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APPENDIX

In The Book of American Negro Poetry

Read by Kahlil B


James Weldon Johnson and Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.


The Book of American Negro Poetry is one of the earliest and most essential anthologies of African-American verse ever brought to print. Edi…

Mis' Smith - Read by LB

In Mis' Smith

Read by Lucretia B.


Albert Bigelow Paine


LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Mis' Smith, by Albert Paine. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 7th, 2013.

Part 1 Chapter 18

In Tom Petrie's reminiscences of early Queensland (dating from 1837). Recorded by …

Read by Lucretia B.


Constance Campbell Petrie and Thomas Petrie


Tom Petrie (1831-1910), explorer and grazier, arrived in the then convict settlement of Moreton Bay in 1837. His reminiscences of what was t…

Book IX Chapter 11: An Enterprise

In Cecilia: Memoirs of an Heiress

Read by Becca B


Frances Burney


The plot of Cecilia revolves around the heroine, Cecilia Beverley, whose inheritance from her uncle comes with the stipulation that she find…

Lord Northmuir's Young Relative

In The Girl Who Had Nothing

Read by Lucretia B.


Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson


The Girl Who Had Nothing is about a young orphan girl in desperate circumstances, who throws herself on the mercy of an elderly stranger. By…

The Herb List S

In Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation, Harvesting, Curing and Uses

Read by Sarah B


Maurice Grenville Kains


This book describes use and care, and growing of herbs for cooking, healing and other interesting miscellaneous information related to herbs…

Fredericksburg by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

In Poems of American Patriotism

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Brander Matthews


This book is a collection of patriotic poems by many authors. - Summary by Hannah Shaver

Chapter IX

In The Journal of John Woolman

Read by Lucretia B.


John Woolman


John Woolman was born at Northampton, N. J., in 1720, and died at York, England, in 1772. He was the child of Quaker parents, and from his y…

10 - Part VIa: The ____

In Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography

Read by Lucretia B.


Laurence Oliphant


Laurence Oliphant, author, international traveller, diplomatist and mystic, who spent a decade in later life under the influence of the spir…

The Ninth Chapter

In Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch

Read by Lucretia B.


Wilhelm Meinhold


Wilhelm Meinhold, a Pomeranian priest working on the Island of Usedom, relates the story of Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch. The author ass…

17 - The Spaniel - Part 1

In Anecdotes of Dogs

Read by Lucretia B.


Edward Jesse


"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends." The character, sensibilities, and intellectual facu…

Lesson V. Class of Fishes

In The Elements of Herpetology and Ichthyology

Read by Lucretia B.


William Ruschenberger


This succinct little textbook from 1844 presents an introduction to herpetology and ichthyology. The information, albeit not current, is sti…

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