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by Franklin Hichborn The well-being of the State requires that the opponents to the machine in Senate and Assembly, regardless of party label, organize the Legislature. But back of this is the even more important requirement that there be elected to the Legislature American citizens, with the responsibility of their citizenship upon them, rather than partisans, burdened, until their good purposes are made negative, by the responsibility of their partisanship....

[Illustration: ARCHED ROCK AT MACKINAW] SUMMER ON THE LAKES IN 1843 BY S. M. FULLER MDCCCXLIV. SUMMER ON THE LAKES. Summer days of busy leisure, Long summer days of dear-bought pleasure, You have done your teaching well; Had the scholar means to tell How grew the vine of bitter-sweet, What made the path for truant feet, Winter nights would quickly pass, Gazing on the magic glass O’er which the new-world shadows pass; But, in fault of wizard spell, Moderns their tale can only tell In dull words, with a poor reed Breaking at each time of need....

TALES OF THE ARGONAUTS by Bret Harte CONTENTS THE ROSE OF TUOLUMNE A PASSAGE IN THE LIFE OF MR. JOHN OAKHURST WAN LEE, THE PAGAN HOW OLD MAN PLUNKETT WENT HOME THE FOOL OF FIVE FORKS BABY SYLVESTER AN EPISODE OF FIDDLETOWN A JERSEY CENTENARIAN THE ROSE OF TUOLUMNE CHAPTER I It was nearly two o’clock in the morning. The lights were out in Robinson’s Hall, where there had been dancing and revelry; and the moon, riding high, painted the black windows with silver....

E-text prepared by Geoff Horton TEN REASONS PROPOSED TO HIS ADVERSARIES FOR DISPUTATION IN THE NAME OF THE FAITH AND PRESENTED TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS MEMBERS OF OUR UNIVERSITIES BY EDMUND CAMPION PRIEST OF THE SOCIETY OF THE NAME OF JESUS Nihil Obstat S. GEORGIUS KIERAN HYLAND, S.T.D, CENSOR DEPUTATUS Imprimatur + PETRUS EPUS SOUTHWARC CONTENTS INTRODUCTION RATIONES DECEM TRANSLATION INTRODUCTION Though Blessed Edmund Campion’s Decem Rationes has passed through forty-seven editions,[1] printed in all parts of Europe; though it has awakened the enthusiasm of thousands; though Mark Anthony Muret, one of the chief Catholic humanists of Campion’s age, pronounced it to be “written by the finger of God,” yet it is not an easy book for men of our generation to appreciate, and this precisely because it suited a bygone generation so exactly....

by BRET HARTE I The time was the year of grace 1779; the locality, Morristown, New Jersey. It was bitterly cold. A northeasterly wind had been stiffening the mud of the morning’s thaw into a rigid record of that day’s wayfaring on the Baskingridge road. The hoof-prints of cavalry, the deep ruts left by baggage-wagons, and the deeper channels worn by artillery, lay stark and cold in the waning light of an April day....

The Bontoc Igorot by Albert Ernest Jenks Letter of Transmittal Department of the Interior, The Ethnological Survey, MANILA, FEBRUARY 3, 1904. Sir: I have the honor to submit a study of the Bontoc Igorot made for this Survey during the year 1903. It is transmitted with the recommendation that it be published as Volume I of a series of scientific studies to be issued by The Ethnological Survey for the Philippine Islands....

by G.K.Chesterton Chapter 1 The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown Rabelais, or his wild illustrator Gustave Dore, must have had something to do with the designing of the things called flats in England and America. There is something entirely Gargantuan in the idea of economising space by piling houses on top of each other, front doors and all. And in the chaos and complexity of those perpendicular streets anything may dwell or happen, and it is in one of them, I believe, that the inquirer may find the offices of the Club of Queer Trades....

THE COLLECTEDWORKS OFAMBROSE BIERCE VOLUME II IN THE MIDST OF LIFE TALES OF SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS Originally Published 1909 PREFACETO THE FIRST EDITION Denied existence by the chief publishing houses of the country, this book owes itself to Mr. E.L.G. Steele, merchant, of this city. In attesting Mr. Steele’s faith in his judgment and his friend, it will serve its author’s main and best ambition. A.B. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4, 1891....

THE DEVIL’S ADMIRAL An Adventure Story BY FREDERICK FERDINAND MOORE 1913 CONTENTS CHAPTER I. Missionary and Red-Headed Beggar II. Red-Headed Beggar and Missionary III. The Spy and the Dead Boatswain IV. I Go Aboard the Kut Sang V. The Dead Man in the Passage VI. The Red-Headed Man Makes an Accusation VII. I Turn Spy Myself VIII. Mr. Harris Has a Few Ideas IX. A Fight in the Dark X....

THE DORE GALLERY OF BIBLE ILLUSTRATIONS Illustrated by Gustave Dore Volume 5. ISAIAH. Isaiah (in Hebrew, Yeshayahu, “Salvation of God”), the earliest and most sublime of the four greater Hebrew prophets, was the son of Amoz (2 Kings xix, 2-20; Isaiah xxxvii, 2), and he uttered his oracles during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. The dates of his birth and death are unknown, but he lived from about 760 B....

i”?University of Pennsylvania The Dramatic Values in Plautus By Wilton Wallace BlanckA(C), A.M., Ph.D. Professor of Latin in the Central High School of Philadelphia A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 1918 Foreword This dissertation was written in 1916, before the entrance of the United States into The War, and was presented to the Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania as a thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy....

CHAPTER I A fast train drew into Albany, on the New York Central, from the West. It was three-thirty of a chill March morning in the first year of peace. A pall of fog lay over the world so heavy that it beaded the face and hands and deposited a fairy diamond dust upon wool. The station lights had the visibility of stars, and like the stars were without refulgence – a pale golden aureola, perhaps three feet in diameter, and beyond, nothing....

by Carl Becker PREFACE In this brief sketch I have chiefly endeavored to convey to the reader, not a record of what men did, but a sense of how they thought and felt about what they did. To give the quality and texture of the state of mind and feeling of an individual or class, to create for the reader the illusion (not DELUSION, O able Critic!) of the intellectual atmosphere of past times, I have as a matter of course introduced many quotations; but I have also ventured to resort frequently to the literary device (this, I know, gives the whole thing away) of telling the story by means of a rather free paraphrase of what some imagined spectator or participant might have thought or said about the matter in hand....

The Fall of the Niebelungs Translated by Margaret Armour Book I First AdventureConcerning the Niebelungs In old tales they tell us many wonders of heroes and of high courage, of glad feasting, of wine and of mourning; and herein ye shall read of the marvellous deeds and of the strife of brave men. There grew up in Burgundy a noble maiden, in no land was a fairer. Kriemhild was her name....

[Illustration: A Fern Lover] The Fern Lover’s Companion A Guide for the Northeastern Statesand Canada BY GEORGE HENRY TILTON, A.M. “This world’s no blot for us Nor blank; it means intensely and it means good To find its meaning is my meat and drink.” [Illustration] DEDICATION To Alice D. Clark, engraver of these illustrations, who has spared no pains to promote the artistic excellence of this work, and to encourage its progress, these pages are dedicated with the high regards of THE AUTHOR....

#THE GERMAN CLASSICS# Masterpieces of German Literature TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH IN TWENTY VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED 1914 VOLUME IV * * * * * CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV JEAN PAUL The Life of Jean Paul. By Benjamin W. Wells. Quintus Fixlein’s Wedding. Translated by Thomas Carlyle. Rome. Translated by C. T. Brooks. The Opening of the Will. Translated by Frances H. King. WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT Schiller and the Process of His Intellectual Development....

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. THE GOOD TIME COMING. BY T. S. ARTHUR. BOSTON:PHILADELPHIA: 1855. PREFACE. LIFE is a mystery to all men, and the more profound the deeper the striving spirit is immersed in its own selfish instincts....

THE GREATER INCLINATION by EDITH WHARTON TABLE OF CONTENTS THE GREATER INCLINATION I_The Muse’s Tragedy_. II_A Journey_. III_The Pelican_. IV_Souls Belated_. V_A Coward_. VI_The Twilight of the God_. VII_A Cup of Cold Water_. VIII_The Portrait_. THE GREATER INCLINATION THE MUSE’S TRAGEDY Danyers afterwards liked to fancy that he had recognized Mrs. Anerton at once; but that, of course, was absurd, since he had seen no portrait of her–she affected a strict anonymity, refusing even her photograph to the most privileged–and from Mrs....

THE GREEN FLAG. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE. CONTENTS. THE GREEN FLAG. CAPTAIN SHARKEY. THE CROXLEY MASTER. THE LORD OF CHATEAU NOIR. THE STRIPED CHEST. A SHADOW BEFORE. THE KING OF THE FOXES. THE THREE CORRESPONDENTS. THE NEW CATACOMB. THE DEBUT OF BIMBASHI JOYCE. A FOREIGN OFFICE ROMANCE. THE GREEN FLAG When Jack Conolly, of the Irish Shotgun Brigade, the Rory of the Hills Inner Circle, and the extreme left wing of the Land League, was incontinently shot by Sergeant Murdoch of the constabulary, in a little moonlight frolic near Kanturk, his twin-brother Dennis joined the British Army....

THE HAPPY FOREIGNER by ENID BAGNOLD 1920 CONTENTS PROLOGUE: THE EVE PART I. THE BLACK HUT AT BAR CHAPTER I. THE TRAVELLER PART II. LORRAINE CHAPTER II. METZCHAPTER III. JULIENCHAPTER IV. VERDUNCHAPTER V. VERDUNCHAPTER VI. THE LOVER IN THE LAMPCHAPTER VII. THE THREE “CLIENTS”CHAPTER VIII. GERMANYCHAPTER IX. THE CRINOLINECHAPTER X. FANNY ROBBED AND RESCUED CHAPTER XI. THE LAST NIGHT IN METZ: THE JOURNEY PART III. THE FORESTS OF CHANTILLY CHAPTER XII....