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SEARCH OF GRAVESTONES OLD AND CURIOUS. With One Hundred and Two Illustrations BY W. T. VINCENT, PRESIDENT OF THE WOOLWICH DISTRICT ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY; AUTHOR OF “THE RECORDS OF THE WOOLWICH DISTRICT,” ETC., ETC. LONDON: MITCHELL & HUGHES, 140, WARDOUR STREET. 1896. IN SEARCH OF GRAVESTONES OLD AND CURIOUS. Frontispiece. [Illustration: AN EARLY SAMPLE AT HIGHAM.] (Page 11.) CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. OLD GRAVESTONES 1 II. THE EVOLUTION OF GRAVESTONES 9 III....

[Illustration: Photo by Arthur Weston, 16, Poultry, London.] IN THE RANKS OF THE C.I.V. A NARRATIVE AND DIARY OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCES WITH THE C.I.V. BATTERY (HONOURABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY) IN SOUTH AFRICA BY DRIVERERSKINE CHILDERSCLERK IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS WITH A FRONTISPIECE 1900 DEDICATEDTOMY FRIEND AND COMRADEGUNNER BASIL WILLIAMS CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. THE “MONTFORT” II. CAPETOWN AND STELLENBOSCH III. PIQUETBERG ROAD IV. BLOEMFONTEIN V. LINDLEY VI. BETHLEHEM VII. BULTFONTEIN VIII....

INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY MISCELLANY Of Literature, Art, and Science. * * * * * Vol. I. NEW YORK, JULY 8, 1850. No. 2. * * * * * [Illustration: STUDIES OF THE TOWN.] The LORGNETTE, the cleverest book of its kind (we were about to write, since the days of Addison, but to avoid possible disagreement say)–since IRVING and PAULDING gave us Salmagundi, is still coming before us at agreeable intervals, and will soon be issued in a brace of volumes illustrated by DARLEY....

JOE THE HOTEL BOY OR WINNING OUT BY PLUCK BY HORATIO ALGER, JR. JOE THE HOTEL BOY. CONTENTS. I. OUT IN A STORM II. A MYSTERIOUS CONVERSATION III. A HOME IN RUINS IV. THE SEARCH FOR THE BLUE BOX V. A NEW SUIT OF CLOTHES VI. AN ACCIDENT ON THE LAKE VII. BLOWS AND KIND DEEDS VIII. THE TIMID MR. GUSSING IX. AN UNFORTUNATE OUTING X. DAVID BALL FROM MONTANA XI....

Just So Stories by Ruyard Kipling TABLE OF CONTENTS: HOW THE WHALE GOT HIS THROATHOW THE CAMEL GOT HIS HUMPHOW THE RHINOCEROS GOT HIS SKINHOW THE LEOPARD GOT HIS SPOTSTHE ELEPHANT’S CHILDTHE SING-SONG OF OLD MAN KANGAROOTHE BEGINNING OF THE ARMADILLOSHOW THE FIRST LETTER WAS WRITTENHOW THE ALPHABET WAS MADETHE CRAB THAT PLAYED WITH THE SEATHE CAT THAT WALKED BY HIMSELFTHE BUTTERFLY THAT STAMPED HOW THE WHALE GOT HIS THROAT IN the sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes....

In some editions there are quite extensive footnotes. Forthcoming editions will include those footnotes Lays of Ancient Rome By Thomas Babbington Macaulay Preface Horatius The Lay The Battle of the Lake Regillus The Lay Virginia The Lay The Prophecy of Capys The Lay That what is called the history of the Kings and early Consuls of Rome is to a great extent fabulous, few scholars have, since the time of Beaufort, ventured to deny....

LEILA OR, THE SIEGE OF GRANADA BY EDWARD BULWER LYTTON Book IV. CHAPTER. I. LEILA IN THE CASTLE–THE SIEGE. The calmer contemplations and more holy anxieties of Leila were, at length, broken in upon by intelligence, the fearful interest of which absorbed the whole mind and care of every inhabitant of the castle. Boabdil el Chico had taken the field, at the head of a numerous army. Rapidly scouring the country, he had descended, one after one, upon the principal fortresses, which Ferdinand had left, strongly garrisoned, in the immediate neighbourhood....

The Works of Victor Hugo Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood CONTENTS VOLUME I BOOK FIRST.–A JUST MAN CHAPTER I. M. Myriel II. M. Myriel becomes M. Welcome III. A Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop IV. Works corresponding to Words V. Monseigneur Bienvenu made his Cassocks last too long VI. Who guarded his House for him VII. Cravatte VIII. Philosophy after Drinking IX. The Brother as depicted by the Sister X....

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. LESSONS IN LIFE, FOR ALL WHO WILL READ THEM. BY T. S. ARTHUR. PHILADELPHIA: 1851. PREFACE. “WE are never too old to learn;” is a truism that cannot be repeated too often, if, in the repetition, we do not lose the force of the sentiment....

LETTERS ON SWEDEN, NORWAY, AND DENMARK by Mary Wollstonecraft INTRODUCTION. Mary Wollstonecraft was born on the 27th of April, 1759. Her father–a quick-tempered and unsettled man, capable of beating wife, or child, or dog–was the son of a manufacturer who made money in Spitalfields, when Spitalfields was prosperous. Her mother was a rigorous Irishwoman, of the Dixons of Ballyshannon. Edward John Wollstonecraft–of whose children, besides Mary, the second child, three sons and two daughters lived to be men and women–in course of the got rid of about ten thousand pounds, which had been left him by his father....

THE LIFE OF CICERO BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I. CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER II. HIS EDUCATION. CHAPTER III. THE CONDITION OF ROME. CHAPTER IV. HIS EARLY PLEADINGS.–SEXTUS ROSCIUS AMERINUS.–HIS INCOME. CHAPTER V. CICERO AS QUAESTOR. CHAPTER VI. VERSES. CHAPTER VII. CICERO AS AEDILE AND PRAETOR. CHAPTER VIII. CICERO AS CONSUL. CHAPTER IX. CATILINE. CHAPTER X. CICERO AFTER HIS CONSULSHIP. CHAPTER XI. THE TRIUMVIRATE....

A LITTLE JOURNEY IN THE WORLD By Charles Dudley Warner INTRODUCTORY SKETCH The title naturally suggested for this story was “A Dead Soul,” but it was discarded because of the similarity to that of the famous novel by Nikolai Gogol–“Dead Souls”–though the motive has nothing in common with that used by the Russian novelist. Gogol exposed an extensive fraud practiced by the sale, in connection with lands, of the names of “serfs” (called souls) not living, or “dead souls....

LORD ARTHUR SAVILE’S CRIME AND OTHER STORIES Contents Lord Arthur Savile’s CrimeThe Canterville GhostThe Sphinx Without a SecretThe Model MillionaireThe Portrait of Mr. W. H. LORD ARTHUR SAVILE’S CRIME CHAPTER I It was Lady Windermere’s last reception before Easter, and Bentinck House was even more crowded than usual. Six Cabinet Ministers had come on from the Speaker’s Levee in their stars and ribands, all the pretty women wore their smartest dresses, and at the end of the picture-gallery stood the Princess Sophia of Carlsruhe, a heavy Tartar-looking lady, with tiny black eyes and wonderful emeralds, talking bad French at the top of her voice, and laughing immoderately at everything that was said to her....

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Mademoiselle Fifi By Guy de Maupassant Contents PagePreface . . . . . . . 7Mademoiselle Fifi . . . . 11Boule de Suif . . . . . 33 Preface Guy de Maupassant Guy de Maupassant was born at the Chateau de Miromesnil, near Dieppe, on August 5th, 1850. The Maupassants were an old Lorraine family who had settled in Normandy in the middle of the Eighteenth Century. His father had married in 1846 a young lady of the rich bourgeoisie, Laure Le Poittevin....

[Note:The use of quotation marks in the text does not accord with modern usage. Double quotes are nested within double quotes, and where this results in 2 doublequotes closing off a speech, one is omitted. In these cases [“] has been inserted to clarify the dialogue. Spelling of some proper names is inconsistent. These inconsistencies have not been altered–cf.Buonaparte–BonaparteCollingborn–CollingbournEverley–EverlyHalcombe–Halcomb] [Illustration: HENRY HUNT, ESQR.] Engraved by T. Woolmoth from a Drawing taken in the Kings Bench Prison the Morning after Judgement was given....

The Merry Men i. Eilean Arosii. What the wreck had brought to Aros iii. Land and sea in Sandag Bayiv. The galev. A man out of the sea Will o’ the Milli. The plain and the starsii. The Parson’s Marjoryiii. Death Markheim Thrawn Janet Olalla The Treasure of Franchardi. By the dying Mountebankii. Morning taleiii. The adoptioniv. The education of the philosopher v. Treasure trovevi. A criminal investigation, in two parts vii....

MODERN ITALIAN POETS ESSAYS AND VERSIONS BY W. D. HOWELLS WITH PORTRAITS CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION ARCADIAN SHEPHERDS GIUSEPPE PARINI VITTORIO ALFIERI VINCENZO MONTI UGO FOSCOLO ALESSANDRO MANZONI SILVIO PELLICO TOMMASO GROSSI LUIGI CARRER GIOVANNI BERCHET GIAMBATTISTA NICCOLINI GIACOMO LEOPARDI GIUSEPPE GIUSTI FRANCESCO DALL’ ONGARO GIOVANNI PRATI ALEARDO ALEARDI GIULIO CARCANO ARNALDO FUSINATO LUIGI MERCANTINI CONCLUSION PORTRAITS. VITTORIO ALFIERI VINCENZO MONTI UGO FOSCOLO ALESSANDRO MANZONI TOMMASO GROSSI GIAMBATTISTA NICCOLINI GIACOMO LEOPARDI GIUSEPPE GIUSTI FRANCESCO DALL’ ONGARO GIOVANNI PRATI ALEARDO ALEARDI INTRODUCTION This book has grown out of studies begun twenty years ago in Italy, and continued fitfully, as I found the mood and time for them, long after their original circumstance had become a pleasant memory....

NARRATIVE AND LYRIC POEMS (FIRST SERIES) FOR USE IN THE LOWER SCHOOL WITH ANNOTATIONS BY O. J. STEVENSON, M.A., D.PAED., Professor of English, Ontario Agricultural College. TORONTO THE COPP, CLARK COMPANY, LIMITED Copyright, Canada, 1912, by THE COPP, CLARK COMPANY, LIMITED, Toronto, Ontario. PREFACE The Narrative and Lyric Poems contained in this volume are those prescribed by the Department of Education for examination for Junior and Senior Public School Diplomas, and for the Senior High School Entrance, and Entrance into the Model Schools....

Representative Plays by American Dramatists Edited, with an Introduction to Each Play By MONTROSE J. MOSES 1856-1911 Illustrated with Portraits, andOriginal Playbills 1921 To BRANDER MATTHEWS Friend of the American TheatreTo whom all Critics of the Theatre are beholden. Table of Contents Introduction. Bibliographies. Rip Van Winkle: A Legend of the Catskills. A Comparative Arrangement with the Kerr Version. By Charles Burke. 1850 Francesca da Rimini. By George Henry Boker....