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SCENE.–England and Wales. ACT I. Scene I.London. The Palace. Enter the King, Lord John of Lancaster, Earl of Westmoreland, [Sir Walter Blunt,] with others. King. So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Find we a time for frighted peace to pant And breathe short-winded accents of new broils To be commenc’d in stronds afar remote. No more the thirsty entrance of this soil Shall daub her lips with her own children’s blood....

THE EGOIST A Comedy in Narrative by GEORGE MEREDITH PRELUDE A CHAPTER OF WHICH THE LAST PAGE ONLY IS OF ANY IMPORTANCE Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing....

Maurice Leblanc The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar Table of Contents:I. The Arrest of Arsène LupinII. Arsène Lupin in PrisonIII. The Escape of Arsène LupinIV. The Mysterious TravellerV. The Queen’s NecklaceVI. The Seven of HeartsVII. Madame Imbert’s SafeVIII. The Black PearlIX. Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late I. The Arrest of Arsène Lupin It was a strange ending to a voyage that had commenced in a most auspicious manner. The transatlantic steamship La Provence’ was a swift and comfortable vessel, under the command of a most affable man....

The Farm That Won’t Wear Out By Cyril G. Hopkins Preface THE FARM THAT WON’T WEAR OUT WAS FIRST published serially in THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, the privilege having been granted the author of subsequent publication. It is now issued in book form in response to numerous requests coming especially from the Central, Eastern, and Southern States. CYRIL G. HOPKINS. CHAMPAIGN, ILL. ”Population must increase rapidly, more rapidly than in former times, and ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil....

THE FOURTH SERIES PLAYS By John Galsworthy PLAYS in the FOURTH SERIES A BIT O’ LOVE THE FOUNDATIONS THE SKIN GAME THE FOUNDATIONS (AN EXTRAVAGANT PLAY) PERSONS OF THE PLAY LORD WILLIAM DROMONDY, M.P.LADY WILLIAM DROMONDYLITTLE ANNEMISS STOKESMR. POULDERJAMESHENRYTHOMASCHARLESTHE PRESSLEMMYOLD MRS. LEMMYLITTLE AIDATHE DUKE OF EXETER Some ANTI-SWEATERS; Some SWEATED WORKERS; and a CROWD SCENES SCENE I. The cellar at LORD WILLIAM DROMONDY’S in Park Lane. SCENE II. The room of old MRS....

THE GARDEN OF ALLAH BY ROBERT HICHENS PREPARER’S NOTE This text was prepared from an edition published by Grosset & Dunlap, New York. It was originally published in 1904. CONTENTS BOOK I. PRELUDEBOOK II. THE VOICE OF PRAYERBOOK III. THE GARDENBOOK IV. THE JOURNEYBOOK V. THE REVELATIONBOOK VI. THE JOURNEY BACK THE GARDEN OF ALLAH BOOK I. PRELUDE CHAPTER I The fatigue caused by a rough sea journey, and, perhaps, the consciousness that she would have to be dressed before dawn to catch the train for Beni-Mora, prevented Domini Enfilden from sleeping....

THE GREAT PRINCE SHAN by E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM 1922 CHAPTER I “A club for diplomats and gentlemen,” Prince Karschoff remarked, looking lazily through a little cloud of tobacco smoke around the spacious but almost deserted card room. “The classification seems comprehensive enough, yet it seems impossible to get even a decent rubber of bridge.” Sir Daniel Harker, a many years retired plenipotentiary to one of the smaller Powers, shrugged his shoulders....

The Green Fairy Book Edited by Andrew Lang To Stella Margaret Alleyne the Green Fairy Book is dedicated To The Friendly Reader This is the third, and probably the last, of the Fairy Books of many colours. First there was the Blue Fairy Book; then, children, you asked for more, and we made up the Red Fairy Book; and, when you wanted more still, the Green Fairy Book was put together....

DON QUIXOTE by Miguel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby Volume I. Part 17. CHAPTER L. OF THE SHREWD CONTROVERSY WHICH DON QUIXOTE AND THE CANON HELD, TOGETHER WITH OTHER INCIDENTS “A good joke, that!” returned Don Quixote. “Books that have been printed with the king’s licence, and with the approbation of those to whom they have been submitted, and read with universal delight, and extolled by great and small, rich and poor, learned and ignorant, gentle and simple, in a word by people of every sort, of whatever rank or condition they may be–that these should be lies!...

DON QUIXOTE Volume II. Part 20. by Miguel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby CHAPTER VI. OF WHAT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS NIECE AND HOUSEKEEPER; ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CHAPTERS IN THE WHOLE HISTORY While Sancho Panza and his wife, Teresa Cascajo, held the above irrelevant conversation, Don Quixote’s niece and housekeeper were not idle, for by a thousand signs they began to perceive that their uncle and master meant to give them the slip the third time, and once more betake himself to his, for them, ill-errant chivalry....

INNOCENTS ABROAD by Mark Twain [From an 1869–1st Edition] Part 4. CHAPTER XXXI. THE BURIED CITY OF POMPEII They pronounce it Pom-pay-e. I always had an idea that you went down into Pompeii with torches, by the way of damp, dark stairways, just as you do in silver mines, and traversed gloomy tunnels with lava overhead and something on either hand like dilapidated prisons gouged out of the solid earth, that faintly resembled houses....

by ELIZABETH CLAGHORN GASKELL CONTENTS OF VOLUME TWO CHAPTER I.Mr. Bronte afflicted with blindness, and relieved by a successful operation for cataract–Charlotte Bronte’s first work of fiction, “The Professor”–She commences “Jane Eyre”–Circumstances attending its composition–Her ideas of a heroine–Her attachment to home–Haworth in December–A letter of confession and counsel. CHAPTER II.State of Charlotte Bronte’s health at the commencement of 1847– Family trials–“Wuthering Heights” and “Agnes Grey” accepted by a publisher–“The Professor” rejected–Completion of “Jane Eyre”, its reception and publication–The reviews of “Jane Eyre”, and the author’s comments on them–Her father’s reception of the book–Public interest excited by “Jane Eyre”–Dedication of the second edition to Mr....

Scanner’s Notes: What this is and isn’t. This was taken from a copy of Shakespeare’s first folio and it is as close as I can come in ASCII to the printed text. The elongated S’s have been changed to small s’s and the conjoined ae have been changed to ae. I have left the spelling, punctuation, capitalization as close as possible to the printed text. I have corrected some spelling mistakes (I have put together a spelling dictionary devised from the spellings of the Geneva Bible and Shakespeare’s First Folio and have unified spellings according to this template), typo’s and expanded abbreviations as I have come across them....

THE LIFE OF SIR RICHARD BURTON By THOMAS WRIGHT Author of “The Life of Edward Fitzgerald,” etc. 2 Volumes in 1 This Work isDedicated toSir Richard Burton’s KinsmanAnd Friend,Major St. George Richard Burton,The Black Watch. Preface. Fifteen years have elapsed since the death of Sir Richard Burton and twelve since the appearance of the biography of Lady Burton. A deeply pathetic interest attaches itself to that book. Lady Burton was stricken down with an incurable disease....

THE MAN WHO KEPT HIS MONEY IN A BOX by Anthony Trollope I first saw the man who kept his money in a box in the midst of the ravine of the Via Mala. I interchanged a few words with him or with his wife at the hospice, at the top of the Splugen; and I became acquainted with him in the courtyard of Conradi’s hotel at Chiavenna. It was, however, afterwards at Bellaggio, on the lake of Como, that that acquaintance ripened into intimacy....

PERSONAL MEMOIRES OF P. H. SHERIDAN, VOLUME 1. By Philip Henry Sheridan PREFACE When, yielding to the solicitations of my friends, I finally decided to write these Memoirs, the greatest difficulty which confronted me was that of recounting my share in the many notable events of the last three decades, in which I played a part, without entering too fully into the history of these years, and at the same time without giving to my own acts an unmerited prominence....

[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 LOUIS XIV AND HIS COURT AND OF THE REGENCY BY THE DUKE OF SAINT-SIMON VOLUME 14 CHAPTER CV Quarrel of the King of England with His Son.–Schemes of Dubois.– Marriage of Brissac.–His Death.–Birth of the Young Pretender....

[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 MARGUERITE DE VALOIS QUEEN OF NAVARRE Written by Herself Being Historic Memoirs of the Courts of France and Navarre PUBLISHER’S NOTE. The first volume of the Court Memoir Series will, it is confidently anticipated, prove to be of great interest....

[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 MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF FRANCE Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen BOOK 5. CHAPTER I. The ever-memorable oath of the States General, taken at the Tennis Court of Versailles, was followed by the royal sitting of the 23d of June....

THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. X, No. 289.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1827. [Price 2d. Bushy Park. [Illustration:] Among the suburban beauties of the metropolis, and as an attraction for home-tourists, Bushy is entitled to special notice, independent of its celebrity as the retreat of royalty–it being the residence of His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, an accurate portrait of whom will be presented, to our readers with the usual Supplementary Number at the close of the present volume of the MIRROR....