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THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND And Other Stories H. G. WELLS [Illustration: He stopped, and then made a dash to escape from their closing ranks.] INTRODUCTION The enterprise of Messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called Tales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the slightest merit is excluded from this volume....

THE DYNASTS AN EPIC-DRAMA OF THE WAR WITH NAPOLEON, IN THREE PARTS, NINETEEN ACTS, AND ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY SCENES The Time covered by the Action being about ten Years “And I heard sounds of insult, shame, and wrong, And trumpets blown for wars.” PREFACE The Spectacle here presented in the likeness of a Drama is concerned with the Great Historical Calamity, or Clash of Peoples, artificially brought about some hundred years ago....

A Journal of Arthur Middleton TO W.S.B. FOR SUBSTANTIAL EMBODIMENT PREFATORY NOTE Before Arthur Middleton died he gave me this record among others in the belief that it would help to tell me what he had always known in the silences, yet could never in life transmute into the friendly counters of speech. During the last years of his all too brief experience of his friends, more than once he shyly sought to tell what he knew, yet always silence claimed him, and nothing but the wonder of his eyes revealed the dream that consumed his heart....

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The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross OR AMATEUR THEATRICALS FOR A WORTHY CAUSE BY GERTRUDE W. MORRISON CONTENTS CHAPTERI THE ODDEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED II THE RED CROSS GIRLIII ODD!IV THE MYSTERY MANV SAND IN THE GEARSVI THE BANK-NOTEVII SOMETHING EXCITINGVIII THE FOREFRONT OF TROUBLEIX THE ICE CARNIVALX BUT WHO IS HE?XI A REHEARSALXII BUBBLE, BUBBLEXIII MOTHER WIT HAS AN IDEAXIV CHAINS ON HIS WHEELSXV PIE AND POETRYXVI EMBER NIGHTXVII A STARTLING ANNOUNCEMENTXVIII WHERE WAS PURT?...

THE GOLDEN CHERSONESE AND THE WAY THITHER BY ISABELLA L. BIRD (Mrs. Bishop) PREFACE In presenting to the public the last installment of my travels in the Far East, in 1879, I desire to offer, both to my readers and critics, my grateful acknowledgments for the kindness with which my letters from Japan were received, and to ask for an equally kind and lenient estimate of my present volume, which has been prepared for publication under the heavy shadow of the loss of the beloved and only sister to whom the letters of which it consists were written, and whose able and careful criticism, as well as loving interest, accompanied my former volumes through the press....

THE HIGHWAYMAN BY H. C. BAILEY CONTENTS I. THE COMPLETE HERO II. THE HOUSE OF WAVERTON III. A MAN OF MANY WORLDS IV. A GENTLEMAN’S PURSE V. THE WORLD’S A MIRACLE VI. HARRY IS NOT GRATEFUL VII. GENEROSITY OF A FATHER VIII. MISS LAMBOURNE LOOKS SIDEWAYS IX. ANGER OF AN UNCLE X. YOUNG BLOOD XI. ABSENCE OF MR. WAVERTON XII. IN HASTE XIII. DISTRESS OF A MOTHER XIV. SPECTATORS OF PARADISE XV....

by Rafael Sabatini First Series PREFACE In approaching “The Historical Nights’ Entertainment” I set myself the task of reconstructing, in the fullest possible detail and with all the colour available from surviving records, a group of more or less famous events. I would select for my purpose those which were in themselves bizarre and resulting from the interplay of human passions, and whilst relating each of these events in the form of a story, I would compel that story scrupulously to follow the actual, recorded facts without owing anything to fiction, and I would draw upon my imagination, if at all, merely as one might employ colour to fill in the outlines which history leaves grey, taking care that my colour should be as true to nature as possible....

DON QUIXOTE Volume II. Part 29. by Miguel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby CHAPTER XXXII. OF THE REPLY DON QUIXOTE GAVE HIS CENSURER, WITH OTHER INCIDENTS, GRAVE AND DROLL Don Quixote, then, having risen to his feet, trembling from head to foot like a man dosed with mercury, said in a hurried, agitated voice, “The place I am in, the presence in which I stand, and the respect I have and always have had for the profession to which your worship belongs, hold and bind the hands of my just indignation; and as well for these reasons as because I know, as everyone knows, that a gownsman’s weapon is the same as a woman’s, the tongue, I will with mine engage in equal combat with your worship, from whom one might have expected good advice instead of foul abuse....

THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN AMERICA WITH THE BOLSHEVIKS IN BERLIN AND OTHER IMPOSSIBILITIES By Stephen Leacock CONTENTS I. THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN AMERICAII. WITH THE BOLSHEVIKS IN BERLINIII. AFTERNOON TEA WITH THE SULTANIV. ECHOES OF THE WAR 1. The Boy Who Came Back 2. The War Sacrifices of Mr. Spugg 3. If Germany Had Won 4. War and Peace at the Galaxy Club 5. The War News as I Remember It 6....

HISTORY This e-text comes from multiple editions of Challoner’s revised Douay- Rheims Version of the Holy Bible. In 1568 English exiles, many from Oxford, established the English College of Douay (Douai/Doway), Flanders, under William (later Cardinal) Allen. In October, 1578, Gregory Martin began the work of preparing an English translation of the Bible for Catholic readers, the first such translation into Modern English. Assisting were William Allen, Richard Bristow, Thomas Worthington, and William Reynolds who revised, criticized, and corrected Dr....

The Junior Classics A LIBRARY FOR BOYS AND GIRLS [Illustration: CATHRINE DOUGLAS THRUST HER ARM THROUGH THE EMPTY STAPLES From the painting by J P Shelton] THE JUNIOR CLASSICS SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY WILLIAM PATTEN MANAGING EDITOR OF THE HARVARD CLASSICS INTRODUCTION BY CHARLES W. ELIOT, LL. D. PRESIDENT EMERITUS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY WITH A READING GUIDE BY WILLIAM ALLAN NEILSON, Ph.D. PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT SMITH COLLEGE, NORTHAMPTON, MASS....

MARK TWAIN’S LETTERS 1901-1906 ARRANGED WITH COMMENT BY ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE VOLUME V. XL LETTERS OF 1901, CHIEFLY TO TWICHELL. MARK TWAIN AS A REFORMER. SUMMER AT SARANAC. ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT McKINLEY An editorial in the Louisville Courier-Journal, early in 1901, said: “A remarkable transformation, or rather a development, has taken place in Mark Twain. The genial humorist of the earlier day is now a reformer of the vigorous kind, a sort of knight errant who does not hesitate to break a lance with either Church or State if he thinks them interposing on that broad highway over which he believes not a part but the whole of mankind has the privilege of passing in the onward march of the ages....

THE LIFE OF HORATIO LORD NELSON BY ROBERT SOUTHEY(1774-1843) TO JOHN WILSON CROKER ESQ.,LL.D., F.R.S.,SECRETARY OF THE ADMIRALTY;WHO, BY THE OFFICIAL SITUATION WHICH HE SO ABLY FILLS, IS QUALIFIED TO APPRECIATE ITS HISTORICAL ACCURACY; AND WHO,AS A MEMBER OF THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS, IS EQUALLY QUALIFIED TO DECIDE UPON ITSLITERARY MERITS,THIS WORKIS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY HIS FRIEND, THE AUTHOR Many Lives of Nelson have been written; one is yet wanting, clear and concise enough to become a manual for the young sailor, which he may carry about with him till he has treasured it up for example in his memory and in his heart....

THE LIFE OF THE VENERABLE MOTHER MARY OF THE INCARNATION BY A RELIGIOUS OF THE URSULINE COMMUNITY INTRODUCTION. The materials for the following Biography have been gathered principally from “The Life of the Mother Mary of the Incarnation” by her son, and from “The History of the Ursuline Monastery at Quebec,” by a member of that community, the former published in 1677; the latter in 1863. The Life of the Venerable Mother by her son, is founded partly on her own communications regarding the graces with which she had been favoured, and partly on her correspondence with himself extending over the thirty years which she passed in Canada....

VOL. 10, No. 288.] SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER. [PRICE 2d. The Return of a Victorious Armament to a Greek City. [Illustration: The Return of a Victorious Armament to a Greek City.] SPIRIT OF “THE ANNUALS” FOR 1828. Our readers have annually anticipated a high treat from this splendid intellectual banquet, served up by some of the master[1] spirits of the age. [1] We hope this epithet will not be considered ungallant–for, to say the truth, the ladies have contributed the best poetical portion of the feast....

THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. XIV, NO. 396.] SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1829. [PRICE 2d. BLARNEY CASTLE. [Illustration: Blarney Castle.] This Engraving, to use a cant phrase, is an exquisite “bit of Blarney;” but independent of the vulgar association, it has a multitude of attractions for every reader. Its interest will, however, be materially enhanced by the following admirable description from the graphic pen of T. Crofton Croker, Esq....

THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. Vol. 20 No. 575.] SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1832. [PRICE 2d. [Illustration] FRAMLINGHAM CASTLE. Castle of Ancient Days! in times long gone Thy lofty halls in regal splendour shone! Thou stoodst a monument of strength sublime, A Giant, laughing at the threats of Time! Strange scenes have passed within thy walls! and strange Has been thy fate through many a chance and change! Thy Towers have heard the war-cry, and the shout Of friends within, and answering foes without, Have rung to sounds of revelry, while mirth Held her carousal, when the sons of earth Sported with joy, till even he could bring No fresh delight upon his drooping wing!...

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Ice Creams, Water Ices, Frozen Puddings Together with Refreshments for all Social Affairs by Mrs. S. T. Rorer Author of Mrs. Rorer’s New Cook Book, Philadelphia Cook Book, Canning and Preserving, and other Valuable Works on Cookery CONTENTS FOREWORD PHILADELPHIA ICE CREAMS NEAPOLITAN ICE CREAMS ICE CREAMS FROM CONDENSED MILK FROZEN PUDDINGS AND DESSERTS WATER ICES AND SHERBETS OR SORBETS FROZEN FRUITS FRAPPE PARFAIT MOUSSE SAUCES FOR ICE CREAMS REFRESHMENTS FOR AFFAIRS Soups Sweetbreads Shell Fish Dishes Poultry and Game Dishes Cold Dishes Salads Sandwiches SUGGESTIONS FOR CHURCH SUPPERS FOREWORD CONTAINING GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR ALL RECIPES In this book, Philadelphia Ice Creams, comprising the first group, are very palatable, but expensive....