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“Speaking of Operations–“ by Irvin S. Cobb Respectfully dedicated to two classes: Those who have already been operated on Those who have not yet been operated on Now that the last belated bill for services professionally rendered has been properly paid and properly receipted; now that the memory of the event, like the mark of the stitches, has faded out from a vivid red to a becoming pink shade; now that I pass a display of adhesive tape in a drug-store window without flinching–I sit me down to write a little piece about a certain matter–a small thing, but mine own–to wit, That Operation....

STORIES BY AMERICAN AUTHORS. VOLUME I [Illustration] Stories by American Authors VOLUME I WHO WAS SHE. By BAYARD TAYLOR THE DOCUMENTS IN THE CASE. By BRANDER MATTHEWS AND H.C. BUNNER ONE OF THE THIRTY PIECES. By WILLIAM HENRY BISHOP BALACCHI BROTHERS. By REBECCA HARDING DAVIS AN OPERATION IN MONEY. By ALBERT WEBSTER 1903 [Illustration: BRANDER MATTHEWS] Stories by American Authors VOLUME I WHO WAS SHE? BY BAYARD TAYLOR. Come, now, there may as well be an end of this!...

The Adventures of Roderick Random By Tobias Smollett THE AUTHOR’S PREFACE Of all kinds of satire, there is none so entertaining and universally improving, as that which is introduced, as it were occasionally, in the course of an interesting story, which brings every incident home to life, and by representing familiar scenes in an uncommon and amusing point of view, invests them with all the graces of novelty, while nature is appealed to in every particular....

THE BOY SCOUTS WITH THE MOTION PICTURE PLAYERS by Robert Shaler CONTENTS CHAPTERS I. The Haunted Make-Believe “Castle” II. Creating a Panic III. Taking Possession IV. Scouting at Midnight V. A Startling Surprise VI. Guests at the Camp Fire VII. Faced by a Mystery VIII. As in the Days of Chivalry IX. With the Motion-Picture People X. The Assault on the “Castle” XI. Imitation and Reality XII. When Swords Clashed XIII....

THE BROOK KERITH A SYRIAN STORY BY GEORGE MOORE 1916 A DEDICATION My dear Mary Hunter. It appears that you wished to give me a book for Christmas, but were in doubt what book to give me as I seemed to have little taste for reading, so in your embarrassment you gave me a Bible. It lies on my table now with the date 1898 on the fly-leaf–my constant companion and chief literary interest for the last eighteen years....

INTRODUCTION. John Keble, two years older than his friend Dr. Arnold of Rugby, three years older than Thomas Carlyle, and nine years older than John Henry Newman, was born in 1792, at Fairford in Gloucestershire. He was born in his father’s parsonage, and educated at home by his father till he went to college. His father then entered him at his own college at Oxford, Corpus Christi. Thoroughly trained, Keble obtained high reputation at his University for character and scholarship, and became a Fellow of Oriel....

The Church and Modern Life By Washington Gladden 1908 Preface “The time is come,” said a New Testament prophet, “for judgment to begin at the house of God.” Perhaps that time ought never to pass, but if, in any measure, the criticism of the church has of late been suspended, it is certainly reopened now, in good earnest. Nor is this criticism confined to outsiders; the church is forced to listen in these days to caustic censures from those who speak from within the fold....

ACT I. SCENE I.London. An ante-chamber in the KING’S palace Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY and the BISHOP OF ELY CANTERBURY. My lord, I’ll tell you: that self bill is urg’d Which in th’ eleventh year of the last king’s reign Was like, and had indeed against us pass’d But that the scambling and unquiet time Did push it out of farther question. ELY. But how, my lord, shall we resist it now?...

[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 X. The extraordinary degree of strength a momentary effervescence had given me to quit the Hermitage, left me the moment I was out of it....

[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks at the end of each file for those who may wish to sample the author’s ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.] THE ENTIRE MARCH FAMILY TRILOGY By William Dean Howells CONTENTS: Their Wedding Journey The Outset A Midsummer-day’s Dream The Night Boat A Day’s Railroading The Enchanted City, and Beyond Niagara Down the St. Lawrence The Sentiment of Montreal Homeward and Home Niagara Revisited Twelve Years after Their Wedding A Hazard of New Fortunes Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5Their Silver Wedding Journey Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 THEIR WEDDING JOURNEY By William Dean Howells 1871 I....

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....

[Illustration: “You can be worth a million … within a year”] THE FORTUNE HUNTER By Louis Joseph Vance Author Of “The Brass Bowl,”“The Bronze Bell,” Etc. _With illustrations by_Arthur William Brown 1910 ToGeorge Spellvin, Esq., This book is cheerfully dedicated CONTENTS CHAPTER I. FROM HIM THAT HATH NOT II. TO HIM THAT HATH III. INSPIRATION IV. TRIUMPH OF MR. HOMER LITTLE JOHN V. MARGARET’S DAUGHTER VI. INTRODUCTION TO MISS CARPENTER VII....

THE GREAT SALT LAKE TRAIL By COLONEL HENRY INMAN Late Assistant Quartermaster, United States Army Author of The Old Santa Fé Trail, Etc. And COLONEL WILLIAM F. CODY, “Buffalo Bill” Late Chief of Scouts Etext Edition edited by MICHAEL S. OVERTON 1898 (original edition), 2002 (Etext edition) See PUBLICATION INFORMATION at the end of this Etext for a more complete bibliographic listing of the original source. PREFACE. There are seven historic trails crossing the great plains of the interior of the continent, all of which for a portion of their distance traverse the geographical limits of what is now the prosperous commonwealth of Kansas....

THE GREATESTENGLISH CLASSIC A STUDY OF THEKING JAMES VERSION OF THE BIBLEAND ITS INFLUENCE ON LIFEAND LITERATURE BYCLELAND BOYD McAFEE, D.D. CONTENTS LECTURE PREFACE I. PREPARING THE WAY–THE ENGLISH BIBLE BEFORE KING JAMES II. THE MAKING OF THE KING JAMES VERSION; ITS CHARACTERISTICS III. THE KING JAMES VERSION As ENGLISH LITERATURE IV. THE INFLUENCE OF THE KING JAMES VERSION ON ENGLISH LITERATURE V. THE KING JAMES VERSION–ITS INFLUENCE ON ENGLISH AND AMERICAN HISTORY VI....

THE HISTORY OF HERODOTUS Translated into English by G. C. MACAULAY, M.A. IN TWO VOLUMESVOL. II {e Herodotou diathesis en apasin epieikes, kai tois men agathois sunedomene, tois de kakois sunalgousa}.–Dion. Halic. PREPARER’S NOTE This text was prepared from the third edition, printed in 1914, by MacMillan and Co., Limited, St. Martin’s Street, London. Greek text has been transliterated and marked with brackets, as in the opening citation above. THE HISTORY OF HERODOTUS BOOK V THE FIFTH BOOK OF THE HISTORIES, CALLED TERPSICHORE...

THE HOUSE OF THE WOLFINGS by William Morris Whiles in the early Winter eveWe pass amid the gathering nightSome homestead that we had to leave Years past; and see its candles brightShine in the room beside the doorWhere we were merry years agoneBut now must never enter more,As still the dark road drives us on. E’en so the world of men may turnAt even of some hurried dayAnd see the ancient glimmer burnAcross the waste that hath no way;Then with that faint light in its eyes A while I bid it linger nearAnd nurse in wavering memoriesThe bitter-sweet of days that were....

Transcribed by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk The Humour of Homer and Other Essays IntroductionBy R. A. Streatfeild The nucleus of this book is the collection of essays by Samuel Butler, which was originally published by Mr. Grant Richards in 1904 under the title Essays on Life, Art and Science, and reissued by Mr. Fifield in 1908. To these are now added another essay, entitled “The Humour of Homer,” a biographical sketch of the author kindly contributed by Mr....

byH. G. Wells The Sun Dial LibraryGarden City Publishing Company, Inc. Garden City, New York1896 Contents INTRODUCTION I. IN THE DINGEY OF THE “LADY VAIN” II. THE MAN WHO WAS GOING NOWHERE III. THE STRANGE FACE IV. AT THE SCHOONER’S RAIL V. THE MAN WHO HAD NOWHERE TO GO VI. THE EVIL-LOOKING BOATMEN VII. THE LOCKED DOOR VIII. THE CRYING OF THE PUMA IX. THE THING IN THE FOREST X....

THE LAIRD’S LUCKAND OTHER FIRESIDE TALES BYA.T. QUILLER-COUCH(Q) CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONSNEW YORK 1901 THE LAIRD’S LUCK [In a General Order issued from the Horse-Guards on New Year’s Day, 1836, His Majesty, King William IV., was pleased to direct, through the Commander-in-Chief, Lord Hill, that “with the view of doing the fullest justice to Regiments, as well as to Individuals who had distinguished themselves in action against the enemy,” an account of the services of every Regiment in the British Army should be published, under the supervision of the Adjutant General....

The Life of John Bunyan CHAPTER I. John Bunyan, the author of the book which has probably passed through more editions, had a greater number of readers, and been translated into more languages than any other book in the English tongue, was born in the parish of Elstow, in Bedfordshire, in the latter part of the year 1628, and was baptized in the parish church of the village on the last day of November of that year....