[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 XV. AND XVI. Being Secret Memoirs of Madame du Hausset, Lady’s Maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of an unknown English Girl and the Princess Lamballe BOOK 4. SECTION V. “The accession of Louis XVI....
[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 MADAME LA MARQUISE DE MONTESPAN, v4 Written by Herself Being the Historic Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. BOOK 4. CHAPTER XLIX. President de Nesmond.–Melladoro.–A Complacent Husband and His Love-sick Wife.–Tragic Sequel. President de Nesmond–upright, clear-headed magistrate as he was–was of very great service to me at the Courts of Justice....
A. MERRITT THE METAL MONSTER PROLOGUE Before the narrative which follows was placed in my hands, I had never seen Dr. Walter T. Goodwin, its author. When the manuscript revealing his adventures among the pre-historic ruins of the Nan-Matal in the Carolines (The Moon Pool) had been given me by the International Association of Science for editing and revision to meet the requirements of a popular presentation, Dr. Goodwin had left America....
THE METTLE OF THE PASTURE BY JAMES LANE ALLEN Author of “The Choir Invisible,” “A Kentucky Cardinal,” etc., etc. New York, 1903 To My Sister PART FIRST I She did not wish any supper and she sank forgetfully back into the stately oak chair. One of her hands lay palm upward on her white lap; in the other, which drooped over the arm of the chair, she clasped a young rose dark red amid its leaves–an inverted torch of love....
THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. 13, No. 351.] SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1829. [PRICE 2d. [Illustration: Macclesfield Bridge, Regent’s Park.] MACCLESFIELD BRIDGE. This picturesque structure crosses the Canal towards the Northern verge of the Regent’s Park; and nearly opposite to it is a road leading to Primrose Hill, as celebrated in the annals of Cockayne as was the Palatino among the ancient Romans. The bridge was built from the designs of Mr....
VOL. 14, NO. 404.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1829. [PRICE 2d. The Royal Observatory, Greenwich. [Illustration: The Royal Observatory, Greenwich.] In the present almanack season, as it is technically called, the above illustration of our pages may not be inappropriate or ill-timed, inasmuch as it represents the spot whence all English astronomers make their calculations. The Observatory was built by Charles II., in the year 1675–probably, observes a recent writer, “with no better motive than to imitate Louis XIV....
THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. 19. No. 551.] SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1832. [PRICE 2.d. MONKEY ISLAND. [Illustration: MONKEY ISLAND.] This picturesque spot is situate in the middle of the river Thames, near Cliefden, Bucks,[1] and about three-quarters of a mile from the village of Bray.[2] It was purchased and decorated for the enjoyment of fishing parties by the third Duke of Marlborough. Upon its fine sward he erected a small rustic building called Monkey Hall, from the embellishments of the interior being in part fancifully painted with a number of monkeys dressed in human apparel, and imitating human actions....
THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER by Mark Twain CONTENTS: THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGERA FABLEHUNTING THE DECEITFUL TURKEYTHE McWILLIAMSES AND THE BURGLAR ALARM THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER Chapter 1 It was in 1590–winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and promised to remain so forever. Some even set it away back centuries upon centuries and said that by the mental and spiritual clock it was still the Age of Belief in Austria....
THE NAVAL PIONEERS OF AUSTRALIA BY LOUIS BECKE AND WALTER JEFFERY AUTHORS OF “A FIRST FLEET FAMILY”; “THE MUTINEER,” ETC. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET 1899 PREFACE This book does not pretend to be a history of Australia; it merely gathers into one volume that which has hitherto been dispersed through many. Our story ends where Australian history, as it is generally written, begins; but the work of the forgotten naval pioneers of the country made that beginning possible....
THE NORSK NIGHTINGALE Being the Lyrics of a “Lumberyack” By WILLIAM F. KIRK 1905 PREFACE It is with a certain amount of misgiving that the author sends out this little volume of Scandinavian dialect verses. To the residents of Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota, where the “lumberyack” lives and thrives, the dialect will seem familiar enough; but to other readers such terms as “skol” (shall or will), “ban” (been), “panga” (money), “sum” (than or as), may convey little or no meaning....
CELEBRATED CRIMES VOLUME 6 (of 8), Part 3 MARTIN GUERRE We are sometimes astonished at the striking resemblance existing between two persons who are absolute strangers to each other, but in fact it is the opposite which ought to surprise us. Indeed, why should we not rather admire a Creative Power so infinite in its variety that it never ceases to produce entirely different combinations with precisely the same elements?...
History of California ByHelen Elliot Bandini Illustrated ByRoy J. Warren B. Cal.W. P. 16 Preface This book is an attempt to present the history of California in so simple and interesting a way that children may read it with pleasure. It does not confine itself to the history of one section or period, but tells the story of all the principal events from the Indian occupancy through the Spanish and Mission days, the excitement of the gold discovery, the birth of the state, down to the latest events of yesterday and to-day....
HOME VEGETABLE GARDENING A COMPLETE AND PRACTICAL GUIDETO THE PLANTING AND CARE OF ALLVEGETABLES, FRUITS AND BERRIESWORTH GROWING FOR HOME USE BY F. F. ROCKWELL Author of Around the Year in the Garden, Gardening Indoors and Under Glass,The Key to the Land, etc., etc. PREFACE With some, the home vegetable garden is a hobby; with others, especially in these days of high prices, a great help. There are many in both classes whose experience in gardening has been restricted within very narrow bounds, and whose present spare time for gardening is limited....
In the Cage CHAPTER I It had occurred to her early that in her position–that of a young person spending, in framed and wired confinement, the life of a guinea-pig or a magpie–she should know a great many persons without their recognising the acquaintance. That made it an emotion the more lively–though singularly rare and always, even then, with opportunity still very much smothered–to see any one come in whom she knew outside, as she called it, any one who could add anything to the meanness of her function....
by Anton Checkov IVANOFF A PLAY CHARACTERS NICHOLAS IVANOFF, perpetual member of the Council of Peasant Affairs ANNA, his wife. Nee Sarah Abramson MATTHEW SHABELSKI, a count, uncle of Ivanoff PAUL LEBEDIEFF, President of the Board of the Zemstvo ZINAIDA, his wife SASHA, their daughter, twenty years old LVOFF, a young government doctor MARTHA BABAKINA, a young widow, owner of an estate and daughter of a rich merchant KOSICH, an exciseman MICHAEL BORKIN, a distant relative of Ivanoff, and manager of his estate AVDOTIA NAZAROVNA, an old woman GEORGE, lives with the Lebedieffs FIRST GUEST SECOND GUEST THIRD GUEST FOURTH GUEST PETER, a servant of Ivanoff GABRIEL, a servant of Lebedieff GUESTS OF BOTH SEXES The play takes place in one of the provinces of central Russia IVANOFF ACT I The garden of IVANOFF’S country place....
by Torquato Tasso(1544-1595) Published 1581 in Parma, Italy. Translated by Edward Fairfax (1560-1635); translation first published in London, 1600. This electronic edition was edited, proofed, and prepared by Douglas B. Killings (DeTroyes@AOL.COM), November, 1995. FIRST BOOK THE ARGUMENT.God sends his angel to Tortosa down, Godfrey unites the Christian Peers and Knights; And all the Lords and Princes of renownChoose him their Duke, to rule the wares and fights. He mustereth all his host, whose number known, He sends them to the fort that Sion hights; The aged tyrant Juda’s land that guides, In fear and trouble, to resist provides....
[Illustration] LA LEGENDE DES SIECLES BY VICTOR HUGO EDITED BY G. F. BRIDGE, M.A. GENERAL PREFACE Encouraged by the favourable reception accorded to the ‘Oxford Modern French Series,’ the Delegates of the Clarendon Press determined, some time since, to issue a ‘Higher Series’ of French works intended for Upper Forms of Public Schools and for University and Private Students, and have entrusted me with the task of selecting and editing the various volumes that will be issued in due course....
IN TWO VOLS.–VOL. I BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE THE Morte Darthur was finished, as the epilogue tells us, in the ninth year of Edward IV., i.e. between March 4, 1469 and the same date in 1470. It is thus, fitly enough, the last important English book written before the introduction of printing into this country, and since no manuscript of it has come down to us it is also the first English classic for our knowledge of which we are entirely dependent on a printed text....
MAE MADDEN by Mary Murdoch Mason With an introductory poem, by Joaquin Miller. The wheel of fortune guide you,The boy with the bow beside youRun aye in the way, till the dawn of day And a luckier lot betide you. Ben Jonson. A DREAM OF ITALY. AN ALLEGORY INTRODUCING “MAE MADDEN.” I. We two had been parted, God pity us, when The stars were unnamed and when heaven was dim; We two had been parted far back on the rim And the outermost border of heaven’s red bars: We two had been parted ere the meeting of men Or God had set compass on spaces as yet....
MAGGIE MILLER. THE STORY OF OLD HAGAR’S SECRET. By MARY J. HOLMES, Author of “Lena Rivers,” “Tempest and Sunshine,” “English Orphans,” “Dora Deane,” etc., etc. “Lead us not into temptation.” CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. THE OLD HOUSE BY THE MILL II. HAGAR’S SECRET III. HESTER AND MAGGIE IV. GIRLHOOD V. TRIFLES VI. THE JUNIOR PARTNER VII. THE SENIOR PARTNER VIII. STARS AND STRIPES IX. ROSE WARNER X. EXPECTED GUESTS XI. UNEXPECTED GUESTS XII....
