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There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them; and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion. The cause of such phenomena is not far to seek. “It used to appear to me,” writes Count Tolstoi, in a significant passage, “it used to appear to me that the small number of cultivated, rich and idle men, of whom I was one, composed the whole of humanity, and that the millions and millions of other men who had lived and are still living were not in reality men at all....

The Battle of Life CHAPTER I – Part The First Once upon a time, it matters little when, and in stalwart England, it matters little where, a fierce battle was fought. It was fought upon a long summer day when the waving grass was green. Many a wild flower formed by the Almighty Hand to be a perfumed goblet for the dew, felt its enamelled cup filled high with blood that day, and shrinking dropped....

The Beasts of Tarzan By Edgar Rice Burroughs To Joan Burroughs CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE 1 Kidnapped . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 Marooned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3 Beasts at Bay . . . . . . . . . ....

THE BLACK CREEK STOPPING-HOUSE AND OTHER STORIES BY NELLIE L. McCLUNG Copyright, 1912 To the Pioneer Women of the West, who made life tolerable, and even comfortable, for the others of us; who fed the hungry, advised the erring, nursed the sick, cheered the dying, comforted the sorrowing, and performed the last sad rites for the dead; The beloved Pioneer Women, old before their time with hard work, privations, and doing without things, yet in whose hearts there was always burning the hope of better things to come; The godly Pioneer Women, who kept alive the conscience of the neighborhood, and preserved for us the best traditions of the race; To these noble Women of the early days, some of whom we see no more, for they have entered into their inheritance, this book is respectfully dedicated by their humble admirer, The Author....

THE BLAZED TRAIL by Stewart Edward White TO MY FATHER– From whose early pioneer life are drawn many of Harry Thorpe’s experiences. TABLE OF CONTENTS PART I: THE FOREST PART II: THE LANDLOOKER PART III: THE BLAZING OF THE TRAIL PART IV: THORPE’S DREAM GIRL PART V: THE FOLLOWING OF THE TRAIL PART I: THE FOREST Chapter I When history has granted him the justice of perspective, we shall know the American Pioneer as one of the most picturesque of her many figures....

THE BLIND SPOT AUSTIN HALL AND HOMER EON FLINT INTRODUCTION BY FORREST J ACKERMAN INTRODUCTION THE LURE AND LORE OF “THE BLIND SPOT” BY FORREST J ACKERMAN The Blind Spot opens with the words: “Perhaps it were just as well to start at the beginning. A mere matter of news.” Suppose I use them in the same sense: A mere matter of news: The first instalment of this fabulous novel was featured in Argosy-All-Story-Weekly for May 14, 1921....

THE CALL OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY An Address to Young Men By DAVID STARR JORDAN Chancellor of Leland Stanford Junior University 1903 To Vernon Lyman Kellogg So live that your afterself– the man you ought to be–may in his time be possible and actual. Far away in the twenties, the thirties of the Twentieth Century, he is awaiting his turn. His body, his brain, his soul are in your boyish hands....

The Case of Summerfield By William Henry Rhodes With an Introduction by Geraldine Bonner The Introduction The greatest master of the short story our country has known found his inspiration and produced his best work in California. It is now nearly forty years since “The Luck of Roaring Camp” appeared, and a line of successors, more or less worthy, have been following along the trail blazed by Bret Harte. They have given us matter of many kinds, realistic, romantic, tragic, humorous, weird....

THE CHRISTIAN A STORY BY HALL CAINE Author of The Manxman * * * * * The period of the story is the last quarter of the nineteenth century. No particular years are intended. The time occupied by the incidents of the first Book is about six months, of the Second Book about six months, of the Third Book about six months; then there is an interval of half a year, and the time occupied by the incidents of the Fourth Book is about six weeks....

[Transcriber’s note: This book makes use of the Roman denarius symbol. Because this symbol is not available in Unicode, it has been replaced by the ROMAN NUMERAL TEN (U+2169) with a COMBINING LONG STROKE OVERLAY (U+0336) in the UTF-8 version.] The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature By Frank Frost Abbott Kennedy Professor of the Latin Language and Literature in Princeton University New YorkCharles Scribner’s Sons Copyright, 1911, byCharles Scribner’s Sons Printed in the United States of America Dedicated to J....

THE CONQUEROR BEING THE TRUE AND ROMANTIC STORY OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON BY GERTRUDE FRANKLIN ATHERTON “Je considere Napoleon, Fox, et Hamilton comme les trois plus grands hommes de notre epoque, et si je devais me prononcer entre les trois, je donnerais sans hesiter la premiere place a Hamilton. Il avait devine l’Europe.” TALLEYRAND, Etudes sur la Republique New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. 1904 Set up, electrotyped, and published March, 1902....

THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH AND JOAN OF ARC BYTHOMAS DE QUINCEY EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY MILTON HAIGHT TURK, PH.D. TO CHARLES DEACON CREETHIS LITTLE VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED Glencairn, Kilmacolm, Scotland June 27, 1905 PREFACE Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenæum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr....

INTRODUCTORY Immediately after Lincoln’s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: “It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the liberties of its people can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies. On this point, the present rebellion brought our republic to a severe test, and the Presidential election, occurring in regular course during the rebellion, added not a little to the strain…....

The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women. The English Scholar’s Library etc. No. 2. The First Blast of the Trumpet, &c. 1558. Edited by EDWARD ARBER, F.S.A., etc., LECTURER IN ENGLISH LITERATURE, ETC., UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON. SOUTHGATE, LONDON, N. 15 August 1878. No. 2. (All rights reserved.) [Transcribers Note: The image source for this book was a .pdf of the above edition. The production of the pdf seems to have generated some errors e....

THE FORMATION OF VEGETABLE MOULDTHROUGH THE ACTION OF WORMSWITH OBSERVATIONS ON THEIR HABITS. by Charles Darwin INTRODUCTION. The share which worms have taken in the formation of the layer of vegetable mould, which covers the whole surface of the land in every moderately humid country, is the subject of the present volume. This mould is generally of a blackish colour and a few inches in thickness. In different districts it differs but little in appearance, although it may rest on various subsoils....

by O Henry ~Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only “Four Hundred” people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen–the census taker–and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the “Four Million.”~ Contents: TOBIN’S PALMTHE GIFT OF THE MAGIA COSMOPOLITE IN A CAFEBETWEEN ROUNDSTHE SKYLIGHT ROOMA SERVICE OF LOVETHE COMING-OUT OF MAGGIEMAN ABOUT TOWNTHE COP AND THE ANTHEMAN ADJUSTMENT OF NATUREMEMOIRS OF A YELLOW DOGTHE LOVE-PHILTRE OF IKEY SCHOENSTEIN MAMMON AND THE ARCHERSPRINGTIME A LA CARTETHE GREEN DOORFROM THE CABBY’S SEATAN UNFINISHED STORYTHE CALIPH, CUPID AND THE CLOCKSISTERS OF THE GOLDEN CIRCLETHE ROMANCE OF A BUSY BROKERAFTER TWENTY YEARSLOST ON DRESS PARADEBY COURIERTHE FURNISHED ROOMTHE BRIEF DEBUT OF TILDY TOBIN’S PALM Tobin and me, the two of us, went down to Coney one day, for there was four dollars between us, and Tobin had need of distractions....

THE GREAT CONSPIRACY Its Origin and History Part 2 BY JOHN LOGAN CHAPTER VI. THE GREAT CONSPIRACY MATURING. THE 6th of November, 1860, came and passed; on the 7th, the prevailing conviction that Lincoln would be elected had become a certainty, and before the close of that day, the fact had been heralded throughout the length and breadth of the Republic. The excitement of the People was unparalleled. The Republicans of the North rejoiced that at last the great wrong of Slavery was to be placed “where the People could rest in the belief that it was in the course of ultimate extinction!...

THE HAPPY END BY JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER BOOKS BY JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER THE HAPPY END JAVA HEAD GOLD AND IRON THE THREE BLACK PENNYS MOUNTAIN BLOOD THE LAY ANTHONY THE HAPPY END DEDICATION These stories have but one purpose–to give pleasure; and they have been made into a book at the requests of those I have fortunately pleased. It is, therefore, to such friends of my writing that they are addressed and dedicated....

DON QUIXOTE by Miguel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby Volume I. Part 5. CHAPTER XIV. WHEREIN ARE INSERTED THE DESPAIRING VERSES OF THE DEAD SHEPHERD, TOGETHER WITH OTHER INCIDENTS NOT LOOKED FOR THE LAY OF CHRYSOSTOM Since thou dost in thy cruelty desire The ruthless rigour of thy tyrannyFrom tongue to tongue, from land to land proclaimed, The very Hell will I constrain to lendThis stricken breast of mine deep notes of woe To serve my need of fitting utterance....

DON QUIXOTE by Miguel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby Volume I. Part 15. CHAPTER XLII. WHICH TREATS OF WHAT FURTHER TOOK PLACE IN THE INN, AND OF SEVERAL OTHER THINGS WORTH KNOWING With these words the captive held his peace, and Don Fernando said to him, “In truth, captain, the manner in which you have related this remarkable adventure has been such as befitted the novelty and strangeness of the matter....