Society: Its Origin and Development, by Henry Kalloch Rowe. Published 1916.

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Palmistry for All, Containing New Information on the Study of the Hand Never Before Published. By Cheiro. Published 1916. ©1910.

This book is still in print, but you can have an early edition — for free!

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“Contemptible”, by “Casualty”. Published 1916, a memoir of the Great War.

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Christmas Stories and Legends, compiled by Phebe A. Curtiss. Published 1916, it includes twenty contemporary (in 1916) stories of Christmas.

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The present time is essentially one of transition. Complete uncertainty reigns as to the main principles of biology. Many of us think that the materialistic and simplicist method has proved a complete failure, and that the time has come to strike out on entirely different lines. Just in what direction the new biology will grow out is hard to see at present, so many divergent beginnings have been made–the materialistic vitalism of Driesch, the profound intuitionalism of Bergson, the psychological biology of Delpino, Francé, Pauly, A. Wagner and W. Mackenzie. But if any of these are destined to give the future direction to biology, they will in a measure only be bringing biology back to its pre-materialistic tradition, the tradition of Aristotle, Cuvier, von Baer and J. Müller. It may well be that the intransigent materialism of the 19th century is merely an episode, an aberration rather, in the history of biology–an aberration brought about by the over-rapid development of a materialistic and luxurious civilisation, in which man’s material means have outrun his mental and moral growth.

The Daredevil, by Maria Thompson Daviess. The adventures of a plucky Franco-Americaine in the State of Harpeth. This is my first complete project, from Copyright Clearance to Scanning to DP Project to Submission. Wow. Heady stuff.