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HOLIDAY ROMANCE – IN FOUR PARTS PART I – INTRODUCTORY ROMANCE PROM THE PEN OF WILLIAM TINKLING, ESQ. (Aged eight.) THIS beginning-part is not made out of anybody’s head, you know. It’s real. You must believe this beginning-part more than what comes after, else you won’t understand how what comes after came to be written. You must believe it all; but you must believe this most, please. I am the editor of it....

HOLIDAYS In EASTERN FRANCE. By M. BETHAM-EDWARDS. [Illustration: CHATEAU OF MONTBELIARD] [Illustration: ORNANS–VALLEY OF THE LOUE (The Country of the Painter Courbet.)] PREFACE. “Travelling in France without hotels, or guide-books,” might, with very little exaggeration, be chosen as a title to this volume, which is, indeed, the record of one visit after another among charming French people, and in delightful places, out of the ordinary track of the tourist. Alike in the valley of the Marne–amongst French Protestants at Montbeliard–at Besancon amid the beautiful scenery of the Doubs–at Lons-le-Saunier, from whence so many interesting excursions were made into the Jura–in the very heart of the Jura highlands–at Champagnole, Morez, and St....

Homeward Bound;or, The Chase. A Tale of the Sea. By J. Fenimore Cooper. “Is ‘t not strange, Canidius. That from Tarentum and Brundusium He could so quickly cut the Ionian Sea, and take in Toryne.”–SHAKSPEARE. Complete in One Volume. New Edition. NEW YORK:Published by Hurd and Houghton,Cambridge: Riverside Press.1871 Homeward Bound. Preface. In one respect, this book is a parallel to Franklin’s well-known apologue of the hatter and his sign....

IN HIS IMAGE By William Jennings Bryan In His Image. James Sprunt Lectures. 12mo, cloth….$1.75 Heart to Heart Appeals. 12mo, cloth….$1.25 The cream of Mr. Bryan’s public utterances on Prohibition, Money, Imperialism, Trusts, Labor, Income Tax, Peace, Religion, Pan-Americanism, etc. The Prince of Peace. 12mo, boards….60c. Messages for the Times. 12mo, boards, each….35c. The First Commandment. In simple, unaffected language, the author enlarges upon the present-day breaches of the First Commandment....

The apartment, which was on the third floor at the back of the house, was a combination of library, study, and smoke-room, and was the daily despair of the old housekeeper who, with the assistance of one servant, managed the house. It was a bachelor establishment, and had been left to Trayton Burleigh and James Fletcher by a distant connection of both men some ten years before. Trayton Burleigh sat back in his chair watching the smoke of his cigar through half-closed eyes....

Zweiter Römischer Aufenthalt vom Juni 1787 bis April 1788 Juni 1787 Korrespondenz Nachtrag: Päpstliche Teppiche Juli 1787 Korrespondenz Bericht Störende Naturbetrachtungen August 1787 Korrespondenz Bericht September 1787 Korrespondenz Bericht Oktober 1787 Korrespondenz Bericht November 1787 Korrespondenz Bericht Dezember 1787 Korrespondenz Bericht Moritz als Etymologe Philipp Neri,der humoristische Heilige Januar 1788 Korrespondenz Bericht Aufnahme in die Gesellschaft der Arkadier Das Römische Karneval Februar 1788 Korrespondenz Bericht März 1788 Korrespondenz Bericht über die bildende Nachahmungdes Schönen....

John Leech’s Pictures of Life and Character by William Makepeace Thackeray Reprinted from the Quarterly Review, No. 191, Dec. 1854, by permission of Mr. John Murray. We, who can recall the consulship of Plancus, and quite respectable, old-fogyfied times, remember amongst other amusements which we had as children the pictures at which we were permitted to look. There was Boydell’s Shakspeare, black and ghastly gallery of murky Opies, glum Northcotes, straddling Fuselis!...

[Illustration: He heard Joan’s voice] KAZAN BY JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD Author ofThe Danger Trail, Etc. Illustrated byGayle Hoskins and Frank Hoffman 1914 CONTENTS I. THE MIRACLE II. INTO THE NORTH III. McCREADY PAYS THE DEBT IV. FREE FROM BONDS V. THE FIGHT IN THE SNOW VI. JOAN VII. OUT OF THE BLIZZARD VIII. THE GREAT CHANGE IX. THE TRAGEDY ON SUN ROCK X. THE DAYS OF FIRE XI. ALWAYS TWO BY TWO XII....

LANGUAGE AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF SPEECH BYEDWARD SAPIR 1939 1921 PREFACE This little book aims to give a certain perspective on the subject of language rather than to assemble facts about it. It has little to say of the ultimate psychological basis of speech and gives only enough of the actual descriptive or historical facts of particular languages to illustrate principles. Its main purpose is to show what I conceive language to be, what is its variability in place and time, and what are its relations to other fundamental human interests–the problem of thought, the nature of the historical process, race, culture, art....

Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 1, “From Paris to Rome: Years of Travel as a Virtuoso” by Franz Liszt; letters collected by La Mara and translated by Constance Bache CONTENTS BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHDEDICATIONPREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION, BY CONSTANCE BACHE TABLE OF LETTER CONTENTSTHE LETTERS OF FRANZ LISZT, VOL. 1INFO ABOUT THIS E-TEXT EDITION BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH The Austrian composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886) was a pianistic miracle. He could play anything on site and composed over 400 works centered around “his” instrument....

Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society LETTER: February 10th, 1833 To the Rev. J. JowettWILLOW LANE, ST. GILES, NORWICH,FEB. 10TH, 1833. REVD. AND DEAR SIR, – I have just received your communication, and notwithstanding it is Sunday morning, and the bells with their loud and clear voices are calling me to church, I have sat down to answer it by return of post. It is scarcely necessary for me to say that I was rejoiced to see the Chrestomathie Mandchou, which will be of no slight assistance in learning the Tartar dialect, on which ever since I left London I have been almost incessantly occupied....

Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac Translated by R. S. Scott DEDICATION To George Sand Your name, dear George, while casting a reflected radiance on my book, can gain no new glory from this page. And yet it is neither self-interest nor diffidence which has led me to place it there, but only the wish that it should bear witness to the solid friendship between us, which has survived our wanderings and separations, and triumphed over the busy malice of the world....

EDITOR’S TABLE, HARPER’S MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY 1863 Chapter 1 The River and Its History THE Mississippi is well worth reading about. It is not a commonplace river, but on the contrary is in all ways remarkable. Considering the Missouri its main branch, it is the longest river in the world–four thousand three hundred miles. It seems safe to say that it is also the crookedest river in the world, since in one part of its journey it uses up one thousand three hundred miles to cover the same ground that the crow would fly over in six hundred and seventy-five....

[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of the file for those who may wish to sample the author’s ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.] LITERATURE AND LIFE, Entire by William Dean Howells CONTENTS: Man of Letters in Business Confessions of a Summer Colonist The Young Contributor Last Days in a Dutch Hotel Anomalies of the Short Story Spanish Prisoners of War American Literary Centers Standard Household Effect Co....

MADAM CROWL’S GHOST and THE DEAD SEXTON By Joseph Sheridan LeFanu Both stories were originally published in 1870. CONTENTS Madam Crowl’s Ghost The Dead Sexton MADAM CROWL’S GHOST Twenty years have passed since you last saw Mrs. Jolliffe’s tall slim figure. She is now past seventy, and can’t have many mile-stones more to count on the journey that will bring her to her long home. The hair has grown white as snow, that is parted under her cap, over her shrewd, but kindly face....

CELEBRATED CRIMES VOLUME 8 (of 8), Part 3 By Alexander Dumas, Pere THE MARQUISE DE GANGES Toward the close of the year 1657, a very plain carriage, with no arms painted on it, stopped, about eight o’clock one evening, before the door of a house in the rue Hautefeuille, at which two other coaches were already standing. A lackey at once got down to open the carriage door; but a sweet, though rather tremulous voice stopped him, saying, “Wait, while I see whether this is the place....

MAUPRAT by GEORGE SAND Translated by Stanley Young CONTENTS George Sand Pearl Mary-Teresa Craigie (John Oliver Hobbes) Life of George Sand Edmund Gosse The Author’s Preface Mauprat GEORGE SAND Napoleon in exile declared that were he again on the throne he should make a point of spending two hours a day in conversation with women, from whom there was much to be learnt. He had, no doubt, several types of women in mind, but it is more than probable that the banishment of Madame de Stael rose before him as one of the mistakes in his career....

[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, at the end of several of the files for those who may wish to sample the author’s ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.] MEMOIRS OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, VOLUME 5. By LOUIS ANTOINE FAUVELET DE BOURRIENNE His Private Secretary Edited by R. W. PhippsColonel, Late Royal Artillery 1891 CONTENTS:CHAPTER I. to CHAPTER VIII., 1800-1803 CHAPTER I. 1800. Bonaparte’s confidence in the army–‘Ma belle’ France–The convent of Bernadins–Passage of Mont St....

MISS MERIVALE’S MISTAKE By MRS. HENRY CLARKE, M.A. [Illustration: PAULINE SAT DOWN IN THE LOW CHAIR BY THE WINDOW AND TOOK UP THE PHOTOGRAPH FRAME.] CONTENTS CHAPTERI. A STARTLING DISCOVERYII. WOODCOTEIII. A VISIT TO KENTISH TOWNIV. TOM AND RHODA MEETV. “A MERRY HEART GOES ALL THE WAY” VI. PAULINE’S DIPLOMACYVII. APPLES OF SODOMVIII. AN INVITATIONIX. PAULINE HAS HER SUSPICIONSX. A CONFESSIONXI. POLLY SMITHXII. CONCLUSION ILLUSTRATIONS PAULINE SAT DOWN IN THE LOW CHAIR BY THE WINDOW AND TOOK UP THE PHOTOGRAPH FRAME....

MR. JACK HAMLIN’S MEDIATION by Bret Harte CONTENTS MR. JACK HAMLIN’S MEDIATION THE MAN AT THE SEMAPHORE AN ESMERALDA OF ROCKY CANYON DICK SPINDLER’S FAMILY CHRISTMAS WHEN THE WATERS WERE UP AT “JULES’” THE BOOM IN THE “CALAVERAS CLARION” THE SECRET OF SOBRIENTE’S WELL LIBERTY JONES’S DISCOVERY MR. JACK HAMLIN’S MEDIATION At nightfall it began to rain. The wind arose too, and also began to buffet a small, struggling, nondescript figure, creeping along the trail over the rocky upland meadow towards Rylands’s rancho....