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THE ANGEL ADJUTANT OF “Twice Born Men” by MINNIE L. CARPENTER INTRODUCTION BYGENERAL BRAMWELL BOOTH FOREWORD BYCOMMANDER EVANGELINE BOOTH Introductory Note There is surely little need for me to commend this so intimate and living picture of Staff-Captain Kate Lee. It speaks for itself in speaking of one whose fine character and ceaseless labour were of singular charm and amazing fruitfulness. The Salvation Army has been happy in its Women Officers....

THE ANTIQUARY BY SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART. COMPLETE VOLUME ONE I knew Anselmo. He was shrewd and prudent, Wisdom and cunning had their shares of him; But he was shrewish as a wayward child, And pleased again by toys which childhood please; As—book of fables, graced with print of wood, Or else the jingling of a rusty medal, Or the rare melody of some old ditty, That first was sung to please King Pepin’s cradle INTRODUCTION The present work completes a series of fictitious narratives, intended to illustrate the manners of Scotland at three different periods....

The Apology By Xenophon Translation by H. G. Dakyns Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land and property in Scillus, where he lived for many years before having to move once more, to settle in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C. The Apology describes Socrates’ state of mind at his trial and execution, and especially his view that it was better to die before senility set in than to escape execution by humbling himself be- fore an unjust persecution....

THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY. A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS. VOL. IV.–OCTOBER, 1859.–NO. XXIV. DAILY BEAUTY. Toward the end of a city morning, that is, about four o’clock in the afternoon, Stanford Grey, and his guest, Daniel Tomes, paused in an argument which had engaged them earnestly for more than half an hour. What they had talked about it concerns us not to know. We take them as we find them, each leaning back in his chair, confirmed in the opinion that he had maintained, convinced only of his opponent’s ability and rectitude of purpose, and enjoying the gradual subsidence of the excitement that accompanies the friendliest intellectual strife as surely as it does the gloved set-tos between those two “talented professors of the noble science of self-defence” who beat each other with stuffed buck-skin, at notably brief intervals, for the benefit of the widow and children of the late lamented Slippery Jim, or some other equally mysterious and eminent person....

or, Checkmating the Plots of Foreign Spies By LAURA DENT CRANE Author of The Automobile Girls at Newport, The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires, The Automobile Girls Along the Hudson, The Automobile Girls at Chicago, The Automobile Girls at Palm Beach, etc. 1913 [Illustration: A Fat Chinese Gentleman Stood Regarding Her. (Frontispiece)] CONTENTS Chapter I. A Chance Meeting II. Cabinet Day in Washington III. Mr. Tu Fang Wu IV. At the Chinese Embassy V....

THE BOOK OF DREAMS AND GHOSTS PREFACE TO THE NEW IMPRESSION Since the first edition of this book appeared (1897) a considerable number of new and startling ghost stories, British, Foreign and Colonial, not yet published, have reached me. Second Sight abounds. Crystal Gazing has also advanced in popularity. For a singular series of such visions, in which distant persons and places, unknown to the gazer, were correctly described by her, I may refer to my book, The Making of Religion (1898)....

THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND ONE NIGHT: Now First Completely Done Into English Prose and Verse, From The Original Arabic, By John Payne(Author of “The Masque of Shadows,” “Intaglios: Sonnets,” “Songs of Life and Death,” “Lautrec,” “The Poems of Master Francis Villon of Paris,” “New Poems,” Etc, Etc.). In Nine Volumes: VOLUME THE FIRST. London Printed For Subscribers Only 1901 Delhi Edition Contents of The First Volume. Introduction....

The Boy Allies At Jutland or The Greatest Naval Battle of History By Ensign ROBERT L. DRAKE AUTHOR OF “The Boy Allies Under the Sea” “The Boy Allies In the Baltic” “The Boy Allies on the North Sea Patrol” “The Boy Allies Under Two Flags” “The Boy Allies with the Flying Squadron” “The Boy Allies with the Terror of the Seas” 1917 CHAPTER I H.M.S. “QUEEN MARY” A great, long, gray shape moved swiftly through the waters of the Thames....

THE BRASS BOWL BY LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE 1907 I DUST In the dull hot dusk of a summer’s day a green touring-car, swinging out of the East Drive, pulled up smartly, trembling, at the edge of the Fifty-ninth Street car-tracks, then more sedately, under the dispassionate but watchful eye of a mounted member of the Traffic Squad, lurched across the Plaza and merged itself in the press of vehicles south-bound on the Avenue....

WORKS BY ARNOLD BENNETT NOVELS A MAN FROM THE NORTHANNA OF THE FIVE TOWNSLEONORAA GREAT MANSACRED AND PROFANE LOVEWHOM GOD HATH JOINEDBURIED ALIVETHE OLD WIVES’ TALETHE GLIMPSELILIANMR. PROHACKLORD RAINGOIMPERIAL PALACEHELEN WITH THE HIGH HANDTHE PRICE OF LOVECLAYHANGERHILDA LESSWAYSTHESE TWAINTHE ROLL CALLTHE CARDTHE REGENTTHE LION’S SHARETHE PRETTY LADYRICEYMAN STEPSTHE STRANGE VANGUARDACCIDENT FANTASIAS THE GRAND BABYLON HOTELTHE GATES OF WRATHTERESA OF WATLING STREETTHE LOOT OF CITIESHUGOTHE GHOSTTHE CITY OF PLEASURE SHORT STORIES THE NIGHT VISITORTALES OF THE FIVE TOWNSTHE MATADOR OF THE FIVE TOWNSTHE GRIM SMILE OF THE FIVE TOWNSELSIE AND THE CHILDTHE WOMAN WHO STOLE EVERYTHING BELLES-LETTRES JOURNALISM FOR WOMENFAME AND FICTIONHOW TO BECOME AN AUTHORTHE TRUTH ABOUT AN AUTHORMENTAL EFFICIENCYHOW TO LIVE ON TWENTY-FOUR HOURS A DAY THE HUMAN MACHINELITERARY TASTETHE FEAST OF ST....

by Mary Roberts Rinehart THE CONFESSION I I am not a susceptible woman. I am objective rather than subjective, and a fairly full experience of life has taught me that most of my impressions are from within out rather than the other way about. For instance, obsession at one time a few years ago of a shadowy figure on my right, just beyond the field of vision, was later exposed as the result of a defect in my glasses....

THE CONQUEST OF NEW FRANCE, A CHRONICLE OF THE COLONIAL WARS by George M. Wrong CONTENTS I. THE CONFLICT OPENS: FRONTENAC AND PHIPS II. QUEBEC AND BOSTONIII. FRANCE LOSES ACADIAIV. LOUISBOURG AND BOSTONV. THE GREAT WESTVI. THE VALLEY OF THE OHIOVII. THE EXPULSION OF THE ACADIANSVIII. THE VICTORIES OF MONTCALMIX. MONTCALM AT QUEBECX. THE STRATEGY OF PITTXI. THE FALL OF CANADABIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE THE CONQUEST OF NEW FRANCE CHAPTER I. The Conflict Opens: Frontenac And Phips Many centuries of European history had been marked by war almost ceaseless between France and England when these two states first confronted each other in America....

By Ellen Glasgow 1904 CONTENTS BOOK I. The Inheritance CHAPTER I. The Man in the Field II. The Owner of Blake Hall III. Showing That a Little Culture Entails Great Care IV. Of Human Nature in the Raw State V. The Wreck of the Blakes VI. Carraway Plays Courtier VII. In Which a Stand Is Made VIII. Treats of a Passion That Is Not Love IX. Cynthia X. Sentimental and Otherwise BOOK II....

[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.] ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Translated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 CONTENTS OF VOLUME 8. XLVIII. Of war-horses, or destriers. XLIX. Of ancient customs.L. Of Democritus and Heraclitus. LI. Of the vanity of words....

THE EVE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION BY EDWARD J. LOWELL TO MY WIFE PREFACE There are two ways in which the French Revolution may be considered. We may look at the great events which astonished and horrified Europe and America: the storming of the Bastille, the march on Versailles, the massacres of September, the Terror, and the restoration of order by Napoleon. The study of these events must always be both interesting and profitable, and we cannot wonder that historians, scenting the approaching battle, have sometimes hurried over the comparatively peaceful country that separated them from it....

THE GENTLEMAN A ROMANCE OF THE SEA BY ALFRED OLLIVANT AUTHOR OF “BOB, SON OF BATTLE” AND “REDBOAT CAPTAIN” 1908 TO THE NAVY CONTENTS JULY 1805 BOOK I _THE LITTLE TREMENDOUS_ I THE DEATH OF BLACK DIAMOND Chap. I. THE MAN ON THE GREY II. THE GALLOPING GENT III. THE GUNNER OF THE SLOOP IV. OLD DING-DONG V. REUBEN BONIFACE’S STORY VI. THE LUGGER KITE VII. THE MAN IN THE LUGGER VIII....

THE HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN By Walter Scott TALES OF MY LANDLORD COLLECTED AND ARRANGED BY JEDEDIAH CLEISHBOTHAM, SCHOOLMASTER AND PARISH CLERK OF GANDERCLEUGH. SECOND SERIES. THE HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN. Hear, Land o’ Cakes and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnny Groat’s, If there’s a hole in a’ your coats, I rede ye tent it; A chiel’s amang you takin’ notes, An’ faith he’ll prent it! Burns. EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION TO THE HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN....

VOLUME TWO. THE HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN By Walter Scott TALES OF MY LANDLORD COLLECTED AND ARRANGED BY JEDEDIAH CLEISHBOTHAM, SCHOOLMASTER AND PARISH CLERK OF GANDERCLEUGH. SECOND SERIES. THE HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN. CHAPTER FIRST. Isab.–Alas! what poor ability’s in me To do him good? Lucio.–Assay the power you have. Measure for Measure. When Mrs. Saddletree entered the apartment in which her guests had shrouded their misery, she found the window darkened....

THE HIDDEN MASTERPIECE by HONORE DE BALZAC Translated ByKatharine Prescott Wormeley THE HIDDEN MASTERPIECE CHAPTER I On a cold morning in December, towards the close of the year 1612, a young man, whose clothing betrayed his poverty, was standing before the door of a house in the Rue des Grands-Augustine, in Paris. After walking to and fro for some time with the hesitation of a lover who fears to approach his mistress, however complying she may be, he ended by crossing the threshold and asking if Maitre Francois Porbus were within....

INNOCENTS ABROAD by Mark Twain [From an 1869–1st Edition] Part 1. CONTENTS CHAPTER I.Popular Talk of the Excursion–Programme of the Trip–Duly Ticketed for the Excursion–Defection of the Celebrities CHAPTER II.Grand Preparations–An Imposing Dignitary–The European Exodus –Mr. Blucher’s Opinion–Stateroom No. 10–The Assembling of the Clans –At Sea at Last CHAPTER III.“Averaging” the Passengers–Far, far at Sea.–Tribulation among the Patriarchs–Seeking Amusement under Difficulties–Five Captains in the Ship CHAPTER IV.The Pilgrims Becoming Domesticated–Pilgrim Life at Sea –“Horse-Billiards”–The “Synagogue”–The Writing School–Jack’s “Journal” –The “Q....