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ESSAYS IN THE ART OF WRITING Contents: On some technical elements of style in literature The morality of the profession of letters Books which have influenced me A note on realism My first book: ‘Treasure Island’ The genesis of ‘the master of Ballantrae’ Preface to ‘the master of Ballantrae’ ON SOME TECHNICAL ELEMENTS OF STYLE IN LITERATURE {1} There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art....

Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini [Redactor’s Note: This version of the Autobiography, one of the most famous of all time, was translated by John Addington Symonds (1840-1893). Cellini lived from 1500-1571. This version is in ISO Latin1 with 8 bit accents, and is also supplied in a single file HTML version.] ————————————————————————- The Autobiography ofBenvenuto Cellini Translated ByJohn Addington Symonds With Introduction and NotesVolume 31 ————————————————————————- Introductory Sonnet THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care hath stayed That divers noble deeds I’ve brought to light....

THE BIBLE IN SPAIN–GEORGE BORROW AUTHOR’S PREFACE It is very seldom that the preface of a work is read; indeed, of late years, most books have been sent into the world without any. I deem it, however, advisable to write a preface, and to this I humbly call the attention of the courteous reader, as its perusal will not a little tend to the proper understanding and appreciation of these volumes....

By Aristotle Translated by E. M. Edghill Section 1 Part 1 Things are said to be named ‘equivocally’ when, though they have a common name, the definition corresponding with the name differs for each. Thus, a real man and a figure in a picture can both lay claim to the name ‘animal’; yet these are equivocally so named, for, though they have a common name, the definition corresponding with the name differs for each....

SCENE:Rousillon; Paris; Florence; Marseilles ACT I. SCENE 1.Rousillon. The COUNT’S palace Enter BERTRAM, the COUNTESS OF ROUSILLON, HELENA, and LAFEU, all in black COUNTESS. In delivering my son from me, I bury a second husband. BERTRAM. And I in going, madam, weep o’er my father’s death anew; but I must attend his Majesty’s command, to whom I am now in ward, evermore in subjection. LAFEU. You shall find of the King a husband, madam; you, sir, a father....

THE CRAYON PAPERS by GEOFFREY CRAYON, GENT. MOUNTJOY: or Some Passages out of the Life of a Castle-Builder THE GREAT MISSISSIPPI BUBBLE–“A Time of Unexampled Prosperity” DON JUAN: A Spectral Research BROEK: or the Dutch Paradise SKETCHES IN PARIS IN 1825–From the Traveling Note-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. My French Neighbor The Englishman at Paris English and French Character The Tuileries and Windsor Castle The Field of Waterloo Paris at the Restoration AMERICAN RESEARCHES IN ITALY–Life of Tasso: Recovery of a Lost Portrait of Dante THE TAKING OF THE VEIL The Charming Letorieres THE EARLY EXPERIENCES OF RALPH RINGWOOD–Noted Down from his Conversations THE SEMINOLES ORIGIN OF THE WHITE, THE RED, AND THE BLACK MEN–A Seminole Tradition THE CONSPIRACY OF NEAMATHLA–An Authentic Sketch LETTER FROM GRANADA ABDERAHMAN: Founder of the Dynasty of the Ommiades in Spain THE WIDOW’S ORDEAL: or a Judicial Trial by Combat THE CREOLE VILLAGE: A Sketch from a Steamboat A CONTENTED MAN * * * * * MOUNTJOYOR SOME PASSAGES OUT OF THE LIFE OF A CASTLE-BUILDER I was born among romantic scenery, in one of the wildest parts of the Hudson, which at that time was not so thickly settled as at present....

CURIOUS REPUBLIC OF GONDOUR by Mark Twain THE CURIOUS REPUBLIC OF GONDOUR AND OTHER WHIMSICAL SKETCHES NOTE: Most of the sketches in this volume were taken from a series the author wrote for The Galaxy from May, 1870, to April, 1871. The rest appeared in The Buffalo Express. TABLE OF CONTENTS THE CURIOUS REPUBLIC OF GONDOURA MEMORYINTRODUCTORY TO “MEMORANDA”.ABOUT SMELLSA COUPLE OF SAD EXPERIENCESDAN MURPHYTHE “TOURNAMENT” IN A.D. 1870CURIOUS RELIC FOR SALEA REMINISCENCE OF THE BACK SETTLEMENTS A ROYAL COMPLIMENTTHE APPROACHING EPIDEMICTHE TONE-IMPARTING COMMITTEEOUR PRECIOUS LUNATICTHE EUROPEAN WARTHE WILD MAN INTERVIEWEDLAST WORDS OF GREAT MEN THE CURIOUS REPUBLIC OF GONDOUR As soon as I had learned to speak the language a little, I became greatly interested in the people and the system of government....

THE DORE GALLERY OF BIBLE ILLUSTRATIONS Illustrated by Gustave Dore Complete This volume, as its title indicates, is a collection of engravings illustrative of the Bible–the designs being all from the pencil of the greatest of modern delineators, Gustave Dore. The original work, from which this collection has been made, met with an immediate and warm recognition and acceptance among those whose means admitted of its purchase, and its popularity has in no wise diminished since its first publication, but has even extended to those who could only enjoy it casually, or in fragmentary parts....

THE GILDED AGE A Tale of Today by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner 1873 Part 2. CHAPTER X. Only two or three days had elapsed since the funeral, when something happened which was to change the drift of Laura’s life somewhat, and influence in a greater or lesser degree the formation of her character. Major Lackland had once been a man of note in the State–a man of extraordinary natural ability and as extraordinary learning....

THE HISTORICAL NIGHTS’ ENTERTAINMENT, SECOND SERIES by RAFAEL SABATINI ToDavid Whitelaw My Dear David, Since the narratives collected here as well as in the preceding volume under the title of the Historical Nights Entertainment– narratives originally published in The Premier Magazine, which you so ably edit–owe their being to your suggestion, it is fitting that some acknowledgment of the fact should be made. To what is hardly less than a duty, allow me to add the pleasure of dedicating to you, in earnest of my friendship and esteem, not merely this volume, but the work of which this volume is the second....

DON QUIXOTE by Miguel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby Volume I. Part 7. CHAPTER XVIII. IN WHICH IS RELATED THE DISCOURSE SANCHO PANZA HELD WITH HIS MASTER, DON QUIXOTE, AND OTHER ADVENTURES WORTH RELATING Sancho reached his master so limp and faint that he could not urge on his beast. When Don Quixote saw the state he was in he said, “I have now come to the conclusion, good Sancho, that this castle or inn is beyond a doubt enchanted, because those who have so atrociously diverted themselves with thee, what can they be but phantoms or beings of another world?...

Carlyle’s “History of Friedrich II of Prussia” Vol II BOOK II. OF BRANDENBURG AND THE HOHENZOLLERNS. 928-1417. Chapter I. BRANNIBOR: HENRY THE FOWLER. The Brandenburg Countries, till they become related to the Hohenzollern Family which now rules there, have no History that has proved memorable to mankind. There has indeed been a good deal written under that title; but there is by no means much known, and of that again there is alarmingly little that is worth knowing or remembering....

A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Boston, Estes and Lauriat, Publishers TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE WILLIAM BINGHAM, LORD ASHBURTON. MY DEAR LORD, The writer of a book which copies the manners and language of Queen Anne’s time, must not omit the Dedication to the Patron; and I ask leave to inscribe this volume to your Lordship, for the sake of the great kindness and friendship which I owe to you and yours....

THE IDLER MAGAZINE.AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY. EDITED BY JEROME K. JEROME & ROBERT BARR. VOL. III. FEBRUARY TO JULY, 1893. XIII. FEB. 1893. LONDON: CHATTO & WINDUS, 214, PICCADILLY. 1893. * * * * * CONTENTS. CHEATING THE GALLOWS. BY I. ZANGWILL. MY FIRST NOVEL.–THE TRAIL OF THE SERPENT. BY MISS M. E. BRADDON. NOVEL NOTES. BY JEROME K. JEROME. THE SKATER. BY WILLIAM CANTON. MY SERVANT ANDREAS. BY ARCHIBALD FORBES....

The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories By Owen Wister To Messrs. Harper & Bothers and Henry Mills Alden whose friendliness and fair dealing I am glad of this chance to record Owen Wister Preface It’s very plain that if a thing’s the fashion– Too much the fashion–if the people leap To do it, or to be it, in a passion Of haste and crowding, like a herd of sheep, Why then that thing becomes through imitation Vulgar, excessive, obvious, and cheap....

THE LAKE BY GEORGE MOORE 1921 LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN EPITRE DEDICATOIRE 17 Aout, 1905. MON CHER DUJARDIN, Il se trouve que je suis a Paris en train de corriger mes epreuves au moment ou vous donnez les dernieres retouches au manuscrit de ‘La Source du Fleuve Chretien,’ un beau titre–si beau que je n’ai pu m’empecher de le ‘chipper’ pour le livre de Ralph Elles, un personnage de mon roman qui ne parait pas, mais dont on entend beaucoup parler....

by Charles Dickens AUTHOR’S PREFACE This story was begun, within a few months after the publication of the completed “Pickwick Papers.” There were, then, a good many cheap Yorkshire schools in existence. There are very few now. Of the monstrous neglect of education in England, and the disregard of it by the State as a means of forming good or bad citizens, and miserable or happy men, private schools long afforded a notable example....

THE LIFE OF THOMAS, LORD COCHRANE, TENTH EARL OF DUNDONALD, G.C.B., ADMIRAL OF THE RED, REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET, ETC., ETC., COMPLETING “THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SEAMAN.” BY THOMAS, ELEVENTH EARL OF DUNDONALD, AND H.R. FOX BOURNE, AUTHOR OF “ENGLISH SEAMEN UNDER THE TUDORS,” ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. Published 1869. TO MISS ANGELA BURDETT COUTTS, WHOSE HONOURED FATHER WAS THE FIRMEST AND MOST CONSTANT FRIEND AND SUPPORTER OF MY FATHER, DURING A CAREER DEVOTED TO THE WELFARE OF HIS COUNTRY AND THE HONOUR OF HIS PROFESSION, AND WHOM IT IS MY HAPPINESS AND PRIVILEGE TO CALL MY FRIEND, THIS WORK IS DEDICATED, WITH ALL RESPECT AND REGARD, BY HER ATTACHED AND FAITHFUL SERVANT, DUNDONALD....

[Illustration: Henry French, del. E. Evans, sc. “Mr. Granger seated himself by his wife’s side and bent down to kiss hisson without waking him.”] THE LOVELS OF ARDEN BY THE AUTHOR OF “LADY AUDLEY’S SECRET,” “AURORA FLOYD,” “VIXEN,” “ISHMAEL,” ETC., ETC., ETC. CHEAP UNIFORM EDITION OF MISS BRADDON’S NOVELS. Price 2s. picture boards; 2s. 6d. cloth gilt; 3s. 6d. half parchment or half morocco; postage 4d. MISS BRADDON’S NOVELS INCLUDING “LADY AUDLEY’S SECRET,” “VIXEN,” “ISHMAEL,” ETC....

THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. Vol. 20, No. 565.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1832. [PRICE 2d. * * * * * [Illustration: PERSIAN BATH.] * * * * * The luxurious indulgence of baths in the East is generally known to the reader of travels, so as to render acceptable the following details. They are extracted from Mr. Buckingham’s Travels,[1] and bear all the graphic minuteness of his entertaining pen....