187 ]
   [Files: 15187.txt; 15187-8.txt; ]

Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian, by Various                          15186
   [Ed. & Tr.: C. J. T.]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/1/8/15186 ]
   [Files: 15186.txt; 15186-8.txt; 15186-h.htm; ]

Quiet Talks on John's Gospel, by S. D. Gordon                            15185
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/8/15185 ]
   [Files: 15185.txt; 15185-8.txt]

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Vol. 13, Ed. by Blair and Robertson   15184
   [Subtitle: Volume XIII, 1604-1605]
   [Ed., Tr., & Annotations: Emma Helen Blair & James Alexander Robertson]
   [Intro. & Notes: Edward Gaylord Bourne]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/8/15184 ]
   [Files: 15184.txt; 15184-8.txt]

The Tragedy of the Chain Pier, by Charlotte M. Braeme                    15183
   [Subtitle: Everyday Life Library No. 3]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/8/15183 ]
   [Files: 15183.txt; 15183-h.htm]

Marion Arleigh's Penance, by Charlotte M. Braeme                         15182
   [Subtitle: Everyday Life Library No. 5]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/8/15182 ]
   [Files: 15182.txt; 15182-h.htm]

My Mother's Rival, by Charlotte M. Braeme                                15181
   [Subtitle: Everyday Life Library No. 4]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/8/15181 ]
   [Files: 15181.txt; 15181-h.htm]

The Honorable Percival, by Alice Hegan Rice                              15180
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/8/15180 ]
   [Files: 15180.txt; 15180-8.txt; 15180-h.htm]

The Inner Sisterhood, by Douglass Sherley et al.                         15179
   [Subtitle: A Social Study in High Colors]
   [Additional authors: Kate Meadows, Belle Mason, Alice Wing,
    Rose Clendennin, Sophia Gilder, Mary Lee Manley, Lena Searlwood]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/7/15179 ]
   [Files: 15179.txt; 15179-8.txt; 15179-h.htm]

Alaska, by Jon Olafsson                                                  15178
   [Language: Icelandic]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/7/15178 ]
   [Files: 15178-8.txt; 15178-0.txt; 15178-h.htm]

Nocturne, by Frank Swinnerton                                            15177
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/7/15177 ]
   [Files: 15177.txt; 15177-8.txt]

English Literature, by Henry Coppee                                      15176
   [Title: English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English
    History]
   [Subtitle: Designed as a Manual of Instruction]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/7/15176 ]
   [Files: 15176.txt; 15176-8.txt; 15176-0.txt; 15176-h.htm]

A Century of Wrong, by F.W. Reitz                                        15175
   [Preface by W.T. Stead]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/7/15175 ]
   [Files: 15175.txt; 15175-8.txt; 15175-h.htm]

Memories and Anecdotes, by Kate Sanborn                                  15174
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/1/7/15174/ ]
   [Files: 15174.txt; 15174-8.txt; 15174-h.htm]

Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago, by Hannah Trager           15173
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/1/7/15173/ ]
   [Files: 15173.txt; 15173-h.htm]

The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome, by Charles Michael Baggs        15172
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/1/7/15172/ ]
   [Files: 15172.txt; 15172-8.txt; 15172-h.htm]

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, . . ., by William Griffith          15171
   [Title: Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and
    The Neighbouring Countries]
   [Editor: John M'Clelland]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/1/7/15171 ]
   [Files: 15171.txt; 15171-h.htm ]

The Child's World, by Hetty Browne, Sarah Withers, & W.K. Tate           15170
   [Subtitle: Third Reader]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/7/15170 ]
   [Files: 15170.txt; 15170-h.htm]

The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City, by Laura Lee Hope                     15169
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/6/15169 ]
   [Files: 15169.txt; 15169-8.txt; 15169-h.htm]

Bowser The Hound, by Thornton W. Burgess                                 15168
   [Illus.: Harrison Cady]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/6/15168 ]
   [Files: 15168.txt; 15168-h.htm]

London River, by H. M. Tomlinson                                         15167
   [Author AKA: Henry Major Tomlinson]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/1/6/15167 ]
   [Files: 15167.txt; ]

Punch, Vol. 103, September 3, 1892, Ed. by Sir Francis Burnand           15166
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These notes on "Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and
the Neighboring Countries" book #15171 provided by UK volunteer Les Bowler:

William Griffith (1810-1845) was a gifted botanist, a Fellow of the Linnaean
Society, and this book, produced by geologist Dr. J. McClelland from some of
Griffith's diaries after his early death  and published originally by the East
India Company, is an account of his plant-identifying and collecting trips
through regions and countries to the North-West and the North-east of the
Indian sub-continent.

It is not a travel book in the usual sense -- although there is some mention of
various difficulties and 'adventures' encountered during the journeys (on his
trek in Afghanistan he was a scientific adviser in the Army of the Indus during
the First Afghan War, and witnessed the capture of the city and fort of Ghuzni,
and on another occasion, as member of a small party, was lucky to survive an
attack by bandits), it is principally a record, sometimes in great detail, of
the botanical species that he found along the way, trees, shrubs, flowers,
grasses and mosses, and the conditions, heights, temperatures, etc. where they
were found growing, -- also, to a lesser degree and in less detail, reference is
made to the birds, animals and fish of the areas traversed.

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      -- Goodbye, now, goodbye. Write down all I said
      And tell Tom, Dick and Harry I rose from the dead.
      What's bred in the bone cannot fail me to fly
      And Olivet's breezy... Goodbye, now, goodbye.

~ ~ ~

'That's all,' said Humpty Dumpty.  'Good-bye.'

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Dec 1996 Autocrat of Breakfast Table, Oliver Wendell Holmes[aofbtxxx.xxx]  751
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Dec 1996 The Golden Mean, To A Million Digits  [math #16]  [gmeanxxx.xxx]  744
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Dec 1996 Henry Clay's Remarks in House and Senate [Clay #1][hcrhsxxx.xxx]  739
Dec 1996 The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot by Andrew Lang#5[pldlpxxx.xxx]  738
Dec 1996 The Bobbsey Twins at School, by Laura Lee Hope #2?[tbtasxxx.xxx]  737


Nov 1996 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon V6 [6dfrexxx.xxx]  736
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Nov 1996 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon V1 [1dfrexxx.xxx]  731
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Nov 1996 Emile Zola, by William Dean Howells [howells #5]  [ezolaxxx.xxx]  728
Nov 1996 The Star-Spangled Banner, by John Carpenter       [stspbxxx.xxx]  727
Nov 1996 Psychological Counter-Current by Howells [WDH #4] [pccmfxxx.xxx]  726
Nov 1996 Men of Invention and Industry by Samuel Smiles #2 [moiaixxx.xxx]  725

Nov 1996 The Man of Letters as a Man of Business [Howells3][tmlmbxxx.xxx]  724
Nov 1996 Henry James, Jr., by William Dean Howells  [WDH#2][jimjrxxx.xxx]  723
Nov 1996 James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist, by J.C. Ridpath [jotisxxx.xxx]  722
Nov 1996 The Birds' Christmas Carol, Kate Douglas Wiggin #2[tbsccxxx.xxx]  721

Nov 1996 Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad  [Conrad #12]    [lmyerxxx.xxx]  720
Nov 1996 Plays of Wm.E. Henley and R.L. Stevenson [RLS #34][tpohsxxx.xxx]  719
Nov 1996 Tono Bungay, by H. G. Wells  [H. G. Wells #6]     [tonobxxx.xxx]  718
Nov 1996 Chita:  A Memory of Last Island, by Lafcadio Hearn[chitaxxx.xxx]  717

Nov 1996 The Cruise of the Jasper B., by Don Marquis [#3]  [jsprbxxx.xxx]  716
Nov 1996 Moon Endureth [Tales/Fancies], by John Buchan [#5][ndrthxxx.xxx]  715
Nov 1996 Bobbsey Twins in the Country, by Laura Lee Hope #1[tbticxxx.xxx]  714
Nov 1996 Memoirs of Popular Delusions V2, by Charles MacKay[2ppdlxxx.xxx]  713

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of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.64 from each book,
This "cost" is down from about $.85 when we had 11,819 eBooks a year ago.
100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population!

At 15,678 eBooks in 33 Years and 08.25 Months We Averaged
      ~468 Per Year
        39.0 Per Month
         1.28 Per Day

At 722 eBooks Done In The 63 Days Of 2005 We Averaged
      11.5 Per Day
      80 Per Week
     321 Per Month

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production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon,
starts with the first Wednesday of January.  January 5th was
the first Wednesday of 2005, and thus ended PG's production
year of 2004 and began the production year of 2005 at noon.

This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week.

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*Headline News from NewsScan and Edupage

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we posted one extra week in tribute. . . .]


[PG Editor's Comments In Brackets]

[India will be following in the steps of China, and then will
come Indonesia, and "suddenly" half the world's population will
no longer be "Third World" or "developing countries."  This is
obvious to anyone paying attention, but we will find that some
very important people, institutions and countries have been
keeping their heads in the sand.]

BRAIN DRAIN CHANGES DIRECTION
Whereas a few years ago the "brain drain" of Indian talent to the West
represented a $2 billion annual loss to India, the recent growth of the tech
industry in India is bringing home as many as 45% of the Indian
high-technology workers abroad. Some engineering schools are already
claiming a 50% decline in the number of students leaving the country, and V.
Kalyanaraman of the prestigious engineering school IIT in Madras says:
"Students are finding interesting and challenging jobs in India. The pay is
also better than it used to be, and they find that they can have a good
quality of life." (USA Today 24 Feb 2005)
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[The Legal System Ponders The Online World In Several Ways]

TEXAS BILL WOULD BENEFIT GRADUATES OF ONLINE LAW SCHOOLS
A bill working its way through the Texas legislature could give
graduates of online law schools more opportunities to practice law. The
American Bar Association (ABA) has so far refused to accredit online
law schools, saying that they do not train students adequately to
practice law. Although the ABA continues to refuse accreditation to
online law schools, the organization does accredit institutions that
offer some courses online. Currently in Texas, a graduate of an online
law school can only take the state's bar exam if he or she has
practiced law in another state for at least five years. The proposed
law would allow online graduates to take the Texas bar exam if they
simply had passed the bar in another state. A small number of other
states have similar statutes. California is currently the only state
that allows individuals to take the bar exam without having passed
another state's bar exam. The bill was prompted by the situation of
Julie Drenner, daughter of a state legislator, who graduated from Oak
Brook College of Law and Government in California, passed that state's
bar exam, and now wants to practice law in Texas.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 11 March 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v51/i27/27a03501.htm

COURT PONDERS PROTECTION OF ONLINE JOURNALISTS
Two court cases involving Apple Computer have significant potential to
define the legal landscape for online journalists. In one case, Apple
has asked the court to allow it to compel the operators of three
industry Web sites to disclose the identities of confidential sources
who supplied the sites with confidential information about upcoming
Apple products. The judge in that case indicated he is leaning toward
finding for Apple. In the other case, Apple has accused Harvard student
Nick DePlume, operator of the Think Secret Web site, of trying to
persuade Apple employees to divulge company secrets. At issue in both
cases is the extent to which online journalists are afforded the
protection granted to traditional journalists for protecting their
sources. An attorney from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is
fighting Apple in the first case, said that a ruling in Apple's favor
would "have a chilling effect on the use of confidential sources."
DePlume's attorney, Terry Gross, commented that had a major newspaper
published the stories that DePlume published on Think Secret, those
actions would simply have been deemed "good journalism" and no lawsuits
would have been filed.
New York Times, 5 March 2005 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/05/technology/05blogs.html


HACKER EXPOSES ADMISSIONS RECORDS

[9 1/2 Hours, Or 9 1/2 Weeks?]

A hacker who was able to access admissions records for dozens of
business schools posted instructions online for how applicants could
access those records. Among the universities whose records were exposed
were Harvard University, Stanford University, Duke University, Carnegie
Mellon University, and Dartmouth College. All of the affected schools
use an online application and notification system called ApplyYourself.
The vulnerability that allowed the unauthorized access has been fixed,
but during the nine hours in which the systems were exposed, several
hundred students attempted to find out if they had been accepted to
schools to which they applied. Final decisions and notifications of
acceptance are not expected for several more weeks. School officials
have been able to identify at least some of the applicants who gained
access to the records systems, and officials from some schools said
such activity would factor into the admission decision. Steve Nelson of
Harvard's MBA program said, "Hacking into a system in this manner is
unethical and also contrary to the behavior we expect of leaders we
aspire to develop." Even if a student saw a decision, said Nelson, that
decision isn't final until March 30.
San Jose Mercury News, 3 March 2005
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11044063.htm

NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY UNVEILS ONLINE ARCHIVE
The New York Public Library this week unveiled an online archive of
275,000 images, available to the public for free. The project, called
the NYPL Digital Gallery, is supported by a $7 million grant from The
Atlantic Philanthropies and includes Civil War photographs, illuminated
manuscripts, Japanese prints, early American maps, and photographs of
New York City buildings and streetscapes. Paul LeClerc, president and
chief executive officer of the library, noted that while other
libraries are digitizing texts, few are putting materials such as
photographs and maps online. Images in the collection are either in the
public domain or are owned by the library and can be downloaded and
used for noncommercial purposes. The NYPL Digital Gallery project,
which is unrelated to the library's arrangement with Google to
digitize content, is expected to add another 225,000 images to its
database in the coming months.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 3 March 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2005/03/2005030307n.htm


LIBRARY EXPERIMENTS WITH IPODS FOR AUDIO BOOKS

[The Fact That The iPod Shuffle Actually "Shuffles" The Playing
Order Of The MP3s Might Be A Potential Problem Here, Unless The
Library Puts Only A Single MP3 File On Each iPod]

The South Huntington Public Library on Long Island, New York, has begun
a program of loaning iPod shuffles to library patrons to listen to
audio books. Ken Weil, director of the library, said that the
introduction of Apple's newest iPod device, the shuffle, made the
program economically viable. "It's the right product with the right
price," he said. Although currently the selection of books available in
MP3 format is relatively limited, Joe Latini, assistant director of the
library, said patrons can request new titles to be added. He also noted
that because books in MP3 format cost just $15 to $25, compared to
about $75 for books on CD, the savings will likely pay for the iPod
devices over time. The library has ten of the devices available for
checkout, four of which store 512 megabytes while the other six hold up
to 1 gigabyte.
Wired News, 3 March 2005
http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,66756,00.html

[More Educational Possibilities for iPods]

IPODS DEBUT AT DREXEL
Students entering the School of Education at Drexel University this
fall will receive iPods as part of a program to explore and evaluate
the educational potential of the devices. Duke University launched a
similar program last fall, distributing iPods to all 1,650 of its
incoming freshmen. The program at Drexel, however, is much smaller in
scope, with about 30 students expected to enter the School of Education
in the fall. Some have criticized such programs as gimmicks that are
unlikely to produce valuable educational results, and officials
involved in the programs acknowledge the risk that students will simply
use the devices to listen to music. Drexel officials said part of the
university's program is to solicit feedback from students about how
the devices could be put to good use educationally. Students will
receive microphones to record interviews and other meetings, and the
university will request that the students use the iPods to create
"audio Web logs" during a required semester of off-campus work. Drexel
will also experiment with podcasting, a process in which iPod owners
can download audio files, such as news announcements or lectures from
professors, and listen to them at their convenience.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 2 March 2005
http://chronicle.com/free/2005/03/2005030203n.htm

RESEARCHERS OFFER PLANET NAMING RIGHTS
Researchers hoping to locate unknown planets outside the solar system
have launched a project to encourage computer users to donate unused
processing power on their computers to analyze telescope data.
Participants in the PlanetQuest Collaboratory whose computers discern
variations in the data that indicate the existence of a planet will be
allowed to name it. The project is led by David Gutelius, visiting
scholar at Stanford University, and Laurance Doyle, an astrophysicist
with the SETI Institute in California. The PlanetQuest project is not
unlike the SETI at Home project, sponsored by the University of California
at Berkeley, which uses donated computing power to search for
extraterrestrial intelligence. Gutelius and Doyle hope to raise enough
money for their project to build as many as 10 telescopes around the
world dedicated to searching for unknown planets. Gutelius said
start-up costs could reach $20 million, with annual operating costs
running about $10 million, money he hopes can be raised from private
investors as well as from subscriptions to premium content and revenue
from ads on the site.
Wired News, 2 March 2005


EDUCAUSE LAUNCHES BLOG SERVICE
EDUCAUSE has launched the EDUCAUSE Community Blog Service, a pilot
project to create a new, vibrant medium for professional information
sharing in the higher education IT community. The blogs represent a
growing number of voices in this community, and postings span a wide
range of topics, including cybersecurity, teaching and learning, and
open source software. Postings are categorized by taxonomy term and by
blogger and can be browsed on the EDUCAUSE Web site or received through
an RSS syndicated feed.
EDUCAUSE, 2 March 2005
http://www.educause.edu/blogs/

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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA


NBC BLAMES AMERICAN OFFICIALS FOR IRAQ-ASSASSINATION GOOF

NBC News blamed United States officials for a mistakenly reporting
the assassination of the chief judge overseeing the trial of Saddam Hussein.
An NBC spokeswoman said:  "We got the information from multiple high-level
sources who confirmed the story's accuracy," and "It was wrong, and we
corrected it immediately."

Even those who ARE willing to report this story refuse to mention
that NBC showed the judge's picture which was previous banned or
only presented in the now popular digital blur.  In addition,
no these articles are not mentioning his name, which is obviously
still on many sites that originally reported the NBC story.


*STRANGE QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"A 20 year old worker has a 30% chance of being disabled
before retirement."   U. S. Social Security Information


*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK

Increases oil importation by China and India will drive
price up even further, as they buy all the additional oil
OPEC is putting on the market.


*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK

Before the year 2000, only about half the world population
had ever made a phone call.  Now cell phones are reaching
the rural areas of Asia and Africa.

About one billion cell phones have been sold in 18 months.


*

"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following. There would be:

57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
  8 Africans
  52 would be female
  48 would be male
  70 would be non-white
  30 would be white
  70 would be non-Christian
  30 would be Christian
   6 people  would  possess  59%  of the entire world's wealth
   and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
  1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
  1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
  1 would own a computer

I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.

I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.

If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.

I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.

BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.

This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge.  Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites.  Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security.  The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.


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Drake, Nelson and Napoleon, by Walter Runciman                           15299 
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Le juif errant - Tome II, by Eugene Sue                                  15296
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Influences of Geographic Environment, by Ellen Churchill Semple          15293
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Katri Holm, by Mathilda Roos                                             15292
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Gildet Pa Solhaug, by Henrik Ibsen                                       15291
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Why the Chimes Rang: A Play in One Act, by Elizabeth Apthorp McFadden    15290
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The Truce of God, by George Henry Miles                                  15289
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Sodome et Gomorrhe--Volume 1, by Marcel Proust                           15288
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Teverino, by George Sand                                                 15287
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Reflexions sur le sort des Noirs dans nos colonies,by Daniel Lescallier  15286
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The Hosts of the Air, by Joseph A. Altsheler                             15285 
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The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, by Beatrix Potter                         15284 
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Disease and Its Causes, by William Thomas Councilman                     15283 
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Uncle Wiggily's Travels, by Howard R. Garis                              15282 
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A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, by Thomas Paine                   15279
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The Ramrodders, by Holman Day                                            15278
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The Open Secret of Ireland, by T. M. Kettle                              15277
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Bears I Have Met--and Others, by Allen Kelly                             15276 
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Bessie's Fortune, by Mary J. Holmes                                      15275
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The Girl from Montana, by Grace Livingston Hill                          15274 
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Gedichten, by Frans Bastiaanse                                           15273
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Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, by Edmund Spenser                   15272 
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Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2), by John Roby                  15271 
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The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Vol. 1, No. 7, July,  15270 
  [Title: The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Vol. 1, No.]
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The Empire of Russia, by John S. C. Abbott                               15269 
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John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works, by Authors                         15268 
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Sechs Vortr?ge ?ber ausgew?hlte Gegenst?nde, by Henri Poincar?           15267
  [Full Title: Sechs Vortr?ge ?ber ausgew?hlte Gegenst?nde aus der ]
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What Peace Means, by Henry van Dyke                                      15266 
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The Quest of the Silver Fleece, by W. E. B. Du Bois                      15265
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Totta ja leikkia, by Aino Malmberg                                       15264
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The Underground Railroad, by William Still                               15263
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A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume II (of 3), by Thomas Clarkson         15261 
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A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume I (of 3), by Thomas Clarkson          15260 
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Pearl of Pearl Island, by John Oxenham                                   15259
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Cecilia de Noel, by Lanoe Falconer                                       15258
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The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck, by Thomas Longueville                  15257
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The Young Seigneur, by Wilfrid Chateauclair                              15256
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Hinduism and Buddhism, Vol I. (of 3), by Charles Eliot                   15255
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Maxims Of His Grace The Duke Of Wellington, by Wellington                15254
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Victorian Short Stories, Vol. 2, by Elizabeth Gaskell, et al.            15252
  [Subtitle: Stories Of Successful Marriages]
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  [A Faithful Heart by George Moore]
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The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne, by Andrew A. Bonar              15251
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Myths and Legends of China, by E. T. C. Werner                           15250
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Outspoken Essays, by William Ralph Inge                                  15249
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Success (Second Edition), by Max Aitken Beaverbrook                      15248
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John Henry Smith, by Frederick Upham Adams                               15247
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The Tragedy of St. Helena, by Walter Runciman                            15246
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Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West, by Samuel Strickland                  15245
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Lewie, by Cousin Cicely                                                  15244
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Over Paradise Ridge, by Maria Thompson Daviess                           15243
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Desert Love, by Joan Conquest                                            15242
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All About Johnnie Jones, by Carolyn Verhoeff                             15241
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Spiridion, by George Sand                                                15239
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Mathilda, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley                                 15238
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Oude Egyptische Legenden, by M. A. Murray                                15236
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Oeuvres illustrees de George Sand, by George Sand                        15235
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The Death of Lord Nelson, by William Beatty                              15233 
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