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CELEBRATED CRIMES VOLUME 8 (of 8), Part 1 by ALEXANDER DUMAS, PERE THE MARQUISE DE BRINVILLIERS Towards the end of the year 1665, on a fine autumn evening, there was a considerable crowd assembled on the Pont-Neuf where it makes a turn down to the rue Dauphine. The object of this crowd and the centre of attraction was a closely shut, carriage. A police official was trying to force open the door, and two out of the four sergeants who were with him were holding the horses back and the other two stopping the driver, who paid no attention to their commands, but only endeavoured to urge his horses to a gallop....

MARY MARIE BY ELEANOR H. PORTER With Illustrations by Helen Mason Grose 1920 TO MY FRIEND ELIZABETH S. BOWEN CONTENTS PREFACE, WHICH EXPLAINS THINGS I. I AM BORN II. NURSE SARAH’S STORY III. THE BREAK IS MADE IV. WHEN I AM MARIE V. WHEN I AM MARY VI. WHEN I AM BOTH TOGETHER VII. WHEN I AM NEITHER ONE VIII. WHICH IS THE REAL LOVE STORY IX. WHICH IS THE TEST ILLUSTRATIONS “IF I CONSULTED NO ONE’S WISHES BUT MY OWN, I SHOULD KEEP HER HERE ALWAYS” “I TOLD HER NOT TO WORRY A BIT ABOUT ME” “WHY MUST YOU WAIT, DARLING?...

McTeagueA Story of San Francisco by Frank Norris CHAPTER 1 It was Sunday, and, according to his custom on that day, McTeague took his dinner at two in the afternoon at the car conductors’ coffee-joint on Polk Street. He had a thick gray soup; heavy, underdone meat, very hot, on a cold plate; two kinds of vegetables; and a sort of suet pudding, full of strong butter and sugar. On his way back to his office, one block above, he stopped at Joe Frenna’s saloon and bought a pitcher of steam beer....

BY SYLVESTER MOWRY, U. S. A., DELEGATE ELECT. WASHINGTON: HENRY POLKINHORN, PRINTER. 1857. “The NEW TERRITORY of ARIZONA, better known as the GADSDEN PURCHASE, lies between the thirty-first and thirty-third parallels of latitude, and is bounded on the north by the Gila River, which separates it from the territory of New Mexico; on the east by the Rio Bravo del Norte, (Rio Grande), which separates it from Texas; on the south by Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexican provinces; and on the west by the Colorado River of the West, which separates it from Upper and Lower California....

This etext was prepared by Judy Boss, Omaha, NE Michael Strogoff or The Courier of the Czar by Jules Verne Michael Strogoff BOOK I CHAPTER I A FETE AT THE NEW PALACE “SIRE, a fresh dispatch.” “Whence?” “From Tomsk?” “Is the wire cut beyond that city?” “Yes, sire, since yesterday.” “Telegraph hourly to Tomsk, General, and keep me informed of all that occurs.” “Sire, it shall be done,” answered General Kissoff....

A MISCELLANY OF POETRY 1919 Edited by W. Kean Seymour. With decorations by Doris Palmer, Cecil Palmer and Hayward. To SIR ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH 1919 PREFATORY NOTE This ‘Miscellany of Poetry, 1919’, is issued to the public as a truly catholic anthology of contemporary poetry. The poems here printed are new, in the sense that they have not previously been issued by their authors in book form–a fact which surely gives the Miscellany an unique place among modern collections....

MOHUN OR, THE LAST DAYS OF LEE AND HIS PALADINS. FINAL MEMOIRS OF A STAFF OFFICER SERVING IN VIRGINIA. FROM THE MSS. OF COLONEL SURRY, OF EAGLE’S NEST. BY JOHN ESTEN COOKE AUTHOR OF “SURRY OF EAGLE’S NEST.” Nec aspera terrent. PROLOGUE. On the wall over the mantel-piece, here in my quiet study at Eagle’s-Nest, are two crossed swords. One is a battered old sabre worn at Gettysburg, and Appomattox; the other, a Federal officer’s dress sword captured in 1863....

by Booth Tarkington Chapter One The young Frenchman did very well what he had planned to do. His guess that the Duke would cheat proved good. As the unshod half-dozen figures that had been standing noiselessly in the entryway stole softly into the shadows of the chamber, he leaned across the table and smilingly plucked a card out of the big Englishman’s sleeve. “Merci, M. le Duc!” he laughed, rising and stepping back from the table....

Notes: All biographical footnotes of both volumes appear at the end of Volume II. All other notes by Charles Darwin’s editors appear in the text, in brackets () with a Chapter/Note or Letter/Note number. MORE LETTERS OF CHARLES DARWIN A RECORD OF HIS WORK IN A SERIES OF HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED LETTERS EDITED BY FRANCIS DARWIN, FELLOW OF CHRIST’S COLLEGE, ANDA.C. SEWARD, FELLOW OF EMMANUEL COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE IN TWO VOLUMES VOLUME II....

MR. SCRAGGS INTRODUCED BY RED SAUNDERS By HENRY WALLACE PHILLIPS Author of “Red Saunders,” “Plain Mary Smith,” etc. THE GRAFTON PRESS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK Copyright, 1903, 1904, 1905, by The Curtis Publishing Co. Copyright, 1903, by S. S. McClure Co. Copyright, 1905, by The Grafton Press Published January, 1906 Second edition February, 1906 CONTENTS I. BY PROXY II. IN THE TOILS III. ST. NICHOLAS SCRAGGS IV. THE SIEGE OF THE DRUG STORE V....

Or, The Inner Teachings of the Master by YOGI RAMACHARAKA Author of “Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism,” “Hatha Yoga,” “Science of Breath,” “Advanced Course in Yogi Philosophy,” “Raja Yoga,” “Psychic Healing,” “Gnani Yogi,” etc. PUBLISHERS’ NOTICE. The lessons which compose this volume originally appeared in monthly form, the first of which was issued in October, 1907, and the twelfth in September, 1908. These lessons met with a hearty and generous response from the public, and the present volume is issued in response to the demand for the lessons in a permanent and durable form....

ODD CRAFT By W.W. Jacobs ODD CHARGES Seated at his ease in the warm tap-room of the Cauliflower, the stranger had been eating and drinking for some time, apparently unconscious of the presence of the withered ancient who, huddled up in that corner of the settle which was nearer to the fire, fidgeted restlessly with an empty mug and blew with pathetic insistence through a churchwarden pipe which had long been cold....

[Illustration: “LOOK AT ME, MARGARET.”] REVELATIONS OF A WIFE The Story of a Honeymoon BY ADELE GARRISON 1915, 1916, 1917 CONTENTS CHAPTER I. “I WILL BE HAPPY! I WILL! I WILL!” II. THE FIRST QUARREL III. KNOWN TO FAME AS LILLIAN GALE IV. DIVIDED OPINIONS V. “ALWAYS YOUR JACK” VI. A MAID AND MODEL VII. A FRIENDLY WARNING VIII. A TRAGEDY AVERTED IX. THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN X. GRACE BY NAME AND GRACE BY NATURE XI....

Poster’s note: The dagger symbol has been replaced by the carat “^” for this plain-text file. You may interpret the carat as a dagger in the original except in one place, where the carat itself is defined in the Special Characters List in section 550. ROGET’S THESAURUSOFENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES CLASS IWORDS EXPRESSING ABSTRACT RELATIONS SECTION I.EXISTENCE BEING, IN THE ABSTRACT Existence — N. existence, being, entity, ens [Lat.], esse [Lat....

An American Novel WITH ILLUSTRATIONS by JOHN BELL BOUTON 1864 [Illustration: MRS. SLAPMAN AT HOME–(Book First, Chap. IX.)] CONTENTS. BOOK FIRST. NEW YEAR’S DAY. I. THE BLOCK. II. THREE BACHELORS. III. PEEPS. IV. QUIGG. V. PLEASURE AS BUSINESS. VI. SOMETHING HIDDEN. VII. THE BOY BOG.VIII. MALTBOY’S TWENTIETH AFFAIR. IX. MRS. SLAPMAN AT HOME. X. INFIRMITIES OF GENIUS. BOOK SECOND. POLISHING. I. THE ENIGMA. II. A DELICATE PROPOSITION. III. AN AUXILIARY OF MODERN CIVILIZATION....

SAMUEL F.B. MORSE HIS LETTERS AND JOURNALS IN TWO VOLUMES VOLUME II [Illustration: Sam’l. F.B. Morse] SAMUEL F.B. MORSE HIS LETTERS AND JOURNALS EDITED AND SUPPLEMENTED BY HIS SON EDWARD LIND MORSE ILLUSTRATED WITH REPRODUCTIONS OF HIS PAINTINGS AND WITH NOTES AND DIAGRAMS BEARING ON THE INVENTION OF THE TELEGRAPH VOLUME II 1914 Published November 1914 “Th’ invention all admir’d, and each how he To be th’ inventor miss’d, so easy it seem’d Once found, which yet unfound most would have thought Impossible....

SAMUEL JOHNSON BY LESLIE STEPHEN NEW YORK 1878 CONTENTS. CHAPTER I.CHILDHOOD AND EARLY LIFE CHAPTER II.LITERARY CAREER CHAPTER III.JOHNSON AND HIS FRIENDS CHAPTER IV.JOHNSON AS A LITERARY DICTATOR CHAPTER V.THE CLOSING YEARS OF JOHNSON’S LIFE CHAPTER VI.JOHNSON’S WRITINGS SAMUEL JOHNSON. CHAPTER I. CHILDHOOD AND EARLY LIFE. Samuel Johnson was born in Lichfield in 1709. His father, Michael Johnson, was a bookseller, highly respected by the cathedral clergy, and for a time sufficiently prosperous to be a magistrate of the town, and, in the year of his son’s birth, sheriff of the county....

[Illustration] SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 514 NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 7, 1885 Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XX., No. 514. Scientific American established 1845 Scientific American Supplement, $5 a year. Scientific American and Supplement, $7 a year. * * * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS. I. CHEMISTRY.–Chlorides in the Rainfall of 1884. Apparatus for Evaporating Organic Liquids.–With description and 3 figures. II. ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.–Relative Costs of Fluid and Solid Fuels. The Manufacture of Steel Castings....

SEVEN DISCOURSES ON ART by Sir Joshua Reynolds INTRODUCTION It is a happy memory that associates the foundation of our Royal Academy with the delivery of these inaugural discourses by Sir Joshua Reynolds, on the opening of the schools, and at the first annual meetings for the distribution of its prizes. They laid down principles of art from the point of view of a man of genius who had made his power felt, and with the clear good sense which is the foundation of all work that looks upward and may hope to live....

SHEBy H. Rider Haggard First Published 1886. IN EARTH AND SKIE AND SEA STRANGE THYNGS THER BE Doggerel couplet from the Sherd of Amenartas I inscribe this history to ANDREW LANG in token of personal regard and of my sincere admiration for his learning and his works PREPARER’S NOTE This text was prepared from an 1888 edition published by Longmans, Green, and Co., London. A number of fragments of Greek text, and sketches, have been omitted due to the difficulty of representing them as plain text....