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CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE BY ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE IN EIGHT VOLUMES CONTENTS: THE BORGIAS THE CENCI MASSACRES OF THE SOUTH MARY STUART KARL-LUDWIG SAND URBAIN GRANDIER NISIDA DERUES LA CONSTANTIN JOAN OF NAPLES THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK (The Essay, not the Novel) MARTIN GUERRE ALI PACHA THE COUNTESS DE SAINT GERAN MURAT THE MARQUISE DE BRINVILLIERS VANINKA THE MARQUISE DE GANGES CELEBRATED CRIMES VOLUME 1(of 8), Part 1 BY ALEXANDER DUMAS, PERE NOTE: Dumas’s ‘Celebrated Crimes’ was not written for children....

HISTORYOF P H ΠN I C I A by GEORGE RAWLINSON, M.A. First Published 1889 by Longmans, Green, and Co. Camden Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford Canon of CanterburyCorresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Turin TO THE CHANCELLOR, VICE-CHANCELLOR, and SCHOLARS Of TheUNIVERSITY OF OXFORDThis WorkHis Last as Occupant of a Professorial Chair Is DedicatedAs a Token of Respect and Gratitude By TheCAMDEN PROFESSOROct....

Many thanks to Peter Moulding who transcribed this eText. email: p e t e r @ m o u l d i n g n a m e . i n f o http://www.mouldingname.info/00.php HOME-LIFE OF THE LANCASHIRE FACTORY FOLK DURING THE COTTON FAMINE BY EDWIN WAUGH Author of “Lancashire Sketches”, “Poems and Lancashire Songs”, “Tufts of Heather from the Northern Moors”, etc, etc. “Hopdance cries in poor Tom’s belly for two white herrings....

HOPES AND FEARS FOR ART by William Morris Contents: The Lesser ArtsThe Art of the PeopleThe Beauty of LifeMaking the Best of ItThe Prospects of Architecture in Civilisation THE LESSER ARTS {1} Hereafter I hope in another lecture to have the pleasure of laying before you an historical survey of the lesser, or as they are called the Decorative Arts, and I must confess it would have been pleasanter to me to have begun my talk with you by entering at once upon the subject of the history of this great industry; but, as I have something to say in a third lecture about various matters connected with the practice of Decoration among ourselves in these days, I feel that I should be in a false position before you, and one that might lead to confusion, or overmuch explanation, if I did not let you know what I think on the nature and scope of these arts, on their condition at the present time, and their outlook in times to come....

[Illustration: HE CAPERED THROUGH THE MELODY OF DVORÀK’S, WHICH IS AS IRONIC AS A GRINNING MASK] HUMORESQUE A LAUGH ON LIFE WITH A TEAR BEHIND IT By FANNIE HURST 1920 CONTENTS HUMORESQUEOATS FOR THE WOMANA PETAL ON THE CURRENTWHITE GOODS“HEADS”A BOOB SPELLED BACKWARDEVEN AS YOU AND ITHE WRONG PEW HUMORESQUE On either side of the Bowery, which cuts through like a drain to catch its sewage, Every Man’s Land, a reeking march of humanity and humidity, steams with the excrement of seventeen languages, flung in patois from tenement windows, fire escapes, curbs, stoops, and cellars whose walls are terrible and spongy with fungi....

J. S. LE FANU’S GHOSTLY TALES, VOLUME 1 Schalken the Painter (1851) and An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street (1853) by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Schalken the Painter ”For he is not a man as I am that we should come together; neither is there any that might lay his hand upon us both. Let him, therefore, take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me....

JOE TILDEN’S RECIPES FOR EPICURES [Illustration] 1907 Introductory Note * * * * * Major Joseph Tilden was in his time one of the most famous Bohemians and epicureans of the Pacific Coast. Ever since his death his many friends have been trying to learn the culinary secrets which made a repast of his devising so delicious. He had given his recipes to but few, and those few his most intimate friends and fellow spirits....

[Illustration: HE TURNED HIS FACE AND KISSED HER CLIMBING_Geraint and Enid_] JOURNEYS THROUGH BOOKLAND A NEW AND ORIGINAL PLAN FOR READING APPLIED TO THE WORLD’S BEST LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN BY CHARLES H. SYLVESTER Author of English and American Literature VOLUME FIVE New Edition [Illustration] 1922 CONTENTS JONATHAN SWIFT.GULLIVER’S TRAVELS Jonathan Swift THE BALLAD OF AGINCOURT Michael Drayton SOME CHILDREN’S BOOKS OF THE PAST Grace E Sellon LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT Cardinal Veuman LET SOMETHING GOOD BE SAID James Whitcomb Riley POLONIUS’ ADVICE _Shakespeare_KING ARTHURBALIN AND BALANGERAINT AND ENID Alfred Tennyson THE HOLY GRAIL Adapted from Thomas Malory DISSENSIONS AT KING ARTHUR’S COURTTHE PASSING OF ARTHUR Alfred Tennyson HENRY HUDSON’S FOURTH VOYAGE Henry R Cleveland THE RISE OF ROBERT BRUCE Walter Scott BRUCE AND THE SPIDER Bernard Arton THE HEART OF BRUCE William E Aytoun THE SKELETON IN ARMOR Henry Wadsworth Longfellow HOW THEY BROUGHT THE GOOD NEWS FROM GHENT TO AIX _Robert Browning_REMINISCENCES OF A PIONEER Edwin D....

L’ASSOMMOIR By Emile Zola CHAPTER I GERVAISE Gervaise had waited and watched for Lantier until two in the morning. Then chilled and shivering, she turned from the window and threw herself across the bed, where she fell into a feverish doze with her cheeks wet with tears. For the last week when they came out of the Veau a Deux Tetes, where they ate, he had sent her off to bed with the children and had not appeared until late into the night and always with a story that he had been looking for work....

This etext was first created as part of the BUILD-A-BOOK Initiative at the Celebration of Women Writers through the combined work of: Carmen Baxter, Brenda Lambey, Elizabeth Morton, Jessie Hudgins, Mary Crosson, Mary Nuzzo, Nick Rezmerski, Patricia Heil, Patsy Edmonds, Steve Callis, Tami Hutchinson, Velvet Van Bueren, and Mary Mark Ockerbloom. http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/writers.php Rosa Praed (1851-1935)LADY BRIDGET IN THE NEVER-NEVER LAND.(1915) CONTENTS BOOK I FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF MRS GILDEA BOOK II FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF LADY BRIDGET O’HARA BOOK III FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF COLIN MCKEITH AND OTHERS BOOK I FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF MRS GILDEA CHAPTER 1 Mrs Gildea had settled early to her morning’s work in what she called the veranda-study of her cottage in Leichardt’s Town....

THE WORKS OF JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER THE LAY ANTHONY MOUNTAIN BLOOD THE THREE BLACK PENNYS GOLD AND IRON JAVA HEAD THE HAPPY END LINDA CONDON LINDA CONDON BY JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER To CARL VAN VECHTEN This, Linda Condon’s Gravest Bow. LINDA CONDON I A black bang was, but not ultimately, the most notable feature of her uncommon personality–straight and severe and dense across her clear pale brow and eyes. Her eyes were the last thing to remember and wonder about; in shade blue, they had a velvet richness, a poignant intensity of lovely color, that surprised the heart....

MADAME DE TREYMES BY EDITH WHARTON MADAME DE TREYMES I John Durham, while he waited for Madame de Malrive to draw on her gloves, stood in the hotel doorway looking out across the Rue de Rivoli at the afternoon brightness of the Tuileries gardens. His European visits were infrequent enough to have kept unimpaired the freshness of his eye, and he was always struck anew by the vast and consummately ordered spectacle of Paris: by its look of having been boldly and deliberately planned as a background for the enjoyment of life, instead of being forced into grudging concessions to the festive instincts, or barricading itself against them in unenlightened ugliness, like his own lamentable New York....

Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland ToMy Father And Mother Whose Half-Century Pilgrimage on the Main-Travelled Road of Life Has Brought Them Only Toil and Deprivation, This Book of Stories Is Dedicated By a Son to Whom Every Day Brings a Deepening Sense of His Parents’ Silent Heroism Table of Contents PrefaceA Branch RoadUp the CouleeAmong the Corn RowsThe Return of a PrivateUnder the Lion’s PawThe Creamery ManA Day’s PleasureMrs Ripley’s TripUncle Ethan RipleyGod’s Ravens A “Good Fellow’s” Wife PREFACE In the summer of 1887, after having been three years in Boston and six years absent from my old home in northern Iowa, I found myself with money enough to pay my railway fare to Ordway, South Dakota, where my father and mother were living, and as it cost very little extra to go by way of Dubuque and Charles City, I planned to visit Osage, Iowa, and the farm we had opened on Dry Run prairie in 1871....

Master Humphrey’s Clock by Charles Dickens CHAPTER I – MASTER HUMPHREY, FROM HIS CLOCK-SIDE IN THE CHIMNEY CORNER THE reader must not expect to know where I live. At present, it is true, my abode may be a question of little or no import to anybody; but if I should carry my readers with me, as I hope to do, and there should spring up between them and me feelings of homely affection and regard attaching something of interest to matters ever so slightly connected with my fortunes or my speculations, even my place of residence might one day have a kind of charm for them....

This etext was first created as part of the BUILD-A-BOOK Initiative at the Celebration of Women Writers through the combined work of: Carmen Baxter, Brenda Lambey, Elizabeth Morton, Jessie Hudgins, Mary Crosson, Mary Nuzzo, Nick Rezmerski, Patricia Heil, Patsy Edmonds, Steve Callis, Tami Hutchinson, Velvet Van Bueren, and Mary Mark Ockerbloom. http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/writers.php Title: MATES AT BILLABONG.Author: Mary Grant Bruce (1878-1958). CONTENTS CHAPTER I NORAH’S HOMECHAPTER II TOGETHERCHAPTER III BATH–AND AN INTRODUCTION CHAPTER IV CUTTING OUTCHAPTER V TWO POINTS OF VIEWCHAPTER VI COMING HOMECHAPTER VII JIM UNPACKSCHAPTER VIII A THUNDERSTORMCHAPTER IX THE BILLABONG DANCECHAPTER X CHRISTMASCHAPTER XI “LO, THE POOR INDIAN!...

[Transcriber’s note: Part III contains two chapters labeled Chapter VI.] MIRIAM MONFORT: A NOVEL. BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE HOUSEHOLD OF BOUVERIE.” “Fancy, with fact, is just one fact the more.” “Let this old woe step on the stage again, Act itself o’er anew for men to judge; Not by the very sense and sight indeed, Which take at best imperfect cognizance. Since, how heart moves brain, and how both move hand, What mortal ever in entirety saw?...

Scanned by Charles Keller with OmniPage Professional OCR software MYTHS AND MYTH-MAKERS OLD TALES AND SUPERSTITIONS INTERPRETED BY COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY BY JOHN FISKE La mythologie, cette science toute nouvelle, qui nous fait suivre les croyances de nos peres, depuis le berceau du monde jusqu’aux superstitions de nos campagnes.–EDMOND SCHERER TO MY DEAR FRIEND, WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS,IN REMEMBRANCE OF PLEASANT AUTUMN EVENINGS SPENT AMONG WEREWOLVES AND TROLLS AND NIXIES, I dedicate THIS RECORD OF OUR ADVENTURES....

THE WORKS OF EDWARD BULWER LYTTON (LORD LYTTON) NIGHT AND MORNING Book III CHAPTER I. “The knight of arts and industry, And his achievements fair.” THOMSON’S Castle of Indolence: Explanatory Verse to Canto II. In a popular and respectable, but not very fashionable quartier in Paris, and in the tolerably broad and effective locale of the Rue —-, there might be seen, at the time I now treat of, a curious-looking building, that jutted out semicircularly from the neighbouring shops, with plaster pilasters and compo ornaments....

OBSERVATIONS OF A RETIRED VETERAN By HENRY C. TINSLEY (“P. Boyzy”) Introduction. The essays contained in this little book comprise a selection from many of a like character which were contributed at intervals through a series of years to the columns of the VINDICATOR, a weekly newspaper of Staunton, Virginia, by its editor, the late Henry C. Tinsley, under the pen-name of “P. Boyzy.” The perusal of them in their present form will serve to confirm the opinion of those who read them as they then appeared, that they possess in marked degree the unusual quality of a winning humor coupled with the pathos that is often humor’s most exquisite accompaniment; and that they combine a shrewd if homely wit with a profound knowledge of the workings of the human heart....

OLD GREEK FOLK STORIES TOLD ANEW BY JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY 1897 PUBLISHERS’ NOTE. Hawthorne, in his Wonder-Book and Tanglewood Tales, has told, in a manner familiar to multitudes of American children and to many more who once were children, a dozen of the old Greek folk stories. They have served to render the persons and scenes known as no classical dictionary would make them known. But Hawthorne chose a few out of the many myths which are constantly appealing to the reader not only of ancient but of modern literature....