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SARAH ORNE JEWETT Note SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849-1909) was born and died in South Berwick, Maine. Her father was the region’s most distinguished doctor and, as a child, Jewett often accompanied him on his round of patient visits. She began writing poetry at an early age and when she was only 19 her short story “Mr. Bruce” was accepted by the Atlantic Monthly. Her association with that magazine continued, and William Dean Howells, who was editor at that time, encouraged her to publish her first book, Deephaven (1877), a collection of sketches published earlier in the Atlantic Monthly....

The Divine Comedy, Volume 3, Paradise [Paradiso] by Dante Aligheri Translated by Charles Eliot Norton PARADISE CONTENTS CANTO I. Proem.–Invocation.–Beatrice and Dante ascend to the Sphere of Fire.–Beatrice explains the cause of their ascent. CANTO II. Proem.–Ascent to the Moon.–The cause of Spots on the Moon.–Influence of the Heavens. CANTO III. The Heaven of the Moon.–Spirits whose vows had been broken.–Piccarda Donati.–The Empress Constance. CANTO IV. Doubts of Dante, respecting the justice of Heaven and the abode of the blessed, solved by Beatrice....

THE ENGLISHWOMAN IN AMERICA BYISABELLA LUCY BIRD FOREWORD AND NOTES BY ANDREW HILL CLARK CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Prefatory and explanatory–The voyage out–The sentimental–The actual –The oblivious–The medley–Practical joking–An unwelcome companion– American patriotism–The first view–The departure. CHAPTER II. An inhospitable reception–Halifax and the Blue Noses–The heat– Disappointed expectations–The great departed–What the Blue Noses might be–What the coach was not–Nova Scotia and its capabilities–The roads and their annoyances–A tea dinner–A night journey and a Highland cabin –A nautical catastrophe–A joyful reunion....

THE EXPRESSION OF THEEMOTIONS IN MAN AND ANIMALS BYCHARLES DARWINM.A., F.R.S., ETC. WITH PHOTOGRAPHIC AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS NEW YORKD. APPLETON AND COMPANY1899 Authorized Edition. CONTENTS.INTRODUCTION………………………………………………Pages 1-26 CHAP. I–GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF EXPRESSION. The three chief principles stated–The first principle–Serviceable actions become habitual in association with certain states of the mind, and are performed whether or not of service in each particular case– The force of habit–Inheritance–Associated habitual movements in man–Reflex actions–Passage of habits into reflex actions– Associated habitual movements in the lower animals– Concluding remarks …………27-49 CHAP....

THE FOOLISH LOVERS BY ST. JOHN G. ERVINE New York 1920 TO MY MOTHER who asked me to write a story without any “Bad words” in it; and TO MRS. J. O. HANNAY who asked me to write a story without any “Sex” in it. THE FIRST BOOK OF THE FOOLISH LOVERS Why, ’tis an office of discovery, love! The Merchant of Venice. Love unpaid does soon disband. ANDREW MARVELL THE FIRST CHAPTER I If you were to say to an Ulster man, “Who are the proudest people in Ireland?...

The Gibson Upright By BOOTH TARKINGTON and HARRY LEON WILSON 1919 THE STAGE PRODUCTION OF THIS PLAY IS BY STUART WALKER THE GIBSON UPRIGHT CAST OF CHARACTERS ANDREW GIBSON, a piano factory owner NORA GORODNA, a piano tester and socialist labor organizer MR. MIFFLIN, a socialist journalist CARTER, an elderly factory worker FRANKEL, a young Jewish factory worker SHOMBERG, a factory worker SIMPSON, an elderly factory worker SALVATORE, an Italian factory worker RILEY, a truck driver ELLA, Mr....

THE GILDED AGE A Tale of Today by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner 1873 PREFACE. This book was not written for private circulation among friends; it was not written to cheer and instruct a diseased relative of the author’s; it was not thrown off during intervals of wearing labor to amuse an idle hour. It was not written for any of these reasons, and therefore it is submitted without the usual apologies....

THE GOSPELS IN THE SECOND CENTURY AN EXAMINATION OF THE CRITICAL PART OF A WORK ENTITLED ‘SUPERNATURAL RELIGION’ BY W. SANDAY, M.A. Rector of Barton-on-the-Heath, Warwickshire; and late Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. Author of a Work on the Fourth Gospel. LONDON:1876. I had hoped to inscribe in this book the revered and cherished name of my old head master, DR. PEARS of Repton. His consent had been very kindly and warmly given, and I was just on the point of sending the dedication to the printers when I received a telegram naming the day and hour of his funeral....

The Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restricting the Importation of Foreign Corn; intended as an Appendix to “Observations on the Corn Law” by the Rev. T.R. Malthus, Professor of History and Political Economy in the East India College, Hertfordshire. London: Printed for John Murray, Albermarle Street, and J. Johnson and Co., St. Paul’s Church Yard, 1815. Grounds, &c. The professed object of the Observations on the Corn Laws, which I published in the spring of 1814, was to state with the strictest impartiality the advantages and disadvantages which, in the actual circumstances of our present situation, were likely to attend the measures under consideration, respecting the trade in corn....

by Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) (after the edition of Chatto & Windus, London, 1879) THE FIRST PART CHAPTER I In the year 1860, the reputation of Doctor Wybrow as a London physician reached its highest point. It was reported on good authority that he was in receipt of one of the largest incomes derived from the practice of medicine in modern times. One afternoon, towards the close of the London season, the Doctor had just taken his luncheon after a specially hard morning’s work in his consulting-room, and with a formidable list of visits to patients at their own houses to fill up the rest of his day– when the servant announced that a lady wished to speak to him....

The Kingdom of the Blindby E. Phillips Oppenheim CHAPTER I Lady Anselman stood in the centre of the lounge at the Ritz Hotel and with a delicately-poised forefinger counted her guests. There was the great French actress who had every charm but youth, chatting vivaciously with a tall, pale-faced man whose French seemed to be as perfect as his attitude was correct. The popular wife of a great actor was discussing her husband’s latest play with a Cabinet Minister who had the air of a school-boy present at an illicit feast....

THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW by Washington Irving FOUND AMONG THE PAPERS OF THE LATE DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER. A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky. CASTLE OF INDOLENCE. In the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators the Tappan Zee, and where they always prudently shortened sail and implored the protection of St....

THE LOGBOOKS OFTHE LADY NELSON WITH THE JOURNAL OF HER FIRST COMMANDER LIEUTENANT JAMES GRANT, R.N. BY IDA LEE, F.R.G.S.(MRS. CHARLES BRUCE MARRIOTT.) AUTHOR OF:THE COMING OF THE BRITISH TO AUSTRALIA, [and]COMMODORE SIR JOHN HAYES, HIS VOYAGE AND LIFE. WITH SIXTEEN CHARTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE ORIGINALS IN THE ADMIRALTY LIBRARY. GRAFTON & CO.69 GREAT RUSSELL STREETLONDON. W.C. First Published in 1915. TO THE MEMORY OF MY GRANDFATHER,WILLIAM LEE,ONE OF AUSTRALIA’S PIONEERS....

THE LONE WOLF By LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE 1914 CONTENTS I. TROYON’S II. RETURN III. A POINT OF INTERROGATION IV. A STRATAGEM V. ANTICLIMAX VI. THE PACK GIVES TONGUE VII. L’ABBAYE VIII. THE HIGH HAND IX. DISASTER X. TURN ABOUT XI. FLIGHT XII. AWAKENING XIII. CONFESSIONAL XIV. RIVE DROIT XV. SHEER IMPUDENCE XVI. RESTITUTION XVII. THE FORLORN HOPE XVIII. ENIGMA XIX. UNMASKED XX. WAR XXI. APOSTATE XXII. TRAPPED XXIII. MADAME OMBER XXIV....

Table of Contents—————– Sojourner Truth, the Libyan Sibyl………….Harriet Beecher Stowe Reconstruction…………………………..Frederick Douglass An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage..Frederick Douglas The Negro Exodus…………………………James B. Runnion My Escape from Slavery……………………Frederick Douglass The Goophered Grapevine…………………..Charles W. Chesnutt Po’ Sandy……………………………….Charles W. Chesnutt Dave’s Neckliss………………………….Charles W. Chesnutt The Awakening of the Negro………………..Booker T. Washington The Story of Uncle Tom’s Cabin…………….Charles Dudley Warner Strivings of the Negro People……………..W. E. Burghardt Du Bois The Wife of his Youth……………………....

MEMOIRS OF JEAN FRANCOIS PAUL de GONDI, CARDINAL DE RETZ Written by Himself Being Historic Court Memoirs of the Great Events during the Minority of Louis XIV.and the Administration of Cardinal Mazarin. CONTENTS BOOK I. BOOK II. BOOK III. BOOK IV. BOOK V. ILLUSTRATIONSCardinal de Retz—-Photogravure from an Old Painting Turenne—-Photogravure from an Old Painting Richelieu—-Engraving by Lubin Anne of Austria—-Original Etching by Mercier Louis XIII—-Painting in the Louvre Conde’—-Painting in Versailles Gallery ORIGINAL PREFACE....

PERSONAL MEMOIRES OF P. H. SHERIDAN VOLUME II. Part 6 By Philip Henry Sheridan CHAPTER XII. AT FORT LEAVENWORTH–THE TREATY OF MEDICINE LODGE–GOING TO FORT DODGE–DISCONTENTED INDIANS–INDIAN OUTRAGES–A DELEGATION OF CHIEFS –TERRIBLE INDIAN RAID–DEATH OF COMSTOCK–VAST HERDS OF BUFFALO –PREPARING FOR A WINTER CAMPAIGN–MEETING “BUFFALO BILL” –HE UNDERTAKES A DANGEROUS TASK–FORSYTH’S GALLANT FIGHT–RESCUED. The headquarters of the military department to which I was assigned when relieved from duty at New Orleans was at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and on the 5th of September I started for that post....

VOL. 10, No. 265.] SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1827. [PRICE 2d. * * * * * ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCH CASTLE. [Illustration] Ashby-de-la-Zouch is a small market town in Leicestershire, pleasantly situated in a fertile vale, on the skirts of the adjoining county of Derbyshire, on the banks of a small liver called the Gilwiskaw, over which is a handsome stone bridge. The original name of this town was simply Ashby, but it acquired the addition of De-la-Zouch, to distinguish it from other Ashbys, from the Zouches, who were formerly lords of this manor, which after the extinction of the male line of that family, in the first year of the reign of Henry IV....

THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. 17, No. 492.] SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1831. [PRICE 2d. * * * * * THREE BOROUGHS [Illustration: Proposed to be wholly disfranchised by the REFORM BILL. 1. DUNWICH. 2. OLD SARUM. 3. BRAMBER.] THREE BOROUGHS: DUNWICH, SUFFOLK. 2. OLD SARUM, WILTS. 3. BRAMBER, SUSSEX. Proposed to be wholly disfranchised by “the Reform Bill.” We feel ourselves on ticklish–debateable ground; yet we only wish to illustrate the topographical history of the above places; their parliamentary history must, however be alluded to; but their future fate we leave to the 658 prime movers of government mechanics....

THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. XIX. NO. 529.] SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1832. [PRICE 2_d_. FISHMONGER’S HALL [Illustration: FISHMONGERS’ HALL.] [Illustration: ARMS OF THE COMPANY.] These Cuts may be welcome illustrations of the olden magnificence of the City of London. The first represents the river or back front of the Hall of the Fishmongers’ Company: the second cut, the arms of the Company, is added by way of an illustrative pendent....