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[Transcriber’s Note: The Table of Contents was added by the transcriber.] THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS AND OTHER POPULAR STORIES FOR CHILDREN HANDSOMELY ILLUSTRATED COPYRIGHT. 1903, BY W. B. CONKEY COMPANY CHICAGO W. B. CONKEY COMPANY CONTENTS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS. THE NIGHT AFTER CHRISTMAS. SANTA CLAUS DOES NOT FORGET. THE FAIRY CHRISTMAS. THE BALL GAME. CHRISTMAS DAY. THE DOLLS’ CHRISTMAS PARTY. GRANDMA’S CHRISTMAS GIFTS. MAMA’S HAPPY CHRISTMAS. THE CHRISTMAS CAROL OF THE BIRDS....

IN HOMESPUN BY E. NESBIT LONDON 1896 THESE tales are written in an English dialect–none the less a dialect for that it lacks uniformity in the misplacement of aspirates, and lacks, too, strange words misunderstanded of the reader. In South Kent villages with names ending in ‘den,’ and out away on the Sussex downs where villages end in ‘hurst,’ live the plain people who talk this plain speech–a speech that should be sweeter in English ears than the implacable consonants of a northern kail-yard, or the soft one-vowelled talk of western hillsides....

Contents IEARLIEST RECOLLECTIONSI: Hakadah, “The Pitiful Last”II: Early HardshipsIII: My Indian GrandmotherIV: In Indian Sugar CampV: A Midsummer Feast IIAN INDIAN BOY’S TRAINING IIIMY PLAYS AND PLAYMATESI: Games and SportsII: My PlaymatesIII: The Boy Hunter IVHAKADAH’S FIRST OFFERING VFAMILY TRADITIONSI: A Visit to Smoky DayII: The Stone Boy VIEVENING IN THE LODGEI: Evening in the LodgeII: Adventures of My Uncle VIITHE END OF THE BEAR DANCE VIIITHE MAIDENS’ FEAST IXMORE LEGENDSI: A Legend of Devil’s LakeII: Manitoshaw’s Hunting XINDIAN LIFE AND ADVENTUREI: Life in the WoodsII: A Winter CampIII: Wild HarvestsIV: A Meeting on the PlainsV: An Adventurous Journey XITHE LAUGHING PHILOSOPHER XIIFIRST IMPRESSIONS OF CIVILIZATION IEarliest Recollections I: Hadakah, “The Pitiful Last” WHAT boy would not be an Indianfor a while when he thinks of thefreest life in the world?...

JOURNEYS THROUGH BOOKLAND A NEW AND ORIGINALPLAN FOR READING APPLIED TO THEWORLD’S BEST LITERATUREFOR CHILDREN BYCHARLES H. SYLVESTERAuthor of English and American Literature VOLUME THREENew Edition 1922 CONTENTS JOHN’S PUMPKIN ………. Mrs. Archibald THE MOCK TURTLE’S STORY ………. Lewis Carrol THE SPIDER AND THE FLY ………. Mary Hoiritt A FAREWELL ………. Charles Kingsley QUEEN ALICE ………. Lewis Carroll THE LEPRECHAUN ………. William Allingham THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER ………. Lewis Carroll BETH GELERT ………....

LUCY. It lay down in a hollow, rich with fine old timber and luxuriant pastures; and you came upon it through an avenue of limes, bordered on either side by meadows, over the high hedges of which the cattle looked inquisitively at you as you passed, wondering, perhaps, what you wanted; for there was no thorough-fare, and unless you were going to the Court you had no business there at all....

LAYS FROM THE WEST BY “STELLA”–M.A. NICHOLL Then the spirit reached her fingers, Taper things of rosy snow,Took my songs, and as she took them, “Tiny germs,” she whispered “go!Root among the coming hours, Seeds are ye of many flowers,Which from out the winds will grow!” Dedicated WITH MUCH GRATITUDE AND AFFECTION TO MRS. T. SPOTISWOOD ASH, THE MANOR HOUSE, BELLAGHY, IRELAND. IN THE NORTHWEST. “I’ll not forget Old Ireland, were it fifty times as fair....

LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI BY MARK TWAIN Part 4. Chapter 16 Racing Days IT was always the custom for the boats to leave New Orleans between four and five o’clock in the afternoon. From three o’clock onward they would be burning rosin and pitch pine (the sign of preparation), and so one had the picturesque spectacle of a rank, some two or three miles long, of tall, ascending columns of coal-black smoke; a colonnade which supported a sable roof of the same smoke blended together and spreading abroad over the city....

LITTLE SISTER SNOW BY FRANCES LITTLE Author of “The Lady of the Decoration” WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BYGENJIRO KATAOKA1909 TO MY NIECE ALICE HEGAN RICE IN MEMORY OF MANY HAPPY MONTHSSPENT TOGETHER IN JAPAN LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS A fervent, whispered prayer . . . Frontispiece With outstretched hands and flying feet She would throw her into the ditch The two old people Yuki San was called before her father With paint and brush she fell to work At the slightest sound she listened Not willing to be surpassed in salutation “My heart bleed for lonely” She busied herself with serving the tea Very helpless and lonesome To make good her promise to the gods CHAPTER I A quaint old Japanese garden lay smiling under the sunshine of a morning in early spring....

MAITRE CORNELIUS by HONORE DE BALZAC Translated ByKatharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Monsieur le Comte Georges Mniszech: Some envious being may think on seeing this page illustrated by one of the most illustrious of Sarmatian names, that I am striving, as the goldsmiths do, to enhance a modern work with an ancient jewel,–a fancy of the fashions of the day,–but you and a few others, dear count, will know that I am only seeking to pay my debt to Talent, Memory, and Friendship....

Mastery of Self for Wealth Power Success by Frank Channing Haddock, M. S., Ph. D. PART 21 POWER FOR SUCCESS WHAT THIS BOOK TEACHES This book brings to a close that portion of MASTERY OF SELF, which deals with the art of Success-Magnetism. Acquiring magnetism is a constructive effort. It is a building process. You are rearing a structure. You rise, from the foundation, through successive stories to the culminating peak....

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. This etext was produced by David Widger [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....

MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection–a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without any legal claim that I could plead, or equitable warrant in established usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion....

[Note on text: Lines longer than 78 characters are broken and the continuation is indented two spaces. Some obvious errors have been corrected.] Men, Women and Ghosts by Amy Lowell [American (Massachusetts) poet and critic — 1874-1925.] “. . . See small portions of the Eternal World that ever groweth’: . . . . So sang a Fairy, mocking, as he sat on a streak’d tulip, Thinking none saw him: when he ceas’d I started from the trees, And caught him in my hat, as boys knock down a butterfly....

NADA THE LILYBy H. Rider Haggard NADA THE LILY BY H. RIDER HAGGARD DEDICATION Sompseu: For I will call you by the name that for fifty years has been honoured by every tribe between Zambesi and Cape Agulbas,–I greet you! Sompseu, my father, I have written a book that tells of men and matters of which you know the most of any who still look upon the light; therefore, I set your name within that book and, such as it is, I offer it to you....

[Illustration: A-list’nin’ to the witch-tales ‘at Annie tells abou–Frontispiece] RILEYCHILD-RHYMES James Whitcomb Riley WITH HOOSIER PICTURES BY Will Vawter Copyright 1890, 1896, 1898 and 1905 WITH HALE AFFECTION AND ABIDING FAITH THESE RHYMES AND PICTURESARE INSCRIBEDTO THE CHILDREN EVERYWHERE He owns the bird-songs of the hills– The laughter of the April rills;And his are all the diamonds setIn Morning’s dewy coronet,–And his the Dusk’s first minted stars That twinkle through the pasture-barsAnd litter all the skies at nightWith glittering scraps of silver light;– The rainbow’s bar, from rim to rim,In beaten gold, belongs to him....

ROBERT FALCONER by GEORGE MACDONALD, LL.D. Note from electronic text creator: I have compiled a glossary with definitions of most of the Scottish words found in this work and placed it at the end of this electronic text. This glossary does not belong to the original work, but is designed to help with the conversations and references in Broad Scots found in this work. A further explanation of this list can be found towards the end of this document, preceding the glossary....

By James H. Maggard PREFACE_______ In placing this book before the public the author wishes it understood that it is not his intention to produce a scientific work on engineering. Such a book would be valuable only to engineers of large stationary engines. In a nice engine room nice theories and scientific calculations are practical. This book is intended for engineers of farm and traction engines, “rough and tumble engineers,” who have everything in their favor today, and tomorrow are in mud holes, who with the same engine do eight horse work one day and sixteen horse work the next day....

SALAMMBO BY GUSTAVE FLAUBERT CHAPTER I THE FEAST It was at Megara, a suburb of Carthage, in the gardens of Hamilcar. The soldiers whom he had commanded in Sicily were having a great feast to celebrate the anniversary of the battle of Eryx, and as the master was away, and they were numerous, they ate and drank with perfect freedom. The captains, who wore bronze cothurni, had placed themselves in the central path, beneath a gold-fringed purple awning, which reached from the wall of the stables to the first terrace of the palace; the common soldiers were scattered beneath the trees, where numerous flat-roofed buildings might be seen, wine-presses, cellars, storehouses, bakeries, and arsenals, with a court for elephants, dens for wild beasts, and a prison for slaves....

SAPPHO ONE HUNDRED LYRICS by BLISS CARMAN 1907 “SAPPHO WHO BROKE OFF A FRAGMENT OF HER SOUL FOR US TO GUESS AT.” “SAPPHO, WITH THAT GLORIOLEOF EBON HAIR ON CALMED BROWS–O POET-WOMAN! NONE FORGOESTHE LEAP, ATTAINING THE REPOSE.” E.B. BROWNING. INTRODUCTION THE POETRY OF SAPPHO.–If all the poets and all the lovers of poetry should be asked to name the most precious of the priceless things which time has wrung in tribute from the triumphs of human genius, the answer which would rush to every tongue would be “The Lost Poems of Sappho....

SAUNTERINGS By Charles Dudley Warner MISAPPREHENSIONS CORRECTED I should not like to ask an indulgent and idle public to saunter about with me under a misapprehension. It would be more agreeable to invite it to go nowhere than somewhere; for almost every one has been somewhere, and has written about it. The only compromise I can suggest is, that we shall go somewhere, and not learn anything about it. The instinct of the public against any thing like information in a volume of this kind is perfectly justifiable; and the reader will perhaps discover that this is illy adapted for a text-book in schools, or for the use of competitive candidates in the civil-service examinations....