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SKETCHES NEW AND OLD by Mark Twain CONTENTS: Preface My Watch Political Economy The Jumping Frog Journalism In Tennessee The Story Of The Bad Little Boy The Story Of The Good Little Boy A Couple Of Poems By Twain And Moore Niagara Answers To Correspondents To Raise Poultry Experience Of The Mcwilliamses With Membranous Croup My First Literary Venture How The Author Was Sold In Newark The Office Bore Johnny Greer The Facts In The Case Of The Great Beef Contract The Case Of George Fisher Disgraceful Persecution Of A Boy The Judges “Spirited Woman” Information Wanted Some Learned Fables, For Good Old Boys And Girls My Late Senatorial Secretaryship A Fashion Item Riley-Newspaper Correspondent A Fine Old Man Science Vs....

SOMEBODY’S LUGGAGE CHAPTER I–HIS LEAVING IT TILL CALLED FOR The writer of these humble lines being a Waiter, and having come of a family of Waiters, and owning at the present time five brothers who are all Waiters, and likewise an only sister who is a Waitress, would wish to offer a few words respecting his calling; first having the pleasure of hereby in a friendly manner offering the Dedication of the same unto JOSEPH, much respected Head Waiter at the Slamjam Coffee-house, London, E....

The American Missionary * * * * * JANUARY, 1888. VOL. XLII. NO. 1. * * * * * CONTENTS EDITORIAL. NEW YEAR’S GREETING–FINANCIAL PARAGRAPHS PROHIBITION ITEMS PARAGRAPHS THE SOUTH. NOTES IN THE SADDLE RELIGIOUS INTEREST IN LINCOLN CHURCH, WASHINGTON, D.C. THE INDIANS. THE FOURTH BROTHER. By Mr. Frank Wood THE CHINESE. DOES RESTRICTION RESTRICT? BUREAU OF WOMAN’S WORK. FOUNDATION LAYING AND HOME BUILDING IN THE SOUTH. By Miss Josephine Kellogg THE SANTEE NORMAL TRAINING SCHOOL AND INDIAN MISSIONS....

The Bible, in Swedish, both Testaments Table of Contents Book 01 F”rsta Mosebok (Genesis) (1 Mos.) Book 02 Andra Mosebok (Exodus) (2 Mos.) Book 03 Tredje Mosebok (Leviticus) (3 Mos.) Book 04 Fj„rde Mosebok (Numeri) (4 Mos.) Book 05 Femte Mosebok (Deuteronomium) (5 Mos.) Book 06 Josua Book 07 Domareboken Book 08 Rut Book 09 F”rsta Samuelsboken (1 Sam.) Book 10 Andra Samuelsboken (2 Sam.) Book 11 F”rsta Konungaboken (1 Kon....

THE BLUE FLOWER by HENRY VAN DYKE The desire of the moth for the star,Of the night for the morrow,The devotion for something afarFrom the sphere of our sorrow.–SHELLEY. To THE DEAR MEMORY OF BERNARD VAN DYKE 1887-1897 AND THE LOVE THAT LIVES BEYOND THE YEARS PREFACE Sometimes short stories are brought together like parcels in a basket. Sometimes they grow together like blossoms on a bush. Then, of course, they really belong to one another, because they have the same life in them....

THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS DO THEIR BIT OR, OVER THE TOP WITH THE WINNEBAGOS By HILDEGARD G. FREY AUTHOR OF The Camp Fire Girls Series A. L. BURT COMPANY Publishers New York 1919 THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS SERIES A Series of Stories for Camp Fire Girls Endorsed by the Officials of the Camp Fire Girls Organization By HILDEGARD G. FREY The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods or, The Winnebago’s Go Camping The Camp Fire Girls at Schoolor, The Wohelo Weavers The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway Houseor, The Magic Garden The Camp Fire Girls Go Motoringor, Along the Road That Leads the Way The Camp Fire Girls Larks and Pranksor, The House of the Open Door The Camp Fire Girls on Ellen’s Isleor, the Trail of the Seven Cedars The Camp Fire Girls on the Open Roador, Glorify Work The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bitor, Over The Top With the Winnebago’s THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS DO THEIR BIT CHAPTER I A DREAM COMES TRUE The long train, which for nearly an hour had been gliding smoothly forward with a soothing, cradling motion of its heavy trucked Pullmans, and a crooning, lullaby sound of its droning wheels, came to a jarring stop at one of the mountain stations, and Lieutenant Allison wakened with a start....

The following work was found in the library of an ancient Catholic family in the north of England. It was printed at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529. How much sooner it was written does not appear. The principal incidents are such as were believed in the darkest ages of Christianity; but the language and conduct have nothing that savours of barbarism. The style is the purest Italian....

ODD CRAFT By W.W. Jacobs THE CHANGING NUMBERS The tall clock in the corner of the small living-room had just struck eight as Mr. Samuel Gunnill came stealthily down the winding staircase and, opening the door at the foot, stepped with an appearance of great care and humility into the room. He noticed with some anxiety that his daughter Selina was apparently engrossed in her task of attending to the plants in the window, and that no preparations whatever had been made for breakfast....

THE CHRISTIAN LIFE; ITS COURSE, ITS HINDRANCES,AND ITS HELPS. BYTHOMAS ARNOLD, D.D.,HEAD MASTER OF RUGBY SCHOOL,AND LATE FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD. From the Fifth London Edition. 1856. “As far as the principle on which Archbishop Laud and his followers acted went to re-actuate the idea of the church, as a co-ordinate and living power by right of Christ’s institution and express promise, I go along with them; but I soon discover that by the church they meant the clergy, the hierarchy exclusively, and then I fly off from them in a tangent....

CHAPTERI THE LURE OF THE CIRCUSII PHIL HEARS HIS DISMISSALIII MAKING HIS START IN THE WORLDIV THE CIRCUS COMES TO TOWNV WHEN THE BANDS PLAYEDVI PROVING HIS METTLEVII MAKING FRIENDS WITH THE ELEPHANTS VIII IN THE SAWDUST ARENAIX GETTING HIS FIRST CALLX PHIL GETS A SURPRISEXI THE FIRST NIGHT WITH THE SHOWXII A THRILLING RESCUEXIII THE DAWNING OF A NEW DAYXIV AN UNEXPECTED HITXV A STROKE OF GOOD FORTUNEXVI HIS FIRST SETBACKXVII LEFT BEHINDXVIII A STARTLING DISCOVERYXIX TEDDY DISTINGUISHES HIMSELFXX THE RETURN TO THE SAWDUST LIFE XXI AN ELEPHANT IN JAILXXII EMPEROR ANSWERS THE SIGNALXXIII THE MYSTERY SOLVEDXXIV CONCLUSION The Circus Boys on the Flying Rings CHAPTER I THE LURE OF THE CIRCUS “I say, Phil, I can do that....

ACT I. SCENE 1.Troy. Before PRIAM’S palace Enter TROILUS armed, and PANDARUS TROILUS. Call here my varlet; I’ll unarm again. Why should I war without the walls of Troy That find such cruel battle here within? Each Troyan that is master of his heart, Let him to field; Troilus, alas, hath none! PANDARUS. Will this gear ne’er be mended? TROILUS. The Greeks are strong, and skilful to their strength, Fierce to their skill, and to their fierceness valiant; But I am weaker than a woman’s tear, Tamer than sleep, fonder than ignorance, Less valiant than the virgin in the night, And skilless as unpractis’d infancy....

Or, Vulcan’s Peak A Tale of the Pacific. By J. Fenimore Cooper. 1863 “Thus arise Races of living things, glorious in strength And perish, as the quickening breath of God Fills them, or is withdrawn.”–Bryant. Complete In One Volume Preface. The reader of this book will very naturally be disposed to ask the question, why the geographies, histories, and other works of a similar character, have never made any mention of the regions and events that compose its subject....

THE CROSS OF BERNY OR IRENE’S LOVERS BY MADAME EMILE DE GIRARDINMM. THEOPHILE GAUTIERJULES SANDEAU AND MERY PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION. Literary partnerships have often been tried, but very rarely with success in the more imaginative branches of literature. Occasionally two minds have been found to supplement each other sufficiently to produce good joint writing, as in the works of MM. Erckman-Chatrian; but when the partnership has included more than two, it has almost invariably proved a failure, even when composed of individually the brightest intellects, and where the highest hopes have been entertained....

The Desert and The Sown MARY HALLOCK FOOTE CONTENTS I. A COUNCIL OF THE ELDERS II. INTRODUCING A SON-IN-LAW III. THE INITIAL LOVE IV. “A MAN THAT HAD A WELL IN HIS OWN COURT” V. DISINHERITED VI. AN APPEAL TO NATURE VII. MARKING TIME VIII. A HUNTER’S DIARY IX. THE POWER OF WEAKNESS X. THE WHITE PERIL XI. A SEARCHING OF HEARTS XII. THE BLOOD-WITE XIII. CURTAIN XIV. KIND INQUIRIES XV....

by Karl Marx Translator’s Preface “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte” is one of Karl Marx’ most profound and most brilliant monographs. It may be considered the best work extant on the philosophy of history, with an eye especially upon the history of the Movement of the Proletariat, together with the bourgeois and other manifestations that accompany the same, and the tactics that such conditions dictate. The recent populist uprising; the more recent “Debs Movement”; the thousand and one utopian and chimerical notions that are flaring up; the capitalist maneuvers; the hopeless, helpless grasping after straws, that characterize the conduct of the bulk of the working class; all of these, together with the empty-headed, ominous figures that are springing into notoriety for a time and have their day, mark the present period of the Labor Movement in the nation a critical one....

HOME AGAIN and THE ELECT LADY (A Duplex Edition) By George MacDonald THE ELECT LADY CHAPTER I. LANDLORD’S DAUGHTER AND TENANT’S SON. In a kitchen of moderate size, flagged with slate, humble in its appointments, yet looking scarcely that of a farmhouse–for there were utensils about it indicating necessities more artificial than usually grow upon a farm–with the corner of a white deal table between them, sat two young people evidently different in rank, and meeting upon no level of friendship....

[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of each section for those who may wish to sample the author’s ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.] MEMOIRS OF MARGUERITE DE VALOIS QUEEN OF NAVARRE Written by Herself Being Historic Memoirs of the Courts of France and Navarre PUBLISHER’S NOTE. The first volume of the Court Memoir Series will, it is confidently anticipated, prove to be of great interest....

THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF JIMMIE DALE BY FRANK L. PACKARD 1919 CONTENTS CHAPTER I SMARLINGHUE II THE WARNING III THE MAN WITH THE SCAR IV THE DIAMOND PENDANT V “DEATH TO THE GRAY SEAL!” VI THE REHABILITATION OF LARRY THE BAT VII THE BOND ROBBERY VIII AT HALFPAST ONE IX ‘WARE THE WOLF! X THE CHASE XI THE VOICES OF THE UNDERWORLD XII IN THE SANCTUARY XIII THE SECRET ROOM XIV THE LAST CARD XV CAUGHT IN THE ACT XVI ONE CHANCE IN TEN XVII THE DEFAULTER XVIII ALIAS ENGLISH DICK XIX THE BEGINNING OF THE END XX THE OLD-CLOTHES SHOP XXI SILVER MAG XXII THE TOCSIN’S STORY XXIII HUNCHBACK JOE XXIV AT FIVE MINUTES OF TWELVE THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF JIMMIE DALE CHAPTER I SMARLINGHUE A diminutive gas-jet’s sickly, yellow flame illuminated the room with poverty-stricken inadequacy; high up on the wall, bordering the ceiling, the moonlight, as though contemptuous of its artificial competitor, streamed in through a small, square window, and laid a white, flickering path to the door across a filthy and disreputable rag of carpet; also, through a rent in the roller shade, which was drawn over a sort of antiquated French window that opened on a level with the floor and in line with the top-light, the moonlight disclosed a narrow and squalid courtyard without....

THE GESTE OF DUKE JOCELYN by Jeffery Farnol with illustrations in color by Eric Pape Copyright, 1920, BT LITTLE, BBOWN, AND COMPANY. All rights reserved Published September, 1920 Norwood Press Set up and electrotyped by J. S. Cushing Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. My GILLIAN, thou child that budding woman art For whom to-day and yesterday lie far apart Already thou, my dear, dost longer dresses wear And bobbest in most strange, new-fangled ways thy hair; Thou lookest on the world with eyes grown serious And rul’st thy father with a sway imperious Particularly as regards his socks and ties Insistent that each with the other harmonise....

by Ford Madox Ford PART I I THIS is the saddest story I have ever heard. We had known the Ashburnhams for nine seasons of the town of Nauheim with an extreme intimacy–or, rather with an acquaintanceship as loose and easy and yet as close as a good glove’s with your hand. My wife and I knew Captain and Mrs Ashburnham as well as it was possible to know anybody, and yet, in another sense, we knew nothing at all about them....