The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling CHAPTER I So we settled it all when the storm was done As comf’y as comf’y could be; And I was to wait in the barn, my dears, Because I was only three; And Teddy would run to the rainbow’s foot, Because he was five and a man; And that’s how it all began, my dears, And that’s how it all began. — Big Barn Stories....
Edited by Edward Abbott Parry New York, 1901 TOMY DAUGHTERHELENTHIS VOLUME IS DEDICATEDEXEMPLI GRATIA Editorial Note It having been noted in the Athenaeum, June 9, 1888, that rumours were afloat doubting the authenticity of these letters, and that these rumours would sink to rest if the history of the originals were published, I hasten to adopt my reviewer’s suggestion, and give an outline of their story. They are at present in the hands of the Rev....
THE MAGIC EGGAND OTHER STORIES BYFRANK R. STOCKTON CONTENTS THE MAGIC EGG“HIS WIFE’S DECEASED SISTER”THE WIDOW’S CRUISECAPTAIN ELI’S BEST EARLOVE BEFORE BREAKFASTTHE STAYING POWER OF SIR ROHANA PIECE OF RED CALICOTHE CHRISTMAS WRECKMY WELL AND WHAT CAME OUT OF ITMR. TOLMANMY UNWILLING NEIGHBOROUR ARCHERY CLUB THE MAGIC EGG The pretty little theatre attached to the building of the Unicorn Club had been hired for a certain January afternoon by Mr....
PERSONAL MEMOIRES OF P. H. SHERIDAN, VOLUME 2. By Philip Henry Sheridan CHAPTER I. ORGANIZING SCOUTS–MISS REBECCA WRIGHT–IMPORTANT INFORMATION–DECIDE TO MOVE ON NEWTOWN–MEETING GENERAL GRANT–ORGANIZATION OF THE UNION ARMY–OPENING OF THE BATTLE OF THE OPEQUON–DEATH OF GENERAL RUSSELL- -A TURNING MOVEMENT–A SUCCESSFUL CAVALRY CHARGE–VICTORY–THREE LOYAL GIRLS–APPOINTED A BRIGADIER-GENERAL IN THE REGULAR ARMY– REMARKS ON THE BATTLE. While occupying the ground between Clifton and Berryville, referred to in the last chapter of the preceding volume, I felt the need of an efficient body of scouts to collect information regarding the enemy, for the defective intelligence-establishment with which I started out from Harper’s Ferry early in August had not proved satisfactory....
VOL. 12, NO. 343.] SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1828. [PRICE 2d. [Illustration: THE ADMIRALTY OFFICE, WHITEHALL.] THE ADMIRALTY-OFFICE. The Admiralty Office, Whitehall, has few pretensions to architectual beauty. It is, however, to use a common phrase, a commanding pile, and its association with Britain’s best bulwarks–her NAVY–renders it an interesting subject for representation. The Admiralty-office adjoins to the north side of the Horse Guards, and was erected by Ripley, in the reign of George II....
Scanned by Charles Keller withOmniPage Professional OCR softwaredonated by Caere Corporation, 1-800-535-7226. Contact Mike Lough THE MOUNTAINS by STEWART EDWARD WHITE AUTHOR OF“THE BLAZED TRAIL,” “SILENT PLACES,” “THE FOREST,” ETC. PREFACE The author has followed a true sequence of events practically in all particulars save in respect to the character of the Tenderfoot. He is in one sense fictitious; in another sense real. He is real in that he is the apotheosis of many tenderfeet, and that everything he does in this narrative he has done at one time or another in the author’s experience....
THE NESTS AND EGGS OF INDIAN BIRDS, VOLUME 1 by ALLAN O. HUME, C.B. Second Edition. Edited by Eugene William GatesAuthor of “A Handbook to the Birds of British Burmah and of the Birds in the Fauna of British India,” With Four Portraits. London 1889 [Illustration: ALLAN OCTAVIAN HUME] [Illustration: ALERE FLAMMAM] AUTHOR’S PREFACE. I have long regretted my inability to issue a revised edition of ‘Nests and Eggs.’ For many years after the first Rough Draft appeared, I went on laboriously accumulating materials for a re-issue, but subsequently circumstances prevented my undertaking the work....
NARRATIVE OF THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. RATTLESNAKE, COMMANDED BY THE LATE CAPTAIN OWEN STANLEY, R.N., F.R.S. ETC. DURING THE YEARS 1846-1850. INCLUDING DISCOVERIES AND SURVEYS IN NEW GUINEA, THE LOUISIADE ARCHIPELAGO, ETC. TO WHICH IS ADDED THE ACCOUNT OF MR. E.B. KENNEDY’S EXPEDITION FOR THE EXPLORATION OF THE CAPE YORK PENINSULA. BY JOHN MACGILLIVRAY, F.R.G.S. NATURALIST TO THE EXPEDITION. PUBLISHED UNDER THE SANCTION OF THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF THE ADMIRALTY....
Bret Bret Harte CHAPTER I. It was very dark, and the wind was increasing. The last gust had been preceded by an ominous roaring down the whole mountain-side, which continued for some time after the trees in the little valley had lapsed into silence. The air was filled with a faint, cool, sodden odor, as of stirred forest depths. In those intervals of silence the darkness seemed to increase in proportion and grow almost palpable....
In the Days of Chivalry A Tale of the Times of the Black Prince by Evelyn Everett-Green. CHAPTER I. THE TWIN EAGLETS. Autumn was upon the world — the warm and gorgeous autumn of the south — autumn that turned the leaves upon the trees to every hue of russet, scarlet, and gold, that transformed the dark solemn aisles of the trackless forests of Gascony into what might well have been palaces of fairy beauty, and covered the ground with a thick and soundless carpet of almost every hue of the rainbow....
THE STORY OF MIMI-NASHI-HOICHI OSHIDORI THE STORY OF O-TEI UBAZAKURA DIPLOMACY OF A MIRROR AND A BELL JIKININKI MUJINA ROKURO-KUBI A DEAD SECRET YUKI-ONNA THE STORY OF AOYAGI JIU-ROKU-ZAKURA THE DREAM OF AKINOSUKE RIKI-BAKA HI-MAWARI HORAI INSECT STUDIES BUTTERFLIES MOSQUITOES ANTS INTRODUCTION The publication of a new volume of Lafcadio Hearn’s exquisite studies of Japan happens, by a delicate irony, to fall in the very month when the world is waiting with tense expectation for news of the latest exploits of Japanese battleships....
LEGENDS AND LYRICS–FIRST SERIES by Adelaide Ann Proctor Contents: DedicationAn Introduction by Charles DickensThe Angel’s StoryEchoesA False GeniusMy PictureJudge NotFriend SorrowOne by OneTrue HonoursA Woman’s QuestionThe Three RulersA Dead PastA Doubting HeartA StudentA Knight ErrantLinger, oh, gentle TimeHomeward BoundLife and DeathNowCleansing FiresThe Voice of the WindTreasuresShining StarsWaitingThe Cradle Song of the PoorBe strongGod’s GiftsA Tomb in GhentThe Angel of DeathA DreamThe PresentChangesStrive, Wait, and PrayA Lament for the SummerThe Unknown GraveGive me thy HeartThe Wayside InnVoices of the PastThe Dark SideA First SorrowMurmursGiveMy JournalA ChainThe PilgrimsIncompletenessA Legend of BregenzA FarewellSowing and ReapingThe StormWordsA Love TokenA Tryst with DeathFidelisA ShadowThe Sailor BoyA Crown of SorrowThe Lesson of the WarThe Two SpiritsA Little LongerGriefThe Triumph of TimeA PartingThe Golden GatePhantomsThankfulnessHome-sicknessWishesThe Peace of GodLife in Death and Death in LifeRecollectionsIllusionA VisionPictures in the FireThe SettlersHush!...
[Transcriber’s Note: Footnotes have been numbered and moved to the end.] Letters of a Traveller; Or, Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America By William Cullen Bryant. 1850. To the Reader. The letters composing this volume were written at various times, during the last sixteen years, and during journeys made in different countries. They contain, however, no regular account of any tour or journey made by the writer, but are merely occasional sketches of what most attracted his attention....
BY NATHANIEL WRIGHT STEPHENSON Authority for all important statements of facts in the following pages may be found in the notes; the condensed references are expanded in the bibliography. A few controversial matters are discussed in the notes. I am very grateful to Mr. William Roscoe Thayer for enabling me to use the manuscript diary of John Hay. Miss Helen Nicolay has graciously confirmed some of the implications of the official biography....
LINEAGE LIFE AND LABORSofJOSE RIZALPHILIPPINE PATRIOT A Study of the Growth of Free Ideas in the Trans-Pacific American Territory BY AUSTIN CRAIGASSISTANT PROFESSOR ORIENTAL HISTORY UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES AUTHOR OF “THE STUDY OF JOSE RIZAL,”“EL LINEAJE DEL DOCTOR RIZAL,” ETC. INTRODUCTION BYJAMES ALEXANDER ROBERTSON, L.H.D. MANILA 1913 DEDICATION To the Philippine Youth The subject of Doctor Rizal’s first prize-winning poem was The Philippine Youth, and its theme was “Growth....
LITTLE MEMOIRS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY BY GEORGE PASTON 1902 PREFACE For these sketches of minor celebrities of the nineteenth century, it has been my aim to choose subjects whose experiences seem to illustrate the life–more especially the literary and artistic life–of the first half of the century; and who of late years, at any rate, have not been overwhelmed by the attentions of the minor biographer. Having some faith in the theory that the verdict of foreigners is equivalent to that of contemporary posterity, I have included two aliens in the group....
LOOKING BACKWARDFrom 2000 to 1887 by Edward Bellamy AUTHOR’S PREFACE Historical Section Shawmut College, Boston, December 26, 2000 Living as we do in the closing year of the twentieth century, enjoying the blessings of a social order at once so simple and logical that it seems but the triumph of common sense, it is no doubt difficult for those whose studies have not been largely historical to realize that the present organization of society is, in its completeness, less than a century old....
Louis Lambert by Honore de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell and James Waring DEDICATION “Et nunc et semper dilectoe dicatum.” LOUIS LAMBERT Louis Lambert was born at Montoire, a little town in the Vendomois, where his father owned a tannery of no great magnitude, and intended that his son should succeed him; but his precocious bent for study modified the paternal decision. For, indeed, the tanner and his wife adored Louis, their only child, and never contradicted him in anything....
LYRICAL BALLADS, WITH OTHER POEMS. IN TWO VOLUMES. 1800 By W. WORDSWORTH. Quam nihil ad genium, Papiniane, tuum! VOL. I. SECOND EDITION. CONTENTS. Expostulation and Reply The Tables turned; an Evening Scene, on the same subject Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch The Complaint of a forsaken Indian Woman The Last of the Flock Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree which stands near the Lake of Esthwaite The Foster-Mother’s Tale Goody Blake and Harry Gill The Thorn We are Seven Anecdote for Fathers Lines written at a small distance from my House and sent me by my little Boy to the Person to whom they are addressed The Female Vagrant The Dungeon Simon Lee, the old Huntsman Lines written in early Spring The Nightingale, written in April, 1798....
MADAME CHRYSANTHEME By PIERRE LOTI BOOK 3. CHAPTER XXXIV THE FEAST OF THE TEMPLE Sunday, August 25th. About six o’clock, while I was on duty, the ‘Triomphante’ abandoned her prison walls between the mountains and came out of dock. After much manoeuvring we took up our old moorings in the harbor, at the foot of the Diou-djen-dji hills. The weather was again calm and cloudless, the sky presenting a peculiar clarity, as if it had been swept by a cyclone, an exceeding transparency bringing out the minutest details in the distance till then unseen; as if the terrible blast had blown away every vestige of the floating mists and left behind it nothing but void and boundless space....
