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ROBERT GRANT The Law-Breakersand Other Stories The American Short Story Series VOLUME 58 CONTENTS The Law-BreakersAgainst His JudgmentSt. George and the DragonThe Romance of a SoulAn Exchange of CourtesiesAcross the WayA Surrender THE LAW-BREAKERS I George Colfax was in an outraged frame of mind, and properly so. Politically speaking, George was what might be called, for lack of a better term, a passive reformer. That is, he read religiously the New York Nation, was totally opposed to the spoils system of party rewards, and was ostensibly as right-minded a citizen as one would expect to find in a Sabbath day’s journey....

Queen of France CONSORT OF HENRI IV, AND REGENT OF THE KINGDOM UNDER LOUIS XIII BY JULIA PARDOE AUTHOR OF ‘LOUIS XIV AND THE COURT OF FRANCE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY,’ ‘THE COURT AND REIGN OF FRANCIS THE FIRST,’ ETC. IN THREE VOLUMES 1890 [Illustration: HENRI IV.] CONTENTS BOOK I MARIE DE MEDICIS AS QUEEN CHAPTER IX 1610 Preparations for the coronation of Marie de Medicis–Wherefore deferred–They are resumed–The Cathedral of St....

The True and Honorable History of the Life of Sir John Oldcastle, the Good Lord Cobham. Attributed in part to William Shakespeare. The Actors Names in the History of Sir John Oldcastle. King Henry the Fifth.Sir John Old-castle, Lord Cobham.Harpoole, Servant to the Lord Cobham. Lord Herbert, with Gough his man.Lord Powis, with Owen and Davy his men. The Mayor of Hereford, and Sheriff of Herefordshire, with Bailiffs and Servants....

THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH by Gilbert K. Chesterton CONTENTS THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH: I. THE FACE IN THE TARGET II. THE VANISHING PRINCE III. THE SOUL OF THE SCHOOLBOY IV. THE BOTTOMLESS WELL V. THE FAD OF THE FISHERMAN VI. THE HOLE IN THE WALL VII. THE TEMPLE OF SILENCE VIII. THE VENGEANCE OF THE STATUE THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH I. THE FACE IN THE TARGET Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and commons, the horizon of which was fringed with the far-off woods of the famous estate of Torwood Park....

THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. Vol. 10, No. 285.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1827. [Price 2d CASTLE OF THE SEVEN TOWERS [Illustration: Castle of the Seven Towers at Constantinople.] Triumphal Arch of Constantine. 2. First Tower of the Pentagon. 3. First Marble Tower. 4. Second Marble Tower. 5. Angle of the Pentagon with the fallen Tower. 6. Double Tower. 7. Dedecagonal tower. 8. Square Tower of entrance to the Prison....

THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. XIV, No. 395.] SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1829. [PRICE 2d. [Illustration] The Original Royal Exchange. (From a Correspondent.) Four centuries since the Merchants of London could not boast of a public Exchange. They then assembled to transact business in Lombard-street, among the Lombard Jews, from whom the street derives its name, and who were then the bankers of all Europe. Here too they probably kept their benches or banks, as they were wont to do in the market-places of the continent, for transacting pecuniary matters; and thus drew around them all those of whose various pursuits money is the common medium....

by Henry Walter Bates AN APPRECIATION BY CHARLES DARWINAuthor of “The Origin of Species,” etc. From Natural History Review, vol. iii. 1863. “It is generally allowed that Guiana and Brazil, to the north and south of the Para district, form two distinct provinces, as regards their animal and vegetable inhabitants. By this it means that the two regions have a very large number of forms peculiar to themselves, and which are supposed not to have been derived from other quarters during modern geological times....

THE NINE-TENTHS BY JAMES OPPENHEIM1911 TO THE MEMORY OF MY FATHER CONTENTS PART I–THE DREAM I. THE PRINTERY II. THE EAST EIGHTY-FIRST STREET FIRE III. THE GOOD PEOPLE IV. GOLDEN OCTOBER V. MYRA AND JOE VI. MARTY BRIGGS VII. LAST OF JOE BLAINE AND HIS MEN VIII. THE WIND IN THE OAKS PART II–THE TEST I. BEGINNINGS II. THE NINE-TENTHS III. OTHERS: AND SALLY HEFFER IV. OTHERS: AND THEODORE MARRIN V....

BY BURBANK L. TODD CONTENTS I THE CALL OF SPRINGII AT MRS. ATTERSONSIII A DREARY DAYIV THE LOST CARDV THE COMMOTION AT MOTHER ATTERSONS VI THIS DIDN’T GET BY HIRAMVII HOW HIRAM LEFT TOWMVIII THE LURE OF GREEN FIELDSIX THE BARGAIN IS MADEX THE SOUND OF BEATING HOOFSXI A GIRL RIDES INTO THE TALEXII SOMETHING ABOUT A PASTURE FENCE XIII THE UPROOTINGXIV GETTING IN THE EARLY CROPSXV TROUBLE BREWSXVI ONE SATURDAY AFTERNOONXVII MR....

IN MOROCCO BY EDITH WHARTON ILLUSTRATED 1920 [Illustration: From a photograph from the Service des Beaux-Arts au Maroc Fez Elbah from the ramparts] [Illustration] TO GENERAL LYAUTEY RESIDENT GENERAL OF FRANCE IN MOROCCO AND TO MADAME LYAUTEY THANKS TO WHOSE KINDNESS THE JOURNEY I HAD SO LONG DREAMED OF SURPASSED WHAT I HAD DREAMED PREFACE I Having begun my book with the statement that Morocco still lacks a guide-book, I should have wished to take a first step toward remedying that deficiency....

J. S. LE FANU’S GHOSTLY TALES, VOLUME 3 The Haunted Baronet (1871) by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu The Haunted Baronet CHAPTER I The George and Dragon The pretty little town of Golden Friars–standing by the margin of the lake, hemmed round by an amphitheatre of purple mountain, rich in tint and furrowed by ravines, high in air, when the tall gables and narrow windows of its ancient graystone houses, and the tower of the old church, from which every evening the curfew still rings, show like silver in the moonbeams, and the black elms that stand round throw moveless shadows upon the short level grass–is one of the most singular and beautiful sights I have ever seen....

The “legal small print” and other information about this book may now be found at the end of this file. Please read this important information, as it gives you specific rights and tells you about restrictions in how the file may be used. ***This Etext was prepared by Sandra Laythorpe, laythorpe@tiscali.co.uk. A web page about Charlotte M Yonge will be found at www.menorot.com/cmyonge.htm. LADY HESTER; OR, URSULA’S NARRATIVE. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I....

[Illustration: CORONATION OF CHARLEMAGNE.–Levy.] LEGENDS OF THE MIDDLE AGES NARRATED WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO LITERATURE AND ART BY H.A. GUERBER “Saddle the Hippogriffs, ye Muses nine, And straight we’ll ride to the land of old Romance” WIELAND 1896 DEDICATED TO MY SISTER ADELE E. GUERBER “Men lykyn jestis for to here, And romans rede in diuers manere “Of Brute that baron bold of hond, The first conqueroure of Englond; Of kyng Artour that was so riche, Was non in his tyme him liche....

LETTERS OF HORACE WALPOLE SELECTED AND EDITED BY CHARLES DUKE YONGE, M.A. AUTHOR OF “THE HISTORY OF FRANCE UNDER THE BOURBONS,” “A LIFE OF MARIE ANTOINETTE,” ETC., ETC. WITH PORTRAITS AND ILLUSTRATIONS VOLUME I London T. FISHER UNWIN PATERNOSTER SQUARE NEW YORK: G.P. PUTNAM’S SONS MDCCCXC CONTENTS. 1736-1764. TO MONTAGU, May 2, 1736.–Marriage of the Princess of Wales–Very lively TO THE SAME, May 6, 1736.–Fondness for Old Stories–Reminiscences of Eton, etc....

Life Of Her Most Gracious Majesty THE QUEEN by SARAH TYTLER Edited with an Introduction by LORD RONALD GOWER, FSA. IN TWO VOLUMES Vol II * * * * * CONTENTS. VOL. II. CHAP. I. ROYAL PROGRESSES TO BURGHLEY, STOWE, AND STRATHFIELDSAYE II. THE QUEEN’S POWDER BALL III. THE QUEEN’S FIRST VISIT TO GERMANY IV. RAILWAY SPECULATION–FAILURE OF THE POTATO CROP–SIR ROBERT PEEL’S RESOLUTIONS–BIRTH OF PRINCESS HELENA–VISIT OF IBRAHIM PASHA V....

[Illustration: HIGHWAY MURDER ON HOUNSLOW HEATH The assailant is strangling his victim with a whip-thong; nearby is a typical roadside gallows with two highwaymen dangling from the cross-tree (From the Newgate Calendar)] LIVES OF THE MOST REMARKABLE CRIMINALS Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Collected from Original Papers and Authentic Memoirs, and Published in 1735 EDITED BY ARTHUR L....

LONDON IN 1731 by Don Manoel Gonzales INTRODUCTION. Don Manoel Gonzales is the assumed name of the writer of a “Voyage to Great Britain, containing an Account of England and Scotland,” which was first printed in the first of the two folio volumes of “A Collection of Voyages and Travels, compiled from the Library of the Earl of Oxford” (Robert Harley, who died in 1724, but whose industry in collection was continued by his son Edward, the second Earl), “interspersed and illustrated with Notes....

LOVE AT SECOND SIGHT by ADA LEVERSON First published London, 1916 (Book Three of THE LITTLE OTTLEYS) TO TACITUS CHAPTER I An appalling crash, piercing shrieks, a loud, unequal quarrel on a staircase, the sharp bang of a door…. Edith started up from her restful corner on the blue sofa by the fire, where she had been thinking about her guest, and rushed to the door. ‘Archie–Archie! Come here directly!...

Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister by Aphra Behn The Argument In the time of the rebellion of the true Protestant Huguenot in Paris, under the conduct of the Prince of Conde (whom we will call Cesario) many illustrious persons were drawn into the association, amongst which there was one, whose quality and fortune (joined with his youth and beauty) rendered him more elevated in the esteem of the gay part of the world than most of that age....

MAN AND WIFE by Wilkie Collins PROLOGUE.–THE IRISH MARRIAGE. Part the First. THE VILLA AT HAMPSTEAD. I. ON a summer’s morning, between thirty and forty years ago, two girls were crying bitterly in the cabin of an East Indian passenger ship, bound outward, from Gravesend to Bombay. They were both of the same age–eighteen. They had both, from childhood upward, been close and dear friends at the same school. They were now parting for the first time–and parting, it might be, for life....