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[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, at the end of several of the files for those who may wish to sample the author’s ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.] MEMOIRS OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, VOLUME 9. By LOUIS ANTOINE FAUVELET DE BOURRIENNE His Private Secretary Edited by R. W. PhippsColonel, Late Royal Artillery 1891 CONTENTS:CHAPTER I. to CHAPTER X. 1805-1807 CHAPTER I. 1805. Abolition of the Republican calendar–Warlike preparations in Austria–Plan for re-organizing the National Guard–Napoleon in Strasburg–General Mack–Proclamation–Captain Bernard’s reconnoitering mission–The Emperor’s pretended anger and real satisfaction–Information respecting Ragusa communicated by Bernard –Rapid and deserved promotion–General Bernard’s retirement to the United States of America....

[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.] MONSIEUR DE CAMORS By OCTAVE FEUILLET BOOK 3. CHAPTER XV THE COUNTESS DE CAMORS After passing the few weeks of the honeymoon at Reuilly, the Comte and Comtesse de Camors returned to Paris and established themselves at their hotel in the Rue de l’Imperatrice....

Mrs Warren’s Profession has been performed at last, after a delay of only eight years; and I have once more shared with Ibsen the triumphant amusement of startling all but the strongest-headed of the London theatre critics clean out of the practice of their profession. No author who has ever known the exultation of sending the Press into an hysterical tumult of protest, of moral panic, of involuntary and frantic confession of sin, of a horror of conscience in which the power of distinguishing between the work of art on the stage and the real life of the spectator is confused and overwhelmed, will ever care for the stereotyped compliments which every successful farce or melodrama elicits from the newspapers....

MURAD THE UNLUCKY AND OTHER TALES by Maria Edgeworth Contents: IntroductionMurad the UnluckyThe Limerick GlovesMadame de Fleury INTRODUCTION Maria Edgeworth came of a lively family which had settled in Ireland in the latter part of the sixteenth century. Her father at the age of five-and-twenty inherited the family estates at Edgeworths-town in 1769. He had snatched an early marriage, which did not prove happy. He had a little son, whom he was educating upon the principles set forth in Rousseau’s “Emile,” and a daughter Maria, who was born on the 1st of January, 1767....

MY DAYS OF ADVENTURE THE FALL OF FRANCE, 1870-71 By Ernest Alfred Vizetelly Le Petit Homme Rouge Author of “The Court of the Tuileries 1852-70” etc. With A Frontispiece London, 1914 THE PEOPLE’S WAR O husbandmen of hill and dale, O dressers of the vines, O sea-tossed fighters of the gale, O hewers of the mines, O wealthy ones who need not strive, O sons of learning, art, O craftsmen of the city’s hive, O traders of the man, Hark to the cannon’s thunder-call Appealing to the brave!...

Mysticism in English Literature By Caroline F. E. Spurgeon “Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics” Phædo Mysticism in English Literature Note The variety of applications of the term “mysticism” has forced me to restrict myself here to a discussion of that philosophical type of mysticism which concerns itself with questions of ultimate reality. My aim, too, has been to consider this subject in connection with great English writers....

NARRATIVE AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS.VOL. I. BYTHOMAS DE QUINCEY. CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. THE HOUSEHOLD WRECKTHE SPANISH NUNFLIGHT OF A TARTAR TRIBE THE HOUSEHOLD WRECK. ‘To be weak,’ we need not the great archangel’s voice to tell us, ‘is to be miserable.’ All weakness is suffering and humiliation, no matter for its mode or its subject. Beyond all other weakness, therefore, and by a sad prerogative, as more miserable than what is most miserable in all, that capital weakness of man which regards the tenure of his enjoyments and his power to protect, even for a moment, the crown of flowers–flowers, at the best, how frail and few!...

NATURE AND ART by Mrs. [Elizabeth] Inchbald INTRODUCTION Elizabeth Simpson was born on the 15th of October, 1753, one of the eight children of a poor farmer, at Standingfield, near Bury St. Edmunds. Five of the children were girls, who were all gifted with personal beauty. The family was Roman Catholic. The mother had a delight in visits to the Bury Theatre, and took, when she could, her children to the play....

NEVER AGAIN! (A protest and a warning addressed to the peoples of Europe) by Edward Carpenter Never again must this Thing happen. The time has come — if the human race does not wish to destroy itself in its own madness — for men to make up their minds as to what they will do in the future; for now indeed is it true that we are come to the cross-roads, we stand at the Parting of the Ways....

NO THOROUGHFARE THE OVERTURE Day of the month and year, November the thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. London Time by the great clock of Saint Paul’s, ten at night. All the lesser London churches strain their metallic throats. Some, flippantly begin before the heavy bell of the great cathedral; some, tardily begin three, four, half a dozen, strokes behind it; all are in sufficiently near accord, to leave a resonance in the air, as if the winged father who devours his children, had made a sounding sweep with his gigantic scythe in flying over the city....

North of Boston by Robert Frost TOE. M. F.THIS BOOK OF PEOPLE THE PASTURE I’M going out to clean the pasture spring; I’ll only stop to rake the leaves away (And wait to watch the water clear, I may): I sha’n’t be gone long.–You come too. I’m going out to fetch the little calf That’s standing by the mother. It’s so young, It totters when she licks it with her tongue....

On the Trail of Grant and Lee By Frederick Trevor Hill To Howard Ogden Wood, Jr. Forward During the early years of the Civil War someone tauntingly asked Mr. Charles Francis Adams, the United States Minister to England, what he thought of the brilliant victories which the confederate armies were then gaining in the field. “I think they have been won by my fellow countrymen,” was the quiet answer. Almost half a century has passed since that reproof was uttered, but its full force is only just beginning to be understood....

ROBUR THE CONQUEROR By Jules Verne Contents I Mysterious soundsII Agreement ImpossibleIII A Visitor is AnnouncedIV In Which a New Character Appears V Another DisappearanceVI The President and Secretary Suspend Hostilities VII On board the AlbatrossVIII The Balloonists Refuse to be Convinced IX Across the PrairieX Westward–but Whither?XI The Wide PacificXII Through the HimalayasXIII Over the CaspianXIV The Aeronef at Full SpeedXV A Skirmish in DahomeyXVI Over the AtlanticXVII The Shipwrecked CrewXVIII Over the VolcanoXIX Anchored at LastXX The Wreck of the AlbatrossXXI The Institute AgainXXII The GoAhead is LaunchedXXIII The Grand Collapse Chapter I MYSTERIOUS SOUNDS BANG!...

[Illustration] SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 492 NEW YORK, JUNE 6, 1885. Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XIX, No. 492. Scientific American established 1845 Scientific American Supplement, $5 a year. Scientific American and Supplement, $7 a year. * * * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS. I. ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.–The New Spanish Artillery.–2 engravings. Qualitative Tests for Steel Rails.–By L. TETMAJER. A New Form of Small Bessemer Plant.–By A. TRAPPEN. Triple Compound Engines....

SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE I “It is so good of you to come early,” said Mrs. Porter, as Alice Langham entered the drawing-room. “I want to ask a favor of you. I’m sure you won’t mind. I would ask one of the debutantes, except that they’re always so cross if one puts them next to men they don’t know and who can’t help them, and so I thought I’d just ask you, you’re so good-natured....

by Edith Wharton1917 I A girl came out of lawyer Royall’s house, at the end of the one street of North Dormer, and stood on the doorstep. It was the beginning of a June afternoon. The springlike transparent sky shed a rain of silver sunshine on the roofs of the village, and on the pastures and larchwoods surrounding it. A little wind moved among the round white clouds on the shoulders of the hills, driving their shadows across the fields and down the grassy road that takes the name of street when it passes through North Dormer....

ENGLISH MEN OF LETTERS SYDNEY SMITH by GEORGE W. E. RUSSELL LONDON, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIVE PREFACE In writing this Study of Sydney Smith, I have been working in a harvest-field where a succession of diligent gleaners had preceded me. As soon as Sydney Smith died, his widow began to accumulate material for her husband’s biography. She did not live to see the work accomplished, but she enjoined in her will that some record of his life should be written....

by Earl Derr Biggers CHAPTER I London that historic summer was almost unbearably hot. It seems, looking back, as though the big baking city in those days was meant to serve as an anteroom of torture–an inadequate bit of preparation for the hell that was soon to break in the guise of the Great War. About the soda-water bar in the drug store near the Hotel Cecil many American tourists found solace in the sirups and creams of home....

THE ALTAR OF THE DEAD CHAPTER I. He had a mortal dislike, poor Stransom, to lean anniversaries, and loved them still less when they made a pretence of a figure. Celebrations and suppressions were equally painful to him, and but one of the former found a place in his life. He had kept each year in his own fashion the date of Mary Antrim’s death. It would be more to the point perhaps to say that this occasion kept HIM: it kept him at least effectually from doing anything else....

THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS VOL. I–JANUARY, 1858.–NO. III. NOTES ON DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE. If building many houses could teach us to build them well, surely we ought to excel in this matter. Never was there such a house-building people. In other countries the laws interfere,–or customs, traditions, and circumstances as strong as laws; either capital is wanting, or the possession of land, or there are already houses enough....