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THE BALKANS A HISTORY OF BULGARIA–SERBIA–GREECE–RUMANIA–TURKEY THE BALKANS A HISTORY OF BULGARIA–SERBIA–GREECE–RUMANIA–TURKEY BY NEVILL FORBES, ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE, D. MITRANY, D.G. HOGARTH PREFACE The authors of this volume have not worked in conjunction. Widely separated, engaged on other duties, and pressed for time, we have had no opportunity for interchange of views. Each must be held responsible, therefore, for his own section alone. If there be any discrepancies in our writings (it is not unlikely in so disputed a field of history) we can only regret an unfortunate result of the circumstances....

THE BATTLE GROUND By ELLEN GLASGOW To The Beloved Memory of My Mother CONTENTS BOOK FIRST GOLDEN YEARS I. “De Hine Foot er a He Frawg” II. At the Full of the Moon III. The Coming of the Boy IV. A House with an Open Door V. The School for Gentlemen VI. College Days BOOK SECOND YOUNG BLOOD I. The Major’s Christmas II. Betty dreams by the Fire III. Dan and Betty IV....

[Illustration: THE STATUE OF LIBERTY. The welcome of New York, the gateway of the New World, to all races and peoples of the earth. (Courtesy of U.S. Immigration Station, Ellis Island.)] THE BOY WITH THE U.S. CENSUS BY FRANCIS ROLT-WHEELER [Illustration: The Boy With the U.S. Census] With Thirty-eight Illustrations, principally from Bureaus of the United States Government November, 1911 To My Son Roger’s Friend HAMILTON DAY PREFACE Life in America to-day is adventurous and thrilling to the core....

The City of Domes A Walk with an Architect About the Courts and Palaces of the Panama Pacific International ExposItion with a Discussion of Its Architecture – Its Sculpture – Its Mural Decorations Its Coloring – And Its Lighting – Preceded by a History of Its Growth by John D. Barry To the architects, the artists and the artisans and to the men of affairs who sustained them in the cooperative work that created an exposition of surpassing beauty, unique among the expositions of the world....

ACT I. Scene I.Verona. A public place. Enter Sampson and Gregory (with swords and bucklers) of the house of Capulet. Samp. Gregory, on my word, we’ll not carry coals. Greg. No, for then we should be colliers. Samp. I mean, an we be in choler, we’ll draw. Greg. Ay, while you live, draw your neck out of collar. Samp. I strike quickly, being moved. Greg. But thou art not quickly moved to strike....

Translated from the French ofEMILE GABORIAU A novel in two parts. Part Two of this novel is found in the volume: Baron Trigault’s Vengeance PASCAL AND MARGUERITE. 1. It was a Thursday evening, the fifteenth of October; and although only half-past six o’clock, it had been dark for some time already. The weather was cold, and the sky was as black as ink, while the wind blew tempestuously, and the rain fell in torrents....

George Gissing THE CROWN OF LIFE CHAPTER I Amid the throng of suburban arrivals volleyed forth from Waterloo Station on a May morning in the year ’86, moved a slim, dark, absent-looking young man of one-and-twenty, whose name was Piers Otway. In regard to costume–blameless silk hat, and dark morning coat with lighter trousers–the City would not have disowned him, but he had not the City countenance. The rush for omnibus seats left him unconcerned; clear of the railway station, he walked at a moderate pace, his eyes mostly on the ground; he crossed the foot-bridge to Charing Cross, and steadily made his way into the Haymarket, where his progress was arrested by a picture shop....

THE DAUGHTER OF AN EMPRESSBy Louise Muhlbach CONTENTS Countess Natalie DolgoruckiCount MunnichCount OstermannThe Night of the ConspiracyHopes DeceivedThe Regent Anna LeopoldownaThe FavoriteNo LovePrincess ElizabethA ConspiracyThe WarningThe Court BallThe Pencil-SketchThe RevolutionThe Sleep of InnocenceThe RecompensingPunishmentThe Palace of the EmpressEleonore LapuschkinA WeddingScenes and PortraitsPrinces also must dieThe Charmed GardenThe LettersDiplomatic QuarrelsThe Fish FeudPope Ganganelli (Clement XIV.)The Pope’s Recreation HourA Death-SentenceThe Festival of Cardinal BernisThe ImprovisatriceThe DepartureAn Honest BetrayerAlexis OrloffCorillaThe Holy Chafferers“Sic transit gloria mundi”The VapoThe InvasionIntriguesThe Dooming LetterThe Russian OfficerAnticipationHe!...

by John Kendrick Bangs I THE DISCOVERY It is a strange fact, for which I do not expect ever satisfactorily to account, and which will receive little credence even among those who know that I am not given to romancing–it is a strange fact, I say, that the substance of the following pages has evolved itself during a period of six months, more or less, between the hours of midnight and four o’clock in the morning, proceeding directly from a type-writing machine standing in the corner of my library, manipulated by unseen hands....

[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.] ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Translated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 CONTENTS OF VOLUME 7. XXXIX. A consideration upon Cicero.XL. That the relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon opinion....

The Garden Of Bright Waters One Hundred And Twenty Asiatic Love Poems Translated by Edward Powys Mathers 1920 Dedication: To My Wife INTRODUCTION Head in hand, I look at the paper leaf; It is still white. I look at the inkDry on the end of my brush. My soul sleeps.Will it ever wake? I walk a little in the pouring of the sun And pass my hands over the higher flowers....

THE GOLDEN BOWL, VOLUME I HENRY JAMES 1904 BOOK FIRST: THE PRINCE PART FIRST I The Prince had always liked his London, when it had come to him; he was one of the modern Romans who find by the Thames a more convincing image of the truth of the ancient state than any they have left by the Tiber. Brought up on the legend of the City to which the world paid tribute, he recognised in the present London much more than in contemporary Rome the real dimensions of such a case....

THE GREAT CONSPIRACY Its Origin and History Part 4 BY JOHN LOGAN CHAPTER XIV. THE COLORED CONTRABAND. When the first gun was fired at Fort Sumter, its sullen echoes sounded the funeral knell of Slavery. Years before, it had been foretold, and now it was to happen. Years before, it had been declared, by competent authority, that among the implications of the Constitution was that of the power of the General Government to Emancipate the Slaves, as a War measure....

THE HAPPIEST TIME OF THEIR LIVES BY ALICE DUER MILLER Author of “Come Out of the Kitchen,” “Ladies Must Live,” “Wings in the Nights,” etc. 1918 TO CLARENCE DAY, JR. … and then he added in a less satisfied tone: “But friendship is so uncertain. You don’t make any announcement to your friends or vows to each other, unless you’re at an age when you cut your initials in the bark of a tree....

THE HERITAGE OF DEDLOW MARSH. I. The sun was going down on the Dedlow Marshes. The tide was following it fast as if to meet the reddening lines of sky and water in the west, leaving the foreground to grow blacker and blacker every moment, and to bring out in startling contrast the few half-filled and half-lit pools left behind and forgotten. The strong breath of the Pacific fanning their surfaces at times kindled them into a dull glow like dying embers....

Carlyle’s “History of Friedrich II of Prussia” Book X BOOK X. AT REINSBERG. 1736-1740. Chapter I. MANSION OF REINSBERG. On the Crown-Prince’s Marriage, three years ago, when the AMT or Government-District RUPPIN, with its incomings, was assigned to him for revenue, we heard withal of a residence getting ready. Hint had fallen from the Prince, that Reinsberg, an old Country- seat, standing with its Domain round it in that little Territory of Ruppin, and probably purchasable as was understood, might be pleasant, were it once his and well put in repair....

If you find any errors please feel free to notify me of them. I want to make this the best etext edition possible for both scholars and the general public. Haradda@aol.com is my email address for now. Please feel free to send me your comments and I hope you enjoy this. David Reed HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE Edward Gibbon, Esq. With notes by the Rev....

[Transcriber’s Note: Footnotes have been numbered and relocated to the end of the chapter in which they occur. They are marked by [1], [2], etc.] THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF ELIZABETH PRENTISS AUTHOR OF STEPPING HEAVENWARD BY GEORGE L. PRENTISS This memoir was undertaken at the request of many of Mrs. Prentiss’ old and most trusted friends, who felt that the story of her life should be given to the public....

THE LONELY DANCER AND OTHER POEMS BY RICHARD LE GALLIENNE 1913 WITH A FRONTISPIECE PORTRAIT BY IRMA LE GALLIENNE TO IRMA ALL THE WAY Not all my treasure hath the bandit Time Locked in his glimmering caverns of the Past: Fair women dead and friendships of old rhyme, And noble dreams that had to end at last:– Ah! these indeed; and from youth’s sacristy Full many a holy relic hath he torn,Vessels of mystic faith God filled for me, Holding them up to Him in life’s young morn....

THE MAN WHO COULD NOT LOSE by Richard Harding Davis The Carters had married in haste and refused to repent at leisure. So blindly were they in love, that they considered their marriage their greatest asset. The rest of the world, as represented by mutual friends, considered it the only thing that could be urged against either of them. While single, each had been popular. As a bachelor, young “Champ” Carter had filled his modest place acceptably....