THE MYSTERY BY STEWART EDWARD WHITE AND SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS Illustrations by Will Crawford 1907 CONTENTS PART ONE THE SEA RIDDLE I. DESERT SEAS II. THE “LAUGHING LASS” III. THE DEATH SHIP IV. THE SECOND PRIZE CREW V. THE DISAPPEARANCE VI. THE CASTAWAYS VII. THE FREE LANCE PART TWO THE BRASS BOUND CHEST Being the story told by Ralph Slade, Free Lance, to the officers of the United States Cruiser “Wolverine” I....
OR, THE DREAM OF THE RED CHAMBER, A CHINESE NOVEL IN TWO BOOKS BY CAO XUEQIN Translated by H. BENCRAFT JOLY H.B.M. CONSULAR SERVICE, CHINA. BOOK II CHAPTER XXV. By a demoniacal art, a junior uncle and an elder brother’s wife (Pao-yü and lady Feng) come across five devils. The gem of Spiritual Perception meets, in a fit of torpor, the two perfect men. Hsiao Hung, the story continues, was much unsettled in her mind....
Iron Workers and Tool Makers by Samuel Smiles (this etext was produced from a reprint of the 1863 first edition) PREFACE. The Author offers the following book as a continuation, in a more generally accessible form, of the Series of Memoirs of Industrial Men introduced in his Lives of the Engineers. While preparing that work he frequently came across the tracks of celebrated inventors, mechanics, and iron-workers–the founders, in a great measure, of the modern industry of Britain–whose labours seemed to him well worthy of being traced out and placed on record, and the more so as their lives presented many points of curious and original interest....
In the press, by the same Author, complete in One Volume, AN ENGLISH TRAGEDY: A PLAY, IN FIVE ACTS. MARY STUART. TRANSLATED FROM SCHILLER. A PLAY, IN FIVE ACTS. MLLE. DE BELLISLE. TRANSLATED FROM DUMAS. A PLAY, IN FIVE ACTS. JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE ON A GEORGIAN PLANTATION 1838-1839. By FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE. * * * * * SLAVERY THE CHIEF CORNER STONE. ‘This stone (Slavery), which was rejected by the first builders, is become the chief stone of the corner in our new edifice....
O ye who tread the Narrow Way By Tophet-flare to judgment Day, Be gentle when ‘the heathen’ pray To Buddha at Kamakura! Buddha at Kamakura. He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher – the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that ‘fire-breathing dragon’, hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror’s loot....
KING COAL A NOVEL BY UPTON SINCLAIR TO MARY CRAIG KIMBROUGH To whose persistence in the perilous task of tearing her husband’s manuscript to pieces, the reader is indebted for the absence of most of the faults from this book. CONTENTS BOOK ONE THE DOMAIN OF KING COAL BOOK TWO THE SERFS OF KING COAL BOOK THREE THE HENCHMEN OF KING COAL BOOK FOUR THE WILL OF KING COAL INTRODUCTION Upton Sinclair is one of the not too many writers who have consecrated their lives to the agitation for social justice, and who have also enrolled their art in the service of a set purpose....
[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.] LETTERS TO HIS SON 1753-54 By the EARL OF CHESTERFIELD on the Fine Art of becoming a MAN OF THE WORLD and a GENTLEMAN LETTER CLXXXV LONDON, New Years’ Day, 1753 MY DEAR FRIEND: It is now above a fortnight since I have received a letter from you....
LITTLE FOLKS ASTRAY. BY SOPHIE MAY “To give room for wandering is itThat the world was made so wide.” 1872 TO MY YOUNG FRIEND, EMMA ADAMS. “JOHNNIE OPTIC.” TO PARENTS. Here come the Parlins and Cliffords again. They had been sent to bed and nicely tucked in, but would not stay asleep. They “wanted to see the company down stairs;” so they have dressed themselves, and come back to the parlor....
LONDON FILMS BY W. D. HOWELLS [Illustration: HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT] CONTENTS I. METEOROLOGICAL EMOTIONS II. CIVIC AND SOCIAL COMPARISONS, MOSTLY ODIOUS III. SHOWS AND SIDE-SHOWS OF STATE IV. THE DUN YEAR’S BRILLIANT FLOWER V. THE SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF THE STREETS VI. SOME MISGIVINGS AS TO THE AMERICAN INVASION VII. IN THE GALLERY OF THE COMMONS VIII. THE MEANS OF SOJOURN IX. CERTAIN TRAITS OF THE LONDON SPRINGTIME X. SOME VOLUNTARY AND INVOLUNTARY SIGHTSEEING XI....
[frontispiece]THE MODERN DINNER-TABLE. MANNERSANDSOCIAL USAGES by MRS. JOHN SHERWOOD M.E.W. AUTHOR OF “A TRANSPLANTED ROSE” “Manners are the shadows of great virtues.”–Whateley “Solid Fashion is funded politeness.”–Emerson NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION, REVISED BY THE AUTHOR JUN 11 1887 PG TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: This etiquette manual was probably originally a series of columns in a newspaper or a magazine like Harper’s, as the chapters on weddings in the different seasons refer to how the fashions have changed since the last one–by the original copyright, 1884, though the book version appeared in 1887....
[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.] MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ST. CLOUD Being Secret Letters from a Gentleman at Paris to a Nobleman in London BOOK 6. LETTER X. PARIS, September, 1805. My LORD:–I was lately invited to a tea-party by one of our rich upstarts, who, from a scavenger, is, by the Revolution and by Bonaparte, transformed into a Legislator, Commander of the Legion of Honour, and possessor of wealth amounting to eighteen millions of livres....
MORAL PHILOSOPHY: ETHICS, DEONTOLOGY AND NATURAL LAW. BYJOSEPH RICKABY, S.J. Nihil Obstat:JOSEPHUS KEATING, S.J.Censor deputatus Imprimi potest:JOANNES H. WRIGHT, S.J.Prap. Prov. Anglia Nihil Obstat:C. SCHUT, D.D.Censor deputatus Imprimatur:EDM. CAN. SURMONT_Vie. Gen._ PREFACE (1905). For fifteen years this Manual has enjoyed all the popularity that its author could desire. With that popularity the author is the last person to wish to interfere. Therefore, not to throw previous copies out of use, this edition makes no alteration either in the pagination or the text already printed....
My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror by Sir Walter Scott INTRODUCTION. The species of publication which has come to be generally known by the title of ANNUAL, being a miscellany of prose and verse, equipped with numerous engravings, and put forth every year about Christmas, had flourished for a long while in Germany before it was imitated in this country by an enterprising bookseller, a German by birth, Mr. Ackermann. The rapid success of his work, as is the custom of the time, gave birth to a host of rivals, and, among others, to an Annual styled The Keepsake, the first volume of which appeared in 1828, and attracted much notice, chiefly in consequence of the very uncommon splendour of its illustrative accompaniments....
Illustrated Second Edition Preface In the beginning of the New-making, the ancient fathers lived successively in four caves in the Four fold-containing-earth. The first was of sooty blackness, black as a chimney at night time; the second, dark as the night in the stormy season; the third, like a valley in starlight; the fourth, with a light like the dawning. Then they came up in the night-shine into the World of Knowing and Seeing....
THE WORKS OF EDWARD BULWER LYTTON (LORD LYTTON) NIGHT AND MORNING PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1845. Much has been written by critics, especially by those in Germany (the native land of criticism), upon the important question, whether to please or to instruct should be the end of Fiction–whether a moral purpose is or is not in harmony with the undidactic spirit perceptible in the higher works of the imagination....
OBSERVATIONS ON THE MUSSULMAUNS OF INDIA Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years’ Residence in Their Immediate Society by MRS. MEER HASSAN ALI Second Edition, Edited with Notes and an Introduction by W. Crooke 1917 WITH SENTIMENTS OF GRATITUDEAND PROFOUND RESPECTTHE FOLLOWING PAGES ARE HUMBLY DEDICATED, WITH PERMISSION, TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESSTHE PRINCESS AUGUSTA; BY HER ROYAL HIGHNESS’SMOST OBEDIENT,FAITHFULLY ATTACHED,AND VERY HUMBLE SERVANT, B....
DANIEL DEFOE OF CAPTAIN MISSON GENERAL EDITORS Richard C. Boys, University of Michigan Ralph Cohen, University of California, Los Angeles Vinton A. Dearing, University of California, Los Angeles Lawrence Clark Powell, Clark Memorial Library ASSISTANT EDITOR W. Earl Britton, University of Michigan ADVISORY EDITORS Emmett L. Avery, State College of Washington Benjamin Boyce, Duke University Louis Bredvold, University of Michigan John Butt, University of Edinburgh James L. Clifford, Columbia University Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago Louis A....
ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES, Vol. 13. 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 XIII. OLD JUDASTHE LITTLE CASKBOITELLEA WIDOWTHE ENGLISHMEN OF ETRETATMAGNETISMA FATHERS CONFESSIONA MOTHER OF MONSTERSAN UNCOMFORTABLE BEDA PORTRAITTHE DRUNKARDTHE WARDROBETHE MOUNTAIN POOLA CREMATIONMISTIMADAME HERMETTHE MAGIC COUCH OLD JUDAS This entire stretch of country was amazing; it was characterized by a grandeur that was almost religious, and yet it had an air of sinister desolation....
[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.] RAGGED LADY. By William Dean Howells Part 1. I. It was their first summer at Middlemount and the Landers did not know the roads. When they came to a place where they had a choice of two, she said that now he must get out of the carry-all and ask at the house standing a little back in the edge of the pine woods, which road they ought to take for South Middlemount....
RED MASQUERADE Being the Story of THE LONE WOLF’S DAUGHTER BY LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE 1921 [Illustration: “Prince Victor gave a gesture of pain and reluctance. ‘Must I tell you?’”] TO J. PARKER READ, JR., ESQ. THE CINEMA THAT WAS HIS APOLOGY This tale quite brazenly derives from the author’s invention for motion pictures which Mr. J. Parker Read, Jr., produced in the autumn of 1919 under the title of “The Lone Wolf’s Daughter....
