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STYLE Style, the Latin name for an iron pen, has come to designate the art that handles, with ever fresh vitality and wary alacrity, the fluid elements of speech. By a figure, obvious enough, which yet might serve for an epitome of literary method, the most rigid and simplest of instruments has lent its name to the subtlest and most flexible of arts. Thence the application of the word has been extended to arts other than literature, to the whole range of the activities of man....

TALES FROM TWO HEMISPHERES. BY HJALMAR HJORTH BOYSEN. 1877 CONTENTS—-THE MAN WHO LOST HIS NAMETHE STORY OF AN OUTCASTA GOOD-FOR-NOTHINGA SCIENTIFIC VAGABONDTRULS, THE NAMELESSASATHOR’S VENGEANCE TALES FROM TWO HEMISPHERES. THE MAN WHO LOST HIS NAME. ON the second day of June, 186–, ayoung Norseman, Halfdan Bjerk byname, landed on the pier at CastleGarden. He passed through the straight and narrow gate where he was asked his name, birthplace, and how much money he had,–at which he grew very much frightened....

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Scanned by Dianne Bean.Proofed by Doug Levy. THE ANTI-SLAVERY CRUSADE, A CHRONICLE OF THE GATHERING STORM BY JESSE MACY NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESSTORONTO: GLASGOW, BROOK & CO.LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORDOXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS1919 CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION II. THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE CRUSADE III. EARLY CRUSADERS IV. THE TURNING-POINT V. THE VINDICATION OF LIBERTY VI. THE SLAVERY ISSUE IN POLITICS VII. THE PASSING OF THE WHIG PARTY VIII. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IX....

The Black Death and The Dancing Mania INTRODUCTION Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker was one of three generations of distinguished professors of medicine. His father, August Friedrich Hecker, a most industrious writer, first practised as a physician in Frankenhausen, and in 1790 was appointed Professor of Medicine at the University of Erfurt. In 1805 he was called to the like professorship at the University of Berlin. He died at Berlin in 1811....

L’ÉTOURDI, OU LES CONTRE-TEMPS. COMEDIE. THE BLUNDERER: OR, THE COUNTERPLOTS. A COMEDY IN FIVE ACTS. (THE ORIGINAL IN VERSE.) 1653. (?) INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. The Blunderer is generally believed to have been first acted at Lyons in 1653, whilst Molière and his troupe were in the provinces. In the month of November 1658 it was played for the first time in Paris, where it obtained a great and well-deserved success. It is chiefly based on an Italian comedy, written by Nicolo Barbieri, known as Beltrame, and called L’Inavvertito, from which the character of Mascarille, the servant, is taken, but differs in the ending, which is superior in the Italian play....

THE BOOK OF AMERICAN NEGRO POETRY Chosen and EditedWith An Essay On The Negro’s Creative Genius byJAMES WELDON JOHNSON Author of “Fifty Years and Other Poems” 1922Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., New York Printed in the U.S.A. by the Quinn & Boden Company, Rahway, N.J. CONTENTS PREFACE PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR A Negro Love Song Little Brown Baby Ships That Pass in the Night Lover’s Lane The Debt The Haunted Oak When de Co’n Pone’s Hot A Death Song JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL Negro Serenade De Cunjah Man Uncle Eph’s Banjo Song Ol’ Doc’ Hyar When Ol’ Sis’ Judy Pray Compensation JAMES D....

[Illustration: Front Cover] [Illustration] THE BOOK OF ENTERPRISE & ADVENTURE; BEING AN EXCITEMENT TO READING. FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. A NEW AND CONDENSED EDITION. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY ABSALON. LONDON 1851. PREFACE. The object of this Volume is that of inducing young people to read, to cultivate in them a habit of reading and reflection, and to excite the imagination, the feelings, and the better emotions of their nature in a pleasurable and judicious manner....

THE BOTANIST’S COMPANION, OR AN INTRODUCTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF PRACTICAL BOTANY, AND THE USES OF PLANTS. EITHER GROWING WILD IN GREAT BRITAIN, OR CULTIVATED FOR THE PUROSES OF AGRICULTURE, MEDICINE, RURAL OECONOMY, OR THE ARTS. By WILLIAM SALISBURY, OF THE BOTANIC GARDEN OF SLOANE-STREET. “Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, and every tree yielding fruit, and to you it shall be for meat.” VOL. II. PREFACE TO THE SECOND VOLUME In demonstrating the Plants which occur in our annual herborizing excursions, I have found it necessary to put into the hands of my pupils some Manual of Botany; and in so doing I have found all that have yet been published, deficient in one or two essential points, and particularly as relating to the uses to which each plant is adapted; with out which, although the charms of the Flora are in themselves truly delightful, yet the real value of Botanic knowledge is lost....

BY HENRY HARLAND I “The Signorino will take coffee?” old Marietta asked, as she set the fruit before him. Peter deliberated for a moment; then burned his ships. “Yes,” he answered. “But in the garden, perhaps?” the little brown old woman suggested, with a persuasive flourish. “No,” he corrected her, gently smiling, and shaking his head, “not perhaps–certainly.” Her small, sharp old black Italian eyes twinkled, responsive. “The Signorino will find a rustic table, under the big willow-tree, at the water’s edge,” she informed him, with a good deal of gesture....

THE CHILDREN’S BOOK OF CHRISTMAS STORIES Edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner THE CHILDREN’S BOOK OF CHRISTMAS STORIES PREFACE Many librarians have felt the need and expressed the desire for a select collection of children’s Christmas stories in one volume. This books claims to be just that and nothing more. Each of the stories has already won the approval of thousands of children, and each is fraught with the true Christmas spirit....

THE COMEDY OF ERRORS ACT I. SCENE 1 A hall in the DUKE’S palace Enter the DUKE OF EPHESUS, AEGEON, the Merchant of Syracuse, GAOLER, OFFICERS, and other ATTENDANTS AEGEON. Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall, And by the doom of death end woes and all. DUKE. Merchant of Syracuse, plead no more; I am not partial to infringe our laws. The enmity and discord which of late Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your duke To merchants, our well-dealing countrymen, Who, wanting guilders to redeem their lives, Have seal’d his rigorous statutes with their bloods, Excludes all pity from our threat’ning looks....

SCENE:Athens and the neighbouring woods ACT I. SCENE I.Athens. TIMON’S house Enter POET, PAINTER, JEWELLER, MERCHANT, and MERCER, at several doors POET. Good day, sir. PAINTER. I am glad y’are well. POET. I have not seen you long; how goes the world? PAINTER. It wears, sir, as it grows. POET. Ay, that’s well known. But what particular rarity? What strange, Which manifold record not matches? See, Magic of bounty, all these spirits thy power Hath conjur’d to attend!...

by Alexandre Dumas [Pere] Chapter 1Marseilles — The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1815, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d’If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island. Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort Saint-Jean were covered with spectators; it is always an event at Marseilles for a ship to come into port, especially when this ship, like the Pharaon, has been built, rigged, and laden at the old Phocee docks, and belongs to an owner of the city....

by William Congreve Interdum tamen et vocem Comoedia tollit.–HOR. Ar. Po. Huic equidem consilio palmam do: hic me magnifice effero, qui vim tantam in me et potestatem habeam tantae astutiae, vera dicendo ut eos ambos fallam. SYR. in TERENT. Heaut. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES MONTAGUE, ONE OF THE LORDS OF THE TREASURY. Sir,–I heartily wish this play were as perfect as I intended it, that it might be more worthy your acceptance, and that my dedication of it to you might be more becoming that honour and esteem which I, with everybody who is so fortunate as to know you, have for you....

THE DUKE’S CHILDREN by Anthony Trollope CONTENTS 1 When the Duchess was Dead2 Lady Mary Palliser3 Francis Oliphant Tregear4 It is Impossible5 Major Tifto6 Conservative Convictions8 He is a Gentleman9 ‘In Media Res’10 Why not like Romeo if I Feel like Romeo? 11 Cruel12 At Richmond13 The Duke’s Injustice14 The New Member for Silverbridge15 The Duke Receives a Letter,–and Writes One 16 Poor Boy17 The Derby18 One of the Results of the Derby19 ‘No; My Lord, I Do Not’20 Then He will Come Again21 Sir Timothy Beeswax22 The Duke in his Study23 Frank Tregear wants a Friend24 She Must be Made to Obey25 A Family Breakfast-Table26 Dinner at the Beargarden27 Major Tifto and the Duke28 Mrs Montacute29 The Lovers Meet30 What Came of the Meeting31 Miss Boncassen’s River-Party No....

GALSWORTHY PLAYS–SECOND SERIES–NO. 1 THE ELDEST SON By John Galsworthy PERSONS OF THE PLAY SIR WILLIAM CHESHIRE, a baronetLADY CHESHIRE, his wifeBILL, their eldest sonHAROLD, their second sonRONALD KEITH(in the Lancers), their son-in-law CHRISTINE (his wife), their eldest daughter DOT, their second daughterJOAN, their third daughterMABEL LANFARNE, their guestTHE REVEREND JOHN LATTER, engaged to Joan OLD STUDDENHAM, the head-keeperFREDA STUDDENHAM, the lady’s-maidYOUNG DUNNING, the under-keeperROSE TAYLOR, a village girlJACKSON, the butlerCHARLES, a footman TIME: The present....

THE FIREFLY OF FRANCE by Marion Polk Angellotti TOTHE MEMORY OFTHE HEROIC GUYNEMER“THE ACE OF THE ACES” PREPARER’S NOTE This text was prepared from a 1918 edition, published by The Century Co., New York. THE FIREFLY OF FRANCE CHAPTER I ALARUMS AND EXCURSIONS The restaurant of the Hotel St. Ives seems, as I look back on it, an odd spot to have served as stage wings for a melodrama, pure and simple....

THE FORMER PHILIPPINES THRU FOREIGN EYES Edited by Austin Craig Preface Among the many wrongs done the Filipinos by Spaniards, to be charged against their undeniably large debt to Spain, one of the greatest, if not the most frequently mentioned, was taking from them their good name. Spanish writers have never been noted for modesty or historical accuracy. Back in 1589 the printer of the English translation of Padre Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza’s “History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China” felt it necessary to prefix this warning: * * * the Spaniards (following their ambitious affections) do usually in all their writings extoll their own actions, even to the setting forth of many untruthes and incredible things, as in their descriptions of the conquistes of the east and west Indies, etc....

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Kuno Francke, Ph.D., LL.D., Litt.D. In Twenty Volumes Illustrated ALBANY, N.Y. J.B. LYON COMPANY PUBLISHERS 1913 Editor’s Preface Publishers Foreword General Introduction. By Richard M. Meyer The Life of Goethe. By Calvin Thomas Greeting and Departure. Translated by Charles Wharton Stork The Heathrose. Adapted from the translation by E.A. Bowring Mahomet’s Song. Translated by E.A. Bowring Prometheus. Translated by E.A. Bowring The Wanderer’s Night-Song. Adapted from the translation by E....