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THE HATED SON by HONORE DE BALZAC Translated ByKatharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Madame la Baronne James Rothschild. THE HATED SON PART I HOW THE MOTHER LIVED CHAPTER I A BEDROOM OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY On a winter’s night, about two in the morning, the Comtesse Jeanne d’Herouville felt such violent pains that in spite of her inexperience, she was conscious of an approaching confinement; and the instinct which makes us hope for ease in a change of posture induced her to sit up in her bed, either to study the nature of these new sufferings, or to reflect on her situation....

THE HISTORY OF A MOUTHFUL OF BREAD:And Its Effect on the Organization of Men and Animals. BY JEAN MACÉ. Translated Prom the Eighth French Edition, By Mrs. Alfred Gatty. EXTRACTS FROM THE PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION. The volume of which the following pages are a translation, has been adopted by the University Commission at Paris among their prize books, and has reached an eighth edition. Perhaps these facts speak sufficiently in its favor; but as translator, and to some extent editor, I wish to add my testimony to the great charm as well as merit of the little work....

BOOK XVIII. SEVEN-YEARS WAR RISES TO A HEIGHT. 1757-1759. Chapter I. THE CAMPAIGN OPENS. Seldom was there seen such a combination against any man as this against Friedrich, after his Saxon performances in 1756. The extent of his sin, which is now ascertained to have been what we saw, was at that time considered to transcend all computation, and to mark him out for partition, for suppression and enchainment, as the general enemy of mankind....

THE INCA OF PERUSALEM: AN ALMOST HISTORICAL COMEDIETTA GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I must remind the reader that this playlet was written when its principal character, far from being a fallen foe and virtually a prisoner in our victorious hands, was still the Caesar whose legions we were resisting with our hearts in our mouths. Many were so horribly afraid of him that they could not forgive me for not being afraid of him: I seemed to be trifling heartlessly with a deadly peril....

THE KING’S HIGHWAY by G.P.R. JAMES ESQ. CHAPTER I. Though the weather was hot and sultry, and the summer was at its height, yet the evening was gloomy, and low, angry clouds hung over the distant line of the sea, when, under the shelter of some low-browed cliffs upon the Irish coast, three persons stood together, two of whom were talking earnestly. About four or five miles from the shore, looking like a spectre upon the misty background of clouds, appeared a small brig with her canvas closely reefed, though there was little wind stirring, and nothing announced the approach of a gale, unless it were a long, heavy swell that heaved up the bosom of the ocean as if with a suppressed sob....

or, KRZYZACY Historical Romance By HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ Author Of “Quo Vadis,” “The Deluge,” “With Fire And Sword,” “Pan Michael,” Etc., Etc. Translated From The Original Polish By Samuel A. Binion Author Of “Ancient Egypt,” Etc. Translator Of “Quo Vadis,” Etc. [Illustration: BUST OF HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ] HON. WILLIAM T. HARRIS, LL.D. Commissioner of Education My Dear Doctor:– This translation, of one of the greatest novels of Poland’s foremost modern writer, Henryk Sienkiewicz, I beg to dedicate to you....

BY STEWART EDWARD WHITE Illustrated by W. H. D. Koerner 1916 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I. The March II. The Camp III. The Rhinoceros IV. The Stranger V. The Encounter VI. The Leopard Woman VII. The Water Hole VIII. The Thirst IX. On the Plateau X. The Suliani XI. The Ivory Stockade XII. The Pilocarpin XIII. The Tropic Moon XIV. Over the Ranges XV. The Sharpening of the Spear XVI....

[Illustration: THE VISCOUNTESS ANSON] THE LETTER-BAG OF LADY ELIZABETH SPENCER-STANHOPE COMPILED FROM THE CANNON HALL PAPERS, 1806-1873 BY A. M. W. STIRLING TWO VOLUMES: VOLUME ONE “TON IS INDEED A CAMELEON WHOSE HUE CHANGES WITH EVERY RAY OF LIGHT.” ALMACK’S TO CHARLES G. STIRLINGTHIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED PREFACE The following papers, which extend over a space of nearly seventy years during a most interesting period of our National History, may be said to form a sequel and a conclusion to two previous publications, Coke of Norfolk and his Friends, which appeared in 1906, and Annals of a Yorkshire House, which appeared in 1911....

THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF CHARLES DARWIN INCLUDING AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL CHAPTER EDITED BY HIS SON FRANCIS DARWIN VOLUME I PREFACE In choosing letters for publication I have been largely guided by the wish to illustrate my father’s personal character. But his life was so essentially one of work, that a history of the man could not be written without following closely the career of the author. Thus it comes about that the chief part of the book falls into chapters whose titles correspond to the names of his books....

THE LITERARY REMAINS OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE VOLUME THE THIRD COLLECTED AND EDITED BY HENRY NELSON COLERIDGE. 1838 TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE THE THIRD AND FOURTH VOLUMES OF COLERIDGE’S REMAINS ARE RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED. CONTENTS Preface Formula Fidei de SS. Trinitate Nightly Prayer Notes on ‘The Book of Common Prayer’ Notes on Hooker Notes on Field Notes on Donne Notes on Henry More Notes on Heinrichs Notes on Hacket Notes on Jeremy Taylor Notes on ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ Notes on John Smith Letter to a Godchild PREFACE For a statement of the circumstances under which the collection of Mr....

PERSONAL MEMOIRES OF P. H. SHERIDAN, VOLUME 1. By Philip Henry Sheridan PREFACE When, yielding to the solicitations of my friends, I finally decided to write these Memoirs, the greatest difficulty which confronted me was that of recounting my share in the many notable events of the last three decades, in which I played a part, without entering too fully into the history of these years, and at the same time without giving to my own acts an unmerited prominence....

[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 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 BOOK 5. SECTION I. [From the time that the Princesse de Lamballe saw the ties between the Queen and her favourite De Polignac drawing closer she became less assiduous in her attendance at Court, being reluctant to importune the friends by her presence at an intimacy which she did not approve....

MEMOIRS OF MADAME LA MARQUISE DE MONTESPAN Written by Herself Being the Historic Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Madame de Montespan—-Etching by Mercier Hortense Mancini—-Drawing in the Louvre Madame de la Valliere—-Painting by Francois Moliere—-Original Etching by Lalauze Boileau—-Etching by Lalauze A French Courtier—-Photogravure from a Painting Madame de Maintenon—-Etching by Mercier from Painting by Hule Charles II.—-Original Etching by Ben Damman Bosseut—-Etching by Lalauze Louis XIV....

[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, v3 Written by Herself Being the Historic Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. BOOK 3. CHAPTER XXXV. M. de Lauzun and Mademoiselle de Montpensier.–Marriage of the One and Passion of the Other....

MIRACLE MONGERSAND THEIR METHODS A COMPLETE EXPOSE’ OF THE MODUSOPERANDI OF FIRE EATERS, HEATRESISTERS, POISON EATERS, VENOMOUSREPTILE DEFIERS, SWORD SWALLOWERS,HUMAN OSTRICHES, STRONG MEN, ETC. BYHOUDINIAUTHOR OF“THE UNMASKING OF ROBERT HOUDIN,” ETC. AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATEDTO MY LIFE’S HELPMATE,WHO STARVED AND STARRED WITH MEDURING THE YEARS WE SPENTAMONG “MIRACLE MONGERS”My Wife PREFACE “All wonder,” said Samuel Johnson, “is the effect of novelty on ignorance.” Yet we are so created that without something to wonder at we should find life scarcely worth living....

VOL. 10, No. 269.] SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1827. [PRICE 2d. * * * * * DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE’S VILLA, CHISWICK. [Illustration] The lamented death of the Right Hon. George Canning has naturally excited the curiosity of our readers to the villa in which that eminent statesman breathed his last; and we have therefore obtained from our artist an original drawing, which has been taken since the melancholy event occurred, and from which we are now enabled to give the above correct and picturesque engraving....

VOL. 13, NO. 377.] SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1829. [PRICE 2d. Loch Goil Head [Illustration: Loch Goil Head] AND RESIDENCE OF CAMPBELL, THE POET. The Engraving represents Loch Goil Head, a small village in Argyleshire, as it name imports, at the end of Loch Goil. It is an exquisite vignette, of Alpine sublimity, and is rendered extremely interesting as the residence of Thomas Campbell, Esq. author of the “Pleasures of Hope,” &c....

THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. XVII, NO. 471.] SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1831 [PRICE 2d. [Illustration: CASTLE OF VINCENNES.] CASTLE OF VINCENNES. Every reader at all conversant with the history of the present century, or the past year, will appreciate our choice of the above Engraving. Its pictorial and historical interest will not bear comparison; unless it be in the strong contrast which the gloomy, wretched-looking building affords with the beautiful paysage of the scene....

THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT. AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. XIX. NO. 534.] SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1832. [PRICE 2_d_ OUR LADY’S CHAPEL, [Illustration: ST. SAVIOUR, SOUTHWARK.] The Engraving represents the interior of the Virgin Mary’s Chapel, commonly called the Lady Chapel, and appended to the ancient collegiate church of St. Saviour, Southwark. The exterior view of the Chapel will be found in No. 456 of The Mirror. About eighteen months since part of the western side of the High-street was removed for the approach to the New London Bridge, when this Chapel was opened to view; but its dilapidated appearance was rather calculated to interest antiquarian than public curiosity....

THE MYSTERY OF THE BOULE CABINET A Detective Story BY BURTON E. STEVENSON With Illustrations by THOMAS FOGARTY 1911 To A.B.M.Fellow-Sherlockian CONTENTS I A CONNOISSEUR’S VAGARY II THE FIRST TRAGEDY III THE WOUNDED HAND IV THE THUNDERBOLT V GRADY TAKES A HAND VI THE WOMAN IN THE CASE VII ROGERS GETS A SHOCK VIII PRECAUTIONS IX GUESSES AT THE RIDDLE X PREPARATIONS XI THE BURNING EYES XII GODFREY IS FRIGHTENED XIII A DISTINGUISHED CALLER XIV THE VEILED LADY XV THE SECRET OF THE UNKNOWN FRENCHMAN XVI PHILIP VANTINE’S CALLER XVII ENTER M....