by Rafael Sabatini CONTENTS BOOK I THE ROBE I. THE REPUBLICAN II. THE ARISTOCRAT III. THE ELOQUENCE OF M. DE VILMORIN IV. THE HERITAGE V. THE LORD OF GAVRILLAC VI. THE WINDMILL VII. THE WIND VIII. OMNES OMNIBUS IX. THE AFTERMATH BOOK II THE BUSKIN I. THE TRESPASSERS II. THE SERVICE OF THESPIS III. THE COMIC MUSE IV. EXIT MONSIEUR PARVISSIMUS V. ENTER SCARAMOUCHE VI. CLIMENE VII. THE CONQUEST OF NANTES VIII....
[Illustration] SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 481 NEW YORK, MARCH 21, 1885 Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XIX, No. 481. Scientific American established 1845 Scientific American Supplement, $5 a year. Scientific American and Supplement, $7 a year. * * * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS. I. ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.–The Righi Railroad.–With 3 engravings. The Chinese Pump.–1 figure. The Water Clock.–3 figures. New Self-propelling and Steering Torpedoes. Dobson and Barbour’s Improvements in Heilmann’s Combers....
The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister....
by OCTAVE THANET CONTENTS The Besetment of Kurt Lieders The Face of Failure Tommy and Thomas Mother Emeritus An Assisted Providence Harry Lossing THE BESETMENT OFKURT LIEDERS A SILVER rime glistened all down the street. There was a drabble of dead leaves on the sidewalk which was of wood, and on the roadway which was of macadam and stiff mud. The wind blew sharply, for it was a December day and only six in the morning....
SUNNY MEMORIES OF FOREIGN LANDS. BY MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE,Author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” Etc. ….. “When thou haply seest Some rare note-worthy object in thy travels, Make me partake of thy happiness.” SHAKESPEARE IN TWO VOLUMES.VOL. II. CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. LETTER XIX.Breakfast.–Macaulay.–Hallam.–Milman.–Sir R. Inglis.– Lunch at Surrey Parsonage.–Dinner at Sir E. Buxton’s. LETTER XX.Dinner at Lord Shaftesbury’s. LETTER XXI.Stoke Newington.–Exeter Hall.–Antislavery Meeting. LETTER XXII.Windsor.–The Picture Gallery.–Eton.–The Poet Gray....
[Translator uncredited. Footnotes have been retained because they provide the meanings of Greek names, terms and ceremonies and explain puns and references otherwise lost in translation. Occasional Greek words in the footnotes have not been included. Footnote numbers, in brackets, start anew at [1] for each piece of dialogue, and each footnote follows immediately the dialogue to which it refers, labeled thus: f[1]. INTRODUCTION This is the first of the series of three Comedies–‘The Acharnians,’ ‘Peace’ and ‘Lysistrata’–produced at intervals of years, the sixth, tenth and twenty-first of the Peloponnesian War, and impressing on the Athenian people the miseries and disasters due to it and to the scoundrels who by their selfish and reckless policy had provoked it, the consequent ruin of industry and, above all, agriculture, and the urgency of asking Peace....
THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY RICHMOND By George Meredith CONTENTS BOOK 1.I. I AM A SUBJECT OF CONTENTIONII. AN ADVENTURE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT III. DIPWELL FARMIV. I HAVE A TASTE OF GRANDEURV. I HAVE A DEAR FRIENDVI. A TALE OF A GOOSE BOOK 2.VII. A FREE LIFE ON THE ROADVIII. JANET ILCHESTERIX. AN EVENING WITH CAPTAIN BULSTED X. AN EXPEDITIONXI. THE GREAT FOG AND THE FIRE AT MIDNIGHT XII. WE FIND OURSELVES BOUND ON A VOYAGE XIII....
THE ADVENTURES OF MR. MOCKER BYTHORNTON W. BURGESS Author of “The Adventures of Reddy Fox,” “Old Mother West Wind,” etc. _With Illustrations by_HARRISON CADY 1914 CONTENTS I. THE LONE TRAVELERII. UNC’ BILLY POSSUM GROWS EXCITED III. UNC’ BILLY’S VAIN SEARCHIV. UNC’ BILLY COMES HOMEV. SAMMY JAY IS INDIGNANTVI. SAMMY JAY THINKS HE’S GOING CRAZY VII. SAMMY JAY SITS UP ALL NIGHTVIII. SAMMY JAY IS GLAD HE SAT UP ALL NIGHT IX....
by Mary Roberts Rinehart CHAPTER I I PLAN A VOYAGE By the bequest of an elder brother, I was left enough money to see me through a small college in Ohio, and to secure me four years in a medical school in the East. Why I chose medicine I hardly know. Possibly the career of a surgeon attracted the adventurous element in me. Perhaps, coming of a family of doctors, I merely followed the line of least resistance....
WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTESEDITED BY CHARLES W ELIOT LLDP F COLLIER & SON COMPANY, NEW YORK (1909) INTRODUCTORY NOTE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the “New England Courant....
SCENE:England and Wales ACT 1 SCENE 1London. The palace [Enter RICHARD, JOHN OF GAUNT, with other NOBLES and attendants] KING RICHARD. Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster, Hast thou, according to thy oath and band, Brought hither Henry Hereford, thy bold son, Here to make good the boist’rous late appeal, Which then our leisure would not let us hear, Against the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray? GAUNT. I have, my liege....
THE CREATIVE PROCESS IN THE INDIVIDUAL BY T. TROWARD 1915 FOREWORD In the present volume I have endeavored to set before the reader the conception of a sequence of creative action commencing with the formation of the globe and culminating in a vista of infinite possibilities attainable by every one who follows up the right line for their unfoldment. I have endeavored to show that, starting with certain incontrovertible scientific facts, all these things logically follow, and that therefore, however far these speculations may carry us beyond our past experience, they nowhere break the thread of an intelligible connection of cause and effect....
by James Stephens CONTENTS BOOK I THE COMING OF PANBOOK II THE PHILOSOPHER’S JOURNEYBOOK III THE TWO GODSBOOK IV THE PHILOSOPHER’S RETURNBOOK V THE POLICEMENBOOK VI THE THIN WOMAN’S JOURNEY AND THE HAPPY MARCH CHAPTER I IN the centre of the pine wood called Coilla Doraca there lived not long ago two Philosophers. They were wiser than anything else in the world except the Salmon who lies in the pool of Glyn Cagny into which the nuts of knowledge fall from the hazel bush on its bank....
PART I CHAPTER I No such throng had ever before been seen in the building during all its eight years of existence. People were wedged together most uncomfortably upon the seats; they stood packed in the aisles and overflowed the galleries; at the back, in the shadows underneath these galleries, they formed broad, dense masses about the doors, through which it would be hopeless to attempt a passage. The light, given out from numerous tin-lined circles of flaring gas-jets arranged on the ceiling, fell full upon a thousand uplifted faces–some framed in bonnets or juvenile curls, others bearded or crowned with shining baldness–but all alike under the spell of a dominant emotion which held features in abstracted suspense and focussed every eye upon a common objective point....
THE DARWINIAN HYPOTHESIS* by Thomas H. Huxley [footnote] *’Times’, December 26th, 1850. DARWIN ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. THERE is a growing immensity in the speculations of science to which no human thing or thought at this day is comparable. Apart from the results which science brings us home and securely harvests, there is an expansive force and latitude in its tentative efforts, which lifts us out of ourselves and transfigures our mortality....
[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.] ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Translated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 CONTENTS OF VOLUME 11. XIII. Of judging of the death of another. XIV. That the mind hinders itself.XV. That our desires are augmented by difficulty....
Scanner’s Notes: What this is and isn’t. This was taken from a copy of Shakespeare’s first folio and it is as close as I can come in ASCII to the printed text. The elongated S’s have been changed to small s’s and the conjoined ae have been changed to ae. I have left the spelling, punctuation, capitalization as close as possible to the printed text. I have corrected some spelling mistakes (I have put together a spelling dictionary devised from the spellings of the Geneva Bible and Shakespeare’s First Folio and have unified spellings according to this template), typo’s and expanded abbreviations as I have come across them....
This is suppose to be a children’s book. If read outloud it is probably fine, but I think it would be difficult for a child to read on their own!! THE FLAG-RAISINGby KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN CONTENTS I. A DIFFERENCE IN HEARTSII. REBECCA’S POINT OF VIEWIII. WISDOM’S WAYSIV. THE SAVING OF THE COLORSV. THE STATE O’ MAINE I A DIFFERENCE IN HEARTS “I DON’know as I cal’lated to be the makin’ of any child,” Miranda had said as she folded Aurelia’s letter and laid it in the light- stand drawer....
THE GLORY OF THE TRENCHES AN INTERPRETATION by CONINGSBY DAWSON Author of “CARRY ON: LETTERS IN WARTIME,” etc. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HIS FATHER, W. J. DAWSON “The glory is all in the souls of the men–it’s nothing external.” –From “Carry On” 1917 [Illustration: LIEUTENANT CONINGSBY DAWSON] TO YOU AT HOME Each night we panted till the runners came, Bearing your letters through the battle-smoke. Their path lay up Death Valley spouting flame, Across the ridge where the Hun’s anger spoke In bursting shells and cataracts of pain; Then down the road where no one goes by day, And so into the tortured, pockmarked plain Where dead men clasp their wounds and point the way....
by CAROLYN WELLS CONTENTS CHAPTER I. THE CRIME IN WEST SEDGWICK II. THE CRAWFORD HOUSE III. THE CORONER’S JURY IV. THE INQUEST V. FLORENCE LLOYD VI. THE GOLD BAG VII. YELLOW ROSES VIII. FURTHER INQUIRY IX. THE TWELFTH ROSE X. THE WILL XI. LOUIS’S STORY XII. LOUIS’S CONFESSION XIII. MISS LLOYD’S CONFIDENCE XIV. MR. PORTER’S VIEWS. XV. THE PHOTOGRAPH EXPLAINED XVI. A CALL ON MRS. PURVIS XVII. THE OWNER OF THE GOLD BAG XVIII....
