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9,386 philosophy & ideas

Balder the Beautiful, Volume I.

James George Frazer · myth

Baled Hay: A Drier Book than Walt Whitman's "Leaves o' Grass"

Bill Nye · novel

Bantu Beliefs and Magic

C. W. Hobley · myth

Baptism According to Scripture

E. H. Hoare · ideas

Baptism as taught in the Bible and the Prayer Book

Edward Hoare · ideas

Barford Abbey, a Novel: In a Series of Letters

Mrs. Gunning · novel

Barlaam and Ioasaph

Saint John of Damascus · myth

Baron d'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France

Max Pearson Cushing · biography

Be Courteous, or, Religion, the True Refiner

M. H. Maxwell · novel

Catharine Shaw · ideas

Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13: Great Writers

John Lord · biography

Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14: The New Era

John Lord · science

Beadle's Dime National Speaker, Embodying Gems of Oratory and Wit, Particularly Adapted to American Schools and Firesides

Orville J. Victor · poetry

Beauty and the Beast: An Essay in Evolutionary Aesthetic

Stewart Andrew McDowall · ideas

Beauty: Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classification of Beauty in Woman

Alexander Walker · ideas

James Huneker · biography

Beer, its history and its economic value as a national beverage

F. W. Salem · ideas

Bees in Amber: A Little Book of Thoughtful Verse

John Oxenham · poetry

Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words

Ludwig van Beethoven · biography

Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 1

Ludwig van Beethoven · biography

Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 2

Ludwig van Beethoven · biography

Beethoven's Symphonies Critically Discussed

Alexander Teetgen · ideas

Before and after Waterloo

Edward Stanley · travel

Before the Most Holy =

Mother Mary Loyola · ideas

Behind the Bungalow

Edward Hamilton Aitken · ideas

Behind the Mirrors: The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington

Clinton W. Gilbert · ideas

Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press

Behind the prison bars

E. E. Byrum · ideas

Behind the scenes in a restaurant: A study of 1017 women restaurant employees

Consumers' League of New York City · ideas

Being Well-Born: An Introduction to Eugenics

Michael F. Guyer · science

Belcaro; Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions

Vernon Lee · ideas

Belford's Magazine, Vol. II, No. 3, February 1889

Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham

Joseph E. Bygate · ideas

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Exeter

Percy Addleshaw · ideas

Beneath an Umbrella (From "Twice Told Tales")

Nathaniel Hawthorne · short story

Benedetto Croce: An Introduction to His Philosophy

Raffaello Piccoli · biography

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin · biography

Benjamin Franklin and the First Balloons

Benjamin Franklin · science

Bentley's Miscellany, Volume I

Charles Dickens · periodical

Bentley's Miscellany, Volume II

Charles Dickens · periodical

Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn

R. W. Chambers · poetry

Bergson and His Philosophy

John Alexander Gunn · biography

Bertha and Her Baptism

Nehemiah Adams · ideas

Beside the Still Waters

Charles Beard · ideas

Best Stories from the Best Book: An Illustrated Bible Companion for the Home

James Edson White · collection

Bethlehem: A Nativity Play

Laurence Housman · play

Better Than Men

Rush C. Hawkins · novel