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THE WIZARD by H. RIDER HAGGARD DEDICATION To the Memory of the Child Nada Burnham, who “bound all to her” and, while her father cut his way through the hordes of the Ingobo Regiment, perished of the hardships of war at Buluwayo on 19th May, 1896, I dedicate these tales–and more particularly the last, that of a Faith which triumphed over savagery and death. H. Rider Haggard. Ditchingham. AUTHOR’S NOTE Of the three stories that comprise this volume[], one, “The Wizard,” a tale of victorious faith, first appeared some years ago as a Christmas Annual....

VOLUME I BY Rev. JAMES MacCAFFREY Lic. Theol. (Maynooth), Ph.D. (Freiburg i. B.) Professor of Ecclesiastical History, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth Nihil Obstat: Thomas O’Donnell, C.M. Censor Theol. Deput. Imprimi Potest: Guilielmus, Archiep. Dublinen., Hiberniae Primas. Dublini, 16 Decembris, 1914. PREFACE The fifteenth century may be regarded as a period of transition from the ideals of the Middle Ages to those of modern times. The world was fast becoming more secular in its tendencies, and, as a necessary result, theories and principles that had met till then with almost universal acceptance in literature, in art, in education, and in government, were challenged by many as untenable....

BYANDREW DICKSON WHITE TWO VOLUMES COMBINED To the Memory of EZRA CORNELLI DEDICATE THIS BOOK. Thoughts that great hearts once broke for, we Breathe cheaply in the common air.–LOWELL Dicipulus est prioris posterior dies.–PUBLIUS SYRUS Truth is the daughter of Time.–BACON The Truth shall make you free.–ST. JOHN, viii, 32. INTRODUCTIONMy book is ready for the printer, and as I begin this preface my eye lights upon the crowd of Russian peasants at work on the Neva under my windows....

BOOK I Selden paused in surprise. In the afternoon rush of the Grand Central Station his eyes had been refreshed by the sight of Miss Lily Bart. It was a Monday in early September, and he was returning to his work from a hurried dip into the country; but what was Miss Bart doing in town at that season? If she had appeared to be catching a train, he might have inferred that he had come on her in the act of transition between one and another of the country-houses which disputed her presence after the close of the Newport season; but her desultory air perplexed him....

[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.] JACQUELINE By THERESE BENTZON (MME. BLANC) With a Preface by M. THUREAU-DANGIN, of the French Academy TH. BENTZON It is natural that the attention and affection of Americans should be attracted to a woman who has devoted herself assiduously to understanding and to making known the aspirations of our country, especially in introducing the labors and achievements of our women to their sisters in France, of whom we also have much to learn; for simple, homely virtues and the charm of womanliness may still be studied with advantage on the cherished soil of France....

by William Shakespeare PERSONS REPRESENTED JULIUS CAESAROCTAVIUS CAESAR, Triumvir after his death. MARCUS ANTONIUS, ” ” “M. AEMIL. LEPIDUS ” ” “CICERO, PUBLIUS, POPILIUS LENA, Senators. MARCUS BRUTUS, Conspirator against Caesar. CASSIUS, ” ” “CASCA, ” ” “TREBONIUS, ” ” “LIGARIUS, ” ” “DECIUS BRUTUS, ” ” “METELLUS CIMBER, ” ” “CINNA, ” ” “FLAVIUS, tribune MARULLUS, tribuneARTEMIDORUS, a Sophist of Cnidos.A SoothsayerCINNA, a poet. Another Poet.LUCILIUS, TITINIUS, MESSALA, young CATO, and VOLUMNIUS, Friends to Brutus and Cassius....

LIFE IN THE ROMAN WORLD OF NERO AND ST. PAUL by T. G. TUCKER 1924 PREFACE The reception accorded to my Life in Ancient Athens has led me to write the present companion work with an eye to the same class of readers. In the preface to the former volume it was said: “I have sought to leave an impression true and sound, so far as it goes, and also vivid and distinct....

LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI BY MARK TWAIN Part 6. Chapter 26 Under Fire TALK began to run upon the war now, for we were getting down into the upper edge of the former battle-stretch by this time. Columbus was just behind us, so there was a good deal said about the famous battle of Belmont. Several of the boat’s officers had seen active service in the Mississippi war-fleet. I gathered that they found themselves sadly out of their element in that kind of business at first, but afterward got accustomed to it, reconciled to it, and more or less at home in it....

LOOK BACK ON HAPPINESS KNUT HAMSUN Translated from the NorwegianBy PAULA WIKING LOOK BACK ON HAPPINESS I I have gone to the forest. Not because I am offended about anything, or very unhappy about men’s evil ways; but since the forest will not come to me, I must go to it. That is all. I have not gone this time as a slave and a vagabond. I have money enough and am overfed, stupefied with success and good fortune, if you understand that....

[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 1. PUBLISHERS’ NOTE. The present work contains particulars of the great Napoleon not to be found in any other publication, and forms an interesting addition to the information generally known about him....

A COMPILATIONOF THEMESSAGES AND PAPERSOF THEPRESIDENTS By JAMES D. RICHARDSON A Representative from the State of Tennessee VOLUME VIII 1897 Prefatory Note This volume comprises the Garfield-Arthur term of four years and the first term of Cleveland. The period covered is from March 4, 1881, to March 4, 1889. The death of President Garfield at the hand of an assassin early in his Administration created a vacancy in the office of the Chief Executive, and for the fourth time in our history the Vice-President succeeded to that office....

MILTON by MARK PATTISON, B.D. RECTOR OF LINCOLN COLLEGE, OXFORD CONTENTS. FIRST PERIOD. 1608-1639. CHAPTER I. FAMILY–SCHOOL–COLLEGE CHAPTER II. RESIDENCE AT HORTON–L’ALLEGRO–IL PENSEROSO–AUCADES –COMUS–LYCIDAS CHAPTER III. JOURNEY TO ITALY SECOND PERIOD. 1640-1660. CHAPTER IV. EDUCATIONAL THEORY–TEACHING CHAPTER V. MARRIAGE AND PAMPHLET ON DIVORCE CHAPTER VI. PAMPHLETS CHAPTER VII. BIOGRAPHICAL. 1640-1649 CHAPTER VIII THE LATIN SECRETARYSHIP CHAPTER IX. MILTON AND MORUS–BLINDNESS CHAPTER X. MILTON AND MOSES–THE SECOND DEFENSE–THE DEFENSE FOR HIMSELF CHAPTER XI....

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. Also called, Travels and Researches in South Africa; or, Journeys and Researches in South Africa. By David Livingstone [British (Scot) Missionary and Explorer–1813-1873.] David Livingstone was born in Scotland, received his medical degree from the University of Glasgow, and was sent to South Africa by the London Missionary Society. Circumstances led him to try to meet the material needs as well as the spiritual needs of the people he went to, and while promoting trade and trying to end slavery, he became the first European to cross the continent of Africa, which story is related in this book....

MORE HUNTING WASPS by J. HENRI FABRE TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS, F. Z. S. TRANSLATOR’S NOTE. The fourteen chapters contained in this volume complete the list of essays in the “Souvenirs entomologiques” devoted to Wasps. The remainder will be found in the two earlier volumes of this collected edition entitled “The Hunting Wasps” and the “Mason-wasps” respectively. Chapter 2 has appeared before in my version of “The Life and Love of the Insect,” an illustrated volume of extracts translated by myself and published by Messrs....

Notes: All biographical footnotes appear at the end of Volume II. All other notes by Charles Darwin’s editors appear in the text, in brackets () with a Chapter/Note or Letter/Note number. MORE LETTERS OF CHARLES DARWIN A RECORD OF HIS WORK IN A SERIES OF HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED LETTERS EDITED BY FRANCIS DARWIN, FELLOW OF CHRIST’S COLLEGE, ANDA.C. SEWARD, FELLOW OF EMMANUEL COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE IN TWO VOLUMES VOLUME I. DEDICATED WITH AFFECTION AND RESPECT, TO SIR JOSEPH HOOKER IN REMEMBRANCE OF HIS LIFELONG FRIENDSHIP WITH CHARLES DARWIN “You will never know how much I owe to you for your constant kindness and encouragement” CHARLES DARWIN TO SIR JOSEPH HOOKER, SEPTEMBER 14, 1862 PREFACE The “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin” was published in 1887....

Michaelius, Reverend Jonas. “Letter of Reverend Jonas Michaelius, 1628.” In J. Franklin Jameson, ed., Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664 (Original Narratives of Early American History). NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1909. INTRODUCTION THE established church in the United Netherlands was the Reformed Church. Its polity was that of Geneva or of Presbyterianism. The minister and ruling or lay elders of the local church formed its consistory, corresponding to the Scottish or American kirk session....

The “legal small print” and other information about this book may now be found at the end of this file. Please read this important information, as it gives you specific rights and tells you about restrictions in how the file may be used. Etext transcriber’s notes: This electronic edition was prepared from the edition published by John Lane in New York and London in 1920. For this “plain vanilla” etext edition, accents have been removed and italicised passages marked by underlines....

But the truth that the three structures in question are as well developed in apes’ as in human brains, or even better; and that it is characteristic of all the Primates (if we exclude the Lemurs) to have these parts well developed, stands at present on as secure a basis as any proposition in comparative anatomy. Moreover, it is admitted by every one of the long series of anatomists who, of late years, have paid special attention to the arrangement of the complicated sulci and gyri which appear upon the surface of the cerebral hemispheres in man and the higher apes, that they are disposed after the very same pattern in him, as in them....

[Illustration: A MANDINGO CHIEF, and his HEADMAN, in their COSTUME, & other NATIVES] OBSERVATIONS UPON THE WINDWARD COAST OF AFRICA, THE RELIGION, CHARACTER, CUSTOMS, &c. OF THE NATIVES; WITH A SYSTEM UPON WHICH THEY MAY BE CIVILIZED, AND A KNOWLEDGE ATTAINED OF THE INTERIOR OF THIS EXTRAORDINARY QUARTER OF THE GLOBE; AND UPON THE NATURAL AND COMMERCIAL RESOURCES OF THE COUNTRY; MADE IN THE YEARS 1805 AND 1806. BY JOSEPH CORRY....

[Illustration: Bookcover] [Illustration: Spines] OLD MORTALITY by Sir Walter Scott [Illustration: Titlepage] [Illustration: Dedication] [Illustration: First Series] EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION TO OLD MORTALITY. The origin of “Old Mortality,” perhaps the best of Scott’s historical romances, is well known. In May, 1816, Mr. Joseph Train, the gauger from Galloway, breakfasted with Scott in Castle Street. He brought gifts in his hand,–a relic of Rob Roy, and a parcel of traditions. Among these was a letter from Mr....