[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.] MEMOIRS OF JEAN FRANCOIS PAUL de GONDI, CARDINAL DE RETZ, v3 Written by Himself Being Historic Court Memoirs of the Great Events during the Minority of Louis XIV. and the Administration of Cardinal Mazarin. BOOK III....
[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.] BOOK 1. MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XV. AND XVI. Being Secret Memoirs of Madame du Hausset, Lady’s Maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of an unknown English Girl and the Princess Lamballe ADVERTISEMENT. [FROM THE LONDON MAGAZINE, NO....
THE MESSENGERS When Ainsley first moved to Lone Lake Farm all of his friends asked him the same question. They wanted to know, if the farmer who sold it to him had abandoned it as worthless, how one of the idle rich, who could not distinguish a plough from a harrow, hoped to make it pay? His answer was that he had not purchased the farm as a means of getting richer by honest toil, but as a retreat from the world and as a test of true friendship....
THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. XIII, No. 366.] SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1829. [PRICE 2d. * * * * * HARROW SCHOOL. [Illustration: HARROW SCHOOL.] To lofty HARROW now.–THOMSON. Harrow-on-the-hill was a place of some consideration, even before the foundation of the scholastic establishment which now forms its principal boast. The Archbishops of Canterbury had an occasional residence here, in the centuries briefly succeeding the Norman Conquest; and they obtained for the inhabitants a weekly market, long since fallen into disuse....
THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. XVI. No. 474.] SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER. [PRICE 2d. * * * * * LORD BYRON. LETTERS AND JOURNALS OF LORD BYRON, WITH NOTICES OF HIS LIFE, BY THOMAS MOORE, Vol. ii. [To attempt anything like an analysis of a “great big book,” of 823 pages, like the present, and that within a sheet of 16 pages, would be an effort of condensation indeed....
THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. Vol. 20, No. 568.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1832. [PRICE 2d. [Illustration: BIRTHPLACE OF THE EARL OF ELDON.] Little need be said, by way of explanation, for the addition of the present subject to our collection of the birthplaces of eminent men. It is something to know that John Scott was born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in the principal dwelling represented in the above Engraving, in the year 1751; that he received the rudiments of his education at the free grammar-school of the town; that he grew up “a man of safe discretion;” that he enjoyed the highest legal honours which his sovereign could bestow for a quarter of a century; and that he still lives, a venerable octogenarian, in the enjoyment of “glory from his conscience, and honour from men....
SCRIBNER, ARMSTRONG & CO., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. JOHN V. TROW & SON, PRINTERS AND BOOKBINDERS, 205-213 East 12th St., NEW YORK. CONTENTS. PRELUDE LOVE’S EXPERIMENTS LOVE’S PHILOSOPHIES LOVE’S CONSUMMATIONS LOVE’S EXPERIMENTS. I. A fluttering bevy left the gate With hurried steps, and sped away; And then a coach with drooping freight, Wrapped in its film of dusty gray, Stopped; and the pastor and his mate Stepped forth, and passed the waiting door, And closed it on the gazing street....
The Mystery of Orcival by Emile Gaboriau I On Thursday, the 9th of July, 186-, Jean Bertaud and his son, well known at Orcival as living by poaching and marauding, rose at three o’clock in the morning, just at daybreak, to go fishing. Taking their tackle, they descended the charming pathway, shaded by acacias, which you see from the station at Evry, and which leads from the burg of Orcival to the Seine....
by Gaston Leroux CHAPTER I In Which We Begin Not to Understand It is not without a certain emotion that I begin to recount here the extraordinary adventures of Joseph Rouletabille. Down to the present time he had so firmly opposed my doing it that I had come to despair of ever publishing the most curious of police stories of the past fifteen years. I had even imagined that the public would never know the whole truth of the prodigious case known as that of The Yellow Room, out of which grew so many mysterious, cruel, and sensational dramas, with which my friend was so closely mixed up, if, propos of a recent nomination of the illustrious Stangerson to the grade of grandcross of the Legion of Honour, an evening journal–in an article, miserable for its ignorance, or audacious for its perfidy–had not resuscitated a terrible adventure of which Joseph Rouletabille had told me he wished to be for ever forgotten....
THE DIARY OF A U-BOAT COMMANDER WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND EXPLANATORY NOTES BY ETIENNE AND 18 Illustrations on Art Paper by Frank H. Mason. [Illustration: “We rammed a destroyer, passing through her like a knife through cheese.”] BOOKS BY ETIENNE STRANGE TALES FROM THE FLEET A NAVAL LIEUTENANT 1914–1918. “In collaboration with Navallus. Five Songs from the Grand Fleet.” [Illustration: “…they are so black and swift I don’t go near them....
MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-1798 THE ETERNAL QUEST, Volume 3c–HOLLAND AND GERMANY THE RARE UNABRIDGED LONDON EDITION OF 1894 TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR MACHEN TO WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED THE CHAPTERS DISCOVERED BY ARTHUR SYMONS. THE ETERNAL QUEST HOLLAND AND GERMANY CHAPTER X Portrait of the Pretended Countess Piccolomini–Quarrel and Duel– Esther and Her Father, M. D’O.–Esther Still Taken with the Cabala– Piccolomini Forges a Bill of Exchange: Results I Am Fleeced, and in Danger of Being Assassinated–Debauch with the Two Paduan Girls– I Reveal A Great Secret To Esther–I Bate the Rascally St....
Carlyle’s “History of Friedrich II of Prussia” BOOK V. DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT, AND WHAT ELEMENT IT FELL INTO. 1723-1726. Chapter I. DOUBLE-MARRIAGE IS DECIDED ON. We saw George I. at Berlin in October, 1723, looking out upon his little Grandson drilling the Cadets there; but we did not mention what important errand had brought his Majesty thither. Visits between Hanover and Berlin had been frequent for a long time back; the young Queen of Prussia, sometimes with her husband, sometimes without, running often over to see her Father; who, even after his accession to the English crown, was generally for some months every year to be met with in those favorite regions of his....
Homespun Tales by Kate Douglas Wiggin Introduction These three stories are now brought together under one cover because they have not quite outworn their welcome; but in their first estate two of them appeared as gift-books, with decorative borders and wide margins, a style not compatible with the stringent economies of the present moment. Luckily they belong together by reason of their background, which is an imaginary village, any village you choose, within the confines, or on the borders of York County, in the State of Maine....
Reader be assured this narrative is no fiction. I am aware that some of my adventures may seem incredible; but they are, nevertheless, strictly true. I have not exaggerated the wrongs inflicted by Slavery; on the contrary, my descriptions fall far short of the facts. I have concealed the names of places, and given persons fictitious names. I had no motive for secrecy on my own account, but I deemed it kind and considerate towards others to pursue this course....
KEZIAH COFFIN by Joseph C. Lincoln CONTENTS CHAPTER I.–IN WHICH KEZIAH HEARS OF TWO PROPOSALS AND THE BEGINNING OF A THIRD II.–IN WHICH KEZIAH UNEARTHS A PROWLER III.–IN WHICH KEZIAH ASSUMES A GUARDIANSHIP IV.–IN WHICH KEZIAH’S PARSON DECIDES TO RUN IT BLINDFOLD V.–IN WHICH THE PARSON CRUISES IN STRANGE WATERS VI.–IN WHICH OLD FRIENDS MEET VII.–IN WHICH CAPTAIN NAT PICKS UP A DERELICT VIII.–IN WHICH THE PARSON AND MR. PEPPER DECLARE THEIR INDEPENDENCE IX....
LANDS OF THESLAVE AND THE FREE: OR, Cuba, the United States, and Canada. BY CAPTAIN THE HON. HENRY A. MURRAY, R.N. [Illustration: Entrance to a Coffee Planter’s Residence.] 1857. “He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl, Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over man He made not lord.” MILTON. “Gone, gone–sold and gone, To the rice-swamp, dank and lone; There no mother’s eye is near them, There no mother’s ear can hear them; Never, when the torturing lash Seams their backs with many a gash, Shall a mother’s kindness bless them, Or a mother’s arms caress them....
Walt Whitman [BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS] } One’s-Self I Sing One’s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form’d under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing....
LEGENDS OF THE NORTHWEST. BY H. L. GORDON, Author of Pauline. CONTAINING PRELUDE–THE MISSISSIPPI. THE FEAST OF THE VIRGINS, A LEGEND OF THE DAKOTAS. WINONA, A LEGEND OF THE DAKOTAS. THE LEGEND OF THE FALLS, A LEGEND OF THE DAKOTAS. THE SEA-GULL, THE OJIBWA LEGEND OF THE PICTURED ROCKS OF LAKE SUPERIOR. MINNETONKA. PREFACE. I have for several years devoted many of my leisure hours to the study of the language, history, traditions, customs and superstitions of the Dakotas....
LEILA OR, THE SIEGE OF GRANADA BY EDWARD BULWER LYTTON Book I. CHAPTER I. THE ENCHANTER AND THE WARRIOR. It was the summer of the year 1491, and the armies of Ferdinand and Isabel invested the city of Granada. The night was not far advanced; and the moon, which broke through the transparent air of Andalusia, shone calmly over the immense and murmuring encampment of the Spanish foe, and touched with a hazy light the snow- capped summits of the Sierra Nevada, contrasting the verdure and luxuriance which no devastation of man could utterly sweep from the beautiful vale below....
LEILA OR, THE SIEGE OF GRANADA BY EDWARD BULWER LYTTON Book III. CHAPTER I. ISABEL AND THE JEWISH MAIDEN. While this scene took place before the tribunal of Torquemada, Leila had been summoned from the indulgence of fears, which her gentle nature and her luxurious nurturing had ill-fitted her to contend against, to the presence of the queen. That gifted and high-spirited princess, whose virtues were her own, whose faults were of her age, was not, it is true, without the superstition and something of the intolerant spirit of her royal spouse: but, even where her faith assented to persecution, her heart ever inclined to mercy; and it was her voice alone that ever counteracted the fiery zeal of Torquemada, and mitigated the sufferings of the unhappy ones who fell under the suspicion of heresy....
