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MARGARET OGILVY CHAPTER I – HOW MY MOTHER GOT HER SOFT FACE On the day I was born we bought six hair-bottomed chairs, and in our little house it was an event, the first great victory in a woman’s long campaign; how they had been laboured for, the pound- note and the thirty threepenny-bits they cost, what anxiety there was about the purchase, the show they made in possession of the west room, my father’s unnatural coolness when he brought them in (but his face was white) – I so often heard the tale afterwards, and shared as boy and man in so many similar triumphs, that the coming of the chairs seems to be something I remember, as if I had jumped out of bed on that first day, and run ben to see how they looked....

MORE BYWORDS Contents: The Price of Blood The Cat of Cat Copse De Facto and De Jure Sigbert’s Guerdon The Beggar’s Legacy A Review of the Nieces Come to Her Kingdom Mrs. Batseyes Chops THE PRICE OF BLOOD Ab ira et odio, et omni mala voluntate, Libera nos, Domine.A fulgure et tempestate, Libera nos, Domine.A morte perpetua, Libera nos, Domine. So rang forth the supplication, echoing from rock and fell, as the people of Claudiodunum streamed forth in the May sunshine to invoke a blessing on the cornlands, olives, and vineyards that won vantage- ground on the terraces carefully kept up on the slopes of the wonderful needle-shaped hills of Auvergne....

EDITED BY CHARLES F. HORNE, Ph.D. Professor of English, College of the City of New York; Author of “The Technique of the Novel,” etc. [colophon omitted] F. TYLER DANIELS COMPANY, INC. NEW YORK : : : : LONDON COPYRIGHT, 1911BY VINCENT PARKE AND COMPANY INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME NINE Among so many effective and artistic tales, it is difficult to give a preference to one over all the rest. Yet, certainly, even amid Verne’s remarkable works, his “Off on a Comet” must be given high rank....

RHODA FLEMING By George Meredith BOOK 3 XXI. GIVES A GLIMPSE OF WHAT POOR VILLANIES THE STORY CONTAINS XXII. EDWARD TAKES HIS COURSEXXIII. MAJOR PERCY WARINGXXIV. WARBEACH VILLAGE CHURCHXXV. OF THE FEARFUL TEMPTATION WHICH CAME UPON ANTHONY HACKBUT, AND OF HIS MEETING WITH DAHLIAXXVI. IN THE PARKXXVII. CONTAINS A STUDY OF A FOOL IN TROUBLE XXVIII. EDWARD’S LETTERXXIX. FURTHERMORE OF THE FOOL CHAPTER XXI Mrs. Boulby’s ears had not deceived her; it had been a bet: and the day would have gone disastrously with Robert, if Mrs....

Books by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi THE KISS OF APOLLO GABRIELLE AND OTHER POEMS. THE SIN OF ANGELS: A Novel A COSSACK LOVER: A Novel THE CUCKOO’S NEST: A Novel A MODERN PROMETHEUS: A Novel of Italy. With a frontispiece RUSSIAN LYRICS AND COSSACK SONGS. RUSSIAN LYRICS SONGS OF COSSACK, LOVER,PATRIOT AND PEASANT DONE INTO ENGLISH VERSE BYMARTHA GILBERT DICKINSON BIANCHI Author of “Within the Hedge,” “The Cathedral,” “A Modern Prometheus,” “The Cuckoo’s Nest” etc....

A TRIP TO SCARBOROUGH A COMEDY DRAMATIS PERSONÆ AS ORIGINALLY ACTED AT DRURY LANE THEATRE IN 1777 LORD FOPPINGTON Mr. Dodd. SIR TUNBELLY CLUMSY Mr. Moody. COLONEL TOWNLY Mr. Brereton. LOVELESS Mr. Smith. TOM FASHION Mr. J. Palmer. LA VAROLE Mr. Burton. LORY Mr. Baddeley. PROBE Mr. Parsons. MENDLEGS Mr. Norris. JEWELLER Mr. Lamash SHOEMAKER Mr. Carpenter. TAILOR Mr. Parker. AMANDA Mrs. Robinson. BERINTHIA Miss Farren. MISS HOYDEN Mrs. Abington....

SELECTIONS FROM AMERICAN POETRY With Special Reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier by Margaret Sprague Carhart CONTENTS: Introduction ANNE BRADSTREET Contemplation MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH The Day of Doom PHILLIP FRENEAU The Wild Honeysuckle To a Honey Bee The Indian Burying Ground Eutaw Springs FRANCIS HOPKINSON The Battle of the Kegs JOSEPH HOPKINSON Hail Columbia ANONYMOUS The Ballad of Nathan Hale A Fable TIMOTHY DWIGHT Love to the Church SAMUEL WOODWORTH The Old Oaken Bucket WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Thanatopsis The Yellow Violet To a Waterfowl Green River The West Wind “I Broke the Spell that Held Me Long” A Forest Hymn The Death of the Flowers The Gladness of Nature To the Fringed Gentian Song of Marion’s Men The Crowded Street The Snow Shower Robert of Lincoln The Poet Abraham Lincoln FRANCIS SCOTT KEY The Star Spangled Banner JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE The American Flag The Culprit Fay FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Marco Bozzaris On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake JOHN HOWARD PAYNE Home Sweet Home EDGAR ALLAN POE To Helen Israfel Lenore The Coliseum The Haunted Palace To One in Paradise Eulalie A Song The Raven To Helen Annabel Lee The Bells Eldorado HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Hymn to the Night A Psalm of Life The Skeleton in Armor The Wreck of the Hesperus The Village Blacksmith It is not Always May Excelsior The Rainy Day The Arrow and the Song The Day is Done Walter Von Vogelweide The Builders Santa Filomena The Discoverer of the North Cape Sandalphon Tales of a Wayside Inn The Landlord’s Tale The Sicilian’s Tale The Theologian’s Tale JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Proem The Frost Spirit Songs of Labor Dedication Songs of Labor The Lumberman Barclay of Ury All’s Well Raphael Seed-Time and Harvest The Prophecy of Samuel Sewall Skipper Ireson’s Ride The Double-headed Snake of Newbury Maud Muller Burns The Hero The Eternal Goodness The Pipes at Lucknow Cobbler Keezar’s Vision The Mayflowers RALPH WALDO EMERSON Goodbye Each and All The Problem The Rhodora The Humble-Bee The Snow-Storm Fable Forbearance Concord Hymn Boston Hymn The Titmouse JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Hakon’s Lay Flowers Impartiality My Love The Fountain The Shepherd of King Admetus Ode recited at the Harvard Commemoration Prelude to the Vision of Sir Launfal Biglow Papers What Mr Robinson Thinks The Courtin’ Sunthin’ in the Pastoral Line An Indain Summer Reverie A Fable for Critics (selection) OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Old Ironsides The Last Leaf My Aunt The Chambered Nautilus Contentment The Deacon’s Masterpiece THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Storm on the St....

SELECTIONS FROM POE Edited with Biographical and Critical Introduction and Notes BY J. MONTGOMERY GAMBRILL Head of the Department of History and Civics Baltimore Polytechnic Institute INSCRIBED TO THE POE AND LOWELL LITERARY SOCIETIES OF THE BALTIMORE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE [Illustration: EDGAR ALLAN POE. After an engraving by Cole] [Editor’s Note: The non-ASCII characters in “The Gold-Bug”, dagger, double dagger, and paragraph mark, have been replaced by y, Y, and P respectively....

[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.] SERGE PANINE By GEORGES OHNET With a General Introduction to the Series by GASTON BOISSIER, Secretaire Perpetuel de l’academie Francaise. GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1905 BY ROBERT ARNOT The editor-in-chief of the Maison Mazarin–a man of letters who cherishes an enthusiastic yet discriminating love for the literary and artistic glories of France–formed within the last two years the great project of collecting and presenting to the vast numbers of intelligent readers of whom New World boasts a series of those great and undying romances which, since 1784, have received the crown of merit awarded by the French Academy–that coveted assurance of immortality in letters and in art....

SEVEN ENGLISH CITIES by W. D. HOWELLS Illustrated [Illustration: A VIEW OF MONK BAR] * * * * * BOOKS OF TRAVEL AND COMMENT BY WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS ROMAN HOLIDAYS…………………………. net $3.00 Traveller’s Edition…………………. net 3.00 CERTAIN DELIGHTFUL ENGLISH TOWNS, Ill’d…… net 3.00 Traveller’s Edition…………………. net 3.00 LONDON FILMS. Illustrated……………….. net 2.25 Traveller’s Edition…………………. net 2.25 A LITTLE SWISS SOJOURN………………….. .50 MY YEAR IN A LOG CABIN. Illustrated………. .50 CRITICISM AND FICTION…………………… 1....

THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN HORN BY FRANK R. STOCKTON 1910 CONTENTS CHAPTER I An Introductory Disaster II A New Face in Camp III A Change of Lodgings IV Another New Face V The Rackbirds VI Three Weld Beasts VII Gone! VIII The Alarm IX An Amazing Narration X The Captain Explores XI A New Hemisphere XII A Tradition and a Waistcoat XIII “Mine!” XIV A Pile of Fuel XV The Cliff-Maka Scheme XVI On a Business Basis XVII “A Fine Thing, No Matter What Happens” XVIII Mrs....

THE AGE OF BIG BUSINESS, A CHRONICLE OF THE CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY BY BURTON J. HENDRICK NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESSTORONTO: GLASGOW, BROOK & CO.LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORDOXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1919 CONTENTS I. INDUSTRIAL AMERICA AT THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR II. THE FIRST GREAT AMERICAN TRUSTIII. THE EPIC OF STEELIV. THE TELEPHONE: AMERICA’S MOST POETICAL ACHIEVEMENT V. THE DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITIESVI. MAKING THE WORLD’S AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY VII. THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF THE AUTOMOBILE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE THE AGE OF BIG BUSINESS CHAPTER I....

THE AMERICAN JUDICIARY BY SIMEON E. BALDWIN, LL.D. CONTENTS PART CASES CITED. I. THE NATURE AND SCOPE OF THE JUDICIAL POWER IN THE UNITED STATES. II. THE ORGANIZATION AND PRACTICAL WORKING OF AMERICAN COURTS. PART I CHAPTER I. ENGLISH ORIGIN AND EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMERICAN JUDICIARY. II. THE SEPARATION OF THE JUDICIAL POWER FROM THE LEGISLATIVE AND EXECUTIVE IN AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONS. III. THE RELATIONS OF THE JUDICIARY TO THE POLITICAL DEPARTMENTS OF GOVERNMENT....

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EX-COLORED MAN James Weldon Johnson 1912 PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION OF 1912 This vivid and startlingly new picture of conditions brought about by the race question in the United States makes no special plea for the Negro, but shows in a dispassionate, though sympathetic, manner conditions as they actually exist between the whites and blacks to-day. Special pleas have already been made for and against the Negro in hundreds of books, but in these books either his virtues or his vices have been exaggerated....

THE AVENGER BY E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM Author of “The Master Mummer,” “A Maker of History,” “The Malefactor,” “The Lost Leader,” “The Great Secret,” Etc. 1908 CONTENTS I. A MYSTERIOUS VISITOR II. THE HORROR OF THE HANSOM III. DISCUSSING THE CRIME IV. UNDER A CLOUD V. ON THE TELEPHONE VI. ONE THOUSAND POUNDS’ REWARD VII. THE COLONEL’S DAUGHTER VIII. THE BARONESS INTERVENES IX. A BOX AT THE ALHAMBRA X. OUTCAST XI....

The Blue Moon by Laurence Housman CONTENTS THE BLUE MOONA CHINESE FAIRY-TALETHE WAY OF THE WINDA CAPFUL OF MOONSHINETHE MOON-STROKEHOW LITTLE DUKE JARL SAVED THE CASTLE THE WHITE DOETHE GENTLE COCKATRICETHE RAT-CATCHER’S DAUGHTERWHITE BIRCH The Blue Moon Nillywill and Hands-pansy were the most unimportant and happy pair of lovers the world has ever gained or lost. With them it had been a case of love at first blindness since the day when they had tumbled into each other’s arms in the same cradle....

[ILLUSTRATION: “You have made a fine shelter,” said the hunter.] THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT SNOW LODGE BY LAURA LEE HOPE Author of the Bobbsey Twins. COPYRIGHT, 1913, BYGROSSET & DUNLAP. CONTENTS CHAPTER I. THE RUNAWAYS II. OLD MR. CARFORD III. THE BIG SNOWBALL IV. THE ACCUSATION V. HOLIDAYS AT HAND VI. A VISIT TO MR. CARFORD VII. THE STORY OF SNOW LODGE VIII. A KIND OFFER IX. MR. BOBBSEY’S STORY X....

Testimony before the Committee on Foreign Relations United States Senate of WILLIAM C. BULLITT. MCMXIX CONTENTS THE COMMITTEE MEETS MR. BULLITT’S OFFICIAL STATUS ORDERED TO RUSSIA COUNCIL OF TEN DISCUSSES RUSSIA THE TROOPS AT ARCHANGEL SITUATION IN RUSSIA FRANCE BLOCKS PRINKIPOS CONFERENCE WHAT AMERICA WANTED THE BRITISH TERMS TEXT OF PROJECTED PEACE PROPOSAL BY THE ALLIED AND ASSOCIATED GOVERNMENTS MR. BULLITT’S REPORT ON RUSSIA ECONOMIC SITUATION SOCIAL CONDITIONS POLITICAL SITUATION PEACE PROPOSALS CONCLUSIONS APPENDIX TO REPORT TRANSPORT FOOD MANAGEMENT SOCIAL CONDITIONS STATEMENTS OF LEADERS OF OPPOSITION PARTIES ARMY LENIN’S PRESTIGE CONCESSIONS BREAKFAST WITH LLOYD GEORGE BULLITT REPORT SUPPRESSED PROPOSED DECLARATION OF ASSOCIATED GOVERNMENTS’ POLICY AND OFFER OF ARMISTICE NANSEN PLAN TO FEED RUSSIA AUCHINCLOSS-MILLER PROPOSAL BULLITT MEMORANDUM FOR AUCHINCLOSS REPLY OF PRESIDENT AND THREE PREMIERS TO NANSEN HOLCHAK’S ADVANCE CAUSES REJECTION OF PEACE PROPOSAL LLOYD GEORGE DECEIVES PARLIAMENT MR....

THE CASTLE INN BY STANLEY J. WEYMAN Author of “A Gentleman of France,” “Under the Red Robe,” “The House of the Wolf,” etc. ILLUSTRATED BY WALTER APPLETON CLARK 1898 CONTENTS CHAPTER I. A KNIGHT-ERRANT.CHAPTER II. A MISADVENTURE.CHAPTER III. TUTOR AND PUPILS–OLD STYLE. CHAPTER IV. PEEPING TOM OF WALLINGFORD.CHAPTER V. THE MEETING.CHAPTER VI. A FISH OUT OF WATER.CHAPTER VII. ACHILLES AND BRISEIS.CHAPTER VIII. THE OLD BATH ROAD.CHAPTER IX. ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON....

THE CERTAIN HOUR (Dizain des Poetes) By JAMES BRANCH CABELL “Criticism, whatever may be its pretensions, never does more than to define the impression which is made upon it at a certain moment by a work wherein the writer himself noted the impression of the world which he received at a certain hour.” NEW YORK ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY 1916 Copyright, 1916. by Robert M. McBride & Copyright, 1915, by McBride, Nast & Co....