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MASSACRES OF THE SOUTH1551-1815 by Alexandre Dumas, Pere CHAPTER I It is possible that our reader, whose recollections may perhaps go back as far as the Restoration, will be surprised at the size of the frame required for the picture we are about to bring before him, embracing as it does two centuries and a half; but as everything has its precedent, every river its source, every volcano its central fire, so it is that the spot of earth on which we are going to fix our eyes has been the scene of action and reaction, revenge and retaliation, till the religious annals of the South resemble an account-book kept by double entry, in which fanaticism enters the profits of death, one side being written with the blood of Catholics, the other with that of Protestants....

Master and Man I It happened in the ‘seventies in winter, on the day after St. Nicholas’s Day. There was a fete in the parish and the innkeeper, Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov, a Second Guild merchant, being a church elder had to go to church, and had also to entertain his relatives and friends at home. But when the last of them had gone he at once began to prepare to drive over to see a neighbouring proprietor about a grove which he had been bargaining over for a long time....

MEADOW-GRASS TALES OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE BY ALICE BROWN 1895 TABLE OF CONTENTS. NUMBER FIVE FARMER ELI’S VACATION AFTER ALL TOLD IN THE POORHOUSE HEMAN’S MA HEARTSEASE MIS’ WADLEIGH’S GUEST A RIGHTEOUS BARGAIN JOINT OWNERS IN SPAIN AT SUDLEIGH FAIR BANKRUPT NANCY BOYD’S LAST SERMON STROLLERS IN TIVERTON TO M.G.R. LOVER OF WOODS AND FIELD AND SEA. NUMBER FIVE. We who are Tiverton born, though false ambition may have ridden us to market, or the world’s voice incited us to kindred clamoring, have a way of shutting our eyes, now and then, to present changes, and seeing things as they were once, as they are still, in a certain sleepy yet altogether individual corner of country life....

MEN’S WIVES Contents. The Ravenswing. I. Which is entirely introductory – contains an account of Miss Crump, her suitors, and her family circle. II. In which Mr. Walker makes three attempts to ascertain the dwelling of Morgiana. III. What came of Mr. Walker’s discovery of the “Bootjack.” IV. In which the heroine has a number more lovers, and cuts a very dashing figure in the world. V. In which Mr....

MISCELLANIES UPON VARIOUS SUBJECTS. BY JOHN AUBREY, F.RS. THE FIFTH EDITION. {TO WHICH IS ADDED, HYDRIOTAPHIA; OR, URN BURIAL. BY SIR THOMAS BROWNE.}* LONDON; REEVES AND TURNER 196, STRAND. 1890. Urn-Burial has not been scanned into this text. CONTENTS. LIFE of AubreyDedication to the First EditionDay-Fatality; or, Some Observations of Days Lucky and Unlucky Day-Fatality of RomeOf Fatalities of Families and Places Ostenta; or, PortentsOmensDreamsApparitionsVoicesImpulsesKnockingsBlows invisibleProphesiesMirandaMagickTransportation by an invisible Power Visions in a Beryl or CrystalVisions without a Glass or CrystalConverse with Angels and SpiritsCorps-candles in WalesOraclesEcstacyGlances of Love and MaliceAn accurate account of Second-Sighted men in Scotland Additaments of Second-SightFarther AdditamentsAppendix {HYDRIOTAPHIA; OR, URN-BURIAL} THE LIFE OF JOHN AUBREY....

MODERN PAINTING By GEORGE MOORE TO SIR WILLIAM EDEN, BART. OF ALL MY BOOKS, THIS IS THE ONE YOU LIKE BEST; ITS SUBJECT HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF NEARLY ALL OUR CONVERSATIONS IN THE PAST, AND I SUPPOSE WILL BE THE SUBJECT OF MANY CONVERSATIONS IN THE FUTURE; SO, LOOKING BACK AND FORWARD, I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO YOU. G. M. The Editor of “The Speaker” allowed me to publish from time to time chapters of a book on art....

Morning Star by H. Rider Haggard DEDICATION My dear Budge,– Only a friendship extending over many years emboldened me, an amateur, to propose to dedicate a Romance of Old Egypt to you, one of the world’s masters of the language and lore of the great people who in these latter days arise from their holy tombs to instruct us in the secrets of history and faith. With doubt I submitted to you this story, asking whether you wished to accept pages that could not, I feared, be free from error, and with surprise in due course I read, among other kind things, your advice to me to “leave it exactly as it is....

MR. ISAACSA TALE OF MODERN INDIA BY F. MARION CRAWFORD 1882 BY F. MARION CRAWFORD CHAPTER I. In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless these be of their own individual making. Especially in countries where excessive liberty or excessive tyranny favours the growth of that class most usually designated as adventurers, it is true that man, by his own dominant will, or by a still more potent servility, may rise to any grade of elevation; as by the absence of these qualities he may fall to any depth in the social scale....

CONTENTS: Literary Friends and Acquaintances Biographical My First Visit to New England First Impressions of Literary New York Roundabout to Boston Literary Boston As I Knew It Oliver Wendell Holmes The White Mr. Longfellow Studies of Lowell Cambridge Neighbors A Belated Guest My Mark Twain Literature and Life Man of Letters in Business Confessions of a Summer Colonist The Young Contributor Last Days in a Dutch Hotel Anomalies of the Short Story Spanish Prisoners of War American Literary Centers Standard Household Effect Co....

A METRICAL TRANSLATION BY WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD BOOK I PROEM Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men, Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars Makest to teem the many-voyaged mainAnd fruitful lands- for all of living things Through thee alone are evermore conceived, Through thee are risen to visit the great sun- Before thee, Goddess, and thy coming on, Flee stormy wind and massy cloud away,For thee the daedal Earth bears scented flowers, For thee waters of the unvexed deepSmile, and the hollows of the serene sky Glow with diffused radiance for thee!...

ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES, Vol. 3. By Guy de Maupassant GUY DE MAUPASSANT ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES Translated by ALBERT M. C. McMASTER, B.A. A. E. HENDERSON, B.A. MME. QUESADA and Others VOLUME III. MISS HARRIETLITTLE LOUISE ROQUETHE DONKEYMOIRONTHE DISPENSER OF HOLY WATERTHE PARRICIDEBERTHATHE PATRONTHE DOORA SALETHE IMPOLITE SEXA WEDDING GIFTTHE RELIC MISS HARRIET There were seven of us on a drag, four women and three men; one of the latter sat on the box seat beside the coachman....

SAMUEL BUTLER: A SKETCH by Henry Festing Jones Samuel Butler was born on the 4th December, 1835, at the Rectory, Langar, near Bingham, in Nottinghamshire. His father was the Rev. Thomas Butler, then Rector of Langar, afterwards one of the canons of Lincoln Cathedral, and his mother was Fanny Worsley, daughter of John Philip Worsley of Arno’s Vale, Bristol, sugar-refiner. His grandfather was Dr. Samuel Butler, the famous headmaster of Shrewsbury School, afterwards Bishop of Lichfield....

[Illustration] SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 288 NEW YORK, JULY 9, 1881 Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XI, No. 288. Scientific American established 1845 Scientific American Supplement, $5 a year. Scientific American and Supplement, $7 a year. * * * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS. I. ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS–Dry Air Refrigerating Machine. 5 figures. Plan, elevation, and diagrams of a new English dry air refrigerator Thomas’ Improved Steam Wheel. 1 figure The American Society of Civil Engineers....

SEEING EUROPE WITH FAMOUS AUTHORS Selected And Edited With Introduction, Etc. By Francis W. Halsey Editor of “Great Epochs in American History” Associate Editor of “The World’s Famous Orations” and of “The Best of the World’s Classics,” etc. In Ten Volumes Illustrated Vol. II Great Britain And Ireland Part Two [Printed in the United States of America] II CONTENTS OF VOLUME II GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND–PART TWO IV-ENGLISH LITERARY SHRINES– (Continued) STOKE POGIS–By Charles T....

THE MOST INTERESTING STORIES OF ALL NATIONS Edited by Julian Hawthorne FRENCH NOVELS Table of Contents Victor Cherbuliez Count Kostia Paul Bourget Andre Cornelis Anonymous The Last of the Costellos Lady Betty’s Indiscretion Victor Cherbuliez Count Kostia I At the beginning of the summer of 1850, a Russian nobleman, Count Kostia Petrovitch Leminof, had the misfortune to lose his wife suddenly, and in the flower of her beauty. She was his junior by twelve years....

by Frank L. Packard CONTENTS PART ONE: THE MAN IN THE CASE I. THE GRAY SEAL II. BY PROXY III. THE MOTHER LODE IV. THE COUNTERFEIT FIVE V. THE AFFAIR OF THE PUSHCART MAN VI. DEVIL’S WORK VII. THE THIEF VIII. THE MAN HIGHER UP IX. TWO CROOKS AND A KNAVE X. THE ALIBI XI. THE STOOL-PIGEON PART TWO: THE WOMAN IN THE CASE I. BELOW THE DEAD LINE II....

The Age of Innocenceby Edith Wharton Book I I. On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances “above the Forties,” of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter in the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy....

By LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE 1909 To F. E. Z. Chatelaine of Juniper Lodge This story is dedicated by one to whom her hospitality, transplanted from its Kentucky home, will ever remain a charming memory. [Illustration: “NOT ONCE DID HE LOOK BACK WHILE AMBER WATCHED–HIMSELF DIVIDED BETWEEN AMUSEMENT, ANNOYANCE, AND ASTONISHMENT” (PAGE 14)] CONTENTS CHAPTER I DESTINY AND THE BABU II THE GIRL AND THE TOKEN III MAROONED IV THE MAN PERDU V THE GOBLIN NIGHT VI RED DAWN VII MASKS AND FACES VIII FIRST STEPS IX PINK SATIN X MAHARANA OF KHANDAWAR XI THE TONGA XII THE LONG DAY XIII THE PHOTOGRAPH XIV OVER THE WATER XV FROM A HIGH PLACE XVI SUNRISE FOR TWO XVII THE WAY TO KATHIAPUR XVIII THE HOODED DEATH XIX RUTTON’S DAUGHTER XX A LATER DAY XXI THE FINAL INCARNATION CHAPTER I DESTINY AND THE BABU Breaking suddenly upon the steady drumming of the trucks, the prolonged and husky roar of a locomotive whistle saluted an immediate grade-crossing....

[Illustration: Dolly was bound to a tree, a handkerchief over her mouth.] CAMP FIRE GIRLS SERIES, VOLUME III The Camp Fire Girls at Long Lake or Bessie King in Summer Camp by JANE L. STEWART THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANY Chicago AKRON, OHIO New York MADE IN U.S.A. 1914 The Saalfield Publishing Co. The Camp Fire Girls at Long Lake CHAPTER I A GROUNDLESS JEALOUSY “I told you we were going to be happy here, didn’t I, Zara?...

THE CAPTAIN’S TOLL-GATE By FRANK R. STOCKTON With a Memorial Sketch by Mrs. Stockton 1903 CONTENTS I. OLIVE II. MARIA PORT III. MRS. EASTERFIELD IV. THE SON OF AN OLD SHIPMATE V. OLIVE PAYS TOLL VI. MR. CLAUDE LOCKER VII. THE CAPTAIN AND HIS GUEST GO FISHING AND COME HOME HAPPY VIII. CAPTAIN ASHER IS NOT IN A GOOD HUMOR IX. MISS PORT TAKES A DRIVE WITH THE BUTCHER X....