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The Expansion of the Republic Series. THE HISTORY OF PUERTO RICO FROM THE SPANISH DISCOVERY TO THE AMERICAN OCCUPATION BY R.A. VAN MIDDELDYK EDITED BY MARTIN G. BRUMBAUGH, PH.D., LL.D. PROFESSOR OF PEDAGOGY, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA AND FIRST COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION FOR PUERTO RICO COPYRIGHT, 1903 [Illustration: Columbus statue, San Juan.] EDITOR’S PREFACE The latest permanent possession of the United States is also the oldest in point of European occupation....

The Famous Tragedy of The Rich Iew of Malta. As it was playd before the King and Qveene, in His Majesties Theatre at White- Hall, by her Majesties Servants at the Cock-pit. Written by Christopher Marlo. London; Printed by I. B. for Nicholas Vavasour, and are to be sold at his Shop in the Inner-Temple, neere the Church. 1633. 4to. TO MY WORTHY FRIEND, MASTER THOMAS HAMMON, of GRAY’S INN, ETC....

THE LAND OF DEEPENING SHADOW GERMANY-AT-WAR BY D. THOMAS CURTIN 1917 TO LORD NORTHCLIFFE CONTENTS CHAPTER I GETTING IN II WHEN SKIES WERE BLUE III THE CRIME AGAINST THE CHILDREN IV PULPITS OF HATE V PUPPET PROFESSORS VI THE LIE ON THE FILM VII THE IDEA FACTORY VIII CORRESPONDENTS IN SHACKLES IX ANTON LANG OF OBERAMMERGAU X SUBMARINE MOTIVES XI THE EAGLE AND THE VULTURE XII IN THE GRIP OF THE FLEET XIII A LAND OF SUBSTITUTES XIV THE GAGGING OF LIEBKNECHT XV PREVENTIVE ARREST XVI POLICE RULE IN BOHEMIA XVII SPIES AND SEMI-SPIES XVIII THE IRON HAND IN ALSACE-LORRAINE XIX THE WOMAN IN THE SHADOW XX THE WAR SLAVES OF ESSEN XXI TOMMY IN GERMANY XXII HOW THE PRUSSIAN GUARD CAME HOME FROM THE SOMME XXIII HOW GERMANY DENIES XXIV GERMANY’S HUMAN RESOURCES XXV BERLIN’S EAST-END XXVI IN THE DEEPENING SHADOW XXVII ACROSS THE NORTH SEA XXVIII THE LITTLE SHIPS THE LAND OF DEEPENING SHADOW CHAPTER I GETTING IN Early in November, 1915, I sailed from New York to Rotterdam....

by William Shakespeare Persons Represented. KING EDWARD THE FOURTH Sons to the kingEDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES afterwards KING EDWARD V RICHARD, DUKE OF YORK Brothers to the kingGEORGE, DUKE OF CLARENCERICHARD, DUKE OF GLOSTER, afterwards KING RICHARD III A YOUNG SON OF CLARENCEHENRY, EARL OF RICHMOND, afterwards KING HENRY VII CARDINAL BOURCHIER, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY THOMAS ROTHERHAM, ARCHBISHOP OF YORKJOHN MORTON, BISHOP OF ELYDUKE OF BUCKINGHAMDUKE OF NORFOLKEARL OF SURREY, his sonEARL RIVERS, brother to King Edward’s Queen MARQUIS OF DORSET and LORD GREY, her sons EARL OF OXFORDLORD HASTINGSLORD STANLEYLORD LOVELSIR THOMAS VAUGHANSIR RICHARD RATCLIFFSIR WILLIAM CATESBYSIR JAMES TYRRELSIR JAMES BLOUNTSIR WALTER HERBERTSIR ROBERT BRAKENBURY, Lieutenant of the Tower CHRISTOPHER URSWICK, a priestAnother PriestLORD MAYOR OF LONDONSHERIFF OF WILTSHIRE ELIZABETH, Queen to King Edward IVMARGARET, widow to King Henry VIDUCHESS OF YORK, mother to King Edward IV, Clarence, and Gloster LADY ANNE, widow to Edward, Prince of Wales, son to King Henry VI; afterwards married to the Duke of Gloster A YOUNG DAUGHTER OF CLARENCE Lords, and other Attendants; two Gentlemen, a Pursuivant, Scrivener, Citizens, Murderers, Messengers, Ghosts, Soldiers, &c....

Boswell’s Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood Professor of English at Princeton University Preface In making this abridgement of Boswell’s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell’s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson’s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of greater importance in Boswell’s day than now. I have kept in mind an old habit, common enough, I dare say, among its devotees, of opening the book of random, and reading wherever the eye falls upon a passage of especial interest....

CONTENTS TRANSLATOR’S NOTE I THE HARMAS II THE ANTHRAX III ANOTHER PROBER (PERFORATOR) IV LARVAL DIMORPHISM V HEREDITY VI MY SCHOOLING VII THE POND VIII THE CADDIS WORM IX THE GREENBOTTLES X THE GRAY FLESH FLIES XI THE BUMBLEBEE FLY XII MATHEMATICAL MEMORIES: NEWTON’S BINOMIAL THEOREM XIII MATHEMATICAL MEMORIES: MY LITTLE TABLE XIV THE BLUEBOTTLE: THE LAYING XV THE BLUEBOTTLE: THE GRUB XVI A PARASITE OF THE MAGGOT XVII RECOLLECTIONS OF CHILDHOOD XVIII INSECTS AND MUSHROOMS XIX A MEMORABLE LESSON XX INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY TRANSLATOR’S NOTE The present volume contains all the essays on flies, or Diptera, from the Souvenirs entomologiques, to which I have added, in order to make the dimensions uniform with those of the other volumes of the series, the purely autobiographical essays comprised in the Souvenirs....

THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF GREAT MUSICIANS By Rupert Hughes Illustrated Volume I. [Illustration] 1903 NOTE Portions of a few of the chapters of this work appeared serially in The Criterion, and the last chapter was published in The Smart Set. While, so far as the author knows, this is the first book on the subject, it is given, perhaps, especial novelty by the fact that advantage could be taken of much new material given to the public for the first time (with one exception) in the last few months, notably: a revelation of the exact identity of Beethoven’s “Immortal Beloved;” the letters of Liszt to his princess; letters of Chopin long supposed to have been burned, as well as diaries and letters gathered by an intimate friend for a biography whose completion was prevented by death; the publication of a vast amount of Wagneriana; the appearance of a full life of Tschaikovski by his brother, with complete elucidation of much that had been suppressed; the first volume of a new biography of Clara Schumann, with a detailed account of the whole progress of her beautiful love story, down to the day of the marriage; and numberless fugitive paragraphs throwing new light on affairs more or less unknown or misunderstood....

THE MAN FROM GLENGARRY A TALE OF THE OTTAWA by RALPH CONNOR DEDICATION TO THE MEN OF GLENGARRY WHO IN PATIENCE, IN COURAGE AND IN THE FEAR OF GOD ARE HELPING TO BUILD THE EMPIRE OF THE CANADIAN WEST THIS BOOK IS HUMBLY DEDICATED PREFACE The solid forests of Glengarry have vanished, and with the forests the men who conquered them. The manner of life and the type of character to be seen in those early days have gone too, and forever....

PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT, Part 6. by U. S. Grant (Plus Footnotes for Parts 1 to 6) CHAPTER LXII. SHERMAN’S MARCH NORTH–SHERIDAN ORDERED TO LYNCHBURG–CANBY ORDERED TO MOVE AGAINST MOBILE–MOVEMENTS OF SCHOFIELD AND THOMAS–CAPTURE OF COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA–SHERMAN IN THE CAROLINAS. When news of Sherman being in possession of Savannah reached the North, distinguished statesmen and visitors began to pour in to see him. Among others who went was the Secretary of War, who seemed much pleased at the result of his campaign....

[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.] MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV AND HIS COURT AND OF THE REGENCY BY THE DUKE OF SAINT-SIMON CONTENTS OF THE 15 VOLUMES VOLUME 1. CHAPTER I Birth and Family.–Early Life.–Desire to join the Army.–Enter the Musketeers.–The Campaign Commences....

THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. XIII, No. 358.] SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1829. [PRICE 2d. * * * * * [Illustration: YORK TERRACE, REGENT’S PARK.] YORK TERRACE, REGENT’S PARK. If the reader is anxious to illustrate any political position with the “signs of the times,” he has only to start from Waterloo-place, (thus commencing with a glorious reminiscence,) through Regent-street and Portland-place, and make the architectural tour of the Regent’s Park....

THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. XIX. No. 532.] SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1832. [PRICE 2_d_. [Illustration: CASTLE OF ROBERT THE DEVIL.] [Illustration: CAVERN OF ROBERT THE DEVIL.] ROBERT THE DEVIL. All the town, and the country too, by paragraph circumstantial, and puff direct, must have learned that every theatre in this Metropolis, and consequently, every stage in the country, is to have its version of the splendid French opera Robert le Diable....

THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. 20. No. 558.] SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1832. [PRICE 2_d_. THE NEW CHURCH OF ST. DUNSTAN IN THE WEST. [Illustration: NEW CHURCH OF ST. DUNSTAN IN THE WEST, FLEET STREET.] In our fourteenth volume we took a farewell glance of the old church of St. Dunstan, and adverted to the proposed new structure. Little did we then expect that within three years the removal of the old church would be effected, and a fabric of greatly surpassing beauty raised in its place....

THE MYSTERY OF 31 NEW INN BY R. AUSTIN FREEMAN Author of “The Red Thumb Mark,”“The Eye of Osiris,” etc. TO MY FRIEND BERNARD E. BISHOP Preface Commenting upon one of my earlier novels, in respect of which I had claimed to have been careful to adhere to common probabilities and to have made use only of really practicable methods of investigation, a critic remarked that this was of no consequence whatever, so long as the story was amusing....

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Volume 1 Translated by Jean Paul Richter 1888 PREFACE. A singular fatality has ruled the destiny of nearly all the most famous of Leonardo da Vinci’s works. Two of the three most important were never completed, obstacles having arisen during his life-time, which obliged him to leave them unfinished; namely the Sforza Monument and the Wall-painting of the Battle of Anghiari, while the third–the picture of the Last Supper at Milan–has suffered irremediable injury from decay and the repeated restorations to which it was recklessly subjected during the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries....

Carlyle’s “History of Friedrich II of Prussia” BOOK IX. LAST STAGE OF FRIEDRICH’S APPRENTICESHIP: LIFE IN RUPPIN. 1732-1736. Chapter I. PRINCESS ELIZABETH CHRISTINA OF BRUNSWICK-BEVERN. We described the Crown-Prince as intent to comply, especially in all visible external particulars, with Papa’s will and pleasure;– to distingnish himself by real excellence in Commandantship of the Regiment Goltz, first of all. But before ever getting into that, there has another point risen, on which obedience, equally essential, may be still more difficult....

HODGE AND HIS MASTERS BY RICHARD JEFFERIES Author of ‘The Gamekeeper at Home,’ ‘Wild Life in a Southern County,’ ‘The Amateur Poacher,’ ‘Round About A Great Estate,’ Etc. PREFACE The papers of which this volume is composed originally appeared in the Standard, and are now republished by permission of the Editor. In manners, mode of thought, and way of life, there is perhaps no class of the community less uniform than the agricultural....

IN THE CARQUINEZ WOODS by Bret Harte CHAPTER I. The sun was going down on the Carquinez Woods. The few shafts of sunlight that had pierced their pillared gloom were lost in unfathomable depths, or splintered their ineffectual lances on the enormous trunks of the redwoods. For a time the dull red of their vast columns, and the dull red of their cast-off bark which matted the echoless aisles, still seemed to hold a faint glow of the dying day....

INDIAN FAIRY TALES _Selected and edited by_JOSEPH JACOBS _Illustrated by_JOHN D. BATTEN TO MY DEAR LITTLE PHIL PREFACE From the extreme West of the Indo-European world, we go this year to the extreme East. From the soft rain and green turf of Gaeldom, we seek the garish sun and arid soil of the Hindoo. In the Land of Ire, the belief in fairies, gnomes, ogres and monsters is all but dead; in the Land of Ind it still flourishes in all the vigour of animism....

[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.] JACQUELINE By THERESE BENTZON (MME. BLANC) BOOK 3. CHAPTER XIV BITTER DISILLUSION Some people in this world who turn round and round in a daily circle of small things, like squirrels in a cage, have no idea of the pleasure a young creature, conscious of courage, has in trying its strength; this struggle with fortune loses its charm as it grows longer and longer and more and more difficult, but at the beginning it is an almost certain remedy for sorrow....