THE CHUMS OF SCRANTON HIGH At Ice Hockey BY DONALD FERGUSON THE WORLD SYNDICATE PUBLISHING CO. CLEVELAND, O. NEW YORK, N.Y. Copyright, MCMXIX by THE WORLD SYNDICATE PUBLISHING CO. Printed in the United States of America by THE COMMERCIAL BOOKBINDING CO. CLEVELAND, O. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. GOOD TIMES COMING II. A BULL IN THE CHINA SHOP III. GIVING NICK A CHANCE IV. THE HOCKEY MATCH WITH A SCRATCH SEVEN V....
[Illustration: THE SOUTHERN HOUND.] THE DOG, BY WILLIAM YOUATT. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS [Illustration: HEAD OF BLOODHOUND] EDITED, WITH ADDITIONS, BY E. J. LEWIS, M.D. Member of the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia; of the Philadelphia Medical Society; of the Parisian Medical Society, &c. &c. 1852. Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1846, by LEA AND BLANCHARD, in the clerk’s office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania....
BYH. G. WELLS CONTENTS The Door in the Wall 5 The Star 27A Dream of Armageddon 43 The Cone 75A Moonlight Fable 91 The Diamond Maker 99The Lord of the Dynamos 111 The Country of the Blind 125 THE DOOR IN THE WALLAND OTHER STORIES THE DOOR IN THE WALL I One confidential evening, not three months ago, Lionel Wallace told me this story of the Door in the Wall....
[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 1. Preface The Life of Montaigne The Letters of Montaigne PREFACE. The present publication is intended to supply a recognised deficiency in our literature–a library edition of the Essays of Montaigne....
[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 19. XIII. Of Experience. CHAPTER XIII OF EXPERIENCE There is no desire more natural than that of knowledge....
THE EXPEDITION OF HUMPHRY CLINKER by TOBIAS SMOLLETT To Mr HENRY DAVIS, Bookseller, in London. ABERGAVENNY, Aug. 4. RESPECTED SIR, I have received your esteemed favour of the 13th ultimo, whereby it appeareth, that you have perused those same Letters, the which were delivered unto you by my friend, the reverend Mr Hugo Behn; and I am pleased to find you think they may be printed with a good prospect of success; in as much as the objections you mention, I humbly conceive, are such as may be redargued, if not entirely removed — And, first, in the first place, as touching what prosecutions may arise from printing the private correspondence of persons still living, give me leave, with all due submission, to observe, that the Letters in question were not written and sent under the seal of secrecy; that they have no tendency to the mala fama, or prejudice of any person whatsoever; but rather to the information and edification of mankind: so that it becometh a sort of duty to promulgate them in usum publicum....
The Exploits of BRIGADIER GERARD SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE This book is published by arrangement with the Estate of the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1896 BY SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes__The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes__The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes__The Return of Sherlock Holmes__His Last Bow__The Hound of the Baskervilles__The Sign of Four__The Valley of Fear__Sir Nigel__The White Company__Micah Clarke__The Refugees__Rodney Stone__Uncle Bernac__Adventures of Gerard__The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard__The Lost World__The Tragedy of the Korosko OMNIBUS VOLUMES Great Stories__The Conan Doyle Stories__The Sherlock Holmes Short Stories The Sherlock Holmes Long Stories__The Historical Romances__The Complete Professor Challenger Stories The Complete Napoleonic Stories * * * * * The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by John Dickson Carr * * * * * CONTENTS...
THE FIRM OF GIRDLESTONE. A. CONAN DOYLE TO MY OLD FRIEND PROFESSOR WILLIAM K. BURTON, OF THE IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY, TOKYO, WHO FIRST ENCOURAGED ME, YEARS AGO, TO PROCEED WITH THIS LITTLE STORY, I DESIRE AFFECTIONATELY TO DEDICATE IT. THE AUTHOR. PREFACE I cannot let this small romance go to press without prefacing it with a word of cordial thanks to Mr. P. G. Houlgrave, of 28, Millman Street, Bedford Row....
THE FREELANDS By John Galsworthy “Liberty’s a glorious feast.”–Burns. PROLOGUE One early April afternoon, in a Worcestershire field, the only field in that immediate landscape which was not down in grass, a man moved slowly athwart the furrows, sowing–a big man of heavy build, swinging his hairy brown arm with the grace of strength. He wore no coat or hat; a waistcoat, open over a blue-checked cotton shirt, flapped against belted corduroys that were somewhat the color of his square, pale-brown face and dusty hair....
THE GILDED AGE A Tale of Today by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner 1873 Part 1. PREFACE. This book was not written for private circulation among friends; it was not written to cheer and instruct a diseased relative of the author’s; it was not thrown off during intervals of wearing labor to amuse an idle hour. It was not written for any of these reasons, and therefore it is submitted without the usual apologies....
THE GRIM SMILE OF THE FIVE TOWNS ARNOLD BENNETT To my old and constant friend JOSEPH DAWSON a student profoundly versed in the human nature of the Five Towns CONTENTS The Lion’s ShareBaby’s BathThe Silent BrothersThe Nineteenth HatVera’s First Christmas AdventureThe Murder of the MandarinVera’s Second Christmas AdventureThe BurglaryNews of the EngagementBeginning the New YearFrom One Generation to AnotherThe Death of Simon FugeIn a New Bottle THE LION’S SHARE I In the Five Towns the following history is related by those who know it as something side-splittingly funny–as one of the best jokes that ever occurred in a district devoted to jokes....
HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II. OF PRUSSIA FREDERICK THE GREAT by THOMAS CARLYLE FREDERICK THE GREAT. Book I.BIRTH AND PARENTAGE.1712. Chapter I. PROEM: FRIEDRICH’S HISTORY FROM THE DISTANCE WE ARE AT. About fourscore years ago, there used to be seen sauntering on the terraces of Sans Souci, for a short time in the afternoon, or you might have met him elsewhere at an earlier hour, riding or driving in a rapid business manner on the open roads or through the scraggy woods and avenues of that intricate amphibious Potsdam region, a highly interesting lean little old man, of alert though slightly stooping figure; whose name among strangers was King FRIEDRICH THE SECOND, or Frederick the Great of Prussia, and at home among the common people, who much loved and esteemed him, was VATER FRITZ,–Father Fred,–a name of familiarity which had not bred contempt in that instance....
HISTORY OF THE REIGN OF FERDINAND AND ISABELLA, THE CATHOLIC. BYWILLIAM H. PRESCOTT. IN THREE VOLUMES.VOL. II. CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. PART FIRST. [CONTINUED.] CHAPTER XII. INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF THE KINGDOM.–INQUISITION IN ARAGON. ISABELLA ENFORCES THE LAWS CHASTISEMENT OF CERTAIN ECCLESIASTICS MARRIAGE OF CATHARINE OF NAVARRE LIBERATION OF CATALAN SERFS INQUISITION IN ARAGON REMONSTRANCES OF CORTES CONSPIRACY FORMED ASSASSINATION OF ARBUES CRUEL PERSECUTIONS INQUISITION THROUGHOUT FERDINAND’S DOMINIONS CHAPTER XIII. WAR OF GRANADA....
THE ISLAND PHARISEES By John Galsworthy “But this is a worshipful society” KING JOHN PREFACE Each man born into the world is born like Shelton in this book–to go a journey, and for the most part he is born on the high road. At first he sits there in the dust, with his little chubby hands reaching at nothing, and his little solemn eyes staring into space. As soon as he can toddle, he moves, by the queer instinct we call the love of life, straight along this road, looking neither to the right nor left, so pleased is he to walk....
The Jewish Manual; OR Practical Information in Jewish And Modern Cookery, With a Collection of Valuable Recipes & Hints Relating to the Toilette. Edited by a Lady. LONDON: 1846. EDITOR’S PREFACE. Among the numerous works on Culinary Science already in circulation, there have been none which afford the slightest insight to the Cookery of the Hebrew kitchen. Replete as many of these are with information on various important points, they are completely valueless to the Jewish housekeeper, not only on account of prohibited articles and combinations being assumed to be necessary ingredients of nearly every dish, but from the entire absence of all the receipts peculiar to the Jewish people....
The “legal small print” and other information about this book may now be found at the end of this file. Please read this important information, as it gives you specific rights and tells you about restrictions in how the file may be used. [For those interested, there is a note at the end of this document that details the adaptations made to this work to fit it into plain ASCII text] “THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU”CHRISTIANITY NOT AS A MYSTIC RELIGION BUT AS A NEW THEORY OF LIFE TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN OF COUNT LEO TOLSTOI BY CONSTANCE GARNETTNew York, 1894 TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE....
The Legacy of Cain by Wilkie Collins To MRS. HENRY POWELL BARTLEY: Permit me to add your name to my name, in publishing this novel. The pen which has written my books cannot be more agreeably employed than in acknowledging what I owe to the pen which has skillfully and patiently helped me, by copying my manuscripts for the printer. WILKIE COLLINS. Wimpole Street, 6th December, 1888. ——– THE LEGACY OF CAIN....
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: Including Numerous letters Now First Published From The Original Manuscripts. In Four Volumes. Vol. III. 1759-1769. Contents Of Vol. III. [Those Letters now first collected are marked N.] 1759. To George Montagu, Esq. Nov. 17.-Lord Temple’s resignation of the privy-seal. Lady Carlisle’s marriage with Sir William Musgrave.–25 To the Right Hon. William Pitt, Nov. 19.-Congratulations on thelustre of his administration–[N.] 26 To Sir Horace Mann, Nov....
THE LIFTED VEIL by George Eliot [Mary Anne Evans] CHAPTER I The time of my end approaches. I have lately been subject to attacks of angina pectoris; and in the ordinary course of things, my physician tells me, I may fairly hope that my life will not be protracted many months. Unless, then, I am cursed with an exceptional physical constitution, as I am cursed with an exceptional mental character, I shall not much longer groan under the wearisome burthen of this earthly existence....
CHAPTER I On a bright autumn day, as long ago as the year 943, there was a great bustle in the Castle of Bayeux in Normandy. The hall was large and low, the roof arched, and supported on thick short columns, almost like the crypt of a Cathedral; the walls were thick, and the windows, which had no glass, were very small, set in such a depth of wall that there was a wide deep window seat, upon which the rain might beat, without reaching the interior of the room....
