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It is thought that a selection from Oscar Wilde’s early verses may be of interest to a large public at present familiar only with the always popular BALLAD OF READING GAOL, also included in this volume. The poems were first collected by their author when he was twenty-sex years old, and though never, until recently, well received by the critics, have survived the test of NINE editions. Readers will be able to make for themselves the obvious and striking contrasts between these first and last phases of Oscar Wilde’s literary activity....

[Illustration: Ambrose Bierce.] SHAPES OF CLAY BY AMBROSE BIERCE AUTHOR OF “IN THE MIDST OF LIFE,” “CAN SUCH THINGS BE?” “BLACK BEETLES IN AMBER,” AND “FANTASTIC FABLES” 1903 DEDICATION. WITH PRIDE IN THEIR WORK, FAITH IN THEIR FUTURE AND AFFECTION FOR THEMSELVES, AN OLD WRITER DEDICATES THIS BOOK TO HIS YOUNG FRIENDS AND PUPILS, GEORGE STERLING AND HERMAN SCHEFFAUER. A.B. PREFACE. Some small part of this book being personally censorious, and in that part the names of real persons being used without their assent, it seems fit that a few words be said of the matter in sober prose....

[TR: ***] = Transcriber Note [HW: ***] = Handwritten Note SLAVE NARRATIVES A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves TYPEWRITTEN RECORDS PREPARED BY THE FEDERAL WRITERS’ PROJECT 1936-1938 ASSEMBLED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PROJECT WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SPONSORED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Illustrated with Photographs WASHINGTON 1941 VOLUME XII OHIO NARRATIVES Prepared by the Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Ohio INFORMANTS Anderson, Charles H....

STORIES BY ENGLISH AUTHORS ITALY CONTENTS A FAITHFUL RETAINER James PaynBIANCA W. E. NorrisGONERIL A. Mary F. Robinson THE BRIGAND’S BRIDE Laurence Oliphant MRS. GENERAL TALBOYS Anthony Trollope A FAITHFUL RETAINER BY JAMES PAYN When I lived in the country,–which was a long time ago,–our nearest neighbours were the Luscombes. They were very great personages in the country indeed, and the family were greatly “respected”; though not, so far as I could discern, for any particular reason, except from their having been there for several generations....

[Transcriber’s note: The spelling peculiarities of the original have been retained in this etext.] THAUMATURGIA, OR ELUCIDATIONS OF THE MARVELLOUS. BY AN OXONIAN. 1835 “Bombastes kept the devil’s bird, Shut in the pommel of his sword, And taught him all the cunning pranks, Of past and future mountebanks.” Hudibras. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Demonology–The Devil, a most unaccountable personage–Who is he?–His predilection for old women–Traditions concerning evil spirits &c. CHAPTER II....

THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments Translated and Annotated by Richard F. Burton VOLUME TEN To His Excellency Yacoub Artin Pasha, Minister of Instruction, Etc. Etc. Etc. Cairo. My Dear Pasha, During the last dozen years, since we first met at Cairo, you have done much for Egyptian folk-lore and you can do much more. This volume is inscribed to you with a double purpose; first it is intended as a public expression of gratitude for your friendly assistance; and, secondly, as a memento that the samples which you have given us imply a promise of further gift....

The Boy Scouts in Front of Warsaw Or In the Wake of War Boy Scout Series Volume 20 By Colonel George Durston Chapter I The Disappearance It was the fifth of August. Warsaw the brilliant, Warsaw the Beautiful, the best beloved of her adoring people, had fallen. Torn by bombs, wrecked by great shells, devastated by hordes of alien invaders, she lay in ruins. Her people, despairing, seemed for the greater part to have vanished in the two days since the fatal third of August when the city was taken....

PREFACE For the use of some of the following Tales I am indebted to the courtesy of the Proprietors of “Cornhill,” “Temple Bar,” “Belgravia,” “London Society,” “Cassell’s,” and “The Boy’s Own Paper.” A. CONAN DOYLE, M.D. CONTENTS. THE CAPTAIN OF THE POLE-STAR J. HABAKUK JEPHSON’S STATEMENT THE GREAT KEINPLATZ EXPERIMENT THE MAN FROM ARCHANGEL THAT LITTLE SQUARE BOX JOHN HUXFORD’S HIATUS A LITERARY MOSAIC JOHN BARRINGTON COWLES THE PARSON OF JACKMAN’S GULCH THE RING OF THOTH THE CAPTAIN OF THE “POLE-STAR....

By EDGAR B. P. DARLINGTON CONTENTS CHAPTER I–ON THE OWNER’S PRIVATE CAR The English Fat Girl gets mired on the lot. Teddy Tucker threatens to thrash the “Strongest Man on Earth.” The hazards of a circus life. Teddy would put the whole show out of business. Phil and his chum assigned to Advance Car Number Three. CHAPTER II–OFF FOR NEW FIELDS “Boss Sparling seems in an awful hurry to get rid of us....

SCENE.- Elsinore. ACT I. Scene I.Elsinore. A platform before the Castle. Enter two Sentinels-[first,] Francisco, [who paces up and down at his post; then] Bernardo, [who approaches him]. Ber. Who’s there? Fran. Nay, answer me. Stand and unfold yourself. Ber. Long live the King! Fran. Bernardo? Ber. He. Fran. You come most carefully upon your hour. Ber. ‘Tis now struck twelve. Get thee to bed, Francisco. Fran. For this relief much thanks....

The Congo and Other PoemsBy Vachel Lindsay [Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, Illinois Artist. 1879-1931.] [Note on text: Due to the distinctions made by the author between emphasis by capitalization and emphasis by use of italics, especially in those poems intended to be read aloud, italicized words, phrases, and sections are marked by asterisks (). Lines longer than 78 characters are broken, and the continuation is indented two spaces. Also, a great many obvious errors have been corrected....

By William Allen White Author Of The Real Issue, etc. Illustrated by ORSON LOWELL (with the exception of the first story, the illustrations for which are by GUSTAV VERBEEK). 1898 CONTENTS PROLOGUE THE MARTYRDOM OF “MEALY” JONES A RECENT CONFEDERATE VICTORY “WHILE THE EVIL DAYS COME NOT” JAMES SEARS: A NAUGHTY PERSON MUCH POMP AND SEVERAL CIRCUMSTANCES “THE HERB CALLED HEARTS-EASE” Where is Boyville? By what track May we trace our journey back; Up what mountains, thro’ what seas By what meadow-lands and leas, Must we travel to the bourne Of the shady rows of corn That lead down to the Willows Where the day is always morn?...

by Henry James CHAPTER I “They’ve got him for life!” I said to myself that evening on my way back to the station; but later on, alone in the compartment (from Wimbledon to Waterloo, before the glory of the District Railway) I amended this declaration in the light of the sense that my friends would probably after all not enjoy a monopoly of Mr. Saltram. I won’t pretend to have taken his vast measure on that first occasion, but I think I had achieved a glimpse of what the privilege of his acquaintance might mean for many persons in the way of charges accepted....

Judith Smithheyjude@ebtech.net THE VISIONOR,HELL, PURGATORY, AND PARADISEOFDANTE ALIGHIERI TRANSLATED BYTHE REV. H. F. CARY, A.M. HELL CANTO I IN the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astrayGone from the path direct: and e’en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wildThat forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismayRenews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet to discourse of what there good befell, All else will I relate discover’d there....

[Illustration: Gertrude Atherton PHOTOGRAPHED BY MRS. LOUNSBERY] THE DOOMSWOMAN An Historical Romance of Old California By Gertrude Atherton [Illustration] 1900 To STEPHEN FRANKLIN THE DOOMSWOMAN. I. It was at Governor Alvarado’s house in Monterey that Chonita first knew of Diego Estenega. I had told him much of her, but had never cared to mention the name of Estenega in the presence of an Iturbi y Moncada. Chonita came to Monterey to stand godmother to the child of Alvarado and of her friend Dona Martina, his wife....

Contents of Part Two Stories AFTERWARD……………………….January 1910 THE FULNESS OF LIFE………………December 1893 A VENETIAN NIGHT’S ENTERTAINMENT…..December 1903 XINGU…………………………..December 1911 THE VERDICT……………………..June 1908 THE RECKONING……………………August 1902 Verse BOTTICELLI’S MADONNA IN THE LOUVRE…January 1891 THE TOMB OF ILARIA GIUNIGI………..February 1891 THE SONNET………………………November 1891 TWO BACKGROUNDS………………….November 1892 EXPERIENCE………………………January 1893 CHARTRES………………………..September 1893 LIFE……………………………June 1894 AN AUTUMN SUNSET…………………October 1894 AFTERWARD January 1910 I “Oh, there IS one, of course, but you’ll never know it.” The assertion, laughingly flung out six months earlier in a bright June garden, came back to Mary Boyne with a sharp perception of its latent significance as she stood, in the December dusk, waiting for the lamps to be brought into the library....

The Fall of Troy by Quintus Smyrnaeus (“Quintus of Smyrna”) Fl. 4th Century A.D. Originally written in Greek, sometime about the middle of the 4th Century A.D. Translation by A.S. Way, 1913. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: ORIGINAL TEXT — Way, A.S. (Ed. & Trans.): “Quintus Smyrnaeus: The Fall of Troy” (Loeb Classics #19; Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 1913). Greek text with side-by-side English translation. OTHER TRANSLATIONS — Combellack, Frederick M. (Trans....

THE GOLDEN BOWL, VOLUME I HENRY JAMES 1904 BOOK FIRST: THE PRINCE PART FIRST I The Prince had always liked his London, when it had come to him; he was one of the modern Romans who find by the Thames a more convincing image of the truth of the ancient state than any they have left by the Tiber. Brought up on the legend of the City to which the world paid tribute, he recognised in the present London much more than in contemporary Rome the real dimensions of such a case....

THE GREAT CONSPIRACY Its Origin and History Part 3 BY JOHN LOGAN CHAPTER XI. THE CAUSES OF SECESSION. In preceding Chapters of this work, it has been briefly shown, that from the very hour in which the Republic of the United States was born, there have not been wanting, among its own citizens, those who hated it, and when they could not rule, were always ready to do what they could, by Conspiracy, Sedition, Mutiny, Nullification, Secession, or otherwise, to weaken and destroy it....

“THE HAIRY APE” A Comedy of Ancient and Modern Life In Eight Scenes By EUGENE O’NEILL CHARACTERS ROBERT SMITH, “YANK”PADDYLONGMILDRED DOUGLASHER AUNTSECOND ENGINEERA GUARDA SECRETARY OF AN ORGANIZATIONSTOKERS, LADIES, GENTLEMEN, ETC. SCENE I SCENE–The firemen’s forecastle of a transatlantic liner an hour after sailing from New York for the voyage across. Tiers of narrow, steel bunks, three deep, on all sides. An entrance in rear. Benches on the floor before the bunks....