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[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 I. CONTENTS: Introduction–S.W. Orson Book I. INTRODUCTION. Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time–must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau....

BY IMBERT DE SAINT-AMAND TRANSLATED BY THOMAS SERGEANT PERRY ILLUSTRATED 1900 CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. THE BEGINNING OF THE EMPIRE II. THE JOURNEY TO THE BANKS OF THE RHINE III. THE POPE’S ARRIVAL AT FONTAINEBLEAU IV. THE PREPARATIONS FOR THE CORONATION V. THE CORONATION VI. THE DISTRIBUTION OF FLAGS VII. THE FESTIVITIES VIII. THE ETIQUETTE OF THE IMPERIAL PALACE IX. THE HOUSEHOLD OF THE EMPRESS X. NAPOLEON’S GALLANTRIES XI. THE POPE AT THE TUILERIES XII....

BY DON MARQUIS TO ALL THE COPYREADERS ON ALL THE NEWSPAPERS OF AMERICA CHAPTER I A BRIGHT BLADE LEAPS FROM A RUSTY SCABBARD On an evening in April, 191-, Clement J. Cleggett walked sedately into the news room of the New York Enterprise with a drab-colored walking-stick in his hand. He stood the cane in a corner, changed his sober street coat for a more sober office jacket, adjusted a green eyeshade below his primly brushed grayish hair, unostentatiously sat down at the copy desk, and unobtrusively opened a drawer....

THE DIFFERENT FORMS OF FLOWERS ON PLANTS OF THE SAME SPECIES by CHARLES DARWIN, M.A., F.R.S. TO PROFESSOR ASA GRAY THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR AS A SMALL TRIBUTE OF RESPECT AND AFFECTION. CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER I.HETEROSTYLED DIMORPHIC PLANTS: PRIMULACEAE. Primula veris or the cowslip.–Differences in structure between the two forms.– Their degrees of fertility when legitimately and illegitimately united.–P. elatior, vulgaris, Sinensis, auricula, etc.–Summary on the fertility of the heterostyled species of Primula....

THE DOLLIVER ROMANCE BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE CONTENTS. INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO THE DOLLIVER ROMANCE A SCENE FROM THE DOLLIVER ROMANCE ANOTHER SCENE FROM THE DOLLIVER ROMANCE ANOTHER FRAGMENT OF THE DOLLIVER ROMANCE INTRODUCTORY NOTE. THE DOLLIVER ROMANCE. In “The Dolliver Romance,” only three chapters of which the author lived to complete, we get an intimation as to what would have been the ultimate form given to that romance founded on the Elixir of Life, for which “Septimius Felton” was the preliminary study....

“Couldn’t you walk home alone, Uncle Oliver?” asked Mrs. Pitkin presently. “Yes.” “Then it was a pity to trouble Mr. Brent to come with you.” “It was no trouble,” responded Philip promptly, though he suspected that it was not consideration for him that prompted the remark. “Yes, I admit that I was a little selfish in taking up my young friend’s time,” said the old gentleman cheerfully; “but I infer, from what he tells me, that it is not particularly valuable just now....

THE FIRM OF NUCINGEN BY HONORE DE BALZAC TranslatorJames Waring TO MADAME ZULMA CARRAUD To whom, madame, but to you should I inscribe this work; to you whose lofty and candid intellect is a treasury to your friends; to you that are to me not only a whole public, but the most indulgent of sisters as well? Will you deign to accept a token of the friendship of which I am proud?...

Scanner’s Notes: What this is and isn’t. This was taken from a copy of Shakespeare’s first folio and it is as close as I can come in ASCII to the printed text. The elongated S’s have been changed to small s’s and the conjoined ae have been changed to ae. I have left the spelling, punctuation, capitalization as close as possible to the printed text. I have corrected some spelling mistakes (I have put together a spelling dictionary devised from the spellings of the Geneva Bible and Shakespeare’s First Folio and have unified spellings according to this template), typo’s and expanded abbreviations as I have come across them....

THE GHOST PIRATES ”Strange as the glimmer of the ghastly light That shines from some vast crest of wave at night.” THE GHOST PIRATES William Hope Hodgson 1909 To Mary Whalley “Olden memories that shine against death’s night– Quiet stars of sweet enchantments, That are seen In Life’s lost distances…” The World of Dreams Author’s Preface This book forms the last of three. The first published was “The Boats of the ‘Glen Carrig’”; the second, “The House on the Borderland”; this, the third, completes what, perhaps, may be termed a trilogy; for, though very different in scope, each of the three books deals with certain conceptions that have an elemental kinship....

THE GREY DAWN BY STEWART EDWARD WHITE Illustrated byThomas Fogarty ILLUSTRATIONS They moved away, leaving Mrs. Morrell alone, biting her lips and planning revenges King listened to him in silence “Look here, don’t try to come that rot. I said, get out–and I mean it!” “Call all you please,” he sneered. “Nobody’s going to pay any attention to your calls at Jake’s Place!” OTHER BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR THE CLAIM JUMPERSTHE WESTERNERSTHE BLAZED TRAILARIZONA NIGHTSBLAZED TRAIL STORIESTHE CABINCAMP AND TRAILCONJUROR’S HOUSETHE FORESTTHE SIGN AT SIXTHE RULES OF THE GAME THE RIVERMANTHE SILENT PLACESTHE ADVENTURES OF BOBBY ORDETHE MOUNTAINSTHE PASSTHE MAGIC FORESTTHE LAND OF FOOTPRINTSAFRICAN CAMP FIRESTHE REDISCOVERED COUNTRYGOLDTHE MYSTERY (With Samuel Hopkins Adams) THE GRAY DAWN PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS IN TALE MILTON KEITH: a young lawyer from Baltimore....

THE GREAT SHADOW AND OTHER NAPOLEONIC TALES A. CONAN DOYLE CONTENTS THE GREAT SHADOW I. THE NIGHT OF THE BEACONS II. COUSIN EDIE OF EYEMOUTH III. THE SHADOW ON THE WATERS IV. THE CHOOSING OF JIM V. THE MAN FROM THE SEA VI. A WANDERING EAGLE VII. THE SHADOW ON THE LAND VIII. THE COMING OF THE CUTTER IX. THE DOINGS AT WEST INCH X. THE RETURN OF THE SHADOW XI....

Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois [cm04b10.txt]3841 Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz [cm09b10.txt]3846 Memoirs of Madame de Montespan [cm17b10.txt]3854 Memoirs Louis XIV, by Duch d’Orleans [cm22b10.txt]3859 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon [cm38b10.txt]3875 Memoirs Louis XV./XVI, by Hausset [cm46b10.txt]3883 Memoirs Marie Antoinette, by Campan [cm54b10.txt]3891 Memoirs of Court of St. Cloud [cm62b10.txt]3899 MEMOIRS OF MARGUERITE DE VALOIS QUEEN OF NAVARRE Written by Herself Being Historic Memoirs of the Courts of France and Navarre PUBLISHER’S NOTE....

OR THE PRODUCTION OF PICTURES THROUGH THE AGENCY OF LIGHT. CONTAINING ALL THE INSTRUCTIONS NECESSARY FOR THE COMPLETE PRACTICE OF THE DAGUERREAN AND PHOTOGENIC ART, BOTH ON METALIC, PLATES AND ON PAPER. By HENRY H. SNELLING. ILLUSTRATED WITH WOOD CUTS. New York: PUBLISHED BY G. P. PUTNAM, 155 Broadway, 1849. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1849, by H. H. Snelling, in the Clerk’s office, of the District Court of the Southern District of New York....

Transcriber’s note: Footnotes are indicated in the main text by numbers at the appropriate place. The footnotes themselves are placed at the end of the text. They can be searched for in the format FN 1, FN 2, FN 3 etc. Alternatively, if your software allows it the reader can copy footnotes to a second document window. The History of England from the Accession of James the Second by Thomas Babington Macaulay Volume V (Chapters XXIII-XXV) PREFACE TO THE FIFTH VOLUME....

THE HOUSE BEHINDTHE CEDARS BY CHARLES W. CHESNUTT CONTENTS I A STRANGER FROM SOUTH CAROLINA II AN EVENING VISITIII THE OLD JUDGEIV DOWN THE RIVERV THE TOURNAMENTVI THE QUEEN OF LOVE AND BEAUTYVII ‘MID NEW SURROUNDINGSVIII THE COURTSHIPIX DOUBTS AND FEARSX THE DREAMXI A LETTER AND A JOURNEYXII TRYON GOES TO PATESVILLEXIII AN INJUDICIOUS PAYMENTXIV A LOYAL FRIENDXV MINE OWN PEOPLEXVI THE BOTTOM FALLS OUTXVII TWO LETTERSXVIII UNDER THE OLD REGIMEXIX GOD MADE US ALLXX DIGGING UP ROOTSXXI A GILDED OPPORTUNITYXXII IMPERATIVE BUSINESSXXIII THE GUEST OF HONORXXIV SWING YOUR PARTNERSXXV BALANCE ALLXXVI THE SCHOOLHOUSE IN THE WOODSXXVII AN INTERESTING ACQUAINTANCEXXVIII THE LOST KNIFEXXIX PLATO EARNS HALF A DOLLARXXX AN UNUSUAL HONORXXXI IN DEEP WATERSXXXII THE POWER OF LOVEXXXIII A MULE AND A CART THE HOUSE BEHIND THE CEDARS I A STRANGER FROM SOUTH CAROLINA Time touches all things with destroying hand; and if he seem now and then to bestow the bloom of youth, the sap of spring, it is but a brief mockery, to be surely and swiftly followed by the wrinkles of old age, the dry leaves and bare branches of winter....

CHRONICLES OF CANADAEdited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton In thirty-two volumes Volume 4 THE JESUIT MISSIONSA Chronicle of the Cross in the Wilderness By THOMAS GUTHRIE MARQUISTORONTO, 1916 CHAPTER I THE RECOLLET FRIARS For seven years the colony which Champlain founded at the rock of Quebec lived without priests. [Footnote: For the general history of the period covered by the first four chapters of the present narrative, see ‘The Founder of New France’ in this Series....

SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY WILLIAM PATTEN, MANAGING EDITOR OF THE HARVARD CLASSICS INTRODUCTION BY CHARLES W. ELIOT, LL.D., PRESIDENT EMERITUS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY WITH A READING GUIDE BY WILLIAM ALLAN NEILSON, Ph. D., PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, PRESIDENT SMITH COLLEGE, NORTHAMPTON, MASS., SINCE 1917 VOLUME ONE Fairy and Wonder Tales INTRODUCTION The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, stories, and poems, both ancient and modern, suitable for boys and girls of from six to sixteen years of age....

The Lady of Lyons; Or, Love and Pride. by Edward Bulwer Lytton To the author of “Ion.” Whose genius and example have alike contributed towards the regeneration of The National Drama, This play is inscribed. PREFACE. An indistinct recollection of the very pretty little tale, called “The Bellows-Mender,” suggested the plot of this Drama. The incidents are, however, greatly altered from those in the tale, and the characters entirely re-cast....

MARK TWAIN’S LETTERS 1867-1875 ARRANGED WITH COMMENT BY ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE VOLUME II. To Bret Harte, in San Francisco: WESTMINSTER HOTEL, May 1, 1867. DEAR BRET,–I take my pen in hand to inform you that I am well and hope these few lines will find you enjoying the same God’s blessing. The book is out, and is handsome. It is full of damnable errors of grammar and deadly inconsistencies of spelling in the Frog sketch because I was away and did not read the proofs; but be a friend and say nothing about these things....

THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF CHARLES DARWIN INCLUDING AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL CHAPTER EDITED BY HIS SON FRANCIS DARWIN IN TWO VOLUMES VOLUME II TABLE OF CONTENTS. VOLUME II. CHAPTER 2.I.–The Publication of the ‘Origin of Species’–October 3, 1859, to December 31, 1859. CHAPTER 2.II.–The ‘Origin of Species’ (continued)–1860. CHAPTER 2.III.–The Spread of Evolution–1861-1862. CHAPTER 2.IV.–The Spread of Evolution. ‘Variation of Animals and Plants’ –1863-1866. CHAPTER 2.V.–The Publication of the ‘Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication’–January 1867-June 1868....