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MUCKER Edgar Rice Burroughs BALLANTINE BOOKS . NEW YORK THE MUCKER: Originally published serially in All-Story Cavalier Weekly. Copyright (c) 1914, by The Frank A. Munsey Co. THE RETURN OF THE MUCKER: Sequel to THE MUCKER. Originally published serially in All-Story Weekly. Copyright (c) 1916, by The Frank A. Munsey Co. First Ballantine Edition: January, 1966 Manufactured in the United States of America BALLANTINE BOOKS, INC.101 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10003 CONTENTS Part I CHAPTER I BILLY BYRNE BILLY BYRNE was a product of the streets and alleys of Chicago’s great West Side....

by Anthony Trollope Contents The Man who Hunts and Doesn’t Like it The Man who Hunts and Does Like itThe Lady who Rides to HoundsThe Hunting FarmerThe Man who Hunts and Never JumpsThe Hunting ParsonThe Master of HoundsHow to Ride to Hounds THE MAN WHO HUNTS AND DOESN’T LIKE IT. It seems to be odd, at first sight, that there should be any such men as these; but their name and number is legion....

Introduction to BrowningHiram Corson An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning’s Poetry by Hiram Corson, LL.D., Professor of English Literature in the Cornell University; Author of “An Introduction to the Study of Shakespeare”, “A Primer of English Verse, chiefly in its Aesthetic and Organic Character”, “The Aims of Literary Study”, etc. “Subtlest Assertor of the Soul in song.” {There are several Greek phrases in this book. ASCII cannot represent the Greek characters, so if you are interested in these phrases, use the following map....

J. S. LE FANU’S GHOSTLY TALES, VOLUME 2 An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House (1862) and Ultor De Lacy: A Legend of Cappercullen (1861) by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu An Authentic Narrative ofa Haunted House [The Editor of the UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE submits the following very remarkable statement, with every detail of which he has been for some years acquainted, upon the ground that it affords the most authentic and ample relation of a series of marvellous phenoma, in nowise connected with what is technically termed “spiritualism,” which he has anywhere met with....

[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.] THE ABBE CONSTANTIN By LUDOVIC HALEVY With a Preface by E. LEGOUVE, of the French Academy LUDOVIC HALEVY Ludovic Halevy was born in Paris, January 1, 1834. His father was Leon Halevy, the celebrated author; his grandfather, Fromenthal, the eminent composer....

LITTLE LUCY’S WONDERFUL GLOBE by Charlotte M. Yonge “Young fingers idly roll The mimic earth or trace In picture bright of blue and gold Each other circling chase”–KEBLE CONTENTS. Chapter I. Mother Bunch. Chapter II. Visitors from the South Seas. Chapter III. Italy. Chapter IV. Greenland. Chapter V. Tyrol. Chapter VI. Africa. Chapter VII. Laplanders. Chapter VIII. China. Chapter IX. Kamschatka. Chapter X. The Turk. Chapter XI. Switzerland. Chapter XII....

VOLUME I, Part 2: 1866-1875 LIV THE LECTURER It was not easy to take up the daily struggle again, but it was necessary.–[Clemens once declared he had been so blue at this period that one morning he put a loaded pistol to his head, but found he lacked courage to pull the trigger.]–Out of the ruck of possibilities (his brain always thronged with plans) he constructed three or four resolves....

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION. ON the death of Fleeming Jenkin, his family and friends determined to publish a selection of his various papers; by way of introduction, the following pages were drawn up; and the whole, forming two considerable volumes, has been issued in England. In the States, it has not been thought advisable to reproduce the whole; and the memoir appearing alone, shorn of that other matter which was at once its occasion and its justification, so large an account of a man so little known may seem to a stranger out of all proportion....

[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 16. By LOUIS ANTOINE FAUVELET DE BOURRIENNE His Private Secretary Edited by R. W. PhippsColonel, Late Royal Artillery 1891 CONTENTS:CHAPTER XIII. 1815-1821(Chapter XIV. and the Appendix have not been included) CHAPTER XIII –[ This chapter; by the editor of the 1836 edition, is based upon the ‘Memorial’, and O’Meara’s and Antommarchi’s works....

Caroline M. Morse, editor JANE CUNNINGHAM CROLY “JENNY JUNE” 1904 [Illustration: Portrait] [Illustration: Facsimile of signature “With sincere affection yours-ever J.C. Croly”] Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly “Jenny June” TO THE GENERAL FEDERATION OF WOMEN’S CLUBS IN AMERICA THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED BY THE WOMAN’S PRESS CLUB OF NEW YORK CITY Foreword On January 6, 1902, a Memorial Meeting was called by Sorosis jointly with the Woman’s Press Club of New York City, and a month later the Press Club formally authorized the preparation of a Memorial Book to its Founder and continuous President to the day of her death, Jane Cunningham Croly....

MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS BY CHARLES DICKENS Contents: The Agricultural InterestThreatening Letter to Thomas Hood from an Ancient Gentleman Crime and EducationCapital PunishmentThe Spirit of Chivalry in Westminster Hall In Memoriam–W. M. ThackerayAdelaide Anne ProcterChauncey Hare TownshendOn Mr. Fechter’s Acting THE AGRICULTURAL INTEREST The present Government, having shown itself to be particularly clever in its management of Indictments for Conspiracy, cannot do better, we think (keeping in its administrative eye the pacification of some of its most influential and most unruly supporters), than indict the whole manufacturing interest of the country for a conspiracy against the agricultural interest....

NARRATIVE OF A SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL AND WESTERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA. PERFORMED BETWEEN THE YEARS 1818 AND 1822. BY CAPTAIN PHILLIP P. KING, R.N., F.R.S., F.L.S., AND MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY OF LONDON. WITHAN APPENDIX,CONTAININGVARIOUS SUBJECTS RELATING TO HYDROGRAPHY AND NATURAL HISTORY. IN TWO VOLUMES,ILLUSTRATED BY PLATES, CHARTS, AND WOOD-CUTS. VOLUME 2. LONDON:JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. CONTENTS. VOLUME 2. CHAPTER 1.Survey upon the mermaid.Purchase another vessel.New establishment....

NOTES AND QUERIES A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATIONFORLITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * “When found, make a note of.”–CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * NO. 11.]SATURDAY, JANUARY 12. 1850.[Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:– Sir E. Dering’s Household Book, by E. Rimbault Bayswater and its Origin Eva, Daughter of D. MacMurrough Plagiarisms, or Parallel Passages Billingsgate Notes from Fly-Leaves, No....

OCTOBER VAGABONDS BY RICHARD LE GALLIENNE 1911 I The Epitaph of Summer II At Evening I Came to the Wood III “Trespassers will be …” IV Salad and Moonshine V The Green Friend VI In the Wake of Summer VII Maps and Farewells VIII The American Bluebird and Its Song IX Dutch Hollow X Where They Sing from Morning Till Night XI Apple-Land XII Orchards and a Line from Virgil XIII Fellow Wayfarers XIV The Old Lady of the Walnuts and Others XV The Man at Dansville XVI In which we Catch up with Summer XVII Containing Valuable StatisticsXVIII A Dithyrambus of Buttermilk XIX A Growl about American Country Hotels XX Onions, Pigs and Hickory-nuts XXI October Roses and a Young Girl’s Face XXII Concerning the Popular Taste in Scenery and some Happy People XXIII The Susquehanna XXIV And Unexpectedly the Last Envoi CHAPTER I THE EPITAPH OF SUMMER As I started out from the farm with a basket of potatoes, for our supper in the shack half a mile up the hillside, where we had made our Summer camp, my eye fell on a notice affixed to a gate-post, and, as I read it, my heart sank–sank as the sun was sinking yonder with wistful glory behind the purple ridge....

Reineke Fuchs Johann Wolfgang Goethe Inhalt Erster Gesang Zweiter Gesang Dritter Gesang Vierter Gesang F¸nfter Gesang Sechster Gesang Siebenter Gesang Achter Gesang Neunter Gesang Zehnter Gesang Elfter Gesang Zwˆlfter Gesang Erster Gesang Pfingsten, das liebliche Fest, war gekommen! es gr¸nten und bl¸hten Feld und Wald; auf H¸geln und Hˆhn, in B¸schen und Hecken ‹bten ein frˆhliches Lied die neuermunterten Vˆgel; Jede Wiese sproflte von Blumen in duftenden Gr¸nden, Festlich heiter gl‰nzte der Himmel und farbig die Erde....

SAMUEL BROHL & COMPANY by VICTOR CHERBULIEZ CHAPTER I Were the events of this nether sphere governed by the calculus of probabilities, Count Abel Larinski and Mlle. Antoinette Moriaz would almost unquestionably have arrived at the end of their respective careers without ever having met. Count Larinski lived in Vienna, Austria; Mlle. Moriaz never had been farther from Paris than Cormeilles, where she went every spring to remain throughout the fine weather....

SANDRA BELLONI By George Meredith BOOK 7 L. EMILIA BEGINS TO FEEL MERTHYR’S POWER LI. A CHAPTER INTERRUPTED BY THE PHILOSOPHER LII. A FRESH DUETT BETWEEN WILFRID AND EMILIA LIII. ALDERMAN’S BOUQUETLIIV. THE EXPLOSION AT BROOKFIELD LV. THE TRAGEDY OF SENTIMENTLVI. AN ADVANCE AND A CHECK.LVII. CONTAINS A FURTHER ANATOMY OF WILFRID LVIII. FROST ON THE MAY NIGHT.LVIX. EMILIA’S GOOD-BYE CHAPTER L Emilia remained locked up with her mother all that evening....

[Illustration] SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 384 NEW YORK, MAY 12, 1883 Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XV., No. 384. Scientific American established 1845 Scientific American Supplement, $5 a year. Scientific American and Supplement, $7 a year. * * * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS. I. ENGINEERING.–Locomotive for St. Gothard Railway.–Several figures. The Mersey Railway Tunnel. Dam Across the Ottawa River, and New Canal at Carillon, Quebec. Several figures and map. II....

[Illustration: (Photo: E. Druet) CEZANNE] SINCE CEZANNE BY CLIVE BELL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Most of these Essays appeared in THE NEW REPUBLIC and THE ATHENAEUM: some, however, are reprinted from THE BURLINGTON MAGAZINE, THE NEW STATESMAN, and ART AND DECORATION. I take this opportunity of thanking the editors of all. C.B. CONTENTS I. Since Cezanne II. The Artistic Problem III. The Douanier Rousseau IV. Cezanne V. Renoir VI. Tradition and Movements VII....

Edited by Logan Marshall The lists of names of people need to be carefully rechecked!! There are possible misspellings we would not be aware of. Scanned by Charles Keller withOmniPage Professional OCR softwarepurchased from Caere Corporation, 1-800-535-7226. Contact Mike Lough Pre-Frontispiece Caption:THE TITANIC The largest and finest steamship in the world; on her maiden voyage, loaded with a human freight of over 2,300 souls, she collided with a huge iceberg 600 miles southeast of Halifax, at 11....