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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. 12, No. 330.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1828. [PRICE 2d. WHY ARE NOT THE ENGLISH A MUSICAL PEOPLE? We cannot help it.–Massinger’s Roman Actor. Astronomy, music, and architecture, are the floating topics of the day; on the second of these heads we have thrown together a few hints, which may, probably prove entertaining to our readers. The English are not–you know, reflective public–a musical people; this has been said over and over again in the musical and dramatic critiques of the newspapers....

THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. No. 379.] SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1829. [PRICE 2d. MILAN CATHEDRAL [Illustration: MILAN CATHEDRAL.] “Show the motley-minded gentleman in;”–the old friend with a new face, or, in plain words, THE MIRROR in a new type. Tasteful reader, examine the symmetry, the sharp cut and finish of this our new fount of type, and tell us whether it accords not with the beauty, pungency, and polish of the notings and selections of this our first sheet....

THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. 20. No. 561.] SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1832. [PRICE 2d. BURNHAM ABBEY [Illustration: BURNHAM ABBEY, From a Sketch, by a Correspondent.] Burnham is a village of some consideration, in Buckinghamshire, and gives name to a deanery and hundred. Its prosperity has been also augmented by the privilege of holding three fairs annually. It is situate in the picturesque vicinity of Windsor, about five miles from that town, and three miles N....

THE NEST OF THE SPARROWHAWK A ROMANCE OF THE XVIIth CENTURY BY THE BARONESS ORCZY November, 1909 CONTENTS PART I CHAPTER I. THE HOUSE OF A KENTISH SQUIRE II. ON A JULY AFTERNOON III. THE EXILE IV. GRINDING POVERTY V. THE LEGAL ASPECT VI. UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE ELMS VII. THE STRANGER WITHIN THE GATES VIII. PRINCE AMEDE D’ORLEANS IX. SECRET SERVICE X. AVOWED ENMITY XI. SURRENDER XII. A WOMAN’S HEART XIII....

By Max Brand The Untamed Trailin’The Night Horseman THE NIGHT HORSEMAN BY MAX BRAND 1920 CONTENTS I.–THE SCHOLAR II.–WORDS AND BULLETS III.–THE DOCTOR RIDES IV.–THE CHAIN V.–THE WAITING VI.–THE MISSION STARTS VII.–JERRY STRANN VIII.–THE GIFT-HORSE IX.–BATTLE LIGHT X.–“SWEET ADELINE” XI.–THE BUZZARD XII.–FINESSE XIII.–THE THREE XIV.–MUSIC FOR OLD NICK XV.–OLD GARY PETERS XVI.–THE COMING OF NIGHT XVII.–BUCK MAKES HIS GET-AWAY XVIII.–DOCTOR BYRNE ANALYSES XIX.–SUSPENSE XX.–THE COMING XXI.–MAC STRANN DECIDES TO KEEP THE LAW XXII....

THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA DE SEINGALT THE RARE UNABRIDGED LONDON EDITION OF 1894 TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR MACHEN TO WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED THE CHAPTERS DISCOVERED BY ARTHUR SYMONS. MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-1798 IN LONDON AND MOSCOW, Volume 5e–RUSSIA AND POLAND RUSSIA AND POLAND CHAPTER XIX My Stay at Riga–Campioni St. Heleine–D’Asagon–Arrival of the Empress–I Leave Riga and Go to St. Petersburg–I See Society –I Buy Zaira Prince Charles de Biron, the younger son of the Duke of Courland, Major-General in the Russian service, Knight of the Order of St....

by ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE 1922 CHAPTER I. The Derelict Link Ferris was a fighter. Not by nature, nor by choice, but to keep alive. His battleground covered an area of forty acres–broken, scrubby, uncertain side-hill acres, at that. In brief, a worked-out farm among the mountain slopes of the North Jersey hinterland; six miles from the nearest railroad. The farm was Ferris’s, by right of sole heritage from his father, a Civil-War veteran, who had taken up the wilderness land in 1865 and who, for thirty years thereafter, had wrought to make it pay....

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY STUDIES IN HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE HERBERT B. ADAMS, Editor History is past Politics and Politics present History–Freeman NINTH SERIES X HISTORY OF LIBERIA BY J.H.T. McPHERSON, Ph.D. Fellow in History, Johns Hopkins University, 1889; Instructor in History, University of Michigan, 1890; Professor of History and Politics, University of Georgia, 1891. * * * * * 1891 CONTENTS. I. INTRODUCTION II. THE COLONIZATION IDEAIII. THE COLONIZATION MOVEMENT IV....

HOME AGAIN and THE ELECT LADY (A Duplex Edition) By George MacDonald HOME AGAIN. CHAPTER I. THE PARLOR. In the dusk of the old-fashioned best room of a farm-house, in the faint glow of the buried sun through the sods of his July grave, sat two elderly persons, dimly visible, breathing the odor which roses unseen sent through the twilight and open window. One of the two was scarcely conscious of the odor, for she did not believe in roses; she believed mainly in mahogany, linen, and hams; to the other it brought too much sadness to be welcomed, for it seemed, like the sunlight, to issue from the grave of his vanished youth....

by Lord Dunsany [Edward John Plunkett] DRAMATIS PERSONAE JOHN BEALMARY BEALLIZAALIBERT, BILL: two railway portersTHE MAN IN THE CORNERMIRALDA CLEMENTHAFIZ EL ALCOLAHNDAOUDARCHIE BEALBAZZALOL, THOOTHOOBABA: two Nubian door-keepers BEN HUSSEIN, Lord of the PassZABNOOL, SHABEESH: two conjurersOMAR, a singerZAGBOOLA, mother of HafizTHE SHEIK OF THE BISHAREENS Notables, soldiers, Bishareens, dancers, etc. IF ACT I SCENE 1 A small railway station near London.Time: Ten years ago. BERT ‘Ow goes it, Bill? BILL Goes it?...

BY E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM AUTHOR OF “A MAKER OF HISTORY,” “THE MISSIONER,” “THE GOVERNORS,” ETC. ILLUSTRATED BY J. V. McFALL AND C. E. BROCK BOOK I CHAPTER I The Princess opened her eyes at the sound of her maid’s approach. She turned her head impatiently toward the door. “Annette,” she said coldly, “did you misunderstand me? Did I not say that I was on no account to be disturbed this afternoon?...

INTRODUCTION. PREFACE. BOOK I. CHAPTER I. Of writing lives in general, and particularly of Pamela, with a word by the bye of Colley Cibber and others CHAPTER II. Of Mr Joseph Andrews, his birth, parentage, education, and great endowments, with a word or two concerning ancestors CHAPTER III. Of Mr Abraham Adams the curate, Mrs Slipslop the chambermaid, and others CHAPTER IV. What happened after their journey to London CHAPTER V....

LA MERE BAUCHEfrom “Tales from All Countries” The Pyreneean valley in which the baths of Vernet are situated is not much known to English, or indeed to any travellers. Tourists in search of good hotels and picturesque beauty combined, do not generally extend their journeys to the Eastern Pyrenees. They rarely get beyond Luchon; and in this they are right, as they thus end their peregrinations at the most lovely spot among these mountains, and are as a rule so deceived, imposed on, and bewildered by guides, innkeepers, and horse-owners, at this otherwise delightful place, as to become undesirous of further travel....

LEGENDS AND TALES by Bret Harte CONTENTS THE LEGEND OF MONTE DEL DIABLO THE ADVENTURE OF PADRE VICENTIO THE LEGEND OF DEVIL’S POINT THE DEVIL AND THE BROKER THE OGRESS OF SILVER LAND THE RUINS OF SAN FRANCISCO A NIGHT AT WINGDAM LEGENDS AND TALES. THE LEGEND OF MONTE DEL DIABLO. The cautious reader will detect a lack of authenticity in the following pages. I am not a cautious reader myself, yet I confess with some concern to the absence of much documentary evidence in support of the singular incident I am about to relate....

[Illustration: Regina ThumbooCollege, LucknowThe First M.A. from Isabella Thoburu] Lighted to Lighten The Hope of India A Study of Conditionsamong Women in India By ALICE B. VAN DOREN 1922 FOREWORD The Central Committee sends out this book on Indian girlhood to meet the young women of America with their high privilege of education, that often unrealized and unacknowledged gift of Christ. Miss Van Doren has given emphasis in the book to the privileged young woman of India; she shows the possibilities, and yet you will see in it something of the black shadow cast by that religion which holds no place for the redemption of woman....

[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.] MADAME CHRYSANTHEME By PIERRE LOTI With a Preface by ALBERT SOREL, of the French Academy BOOK 1. PIERRE LOTI LOUIS-MARIE-JULIEN VIAUD, “Pierre Loti,” was born in Rochefort, of an old French-Protestant family, January 14, 1850. He was connected with the French Navy from 1867 to 1900, and is now a retired officer with full captain’s rank....

MARTIN HYDETHE DUKE’S MESSENGERby John Masefield CONTENTSI. I LEAVE HOMEII. I LEAVE HOME AGAINIII. I LEAVE HOME A THIRD TIMEIV. I LEAVE HOME FOR THE LAST TIME V. I GO TO SEAVI. THE SEA! THE SEA!VII. LAND RATS AND WATER RATSVIII. I MEET MY FRIENDIX. I SEE MORE OF MY FRIENDX. SOUNDS IN THE NIGHTXI. AURELIAXII. BRAVE CAPTAIN BARLOWXIII. IT BREEZES UPXIV. A DRINK OF SHERBETXV. THE ROAD TO LYMEXVI....

MARTIN RATTLER BY R M BALLANTYNE 1858 EDITOR’S NOTE “MARTIN RATTLER” was one of, Robert Michael Ballantyne’s early books. Born at Edinburgh in 1825,[1] he was sent to Rupert’s Land as a trading-clerk in the Hudson Bay Fur Company’s service when he left school, a boy of sixteen. There, to relieve his home-sickness, he first practised his pen in long letters home to his mother. Soon after his return to Scotland in 1848 he published a first book on Hudson’s Bay....

MEMOIRS AND HISTORICAL CHRONICLES OF THE COURTS OF EUROPE [Illustration: THE CHILD MOZART, INVITED BY MADAME DE POMPADOUR TO PLAY AT HER COURT. From the painting by V. de Paredes.] MEMOIRS OF MARGUERITE DE VALOIS Queen of France, Wife of Henri IV OF MADAME DE POMPADOUR Of the Court of Louis XV AND OF CATHERINE DE MEDICI Queen of France, Wife of Henri II CONTENTS LETTER I Introduction.–Anecdotes of Marguerite’s Infancy....

[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 2. LETTER XII. PARIS, August, 1805. MY LORD:–Bonaparte has been as profuse in his disposal of the Imperial diadem of Germany, as in his promises of the papal tiara of Rome....