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MEN IN WAR BY ANDREAS LATZKO DEDICATED TO FRIEND AND FOE ”I am convinced the time will come when all will think as I do.” CONTENTS I OFF TO WAR II BAPTISM OF FIRE III THE VICTOR IV MY COMRADE V A HERO’S DEATH VI HOME AGAIN I OFF TO WAR The time was late in the autumn of the second year of the war; the place, the garden of a war hospital in a small Austrian town, which lay at the base of wooded hills, sequestered as behind a Spanish wall, and still preserving its sleepy contented outlook upon existence....

Contents: The Cuban-Spanish War The Death of RodriguezThe Greek-Turkish War The Battle of VelestinosThe Spanish-American War I. The Rough Riders at Guasimas II. The Battle of San Juan Hill III. The Taking of Coamo IV. The Passing of San Juan HillThe South African War I. With Buller’s Column II. The Relief of Ladysmith III. The Night Before the BattleThe Japanese-Russian War Battles I did not seeA War Correspondent’s Kit THE CUBAN-SPANISH WAR: THE DEATH OF RODRIGUEZ {1} Adolfo Rodriguez was the only son of a Cuban farmer, who lived nine miles outside of Santa Clara, beyond the hills that surround that city to the north....

Noto, an unexplored corner of Japan by Percival Lowell From you, my dear Basil, the confidant of my hopes toward Noto, I know I may look for sympathy now that my advances have met with such happy issue, however incomplete be my account. And so I ask you to be my best man in the matter before the world. Ever yours,Percival Lowell. Basil Hall Chamberlain, Esq. Contents. I. An Unknown....

ON THE FIRING LINE by Anna Chapin Ray and Hamilton Brock Fuller CHAPTER ONE Six feet one in his stockings, broad-shouldered and without an ounce of extra flesh, Harvard Weldon suddenly halted before one of a line of deck chairs. “I usually get what I want, Miss Dent,” he observed suggestively. “You are more fortunate than most people.” Her answering tone was dry. Most men would have been baffled by her apparent indifference....

ON THE FRONTIER by Bret Harte CONTENTS AT THE MISSION OF SAN CARMEL A BLUE GRASS PENELOPE LEFT OUT ON LONE STAR MOUNTAIN AT THE MISSION OF SAN CARMEL PROLOGUE It was noon of the 10th of August, 1838. The monotonous coast line between Monterey and San Diego had set its hard outlines against the steady glare of the Californian sky and the metallic glitter of the Pacific Ocean. The weary succession of rounded, dome-like hills obliterated all sense of distance; the rare whaling vessel or still rarer trader, drifting past, saw no change in these rusty undulations, barren of distinguishing peak or headland, and bald of wooded crest or timbered ravine....

REDBURN. HIS FIRST VOYAGE by HERMAN MELVILLE Contents I. HOW WELLINGBOROUGH REDBURN’S TASTE FOR THE SEA WAS BORN AND BRED IN HIM II. REDBURN’S DEPARTURE FROM HOME III. HE ARRIVES IN TOWN IV. HOW HE DISPOSED OF HIS FOWLING-PIECE V. HE PURCHASES HIS SEA-WARDROBE, AND ON A DISMAL RAINY DAY PICKS UP HIS BOARD AND LODGING ALONG THE WHARVES VI. HE IS INITIATED IN THE BUSINESS OF CLEANING OUT THE PIG-PEN, AND SLUSHING DOWN THE TOP-MAST VII....

Reminiscences of a Pioneer By Colonel William Thompson Editor Alturas, Cal., Plaindealer San Francisco 1912 Contents Chapter I Farewell to the Old Southern Home II First Winter in the Willamette Valley III Indian Outbreak of 1855 IV In Which Various Experiences Are Discussed V Taking Revenge on Marauding Snakes VI One Bad Tale From Canyon City History VII Col. Thompson’s First Newspaper Venture VIII History of the Modoc Indians IX The Ben Wright Massacre X Treaty With the Modocs Made XI Battle in the Lava Beds XII The Peace Commission’s Work XIII Three Days Battle In the Lava Beds XIV Trailing the Fugitives XV The Great Bannock War XVI Snake Uprising in Eastern Oregon XVII Bannocks Double on Their TracksXVIII Another Attack That Miscarried XIX Reign of the Vigilantes XX Passing of the Mogans XXI The Lookout Lynching Illustrations Colonel William Thompson Frontispiece (From photo taken at close of Bannock War) Typical Scene in the Lava BedsRunway and Fort in Lava BedsCaptain Jack’s Cave in the Lava Beds Captain Jack (From photo belonging to Jas....

FRANCESCA DA RIMINI A TRAGEDY Francesca, i tuoi martiri a lagrimar mi fanno triato e pio.–DANTE. Inferno, v. 75 seq. [Illustration: GEORGE HENRY BOKER] GEORGE HENRY BOKER (1823-1890) The name of George Henry Boker suggests a coterie of friendships–a group of men pledged to the pursuit of letters, and worshippers at the shrine of poetry. These men, in the pages of whose published letters and impressions are embedded many pleasing aspects of Boker’s temperament and character, were Bayard Taylor, Richard Henry Stoddard, and Charles Godfrey Leland, the latter known familiarly in American literature as “Hans Breitmann....

RHODA FLEMING By George Meredith CONTENTS BOOK 1.I. THE KENTISH FAMILYII. QUEEN ANNE’S FARMIII. SUGGESTS THE MIGHT OF THE MONEY DEMON IV. THE TEXT FROM SCRIPTUREV. THE SISTERS MEETVI. EDWARD AND ALGERNONVII. GREAT NEWS FROM DAHLIAVIII. INTRODUCES MRS. LOVELLIX. ROBERT INTERVENESX. DAHLIA IS NOT VISIBLEXI. AN INDICATIVE DUET IN A MINOR KEY BOOK 2.XII. AT THE THEATRE.XIII. THE FARMER SPEAKSXIV. BETWEEN RHODA AND ROBERTXI. A VISIT TO WREXBY HALLXII. AT FAIRLY PARKXVII....

ROUGHING IT by Mark Twain 1880 Part 8. CHAPTER LXXI. At four o’clock in the afternoon we were winding down a mountain of dreary and desolate lava to the sea, and closing our pleasant land journey. This lava is the accumulation of ages; one torrent of fire after another has rolled down here in old times, and built up the island structure higher and higher. Underneath, it is honey-combed with caves; it would be of no use to dig wells in such a place; they would not hold water–you would not find any for them to hold, for that matter....

ROUND THE RED LAMP BEING FACTS AND FANCIES OF MEDICAL LIFE By SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE THE PREFACE. [Being an extract from a long and animated correspondence with a friend in America.] I quite recognise the force of your objection that an invalid or a woman in weak health would get no good from stories which attempt to treat some features of medical life with a certain amount of realism....

SANTO DOMINGO A COUNTRY WITH A FUTURE BY OTTO SCHOENRICH 1918 PREFACE It is remarkable how little has been written about the Dominican Republic, a country so near to our shores, which has for years had intimate commercial and political relations with our country, which is at present under the provisional administration of the American Government, and which is destined to develop under the protection and guidance of the United States....

[Illustration] SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 358 NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 11, 1882 Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XIV, No. 358. Scientific American established 1845 Scientific American Supplement, $5 a year. Scientific American and Supplement, $7 a year. * * * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS I. ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.–Hydraulic Filtering Press for Treating Oleaginous Seeds.–Details of construction and manipulation.–15 figures Laurent & Collot’s Automatic Injection Pump.–6 figures. Improved Dredger.–1 figure.–One ton bucket dredge....

[Illustration] SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 446 NEW YORK, JULY 19, 1884 Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XVIII, No. 446. Scientific American established 1845 Scientific American Supplement, $5 a year. Scientific American and Supplement, $7 a year. * * * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS I. CHEMISTRY.–Tin in Canned Foods.–By Prof. ATTFIELU.–Small amount of tin found.–Whence come these small particles.–No cause for alarm. II. ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.–The Windmill.–By JAMES W. HILL.–The Eclipse wind....

Editorial note: “Shakspere” is the spelling used by the author and therefore was not changed. SHAKSPERE AND MONTAIGNE An Endeavour to Explain the Tendency of ‘Hamlet’ from Allusions in Contemporary Works BY JACOB FEIS CONTENTS. I. INTRODUCTION II. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE ENGLISH DRAMA THE STAGE A MEDIUM FOR POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSIES SHAKSPERE’S POLITICAL CREED FLORIO’S TRANSLATION OF MONTAIGNE’S ESSAYS III. MONTAIGNE IV. HAMLET V. THE CONTROVERSY BETWEEN BEN JONSON AND DEKKER MENTION OF A DISPUTE BETWEEN BEN JONSON AND SHAKSPERE IN ‘THE RETURN FROM PARNASSUS’ CHARACTERISTIC OF BEN JONSON BEN JONSON’S HOSTILE ATTITUDE TOWARDS SHAKSPERE DRAMATIC SKIRMISH BETWEEN BEN JONSON AND SHAKSPERE BEN JONSON’S ‘POETASTER’ DEKKER’S ‘SATIROMASTIX’ VI....

LITERATURE AND LIFE–Spanish Prisoners of War by William Dean Howells SPANISH PRISONERS OF WAR Certain summers ago our cruisers, the St. Louis and the Harvard, arrived at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with sixteen or seventeen hundred Spanish prisoners from Santiago de Cuba. They were partly soldiers of the land forces picked up by our troops in the fights before the city, but by far the greater part were sailors and marines from Cervera’s ill-fated fleet....

SPECIMENS OF GREEK TRAGEDY Translated By GOLDWIN SMITH, D.C.L. AESCHYLUS AND SOPHOCLES 1893 PREFACE. Greek drama, forerunner of ours, had its origin in the festival of Dionysus, god of wine, which was celebrated with dance, song, and recitative. The recitative, being in character, was improved into the Drama, the chief author of the improvement, tradition says, being Thespis. But the dance and song were retained, and became the Chorus, that peculiar feature of the Greek play....

The Adventures of Pinocchio by C. Collodi [Pseudonym of Carlo Lorenzini] Translated from the Italian by Carol Della Chiesa CHAPTER 1 How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child Centuries ago there lived– “A king!” my little readers will say immediately. No, children, you are mistaken. Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood....

[Illustration: FLORA attired by the ELEMENTS] THE BOTANIC GARDEN; A Poem, in Two Parts. PART I. CONTAINING THE ECONOMY OF VEGETATION. PART II. THE LOVES OF THE PLANTS. WITH Philosophical Notes. ADVERTISEMENT. The general design of the following sheets is to inlist Imagination under the banner of Science; and to lead her votaries from the looser analogies, which dress out the imagery of poetry, to the stricter, ones which form the ratiocination of philosophy....

[Illustration: The Bracelets. Edgeworth.] [Illustration] THE BRACELETS; OR,AMIABILITY AND INDUSTRY REWARDED. BYMARIA EDGEWORTH, AUTHOR OF “POPULAR TALES,” “MORAL TALES,” ETC. ETC. With Illustrations from Original Designs. 1850. THE BRACELETS. * * * * * In a beautiful and retired part of England lived Mrs. Villars, a lady whose accurate understanding, benevolent heart, and steady temper, peculiarly fitted her for the most difficult, as well as most important of all occupations–the education of youth....