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BY OCTAVUS ROY COHEN Author of “THE CRIMSON ALIBI,” “GRAY DUSK,” ETC. 1921 TO DR. MILES A. WATKINS CONTENTS CHAPTER I OUT OF THE STORM II THE SUIT-CASE IS OPENED III “FIND THE WOMAN” IV CARROLL HAS A VISITOR V MISS EVELYN ROGERS VI REGARDING ROLAND WARREN VII THE VALET TALKS VIII CARROLL MAKES A MOVE XI ICE CREAM SODA X A DISCOVERY XI LOOSE ENDS XII A CHALLENGE XIII NO ALIBI XIV THE SUIT-CASE AGAIN XV A TALK WITH HAZEL GRESHAM XVI THE WOMAN IN THE TAXI XVII BARKER ACCUSES XVIII “AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH–“ XIX LABYRINTH XX A CONFESSION XXI CARROLL DECIDES XXII THE PROBLEM IS SOLVED CHAPTER I OUT OF THE STORM Taxicab No....

New Comedies By Lady Gregory The Bogie Men–The Full Moon–CoatsDarmer’s Gold–McDonough’s Wife COPYRIGHT 1913BY LADY GREGORY TO THE RT. HON. W.F. BAILEYCOUNSELLOR, PEACEMAKER, FRIEND ABBEY THEATRE, 1913. CONTENTS THE BOGIE MEN THE FULL MOON COATS DAMER’S GOLD MCDONOUGH’S WIFE NOTES THE BOGIE MEN PERSONS Taig O’Harragha | BOTH CHIMNEY_Darby Melody_ | SWEEPS THE BOGIE MEN Scene: A Shed near where a coach stops. Darby comes in. Has a tin can of water in one hand, a sweep’s bag and brush in the other....

NEW YORK AT THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION ST. LOUIS, 1904 REPORT OF THE NEW YORK STATE COMMISSION PREPARED AND COMPILED BY DELANCEY M. ELLIS 1907 [ILLUSTRATION] REPORT ALBANY, N.Y., March 25, 1907 Hon. CHARLES E. HUGHES, Governor: DEAR SIR.–We beg to submit herewith, in accordance with the provisions of the statute, the final report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission of the State of New York. Very respectfully EDWARD H....

ODD CRAFT BY W. W. JACOBS 1909 Contents: THE MONEY-BOX THE CASTAWAY BLUNDELL’S IMPROVEMENT BILL’S LAPSE LAWYER QUINCE BREAKING A SPELL ESTABLISHING RELATIONS THE CHANGING NUMBERS THE PERSECUTION OF BOB PRETTY DIXON’S RETURN A SPIRIT OF AVARICE THE THIRD STRING ODD CHARGES ADMIRAL PETERS THE MONEY-BOX Sailormen are not good ‘ands at saving money as a rule, said the night-watchman, as he wistfully toyed with a bad shilling on his watch-chain, though to ‘ear ’em talk of saving when they’re at sea and there isn’t a pub within a thousand miles of ’em, you might think different....

On the Method of Zadigby Thomas Henry HuxleyThis is Essay #1 from “Science and Hebrew Tradition” RETROSPECTIVE PROPHECY AS A FUNCTION OF SCIENCE “Une marque plus sure que toutes celles de Zadig.”<1>–Cuvier. It is an usual and a commendable practice to preface the discussion of the views of a philosophic thinker by some account of the man and of the circumstances which shaped his life and coloured his way of looking at things; but, though Zadig is cited in one of the most important chapters of Cuvier’s greatest work, little is known about him, and that little might perhaps be better authenticated than it is....

John Quincy Adams, “Orations” “The Jubilee of the Constitution, delivered at New York, April 30, 1839, before the New York Historical Society.” Fellow-Citizens and Brethren, Associates of the New York Historical Society: Would it be an unlicensed trespass of the imagination to conceive that on the night preceding the day of which you now commemorate the fiftieth anniversary–on the night preceding that thirtieth of April, 1789, when from the balcony of your city hall the chancellor of the State of New York administered to George Washington the solemn oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States, and to the best of his ability to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the United States–that in the visions of the night the guardian angel of the Father of our Country had appeared before him, in the venerated form of his mother, and, to cheer and encourage him in the performance of the momentous and solemn duties that he was about to assume, had delivered to him a suit of celestial armor–a helmet, consisting of the principles of piety, of justice, of honor, of benevolence, with which from his earliest infancy he had hitherto walked through life, in the presence of all his brethren; a spear, studded with the self- evident truths of the Declaration of Independence; a sword, the same with which he had led the armies of his country through the war of freedom to the summit of the triumphal arch of independence; a corselet and cuishes of long experience and habitual intercourse in peace and war with the world of mankind, his contemporaries of the human race, in all their stages of civilization; and, last of all, the Constitution of the United States, a shield, embossed by heavenly hands with the future history of his country?...

A Novel By MRS. SIDNEY S. HARRIS Author of “Rutledge,” “St. Phillips,” etc., etc. 1871 To S.S.H. CONTENTS CHAPTER I.VARICK-STREET CHAPTER II.VERY GOOD LUCK CHAPTER III.KILIAN CHAPTER IV.MY COMPANIONS CHAPTER V.THE TUTOR CHAPTER VI.MATINAL CHAPTER VII.THREE WEEKS TOO LATE CHAPTER VIII.SUNDAY CHAPTER IX.A DANCE CHAPTER X.EVERY DAY FROM SIX TO SEVEN. CHAPTER XI.SOPHIE’S WORK CHAPTER XII.PRAEMONITUS, PRAEMUNITUS CHAPTER XIII.THE WORLD GOES ON THE SAME CHAPTER XIV.GUARDED CHAPTER XV.I SHALL HAVE SEEN HIM CHAPTER XVI....

RODEN’S CORNER BY HENRY SETON MERRIMAN 1913 “‘Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays” CONTENTS CHAPTER I. IN ST. JACOB STRAAT II. WORK OK PLAY? III. BEGINNING AT HOME IV. A NEW DISCIPLE V. OUT OF EGYPT VI. ON THE DUNES VII. OFFICIAL VIII. THE SEAMY SIDE IX....

SACRED AND PROFANE LOVE A NOVEL IN THREE EPISODES BY ARNOLD BENNETT 1905 TO MY FRIEND EDEN PHILLPOTTS THE NOVELIST FOR WHOM MAN AND NATURE ARE INSEPARABLE WITH PROFOUND RESPECT FOR THE CLASSICAL DIGNITY OF HIS AIM AND EQUAL ADMIRATION FOR THE AUSTERE SPLENDOUR OF HIS PERFORMANCE CONTENTS PART I IN THE NIGHT PART II THREE HUMAN HEARTS PART III THE VICTORY ’How I have wept, the long night through, over the poor women of the past, so beautiful, so tender, so sweet, whose arms have opened for the kiss, and who are dead!...

SAMANTHA AMONG THE BRETHREN. By “Josiah Allen’s Wife” (Marietta Holley) Part 1 With Illustrations. 1890 TO All Women WHO WORK, TRYING TO BRING INTO DARK LIVES THE BRIGHTNESS AND HOPE OF A BETTER COUNTRY, THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED. PREFACE. Again it come to pass, in the fulness of time, that my companion, Josiah Allen, see me walk up and take my ink stand off of the manteltry piece, and carry it with a calm and majestick gait to the corner of the settin’ room table devoted by me to literary pursuits....

SARTOR RESARTUS: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh By Thomas Carlyle.[1831] BOOK I. CHAPTER I.PRELIMINARY. Considering our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more fiercely than ever, but innumerable Rushlights, and Sulphur-matches, kindled thereat, are also glancing in every direction, so that not the smallest cranny or dog-hole in Nature or Art can remain unilluminated,–it might strike the reflective mind with some surprise that hitherto little or nothing of a fundamental character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes....

[Illustration] SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 324 NEW YORK, MARCH 18, 1882 Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XIII, No. 324. Scientific American established 1845 Scientific American Supplement, $5 a year. Scientific American and Supplement, $7 a year. * * * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS. I. ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS–Machine Tools for Boiler Makers. 2 figures.–Improved boiler plate radial drill.–Improved boiler plate bending roller. Modern Ordnance. By COLONEL MAITLAND.–Rifled cannon.–Built guns.–Steel castings.–Breech loading....

SELECTIONS FROM THE SPEECHES AND WRITINGS OF EDMUND BURKE. INTRODUCTORY ESSAY. … “Id dico, eum qui sit orator, virum bonum esse oportere. In omnibus quae dicit tanta auctoritas inest, ut dissentire pudeat; nec advocati studium, sed testis aut judicis afferat fidem.”–Quintilianus. “Democracy is the most monstrous of all governments, because it is impossible at once to act and control; and, consequently, the Sovereign Power is then left without any restraint whatever....

To SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. Dear Sir,–By inscribing this slight performance to you, I do not mean so much to compliment you as myself. It may do me some honour to inform the public, that I have lived many years in intimacy with you. It may serve the interests of mankind also to inform them, that the greatest wit may be found in a character, without impairing the most unaffected piety....

SOCIAL PICTORIAL SATIRE [Frontispiece: Mr. and Mrs. Candle. From the original drawing by JOHN LEECH. In the possession of JOHN KENDRICK BANGS. Esq. The lower portion has never before been reproduced.] SOCIAL PICTORIAL SATIRE. By GEORGE DU MAURIER, Author of “Trilby” “The Martian” &c. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS MDCCCXCVIII LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Mr. and Mrs. Caudle John Leech ”In the Bay of Biscay O” A Specimen of Pluck One of Mr. Briggs’s Adventures in the Highlands Thank Goodness!...

LITERATURE AND LIFE–Some Anomalies of the Short Story by William Dean Howells SOME ANOMALIES OF THE SHORT STORY The interesting experiment of one of our great publishing houses in putting out serially several volumes of short stories, with the hope that a courageous persistence may overcome the popular indifference to such collections when severally administered, suggests some questions as to this eldest form of fiction which I should like to ask the reader’s patience with....

TALES OF LONELY TRAILS BY ZANE GREY 1922 [Illustration: Zane Grey] CONTENTS CHAPTER I. NONNEZOSHE II. COLORADO TRAILS III. ROPING LIONS IN THE GRAND CANYON IV. TONTO BASIN V. DEATH VALLEY ILLUSTRATIONS ZANE GREY Z.G. AFTER TWO MONTHS IN THE WILDS THERE WAS SOMETHING BEYOND THE WHITE PEAKED RANGES WEIRD AND WONDERFUL MONUMENTS IN MONUMENT VALLEY SUNSET ON THE DESERT CAVE OF THE CLIFF DWELLERS THIS IMMENSE CAVE WOULD HOLD TRINITY CHURCH....

THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY RICHMOND By George Meredith BOOK 4. XXIII. MY TWENTY-FIRST BIRTHDAYXXIV. I MEET THE PRINCESSXXV. ON BOARD A YACHTXXVI. IN VIEW OF THE HOHENZOLLERN’S BIRTHPLACE XXVII. THE TIME OF ROSESXXVIII. OTTILIAXXIX. AN EVENING WITH DR. JULIUS VON KARSTEG XXX. A SUMMER STORM, AND LOVEXXXI. PRINCESS OTTILIA’S LETTERXXXII. AN INTERVIEW WITH PRINCE ERNEST AND A MEETING WITH PRINCE OTTO CHAPTER XXIII MY TWENTY-FIRST BIRTHDAY Books and dreams, like the two rivers cited by my father, flowed side by side in me without mixing; and which the bright Rhone was, which the brown Arve, needs not to be told to those who know anything of youth; they were destined to intermingle soon enough....

A Novel of the North By JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD With Illustrations by Walt Louderback To the strong-hearted men and women of Alaska, the new empire rising in the North, it is for me an honor and a privilege to dedicate this work. JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD Owosso, Michigan August 1, 1923 THE ILLUSTRATIONS It was as if the man was deliberately insulting her (Frontispiece). The long, black launch nosed its way out to sea....

THE ANGEL AND THE AUTHOR–AND OTHERS by Jerome K. Jerome CHAPTER I I had a vexing dream one night, not long ago: it was about a fortnight after Christmas. I dreamt I flew out of the window in my nightshirt. I went up and up. I was glad that I was going up. “They have been noticing me,” I thought to myself. “If anything, I have been a bit too good....