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	ABRAHAM LINCOLN In the fulness of time a republic rose up in the wilderness of America. Thousands of years had passed away before this child of the ages could be born......		SEX AVOIDED SUBJECTS Sexual love, which is practically unknown to the animals, is a special development of the sex urge in the human soul. The deeper purpose of the sex .......

	Book of BALLADS and Poems All night he knelt, and, when the morning    broke,  In patience still he waits death's fatal stroke.		One Thousand Secrets Agesilaus, king of Sparta, being asked what things he thought most proper for boys to learn, replied:......

	THE GOLF COURSE MYSTERY There was nothing in that clear, calm day, with its blue sky and its flooding sunshine, to suggest in the slightest degree the awful tragedy so close at hand—that tragedy which so puzzled the authorities .....		SUNNY BOY IN THE BIG CITY The woman really wasn't very tall, not taller than Sunny Boy's own mother. She came out so unexpectedly and stared down at the children so crossly that she seemed taller than she was.

	SUNNY BOY AND HIS PLAYMATES He was lying flat on the floor, trying to reach under the bookcase where his marble had rolled. The marble was a cannon ball and Sunny Boy had been showing Nelson Baker....		THE CLAIM JUMPERS In a fifth-story sitting room of a New York boarding house four youths were holding a discussion. The sitting room was large and square, and in the wildest disorder, which was, however,.........

	The BOOK OF ART FOR YOUNG PEOPLE Now, the old pictures you see in the picture galleries are just like that, only the people that painted them didn't invent the stories .....		A Ghost Story of Christmas Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman.....

	A LITTLE MOUSE A PRETTY story I will tell, Of Nib, a little Mouse, Who took delight, when none where near, To skip about the house.		The Children's Bible "The Children's Bible" provides, in simple English, a translation of selections from both the Old and the New Testament.

	ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES Many years ago, there was an Emperor, who was so excessively fond of new clothes, that he spent all his money in dress.....		THREE LITTLE COUSINS It had stopped raining; Molly made quite sure of it by looking into the little puddles upon the walk. At first she thought there were drops still falling upon them,