Reference
Plan and Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Samuel Johnson
The published dictionary was a huge book: with pages nearly 1½ feet tall and 20 inches wide, it contained 42,773 words; it also sold …
Dwarf Fruit Trees
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Frank Albert Waugh
This book is a handbook for the home orchardist. The propagation, pruning, choice of variety, and management of dwarf fruit trees, specifica…
A Guide to Mythology
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Helen Clarke
My aim in this book on Mythology for young readers has been to give them solid knowledge on the subject, as far as it is advisable to go wit…
Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe
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Charlotte Mary Yonge
Travel with Little Lucy around the globe and learn a little geography and small bits about other cultures.(Summary by Laura Caldwell)
Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Australia and the Islands
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Frank G. Carpenter
The purpose of this book is to give the children who read it a living knowledge of Australia and the chief islands of the world, and especia…
Ontario Public School Geography
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Unknown
This Ontario Public School textbook, published in 1922, contains some fascinating facts of a world which no longer exists. It seems politica…
Carpenter's Geographical Reader: South America
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Frank G. Carpenter
In this book the children are taken by the author upon a personally conducted tour through the most characteristic parts of the South Americ…