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The Khasis By Major P.R.T. Gurdon, I.A.Deputy Commissioner Eastern Bengal and Assam Commission, and Superintendent ofEthnography in Assam. With an Introduction bySir Charles Lyall, K.C.S.I. (Published under the orders of the Government of Eastern Bengal and Assam) Illustrated Preface This book is an attempt to give a systematic account of the Khasi people, their manners and customs, their ethnological affinities, their laws and institutions, their religious beliefs, their folk-lore, their theories as to their origin, and their language....

THE LEGENDS OF THE JEWS VOLUME IVBIBLE TIMES AND CHARACTERS FROM JOSHUA TO ESTHER BY LOUIS GINZBERG TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN MANUSCRIPT CONTENTS I. JOSHUAThe Servant of Moses Entering the Promised Land–Conquest of the Land–The Sun Obeys Joshua–War with the Armenians–Allotment of the Land. II. THE JUDGESThe First Judge–Campaigns of KenaS–Othniel–Boaz and Ruth–Deborah–Gideon–Jephthah–Samson–The Crime of the Crime of the Benjamites. III. SAMUEL AND SAULElkanah and Hannah–The Youth of Samuel–Eli and His Sons–The Activities of Samuel–The Reign of Saul–The Court of Saul....

Scanner’s Notes: What this is and isn’t. This was taken from a copy of Shakespeare’s first folio and it is as close as I can come in ASCII to the printed text. The elongated S’s have been changed to small s’s and the conjoined ae have been changed to ae. I have left the spelling, punctuation, capitalization as close as possible to the printed text. I have corrected some spelling mistakes (I have put together a spelling dictionary devised from the spellings of the Geneva Bible and Shakespeare’s First Folio and have unified spellings according to this template), typo’s and expanded abbreviations as I have come across them....

THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF LEWIS CARROLL (REV. C. L. DODGSON) BY STUART DODGSON COLLINGWOOD B.A. CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD 1898 TO THE CHILD FRIENDS OF LEWIS CARROLL AND TO ALL WHO LOVE HIS WRITINGS THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED PREFACE It is with no undue confidence that I have accepted the invitation of the brothers and sisters of Lewis Carroll to write this Memoir. I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio falsi–the least omission may distort the whole picture....

A History and Some Criticisms PREFACE This is no Chronicle of Saints. Nor yet is it a History of Devils. It is a record of certain very human, strenuous men in a very human, strenuous age; a lustful, flamboyant age; an age red with blood and pale with passion at white-heat; an age of steel and velvet, of vivid colour, dazzling light and impenetrable shadow; an age of swift movement, pitiless violence and high endeavour, of sharp antitheses and amazing contrasts....

THE LIFE OF MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI By JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS TO THE CAVALIERE GUIDO BIAGI, DOCTOR IN LETTERS, PREFECT OF THE MEDICEO-LAURENTIAN LIBRARY, ETC., ETC. I DEDICATE THIS WORK ON MICHELANGELO IN RESPECT FOR HIS SCHOLARSHIP AND LEARNING ADMIRATION OF HIS TUSCAN STYLE AND GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF HIS GENEROUS ASSISTANCE CONTENTS CHAPTER I. BIRTH, BOYHOOD, YOUTH AT FLORENCE, DOWN TO LORENZO DE’ MEDICI’S DEATH. 1475-1492. II. FIRST VISITS TO BOLOGNA AND ROME–THE MADONNA DELLA FEBBRE AND OTHER WORKS IN MARBLE....

A most distinctive class of ancient Irish literature, and probably the class that is least popularly familiar, is the hagiographical. It is, the present writer ventures to submit, as valuable as it is distinctive and as well worthy of study as it is neglected. While annals, tales and poetry have found editors the Lives of Irish Saints have remained largely a mine unworked. Into the causes of this strange neglect it is not the purpose of the present introduction to enter....

BY RALPH HENRY BARBOUR Author of “Kitty of the Roses,” “An Orchard Princess,” “A Maid in Arcady,” “Holly,” “My Lady of the Fog,” etc. With Illustrations in Color by CLARENCE F. UNDERWOOD and Decorations by EDWARD STRATTON HOLLOWAY 1909 [Illustration: OVER THE TIPS OF THE SPRAYS SHE SHOT A GLANCE AT WADE] To L.D.K. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS OVER THE TIPS OF THE SPRAYS SHE SHOT A GLANCE AT WADE “OH, NO, SIR,” REPLIED ZEPHANIA, WITH A SHOCKED, PITYING EXPRESSION “YOUR HOUSE?...

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy. The Lost World By SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE COPYRIGHT, 1912 Foreword Mr. E. D. Malone desires to state that both the injunction for restraint and the libel action have been withdrawn unreservedly by Professor G. E. Challenger, who, being satisfied that no criticism or comment in this book is meant in an offensive spirit, has guaranteed that he will place no impediment to its publication and circulation....

THE MADONNA OF THE FUTURE by Henry James We had been talking about the masters who had achieved but a single masterpiece–the artists and poets who but once in their lives had known the divine afflatus and touched the high level of perfection. Our host had been showing us a charming little cabinet picture by a painter whose name we had never heard, and who, after this single spasmodic bid for fame, had apparently relapsed into obscurity and mediocrity....

THE MAN FROM THE CLOUDS BY J. STORER CLOUSTON 1919 CONTENTS PART I CHAPTER I In the Clouds II The Man on the Shore III Alone Again IV The Suspicious Stranger V The Doctor’s House VI A Petticoat VII At the Mansion House VIII Sunday IX An Ally X The Coast Patrol XI A Near Thing XII The Key Turned XIII On the Drifter XIV My Cousin’s Letter PART II CHAPTER I An Idea II A Little Dinner III The Alcoholic Patient IV The Test V Waiting VI The Spectacled Man VII A Reminiscence VIII H....

It is very difficult to classify THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY. It is possible to say that it is a gripping adventure story of murderous criminals and brilliant policemen; but it was to be expected that the author of the Father Brown stories should tell a detective story like no-one else. On this level, therefore, THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY succeeds superbly; if nothing else, it is a magnificent tour-de-force of suspense-writing....

The Master of BallantraeA Winter’s Tale To Sir Percy Florence and Lady Shelley Here is a tale which extends over many years and travels into many countries. By a peculiar fitness of circumstance the writer began, continued it, and concluded it among distant and diverse scenes. Above all, he was much upon the sea. The character and fortune of the fraternal enemies, the hall and shrubbery of Durrisdeer, the problem of Mackellar’s homespun and how to shape it for superior flights; these were his company on deck in many star-reflecting harbours, ran often in his mind at sea to the tune of slatting canvas, and were dismissed (something of the suddenest) on the approach of squalls....

[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of the file for those who may wish to sample the author’s ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.] MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XV. AND XVI. Being Secret Memoirs of Madame du Hausset, Lady’s Maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of an unknown English Girl and the Princess Lamballe BOOK 6. SECTION IV. “The dismissal of M....

A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys’ Work by ALLAN HOBEN, PH.D.Associate Professor of Practical Theology, The University of Chicago Field Secretary of the Chicago Juvenile Protective Association 1912 PREFACE The aim of this book is to call the attention of ministers to the important place which boys’ work may have in furthering the Kingdom of God. To this end an endeavor is made to quicken the minister’s appreciation of boys, to stimulate his study of them, and to suggest a few practical ways in which church work with boys may be conducted....

HUNTER QUATERMAIN’S STORY by H. Rider Haggard Sir Henry Curtis, as everybody acquainted with him knows, is one of the most hospitable men on earth. It was in the course of the enjoyment of his hospitality at his place in Yorkshire the other day that I heard the hunting story which I am now about to transcribe. Many of those who read it will no doubt have heard some of the strange rumours that are flying about to the effect that Sir Henry Curtis and his friend Captain Good, R....

George Gissing In the Year of Jubilee Part I: Miss. Lord CHAPTER 1 At eight o’clock on Sunday morning, Arthur Peachey unlocked his front door, and quietly went forth. He had not ventured to ask that early breakfast should be prepared for him. Enough that he was leaving home for a summer holiday–the first he had allowed himself since his marriage three years ago. It was a house in De Crespigny Park; unattached, double-fronted, with half-sunk basement, and a flight of steps to the stucco pillars at the entrance....

CHAPTER I It all came to me one election day. It was on a warm California afternoon, and I had ridden down into the Valley of the Moon from the ranch to the little village to vote Yes and No to a host of proposed amendments to the Constitution of the State of California. Because of the warmth of the day I had had several drinks before casting my ballot, and divers drinks after casting it....

JOHN MARR AND OTHER POEMS By HERMAN MELVILLE _With An Introductory Note By_HENRY CHAPIN MCMXXII Introductory Note Melville’s verse printed for the most part privately in small editions from middle life onward after his great prose work had been written, taken as a whole, is of an amateurish and uneven quality. In it, however, that loveable freshness of personality, which his philosophical dejection never quenched, is everywhere in evidence. It is clear that he did not set himself to master the poet’s art, yet through the mask of conventional verse which often falls into doggerel, the voice of a true poet is heard....

LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY Lord WindermereLord DarlingtonLord Augustus LortonMr. DumbyMr. Cecil GrahamMr. HopperParker, Butler Lady WindermereThe Duchess of BerwickLady Agatha CarlisleLady PlymdaleLady StutfieldLady JedburghMrs. Cowper-CowperMrs. ErlynneRosalie, Maid THE SCENES OF THE PLAY ACT I. Morning-room in Lord Windermere’s house. ACT II. Drawing-room in Lord Windermere’s house. ACT III. Lord Darlington’s rooms.ACT IV. Same as Act I. TIME: The PresentPLACE: London. The action of the play takes place within twenty-four hours, beginning on a Tuesday afternoon at five o’clock, and ending the next day at 1....