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MORAL SCIENCE: A COMPENDIUM OF ETHICS by ALEXANDER BAIN, M.A., Author of “Mental Science: A Compendium of Psychology;” “The Senses and the Intellect;” “The Emotions and the Will;” “A Manual ooof Rhetoric;” Professor of Logic in the University of Aberdeen, etc., etc., etc. 1869 PREFACE The present Dissertation falls under two divisions. The first division, entitled The Theory of Ethics, gives an account of the questions or points brought into discussion, and handles at length the two of greatest prominence, the Ethical Standard, and the Moral Faculty....

MY HOME IN THE FIELD OF HONOUR BY FRANCES WILSON HUARD I The third week in July found a very merry gathering at the Chateau de Villiers. (Villiers is our summer home situated near Marne River, sixty miles or an hour by train to Paris.) Nothing, I think, could have been farther from thoughts than the idea of war. Our May Wilson Preston, the artist; Mrs. Chase, the editor of a well-known woman’s magazine; Hugues Delorme, the French artist; and numerous other guests, discussed the theatre and the “Caillaux case” from every conceivable point of view, and their conversations were only interrupted by serious attempts to prove their national superiority at bridge, and long delightful walks in the park....

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE BY JOHN S.C. ABBOTT. Napoleon, finding his proffers of peace rejected by England with contumely and scorn, and declined by Austria, now prepared, with his wonted energy, to repel the assaults of the allies. As he sat in his cabinet at the Tuileries, the thunders of their unrelenting onset came rolling in upon his ear from all the frontiers of France. The hostile fleets of England swept the channel, utterly annihilating the commerce of the Republic, landing regiments of armed emigrants upon her coast, furnishing money and munitions of war to rouse the partisans of the Bourbons to civil conflict, and throwing balls and shells into every unprotected town....

To my Friends in China Preface THE object of this book is to describe the operation upon and within old, conservative, exclusive China of the three great transforming forces of the modern world–Western trade, Western politics and Western religion. These forces are producing stupendous changes in that hitherto sluggish mass of humanity. The full significance of these changes both to China and to the world cannot be comprehended now. There is something fascinating and at the same time something appalling in the spectacle of a nation numbering nearly one-third of the human race slowly and majestically rousing itself from the torpor of ages under the influence of new and powerful revolutionary forces....

REGINALD IN RUSSIA AND OTHER SKETCHES Contents: REGINALD IN RUSSIATHE RETICENCE OF LADY ANNETHE LOST SANJAKTHE SEX THAT DOESN’T SHOPTHE BLOOD-FEUD OF TOAD-WATERA YOUNG TURKISH CATASTROPHEJUDKIN OF THE PARCELSGABRIEL-ERNESTTHE SAINT AND THE GOBLINTHE SOUL OF LAPLOSHKATHE BAGTHE STRATEGISTCROSS CURRENTSTHE BAKER’S DOZENTHE MOUSE REGINALD IN RUSSIA Reginald sat in a corner of the Princess’s salon and tried to forgive the furniture, which started out with an obvious intention of being Louis Quinze, but relapsed at frequent intervals into Wilhelm II....

REVENGE! BY ROBERT BARR TO JAMES SAMSON, M.D. [Illustration: “I HAD THE SAFE BLOWN OPEN”] CONTENTS. AN ALPINE DIVORCEWHICH WAS THE MURDERER?A DYNAMITE EXPLOSIONAN ELECTRICAL SLIPTHE VENGEANCE OF THE DEADOVER THE STELVIO PASSTHE HOUR AND THE MAN“AND THE RIGOUR OF THE GAME”THE BROMLEY GIBBERTS STORYNOT ACCORDING TO THE CODEA MODERN SAMSONA DEAL ON CHANGETRANSFORMATIONTHE SHADOW OF THE GREENBACKTHE UNDERSTUDY“OUT OF THUN”A DRAMATIC POINTTWO FLORENTINE BALCONIESTHE EXPOSURE OF LORD STANSFORDPURIFICATION LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS....

BY GERTRUDE ATHERTONWith an Introduction byWILLIAM MARION REEDY INTRODUCTION A long list of works Gertrude Atherton has to her credit as a writer. She is indisputably a woman of genius. Not that her genius is distinctively feminine, though she is in matters historical a pas- sionate partisan. Most of the critics who approve her work agree that in the main she views life with somewhat of the masculine spirit of liberality....

[Illustration] SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 447 NEW YORK, JULY 26, 1884 Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XVIII, No. 447. Scientific American established 1845 Scientific American Supplement, $5 a year. Scientific American and Supplement, $7 a year. * * * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS. I. CHEMISTRY.–The Bitter Substance of Hops.–By Dr. H. BUNGENER. –What gives hops their bitter taste?–Processes for obtaining hop-bitter acid.–Analysis of the same. II. ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.–Improvements in the Harbor of Antwerp....

[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.] LITERATURE AND LIFE–Short Stories and Essays by William Dean Howells CONTENTS: Worries of a Winter Walk Summer Isles of Eden Wild Flowers of the Asphalt A Circus in the Suburbs A She Hamlet The Midnight Platoon The Beach at Rockaway Sawdust in the Arena At a Dime Museum American Literature in Exile The Horse Show The Problem of the Summer Aesthetic New York Fifty-odd Years Ago From New York into New England The Art of the Adsmith The Psychology of Plagiarism Puritanism in American Fiction The What and How in Art Politics in American Authors Storage “Floating down the River on the O-hi-o” WORRIES OF A WINTER WALK The other winter, as I was taking a morning walk down to the East River, I came upon a bit of our motley life, a fact of our piebald civilization, which has perplexed me from time to time, ever since, and which I wish now to leave with the reader, for his or her more thoughtful consideration....

By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Chapter 1The Science of Deduction Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel- piece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined arm-chair with a long sigh of satisfaction....

[TR: ***] = Transcriber Note [HW: ***] = Handwritten Note SLAVE NARRATIVES A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves TYPEWRITTEN RECORDS PREPARED BY THE FEDERAL WRITERS’ PROJECT 1936-1938 ASSEMBLED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PROJECT WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SPONSORED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON 1941 VOLUME II ARKANSAS NARRATIVES PART 5 Prepared by the Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Arkansas INFORMANTS McClendon, Charlie McCloud, Lizzie McConico, Avalena McCoy, Ike McDaniel, Richard H....

[TR: ***] = Transcriber Note [HW: ***] = Handwritten Note SLAVE NARRATIVES A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves TYPEWRITTEN RECORDS PREPARED BY THE FEDERAL WRITERS’ PROJECT 1936-1938 ASSEMBLED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PROJECT WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SPONSORED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON 1941 VOLUME II ARKANSAS NARRATIVES PART 7 Prepared by the Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Arkansas INFORMANTS Vaden, Charlie Vaden, Ellen Van Buren, Nettie Vaughn, Adelaide J....

SONNETS BY THE NAWAB NIZAMAT JUNG BAHADUR “Love is not discoverable by the eye, but only by the soul. Its elements are indeed innate in our mortal constitution, and we give it the names of Joy and Aphrodite; but in its highest nature no mortal hath fully comprehended it.” EMPEDOCLES. “Every one choose the object of his affections according to his character…. The Divine is beauty, wisdom, goodness, and by these the wings of the soul are nourished....

STALKY & CO. By Rudyard Kipling “Let us now praise famous men”– Men of little showing–For their work continueth,And their work continueth, Greater than their knowing. Western wind and open surge Tore us from our mothers;Flung us on a naked shore(Twelve bleak houses by the shore!Seven summers by the shore!) ‘Mid two hundred brothers. There we met with famous men Set in office o’er us.And they beat on us with rods–Faithfully with many rods–Daily beat us on with rods– For the love they bore us!...

[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.] LITERATURE AND LIFE–The Standard Household-Effect Company by William Dean Howells THE STANDARD HOUSEHOLD-EFFECT COMPANY My friend came in the other day, before we had left town, and looked round at the appointments of the room in their summer shrouds, and said, with a faint sigh, “I see you have had the eternal-womanly with you, too....

STERNE BY H.D. TRAILL 1882 PREFATORY NOTE. The materials for a biography of Sterne are by no means abundant. Of the earlier years of his life the only existing record is that preserved in the brief autobiographical memoir which, a few months before his death, he composed, in the usual quaint staccato style of his familiar correspondence, for the benefit of his daughter. Of his childhood; of his school-days; of his life at Cambridge, and in his Yorkshire vicarage; of his whole history, in fact, up to the age of forty-six, we know nothing more than he has there jotted down....

SWANN’S WAY by MARCEL PROUST [Vol. 1 of REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST] Translated from the French byC. K. SCOTT MONCRIEFF NEW YORKHENRY HOLT AND COMPANY1922 CONTENTS OVERTURECOMBRAYSWANN IN LOVEPLACE-NAMES: THE NAME OVERTURE For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so quickly that I had not even time to say “I’m going to sleep.” And half an hour later the thought that it was time to go to sleep would awaken me; I would try to put away the book which, I imagined, was still in my hands, and to blow out the light; I had been thinking all the time, while I was asleep, of what I had just been reading, but my thoughts had run into a channel of their own, until I myself seemed actually to have become the subject of my book: a church, a quartet, the rivalry between François I and Charles V....

SWEETAPPLE COVE BY GEORGE VAN SCHAIGK 1914 CHAPTER I From John Grant’s Diary Have I shown wisdom or made an arrant, egregious fool of myself? This, I suppose, is a question every man puts to himself after taking a sudden decision upon which a great deal depends. I have shaken the dust of the great city by the Hudson and forsaken its rich laboratories, its vast hospitals, the earnest workers who were beginning to show some slight interest in me....

Tales of the Fish Patrol WHITE AND YELLOW San Francisco Bay is so large that often its storms are more disastrous to ocean-going craft than is the ocean itself in its violent moments. The waters of the bay contain all manner of fish, wherefore its surface is ploughed by the keels of all manner of fishing boats manned by all manner of fishermen. To protect the fish from this motley floating population many wise laws have been passed, and there is a fish patrol to see that these laws are enforced....

Tarzan the Untamed By Edgar Rice Burroughs CONTENTS CHAPTER I Murder and Pillage II The Lion’s Cave III In the German Lines IV When the Lion Fed V The Golden Locket VI Vengeance and Mercy VII When Blood Told VIII Tarzan and the Great Apes IX Dropped from the Sky X In the Hands of Savages XI Finding the Airplane XII The Black Flier XIII Usanga’s Reward XIV The Black Lion XV Mysterious Footprints XVI The Night Attack XVII The Walled CityXVIII Among the Maniacs XIX The Queen’s Story XX Came Tarzan XXI In the Alcove XXII Out of the NicheXXIII The Flight from Xuja XXIV The Tommies Murder and Pillage Hauptmann Fritz Schneider trudged wearily through the somber aisles of the dark forest....