INTRODUCTION. There could be but one answer to the suggestion of Mr. Coventry Patmore that his “Angel in the House” might usefully have a place in this “National Library.” The suggestion was made with the belief that wide and cheap diffusion would not take from the value of a copyright library edition, while the best use of writing is fulfilled by the spreading of verse dedicated to the sacred love of home....
The Blotting Book By E. F. BENSON 1908 CHAPTER I Mrs. Assheton’s house in Sussex Square, Brighton, was appointed with that finish of smooth stateliness which robs stateliness of its formality, and conceals the amount of trouble and personal attention which has, originally in any case, been spent on the production of the smoothness. Everything moved with the regularity of the solar system, and, superior to that wild rush of heavy bodies through infinite ether, there was never the slightest fear of comets streaking their unconjectured way across the sky, or meteorites falling on unsuspicious picnicers....
THE BOOK OF HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT; Comprising Information for the MISTRESS,HOUSEKEEPER,COOK,KITCHEN-MAID,BUTLER,FOOTMAN,COACHMAN,VALET,UPPER AND UNDER HOUSE-MAIDS,LADY’S-MAID,MAID-OF-ALL-WORK,LAUNDRY-MAID,NURSE AND NURSE-MAID,MONTHLY, WET, AND SICK NURSES,ETC. ETC. ALSO, SANITARY, MEDICAL, & LEGAL MEMORANDA; WITH A HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN, PROPERTIES, AND USES OF ALL THINGS CONNECTED WITH HOME LIFE AND COMFORT. BY MRS. ISABELLA BEETON. Nothing lovelier can be found In Woman, than to study household good.–MILTON. Published Originally ByS. O. Beeton in 24 Monthly Parts1859-1861. First Published in a Bound Edition 1861....
THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments Translated and Annotated by Richard F. Burton VOLUME TWO To John Payne, Esq. My Dear Sir, Allow me thus publicly to express my admiration of your magnum opus, “The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night;” and to offer you my cordial thanks for honouring me with the dedication of that scholar-like and admirable version....
THE BOY SCOUTS OF THE EAGLE PATROL By Lieut. Howard Payson CHAPTER I SCOUTS ON THE TRAIL The dark growth of scrub oak and pine parted suddenly and the lithe figure of a boy of about seventeen emerged suddenly into the little clearing. The lad who had so abruptly materialized from the close-growing vegetation peculiar to the region about the little town of Hampton, on the south shore of Long Island, wore a well-fitting uniform of brown khaki, canvas leggings of the same hue and a soft hat of the campaign variety, turned up at one side....
Poul and Karen Andersonwithout whose inspirationit would not exist. Geoff KiddKrista Rourke Ad Musan.“Est mihi schoena etenim et praestanti corpore liebsta Haec sola est mea Musa meoque regierit in Herza. Huic me ergebo ipsum meaque illi abstatto geluebda, Huic ebrensaulas aufrichto opfroque Geschenka, Hic etiam absingo liedros et carmina scribo.” Rapsodia Andra, Leipzig, 17th Century PrefaceTo the Edition of 1889. —- Though twenty years have passed since the first appearance of the “Breitmann Ballads” in a collected form, the author is deeply gratified — and not less sincerely grateful to the public — in knowing that Hans still lives in many memories, that he continues to be quoted when writers wish to illustrate an exuberantly joyous “barty” or ladies so very fashionably dressed as to recall “de maidens mit nodings on,” and that no inconsiderable number of those who are “beginning German” continue to be addressed by sportive friends in the Breitmann dialect as a compliment to their capacity as linguists....
THE BROWN MASK By Percy J. Brebner Author of “Princess Maritza,” “Vayenne,” “A Royal Ward” 1911 CONTENTS CHAPTER BRETHREN OF THE ROAD 2. BARBARA LANISON 3. GREY EYES 4. THE NUN OF AYLINGFORD 5. CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL 6. MAD MARTIN 7. KING MONMOUTH 8. SEDGEMOOR AND AFTERWARDS 9. “THE JOLLY FARMERS”10. FATE AND THE FIDDLER11. THE FUGITIVE AT AYLINGFORD12. BARBARA HELPS TO CLOSE A DOOR13. THE WAY OF ESCAPE14....
Joseph Muller, Secret Service detective of the Imperial Austrian police, is one of the great experts in his profession. In personality he differs greatly from other famous detectives. He has neither the impressive authority of Sherlock Holmes, nor the keen brilliancy of Monsieur Lecoq. Muller is a small, slight, plain-looking man, of indefinite age, and of much humbleness of mien. A naturally retiring, modest disposition, and two external causes are the reasons for Muller’s humbleness of manner, which is his chief characteristic....
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Etext prepared by Michael C. Browning THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT BY JAMES THOMSON Per me si va nella citta dolente. –Dante Poi di tanto adoprar, di tanti motiD’ogni celeste, ogni terrena cosa,Girando senza posa,Per tornar sempre la donde son mosse; Uso alcuno, alcun fruttoIndovinar non so. Sola nel mondo eterna, a cui si volve Ogni creata cosa,In te, morte, si posaNostra ignuda natura;Lieta no, ma sicuraDell’ antico dolor ....
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ARTEMUS WARD, PART 3, STORIES AND ROMANCES (CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE) With a biographical sketch by Melville D. Landon, “Eli Perkins” CONTENTS. PART III. Stories and Romances. 3.1. Moses the Sassy; or, The Disguised Duke. 3.2. Marion: A Romance of the French School. 3.3. William Barker, the Young Patriot. 3.4. A Romance–The Conscript. 3.5. A Romance–Only a Mechanic. 3.6. Roberto the Rover; A Tale of Sea and Shore....
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ARTEMUS WARD, PART 7, MISCELLANEOUS (CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE) With a biographical sketch by Melville D. Landon, “Eli Perkins” CONTENTS. PART VII. Miscellaneous. 7.1. The Cruise of the Polly Ann. 7.2. Artemus Ward’s Autobiography. 7.3. The Serenade. 7.4. O’Bourcy’s “Arrah-na-Pogue.” 7.5. Artemus Ward among the Fenians. 7.6. Artemus Ward in Washington. 7.7. Scenes Outside the Fair Grounds. 7.8. The Wife. 7.9. A Juvenile Composition On the Elephant....
THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare 1 From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty’s rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed’st thy light’s flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel: Thou that art now the world’s fresh ornament, And only herald to the gaudy spring, Within thine own bud buriest thy content, And tender churl mak’st waste in niggarding: Pity the world, or else this glutton be, To eat the world’s due, by the grave and thee....
SCENE: Venice and Cyprus ACT I. SCENE I.Venice. A street. Enter Roderigo and Iago. RODERIGO. Tush, never tell me! I take it much unkindly That thou, Iago, who hast had my purse As if the strings were thine, shouldst know of this. IAGO. ‘Sblood, but you will not hear me. If ever I did dream of such a matter, Abhor me. RODERIGO. Thou told’st me thou didst hold him in thy hate....
A NOVEL: FOUNDED ON FACT. BY A LADY OF MASSACHUSETTS. HISTORICAL PREFACE, INCLUDING A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR. He who waits beside the folded gates of mystery, over which forever float the impurpled vapors of the PAST, should stand with girded loins, and white, unshodden feet. So he who attempts to lift the veil that separates the REAL from the IDEAL, or to remove the heavy curtain that for a century may have concealed from view the actual personages of a well-drawn popular fiction, or what may have been received as such, should bring to his task a tender heart and a delicate and gentle hand....
CHAPTER I–FOREWORD It began in the swimming pool at Glen Ellen. Between swims it was our wont to come out and lie in the sand and let our skins breathe the warm air and soak in the sunshine. Roscoe was a yachtsman. I had followed the sea a bit. It was inevitable that we should talk about boats. We talked about small boats, and the seaworthiness of small boats. We instanced Captain Slocum and his three years’ voyage around the world in the Spray....
THE DORE GALLERY OF BIBLE ILLUSTRATIONS Illustrated by Gustave Dore Volume 6. THE NATIVITY. And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:) to be taxed with Mary, his espoused wife, being great with child....
THE DYNAMITER TO MESSRS. COLE AND COX, POLICE OFFICERS Gentlemen,–In the volume now in your hands, the authors have touched upon that ugly devil of crime, with which it is your glory to have contended. It were a waste of ink to do so in a serious spirit. Let us dedicate our horror to acts of a more mingled strain, where crime preserves some features of nobility, and where reason and humanity can still relish the temptation....
THE EDINBURGH LECTURES ON MENTAL SCIENCE BY THOMAS TROWARD LATE DIVISIONAL JUDGE, PUNJAB THE WRITER AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATES THIS LITTLE VOLUME TO HIS WIFE FOREWORD. This book contains the substance of a course of lectures recently given by the writer in the Queen Street Hall, Edinburgh. Its purpose is to indicate the Natural Principles governing the relation between Mental Action and Material Conditions, and thus to afford the student an intelligible starting-point for the practical study of the subject....
THE ELEMENTS OF CHARACTER. BY MARY G. CHANDLER. “An exclusively intellectual education leads, by a very obvious process, to hard-heartedness and the contempt of all moral influences. An exclusively moral education tends to fatuity by the over-excitement of the sensibilities. An exclusively religious education ends in insanity, if it do not take a directly opposite course and lead to atheism.”–EDINBURGH REVIEW. 1854 THE REV. E.H. SEARS, MY FORMER PASTOR, UNDER WHOSE SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE AND INSTRUCTION, MY MIND LEARNED TO DWELL UPON RELIGIOUS THEMES WITH PLEASURE, WHILE MY HEART FOUND PEACE IN BELIEVING....
