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Notes on Life & Lettersby Joseph Conrad Contents: Author’s notePART I–LettersBOOKS–1905.HENRY JAMES–AN APPRECIATION–1905ALPHONSE DAUDET–1898GUY DE MAUPASSANT–1904ANATOLE FRANCE–1904TURGENEV–1917STEPHEN CRANE–A NOTE WITHOUT DATES–1919 TALES OF THE SEA–1898AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA–1898A HAPPY WANDERER–1910THE LIFE BEYOND–1910THE ASCENDING EFFORT–1910THE CENSOR OF PLAYS–AN APPRECIATION–1907 PART II–Life AUTOCRACY AND WAR–1905THE CRIME OF PARTITION–1919A NOTE ON THE POLISH PROBLEM–1916POLAND REVISITED–1915FIRST NEWS–1918WELL DONE–1918TRADITION–1918CONFIDENCE–1919FLIGHT–1917SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE LOSS OF THE TITANIC–1912 CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THE ADMIRABLE INQUIRY INTO THE LOSS OF THE TITANIC–1912PROTECTION OF OCEAN LINERS–1914A FRIENDLY PLACE AUTHOR’S NOTE I don’t know whether I ought to offer an apology for this collection which has more to do with life than with letters....

Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs CONTENTS PREFACE Part One OBSERVERS AND COMMANDERS Part Two THE SCHOOL OF COURAGE Part Three THE NATURE OF A BATTLE Part Four A WINTER OF DISCONTENT Part Five THE HEART OF A CITY Part Six PSYCHOLOGY ON THE SOMME Part Seven THE FIELDS OF ARMAGEDDON Part Eight FOR WHAT MEN DIED PREFACE In this book I have written about some aspects of the war which, I believe, the world must know and remember, not only as a memorial of men’s courage in tragic years, but as a warning of what will happen again–surely–if a heritage of evil and of folly is not cut out of the hearts of peoples....

RECIPES TRIED AND TRUE. COMPILED BY THE LADIES’ AID SOCIETY OF THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, MARION, OHIO. “We may live without poetry, music, and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks.” –OWEN MEREDITH MARION, OHIO:PRESS OF KELLEY MOUNT.1894. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1894 by the LADIES’ AID SOCIETY OF THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, MARION, OHIO....

RHODA FLEMING, complete By George Meredith CONTENTS BOOK 1.I. THE KENTISH FAMILYII. QUEEN ANNE’S FARMIII. SUGGESTS THE MIGHT OF THE MONEY DEMON IV. THE TEXT FROM SCRIPTUREV. THE SISTERS MEETVI. EDWARD AND ALGERNONVII. GREAT NEWS FROM DAHLIAVIII. INTRODUCES MRS. LOVELLIX. ROBERT INTERVENESX. DAHLIA IS NOT VISIBLEXI. AN INDICATIVE DUET IN A MINOR KEY BOOK 2.XII. AT THE THEATRE.XIII. THE FARMER SPEAKSXIV. BETWEEN RHODA AND ROBERTXI. A VISIT TO WREXBY HALLXII....

Rose O’ the Riverby Kate Douglas Wiggin Table of ContentsTHE PINE AND THE ROSE“OLD KENNEBEC”THE EDGEWOOD “DRIVE”“BLASPHEMIOUS SWEARIN’”THE GAME OF JACKSTRAWSHEARTS AND OTHER HEARTSTHE LITTLE HOUSETHE GARDEN OF EDENTHE SERPENTTHE TURQUOISE RINGROSE SEES THE WORLDGOLD AND PINCHBECKA COUNTRY CHEVALIERHOUSEBREAKINGTHE DREAM ROOM THE PINE AND THE ROSE It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet....

[Illustration: TWO MEN ADMIRING FUJI FROM A WINDOW From Hokusai’s “A Hundred Views of Fuji”] ROVING EAST AND ROVING WEST BY E. V. LUCAS TO E. L. L. MY HOST AT RAISINA “Yes, Sir, there are two objects of curiosity, e.g., the Christian world and the Mahometan world.”–DR. JOHNSON. “Motion recollected in tranquillity.”–WORDSWORTH (very nearly). CONTENTS INDIA NOISELESS FEETTHE SAHIBTHE PASSING SHOWINDIA’S BIRDSTHE TOWERS OF SILENCETHE GARLANDSDELHIA DAY’S HAWKINGNEW, OR IMPERIAL, DELHITHE DIVERSTHE ROPE TRICKAGRA AND FATEHPUR-SIKRILUCKNOWA TIGERTHE SACRED CITYCALCUTTAROSE AYLMERJOB AND JOEEXIT JAPAN INTRODUCTORYTHE LITTLE LANDTHE RICE FIELDSSURFACE MATERIALISMFIRST GLIMPSE OF FUJITWO FUNERALSTHE LITTLE GEISHAMANNERSTHE PLAYMYANOSHITAFUJI AMERICA DEMOCRACY AT HOMESAN FRANCISCOROADS GOOD AND BADUNIVERSITIES, LOVE AND PRONUNCIATION FIRST SIGNS OF PROHIBITIONR....

SAMANTHA AMONG THE BRETHREN. By “Josiah Allen’s Wife” (Marietta Holley) Part 2 CHAPTER IV. Never knew a word about the threshin’ machine a-comin’ till about half an hour before. Josiah Allen wuzn’t to blame. It come just as onexpected onto him as it did onto me. Solomon Gowdey wuz a-goin’ to have ’em first, which would have left me ample time to cook up for ’em. But he wuz took down bed sick, so they had to come right onto us with no warnin’ previous and beforehand....

[Illustration] Scientific American Supplement No. 415 NEW YORK, DECEMBER 15, 1883 Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XVI, No. 415. Scientific American established 1845 Scientific American Supplement, $5 a year. Scientific American and Supplement, $7 a year. TABLE OF CONTENTS. I. CHEMISTRY AND METALLURGY.–Carbon in Steel. Heat developed in Forging. Recent Studies on the Constitution of Alkaloids.–Extract from a lecture delivered before the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. –By SAML.P. SADTLER. II. ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS....

SEX AND COMMON-SENSE BY A. MAUDE ROYDENASSISTANT PREACHER AT THE CITY TEMPLE, LONDON 1918-1920 To MY FRIENDS A.J.S. AND W.H.S. PREFACE TO AMERICAN EDITION THE NOBILITY OF THE SEX PROBLEM Of all the problems which the alert and curious mind of modern man is considering, none occupies him more than that of the relations of the sexes. This is natural. It touches us all and we have made rather a mess of it!...

DEEP WATERS By W.W. JACOBS SHAREHOLDERS Sailor man–said the night-watchman, musingly–a sailorman is like a fish he is safest when ‘e is at sea. When a fish comes ashore it is in for trouble, and so is sailorman. One poor chap I knew ‘ardly ever came ashore without getting married; and he was found out there was no less than six wimmen in the court all taking away ‘is character at once....

OSCAR WILDE–SHORTER PROSE PIECES Contents: Phrases And Philosophies for the Use of The Young Mrs. Langtry as Hester GrazebrookSlaves of FashionWoman’s DressMore Radical Ideas upon Dress Reform CostumeThe American InvasionSermons in Stones at BloomsburyL’Envoi PHRASES AND PHILOSOPHIES FOR THE USE OF THE YOUNG The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered. Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others....

SKETCHES NEW AND OLD by Mark Twain Part 3. DISGRACEFUL PERSECUTION OF A BOY In San Francisco, the other day, “A well-dressed boy, on his way to Sunday-school, was arrested and thrown into the city prison for stoning Chinamen.” What a commentary is this upon human justice! What sad prominence it gives to our human disposition to tyrannize over the weak! San Francisco has little right to take credit to herself for her treatment of this poor boy....

CONTENTS I. THE VAGABOND – Give to me the life I love II. YOUTH AND LOVE: I. – Once only by the garden gate III. YOUTH AND LOVE: II. – To the heart of youth the world is a highwaysideIV. In dreams, unhappy, I behold you stand V. She rested by the Broken BrookVI. The infinite shining heavensVII. Plain as the glistering planets shine VIII. To you, let snows and rosesIX....

SOUTH SEA TALESby Jack London CONTENTS The House of Mapuhi The Whale Tooth Mauki “Yah! Yah! Yah!” The Heathen The Terrible Solomons The Inevitable White Man The Seed of McCoy THE HOUSE OF MAPUHI Despite the heavy clumsiness of her lines, the Aorai handled easily in the light breeze, and her captain ran her well in before he hove to just outside the suck of the surf. The atoll of Hikueru lay low on the water, a circle of pounded coral sand a hundred yards wide, twenty miles in circumference, and from three to five feet above high-water mark....

THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER BY MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) P R E F A C E MOST of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual–he is a combination of the characteristics of three boys whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of architecture....

THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER BY MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Part 2 CHAPTER IV THE sun rose upon a tranquil world, and beamed down upon the peaceful village like a benediction. Breakfast over, Aunt Polly had family worship: it began with a prayer built from the ground up of solid courses of Scriptural quotations, welded together with a thin mortar of originality; and from the summit of this she delivered a grim chapter of the Mosaic Law, as from Sinai....

THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER BY MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Part 3 CHAPTER VIII TOM dodged hither and thither through lanes until he was well out of the track of returning scholars, and then fell into a moody jog. He crossed a small “branch” two or three times, because of a prevailing juvenile superstition that to cross water baffled pursuit. Half an hour later he was disappearing behind the Douglas mansion on the summit of Cardiff Hill, and the schoolhouse was hardly distinguishable away off in the valley behind him....

[Illustration: Facsimile of Negro Bill of Sale] THE AMERICAN INDIAN AS PARTICIPANT IN THE CIVIL WAR BYANNIE HELOISE ABEL, Ph.D.Professor of History, Smith College 1919 ToMy former colleagues and students at Goucher College and in the College Courses forTeachers, Johns Hopkins Universitythis book is affectionately dedicated CONTENTS I THE BATTLE OF PEA RIDGE, OR ELKHORN AND ITS MORE IMMEDIATE EFFECTS 13 II LANE’S BRIGADE AND THE INCEPTION OF THE INDIAN 37 III THE INDIAN REFUGEES IN SOUTHERN KANSAS 79 IV THE ORGANIZATION OF THE FIRST INDIAN EXPEDITION 91 V THE MARCH TO TAHLEQUAH AND THE RETROGRADE MOVEMENT OF THE “WHITE AUXILIARY” 125 VI GENERAL PIKE IN CONTROVERSY WITH GENERAL HINDMAN 147 VII ORGANIZATION OF THE ARKANSAS AND RED RIVER SUPERINTENDENCY 171VIII THE RETIREMENT OF GENERAL PIKE 185 IX THE REMOVAL OF THE REFUGEES TO THE SAC AND FOX AGENCY 203X NEGOTIATIONS WITH UNION INDIANS 221 XI INDIAN TERRITORY IN 1863, JANUARY TO JUNE INCLUSIVE 243XII INDIAN TERRITORY IN 1863, JULY TO DECEMBER INCLUSIVE 283XIII ASPECTS, CHIEFLY MILITARY, 1864-1865 313 APPENDIX 337SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 353 INDEX 369 ILLUSTRATIONS FACSIMILE OF NEGRO BILL OF SALE 4 SKETCH MAP SHOWING THE MAIN THEATRE OF BORDER WARFARE AND THE LOCATION OF TRIBES WITHIN THE INDIAN COUNTRY 39 PORTRAIT OF COLONEL W....

HOME UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OF MODERN KNOWLEDGE No. 92 Editors: HERBERT FISHER, M.A., F.B.A.PROF. GILBERT MURRAY, LITT.D., LL.D., F.B.A. PROF. J. ARTHUR THOMSON, M.A.PROF. WILLIAM T. BREWSTER, M.A. THE ANCIENT EAST BY D. G. HOGARTH, M.A., F.B.A., F.S.A. KEEPER OF THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM, OXFORD; AUTHOR OF “IONIA AND THE EAST,”“THE NEARER EAST,” ETC. CONTENTS INTRODUCTORY I THE EAST IN 1000 B.C. II THE EAST IN 800 B.C. III THE EAST IN 600 B....

THE ANTI-SLAVERY EXAMINER BY The American Anti-Slavery Society 1836 No. 1. To the People of the United States; or, To Such Americans As Value Their Rights, and Dare to Maintain Them. No. 2. Appeal to the Christian Women of the South. No. 2. Appeal to the Christian Women of the South. Revised and Corrected. No. 3. Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie, of the State of Mississippi. No....