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SQUASH TENNIS by Richard C. Squires (1931-2003) $1.00 [March 1968] CONTENTS Who Can Play?StrategyFundamental StrokesShot-MakingHistory of Squash TennisCourt Specifications and EquipmentOfficial Playing Rules[National Champions] ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dick Squires is certainly qualified to produce this manual on “Instant Squash Tennis.” Added to an articulateness which equips him to put his experience and knowledge into words, his background in racquet games is broad, longstanding and at a level sufficiently upper echelon to have garnered national championships in three separate bat and ball sports....

THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING INTRODUCTION. “The TVVOO Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of Learning, divine and humane. To the King. At London. Printed for Henrie Tomes, and are to be sould at his shop at Graies Inne Gate in Holborne. 1605.” That was the original title-page of the book now in the reader’s hand–a living book that led the way to a new world of thought....

The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Thomas Holcroft –‘TIS SO PAT TO ALL THE TRIBE EACH SWEARS THAT WAS LEVELLED AT ME. GAY VOLUME I PREFACE Every man of determined inquiry, who will ask, without the dread of discovering more than he dares believe, what is divinity? what is law? what is physic? what is war? and what is trade? will have great reason to doubt at some times of the virtue, and at others of the utility, of each of these different employments....

THE ATOMIC BOMBINGS OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI by The Manhattan Engineer District, June 29, 1946. Index FOREWORD INTRODUCTION THE MANHATTAN PROJECT INVESTIGATING GROUP PROPAGANDA SUMMARY OF DAMAGES AND INJURIES MAIN CONCLUSIONS THE SELECTION OF THE TARGET DESCRIPTION OF THE CITIES BEFORE THE BOMBINGS Hiroshima Nagasaki THE ATTACKS Hiroshima Nagasaki GENERAL COMPARISON OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE ATOMIC EXPLOSIONS TOTAL CASUALTIES THE NATURE OF AN ATOMIC EXPLOSION CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE ATOMIC BOMBS CALCULATIONS OF THE PEAK PRESSURE OF THE BLAST WAVE LONG RANGE BLAST DAMAGE GROUND SHOCK SHIELDING, OR SCREENING, FROM THE BLAST FLASH BURN CHARACTERISTICS OF INJURIES TO PERSONS BURNS MECHANICAL INJURIES BLAST INJURIES RADIATION INJURIES SHIELDING FROM RADIATION EFFECTS OF THE ATOMIC BOMBINGS ON THE INHABITANTS OF THE CITIES APPENDIX: Father Siemes’ eyewitness account FOREWORD This report describes the effects of the atomic bombs which were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively....

by E. R. Punshon CONTENTS I THE LONE PASSENGER II THE FIGHT IN THE WOODS III A COINCIDENCE IV A WOMAN WEEPS V A WOMAN AND A MAN VI A DISCOVERY VII QUESTION AND ANSWER VIII CAPTIVITY CAPTURE IX THE ATTIC 0F MYSTERY X THE NEW GARDENER XI THE PROBLEM XII AN AVOWAL XIII INVISIBLE WRITING XIV LOVE-MAKING AT NIGHT XV THE SOUND OF A SHOT XVI IN THE WOOD XVII A DECLARATION XVIII ROBERT DUNN’S ENEMY XIX THE VISIT TO WRESTE ABBEY XX ELLA’S WARNING XXI DOUBTS AND FEARS XXII PLOTS AND PLANS XXIII COUNTER PLANS XXIV AN APHORISM XXV THE UNEXPECTED XXVI A RACE AGAINST TIME XXVII FLIGHT AND PURSUIT XXVIII BACK AT BITTEBMEADS XXIX THE ATTIC XXX SOME EXPLANATIONS XXXI CONCLUSION CHAPTER I THE LONE PASSENGER That evening the down train from London deposited at the little country station of Ramsdon but a single passenger, a man of middle height, shabbily dressed, with broad shoulders and long arms and a most unusual breadth and depth of chest....

THE BLACK BAG By LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY THOMAS FOGARTY 1908 TO MY MOTHER CONTENTS CHAPTER I. DIVERSIONS OF A RUINED GENTLEMAN II. “AND SOME THERE BE WHO HAVE ADVENTURES THRUST UPON THEM” III. CALENDAR’S DAUGHTER IV. 9 FROGNALL STREET, W. C. V. THE MYSTERY OF A FOUR-WHEELER VI. “BELOW BRIDGE” VII. DIVERSIONS OF A RUINED GENTLEMAN–RESUMED VIII. MADAME L’INTRIGANTE IX. AGAIN “BELOW BRIDGE”; AND BEYOND X. DESPERATE MEASURES XI....

The Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island BY GORDON STUART CONTENTS I OVER THE DAM II A HOPELESS SEARCH III LOST ISLAND IV MORE THRILLS V A STARTLING CLEW VI TO THE RESCUE! VII THE FLYING EAGLE SCOUTS VIII A VOYAGE IN THE DARK IX A RESCUE THAT FAILED X “TO-MORROW IS THE DAY!” XI A MID-AIR MIRACLE XII AN EMPTY RIFLE SHELL XIII THE GAME BEGINS XIV PATCHING THE “SKYROCKET” XV A WILD NIGHT XVI TRICKED AGAIN!...

THE CALL OF THE CUMBERLANDS BY CHARLES NEVILLE BUCK CHAPTER I Close to the serried backbone of the Cumberland ridge through a sky of mountain clarity, the sun seemed hesitating before its descent to the horizon. The sugar-loaf cone that towered above a creek called Misery was pointed and edged with emerald tracery where the loftiest timber thrust up its crest plumes into the sun. On the hillsides it would be light for more than an hour yet, but below, where the waters tossed themselves along in a chorus of tiny cascades, the light was already thickening into a cathedral gloom....

THE CRIMSON BLIND By FRED. M. WHITE 1905 CONTENTS CHAPTER I. “WHO SPEAKS?” II. THE CRIMSON BLIND III. THE VOICE IN THE DARKNESS IV. IN EXTREMIS V. “RECEIVED WITH THANKS” VI. A POLICY OF SILENCE VII. No. 218, BRUNSWICK SQUARE VIII. HATHERLY BELL IX. THE BROKEN FIGURE X. THE HOUSE OF THE SILENT SORROW XI. AFTER REMBRANDT XII. “THE CRIMSON BLIND” XIII. “GOOD DOG!” XIV. BEHIND THE BLIND XV. A MEDICAL OPINION XVI....

Contents of Volume One Stories KERFOL…………………….March 1916 MRS. MANSTEY’S VIEW…………July 1891 THE BOLTED DOOR…………….March 1909 THE DILETTANTE……………..December 1903 THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD HAND…..August 1904 Verse THE PARTING DAY…………….February 1880 AEROPAGUS………………….March 1880 A FAILURE………………….April 1880 PATIENCE…………………..April 1880 WANTS……………………..May 1880 THE LAST GIUSTIANINI………..October 1889 EURYALUS…………………..December 1889 HAPPINESS………………….December 1889 Bibliography EDITH WHARTON BIBLIOGRAPHY: SHORT STORIES AND POEMS……..Judy Boss KERFOL as first published in Scribner’s Magazine, March 1916 I “You ought to buy it,” said my host; “it’s just the place for a solitary-minded devil like you....

THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE DAYS OF NAPOLEON BY L. MUHLBACH AUTHOR OF DAUGHTER OF AN EMPRESS, MARIE ANTOINETTE, JOSEPH II AND HIS COURT, FREDERICK THE GREAT AND HIS FAMILY BERLIN AND SANS-SOUCI, ETC. TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY REV. W. BINET, A M. CONTENTS. BOOK I. THE VISCOUNTESS BEAUHARNAIS. I. Introduction II. The Young Maid III. The Betrothal IV. The Young Bonaparte V. The Unhappy Marriage VI....

[Illustration: “HE LOOKED UP, SUDDENLY, AND SAW A PRETTY GIRL, DRESSED IN PICTURESQUE ITALIAN COSTUME.”] THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF QUINCY ADAMS SAWYER AND MASON’S CORNER FOLKS A Novel By Charles Felton Pidgin Author of “Quincy Adams Sawyer,” “Blennerhassett,” “Stephen Holton,” etc. Illustrated by Henry Roth [Illustration] 1909 To My Daughter Dora Preface Eight years ago, “Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason’s Corner Folks” was published, being heralded, truthfully, as the work of an “unknown author....

THE GILDED AGE A Tale of Today by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner 1873 Part 4. CHAPTER XXVIII. Whatever may have been the language of Harry’s letter to the Colonel, the information it conveyed was condensed or expanded, one or the other, from the following episode of his visit to New York: He called, with official importance in his mien, at No.– Wall street, where a great gilt sign betokened the presence of the head-quarters of the “Columbus River Slack-Water Navigation Company....

THE HIGHLAND FLING –AND– HOW TO TEACH IT. –BY– PROF. GRANT, 485 Main St., Buffalo, N.Y. November, 1892. Book No. 2. ELECTRIC CITY PRESS, BUFFALO, N.Y. THE HIGHLAND FLINGAND HOW TO TEACH IT. In teaching fancy dances, more rapid progress will be made by forming exercises characteristic of the movements to be executed. This dance comprises a hopping movement and the laws of opposition must be observed with the hands and arms, therefore I will give a few exercises which must be thoroughly practised....

CONTENTS Part I. CHAPTER IWHICH TREATS OF THE CHARACTER AND PURSUITS OF THE FAMOUS GENTLEMAN DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA CHAPTER IIWHICH TREATS OF THE FIRST SALLY THE INGENIOUS DON QUIXOTE MADE FROM HOME CHAPTER IIIWHEREIN IS RELATED THE DROLL WAY IN WHICH DON QUIXOTE HAD HIMSELF DUBBED A KNIGHT CHAPTER IVOF WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR KNIGHT WHEN HE LEFT THE INN CHAPTER VIN WHICH THE NARRATIVE OF OUR KNIGHT’S MISHAP IS CONTINUED CHAPTER VIOF THE DIVERTING AND IMPORTANT SCRUTINY WHICH THE CURATE AND THE BARBER MADE IN THE LIBRARY OF OUR INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN CHAPTER VIIOF THE SECOND SALLY OF OUR WORTHY KNIGHT DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA CHAPTER VIIIOF THE GOOD FORTUNE WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE HAD IN THE TERRIBLE AND UNDREAMT-OF ADVENTURE OF THE WINDMILLS, WITH OTHER OCCURRENCES WORTHY TO BE FITLY RECORDED CHAPTER IXIN WHICH IS CONCLUDED AND FINISHED THE TERRIFIC BATTLE BETWEEN THE GALLANT BISCAYAN AND THE VALIANT MANCHEGAN CHAPTER XOF THE PLEASANT DISCOURSE THAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE SANCHO PANZA CHAPTER XIOF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE WITH CERTAIN GOATHERDS CHAPTER XIIOF WHAT A GOATHERD RELATED TO THOSE WITH DON QUIXOTE CHAPTER XIIIIN WHICH IS ENDED THE STORY OF THE SHEPHERDESS MARCELA, WITH OTHER INCIDENTS CHAPTER XIVWHEREIN ARE INSERTED THE DESPAIRING VERSES OF THE DEAD SHEPHERD, TOGETHER WITH OTHER INCIDENTS NOT LOOKED FOR CHAPTER XVIN WHICH IS RELATED THE UNFORTUNATE ADVENTURE THAT DON QUIXOTE FELL IN WITH WHEN HE FELL OUT WITH CERTAIN HEARTLESS YANGUESANS CHAPTER XVIOF WHAT HAPPENED TO THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN IN THE INN WHICH HE TOOK TO BE A CASTLE CHAPTER XVIIIN WHICH ARE CONTAINED THE INNUMERABLE TROUBLES WHICH THE BRAVE DON QUIXOTE AND HIS GOOD SQUIRE SANCHO PANZA ENDURED IN THE INN, WHICH TO HIS MISFORTUNE HE TOOK TO BE A CASTLE CHAPTER XVIIIIN WHICH IS RELATED THE DISCOURSE SANCHO PANZA HELD WITH HIS MASTER, DON QUIXOTE, AND OTHER ADVENTURES WORTH RELATING CHAPTER XIXOF THE SHREWD DISCOURSE WHICH SANCHO HELD WITH HIS MASTER, AND OF THE ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL HIM WITH A DEAD BODY, TOGETHER WITH OTHER NOTABLE OCCURRENCES CHAPTER XXOF THE UNEXAMPLED AND UNHEARD-OF ADVENTURE WHICH WAS ACHIEVED BY THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA WITH LESS PERIL THAN ANY EVER ACHIEVED BY ANY FAMOUS KNIGHT IN THE WORLD CHAPTER XXIWHICH TREATS OF THE EXALTED ADVENTURE AND RICH PRIZE OF MAMBRINO’S HELMET, TOGETHER WITH OTHER THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO OUR INVINCIBLE KNIGHT CHAPTER XXIIOF THE FREEDOM DON QUIXOTE CONFERRED ON SEVERAL UNFORTUNATES WHO AGAINST THEIR WILL WERE BEING CARRIED WHERE THEY HAD NO WISH TO GO CHAPTER XXIIIOF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE IN THE SIERRA MORENA, WHICH WAS ONE OF THE RAREST ADVENTURES RELATED IN THIS VERACIOUS HISTORY CHAPTER XXIVIN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIERRA MORENA CHAPTER XXVWHICH TREATS OF THE STRANGE THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO THE STOUT KNIGHT OF LA MANCHA IN THE SIERRA MORENA, AND OF HIS IMITATION OF THE PENANCE OF BELTENEBROS CHAPTER XXVIIN WHICH ARE CONTINUED THE REFINEMENTS WHEREWITH DON QUIXOTE PLAYED THE PART OF A LOVER IN THE SIERRA MORENA CHAPTER XXVIIOF HOW THE CURATE AND THE BARBER PROCEEDED WITH THEIR SCHEME; TOGETHER WITH OTHER MATTERS WORTHY OF RECORD IN THIS GREAT HISTORY CHAPTER XXVIIIWHICH TREATS OF THE STRANGE AND DELIGHTFUL ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL THE CURATE AND THE BARBER IN THE SAME SIERRA CHAPTER XXIXWHICH TREATS OF THE DROLL DEVICE AND METHOD ADOPTED TO EXTRICATE OUR LOVE-STRICKEN KNIGHT FROM THE SEVERE PENANCE HE HAD IMPOSED UPON HIMSELF CHAPTER XXXWHICH TREATS OF ADDRESS DISPLAYED BY THE FAIR DOROTHEA, WITH OTHER MATTERS PLEASANT AND AMUSING CHAPTER XXXIOF THE DELECTABLE DISCUSSION BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND SANCHO PANZA, HIS SQUIRE, TOGETHER WITH OTHER INCIDENTS CHAPTER XXXIIWHICH TREATS OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE’S PARTY AT THE INN CHAPTER XXXIIIIN WHICH IS RELATED THE NOVEL OF “THE ILL-ADVISED CURIOSITY” CHAPTER XXXIVIN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE NOVEL OF “THE ILL-ADVISED CURIOSITY” CHAPTER XXXVWHICH TREATS OF THE HEROIC AND PRODIGIOUS BATTLE DON QUIXOTE HAD WITH CERTAIN SKINS OF RED WINE, AND BRINGS THE NOVEL OF “THE ILL-ADVISED CURIOSITY” TO A CLOSE CHAPTER XXXVIWHICH TREATS OF MORE CURIOUS INCIDENTS THAT OCCURRED AT THE INN CHAPTER XXXVIIIN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE STORY OF THE FAMOUS PRINCESS MICOMICONA, WITH OTHER DROLL ADVENTURES CHAPTER XXXVIIIWHICH TREATS OF THE CURIOUS DISCOURSE DON QUIXOTE DELIVERED ON ARMS AND LETTERS CHAPTER XXXIXWHEREIN THE CAPTIVE RELATES HIS LIFE AND ADVENTURES CHAPTER XLIN WHICH THE STORY OF THE CAPTIVE IS CONTINUED....

INTRODUCTION BY HENRY MORLEY. This is the book which fixed the name and character of John Bull on the English people. Though in one part of the story he is thin and long nosed, as a result of trouble, generally he is suggested to us as “ruddy and plump, with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter,” an honest tradesman, simple and straightforward, easily cheated; but when he takes his affairs into his own hands, acting with good plain sense, knowing very well what he wants done, and doing it....

THEHISTORYOF THERISE, PROGRESS, AND ACCOMPLISHMENTOFTHE ABOLITIONOFTHE AFRICAN SLAVE-TRADEBY THEBRITISH PARLIAMENT. BY THOMAS CLARKSON, M.A. 1808. CHAPTER I. Continuation from June 1788 to July 1789–Author travels to collect further evidence–great difficulties in obtaining it–forms committees on his tour–Privy council resume the examinations–inspect cabinet of African productions–obliged to leave many of the witnesses in behalf of the abolition unexamined–prepare their report–Labours of the committee in the interim–Proceedings of the planters and others–Report laid on the table of the House of Commons–Introduction of the question, and debate there–twelve propositions deduced from the report and reserved for future discussion–day of discussion arrives–opponents refuse to argue from the report–require new evidence–this granted and introduced–further consideration of the subject deferred to the next session–Renewal of Sir William Dolben’s bill–Death and character of Ramsay....

DEDICATION BOOK I — CONTAINING AS MUCH OF THE BIRTH OF THE FOUNDLING AS IS NECESSARY OR PROPER TO ACQUAINT THE READER WITH IN THE BEGINNING OF THIS HISTORY. Chapter i — The introduction to the work, or bill of fare to the feast. Chapter ii — A short description of squire Allworthy, and a fuller account of Miss Bridget Allworthy, his sister. Chapter iii — An odd accident which befel Mr Allworthy at his return home....

by Thomas a Kempis Translated by Rev. William Benham INTRODUCTORY NOTE The treatise “Of the Imitation of Christ” appears to have been originally written in Latin early in the fifteenth century. Its exact date and its authorship are still a matter of debate. Manuscripts of the Latin version survive in considerable numbers all over Western Europe, and they, with the vast list of translations and of printed editions, testify to its almost unparalleled popularity....

Contents CHAPTER 1 Tarzan’s First Love 2 The Capture of Tarzan 3 The Fight for the Balu 4 The God of Tarzan 5 Tarzan and the Black Boy 6 The Witch-Doctor Seeks Vengeance 7 The End of Bukawai 8 The Lion 9 The Nightmare10 The Battle for Teeka11 A Jungle Joke12 Tarzan Rescues the Moon 1 Tarzan’s First Love TEEKA, STRETCHED AT luxurious ease in the shade of the tropical forest, presented, unquestionably, a most alluring picture of young, feminine loveliness....