MADAM HOW AND LADY WHY PREFACE My dear boys,–When I was your age, there were no such children’s books as there are now. Those which we had were few and dull, and the pictures in them ugly and mean: while you have your choice of books without number, clear, amusing, and pretty, as well as really instructive, on subjects which were only talked of fifty years ago by a few learned men, and very little understood even by them....
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[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, at the end of several of the files for those who may wish to sample the author’s ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.] MEMOIRS OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, VOLUME 15. By LOUIS ANTOINE FAUVELET DE BOURRIENNE His Private Secretary Edited by R. W. PhippsColonel, Late Royal Artillery 1891 CONTENTS:CHAPTER XI. to CHAPTER XII. 1815 CHAPTER XI. 1815. My departure from Hamburg-The King at St....
[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, at the end of several of the files for those who may wish to sample the author’s ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.] MEMOIRS OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, VOLUME 6. By LOUIS ANTOINE FAUVELET DE BOURRIENNE His Private Secretary Edited by R. W. PhippsColonel, Late Royal Artillery 1891 CONTENTS:CHAPTER IX. to CHAPTER XVIII. 1802-1803 CHAPTER IX. 1802. Proverbial falsehood of bulletins–M....
MY MAN JEEVES BY P. G. WODEHOUSE 1919 CONTENTS LEAVE IT TO JEEVES JEEVES AND THE UNBIDDEN GUEST JEEVES AND THE HARD-BOILED EGG ABSENT TREATMENT HELPING FREDDIE RALLYING ROUND OLD GEORGE DOING CLARENCE A BIT OF GOOD THE AUNT AND THE SLUGGARD LEAVE IT TO JEEVES Jeeves–my man, you know–is really a most extraordinary chap. So capable. Honestly, I shouldn’t know what to do without him. On broader lines he’s like those chappies who sit peering sadly over the marble battlements at the Pennsylvania Station in the place marked “Inquiries....
NARRATIVE AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. BYTHOMAS DE QUINCEY. CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. THE HOUSEHOLD WRECKTHE SPANISH NUNFLIGHT OF A TARTAR TRIBE CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. SYSTEM OF THE HEAVENS AS REVEALED BY LORD ROSSE’S TELESCOPES MODERN SUPERSTITIONCOLERIDGE AND OPIUM-EATINGTEMPERANCE MOVEMENTON WARTHE LAST DAYS OF IMMANUEL KANT THE HOUSEHOLD WRECK. ‘To be weak,’ we need not the great archangel’s voice to tell us, ‘is to be miserable.’ All weakness is suffering and humiliation, no matter for its mode or its subject....
by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Translated by William Taylor of Norwich INTRODUCTION Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was born on the 22nd of January, 1729, eldest of ten sons of a pious and learned minister of Camenz in the Oberlausitz, who had two daughters also. As a child Lessing delighted in books, and had knowledge beyond his years when he went to school, in Meissen, at the age of twelve. As a school-boy he read much Greek and Latin that formed no part of the school course; read also the German poets of his time, wrote a “History of Ancient Mathematics,” and began a poem of his own on the “Plurality of Worlds....
Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray DEDICATION TOCAPTAIN SAMUEL LEWIS,OF THEPENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY’S SERVICE. My Dear Lewis, After a voyage, during which the captain of the ship has displayed uncommon courage, seamanship, affability, or other good qualities, grateful passengers often present him with a token of their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of precious metal. Among authors, however, bullion is a much rarer commodity than paper, whereof I beg you to accept a little in the shape of this small volume....
ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES, Vol. 2. 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 II. THE COLONEL’S IDEASMOTHER SAUVAGEEPIPHANYTHE MUSTACHEMADAME BAPTISTETHE QUESTION OF LATINA MEETINGTHE BLIND MANINDISCRETIONA FAMILY AFFAIRBESIDE SCHOPENHAUER’S CORPSE THE COLONEL’S IDEAS “Upon my word,” said Colonel Laporte, “although I am old and gouty, my legs as stiff as two pieces of wood, yet if a pretty woman were to tell me to go through the eye of a needle, I believe I should take a jump at it, like a clown through a hoop....
RAMPOLLI BY GEORGE MACDONALD CONTENTS. PREFACE TO THE TRANSLATIONS TRANSLATIONS– FROM NOVALIS ” SCHILLER ” GOETHE ” UHLAND ” HEINE ” VON SALIS-SEEWIS ” CLAUDIUS FROM THE DUTCH OF GENESTET FROM THE GERMAN–Author to me unkown FROM PETRARCH MILTON’S ITALIAN POEMS LUTHER’S SONG-BOOK A YEAR’S DIARY OF AN OLD SOUL PREFACE TO THE TRANSLATIONS. I think every man who can should help his people to inherit the earth by bringing into his own of the wealth of other tongues....
[Note on text: Italicized lines and stanzas are marked by tildes (~). Italicized words or phrases are CAPITALISED. Lines longer than 78 characters are broken and the continuation is indented two spaces. Some obvious errors have been corrected (see Notes).] Saltbush Bill, J.P., and Other Verses By A. B. Paterson Author of “The Man from Snowy River, and Other Verses”, “Rio Grande, and Other Verses”, and “An Outback Marriage”. Note Major A....
By LEWIS SPERRY CHAFER 1909 Contents Foreword, by Dr. C. I. Scofield Author’s Introduction I. The Career of Satan II. The Ages III. The Course of This Age IV. This Age and the Satanic System V. The Satanic Host VI. Satan’s Motive VII. Satan’s MethodsVIII. The Man of Sin IX. The Fatal Omission X. Modern Devices XI. The Believer’s Present Position XII. The Believer’s Present Victory Foreword. If any word of mine shall add to the number of the readers of this book I shall be glad to have written it; and I sincerely wish that all believers, and especially all ministers and Christian workers, might in some way be led to read it....
[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.] SERGE PANINE By GEORGES OHNET BOOK 2. CHAPTER VII JEANNE’S SECRET In the drawing-room Jeanne and Serge remained standing, facing each other. The mask had fallen from their faces; the forced smile had disappeared. They looked at each other attentively, like two duellists seeking to read each other’s game, so that they may ward off the fatal stroke and prepare the decisive parry....
SERMONS ON THE CARD AND OTHER DISCOURSES by Hugh Latimer INTRODUCTION. Hugh Latimer, a farmer’s son, was born about the year 1491, at Thurcaston, in Leicestershire. He was an only son, with six sisters, who were all well cared for at home. He was a boy of fourteen when sent to Clare College, Cambridge. When about twenty- four years old, he had obtained a college fellowship, had taken the degree of Master of Arts, and was ordained Priest of the Roman Church at Lincoln....
SIDONIA THE SORCERESS THE SUPPOSED DESTROYER OF THE WHOLE REIGNING DUCAL HOUSE OF POMERANIA TRANSLATED BY LADY WILDE MARY SCHWEIDLER THE AMBER WITCH BY WILLIAM MEINHOLD DOCTOR OF THEOLOGY IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I. 1894 DEDICATION OF THE GERMAN EDITION. TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS LADY LUCY DUFF GORDON, THE YOUNG AND GIFTED TRANSLATOR OF ”THE AMBER WITCH,” THIS WORK IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED. PREFACE Amongst all the trials for witchcraft with which we are acquainted, few have attained so great a celebrity as that of the Lady Canoness of Pomerania, Sidonia von Bork....
[Illustration: With her eye for detail Marie observed that the young officer, instead of imparting information, received it.] SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE By RICHARD HARDING DAVIS 1915 TO HOPE DAVIS CONTENTS “SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE” PLAYING DEAD THE CARD-SHARP BILLY AND THE BIG STICK THE BOY SCOUT THE FRAME-UP “SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE” Marie Gessler, known as Marie Chaumontel, Jeanne d’Avrechy, the Countess d’Aurillac, was German. Her father, who served through the Franco-Prussian War, was a German spy....
TARTUFFE OR THE HYPOCRITE by JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Translated ByCurtis Hidden Page INTRODUCTORY NOTE Jean Baptiste Poquelin, better known by his stage name of Moliere, stands without a rival at the head of French comedy. Born at Paris in January, 1622, where his father held a position in the royal household, he was educated at the Jesuit College de Clermont, and for some time studied law, which he soon abandoned for the stage....
THAIS by ANATOLE FRANCE Translated ByRobert B. Douglas CONTENTS PART I. THE LOTUSPART II. THE PAPYRUS THE BANQUET THE PAPYRUS (resumed)PART III. THE EUPHORBIA THAIS PART THE FIRST THE LOTUS In those days there were many hermits living in the desert. On both banks of the Nile numerous huts, built by these solitary dwellers, of branches held together by clay, were scattered at a little distance from each other, so that the inhabitants could live alone, and yet help one another in case of need....
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ATLANTIS-the Antediluvian World [Redactor’s Note: This text version of “Atlantis, the Antediluvian World” was prepared from input provided by Mr. J.B. Hare. For an HTML text with the illustrations from the original see his web site at http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/ataw/index.htm Inline Mayan glyphs in Part III Chapter 7 have been replaced by ‘###’. Figure captions are retained as text in capital letters centered on the page set off by blank lines.The line length is 73 characters, but one table in Part II Chap V unavoidably had to be extended to 107 characters....
