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by John Ruskin PREFACE “The King of the Golden River” is a delightful fairy tale told with all Ruskin’s charm of style, his appreciation of mountain scenery, and with his usual insistence upon drawing a moral. None the less, it is quite unlike his other writings. All his life long his pen was busy interpreting nature and pictures and architecture, or persuading to better views those whom he believed to be in error, or arousing, with the white heat of a prophet’s zeal, those whom he knew to be unawakened....

{“The Lake Gun” is one of James Fenimore Cooper’s very few short stories, and was written in the last year of his life. It was commissioned by George E. Wood for publication in a volume of miscellaneous stories and poems called “The Parthenon” (New York: George E. Wood, 1850), and Cooper received $100 for it. The story was reprinted a few years later in a similar volume called “Specimens of American Literature” (New York, 1866)....

THE LATE MRS NULL BY FRANK R. STOCKTON 1886 CHAPTER I. There was a wide entrance gate to the old family mansion of Midbranch, but it was never opened to admit the family or visitors; although occasionally a load of wood, drawn by two horses and two mules, came between its tall chestnut posts, and was taken by a roundabout way among the trees to a spot at the back of the house, where the chips of several generations of sturdy wood-choppers had formed a ligneous soil deeper than the arable surface of any portion of the nine hundred and fifty acres which formed the farm of Midbranch....

THE MALADY OF THE CENTURY BY MAX NORDAU Author of “THE COMEDY OF SENTIMENT,” “HOW WOMEN LOVE,” Etc., Etc. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I.Mountain and Forest CHAPTER II.Vanity of Vanities CHAPTER III.Heroes CHAPTER IV.It was not to be CHAPTER V.A Lay Sermon CHAPTER VI.An Idyll CHAPTER VII.Symposium CHAPTER VIII.Dark Days CHAPTER IX.Results CHAPTER X.A Seaside Romance CHAPTER XLIn the Horselberg CHAPTER XII.Tannhauser’s Plight CHAPTER XIII.Consummation CHAPTER XIV.Uden Horizo CHAPTER I. MOUNTAIN AND FOREST....

THE MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG AND OTHER STORIES By Mark Twain CONTENTS: THE MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG MY FIRST LIE, AND HOW I GOT OUT OF IT THE ESQUIMAUX MAIDEN’S ROMANCE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND THE BOOK OF MRS. EDDY IS HE LIVING OR IS HE DEAD? MY DEBUT AS A LITERARY PERSON AT THE APPETITE-CURE CONCERNING THE JEWS FROM THE ‘LONDON TIMES’ OF 1904 ABOUT PLAY-ACTING TRAVELLING WITH A REFORMER DIPLOMATIC PAY AND CLOTHES LUCK THE CAPTAIN’S STORY STIRRING TIMES IN AUSTRIA MEISTERSCHAFT MY BOYHOOD DREAMS TO THE ABOVE OLD PEOPLE IN MEMORIAM–OLIVIA SUSAN CLEMENS THE MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG It was many years ago....

by Anna Katherine Green CONTENTS CHAPTER I A SPY’S DUTY II QUESTIONS III IN THE GABLE WINDOW IV LIGHTS-SOUNDS V THE STRANGE NEIGHBORS NEXT DOOR VI AT THE STAIR-HEAD VII A MOVING SHADOW VIII THE PARAGRAPH IX SCRAPS X A GLIMMER OF THE TRUTH XI BESS XII SEARCHINGS XIII A DISCOVERY XIV I SEEK HELP XV HARDLY A COINCIDENCE XVI IN THE LIBRARY XVII THE TWO WEIRD SISTERS XVIII THE MORNING NEWS XIX THE CRY FROM THE STAIRS XX EXPLANATION XXI THE CIPHER XXII MERCY XXIII THE WIFE’S TALE XXIV THE SINS OF THE FATHERS XXV THE FINGER ON THE WALL XXVI “BITTER AS THE GRAVE” XXVII A CHILD’S PLAYTHINGSXXVIII RESTITUTION CHAPTER I A SPY’S DUTY I am not without self-control, yet when Miss Davies entered the room with that air of importance she invariably assumes when she has an unusually fine position to offer, I could not hide all traces of my anxiety....

COMPUTERS INCREASED IN VALUE TWICE AS MUCH AS IT APPEARS SINCE THE FIRST CONSUMER HARD DRIVES BECAME AVAILABLE IN APPROXIMATELY 1979 WHERE DOES OUR MONEY GO? Many of you are aware that the $3,000 you spent on computers last year could be replaced by $2,000 spent today. However, only recently have I actually purchased computer gear that I bought with dollars that were only half as valuable as those with which one of my drives was purchased in 1979....

Hopalong Cassidy’s Rustler Round-Up (BAR-20) by Clarence Edward Mulford 1906 CHAPTER I Buckskin The town lay sprawled over half a square mile of alkali plain, its main Street depressing in its width, for those who were responsible for its inception had worked with a generosity born of the knowledge that they had at their immediate and unchallenged disposal the broad lands of Texas and New Mexico on which to assemble a grand total of twenty buildings, four of which were of wood....

INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY MISCELLANY Of Literature, Art, and Science. * * * * * Vol. I. NEW YORK, JULY 22, 1850. No. 4. * * * * * LITERARY COTERIES IN PARIS IN THE LAST CENTURY. The revolutions of society are almost as sure if not as regular as those of the planets. The inventions of a generation weary after a while, but they are very likely to be revived if they have once ministered successfully to pleasure or ambition....

Contents To the Gentle ReaderIn Remembrance of John Ingerfield and of Anne, his Wife The Woman of the SaeterVariety PatterSilhouettesThe Lease of the “Cross Keys” TO THE GENTLE READER;alsoTO THE GENTLE CRITIC. Once upon a time, I wrote a little story of a woman who was crushed to death by a python. A day or two after its publication, a friend stopped me in the street. “Charming little story of yours,” he said,” that about the woman and the snake; but it’s not as funny as some of your things!...

JONAS ON A FARM IN WINTER. BY JACOB ABBOTT Author of the Rollo Books MDCCCLI. [Illustration: Jonas stopping at the house of Mr. Edwards.] PREFACE. This little work, with its companion, Jonas On A Farm In Summer, is intended as the continuation of a series, the first two volumes of which, Jonas’s Stories and Jonas A Judge, have already been published. They are all designed, not merely to interest and amuse the juvenile reader, but to give him instruction, by exemplifying the principles of honest integrity, and plain practical good sense, in their application to the ordinary circumstances of childhood....

JURGEN A Comedy of Justice By JAMES BRANCH CABELL 1922 ”Of JURGEN eke they maken mencioun, That of an old wyf gat his youthe agoon, And gat himselfe a shirte as bright as fyre Wherein to jape, yet gat not his desire In any countrie ne condicioun.” TO BURTON RASCOE Before each tarradiddle, Uncowed by sciolists, Robuster persons twiddle Tremendously big fists. “Our gods are good,” they tell us; “Nor will our gods defer Remission of rude fellows’ Ability to err....

THE HISTORY OF LANDHOLDING IN ENGLAND. BY JOSEPH FISHER, F.R.H.S. “Much food is in the tillage of the poor, but there is that is destroyed for want of Judgment.”–PROV. 13: 23. “Of all arts, tillage or agriculture is doubtless the most useful and necessary, as being the source whence the nation derives its subsistence. The cultivation of the soil causes it to produce an infinite increase. It forms the surest resource and the most solid fund of riches and commerce for a nation that enjoys a happy climate …....

ODD CRAFT By W.W. Jacobs LAWYER QUINCE Lawyer Quince, so called by his neighbours in Little Haven from his readiness at all times to place at their disposal the legal lore he had acquired from a few old books while following his useful occupation of making boots, sat in a kind of wooden hutch at the side of his cottage plying his trade. The London coach had gone by in a cloud of dust some three hours before, and since then the wide village street had slumbered almost undisturbed in the sunshine....

IN TWO VOLS.–VOL. II of the Content of Chapters. here follow the Chapters of the Tenth Book.> How Sir Tristram jousted, and smote down King Arthur, because he told him not the cause why he bare that shield . Chap. i. How Sir Tristram saved Sir Palomides’ life, and how they promised to fight together within a fortnight . . Chap. ii. How Sir Tristram sought a strong knight that had smitten him down, and many other knights of the Round Table ....

Les cinq cents millions de la BÈgum de Jules Verne TABLE DES MATI…RES I – OŸ MR. SHARP FAIT SON ENTR…E II – DEUX COPAINS III – UN FAIT DIVERS IV – PART ¬ DEUX V – LA CIT… DE L’ACIER VI – LE PUITS ALBRECHT VII – LE BLOC CENTRAL VIII – LA CAVERNS DU DRAGON IX – ´ P. P. C. ª X – UN ARTICLE DE L’ ´ UNSERE CENTURIE ª, REVUE ALLEMANDE XI – UN DŒNER CHEZ LE DOCTEUR SARRASIN XII – LE CONSEIL XIII – MARCEL BRUCKMANN AU PROFESSEUR SCHULTZE, STAHLSTADT XIV – BRANLE-BAS DE COMBAT XV – LA BOURSE DE SAN FRANCISCO XVI – DEUX FRAN«AIS CONTRE UNE VILLE XVII – EXPLICATIONS ¿ COUPS DE FUSIL XVIII- L’AMANDE DU NOYAU XIX – UNE AFFAIRE DE FAMILLE XX – CONCLUSION I OU MR....

LESSER HIPPIAS by Plato (see Appendix I) Translated by Benjamin Jowett APPENDIX I. It seems impossible to separate by any exact line the genuine writings of Plato from the spurious. The only external evidence to them which is of much value is that of Aristotle; for the Alexandrian catalogues of a century later include manifest forgeries. Even the value of the Aristotelian authority is a good deal impaired by the uncertainty concerning the date and authorship of the writings which are ascribed to him....

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. ***Steve Harris, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. HECTOR ST. JOHN DE CREVECOEUR LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN FARMER INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY WARREN BARTON BLAKE INTRODUCTION Hazlitt wrote that of the three notable writers whom the eighteenth century had produced, in the North American colonies, one was “the author (whoever he was) of the American Farmer’s Letters....

Lilith by George MacDonald I took a walk on Spaulding’s Farm the other afternoon. I saw the setting sun lighting up the opposite side of a stately pine wood. Its golden rays straggled into the aisles of the wood as into some noble hall. I was impressed as if some ancient and altogether admirable and shining family had settled there in that part of the land called Concord, unknown to me,–to whom the sun was servant,– who had not gone into society in the village,–who had not been called on....

MENO by Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION. This Dialogue begins abruptly with a question of Meno, who asks, ‘whether virtue can be taught.’ Socrates replies that he does not as yet know what virtue is, and has never known anyone who did. ‘Then he cannot have met Gorgias when he was at Athens.’ Yes, Socrates had met him, but he has a bad memory, and has forgotten what Gorgias said....