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MR. BONAPARTE OF CORSICA by John Kendrick Bangs CHAPTER I: CORSICA TO BRIENNE1769-1779 Napoleon’s father, Charles Bonaparte, was the honored progenitor of thirteen children, of whom the man who subsequently became the Emperor of the French, by some curious provision of fate, was the second. That the infant Napoleon should have followed rather than led the procession is so foreign to the nature of the man that many worthy persons unfamiliar with the true facts of history have believed that Joseph was a purely apocryphal infant, or, as some have suggested, merely an adopted child; but that Napoleon did upon this occasion content himself with second place is an incontrovertible fact....

Mr. PUNCH’S HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR 1919 First Impression July 1919Second ” July 1919Third ” August 1919Fourth ” August 1919Fifth ” September 1919Sixth ” October 1919Seventh ” October 1919 [Illustration: PEACE–THE SOWER] TO THE READER For whatsoever worth or wit appears In this mixed record of five hectic years, This tale of heroes, heroines–and others– Thank first “O. S.” and then his band of brothers Who took their cue, with pencil and with pen, From the gay courage of our fighting men....

Nature Cure Philosophy & Practice Based on the Unity of Disease & Cure Henry Lindlahr, M.D. “Ho, ye who suffer! Know ye suffer from vowselves. None else compels–no other holds ye that ye live or die. “~–Siddartha~ TO THE PROGRESSIVE PHYSICIANS OF THE AGE There are two principal methods of treating disease. One is the combative, the other the preventive. The trend of modern medical research and practice in our great colleges and endowed research institutes is almost entirely along combative lines, while the individual, progressive physician learns to work more and more along preventive lines....

DEPICTED BY GORDON HOME PREFACE This book is not a guide. It is an attempt to convey by pictures and description a clear impression of the Normandy which awaits the visitor. The route described could, however, be followed without covering the same ground for more than five or six miles, and anyone choosing to do this would find in his path some of the richest architecture and scenery that the province possesses....

SIGHTS AND SCENES FOR THE TOURIST. By E.L. LOMAX, General Passenger Agent, Union Pacific System.Omaha, Neb. 1890 [Illustration: Oregon, Washington and Alaska. Sights and Scenes for the Tourist.] [Illustration: Union Pacific Overland. Sights and Scenes in Oregon, Washington and Alaska for Tourists. Compliments of the Passenger Department, Union Pacific System, Omaha, Neb.] LIST OF AGENTS. ALBANY, N.Y.–23 Maiden Lane–J.D. TENBROECK. Trav. Pass. Agt. BOSTON, MASS.–290 Washington St.–W.S. CONDELL, New England Freight and Passenger Agent....

BY MAURICE BARING TO ETHEL SMYTH NOTE Most of the stories and sketches in this book have appeared in the /Morning Post/. One of them was published in the /Westminster Gazette/. I have to thank the editors and proprietors concerned for their kindness in allowing me to republish them. CONTENTS Orpheus in MayfairThe Cricket MatchThe Shadow of a MidnightJean FrancoisThe Flute of Chang Liang“What is Truth?”A Luncheon-PartyFete GalanteThe GarlandThe Spider’s WebEdward II....

REED ANTHONY, COWMAN An Autobiography BY ANDY ADAMS 1907 [Illustration: THE COWMAN] TO CAPTAIN JOHN T. LYTLE SECRETARY OF THE TEXAS CATTLE RAISERS’ ASSOCIATION FORT WORTH, TEXAS CONTENTS I. IN RETROSPECT II. MY APPRENTICESHIP III. A SECOND TRIP TO PORT SUMNER IV. A FATAL TRIP V. SUMMER OF ’68 VI. SOWING WILD OATS VII. “THE ANGEL” VIII. THE “LAZY L” IX. THE SCHOOL OF EXPERIENCE X. THE PANIC OF ’73 XI....

ROWDY OF THE “CROSS L.” by B. M. BOWER CONTENTS Lost in a Blizzard2. Miss Conroy Refuses Shelter3. Rowdy Hires a New Boss4. Pink as “Chappyrone”5. At Home at Cross L6. A Shot From the Dark7. Rowdy in a Tough Place8. Pink in a Threatening Mood9. Moving the Herd10. Harry Conroy at Home11. Rowdy Promoted12. “You Can Tell Jessie”13. Rowdy Finds Happiness CHAPTER 1 Lost in a Blizzard. “Rowdy” Vaughan–he had been christened Rowland by his mother, and rechristened Rowdy by his cowboy friends, who are prone to treat with much irreverence the names bestowed by mothers–was not happy....

The Church, which was once the mother of poets no less than of saints, during the last two centuries has relinquished to aliens the chief glories of poetry, if the chief glories of holiness she has preserved for her own. The palm and the laurel, Dominic and Dante, sanctity and song, grew together in her soil: she has retained the palm, but forgone the laurel. Poetry in its widest sense, {1} and when not professedly irreligious, has been too much and too long among many Catholics either misprised or distrusted; too much and too generally the feeling has been that it is at best superfluous, at worst pernicious, most often dangerous....

SIGHT TO THE BLIND A STORY BY LUCY FURMAN WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IDA TARBELL 1914 TO HARRIET BUTLER Contents INTRODUCTION BY IDA M. TARBELL SIGHT TO THE BLIND AFTERWORD The illustrations reproduced in the Introduction to this volume have been selected from those in Miss Furman’s “Mothering on Perilous.” Introduction Ida M. Tarbell Introduction A more illuminating interpretation of the settlement idea than Miss Furman’s stories “Sight to the Blind” and “Mothering on Perilous” does not exist....

[TR: ***] = Transcriber Note [HW: ***] = Handwritten Note SLAVE NARRATIVES A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves TYPEWRITTEN RECORDS PREPARED BY THE FEDERAL WRITERS’ PROJECT 1936-1938 ASSEMBLED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PROJECT WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SPONSORED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON 1941 VOLUME VIII MARYLAND NARRATIVES Prepared by the Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Maryland INFORMANTS Brooks, Lucy [TR: and Lafayette Brooks] Coles, Charles Deane, James V....

SPECIMENS WITH MEMOIRS OF THE LESS-KNOWN BRITISH POETS. * * * * * With an Introductory Essay, BY THE REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN. * * * * * IN THREE VOLS. VOL. I. M.DCCC.LX. INTRODUCTORY ESSAY We propose to introduce our ‘Specimens’ by a short Essay on the Origin and Progress of English Poetry on to the days of Chaucer and of Gower. Having called, in conjunction with many other critics, Chaucer ‘the Father of English Poetry,’ to seek to go back further may seem like pursuing antenatal researches....

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....

THE DOLLIVER ROMANCE FANSHAWE, AND SEPTIMIUS FELTON With An Appendix Containing THE ANCESTRAL FOOTSTEP by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE * * * * * THE ANCESTRAL FOOTSTEP: OUTLINES OF AN ENGLISH ROMANCE. INTRODUCTORY NOTE. “Septimius Felton” was the outgrowth of a project, formed by Hawthorne during his residence in England, of writing a romance, the scene of which should be laid in that country; but this project was afterwards abandoned, giving place to a new conception in which the visionary search for means to secure an earthly immortality was to form the principal interest....

THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY. A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS. VOL. V.–MARCH, 1860.–NO. XXIX. THE FRENCH CHARACTER. The American character is now generally acknowledged to be the most cosmopolitan of modern times; and a native of this country, all things being equal, is likely to form a less prescriptive idea of other nations than the inhabitants of countries whose neighborhood and history unite to bequeathe and perpetuate certain fixed notions....

THE BARRIER BY REX BEACH AUTHOR OF “THE SPOILERS” ILLUSTRATED BY DENMAN FINK CONTENTS I. THE LAST FRONTIER II. POLEON DORET’S HAND IS QUICKER THAN HIS TONGUE. III. WITHOUT BENEFIT OF CLERGY IV. THE SOLDIER FINDS AN UNTRODDEN VALLEY V. A STORY IS BEGUN VI. THE BURRELL CODE VII. THE MAGIC OF BEN STARK VIII. THE KNIFE IX. THE AWAKENING X. MEADE BURRELL FINDS A PATH IN THE MOONLIGHT XI....

[Note: Greek text is in curly braces, i.e., {}.] [Note: Italics have been indicated by an underscore character before and after the italicized text. For example, this is italicized text.] THE BOOK OF WERE-WOLVES by SABINE BARING-GOULD CONTENTS CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER II LYCANTHROPY AMONG THE ANCIENTS Definition of Lycanthropy–Marcellus Sidetes–Virgil–Herodotus–Ovid–Pliny–Agriopas–Story from Petronius–Arcadian Legends–Explanation offered CHAPTER III THE WERE-WOLF IN THE NORTH Norse Traditions–Manner in which the Change was effected–Vlundar Kvda–Instances from the Völsung Saga–Hrolf’s Saga–Kraka–Faroëse Poem–Helga Kvida–Vatnsdæla Saga–Eyrbyggja Saga CHAPTER IV THE ORIGIN OF THE SCANDINAVIAN WERE-WOLF Advantage of the Study of Norse Literature–Bear and Wolf-skin Dresses–The Berserkir–Their Rage–The Story of Thorir–Passages from the Aigla–The Evening Wolf–Skallagrim and his Son-Derivation of the Word “Hamr:” of “Vargr”–Laws affecting Outlaws–“To become a Boar”–Recapitulation CHAPTER V THE WERE-WOLF IN THE MIDDLE AGES Stories from Olaus Magnus of Livonian Were-wolves–Story from Bishop Majolus–Story of Albertus Pericofcius–Similar occurrence at Prague–Saint Patrick–Strange incident related by John of Nüremberg–Bisclaveret–Courland Were-wolves–Pierre Vidal–Pavian Lycanthropist–Bodin’s Stories–Forestus’ Account of a Lycanthropist–Neapolitan Were-wolf CHAPTER VI A CHAPTER OF HORRORS Pierre Bourgot and Michel Verdung–‘Me Hermit of S....

THE CHILD AND CHILDHOOD IN FOLK-THOUGHT STUDIES OF THE ACTIVITIES AND INFLUENCES OF THE CHILD AMONG PRIMITIVE PEOPLES, THEIR ANALOGUES AND SURVIVALS IN THECIVILIZATION OF TO-DAY THE CHILD AND CHILDHOODIN FOLK-THOUGHT(THE CHILD IN PRIMITIVE CULTURE) BYALEXANDER FRANCIS CHAMBERLAINM.A., PH.D. TO HIS FATHER AND HIS MOTHER THEIR SON Dedicates this Book “Vom Vater hab’ ich die Statur, Des Lebens ernstes Fuhren; Vom Mutterchen die Frohnatur Und Lust zu fabulieren.”–Goethe. PREFATORY NOTE....

The Chouans By Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Monsieur Theodore Dablin, Merchant. To my first friend, my first work. De Balzac. THE CHOUANS I AN AMBUSCADE Early in the year VIII., at the beginning of Vendemiaire, or, to conform to our own calendar, towards the close of September, 1799, a hundred or so of peasants and a large number of citizens, who had left Fougeres in the morning on their way to Mayenne, were going up the little mountain of La Pelerine, half-way between Fougeres and Ernee, a small town where travellers along that road are in the habit of resting....

THE CLEVER WOMAN OF THE FAMILY by Charlotte M. Yonge CHAPTER I IN SEARCH OF A MISSION “Thou didst refuse the daily round Of useful, patient love, And longedst for some great emprise Thy spirit high to prove.”–C. M. N. “Che mi sedea con l’antica Rachele.”–DANTE. “It is very kind in the dear mother.” “But–what, Rachel? Don’t you like it! She so enjoyed choosing it for you.” “Oh yes, it is a perfect thing in its way....