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LOST IN THE FOG by JAMES DE MILLE 1870 I. Old Acquaintances gather around old Scenes.–Antelope, ahoy!–How are you, Solomon?–Round-about Plan of a round about Voyage.–The Doctor warns, rebukes, and remonstrates, but, alas! in vain.–It must be done.–Beginning of a highly eventful Voyage. It was a beautiful morning, in the month of July, when a crowd of boys assembled on the wharf of Grand Pre. The tide was high, the turbid waters of Mud Creek flowed around, a fresh breeze blew, and if any craft was going to sea she could not have found a better time....
Mark Twain, A Biography 1907-1910, by Albert Paine[mt6bg10.txt]2987 Mark Twain, A Biography 1900-1907, by Albert Paine[mt5bg10.txt]2986 Mark Twain, A Biography 1886-1900, by Albert Paine[mt4bg10.txt]2985 Mark Twain, A Biography 1875-1886, by Albert Paine[mt3bg10.txt]2984 Mark Twain, A Biography 1866-1875, by Albert Paine[mt2bg10.txt]2983 Mark Twain, A Biography 1835-1866, by Albert Paine[mt1bg10.txt]2982 VOLUME I, Part 1: 1835-1866 MARK TWAIN A BIOGRAPHY THE PERSONAL AND LITERARY LIFE OF SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS BY ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE TO CLARA CLEMENS GABRILOWITSCH WHO STEADILY UPHELD THE AUTHOR’S PURPOSE TO WRITE HISTORY RATHER THAN EULOGY AS THE STORY OF HER FATHER’S LIFE AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT Dear William Dean Howells, Joseph Hopkins Twichell, Joseph T....
MARY MINDS HER BUSINESS BY GEORGE WESTON Author of “Oh, Mary, Be Careful,” “The Apple-Tree Girl,” and “You Never Saw Such a Girl.” 1920 To Karl Edwin HarrimanOne of the Noblest of them AllG.W. MARY MINDS HER BUSINESS So that you may understand my heroine, I am going to write a preface and tell you about her forebears. In the latter part of the seventeenth century, there was a young blacksmith in our part of the country named Josiah Spencer....
A STUDY OF PRINCIPLES AND PERSONALITIES BY RICHARD BURTON PREFACE The principle of inclusion in this book is the traditional one which assumes that criticism is only safe when it deals with authors who are dead. In proportion as we approach the living or, worse, speak of those still on earth, the proper perspective is lost and the dangers of contemporary judgment incurred. The light-minded might add, that the dead cannot strike back; to pass judgment upon them is not only more critical but safer....
[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, Complete By LOUIS ANTOINE FAUVELET DE BOURRIENNE His Private Secretary Edited by R. W. PhippsColonel, Late Royal Artillery 1891 PREFACE BY THE EDITORS OF THE 1836 EDITION. In introducing the present edition of M....
MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ST. CLOUD By Stewarton Being Secret Letters from a Gentleman at Paris to a Nobleman in London PUBLISHERS’ NOTE. The present work contains particulars of the great Napoleon not to be found in any other publication, and forms an interesting addition to the information generally known about him. The writer of the Letters (whose name is said to have been Stewarton, and who had been a friend of the Empress Josephine in her happier, if less brilliant days) gives full accounts of the lives of nearly all Napoleon’s Ministers and Generals, in addition to those of a great number of other characters, and an insight into the inner life of those who formed Napoleon’s Court....
MERTON OF THE MOVIES by Harry Leon Wilson ToGeorge Ade CONTENTS I. DIRTY WORK AT THE BORDER II. THAT NIGHT–THE APARTMENTS OF CLIFFORD ARMYTAGE III. WESTERN STUFF IV. THE WATCHER AT THE GATE V. A BREACH IN THE CITY WALLS VI. UNDER THE GLASS TOPS VII. “NOTHING TO-DAY, DEAR!” VIII. CLIFFORD ARMYTAGE, THE OUTLAW IX. MORE WAYS THAN ONE X. OF SHATTERED ILLUSIONS XI. THE MONTAGUE GIRL INTERVENES XII. ALIAS HAROLD PARMALEE XIII....
BRIAN OSWALD DONN-BYRNE (1889-1928) A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR OF MESSER MARCO POLO So Celtic in feeling and atmosphere are the stories of Donn Byrne that many of his devotees have come to believe that he never lived anywhere but in Ireland. Actually, Donn Byrne was born in New York City. Shortly after his birth, however, his parents took him back to the land of his forefathers. There he was educated and came to know the people of whom he wrote so magically....
MONITRESS MERLE BY ANGELA BRAZIL Author of “A Fortunate Term” “The Princess of the School” &c. Illustrated by Treyer Evans DEDICATED TO THOSE READERS WHO ASKED ME TO WRITE THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF MAVIS AND MERLE * * * * * CONTENTS I. A LAST BATHE II. A SCHOOL BALLOT III. THE NEW MONITRESS IV. CHAGMOUTH FOLK V. MISS MITCHELL, B.A. VI. FISHERMAIDENS VII. MUSICAL STARS VIII. YULE-TIDE IX. FACING THE FOOTLIGHTS X....
MORE BAB BALLADS Contents: Mister WilliamThe Bumboat Woman’s StoryThe Two OgresLittle OliverPasha Bailey BenLieutenant-Colonel FlareLost Mr. BlakeThe Baby’s VengeanceThe Captain And The MermaidsAnnie Protheroe. A Legend of Stratford-Le-Bow An Unfortunate LikenessGregory Parable, LL.D.The King Of Canoodle-DumFirst LoveBrave Alum BeySir Barnaby Bampton BooThe Modest CoupleThe MartinetThe Sailor Boy To His LassThe Reverend Simon MagusDamon v. PythiasMy DreamThe Bishop Of Rum-Ti-Foo AgainA Worm Will TurnThe Haughty ActorThe Two MajorsEmily, John, James, And I....
or The Old Lumberman’s Secret by Annie Roe Carr Chapter ITHE YELLOW POSTER “Oh, look there, Nan!” cried Bess Harley suddenly, as they turned into High Street from the avenue on which Tillbury’s high school was situated. “Look where?” queried Nan Sherwood promptly. “Up in the air, down on the ground or all around?” and she carried out her speech in action, finally spinning about on one foot in a manner to shock the more staid Elizabeth....
NEWTON FORSTER OR, THE MERCHANT SERVICE BY CAPTAIN MARRYAT LONDON J.M. DENT AND CO. BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN AND CO. MDCCCXCV 1832, 1895 [Illustration] Contents CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XX CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXV CHAPTER XXVI CHAPTER XXVII CHAPTER XXVIII CHAPTER XXIX CHAPTER XXX CHAPTER XXXI CHAPTER XXXII CHAPTER XXXIII CHAPTER XXXIV CHAPTER XXXV CHAPTER XXXVI CHAPTER XXXVII CHAPTER XXXVIII CHAPTER XXXIX CHAPTER XL CHAPTER XLI CHAPTER XLII CHAPTER XLIII CHAPTER XLIV CHAPTER XLV CHAPTER XLVI CHAPTER XLVII CHAPTER XLVIII CHAPTER XLIX CHAPTER L CHAPTER LI CHAPTER LII CHAPTER LIII Prefatory Note Newton Forster, or the Merchant Service, first appeared in the Metropolitan Magazine, 1832....
OLD FRIENDS PREFACE The studies in this volume originally appeared in the “St. James’s Gazette.” Two, from a friendly hand, have been omitted here by the author of the rest, as non sua poma. One was by Mr. RICHARD SWIVELLER to a boon companion and brother in the lyric Apollo; the other, though purporting to have been addressed by Messrs. DOMBEY & SON to Mr. TOOTS, is believed, on internal evidence, to have been composed by the patron of the CHICKEN himself....
OLD FRITZ AND THE NEW ERA L. MUHLBACH TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY PETER LANGLEY BOOK I. OLD FRITZ. I. The Lonely King II. Wilhelmine Enke III. Frederick William IV. The Drive to Berlin V. The Oath of Fidelity VI. The Parade VII. The Miraculous Elixir VIII. The Golden Rain IX. German Literature and the King BOOK II. ROSICRUCIANS AND POWERFUL GENIUSES. X. Goethe in Berlin XI. The Inner and the Middle Temple XII....
ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES, Vol. 4. 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 IV. THE MORIBUNDTHE GAMEKEEPERTHE STORY OF A FARM GIRLTHE WRECKTHEODULE SABOT’S CONFESSIONTHE WRONG HOUSETHE DIAMOND NECKLACETHE MARQUIS DE FUMEROLTHE TRIP OF THE HORLAFAREWELLTHE WOLFTHE INN THE MORIBUND The warm autumn sun was beating down on the farmyard. Under the grass, which had been cropped close by the cows, the earth soaked by recent rains, was soft and sank in under the feet with a soggy noise, and the apple trees, loaded with apples, were dropping their pale green fruit in the dark green grass....
ROUGHING IT by Mark Twain 1880 TO CALVIN H. HIGBIE, Of California, an Honest Man, a Genial Comrade, and a Steadfast Friend. THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED By the Author, In Memory of the Curious Time When We Two WERE MILLIONAIRES FOR TEN DAYS. ROUGHING IT BY MARK TWAIN. (SAMUEL L. CLEMENS.) PREFATORY. This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and its object is rather to help the resting reader while away an idle hour than afflict him with metaphysics, or goad him with science....
[Illustration: THE TELEPHONE FACE.] SAID THE OBSERVER BY LOUIS J. STELLMANN ILLUSTRATIONS BY J.P. BURNHAM AND V.C. FORSYTHE San FranciscoThe Whitaker & Ray Co.Incorporated1903 DEDICATION. TO MY MOTHER ON HER FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY. Half of a century’s gladness And half of a century’s tears, Lost in the mighty silence Of the past and vanished years! Oh, what a sea of memories Surge back from the time gone by– The waters of Life’s river; How many a smile or sigh– Has made them dance and sparkle; Or, storm-tossed as they ran, Adown the course of Being, Since the current first began!...
BY JOSIAH ALLEN’S WIFE (MARIETTA HOLLEY) ILLUSTRATIONS BY CH. GRUNWALD 1904 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS [Transcriber’s note: These are the captioned halftone illustrations. There are several other uncaptioned line drawings.] He showed ’em in a careless way as much as fifteen dollars in cash Josiah’s good nater returnin’ with every mouthful he took It is the big crowd that is surgin’ through the Pike to and fro, fro and to “I hain’t Theodore....
[Illustration] SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 360 NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 25, 1882 Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XIV, No. 360. Scientific American established 1845 Scientific American Supplement, $5 a year. Scientific American and Supplement, $7 a year. * * * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS. I. ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.–Soaking Pits for Steel Ingots. –On the successful rolling of steel ingots with their own initial heat by means of the soaking pit process....
