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MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection–a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without any legal claim that I could plead, or equitable warrant in established usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion....

This file was produced from images generously made available by the CWRU Preservation Department Digital Library. MILITARY REMINISCENCES OF THE CIVIL WAR BY JACOB DOLSON COX, A.M., LL.D. Formerly Major-General commanding Twenty-Third Army Corps VOLUME I. APRIL 1861–NOVEMBER 1863 PREFACE My aim in this book has been to reproduce my own experience in our Civil War in such a way as to help the reader understand just how the duties and the problems of that great conflict presented themselves successively to one man who had an active part in it from the beginning to the end....

Or, Waking Thoughts for the Little Ones By FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL ToThe Twin Brothers,Willie and EthelbertWithAunt Fanny’s Love. Contents. Morning Bells “Thy Holy Child Jesus” 2. “Even Christ pleased not Himself” 3. “Hold Thou me up, and I shall be safe” 4. “Bear ye one another’s burdens” 5. “Yield your members as instruments of righteousness unto God” 6. “Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly” 7. “Faithful over a few things” 8....

by Jeffrey Farnol ITREASURE TROVE I sat fishing. I had not caught anything, of course – I rarely do, nor am I fond of fishing in the very smallest degree, but I fished assiduously all the same, because circumstances demanded it. It had all come about through Lady Warburton, Lisbeth’s maternal aunt. Who Lisbeth is you will learn if you trouble to read these veracious narratives – suffice it for the present that she has been an orphan from her youth up, with no living relative save her married sister Julia and her Aunt (with a capital A) – the Lady Warburton aforesaid....

NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. “When found, make a note of.”–CAPTAIN CUTTLE. No. 21.] Saturday, March 23. 1850.[Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4d. CONTENTS. NOTES:– Page Early Statistics–Chart, Kent 329 “Bis dat qui cito dat” 330 Parallel Passages 330 Errors corrected 331 Direct and Indirect Etymology 331 Error in Pope’s Homer’s Odyssey 331 Proverbial Sayings and their Origins, &c. 332 QUERIES:– “The Supper of the Lorde” 332 What is a Chapel, by Rev....

NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * “When found, make a note of.”–CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 41.]SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1850.[Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. * * * * *{161} CONTENTS. NOTES: Sir William Gascoigne, by Edward Foss An old Guy, by Dr. Bell Folk Lore:–Folk Lore of South Northamptonshire, No. 2 Mice, Snakes, Poultry, Crows, Owls, Cuckoos, &c....

O Pioneers! by Willa Cather PART I The Wild Land I One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away. A mist of fine snowflakes was curling and eddying about the cluster of low drab buildings huddled on the gray prairie, under a gray sky. The dwelling-houses were set about haphazard on the tough prairie sod; some of them looked as if they had been moved in overnight, and others as if they were straying off by themselves, headed straight for the open plain....

ONE DAY’S COURTSHIP AND THE HERALDS OF FAME BY ROBERT BARR AUTHOR OF “A WOMAN INTERVENES,” “IN THE MIDST OF ALARMS,” “THE FACE AND THE MASK,” “FROM WHOSE BOURNE,” ETC. WITH FRONTISPIECE BY E. FREDERICK 1896 CHAPTER I. John Trenton, artist, put the finishing touches to the letter he was writing, and then read it over to himself. It ran as follows:– “MY DEAR ED., “I sail for England on the 27th....

[Illustration: Portrait.] * * * * * REMINISCENCES OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE AND ROBERT SOUTHEY by JOSEPH COTTLE * * * * * INTRODUCTION. It is with a solemnized feeling that I enter on these Reminiscences. Except one, I have survived all the associates of my earlier days. The young, with a long life in perspective, (if any life can be called long, in so brief an existence) are unable to realize the impressions of a man, nearer eighty than seventy, when the shadows of evening are gathering around, and, in a retrospective glance, the whole field of past vision appears, in all its complexities, like the indistinct tumults of a dream....

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, BY A. H. JAPP PREFACE A FEW words may here be allowed me to explain one or two points. First, about the facsimile of last page of Preface to FAMILIAR STUDIES OF MEN AND BOOKS. Stevenson was in Davos when the greater portion of that work went through the press. He felt so much the disadvantage of being there in the circumstances (both himself and his wife ill) that he begged me to read the proofs of the Preface for him....

RUDIMENTAL DIVINE SCIENCE By MARY BAKER EDDY Published by The Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker G. Eddy 1891, 1908 THIS LITTLE BOOK IS TENDERLY AND RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO ALL LOYAL STUDENTS, WORKING AND WAITING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SCIENCE OF MIND-HEALING MARY BAKER EDDY CONTENTS DEFINITION OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PRINCIPLE OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PERSONALITY OF GOD HEALING SICKNESS AND SIN INDIVIDUALITY OF GOD MATERIAL AND SPIRITUAL SCIENCE NON-EXISTENCE OF MATTER MATERIALITY INTANGIBLE BASIS OF MIND-HEALING MATERIAL AND SPIRITUAL MAN DEMONSTRATION IN HEALING MEANS AND METHODS ONLY ONE SCHOOL How would you define Christian Science?...

SATANSTOE;OR,THE LITTLEPAGE MANUSCRIPTS. A TALE OF THE COLONY. BYJ. FENIMORE COOPER. “The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue: the only treasure, truth.”–SPENSER PREFACE. Every chronicle of manners has a certain value. When customs are connected with principles, in their origin, development, or end, such records have a double importance; and it is because we think we see such a connection between the facts and incidents of the Littlepage Manuscripts, and certain important theories of our own time, that we give the former to the world....

Note: This is Volume 4 of a 10-volume series, the contents of which are as follows: Volume 1: Great Britain and Ireland, Part 1 Volume 2: Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2 Volume 3: France and the Netherlands, Part 1 Volume 4: France and the Netherlands, Part 2 Volume 5: Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, Part 1 Volume 6: Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, Part 2 Volume 7: Italy and Greece, Part 1 Volume 8: Italy and Greece, Part 2 Volume 9: Spain and Portugal Volume 10: Russia, Scandanavia and the Southeast SEEING EUROPE WITH FAMOUS AUTHORS IN TEN VOLUMES VOL IV: FRANCE AND THE NETHERLANDS, PART TWO SELECTED AND EDITED WITH INTRODUCTIONS ETC BY FRANCIS W....

SKETCHES NEW AND OLD by Mark Twain Part 4. THE LATE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN–[Written about 1870.] [“Never put off till to-morrow what you can do day after to-morrow just as well.”–B. F.] This party was one of those persons whom they call Philosophers. He was twins, being born simultaneously in two different houses in the city of Boston. These houses remain unto this day, and have signs upon them worded in accordance with the facts....

SONS OF THE SOIL BY HONORE DE BALZAC Translated ByKatharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Monsieur P. S. B. Gavault. Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote these words at the beginning of his Nouvelle Heloise: “I have seen the morals of my time and I publish these letters.” May I not say to you, in imitation of that great writer, “I have studied the march of my epoch and I publish this work”? The object of this particular study–startling in its truth so long as society makes philanthropy a principle instead of regarding it as an accident–is to bring to sight the leading characters of a class too long unheeded by the pens of writers who seek novelty as their chief object....

[Illustration: NEVADA FALLS (height 617 feet). Yosemite Valley.] STORIES OF CALIFORNIA BY ELLA M. SEXTON NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANYLONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.1903 All rights reserved 1902, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up, electrotyped, and published September, 1902. Reprinted October, 1903. Normond Press J.S. Cushing & Co.–Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. FOREWORD To recount in simple, accurate narratives the early conditions and subsequent development of California is the purpose of this book....

by Bret Harte From: “ARGONAUT EDITION” OF THE WORKS OF BRET HARTE, VOL. 7 P. F. COLLIER & SON NEW YORK SUSY, A STORY OF THE PLAINS CHAPTER I. Where the San Leandro turnpike stretches its dusty, hot, and interminable length along the valley, at a point where the heat and dust have become intolerable, the monotonous expanse of wild oats on either side illimitable, and the distant horizon apparently remoter than ever, it suddenly slips between a stunted thicket or hedge of “scrub oaks,” which until that moment had been undistinguishable above the long, misty, quivering level of the grain....

TALES OF BENGAL by S. B. Banerjea Edited by Francis Henry Skrine. Contents. I. The Pride of KadampurII. The Rival MarketsIII. A Foul ConspiracyIV. The Biter BittenV. All’s Well That Ends WellVI. An Outrageous SwindleVII. The Virtue of EconomyVIII. A PeacemakerIX. A Brahman’s CurseX. A Roland for His OliverXI. RamdaXII. A Rift in the LuteXIII. Debenbra Babu in TroubleXIV. True to His SaltXV. A Tame RabbitXVI. Gobardhan’s TriumphXVII. Patience is a Virtue Introduction....

This extext was scanned by Dianne Bean of Chino Valley, AZ, with OmniPage Professional software donated by Caere. TANGLEWOOD TALES by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE THE WAYSIDE. INTRODUCTORY. A short time ago, I was favored with a flying visit from my young friend Eustace Bright, whom I had not before met with since quitting the breezy mountains of Berkshire. It being the winter vacation at his college, Eustace was allowing himself a little relaxation, in the hope, he told me, of repairing the inroads which severe application to study had made upon his health; and I was happy to conclude, from the excellent physical condition in which I saw him, that the remedy had already been attended with very desirable success....

TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction A Brief History of Basic Intelligence and the World Factbook Notes and Definitions Guide to Country Profiles (Categories, Fields and Subfields) Afghanistan Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antarctica Antigua and Barbuda Arctic Ocean Argentina Armenia Aruba Ashmore and Cartier Islands Atlantic Ocean Australia Austria Azerbaijan The Bahamas Bahrain Baker Island Bangladesh Barbados Bassas da India Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Bouvet Island Brazil British Indian Ocean Territory British Virgin Islands Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burma Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China Christmas Island Clipperton Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Colombia Comoros Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Cook Islands Coral Sea Islands Costa Rica Cote d’Ivoire Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Europa Island Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Faroe Islands Fiji Finland France French Guiana French Polynesia French Southern and Antarctic Lands Gabon The Gambia Gaza Strip Georgia Germany Ghana Gibraltar Glorioso Islands Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guernsey Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Heard Island and McDonald Islands Holy See (Vatican City) Honduras Hong Kong Howland Island Hungary Iceland India Indian Ocean Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Jan Mayen Japan Jarvis Island Jersey Johnston Atoll Jordan Juan de Nova Island Kazakstan Kenya Kingman Reef Kiribati Korea, North Korea, South Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Macedonia, Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Man, Isle of Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Micronesia, Federated States of Midway Islands Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nauru Navassa Island Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue Norfolk Island Northern Mariana Islands Norway Oman Pacific Ocean Pakistan Palau Palmyra Atoll Panama Papua New Guinea Paracel Islands Paraguay Peru Philippines Pitcairn Islands Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Reunion Romania Russia Rwanda Saint Helena Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Vincent and the Grenadines San Marino Sao Tome and Principe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia and Montenegro Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa South Georgia and the Spain Spratly Islands Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname Svalbard Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tokelau Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tromelin Island Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela Vietnam Virgin Islands Wake Island Wallis and Futuna West Bank Western Sahara Western Samoa World Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe...