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ADA LEVERSON First Published London, 1908. (Book One of THE LITTLE OTTLEYS) [Illustration: Love’s Shadow] Love like a shadow flies When substance love pursues; Pursuing that that flies, And flying what pursues. SHAKESPEARE CHAPTER I Hyacinth ‘There’s only one thing I must really implore you, Edith,’ said Bruce anxiously. ‘Don’t make me late at the office!’ ‘Certainly not, Bruce,’ answered Edith sedately. She was seated opposite her husband at breakfast in a very new, very small, very white flat in Knightsbridge–exactly like thousands of other new, small, white flats....

I. The Ten Commandments: The Simple Way a Father Should Present Them to His Household A. The First Commandment You must not have other gods. Q. What does this mean? A. We must fear, love, and trust God more than anything else. B. The Second Commandment You must not misuse your God’s name. Q. What does this mean? A. We must fear and love God, so that we will not use His name to curse, swear, cast a spell, lie or deceive, but will use it to call upon Him, pray to Him, praise Him and thank Him in all times of trouble....

LYRICAL BALLADS,WITH A FEW OTHER POEMS. LONDON PRINTED FOR J. & A. ARCH, GRACECHURCH-STREET. 1798 ADVERTISEMENT. It is the honourable characteristic of Poetry that its materials are to be found in every subject which can interest the human mind. The evidence of this fact is to be sought, not in the writings of Critics, but in those of Poets themselves. The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments....

MALBONE: AN OLDPORT ROMANCE. by THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON. “What is Nature unless there is an eventful human life passing within her? Many joys and many sorrows are the lights and shadows in which she shows most beautiful.”–THOREAU, MS. Diary. CONTENTS. PRELUDE I. AN ARRIVAL II. PLACE AUX DAMES! III. A DRIVE ON THE AVENUE IV. AUNT JANE DEFINES HER POSITION V. A MULTIVALVE HEART VI. “SOME LOVER’S CLEAR DAY” VII....

MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY By Albert Bigelow Paine VOLUME III, Part 2: 1907-1910 CCLVI HONORS FROM OXFORD Clemens made a brief trip to Bermuda during the winter, taking Twichell along; their first return to the island since the trip when they had promised to come back so soon-nearly thirty years before. They had been comparatively young men then. They were old now, but they found the green island as fresh and full of bloom as ever....

MEMOIRS OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, VOLUME 3. By LOUIS ANTOINE FAUVELET DE BOURRIENNE His Private Secretary Edited by R. W. PhippsColonel, Late Royal Artillery 1891 CONTENTS:Chapter XV. To Chapter XXVI. 1799 CHAPTER XV. 1798. Establishment of a divan in each Egyptian province–Desaix in Upper Egypt–Ibrahim Bey beaten by Bonaparte at Balehye’h–Sulkowsky wounded–Disaster at Abonkir–Dissatisfaction and murmurs of the army–Dejection of the General-in-Chief–His plan respecting Egypt –Meditated descent upon England–Bonaparte’s censure of the Directory–Intercepted correspondence....

MEMORIES OF CANADA AND SCOTLAND SPEECHES AND VERSES BY THE RIGHT HON. THE MARQUIS OF LORNE K.T., G.C.M.G., &C. DEDICATED WITH RESPECT AND AFFECTION TO THE MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA CONTENTS VERSES ON CANADIAN SUBJECTS. CANADA, 1882 QUEBEC PROLOGUE–GOVERNMENT HOUSE, MARCH 1879 CANADIAN NATIONAL HYMN CANADIAN RIVER RHYMES THE CANADIAN ROBIN MILICETE LEGEND OF THE RIVER ST. JOHN THE GUIDE OF THE MOHAWKS THE STRONG HUNTER THE ORIGIN OF THE INDIAN CORN THE ISLES OF HURON THE MYSTIC ISLE OF THE “LAND OF THE NORTH WIND” WESTWARD HO!...

_MICHAEL_ _O’HALLORAN_ _Gene Stratton-Porter_ Copyright 1915, 1916 Contents PAGE I. Happy Home in Sunrise AlleyII. Moccasins and Lady SlippersIII. S.O.S.IV. “Bearer of Morning”V. Little BrotherVI. The Song of a BirdVII. Peaches’ Preference in Blessings VIII. Big BrotherIX. James Jr. and MalcolmX. The Wheel of LifeXI. The Advent of Nancy and PeterXII. Feminine ReasoningXIII. A Safe PropositionXIV. An Orphans’ HomeXV. A Particular NixXVI. The Fingers in the PieXVII. Initiations in an Ancient and Honourable Brotherhood XVIII....

NERVES AND COMMON SENSE BY ANNIE PAYSON CALL Author of “Power Through Repose,” “As a Matter of Course,” “The Freedom of Life,” etc. NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION MANY of these articles first appeared in “The Ladies’ Home Journal,” and I am glad to take this opportunity of thanking Mr. Edward Bok–the editor–for his very helpful and suggestive titles. ANNIE PAYSON CALL. CONTENTS I. HABIT AND NERVOUS STRAIN II. HOW WOMEN CAN KEEP FROM BEING NERVOUS III....

{Introduction from “The Spirit of the Fair” (April 5, 1864): {Unpublished MS. of James Fenimore Cooper. {Our national novelist died in the autumn of 1850 [sic]; previous to his fatal illness he was engaged upon a historical work, to be entitled “The Men [sic] of Manhattan,” only the Introduction to which had been sent to the press: the printing office was destroyed by fire, and with it the opening chapters of this work; fortunately a few pages had been set up, and the impression sent to a literary gentleman, then editor of a popular critical journal, and were thus saved from destruction: to him we are indebted for the posthumous articles of Cooper, wherewith, by a coincidence as remarkable as it is auspicious, we now enrich our columns with a contribution from the American pioneer in letters....

The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child’s bed. “Wake up, Philip,” she said. She pulled down the bed-clothes, took him in her arms, and carried him downstairs....

THE MOVEMENTS AND HABITS OF CLIMBING PLANTS PREFACE This Essay first appeared in the ninth volume of the ‘Journal of the Linnean Society,’ published in 1865. It is here reproduced in a corrected and, I hope, clearer form, with some additional facts. The illustrations were drawn by my son, George Darwin. Fritz Muller, after the publication of my paper, sent to the Linnean Society (Journal, vol. ix., p. 344) some interesting observations on the climbing plants of South Brazil, to which I shall frequently refer....

ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES, Vol. 10. By Guy de Maupassant GUY DE MAUPASSANT ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES Translated by ALBERT M. C. McMASTER, B.A. A. E. HENDERSON, B.A. MME. QUESADA and Others VOLUME X. THE CHRISTENINGTHE FARMER’S WIFETHE DEVILTHE SNIPETHE WILLWALTER SCHNAFF’S ADVENTUREAT SEAMINUETTHE SONTHAT PIG OF A MORINSAINT ANTHONYLASTING LOVEPIERROTA NORMANDY JOKEFATHER MATTHEW THE CHRISTENING “Well doctor, a little brandy?” “With pleasure.” The old ship’s surgeon, holding out his glass, watched it as it slowly filled with the golden liquid....

by Frank R. Stockton CONTENTS CHAPTER I. Treating of a Novel Style of Dwelling-house CHAPTER II. Treating of a Novel Style of Boarder CHAPTER III. Treating of a Novel Style of Girl CHAPTER IV. Treating of a Novel Style of Burglar CHAPTER V. Pomona Produces a Partial Revolution in Rudder Grange CHAPTER VI. The New Rudder Grange CHAPTER VII. Treating of an Unsuccessful Broker and a Dog CHAPTER VIII. Pomona Once More CHAPTER IX....

THE MODERN DRAMA SERIES EDITED BY EDWIN BJOeRKMAN SAVVA THE LIFE OF MAN BY LEONID ANDREYEV SAVVA THE LIFE OF MAN TWO PLAYS BY LEONID ANDREYEV TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIANWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THOMAS SELTZER BOSTONLITTLE, BROWN, ANDCOMPANY 1920 1914,BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY. This edition is authorized by Leonid Andreyev, who has selected the plays included in it. All Dramatic rights reserved byEdwin Bjoerkman CONTENTS INTRODUCTION CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF PLAYS BY LEONID ANDREYEV SAVVA THE LIFE OF MAN INTRODUCTION For the last twenty years Leonid Andreyev and Maxim Gorky have by turns occupied the centre of the stage of Russian literature....

SAXE HOLM’S STORIES [by Helen Hunt Jackson] 1873 Content. Draxy Miller’s DowryThe Elder’s WifeWhose Wife Was She?The One-Legged DancersHow One Woman Kept Her HusbandEsther Wynn’s Love-Letters Draxy Miller’s Dowry. Part I. When Draxy Miller’s father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa. The name stamped itself indelibly upon his imagination; and when, at the age of thirty-five, he took his first-born daughter in his arms, his first words were–“I want her called Darachsa....

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 299 NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 24, 1881 Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XII, No. 299. Scientific American established 1845 Scientific American Supplement, $5 a year. Scientific American and Supplement, $7 a year. [Illustration] * * * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS. I. ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.–On the Progress and development of the Marine Engine.–Marine engines.–The marine boiler.–Steel boilers.–Corrosion of boilers.–How the marine engine may be improved.–Consumption of fuel.–Evaporative efficiency of marine locomotive boilers....

[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.] SERGE PANINE By GEORGES OHNET With a General Introduction to the Series by GASTON BOISSIER, Secretaire Perpetuel de l’academie Francaise. GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1905 BY ROBERT ARNOT The editor-in-chief of the Maison Mazarin–a man of letters who cherishes an enthusiastic yet discriminating love for the literary and artistic glories of France–formed within the last two years the great project of collecting and presenting to the vast numbers of intelligent readers of whom New World boasts a series of those great and undying romances which, since 1784, have received the crown of merit awarded by the French Academy–that coveted assurance of immortality in letters and in art....

SKETCHES NEW AND OLD by Mark Twain Part 7. FIRST INTERVIEW WITH ARTEMUS WARD–[Written about 1870.] I had never seen him before. He brought letters of introduction from mutual friends in San Francisco, and by invitation I breakfasted with him. It was almost religion, there in the silver-mines, to precede such a meal with whisky cocktails. Artemus, with the true cosmopolitan instinct, always deferred to the customs of the country he was in, and so he ordered three of those abominations....

SKETCHES OF THE EAST AFRICA CAMPAIGN BY CAPT. ROBERT V. DOLBEY, R.A.M.C. AUTHOR OF “A REGIMENTAL SURGEON IN WAR AND PRISON” WITH ILLUSTRATIONS 1918 TOL.A.D. AND C.B. PREFACE The bulk of these “Sketches” were written without any thought of publication. It was my practice in “writing home” to touch upon different features of the campaign or of my daily experiences, and only when I returned to England to find that kind hands had carefully preserved these hurried letters, did it occur to me that, grouped together, they might serve to throw some light on certain aspects of the East Africa campaign, which might not find a place in a more elaborate history....