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The Lady of Big Shanty By F. BERKELEY SMITH 1909 TO THE READER This story, written by a man who has passed many years of his life in the Adirondack woods, strikes a note not often sounded–the power of the primeval over the human mind. Once abandoned in the wilderness, wholly dependent upon what can be wrested from its clutch to prolong existence, all the ordinary standards and ambitions of life become as naught: for neither love, hatred, revenge, honour, money, jewels, or social success will bring a cup of water, a handful of corn or a coal of fire....

THE LADY OF BLOSSHOLME by H. Rider Haggard CHAPTER I SIR JOHN FOTERELL Who that has ever seen them can forget the ruins of Blossholme Abbey, set upon their mount between the great waters of the tidal estuary to the north, the rich lands and grazing marshes that, backed with woods, border it east and south, and to the west by the rolling uplands, merging at last into purple moor, and, far away, the sombre eternal hills!...

Queen of France CONSORT OF HENRI IV, AND REGENT OF THE KINGDOM UNDER LOUIS XIII BY JULIA PARDOE AUTHOR OF ‘LOUIS XIV AND THE COURT OF FRANCE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY,’ ‘THE COURT AND REIGN OF FRANCIS THE FIRST,’ ETC. IN THREE VOLUMES 1890 [Illustration: Louis XIII] CONTENTS BOOK III MARIE DE MEDICIS AS EXILE CHAPTER I 1618 De Luynes resolves to compel the Queen-mother to remain at Blois–Treachery of Richelieu–The suspicions of Marie are aroused–Her apprehensions–She demands permission to remove to Monceaux, and is refused–She affects to resign herself to her fate–A royal correspondence–Vanity of the Due d’Epernon–A Court broil–The Abbe Rucellai offers his services to Marie de Medicis–He attempts to win over the great nobles to her cause–He is compelled to quit the Court, and retires to Sedan–The Due de Bouillon refuses to join the cabal–The Duc d’Epernon consents to aid the escape of the Queen-mother–The ministers become suspicious of the designs of Richelieu–He is ordered to retire to Coussay, and subsequently to Avignon–Tyranny of M....

THE LOUISA ALCOTT READER A Supplementary Reader for the Fourth Year of School BY LOUISA M. ALCOTT [Illustration: “Lily rocked and ate till she finished the top of the little tree.”] CONTENTS. I. A CHRISTMAS DREAM II. THE CANDY COUNTRY III. NAUGHTY JOCKO IV. THE SKIPPING SHOES V. COCKYLOO VI. ROSY’S JOURNEY VII. HOW THEY RAN AWAY VIII. THE FAIRY BOX IX. A HOLE IN THE WALL X. THE PIGGY GIRL [Illustration: She actually stood in “a grove of Christmas trees....

CHAPTER XVI. AT CHATTANOOGA–THE ENEMY FORTIFIES LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN AND MISSIONARY RIDGE–REORGANIZING THE ARMY–REMOVAL OF GENERAL ROSECRANS –PUNISHMENT OF DESERTERS–GRANT AT CHATTANOOGA–THE FIGHT ON LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN–A BRAVE COLOR-BEARER–BATTLE OF MISSIONARY RIDGE. By 9 o’clock on the morning of September 22 my command took up a position within the heavy line of intrenchments at Chattanooga, the greater part of which defenses had been thrown up since the army commenced arriving there the day before....

THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. 13, No. 367.] SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1829. [PRICE 2d. [Illustration: SUSSEX PLACE, REGENT’S PARK.] SUSSEX PLACE, Is said to have been erected from the designs of Mr. Nash, but is considered as one of the least successful of his productions. It was among the earliest of the terraces in the Park, and its whimsical contrast with the chaster beauties of the adjoining structures soon became the signal for critical pasquinade....

The World Factbook 1993 Notes, Definitions, and Abbreviations A Afghanistan Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antarctica Antigua and Barbuda Arctic Ocean Argentina Armenia Aruba Ashmore and Cartier Islands Atlantic Ocean Australia Austria Azerbaijan B Bahamas, The Bahrain Baker Island Bangladesh Barbados Bassas da India Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Bouvet Island Brazil British Indian Ocean Territory British Virgin Islands Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Burma Burundi C Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China (also see separate Taiwan entry) Christmas Island Clipperton Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Colombia Comoros Congo Cook Islands Coral Sea Islands Costa Rica Cote d’Ivoire Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic D Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic E Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Europa Island F Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Faroe Islands Fiji Finland France French Guiana French Polynesia French Southern and Antarctic Lands G Gabon Gambia, The Gaza Strip Georgia Germany Ghana Gibraltar Glorioso Islands Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guernsey Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana H Haiti Heard Island and McDonald Islands Holy See (Vatican City) Honduras Hong Kong Howland Island Hungary I Iceland India Indian Ocean Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel (also see separate Gaza Strip and West Bank entries) Italy J Jamaica Jan Mayen Japan Jarvis Island Jersey Johnston Atoll Jordan (also see separate West Bank entry) Juan de Nova Island K Kazakhstan Kenya Kingman Reef Kiribati Korea, North Korea, South Kuwait Kyrgyzstan L Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg M Macau Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Man, Isle of Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Micronesia, Federated States of Midway Islands Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montserrat Morocco Mozambique N Namibia Nauru Navassa Island Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue Norfolk Island Northern Mariana Islands Norway O Oman P Pacific Islands (Palau), Trust Territory of the Pacific Ocean 2 Pakistan Palmyra Atoll Panama Papua New Guinea Paracel Islands Paraguay Peru Philippines Pitcairn Islands Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Q Qatar R Reunion Romania Russia Rwanda S Saint Helena Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Vincent and the Grenadines San Marino Sao Tome and Principe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia and Montenegro Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Spain Spratly Islands Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname Svalbard Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Syria T Taiwan entry follows Zimbabwe Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tokelau Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tromelin Island Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu U Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay Uzbekistan V Vanuatu Venezuela Vietnam Virgin Islands W Wake Island Wallis and Futuna West Bank Western Sahara Western Samoa World Y Yemen Z Zaire Zambia Zimbabwe Taiwan Appendixes A: The United Nations System B: Abbreviations for International Organizations and Groups C: International Organizations and Groups D: Weights and Measures E: Cross-Reference List of Geographic Names Reference Maps The World North America Central America and the Caribbean South America Europe Ethnic Groups in Eastern Europe Middle East Africa Asia Commonwealth of Independent States– European States Commonwealth of Independent States–Central Asian States Southeast Asia Oceania Arctic Region Antarctic Region Standard Time Zones of the World There have been some significant changes in this edition....

This etext was prepared by Donald Lainson, Toronto, Canada. CONTENTS NANA THE MILLER’S DAUGHTER CAPTAIN BURLE THE DEATH OF OLIVIER BACAILLE NANA by Emile Zola CHAPTER I At nine o’clock in the evening the body of the house at the Theatres des Varietes was still all but empty. A few individuals, it is true, were sitting quietly waiting in the balcony and stalls, but these were lost, as it were, among the ranges of seats whose coverings of cardinal velvet loomed in the subdued light of the dimly burning luster....

Carlyle’s “History of Friedrich II of Prussia” BOOK VIII. CROWN-PRINCE RETRIEVED: LIFE AT CUSTRIN. November, 1730-February, 1732. Chapter I. CHAPLAIN MULLER WAITS ON THE CROWN-PRINCE. Friedrich’s feelings at this juncture are not made known to us by himself in the least; or credibly by others in any considerable degree. As indeed in these confused Prussian History-Books, copulent in nugatory pedantisms and learned marine-stores, all that is human remains distressingly obscure to us; so seldom, and then only as through endless clouds of ever-whirling idle dust, can we catch the smallest direct feature of the young man, and of his real demeanor or meaning, on the present or other occasions!...

Hyperion By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1882 CONTENTS. BOOK I. Epigraph CHAPTER I. THE HERO. CHAPTER II. THE CHRIST OF ANDERNACH. CHAPTER III. HOMUNCULUS. CHAPTER IV. THE LANDLADY’S DAUGHTER. CHAPTER V. JEAN PAUL, THE ONLY-ONE. CHAPTER VI. HEIDELBERG AND THE BARON. CHAPTER VII. LIVES OF SCHOLARS. CHAPTER VIII. LITERARY FAME. BOOK II. Epigraph CHAPTER I. SPRING. CHAPTER II. A COLLOQUY. CHAPTER III. OWL-TOWERS. CHAPTER IV. A BEER-SCANDAL. CHAPTER V. THE WHITE LADY’S SLIPPER AND THE PASSION-FLOWER....

[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.] JACQUELINE By THERESE BENTZON (MME. BLANC) With a Preface by M. THUREAU-DANGIN, of the French Academy TH. BENTZON It is natural that the attention and affection of Americans should be attracted to a woman who has devoted herself assiduously to understanding and to making known the aspirations of our country, especially in introducing the labors and achievements of our women to their sisters in France, of whom we also have much to learn; for simple, homely virtues and the charm of womanliness may still be studied with advantage on the cherished soil of France....

JAVA HEAD By Joseph Hergesheimer 1918 It is only the path of pure simplicity which guards and preserves the spirit. CHWANG-TZE TO HAZLETON MIRKIL, JR. from Dorothy and Joseph Hergesheimer I Very late indeed in May, but early in the morning, Laurel Ammidon lay in bed considering two widely different aspects of chairs. The day before she had been eleven, and the comparative maturity of that age had filled her with a moving disdain for certain fanciful thoughts which had given her extreme youth a decidedly novel if not an actually adventurous setting....

JOE’S LUCK OR ALWAYS WIDE AWAKE BY HORATIO ALGER, JR. AUTHOR OF “TONY THE TRAMP,” “SLOW AND SURE,” “THE CASH BOY,” “MAKING HIS WAY,” “JACK’S WARD,” “DO AND DARE,” “FACING THE WORLD,” “STRONG AND STEADY,” “STRIVE AND SUCCEED,” ETC. NEW YORK THE NEW YORK BOOK COMPANY 1913 JOE’S LUCK CHAPTER I INTRODUCES JOE “Come here, you Joe, and be quick about it!” The boy addressed, a stout boy of fifteen, with an honest, sun-browned face, looked calmly at the speaker....

KARL-LUDWIG SAND By Alexander Dumas, Pere 1819 On the 22nd of March, 1819, about nine o’clock in the morning, a young man, some twenty-three or twenty-four years old, wearing the dress of a German student, which consists of a short frock-coat with silk braiding, tight trousers, and high boots, paused upon a little eminence that stands upon the road between Kaiserthal and Mannheim, at about three-quarters of the distance from the former town, and commands a view of the latter....

LAHOMA by John Breckenridge Ellis CHAPTER ITHE TOUCH OF A CHILD “I have given my word of honor–my sacred oath–not to betray what I have discovered here.” At these words from the prisoner, a shout arose in which oaths and mocking laughter mingled like the growling and snapping of hunger- maddened wolves. “Then if I must die,” Gledware cried, his voice, in its shrill excitement, dominating the ferocious insults of the ruffians, “don’t kill the child–you see she is asleep–and she’s so young–only five....

LEILA OR, THE SIEGE OF GRANADA BY EDWARD BULWER LYTTON Complete BOOK I. CHAPTER I. THE ENCHANTER AND THE WARRIOR. It was the summer of the year 1491, and the armies of Ferdinand and Isabel invested the city of Granada. The night was not far advanced; and the moon, which broke through the transparent air of Andalusia, shone calmly over the immense and murmuring encampment of the Spanish foe, and touched with a hazy light the snow- capped summits of the Sierra Nevada, contrasting the verdure and luxuriance which no devastation of man could utterly sweep from the beautiful vale below....

Please note: The Following Books relating to Robert Browning are now online: ————————————————————— Corson, Hiram. An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning’s Poetry, 3rd edition. This book is primarily concerned with Browning’s poems. Advantages: This book is an excellent introduction to Browning. Orr, Mrs. Sutherland. Life and Letters of Robert Browning, 2nd edition. This book is primarily concerned with Browning’s life. Advantages: As a close friend, the author has a good grasp of the facts, and is meticulous in her treatment of the material....

LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI BY MARK TWAIN Part 12. Chapter 56 A Question of Law THE slaughter-house is gone from the mouth of Bear Creek and so is the small jail (or ‘calaboose’) which once stood in its neighborhood. A citizen asked, ‘Do you remember when Jimmy Finn, the town drunkard, was burned to death in the calaboose?’ Observe, now, how history becomes defiled, through lapse of time and the help of the bad memories of men....

MADAME CHRYSANTHEME By PIERRE LOTI BOOK 2. CHAPTER XII HAPPY FAMILIES! July 18th. By this time, four officers of my ship are married like myself, and inhabiting the slopes of the same suburb. This arrangement is quite an ordinary occurrence, and is brought about without difficulties, mystery, or danger, through the offices of the same M. Kangourou. As a matter of course, we are on visiting terms with all these ladies....

BY CAROLYN WELLS Author of the “Patty” Books [Illustration: “‘HERE’S THE BOOK’, SAID MISS HART…. ‘HOW MANY LEAVES HAS IT!’”] CONTENTS CHAPTER I. A BOTHERSOME BAG II. A WELCOME CHRISTMAS GIFT III. MERRY CHRISTMAS! IV. HAPPY NEW YEAR! V. A TEARFUL TIME VI. THE GOING OF GLADYS VII. THE COMING OF DELIGHT VIII. A VISIT TO CINDERELLA IX. A STRAW-RIDE X. MAKING VALENTINES XI. MARJORIE CAPTIVE XII. MISS HART HELPS XIII....