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by G. K. Chesterton First published 1912 by Thomas Nelson and Sons Electronic edition MANALIV0 published 1993 by Jim Henry III Edited by Martin Ward (Martin.Ward@durham.ac.uk) PLEASE report any typos you may happen to notice, such as misplaced punctuation and the like, to Martin Ward (Martin.Ward@durham.ac.uk) and Jim Henry III 405 Gardner Road Stockbridge, GA 30281-1515 Or send email to JIM HENRY on Digital Publishing Association BBS (205) 854-1660 Faster-than-Light BBS (404) 292-8761 ILink Bookmark conference Annex Library conference Thank you!...

MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY By Albert Bigelow Paine VOLUME I, Part 1: 1835-1866 MARK TWAIN A BIOGRAPHY THE PERSONAL AND LITERARY LIFE OF SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS BY ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE TO CLARA CLEMENS GABRILOWITSCH WHO STEADILY UPHELD THE AUTHOR’S PURPOSE TO WRITE HISTORY RATHER THAN EULOGY AS THE STORY OF HER FATHER’S LIFE AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT Dear William Dean Howells, Joseph Hopkins Twichell, Joseph T. Goodman, and other old friends of Mark Twain: I cannot let these volumes go to press without some grateful word to you who have helped me during the six years and more that have gone to their making....

MARTIN CONISBY’S VENGEANCE BY JEFFERY FARNOL 1921 TO MY DEAR AUNTS MRS. MARRIOTT AND MISS JEFFERY“AUNTIE KIZ” I DEDICATE THIS BOOK CONTENTS CHAPTER I HOW MY SOLITUDE CAME TO AN END II MY TROUBLES BEGIN III HOW I HEARD A SONG THAT I KNEW IV HOW I LABOURED TO MY SALVATION V TELLETH HOW ALL MY TRAVAIL CAME TO NOUGHT VI HOW I SUCCOURED ONE DON FEDERIGO, A GENTLEMAN OF SPAIN VII I AM DETERMINED ON MY VENGEANCE, AND MY REASONS THEREFOR VIII HOW THE DAYS OF MY WATCHING WERE ACCOMPLISHED IX WE FALL AMONG PIRATES X HOW I CAME ABOARD THE HAPPY DESPATCH AND OF MY SUFFERINGS THERE XI HOW I FOUGHT IN THE DARK WITH ONE POMPEY, A GREAT BLACKAMOOR XII OF BATTLE, MURDER AND RESOLUTION DAY, HIS POINT OF VIEW XIII HOW WE FOUGHT AN ENGLISH SHIP XIV TELLETH HOW THE FIGHT ENDED XV HOW I FELL IN WITH MY FRIEND, CAPTAIN SIR ADAM PENFEATHER XVI HOW I HAD WORD WITH MY LADY, JOAN BRANDON XVII TELLETH THE OUTCOME OF MY PRIDEFUL FOLLY XVIII OF ROGER TRESSADY AND HOW THE SILVER WOMAN CLAIMED HER OWN AT LAST XIX HOW JOANNA CHANGED HER MIND XX I GO TO SEEK MY VENGEANCE XXI HOW I CAME TO NOMBRE DE DIOS XXII HOW AT LAST I FOUND MY ENEMY, RICHARD BRANDON XXIII HOW I FOUND MY SOUL XXIV OF OUR ADVENTURE AT SEA XXV WE ARE DRIVEN ASHORE XXVI OUR DESPERATE SITUATION XXVII WE COMMENCE OUR JOURNEY XXVIII WE FALL IN WITH ONE ATLAMATZIN, AN INDIAN CHIEF XXIX TELLETH SOMEWHAT OF A STRANGE CITY XXX WE RESUME OUR JOURNEY XXXI I MEET A MADMAN XXXII HOW I FOUND MY BELOVED AT LAST XXXIII OF DREAMS XXXIV OF LOVE XXXV OF THE COMING OF ADAM AND OF OUR GREAT JOY THEREIN MARTIN CONISBY’S VENGEANCE CHAPTER I HOW MY SOLITUDE CAME TO AN END “Justice, O God, upon mine enemy....

Massimilla Doni by Honore de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell and James Waring DEDICATION To Jacques Strunz. MY DEAR STRUNZ:–I should be ungrateful if I did not set your name at the head of one of the two tales I could never have written but for your patient kindness and care. Accept this as my grateful acknowledgment of the readiness with which you tried–perhaps not very successfully–to initiate me into the mysteries of musical knowledge....

MEMOIRS OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, VOLUME 4. By LOUIS ANTOINE FAUVELET DE BOURRIENNE His Private Secretary Edited by R. W. PhippsColonel, Late Royal Artillery 1891 CONTENTS:Chapter XXVII. to Chapter XXXV. CHAPTER XXVII. 1799-1800. Difficulties of a new Government–State of Europe–Bonaparte’s wish for peace–M. de Talleyrand Minister for Foreign Affairs– Negotiations with England and Austria–Their failure–Bonaparte’s views on the East–His sacrifices to policy–General Bonaparte denounced to the First Consul–Kleber’s letter to the Directory– Accounts of the Egyptian expedition published in the Moniteur– Proclamation to the army of the East–Favour and disgrace of certain individuals accounted for....

[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, complete Being Secret Letters from a Gentleman at Paris to a Nobleman in London BOOK 1. PUBLISHERS’ NOTE. The present work contains particulars of the great Napoleon not to be found in any other publication, and forms an interesting addition to the information generally known about him....

by Herman Melville CHAPTER 1 Loomings Call me Ishmael. Some years ago–never mind how long precisely– having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off–then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can....

MOON-FACE AND OTHER STORIESBY JACK LONDON CONTENTS MOON-FACETHE LEOPARD MAN’S STORYLOCAL COLORAMATEUR NIGHTTHE MINIONS OF MIDASTHE SHADOW AND THE FLASHALL GOLD CANYONPLANCHETTE MOON-FACE John Claverhouse was a moon-faced man. You know the kind, cheek-bones wide apart, chin and forehead melting into the cheeks to complete the perfect round, and the nose, broad and pudgy, equidistant from the circumference, flattened against the very centre of the face like a dough-ball upon the ceiling....

MOSAICS OF GRECIAN HISTORY BY MARCIUS WILLSONAND ROBERT PIERPONT WILLSON PREFACE. The leading object had in view in the preparation of the present volume has been to produce, within a moderate compass, a History of Greece that shall not only be trustworthy, but interesting to all classes of readers. It must be acknowledged that our standard historical works, with all their worth, do not command a perusal by the people at large; and it is equally plain that our ordinary School Manuals–the abridgments and outlines of more voluminous works–do not meet with any greater favor....

MY BOYHOOD BY JOHN BURROUGHS WITH A CONCLUSION BY HIS SON JULIAN BURROUGHS FOREWORD In the beginning, at least, Father wrote these sketches of his boyhood and early farm life as a matter of self-defense: I had made a determined attempt to write them and when I did this I was treading on what was to him more or less sacred ground, for as he once said in a letter to me, “You will be homesick; I know just how I felt when I left home forty- three years ago....

NARRATIVE OF A SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL AND WESTERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA. PERFORMED BETWEEN THE YEARS 1818 AND 1822. BY CAPTAIN PHILLIP P. KING, R.N., F.R.S., F.L.S., AND MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY OF LONDON. WITHAN APPENDIX,CONTAININGVARIOUS SUBJECTS RELATING TO HYDROGRAPHY AND NATURAL HISTORY. IN TWO VOLUMES,ILLUSTRATED BY PLATES, CHARTS, AND WOOD-CUTS. VOLUME 1. PREFACE. THE rapidly-increasing importance to which the English Colonies in Australia have now arrived, rendering every subject connected with that extensive continent of the greatest interest, whether in respect to its geography, or the extraordinary assemblage of its animal and vegetable productions, has induced me to publish such parts of my Journal as may be useful to accompany the Atlas of the Charts of the Coast recently published by the Board of Admiralty....

The “legal small print” and other information about this book may now be found at the end of this file. Please read this important information, as it gives you specific rights and tells you about restrictions in how the file may be used. NOMADS OF THE NORTH A STORY OF ROMANCE AND ADVENTURE UNDER THE OPEN STARS BY JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD CHAPTER ONE It was late in the month of March, at the dying-out of the Eagle Moon, that Neewa the black bear cub got his first real look at the world....

CONTENTS OF VOL. II. CHAPTER I. Washington CHAPTER II. Congress CHAPTER III. The Causes of the War CHAPTER IV. Washington to St. Louis CHAPTER V. Missouri CHAPTER VI. Cairo and Camp Wood CHAPTER VII. The Army of the North CHAPTER VIII. Back to Boston CHAPTER IX. The Constitution of the United States CHAPTER X. The Government CHAPTER XI. The Law Courts and Lawyers of the United States CHAPTER XII. The Financial Position CHAPTER XIII....

NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. “When found, make a note of.”–CAPTAIN CUTTLE. NO. 22., SATURDAY, MARCH 30. 1850. [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4d.] CONTENTS. NOTES:– Pages The Taming of the Shrew, by Samuel Hickson Proverbial Sayings and their Origins William Basse and his Poems Folk Lore:–Something else about Salting. Norfolk Weather Proverb, Irish Medical Charms. Death-bed Superstitions Note on Herodotus by Dean Swift Herrick’s Hesperides, by J....

In Two Vols.–VOL. II London Macmillan and Co., Limited New York: The Macmillan Company 1897 First Edition February 1897 Reprinted April 1897 CONTENTS I MR. GLADSTONE ON THE ROYAL SUPREMACY II JOYCE ON COURTS OF SPIRITUAL APPEAL III PRIVY COUNCIL JUDGMENTS IV SIR JOHN COLERIDGE ON THE PURCHAS CASE V MR. GLADSTONE’S LETTER ON THE ENGLISH CHURCH VI DISENDOWMENT VII THE NEW COURT VIII MOZLEY’S BAMPTON LECTURES IX ECCE HOMO X THE AUTHOR OF “ROBERT ELSMERE” ON A NEW REFORMATION XI RENAN’S “VIE DE JESUS” XII RENAN’S “LES APOTRES” XIII RENAN’S HIBBERT LECTURES XIV RENAN’S “SOUVENIRS D’ENFANCE” XV LIFE OF FREDERICK ROBERTSON XVI LIFE OF BARON BUNSEN XVII COLERIDGE’S MEMOIR OF KEBLE XVIII MAURICE’S THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS XIX FREDERICK DENISON MAURICE XX SIR RICHARD CHURCH XXI DEATH OF BISHOP WILBERFORCE XXII RETIREMENT OF THE PROVOST OF ORIEL XXIII MARK PATTISON XXIV PATTISON’S ESSAYS XXV BISHOP FRAZER XXVI NEWMAN’S “APOLOGIA” XXVII DR....

[Illustration: Bookcover] [Illustration: Spines] OLD MORTALITY By Walter Scott [Illustration: Titlepage] VOLUME II. CHAPTER I. And look how many Grecian tents do stand Hollow upon this plain–so many hollow factions. Troilus and Cressida. In a hollow of the hill, about a quarter of a mile from the field of battle, was a shepherd’s hut; a miserable cottage, which, as the only enclosed spot within a moderate distance, the leaders of the presbyterian army had chosen for their council-house....

This etext was prepared by Alan R. Light (alight@vnet.net, formerly alight@mercury.interpath.net, etc.). To assure a high quality text, the original was typed in (manually) twice and electronically compared. [Note on text: Italicized words or phrases are CAPITALISED. Some obvious errors have been corrected after being confirmed.] On the Trackby Henry LawsonAuthor of “While the Billy Boils”, and “When the World was Wide” Preface Of the stories in this volume many have already appeared in (various periodicals), while several now appear in print for the first time....

ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES, Vol. 6. By Guy de Maupassant GUY DE MAUPASSANT ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES Translated by ALBERT M. C. McMASTER, B.A. A. E. HENDERSON, B.A. MME. QUESADA and Others VOLUME VI. THAT COSTLY RIDEUSELESS BEAUTYTHE FATHERMY UNCLE SOSTHENESTHE BARONESSMOTHER AND SONTHE HANDA TRESS OF HAIRON THE RIVERTHE CRIPPLEA STROLLALEXANDRETHE LOGJULIE ROMAINETHE RONDOLI SISTERS THAT COSTLY RIDE The household lived frugally on the meager income derived from the husband’s insignificant appointments....

ROUTLEDGE’SMANUAL OF ETIQUETTE ETIQUETTE FOR LADIES ETIQUETTE FOR GENTLEMEN BALL-ROOM COMPANION COURTSHIP & MATRIMONY HOW TO DRESS WELL HOW TO CARVE TOASTS AND SENTIMENTS GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS CONTENTS. ETIQUETTE FOR LADIES. I. Introductions II. Letters of Introduction III. Visiting, Morning Calls, Cards IV. Conversation V. Notes of Invitation, &c. VI. The Promenade VII. Dress VIII. Morning and Evening Parties IX. The Dinner-table X. The Ball-room XI. Staying at a Friend’s House–Breakfast, Luncheon, &c....

Note: Footnotes have been inserted into this etext in square brackets (“[]”) close to the place where they were indicated by a suffix in the original text. The pound sterling symbol has been written as ‘L’. Text in italics has been written in capital letters. ROYALTY RESTORED OR LONDON UNDER CHARLES II. by J. FITZGERALD MOLLOY * TO THOMAS HARDY, ESQ. DEAR MR. HARDY, In common with all readers of the English language, I owe you a debt of gratitude, the which I rejoice to acknowledge, even in so poor a manner as by dedicating this work to you....