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This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliotheque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr HYGEIAA CITY OF HEALTH BY BENJAMIN WARD RICHARDSON M.D., F.R.S. 1876 [Illustration] TOEDWIN CHADWICK, C.B. MY DEAR MR. CHADWICK, I wrote this Address with the intention of dedicating it to you, as a simple but hearty acknowledgment by a sanitary student, himself well ripened in the work, of your pre-eminent position as the living leader of the sanitary reformation of this century....

IDLE IDEAS IN 1905 by Jerome K. Jerome Contents: Are We As Interesting As We Think We Are? Should Women Be Beautiful?When Is The Best Time To Be Merry?Do We Lie A-Bed Too Late?Should Married Men Play Golf?Are Early Marriages A Mistake?Do Writers Write Too Much?Should Soldiers Be Polite?Ought Stories To Be True?Creatures That One Day Shall Be Men How To Be Happy Though LittleShould We Say What We Think, Or Think What We Say?...

JAMES OTIS THE PRE-REVOLUTIONIST BY JOHN CLARK RIDPATH, LL.D. AUTHOR OF A “Cyclopaedia of Universal History,” “Great Races of Mankind,” “Life and Times of William E. Gladstone,” etc., etc. THE CHARACTER OF JAMES OTIS BY CHARLES K. EDMUNDS, Ph.D. WITH AN ESSAY ON THE PATRIOT BY G. MERCER ADAM Late Editor “Self-Culture” Magazine, Etc., Etc. TOGETHER WITH ANECDOTES, CHARACTERISTICS, AND CHRONOLOGY Near the northeast corner of the old Common of Boston a section of ground was put apart long before the beginning of the eighteenth century to be a burying ground for some of the heroic dead of the city of the Puritans....

LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI BY MARK TWAIN Part 7. Chapter 31 A Thumb-print and What Came of It WE were approaching Napoleon, Arkansas. So I began to think about my errand there. Time, noonday; and bright and sunny. This was bad–not best, anyway; for mine was not (preferably) a noonday kind of errand. The more I thought, the more that fact pushed itself upon me–now in one form, now in another....

THE LITERARY REMAINS OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE COLLECTED AND EDITED BY HENRY NELSON COLERIDGE, ESQ. M.A. VOLUME THE SECOND CONTENTS VOL. II. LITERARY REMAINS. Extract from a Letter written by Mr. Coleridge, in February, 1818, to a Gentleman who attended the Course of Lectures given in the Spring of that Year. Extract from a Letter to J. Britton, Esq. SHAKSPEARE, WITH INTRODUCTORY MATTER ON POETRY, THE DRAMA, AND THE STAGE Definition of Poetry Greek Drama Progress of the Drama The Drama generally, and Public Taste Shakspeare, a Poet generally Shakspeare’s Judgment equal to his Genius Recapitulation, and Summary of the Characteristics of Shakspeare’s Dramas Order of Shakspeare’s Plays Notes on the Tempest Love’s Labour’s Lost Midsummer Night’s Dream Comedy of Errors As You Like It Twelfth Night All’s Well that Ends Well Merry Wives of Windsor Measure for Measure Cymbeline Titus Andronicus Troilus and Cressida Coriolanus Julius Caesar Antony and Cleopatra Timon of Athens Romeo and Juliet Shakspeare’s English Historical Plays King John Richard II....

LYRICAL BALLADS WITH OTHER POEMS. 1800 IN TWO VOLUMES. By W. WORDSWORTH. Quam hihil ad genium, Papiniane, tuum! VOL. II. CONTENTS Hart-leap Well There was a Boy, &c The Brothers, a Pastoral Poem Ellen Irwin, or the Braes of Kirtle Strange fits of passion I have known, &c. Song A slumber did my spirit seal, &c The Waterfall and the Eglantine The Oak and the Broom, a Pastoral Lucy Gray The Idle Shepherd-Boys or Dungeon-Gill Force, a Pastoral ‘Tis said that some have died for love, &c....

MAGGIE: A GIRL OF THE STREETSBY STEPHEN CRANE Chapter I A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honor of Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from Devil’s Row who were circling madly about the heap and pelting at him. His infantile countenance was livid with fury. His small body was writhing in the delivery of great, crimson oaths. “Run, Jimmie, run! Dey’ll get yehs,” screamed a retreating Rum Alley child....

MEN, WOMEN, AND BOATS By Stephen Crane Edited With an Introduction by Vincent Starrett NOTE A Number of the tales and sketches here brought together appear now for the first time between covers; others for the first time between covers in this country. All have been gathered from out-of-print volumes and old magazine files. “The Open Boat,” one of Stephen Crane’s finest stories, is used with the courteous permission of Doubleday, Page & Co....

MUDFOG AND OTHER SKETCHES Contents: I. PUBLIC LIFE OF MR. TULRUMBLE — ONCE MAYOR OF MUDFOG II. FULL REPORT OF THE FIRST MEETING OF THE MUDFOG ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EVERYTHING III. FULL REPORT OF THE SECOND MEETING OF THE MUDFOG ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EVERYTHING IV. THE PANTOMIME OF LIFE V. SOME PARTICULARS CONCERNING A LION VI. MR. ROBERT BOLTON: THE ‘GENTLEMAN CONNECTED WITH THE PRESS’ VII....

CHAPTER I. I am an old woman now, and things are very different to what they were in my youth. Then we, who travelled, travelled in coaches, carrying six inside, and making a two days’ journey out of what people now go over in a couple of hours with a whizz and a flash, and a screaming whistle, enough to deafen one. Then letters came in but three times a week: indeed, in some places in Scotland where I have stayed when I was a girl, the post came in but once a month;–but letters were letters then; and we made great prizes of them, and read them and studied them like books....

NOTE-BOOK OF ANTON CHEKHOV Translated by S. S. KOTELIANSKY and LEONARD WOOLF 1921 This volume consists of notes, themes, and sketches for works which Anton Chekhov intended to write, and are characteristic of the methods of his artistic production. Among his papers was found a series of sheets in a special cover with the inscription: “Themes, thoughts, notes, and fragments.” Madame L.O. Knipper-Chekhov, Chekhov’s wife, also possesses his note-book, in which he entered separate themes for his future work, quotations which he liked, etc....

OLD MOTHER WEST WIND by Thornton W. Burgess TO MY MOTHER TO WHOM I OWE SO MUCH AND TO MY LITTLE SON WHOSE LOVE OF STORIES INSPIRED THESE TALES THIS LITTLE VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED. CONTENTS: CHAPTER I. MRS. REDWING’S SPECKLED EGG II. WHY GRANDFATHER FROG HAS NO TAIL III. HOW REDDY FOX WAS SURPRISED IV. WHY JIMMY SKUNK WEARS STRIPES V. THE WILFUL LITTLE BREEZE VI. REDDY FOX GOES FISHING VII....

ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES, Vol. 8. By Guy de Maupassant GUY DE MAUPASSANT ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES Translated by ALBERT M. C. McMASTER, B.A. A. E. HENDERSON, B.A. MME. QUESADA and Others VOLUME VIII. CLOCHETTETHE KISSTHE LEGION OF HONORTHE TESTFOUND ON A DROWNED MANTHE ORPHANTHE BEGGARTHE RABBITHIS AVENGERMY UNCLE JULESTHE MODELA VAGABONDTHE FISHING HOLETHE SPASMIN THE WOODMARTINEALL OVERTHE PARROTA PIECE OF STRING CLOCHETTE How strange those old recollections are which haunt us, without our being able to get rid of them....

Other Things Being Equal by Emma Wolf Chapter I A humming-bird dipped through the air and lit upon the palm-tree just below the open window; the long drowsy call of a crowing cock came from afar off; the sun spun down in the subdued splendor of a hazy veil. It was a dustless, hence an anomalous, summer’s afternoon in San Francisco. Ruth Levice sat near the window, lazily rocking, her long lithe arms clasped about her knees, her face a dream of the day....

ROUGHING IT by Mark Twain 1880 Part 2. CHAPTER XI. And sure enough, two or three years afterward, we did hear him again. News came to the Pacific coast that the Vigilance Committee in Montana (whither Slade had removed from Rocky Ridge) had hanged him. I find an account of the affair in the thrilling little book I quoted a paragraph from in the last chapter–“The Vigilantes of Montana; being a Reliable Account of the Capture, Trial and Execution of Henry Plummer’s Notorious Road Agent Band: By Prof....

by Bret Harte CONTENTS SALLY DOWS THE CONSPIRACY OF MRS. BUNKER THE TRANSFORMATION OF BUCKEYE CAMP THEIR UNCLE FROM CALIFORNIA SALLY DOWS. PROLOGUE. THE LAST GUN AT SNAKE RIVER. What had been in the cool gray of that summer morning a dewy country lane, marked only by a few wagon tracks that never encroached upon its grassy border, and indented only by the faint footprints of a crossing fox or coon, was now, before high noon, already crushed, beaten down, and trampled out of all semblance of its former graciousness....

SALUTE TO ADVENTURERS BY JOHN BUCHAN [Illustration: 1798 EDINBURGH] TO MAJOR-GENERAL THE HON. SIR REGINALD TALBOT, K.C.B. I tell of old Virginian ways; And who more fit my tale to scan Than you, who knew in far-off days The eager horse of Sheridan; Who saw the sullen meads of fate, The tattered scrub, the blood-drenched sod, Where Lee, the greatest of the great, Bent to the storm of God? I tell lost tales of savage wars; And you have known the desert sands, The camp beneath the silver stars, The rush at dawn of Arab bands, The fruitless toil, the hopeless dream, The fainting feet, the faltering breath, While Gordon by the ancient stream Waited at ease on death....

SAMANTHA AMONG THE BRETHREN. By “Josiah Allen’s Wife” (Marietta Holley) Part 5 CHAPTER XVIII. Josiah’s face wuz smooth and placid, he hadn’t took a mite of sense of what I had been a-sayin’, and I knew it. Men don’t. They know at the most it is only talk, wimmen hain’t got it in their power to do anything. And I s’pose they reason on it in this way–a little wind storm is soon over, it relieves old Natur and don’t hurt anything....

SAMUEL BUTLER’S CANTERBURY PIECES by Samuel Butler Contents: Darwin on the Origin of Species A Dialogue Barrel-Organs Letter: 21 Feb 1863 Letter: 14 Mar 1863 Letter: 18 Mar 1863 Letter: 11 Apr 1863 Letter: 22 June 1863Darwin Among the MachinesLucubratio EbriaA note on “The Tempest”The English Cricketers DARWIN ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES Prefatory Note As the following dialogue embodies the earliest fruits of Butler’s study of the works of Charles Darwin, with whose name his own was destined in later years to be so closely connected, and thus possesses an interest apart from its intrinsic merit, a few words as to the circumstances in which it was published will not be out of place....

CONTENTS. PART I. I. A NEW-COMERII. WHICH CONTAINS A FEW DETAILSIII. MRS. REFFOLD LEARNS HER LESSON IV. CONCERNING WARLI AND MARIEV. THE DISAGREEABLE MANVI. THE TRAVELLER AND THE TEMPLE OF KNOWLEDGE VII. BERNARDINEVIII. THE STORY MOVES ON AT LASTIX. BERNARDINE PREACHESX. THE DISAGREEABLE MAN IS SEEN IN A NEW LIGHT XI. “IF ONE HAS MADE THE ONE GREAT SACRIFICE” XII. THE DISAGREEABLE MAN MAKES A LOANXIII. A DOMESTIC SCENEXIV. CONCERNING THE CARETAKERSXV....