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A hysterically funny vintage look at the war between the sexes. Contents include: Woman, the Necessary Evil : Truth and Fiction About Some Highly Disreputable Ladies (!); All for Love: Or: How the grand passion can become the big heartbreak; The Lady Speaks Her Mind: Or: Where Dr. Kinsey left off; Women of the World : Isadora Duncan, Ingrid Bergman and the career woman; Sugar And Spice: Bittersweet Commentaries On Feminine Foibles; Science And Sex: Marriage and Bedfellows; A Dying Race - Mistresses; How Well Do You Know Women? Contributors include: Stuart Cloete, Ferenc Molnar, Paul Gallico and Robert Switzer. -
Red - or Green? Shirley Grey; A Bit Of History, D. Dike; The Thing That Mattered, E.L. Haverfield; Improve Your Tennis, Jane Thornicroft; Letitia's Taxi Cab and Miss Connington In Town, Alice Massie; The Chinese Vase, Brenda Girvin; The Three Belpennys, Elizabeth Whitely; The Gargoyle and An Adventure In The Roussillon, S.M. Hills; Caroline And The Count, Jocelyn Oliver; The Pewter Candlestick, Dorothea Moore; S.O.S., Thura Lifford; Gillian's Choice, Pamela Tynan Hickson; Cricket For Girls, Marjorie Pollard; The Strange Sedan, M.A. Peart; It Flowered For Me Alone, Thora Stowell; The Saving Of The Undine, Beryl Irving; The Smugglers Of Portincross, Dorita Fairlie Bruce. -
A treasure-trove of picture-stories and written stories, in colour and black and white. There's mysteries and secrets, heroic adventures and holidays, school stories and quizzes for pre- and early teen girls. -
The daughter of Queen Hippolyta, Diana is raised on the hidden island of Themyscira, home to the Amazons, women warriors created by the Olympian gods to protect mankind. Diana is raised on their history and knows that Ares became so jealous of humanity that he slayed the Gods and determined to destroy Mankind. But Zeus left weapons in the guardianship of the Amazons - the sword Godkiller and the Lasso of Hestia, a magical artefact that forces the truth from captives. In 1918, Diana rescues US pilot Captain Steve Trevor when his plane crashes off the Themysciran coast. The island is soon invaded by German soldiers in pursuit of Steve. The Amazons kill the crew and Steve is interrogated with the Lasso of Hestia. He reveals that a great war is consuming the outside world and that he is an Allied spy. He has stolen a notebook from the Germans' chief chemist, Dr. Isabel Maru, who is attempting to engineer a deadlier form of mustard gas under the orders of General Erich Ludendorff. Believing Ares to be responsible for the war, Diana dons her armour and must leave Themyscira with Steve to locate and stop Ares for good. Her only weapons are her Amazon training, the Lasso of Hestia and Godkiller... -
A wonderful, charming book on the flowers and gardens of Japan - not just any tourist book, but one which also discloses the spirituality behind Japanese garden plans and why they are planned as they are. It was published in 1908 and has fifty beautiful colour illustrations. (See gallery photos for artwork examples) From Chapter II: Stones, Garden Ornaments and Fences. Stones and rocks are such important features in all Japanese gardens that when choosing the material for the making of a landscape garden, however large or however small, the selection of the stones would appear to be the primary consideration. Their size must be in perfect proportion with the house and grounds which they are to transform into a natural landscape, and they will give the scale for all the other materials used - the lanterns, bridges, and water-basins, and even the trees and fences. Their number may vary from five important stones to as many as 138, each with its especial sense and function. I think the correct position and placing of the stones is the part of the art which it would be most difficult for a foreigner to accomplish: the mere names and special functions of the stones would require years of careful study. To the eye of a Japanese one stone wrongly placed would upset all the balance and repose of the picture. Large rocks and boulders seem to be essential for the success of a large garden, and are used to suggest mountains, hills, and the rocks of the natural scene; any very fantastic and artificial looking rocks are avoided, for fear they should give an appearance of unreality to the landscape. The fancy of giving sex to certain stones, and in temple grounds of assigning holy attributes and even of giving them the names of Buddhist deities, dates from very early days, and this custom of applying a religious meaning to the most important rocks survives to this day. Mr. Conder tells us that "formerly it was said that the principal boulders of a garden should represent the Ku, or Nine Spirits of the Buddhist pantheon, five being of standing and four of recumbent..." -
The Seagrave family are returning to New South Wales on board the Pacific when a storm strikes, wrecking the ship. The crew escape in a lifeboat, abandoning the passengers to their fate. The Seagrave family, together with their young black female servant Juno, and the veteran sailor Masterman Ready, are shipwrecked on a desert island. The family learn to survive many obstacles, helped by Ready's long experience of life as a seaman and they keep faith that they will be rescued. One of the first historical adventures for younger readers, Marryat - a sailor of long experience - was annoyed that Wyss had portrayed being shipwrecked as a romantic adventure in his 1812 book The Swiss Family Robinson and he also disapproved of the ignorance regarding flora and fauna displayed by Wyss. -
Horace Wheeler is handsome, quick-witted and poor. Horace's one desire is to be in love, which leads him into proposing. Aunt Jane is a sincere, kind-hearted Christian widow who's not always appreciated for her words of wisdom or her little "sermons". Those little sermons interfered with the good times Horace has with the less serious young people he keeps company with and his unfailing sense of humor and easy manner makes him a favorite in his crowd. But then the Civil War breaks out and Aunt Jane's prayers follow Horace after he enlists to fight - and his experiences make him become a different man; not only physically but spiritually. -
A lively fantasy story set against the background o New Guinea in World War II. Private Dusty, cut off from his unit and lost in the jungle, is rescued and cared for by Squizzy. one of the Jambies - a race of little people no taller than 6 inches. On this journey Dusty will also meet the Jeannies, Hispians and Tamborans and he will learn a great deal about this fascinating, magical land - such as how the wings of butterflies are so beautifully painted by Smudge, the Jambie artist; he'll attend a concert and meet notable Jambies - and become involved in a feud between the Tamborans and Jambies. -
The Magic Pudding is a pie...except when it's something else, like a steak, or a jam doughnut, or an apple dumpling, or whatever its owner wants it to be. And it never runs out. No matter how many slices you cut, there's always something left over. It's magic. But the Magic Pudding is also alive. It walks and it talks and it's got a personality like no other. A meaner, sulkier, snider, snarlinger Pudding you've never met. So Bunyip Bluegum finds out when he joins Barnacle Bill and Sam Sawnoff as members of the Noble Society of Pudding Owners, whose members are required to wander along the roads, indulgin' in conversation, song and story, and eatin' at regular intervals from the Pudding. Wild and woolly, funny and outrageously fun. Illustrated by Norman Lindsay.
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