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BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, 1882 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION THE GREAT STONE FACE The AMBITIOUS GUEST THE GREAT CARBUNCLE SKETCHES FROM MEMORY INTRODUCTION THE first three numbers in this collection are tales of the White Hills in New Hampshire. The passages from Sketches from Memory show that Hawthorne had visited the mountains in one of his occasional rambles from home, but there are no entries in his Note Books which give accounts of such a visit....

[Illustration: “She almost wished some fisherman might come into view.”] THE GREEN MOUSE By ROBERT W. CHAMBERS ILLUSTRATED IN COLOR BY EDMUND FREDERICK 1910 TO MY FRIEND JOHN CORBIN Folly and Wisdom, Heavenly twins, Sons of the god Imagination,Heirs of the Virtues–which were Sins Till Transcendental ContemplationTransmogrified their outer skins– Friend, do you follow me? For I Have lost myself, I don’t know why. Resuming, then, this erudite And decorative Dedication,–Accept it, John, with all your might In Cinquecentic resignation....

The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888. Complied from State Documents, Private Papers and the most authentic sources of information.Issued under the auspices of the Government of the Australian Colonies. by Ernest Favenc. Sydney:Turner and Henderson1888 Dedication. TO THE HON. SIR HENRY PARKES, G.C.M.G., C.C.I., M.P., ASTHE OLDEST RULING STATESMAN IN AUSTRALIA, AND IN THEPRESENT CENTENARY YEARTHE PREMIER OF NEW SOUTH WALES,THE MOTHER COLONY,FROM WHENCE FIRST STARTED THOSE EXPLORATIONS BY LAND AND SEA,WHICH HAVE RESULTED IN THROWING OPEN TO THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD A NEW CONTINENT,NOW RAPIDLY DEVELOPING, UNDER FREE CONSTITUTIONS, APROSPEROUS, CONTENTED, AND SELF-GOVERNING COMMUNITY, THISHISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN EXPLORATIONIS DEDICATED....

THE HOLLY-TREE–THREE BRANCHES FIRST BRANCH–MYSELF I have kept one secret in the course of my life. I am a bashful man. Nobody would suppose it, nobody ever does suppose it, nobody ever did suppose it, but I am naturally a bashful man. This is the secret which I have never breathed until now. I might greatly move the reader by some account of the innumerable places I have not been to, the innumerable people I have not called upon or received, the innumerable social evasions I have been guilty of, solely because I am by original constitution and character a bashful man....

The Hound of the Baskervilles by A. Conan Doyle Chapter 1Mr. Sherlock Holmes Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before. It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a “Penang lawyer....

THE INTERDEPENDENCE of LITERATURE By GEORGINA PELL CURTIS “There is first, the literature of knowledge, and secondly the literature of power. The function of the first is to teach, the function or the second is to move; the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding, the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy....

MY LIFE IN THE ROLLING MILLS ANDWHAT CAME OF IT by JAMES J. DAVIS Introduction byJOSEPH G. CANNON The man whose life story is here presented between book covers is at the time of writing only forty-eight years old. When I met him many years ago he was a young man full of enthusiasm. I remember saying to him then, “With your enthusiasm and the sparkle which you have in your eyes I am sure you will make good....

[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks at the end of this file for those who may wish to sample the author’s ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.] THE KENTONS By William Dean Howells I. The Kentons were not rich, but they were certainly richer than the average in the pleasant county town of the Middle West, where they had spent nearly their whole married life....

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 LANDLOPERBy Holman Day 1915 THE LANDLOPER THE ROMANCE OF A MAN ON FOOT BY HOLMAN DAY THE LANDLOPER I IN THE DUST OF THE LONG HIGHWAY The man who called himself Walker Farr plodded down the dusty stretches of a country road....

The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe ByJames Kendall Hosmer, LL.D. Member of the Minnesota Historical Society, Corresponding Member of the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Colonial Society of Massachusetts Author of “A Short History of German Literature,” “The Story of the Jews,” the Lives of Samuel Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Sir Henry Vane, etc. 1912 FOREWORD Standing on the threshold of my eightieth year, stumbling badly, moreover, through the mutiny, well justified, of a pair of worn-out eyes, I, a veteran maker of books, must look forward to the closing of an over-long series....

THE LAST OF THE PLAINSMEN by ZANE GREY PREFATORY NOTE Buffalo Jones needs no introduction to American sportsmen, but to these of my readers who are unacquainted with him a few words may not be amiss. He was born sixty-two years ago on the Illinois prairie, and he has devoted practically all of his life to the pursuit of wild animals. It has been a pursuit which owed its unflagging energy and indomitable purpose to a singular passion, almost an obsession, to capture alive, not to kill....

LIFE AND ADVENTURE OF BARON TRENCK – VOLUME 2 TRANSLATED BY THOMAS HOLCROFT INTRODUCTION. Thomas Holcroft, the translator of these Memoirs of Baron Trenck, was the author of about thirty plays, among which one, The Road to Ruin, produced in 1792, has kept its place upon the stage. He was born in December, 1745, the son of a shoemaker who did also a little business in horse-dealing. After early struggles, during which he contrived to learn French, German, and Italian, Holcroft contributed to a newspaper, turned actor, and wrote plays, which appeared between the years 1791 and 1806....

by William Shakespeare DRAMATIS PERSONAE KING HENRY THE EIGHTHCARDINAL WOLSEYCARDINAL CAMPEIUSCAPUCIUS, Ambassador from the Emperor Charles V CRANMER, archbishop of CanterburyDUKE OF NORFOLKDUKE OF BUCKINGHAMDUKE OF SUFFOLKEARL OF SURREYLORD CHAMBERLAINLORD CHANCELLORGARDINER, bishop of WinchesterBISHOP OF LINCOLNLORD ABERGAVENNYLORD SANDYS (called also SIR WILLIAM SANDYS) SIR HENRY GUILDFORDSIR THOMAS LOVELLSIR ANTHONY DENNYSIR NICHOLAS VAUXSecretaries to WolseyCROMWELL, servant to WolseyGRIFFITH, gentleman usher to Queen Katherine Three GentlemenDOCTOR BUTTS, physician to the King Garter King-at-ArmsSurveyor to the Duke of BuckinghamBRANDON, and a Sergeant-at-ArmsDoor-keeper of the Council-chamberPorter, and his ManPage to GardinerA Crier QUEEN KATHERINE, wife to King Henry, afterwards divorced ANNE BULLEN, her Maid of Honour, afterwards Queen An old Lady, friend to Anne BullenPATIENCE, woman to Queen Katherine Spirits Several Lords and Ladies in the Dumb Shows; Women attending upon the Queen; Scribes, Officers, Guards, and other Attendants SCENE: London; Westminster; Kimbolton THE PROLOGUE....

THE LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST FOR THE YOUNG BY THE REV. RICHARD NEWTON, D.D. ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY VOL. III THE GALLERY OF THE LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST VOLUME III CONTENTS: I THE APOSTLES CHOSEN II THE GREAT TEACHER III CHRIST TEACHING BY PARABLES IV CHRIST TEACHING BY MIRACLES V CHRIST TEACHING LIBERALITY VI CHRIST TEACHING HUMILITY VII CHRIST AND THE LITTLE CHILDREN VIII THE TRANSFIGURATION IX THE LESSONS FROM OLIVET X THE LORD’S SUPPER ILLUSTRATIONS: MAP OF PALESTINE, IN COLORS 41....

The Life of Stephen A. Douglas by William Gardner Preface. De mortuis nil nisi bonum, (of the dead speak nothing but good), is the rule which governed the friends of Stephen A. Douglas after his death. “Of political foes speak nothing but ill,” is the rule which has guided much of our discussion of him for forty years. The time has now arrived when we can study him dispassionately and judge him justly, when we can take his measure, if not with scientific accuracy, at least with fairness and honesty....

THE MAID-AT-ARMS A Novel By Robert W. Chambers Illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy 1902 TO MISS KATHARINE HUSTED PREFACE After a hundred years the history of a great war waged by a successful nation is commonly reviewed by that nation with retrospective complacency. Distance dims the panorama; haze obscures the ragged gaps in the pageant until the long lines of victorious armies move smoothly across the horizon, with never an abyss to check their triumph....

VOL. 13, No. 350.] SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1829. [PRICE 2d. BRUCE CASTLE, TOTTENHAM. [Illustration: BRUCE CASTLE, TOTTENHAM.] The engraving represents this interesting structure, as it appeared in the year 1686; being copied from a print, after a picture by Wolridge. The original castle was very ancient, as appears by the foundations, and an old brick tower over a deep well, the upper part of which has been used as a dairy....

THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. XIV, NO. 406.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1829. [PRICE 2d. VIRGIL’S TOMB. [Illustration: Virgil’s Tomb.] This consecrated relic of genius stands on the hill of Posilipo, in the environs of Naples. Its recent state is so beautifully described by Eustace, that we shall not, like gipsys do stolen children, disfigure it to prevent recognition. Proceeding westward along the Chiaia and keeping towards the beach, says Eustace, we came to the quarter called Mergyllina....

This etext was produced by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk, from the 1887 Thomas Y. Crowell edition. THE MOSCOW CENSUS–FROM “WHAT TO DO?” by Count Lyof N. Tolstoi Translated from the Russian byIsabel F. Hapgood ARTICLE ON THE CENSUS IN MOSCOW. [1882.] The object of a census is scientific. A census is a sociological investigation. And the object of the science of sociology is the happiness of the people. This science and its methods differ sharply from all other sciences....

[Illustration: THE SAUCEPAN THROWN IN DEFIANCE] THE MYSTERIES OF PARIS IN THREE VOLUMES VOLUME TWO By EUGENE SUE [Illustration] THE MYSTERIES OF PARIS CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE EXECUTION. The surprised lapidary rose and opened the door. Two men entered the garret. One of them was tall and thin, with a face mean and pimpled, surrounded by thick, grayish whiskers; he held in his hand a stout loaded cane, and wore a shapeless hat and a large green greatcoat, covered with mud, and buttoned close up to the neck; the black velvet collar, much worn, exposed to view his long, bare, red throat, which resembled a vulture’s....