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THE GOODNESS OF ST. ROCQUE AND OTHER STORIES By ALICE DUNBAR ToMy best ComradeMy Husband CONTENTS THE GOODNESS OF SAINT ROCQUETONY’S WIFE THE FISHERMAN OF PASS CHRISTIAN M’SIEU FORTIER’S VIOLIN BY THE BAYOU ST. JOHNWHEN THE BAYOU OVERFLOWSMR. BAPTISTE A CARNIVAL JANGLE LITTLE MISS SOPHIE SISTER JOSEPHA THE PRALINE WOMAN ODALIE LA JUANITA TITEE THE GOODNESS OF SAINT ROCQUE Manuela was tall and slender and graceful, and once you knew her the lithe form could never be mistaken....

E-text editor’s note: It may come as a surprise that the creator of Sherlock Holmes wrote a history of the Boer War. The then 40-year-old novelist wanted to see the war first hand as a soldier, but the Victorian army balked at having a popular author wielding a pen in its ranks. The army did accept him as a doctor and Doyle was knighted in 1902 for his work with a field hospital in Bloemfontein....

DON QUIXOTE by Miguel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby Volume I. Part 8. CHAPTER XXIII. OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE IN THE SIERRA MORENA, WHICH WAS ONE OF THE RAREST ADVENTURES RELATED IN THIS VERACIOUS HISTORY Seeing himself served in this way, Don Quixote said to his squire, “I have always heard it said, Sancho, that to do good to boors is to throw water into the sea. If I had believed thy words, I should have avoided this trouble; but it is done now, it is only to have patience and take warning for the future....

[Illustration: THE WARRIOR’S LAST RIDE (See the Battle of Deerfield, Vol. 1., p. 205) Painted by Frederic Remington] THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES FROM 1492 TO 1910 By JULIAN HAWTHORNE VOLUME I From Discovery Of America October 12, 1492 To Battle Of Lexington April 19, 1775 CONTENTS OF VOLUME ONE INTRODUCTION BEFORE DAWN I. COLUMBUS, RALEIGH, AND SMITH II. THE FREIGHT OF THE “MAYFLOWER” III. THE SPIRIT OF THE PURITANS IV....

THE HUNTED WOMAN BY JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD Author of KAZAN, Etc. Illustrated by FRANK B. HOFFMAN 1915 TO MY WIFE AND OUR COMRADES OF THE TRAIL LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS “‘Look at MacDonald…. It’s not the gold, but MacDonald, that’s taking me North, Ladygray…. Up there, another grave is calling MacDonald.’” A tall, slim, exquisitely poised figure…. “‘Another o’ them Dotty Dimples come out to save the world. I thought I’d help eggicate her a little, an’ so I sent her to Bill’s place’” “A crowd was gathering…....

ILLUSTRATED ALPHABET OF BIRDS 1851. [Illustration: bird on cover.] A-B-C-D [Illustration: frontispiece drawing.] [Illustration: title page drawing.] A a THE AUK. A is an Auk, Of the Artic sea, He lives on the ice, Where the winds blow free. [Illustration: THE AUK.] B b THE BLUE BIRD. B is a Blue Bird. In early spring, How sweet his songs Through the forest ring. [Illustration: THE BLUE BIRD.] C c THE CONDOR....

The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer CHAPTER I “A GENTLEMAN to see you, Doctor.” From across the common a clock sounded the half-hour. “Ten-thirty!” I said. “A late visitor. Show him up, if you please.” I pushed my writing aside and tilted the lamp-shade, as footsteps sounded on the landing. The next moment I had jumped to my feet, for a tall, lean man, with his square-cut, clean-shaven face sun-baked to the hue of coffee, entered and extended both hands, with a cry: “Good old Petrie!...

The Lamp And The Bell A Drama In Five Acts By Edna St. Vincent Millay Written on the occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Vassar College Alumnae Association Dedicated to ‘1917’ Lorenzo, King of Fiori Julia Lovejoy Cuniberti ’11 Mario, King of Lagoverde Valerie Knapp ’20 Guido, Duke of Versilia,Illegitimate nephew to Lorenzo Louisa Brook Jones ’07 Giovanni Katherine Jones ’20 Luigi Muriel Izard ’17Anselmo Lucia Cole Waram ’01 Raffaele Eleanor Kissan ’20Gentlemen at the court of Lorenzo Fidelio Geneva Harrison ’20 Jester at the court of Lorenzo Giuseppe Eleanor Fatman Morgenthau ’13 Agent for the Duke’s estates Cesco Gertrude Taylow Watkins ’07 Horatio Lucille Stimson Harbey ’09 Townsmen of Fiori Beppo Marcell Furman Newburg ’19 A little boy, son to Guiliana Rigo Ruth Delepenha ’17 Louis Emily Gallagher ’21Little boys, sons to Leonora Clerk Lucy Madeira Wing ’96 Messenger Esther Saville Davis ’06 Octavia, Lorenzo’s second wife Montgomery Cooper ’09 Beatrice, “Rose-Red,” Clifford Sellers ’21 Daughter to Lorenzo by a former marriage Bianca, “Snow-White,” Lois Duffie ’20 Daughter to Octavia by a former marriage Laura Frances Stout Kellman ’17 Carlotta Kathleen Millay Young ex-’21 Francesca Dorothy Comstock ’19 Viola Lillian White ’18Lilina Caroline Goodrich ’16 Lela Sylvia Brockway ’20Arianna Margaret Hughes ’18 Claudia Janet Lane ’18Clara Jeanette Baker ’18 Lucia Ellen Hasbrouck ’15Ladies at the Court of Lorenzo Grazia Eleanor Ray Broeniman ’99 Nurse to Beatrice and Bianca Giulietta, servant to Bianca Virginia Archibold ’17 “Little Snow-White” Gretchen Tonks “Little Rose-Red” Joy Macracken ’36 Leonora Catherine Barr ’20 Giuliana Mabel Hastings Humpstone ’94 Clara Olive Remington ’19Giovanitta Caroline Curtis Johnson ’83 Anna Frances Haldeman Sidwell ’84 Eugenia Helen Hoy Greeley ’99 Townsmen of Fiori EleanoraA little girl, daughter to Leonora Gilda Ruth Benedict ’20A little girl, sister to Beppo Adelina, another little girl Maiserie MacCracken ’31 Nurse Edith Ward PierrotHarlequinPant AloonPolichinelloColombineStrolling players Courtiers, Ladies-in-Waiting, Soldiers, Pages, Musicians, Towns-people, Children PROLOGUE [Anselmo and Luigi] ANSELMO....

By CLAUDE PHILLIPS Keeper of the Wallace Collection 1898 [Illustration: Titian. From a photograph by G. Brogi.] [Illustration] LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS COPPER PLATES Portrait of Titian, by himself. Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Frontispiece La Bella di Tiziano. Pitti Palace, Florence. Titian’s daughter Lavinia. Berlin Gallery. The Cornaro Family. Collection of the Duke of Northumberland. ILLUSTRATIONS PRINTED IN SEPIA Drawing of St. Jerome. British Museum. Landscape with Stag. Collection of Professor Legros....

THE LAZY TOUR OF TWO IDLE APPRENTICES CHAPTER I In the autumn month of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, wherein these presents bear date, two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and the long, hot work it had brought with it, ran away from their employer. They were bound to a highly meritorious lady (named Literature), of fair credit and repute, though, it must be acknowledged, not quite so highly esteemed in the City as she might be....

EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS THE MAD KING PART I I A RUNAWAY HORSE All Lustadt was in an uproar. The mad king had escaped. Little knots of excited men stood upon the street corners listening to each latest rumor concerning this most absorbing occurrence. Before the palace a great crowd surged to and fro, awaiting they knew not what. For ten years no man of them had set eyes upon the face of the boy-king who had been hastened to the grim castle of Blentz upon the death of the old king, his father....

By George Barr McCutcheon Author of The Daughter of Anderson Crow, Graustark, Beverly of Graustark, Brewster’s Millions, Nedra, etc. With Illustrations by Harrison Fisher 1908 CONTENTS CHAPTER I THE LATE MR. SKAGGS II AN EXTRAORDINARY DOCUMENT III INTRODUCING HOLLINGSWORTH CHASE IV THE INDISCREET MR. CHASE V THE ENGLISH INVADE VI THE CHATEAU VII THE BROWNES ARRIVE VIII THE MAN FROM BRODNEY’S IX THE ENEMY X THE AMERICAN BAR XI THE SLOUGH OF TRANQUILLITY XII WOMEN AND WOMEN XIII CHASE PERFORMS A MIRACLE XIV THE LANTERN ABOVE XV MR....

by ARNOLD BENNETT 1912 BY THE SAME AUTHOR NOVELS A MAN FROM THE NORTHANNA OF THE FIVE TOWNSLEONORAA GREAT MANSACRED AND PROFANE LOVEWHOM GOD HATH JOINEDBURIED ALIVETHE OLD WIVES’ TALETHE GLIMPSEHELEN WITH THE HIGH HANDCLAYHANGERHILDA LESSWAYSTHE CARD FANTASIAS THE GRAND BABYLON HOTELTHE GATES OF WRATHTERESA OF WATLING STREETTHE LOOT OF CITIESHUGOTHE GHOSTTHE CITY OF PLEASURE SHORT STORIES TALES OF THE FIVE TOWNSTHE GRIM SMILE OF THE FIVE TOWNS BELLES-LETTRES JOURNALISM FOR WOMENFAME AND FICTIONHOW TO BECOME AN AUTHORTHE TRUTH ABOUT AN AUTHORTHE REASONABLE LIFEHOW TO LIVE ON TWENTY-FOUR HOURS A DAY THE HUMAN MACHINELITERARY TASTETHE FEAST OF ST FRIEND DRAMA POLITE FARCESCUPID AND COMMON SENSEWHAT THE PUBLIC WANTSTHE HONEYMOON (In Collaboration with EDEN PHILLPOTTS) THE SINEWS OF WAR: A ROMANCETHE STATUE: A ROMANCE CONTENTS TRAGIC THE MATADOR OF THE FIVE TOWNSMIMITHE SUPREME ILLUSIONTHE LETTER AND THE LIETHE GLIMPSE FROLIC JOCK-AT-A-VENTURETHE HEROISM OF THOMAS CHADWICKUNDER THE CLOCKTHREE EPISODES IN THE LIFE OF MR COWLISHAW, DENTIST CATCHING THE TRAINTHE WIDOW OF THE BALCONYTHE CAT AND CUPIDTHE FORTUNE-TELLERTHE LONG-LOST UNCLETHE TIGHT HANDWHY THE CLOCK STOPPEDHOT POTATOESHALF-A-SOVEREIGNTHE BLUE SUITTHE TIGER AND THE BABYTHE REVOLVERAN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE THE MATADOR OF THE FIVE TOWNS I Mrs Brindeley looked across the lunch-table at her husband with glinting, eager eyes, which showed that there was something unusual in the brain behind them....

[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 MADAME LA MARQUISE DE MONTESPAN Written by Herself Being the Historic Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. BOOK 1. TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE. Historians have, on the whole, dealt somewhat harshly with the fascinating Madame de Montespan, perhaps taking their impressions from the judgments, often narrow and malicious, of her contemporaries....

VOL. 13, NO. 371.] SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1829. [PRICE 2d. THE FORTUNE PLAYHOUSE. [Illustration: The Fortune Playhouse.] The Engraving represents one of the playhouses of Shakspeare’s time, as the premises appeared a few years since. This theatre was in Golden Lane, Barbican, and was built by that celebrated and benevolent actor Edward Alleyn, the pious founder of Dulwich College, in 1599. It was burnt in 1624, but rebuilt in 1629....

VOL 14, NO. 400.] SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1829. [PRICE 2d. The Limoeiro, at Lisbon. [Illustration: The Limoeiro, at Lisbon.] Locks, bolts, and bars! what have we here?–a view of the Limoeiro, or common jail, at Lisbon, whose horrors, without the fear of Don Miguel in our hearts, we will endeavour to describe, though lightly–merely in outline,–since nothing can be more disagreeable than the filling in. For this purpose we might quote ourselves, i....

MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-1798 THE ETERNAL QUEST, Volume 3b–RETURN TO PARIS THE RARE UNABRIDGED LONDON EDITION OF 1894 TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR MACHEN TO WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED THE CHAPTERS DISCOVERED BY ARTHUR SYMONS. THE ETERNAL QUEST RETURN TO PARIS CHAPTER V My Fortune in Holland–My Return to Paris with Young Pompeati Amongst the letters which were waiting for me was one from the comptroller-general, which advised me that twenty millions in Government securities had been placed in the hands of M....

THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA DE SEINGALT THE RARE UNABRIDGED LONDON EDITION OF 1894 TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR MACHEN TO WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED THE CHAPTERS DISCOVERED BY ARTHUR SYMONS. MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-1798 IN LONDON AND MOSCOW, Volume 5c–THE ENGLISH THE ENGLISH CHAPTER X Eccentricity of the English–Castelbajac Count Schwerin–Sophie at School–My Reception at the Betting Club–The Charpillon I passed a night which seemed like a never-ending nightmare, and I got up sad and savage, feeling as if I could kill a man on the smallest provocation....

HIS OWN PEOPLE by Booth Tarkington I. A Change of Lodging The glass-domed “palm-room” of the Grand Continental Hotel Magnifique in Rome is of vasty heights and distances, filled with a mellow green light which filters down languidly through the upper foliage of tall palms, so that the two hundred people who may be refreshing or displaying themselves there at the tea-hour have something the look of under-water creatures playing upon the sea-bed....

Note: I have made the following changes to the text: PAGE LINE ORIGINAL CHANGED TO 5 31 drank drunk 13 22 shores. shores.” 13 27 Lady Glenarvan. Lord Glenarvan. 16 29 up ,Halbert.” up, Halbert.” 25 13 sang froid. SANG-FROID. 25 26 maneuvring maneuvering 31 12 unmistakingly unmistakably 34 19 Celedonian Caledonian 36 27 France. France.” 40 28 occular ocular 51 38 exceptions exception 52 6 prisoniers, prisonniers, 53 34 reconnoitred reconnoitered 54 38 Corientes Corrientes 56 10 Colts Colt’s 63 32 have attempted would have attempted 67 30 Mount Blanc....