THE ARMOURER’S PRENTICES PREFACE I have attempted here to sketch citizen life in the early Tudor days, aided therein by Stowe’s Survey of London, supplemented by Mr. Loftie’s excellent history, and Dr. Burton’s English Merchants. Stowe gives a full account of the relations of apprentices to their masters; though I confess that I do not know whether Edmund Burgess could have become a citizen of York after serving an apprenticeship in London....
THE BALL AT SCEAUX BY HONORE DE BALZAC Translated By Clara Bell To Henri de Balzac, his brother Honore. The Comte de Fontaine, head of one of the oldest families in Poitou, had served the Bourbon cause with intelligence and bravery during the war in La Vendee against the Republic. After having escaped all the dangers which threatened the royalist leaders during this stormy period of modern history, he was wont to say in jest, “I am one of the men who gave themselves to be killed on the steps of the throne....
THE BOY SCOUTS ON A SUBMARINE By Captain John Blaine CHAPTER I THE UNEXPECTED VISITOR A great barking of dogs broke the silence of the sleepy summer afternoon. Elinor Pomeroy laid down her knitting and slowly walked around the house. The barking of the three big dogs had been on a joyous tone. A young man was racing up the long front drive, the dogs leaping and bounding around him....
THE BROKEN ROAD BY A.E.W. MASON AUTHOR OF “FOUR FEATHERS,” “THE TRUANTS,” “RUNNING WATER,” ETC. 1907 CONTENTS CHAPTER I. THE BREAKING OF THE ROAD II. INSIDE THE FORT III. LINFORTH’S DEATH IV. LUFFE LOOKS FORWARD V. A MAGAZINE ARTICLE VI. A LONG WALK VII. IN THE DAUPHINE VIII. A STRING OF PEARLS IX. LUFFE IS REMEMBERED X. AN UNANSWERED QUESTION XI. AT THE GATE OF LAHORE XII. ON THE POLO-GROUND XIII....
The Brown Study By GRACE S. RICHMOND Author of “Red Pepper Burns,” “Mrs. Red Pepper,” “The Twenty-Fourth of June,” “The Second Violin,” Etc. 1919 TO THE LIVING MEMORY OF EDWARDS PARK CLEAVELAND CONTENTS I. BROWN HIMSELF II. BROWN’S CALLER–ONE OF MANY III. BROWN’S BORROWED BABY IV. BROWN’S SISTER SUE V. BROWN’S UNBORROWED BABY VI. BROWN’S PERSISTENT MEMORY VII. BROWN’S FINANCIAL RESOURCES VIII. BROWN’S BIDDEN GUESTS IX. BROWN’S UNBIDDEN GUESTS X....
Aristophanes Trans. William James Hickie All Greek from the original edition has been transliterated into Roman characters. Dramatis Personae StrepsiadesPhidippidesServant of StrepsiadesDisciples of SocratesSocratesChorus of CloudsJust CauseUnjust CausePasiasAmyniasWitnessChaerephon Scene: The interior of a sleeping-apartment: Strepsiades, Phidippides, and two servants are in their beds; a small house is seen at a distance. Time: midnight. Strepsiades (sitting up in his bed). Ah me! Ah me! O King Jupiter, of what a terrible length the nights are!...
THE COMPLEAT ANGLER To the Right worshipful John Offley of Madeley Manor, in the County of Stafford Esquire, My most honoured Friend Sir,– I have made so ill use of your former favours, as by them to be encouraged to entreat, that they may be enlarged to the patronage and protection of this Book: and I have put on a modest confidence, that I shall not be denied, because it is a discourse of Fish and Fishing, which you know so well, and both love and practice so much....
THE DAWN OF A TO-MORROWBy FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT I There are always two ways oflooking at a thing, frequentlythere are six or seven; but two ways of looking at a London fog are quiteenough. When it is thick and yellow in the streets and stings a man’sthroat and lungs as he breathes it, an awakening in the early morning iseither an unearthly and grewsome,or a mysteriously enclosing, secluding, and comfortable thing....
The Discovery of The Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke John Hanning Speke, born 1827. Served in the Punjab but left in 1854 to explore Somaliland. Discovered Lake Tanganyika with Burton, and Lake Victoria independently. Was, with Grant, the first European to cross equatorial africa. Died 1864. Editor’s Note John Hanning Speke was a man of thirty-six, when his Nile Journal appeared. He had entered the army in 1844, and completed ten years of service in India, serving through the Punjab Campaign....
The Manchester Tragedy and the Cruise of the Jacknell [Illustration: THE “ERIN’S HOPE” SALUTING THE GREEN FLAG.] “GOD SAVE IRELAND.” “Far dearer the grave or the prison Illum’d by one patriot’s name, Than the trophies of all who have risen On liberty’s ruins to fame.” MOORE The 23rd day of November, 1867, witnessed a strange and memorable scene in the great English city of Manchester. Long ere the grey winter’s morning struggled in through the crisp frosty air–long ere the first gleam of the coming day dulled the glare of the flaming gas jets, the streets of the Lancashire capital were all astir with bustling crowds, and the silence of the night was broken by the ceaseless footfalls and the voices of hurrying throngs....
THE DORE GALLERY OF BIBLE ILLUSTRATIONS Illustrated by Gustave Dore Volume 1. This volume, as its title indicates, is a collection of engravings illustrative of the Bible–the designs being all from the pencil of the greatest of modern delineators, Gustave Dore. The original work, from which this collection has been made, met with an immediate and warm recognition and acceptance among those whose means admitted of its purchase, and its popularity has in no wise diminished since its first publication, but has even extended to those who could only enjoy it casually, or in fragmentary parts....
[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 17. IX. Of Vanity CHAPTER IX OF VANITY There is, peradventure, no more manifest vanity than to write of it so vainly....
THE FIRST HUNDRED THOUSAND Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a Unit of “K(1)” BY IAN HAY [Illustration: CAPTAIN IAN HAY BEITH] By Ian Hay PIP: A ROMANCE OF YOUTH.GETTING TOGETHER.THE FIRST HUNDRED THOUSAND.SCALLY: THE STORY OF A PERFECT GENTLEMAN. With Frontispiece. A KNIGHT ON WHEELS.HAPPY-GO-LUCKY. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock. A SAFETY MATCH. With frontispiece.A MAN’S MAN. With frontispiece.THE RIGHT STUFF. With frontispiece. TO MY WIFE PUBLISHERS’ NOTE The “Junior Sub,” who writes the following account of the experiences of some of the first hundred thousand of Kitchener’s army, is, as the title-page of the volume now reveals, Ian Hay Beith, author of those deservedly popular novels, The Right Stuff, A Man’s Man, A Safety Match, and Happy-Go-Lucky....
VOLUME IX FRIEDRICH HEBBEL OTTO LUDWIG THE GERMAN CLASSICS Masterpieces of German Literature TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH Patrons’ Edition IN TWENTY VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED 1914 CONTENTS OF VOLUME IX Friedrich Hebbel The Life of Friedrich Hebbel. By William Guild Howard Maria Magdalena. Translated by Paul Bernard Thomas Siegfried’s Death. Translated by Katherine Royce Anna. Translated by Frances H. King On Theodor Koerner and Heinrich von Kleist. Translated by Frances H. King Ludolf Wienbarg’s The Dramatists of the Present Day....
THE GILDED AGE A Tale of Today by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner 1873 Part 7. CHAPTER LV. Henry Brierly took the stand. Requested by the District Attorney to tell the jury all he knew about the killing, he narrated the circumstances substantially as the reader already knows them. He accompanied Miss Hawkins to New York at her request, supposing she was coming in relation to a bill then pending in Congress, to secure the attendance of absent members....
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus I Are these the only works of Providence in us? What words suffice to praise or set them forth? Had we but understanding, should we ever cease hymning and blessing the Divine Power, both openly and in secret, and telling of His gracious gifts? Whether digging or ploughing or eating, should we not sing the hymn to God:– Great is God, for that He hath given us such instruments to till the ground withal:Great is God, for that He hath given us hands, and the power of swallowing and digesting; of unconsciously growing and breathing while we sleep!...
The Great God Success A NOVEL By JOHN GRAHAM (DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS) THE GREGG PRESS / RIDGEWOOD, N.J. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. THE CANDIDATE FROM YALE II. THE CITY EDITOR RECONSIDERS III. A PARK ROW CELEBRITY IV. IN THE EDGE OF BOHEMIA V. ALICE VI. IN A BOHEMIAN QUICKSAND VII. A LITTLE CANDLE GOES OUT VIII. A STRUGGLE FOR SELF-CONTROL IX. AMBITION AWAKENS X. THE ETERNAL MASCULINE XI. TRESPASSING XII. MAKING THE MOST OF A MONTH XIII....
THE GREAT WAR SYNDICATE BYFRANK R. STOCKTONAuthor of “The Lady or the Tiger,” “Rudder Grange,” “The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine,” “What Might Have Been Expected,” etc., etc. THE GREAT WAR SYNDICATE. In the spring of a certain year, not far from the close of the nineteenth century, when the political relations between the United States and Great Britain became so strained that careful observers on both sides of the Atlantic were forced to the belief that a serious break in these relations might be looked for at any time, the fishing schooner Eliza Drum sailed from a port in Maine for the banks of Newfoundland....
DON QUIXOTE Volume II. Part 24. by Miguel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby CHAPTER XXI. IN WHICH CAMACHO’S WEDDING IS CONTINUED, WITH OTHER DELIGHTFUL INCIDENTS While Don Quixote and Sancho were engaged in the discussion set forth the last chapter, they heard loud shouts and a great noise, which were uttered and made by the men on the mares as they went at full gallop, shouting, to receive the bride and bridegroom, who were approaching with musical instruments and pageantry of all sorts around them, and accompanied by the priest and the relatives of both, and all the most distinguished people of the surrounding villages....
[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 INK STAIN BY RENE BAZIN(Tache d’Encre) By RENE BAZIN Preface by E. LAVISSE BOOK 1. RENE BAZIN RENE-NICHOLAS-MARIE BAZIN was born at Angers, December 26, 1853. He studied for the bar, became a lawyer and professor of jurisprudence at the Catholic University in his native city, and early contributed to ‘Le Correspondant, L’Illustration, Journal des Debats, Revue du Deux Mondes,’ etc....
