The Grand Babylon Hotel by Arnold Bennett T. Racksole & Daughter Chapter One THE MILLIONAIRE AND THE WAITER ‘YES, sir?’ Jules, the celebrated head waiter of the Grand Babylon, was bending formally towards the alert, middle-aged man who had just entered the smoking-room and dropped into a basket-chair in the corner by the conservatory. It was 7.45 on a particularly sultry June night, and dinner was about to be served at the Grand Babylon....
VOLUME II A COMPREHENSIVE AND READABLE ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD’S HISTORY. EMPHASIZING THE MORE IMPORTANT EVENTS, AND PRESENTING THESE AS COMPLETE NARRATIVES IN THE MASTER-WORDS OF THE MOST EMINENT HISTORIANS NON-SECTARIAN NON-PARTISAN NON-SECTIONAL ON THE PLAN EVOLVED FROM A CONSENSUS OF OPINIONS GATHERED FROM THE MOST DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS OF AMERICA AND EUROPE, INCLUDING BRIEF INTRODUCTIONS BY SPECIALISTS TO CONNECT AND EXPLAIN THE CELEBRATED NARRATIVES, ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY, WITH THOROUGH INDICES, BIBLIOGRAPHIES, CHRONOLOGIES, AND COURSES OF READING EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ROSSITER JOHNSON, LL....
History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 14 by Thomas Carlyle BOOK XIV. THE SURROUNDING EUROPEAN WAR DOES NOT END. August, 1742-July, 1744. Chapter I. FRIEDRICH RESUMES HIS PEACEABLE PURSUITS. Friedrich’s own Peace being made on such terms, his wish and hope was, that it might soon be followed by a general European one; that, the live-coal, which had kindled this War, being quenched, the War itself might go out....
THE HISTORY OF THE TELEPHONE BY HERBERT N. CASSON PREFACE Thirty-five short years, and presto!the newborn art of telephony is fullgrown. Three million telephones are now scattered abroad in foreign countries, and seven millions are massed here, in the land of its birth. So entirely has the telephone outgrown the ridicule with which, as many people can well remember, it was first received, that it is now in most places taken for granted, as though it were a part of the natural phenomena of this planet....
A few years ago, while visiting or, rather, rummaging about Notre-Dame, the author of this book found, in an obscure nook of one of the towers, the following word, engraved by hand upon the wall:– ἈΝÁΓΚΗ. These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic caligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply....
The “legal small print” and other information about this book may now be found at the end of this file. Please read this important information, as it gives you specific rights and tells you about restrictions in how the file may be used. THE IDEA OF PROGRESSAN INQUIRY INTO ITS ORIGIN AND GROWTH BY J. B. BURYREGIUS PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY, AND FELLOW OF KING’S COLLEGE, IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE Dedicated to the memories of Charles Francois Castel de Saint- Pierre, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat de Condorcet, Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, and other optimists mentioned in this volume....
Consisting of Novel, Elegant, and Useful Designs in Knitting, Netting, Crochet, Braiding, and Embroidery with Clear and Explicit Directions for Working the Patterns ADDRESS Encouraged by the kind welcome which greeted their former efforts to provide a volume worthy the attention of the ladies of the United Kingdom, the Publishers of the Lady’s Album of Fancy-Work have issued a similar production for 1850. Solicitous to preserve the favourable consideration so flatteringly accorded, every care has been taken to render the Lady’s Album of fancy-Work for 1850 as attractive and useful as possible; no expense has been spared in its artistic illustration, letterpress, and embellishment; and it will be found an elegant ornament in the drawing-room as well as a useful ally at the work-table....
TO EVE“The Comfortress of Unsuccess” CONTENTS PrefaceThe Land of Little RainWater Trails of the CerisoThe ScavengersThe Pocket HunterShoshone LandJimville–A Bret Harte TownMy Neighbor’s FieldThe Mesa TrailThe Basket MakerThe Streets of the MountainsWater BordersOther Water BordersNurslings of the SkyThe Little Town of the Grape Vines PREFACE I confess to a great liking for the Indian fashion of name-giving: every man known by that phrase which best expresses him to whoso names him....
MARK TWAIN’S LETTERS 1876-1885 ARRANGED WITH COMMENT BY ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE VOLUME III. XVI. LETTERS, 1876, CHIEFLY TO W. D. HOWELLS. LITERATURE AND POLITICS. PLANNING A PLAY WITH BRET HARTE The Monday Evening Club of Hartford was an association of most of the literary talent of that city, and it included a number of very distinguished members. The writers, the editors, the lawyers, and the ministers of the gospel who composed it were more often than not men of national or international distinction....
THE LIFE OF HON. WILLIAM F. CODY KNOWN AS BUFFALO BILL THE FAMOUS HUNTER, SCOUT AND GUIDE. _AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY_. 1879 To GENERAL PHILIP H. SHERIDAN, THIS BOOK IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR. [Illustration: Yours Sincerely, W. F. Cody] INTRODUCTORY. The life and adventures of Hon. William F. Cody–Buffalo Bill–as told by himself, make up a narrative which reads more like romance than reality, and which in many respects will prove a valuable contribution to the records of our Western frontier history....
This Book is DedicatedTo My GranddaughterOZMA BAUM To My Readers Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me. Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities....
FORE-GLIMPSE ‘I would rather be an angel than God!’ The voice of the speaker sounded clearly through the hawthorn tree. The young man and the young girl who sat together on the low tombstone looked at each other. They had heard the voices of the two children talking, but had not noticed what they said; it was the sentiment, not the sound, which roused their attention. The girl put her finger to her lips to impress silence, and the man nodded; they sat as still as mice whilst the two children went on talking....
THE MASTERY OF THE AIR by WILLIAM J. CLAXTON PREFACE This book makes no pretence of going minutely into the technical and scientific sides of human flight: rather does it deal mainly with the real achievements of pioneers who have helped to make aviation what it is to-day. My chief object has been to arouse among my readers an intelligent interest in the art of flight, and, profiting by friendly criticism of several of my former works, I imagine that this is best obtained by setting forth the romance of triumph in the realms of an element which has defied man for untold centuries, rather than to give a mass of scientific principles which appeal to no one but the expert....
MEMOIRS OF GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN By William T. Sherman VOLUME II CHAPTER XVI. ATLANTA CAMPAIGN-NASHVILLE AND CHATTANOOGA TO BENEBAW. MARCH, APRIL, AND MAY, 1864. On the 18th day of March, 1864, at Nashville, Tennessee, I relieved Lieutenant-General Grant in command of the Military Division of the Mississippi, embracing the Departments of the Ohio, Cumberland, Tennessee, and Arkansas, commanded respectively by Major-Generals Schofield, Thomas, McPherson, and Steele. General Grant was in the act of starting East to assume command of all the armies of the United States, but more particularly to give direction in person to the Armies of the Potomac and James, operating against Richmond; and I accompanied him as far as Cincinnati on his way, to avail myself of the opportunity to discuss privately many little details incident to the contemplated changes, and of preparation for the great events then impending....
MEMOIRS OF GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN By William T. Sherman Volume I., Part 1 GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN HIS COMRADES IN ARMS, VOLUNTEERS AND REGULARS. Nearly ten years have passed since the close of the civil war in America, and yet no satisfactory history thereof is accessible to the public; nor should any be attempted until the Government has published, and placed within the reach of students, the abundant materials that are buried in the War Department at Washington....
THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. XIII, No. 365.] SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1829. [PRICE. 2d. * * * * * OLD SOMERSET HOUSE. [Illustration: OLD SOMERSET HOUSE.] The Engraving on the annexed page is, perhaps, one of the greatest antiquarian treasures it has for some time been our good fortune to introduce to the readers of the MIRROR. It represents the original SOMERSET HOUSE, which derived its name from Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, maternal uncle to Edward VI....
VOL. 20, NO. 581.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1832. [PRICE 2d. [Illustration: CHAPEL ON THE BRIDGE, WAKEFIELD.] CHAPEL ON THE BRIDGE, WAKEFIELD Chapels on bridges are not so unfrequent in architectural history as the rarity of their remains would indicate. Among the early records of bridge-building we read that “the Romans built many bridges in the provinces; viz. in France, Spain, Germany, Britain, &c. some of which had arches or towers on them....
ODD CRAFT BY W. W. JACOBS 1909 THE MONEY-BOX Sailormen are not good ‘ands at saving money as a rule, said the night-watchman, as he wistfully toyed with a bad shilling on his watch-chain, though to ‘ear ’em talk of saving when they’re at sea and there isn’t a pub within a thousand miles of ’em, you might think different. [Illustration: “Sailormen are not good ‘ands at saving money as a rule....
THE HISTORY OF ROME. TITUS LIVIUS. BOOKS TWENTY-SEVEN TO THIRTY-SIX. LITERALLY TRANSLATED, WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS, BY CYRUS EDMONDS. MDCCCL. THE HISTORY OF ROME. BOOK XXVII. Cneius Fulvius, proconsul, defeated by Hannibal and slain; the consul, Claudius Marcellus, engages him with better success. Hannibal, raising his camp, retires; Marcellus pursues, and forces him to an engagement. They fight twice; in the first battle, Hannibal gains the advantage; in the second, Marcellus....
SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR THESTORY-TELLER Concerning the fundamental points ofmethod in telling a story, I have little to add to the principles which I have already stated as necessary, in my opinion, in the book of which this is, in a way, thecontinuation. But in the two years which have passed since that book was written, I have had the happiness of working onstories and the telling of them, among teachers and students all over this country, and in that experience certain secondary points of method have come to seem moreimportant, or at least more in need of emphasis, than they did before....
