My Garden AcquaintanceJames Russell Lowell ONE of the most delightful books in my father’s library was White’s “Natural History of Selborne.” For me it has rather gained in charm with years. I used to read it without knowing the secret of the pleasure I found in it, but as I grow older I begin to detect some of the simple expedients of this natural magic. Open the book where you will, it takes you out of doors....
NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * “When Found, make a note of.”–Captain Cuttle. * * * * * No. 7.]SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1849.[Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:–Marriage Contract of Mary Queen of Scots Bill of Fare of 1626, by Rev. L.B. Larking Moneta Sanctae Helenae, by T. Hudson Turner Translations of Gray’s Elegy On Authors and Books, No....
O’FLAHERTY V.C.: A RECRUITING PAMPHLET GEORGE BERNARD SHAW It may surprise some people to learn that in 1915 this little play was a recruiting poster in disguise. The British officer seldom likes Irish soldiers; but he always tries to have a certain proportion of them in his battalion, because, partly from a want of common sense which leads them to value their lives less than Englishmen do (lives are really less worth living in a poor country), and partly because even the most cowardly Irishman feels obliged to outdo an Englishman in bravery if possible, and at least to set a perilous pace for him, Irish soldiers give impetus to those military operations which require for their spirited execution more devilment than prudence....
BYCHARLES A. EASTMAN(Ohiyesa) ToMy DaughtersDORA, IRENE, VIRGINIA, ELEANOR, AND FLORENCE I Dedicatethese Stories of the Old Indian Life, and especially ofthe Courageous and Womanly Indian Woman CONTENTS INTRODUCTION PART I. THE WARRIOR I. THE LOVE OF ANTELOPE II. THE MADNESS OF BALD EAGLE III. THE SINGING SPIRIT IV. THE FAMINE V. THE CHIEF SOLDIER VI. THE WHITE MAN’S ERRAND VII. THE GRAVE OF THE DOG PART II. THE WOMAN I....
OLD LADY NUMBER 31 BY LOUISE FORSSLUND AUTHOR OF “THE STORY OF SARAH,” “THE SHIP OF DREAMS,” ETC. 1909 TO MY MOTHER CONTENTS I. THE TEA-TABLE II. “GOOD-BY” III. THE CANDIDATE IV. ONE OF THEM V. THE HEAD OF THE CORNER VI. INDIAN SUMMER VII. OLD LETTERS AND NEW VIII. THE ANNIVERSARY IX. A WINTER BUTTERFLY X. THE TURN OF THE TIDE XI. MENTAL TREATMENT XII. “A PASSEL OF MEDDLERS” XIII....
ON COMPROMISE ’It makes all the difference in the world whether we put Truth in the first place or in the second place.’ WHATLEY ON COMPROMISE BY JOHN MORLEY MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON 1908 This Edition first printed 1886 NOTE. The writer has availed himself of the opportunity of a new edition to add three or four additional illustrations in the footnotes. The criticisms on the first edition call for no remark, excepting this, perhaps, that the present little volume has no pretensions to be anything more than an Essay....
ONE HUNDRED BEST BOOKS With Commentary and an Essay on Books and Reading by JOHN COWPER POWYS 1916 PREFACE This selection of “One hundred best books” is made after a different method and with a different purpose from the selections already in existence. Those apparently are designed to stuff the minds of young persons with an accumulation of “standard learning” calculated to alarm and discourage the boldest. The following list is frankly subjective in its choice; being indeed the selection of one individual, wandering at large and in freedom through these “realms of gold....
ROB ROY BY SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART VOLUME ONE For why? Because the good old rule Sufficeth them; the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. _Rob Roy’s Grave_–Wordsworth ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION When the Editor of the following volumes published, about two years since, the work called the “Antiquary,” he announced that he was, for the last time, intruding upon the public in his present capacity....
Songs of a Savoyard Contents: The Darned MounseerThe EnglishmanThe Disagreeable ManThe Coming By-And-ByThe Highly Respectable GondolierThe Fairy Queen’s SongIs Life A BoonThe Modern Major-GeneralThe Heavy DragoonProper PrideThe Policeman’s LotThe Baffled GrumblerThe House Of PeersA Merry MadrigalThe Duke And The DuchessEheu Fugaces -!They’ll None Of `Em Be MissedGirl GraduatesBraid The Raven HairThe Working MonarchThe Ape And The LadyOnly RosesThe Rover’s ApologyAn AppealThe Reward Of MeritThe Magnet And The ChurnThe Family FoolSans SouciA RecipeThe Merryman And His MaidThe Susceptible ChancellorWhen A Merry Maiden MarriesThe British TarA Man Who Would Woo A Fair MaidThe Sorcerer’s SongThe Fickle BreezeThe First Lord’s SongWould You Know?...
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THE BABYLONIAN LEGENDS OF THE CREATION AND THE FIGHT BETWEEN BEL AND THE DRAGON TOLD BY ASSYRIAN TABLETS FROM NINEVEH DISCOVERY OF THE TABLETS. The baked clay tablets and portions of tablets which describe the views and beliefs of the Babylonians and Assyrians about the Creation were discovered by Mr. (later Sir) A.H. Layard, Mormuzd Rassam and George Smith, Assistant in the Department of Oriental Antiquities in the British Museum....
The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne Table of Contents I. OLD MOODIEII. BLITHEDALEIII. A KNOT OF DREAMERSIV. THE SUPPER-TABLEV. UNTIL BEDTIMEVI. COVERDALE’S SICK CHAMBERVII. THE CONVALESCENTVIII. A MODERN ARCADIAIX. HOLLINGSWORTH, ZENOBIA, PRISCILLA X. A VISITOR FROM TOWNXI. THE WOOD-PATHXII. COVERDALE’S HERMITAGEXIII. ZENOBIA’S LEGENDXIV. ELIOT’S PULPITXV. A CRISISXVI. LEAVE-TAKINGSXVII. THE HOTELXVIII. THE BOARDING-HOUSEXIX. ZENOBIA’S DRAWING-ROOMXX. THEY VANISHXXI. AN OLD ACQUAINTANCEXXII. FAUNTLEROYXXIII. A VILLAGE HALLXXIV. THE MASQUERADERSXXV. THE THREE TOGETHERXXVI. ZENOBIA AND COVERDALEXXVII....
The Cell of Self-Knowledge: Seven Early English Mystical Treatises Printed by Henry Pepwell MDXXI Edited with an introduction and notes by Edmund G. Gardner M.A. 1910 The Frontispiece is taken from B.M. MS. Faustina, B. VI. “Stiamo nella cella del cognoscimento di noi; cognoscendo, noi per noi non essere, e la bonta di Dio in noi; ricognoscendo l’essere, e ogni grazia che e posta sopra l’essere, da lui.”–St. Catherine of Siena....
Scene: – Britain. ACT I. Scene I.[King Lear’s Palace.] Enter Kent, Gloucester, and Edmund. [Kent and Glouceste converse. Edmund stands back.] Kent. I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall. Glou. It did always seem so to us; but now, in the division of the kingdom, it appears not which of the Dukes he values most, for equalities are so weigh’d that curiosity in neither can make choice of either’s moiety....
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Volume 2 CONTENTS: SAUNTERINGS MISAPPREHENSIONS CORRECTED I should not like to ask an indulgent and idle public to saunter about with me under a misapprehension. It would be more agreeable to invite it to go nowhere than somewhere; for almost every one has been somewhere, and has written about it. The only compromise I can suggest is, that we shall go somewhere, and not learn anything about it....
[Illustration: DANCING MICE–SNIFFING AND EATING.] THE ANIMAL BEHAVIOR SERIES. VOLUME I THE DANCING MOUSE A Study in Animal Behavior BY ROBERT M. YERKES, Ph.D.INSTRUCTOR IN COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY The Cartwright Prize of the Alumni Association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, was awarded, in 1907, for an Essay which comprised the first twelve chapters of this volume. 1907 IN LOVE AND GRATITUDETHIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TOMY MOTHER PREFACE This book is the direct result of what, at the time of its occurrence, seemed to be an unimportant incident in the course of my scientific work– the presentation of a pair of dancing mice to the Harvard Psychological Laboratory....
THE DECAMERON OF GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO Faithfully Translated By J.M. Rigg with illustrations by Louis Chalon VOLUME II CONTENTS – FIFTH DAY – NOVEL I. – Cimon, by loving, waxes wise, wins his wife Iphigenia by capture on the high seas, and is imprisoned at Rhodes. He is delivered by Lysimachus; and the twain capture Cassandra and recapture Iphigenia in the hour of their marriage. They flee with their ladies to Crete, and having there married them, are brought back to their homes....
The Devil’s Dictionary was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906. In that year a large part of it was published in covers with the title The Cynic’s Word Book, a name which the author had not the power to reject or happiness to approve. To quote the publishers of the present work: “This more reverent title had previously been forced upon him by the religious scruples of the last newspaper in which a part of the work had appeared, with the natural consequence that when it came out in covers the country already had been flooded by its imitators with a score of ‘cynic’ books — The Cynic’s This, The Cynic’s That, and The Cynic’s t’Other....
by Henry Adams THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS CONTENTS EDITOR’S PREFACE PREFACE I. QUINCY (1838-1848) II. BOSTON (1848-1854) III. WASHINGTON (1850-1854) IV. HARVARD COLLEGE (1854-1858) V. BERLIN (1858-1859) VI. ROME (1859-1860) VII. TREASON (1860-1861) VIII. DIPLOMACY (1861) IX. FOES OR FRIENDS (1862) X. POLITICAL MORALITY (1862) XI. THE BATTLE OF THE RAMS (1863) XII. ECCENTRICITY (1863) XIII. THE PERFECTION OF HUMAN SOCIETY (1864) XIV. DILETTANTISM (1865-1866) XV. DARWINISM (1867-1868) XVI....
DEFINITIONS. I. By that which is self-caused, I mean that of which the essence involves existence, or that of which the nature is only conceivable as existent. II. A thing is called finite after its kind, when it can be limited by another thing of the same nature ; for instance, a body is called finite because we always conceive another greater body. So, also, a thought is limited by another thought, but a body is not limited by thought, nor a thought by body....
