THE GIANT SCISSORS CONTENTS CHAPTER I. IN THE PEAR-TREE. II. A NEW FAIRY TALE. III. BEHIND THE GREAT GATE. IV. A LETTER AND A MEETING. V. A THANKSGIVING BARBECUE. VI. JOYCE PLAYS GHOST. VII. OLD “NUMBER THIRTY-ONE”.VIII. CHRISTMAS PLANS AND AN ACCIDENT. IX. A GREAT DISCOVERY. X. CHRISTMAS. [Illustration: JULES] THE GATE OF THE GIANTSCISSORS. CHAPTER I. IN THE PEAR-TREE. Joyce was crying, up in old Monsieur Greville’s tallest pear-tree....
THE GENTLEMAN FROM EVERYWHERE BY JAMES HENRY FOSS ILLUSTRATED 1903 TO MY BELOVED, ON EARTH AND IN HEAVEN, THIS BOOK IS MOST AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED IN THE EARNEST HOPE THAT BY ITS PERUSAL Many sailing o’er life’s solemn main, Forlorn and shipwrecked brothers, may take heart again. Contents CHAPTER I. Launching of My Life BoatII. My First VoyageIII. Near to Nature’s HeartIV. Joys and Sorrows of School-Days V. Career of a Dominie-PedagogueVI....
THE GHOST-SHIP by Richard Middleton Thanks are due to the Editors of The Century, English Review, Vanity Fair, and The Academy, for permission to reproduce most of the stories in this volume. Preface The other day I said to a friend, “I have just been reading in proof a volume of short stories by an author named Richard Middleton. He is dead. It is an extraordinary book, and all the work in it is full of a quite curious and distinctive quality....
THE GOD-IDEA OF THE ANCIENTS OR SEX IN RELIGION BY ELIZA BURT GAMBLE Author of “The Evolution of Woman” PREFACE.Much of the material for this volume was collected during the time that I was preparing for the press the Evolution of Woman, or while searching for data bearing on the subject of sex-specialization. While preparing that book for publication, it was my intention to include within it this branch of my investigation, but wishing to obtain certain facts relative to the foundations of religious belief and worship which were not accessible at that time, and knowing that considerable labor and patience would be required in securing these facts, I decided to publish the first part of the work, withholding for the time being that portion of it pertaining especially to the development of the God-idea....
AUTHOR OF THE FASHIONABLE ADVENTURES OF JOSHUA CRAIG, OLD WIVES FOR NEW, THE HUSBAND’S STORY, ETC. THE GRAIN OF DUST I INTO the offices of Lockyer, Sanders, Benchley, Lockyer & Norman, corporation lawyers, there drifted on a December afternoon a girl in search of work at stenography and typewriting. The firm was about the most important and most famous–radical orators often said infamous–in New York. The girl seemed, at a glance, about as unimportant and obscure an atom as the city hid in its vast ferment....
E-text prepared by Jim Ludwig The High School Boys Fishing TriporDick & Co. in the Wilderness By H. Irving Hancock CONTENTS CHAPTERS I. Tom Reade has a “Brand-New One” II. Dodge and Bayless Hear Something III. Dick & Co. Driven Up a Tree IV. Stalling the Red Smattach V. Bert Dodge Hears the Battle Cry VI. Paid in Full—To Date VII. The Box That Set Them Guessing VIII. The Man With the Haunting Face IX....
The Interpreters of Genesis and the Interpreters of Nature by Thomas Henry HuxleyThis is Essay #4 from “Science and Hebrew Tradition” Our fabulist warns “those who in quarrels interpose” of the fate which is probably in store for them; and, in venturing to place myself between so powerful a controversialist as Mr. Gladstone and the eminent divine whom he assaults with such vigour in the last number of this Review,<1> I am fully aware that I run great danger of verifying Gay’s prediction....
By ETHEL M. DELL Author of “The Way Of An Eagle” 1912 I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO MY FRIEND AND SISTER IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF HER SYMPATHY AND HELP O Charity, all patiently Abiding wrack and scaith!O Faith that meets ten thousand cheats Yet drops no jot of faith!Devil and brute Thou dost transmute To higher, lordlier show,Who art in sooth that lovely Truth The careless angels know! To the True Romance....
by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner INTRODUCTION TO JOE MULLER Joseph Muller, Secret Service detective of the Imperial Austrian police, is one of the great experts in his profession. In personality he differs greatly from other famous detectives. He has neither the impressive authority of Sherlock Holmes, nor the keen brilliancy of Monsieur Lecoq. Muller is a small, slight, plain-looking man, of indefinite age, and of much humbleness of mien....
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THE LIVES OF THE POETS OF Great-Britain and Ireland. By Mr. CIBBER, and other Hands. VOL. V. M DCC LIII CONTENTS A Vol. Aaron Hill V_Addison_ III_Amhurst_ V_Anne_, Countess of Winchelsea III B Bancks III_Banks_ V_Barclay_ I_Barton Booth_ IV Beaumont I_Behn, Aphra_ III Betterton III_Birkenhead_ II_Blackmore_ V_Booth_, Vid. Barton Boyce V Boyle, E. Orrery II_Brady_ IV_Brewer_ II_Brooke_, Sir Fulk Greville I Brown, Tom III_Buckingham_, Duke of II Budgell V_Butler_ II C Carew I_Cartwright_ I_Centlivre_, Mrs....
THE MAGIC SKIN by HONORE DE BALZAC TranslatorEllen Marriage To Monsieur Savary, Member of Le Academie des Sciences. [omitted: a drawing representing the serpentine path made by the tip of a stick when flourished.] STERNE–Tristram Shandy, ch. cccxxii. I THE TALISMAN Towards the end of the month of October 1829 a young man entered the Palais-Royal just as the gaming-houses opened, agreeably to the law which protects a passion by its very nature easily excisable....
PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT, Part 3. by U. S. Grant CHAPTER XXVII. HEADQUARTERS MOVED TO MEMPHIS–ON THE ROAD TO MEMPHIS–ESCAPING JACKSON –COMPLAINTS AND REQUESTS–HALLECK APPOINTED COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF–RETURN TO CORINTH–MOVEMENTS OF BRAGG–SURRENDER OF CLARKSVILLE–THE ADVANCE UPON CHATTANOOGA–SHERIDAN COLONEL OF A MICHIGAN REGIMENT. My position at Corinth, with a nominal command and yet no command, became so unbearable that I asked permission of Halleck to remove my headquarters to Memphis. I had repeatedly asked, between the fall of Donelson and the evacuation of Corinth, to be relieved from duty under Halleck; but all my applications were refused until the occupation of the town....
PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT (Part 4) VOLUME II. CONTENTS. CHAPTER XL. FIRST MEETING WITH SECRETARY STANTON–GENERAL ROSECRANS –COMMANDING MILITARY DIVISION OF MISSISSIPPI–ANDREW JOHNSON’S ADDRESS –ARRIVAL AT CHATTANOOGA. CHAPTER XLI. ASSUMING THE COMMAND AT CHATTANOOGA–OPENING A LINE OF SUPPLIES–BATTLE OF WAUHATCHIE–ON THE PICKET LINE. CHAPTER XLII. CONDITION OF THE ARMY–REBUILDING THE RAILROAD–GENERAL BURNSIDE’S SITUATION–ORDERS FOR BATTLE–PLANS FOR THE ATTACK–HOOKER’S POSITION–SHERMAN’S MOVEMENTS. CHAPTER XLIII. PREPARATIONS FOR BATTLE–THOMAS CARRIES THE FIRST LINE OF THE ENEMY–SHERMAN CARRIES MISSIONARY RIDGE–BATTLE OF LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN –GENERAL HOOKER’S FIGHT....
MEMOIRS OF GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN By William T. Sherman GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN HIS COMRADES IN ARMS, VOLUNTEERS AND REGULARS. Nearly ten years have passed since the close of the civil war in America, and yet no satisfactory history thereof is accessible to the public; nor should any be attempted until the Government has published, and placed within the reach of students, the abundant materials that are buried in the War Department at Washington....
[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 VOLUME 5. CHAPTER XXXIII A Hunting Adventure.–Story and Catastrophe of Fargues.–Death and Character of Ninon de l’Enclos.–Odd Adventure of Courtenvaux....
THE MESSAGE BY HONORE` DE BALZAC Translated ByEllen Marriage To M. le Marquis Damaso Pareto I have always longed to tell a simple and true story, which should strike terror into two young lovers, and drive them to take refuge each in the other’s heart, as two children cling together at the sight of a snake by a woodside. At the risk of spoiling my story and of being taken for a coxcomb, I state my intention at the outset....
THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. XVII, NO. 478.] SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1831. [PRICE 2d. AUTOGRAPHS OF EMINENT PERSONS. [Illustration: AUTOGRAPHS OF EMINENT PERSONS.] AUTOGRAPHS. It is long since our pages were illustrated with such characteristic lineaments as those on the opposite page. The reader will, however, perceive that we have not entirely forgotten the quaint motto from Shenstone, in our earlier volumes– “I want to see Mrs....
THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. 19, NO. 546.] SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1832. [PRICE 2d. ST. PANCRAS (OLD) CHURCH. [Illustration: ST. PANCRAS (OLD) CHURCH.] This humble village fane is situated to the north of London, somewhat more than a mile from Holborn Bars. Persons unacquainted with the site, may hitherto have considered it as part and parcel of this vast metropolis: but, lo! here it stands amidst much of its primitive, peaceful rusticity....
Vol. 20, No. 570.] SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1832. [PRICE 2d. THE ISLE OF WIGHT. [Illustration: (Wilkes’s Cottage.)] NOTES FROM A PEDESTRIAN EXCURSION IN THE ISLAND. By a Correspondent. Although the roads of the island have within the last twenty years been rendered passable for vehicles of all kinds, even to stage coaches, yet by far the best mode of inspecting this English Arcadia is to travel through it on foot, commencing at Ryde....
