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Book of Magic
145 fascinating puzzles, magic tricks and mysterious stunts by Houdini and other magicians.
Real Soldiers of Fortune
Davis, known for his fiction and plays, also wrote about real people in Real Soldiers of Fortune, originally published in 1910.The Real Soldiers of Fortune are: Major-General Henry Ronald Douglas MacIver --- from none of the eighteen countries he has served has he a pension, birth, or billet and at sixty he finds himself at home in every land, but with a home in none, Baron James Harden-Hickey --- the man who made himself king, the man who was born after his time, Winston Spencer Churchill --- his is a picturesque career. Of any man of his few years speaking our language, his career is probably the most picturesque. And that he is half an American gives all of us an excuse to pretend we shar...
The Price of Freedom
?Of course it would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant. Oftentimes the inconvenience and loss fall on the innocent. This is all a part of the price of freedom. Unless the people struggle to help themselves, no one else will or can help them. It is out of such struggle that there comes the strongest evidence of their true independence and nobility, and there is struck off a rough and incomplete economic justice, and there develops a strong and rugged national character. It represents a spirit for which there could be no substitute. It justifies the claim that they are worthy to be free.? Calvin Coolidge
Boys' Heroes
Boys are jealously exclusive in the choice of their heroes, and have not many. The following are a few of the heroes found within: Alexander the Great, Hannibal, King Arthur, Richard the Lion Hearted, Robinson Crusoe, General Lafayette and Napoleon the First. Wonderful illustrations of Alexander the Great, The Sword Excalibur, and Bartholdi's Statue of Lafayette. Book jacket.
The Dictionary of Love
Definitions of all the terms used in the history of the tender passion, with rare quotations from the ancient and modern poets, plus specimens of curious model love letters, and many other interesting matters about love.
My Profession
A profile of the authors life as a famous Soviet puppeteer and puppet theatre director. He describes childhood impressions, writes of earlier professions as artist and actor, and finally about his personal experiences with puppetry which helped him achieve mastery of his craft.Born in Moscow in 1901, he describes every step he took to his profession, how he worked on individual productions, and an account of all of his productions. In the 1920s Sergei Obraztsov founded the State Central Puppet Theatre in Moscow --- the biggest in Russia, an educational center of professional and amateurs theatre groups. The center houses the museum of theatrical puppets, a library on the theme, manuscript and pedagogical departments, and one of the worlds largest collection of theatrical puppets (about 3000 from 50 countries). Now over 50 years old, The Sergei Obraztsov Central Puppet Show has entertained tens-of-thousands of fans in 50 different countries, with a witty program that parodies slipshod variety performances.
