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THE KILTARTAN HISTORY BOOK. BY LADY GREGORY. ILLUSTRATED BY ROBERT GREGORY BY THE SAME AUTHOR Seven Short Plays Cuchulain of Muirthemne Gods and Fighting Men Poets and Dreamers A Book of Saints and Wonders DEDICATED AND RECOMMENDED TO THE HISTORY CLASSES IN THE NEW UNIVERSITY CONTENTS The Ancient Times Goban, the Builder A Witty Wife An Advice She Gave Shortening the Road The Goban’s Secret The Scotch Rogue The Danes The Battle of Clontarf The English The Queen of Breffny King Henry VIII....

TRANSLATED FROM THE ARABIC BY THE REV. J.M. RODWELL, M.A. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE REV. G. MARGOLIOUTH, M.A. IntroductionPrefaceIndex Sura Number (this edition)Sura Number (Arabic text)Title 1 96 Thick Blood or Clots of Blood 2 74 The Enwrapped3 73 The Enfolded4 93 The Brightness5 94 The Opening6 113 The Daybreak7 114 Men8 1 Sura I.9 109 Unbelievers10 112 The Unity11 111 Abu Lahab12 108 The Abundance13 104 The Backbiter14 107 Religion15 102 Desire16 92 The Night17 68 The Pen18 90 The Soil19 105 The Elephant20 106 The Koreisch21 97 Power22 86 The Night-Comer23 91 The Sun24 80 He Frowned25 87 The Most High26 95 The Fig27 103 The Afternoon28 85 The Starry29 101 The Blow30 99 The Earthquake31 82 The Cleaving32 81 The Folded Up33 84 The Splitting Asunder34 100 The Chargers35 79 Those Who Drag Forth36 77 The Sent37 78 The News38 88 The Overshadowing39 89 The Daybreak40 75 The Resurrection41 83 Those Who Stint42 69 The Inevitable43 51 The Scattering44 52 The Mountain45 56 The Inevitable46 53 The Star47 70 The Steps or Ascents48 55 The Merciful49 54 The Moon50 37 The Ranks51 71 Noah52 76 Man53 44 Smoke54 50 Kaf55 20 Ta....

[Note: Footnotes have been renumbered and moved to the end of the text.] The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Washington Irving. Venient annisSaecula seris, quibus OceanusVincula rerum laxet, et ingensPateat tellus, Typhisque novosDetegat Orbes, nec sit terrisUltima Thule. Seneca: Medea. Author’s Revised Edition. Vol. II. 1892 Contents of Volume II. Book XI. I. Administration of the Adelantado.–Expedition to the Province of Xaragua II. Establishment of a Chain of Military Posts....

THE LOUDWATER MYSTERY BY EDGAR JEPSON 1920 CHAPTER I Lord Loudwater was paying attention neither to his breakfast nor to the cat Melchisidec. Absorbed in a leader in The Times newspaper, now and again he tugged at his red-brown beard in order to quicken his comprehension of the weighty phrases of the leader-writer; now and again he made noises, chiefly with his nose, expressive of disgust. Lady Loudwater paid no attention to these noises....

THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. XII. NO. 328.] SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1828. [PRICE 2d. ANCIENT PLAN OF OXFORD CASTLE. [Illustration: Oxford Castle] By these mysterious ties the busy pow’r Of mem’ry her ideal train preserves Intire; or, when they would elude her watch, Reclaims their fleeting footsteps from the waste Of dark oblivion. AKENSIDE Gentle, courteous, and patient reader–to understand the above plan, it is requisite that you carry your mind’s eye back to those troublous times when men enjoyed no protection, but in opposing force to force; and to a period when every man’s house was his castle, though not in the metaphorical sense we have since been accustomed to apply these words, viz....

VOL. 12, NO. 332.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1828. [PRICE 2d. ANNE HATHAWAY’S COTTAGE. [Illustration: Anne Hathaway’s Cottage.] This is another of Mr. Rider’s beautiful “Views to Illustrate the Life of SHAKSPEARE,”[1]–it being the exterior of the cottage in which the poet’s wife (whose maiden name was Hathaway) is said to have resided with her parents, in the village of Shottery, about a mile from Stratford-upon-Avon. [1] Merridew and Rider, Warwick and Leamington, and Goodhugh, Oxford-street, London....

THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION VOL. 12, No. 346.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1828. [PRICE 2d. OLD COVENT GARDEN. [Illustration: Old Covent Garden. ] The notoriety of Covent Garden is of too multifarious a description to render the above illustration uninteresting to either of our readers. It is copied from one of Hollar’s prints, and represents the Garden about the time of Charles II., before its area had been polluted with filth and vegetable odours....

THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. 17, No. 484.] SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1831. [PRICE 2d. * * * * * [Illustration: CORFE CASTLE.] CORFE CASTLE. The annexed Engravings are an interesting page in the early history of our country, and deserve all the space we have appropriated to them. Their political notoriety, of much less interesting character, we leave to be set down, said, sung, or set aside, elsewhere....

THE NEW MAGDALEN by Wilkie Collins TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES ALLSTON COLLINS. (9th April, 1873.) FIRST SCENE. The Cottage on the Frontier. PREAMBLE. THE place is France. The time is autumn, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy–the year of the war between France and Germany. The persons are, Captain Arnault, of the French army; Surgeon Surville, of the French ambulance; Surgeon Wetzel, of the German army; Mercy Merrick, attached as nurse to the French ambulance; and Grace Roseberry, a traveling lady on her way to England....

BY L. ADAMS BECK CONTENTS THE NINTH VIBRATION THE INTERPRETERA ROMANCE OF THE EAST THE INCOMPARABLE LADYA STORY OF CHINA WITH A MORAL THE HATRED OF THE QUEENA STORY OF BURMA FIRE OF BEAUTY THE BUILDING OF THE TAJ MAHAL “HOW GREAT IS THE GLORY OF KWANNON!” “THE ROUND-FACED BEAUTY” THE NINTH VIBRATION There is a place uplifted nine thousand feet in purest air where one of the most ancient tracks in the world runs from India into Tibet....

Revenues describes Xenophon’s ideas to solve the problem of poverty in Athens, and thus remove an excuse to mistreat the Athenian allies. PREPARER’S NOTE This was typed from Dakyns’ series, “The Works of Xenophon,” a four-volume set. The complete list of Xenophon’s works (though there is doubt about some of these) is: Work Number of books The Anabasis 7 The Hellenica 7 The Cyropaedia 8 The Memorabilia 4 The Symposium 1 The Economist 1 On Horsemanship 1 The Sportsman 1 The Cavalry General 1 The Apology 1 On Revenues 1 The Hiero 1 The Agesilaus 1 The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians 2 Text in brackets “{}” is my transliteration of Greek text into English using an Oxford English Dictionary alphabet table....

THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA DE SEINGALT THE RARE UNABRIDGED LONDON EDITION OF 1894 TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR MACHEN TO WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED THE CHAPTERS DISCOVERED BY ARTHUR SYMONS. MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-1798 IN LONDON AND MOSCOW, Volume 5a–SOUTH OF FRANCE SOUTH OF FRANCE CHAPTER I I Find Rosalie Happy–The Signora Isola-Bella–The Cook–Biribi –Irene–Possano in Prison–My Niece Proves to be an Old Friend of Rosalie’s At Genoa, where he was known to all, Pogomas called himself Possano....

THE HISTORY OF LOUISIANA,OR OF THE WESTERN PARTSOF VIRGINIA AND CAROLINA: Containing a DESCRIPTIONof the Countriesthat lie on both Sidesof the River Missisippi: With an ACCOUNT of theSETTLEMENTS,INHABITANTS,SOIL,CLIMATE,ANDPRODUCTS. Translated from the FRENCHOf M. LE PAGE Du PRATZ; With some Notes and Observationsrelating to our Colonies. Foreword Antoine Simon Le Page Du Pratz was a Dutchman, as his birth in Holland about 1695 apparently proves. He died in 1775, just where available records do not tell us, but the probabilities are that he died in France, for it is said he entered the French Army, serving with the Dragoons, and saw service in Germany....

How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett PREFACE TO THIS EDITION This preface, though placed at the beginning, as a preface must be, should be read at the end of the book. I have received a large amount of correspondence concerning this small work, and many reviews of it–some of them nearly as long as the book itself–have been printed. But scarcely any of the comment has been adverse....

In Exile and Other Stories by Mary Hallock Foote CONTENTS. IN EXILE FRIEND BARTON’S “CONCERN” THE STORY OF THE ALCAZAR A CLOUD ON THE MOUNTAIN THE RAPTURE OF HETTY THE WATCHMAN IN EXILE I. Nicky Dyer and the schoolmistress sat upon the slope of a hill, one of a low range overlooking an arid Californian valley. These sunburnt slopes were traversed by many narrow footpaths, descending, ascending, winding among the tangle of poison-oak and wild-rose bushes, leading from the miners’ cabins to the shaft-houses and tunnels of the mine which gave to the hills their only importance....

Contents: The Beach of Falesa A south sea bridal The Ban The Missionary Devil-work Night in the bush The Bottle Imp The Isle of voices THE BEACH OF FALESA. CHAPTER I. A SOUTH SEA BRIDAL. I SAW that island first when it was neither night nor morning. The moon was to the west, setting, but still broad and bright. To the east, and right amidships of the dawn, which was all pink, the daystar sparkled like a diamond....

The Novels Of Ivan Turgenev KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCKAnd Other Stories Translated From The Russian by Constance Garnett * * * * * CONTENTS: KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK THE INN LIEUTENANT YERGUNOV’S STORY THE DOG THE WATCH * * * * * KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK A STUDY I We all settled down in a circle and our good friend Alexandr Vassilyevitch Ridel (his surname was German but he was Russian to the marrow of his bones) began as follows: I am going to tell you a story, friends, of something that happened to me in the ‘thirties … forty years ago as you see....

LETTERS FROM ENGLAND 1846-1849 LETTER: TO W.D.B. AND A.B.LIVERPOOL, October 26, 1846 My dear sons: Thank God with me that we are once more on TERRA FIRMA. We arrived yesterday morning at ten o’clock, after a very rough voyage and after riding all night in the Channel in a tremendous gale, so bad that no pilot could reach us to bring us in on Saturday evening. A record of a sea voyage will be only interesting to you who love me, but I must give it to you that you may know what to expect if you ever undertake it; but first, I must sum it all up by saying that of all horrors, of all physical miseries, tortures, and distresses, a sea voyage is the greatest ....

LETTERS OF CATHERINE BENINCASA [Illustration: The Ecstasy of St. Catherine Detail from Bazzis Fresco] SAINT CATHERINE OF SIENAAS SEEN IN HER LETTERS TRANSLATED & EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION BY VIDA D. SCUDDER TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of Persons AddressedSt. Catherine of Siena as seen in her letters Chief Events in the life of St. Catherine Brief Outline of Contemporary Public Events To Monna Alessa dei SaraciniTo Benincasa her brother, when he was in Florence To the Venerable Religious, Brother Antonio of Nizza To Monna Agnese, who was the wife of Messer Orso Malavolti To Sister Eugenia, her niece at the Convent of St....

“Is this the end?O Life, as futile, then, as frail!What hope of answer or redress?” A cloudy day: do you know what that is in a town of iron-works? The sky sank down before dawn, muddy, flat, immovable. The air is thick, clammy with the breath of crowded human beings. It stifles me. I open the window, and, looking out, can scarcely see through the rain the grocer’s shop opposite, where a crowd of drunken Irishmen are puffing Lynchburg tobacco in their pipes....