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THE LANCES OF LYNWOOD by CHARLOTTE M. YONGE PREFACE For an explanation of the allusions in the present Tale, scarcely any Notes are necessary, save a reference to the bewitching Chronicle of Froissart; and we cannot but hope that our sketch may serve as an inducement to some young readers to make acquaintance with the delectable old Canon for themselves, undeterred by the size of his tomes. The story of Orthon is almost verbally copied from him, and bears a curious resemblance to various German legends–such as that of “Heinzelman,” to be found in Keightley’s “Fairy Mythology,” and to “Teague of the Lea,” as related in Croker’s “Irish Fairy Legends....

THE LONE STAR RANGER ToCAPTAIN JOHN HUGHESand his Texas Rangers It may seem strange to you that out of all the stories I heard on the Rio Grande I should choose as first that of Buck Duane–outlaw and gunman. But, indeed, Ranger Coffee’s story of the last of the Duanes has haunted me, and I have given full rein to imagination and have retold it in my own way. It deals with the old law–the old border days–therefore it is better first....

Since Aramis’s singular transformation into a confessor of the order, Baisemeaux was no longer the same man. Up to that period, the place which Aramis had held in the worthy governor’s estimation was that of a prelate whom he respected and a friend to whom he owed a debt of gratitude; but now he felt himself an inferior, and that Aramis was his master. He himself lighted a lantern, summoned a turnkey, and said, returning to Aramis, “I am at your orders, monseigneur....

[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.] LITERATURE AND LIFE–The Man of Letters as a Man of Business by William Dean Howells BIBLIOGRAPHICAL Perhaps the reader may not feel in these papers that inner solidarity which the writer is conscious of; and it is in this doubt that the writer wishes to offer a word of explanation....

PERSONAL MEMOIRES OF P. H. SHERIDAN VOLUME 2. Part 5 By Philip Henry Sheridan CHAPTER VI. BATTLE OF DINWIDDIE COURT HOUSE–PICKETT REPULSED–REINFORCED BY THE FIFTH CORPS–BATTLE OF FIVE FORKS–TURNING THE CONFEDERATE LEFT–AN UNQUALIFIED SUCCESS–RELIEVING GENERAL WARREN–THE WARREN COURT OF INQUIRY–GENERAL SHERMAN’S OPINION. The night of March 30 Merritt, with Devin’s division and Davies’s brigade, was camped on the Five Forks road about two miles in front of Dinwiddie, near J....

[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 LOUIS XIV AND HIS COURT AND OF THE REGENCY BY THE DUKE OF SAINT-SIMON VOLUME 2. CHAPTER IX Death of Archbishop Harlay.–Scene at Conflans.–“The Good Langres.”– A Scene at Marly.–Princesses Smoke Pipes!–Fortunes of Cavoye....

[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.] BOOK 1. MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XV. AND XVI. Being Secret Memoirs of Madame du Hausset, Lady’s Maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of an unknown English Girl and the Princess Lamballe ADVERTISEMENT. [FROM THE LONDON MAGAZINE, NO....

THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. XIV, NO. 399.] SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER. [PRICE 2d. Verona [Illustration: Verona.] SPIRIT OF THE ANNUALS FOR 1830. Fair and gentle readers, we present you with a kaleidoscopic view of some of these elegant trifles–the very bijouterie of art and literature–in picture outmastering each other in gems of ingenuity, and in print, exalting a thousand beautiful fancies into a halo of harmony and happiness for the coming year....

This Etext prepared by Charles E. Keller MATTHEW LEWIS THE MONK – A ROMANCE Somnia, terrores magicos, miracula, sagas, Nocturnos lemures, portentaque. Horat. Dreams, magic terrors, spells of mighty power, Witches, and ghosts who rove at midnight hour. PREFACE IMITATION OF HORACEEp. 20.–B. 1. Methinks, Oh! vain ill-judging Book, I see thee cast a wishful look,Where reputations won and lost areIn famous row called Paternoster.Incensed to find your precious olio Buried in unexplored port-folio,You scorn the prudent lock and key, And pant well bound and gilt to seeYour Volume in the window setOf Stockdale, Hookham, or Debrett....

MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-1798 ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH, Volume 4b–RETURN TO ITALY THE RARE UNABRIDGED LONDON EDITION OF 1894 TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR MACHEN TO WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED THE CHAPTERS DISCOVERED BY ARTHUR SYMONS. RETURN TO ITALY GENOA–TUSCANY–ROME CHAPTER IV The Play–The Russian–Petri–Rosalie at the Convent When the marquis had gone, seeing Rosalie engaged with Veronique, I set myself to translate the ‘Ecossaise’ for the actors at Genoa, who seemed pretty good ones, to play....

Notes on the editing of this text: Italicized phrases are delimited by the underline character (“_”). 2. Hyphens have been left in the text only where it was the clear intention of the author. For example, throughout the text, “tonight” and “tomorrow” appear as “to-night” and “to-morrow”. This is intentional, and is not simply a legacy of words having been broken across lines in the printed text.3. The pound (currency) symbol has been replaced by the word “pounds”....

[Illustration: Life at the Mission of Dolores, 1855] IN THE FOOTPRINTS OF THE PADRES BY CHARLES WARREN STODDARD NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION INTRODUCTION BY CHARLES PHILLIPS SAN FRANCISCO A.M. Robertson MCMXII TO MY FATHER SAMUEL BURR STODDARD, ESQ. FOR HALF A CENTURY A CITIZEN OF SAN FRANCISCO THOUGH THE KINDNESS OF THE EDITORS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE CENTURY MAGAZINE, THE OVERLAND MONTHLY, THE AVE MARIA, NOTRE DAME, INDIANA, THE VICTORIAN REVIEW, MELBOURNE INTRODUCTION Since the first and second editions of “In the Footprints of the Padres” appeared, many things have transpired....

[Illustration: DOWN THEY PLUNGED SIDE BY SIDE FROM THE ISLAND AND INTO THE WATER.] JACK NORTH’S TREASURE HUNT Or, Daring Adventures in South America by ROY ROCKWOOD Author of “The Rival Ocean Divers,” “The Cruise of the Treasure Ship,” “A Schoolboy’s Pluck,” etc. Illustrated THE WORLD SYNDICATE PUBLISHING CO.CLEVELAND NEW YORK Made in U.S.A. Copyright, 1907, byCHATTERTON-PECK COMPANYPRESS OFTHE COMMERCIAL BOOKBINDING COCLEVELAND Contents I. A Chance for a Position II....

JEFFERSON AND HIS COLLEAGUES, A CHRONICLE OF THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY BY ALLEN JOHNSON CONTENTS I. PRESIDENT JEFFERSON’S COURT II. PUTTING THE SHIP ON HER REPUBLICAN TACK III. THE CORSAIRS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN IV. THE SHADOW OF THE FIRST CONSUL V. IN PURSUIT OF THE FLORIDAS VI. AN AMERICAN CATILINE VII. AN ABUSE OF HOSPITALITY VIII. THE PACIFISTS OF 1807 IX. THE LAST PHASE OF PEACEABLE COERCION X. THE WAR-HAWKS XI....

[Illustration: Eugene Field] JOHN SMITH U.S.A. BY EUGENE FIELD AUTHOR OF THE CLINK OF THE ICE IN WINK-A-WAY-LAND HOOSIER LYRICS, ETC. 1905. INTRODUCTION. From whatever point of view the character of Eugene Field is seen, genius–rare and quaint presents itself is childlike simplicity. That he was a poet of keen perception, of rare discrimination, all will admit. He was a humorist as delicate and fanciful as Artemus Ward, Mark Twain, Bill Nye, James Whitcomb Riley, Opie Read, or Bret Harte in their happiest moods....

Notes in the book are shown in square brackets at the point referenced. Maps and plates not shown in the text version of this ebook Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales TOTHE HONOURABLETHE SPEAKER AND MEMBERSOF THELEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF NEW SOUTH WALES, THIS JOURNALOFAN EXPEDITION OF DISCOVERY,PETITIONED FOR BY THE COUNCIL,ANDUNDERTAKEN AT THE EXPENSE OF THE COLONY, ISDEDICATED by THEIR MOST OBEDIENT,HUMBLE SERVANT,T....

KEEPING UP WITH LIZZIE BY IRVING BACHELLER ILLUSTRATED BYW.H.D.KOERNER HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERSNEW YORK AND LONDON COPYRIGHT, 1910, 1911, BY HARPER & BROTHERS PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PUBLISHED MARCH, 1911 C-N TO THE LOVING AND BELOVED“MR. ONEDEAR”I DEDICATE THIS LITTLE BOOK CONTENTS CHAP. I. IN WHICH THE LEADING TRADESMEN OF POINTVIEW BECOME A BOARD OF ASSESSORS II. IN WHICH LIZZIE RETURNS TO HER HOME, HAVING MET A QUEEN AND ACQUIRED AN ACCENT AND A FIANCE III....

by Stendhal [1 of 170 pseudnyms used by Marie-Henri Beyle] Palerme, le 22 juillet 1838. Je ne suis point naturaliste, je ne sais le grec que fort m‚diocrement; mon principal but, en venant voyager en Sicile, n’a pas ‚t‚ d’observer les ph‚nomŠnes de l’Etna, ni de jeter quelque clart‚, pour moi ou pour les autres, sur tout ce que les vieux auteurs grecs ont dit de la Sicile. Je cherchais d’abord le plaisir des yeux, qui est grand en ce pays singulier....

A Memoir with Selections from Her Diaries and Correspondence EDITED BY DESMOND MACCARTHY AND AGATHA RUSSELL WITH TEN ILLUSTRATIONS, OF WHICH SIX ARE IN COLOUR SECOND EDITION 1910 PREFACE The manuscripts which have supplied the material for a memoir of my mother deal much more fully with the life of my father than with her own life. Mr. Desmond MacCarthy has therefore linked into the narrative several important incidents in my father’s career....

Last of the Great Scouts, by Helen Cody Wetmore The Life Story of William F. Cody [“Buffalo Bill” Cody] LAST OF THE GREATSCOUTS THE LIFE STORY OFCOL. WILLIAM F. CODY“BUFFALO BILL” AS TOLD BY HIS SISTERHELEN CODY WETMORE TO THE MEMORY OF A MOTHERWHOSE CHRISTIANCHARACTER STILL LIVES A HALLOWEDINFLUENCE GENEALOGY OF BUFFALO BILL. The following genealogical sketch was compiled in 1897. The crest is copied from John Rooney’s “Genealogical History of Irish Families....