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[Illustration: ROBERT BROWNING] ROBERT BROWNING: HOW TO KNOW HIM By WILLIAM LYON PHELPS, M.A., PH.D. Lampton Professor of English Literature at Yale WITH PORTRAIT TO JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY WITH SINCERE AFFECTION AND RESPECT PREFACE In this volume I have attempted to give an account of Browning’s life and an estimation of his character: to set forth, with sufficient illustration from his poems, his theory of poetry, his aim and method: to make clear some of the leading ideas in his work: to show his fondness for paradox: to exhibit the nature and basis of his optimism....

SAMANTHA AMONG THE BRETHREN. By “Josiah Allen’s Wife” (Marietta Holley) Part 3 CHAPTER VII. But along about the middle of the fifth week I see a change. Lodema had been uncommon exasperatin’, and I expected she would set Josiah to goin’, and I groaned in spirit, to think what a job wuz ahead of me, to part their two tongues–when all of a sudden I see a curius change come over my pardner’s face....

SAMANTHA AMONG THE BRETHREN. By “Josiah Allen’s Wife” (Marietta Holley) Part 4 CHAPTER XIII. Curius, hain’t it? How folks will get to tellin’ things, and finally tell ’em so much, that finally they will get to believin’ of ’em themselves–boastin’ of bein’ rich, etc., or bad. Now I have seen folks boast over that, act real haughty because they had been bad and got over it. I’ve seen temperance lecturers and religious exhorters boast sights and sights over how bad they had been....

SCOTT’S LAST EXPEDITION IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I. BEING THE JOURNALS OF CAPTAIN R. F. SCOTT, R.N., C.V.O. VOL. II. BEING THE REPORTS OF THE JOURNEYS AND THE SCIENTIFIC WORK UNDERTAKEN BY DR. E. A. WILSON AND THE SURVIVING MEMBERS OF THE EXPEDITION ARRANGED BY LEONARD HUXLEY WITH A PREFACE BY SIR CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM, K.C.B., F.R.S. WITH PHOTOGRAVURE FRONTISPIECES, 6 ORIGINAL SKETCHES IN PHOTOGRAVURE BY DR. E. A. WILSON, 18 COLOURED PLATES (10 FROM DRAWINGS BY DR....

[Illustration: THE WIDOW’S POT OF OIL.] SMALL MEANS AND GREAT ENDS. EDITED BY MRS. M.H. ADAMS Word of Truth, and Gift of Love, Waiting hearts now need thee; Faithful in thy mission prove, On that mission speed thee. 1851. PREFACE. From the encouragement extended to our worthy publisher on the presentation of the first and second volumes of the Annual, we conclude that the experiment of 1845 may be regarded as a successful one, and the preparation of a little work of this kind an acceptable offering to the young....

Armstrong, Hannah Arnett, Harold Atherton, Lucius Ballard, John Barker, Amanda Barrett, Pauline Bartlett, Ezra Bateson, Marie Beatty, Tom Beethoven, Isaiah Bennett, Hon. Henry Bindle, Nicholas Blind Jack Bliss, Mrs. Charles Blood, A. D. Bloyd, Wendell P. Bone, Richard Branson, Caroline Brown, Jim Brown, Sarah Browning, Elijah Burleson, John Horace Butler, Roy Cabanis, Flossie Calhoun, Granville Calhoun, Henry C. Campbell, Calvin Carman, Eugene Cheney, Columbus Childers, Elizabeth Church, John M. Churchill, Alfonso Circuit Judge, The Clapp, Homer Clark, Nellie Clute, Aner Compton, Seth Conant, Edith Culbertson, E....

Swan Song by Anton Checkov PLAYS BY ANTON TCHEKOFF TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARIAN FELL CONTENTS IntroductionChronological List of WorksThe Swan Song INTRODUCTION ANTON TCHEKOFF THE last years of the nineteenth century were for Russia tinged with doubt and gloom. The high-tide of vitality that had risen during the Turkish war ebbed in the early eighties, leaving behind it a dead level of apathy which lasted until life was again quickened by the high interests of the Revolution....

Tales of Troy by Andrew Lang TALES OF TROY: ULYSSES THE SACKER OF CITIES Contents: THE BOYHOOD AND PARENTS OF ULYSSES Long ago, in a little island called Ithaca, on the west coast of Greece, there lived a king named Laertes. His kingdom was small and mountainous. People used to say that Ithaca “lay like a shield upon the sea,” which sounds as if it were a flat country. But in those times shields were very large, and rose at the middle into two peaks with a hollow between them, so that Ithaca, seen far off in the sea, with her two chief mountain peaks, and a cloven valley between them, looked exactly like a shield....

Text scanned by JC Byers and proofread by the Distributed Proofers. The “Aldine” Edition of The Arabian Nights Entertainments Illustrated by S. L. Wood FROM THE TEXT OF DR. JONATHAN SCOTT In Four Volumes Volume 4 London Pickering and Chatto 1890 Contents of Volume IV. The Story of the Enchanted HorseThe Story of Prince Ahmed, and the Fairy Perie Banou The Story of the Sisters Who Envied Their Younger Sister Story of the Three Sharpers and the Sultan The Adventures of the Abbdicated Sultan History of Mahummud, Sultan of Cairo Story of the First Lunatic Story of the Second Lunatic Story of the Retired Sage and His Pupil, Related to the Sultan by the Second Lunatic Story of the Broken-backed Schoolmaster Story of the Wry-mouthed Schoolmaster Story of the Sisters and the Sultana Their Mother Story of the Bang-eater and the Cauzee Story of the Bang-eater and His Wife The Sultan and the Traveller Mhamood Al Hyjemmee The Koord Robber Story of the Husbbandman Story of the Three Princes and Enchanting Bird Story of a Sultan of Yemen and His Three Sons Story of the First Sharper in the Cave History of the Sultan of HindStory of the Fisherman’s SonStory of Abou Neeut and Abou Neeuteen; Or, the Well-intentioned and the Double-mindedAdventure of a Courtier, Related by Himself to His Parton, an Ameer of EgyptStory of the Prince of Sind, and Fatima, Daughter of Amir Bin NaomaunStory of the Lovers of Syria; Or, the Heroine Story of Hyjauje, the Tyrannical Gtovernor of Coufeh, and the Young SyedStory of Ins Alwujjood and Wird Al Ikmaun, Daughter of Ibrahim, Vizier to Sultan ShamikhThe Adventures of Mazin of Khorassaun Story of the Sultan the Dervish, and the Barber’s Son Adventures of Aleefa Daughter of Mherejaun Sultan of Hind, and Eusuff, Son of Sohul, Sultan of SindAdventures of the Three Princes, Sons of the Sultan of China Story of the Good Vizier Unjustly Imprisoned Story of the Lady of Cairo and Her Four Gallants The Cauzee’s StoryStory of the Merchant, His Daughter, and the Prince of Eerauk Adventures of the Cauzee, His Wife, &c The Sultan’s Story of HimselfConclusion THE STORY OF THE ENCHANTED HORSE....

A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS CONTENTS American Tract Society, TheAnn Potter’s LessonAsirvadam the BrahminAutocrat of the Breakfast-Table, The Autocrat’s Landlady, A Visit to theAutocrat, The, gives a Breakfast to the Public Birds of the Garden and Orchard, TheBirds of the Pasture and Forest, The Bulls and BearsBundle of Irish Pennants, A Catacombs of Rome, TheCatacombs of Rome, Note to theChesuncookColin Clout and the Faery QueenCrawford and Sculpture Daphnaides,Denslow Palace, TheDot and Line Alphabet, The EloquenceEvening with the Telegraph-Wires, An Farming Life in New EnglandFaustus, Doctor, The German Popular Legend of Gaucho, TheGreat Event of the Century, The Her Grace, the Drummer’s DaughterHour before Dawn, The Ideal Tendency, TheIllinois in Spring-time Jefferson, Thomas Kinloch Estate, The Language of the Sea, TheLeibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm vonLetter-WritingLoo Loo Mademoiselle’s CampaignsMetempsychosisMinister’s Wooing, TheMiss Wimple’s Hoop New World, The, and the New Man ObituaryOld Well, TheOur Talks with Uncle John Perilous Bivouac, APhysical CouragePintalPocket-Celebration of the Fourth, The President’s Prophecy of Peace, ThePrisoner of War, APunch Railway-Engineering in the United States Rambles in AquidneckRomance of a Glove, The Salons de Paris, LesSample of Consistency, ASinging-Birds and their Songs, TheSongs of the SeaSubjective of it, TheSuggestions Three of Us Water-LiliesWhat are we going to make?...

THE BELL-RINGER OF ANGEL’S by Bret Harte CONTENTS THE BELL-RINGER OF ANGEL’S JOHNNYBOY YOUNG ROBIN GRAY THE SHERIFF OF SISKYOU A ROSE OF GLENBOGIE THE MYSTERY OF THE HACIENDA CHU CHU MY FIRST BOOK THE BELL-RINGER OF ANGEL’S CHAPTER I. Where the North Fork of the Stanislaus River begins to lose its youthful grace, vigor, and agility, and broadens more maturely into the plain, there is a little promontory which at certain high stages of water lies like a small island in the stream....

OR Through Lines of Steel By CLAIR W. HAYES AUTHOR OF “The Boy Allies On the Firing Line” “The Boy Allies With the Cossacks” “The Boy Allies In the Trenches” 1915 CHAPTER I. THE TWO COMRADES. “War has been declared, mother!” shouted Hal, as closely followed by his friend, Chester Crawford, he dashed into the great hotel in Berlin, where the three were stopping, and made his way through the crowd that thronged the lobby to his mother’s side....

Or, With the Italian Army in the Alps By CLAIR W. HAYES Author of “The Boy Allies at Liege,” “The Boy Allies on the Firing Line.” “The Boy Allies with the Cossacks,” “The Boy Allies in the Trenches.” 1916 CHAPTER I. THE BREWING STORM. “Did you ever see such a mob, Hal?” The speaker was an American lad of some seventeen years of age. He stopped in his walk as he spoke and grasped his companion by the arm....

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ARTEMUS WARD (CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE) WITH:PRELIMINARY NOTES BY JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN. A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH BY MELVILLE D. LANDON, “ELI PERKINS” AN INTRODUCTION BY T.W. ROBERTSON.A PREFATORY NOTE BY EDWARD P. HINGSTON. CONTENTS. PRELIMINARY NOTES BY JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN. A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH BY MELVILLE D. LANDON. AN INTRODUCTION BY T.W. ROBERTSON. A PREFATORY NOTE BY EDWARD P. HINGSTON. PART I. ESSAYS, SKETCHES, AND LETTERS. 1.1. One of Mr....

THE CONQUEST OF CANAANBY BOOTH TARKINGTON ToL.F.T. CONTENTSCHAPTER I. ENTER CHORUS II. A RESCUE III. OLD HOPES IV. THE DISASTER V. BEAVER BEACH VI. “YE’LL TAK’ THE HIGH ROAD AND I’LL TAK’ THE LOW ROAD” VII. GIVE A DOG A BAD NAME VIII. A BAD PENNY TURNS UP IX. OUTER DARKNESS X. THE TRYST XI. WHEN HALF-GODS GO XII. TO REMAIN ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE IS NOT ALWAYS A VICTORY XIII....

The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga Including the Practices and Exercises of Concentration, both Objective and Subjective, and Active and Passive Mentation, an Elucidation of Maya, Guru Worship, and the Worship of the Terrible, also the Mystery of Will-Force BY SWAMI MUKERJI YOGI OF THE SOUTH INDIA ORDER 1922 ANNOUNCEMENT In studying these Lessons please remember 3 points:– Not one useless or superfluous sentence is written. Every word is full of meaning....

The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy Contents I. Paris: 1793II. A RetrospectIII. Ex-Ambassador ChauvelinIV. The Richmond GalaV. Sir Percy and His LadyVI. For the Poor of ParisVII. PremonitionVIII. The InvitationIX. Demoiselle CandeilleX. Lady Blakeney’s RoutXI. The ChallengeXII. Time – Place – ConditionsXIII. ReflectionsXIV. The Ruling PassionXV. FarewellXVI. The PassportXVII. BoulogneXVIII. No. 6XIX. The Strength of the WeakXX. TriumphXXI. SuspenseXXII. Not DeathXXIII. The HostageXXIV. ColleaguesXXV. The UnexpectedXXVI. The Terms of the BargainXXVII....

THE ENORMOUS ROOM by E. E. CUMMINGS * * * * * CONTENTS CHAPTER INTRODUCTION I. I BEGIN A PILGRIMAGE II. EN ROUTE III. A PILGRIM’S PROGRESS IV. LE NOUVEAU V. A GROUP OF PORTRAITS VI. APOLLYON VII. AN APPROACH TO THE DELECTABLE MOUNTAINS VIII. THE WANDERER IX. ZOO-LOO X. SURPLICE XI. JEAN LE NEGRE XII. THREE WISE MEN XIII. I SAY GOOD-BYE TO LA MISERE * * * * * INTRODUCTION “FOR THIS MY SON WAS DEAD, AND IS ALIVE AGAIN; HE WAS LOST; AND IS FOUND....

[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.] LETTERS TO HIS SON 1746-1747 By the EARL OF CHESTERFIELD on the Fine Art of becoming a MAN OF THE WORLD and a GENTLEMAN Etext Editor’s Notes: O. S. and N. S.: On consultation with several specialists I have learned that the abbreviations O....

by CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN VOLUME ONE, November 1909-December 1910 (14 issues) CONTENTS Volume 1 No. 1 November 1909 Then This (poem)A Small God And a Large Goddess (essay) Arrears (poem)Three Thanksgivings (story)How Doth The Hat (poem)Introducing the World, the Flesh And the Devil (sketch) What Diantha Did (serial fiction)Where the Heart Is (sketch)Thanksgiving (poem)Our Androcentric Culture; or, The Man-Made World (serial non-fiction) Comment And ReviewPersonal ProblemsThanksong (poem)Advertisements: Lowney’s, Fels-Naptha Soap, Holeproof Hoisery, Moore’s Fountain Pen, The Forerunner, A Toilet Preparation, Calendula Volume 1 No....