THE MAN OF THE FOREST by Zane Grey CHAPTER I At sunset hour the forest was still, lonely, sweet with tang of fir and spruce, blazing in gold and red and green; and the man who glided on under the great trees seemed to blend with the colors and, disappearing, to have become a part of the wild woodland. Old Baldy, highest of the White Mountains, stood up round and bare, rimmed bright gold in the last glow of the setting sun....
CHAPTER I THE battle was over, and the victor remained on the field–sitting alone with the hurly-burly of his thoughts. His triumph was so sweeping and comprehensive as to be somewhat shapeless to the view. He had a sense of fascinated pain when he tried to define to himself what its limits would probably be. Vistas of unchecked, expanding conquest stretched away in every direction. He held at his mercy everything within sight....
One evening of late summer, before the nineteenth century had reached one-third of its span, a young man and woman, the latter carrying a child, were approaching the large village of Weydon-Priors, in Upper Wessex, on foot. They were plainly but not ill clad, though the thick hoar of dust which had accumulated on their shoes and garments from an obviously long journey lent a disadvantageous shabbiness to their appearance just 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.] MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF FRANCE Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen BOOK 7. CHAPTER IX. The Queen having been robbed of her purse as she was passing from the Tuileries to the Feuillans, requested my sister to lend her twenty-five louis....
VOL. 13, No. 352.] SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1829. [PRICE 2d. PRINCE RUPERT’S PALACE [Illustration: Prince Rupert’s palace, Barbican.] Prince Rupert, who will be remembered in the annals of the useful and fine arts when his military fame shall be forgotten, resided at a house in Beech-lane, Barbican, of the remains of which the above is a representation. His residence here was in the time of Charles II.; for it is said that Charles paid him a visit, when the ringers of Cripplegate had a guinea for complimenting the royal guest with a “merry peal....
THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. XVII, NO. 490.] SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1831. [PRICE 2d. [Illustration: OLD HOUSE IN SOUTHWARK.] This crazy, but not unpicturesque building, was taken down in the autumn of last year, in forming an approach to the New London Bridge. It stood on the eastern side of the High-street, and is worthy of record among the pleasing relics of antiquity, which it has ever been the object of The Mirror to rescue from oblivion....
THE MYSTERY OF METROPOLISVILLE BY EDWARD EGGLESTON AUTHOR OF “THE HOOGLEE SCHOOL-MASTER,” “THE END OF THE WORLD,” ETC 1888 TO ONE WHO KNOWS WITH ME A LOVE-STORY, NOW MORE THAN FIFTEEN YEARS IN LENGTH, AND BETTER A HUNDREDFOLD THAN ANY I SHALL EVER BE ABLE TO WRITE, THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED, ON AN ANNIVERSARY. MARCH 18TH, 1873. PREFACE. A novel should be the truest of books. It partakes in a certain sense of the nature of both history and art....
MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-1798 VENETIAN YEARS, Volume 1e–MILAN AND MANTUA THE RARE UNABRIDGED LONDON EDITION OF 1894 TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR MACHEN TO WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED THE CHAPTERS DISCOVERED BY ARTHUR SYMONS. MILAN AND MANTUA CHAPTER XX Slight Misfortunes Compel Me to Leave Venice–My Adventures in Milan and Mantua On Low Sunday Charles paid us a visit with his lovely wife, who seemed totally indifferent to what Christine used to be....
Howard Pyle’s Book of Pirates Fiction, Fact & Fancy concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main: From the writing & Pictures of Howard Pyle: Compiled by Merle Johnson CONTENTS FOREWORD BY MERLE JOHNSON PREFACE I. BUCCANEERS AND MAROONERS OF THE SPANISH MAIN II. THE GHOST OF CAPTAIN BRANDIII. WITH THE BUCCANEERSIV. TOM CHIST AND THE TREASURE BOXV. JACK BALLISTER’S FORTUNESVI. BLUESKIN THE PIRATEVII. CAPTAIN SCARFIELD FOREWORD PIRATES, Buccaneers, Marooners, those cruel but picturesque sea wolves who once infested the Spanish Main, all live in present-day conceptions in great degree as drawn by the pen and pencil of Howard Pyle....
IF I MAY A. A. MILNE * * * * * BY THE SAME AUTHOR NOT THAT IT MATTERS Named by Life in its issue of October 28, 1920, as one of the best six current books. “No better book for vacation reading.” –Review E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY * * * * * IF I MAY BY A. A. MILNE AUTHOR OF “NOT THAT IT MATTERS,” ETC. NEW YORK E....
In His Steps by Charles M. Sheldon Chapter One “For hereunto were ye called; because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow in his steps.” It was Friday morning and the Rev. Henry Maxwell was trying to finish his Sunday morning sermon. He had been interrupted several times and was growing nervous as the morning wore away, and the sermon grew very slowly toward a satisfactory finish....
JACK ARCHER A Tale of the Crimea By G. A. HENTY Author of “The Boy Knight,” “With Clive in India,” “True to the Old Flag,” Etc., Etc. CONTENTS Chapter I. The MidshipmanChapter II. An Adventure at GibChapter III. The EscapeChapter IV. GallipoliChapter V. A Brush with the Enemy Chapter VI. The AlmaChapter VII. Before SebastopolChapter VIII. BalaklavaChapter IX. InkermanChapter X. The Great StormChapter XI. Taken PrisonersChapter XII. Prisoners on ParoleChapter XIII....
First Published 1922. Etext prepared by John Bickers, jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz. KAI LUNG’S GOLDEN HOURS BY ERNEST BRAMAH With a Preface byHilaire Belloc The Kai Lung stories have for many years been in high favour among those who relish sophisticated humour. One of the first to recognize their distinction was Hilaire Belloc, who, in his Introduction, records the impact made upon him when he first made the acquaintance of these masterpieces of narrative....
[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 ABBE CONSTANTIN By LUDOVIC HALEVY BOOK 2. CHAPTER IV A RIOT OF CHARITY The next day, at half-past five in the morning, the bugle-call rang through the barrack-yard at Souvigny. Jean mounted his horse, and took his place with his division....
PARS PRIOR. NARRATIONES PROTOCANONICAE, 1:1-10:3. I. PERICULUM IUDAEORUM, 1:1-4:17. REGINA VASTHI EICITUR, 1:1-22. 1:1 In diebus Assueri, qui regnavit ab India usque Aethiopiam super centum viginti septem provincias: 1:2 quando sedit in solio regni sui, Susan civitas regni eius exordium fuit. 1:3 Tertio igitur anno imperii sui fecit grande convivium cunctis principibus, et pueris suis, fortissimis Persarum, et Medorum inclytis, et praefectis provinciarum coram se, 1:4 ut ostenderet divitias gloriae regni sui, ac magnitudinem, atque iactantiam potentiae suae, multo tempore, centum videlicet et octoginta diebus....
Stendhal Le don Juan de Moliäre est galant sans doute, mais avant tout il est homme de bonne compagnie; avant de se livrer au penchant irrÃsistible qui l’entraÃ¥ne vers les jolies femmes, il tient à se conformer à un certain modäle idÃal, il veut à tre l’homme qui serait souverainement admirà à la cour d’un jeune roi galant et spirituel. Le don Juan de Mozart est dÃjà plus präs de la nature, et moins franáais, il pense moins à l’opinion des autres; il ne songe pas, avant tout, à parestre, comme dit le baron de Foeneste, de d’AubignÃ....
[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.] LETTERS TO HIS SON 1748 By the EARL OF CHESTERFIELD on the Fine Art of becoming a MAN OF THE WORLD and a GENTLEMAN LETTER XXIV January 2, O. S. 1748. DEAR BOY: I am edified with the allotment of your time at Leipsig; which is so well employed from morning till night, that a fool would say you had none left for yourself; whereas, I am sure you have sense enough to know, that such a right use of your time is having it all to yourself; nay, it is even more, for it is laying it out to immense interest, which, in a very few years, will amount to a prodigious capital....
LITTLE EYOLF.By Henrik Ibsen Translated, With an Introduction, by William Archer INTRODUCTION. Little Eyolf was written in Christiania during 1894, and published in Copenhagen on December 11 in that year. By this time Ibsen’s correspondence has become so scanty as to afford us no clue to what may be called the biographical antecedents of the play. Even of anecdotic history very little attaches to it. For only one of the characters has a definite model been suggested....
[Illustration: “Two of the police had now arrived.” (Page 295)] M. or N. “Similia similibus curantur” By G.J. Whyte-Melville CONTENTS CHAP. I. “Small and Early” II. “Nightfall” III. Tom Ryfe IV. Gentleman Jim V. The Cracksman’s Checkmate VI. A Reversionary Interest VII. Dick Stanmore VIII. Nina IX. The Usual Difficulty X. The Fairy Queen XI. In the Scales XII. “A Cruel Parting” XIII. Sixes and Sevens XIV. The Officers’ Mess XV....
by Jane Austen CHAPTER I About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet’s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income. All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the match, and her uncle, the lawyer, himself, allowed her to be at least three thousand pounds short of any equitable claim to it....
