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On the Edge of the War Zone From the Battle of the Marneto the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes byMildred Aldrich Author of “A Hilltop on the Marne” “Told in a French Garden” To The PublicThe Friends, Old and New, Whose Persistent And Sympathetic Demands For News Of Us On The Hilltop “After The Battle,” Inspired The Collecting And Editing Of These Letters, This Little Book Is Gratefully Dedicated On the Edge of the War Zone I La Creste, Huiry, Couilly....

FURTHER ADVENTURES OF THE AMATEUR CRACKSMAN BY E. W. HORNUNG RAFFLES NO SINECURE I I am still uncertain which surprised me more, the telegram calling my attention to the advertisement, or the advertisement itself. The telegram is before me as I write. It would appear to have been handed in at Vere Street at eight o’clock in the morning of May 11, 1897, and received before half-past at Holloway B....

Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee by Captain Robert E. Lee, His Son Contents Chapter IServices in the United States ArmyCaptain Lee, of the Engineers, a hero to his child–The family pets–Home from the Mexican War–Three years in Baltimore– Superintendent of the West Point Military Academy–Lieutenant- Colonel of Second Cavalry–Supresses “John Brown Raid” at Harper’s Ferry–Commands the Department of Taxes . . . . . . . ....

by Robert W. Service [British-born Canadian Poet — 1874-1958.] [Note on text: Italicized stanzas are indented 5 spaces. Stanzas that were italicized AND indented are indented 10 spaces. Italicized words and phrases are capitalized. Lines longer than 78 characters are broken according to metre, and the continuation is indented two spaces.] [This etext is transcribed from the 1912 edition, 1917 printing. Some very minor changes have been made in spelling and punctuation after consulting another edition....

[Illustration: Bookcover] [Illustration: Spines] ROB ROY By Sir Walter Scott VOLUME TWO [Illustration: Helen MacGregor–Frontispiece] CHAPTER FIRST And hurry, hurry, off they rode, As fast as fast might be; Hurra, hurra, the dead can ride, Dost fear to ride with me? Burger. There is one advantage in an accumulation of evils, differing in cause and character, that the distraction which they afford by their contradictory operation prevents the patient from being overwhelmed under either....

FROM THE MEMOIRS OF FRITZ VON TARLENHEIM Sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda By ANTHONY HOPE CONTENTSI. THE QUEEN’S GOOD-BYII. A STATION WITHOUT A CAB III. AGAIN TO ZENDA IV. AN EDDY ON THE MOAT V. AN AUDIENCE OF THE KING VI. THE TASK OF THE QUEEN’S SERVANTS VII. THE MESSAGE OF SIMON THE HUNTSMAN VIII. THE TEMPER OF BORIS THE HOUND IX. THE KING IN THE HUNTING-LODGEX. THE KING IN STRELSAU XI....

[Illustration] SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 417 NEW YORK, DECEMBER 29, 1883 Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XVI, No. 417. Scientific American established 1845 Scientific American Supplement, $5 a year. Scientific American and Supplement, $7 a year. * * * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS I. ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.–Machine for Making Electric Light Carbons.–2 figures The Earliest Gas Engine The Moving of Large Masses.–With engravings of the removal of a belfry at Cresentino in 1776, and of the winged bulls from Nineveh to Mosul in 1854 Science and Engineering....

A SELECTION from the WRITINGS of GUY DE MAUPASSANT SHORT STORIES of the TRAGEDY AND COMEDY OF LIFE WITH A CRITICAL PREFACE BY PAUL BOURGET of the French Academy AND AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT ARNOT, M.A. VOL. I {of III ??} TABLE OF CONTENTS.[] VOLUME I. 1. MADEMOISELLE FIFI 2. AN AFFAIR OF STATE 3. THE ARTIST 4. THE HORLA 5. MISS HARRIET 6. THE HOLE 7. LOVE 8. THE INN 9....

by Mary Roberts Rinehart I The rather extraordinary story revealed by the experiments of the Neighborhood Club have been until now a matter only of private record. But it seems to me, as an active participant in the investigations, that they should be given to the public; not so much for what they will add to the existing data on psychical research, for from that angle they were not unusual, but as yet another exploration into that still uncharted territory, the human mind....

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle CONTENT I. THE HOUSE OF LORING II. HOW THE DEVIL CAME TO WAVERLEY III. THE YELLOW HORSE OF CROOKSBURY IV. HOW THE SUMMONER CAME TO THE MANOR HOUSE OF TILFORD V. HOW NIGEL WAS TRIED BY THE ABBOT OF WAVERLEY VI. IN WHICH LADY ERMYNTRUDE OPENS THE IRON COFFER VII. HOW NIGEL WENT MARKETING TO GUILFORD VIII. HOW THE KING HAWKED ON CROOKSBURY HEATH IX....

[I have removed page numbers; all italics are emphasis only.] Note: I have omitted running heads and have closed contractions, e.g. “she ‘s” becoming “she’s”; in addition, on page 180, stanza 3, line 1, I have changed the single quotation mark at the beginning of the line to a double quotation mark. STEP BY STEP; OR TIDY’S WAY TO FREEDOM. “Woe to all who grindTheir brethren of a common Father down!...

SUGAR AND SPICE Comical Tales Comically Dressed BY JAMES JOHNSON LONDON: DEAN & SON, 160A, FLEET STREET, E.C. FACTORS AND CHRISTMAS CARD MANUFACTURERS. [Illustration: Front Cover] [Illustration: Sugar and Spice] A knock at the door! A visitor more. SUGAR AND SPICE. Our dear children gave a party, Not one grown person there;And the laughter, it was hearty, Without a servant’s care. “One must,” said they, “a servant be,” And quick they cried, “one should....

TALES FOR FIFTEEN:ORIMAGINATION AND HEART. BY JANE MORGAN.================ NEW-YORKC. WILEY, 3 WALL STREETJ. Seymour, printer1823 Southern District of New-York ss.BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the thirteenth day of June, in the forty-seventh year of the Independence of the United States of America, Charles Wiley, of the said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words and figures following, to wit: “Tales for Fifteen; or Imagination and Heart....

by Maynard Barbour CHAPTER I THE MAINWARINGS The fierce sunlight of a sultry afternoon in the early part of July forced its way through every crevice and cranny of the closely drawn shutters in the luxurious private offices of Mainwaring & Co., Stock Brokers, and slender shafts of light, darting here and there, lent a rich glow of color to the otherwise subdued tones of the elegant apartments. A glance at the four occupants of one of these rooms, who had disposed themselves in various attitudes according to their individual inclinations, revealed the fact that three out of the four were Englishmen, while the fourth might have been denominated as a typical American from the professional class....

The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle In the third week of November, in the year 1895, a dense yellow fog settled down upon London. From the Monday to the Thursday I doubt whether it was ever possible from our windows in Baker Street to see the loom of the opposite houses. The first day Holmes had spent in cross-indexing his huge book of references. The second and third had been patiently occupied upon a subject which he hand recently made his hobby–the music of the Middle Ages....

Scanned by Dianne Bean. THE AGE OF INVENTION, A CHRONICLE OF MECHANICAL CONQUEST BY HOLLAND THOMPSON PREFATORY NOTE This volume is not intended to be a complete record of inventive genius and mechanical progress in the United States. A bare catalogue of notable American inventions in the nineteenth century alone could not be compressed into these pages. Nor is it any part of the purpose of this book to trespass on the ground of the many mechanical works and encyclopedias which give technical descriptions and explain in detail the principle of every invention....

THE BOOMING OF ACRE HILL AND OTHER REMINISCENCES OF URBAN AND SUBURBAN LIFE [Illustration: “I’ll Never, Never, Never, So Long As I Live”] The Booming of Acre Hill By John Kendrick Bangs Illustrations By C. Dana Gibson Published 1902 in New York and London TO WILLIAM LIVERMORE KINGMAN WITH AFFECTIONATE REGARDS These stories by Mr. Bangs have appeared from time to time in The Ladies Home Journal, The Woman’s Home Companion, and the various publications of Messrs....

THE CHUMS OF SCRANTON HIGH On the Cinder Path BY DONALD FERGUSON THE WORLD SYNDICATE PUBLISHING CO. CLEVELAND, O. NEW YORK, N. Y. Copyright, MCMXIX by THE WORLD SYNDICATE PUBLISHING CO. Printed in the United States of America by THE COMMERCIAL BOOKBINDING CO, CLEVELAND, O. CONTENTS CHAPTER I. THE FIVE NUT FORAGERS II. ON THE OLD QUARRY ROAD III. TALKING OF GHOSTS IV. IN TRAINING FOR THE GREAT TOURNAMENT V....

THE CHURCH UNIVERSALVolume IV THE CHURCH AND THE EMPIRE THE CHURCH UNIVERSALBrief Histories of Her Continuous Life A series of eight volumes dealing with the history of the Christian Church from the beginning of the present day. _Edited by_The Rev. W. H. Hutton, B.D.Fellow and Tutor of S. John’s College, Oxford, and Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Rochester THE CHURCH OF THE APOSTLES.The Rev. Lonsdale Ragg, M.A., Vicar of the Tickencote, Rutlandshire, and Prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral....

By EDGAR B. P. DARLINGTON CONTENTS CHAPTER I MAKING A LIVELY STARTII JANUARY LENDS A FOOTIII A DAY OF MEMORIESIV THEIR CURIOSITY AROUSEDV THE CIRCUS BOYS’ SURPRISEVI A BOLT FROM THE CLOUDSVII IN NEW QUARTERSVIII JANUARY ON THE RAMPAGEIX PHIL FORREST TO THE RESCUEX ALL ABOARD FOR THE GULF!XI EGG, EGG, WHO’S GOT THE EGG?XII TRYING OUT A NEW ACTXIII A NARROW ESCAPEXIV THE PILOT GETS A SURPRISEXV AN UNWELCOME VISITORXVI BETRAYED BY A SNEEZEXVII EAVESDROPPERS!...