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by Mary Roberts Rinehart I Heaven and earth,” sang the tenor, Mr. Henry Wallace, owner of the Wallace garage. His larynx, which gave him somewhat the effect of having swallowed a crab-apple and got it only part way down, protruded above his low collar. “Heaven and earth,” sang the bass, Mr. Edwin Goodno, of the meat market and the Boy Scouts. “Heaven and earth, are full – ” His chin, large and fleshy, buried itself deep; his eyes were glued on the music sheet in his hand....

THE CALIFORNIA BIRTHDAY BOOK Prose and Poetical Selections fromthe Writings of Living California Authors with a Brief Biographical Sketch of each Edited and Arranged, with an Introduction, by GEORGE WHARTON JAMES Arroyo Guild PressLos Angeles, California 1909 To the dearest and bestLiterary Partnerman ever had: MY WIFE whose critical discernment and fine judgment have materially aided in making theselections for this book. CALIFORNIA–GOD’S COUNTRY. California–land of the brightest dreams of our childhood; of the passionate longings of our youth; of the most splendid triumphs of our manhood....

THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS Being Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales Retold for Children By M. Sturt, BA and E.C. Oaken, MA INTRODUCTION Geoffrey Chaucer lived mere than five hundred years ago, when Edward II. waged war in France, and the peasants rebelled in England against his son, Richard II, Yet for all this, England was then “Merrie England.” Her trade prospered, men laughed and sang and delighted in tales, in art, end in out-door life....

PREFACE For the use of some of the following Tales I am indebted to the courtesy of the Proprietors of “Cornhill,” “Temple Bar,” “Belgravia,” “London Society,” “Cassell’s,” and “The Boy’s Own Paper.” A. CONAN DOYLE, M.D. CONTENTS. THE CAPTAIN OF THE POLE-STAR J. HABAKUK JEPHSON’S STATEMENT THE GREAT KEINPLATZ EXPERIMENT THE MAN FROM ARCHANGEL THAT LITTLE SQUARE BOX JOHN HUXFORD’S HIATUS A LITERARY MOSAIC JOHN BARRINGTON COWLES THE PARSON OF JACKMAN’S GULCH THE RING OF THOTH THE CAPTAIN OF THE “POLE-STAR....

The Certaintyof a FutureLife in Mars Being the Posthumous Papers of BRADFORD TORREY DODD EDITED BYL.P. GRATACAP BRENTANO’S1903 PARISCHICAGOWASHINGTONNEW YORK PREFACE BY EDITOR. The extraordinary character of the story here published, which some peculiar circumstances have fortunately, I think, put into my hands, will excite a curiosity as vivid as the incidents of the narratives are themselves astonishing and unprecedented. To satisfy, as far as I can, a few natural inquiries which must be elicited by its publication, I beg to explain how this unusual posthumous paper came into my possession....

THE CHATEAU OF PRINCE POLIGNAC by Anthony Trollope Few Englishmen or Englishwomen are intimately acquainted with the little town of Le Puy. It is the capital of the old province of Le Velay, which also is now but little known, even to French ears, for it is in these days called by the imperial name of the Department of the Haute Loire. It is to the south-east of Auvergne, and is nearly in the centre of the southern half of France....

THE CHRISTMAS BOOKS of MR. M. A. TITMARSH by William Makepeace Thackeray CONTENTS. CHRISTMAS STORIES. Mrs. Perkins’s Ball Our Street Dr. Birch and his Young Friends The Kickleburys on the Rhine The Rose and the Ring; or, The History of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo MRS. PERKINS’S BALL. THE MULLIGAN (OF BALLYMULLIGAN), AND HOW WE WENT TO MRS. PERKINS’S BALL. I do not know where Ballymulligan is, and never knew anybody who did....

by James Harrington INTRODUCTION TO OCEANA JAMES HARRINGTON, eldest son of Sir Sapcotes Harrington of Exton, in Rutlandshire, was born in the reign of James I, in January, 1661, five years before the death of Shakespeare. He was two or three years younger than John Milton. His great-grandfather was Sir James Harrington, who married Lucy, daughter of Sir William Sidney, lived with her to their golden wedding-day, and had eighteen children, through whom he counted himself, before his death, patriarch in a family that in his own time produced eight dukes, three marquises, seventy earls, twenty-seven viscounts, and thirty-six barons, sixteen of them all being Knights of the Garter....

SCENE:Windsor, and the neighbourhood The Merry Wives of Windsor ACT I. SCENE 1. Windsor. Before PAGE’S house Enter JUSTICE SHALLOW, SLENDER, and SIR HUGH EVANS SHALLOW. Sir Hugh, persuade me not; I will make a Star Chamber matter of it; if he were twenty Sir John Falstaffs, he shall not abuse Robert Shallow, esquire. SLENDER. In the county of Gloucester, Justice of Peace, and Coram. SHALLOW. Ay, cousin Slender, and Custalorum....

ACT I. SCENE I.Sicilia. The palace of LEONTES Enter CAMILLO and ARCHIDAMUS ARCHIDAMUS. If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia, on the like occasion whereon my services are now on foot, you shall see, as I have said, great difference betwixt our Bohemia and your Sicilia. CAMILLO. I think this coming summer the King of Sicilia means to pay Bohemia the visitation which he justly owes him. ARCHIDAMUS. Wherein our entertainment shall shame us we will be justified in our loves; for indeed- CAMILLO....

[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.] THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of the Aldus Society London, 1903 BOOK V. It was, I believe, in 1732, that I arrived at Chambery, as already related, and began my employment of registering land for the king....

THE VISION OF HELL, PURGATORY, AND PARADISE BY DANTE ALIGHIERI PARADISE Complete TRANSLATED BY THE REV. H. F. CARY, M.A. PARADISE Canto 1 – 33 CANTO I His glory, by whose might all things are mov’d, Pierces the universe, and in one partSheds more resplendence, elsewhere less. In heav’n, That largeliest of his light partakes, was I, Witness of things, which to relate again Surpasseth power of him who comes from thence; For that, so near approaching its desire Our intellect is to such depth absorb’d, That memory cannot follow....

NOTES ON THIS ETEXT EDITION The Dominion in 1983 was first published as a thirty page booklet in 1883 under the pseudonym Ralph Centennius. (The author’s real name is unknown.) This edition has been proof-read word-by-word against a copy of the original on microfiche. (Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions no. 00529) In this text, a mixture of American and British spelling can be found. (For example “harbour” and “favor” are both used....

TRANSLATED BY T. BAILEY SAUNDERS, M.A. CONTENTS. ON THE SUFFERINGS OF THE WORLD ON THE VANITY OF EXISTENCE ON SUICIDE IMMORTALITY: A DIALOGUE PSYCHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS ON EDUCATION OF WOMEN ON NOISE A FEW PARABLES NOTE. The Essays here presented form a further selection from Schopenhauer’s Parerga, brought together under a title which is not to be found in the original, and does not claim to apply to every chapter in the volume....

THE EVIL GENIUS by Wilkie Colllins A Domestic Story Affectionately Dedicatedto Holman Hunt BEFORE THE STORY. Miss Westerfield’s Education 1.–The Trial. THE gentlemen of the jury retired to consider their verdict. Their foreman was a person doubly distinguished among his colleagues. He had the clearest head, and the readiest tongue. For once the right man was in the right place. Of the eleven jurymen, four showed their characters on the surface....

FROM THE SERIES OF SIX SHORT PLAYS By John Galsworthy THE FIRST AND THE LAST A DRAMA IN THREE SCENES PERSONS OF THE PLAY KEITH DARRANT, K.C.LARRY DARRANT, His Brother.WANDA. SCENE I. KEITH’S Study. SCENE II. WANDA’s Room. SCENE III. The Same. Between SCENE I. and SCENE II.–Thirty hours. Between SCENE II. and SCENE III.–Two months. SCENE I It is six o’clock of a November evening, in KEITH DARRANT’S study....

THE FORTY-NINERS A CHRONICLE OF THE CALIFORNIA TRAIL AND EL DORADO BY STEWART EDWARD WHITE 1918 CONTENTS I. SPANISH DAYS II. THE AMERICAN OCCUPATION III. LAW–MILITARY AND CIVIL IV. GOLD V. ACROSS THE PLAINS VI. THE MORMONS VII. THE WAY BY PANAMA VIII. THE DIGGINGS IX. THE URBAN FORTY-NINER X. ORDEAL BY FIRE XI. THE VIGILANTES OF ’51 XII. SAN FRANCISCO IN TRANSITION XIII. THE STORM GATHERS XIV. THE STORM BREAKS XV....

THE GAMING TABLE: ITS VOTARIES AND VICTIMS, In all Times and Countries, especially in England and in France. BY ANDREW STEINMETZ, ESQ., OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW; FIRST-CLASS EXTRA CERTIFICATE SCHOOL OF MUSKETRY, HYTHE; late OFFICER INSTRUCTOR MUSKETRY, THE QUEENS OWN LIGHT INFANTRY MILITIA. AUTHOR OF ‘THE HISTORY OF THE JESUITS,’ ‘JAPAN AND HER PEOPLE,’ ‘THE ROMANCE OF DUELLING,’ &c., &c. ‘The sharp, the blackleg, and the knowing one, Livery or lace, the self-same circle, run; The same the passion, end and means the same– Dick and his Lordship differ but in name....

THE GOLDEN HOUSE By Charles Dudley Warner I It was near midnight: The company gathered in a famous city studio were under the impression, diligently diffused in the world, that the end of the century is a time of license if not of decadence. The situation had its own piquancy, partly in the surprise of some of those assembled at finding themselves in bohemia, partly in a flutter of expectation of seeing something on the border-line of propriety....

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right. In the general experience, everybody has been wrong so often, and it has taken, in most instances, such a weary while to find out how wrong, that the authority is proved to be fallible. Everybody may sometimes be right; “but THAT’S no rule,” as the ghost of Giles Scroggins says in the ballad....