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The Ancient Regime The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 1 by Hippolyte A. Taine PREFACE. BOOK FIRST. The Structure of the Ancient Society. CHAPTER I. The Origin of Privileges. CHAPTER II. The Privileged Classes. CHAPTER III. Local Services Due by the Privileged Classes. CHAPTER IV. Public services due by the privileged classes. BOOK SECOND. Habits and Characters. CHAPTER I. Social Habits. CHAPTER II. Drawing room Life . CHAPTER III. Disadvantages of this Drawing room Life....

THE BOOK OF DELIGHT AND OTHER PAPERS BY ISRAEL ABRAHAMS, M.A. Author of “Jewish Life in the Middle Ages,” “Chapters on Jewish Literature,” etc. 1912 PREFACE The chapters of this volume were almost all spoken addresses. The author has not now changed their character as such, for it seemed to him that to convert them into formal essays would be to rob them of any little attraction they may possess....

The Brown Fairy Book Edited by Andrew Lang Dedicated to Diana Scott Lang Preface The stories in this Fairy Book come from all quarters of the world. For example, the adventures of ‘Ball-Carrier and the Bad One’ are told by Red Indian grandmothers to Red Indian children who never go to school, nor see pen and ink. ‘The Bunyip’ is known to even more uneducated little ones, running about with no clothes at all in the bush, in Australia....

“The Cash Boy”, by Horatio Alger, Jr., as the name implies, is a story about a boy and for boys. Through some conspiracy, the hero of the story when a baby, was taken from his relatives and given into the care of a kind woman. Not knowing his name, she gave him her husband’s name, Frank Fowler. She had one little daughter, Grace, and showing no partiality in the treatment of her children, Frank never suspected that she was not his sister....

The “legal small print” and other information about this book may now be found at the end of this file. Please read this important information, as it gives you specific rights and tells you about restrictions in how the file may be used. This etext was produced by David Widger [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....

The Cloister and the Hearthby Charles Reade Etext Notes: Greek passages are enclosed in angled brackets, (e.g. , and have been transliterated according to: alpha A, abeta B, bgamma G, gdelta D, depsilon E, ezeta Z, zeta Y, ytheta Th, thiota I, ikappa K, klamda L, lmu M, mnu N, nomicron O, opi P, prho R, rsigma S, stau T, tphi Ph, phchi Ch, chpsi Ps, psxi X, xupsilon U, uomega W, w All diacritics have been removed from this version References for the Author’s footnotes are enclosed in square brackets(e....

THE COSSACKSA Tale of 1852 By Leo Tolstoy (1863) Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude Chapter I All is quiet in Moscow. The squeak of wheels is seldom heard in the snow-covered street. There are no lights left in the windows and the street lamps have been extinguished. Only the sound of bells, borne over the city from the church towers, suggests the approach of morning. The streets are deserted....

The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War By C.G. Woodson. 1919 PREFACE About two years ago the author decided to set forth in a small volume the leading facts of the development of Negro education, thinking that he would have to deal largely with the movement since the Civil War....

[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 13. XXXII. Defence of Seneca and Plutarch. XXXIII. The story of Spurina.XXXIV. Means to carry on a war according to Julius Caesar....

[Illustration: “She was standing beside the fire with Quarrier, one foot on the fender.”] The Fighting Chance By Robert W. Chambers Author of “Cardigan,” “The Maid at Arms,” “The Firing Line,” etc. DEDICATED TO MY FATHER CONTENTS CHAPTERI. AcquaintanceII. ImprudenceIII. ShotoverIV. The Season OpensV. A Winning LoserVI. Modus VivendiVII. PersuasionVIII. ConfidencesIX. ConfessionsX. The Seamy SideXI. The Call of the RainXII. The Asking PriceXIII. The Selling PriceXIV. The BargainXV. The Enemy Listens THE FIGHTING CHANCE CHAPTER I ACQUAINTANCE The speed of the train slackened; a broad tidal river flashed into sight below the trestle, spreading away on either hand through yellowing level meadows....

THE GILDED AGE A Tale of Today by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner 1873 Part 5. CHAPTER XXXVII. That Chairman was nowhere in sight. Such disappointments seldom occur in novels, but are always happening in real life. She was obliged to make a new plan. She sent him a note, and asked him to call in the evening–which he did. She received the Hon. Mr. Buckstone with a sunny smile, and said: “I don’t know how I ever dared to send you a note, Mr....

THE GLORIESOFIRELAND EDITED BY JOSEPH DUNN, Ph.D.,ANDP.J. LENNOX. Litt.D., PROFESSORS AT THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA 1914 TO THE IRISH RACEIN EVERY LAND Ireland: “All thy life has been a symbol; we can only read a part: God will flood thee yet with sunshine for the woes that drench thy heart.” JOHN BOYLE O’REILLY. PREFACE We had at first intended that this should be a book without a preface, and indeed it needs none, for it speaks in no uncertain tones for itself; but on reconsideration we decided that it would be more seemly to give a short explanation of our aim, our motives, and our methods....

THE GOLDEN FLEECE A Romance by JULIAN HAWTHORNE CHAPTER I. The professor crossed one long, lean leg over the other, and punched down theashes in his pipe-bowl with the square tip of his middle finger. The thermometer on the shady veranda marked eighty-sevendegrees of heat, and nature wooed the soul to languor and revery; but nothing could abate the energy of this bony sage. “They talk about their Atlantises,–their submerged continents!...

THE GREAT HUNGER by JOHAN BOJER Translated from the Norwegian by W. J. ALEXANDER WORSTER and C. ARCHER THE GREAT HUNGER Book I Chapter I For sheer havoc, there is no gale like a good northwester, when it roars in, through the long winter evenings, driving the spindrift before it between the rocky walls of the fjord. It churns the water to a froth of rushing wave crests, while the boats along the beach are flung in somersaults up to the doors of the grey fisher huts, and solid old barn gangways are lifted and sent flying like unwieldy birds over the fields....

THE GREAT SECRET BY E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM CONTENTS CHAPTER I. ROOM No. 317 II. A MIDNIGHT RAID III. MISS VAN HOYT IV. A MATCH AT LORD’S V. ON THE TERRACE VI. “MR. GUEST” VII. A “TÊTE-À-TÊTE” DINNER VIII. IN THE TOILS IX. AN UNEXPECTED VISITOR X. “WORTLEY FOOTE–THE SPY” XI. A LEGACY OF DANGER XII. OLD FRIENDS XIII. THE SHADOW DEEPENS XIV. GATHERING JACKALS XV. A DYING MAN XVI. I TAKE UP MY LEGACY XVII....

THE GRIMKE SISTERS SARAH AND ANGELINA GRIMKE THE FIRST AMERICAN WOMEN ADVOCATESOF ABOLITION AND WOMAN’S RIGHTS By CATHERINE H. BIRNEY “The glory of all glories is the glory of self-sacrifice.” 1885 PREFACE. It was with great diffidence, from inexperience in literary work of such length, that I engaged to write the biography which I now present to the public. But the diaries and letters placed in my hands lightened the work of composition, and it has been a labor of affection as well as of duty to pay what tribute I might to the memory of two of the noblest women of the country, whom I learned to love and venerate during a residence of nearly two years under the same roof, and who, to the end of their lives, honored me with their friendship....

The Ivory Child by H. Rider Haggard CHAPTER I ALLAN GIVES A SHOOTING LESSON Now I, Allan Quatermain, come to the story of what was, perhaps, one of the strangest of all the adventures which have befallen me in the course of a life that so far can scarcely be called tame or humdrum. Amongst many other things it tells of the war against the Black Kendah people and the dead of Jana, their elephant god....

BOSWELL’SLIFE OF JOHNSON INCLUDING BOSWELL’S JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES AND JOHNSON’S DIARY OF A JOURNEY INTO NORTH WALES EDITED BY GEORGE BIRKBECK HILL, D.C.L. PEMBROKE COLLEGE, OXFORD IN SIX VOLUMES VOLUME III.–LIFE (1776-1780) CONTENTS OF VOL. III. LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. (MARCH 1776–OCT. 1780). APPENDICES: A. GEORGE PSALMANAZAR B. JOHNSON’S TRAVELS AND LOVE OF TRAVELLING C. ELECTION OF LORD MAYORS OF LONDON D. THE INMATES OF JOHNSON’S HOUSE E....

BY J.M. BARRIE CONTENTS I. David and I Set Forth Upon a Journey II. The Little Nursery Governess III. Her Marriage, Her Clothes, Her Appetite, and an Inventory of Her Furniture. IV. A Night-Piece V. The Fight For Timothy VI. A Shock VII. The Last of Timothy VIII. The Inconsiderate Waiter IX. A Confirmed Spinster X. Sporting Reflections XI. The Runaway Perambulator XII. The Pleasantest Club in London XIII. The Graound Tour of the Gardens XIV....

THE MEANING OF GOOD–A DIALOGUE BY G. LOWES DICKINSON Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge,and Author of a Modern Symposium THIRD EDITION 1900 DEDICATION How do the waves along the level shore Follow and fly in hurrying sheets of foam, For ever doing what they did before, For ever climbing what is never clomb! Is there an end to their perpetual haste, Their iterated round of low and high, Or is it one monotony of waste Under the vision of the vacant sky?...