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THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY. A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS. VOL. IX.–MARCH, 1862.–NO. LIII. THE FRUITS OF FREE LABOR IN THE SMALLER ISLANDS OF THE BRITISH WEST INDIES. The emancipation of an enslaved race seems, at first thought, a most uncertain and perilous undertaking. To do away with inherited and constantly strengthening tendencies toward irresponsibility and idleness,–to substitute the pleasure of activity or the distant good from industry for the very palpable influence of compulsion,–to implant forethought and alertness and ingenuity, where, before, labor was stolid and sulky and unthinking,–to confer the habit of self-dependence and the courage for unknown tasks on a people timid, childish, and dependent,–to teach self-control in place of the custom of control by masters, or by caprice and passion,–in a word, to make a free man out of a born slave,–appears at first sight the most difficult task which any legislator or reformer could ever attempt....

THE BARBARISM OF BERLIN BY G.K. CHESTERTON First Published 1914 Contents INTRODUCTION: THE FACTS OF THE CASE I. THE WAR ON THE WORD II. THE REFUSAL OF RECIPROCITY III. THE APPETITE OF TYRANNY IV. THE ESCAPE OF FOLLY INTRODUCTION. THE FACTS OF THE CASE. Unless we are all mad, there is at the back of the most bewildering business a story: and if we are all mad, there is no such thing as madness....

The Boys’ Life of Abraham Lincoln by Helen Nicolay I. A PRESIDENT’S CHILDHOOD Abraham Lincoln’s forefathers were pioneers–men who left their homes to open up the wilderness and make the way plain for others to follow them. For one hundred and seventy years, ever since the first American Lincoln came from England to Massachusetts in 1638, they had been moving slowly westward as new settlements were made in the forest....

[Note on text: Italicized stanzas will be indented 5 spaces. Stanzas that are italicized AND indented will be indented 10 spaces. Italicized words or phrases will be capitalised. Lines longer than 75 characters have been broken, and the continuation is indented two spaces. This etext was transcribed from the 1915 edition of Rupert Brooke’s collected poems.] [A new Appendix is included in this etext, consisting of poems ABOUT or TO Rupert Brooke....

SCENE:Britain; Italy ACT I. SCENE I.Britain. The garden of CYMBELINE’S palace FIRST GENTLEMAN. You do not meet a man but frowns; our bloods No more obey the heavens than our courtiers Still seem as does the King’s. SECOND GENTLEMAN. But what’s the matter? FIRST GENTLEMAN. His daughter, and the heir of’s kingdom, whom He purpos’d to his wife’s sole son- a widow That late he married- hath referr’d herself Unto a poor but worthy gentleman....

SCENE:The Roman Empire ACT I. SCENE I.Alexandria. CLEOPATRA’S palace Enter DEMETRIUS and PHILO PHILO. Nay, but this dotage of our general’s O’erflows the measure. Those his goodly eyes, That o’er the files and musters of the war Have glow’d like plated Mars, now bend, now turn, The office and devotion of their view Upon a tawny front. His captain’s heart, Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper, And is become the bellows and the fan To cool a gipsy’s lust....

SCENE: Verona; Milan; the frontiers of Mantua ACT 1. SCENE I.Verona. An open place Enter VALENTINE and PROTEUS VALENTINE. Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus: Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. Were’t not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honour’d love, I rather would entreat thy company To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardiz’d at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness....

THECREATED LEGEND BY FEODOR SOLOGUB AUTHORIZEDTRANSLATION FROMTHE RUSSIAN BYJOHN COURNOS INTRODUCTION ”For there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” SHAKESPEARE ”To the impure all things are impure.” NIETZSCHE In “The Little Demon” Sologub has shown us how the evil within us peering out through our imagination makes all the world seem evil to us. In “The Created Legend,” feeling perhaps the need of reacting from his morose creation Peredonov, the author has set himself the task of showing the reverse of the picture: how the imagination, no longer warped, but sensitized with beauty, is capable of creating a world of its own, legendary yet none the less real for the legend....

BY DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS _Author of_The Cost, The Plum Tree, The Social Secretary, etc. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY GEORGE GIBBS [Illustration] CONTENTS I MR. BLACKLOCK II IN THOSE DAYS AROSE KINGS III CAME A WOMAN IV A CANDIDATE FOR “RESPECTABILITY” V DANGER SIGNALS VI OF “GENTLEMEN” VII BLACKLOCK GOES INTO TRAINING VIII ON THE TRAIL OF LANGDON IX LANGDON AT HOME X TWO “PILLARS OF SOCIETY” XI WHEN A MAN IS NOT A MAN XII ANITA XIII “UNTIL TO-MORROW” XIV FRESH AIR IN A GREENHOUSE XV SOME STRANGE LAPSES OF A LOVER XVI TRAPPED AND TRIMMED XVII A GENTEEL “HOLD-UP” XVIII ANITA BEGINS TO BE HERSELF XIX A WINDFALL FROM “GENTLEMAN JOE” XX A BREATHING SPELL XXI MOST UNLADYLIKE XXII MOST UNGENTLEMANLY XXIII “SHE HAS CHOSEN” XXIV BLACKLOCK ATTENDS FAMILY PRAYERS XXV “MY WIFE MUST” XXVI THE WEAK STRAND XXVII A CONSPIRACY AGAINST ANITAXXVIII BLACKLOCK SEES A LIGHT XXIX A HOUSEWARMING XXX BLACKLOCK OPENS FIRE XXXI ANITA’S SECRET XXXII LANGDON COMES TO THE SURFACE XXXIII MRS....

THE FIGHT FOR THE REPUBLIC IN CHINA BY B. L. PUTNAM WEALE PREFACE This volume tells everything that the student or the casual reader needs to know about the Chinese Question. It is sufficiently exhaustive to show very clearly the new forces at work, and to bring some realisation of the great gulf which separates the thinking classes of to-day from the men of a few years ago; whilst, at the same time, it is sufficiently condensed not to overwhelm the reader with too great a multitude of facts....

CHRONICLES OF CANADAEdited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton In thirty-two volumes Volume 7 THE FIGHTING GOVERNORA Chronicle of Frontenac By CHARLES W. COLBYTORONTO, 1915 CHAPTER I CANADA IN 1672 The Canada to which Frontenac came in 1672 was no longer the infant colony it had been when Richelieu founded the Company of One Hundred Associates. Through the efforts of Louis XIV and Colbert it had assumed the form of an organized province....

THE FREEDOM OF LIFE BY ANNIE PAYSON CALL Author of “Power Through Repose,” “As a Matter of Course,” etc. FREEDOM LORD GOD of Israel,–Where Thou art we are free! Call out Thy people, Lord, we pray, From Egypt unto Thee. Open our eyes that we may see Our bondage in the past,–Oh, help us, Lord, to keep Thy law, And make us free at last! Lord God of Israel,–Where Thou art we are free!...

AUTHOR’S PREFACE. MY most cordial thanks are due to the many persons who helped me to collect, in Italy, the materials for this story. I am especially indebted to the officials of the Marucelliana Library of Florence, and of the State Archives and Civic Museum of Bologna, for their courtesy and kindness. THE GADFLY PART I. CHAPTER I. Arthur sat in the library of the theological seminary at Pisa, looking through a pile of manuscript sermons....

[Illustration] The Harp of God Proof Conclusive that Millions now Living will never Die A text-book for Bible study specially adapted for use of beginners; with numerous questions and Scripture citations 510,000 Edition By J.F. Rutherford, Author of“Can the Living Talk with the Dead?” “Millions now Living will never Die!”etc., etc.. Publishers:Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society and International Bible Students Association Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.Also: London, Toronto, Melbourne, Cape Town, Orebro, Barmen, Berne, etc....

Transcriber’s Note: Like much 18th and 19th century publishing, the edition of David Hume’s “History of England” from which this text was prepared makes extensive use of both footnotes and marginal notes. Since this e-text format does not allow use of the original superscripts to denote the lettered footnotes, they are indicated by the relevant letter within brackets, thus “[a]”, and the footnotes themselves are reproduced within brackets and preceded by “FN” at the end of the PARAGRAPH to which they relate; since some of Hume’s paragraphs are considerably longer than is normal in 21st century American or British writing, you may have to scroll some distance to find the text of the footnote....

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 Volume II (Chapters VI-X) by Thomas Babington Macaulay CHAPTER VI The Power of James at the Height–His Foreign Policy–His Plans of Domestic Government; the Habeas Corpus Act–The Standing Army- -Designs in favour of the Roman Catholic Religion–Violation of the Test Act–Disgrace of Halifax; general Discontent– Persecution of the French Huguenots–Effect of that Persecution in England–Meeting of Parliament; Speech of the King; an Opposition formed in the House of Commons–Sentiments of Foreign Governments–Committee of the Commons on the King’s Speech– Defeat of the Government–Second Defeat of the Government; the King reprimands the Commons–Coke committed by the Commons for Disrespect to the King–Opposition to the Government in the Lords; the Earl of Devonshire–The Bishop of London–Viscount Mordaunt–Prorogation–Trials of Lord Gerard and of Hampden– Trial of Delamere–Effect of his Acquittal–Parties in the Court; Feeling of the Protestant Tories–Publication of Papers found in the Strong Box of Charles II....

[Transcriber’s Note: The spelling inconsistencies of the original have been retained in this etext.] The Iron Game A TALE OF THE WAR BY HENRY F. KEENAN “Heavy and solemn the cloudy column Over the green fields marching came, Measureless spread like a table bread For the cold grim dice of the iron game.” 1898 TO BERNARD JOHN McGRANN WHOSE LIFE AND CONDUCT EMBODY AND ILLUSTRATE THE MANLINESS, MODESTY, AND WORTH THAT FANCY DELIGHTS TO EMBALM IN FICTION THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED BY ONE AMONG THE MANY WITNESSES OF HIS NOBLE CAREER HENRY F....

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. The IRON RULE; OR, TYRANNY IN THE HOUSEHOLD. BY T. S. ARTHUR, AUTHOR OF “LOVE IN HIGH LIFE,” “LOVE IN A COTTAGE,” “MARY MORETON; OR, THE BROKEN PROMISE,” “AGNES; OR, THE POSSESSED,” “INSUBORDINATION,” “LUCY SANDFORD,” “THE ORPHAN CHILDREN,” “THE DEBTOR’S DAUGHTER,” “THE DIVORCED WIFE,” “PRIDE AND PRUDENCE,” “THE TWO MERCHANTS,” “CECILIA HOWARD,” “THE BANKER’S WIFE,” ETC....

The Island of Faith By MARGARET E. SANGSTER 1921 To M’s M and Chance Contents I. INTRODUCING–THE SETTLEMENT HOUSE II. THE QUARREL III. CONCERNING IDEALS IV. THE PARK V. ROSE-MARIE COMES TO THE RESCUE VI. “THERE’S NO PLACE–“ VII. A LILY IN THE SLUMS VIII. ANOTHER QUARREL IX. AND ANOTHER X. MRS. VOLSKY PROMISES TO TRY XI. BENNIE COMES TO THE SETTLEMENT HOUSE XII. AN ISLAND XIII. ELLA MAKES A DECISION XIV....

THE KING OF IRELAND’S SON by Padraic Colum Contents FEDELMA, THE ENCHANTER’S DAUGHTER WHEN THE KING OF THE CATS CAME TO KING CONNAL’S DOMINION THE SWORD OF LIGHT AND THE UNIQUE TALE, WITH AS MUCH OF THE ADVENTURES OF GILLY OF THE GOAT-SKIN AS IS GIVEN IN “THE CRANESKIN BOOK” THE TOWN OF THE RED CASTLE THE KING OF THE LAND OF MIST THE HOUSE OF CROM DUV THE SPAE-WOMAN I Connal was the name of the King who ruled over Ireland at that time....