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Mare Nostrum (OUR SEA) A Novel By Vicente Blasco Ibanez AUTHOR OF “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,” “The Shadow of the Cathedral,”“Blood and Sand,”“La Bodega,” etc. Authorized translation from the Spanish by Charlotte Brewster Jordan Translator of “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” 1919 CONTENTS CHAPTER I CAPTAIN ULYSSES FERRAGUT CHAPTER II MATER AMPHITRITE CHAPTER III PATER OCEANUS CHAPTER IV FREYA CHAPTER V THE AQUARIUM OF NAPLES CHAPTER VI THE WILES OF CIRCE CHAPTER VII THE SIN OF ULYSSES CHAPTER VIII THE YOUNG TELEMACHUS CHAPTER IX THE ENCOUNTER AT MARSEILLES CHAPTER X IN BARCELONA CHAPTER XI “FAREWELL, I AM GOING TO DIE” CHAPTER XII AHPHITRITE!...

Medieval People by EILEEN POWERM.A., D.Lit. Late Reader in History in the University of London and sometime Fellow and Lecturer of Girton College, Cambridge ‘I counsel thee, shut not thy heart nor thy library’ CHARLES LAMB First published, 1924 Published in 1963 Eighth Printing, 1969__Tomy colleagues and studentsat Girton College, Cambridge 1913-20 For if heuene be on this erthe . and ese to any soule, It is in cloistere or in scole ....

[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 8. By LOUIS ANTOINE FAUVELET DE BOURRIENNE His Private Secretary Edited by R. W. PhippsColonel, Late Royal Artillery 1891 CONTENTS:CHAPTER XXVII. to CHAPTER XXXIV. 1804-1805 CHAPTER XXVII. 1804. Clavier and Hemart–Singular Proposal of Corvisart-M....

An index of high precision tables of functions can be found at: “http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/projects/ISC/rindex.php” You can find information about some of the constants below at: “http://www.mathsof.com/asolve/constant/constant.php” Thank you to Simon Plouffe (from Simon Fraser University) for his kind permission to distribute this collection of constants. 1-6/(Pi^2) to 5000 digits. .39207289814597337133672322074163416657384735196652070692634580863496127422658 735285274435644626897431826653343088568250991562839408348952558397869101910044 168287418837630346090344128142725232280081846950544588945104349233845519860235 478013752874888452546923326181835771108778185425297888417868576864617275811561 330630424192103992371844063005810729791367810232917738723885386964431826453535 905907614449167288215917896721626280528275896067038147627421438102874420209114 283031089287791823583188720457836037724958727540937325971240235006933941887088 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DEDICATED TOCaptain Joseph HodgsonUNITED STATES LIFE SAVING SERVICE I SHANGHAIED This is to be a story of a battle, at least one murder, and several sudden deaths. For that reason it begins with a pink tea and among the mingled odors of many delicate perfumes and the hale, frank smell of Caroline Testout roses. There had been a great number of debutantes “coming out” that season in San Francisco by means of afternoon teas, pink, lavender, and otherwise....

THE WORKS OF EDWARD BULWER LYTTON (LORD LYTTON) NIGHT AND MORNING Book I PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1845. Much has been written by critics, especially by those in Germany (the native land of criticism), upon the important question, whether to please or to instruct should be the end of Fiction–whether a moral purpose is or is not in harmony with the undidactic spirit perceptible in the higher works of the imagination....

THE WORKS OF EDWARD BULWER LYTTON (LORD LYTTON) NIGHT AND MORNING Book V CHAPTER I. “Per ambages et ministeria deorum.”–PETRONTUS. [Through the mysteries and ministerings of the gods.] Mr. Roger Morton was behind his counter one drizzling, melancholy day. Mr. Roger Morton, alderman, and twice mayor of his native town, was a thriving man. He had grown portly and corpulent. The nightly potations of brandy and water, continued year after year with mechanical perseverance, had deepened the roses on his cheek....

[Illustration: BAMBURGH CASTLE.] Northumberland Yesterday and To-day. by JEAN F. TERRY, L.L.A. (St. Andrews), 1913. To Sir Francis Douglas Blake,this book is inscribed in admiration of an eminent Northumbrian. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I.–The Coast of Northumberland CHAPTER II.–North and South Tyne CHAPTER III.–Down the Tyne CHAPTER IV.–Newcastle-upon-Tyne CHAPTER V.–Elswick and its Founder CHAPTER VI.–The Cheviots CHAPTER VII.–The Roman Wall CHAPTER VIII.–Some Northumbrian Streams CHAPTER IX.–Drum and Trumpet CHAPTER X.–Tales and Legends CHAPTER XI....

O. T.A Danish Romance by Hans Christian AndersenAuthor of the “Improvisatore” and the “Two Baronesses” CHAPTER I “Quod felix faustumque sit!” There is a happiness which no poet has yet properly sung, which no lady-reader, let her be ever so amiable, has experienced or ever will experience in this world. This is a condition of happiness which alone belongs to the male sex, and even then alone to the elect....

THE MAN WHOSE SOUL IS MARCHING ON by WALTER HAWKINS PREFACE This book is for busy people who have not the time to read at large upon the subject. Those who would adequately master all the bearings of the story here briefly told must read American history, for which facilities are rapidly increasing. As to John Brown himself, his friend F. B. Sanborn’s LIFE AND LETTERS is a mine of wealth....

[Illustration: Bookcover] [Illustration: Spines] OLD MORTALITY by Sir Walter Scott Volume I. [Illustration: Titlepage] [Illustration: Dedication] [Illustration: First Series] EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION TO OLD MORTALITY. The origin of “Old Mortality,” perhaps the best of Scott’s historical romances, is well known. In May, 1816, Mr. Joseph Train, the gauger from Galloway, breakfasted with Scott in Castle Street. He brought gifts in his hand,–a relic of Rob Roy, and a parcel of traditions....

OPENINGS IN THE OLD TRAIL by Bret Harte CONTENTS OPENINGS IN THE OLD TRAIL I. A MERCURY OF THE FOOT-HILLS II. COLONEL STARBOTTLE FOR THE PLAINTIFF III. THE LANDLORD OF THE BIG FLUME HOTEL IV. A BUCKEYE HOLLOW INHERITANCE V. THE REINCARNATION OF SMITH VI. LANTY FOSTER’S MISTAKE VII. AN ALI BABA OF THE SIERRASVIII. MISS PEGGY’S PROTEGES IX. THE GODDESS OF EXCELSIOR OPENINGS IN THE OLD TRAIL by Bret Harte A MERCURY OF THE FOOT-HILLS It was high hot noon on the Casket Ridge....

American Men of Letters EDITED BY CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER. “Thou wert the morning star among the living, Ere thy fair light had fled: Now, having died, thou art as Hesperus, giving New splendor to the dead.” American Men of Letters * * * * * RALPH WALDO EMERSON. BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. 1891 NOTE. My thanks are due to the members of Mr. Emerson’s family, and the other friends who kindly assisted me by lending interesting letters and furnishing valuable information....

THE RED AXE By S.R. Crockett 1900 CONTENTS I. DUKE CASIMIR RIDES LATE II. THE LITTLE PLAYMATE COMES HOME III. THE RED AXE OF THE WOLFMARK IV. THE PRINCESS HELENE V. THE BLOOD-HOUNDS ARE FED VI. DUKE CASIMIR’S FAMILIAR VII. I BECOME A TRAITOR VIII. AT THE BAR OF THE WHITE WOLF IX. A HERO CARRIES WATER IN THE SUN X. THE LUBBER FIEND XI. THE VISION IN THE CRYSTAL XII....

Laird stretched out his hand to his wife, who came to him, and stood clasping it with her own. “Well, I’m going to argue,” he said; “I’m simply bursting with it. I challenge you, sir, to show me where there’s any sign of altruistic pity, except in man. Mother love doesn’t count–mother and child are too much one.” The curious smile had come already, on both their faces. “My dear George, is not man the highest work of God, and mercy the highest quality in man?...

[Illustration] SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 363 NEW YORK, DECEMBER 16, 1882 Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XIV, No. 363. Scientific American established 1845 Scientific American Supplement, $5 a year. Scientific American and Supplement, $7 a year. * * * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS I. ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.–The New York Canals.– Their history, dimensions, and commercial influence Cottrau’s Locomotive for Ascending Steep Grades.–1 figure Bachmann’s Steam Drier–3 figures H. S. Parmelee’s Patent Automatic sprinkler....

SHAKESPEARE’S INSOMNIA And the Causes Thereof BY FRANKLIN H. HEAD 1887 [**Transcriber’s Note: The following is a literary hoax, and the letters quoted below are fictitious.] SHAKESPEARE’S INSOMNIA, AND THE CAUSES THEREOF. I. Insomnia, the lack of “tired Nature’s sweet restorer,” is rapidly becoming the chronic terror of all men of active life who have passed the age of thirty-five or forty years. In early life, while yet he “wears the rose of youth upon him,” man rarely, except in sickness, knows the want of sound, undreaming sleep....

Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald Note from electronic text creator: I have compiled a word list with definitions of most of the Scottish words found in this work at the end of the book. This list does not belong to the original work, but is designed to help with the conversations in Broad Scots found in this work. A further explanation of this list can be found towards the end of this document, preceding the word list....

Chapter I THE MAGNET ATTRACTING–A WAIF AMID FORCES When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total outfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin satchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow leather snap purse, containing her ticket, a scrap of paper with her sister’s address in Van Buren Street, and four dollars in money. It was in August, 1889. She was eighteen years of age, bright, timid, and full of the illusions of ignorance and youth....

THE BELTON ESTATE by Anthony Trollope CHAPTER I Mrs Amedroz, the wife of Bernard Amedroz, Esq, of Belton Castle, and mother of Charles and Clara Amedroz, died when those children were only eight and six years old, thereby subjecting them to the greatest misfortune which children born in that sphere of life can be made to suffer. And, in the case of this boy and girl, the misfortune was aggravated greatly by the peculiarities of the father’s character....