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C 8WGPREFACEThe motive which prompted the author to prepare and publish Cost Accounting, was the desire to supply a demand for a text book on the part of the students in New York University School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance. In presenting it for public consideration it is desired to have clearly understood the fact that it is intended as a text book especially adapted to the needs of students, and is not intended as a general reference work.The supply of literature on the subject of cost accounting is increasing rapidly. The quality of such literature is of a high order. The fault to be found with it from the point of view of a teacher is that it is too highly specialized. The tendency on the part of authors on this subject is to select some particular industry or line of production and describe a particular system, attempting to make such typical of the entire subject.Most systems are accompanied by elaborate forms. In fact it may be said that many systems are nothing mAbout the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the difficult to read text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org

This story describes the adventures of 29 travelers who travel to Canterbury on a pilgrimage which happen in the 14th century. The company of the pilgrims consists of a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Their trip is quite dangerous and adventurous, often they lose their spirit and belief and have to support and entertain each other. Although Geoffrey Chaucer wrote his Canterbury Tales about five hundred years ago in the Middle-aged English, for those who want to read these stories and dive into their events there is a chance to find Canterbury Tales in the adaptation of Lee Harriet. Canterbury Tales are focused on such phenomena as love, sex, death, which are usual and interesting for all times and all people and which are described in a witty and entertaining way.

Although the book is pretty short, it is full of very interesting events and characters. Its plot is simply magical and amazing. From each word and on each page you can feel the warmth of the author's soul and his kindness. Although Helen with the High Hand may not seem serious at the first glimpse, it is very entertaining and definitely has its own advantages and appeal for readers.

This is a fascinating fairy tale thriller focusing on the life of a werewolf named Wagner. It belongs to the pen of a real master of this genre George William MacArthur Reynolds.

A posthumous collection of 36 early works by Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, also known as Koizumi Yakumo European-born American-Japanese author, orientalist and philosopher, who wrote novels and articles with exotic themes in highly precise and polished prose. Lyrical and passionate, these brief romantic sketches can be regarded as prose poems. The “Fantastics” proper and the “Other fancies” have been grouped indiscriminately in chronological order, though differing greatly in spirit and in excellence of style. But it is not alone the charm that clings about all that is weird and fanciful that gives value to this early work of Hearn’s. It sheds rich light upon one phase of his development and forms an essential part of his biography; and it helps to furnish proof, along with much else of varying form and excellence that he put forth a vast deal of literary effort in the years of his stay in New Orleans…

Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire. By an American author and poet Edward Lucas White (1866 –1934).” When I look back on the beginning of my adventures, I can set the very day and hour when the tranquil course of my early life came to an end, when the comfortable commonplaces of my previous existence altered, when the placid current of my former life broke suddenly and without warning into the tumultuous rapids which hurried me from surprise to surprise and from peril to peril”.

Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States is a collection of speeches given by five senators during the debates on the topic whether women should vote or not. One of the senators supports the idea that women have more rights to vote, another senator believes that women are not supposed to vote. Besides, the book includes some speeches of prominent women of that time in support of their rights. The book would be interesting for everyone who is fond of American history and the history of movement for women's right to vote.

To the world at large it has great value archaeologically. Here are preserved ancient laws, glint lights on past history, forgotten forms in the classic tongues, and pictures of old civilization. No one criticism can cover the whole work. It is so many-sided. It includes so many different standards of worth and value. If we take it as a whole, it is good, it is bad and indifferent; it is trash and it is treasure; it is dust and it is diamonds; it is potsherd and it is pearls; and in the hands of impartial scholars, it is one of the great monuments of mental achievement, one of the world's wonders.

The Victorian Age in Literature is a real discovery for all lovers of the English literature belonging to the period of the Victorian Era. Chesterton does a great job in analyzing the most prolific and outstanding writers and poets of that time paying a special attention to the works of Charles Dickens. Presenting broad knowledge of the topic, the author uses his unique style of writing and structuring the book so that makes the book interesting and more fascinating.

New England Bygones was published for the first time in 1883 and it is devoted to the life of the Victorian Era in New England. The main characters are well drawn, bright and vivid and belong to the working class. Moreover, in this book which is one in a series of five you will find some memories from the author's experience, her family and the world surrounding her. The novel definitely helps you understand better the life of that time and fills your own life with more sentiments.