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MEMOIRS OF MY DEAD LIFE BY GEORGE MOORE CONTENTS APOLOGIA PRO SCRIPTIS MEIS I. SPRING IN LONDON II. FLOWERING NORMANDY III. A WAITRESS IV. THE END OF MARIE PELLEGRIN V. LA BUTTE VI. SPENT LOVES VII. NINON’S TABLE D’HOTE VIII. THE LOVERS OF ORELAY IX. IN THE LUXEMBOURG GARDENS X. A REMEMBRANCE XI. BRING IN THE LAMP XII. SUNDAY EVENING IN LONDON XIII. RESURGAM APOLOGIA PRO SCRIPTIS MEIS [The APOLOGIA which follows needs, perhaps, a word of explanation, not to clear up Mr....

[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 3. LETTER XXIII. PARIS, August, 1805. MY LORD:–No Sovereigns have, since the Revolution, displayed more grandeur of soul, and evinced more firmness of character, than the present King and Queen of Naples....

PRELUDE Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve....

MORE GOOPS AND HOW NOT TO BE THEM By Gelett Burgess [Illustration] Books by Gelett Burgess VIVETTE; or the Memoirs of the Romance Association. Small, Maynard & Co., Boston. 152 pp. 8vo. $1.25 A GAGE OF YOUTH; Poems, chiefly from the “Lark.” 58 pp. Small 8vo. Small, Maynard & Co., Boston. $1.00 THE ROMANCE OF THE COMMONPLACE; A Collection of Essays upon the Romantic View of Life. 152 pp. Small 4to....

NEAL, THE MILLER A SON OF LIBERTY BY JAMES OTIS CHAPTER 1 THE PROJECT “I FEAR you are undertaking too much, Neal. When a fellow lacks two years of his majority–“ “You forget that I have been my own master more than a year. Father gave me my time before he died, and that in the presence of Governor Wentworth himself.” “Why before him rather than ‘Squire White?” “I don’t know....

NOSTROMOA TALE OF THE SEABOARD BYJOSEPH CONRAD “So foul a sky clears not without a storm.” – SHAKESPEARE TOJOHN GALSWORTHY AUTHOR’S NOTE “NOSTROMO” is the most anxiously meditated of the longer novels which belong to the period following upon the publication of the “Typhoon” volume of short stories. I don’t mean to say that I became then conscious of any impending change in my mentality and in my attitude towards the tasks of my writing life....

NOT GEORGE WASHINGTONAn Autobiographical Novel by P. G. Wodehouseand Herbert Westbrook 1907 CONTENTS PART ONE Miss Margaret Goodwin’s Narrative James Arrives2. James Sets Out3. A Harmless Deception PART TWO James Orlebar Cloyster’s Narrative The Invasion of Bohemia2. I Evacuate Bohemia3. The _Orb_4. Julian Eversleigh5. The Column6. New Year’s Eve7. I Meet Mr. Thomas Blake8. I Meet the Rev. John Hatton9. Julian Learns My Secret10. Tom Blake Again11. Julian’s Idea12. The First Ghost13....

[Transcriber’s Note: In the section ‘NOTES UPON “NOTES, NO. 1.”‘ there are several ‘C’s which have been flipped along a vertical axis. These have been denoted by [*C].] {17} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * “When found, make a note of.”–CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 2.] SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10. 1849. [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d....

O. HENRY MEMORIAL AWARD PRIZE STORIES of 1921 CHOSEN BY THE SOCIETY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BLANCHE COLTON WILLIAMS 1922 CONTENTS THE HEART OF LITTLE SHIKARA. By Edison Marshall THE MAN WHO CURSED THE LILIES. By Charles Tenney Jackson THE URGE. By Maryland Allen MUMMERY. By Thomas Beer THE VICTIM OF HIS VISION. By Gerald Chittenden MARTIN GERRITY GETS EVEN. By Courtney Ryley Cooper and Leo F....

RECORDS OF A FAMILY OF ENGINEERS INTRODUCTION: THE SURNAME OF STEVENSON From the thirteenth century onwards, the name, under the various disguises of Stevinstoun, Stevensoun, Stevensonne, Stenesone, and Stewinsoune, spread across Scotland from the mouth of the Firth of Forth to the mouth of the Firth of Clyde. Four times at least it occurs as a place-name. There is a parish of Stevenston in Cunningham; a second place of the name in the Barony of Bothwell in Lanark; a third on Lyne, above Drochil Castle; the fourth on the Tyne, near Traprain Law....

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ROUGHING IT by Mark Twain 1880 Part 7. CHAPTER LXI. One of my comrades there–another of those victims of eighteen years of unrequited toil and blighted hopes–was one of the gentlest spirits that ever bore its patient cross in a weary exile: grave and simple Dick Baker, pocket-miner of Dead-House Gulch.–He was forty-six, gray as a rat, earnest, thoughtful, slenderly educated, slouchily dressed and clay-soiled, but his heart was finer metal than any gold his shovel ever brought to light–than any, indeed, that ever was mined or minted....

SERAPHITA BY HONORE DE BALZAC Translated ByKatharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Madame Eveline de Hanska, nee Comtesse Rzewuska. Madame,–Here is the work which you asked of me. I am happy, in thus dedicating it, to offer you a proof of the respectful affection you allow me to bear you. If I am reproached for impotence in this attempt to draw from the depths of mysticism a book which seeks to give, in the lucid transparency of our beautiful language, the luminous poesy of the Orient, to you the blame!...

SANDRA BELLONI By George Meredith BOOK 4 XXVI. SUGGESTS THAT THE COMIC MASK HAS SOME KINSHIP WITH A SKULL XXVII. SMALL LIFE AT BROOKFIELDXXVIII. GEORGIANA FORDXXIX. FIRST SCOURGING OF THE FINE SHADES XXX. OF THE DOUBLE-MAN IN US, AND THE GREAT FIGHT WHEN THESE ARE FULL-GROWNXXXI. BESWORTH LAWNXXXII. THE SUPPERXXXIII. DEFEAT AND FLIGHT OF MRS. CHUMP CHAPTER XXVI It was midnight. Mr. Pole had appeased his imagination with a chop, and was trying to revive the memory of his old after-theatre night carouses by listening to a song which Emilia sang to him, while he sipped at a smoking mixture, and beat time on the table, rejoiced that he was warm from head to foot at last....

EDITED BY EDGAR R. JONES, M.P. This volume of ‘Selected Speeches on British Foreign Policy’ was first published in ‘The World’s Classics’ in 1914 PREFACE A selection of speeches made for the purpose of illustrating the best rhetorical form of British Oratory has already been published in ‘The World’s Classics’. The governing principle of this volume is not rhetorical quality, but historical interest. Speeches have been selected from the earliest days of reporting downwards, dealing with such phases of foreign policy as are of exceptional interest at present....

Contents: Lecture I–SesameLecture II–LiliesPreface to the Later EditionsLecture III–The Mystery of Life and its Arts LECTURE I–SESAME. OF KING’S TREASURIES “You shall each have a cake of sesame,–and ten pound.” Lucian: The Fisherman. My first duty this evening is to ask your pardon for the ambiguity of title under which the subject of lecture has been announced: for indeed I am not going to talk of kings, known as regnant, nor of treasuries, understood to contain wealth; but of quite another order of royalty, and another material of riches, than those usually acknowledged....

A Familiar Preface. As a general rule we do not want much encouragement to talk about ourselves; yet this little book is the result of a friendly suggestion, and even of a little friendly pressure. I defended myself with some spirit; but, with characteristic tenacity, the friendly voice insisted: “You know, you really must.” It was not an argument, but I submitted at once. If one must!. . . You perceive the force of a word....

SOME SHORT STORIES BY HENRY JAMES Contents: BrooksmithThe Real ThingThe Story of ItFlickerbridgeMrs. Medwin BROOKSMITH We are scattered now, the friends of the late Mr. Oliver Offord; but whenever we chance to meet I think we are conscious of a certain esoteric respect for each other. “Yes, you too have been in Arcadia,” we seem not too grumpily to allow. When I pass the house in Mansfield Street I remember that Arcadia was there....

DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS A TRIBUTE Even now I cannot realize that he is dead, and often in the city streets–on Fifth Avenue in particular–I find myself glancing ahead for a glimpse of the tall, boyish, familiar figure–experience once again a flash of the old happy expectancy. I have lived in many lands, and have known men. I never knew a finer man than Graham Phillips. His were the clearest, bluest, most honest eyes I ever saw–eyes that scorned untruth–eyes that penetrated all sham....

Tarzan the Terrible By Edgar Rice Burroughs CHAPTER I The Pithecanthropus II “To the Death!” III Pan-at-lee IV Tarzan-jad-guru V In the Kor-ul-gryf VI The Tor-o-don VII Jungle Craft VIII A-lur IX Blood-Stained Altars X The Forbidden Garden XI The Sentence of Death XII The Giant Stranger XIII The Masquerader XIV The Temple of the Gryf XV “The King Is Dead!” XVI The Secret Way XVII By Jad-bal-lulXVIII The Lion Pit of Tu-lur XIX Diana of the Jungle XX Silently in the Night XXI The Maniac XXII A Journey on a GryfXXIII Taken Alive XXIV The Messenger of Death XXV Home Glossary 1 The Pithecanthropus Silent as the shadows through which he moved, the great beast slunk through the midnight jungle, his yellow-green eyes round and staring, his sinewy tail undulating behind him, his head lowered and flattened, and every muscle vibrant to the thrill of the hunt....