NORMANDY: THE SCENERY & ROMANCE OF ITS ANCIENT TOWNS: DEPICTED BY GORDON HOME Part 2. CHAPTER IV Concerning the Cathedral City of Evreux and the Road to Bernay The tolling of the deep-toned bourdon in the cathedral tower reverberates over the old town of Evreux as we pass along the cobbled streets. There is a yellow evening light overhead, and the painted stucco walls of the houses reflect the soft, glowing colour of the west....
[Transcriber’s Notes: The following words are noted as having changed between the publication of this book and the year 2004: ‘Nuuanu Valley’, versus ‘Nuanu’; ‘lei’, vs. ‘le’ for a flower garland; ‘holoku’ vs. ‘holaku’ for a Hawaiian black dress; ‘Wailua’, vs. ‘Waialua’; ‘Kealakekua Bay’ vs. ‘Kealakeakua’; ‘Kahului’ vs. ‘Kaului’; ‘kuleana’ vs. ‘kuliana’ for a small land-holding; ‘kulolo’ vs. ‘kuulaau’ for a taro pudding; ‘piele’ vs. ‘paalolo’ for a sweet-potato and coconut pudding; ‘Koa’ trees vs....
REGINALD by Saki (H. H. Munro) Contents: ReginaldReginald on Christmas PresentsReginald on the AcademyReginald at the TheatreReginald’s Peace PoemReginald’s Choir TreatReginald on WorriesReginald on House-PartiesReginald at the CarltonReginald on Besetting SinsReginald’s DramaReginald on TariffsReginald’s Christmas RevelReginald’s RubaiyatThe Innocence of Reginald REGINALD I did it–I who should have known better. I persuaded Reginald to go to the McKillops’ garden-party against his will. We all make mistakes occasionally. “They know you’re here, and they’ll think it so funny if you don’t go....
Rhymes a la Mode BALLADE DEDICATORY–TO MRS. ELTON OF WHITE STAUNTON The painted Briton built his mound,And left his celts and clay,On yon fair slope of sunlit groundThat fronts your garden gay;The Roman came, he bore the sway,He bullied, bought, and sold,Your fountain sweeps his works away Beside your manor old! But still his crumbling urns are found Within the window-bay,Where once he listened to the sound That lulls you day by day; –The sound of summer winds at play,The noise of waters coldTo Yarty wandering on their way,Beside your manor old!...
ROUGHING IT by Mark Twain 1880 Part 4. CHAPTER XXXI. There were two men in the company who caused me particular discomfort. One was a little Swede, about twenty-five years old, who knew only one song, and he was forever singing it. By day we were all crowded into one small, stifling bar-room, and so there was no escaping this person’s music. Through all the profanity, whisky-guzzling, “old sledge” and quarreling, his monotonous song meandered with never a variation in its tiresome sameness, and it seemed to me, at last, that I would be content to die, in order to be rid of the torture....
SANDRA BELLONI By George Meredith BOOK 3 XVIII. RETURN OF THE SENTIMENTALIST INTO BONDAGE XIX. LIFE AT BROOKFIELD.XX. BY WILMING WEIRXXI. RETURN OF MR. PERICLESXXII. THE PITFALL OF SENTIMENTXXIII. WILFRID DIPLOMATIZESXXIV. EMILIA MAKES A MOVEXXV. A FARCE WITHIN A FARCE CHAPTER XVIII Meantime Wilfrid was leading a town-life and occasionally visiting Stornley. He was certainly not in love with Lady Charlotte Chillingworth, but he was in harness to that lady....
SANDRA BELLONI By George Meredith BOOK 5 XXXIV. INDICATES THE DEGRADATION OF BROOKFIELD, TOGETHER WITH CERTAIN PROCEEDINGS OF THE YACHT XXXV. MRS. CHUMP’S EPISTLEXXXVI. ANOTHER PITFALL OF SENTIMENT XXXVII. EMILIA’S FLIGHT.XXXVIII. SHE CLINGS TO HER VOICEXXXIX. HER VOICE FAILS CHAPTER XXXIV Lady Charlotte was too late for Emilia, when she went forth to her to speak for Wilfrid. She found the youth Braintop resting heavily against a tree, muttering to himself that he had no notion where he was, as an excuse for his stationary posture, while the person he presumed he should have detained was being borne away....
[Illustration] SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN A WEEKLY JOURNAL OF PRACTICAL INFORMATION, ART, SCIENCE, MECHANICS, CHEMISTRY, AND MANUFACTURES. NEW YORK, DECEMBER 28, 1867. Vol. XVII.–No. 26. [NEW SERIES.] $3 per Annum [IN ADVANCE.] * * * * * Contents: (Illustrated articles are marked with an asterisk.) *Improvement in Hulling and Cleansing Hominy Nitro Glycerin *Hisert’s Adjustable Cultivator Tooth Remedy for Cold Feet in City Cars Getting Your Money Back Patent Claims Pending Applications for Reissues The Last Number of Volume XVII Commencement of a New Volume A Change at the Patent Office Obituary How to Make Intelligent Workmen–Go and Do Likewise The SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN as a Medium of Business *Hunt’s Improved Steam Packing Piston The Iron Clads at Sea *Improvement in Hand Drills *Improved Method of Securing Cutters on Boring Bars Tides and Their Causes The Great Hoosac Tunnel Horse-hair Snakes–Wonderful Transformation Man Proposes, but God Disposes Extraordinary Effects of an Earthquake Recent American and Foreign Patents Answers to Correspondents Business and Personal Manufacturing, Mining, and Railroad Items Patent Office Decision * * * * * Improvement in Hulling and Cleansing Hominy....
[Illustration] SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 433 NEW YORK, APRIL 19, 1884 Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XVII, No. 433. Scientific American established 1845 Scientific American Supplement, $5 a year. Scientific American and Supplement, $7 a year. * * * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS. I. CHEMISTRY, METALLURGY, ETC.–New Analogy between Solids, Liquids, and Gases. Hydrogen Amalgam. Treatment of Ores by Electrolysis.–By M. KILIANI. II. ENGINEERING, AND MECHANICS.–Electric Railway at Vienna.–With engraving....
[Illustration] SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 520 NEW YORK, DECEMBER 19, 1885 Scientific American Supplement. Vol. Vol. XX, No. 520. Scientific American established 1845 Scientific American Supplement, $5 a year. Scientific American and Supplement, $7 a year. * * * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS. I. ENGINEERING, ETC.–Steel Structures.–Best use of different grades of steel.–From a paper by Mr. JAS. CHRISTIE. Natural Gas Fuel and its Application to Manufacturing: Purposes.–Paper read before the Iron and Steel Institute by Mr....
SECRETS OF THE WOODSBY WILLIAM J. LONG Wood Folk Series Book Three 1901 TO CH’GEEGEE-LOKH-SIS, “LittleFriend Ch’geegee,” whosecoming makes the winter glad. PREFACE This little book is but another chapter in the shy ‘wild life of the fields and woods’ of which “Ways of Wood Folk” and “Wilderness Ways ” were the beginning. It is given gladly in answer to the call for more from those who have read the previous volumes, and whose letters are full of the spirit of kindness and appreciation....
SEEING EUROPE WITH FAMOUS AUTHORS, VOLUME III FRANCE AND THE NETHERLANDS Selected and Edited, with Introductions, etc., by FRANCIS W. HALSEY Editor of “Great Epochs in American History” Associate Editor of “The World’s Famous Orations” and of “The Best of the World’s Classics,” etc. IN TEN VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED [Illustration: Paris: The Seine and Bridges] Vol. III Part One Introduction to Volumes III and IV France and the Netherlands The tourist bound for France lands either at Cherbourg, Havre, or Boulogne....
CHAPTER I–SELF-HELP–NATIONAL AND INDIVIDUAL “The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.”–J. S. Mill. “We put too much faith in systems, and look too little to men.”–B. Disraeli. “Heaven helps those who help themselves” is a well-tried maxim, embodying in a small compass the results of vast human experience. The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength....
TO RAFAEL SABATINI TO WHOSE VIRTUES AS AN AUTHOR AND AS A FRIEND THE WRITER WISHES HIS BOOK WERE WORTHIER OF DEDICATION I: INTRODUCTORY II: A FAIR NECK FOR THE MAIDEN III: THE COUNTESS AND THE COZENER IV: A MODEL FOR MR HOGARTH V: ALMOST A LADY VI: ARSENIC A LA BRETONNE VII: THE MERRY WIDOWS INDEX INTRODUCTORY: I. I had a thought to call this book Pale Hands or Fair Hands Imbrued–so easy it is to fall into the ghastly error of facetiousness....
TO MY MOTHER INTRODUCTION “An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.” The following pages profess to be no more than a faithful narrative of five years spent on the goldfields and in the far interior of Western Australia. Any one looking for stirring adventures, hairbreadth escapes from wild animals and men, will be disappointed. In the Australian Bush the traveller has only Nature to war against–over him hangs always the chance of death from thirst, and sometimes from the attacks of hostile aboriginals; he has no spice of adventure, no record heads of rare game, no exciting escapades with dangerous beasts, to spur him on; no beautiful scenery, broad lakes, or winding rivers to make life pleasant for him....
[Transcriber’s Note: This book was first published in German in 1844, and in English translation in 1848. This edition was not dated. Color illustrations appear on every page, often “playing” with the text.] STRUWWELPETER MERRY STORIES AND FUNNY PICTURES Heinrich Hoffman Frederick Warne & Co., Inc. New York STRUWWELPETER Merry Stories andFunny Pictures When the children have been good, That is, be it understood, Good at meal-times, good at play, Good all night and good all day– They shall have the pretty things Merry Christmas always brings....
SUMMER IN A GARDEN and CALVIN A STUDY OF CHARACTER By Charles Dudley Warner INTRODUCTORY LETTER MY DEAR MR. FIELDS,–I did promise to write an Introduction to these charming papers but an Introduction,–what is it?–a sort of pilaster, put upon the face of a building for looks’ sake, and usually flat,–very flat. Sometimes it may be called a caryatid, which is, as I understand it, a cruel device of architecture, representing a man or a woman, obliged to hold up upon his or her head or shoulders a structure which they did not build, and which could stand just as well without as with them....
TALES OF IND AND OTHER POEMS BY T. RAMAKRISHNA 1896 TO THE MEMORY OF MY DEAR DAUGHTER KAMALA. The star that rose to cheer our humble life, And make a little heaven of our home, Shall rise again–yes, surely rise again To give us everlasting joy divine. CONTENTS. TO MY DAUGHTER LORD TENNYSON SEETA AND RAMA–A TALE OF THE INDIAN FAMINE THE STORY OF PRINCE DESING THE STORY OF RUDRA THE STORY OF THE ROYAL HUNTRESS CHANDRA–A TALE OF THE FIELD OF TELLIKOTA THE KORATHY’S LULLABY LORD TENNYSON....
THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY RICHMOND By George Meredith BOOK 8.LII. STRANGE REVELATIONS, AND MY GRANDFATHER HAS HIS LAST OUTBURST LIII. THE HEIRESS PROVES THAT SHE INHERITS THE FEUD AND I GO DRIFTING LIV. MY RETURN TO ENGLANDLV. I MEET MY FIRST PLAYFELLOW AND TAKE MY PUNISHMENT LVI. CONCLUSION CHAPTER LII STRANGE REVELATIONS, AND MY GRANDFATHER HAS HIS LAST OUTBURST My father and I stood at different windows, observing the unconcerned people below....
Text scanned by JC Byers and proofread by JC Byers, Sally Gellert, Renate Preuss, and Christine Sturrock. The “Aldine” Edition of The Arabian Nights Entertainments Illustrated by S. L. Wood FROM THE TEXT OF DR. JONATHAN SCOTT In Four Volumes Volume 3 London Pickering and Chatto 1890 Contents of Volume III. The Story of Beder, Prince of Persia, and Jehaunara, Prince of Samandal, or SummunderThe History of Prince Zeyn Alasnam and the Sultan of the Genii The History of Codadad, and His Brothers The History of the Princess of Deryabar The Story of Abu Hassan, or the Sleeper Awakened The Story of Alla Ad Deen; Or, the Wonderful Lamp Adventure of the Caliph Haroon Al Rusheed The Story of Baba Abdoollah The Story of Syed Naomaun The Story of Khaujeh Hassan Al Hubbaul The Story of Ali Aba and the Forty Robbers Destroyed by a Slave The Story of Ali Khujeh, a Merchand of Bagdad THE STORY OF BEDER, PRINCE OF PERSIA, AND JEHAUN-ARA, PRINCESS OF SAMANDAL, OR SUMMUNDER....
