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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. XIV, NO. 381.] SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1829. [PRICE 2d. [Illustration: APSLEY HOUSE] THE MANSION OF HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. The town mansions of our nobility are generally beneath all architectural criticism; and it has been pertinently observed that “an educated foreigner is quite astonished when shown the residences of our higher nobility and gentry in the British capital. He has heard speak of some great nobleman, with a revenue equal to that of a principality....

THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. XIX. NO. 538.] SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1832. [PRICE 2_d_. [Illustration: THE ARBALEST, OR CROSS-BOW.] THE ARBALEST, OR CROSS-BOW. The Bow would appear to have been in most ancient nations the principal implement of war; and to keep alive this “mystery of murder,” archery, or the art of shooting with a bow and arrow, seems to have been a favourite pastime in days of peace....

This etext was produced by Col Choat colchoat@yahoo.com.au PREFACE In its original form, “The Mystery of a Hansom Cab” has reached the sale of 375,000 copies in this country, and some few editions in the United States of America. Notwithstanding this, the present publishers have the best of reasons for believing, that there are thousands of persons whom the book has never reached. The causes of this have doubtless been many, but chief among them was the form of the publication itself....

A Preliminary Revision of the North American Species of Cactus, Anhalonium, and Lophophora by John M. Coulter. U. S. Department of Agriculture Division of BotanyCONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE U. S. NATIONAL HERBARIUM Vol. III–No. 2Issued June 10, 1894Preliminary Revision of the North American Species of Cactus, Anhalonium, and Lophophora. by John M. Coulter.Published by Authority of the Secretary of Agriculture Washington Government Printing Office 1894LETTER OF TRANSMITTALU. S. Department of Agriculture Division of Botany Washington, D....

By John William Draper This eBook was prepared by Charles Keller with OmniPage Professional OCR software HISTORY OF THE CONFLICTBETWEENRELIGION AND SCIENCE BYJOHN WILLIAM DRAPER, M. D., LL. D.PROFESSOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, AUTHOR OFA TREATISE ON HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY, HISTORY OF THE INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPE, HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, AND OF MANY EXPERIMENTAL MEMOIRS ON CHEMICAL AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS PREFACE. WHOEVER has had an opportunity of becoming acquainted with the mental condition of the intelligent classes in Europe and America, must have perceived that there is a great and rapidly-increasing departure from the public religious faith, and that, while among the more frank this divergence is not concealed, there is a far more extensive and far more dangerous secession, private and unacknowledged....

By Baroness Orczy. PROLOGUE. I Paris: 1783. “Coward! Coward! Coward!” The words rang out, clear, strident, passionate, in a crescendo of agonised humiliation. The boy, quivering with rage, had sprung to his feet, and, losing his balance, he fell forward clutching at the table, whilst with a convulsive movement of the lids, he tried in vain to suppress the tears of shame which were blinding him. “Coward!” He tried to shout the insult so that all might hear, but his parched throat refused him service, his trembling hand sought the scattered cards upon the table, he collected them together, quickly, nervously, fingering them with feverish energy, then he hurled them at the man opposite, whilst with a final effort he still contrived to mutter: “Coward!...

Janice Day, The Young Homemaker by Helen Beecher Long CHAPTER I. WHEN MOTHER WAS A GIRL “Why, that is Arlo Junior. What can he be doing out of doors so early? And look at those cats following him. Did you ever!” Janice Day stared wonderingly from her front bedroom window at the boy crossing the street in the dim pre-dawn light, with a cat and three half-grown kittens gamboling about him....

Haymarket1887 Sacco and Vanzetti1927 By Vito Marcantonio Introduction by Wm. Z. Foster Introduction By William Z. Foster On November 11, 1937, it is just fifty years since Albert R. Parsons, August Spies, Adolph Fischer, George Engel and Louis Lingg, leaders of the great eight-hour day national strike of 1886, were executed in Chicago on the framed-up charge of having organized the Haymarket bomb explosion that caused the death of a number of policemen....

BY OWEN WISTER ToS. Weir MitchellWith the Affection and Memories of All My Life To the Reader You know the great text in Burns, I am sure, where he wishes he could see himself as others see him. Well, here lies the hitch in many a work of art: if its maker–poet, painter, or novelist–could but have become its audience too, for a single day, before he launched it irrevocably upon the uncertain ocean of publicity, how much better his boat would often sail!...

LITERATURE AND LIFE–Last Days in a Dutch Hotel by William Dean Howells LAST DAYS IN A DUTCH HOTEL (1897) When we said that we were going to Scheveningen, in the middle of September, the portier of the hotel at The Hague was sure we should be very cold, perhaps because we had suffered so much in his house already; and he was right, for the wind blew with a Dutch tenacity of purpose for a whole week, so that the guests thinly peopling the vast hostelry seemed to rustle through its chilly halls and corridors like so many autumn leaves....

[Illustration] LAYS OF THE SCOTTISH CAVALIERS BY W.E. AYTOUN. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ARCHIBALD WILLIAM HAMILTON-MONTGOMERIE, Earl of Eglinton and Winton, THE PATRIOTIC AND NOBLE REPRESENTATIVE OF AN ANCIENT SCOTTISH RACE, THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. This Volume is a verbatim reprint of the first edition (1849). CONTENTS LAYS OF THE SCOTTISH CAVALIERS EDINBURGH AFTER FLODDEN THE EXECUTION OF MONTROSE THE HEART OF THE BRUCE THE BURIAL MARCH OF DUNDEE THE WIDOW OF GLENCOE THE ISLAND OF THE SCOTS CHARLES EDWARD AT VERSAILLES THE OLD SCOTTISH CAVALIER MISCELLANEOUS POEMS BLIND OLD MILTON HERMOTIMUS OENONE THE BURIED FLOWER THE OLD CAMP DANUBE AND THE EUXINE THE SCHEIK OF SINAI EPITAPH OF CONSTANTINE KANARIS THE REFUSAL OF CHARON LAYS OF THE SCOTTISH CAVALIERS EDINBURGH AFTER FLODDEN The great battle of Flodden was fought upon the 9th of September, 1513....

Contents:The Son’s VetoFor Conscience’ SakeA Tragedy of Two AmbitionsOn the Western CircuitTo Please his WifeThe Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four A Few Crusted Characters THE SON’S VETO CHAPTER I To the eyes of a man viewing it from behind, the nut-brown hair was a wonder and a mystery. Under the black beaver hat, surmounted by its tuft of black feathers, the long locks, braided and twisted and coiled like the rushes of a basket, composed a rare, if somewhat barbaric, example of ingenious art....

OF “POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE”. JUNE, 1873. Vo. XI, No. 27. TABLE OF CONTENTS A NEW ATLANTIS. THE ROUMI IN KABYLIA. CONCLUDING PAPER. A REMINISCENCE OF THE EXPOSITION OF 1867 by ITA ANIOL PROKOP. SLAINS CASTLE by LADY BLANCHE MURPHY. OUR HOME IN THE TYROL by MARGARET HOWITT. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. SAINT ROMUALDO by EMMA LAZARUS. A PRINCESS OF THULE by WILLIAM BLACK CHAPTER VIII. “O TERQUE QUATERQUE BEATE!...

LITTLE MISS BY-THE-DAY BYLUCILLE VAN SLYKE Author of “Eve’s Other Children” With A Frontispiece In Color By MABEL HATT 1919 TO GEORDIE CONTENTS CHAPTER PROLOGUEI IN THE BARRED GARDENII THE HOUSE IN THE WOODSIII LOST DREAMSIV THE UNFINISHED SONGV “CERTAIN LEGAL MATTERS”VI THE LAST PRETENDING PROLOGUE The older I get the more convinced I become that the most fascinating persons in this world are those elusive souls whom we know perfectly well but whom we never, as children say, “get to meet....

MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY By Albert Bigelow Paine VOLUME II, Part 1: 1875-1886 CV MARK TWAIN AT FORTY In conversation with John Hay, Hay said to Clemens: “A man reaches the zenith at forty, the top of the hill. From that time forward he begins to descend. If you have any great undertaking ahead, begin it now. You will never be so capable again.” Of course this was only a theory of Hay’s, a rule where rules do not apply, where in the end the problem resolves itself into a question of individualities....

MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY By Albert Bigelow Paine VOLUME II, Part 2: 1886-1900 CLXII BROWNING, MEREDITH, AND MEISTERSCHAFT The Browning readings must have begun about this time. Just what kindled Mark Twain’s interest in the poetry of Robert Browning is not remembered, but very likely his earlier associations with the poet had something to do with it. Whatever the beginning, we find him, during the winter of 1886 and 1887, studiously, even violently, interested in Browning’s verses, entertaining a sort of club or class who gathered to hear his rich, sympathetic, and luminous reading of the Payleyings–“With Bernard de Mandeville,” “Daniel Bartoli,” or “Christopher Smart....

MARK TWAIN By Archibald Henderson With Photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn “Haply–who knows?–somewhere In Avalon, Isle of Dreams, In vast contentment at last, With every grief done away, While Chaucer and Shakespeare wait, And Moliere hangs on his words, And Cervantes not far off Listens and smiles apart, With that incomparable drawl He is jesting with Dagonet now.” BLISS CARMAN. PREFACE There are to-day, all over the world, men and women and children who owe a debt of almost personal gratitude to Mark Twain for the joy of his humour and the charm of his personality....

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. MARRIED LIFE: ITS SHADOWS AND SUNSHINE BY T. S. ARTHUR. PHILADELPHIA: 1852. PREFACE. THE highest, purest, best and holiest relation in life is that of marriage, which ought never to be regarded as a mere civil contract, entered into from worldly ends, but as an essential union of two minds, by which each gains a new power, and acquires!...

MARY-‘GUSTA by Joseph C. Lincoln MARY-‘GUSTA CHAPTER I On the twentieth day of April in the year 19–, the people–that is, a majority of the grown people of Ostable–were talking of Marcellus Hall and Mary-‘Gusta. A part of this statement is not surprising. The average person, no matter how humble or obscure, is pretty certain to be talked about on the day of his funeral, and Marcellus was to be buried that afternoon....

I. A mysterious disappearance. II. A Manchester tea-party. III. John Barton’s great trouble. IV. Old Alice’s history. V. The mill on fire–Jem Wilson to the rescue. VI. Poverty and death. VII. Jem Wilson’s repulse. VIII. Margaret’s debut as a public singer. IX. Barton’s London experiences. X. Return of the prodigal. XI. Mr. Carson’s intentions revealed. XII. Old Alice’s bairn. XIII. A traveller’s tales. XIV. Jem’s interview with poor Esther. XV....