George Henry: 164 books

pubOne.info present you this wonderfully illustrated edition. First published in “Macmillan’s Illustrated Standard Novel, ” 1896

Originally published in 1902, this early work on Hunting trips on the Prairie and mountains is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. This is a fascinating novel of the period and still an interesting read today. Its chapters include; A trip after mountain sheep and Still hunting Elk...

This 1867 survey of philosophy is enlivened by portraits and discussions of Thales, Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Euclid, through more modern philosophers such as David Hume and Immanuel Kant, ending with Auguste Comte. Sections focus on topics, such as the nature of the universe and the origin of knowledge, and groups, such as the Sophists and the Cynics.

This 1891 volume of essays, in the words of its editor, Fred Scott, "is just the work to go into the hands of those that hope and despair of the teacher of rhetoric—the callow young man with a sneaking ambition for literature…"  Lewes examines how such elements as vision, sincerity, beauty, and style determine literary success or failure.

The Punishments of China is an interesting book which discusses methods of punishment in 19th century China.

pubOne.info present you this wonderfully illustrated edition. Colonel Johns, that famous Revolutionary War hero, had the unique— and painful— experience of meeting his great-great-great-great granddaughter. Now maybe you can't change history, but what's there to prevent a soldier from changing his mind about the gal he is going to marry?

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. IT is with some diffidence that the author ventures to offer the present work to the public.

A New Parlour Game for the Family Circle As I sit in my poverty-stricken home, looking at the place where the piano used to be before I had to sell it to pay my income-tax, I find myself in thoughtful mood. The first agony of the separation from my hard-earned, so to speak income, is over, and I can...

pubOne.info present you this wonderfully illustrated edition. The ballads in this volume are translated from the Works of Oehlenslæger, (a poet who is yet living, and who stands high in the estimation of his countrymen, ) and from the Kiæmpé Viser, a collection of old songs, celebrating the actions of the ancient heroes of Scandinavia.

Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most brightly mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem’s countless blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman....

Hired by a bible society to bring the word of God to the Romany people of Spain, Borrow embarked on journey of mutual discovery whose result was this volume, published in 1841.  

It is very seldom that the preface of a work is read; indeed, of late years most books have been sent into the world without any. I deem it, however, advisable to write a preface, and to this I humbly call the attention of the courteous reader, as its perusal will not a little tend to the proper understanding...

A momentous sea-voyage undertaken by two ambitious boys has been narrated in this work. Out on the sea in order to search for a missing house boat, the boys travel down the Mississippi river and encounter the wildest adventures. Engrossing!

The material which was originally pland for my monograf in the Ottendorfer series has since been independently publisht by Steinert in his dissertation and book on Tieck's color sense and by O. Fischer in an article, "Ueber Verbindung von Farbe und Klang" in the Zeitschrift fuer Æsthetik. These three...