THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD CHAPTER I–THE DAWN An ancient English Cathedral Tower? How can the ancient English Cathedral tower be here! The well-known massive gray square tower of its old Cathedral? How can that be here! There is no spike of rusty iron in the air, between the eye and it, from any point of the real prospect. What is the spike that intervenes, and who has set it up?...
Originally written in Middle High German (M.H.G.), sometime around 1200 A.D., although this dating is by no means certain. Author unknown. The text of this edition is based on that published as “The Nibelungenlied”, translated by Daniel B. Shumway (Houghton- Mifflin Co., New York, 1909). This edition is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN in the United States. This electronic edition was edited, proofed, and prepared by Douglas B. Killings (DeTroyes@EnterAct.COM) PREPARER’S NOTE:In order to make this electronic edition easier to use, the preparer has found it necessary to re-arrange the endnotes of Mr....
Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures? I mean the adventures we had down the river, and the time we set the darky Jim free and Tom got shot in the leg. No, he wasn’t. It only just p’isoned him for more. That was all the effect it had. You see, when we three came back up the river in glory, as you may say, from that long travel, and the village received us with a torchlight procession and speeches, and everybody hurrah’d and shouted, it made us heroes, and that was what Tom Sawyer had always been hankering to be....
STUDIES AND ESSAYS By John Galsworthy “Je vous dirai que l’exces est toujours un mal.” –ANATOLE FRANCE CONCERNING LIFE TABLE OF CONTENTS: INN OF TRANQUILITY MAGPIE OVER THE HILL SHEEP-SHEARING EVOLUTION RIDING IN THE MIST THE PROCESSION A CHRISTIAN WIND IN THE ROCKS MY DISTANT RELATIVE THE BLACK GODMOTHER THE INN OF TRANQUILLITY Under a burning blue sky, among the pine-trees and junipers, the cypresses and olives of that Odyssean coast, we came one afternoon on a pink house bearing the legend: “Osteria di Tranquillita,”; and, partly because of the name, and partly because we did not expect to find a house at all in those goat-haunted groves above the waves, we tarried for contemplation....
[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.] JACQUELINE By THERESE BENTZON (MME. BLANC) BOOK 2. CHAPTER VII THE BLUE BAND Love, like any other human malady, should be treated according to the age and temperament of the sufferer. Madame de Nailles, who was a very keen observer, especially where her own interests were concerned, lent herself with the best possible grace to everything that might amuse and distract Jacqueline, of whom she had by this time grown afraid....
JEWISH HISTORY AN ESSAY IN THE PHILOSOPHYOF HISTORY BY S. M. DUBNOW PREFACE TO THE GERMANTRANSLATION The author of the present essay, S. M. Dubnow, occupies a well-nigh dominating position in Russian-Jewish literature as an historian and an acute critic. His investigations into the history of the Polish-Russian Jews, especially his achievements in the history of Chassidism, have been of fundamental importance in these departments. What raises Mr. Dubnow far above the status of the professional historian, and awakens the reader’s lively interest in him, is not so much the matter of his books, as the manner of presentation....
This Etext was produced by Eve Sobol, South Bend, Indiana, USA JOHN BULL’S OTHER ISLAND by BERNARD SHAW Great George Street, Westminster, is the address of Doyle and Broadbent, civil engineers. On the threshold one reads that the firm consists of Mr Lawrence Doyle and Mr Thomas Broadbent, and that their rooms are on the first floor. Most of their rooms are private; for the partners, being bachelors and bosom friends, live there; and the door marked Private, next the clerks’ office, is their domestic sitting room as well as their reception room for clients....
JOURNEYS THROUGH BOOKLAND A New and Original Plan For Reading Applied To The World’s Best Literature For Children BY CHARLES H. SYLVESTERAuthor of English and American Literature VOLUME FOUR CONTENTS BETTER THAN GOLD ………………………………….. Father Ryan My HEART LEAPS UP……………………………. William Wordsworth THE BAREFOOT BOY ……………………….. John Greenleaf Whittier RAIN ON THE ROOF ………………………………… Coates Kinney CID CAMPEADOR ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG ………………… Oliver Goldsmith MOTHER’S WAY ……………………………………… Father Ryan SONG OF THE BROOK ……………………………… Alfred Tennyson HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW ……………………… Grace E....
BYELEANOR H.{HODGMAN} PORTER AUTHOR POLLYANNA, MISS BILLY MARRIED, ETC. TOMY FRIENDMrs. James Harness CONTENTS I. THE MOUNTAIN HOMEII. THE TRAILIII. THE VALLEYIV. TWO LETTERSV. DISCORDSVI. NUISANCES, NECESSARY AND OTHERWISE VII. “YOU’RE WANTED–YOU’RE WANTED!”VIII. THE PUZZLING “DOS” AND “DON’TS” IX. JOEX. THE LADY OF THE ROSESXI. JACK AND JILLXII. ANSWERS THAT DID NOT ANSWERXIII. A SURPRISE FOR MR. JACKXIV. THE TOWER WINDOWXV. SECRETSXVI. DAVID’S CASTLE IN SPAINXVII. “THE PRINCESS AND THE PAUPER” XVIII....
KIMONO by JOHN PARIS 1922 CONTENTS CHAPTER I AN ANGLO-JAPANESE MARRIAGE II HONEYMOON III EASTWARDS IV NAGASAKI V CHONKINA VI ACROSS JAPAN VII THE EMBASSY VIII THE HALF-CASTE GIRL IX ITO SAN X THE YOSHIWARA WOMEN XI A GEISHA DINNER XII FALLEN CHERRY-BLOSSOMS XIII THE FAMILY ALTAR XIV THE DWARF TREES XV EURASIA XVI THE GREAT BUDDHA XVII THE RAINY SEASON XVIII AMONG THE NIKKO MOUNTAINS XIX YAE SMITH XX THE KIMONO XXI SAYONARA (GOOD-BYE) XXII FUJINAMI ASAKO XXIII THE REAL SHINTO XXIV THE AUTUMN FESTIVAL XXV JAPANESE COURTSHIP XXVI ALONE IN TOKYO XXVII LADY BRANDAN Utsutsu wo mo Utsutsu to sara ni Omowaneba, Yume wo mo yume to Nani ka omowamu?...
LATE LYRICS AND EARLIER WITH MANY OTHER VERSES Contents: Apology Weathers The maid of Keinton Mandeville Summer Schemes Epeisodia Faintheart in a Railway Train At Moonrise and Onwards The Garden Seat Barthelemon at Vauxhall “I sometimes think” Jezreel A Jog-trot Pair “The Curtains now are Drawn” “According to the Mighty Working” “I was not he” The West-of-Wessex Girl Welcome Home Going and Staying Read by Moonlight At a house in Hampstead A Woman’s Fancy Her Song A Wet August The Dissemblers To a Lady Playing and Singing in the Morning “A man was drawing near to me” The Strange House “As ’twere to-night” The Contretemps A Gentleman’s Epitaph on Himself and a Lady The Old Gown A night in November A Duettist to her Pianoforte “Where three roads joined” “And there was a great calm” Haunting Fingers The Woman I Met “If it’s ever spring again” The Two Houses On Stinsford Hill at Midnight The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House The Selfsame Song The Wanderer A Wife Comes Back A Young Man’s Exhortation At Lulworth Cove a Century Back A Bygone Occasion Two Serenades The Wedding Morning End of the Year 1912 The Chimes Play “Life’s a bumper!...
SOMNIUM MARDOCHAEI NARRATUR. A:1 [11:2] Anno secundo, regnante Artaxerxe maximo, prima die mensis Nisan, vidit somnium Mardochaeus filius Iairi, filii Semei, filii Cis, de tribu Beniamin: A:2 [11:3] homo Iudaeus, qui habitabat in urbe Susis, vir magnus, et inter primos aulae regiae. A:3 [11:4] Erat autem de eo numero captivorum, quos transtulerat Nabuchodonosor rex Babylonis de Ierusalem cum Ieconia rege Iuda: A:4 [11:5] et hoc eius somnium fuit: Apparuerunt voces, et tumultus, et tonitrua, et terraemotus, et conturbatio super terram: A:5 [11:6] et ecce duo dracones magni, paratique contra se in praelium....
Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 2: “From Rome to the End” by Franz Liszt; letters collected by La Mara and translated by Constance Bache CONTENTS BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHFRONTISPIECE TO VOLUME II, HONORING LISZT TABLE OF LETTER CONTENTSTHE LETTERS OF FRANZ LISZT, VOL. 2INFO ABOUT THIS E-TEXT EDITION BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH The Austrio-Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886) was a pianistic miracle. He could play anything on site and composed over 400 works centered around “his” instrument....
MAURINE AND OTHER POEMS by Ella Wheeler Wilcox Contents: Maurine All Roads that Lead to God are Good Dust-sealed “Advice” Over the Banisters The Past Secrets Applause The Story Lean Down Life The Christian’s New Year Prayer In the Night God’s Measure A March Snow Philosophy “Carlos” The Two Glasses La Mort d’Amour Love’s Sleep True Culture The Voluptuary The Coquette If Love’s Burial Lippo “Love is Enough” Life is Love MAURINE PART I I sat and sewed, and sang some tender tune, Oh, beauteous was that morn in early June!...
[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, at the end of several of the files for those who may wish to sample the author’s ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.] MEMOIRS OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, VOLUME 14. By LOUIS ANTOINE FAUVELET DE BOURRIENNE His Private Secretary Edited by R. W. PhippsColonel, Late Royal Artillery 1891 CONTENTS:CHAPTER VII. to CHAPTER X. 1815 CHAPTER VII. –[By the Editor of the 1836 edition]– 1815....
TO Lady Reid, THE DEVOTED WIFE OF MY BROTHER, THESE PAGES ARE INSCRIBED. EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION. The sense of personal loss occasioned by my brother’s death is still so keen and vivid that if I am to write at all about him–and my duty in that respect is clear–it must be out of the fulness of my heart. My earliest recollections of him begin when I was a child and he was a bright, self-reliant lad in the home at Newcastle, the characteristics of which are with artless realism described in the opening pages of this book....
MISS PARLOA’S NEW COOK BOOK, A GUIDE TO MARKETING AND COOKING. BY MARIA PARLOA, PRINCIPAL OF THE SCHOOL OF COOKING IN BOSTON ILLUSTRATED. PREFACE. When the author wrote the Appledore Cook Book, nine years ago, she had seen so many failures and so much consequent mortification and dissatisfaction as to determine her to give those minute directions which were so often wanting in cook-books, and without which success in preparing dishes was for many a person unattainable....
by MRS. HUMPHRY WARD Author of “Robert Elsmere,” “Lady Rose’s Daughter,” “The Mating of Lydia,” etc. Frontispiece in Colour by C. Allan Gilbert [Illustration: Deeply regret to inform you your husband reported wounded and missing] PART I MISSING CHAPTER I ‘Shall I set the tea, Miss?’ Miss Cookson turned from the window. ‘Yes–bring it up–except the tea of course–they ought to be here at any time.’ ‘And Mrs. Weston wants to know what time supper’s to be?...
MONISM AS CONNECTING RELIGION AND SCIENCE A MAN OF SCIENCE BY ERNST HAECKEL TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY J. GILCHRIST, M.A., B.Sc., PH.D. PREFACE The following lecture on Monism is an informal address delivered extemporaneously on October 9, 1892, at Altenburg, on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the “Naturforschende Gesellschaft des Osterlandes.” The immediate occasion of it was a previous address delivered by Professor Schlesinger of Vienna on “Scientific Articles of Faith....
[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.] MONSIEUR DE CAMORS By OCTAVE FEUILLET BOOK 2. CHAPTER IX LOVE CONQUERS PHILOSOPHY To M. de Camors, in principle it was a matter of perfect indifference whether France was centralized or decentralized. But his Parisian instinct induced him to prefer the former....
