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OLD ENGLISH LIBRARIESTHE MAKING, COLLECTION, AND USE OF BOOKS DURING THE MIDDLE AGES by ERNEST A. SAVAGE PREFACE WITH the arrangement and equipment of libraries this essay has little to do: the ground being already covered adequatelyby Dr. Clark in his admirable monograph on The Care of Books. Herein is described the making, use, and circulation of books considered as a means of literary culture. It seemed possible to throw a useful sidelight on literary history, and to introduce some human interest into the study of bibliography, if the place held by books in the life of the Middle Ages could be indicated....

TREATS OF THE PLACE WHERE OLIVER TWIST WAS BORN AND OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING HIS BIRTH Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter....

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RELIGIONS OF ANCIENT CHINA by HERBERT A. GILES, M.A., LL.D. (Aberd.) Professor of Chinese at the University of Cambridge, Author of “Historic China,” “A History of Chinese Literature,” “China and the Chinese,” etc., etc. First Published 1906 by Constable and Company Ltd., London. PREPARER’S NOTE This book was published as part of the series Religions: Ancient and Modern. The Psychological Origin and Nature of Religion, by J. H. Leuba. Judaism, by Israel Abraham....

REMARKS By BILL NYE. (EDGAR W. NYE.) Ah Sin was his name;And I shall not deny,In regard to the same,What the name might imply:But his smile it was pensive and childlike, As I frequent remarked to Bill Nye. –Bret Harte. With over one hundred and fifty illustrations, by J.H. SMITH. [Illustration] [Illustration: Bill Nye] DIRECTIONS. This book is not designed specially for any one class of people. It is for all....

ROMANCE OF THE RABBIT By FRANCIS JAMMES Authorized Translation from the French by Gladys Edgerton 1920 INTRODUCTION The simple and bucolic art of Francis Jammes has grown to maturity in the solitude of the little town of Orthez at the foot of the Pyrenees, far from the clamor and complexities of literary Paris. In the preface to an early work of his he has given the key of his artistic faith: “My God, You have called me among men....

SAMUEL F.B. MORSE HIS LETTERS AND JOURNALS IN TWO VOLUMES VOLUME I [Illustration: Samuel F.B. Morse] SAMUEL F.B. MORSE HIS LETTERS AND JOURNALS EDITED AND SUPPLEMENTED BY HIS SON EDWARD LIND MORSE ILLUSTRATED WITH REPRODUCTIONS OF HIS PAINTINGS AND WITH NOTES AND DIAGRAMS BEARING ON THE INVENTION OF THE TELEGRAPH VOLUME I 1914 TO MY WIFE WHOSE LOVING INTEREST AND APT CRITICISM HAVE BEEN TO ME OF GREAT VALUE I DEDICATE THIS WORK “It is the hour of fate,And those who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foeSave death....

[Illustration] SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 385 NEW YORK, MAY 19, 1883 Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XV., No. 385. Scientific American established 1845 Scientific American Supplement, $5 a year. Scientific American and Supplement, $7 a year. * * * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS. I. NATURAL HISTORY.–Fishes of Cuban Waters. Panax Victoriae.–1 Illustration. A Note on Sap. By Prof. ATTFIELD. The Crow.–Illustration. The Praying Mantis and its Allies.–Illustration. May Flies.–2 illustrations....

This text was written using the Windows Cyrillic 1251 character set. Òîçè òåêñò å ïîäãîòâåí îò Âèêòîð Êèðèëîâ Ëþáåíîâ, Ñîôèÿ, Áúëãàðèÿ, victor@mbx.isoc.bg Õèëÿäè áëàãîäàðíîñòè, Âèêòîð! O, TEMPORA! O, MORES! O, tempora! Î, mores! Ñåäÿ è ñå ÷óäÿ, çàùî ÷îâåê ñå ñúðäè, êîãà ìó ðå÷åø: ìàãàðå, ñâèíÿ èëè âîë; è íå ñå ñúðäè – äîðó îùå ñå ðàäâà, êîãà ìó ðå÷åø: ïèëåíöå, ãúëúá÷å, ñëàâåé÷å, äîðè îùå êîòåíöå è òåëåíöå? Äàëè ñëàâåÿò ïðèíàñÿ ïîâå÷å ïîëçà â îáùåñòâîòî íà ÷îâåöèòå, îòêîëêîòî áëàãîðîäíàòà ñâèíÿ, òàçè ïðîèçâîäèòåëíà ñèëà â ïðèðîäàòà íà æèâîòíèòå, íà êîÿòî ñàìî êàòî ïîãëåäíå ÷îâåê, íàóìÿâà ìó íåùî àðèñòîêðàòè÷åñêî, íåùî âúçïèòàíî è íà äúëæèíà, è íà øèðî÷èíà?...

AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL SERIES STUDIES IN CIVICS BY JAMES T. McCLEARY, M.C. LATE TEACHER OF CIVICS AND HISTORY IN THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL MANKATO, MINNESOTALIFE MEMBER MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVISED TO 1897 [Illustration: (House of Representatives) UNITED STATES CAPITOL (Senate.)] TO THE MEMBERS OF MY CLASSES IN CIVICS, WHOSE QUESTIONS HAVE AIDED ME IN DETERMINING WHAT SUBJECTS TO TREAT, AND WHOSE EARNESTNESS AND INTELLIGENCE HAVE MADE IT A PLEASURE TO BE THEIR TEACHER, THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED....

THE ADVENTURES OF REDDY FOX BY THORNTON W. BURGESS I. Granny Fox Gives Reddy a Scare Reddy Fox lived with Granny Fox. You see, Reddy was one of a large family, so large that Mother Fox had hard work to feed so many hungry little mouths and so she had let Reddy go to live with old Granny Fox. Granny Fox was the wisest, slyest, smartest fox in all the country round, and now that Reddy had grown so big, she thought it about time that he began to learn the things that every fox should know....

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The American Spirit in Literature,A Chronicle of Great Interpreters BY BLISS PERRY CONTENTS I. THE PIONEERS II. THE FIRST COLONIAL LITERATURE III. THE THIRD AND FOURTH GENERATION IV. THE REVOLUTION V. THE KNICKERBOCKER GROUP VI. THE TRANSCENDENTALISTS VII. ROMANCE, POETRY, AND HISTORY VIII. POE AND WHITMAN IX. UNION AND LIBERTY X. A NEW NATION BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE THE AMERICAN SPIRIT IN LITERATURE CHAPTER I. THE PIONEERS The United States of America has been from the beginning in a perpetual change....

INTRODUCTION In the same year, and on the same day of the same month, that his Sacred Majesty King George, the third of the name, came to his crown and kingdom, I was placed and settled as the minister of Dalmailing. {1} When about a week thereafter this was known in the parish, it was thought a wonderful thing, and everybody spoke of me and the new king as united in our trusts and temporalities, marvelling how the same should come to pass, and thinking the hand of Providence was in it, and that surely we were preordained to fade and flourish in fellowship together; which has really been the case: for in the same season that his Most Excellent Majesty, as he was very properly styled in the proclamations for the general fasts and thanksgivings, was set by as a precious vessel which had received a crack or a flaw, and could only be serviceable in the way of an ornament, I was obliged, by reason of age and the growing infirmities of my recollection, to consent to the earnest entreaties of the Session, and to accept of Mr Amos to be my helper....

THE ASPIRATIONS OF JEAN SERVIEN BY ANATOLE FRANCE A TRANSLATION BY ALFRED ALLINSON I Jean Servien was born in a back-shop in the Rue Notre-Dame des Champs. His father was a bookbinder and worked for the Religious Houses. Jean was a little weakling child, and his mother nursed him at her breast as she sewed the books, sheet by sheet, with the curved needle of the trade. One day as she was crossing the shop, humming a song, in the words of which she found expression for the vague, splendid visions of her maternal ambition, her foot slipped on the boards, which were moist with paste....

The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh. By E. A. Wallis Budge. The Discovery of the Tablets at Nineveh by Layard, Rassam and Smith. In 1845-47 and again in 1849-51 Mr. (later Sir) A. H. Layard carried out a series of excavations among the ruins of the ancient city of Nineveh, “that great city, wherein are more than sixteen thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left; and also much cattle” (Jonah iv, II)....

THE BRAIN AND THE VOICE IN SPEECH AND SONG BY F.W. MOTT, F.R.S., M.D., F.R.C.P. 1910 PREFACE The contents of this little book formed the subject of three lectures delivered at the Royal Institution “On the Mechanism of the Human Voice” and three London University lectures at King’s College on “The Brain in relation to Speech and Song.” I have endeavoured to place this subject before my readers in as simple language as scientific accuracy and requirements permit....

THE BURGESS ANIMAL BOOK FOR CHILDREN Thornton W. Burgess TO THE CAUSE OF WILD LIFE IN AMERICA, ESPECIALLY THE MAMMALS MANY OF WHICH ARE SERIOUSLY THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION, THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED. PREFACE The cordial reception given the Burgess Bird Book for Children, together with numerous letters to the author asking for information on the habits and characteristics of many of the mammals of America, led to the preparation of this volume....

by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner INTRODUCTION TO JOE MULLER Joseph Muller, Secret Service detective of the Imperial Austrian police, is one of the great experts in his profession. In personality he differs greatly from other famous detectives. He has neither the impressive authority of Sherlock Holmes, nor the keen brilliancy of Monsieur Lecoq. Muller is a small, slight, plain-looking man, of indefinite age, and of much humbleness of mien....

[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. D.W.] THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of the Aldus Society London, 1903 BOOK II. The moment in which fear had instigated my flight, did not seem more terrible than that wherein I put my design in execution appeared delightful....