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BY ARNOLD BENNETT Author of “Clayhanger,” etc. CONTENTS CHAPTER I THE NEW POOR II FROM THE DEAD III THE LAW IV EVE’S HEADACHE V CHARLIE VI SISSIE VII THE SYMPATHETIC QUACK VIII SISSIE’S BUSINESS IX COLLISION X THE THEORY OF IDLENESS XI NEURASTHENIA CURED XII THE PRACTICE OF IDLENESS XIII FURTHER IDLENESS XIV END OF AN IDLE DAY XV THE HEAVY FATHER XVI TRANSFER OF MIMI XVII ROMANCE XVIII A HOMELESS NIGHT XIX THE RECEPTION XX THE SILENT TOWER XXI EVE’S MARTYRDOM XXII MR....

MILES FRANKLIN 1901 PREFACE A few months before I left Australia I got a letter from the bush signed “Miles Franklin”, saying that the writer had written a novel, but knew nothing of editors and publishers, and asking me to read and advise. Something about the letter, which was written in a strong original hand, attracted me, so I sent for the MS., and one dull afternoon I started to read it....

Notes:Italics in the book have been capitalised in the eBook. Illustrations in the book have not been included in the eBook. This eBook uses 8-bit text. MY TROPIC ISLE BY E. J. BANFIELD AUTHOR OF “THE CONFESSIONS OF A BEACHCOMBER” T. FISHER UNWIN LONDON: ADELPHI TERRACELEIPSIC: INSELSTRASSE 20 1911 TO MY WIFE “What dost thou in this World? The Wilderness For thee is fittest place.” MILTON. “Taught to live The easiest way, nor with perplexing thoughts To interrupt sweet life....

MY YOUNG ALCIDES A FADED PHOTOGRAPH by Charlotte M Yonge PREFACE Ideas have a tyrannous power of insisting on being worked out, even when one fears they may be leading in a track already worthily preoccupied. But the Hercules myth did not seem to me to be like one of the fairy tales that we have seen so gracefully and quaintly modernised; and at the risk of seeming to travestie the Farnese statue in a shooting- coat and wide-awake, I could not help going on, as the notion grew deeper and more engrossing....

On Horsemanship By Xenophon Translation by H. G. Dakyns Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land and property in Scillus, where he lived for many years before having to move once more, to settle in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C. On Horsemanship advises the reader on how to buy a good horse, and how to raise it to be either a war horse or show horse....

BY GILBERT K. CHESTERTON PREFACE This book is meant to be a companion to “Heretics,” and to put the positive side in addition to the negative. Many critics complained of the book called “Heretics” because it merely criticised current philosophies without offering any alternative philosophy. This book is an attempt to answer the challenge. It is unavoidably affirmative and therefore unavoidably autobiographical. The writer has been driven back upon somewhat the same difficulty as that which beset Newman in writing his Apologia; he has been forced to be egotistical only in order to be sincere....

Rochefoucauld “As Rochefoucauld his maxims drewFrom Nature–I believe them true.They argue no corrupted mindIn him; the fault is in mankind.”–Swift. “Les Maximes de la Rochefoucauld sont des proverbs des gens d’esprit.”–Montesquieu. “Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.”–Sir J. Mackintosh. “Translators should not work alone; for good ET PROPRIA VERBA do not always occur to one mind.”–Luther’s TABLE TALK, iii. Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims By Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld,Prince de Marsillac....

Contents: Renascence All I could see from where I stood Interim The room is full of you! — As I came in The Suicide “Curse thee, Life, I will live with thee no more! God’s World O world, I cannot hold thee close enough! Afternoon on a Hill I will be the gladdest thing Sorrow Sorrow like a ceaseless rain Tavern I’ll keep a little tavern Ashes of Life Love has gone and left me and the days are all alike; The Little Ghost I knew her for a little ghost Kin to Sorrow Am I kin to Sorrow, Three Songs of Shattering I The first rose on my rose-tree II Let the little birds sing; III All the dog-wood blossoms are underneath the tree!...

ROUGHING IT by Mark Twain 1880 Part 1. TO CALVIN H. HIGBIE, Of California, an Honest Man, a Genial Comrade, and a Steadfast Friend. THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED By the Author, In Memory of the Curious Time When We Two WERE MILLIONAIRES FOR TEN DAYS. ROUGHING IT BY MARK TWAIN. (SAMUEL L. CLEMENS.) PREFATORY. This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation....

SAMANTHA AMONG THE BRETHREN. By “Josiah Allen’s Wife” (Marietta Holley) Part 7 CHAPTER XXIV. It wuz Deacon Garven and he wuz a close communion Baptist by perswaision, and a good man, so fur as firm morals and a sound creed goes. Some things he lacked: he hadn’t no immagination at all, not one speck. And in makin’ him up, it seems as if he had a leetle more justice added to him to make up a lack of charity and pity....

[Illustration] SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN A WEEKLY JOURNAL OF PRACTICAL INFORMATION, ART, SCIENCE, MECHANICS, CHEMISTRY, AND MANUFACTURES. NEW YORK, JANUARY 1, 1870. Vol. XXII.–No. 1. [NEW SERIES.] $3 per Annum [IN ADVANCE.] * * * * * Contents: (Illustrated articles are marked with an asterisk.) *Engines of the Spanish Gunboats The Torpedo Problem Sugar Making in Louisiana Sticking, or Court Plaster *An Improved Hoisting Pulley Wanted *Ferdinand De Lesseps–Chief Promoter of the Suez Canal *An Ingenious Vent Peg *A New English Patent Pulley Block Plants in Sleeping Booms *Improved Treadle Motion *Improved Method of Catching Curculios Remains of a Megatherium in Ohio Artificial Ivory American and English Kailway Practice Contrasted Boiler Covering Attachment of Saws to Swing Frames Patent Decision Inventions Patented in England by Americans *Russ Improved Wood Molding Machine A Lost Civilisation *Girards “Palier Glissant” A Happv New Year The Suez Canal not yet a Failure Tubular Boilers and Boiler Explosions Professor Fiske’s Lecture at Harvard The Brighter Side The American Institute Prizes Awarded to Steam Engines A Protest against the Canadian Patent Law American Railway Management Scientific Lecture before the American Institute The Battle Fields of Sceence How French Bank Notes are Made What the Newspapers Say Chinese Method of Preserving Eggs Steam Boiler Explosion Editorial Summary The Steven Breech Loading Rifle...

[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.] SERGE PANINE By GEORGES OHNET BOOK 3. CHAPTER XIII. THE FIRST BREAK The first two months of this union were truly enchanting. Serge and Micheline never left each other. After an absence of eight days they had returned to Paris with Madame Desvarennes, and the hitherto dull mansion in the Rue Saint-Dominique was filled with joyful bustle....

SKETCHES NEW AND OLD by Mark Twain Part 1. CONTENTS (Entire ebook) Preface My Watch Political Economy The Jumping Frog Journalism In Tennessee The Story Of The Bad Little Boy The Story Of The Good Little Boy A Couple Of Poems By Twain And Moore Niagara Answers To Correspondents To Raise Poultry Experience Of The Mcwilliamses With Membranous Croup My First Literary Venture How The Author Was Sold In Newark The Office Bore Johnny Greer The Facts In The Case Of The Great Beef Contract The Case Of George Fisher Disgraceful Persecution Of A Boy The Judges “Spirited Woman” Information Wanted Some Learned Fables, For Good Old Boys And Girls My Late Senatorial Secretaryship A Fashion Item Riley-Newspaper Correspondent A Fine Old Man Science Vs....

THE WORKS OF EUGENE FIELD Vol. IX THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF EUGENE FIELD SONGS AND OTHER VERSE INTRODUCTION “It is about impossible for a man to get rid of his Puritan grandfathers, and nobody who has ever had one has ever escaped his Puritan grandmother;” so said Eugene Field to me one sweet April day, when we talked together of the things of the spirit. It is one of his own confessions that he was fond of clergymen....

By Clive Hamilton [C. S. Lewis] In Three PartsI. The Prison HouseII. HesitationIII.The Escape “The land where I shall never beThe love that I shall never see” Historical Background Published under the pseudonym, Clive Hamilton, Spirits in Bondage was C. S. Lewis’ first book. Released in 1919 by Heinemann, it was reprinted in 1984 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and included in Lewis’ 1994 Collected Poems. It is the first of Lewis’ major published works to enter the public domain in the United States....

VOLUME THREE To Henry Edward John, Lord Stanley of Alderley This The Most Innocent Volume of the Nights is Inscribed by His Old Companion, The Author. Contents of the Thirteenth Volume. The Tale of Zayn Al-Asnam 2. Alaeddin; or, The Wonderful Lamp 3. Khudadad and His Brothers a. History of the Princess of Daryabar 4. The Caliph’s Night Adventure a. The Story of the Blind Man, Baba Abdullah b. History of Sidi Nu’uman c....

The Adventures of a Boy Reporter by Harry Steele Morrison, 1900 CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. LIVING IN THE COUNTRY– LIFE AT SCHOOL– THE HUT CLUB IS FORMED– THE COMING OF THE CIRCUS CHAPTER II. ARCHIE LONGS FOR A CHANGE IN SURROUNDINGS– A TRIP TO NEW YORK WITH UNCLE HENRY CHAPTER III. ARCHIE DETERMINES TO GO TO THE CITY TO WORK– LEAVING HOME AT NIGHT CHAPTER IV. WORKING ON A FARM TO EARN SOME MONEY– CRUEL TREATMENT CHAPTER V....

THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY RICHMOND By George Meredith BOOK 6. XXXIX. I SEE MY FATHER TAKING THE TIDE AND AM CARRIED ON IT MYSELF XL. MY FATHER’S MEETING WITH MY GRANDFATHER XLI. COMMENCEMENT OF THE SPLENDOURS AND PERPLEXITIES OF MY FATHER’S GRAND PARADEXLII. THE MARQUIS OF EDBURY AND HIS PUPPET XLIII. I BECOME ONE OF THE CHOSEN OF THE NATION XLIV. MY FATHER IS MIRACULOUSLY RELIEVED BY FORTUNE CHAPTER XXXIX I SEE MY FATHER TAKING THE TIDE AND AM CARRIED ON IT MYSELF My father stood in the lobby of the Opera, holding a sort of open court, it appeared to me, for a cluster of gentlemen hung round him; and I had presently to bow to greetings which were rather of a kind to flatter me, leading me to presume that he was respected as well as marvelled at....

THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER BY MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Part 5 CHAPTER XVIII THAT was Tom’s great secret–the scheme to return home with his brother pirates and attend their own funerals. They had paddled over to the Missouri shore on a log, at dusk on Saturday, landing five or six miles below the village; they had slept in the woods at the edge of the town till nearly daylight, and had then crept through back lanes and alleys and finished their sleep in the gallery of the church among a chaos of invalided benches....

THE ANTI-SLAVERY EXAMINER PART 1 OF 4 BY The American Anti-Slavery Society 1836 No. 1. To the People of the United States; or, To Such Americans As Value Their Rights, and Dare to Maintain Them. No. 2. Appeal to the Christian Women of the South. No. 2. Appeal to the Christian Women of the South. Revised and Corrected. No. 3. Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie, of the State of Mississippi....