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THE BLUE BIRD A Fairy Play in Six Acts BYMAURICE MAETERLINCK _Translated by_ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS CHARACTERS TYLTYLMYTYLLIGHTTHE FAIRY BERYLUNENEIGHBOUR BERLINGOTDADDY TYLMUMMY TYLGAFFER TYL (Dead)GRANNY TYL (Dead)TYLTYL’S BROTHERS AND SISTERS (Dead) TIMENIGHTNEIGHBOUR BERLINGOT’S LITTLE DAUGHTER TYLO, THE DOGTYLETTE, THE CATBREADSUGARFIREWATERMILKTHE WOLFTHE PIGTHE OXTHE COWTHE BULLTHE SHEEPTHE COCKTHE RABBITTHE HORSETHE ASSTHE OAKTHE ELMTHE BEECHTHE LIME-TREETHE FIR-TREETHE CYPRESSTHE BIRCHTHE CHESTNUT-TREETHE IVYTHE POPLARTHE WILLOWSTARS, SICKNESSES, SHADES, LUXURIES, HAPPINESSES, JOYS, ETC. TRANSLATOR’S NOTE A new act appears for the first time in this edition and is inserted as Act IV–Palace of Happiness....

THE BOOK OF NOODLES: STORIES OF SIMPLETONS; OR,FOOLS AND THEIR FOLLIES. BYW.A. CLOUSTON, Author of “Popular Tales and Fictions; their Migrations and Transformations” “Excellent! Why, this is the best fooling when all is done.”–Twelfth Night. LONDON: ELLIOT STOCK, 62, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1888. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 67-24351 TO MY DEAR FRIEND DAVID ROSS, LL.D., M.A., B.Sc., PRINCIPAL OF THECHURCH OF SCOTLAND TRAINING COLLEGE, GLASGOW, THIS COLLECTION OF FACETIAE IS DEDICATED....

THE CHESSMEN OF MARS by Edgar Rice Burroughs CONTENTS PRELUDE – John Carter Comes to Earth I Tara in a Tantrum II At the Gale’s Mercy III The Headless Humans IV Captured V The Perfect Brain VI In the Toils of Horror VII A Repellent SightVIII Close Work IX Adrift Over Strange Regions X Entrapped XI The Choice of Tara XII Ghek Plays PranksXIII A Desperate Deed XIV At Ghek’s Command XV The Old Man of the Pits XVI Another Change of NameXVII A Play to the DeathXVIII A Task for Loyalty XIX The Menace of the Dead XX The Charge of Cowardice XXI A Risk for LoveXXII At the Moment of Marriage THE CHESSMEN OF MARS PRELUDE JOHN CARTER COMES TO EARTH Shea had just beaten me at chess, as usual, and, also as usual, I had gleaned what questionable satisfaction I might by twitting him with this indication of failing mentality by calling his attention to the nth time to that theory, propounded by certain scientists, which is based upon the assertion that phenomenal chess players are always found to be from the ranks of children under twelve, adults over seventy-two or the mentally defective–a theory that is lightly ignored upon those rare occasions that I win....

by Tommaso Campanells A Poetical Dialogue between a Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitallers and a Genoese Sea-Captain, his guest. G.M. Prithee, now, tell me what happened to you during that voyage? Capt. I have already told you how I wandered over the whole earth. In the course of my journeying I came to Taprobane, and was compelled to go ashore at a place, where through fear of the inhabitants I remained in a wood....

THE CONJURE WOMAN BY CHARLES W. CHESNUTT First published in 1899 by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. CONTENTS THE GOOPHERED GRAPEVINEPO’ SANDYMARS JEEMS’S NIGHTMARETHE CONJURER’S REVENGESIS’ BECKY’S PICKANINNYTHE GRAY WOLF’S HA’NTHOT-FOOT HANNIBAL “The Conjurer’s Revenge” is reprinted from The Overland Monthly by permission of the publishers. APPENDIX Uncollected Uncle Julius StoriesDave’s Neckliss (1889)A Deep Sleeper (1893)Lonesome Ben (1900)EssaySuperstitions and Folk-Lore of the South (1901) THE CONJURE WOMAN * * * * * THE GOOPHERED GRAPEVINE Some years ago my wife was in poor health, and our family doctor, in whose skill and honesty I had implicit confidence, advised a change of climate....

THE DOOM OF THE GRIFFITHS. by Elizabeth Gaskell CHAPTER I. I have always been much interested by the traditions which are scattered up and down North Wales relating to Owen Glendower (Owain Glendwr is the national spelling of the name), and I fully enter into the feeling which makes the Welsh peasant still look upon him as the hero of his country. There was great joy among many of the inhabitants of the principality, when the subject of the Welsh prize poem at Oxford, some fifteen or sixteen years ago, was announced to be “Owain Glendwr....

by L. Frank Baum Author of The Road to Oz,Dorothy and The Wizard in Oz,The Land of Oz, etc. Contents –Author’s Note–1. How the Nome King Became Angry2. How Uncle Henry Got Into Trouble 3. How Ozma Granted Dorothy’s Request4. How The Nome King Planned Revenge 5. How Dorothy Became a Princess6. How Guph Visited the Whimsies7. How Aunt Em Conquered the Lion8. How the Grand Gallipoot Joined The Nomes 9....

FIFTEENTH THOUSAND. THEEXPLORING EXPEDITIONTO THEROCKY MOUNTAINS,OREGON AND CALIFORNIA, BY BREVET COL. J.C. FREMONT. TO WHICH IS ADDED A DESCRIPTION OF THE PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF CALIFORNIA. WITH RECENT NOTICES OFTHE GOLD REGIONFROM THE LATEST AND MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES. 1852 PREFACE. No work has appeared from the American press within the past few years better calculated to interest the community at large than Colonel J.C. Fremont’s Narrative of his Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon, and North California, undertaken by the orders of the United States government....

THE FOREST LOVERS A ROMANCE BY MAURICE HEWLETT TO MRS. W. K. CLIFFORD WITH THE AUTHOR’S HOMAGE CONTENTS CHAPTERS I. PROSPER LE GAI RIDES OUTII. MORGRAUNT, AND A DEAD KNIGHTIII. HOLY THORN AND HOLY CHURCHIV. DOM GALORSV. LA DESIROUSVI. THE VIRGIN MARRIAGEVII. GALORS ABJURESVIII. THE SALLY AT DAWNIX. THE BLOOD-CHASE AND THE LOVE CHASE X. FOREST ALMSXI. SANCTUARYXII. BROKEN SANCTUARYXIII. HIGH MARCH, AND A GREAT LADY XIV. A RECORDERXV. THREE AT TORTSENTIERXVI....

THE FOUR FACES A MYSTERY BY WILLIAM LE QUEUX AUTHOR OF “THE DEATH DOCTOR,” “FATAL THIRTEEN” “LYING LIPS,” ETC. ETC. CONTENTS CHAPTERI. CURIOSITY IS AROUSEDII. THE ANGEL FACESIII. A HAMPSTEAD MYSTERYIV. IN FULL CRYV. HUGESSON GASTRELL AT HOMEVI. THE HOUSE IN GRAFTON STREETVII. OSBORNE’S STORYVIII. MORE SUSPICIONSIX. THE SNAREX. NARRATES A CONFESSIONXI. CONCERNS MRS. STAPLETONXII. THE BROAD HIGHWAYXIII. THE BARONXIV. IN THE MISTSXV. THE MODERN VICEXVI. SECRETS OF DUSKY FOWLXVII....

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse(Los Cuatro Jinettes del Apocalipsis) by Vicente Blasco Ibanez Translated by Charlotte Brewster Jordan CONTENTS PART I I. THE TRYST–IN THE GARDEN OF THE EXPIATORY CHAPEL II. MADARIAGA, THE CENTAURIII. THE DESNOYERS FAMILYIV. THE COUSIN FROM BERLINV. IN WHICH APPEAR THE FOUR HORSEMEN PART II I. WHAT DON MARCELO ENVIEDII. NEW LIFEIII. THE RETREATIV. NEAR THE SACRED GROTTOV. THE INVASIONVI. THE BANNER OF THE RED CROSS PART III I....

The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield CONTENTS At the Bay The Garden Party The Daughters of the Late Colonel Mr. and Mrs. Dove The Young Girl Life of Ma Parker Marriage a la Mode The Voyage Miss Brill Her First Ball The Singing Lesson The Stranger Bank Holiday An Ideal Family The Lady’s-Maid AT THE BAY. Chapter 1.I. Very early morning. The sun was not yet risen, and the whole of Crescent Bay was hidden under a white sea-mist....

1921 Part I. The Voyage to Colchis I. The Youth Jason A man in the garb of a slave went up the side of that mountain that is all covered with forest, the Mountain Pelion. He carried in his arms a little child. When it was full noon the slave came into a clearing of the forest so silent that it seemed empty of all life. He laid the child down on the soft moss, and then, trembling with the fear of what might come before him, he raised a horn to his lips and blew three blasts upon it....

Carlyle’s “History of Friedrich II of Prussia” BOOK III. THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN BRANDENBURG.1412-1718 CHAPTER I. KURFURST FRIEDRICH I. Burggraf Friedrich, on his first coming to Brandenburg, found but a cool reception as Statthalter. [ “Johannistage” italic> (24 June) “1412,” he first set foot in Brandenburg, with due escort, in due state; only Statthalter (Viceregent) as yet: Pauli, i. 594, ii. 58; Stenzel, Geschichte desPreussischen Staats (Hamburg, 1830, 1851),i. 167-169.] He came as the representative of law and rule; and there had been many helping themselves by a ruleless life, of late....

THE HUMAN CHORD BY ALGERNON BLACKWOOD 1910 To those who hear. Chapter I I As a boy he constructed so vividly in imagination that he came to believe in the living reality of his creations: for everybody and everything he found names–real names. Inside him somewhere stretched immense playgrounds, compared to which the hay-fields and lawns of his father’s estate seemed trivial: plains without horizon, seas deep enough to float the planets like corks, and “such tremendous forests” with “trees like tall pointed hilltops....

THE HUNT BALL MYSTERY BY SIR WILLIAM MAGNAY, Bt. Author of “A Prince of Lovers,” “The Mystery of the Unicorn,” etc., etc. 1918 Contents Chap I THE INTRUDER II THE STAINED FLOWERS III THE STREAK ON THE CUFF IV THE MISSING GUEST V THE LOCKED ROOM VI THE MYSTERY OF CLEMENT HENSHAW VII THE INCREDULITY OF GERVASE HENSHAW VIII KELSON’S PERPLEXITY IX THE CLOAK OF NIGHT X AN ALARMING DISCOVERY XI GIFFORD’S COMMISSION XII HAD HENSHAW A CLUE?...

It was four o’clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive. There had been a crowd following all the way, owing to the exuberance of Marija Berczynskas. The occasion rested heavily upon Marija’s broad shoulders–it was her task to see that all things went in due form, and after the best home traditions; and, flying wildly hither and thither, bowling every one out of the way, and scolding and exhorting all day with her tremendous voice, Marija was too eager to see that others conformed to the proprieties to consider them herself....

The Lady From The Sea by Henrik Ibsen Translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling DRAMATIS PERSONAE Doctor Wangel.Ellida Wangel, his second wife.Bolette,Hilde (not yet grown up), his daughters by his first wife. Arnholm (second master at a college).Lyngstrand.Ballested.A Stranger.Young People of the Town.Tourists.Visitors. (The action takes place in small fjord town, Northern Norway.) The Lady From The Sea ACT I (SCENE.–DOCTOR WANGEL’S house, with a large verandah garden in front of and around the house....

The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope CONTENTS I How Did He Get It?II By Heavens, He Had Better Not! III The Archdeacon’s ThreatIV The Clergyman’s House at Hogglestock V What the World Thought about itVI Grace CrawleyVII Miss Prettyman’s Private Room VIII Mr Crawley is Taken to Silverbridge IX Grace Crawley Goes to AllingtonX Dinner at Framley CourtXI The Bishop Sends his Inhibition XII Mr Crawley Seeks for SympathyXIII The Bishop’s AngelXIV Major Grantly Consults a Friend XV Up in LondonXVI Down in AllingtonXVII Mr Crawley is Summoned to Barchester XVIII The Bishop of Barchester is Crushed XIX Where Did it Come From?...

source:Rev. P. Power. Life of St. Declan of Ardmore, and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore. London: Irish Texts Society. [Manuscript 4190-4200, Royal (Burgundian) Library, Brussels] LIFE OF ST. DECLAN OF ARDMORE (Edited from MS. in Bibliotheque Royale, Brussels). Translated from the IrishWith Introduction by REV. P. POWER, M.R.I.A.University College, Cork. INTRODUCTION “If thou hast the right, O Erin,to a champion of battle to aid thee thou hast the head of a hundredthousand, Declan of Ardmore”(Martyrology of Oengus)....