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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. THE HOME MISSION. By T. S. ARTHUR. BOSTON:PHILADELPHIA: 1853. CONTENTS. A VISION OF CONSOLATIONTHE STEP-MOTHERPOWER OF KINDNESSBEAR AND FORBEARTHE SOCIAL SERPENTTHE YOUNG MOTHERTHE GENTLE WARNINGKATE’S EXPERIMENT“MY FORTUNE’S MADE”THE GOOD MATCHTHE BROTHER’S TEMPTATIONTHE HOME OF TASTETHE TWO SISTERSTHE EVENING PRAYERA PEEVISH DAY, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES SISTERSBROTHERSHOMEA GLEAM OF SUNSHINE ON THE PATH OF A MONEY-LENDER ENGAGED AT SIXTEENTHE DAUGHTERPASSING AWAYTHE LOVE SECRET PREFACE....

THE INFANT’S DELIGHT [Illustration: THE MISTLETOE-SELLERS.] [Illustration: THE DEAD ROBIN.] [Illustration] BLIND MAN’S BUFF. When the win-ter winds are blow-ing, And we ga-ther glad and gay, Where the fire its light is throw-ing, For a mer-ry game at play, There is none that to my know-ing,– And I’ve play-ed at games enough,– Makes us laugh, and sets us glow-ing Like a game at Blind-man’s Buff. THE DEAD ROBIN. All through the win-ter, long and cold, Dear Minnie ev-ery morn-ing fed The little spar-rows, pert and bold, And ro-bins, with their breasts so red....

THE INTRUSION OF JIMMY BY P.G. WODEHOUSE CONTENTS CHAPTER I. JIMMY MAKES A BET II. PYRAMUS AND THISBE III. MR. MCEACHERN IV. MOLLY V. A THIEF IN THE NIGHT VI. AN EXHIBITION PERFORMANCE VII. GETTING ACQUAINTED VIII. AT DREEVER IX. FRIENDS, NEW AND OLD X. JIMMY ADOPTS A LAME DOG XI. AT THE TURN OF THE ROAD XII. MAKING A START XIII. SPIKE’S VIEWS XIV. CHECK AND A COUNTER MOVE XV....

The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales INTRODUCTION Gerald the Welshman – Giraldus Cambrensis – was born, probably in 1147, at Manorbier Castle in the county of Pembroke. His father was a Norman noble, William de Barri, who took his name from the little island of Barry off the coast of Glamorgan. His mother, Angharad, was the daughter of Gerald de Windsor {1} by his wife, the famous Princess Nesta, the “Helen of Wales,” and the daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr Mawr, the last independent Prince of South Wales....

IN THE YEAR 1805 Together with Other Documents, Official And Private, Relating To The Same Mission, to Which Is Prefixed an Account of the Life off Mr. Park. BY MUNGO PARK Edited and Commentary by John Whishaw The original documents relating to Mr. Mungo Park’s last mission into Africa having been entrusted to the Directors of the African Institution by the Secretary of State for the Colonial Department, with liberty to publish them, in case they should deem it expedient; the Directors now avail themselves of this permission, by publishing the papers for the benefit of Mr....

The Land that Time Forgot By Edgar Rice Burroughs Chapter 1 It must have been a little after three o’clock in the afternoon that it happened–the afternoon of June 3rd, 1916. It seems incredible that all that I have passed through–all those weird and terrifying experiences–should have been encompassed within so short a span as three brief months. Rather might I have experienced a cosmic cycle, with all its changes and evolutions for that which I have seen with my own eyes in this brief interval of time–things that no other mortal eye had seen before, glimpses of a world past, a world dead, a world so long dead that even in the lowest Cambrian stratum no trace of it remains....

THE LINE OF LOVE BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL 1921 TO ROBERT GAMBLE CABELL I “He loved chivalrye,Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisye. And of his port as meek as is a mayde,He never yet no vileinye ne saydeIn al his lyf, unto no maner wight. He was a verray parfit gentil knyght.” Introduction The Cabell case belongs to comedy in the grand manner. For fifteen years or more the man wrote and wrote–good stuff, sound stuff, extremely original stuff, often superbly fine stuff–and yet no one in the whole of this vast and incomparable Republic arose to his merit–no one, that is, save a few encapsulated enthusiasts, chiefly somewhat dubious....

FROM THE SERIES OF SIX SHORT PLAYS By John Galsworthy THE LITTLE MAN A FARCICAL MORALITY IN THREE SCENES CHARACTERS THE LITTLE MAN.THE AMERICAN.THE ENGLISHMAN.THE ENGLISHWOMAN.THE GERMAN.THE DUTCH BOY.THE MOTHER.THE BABY.THE WAITER.THE STATION OFFICIAL.THE POLICEMAN.THE PORTER. SCENE I Afternoon, on the departure platform of an Austrian railway station. At several little tables outside the buffet persons are taking refreshment, served by a pale young waiter. On a seat against the wall of the buffet a woman of lowly station is sitting beside two large bundles, on one of which she has placed her baby, swathed in a black shawl....

[Illustration: THE STAMPEDE] THE LOG OF A COWBOY A Narrative of the Old Trail Days BY ANDY ADAMS ILLUSTRATED BY E. BOYD SMITH “Our cattle also shall go with us.” –Exodus iv. 26. [Illustration: The Riverside Press] BOSTON AND NEW YORK: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY, The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1903. TO THE COWMEN AND BOYS OF THE OLD WESTERN TRAIL THESE PAGES ARE GRATEFULLY DEDICATED CONTENTS CHAP. I. UP THE TRAIL II....

THE MAN IN LONELY LAND by KATE LANGLEY BOSHER Author of “Mary Cary” and “Miss Gibbie Gault” MCMXII TO MY BROTHER EDWARD PORTIUS LANGLEY CONTENTS CHAPTER I. GENERAL II. THE REQUEST III. SCIENTIFICS IV. DOROTHEA AND MR. LAINE V. THE LOSS OF HIS BEST FRIEND VI. A LETTER FROM DOROTHEA VII. AN AFTERNOON CALL VIII. THE RECEPTION IX. DOROTHEA ASKS QUESTIONS X. A DISCOVERY XI. A CHANCE ENCOUNTER XII. CHRISTMAS SHOPPING XIII....

THE MEMOIRS OF GENERAL PHILIP H. SHERIDAN Volume I., Part 2 CHAPTER IX. EXPEDITION TO BOONEVILLE–DESTROYING SUPPLIES–CONFEDERATE STRAGGLERS–SUCCESS OF THE EXPEDITION–A RECONNOISSANCE–THE IMPORTANCE OF BODILY SUSTENANCE–THE BATTLE OF BOONEVILLE –RECOMMENDED FOR APPOINTMENT AS A BRIGADIER-GENERAL. The expedition referred to by General Halleck in his parting conversation was composed of the Second Michigan and Second Iowa regiments of cavalry, formed into a brigade under command of Colonel Washington L. Elliott, of the Second Iowa....

THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. 14, No. 390.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1829. [PRICE 2d. CLIFTON. [Illustration] Clifton is the Montpellier of England, and is associated with all that is delightful in nature: of this, the Engraving before us is a true picture, whether we contemplate the winding Avon; the sublime beauty of its rocks– Clifton’s airy rocks, (as Mr. Bowles poetically calls them), the picturesque scenery of the opposite shore; or the abodes of cottage comforts which cluster into a rural village beside the cliff till the eye reaches a splendid range of crescents and terraces which art has reared on the stupendous brow above....

THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. 14, No. 405.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1829. [PRICE 2d. NEW BUILDINGS, INNER TEMPLE. [Illustration: New Buildings, Inner Temple.] “The Temple,” as our readers may be aware, is an immense range of buildings, stretching from Fleet-street to the River Thames, north and south; and from Lombard-street, Whitefriars, to Essex-street, in the Strand, east and west. It takes its name from having been the principal establishment, in England, of the Knights Templars; and here, in the thirteenth century they entertained King Henry III....

THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. Vol. 17, No. 496.] SATURDAY, June 27, 1831. [PRICE 2d. * * * * * [Illustration: BARON BROUGHAM & VAUX. Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, &c. &c.] * * * * * THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION: CONTAINING ORIGINAL ESSAYS; HISTORICAL NARRATIVES; BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS; SKETCHES OF SOCIETY; TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTIONS; NOVELS AND TALES; ANECDOTES; SELECT EXTRACTS FROM NEW AND EXPENSIVE WORKS; POETRY, ORIGINAL AND SELECTED; THE SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS; DISCOVERIES IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES; USEFUL DOMESTIC HINTS; &C....

The Mirror of the Sea Contents: I. Landfalls and DeparturesIV. Emblems of HopeVII. The Fine ArtX. Cobwebs and GossamerXIII. The Weight of the BurdenXVI. Overdue and MissingXX. The Grip of the LandXXII. The Character of the FoeXXV. Rules of East and WestXXX. The Faithful RiverXXXIII. In CaptivityXXXV. InitiationXXXVII. The Nursery of the CraftXL. The TremolinoXLVI. The Heroic Age CHAPTER I. “And shippes by the brinke comen and gon, And in swich forme endure a day or two....

by MARGARET PENROSE Author of the highly successful “Dorothy Dale Series” 12mo. Illustrated. Price per volume, 75 cents, postpaid. Since the enormous success or our “Motor Boys Series,” by Clarence Young, we have been asked to get out a similar series for girls. No one is better equipped to furnish these tales than Mrs. Penrose, who, besides being an able writer, is an expert automobilist. THE MOTOR GIRLS ON A TOUR CONTENTS I A SPOILED DINNER....

THE MUTINY OF THE ELSINORE by Jack London CHAPTER I From the first the voyage was going wrong. Routed out of my hotel on a bitter March morning, I had crossed Baltimore and reached the pier- end precisely on time. At nine o’clock the tug was to have taken me down the bay and put me on board the Elsinore, and with growing irritation I sat frozen inside my taxicab and waited....

Volume 8 THE GREAT FORTRESS A Chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760 By WILLIAM WOOD TORONTO, 1915 PREFACE Louisbourg was no mere isolated stronghold which could be lost or won without affecting the wider issues of oversea dominion. On the contrary, it was a necessary link in the chain of waterside posts which connected France with America by way of the Atlantic, the St Lawrence, the Great Lakes, and the Mississippi. But since the chain itself and all its other links, and even the peculiar relation of Louisbourg to the Acadians and the Conquest, have been fully described elsewhere in the Chronicles of Canada, the present volume only tries to tell the purely individual tale....

[Illustration: “Quite a little party of friends to see him off.” (p. 155)] HIS BIG OPPORTUNITY BY AMY LE FEUVRE Author of “Probable Sons,” “The Odd One,” “Teddy’s Button,” etc, etc. 1898 Contents Chapters I. On the Garden Wall II. A Song III. Making An Opportunity IV. An Awkward Visit V. A Lost Donkey VI. Rob VII. A Walnut Story VIII. The Bertrams’ Leap IX. Making His Leap X. A Cripple XI....

HOME GEOGRAPHY FOR PRIMARY GRADES BY C. C. LONG, Ph.D. AUTHOR OF NEW LANGUAGE LESSONS, LESSONS IN ENGLISH, ETC., TO THE TEACHER. Geography may be divided into the geography of the home and the geography of the world at large. A knowledge of the home must be obtained by direct observation; of the rest of the world, through the imagination assisted by information. Ideas acquired by direct observation form a basis for imagining those things which are distant and unknown....