Meditations By Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius CONTENTS NOTES INTRODUCTION FIRST BOOK SECOND BOOK THIRD BOOK FOURTH BOOK FIFTH BOOK SIXTH BOOK SEVENTH BOOK EIGHTH BOOK NINTH BOOK TENTH BOOK ELEVENTH BOOK TWELFTH BOOK APPENDIX GLOSSARY NOTES This text was scanned by J. Boulton using Textbridge OCR. The Greek portions of the text have been added by hand and they will require the standard “Symbol” font “symbol.ttf” to be installed in the system fonts folder....

November 6, 2022 · 96 min · 20392 words · Despina Sours

Miss Lulu Bett By Zona Gale

MISS LULU BETT By ZONA GALE 1921 CONTENTS CHAPTER I. APRIL II. MAY III. JUNE IV. JULY V. AUGUST VI. SEPTEMBER I APRIL The Deacons were at supper. In the middle of the table was a small, appealing tulip plant, looking as anything would look whose sun was a gas jet. This gas jet was high above the table and flared, with a sound. “Better turn down the gas jest a little,” Mr....

November 6, 2022 · 67 min · 14077 words · Jose Johnson

More Fables By George Ade

MORE FABLES by GEORGE ADE author of FABLES in SLANG ILLUSTRATED by CLYDE J. NEWMAN 1900. Table of Contents The Fable of How Uncle Brewster was Too Shifty for the Tempter The Fable of the Grass Widow and the Mesmeree and the Six Dollars The Fable of the Honest Money-Maker and the Partner of His Joys, Such as They Were The Fable of Why Sweetie Flew the Track The Fable of the Ex-Chattel and the Awful Swat that was Waiting for the Colonel The Fable of the Corporation Director and the Mislaid Ambition The Fable of What Happened the Night the Men Came to the Women’s Club The Fable of Why Essie’s Tall Friend Got the Fresh Air The Fable of the Michigan Counterfeit Who Wasn’t One Thing or the Other The Fable of the Adult Girl Who Got Busy Before They Could Ring the Bell on Her The Fable of the Man-Grabber Who Went Out of His Class The Fable of the Inveterate Joker who Remained in Montana The Fable of the Cruel Insult and the Arrival of the Lover from No....

November 6, 2022 · 100 min · 21192 words · James Wirth

Old Calabria By Norman Douglas

OLD CALABRIA BY NORMAN DOUGLAS CONTENTS I. SARACEN LUCERAII. MANFRED’S TOWNIII. THE ANGEL OF MANFREDONIAIV. CAVE-WORSHIPV. LAND OF HORACEVI. AT VENOSAVII. THE BANDUSIAN FOUNTVIII. TILLERS OF THE SOILIX. MOVING SOUTHWARDSX. THE FLYING MONKXI. BY THE INLAND SEAXII. MOLLE TARENTUMXIII. INTO THE JUNGLEXIV. DRAGONSXV. BYZANTINISMXVI. REPOSING AT CASTROVILLARIXVII. OLD MORANOXVIII. AFRICAN INTRUDERSXIX. UPLANDS OF POLLINOXX. A MOUNTAIN FESTIVALXXI. MILTON IN CALABRIAXXII. THE “GREEK” SILAXXIII. ALBANIANS AND THEIR COLLEGEXXIV. AN ALBANIAN SEERXXV....

November 6, 2022 · 88 min · 18662 words · Filomena Chamberlain

On The Seashore By R Cadwallader Smith

ON THE SEASHORE By R. CADWALLADER SMITH With Eight Colour Plates And ManyBlack-And-White Illustrations CONTENTS LESSON I. FIVE-FINGERED JACK II. A STROLL BY THE SEA III. BIRDS OF THE SHORE IV. CRABS V. SHRIMPS, PRAWNS AND BARNACLES VI. PLANTS OF THE SHORE VII. FLOWER-LIKE ANIMALS VIII. SEA-WEEDS AND SEA-GRASS IX. THE JELLY-FISH X. SHELLS AND THEIR BUILDERS (1) XI. SHELLS AND THEIR BUILDERS (2) LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS COLOUR PLATES TREASURES OF THE SEASHORE [Missing] GULLS THE REDSHANK HERMIT CRABS FIGHTING THE COMMON LOBSTER AND HERMIT CRAB CRUSTACEA WEST PAN SAND BUOY SHELLS BLACK AND WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS COMMON FIVE-FINGERED STARFISH TEST OR SHELL OF A SEA-URCHIN THE CRAB PURSE CRAB HERMIT CRAB IN WHELK’S SHELL HERMIT CRAB WITH SEA FLOWERS THE LOBSTER THE SHRIMP SEA LILY SEA ANEMONE SEA-WEED FROND SEA MAT MEDUSA A MEDUSOID PRECIOUS WENTLETRAP COWRIES LESSON I....

November 6, 2022 · 79 min · 16666 words · Joyce Moon

Scenes From A Courtesan S Life By Honore De Balzac

SCENES FROM A COURTESAN’S LIFE by Honore de Balzac Translated by James Waring PREPARER’S NOTE Note: The story of Lucien de Rubempre begins in the Lost Illusions trilogy which consists of Two Poets, A Distinguished Provincial at Paris, and Eve and David. DEDICATION To His HighnessPrince Alfonso Serafino di Porcia. Allow me to place your name at the beginning of an essentially Parisian work, thought out in your house during these latter days....

November 6, 2022 · 86 min · 18242 words · Amy Fears

Scientific American Supplement No 275

[Illustration] SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 275 NEW YORK, APRIL 9, 1881 Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XI, No. 275. Scientific American established 1845 Scientific American Supplement, $5 a year. Scientific American and Supplement, $7 a year. * * * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS. I. ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.–The Various Modes of Transmitting Power to a Distance. (Continued from No. 274.) By ARTHUR ARCHARD. of Geneva.–II. Compressed Air.–III. Transmission by Pressure Water....

November 6, 2022 · 95 min · 20091 words · Edith Orozco

Seaward Sussex By Edric Holmes

[Illustration: HURSTMONCEUX.] SEAWARD SUSSEX THE SOUTH DOWNSFROM END TO END BYEDRIC HOLMES ONE HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS BYMARY M. VIGERS MAPS AND PLANS BY THE AUTHOR LONDON: ROBERT SCOTTROXBURGHE HOUSEPATERNOSTER ROW, E.C. MCMXX “How shall I tell you of the freedom of the Downs– You who love the dusty life and durance of great towns, And think the only flowers that please embroider ladies’ gowns– How shall I tell you …” EDWARD WYNDHAM TEMPEST....

November 6, 2022 · 83 min · 17598 words · Amanda English

Snow Bound At Eagle S By Bret Harte

SNOW-BOUND AT EAGLE’S by Bret Harte SNOW-BOUND AT EAGLE’S CHAPTER I For some moments profound silence and darkness had accompanied a Sierran stage-coach towards the summit. The huge, dim bulk of the vehicle, swaying noiselessly on its straps, glided onward and upward as if obeying some mysterious impulse from behind, so faint and indefinite appeared its relation to the viewless and silent horses ahead. The shadowy trunks of tall trees that seemed to approach the coach windows, look in, and then move hurriedly away, were the only distinguishable objects....

November 6, 2022 · 77 min · 16271 words · Janet Caple

Stories By American Authors Volume 5 By Various

[Illustration: H. James] Stories by American Authors V. A LIGHT MAN. By Henry James. YATIL. By F.D. Millet. THE END OF NEW YORK. By Park Benjamin. WHY THOMAS WAS DISCHARGED. By George Arnold. THE TACHYPOMP. By E.P. Mitchell. 1884 A LIGHT MAN. BY Henry James.[1] “And I–what I seem to my friend, you see– What I soon shall seem to his love, you guess. What I seem to myself, do you ask of me?...

November 6, 2022 · 97 min · 20484 words · Eric Situ

The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Complete By Mark Twain Samuel Clemens

HUCKLEBERRY FINN By Mark Twain NOTICE PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR, Per G.G., Chief of Ordnance. EXPLANATORY IN this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary “Pike County” dialect; and four modified varieties of this last....

November 6, 2022 · 100 min · 21296 words · Edith Mcdonald

The American Claimant By Mark Twain

THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT by Mark Twain 1892 EXPLANATORY The Colonel Mulberry Sellers here re-introduced to the public is the same person who appeared as Eschol Sellers in the first edition of the tale entitled “The Gilded Age,” years ago, and as Beriah Sellers in the subsequent editions of the same book, and finally as Mulberry Sellers in the drama played afterward by John T. Raymond. The name was changed from Eschol to Beriah to accommodate an Eschol Sellers who rose up out of the vasty deeps of uncharted space and preferred his request–backed by threat of a libel suit–then went his way appeased, and came no more....

November 6, 2022 · 152 min · 32355 words · Scott Davis

The Apartment Next Door By William Andrew Johnston

The Apartment Next Door BY WILLIAM JOHNSTON AUTHOR OFTHE HOUSE OF WHISPERS, LIMPY, ETC. ILUSTRATIONS BYARTHUR WILLIAM BROWN 1919 TO THAT MARVELLOUS SCHEHERAZADE CAROLYN WELLS HOUGHTON THE AUTHOR, IN ENVIOUS ADMIRATION,DEDICATES THIS VOLUME CONTENTS CHAPTER I. THE FACE OF HATE II. THE ADDRESS ON THE CARD III. “MR. FLECK” IV. THE CLUE IN THE BOOK V. ON THE TRAIL VI. THE MISSING MESSAGE VII. THE WOMAN ON THE ROOF VIII....

November 6, 2022 · 78 min · 16452 words · Evan Cohee

The Bat By Mary Roberts Rinehart And Avery Hopwood

CONTENTS ONE THE SHADOW OF THE BATTWO THE INDOMITABLE MISS VAN GORDER THREE PISTOL PRACTICEFOUR THE STORM GATHERSFIVE ALOPECIA AND RUBEOLASIX DETECTIVE ANDERSON TAKES CHARGE SEVEN CROSS-QUESTIONS AND CROOKED ANSWERS EIGHT THE GLEAMING EYENINE A SHOT IN THE DARKTEN THE PHONE CALL FROM NOWHERE ELEVEN BILLY PRACTICES JIU-JITSUTWELVE “I DIDN’T KILL HIM.”THIRTEEN THE BLACKENED BAGFOURTEEN HANDCUFFSFIFTEEN THE SIGN OF THE BATSIXTEEN THE HIDDEN ROOMSEVENTEEN ANDERSON MAKES AN ARREST EIGHTEEN THE BAT STILL FLIESNINETEEN MURDER ON MURDERTWENTY “HE IS – THE BAT!...

November 6, 2022 · 79 min · 16786 words · Louise Snead

The Beginnings Of New England By John Fiske

THE BEGINNINGS OF NEW ENGLAND OR THE PURITAN THEOCRACY IN ITS RELATIONS TO CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY BY JOHN FISKE “The Lord Christ intends to achieve greater matters by this little handful than the world is aware of.” EDWARD JOHNSON, Wonder-Working Providence of Zion’s Saviour in New England 1654 1892 To MY DEAR CLASSMATES, BENJAMIN THOMPSON FROTHINGHAM, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS WHITE, AND FREDERIC CROMWELL, I DEDICATE THIS BOOK. PREFACE. This book contains the substance of the lectures originally given at the Washington University, St....

November 6, 2022 · 83 min · 17570 words · Eleanor Redding

The Bird Woman Of The Lewis And Clark Expedition By Katherine Chandler

THE BIRD-WOMAN OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION A SUPPLEMENTARY READER FORFIRST AND SECOND GRADES BY KATHERINE CHANDLER Author of“Habits of California Plants” and “In the Reign of Coyote: Folk-Lore from the Pacific” 1905 To my friendGENEVRA SISSON SNEDDENwhose interest in this little book has encouraged its completion PREFACE. Because children invariably ask for “more” of the stories they find interesting, this little book of continuous narrative has been written....

November 6, 2022 · 44 min · 9230 words · Robert Garraway

The Black Arrow By Robert Louis Stevenson

THE BLACK ARROW–A TALE OF THE TWO ROSES Critic on the Hearth No one but myself knows what I have suffered, nor what my books have gained, by your unsleeping watchfulness and admirable pertinacity. And now here is a volume that goes into the world and lacks your imprimatur: a strange thing in our joint lives; and the reason of it stranger still! I have watched with interest, with pain, and at length with amusement, your unavailing attempts to peruse The Black Arrow; and I think I should lack humour indeed, if I let the occasion slip and did not place your name in the fly-leaf of the only book of mine that you have never read–and never will read....

November 6, 2022 · 75 min · 15881 words · Douglas Hairston

The Boats Of The Glen Carrig By William Hope Hodgson

Being an account of their Adventures in the Strange places of the Earth, after the foundering of the good ship Glen Carrig through striking upon a hidden rock in the unknown seas to the Southward. As told by John Winterstraw, Gent., to his son James Winterstraw, in the year 1757, and by him committed very properly and legibly to manuscript. By William Hope Hodgson 1907 Madre Mia People may say thou art no longer young And yet, to me, thy youth was yesterday, A yesterday that seems Still mingled with my dreams....

November 6, 2022 · 106 min · 22450 words · Janice Lloyd

The Book Of Tea By Okakura Kakuz

The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura i. The Cup of Humanity Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism–Teaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence....

November 6, 2022 · 85 min · 17981 words · Gerald Trombetta

The Bravo Of Venice A Romance By M G Lewis

THE BRAVO OF VENICE–A ROMANCE by M. G. Lewis INTRODUCTION. Matthew Gregory Lewis, who professed to have translated this romance out of the German, very much, I believe, as Horace Walpole professed to have taken The Castle of Otranto from an old Italian manuscript, was born in 1775 of a wealthy family. His father had an estate in India and a post in a Government office. His mother was daughter to Sir Thomas Sewell, Master of the Rolls in the reign of George III....

November 6, 2022 · 72 min · 15148 words · Kathleen Reynolds