THE BRITISH BARBARIANS A HILL-TOP NOVEL BY GRANT ALLEN 1895 INTRODUCTION Which every reader of this book is requested to read before beginning the story. This is a Hill-top Novel. I dedicate it to all who have heart enough, brain enough, and soul enough to understand it. What do I mean by a Hill-top Novel? Well, of late we have been flooded with stories of evil tendencies: a Hill-top Novel is one which raises a protest in favour of purity....
THE CALL OF THE CANYON By Zane Grey CHAPTER I What subtle strange message had come to her out of the West? Carley Burch laid the letter in her lap and gazed dreamily through the window. It was a day typical of early April in New York, rather cold and gray, with steely sunlight. Spring breathed in the air, but the women passing along Fifty-seventh Street wore furs and wraps....
The Centralia Conspiracy By Ralph Chaplin [Illustration: cover] A Tongue of Flame The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of flame; every prison a more illustrious abode; every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin....
THE CHOSEN PEOPLE A COMPENDIUM OF SACRED AND CHURCH HISTORY FOR SCHOOL-CHILDREN. BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE.” “God, who at sundry times and in diverse manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, whom He hath appointed heir of all things.”–Heb. i, l, “Yes; so it was ere Jesus came– Alternate then His Altar flame Blazed up and died away, And Silence took her torn with Song, And Solitude with the fair throng That owned the festal day; For in earth’s daily circuit then Only one border Reflected to the Seraphs’ ken, Heaven’s light and order....
Being Cases mostly under the Ninth and Tenth Commandments by FRANK JEWETT MATHER, Junr. 1912 Comprising a Ballade, wherein the Wrongfulness of Art Collecting is conceded, and as well Certain Stories: Campbell Corot, which recounts the career of an able and candid Picture Forger. The del Puente Giorgione, which tells of an artful Great Lady and an Artless Expert. The Lombard Runes, a mere interlude, but revealing a certain duplicity in Professional Seekers for Truth....
SCENE:Rome and the neighbourhood; Corioli and the neighbourhood; Antium ACT I. SCENE I.Rome. A street Enter a company of mutinous citizens, with staves, clubs, and other weapons FIRST CITIZEN. Before we proceed any further, hear me speak. ALL. Speak, speak. FIRST CITIZEN. You are all resolv’d rather to die than to famish? ALL. Resolv’d, resolv’d. FIRST CITIZEN. First, you know Caius Marcius is chief enemy to the people. ALL. We know’t, we know’t....
BY ARCHIBALD HENDERSON, Ph.D., D.C.L. Some to endure and many to fail, Some to conquer and many to quailToiling over the Wilderness Trail. NEW YORKTHE CENTURY CO.1920 TO THE HISTORIAN OFOLD WEST AND NEW WESTFREDERICK JACKSON TURNERWITH ADMIRATION AND REGARD The country might invite a prince from his palace, merely for the pleasure of contemplating its beauty and excellence; but only add the rapturous idea of property, and what allurements can the world offer for the loss of so glorious a prospect?...
A Comedy of Shirking Revised and Expanded Edition by JAMES BRANCH CABELL with INTRODUCTION by WILSON FOLLETT To GABRIELLE BROOKE MONCURE Plus sapit vulgus, quia tantum, quantum opus est, sapit. AN INTRODUCTION by Wilson Follett Mr. Cabell, in making ready this second or intended edition of THE CORDS OF VANITY, performs an act of reclamation which is at the same time an act of fresh creation. For the purely reclamatory aspect of what he has done, his reward (so far as that can consist in anything save the doing) must come from insignificantly few directions; so few indeed that he, with a wrily humorous exaggeration, affects to believe them singular....
[Transcriber’s Note: This printing had more than its share of typographical errors. Obvious typos, like “tim” for “time”, have been corrected.] THE DOLLAR HEN BY MILO M. HASTINGS FORMERLY POULTRYMAN ATKANSAS EXPERIMENT STATION;LATER IN CHARGE OF THE COMMERCIALPOULTRY INVESTIGATIONOF THE UNITED STATESDEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE SYRACUSE NATIONAL POULTRY MAGAZINE 1911 COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY NATIONAL POULTRY PUBLISHING COMPANY WHY THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN Twenty-five years ago there were in print hundreds of complete treatises on human diseases and the practice of medicine....
THE DORE GALLERY OF BIBLE ILLUSTRATIONS Illustrated by Gustave Dore Volume 3. DEBORAH’S SONG OF TRIUMPH. Then sang Deborah and Barak, the son of Abinoam on that day, saying:– Praise ye the Lord for the avenging of Israel, When the people willingly offered themselves. Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the Lord; I will sing praise to the Lord God of Israel....
THE EARLY POEMS OF ALFRED LORD TENNYSON EDITED WITH A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION. COMMENTARIES AND NOTES, TOGETHER WITH THE VARIOUS READINGS, A TRANSCRIPT OF THE POEMS TEMPORARILY AND FINALLY SUPPRESSED AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY BY JOHN CHURTON COLLINS PREFACE A Critical edition of Tennyson’s poems has long been an acknowledged want. He has taken his place among the English Classics, and as a Classic he is, and will be, studied, seriously and minutely, by many thousands of his countrymen, both in the present generation as well as in future ages....
The Exiles by Honore de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell and James Waring ALMAE SORORI In the year 1308 few houses were yet standing on the Island formed by the alluvium and sand deposited by the Seine above the Cite, behind the Church of Notre-Dame. The first man who was so bold as to build on this strand, then liable to frequent floods, was a constable of the watch of the City of Paris, who had been able to do some service to their Reverences the Chapter of the Cathedral; and in return the Bishop leased him twenty-five perches of land, with exemptions from all feudal dues or taxes on the buildings he might erect....
The French Revolution, Volume 1. The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 2 by Hippolyte A. Taine CONTENTS: ANARCHY PREFACE BOOK FIRST. Spontaneous Anarchy. CHAPTER I. The Beginnings of Anarchy CHAPTER II. Paris up to the 14th of July CHAPTER III. Anarchy from July 14th to October 6th, 1789 CHAPTER IV. PARIS BOOK SECOND. The constituent Assembly, and the Result of its Labors CHAPTER I. The Constituent Assembly CHAPTER II. The Damage CHAPTER III....
VOLUME VI HEINRICH HEINE FRANZ GRILLPARZER LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN THE GERMAN CLASSICS Masterpieces of German Literature TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH Patrons’ Edition IN TWENTY VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED 1914 CONTRIBUTORS AND TRANSLATORS VOLUME VI CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI HEINRICH HEINE The Life of Heinrich Heine. By William Guild Howard Poems Dedication. Translated by Sir Theodore Martin Songs. Translators: Sir Theodore Martin, Charles Wharton Stork, T. Brooksbank A Lyrical Intermezzo. Translators: T. Brooksbank, Sir Theodore Martin, J....
THE WAYFARER’S LIBRARY THE HISTORIC THAMES Hilaire Belloc O.M. DENT & SONS Ltd. LONDON THE HISTORIC THAMES England has been built up upon the framework of her rivers, and, in that pattern, the principal line has been the line of the Thames. Partly because it was the main highway of Southern England, partly because it looked eastward towards the Continent from which the national life has been drawn, partly because it was better served by the tide than any other channel, but mainly because it was the chief among a great number of closely connected river basins, the Thames Valley has in the past supported the government and the wealth of England....
PREFATORY NOTE The execution of this version of the ILIAD has been entrusted to the three Translators in the following three parts: Books I. – IX. . . . . W. Leaf. ” X. – XVI. . . . . A. Lang. ” XVII. – XXIV. . . . . E. Myers. Each Translator is therefore responsible for his own portion; but the whole has been revised by all three Translators, and the rendering of passages or phrases recurring in more than one portion has been determined after deliberation in common....
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCHBy Gilbert K. Chesterton CONTENTS THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH: I. THE FACE IN THE TARGET II. THE VANISHING PRINCE III. THE SOUL OF THE SCHOOLBOY IV. THE BOTTOMLESS WELL V. THE FAD OF THE FISHERMAN VI. THE HOLE IN THE WALL VII. THE TEMPLE OF SILENCE VIII. THE VENGEANCE OF THE STATUE THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH I. THE FACE IN THE TARGET Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and commons, the horizon of which was fringed with the far-off woods of the famous estate of Torwood Park....
The Marvelous Exploits of Paul Bunyan as Told in the Camps of the White Pine Lumbermen for Generations During Which Time the Loggers Have Pioneered the Way Through the North Woods From Maine to California Collected from Various Sources and Embellished for Publication Text and Illustrations by W. B. Laughead Published for the Amusement of our Friends by The Red River Lumber CompanyMinneapolis, Westwood, Cal., Chicago, Los Angeles – San Francisco Historical Note The Red River Lumber Company takes its name from the Red River of the North, down which the Walkers drove their logs to Winnipeg before the railroads had reached their forest holdings in northern Minnesota....
THE MASTER BUILDER by Henrik Ibsen Translated by Edmund Gosse and William Archer Introduction by William Archer INTRODUCTION. With The Master Builder–or Master Builder Solness, as the title runs in the original–we enter upon the final stage in Ibsen’s career. “You are essentially right,” the poet wrote to Count Prozor in March 1900, “when you say that the series which closes with the Epilogue (When We Dead Awaken) began with Master Builder Solness....
The MASTER’S INDWELLING ANDREW MURRAY 1953 The following papers were in substance delivered by the author in a series of addresses at the Northfield Conference of 1895, but later rewritten and revised by him for this permanent and authorized publication. CONTENTS I. CARNAL CHRISTIANS II. THE SELF LIFE III. WAITING ON GOD IV. ENTRANCE INTO REST V. THE KINGDOM FIRST VI. CHRIST OUR LIFE VII. CHRIST’S HUMILITY OUR SALVATION VIII....
