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Flos Regum Arthurus (Joseph of Exeter) Contents Dedication The Coming of Arthur THE ROUND TABLE Gareth and Lynette The Marriage of Geraint Geraint and Enid Balin and Balan Merlin and Vivien Lancelot and Elaine The Holy Grail Pelleas and Ettarre The Last Tournament Guinevere The Passing of Arthur To the Queen Dedication These to His Memory–since he held them dear, Perchance as finding there unconsciously Some image of himself–I dedicate, I dedicate, I consecrate with tears– These Idylls....

IN THE BISHOP’S CARRIAGEBy MIRIAM MICHELSON I. When the thing was at its hottest, I bolted. Tom, like the darling he is–(Yes, you are, old fellow, you’re as precious to me as–as you are to the police–if they could only get their hands on you)–well, Tom drew off the crowd, having passed the old gentleman’s watch to me, and I made for the women’s rooms. The station was crowded, as it always is in the afternoon, and in a minute I was strolling into the big, square room, saying slowly to myself to keep me steady: “Nancy, you’re a college girl–just in from Bryn Mawr to meet your papa....

Distributed Proofreaders. IN THE MIDST OF ALARMS by ROBERT BARR 1894 TO E.B. CHAPTER I. In the marble-floored vestibule of the Metropolitan Grand Hotel in Buffalo, Professor Stillson Renmark stood and looked about him with the anxious manner of a person unused to The gaudy splendor of the modern American house of entertainment. The professor had Paused halfway between the door and the marble counter, because he began to fear that he Had arrived at an inopportune time, that something unusual was going on....

IN THE WILDERNESS By Charles Dudley Warner CONTENTS: HOW I KILLED A BEAR LOST IN THE WOODS A FIGHT WITH A TROUT A-HUNTING OF THE DEER A CHARACTER STUDY (Old Phelps) CAMPING OUT A WILDERNESS ROMANCE WHAT SOME PEOPLE CALL PLEASURE HOW I KILLED A BEAR So many conflicting accounts have appeared about my casual encounter with an Adirondack bear last summer that in justice to the public, to myself, and to the bear, it is necessary to make a plain statement of the facts....

INTRODUCTORY AMERICAN HISTORY BY HENRY ELDRIDGE BOURNEANDELBERT JAY BENTON PROFESSORS OF HISTORY IN WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY 1912 INTRODUCTION This volume is the introductory part of a course in American history embodying the plan of study recommended by the Committee of Eight of the American Historical Association.[1] The plan calls for a continuous course running through grades six, seven, and eight. The events which have taken place within the limits of what is now the United States must necessarily furnish the most of the content of the lessons....

JACK HARKAWAY AND HIS SON’S ESCAPE FROM THE BRIGANDS OF GREECE. BEING THE CONTINUATION OF “JACK HARKAWAY AND HIS SON’S ADVENTURES IN GREECE.” BY BRACEBRIDGE HEMYNG [Illustration: Bother the beggars”–said Mr Mole”–Adv in Greece, Vol II–Frontispiece] CHAPTER I. THE CONTESSA’S LETTER TO MR. MOLE–ON PLEASURE BENT–THE MENDICANT FRIAR–MIDNIGHT MARAUDERS–HOUSE BREAKING. When Mrs. Harkaway’s maid returned to the villa, she got scolded for being so long upon an errand of some importance with which she had been entrusted....

Let me begin by informing you, that this new novel does not present the proposed sequel to my last work of fiction–“The Fallen Leaves.” The first part of that story has, through circumstances connected with the various forms of publications adopted thus far, addressed itself to a comparatively limited class of readers in England. When the book is finally reprinted in its cheapest form–then, and then only, it will appeal to the great audience of the English people....

JOHN BULL ON THE GUADALQUIVIR.from “Tales from all Countries” by Anthony Trollope I am an Englishman, living, as all Englishman should do, in England, and my wife would not, I think, be well pleased were any one to insinuate that she were other than an Englishwoman; but in the circumstances of my marriage I became connected with the south of Spain, and the narrative which I am to tell requires that I should refer to some of those details....

LAST POEMS By A. E. Housman I publish these poems, few though they are, because it is not likely that I shall ever be impelled to write much more. I can no longer expect to be revisited by the continuous excitement under which in the early months of 1895 I wrote the greater part of my first book, nor indeed could I well sustain it if it came; and it is best that what I have written should be printed while I am here to see it through the press and control its spelling and punctuation....

MARIA CHAPDELAINE A TALE OF THELAKE ST. JOHN COUNTRY BY LOUIS HEMONTRANSLATED BYW. H. BLAKEAuthor of “Brown Waters,” etc. New York 1921 CONTENTS I PERIBONKA II HOME IN THE CLEARING III FRANCOIS PASSES BY IV WILD LAND V THE VOWS VI THE STUFF OF DREAMS VII A MEAGER REAPING VIII ENTRENCHED AGAINST WINTER IX ONE THOUSAND AVES X STRAYING TRACKS XI THE INTERPRETER OF GOD XII LOVE BEARING GIFTS XIII LOVE BEARING CHAINS XIV INTO THE DEEP SILENCE XV THAT WE PERISH NOT XVI PLEDGED TO THE RACE CHAPTER I PERIBONKA Ite, missa est The door opened, and the men of the congregation began to come out of the church at Peribonka....

[Illustration: SAMUEL FINLEY BREESE MORSE Inventor of the Telegraph] MASTERS OF SPACE MORSE and the Telegraph THOMPSON and the Cable BELL and the Telephone MARCONI and the Wireless Telegraph CARTY and the Wireless Telephone BY WALTER KELLOGG TOWERS ILLUSTRATED 1917 TO MY CO-LABORER AND COMPANION BERENICE LAURA TOWERS WHOSE ENCOURAGEMENT AND ASSISTANCE WERE CONSTANT IN THE GATHERING AND PREPARATION OF MATERIAL FOR THIS VOLUME. CONTENTS CHAP. PREFACE I. COMMUNICATION AMONG THE ANCIENTS II....

MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF HENRY REEVE, C.B., D.C.L BY JOHN KNOX LAUGHTON, M.A. HONORARY FELLOW OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY IN KING’S COLLEGE, LONDON IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II. CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME PORTRAIT OF HENRY REEVE AET. 68. From a Photograph taken by RUPERT POTTER, Esq. XIII. THE WAR IN ITALY (1859-60) XIV. LITERATURE AND POLITICS (1860-3) XV. LAW AND LITERATURE (1863-7) XVI....

MINSTRELSYOF THESCOTTISH BORDER: CONSISTING OFHISTORICAL AND ROMANTIC BALLADS,COLLECTEDIN THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES OF SCOTLAND; WITH A FEW OF MODERN DATE, FOUNDED UPONLOCAL TRADITION. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. The songs, to savage virtue dear. That won of yore the public ear, Ere Polity, sedate and sage, Had quench’d the fires of feudal rage.–WARTON. THIRD EDITION. 1806. CONTENTSTOTHE SECOND VOLUME. LESLEY’S MARCHThe Battle of PhiliphaughThe Gallant GrahamsThe Battle of Pentland HillsThe Battle of LoudonhillThe Battle of Bothwell-bridge PART SECOND....

MOTHER CAREY’S CHICKENS By KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN CONTENTS I. MOTHER CAREY HERSELF II. THE CHICKENS III. THE COMMON DENOMINATOR IV. THE BROKEN CIRCLE V. HOW ABOUT JULIA? VI. NANCY’S IDEA VII. “OLD BEASTS INTO NEW” VIII. THE KNIGHT OF BEULAH CASTLE IX. GILBERT’S EMBASSY X. THE CAREYS’ FLITTING XI. THE SERVICE ON THE THRESHOLD XII. COUSIN ANN XIII. THE PINK OF PERFECTION XIV. WAYS AND MEANS XV. BELONGING TO BEULAH XVI....

by Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944 Introduction of Mr. Stephen LeacockGiven by Sir Owen Seamanon the Occasion of His FirstLecture in London LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: It is usual on these occasions for the chairman to begin something like this: “The lecturer, I am sure, needs no introduction from me.” And indeed, when I have been the lecturer and somebody else has been the chairman, I have more than once suspected myself of being the better man of the two....

Myths and Legends of the Sioux MYTHS AND LEGENDSOF THE SIOUX MRS. MARIE L. MCLAUGHLIN In loving memory of my mother,MARY GRAHAM BUISSON,at whose knee most of the storiescontained in this little volumewere told to me, this book is affec- tionately dedicated TABLE OF CONTENTS DedicationForewordThe Forgotten Ear of CornThe Little MiceThe Pet RabbitThe Pet DonkeyThe Rabbit and the Elk The Rabbit and the Grouse GirlsThe Faithful Lovers The Artichoke and the MuskratThe Rabbit, and the Bear with the Flint Body Story of the Lost WifeThe Raccoon and the CrawfishLegend of Standing RockStory of the Peace PipeA Bashful CourtshipThe Simpleton’s WisdomLittle Brave and the Medicine Woman The Bound ChildrenThe Signs of CornStory of the RabbitsHow the Rabbit Lost His TailUnktomi and the ArrowheadsThe Bear and the Rabbit Hunt Buffalo The Brave Who Went on the Warpath Alone and Won the Name of the Lone WarriorThe Sioux Who Married the Crow Chief’s DaughterThe Boy and the TurtlesThe Hermit, or the Gift of CornThe Mysterious ButteThe Wonderful TurtleThe Man and the OakStory of the Two Young FriendsThe Story of the Pet CrowThe “Wasna” (Pemmican Man) and the Unktomi (Spider) The Resuscitation of the Only DaughterThe Story of the Pet CraneWhite PlumeStory of Pretty Feathered ForeheadThe Four Brothers or Inyanhoksila (Stone Boy) The Unktomi (Spider), Two Widows and the Red Plums FOREWORD In publishing these “Myths of the Sioux,” I deem it proper to state that I am of one-fourth Sioux blood....

NEUTRAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS IN THE ANGLO-BOER WAR BY ROBERT GRANVILLE CAMPBELL 1908 PREFACE. This essay is the outgrowth of work done in the Political Science Seminary of the Johns Hopkins University and is a portion of a larger study dealing with the causes of the Anglo-Boer War and the questions of international law arising during that conflict. At the beginning of the war the English Government was inclined to view the contest as one which would not make it necessary to call into operation the neutrality laws of third parties....

by W.W. Jacobs KEEPING WATCH “Human natur’!” said the night-watchman, gazing fixedly at a pretty girl in a passing waterman’s skiff. “Human natur’!” He sighed, and, striking a match, applied it to his pipe and sat smoking thoughtfully. “The young fellow is pretending that his arm is at the back of her by accident,” he continued; “and she’s pretending not to know that it’s there. When he’s allowed to put it round ‘er waist whenever he wishes, he won’t want to do it....

THIS little work was finished in the year 1803, and intended for immediate publication. It was disposed of to a bookseller, it was even advertised, and why the business proceeded no farther, the author has never been able to learn. That any bookseller should think it worth-while to purchase what he did not think it worth-while to publish seems extraordinary. But with this, neither the author nor the public have any other concern than as some observation is necessary upon those parts of the work which thirteen years have made comparatively obsolete....

NOVEL NOTES by Jerome K. Jerome PROLOGUE Years ago, when I was very small, we lived in a great house in a long, straight, brown-coloured street, in the east end of London. It was a noisy, crowded street in the daytime; but a silent, lonesome street at night, when the gas-lights, few and far between, partook of the character of lighthouses rather than of illuminants, and the tramp, tramp of the policeman on his long beat seemed to be ever drawing nearer, or fading away, except for brief moments when the footsteps ceased, as he paused to rattle a door or window, or to flash his lantern into some dark passage leading down towards the river....