Count Claudio falls in love with Hero, the daughter of his host. Hero's cousin Beatrice (a confirmed spinster) and Benedict (an eternal bachelor) are each duped into believing the other is in love with them. Claudio is deceived by a malicious plot and denounces Hero as unchaste before they marry. She faints and is believed dead, but recovers to be proved innocent by a chance discovery. Benedict wins Beatrice?s love defending her cousin?s honour, and...

A little girl, enraptured by her first ballet and determined to take ballet training, learns the hard work and discipline involved in this art. Includes exercises and steps, a history of ballet, and stories of classic ballets.

An introduction to horseback riding including descriptions of basic riding styles, how to get on, stay on, and get off the horse, and terms and equipment that the rider should know.

Discusses blindness and how those afflicted by it overcome this handicap.

Discusses types of hearing losses and their causes, the effects of deafness on the individual, methods of learning speech and language, and alternative forms of communication.

Discusses the history of heart study, the function of the heart, and the symptoms, causes, cures, and prevention of various heart diseases.

Describes the Amazon River and its effect on the geography, history, economy, and people of the region through which it flows. Also discusses some of the special problems of this waterway and its future prospects.

Traces the modern history of the Nile River, emphasizing the efforts of nineteenth-century explorers to discover the river's source and twentieth-century projects to exploit its resources.