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TALES OF UNREST BY JOSEPH CONRAD “Be it thy course to being giddy minds With foreign quarrels.”— SHAKESPEARE TOADOLF P. KRIEGERFOR THE SAKE OFOLD DAYS CONTENTS KARAIN: A MEMORYTHE IDIOTSAN OUTPOST OF PROGRESSTHE RETURNTHE LAGOON AUTHOR’S NOTE Of the five stories in this volume, “The Lagoon,” the last in order, is the earliest in date. It is the first short story I ever wrote and marks, in a manner of speaking, the end of my first phase, the Malayan phase with its special subject and its verbal suggestions....

[Illustration: ROLAND GRAEME AND CATHERINE SETON BEFORE QUEEN MARY.] THE ABBOT. BEING THE SEQUEL TO THE MONASTERY. By Sir Walter Scott INTRODUCTION–(1831.) From what is said in the Introduction to the Monastery, it must necessarily be inferred, that the Author considered that romance as something very like a failure. It is true, the booksellers did not complain of the sale, because, unless on very felicitous occasions, or on those which are equally the reverse, literary popularity is not gained or lost by a single publication....

THE ANTI-SLAVERY EXAMINER Part 4 of 4 By The American Anti-Slavery Society 1839 No. 12. Chattel Principle The Abhorrence of Jesus Christ and the Apostles; Or No Refuge for American Slavery in the New Testament. On the Condition of the Free People of Color in the United States. No. 13. Can Abolitionists Vote or Take Office Under the United States Constitution? Address to the Friends of Constitutional Liberty, on the Violation by the United States House of Representatives of the Right of Petition at the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society....

Of great limbs gone to chaos,A great face turned to night–Why bend above a shapeless shroudSeeking in such archaic cloudSight of strong lords and light? Where seven sunken EnglandsLie buried one by one,Why should one idle spade, I wonder,Shake up the dust of thanes like thunderTo smoke and choke the sun? In cloud of clay so cast to heavenWhat shape shall man discern?These lords may light the mysteryOf mastery or victory,And these ride high in history,But these shall not return....

IL CONVITO THE BANQUET OF DANTE ALIGHIERI Translated By Elizabeth Price Sayer With An Introduction By Henry Morely LL.D., Professor Of English Literature At University College, London 1887 INTRODUCTION. This translation of Dante’s Convito–the first in English–is from the hand of a lady whose enthusiasm for the genius of Dante has made it a chief pleasure of her life to dwell on it by translating, not his Divine Comedy only, but also the whole body of his other works....

THE BRIGHTON BOYS WITH THE SUBMARINE FLEET by Lieutenant James R. Driscoll CONTENTS CHAPTERS I. Good-by, Brighton II. Down in a Submarine III. Sealed Orders IV. Somewhere in the North Sea V. The German Raiders VI. Rammed by a Destroyer VII. In a Mine Field VIII. A Rescue IX. Vive La France! X. Attacked from the Sky XI. In the Fog XII. Yankee Camouflage XIII. The Survivors XIV. On the Bottom of the Sea XV....

THE CIVILIZATION OF CHINA by HERBERT A. GILES, M.A., LL.D. Professor of Chinese in the University of Cambridge, And sometime H.B.M. Consul at Ningpo PREFACE The aim of this work is to suggest a rough outline of Chinese civilization from the earliest times down to the present period of rapid and startling transition. It has been written, primarily, for readers who know little or nothing of China, in the hope that it may succeed in alluring them to a wider and more methodical survey....

SCENE:England and France ACT I. SCENE I.London. The Parliament House Alarum. Enter DUKE OF YORK, EDWARD, RICHARD, NORFOLK, MONTAGUE, WARWICK,and soldiers, with white roses in their hats WARWICK. I wonder how the King escap’d our hands. YORK. While we pursu’d the horsemen of the north, He slily stole away and left his men; Whereat the great Lord of Northumberland, Whose warlike ears could never brook retreat, Cheer’d up the drooping army, and himself, Lord Clifford, and Lord Stafford, all abreast, Charg’d our main battle’s front, and, breaking in, Were by the swords of common soldiers slain....

THE DORE GALLERY OF BIBLE ILLUSTRATIONS Illustrated by Gustave Dore Volume 2. THE TRIAL OF THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM. And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of....

THE DOVE IN THE EAGLE’S NEST by Charlotte M. Yonge INTRODUCTION In sending forth this little book, I am inclined to add a few explanatory words as to the use I have made of historical personages. The origin of the whole story was probably Freytag’s first series of pictures of German Life: probably, I say, for its first commencement was a dream, dreamt some weeks after reading that most interesting collection of sketches....

THE FAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Vol. 2 of 10) Actus Primus. Scena Prima. Enter Clorin a shepherdess, having buried her Love in an Arbour. Hail, holy Earth, whose cold Arms do imbrace The truest man that ever fed his flocksBy the fat plains of fruitful Thessaly, Thus I salute thy Grave, thus do I payMy early vows, and tribute of mine eyes To thy still loved ashes; thus I freeMy self from all insuing heats and fires Of love: all sports, delights and jolly games That Shepherds hold full dear, thus put I off....

The Go-Getter A Story That Tells You How to be One By Peter B. Kyne * * * * * DEDICATION THIS LITTLE BOOK IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF MY DEAD CHIEF, BRIGADIER-GENERAL LEROY S. LYON, SOMETIME COMMANDER OF THE 65TH FIELD ARTILLERY BRIGADE, 40TH DIVISION, UNITED STATES ARMY. HE PRACTICED AND PREACHED A RELIGION OF LOYALTY TO THE COUNTRY AND THE APPOINTED TASK, WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE. * * * * * I Mr....

The Golden Canyon by G.A. Henty New York Hurst & Company Publishers. 1899 Contents The Golden Canyon. Chapter I. A Run Ashore II. Dick’s Escape III. The Gold-Seekers IV. More Plans V. The Search For The Canyon VI. The Map Again VII. The Scarcity Of Water VIII. The Golden Valley IX. The Tree On The Peak X. Watched XI. Hard At Work XII. Retreat XIII. The Redskin XIV. In The Ravine XV....

DEDICATED TO EDMUND GOSSE WHO FIRST SHOWED ME THE WAY TO THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD London, 1896 Hyderabad, 1905 CONTENTS FOLK SONGS Palanquin-Bearers Wandering Singers Indian Weavers Coromandel Fishers The Snake-Charmer Corn-Grinders Village-Song In Praise of Henna Harvest Hymn Indian Love-Song Cradle-Song Suttee SONGS FOR MUSIC Song of a Dream Humayun to Zobeida Autumn Song Alabaster Ecstasy To my Fairy Fancies POEMS Ode to H. H. the Nizam of Hyderabad In the Forest Past and Future Life The Poet’s Love-Song To the God of Pain The Song of Princess Zeb-un-nissa Indian Dancers My Dead Dream Damayante to Nala in the Hour of Exile The Queen’s Rival The Poet to Death The Indian Gipsy To my Children The Pardah Nashin To Youth Nightfall in the City of Hyderabad Street Cries To India The Royal Tombs of Golconda To a Buddha seated on a Lotus INTRODUCTION It is at my persuasion that these poems are now published....

THE HERMIT OF FAR END By Margaret Pedler First Published 1920. PROLOGUE It was very quiet within the little room perched high up under the roof of Wallater’s Buildings. Even the glowing logs in the grate burned tranquilly, without any of those brisk cracklings and sputterings which make such cheerful company of a fire, while the distant roar of London’s traffic came murmuringly, dulled to a gentle monotone by the honeycomb of narrow side streets that intervened between the gaunt, red-brick Buildings and the bustling highways of the city....

DON QUIXOTE by Miguel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby Volume I. Part 4. CHAPTER IX. IN WHICH IS CONCLUDED AND FINISHED THE TERRIFIC BATTLE BETWEEN THE GALLANT BISCAYAN AND THE VALIANT MANCHEGAN In the First Part of this history we left the valiant Biscayan and the renowned Don Quixote with drawn swords uplifted, ready to deliver two such furious slashing blows that if they had fallen full and fair they would at least have split and cleft them asunder from top to toe and laid them open like a pomegranate; and at this so critical point the delightful history came to a stop and stood cut short without any intimation from the author where what was missing was to be found....

DON QUIXOTE Volume II. Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby CONTENTS Part II. CHAPTER IOF THE INTERVIEW THE CURATE AND THE BARBER HAD WITH DON QUIXOTE ABOUT HIS MALADY CHAPTER IIWHICH TREATS OF THE NOTABLE ALTERCATION WHICH SANCHO PANZA HAD WITH DON QUIXOTE’S NIECE, AND HOUSEKEEPER, TOGETHER WITH OTHER DROLL MATTERS CHAPTER IIIOF THE LAUGHABLE CONVERSATION THAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE, SANCHO PANZA, AND THE BACHELOR SAMSON CARRASCO CHAPTER IVIN WHICH SANCHO PANZA GIVES A SATISFACTORY REPLY TO THE DOUBTS AND QUESTIONS OF THE BACHELOR SAMSON CARRASCO, TOGETHER WITH OTHER MATTERS WORTH KNOWING AND TELLING CHAPTER VOF THE SHREWD AND DROLL CONVERSATION THAT PASSED BETWEEN SANCHO PANZA AND HIS WIFE TERESA PANZA, AND OTHER MATTERS WORTHY OF BEING DULY RECORDED CHAPTER VIOF WHAT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS NIECE AND HOUSEKEEPER; ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CHAPTERS IN THE WHOLE HISTORY CHAPTER VIIOF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE, TOGETHER WITH OTHER VERY NOTABLE INCIDENTS CHAPTER VIIIWHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE ON HIS WAY TO SEE HIS LADY DULCINEA DEL TOBOSO CHAPTER IXWHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT WILL BE SEEN THERE CHAPTER XWHEREIN IS RELATED THE CRAFTY DEVICE SANCHO ADOPTED TO ENCHANT THE LADY DULCINEA, AND OTHER INCIDENTS AS LUDICROUS AS THEY ARE TRUE CHAPTER XIOF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE HAD WITH THE CAR OR CART OF “THE CORTES OF DEATH” CHAPTER XIIOF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH BEFELL THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE WITH THE BOLD KNIGHT OF THE MIRRORS CHAPTER XIIIIN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE GROVE, TOGETHER WITH THE SENSIBLE, ORIGINAL, AND TRANQUIL COLLOQUY THAT PASSED BETWEEN THE TWO SQUIRES CHAPTER XIVWHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE GROVE CHAPTER XVWHEREIN IT IS TOLD AND KNOWN WHO THE KNIGHT OF THE MIRRORS AND HIS SQUIRE WERE CHAPTER XVIOF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE WITH A DISCREET GENTLEMAN OF LA MANCHA CHAPTER XVIIWHEREIN IS SHOWN THE FURTHEST AND HIGHEST POINT WHICH THE UNEXAMPLED COURAGE OF DON QUIXOTE REACHED OR COULD REACH; TOGETHER WITH THE HAPPILY ACHIEVED ADVENTURE OF THE LIONS CHAPTER XVIIIOF WHAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE IN THE CASTLE OR HOUSE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE GREEN GABAN, TOGETHER WITH OTHER MATTERS OUT OF THE COMMON CHAPTER XIXIN WHICH IS RELATED THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENAMOURED SHEPHERD, TOGETHER WITH OTHER TRULY DROLL INCIDENTS CHAPTER XXWHEREIN AN ACCOUNT IS GIVEN OF THE WEDDING OF CAMACHO THE RICH, TOGETHER WITH THE INCIDENT OF BASILIO THE POOR CHAPTER XXIIN WHICH CAMACHO’S WEDDING IS CONTINUED, WITH OTHER DELIGHTFUL INCIDENTS CHAPTER XXIIWHERIN IS RELATED THE GRAND ADVENTURE OF THE CAVE OF MONTESINOS IN THE HEART OF LA MANCHA, WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE BROUGHT TO A HAPPY TERMINATION CHAPTER XXIIIOF THE WONDERFUL THINGS THE INCOMPARABLE DON QUIXOTE SAID HE SAW IN THE PROFOUND CAVE OF MONTESINOS, THE IMPOSSIBILITY AND MAGNITUDE OF WHICH CAUSE THIS ADVENTURE TO BE DEEMED APOCRYPHAL CHAPTER XXIVWHEREIN ARE RELATED A THOUSAND TRIFLING MATTERS, AS TRIVIAL AS THEY ARE NECESSARY TO THE RIGHT UNDERSTANDING OF THIS GREAT HISTORY CHAPTER XXVWHEREIN IS SET DOWN THE BRAYING ADVENTURE, AND THE DROLL ONE OF THE PUPPET-SHOWMAN, TOGETHER WITH THE MEMORABLE DIVINATIONS OF THE DIVINING APE CHAPTER XXVIWHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE DROLL ADVENTURE OF THE PUPPET-SHOWMAN, TOGETHER WITH OTHER THINGS IN TRUTH RIGHT GOOD CHAPTER XXVIIWHEREIN IT IS SHOWN WHO MASTER PEDRO AND HIS APE WERE, TOGETHER WITH THE MISHAP DON QUIXOTE HAD IN THE BRAYING ADVENTURE, WHICH HE DID NOT CONCLUDE AS HE WOULD HAVE LIKED OR AS HE HAD EXPECTED CHAPTER XXVIIIOF MATTERS THAT BENENGELI SAYS HE WHO READS THEM WILL KNOW, IF HE READS THEM WITH ATTENTION CHAPTER XXIXOF THE FAMOUS ADVENTURE OF THE ENCHANTED BARK CHAPTER XXXOF DON QUIXOTE’S ADVENTURE WITH A FAIR HUNTRESS CHAPTER XXXIWHICH TREATS OF MANY AND GREAT MATTERS CHAPTER XXXIIOF THE REPLY DON QUIXOTE GAVE HIS CENSURER, WITH OTHER INCIDENTS, GRAVE AND DROLL CHAPTER XXXIIIOF THE DELECTABLE DISCOURSE WHICH THE DUCHESS AND HER DAMSELS HELD WITH SANCHO PANZA, WELL WORTH READING AND NOTING CHAPTER XXXIVWHICH RELATES HOW THEY LEARNED THE WAY IN WHICH THEY WERE TO DISENCHANT THE PEERLESS DULCINEA DEL TOBOSO, WHICH IS ONE OF THE RAREST ADVENTURES IN THIS BOOK CHAPTER XXXVWHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE INSTRUCTION GIVEN TO DON QUIXOTE TOUCHING THE DISENCHANTMENT OF DULCINEA, TOGETHER WITH OTHER MARVELLOUS INCIDENTS CHAPTER XXXVIWHEREIN IS RELATED THE STRANGE AND UNDREAMT-OF ADVENTURE OF THE DISTRESSED DUENNA, ALIAS THE COUNTESS TRIFALDI, TOGETHER WITH A LETTER WHICH SANCHO PANZA WROTE TO HIS WIFE, TERESA PANZA CHAPTER XXXVIIWHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE NOTABLE ADVENTURE OF THE DISTRESSED DUENNA CHAPTER XXXVIIIWHEREIN IS TOLD THE DISTRESSED DUENNA’S TALE OF HER MISFORTUNES CHAPTER XXXIXIN WHICH THE TRIFALDI CONTINUES HER MARVELLOUS AND MEMORABLE STORY CHAPTER XLOF MATTERS RELATING AND BELONGING TO THIS ADVENTURE AND TO THIS MEMORABLE HISTORY CHAPTER XLIOF THE ARRIVAL OF CLAVILENO AND THE END OF THIS PROTRACTED ADVENTURE CHAPTER XLIIOF THE COUNSELS WHICH DON QUIXOTE GAVE SANCHO PANZA BEFORE HE SET OUT TO GOVERN THE ISLAND, TOGETHER WITH OTHER WELL-CONSIDERED MATTERS CHAPTER XLIIIOF THE SECOND SET OF COUNSELS DON QUIXOTE GAVE SANCHO PANZA CHAPTER XLIVHOW SANCHO PANZA WAS CONDUCTED TO HIS GOVERNMENT, AND OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE IN THE CASTLE CHAPTER XLVOF HOW THE GREAT SANCHO PANZA TOOK POSSESSION OF HIS ISLAND, AND OF HOW HE MADE A BEGINNING IN GOVERNING CHAPTER XLVIOF THE TERRIBLE BELL AND CAT FRIGHT THAT DON QUIXOTE GOT IN THE COURSE OF THE ENAMOURED ALTISIDORA’S WOOING CHAPTER XLVIIWHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE ACCOUNT OF HOW SANCHO PANZA CONDUCTED HIMSELF IN HIS GOVERNMENT CHAPTER XLVIIIOF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE WITH DONA RODRIGUEZ, THE DUCHESS’S DUENNA, TOGETHER WITH OTHER OCCURRENCES WORTHY OF RECORD AND ETERNAL REMEMBRANCE CHAPTER XLIXOF WHAT HAPPENED SANCHO IN MAKING THE ROUND OF HIS ISLAND CHAPTER LWHEREIN IS SET FORTH WHO THE ENCHANTERS AND EXECUTIONERS WERE WHO FLOGGED THE DUENNA AND PINCHED DON QUIXOTE, AND ALSO WHAT BEFELL THE PAGE WHO CARRIED THE LETTER TO TERESA PANZA, SANCHO PANZA’S WIFE CHAPTER LIOF THE PROGRESS OF SANCHO’S GOVERNMENT, AND OTHER SUCH ENTERTAINING MATTERS CHAPTER LIIWHEREIN IS RELATED THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND DISTRESSED OR AFFLICTED DUENNA, OTHERWISE CALLED DONA RODRIGUEZ CHAPTER LIIIOF THE TROUBLOUS END AND TERMINATION SANCHO PANZA’S GOVERNMENT CAME TO CHAPTER LIVWHICH DEALS WITH MATTERS RELATING TO THIS HISTORY AND NO OTHER CHAPTER LVOF WHAT BEFELL SANCHO ON THE ROAD, AND OTHER THINGS THAT CANNOT BE SURPASSED CHAPTER LVIOF THE PRODIGIOUS AND UNPARALLELED BATTLE THAT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA AND THE LACQUEY TOSILOS IN DEFENCE OF THE DAUGHTER OF DONA RODRIGUEZ CHAPTER LVIIWHICH TREATS OF HOW DON QUIXOTE TOOK LEAVE OF THE DUKE, AND OF WHAT FOLLOWED WITH THE WITTY AND IMPUDENT ALTISIDORA, ONE OF THE DUCHESS’S DAMSELS CHAPTER LVIIIWHICH TELLS HOW ADVENTURES CAME CROWDING ON DON QUIXOTE IN SUCH NUMBERS THAT THEY GAVE ONE ANOTHER NO BREATHING-TIME CHAPTER LIXWHEREIN IS RELATED THE STRANGE THING, WHICH MAY BE REGARDED AS AN ADVENTURE, THAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE CHAPTER LXOF WHAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE ON HIS WAY TO BARCELONA CHAPTER LXIOF WHAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE ON ENTERING BARCELONA, TOGETHER WITH OTHER MATTERS THAT PARTAKE OF THE TRUE RATHER THAN OF THE INGENIOUS CHAPTER LXIIWHICH DEALS WITH THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENCHANTED HEAD, TOGETHER WITH OTHER TRIVIAL MATTERS WHICH CANNOT BE LEFT UNTOLD CHAPTER LXIIIOF THE MISHAP THAT BEFELL SANCHO PANZA THROUGH THE VISIT TO THE GALLEYS, AND THE STRANGE ADVENTURE OF THE FAIR MORISCO CHAPTER LXIVTREATING OF THE ADVENTURE WHICH GAVE DON QUIXOTE MORE UNHAPPINESS THAN ALL THAT HAD HITHERTO BEFALLEN HIM CHAPTER LXVWHEREIN IS MADE KNOWN WHO THE KNIGHT OF THE WHITE MOON WAS; LIKEWISE DON GREGORIO’S RELEASE, AND OTHER EVENTS CHAPTER LXVIWHICH TREATS OF WHAT HE WHO READS WILL SEE, OR WHAT HE WHO HAS IT READ TO HIM WILL HEAR CHAPTER LXVIIOF THE RESOLUTION DON QUIXOTE FORMED TO TURN SHEPHERD AND TAKE TO A LIFE IN THE FIELDS WHILE THE YEAR FOR WHICH HE HAD GIVEN HIS WORD WAS RUNNING ITS COURSE; WITH OTHER EVENTS TRULY DELECTABLE AND HAPPY CHAPTER LXVIIIOF THE BRISTLY ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE CHAPTER LXIXOF THE STRANGEST AND MOST EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE IN THE WHOLE COURSE OF THIS GREAT HISTORY CHAPTER LXXWHICH FOLLOWS SIXTY-NINE AND DEALS WITH MATTERS INDISPENSABLE FOR THE CLEAR COMPREHENSION OF THIS HISTORY CHAPTER LXXIOF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE SANCHO ON THE WAY TO THEIR VILLAGE CHAPTER LXXIIOF HOW DON QUIXOTE AND SANCHO REACHED THEIR VILLAGE CHAPTER LXXIIIOF THE OMENS DON QUIXOTE HAD AS HE ENTERED HIS OWN VILLAGE, AND OTHER INCIDENTS THAT EMBELLISH AND GIVE A COLOUR TO THIS GREAT HISTORY CHAPTER LXXIVOF HOW DON QUIXOTE FELL SICK, AND OF THE WILL HE MADE, AND HOW HE DIED DON QUIXOTE PART II....

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY STUDIES IN HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE HERBERT B. ADAMS, Editor History is past Politics and Politics present History–Freeman NINTH SERIES III-IV The History of University Education in Maryland By BERNARD C. STEINER, A.M. (Yale) Fellow in History The Johns Hopkins University (1876-1891) By DANIEL C. GILMAN, LL.D. President of the University With Supplementary Notes on University Extension and the University of the Future, by R.G. Moulton, A....

The House of a Thousand Candles Meredith Nicholson The House of a Thousand Candles ByMeredith NicholsonAuthor of The Main ChanceZelda Dameron, Etc. With Illustrations byHoward Chandler Christy “So on the morn there fell new tidings and other adventures” Malory 1905 November To Margaret My Sister CONTENTS CHAPTERI The Will of John Marshall Glenarm II A Face at Sherry’sIII The House of a Thousand Candles IV A Voice From the LakeV A Red Tam-O’-ShanterVI The Girl and the CanoeVII The Man on the WallVIII A String of Gold BeadsIX The Girl and the RabbitX An Affair With the CaretakerXI I Receive a CallerXII I Explore a PassageXIII A Pair of EavesdroppersXIV The Girl in GrayXV I Make an EngagementXVI The Passing of OliviaXVII Sister TheresaXVIII Golden ButterfliesXIX I Meet an Old FriendXX A Triple AllianceXXI Pickering Serves NoticeXXII The Return of Marian DevereuxXXIII The Door of BewildermentXXIV A Prowler of The NightXXV BesiegedXXVI The Fight in the LibraryXXVII Changes and ChancesXXVIII Shorter VistasXXIX And So the Light Led Me The House of a Thousand Candles CHAPTER I THE WILL OF JOHN MARSHALL GLENARM Pickering’s letter bringing news of my grandfather’s death found me at Naples early in October....

THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON READING BOOK LONDON: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED AT THE OFFICE OF THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, 198, STRAND. 1851. THIRD EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS * * * * * [Illustration: PRINCE ALBERT IN HIS ROBES AS CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.] * * * * * INTRODUCTION. [Illustration: INTRODUCTION.] To read and speak with elegance and ease, Are arts polite that never fail to please; Yet in those arts how very few excel!...