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CELEBRATED CRIMES VOLUME 7, Part 2 By Alexander Dumas, Pere THE COUNTESS DE SAINT-GERAN About the end of the year 1639, a troop of horsemen arrived, towards midday, in a little village at the northern extremity of the province of Auvergne, from the direction of Paris. The country folk assembled at the noise, and found it to proceed from the provost of the mounted police and his men. The heat was excessive, the horses were bathed in sweat, the horsemen covered with dust, and the party seemed on its return from an important expedition....

The Danish History, Books I-IX by Saxo Grammaticus (“Saxo the Learned”) fl. Late 12th – Early 13th Century A.D. Originally written in Latin in the early years of the 13th Century A.D. by the Danish historian Saxo, of whom little is known except his name. The text of this edition is based on that published as “The Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus”, translated by Oliver Elton (Norroena Society, New York, 1905)....

THE DESCENT OF MAN AND SELECTION IN RELATION TO SEX Works by Charles Darwin, F.R.S. Life and Letters of Charles Darwin. With an Autobiographical Chapter. Edited by Francis Darwin. Portraits. 3 volumes 36s. Popular Edition. Condensed in 1 volume 7s 6d. Naturalist’s Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of Countries Visited during a Voyage Round the World. With 100 Illustrations by Pritchett. 21s. Popular Edition. Woodcuts. 3s 6d....

Lydgate’s Disguising at Hertford Castle by Derek Forbes with Foreword by Glynne WickhamFirst published by Blot Publishing, Pulborough, 1998. Pp. xiv + 82, f’piece, and 4 plate ills. Decorated and laminated card cover. ISBN 1 900929 03 1. Retail price in 2000 six pounds GBP. Copies of the book are available from Blot Publishing, 8 Chanctonbury, Ashington, West Sussex, RH20 3QE, UK. Telephone: +44 (0)1903 893806Email: ; Web site: ....

by HENRY JAMES CHAPTER I A narrow grave-yard in the heart of a bustling, indifferent city, seen from the windows of a gloomy-looking inn, is at no time an object of enlivening suggestion; and the spectacle is not at its best when the mouldy tombstones and funereal umbrage have received the ineffectual refreshment of a dull, moist snow-fall. If, while the air is thickened by this frosty drizzle, the calendar should happen to indicate that the blessed vernal season is already six weeks old, it will be admitted that no depressing influence is absent from the scene....

THE FORTUNATE YOUTH BYWILLIAM J. LOCKE CHAPTER I PAUL KEGWORTHY lived with his mother, Mrs. Button, his stepfather, Mr. Button, and six little Buttons, his half brothers and sisters. His was not an ideal home; it consisted in a bedroom, a kitchen and a scullery in a grimy little house in a grimy street made up of rows of exactly similar grimy little houses, and forming one of a hundred similar streets in a northern manufacturing town....

The Fourth-Dimensional Reaches of the Exposition San Francisco, 1915 By Cora Lenore Williams, M. S.Author of “As If” and Essays on “Involution” Paul Elder and CompanyPublisher – San Francisco Copyright, 1915By Paul Elder and CompanySan Francisco To My Father and Mother Contents Lines on “Fourth-Dimensional Insight” by Ormeida Curtis Harrison. (Tissue Facing Frontispiece.)A Fourteenth Century LegendEssay on the Fourth-Dimensional Reaches of the Exposition. By Cora Lenore Williams:General Status of the Fourth-Dimensional Theory Fourth-Dimensional Aspects of the Panama-Pacific International ExpositionBibliography: Books and Poems having Fourth-Dimensional Insight Illustrations An Unborn Space....

CHRONICLES OF CANADAEdited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton In thirty-two volumes Volume 6 THE GREAT INTENDANTA Chronicle of Jean Talon in Canada 1665-1672 By THOMAS CHAPAIS TORONTO, 1914 CHAPTER I TO THE RESCUE OF NEW FRANCE When the year 1665 began, the French colony on the shores of the St Lawrence, founded by the valour and devotion of Champlain, had been in existence for more than half a century....

THE GUARDIAN ANGEL by Oliver Wendell Holmes TO MY READERS. “A new Preface” is, I find, promised with my story. If there are any among my readers who loved Aesop’s Fables chiefly on account of the Moral appended, they will perhaps be pleased to turn backward and learn what I have to say here. This tale forms a natural sequence to a former one, which some may remember, entitled “Elsie Venner....

DON QUIXOTE Volume II. Part 41. by Miguel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby CHAPTER LXXI. OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE SANCHO ON THE WAY TO THEIR VILLAGE The vanquished and afflicted Don Quixote went along very downcast in one respect and very happy in another. His sadness arose from his defeat, and his satisfaction from the thought of the virtue that lay in Sancho, as had been proved by the resurrection of Altisidora; though it was with difficulty he could persuade himself that the love-smitten damsel had been really dead....

NINE GREEK DRAMAS BY AESCHYLUS, SOPHOCLES, EURIPIDESAND ARISTOPHANES TRANSLATIONS BY E.D.A. MORSHEADE.H. PLUMPTRE, GILBERT MURRAYAND B.B. ROGERS WITH INTRODUCTIONS AND NOTES THE HOUSE OF ATREUS. (Aeschylus) AGAMEMNON THE LIBATION-BEARERS THE FURIES TRANSLATED BY E.D.A. MORSHEAD INTRODUCTORY NOTE Of the life of Aeschylus, the first of the three great masters of Greek tragedy, only a very meager outline has come down to us. He was born at Eleusis, near Athens, B....

THE IRRATIONAL KNOT BY BERNARD SHAW BEING THE SECOND NOVELOF HIS NONAGE 1905 PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION OF 1905 This novel was written in the year 1880, only a few years after I had exported myself from Dublin to London in a condition of extreme rawness and inexperience concerning the specifically English side of the life with which the book pretends to deal. Everybody wrote novels then. It was my second attempt; and it shared the fate of my first....

JOURNAL OF AN AFRICAN CRUISER: COMPRISING SKETCHES OF THE CANARIES, THE CAPE DE VERDS, LIBERIA, MADEIRA, SIERRA LEONE, AND OTHER PLACES OF INTEREST ON THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA. * * * * * BY AN OFFICER OF THE U. S. NAVY. EDITED BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. * * * * * LONDON: WILEY AND PUTNAM, 6, WATERLOO PLACE 1845 [ENTERED AT STATIONERS’ HALL.] PREFACE. The following pages have afforded occupation for many hours, which might else have been wasted in idle amusements, or embittered by still idler regrets at the destiny which carried the writer to a region so little seductive as Africa, and kept him there so long....

THE LADY OF THE AROOSTOOK BY W. D. HOWELLS THE LADY OF THE AROOSTOOK I. In the best room of a farm-house on the skirts of a village in the hills of Northern Massachusetts, there sat one morning in August three people who were not strangers to the house, but who had apparently assembled in the parlor as the place most in accord with an unaccustomed finery in their dress....

MARK TWAIN–A BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS, for nearly half a century known and celebrated as “Mark Twain,” was born in Florida, Missouri, on November 30, 1835. He was one of the foremost American philosophers of his day; he was the world’s most famous humorist of any day. During the later years of his life he ranked not only as America’s chief man of letters, but likewise as her best known and best loved citizen....

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MR. BADMAN NOTE The Life and Death of Mr Badman was published by John Bunyan in 1680, two years after the First Edition of the First Part of The Pilgrim’s Progress. In the opening sentence of his preface he tells us it was intended by him as the counterpart or companion picture to the Allegory. But whatever his own intentions may have been, the Public of his own time seem to have declined to accept the book in this capacity....

THE LITTLE HOUSE IN THE FAIRY WOOD by ETHEL COOK ELIOT TO TORKA AND NORTHWIND CONTENTS I. MAGIC IN A MIST II. THE BRIGHT HOUSE III. FIRELIGHT IV. THE GOSSIP V. WORLD STORIES VI. AT THE HEART OF A TREE VII. TREE MOTHER AND THE DROWSY BOAT VIII. A WITCH AT THE WINDOW IX. THE WIND HUNT X. ON THE GRAY WALL XI. THE BEAUTIFUL WICKED WITCH XII. IVRA’S BIRTHDAY XIII....

THE LOST WORD A Christmas Legend of Long Ago ByHENRY VAN DYKE New York MDCCCXCVIII “DEDICATED TO MY FRIEND HAMILTON W. MABIE” CONTENTS I The POVERTY OF HERMAS II A CHRISTMAS LOSS III PARTING, BUT NO FAREWELL IV LOVE IN SEARCH OF A WORD V RICHES WITHOUT REST VI GREAT FEAR AND RECOVERED JOY I THE POVERTY OF HERMAS “COME down, Hermas, come down! The night is past. It is time to be stirring....

THE MAKE-BELIEVE MAN I I had made up my mind that when my vacation came I would spend it seeking adventures. I have always wished for adventures, but, though I am old enough–I was twenty-five last October–and have always gone half-way to meet them, adventures avoid me. Kinney says it is my fault. He holds that if you want adventures you must go after them. Kinney sits next to me at Joyce & Carboy’s, the woollen manufacturers, where I am a stenographer, and Kinney is a clerk, and we both have rooms at Mrs....

THE MAKING OF RELIGION BYANDREW LANG M.A., LL.D. ST ANDREWS HONORARY FELLOW OF MERTON COLLEGE OXFORD SOMETIME GIFFORD LECTURER IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS SECOND EDITION1900 TO THE PRINCIPALOF THEUNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS DEAR PRINCIPAL DONALDSON, I hope you will permit me to lay at the feet of the University of St. Andrews, in acknowledgment of her life-long kindnesses to her old pupil, these chapters on the early History of Religion....