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The ART of FENCING, or, the USE of the Small SWORD. Translated from the FRENCH of the late celebrated Monsieur L’ABBAT; Master of that ART at the Academy of TOULOUSE. * * * * * By ANDREW MAHON, Professor of the SMALL SWORD in DUBLIN. DUBLIN: Printed by JAMES HORT, at the Sign of Mercury in Skinner-Row, 1734. DEDICATION. [Transcribers note: First page of dedication missing.] sue for. I shall omit saying any Thing, My Lord, of the shining Qualities, which seem Hereditary in Your Lordship’s Family, as well as of the Dignity and Importance of the Charge with which His Majesty has been pleased to entrust Your Lordship’s Most Noble Father....

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK RUTHERFORDEDITED BY HIS FRIEND REUBEN SHAPCOTT PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION The present edition is a reprint of the first, with corrections of several mistakes which had been overlooked. There is one observation which I may perhaps be permitted to make on re-reading after some years this autobiography. Rutherford, at any rate in his earlier life, was an example of the danger and the folly of cultivating thoughts and reading books to which he was not equal, and which tend to make a man lonely....

by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner INTRODUCTION TO JOE MULLER Joseph Muller, Secret Service detective of the Imperial Austrian police, is one of the great experts in his profession. In personality he differs greatly from other famous detectives. He has neither the impressive authority of Sherlock Holmes, nor the keen brilliancy of Monsieur Lecoq. Muller is a small, slight, plain-looking man, of indefinite age, and of much humbleness of mien....

ACT I. SCENE I.Warkworth. Before NORTHUMBERLAND’S Castle Enter LORD BARDOLPH LORD BARDOLPH. Who keeps the gate here, ho? The PORTER opens the gate Where is the Earl? PORTER. What shall I say you are? LORD BARDOLPH. Tell thou the Earl That the Lord Bardolph doth attend him here. PORTER. His lordship is walk’d forth into the orchard. Please it your honour knock but at the gate, And he himself will answer....

The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean Preface I was a boy when I went through the wonderful adventures herein set down. With the memory of my boyish feelings strong upon me, I present my book specially to boys, in the earnest hope that they may derive valuable information, much pleasure, great profit, and unbounded amusement from its pages. One word more. If there is any boy or man who loves to be melancholy and morose, and who cannot enter with kindly sympathy into the regions of fun, let me seriously advise him to shut my book and put it away....

[Illustration: “I am going to take you from the island!”] The COURAGE of CAPTAIN PLUM BYJAMES OLIVER CURWOOD1912 WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BYFRANK E. SCHOONOVER THE COURAGE OF CAPTAIN PLUM CHAPTER I THE TWO OATHS On an afternoon in the early summer of 1856 Captain Nathaniel Plum, master and owner of the sloop Typhoon was engaged in nothing more important than the smoking of an enormous pipe. Clouds of strongly odored smoke, tinted with the lights of the setting sun, had risen above his head in unremitting volumes for the last half hour....

THE COURTSHIP OF SUSAN BELL by Anthony Trollope John Munroe Bell had been a lawyer in Albany, State of New York, and as such had thriven well. He had thriven well as long as thrift and thriving on this earth had been allowed to him. But the Almighty had seen fit to shorten his span. Early in life he had married a timid, anxious, pretty, good little wife, whose whole heart and mind had been given up to do his bidding and deserve his love....

THE DAY OF THE CONFEDERACY, A CHRONICLE OF THE EMBATTLED SOUTH BY NATHANIEL W. STEPHENSON New Haven: Yale University PressToronto: Glasgow, Brook & Co.London: Humphrey MilfordOxford University Press 1919 CONTENTS I. THE SECESSION MOVEMENT II. THE DAVIS GOVERNMENT III. THE FALL OF KING COTTON IV. THE REACTION AGAINST RICHMOND V. THE CRITICAL YEAR VI. LIFE IN THE CONFEDERACY VII. THE TURNING OF THE TIDE VIII. A GAME OF CHANCE IX....

Florence, April 5th, 1874.–They told me I should find Italy greatly changed; and in seven-and-twenty years there is room for changes. But to me everything is so perfectly the same that I seem to be living my youth over again; all the forgotten impressions of that enchanting time come back to me. At the moment they were powerful enough; but they afterwards faded away. What in the world became of them?...

The Diary of a Nobody INTRODUCTION BY MR. POOTER Why should I not publish my diary? I have often seen reminiscences of people I have never even heard of, and I fail to see–because I do not happen to be a ‘Somebody’–why my diary should not be interesting. My only regret is that I did not commence it when I was a youth. Charles PooterThe Laurels,Brickfield TerraceHolloway. CHAPTER I We settle down in our new home, and I resolve to keep a diary....

[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.] ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Translated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 BOOK THE FIRST CONTENTS OF VOLUME 2. I. That Men by Various Ways Arrive at the Same End. II. Of Sorrow....

by Gideon Wurdz The FOOLISH DICTIONARY An exhausting work of reference to un-certain English words, their origin, meaning, legitimate and illegitimate use, confused by a few pictures [not included] by WALLACE GOLDSMITH. Executed by GIDEON WURDZ Master of Pholly, Doctor of Loquacious Lunacy, Fellow of the Royal Gibe Society, etc., etc. To MY DOG,Who first heard these linesAnd didn’t run away MAD,I Reverently DedicateThis Tome. “A Fool may give a Wise Man counsel....

The GhettoLola Ridge TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE Will you feast with me, American People? But what have I that shall seem good to you! On my board are bitter applesAnd honey served on thorns,And in my flagons fluid iron,Hot from the crucibles. How should such fare entice you! CONTENTS The GhettoManhattanBroadwayFlotsamSpringBowery AfternoonPromenadeThe FogFacesDebrisDedicationThe Song of IronFrank Little at CalvarySpiresThe Legion of IronFuelA Toast“The Everlasting Return,”PalestineThe SongTo the OthersBabelThe FiddlerDawn WindNorth WindThe DestroyerLullabyThe FoundlingThe Woman with JewelsSubmergedArt and LifeBrooklyn BridgeDreamsThe FireA MemoryThe EdgeThe GardenUnder-SongA Worn RoseIron WineDispossessedThe StarThe Tidings The larger part of the poem entitled “The Ghetto” appeared originally in THE NEW REPUBLIC and some of poems were printed in THE INTERNATIONAL, OTHERS, POETRY, etc....

By George Wharton James Author of “In and Out of the Old Missions,” “The Wonders of the Colorado Desert,” “Through Ramona’s Country,” etc. Revised Edition Boston: Little, Brown, and Company Kansas City: Fred Harvey 1912 PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION Because of the completion of a new driveway along the Rim of the Grand Canyon, and of a new trail to the Colorado River, a second edition of this book is deemed necessary....

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF HECTOR FRANCE [Illustration: Debut d’une serie de documents en couleur.] Love is a familiar; love is a devil; there is no evil angel but love. Yet was Samson so tempted, and he had an excellent strength; yet was Solomon so seduced, and he had a very good wit. Love’s Labour Lost. With an engraved portrait of the Author Other Works in English By HECTOR FRANCE Mansour’s Chastisement, the Loves and Intrigues of an Arab Don Juan, done into English by ALFRED ALLINSON, and embellished with Seven fine Engravings by THEVENIN, after Drawings by BAZEILHAC....

THE HAPPY VENTURE BY EDITH BALLINGER PRICE AUTHOR OF “BLUE MAGIC,”“US AND THE BOTTLEMAN,”“SILVER SHOAL LIGHT,” ETC. ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR Published in 1920, 1921, by The Century Co. CONTENTS I TALES IN THE RAIN II HAVOC III UP STAKES IV THE FINE OLD FARMHOUSE V THE WHEELS BEGIN TO TURN VI THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HEDGE VII A-MAYINGVIII WORK IX FAME COMES COURTING X VENTURES AND ADVENTURES XI THE NINE GIFTS XII “ROSES IN THE MOONLIGHT”XIII “THE SEA IS A TYRANT” XIV THE CELESTINE PLAYS HER PART XV MARTIN!...

E-text prepared by Jim Ludwig The High School Boys in Summer CamporThe Dick Prescott Six Training for the Gridley Eleven By H. Irving Hancock CONTENTS CHAPTERS I. The Man in the Four-Quart-Hat II. Dick and Some High Finance III. The Human Mystery of the Woods IV. Dave Darrin is Angry V. Dick Grapples in the Dark VI. Danger Comes on the Hoof VII. Fighting the Mad Stampede VIII. Visitors for the Feast IX....

Contents: The House of PrideKoolau the LeperGood-bye, JackAloha OeChun Ah ChunThe Sheriff of KonaJack London THE HOUSE OF PRIDE Percival Ford wondered why he had come. He did not dance. He did not care much for army people. Yet he knew them all–gliding and revolving there on the broad lanai of the Seaside, the officers in their fresh-starched uniforms of white, the civilians in white and black, and the women bare of shoulders and arms....

THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT One of R. Caldecott’s Picture Books [Illustration] FREDERICK WARNE & CO. Ltd. 1878 THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT [Illustration] This is the House that Jack built. [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] This is the Malt, That lay in the House that Jack built. [Illustration] This is the Rat, That ate the Malt, That lay in the House that Jack built. [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] This is the Cat, That killed the Rat, That ate the Malt, That lay in the House that Jack built....

The Last Stetsonby John Fox Jr. 1 A MIDSUMMER freshet was running over old Gabe Bunch’s water-wheel into the Cumberland. Inside the mill Steve Marcum lay in one dark corner with a slouched hat over his face. The boy Isom was emptying a sack of corn into the hopper. Old Gabe was speaking his mind. Always the miller had been a man of peace; and there was one time when he thought the old Stetson-Lewallen feud was done....