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LOUIS AGASSIZ. ILLUSTRATIVE EXTRACTS ON HIS METHOD OF INSTRUCTION WITH AN INTRODUCTORY NOTE BY LANE COOPER PROFESSOR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE IN CORNELL UNIVERSITY. The beauty of his better self lives on In minds he touched with fire, in many an eye He trained to Truth’s exact severity; He was a Teacher: why be grieved for him Whose living word still stimulates the air? In endless file shall loving scholars come The glow of his transmitted touch to share....

MARRIAGE A Novel by Susan Ferrier “Life consists not of a series ofillustrious actions; the greater part of our time passes in compliance with necessities–in the performance of daily duties–in the removal of small inconveniences–in the procurement of petty pleasures; and we are well or ill at ease, as the main stream of life glides on smoothly, or is ruffled by small and frequent interruption.” -JOHNSON. EdinburghEdition IN TWO VOLUMES VOLUME I....

MARY SLESSOR OF CALABAR PIONEER MISSIONARY BY W. P. LIVINGSTONE PREFATORY NOTE Life for most people is governed by authority and convention, but behind these there lies always the mystery of human nature, uncertain and elusive, and apt now and again to go off at a tangent and disturb the smooth working of organised routine. Some man or woman will appear who departs from the normal order of procedure, who follows ideals rather than rules, and whose methods are irregular, and often, in the eyes of onlookers, unwise....

THE MIRACLES OF OUR LORD BY George MacDonald THE MIRACLES OF OUR LORD 1870 CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION II. THE BEGINNING OF MIRACLES III. THE CURE OF SIMON’S WIFE’S MOTHER IV. MIRACLES OF HEALING UNSOLICITED V. MIRACLES OF HEALING SOLICITED BY THE SUFFERS VI. MIRACLES GRANTED TO THE PRAYER OF FRIENDS VII. THE CASTING OUT OF DEVILSVIII. THE RAISING OF THE DEAD IX. THE GOVERNMENT OF NATURE X. MIRACLES OF DESTRUCTION I....

Transcriber’s Note: In order to maintain appropriate line length, some tables have been transposed, i.e. rows are columns and vice versa. MISSIONARY SURVEY AS AN AID TO INTELLIGENT CO-OPERATION IN FOREIGN MISSIONS BY ROLAND ALLEN, M.A.SOMETIME S.P.G. MISSIONARY IN NORTH CHINA AUTHOR OF “MISSIONARY METHODS, ST. PAUL’S OR OURS,” ETC. AND THOMAS COCHRANE, M.B., C.M.LATE PRINCIPAL OF UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE, PEKING, AND HON. SECRETARY OF THE LAYMEN’S MOVEMENT, LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY 1920 PREFACE....

[Etext version by James Rusk, jrusk@cyberramp.net. Italics are indicated by underscores.] MY LADY’S MONEY by Wilkie Collins AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF A YOUNG GIRL PERSONS OF THE STORY Women Lady Lydiard (Widow of Lord Lydiard)Isabel Miller (her Adopted Daughter) Miss Pink (of South Morden)The Hon. Mrs. Drumblade (Sister to the Hon. A. Hardyman) Men The Hon. Alfred Hardyman (of the Stud Farm) Mr. Felix Sweetsir (Lady Lydiard’s Nephew) Robert Moody (Lady Lydiard’s Steward)Mr....

[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.] MY LITERARY PASSIONS By William Dean Howells 1895 CONTENTS: BIBLIOGRAPHICAL.I. THE BOOKCASE AT HOMEII. GOLDSMITHIII. CERVANTESIV. IRVINGV. FIRST FICTION AND DRAMAVI. LONGFELLOW’S “SPANISH STUDENT” VII. SCOTTVIII. LIGHTER FANCIESIX. POPEX. VARIOUS PREFERENCESXI. UNCLE TOM’S CABINXII. OSSIANXIII. SHAKESPEAREXIV....

New Poems CONTENTS PRAYERLO! IN THINE HONEST EYES I READTHOUGH DEEP INDIFFERENCE SHOULD DROWSE MY HEART, WHEN FIRST THE BLACKBIRD SINGS I DREAMED OF FOREST ALLEYS FAIRST. MARTIN’S SUMMERDEDICATIONTHE OLD CHIMAERAS, OLD RECEIPTSPRELUDETHE VANQUISHED KNIGHTTO THE COMMISSIONERS OF NORTHERN LIGHTS THE RELIC TAKEN, WHAT AVAILS THE SHRINE? ABOUT THE SHELTERED GARDEN GROUNDAFTER READING “ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA” I KNOW NOT HOW, BUT AS I COUNTSPRING SONGTHE SUMMER SUN SHONE ROUND MEYOU LOOKED SO TEMPTING IN THE PEWLOVE’S VICISSITUDESDUDDINGSTONESTOUT MARCHES LEAD TO CERTAIN ENDSAWAY WITH FUNERAL MUSICTO SYDNEYHAD I THE POWER THAT HAVE THE WILLO DULL COLD NORTHERN SKYAPOLOGETIC POSTSCRIPT OF A YEAR LATER TO MARCUSTO OTTILIETHIS GLOOMY NORTHERN DAYTHE WIND IS WITHOUT THERE AND HOWLS IN THE TREES A VALENTINE’S SONGHAIL!...

Underground* *The author of the diary and the diary itself are, of course, imaginary. Nevertheless it is clear that such persons as the writer of these notes not only may, but positively must, exist in our society, when we consider the circumstances in the midst of which our society is formed. I have tried to expose to the view of the public more distinctly than is commonly done, one of the characters of the recent past....

COMO ANDA EL MUNDO, VISION DE BABUCO, ESCRITA POR …L PROPIO. Entre los genios que · los imperios del mundo presiden, ocupa Ituriel uno de los primeros puestos, y tiene · su cargo el departamento de la alta Asia. BaxÛ una maÒana · la mansion del Escita Babuco, · orillas del OxÙ, y le dixo asÌ: Babuco, los Persas han incurrido en nuestro enojo por sus excesos y sus desvarÌos, y ayer se celebrÛ una junta de genios de la alta Asia para decidir si habian de castigar Û destruir · Persepolis....

TABLE OF CONTENTS POEM FRONTISPIECE TRANSLATOR’S NOTE ON CONDUCTING APPENDIX A APPENDIX B APPENDIX C APPENDIX D POEM FRONTISPIECE (1869). MOTTO NACH GOETHE: “Fliegenschnauz’ und Muckennas’ Mit euren Anverwandten, Frosch im Laub und Grill’ im Gras, Ihr seid mir Musikanten!” * * * * * * * * “Flysnout and Midgenose, With all your kindred, too, Treefrog and Meadow-grig. True musicians, YOU!” (After GOETHE). [The lines travestied are taken from “Oberon und Titanias goldene Hochzeit....

ON THE ADVISABLENESS OF IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE* by Thomas H. Huxley [footnote] A Lay Sermon delivered in St. Martin’s Hall on Sunday, January 7th, 1866, and subsequently published in the ‘Fortnightly Review’. This time two hundred years ago–in the beginning of January, 1666–those of our forefathers who inhabited this great and ancient city, took breath between the shocks of two fearful calamities: one not quite past, although its fury had abated; the other to come....

by Willa Cather Book One: On Lovely Creek I. Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed. “Ralph, Ralph, get awake! Come down and help me wash the car.” “What for?” “Why, aren’t we going to the circus today?” “Car’s all right. Let me alone.” The boy turned over and pulled the sheet up to his face, to shut out the light which was beginning to come through the curtainless windows....

REVOLUTIONARY HEROES, AND OTHER HISTORICAL PAPERS HISTORICAL CLASSIC READINGS–No 10. BY JAMES PARTON, AUTHOR OF “LIFE OF HORACE GREELEY,” “LIFE OF ANDREW JACKSON,” “LIFE AND TIMES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,” ETC. ETC. GEN. JOSEPH WARREN SIGNING THE DECLARATION OF CAPT. NATHAN HALE INDEPENDENCE. GEN. WASHINGTON’S SPIES. ROBERT MORRIS. VALLEY FORGE. JOHN JAY. JOHN ADAMS. FISHER AMES. THE PINCKNEYS. INTRODUCTION. James Parton was born in Canterbury, England, February 9, 1822. When five years old he was brought to America and given an education in the schools of New York City, and at White Plains, N....

RHODA FLEMING By George Meredith BOOK 2 XII. AT THE THEATRE.XIII. THE FARMER SPEAKSXIV. BETWEEN RHODA AND ROBERTXV. A VISIT TO WREXBY HALLXVI. AT FAIRLY PARKXVII. A YEOMAN OF THE OLD BREEDXVIII. AN ASSEMBLY AT THE PILOT INN XIX. ROBERT SMITTEN LOWXX. MRS. LOVELL SHOWS A TAME BRUTE CHAPTER XII Edward’s engagement at his Club had been with his unfortunate cousin Algernon; who not only wanted a dinner but ‘five pounds or so’ (the hazy margin which may extend illimitably, or miserably contract, at the lender’s pleasure, and the necessity for which shows the borrower to be dancing on Fortune’s tight-rope above the old abyss)....

RHYMES OF A ROUGHNECK BY PAT O’COTTER 1918 DEDICATEDTOALASKA The home of the tin can and dog,A waste of snow, ice, and moss.The graveyard of ambitions,The by-word for hell,The home of the famed double cross. Men come here for gold,Ambitious for wealthThey stick–for they can’t get away, They dig, drink, and die,And then go to hell,To pay for their last sucker play– ALASKA CONTENTS THE BIRTH OF THE LAND A WOMAN, A DOG, AND A WALNUT TREE WHEN THE WATER STARTS TO RUN THE THROWBACK THE MALAMUTE UNSATISFIED THE PROSPECTOR IF US FOR SAM HOW LONG THAT 30 U....

Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley RISE AND FALL OF CESAR BIROTTEAU PART I CESAR AT HIS APOGEE I During winter nights noise never ceases in the Rue Saint-Honore except for a short interval. Kitchen-gardeners carrying their produce to market continue the stir of carriages returning from theatres and balls. Near the middle of this sustained pause in the grand symphony of Parisian uproar, which occurs about one o’clock in the morning, the wife of Monsieur Cesar Birotteau, a perfumer established near the Place Vendome, was startled from her sleep by a frightful dream....

PART ONE CHAPTER I In the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses– and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread-lace, had their toy spinning-wheels of polished oak–there might be seen in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain pallid undersized men, who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race. The shepherd’s dog barked fiercely when one of these alien-looking men appeared on the upland, dark against the early winter sunset; for what dog likes a figure bent under a heavy bag?...

SIMON BOLIVAR (THE LIBERATOR) Patriot, Warrior, Statesman Father of Five Nations [Illustration: STATUE OF THE LIBERATOR at the head of the Avenue of the Americas, New York City.] SIMON BOLIVAR (THE LIBERATOR) Patriot, Warrior, Statesman Father of Five Nations A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE AND HIS WORK BY GUILLERMO A. SHERWELL Guillermo A. Sherwell (1878-1926) was the recipient of Doctorate Degrees from the National University of Mexico and from the University of Georgetown....

SONG AND LEGEND FROM THE MIDDLE AGES SELECTED AND ARRANGED By WILLIAM D. MCCLINTOCKAssistant Professor of English Literature, University Of Chicago ANDPORTER LANDER McCLINTOCK Chautauqua Reading Circle Literature1893 CONTENTS. I. FRENCH LITERATUREII. SPANISH LITERATUREIII. SCANDINAVIAN LITERATUREIV. GERMAN LITERATUREV. ITALIAN LITERATURE READING LIST.Owing to the necessarily fragmentary character of the readings of this volume, it has seemed well to the editors to indicate a list of books for those who wish a wider reading In Mediaeval Literature....