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Scanned by Dianne Bean.Proofed by Joe Buersmeyer THE CANADIAN DOMINION A CHRONICLE OF OUR NORTHERN NEIGHBOR BY OSCAR D. SKELTON NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESSTORONTO: GLASGOW, BROOK & CO.LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORDOXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS1919Copyright, 1919, by Yale University Press PREFACE The history of Canada since the close of the French regime falls into three clearly marked half centuries. The first fifty years after the Peace of Paris determined that Canada was to maintain a separate existence under the British flag and was not to become a fourteenth colony or be merged with the United States....

by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner INTRODUCTION TO JOE MULLER Joseph Muller, Secret Service detective of the Imperial Austrian police, is one of the great experts in his profession. In personality he differs greatly from other famous detectives. He has neither the impressive authority of Sherlock Holmes, nor the keen brilliancy of Monsieur Lecoq. Muller is a small, slight, plain-looking man, of indefinite age, and of much humbleness of mien....

THE CHOIR INVISIBLE by James Lane Allen “O may I join the choir invisibleOf those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence. . . . . . feed pure love,Beget the smiles that have no cruelty, Be the sweet presence of a good diffused And in diffusion evermore intense.So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.” GEORGE ELIOT THE middle of a fragrant afternoon of May in the green wilderness of Kentucky: the year 1795....

[NOTE: There is a 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.] THE CONFESSIONS OF HARRY LORREQUER, Volume 1 [By Charles James Lever (1806-1872)] Dublin MDCCCXXXIX. [Note: Though the title page has no author’s name inscribed, this work is generally attributed to Charles James Lever.] Volume 1. (Chapters I....

[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.] THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of the Aldus Society London, 1903 BOOK IX. My impatience to inhabit the Hermitage not permitting me to wait until the return of fine weather, the moment my lodging was prepared I hastened to take possession of it, to the great amusement of the ‘Coterie Holbachaque’, which publicly predicted I should not be able to support solitude for three months, and that I should unsuccessfully return to Paris, and live there as they did....

THE COUNTESS OF ESCARBAGNAS. (LA COMTESSE D’ESCARBAGNAS.) BY MOLIERE TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH PROSE. WITH SHORT INTRODUCTIONS AND EXPLANATORY NOTES. BY CHARLES HERON WALL ‘La Comtesse d’Escarbagnas’ was acted before the Court at Saint- Germain-en-Laye, on December 2, 1671, and in the theatre of the Palais Royal on July 8, 1672. It was never printed during Moliere’s lifetime, but for the first time only in 1682. It gives us a good picture of the provincial thoughts, manners, and habits of those days....

CHRONICLES OF CANADAEdited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton In thirty-two volumes Part IThe First European Visitors THE DAWN OF CANADIAN HISTORYA Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada By STEPHEN LEACOCKTORONTO, 1915 CHAPTER I BEFORE THE DAWN We always speak of Canada as a new country. In one sense, of course, this is true. The settlement of Europeans on Canadian soil dates back only three hundred years. Civilization in Canada is but a thing of yesterday, and its written history, when placed beside the long millenniums of the recorded annals of European and Eastern peoples, seems but a little span....

THE DEACON OF DOBBINSVILLE A Story Based on Actual Happenings By John A. Morrison Publisher’s Preface This narrative, written and first printed some 45 or 50 years ago, depicts the contrast in that day between the nominal religious professors on the one hand, and on the other the individuals who had been soundly converted, made new creatures in Christ, filled with the Holy Spirit and rejoicing on the “highway of holiness....

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness....

THE DESERTED WOMAN BY HONORE DE BALZAC Translated By Ellen Marriage DEDICATION To Her Grace the Duchesse d’Abrantes, from her devoted servant, Honore de Balzac. PARIS, August 1835. THE DESERTED WOMAN In the early spring of 1822, the Paris doctors sent to Lower Normandy a young man just recovering from an inflammatory complaint, brought on by overstudy, or perhaps by excess of some other kind. His convalescence demanded complete rest, a light diet, bracing air, and freedom from excitement of every kind, and the fat lands of Bessin seemed to offer all these conditions of recovery....

CHAPTER I. THE DAWN OF AERONAUTICS. “He that would learn to fly must be brought up to the constant practice of it from his youth, trying first only to use his wings as a tame goose will do, so by degrees learning to rise higher till he attain unto skill and confidence.” So wrote Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, who was reckoned a man of genius and learning in the days of the Commonwealth....

THE DORE GALLERY OF BIBLE ILLUSTRATIONS Illustrated by Gustave Dore Volume 4. DEATH OF SAUL. Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa. And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Melchshua, Saul’s sons. And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers....

[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.] ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Translated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 CONTENTS OF VOLUME 6. XXVII. Of friendship.XXVIII. Nine-and-twenty sonnets of Estienne de la Boetie. XXIX. Of moderation.XXX. Of cannibals.XXXI. That a man is soberly to judge of the divine ordinances....

THE FALSE FACES FURTHER ADVENTURES FROM THE HISTORY OF THE LONE WOLF BY LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE 1918 CONTENTS I Out of No Man’s Land II From a British Port III In the Barred Zone IV In Deep Waters V On the Banks VI Under Suspicion VII In Stateroom 29 VIII Off Nantucket IX Sub Sea X At Base XI Under the Rose XII Resurrection XIII Reincarnation XIV Defamation XV Recognition XVI Au Printemps XVII Finesse XVIII Danse Macabre XIX Force Majeure XX Riposte XXI Question XXII Chicane XXIII Amnesty I OUT OF NO MAN’S LAND On the muddy verge of a shallow little pool the man lay prone and still, as still as those poor dead whose broken bodies rested all about him, where they had fallen, months or days, hours or weeks ago, in those grim contests which the quick were wont insensately to wage for a few charnel yards of that debatable ground....

The “legal small print” and other information about this book may now be found at the end of this file. Please read this important information, as it gives you specific rights and tells you about restrictions in how the file may be used. THE FLAMING FOREST BY JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD AUTHOR OF THE VALLEY OF SILENT MEN, THE COUNTRY BEYOND, THE ALASKAN, ETC. THE FLAMING FOREST I An hour ago, under the marvelous canopy of the blue northern sky, David Carrigan, Sergeant in His Most Excellent Majesty’s Royal Northwest Mounted Police, had hummed softly to himself, and had thanked God that he was alive....

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION A HISTORY by THOMAS CARLYLE CONTENTS. VOLUME I. THE BASTILLE BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved Chapter 1.1.II. Realised Ideals Chapter 1.1.III. Viaticum Chapter 1.1.IV. Louis the Unforgotten BOOK 1.II. THE PAPER AGE Chapter 1.2.I. Astraea Redux Chapter 1.2.II. Petition in Hieroglyphs Chapter 1.2.III. Questionable Chapter 1.2.IV. Maurepas Chapter 1.2.V. Astraea Redux without Cash Chapter 1.2.VI. Windbags Chapter 1.2.VII. Contrat Social Chapter 1....

THE GREAT CONSPIRACY Its Origin and History Part 7 BY JOHN LOGAN CHAPTER XXVIII. FREEDOM AT LAST ASSURED. As to the Military situation, a few words are, at this time, necessary: Hood had now marched Northward, with some 50,000 men, toward Nashville, Tenn., while Sherman, leaving Thomas and some 35,000 men behind, to thwart him, had abandoned his base, and was marching Southward from Atlanta, through Georgia, toward the Sea....

A Story of School, Football, and Golf By RALPH HENRY BARBOUR Illustrated by B. West Clinedinst [Illustration] TOEVERY AMERICAN BOYWHO LOVES HONEST, MANLY SPORT,THIS STORY IS DEDICATED. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I.–THE BOY IN THE STRAW HAT. II.–STATION ROAD AND RIVER PATH. III.–OUTFIELD WEST. IV.–THE HEAD COACH. V.–A RAINY AFTERNOON. VI.–THE PRACTICE GAME. VII.–A LETTER HOME. VIII.–THE GOLF TOURNAMENT. IX.–AN EVENING CALL. X.–THE BROKEN BELL ROPE. XI.–TWO HEROES. XII.–THE PROBATION OF BLAIR....

Corrections by: Rick Fanerfane@earthlink.net THE HERITAGE OF THE DESERT A NOVEL BY ZANE GREY ITHE SIGN OF THE SUNSET “BUT the man’s almost dead.” The words stung John Hare’s fainting spirit into life. He opened his eyes. The desert still stretched before him, the appalling thing that had overpowered him with its deceiving purple distance. Near by stood a sombre group of men. “Leave him here,” said one, addressing a gray-bearded giant....

DON QUIXOTE Volume II. Part 22. by Miguel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby CHAPTER XV. WHEREIN IT IS TOLD AND KNOWN WHO THE KNIGHT OF THE MIRRORS AND HIS SQUIRE WERE Don Quixote went off satisfied, elated, and vain-glorious in the highest degree at having won a victory over such a valiant knight as he fancied him of the Mirrors to be, and one from whose knightly word he expected to learn whether the enchantment of his lady still continued; inasmuch as the said vanquished knight was bound, under the penalty of ceasing to be one, to return and render him an account of what took place between him and her....