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by Rev. James HamiltonScotch Church, Regent Square, London. After the pleasant sketches of pens so graceful as Southey’s and Montgomery’s; after the elaborate biography of Mr Philip, whose researches have left few desiderata for any subsequent devotee; indeed, after Bunyan’s own graphic and characteristic narrative, the task on which we are now entering is one which, as we would have courted it the less, so we feel that we have peculiar facilities for performing it....

Maiwa’s RevengeorThe War of the Little Hand by H. Rider Haggard PREFACE It may be well to state that the incident of the “Thing that bites” recorded in this tale is not an effort of the imagination. On the contrary, it is “plagiarized.” Mandara, a well-known chief on the east coast of Africa, has such an article, /and uses it/. In the same way the wicked conduct attributed to Wambe is not without a precedent....

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[Illustration: “Two funny fair-haired children with their fingers in their mouths”] MILLY AND OLLY New Revised Edition BY MRS. HUMPHRY WARD Illustrated by RUTH M. HALLOCK GARDEN CITY NEW YORKDOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY1914 DEDICATION TO F.A., IN THE NAME OF THE CHILDREN OF FOX HOW, THIS REVIVAL OF A CHILD’S STORY WRITTEN TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS AGO, UNDER THE SPELL OF ROTHA AND FAIRFIELD, IS INSCRIBED BY THE WRITER. PREFACE After many years this little book is once more to see the light....

Monsieur Lecoq by Emile Gaboriau I At about eleven o’clock in the evening of the 20th of February, 186–, which chanced to be Shrove Sunday, a party of detectives left the police station near the old Barriere d’Italie to the direct south of Paris. Their mission was to explore the district extending on the one hand between the highroad to Fontainebleau and the Seine, and on the other between the outer boulevards and the fortifications....

MRS. BUDLONG’S CHRISTMAS PRESENTS BY RUPERT HUGHES AUTHOR OF “EXCUSE ME,” “THE OLD NEST,” ETC. MCMXII CONTENTS CHAPTER I AT THE SIGN OF THE PIANO LAMP II CHRONICLES OF A CRAFTSMAN III MISTRESS OF THE REVELS IV ONLY A MILLIONAIRE V THE BITER BIT VI DESPAIR AND AN IDEA VII FOILED VIII FOILED AGAIN IX WORSE, AND MORE OF IT X A WELL LAID PLAN XI GANG AGLEY AGAIN XII AN AMAZING CHRISTMAS MRS....

TO CARRIE AND IRENE MINER In memory of affections old and true Optima dies … prima fugit VIRGIL INTRODUCTION LAST summer I happened to be crossing the plains of Iowa in a season of intense heat, and it was my good fortune to have for a traveling companion James Quayle Burden–Jim Burden, as we still call him in the West. He and I are old friends–we grew up together in the same Nebraska town–and we had much to say to each other....

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Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin TO MY MOTHER Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair;Like Twilight’s, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawnFrom May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay,To haunt, to startle, and way-lay. Wordsworth. CONTENTS I. “WE ARE SEVEN”II. REBECCA’S RELATIONSIII. A DIFFERENCE IN HEARTSIV. REBECCA’S POINT OF VIEWV. WISDOM’S WAYSVI. SUNSHINE IN A SHADY PLACEVII. RIVERBORO SECRETSVIII....

Wherein is recorded the Perilous Quest of Prince Inga of Pingaree and King Rinkitink in the Magical Isles that lie beyond the Borderland of Oz By L. Frank Baum “Royal Historian of Oz” Introducing this Story Here is a story with a boy hero, and a boy of whom you have never before heard. There are girls in the story, too, including our old friend Dorothy, and some of the characters wander a good way from the Land of Oz before they all assemble in the Emerald City to take part in Ozma’s banquet....

RUNNING WATER by A. E. W. MASON Author of The Four Feathers, etc. 1907 CONTENTS I SHOWS MRS. THESIGER IN HER HOME II INTRODUCES ONE OF STROOD’S SUCCESSORS III THE FINDING OF JOHN LATTERY IV MR. JARVICE V MICHEL REVAILLOUD EXPOUNDS HIS PHILOSOPHY VI THE PAVILLON DE LOGNAN VII THE AIGUILLE D’ARGENTIERE VIII SYLVIA PARTS FROM HER MOTHER IX SYLVIA MAKES THE ACQUAINTANCE OF HER FATHER X A LITTLE ROUND GAME OF CARDS XI SYLVIA’S FATHER MAKES A MISTAKE XII THE HOUSE OF THE RUNNING WATER XII CHAYNE RETURNS XIV AN OLD PASSION BETRAYS A NEW SECRET XV KENYON’S JOHN LATTERY XVI AS BETWEEN GENTLEMEN XVII SYLVIA TELLS MORE THAN SHE KNOWS XVIII BOTH SIDES OF THE QUESTION XIX THE SHADOW IN THE ROOM XX ON THE DOWN XXI CHAYNE COMES TO CONCLUSIONS XXII REVAILLOUD REVISITEDXXIII MICHEL REVAILLOUD’S FUEHRBUCH XXIV THE BRENVA RIDGE XXV A NIGHT ON AN ICE-SLOPE XXVI RUNNING WATER CHAPTER I SHOWS MRS....

This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr. SCIENCE & EDUCATION ESSAYS BY THOMAS H. HUXLEY PREFACE The apology offered in the Preface to the first volume of this series for the occurrence of repetitions, is even more needful here I am afraid. But it could hardly be otherwise with speeches and essays, on the same topic, addressed at intervals, during more than thirty years, to widely distant and different hearers and readers....

SEEING EUROPE WITH FAMOUS AUTHORS EDITED BY FRANCIS W. HALSEY CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland Part Two VI. HUNGARY–(Continued) HUNGARIAN BATHS AND RESORTS–By H. Tornai de Koever THE GIPSIES–By H. Tornai de Koever VII. AUSTRIA’S ADRIATIC PORTS TRIESTE AND POLA–By Edward A. Freeman SPALATO–By Edward A. Freeman RAGUSA–By Harry De Windt CATTARO–By Edward A. Freeman VIII. OTHER AUSTRIAN SCENES CRACOW–By Menie Muriel Dowie ON THE ROAD TO PRAGUE–By Bayard Taylor THE CAVE OF ADELSBERG–By George Stillman Hillard THE MONASTERY OF MOeLK–By Thomas Frognall Dibdin THROUGH THE TYROL–By William Cullen Bryant IN THE DOLOMITES–By Archibald Campbell Knowles CORTINA–By Amelia B....

SERMONS TO THE NATURAL MAN. BY WILLIAM G. T. SHEDD, D. D., AUTHOR OF “A HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE,” “HOMILETICS AND PASTORAL. THEOLOGY,” “DISCOURSES AND ESSAYS,” “PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY,” ETC. NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER & CO., 654 BROADWAY. 1871. PREFACE. It is with a solemn feeling of responsibility that I send forth this volume of Sermons. The ordinary emotions of authorship have little place in the experience, when one remembers that what he says will be either a means of spiritual life, or an occasion of spiritual death....

SHALLOW SOIL BY KNUT HAMSUN AUTHORISED TRANSLATION FROM THE NORWEGIAN BY CARL CHRISTIAN HYLLESTED TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE In the autumn of 1888 a Danish magazine published a few chapters of an autobiographical novel which instantly created the greatest stir in literary circles throughout Europe. At that time Ibsen, Bjornson, Brandes, Strindberg, and other Scandinavian writers were at the height of their cosmopolitan fame, and it was only natural that the reading world should keep in close touch with the literary production of the North....

[Transcriber’s note: The spelling and punctuation inconsistencies of the original have been retained in this etext.] SKI-RUNNING BY KATHARINE FURSE G.B.E., R.R.C. WITH MAP AND FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS 1924 PREFACE So many excellent books have been written about Ski-ing that it is, perhaps, presumptuous on my part to think that there is room for another. Mr. Vivien Caulfeild in his “How to Ski” and “Ski-ing Turns,” as well as Mr....

SOCIAL LIFE AT ROME IN THE AGE OF CICERO BY W. WARDE FOWLER, M.A. ‘Ad illa mihi pro se quisque acriter intendat animum, quae vita, quae mores fuerint.’–LIVY, Praefatio. AMICO VETERRIMO I.A. STEWART ROMAE PRIMUM VISAE COMES MEMOR D.D.D. PREFATORY NOTE This book was originally intended to be a companion to Professor Tucker’s Life in Ancient Athens, published in Messrs. Macmillan’s series of Handbooks of Archaeology and Art; but the plan was abandoned for reasons on which I need not dwell, and before the book was quite finished I was called to other and more specialised work....

SOME HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF GUINEA, ITS SITUATION, PRODUCE, AND THE GENERAL DISPOSITION OF ITS INHABITANTS. AN INQUIRY INTO THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE SLAVE TRADE, ITS NATURE AND LAMENTABLE EFFECTS. 1771 BY ANTHONY BENEZET SOME HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF GUINEA, ITS SITUATION, PRODUCE, and the general DISPOSITION of its INHABITANTS. WITH An Inquiry into the RISE and PROGRESS OF THE SLAVE TRADE, Its NATURE, and lamentable EFFECTS. ALSO A REPUBLICATION of the Sentiments of several Authors of Note on this interesting Subject: Particularly an Extract of a Treatise written by GRANVILLE SHARPE....

CONTENTSCHAPTER THE FIRST – THE DREAMCHAPTER THE SECOND – THE WEAR AND TEAR OF EPISCOPACY CHAPTER THE THIRD – INSOMNIACHAPTER THE FOURTH – THE SYMPATHY OF LADY SUNDERBUND CHAPTER THE FIFTH – THE FIRST VISIONCHAPTER THE SIXTH – EXEGETICALCHAPTER THE SEVENTH – THE SECOND VISION CHAPTER THE EIGHTH – THE NEW WORLDCHAPTER THE NINTH – THE THIRD VISION “Man’s true Environment is God”J. H. OLDHAM in “The Christian Gospel” (Tract of the N....