Posts

Nona Vincent by Henry James CHAPTER I. “I wondered whether you wouldn’t read it to me,” said Mrs. Alsager, as they lingered a little near the fire before he took leave. She looked down at the fire sideways, drawing her dress away from it and making her proposal with a shy sincerity that added to her charm. Her charm was always great for Allan Wayworth, and the whole air of her house, which was simply a sort of distillation of herself, so soothing, so beguiling that he always made several false starts before departure....

The following notes are by no means intended as a rule of thought by which nurses can teach themselves to nurse, still less as a manual to teach nurses to nurse. They are meant simply to give hints for thought to women who have personal charge of the health of others. Every woman, or at least almost every woman, in England has, at one time or another of her life, charge of the personal health of somebody, whether child or invalid,–in other words, every woman is a nurse....

OLD INDIAN LEGENDS RETOLD BYZITKALA-SA ITKALA-SA. CONTENTS IKTOMI AND THE DUCKSIKTOMI’S BLANKETIKTOMI AND THE MUSKRATIKTOMI AND THE COYOTEIKTOMI AND THE FAWNTHE BADGER AND THE BEARTHE TREE-BOUNDSHOOTING OF THE RED EAGLEIKTOMI AND THE TURTLEDANCE IN A BUFFALO SKULLTHE TOAD AND THE BOYIYA, THE CAMP-EATERMANSTIN, THE RABBITTHE WARLIKE SEVEN IKTOMI AND THE DUCKS 1 OLD INDIAN LEGENDS IKTOMI AND THE DUCKS IKTOMI is a spider fairy. He wears brown deerskin leggins with long soft fringes on either side, and tiny beaded moccasins on his feet....

by Baruch Spinoza [Benedict de Spinoza] Translated by R. H. M. Elwes TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1 On the Improvement of the Understanding 3 Of the ordinary objects of men’s desires 12 Of the true and final good17 Certain rules of life19 Of the four modes of perception25 Of the best mode of perception33 Of the instruments of the intellect, or true ideas 43 Answers to objections First part of method: 50 Distinction of true ideas from fictitious ideas 64 And from false ideas77 Of doubt81 Of memory and forgetfulness86 Mental hindrances from words – and from the popular confusion of ready imagination with distinct understanding....

[Illustration: THEODORE LEDYARD CUYLER] RECOLLECTIONS OF A LONG LIFE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY THEODORE LEDYARD CUYLER, D.D., LL.D. Author of “God’s Light on Dark Clouds,” “Heart Life,” Etc. 1902. CONTENTS I BOYHOOD AND COLLEGE LIFE II GREAT BRITAIN SIXTY YEARS AGO Wordsworth–Dickens–The Land of Burns, etc. III GREAT BRITAIN SIXTY YEARS AGO (Continued) Carlyle–Mrs. Baillie–The Young Queen–Napoleon IV HYMN-WRITERS I HAVE KNOWN Montgomery–Bonar–Bowring–Palmer and others. V THE TEMPERANCE REFORM AND MY CO-WORKERS VI WORK IN THE PULPIT VII EXPERIENCE IN REVIVALS VIII AUTHORSHIP IX SOME FAMOUS PEOPLE ABROAD Gladstone–Dr....

REVIEW OF THE WORK OF MR JOHN STUART MILL ENTITLED, ‘EXAMINATION OF SIR WILLIAM HAMILTONS PHILOSOPHY’ BY GEORGE GROTE AUTHOR OF ‘THE HISTORY OF ANCIENT GREECE,’ ‘PLATO AND THE OTHER COMPANIONS OF SOCRATES,’ ETC. 1868 Reprinted from the ‘Westminster Review,’ January 1, 1866. JOHN CHILDS AND SON, PRINTERS An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy, and of the Principal Philosophical Questions discussed in his Writings. By JOHN STUART MILL. London: Longmans....

by HENRY JAMES CONTENTS I. Rowland II. Roderick III. Rome IV. Experience V. Christina VI. Frascati VII. St. Cecilia’s VIII. Provocation IX. Mary Garland X. The Cavaliere XI. Mrs. Hudson XII. The Princess Casamassima XIII. Switzerland CHAPTER I. Rowland Mallet had made his arrangements to sail for Europe on the first of September, and having in the interval a fortnight to spare, he determined to spend it with his cousin Cecilia, the widow of a nephew of his father....

[Transcriber’s note: The extensive and lengthy footnotes have been renumbered and placed at the end of the book.] ROMAN FARM MANAGEMENT THE TREATISES OF CATO AND VARRO DONE INTO ENGLISH, WITH NOTES OF MODERN INSTANCES BY A VIRGINIA FARMER 1918 PREFACE The present editor made the acquaintance of Cato and Varro standing at a book stall on the Quai Voltaire in Paris, and they carried him away in imagination, during a pleasant half hour, not to the vineyards and olive yards of Roman Italy, but to the blue hills of a far distant Virginia where the corn was beginning to tassel and the fat cattle were loafing in the pastures....

SAMANTHA AMONG THE BRETHREN. By “Josiah Allen’s Wife” (Marietta Holley) Part 6 CHAPTER XXIII. Miss Timson’s letter wuz writ to me on the 6th day of his sickness, and Josiah and me set sail for Loontown on the follerin’ day after we got it. I laid the case before the female Sisters of the meetin’ house, and they all counselled me to go. For, as they all said, on account of Sister Bobbet’s fallin’ on the apple parin’ we could not go on with the work of paperin’ the meetin’ house, and so the interests of Zion wouldn’t languish on account of my absence for a day or two any way....

[Illustration] Scientific American Supplement No. 458 NEW YORK, OCTOBER 11, 1884 Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XVIII, No. 458. Scientific American established 1845 Scientific American Supplement, $5 a year. Scientific American and Supplement, $7 a year. TABLE OF CONTENTS. I. CHEMISTRY AND METALLURGY.–Chemical Nature of Starch Grains. The Amalgamation of Silver Ores.–Description of the Francke tina, or vat process for amalgamation of silver ores.–By E.P. RATHBONE.–6 figures. Interesting Facts about Platinum....

SERMONS FOR THE TIMES Contents: Fathers and Children Salvation A Good Conscience Names Sponsorship Justification by Faith Duty and Superstition Sonship The Lord’s Prayer The Doxology Ahab and Naboth The Light of God Providence England’s Strength The Life of God God’s Offspring Death in Life Shame Forgiveness The True Gentleman Toleration Public Spirit SERMON I. ‘FATHERS AND CHILDREN’ Malachi iv. 5, 6. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse....

[Illustration: “HER BLOOD WAS POUNDING AND HER VOICE WAS IN FLIGHT”] STAR-DUST A Story of an American Girl BY FANNIE HURST 1921 Book One THE VINE Oh, the little more and how much it is: And the little less, and what worlds away. –BROWNING. [Greek: Zoae] CHAPTER I When Lilly Becker eked out with one hand that most indomitable of pianoforte selections, Rubinstein’s “Melody in F,” her young mind had a habit of transcending itself into some such illusory realm as this: Springtime seen lacily through a phantasmagoria of song....

STORIES BY ENGLISH AUTHORS FRANCE CONTENTS A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT by R. L. Stevenson A LEAF IN THE STORM by OuidaA TERRIBLY STRANGE BED by Wilkie Collins MICHEL LORIO’S CROSS by Hesba Stretton A PERILOUS AMOUR by Stanley J. Weyman A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON It was late in November, 1456. The snow fell over Paris with rigorous, relentless persistence; sometimes the wind made a sally and scattered it in flying vortices; sometimes there was a lull, and flake after flake descended out of the black night air, silent, circuitous, interminable....

STORIES BY ENGLISH AUTHORS LONDON From Scribners CONTENTS THE INCONSIDERATE WAITER, J. M. Barrie THE BLACK POODLE, F. AnsteyTHAT BRUTE SIMMONS, Arthur Morrison A ROSE OF THE GHETTO, I. ZangwillAN IDYL OF LONDON, Beatrice Harraden THE OMNIBUS, “Q” [Quiller-Couch]THE HIRED BABY, Marie Correlli THE INCONSIDERATE WAITER BY J. M. BARRIE Frequently I have to ask myself in the street for the name of the man I bowed to just now, and then, before I can answer, the wind of the first corner blows him from my memory....

MY LAST FLAPPERS THE JELLY-BEAN This is a Southern story, with the scene laid in the small Lily of Tarleton, Georgia. I have a profound affection for Tarleton, but somehow whenever I write a story about it I receive letters from all over the South denouncing me in no uncertain terms. “The Jelly-Bean,” published in “The Metropolitan,” drew its full share of these admonitory notes. It was written under strange circumstances shortly after my first novel was published, and, moreover, it was the first story in which I had a collaborator....

Any place where angle brackets are used, i.e. < >, it is a change made during the preparation of this E-Text. The original printed book did not use this character at all. SQUARE BRACKETS: The square brackets, i.e. [ ] are copied from the printed book, without change, except that the stage directions usually do not have closing brackets. These have been added. FOOTNOTES: For this E-Text version of the book, the footnotes have been consolidated at the end of the play....

LITTLE BEWILDERED HENRY. By The Author Of_Nothing At All_, &c. &c. [Illustration: FRONTISPIECE. See Page 9] The Extraordinary Adventures Of Poor Little Bewildered Henry, Who was shut up in an old Abbey for Three Weeks. A Story Founded On Fact. by The Author Of “Nothing At All,” Etc. 1850. The Adventures Of Little Bewildered Henry [Illustration] “Oh, mamma! mamma! where is you, mamma?” sobbed little Henry, a sweet child of three years old, as he stood in the lawn, opposite the door, with the wind blowing his pretty hair and clothes all about him: “Oh, mamma!...

THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES by SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I. A Scandal in Bohemia II. The Red-headed League III. A Case of Identity IV. The Boscombe Valley Mystery V. The Five Orange Pips VI. The Man with the Twisted Lip VII. The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle VIII. The Adventure of the Speckled Band IX. The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb X. The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor XI....

A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS. VOL. II.–OCTOBER, 1858.–NO. XII. THE NEW WORLD AND THE NEW MAN. Half a dozen rivulets leap down the western declivity of the Rocky Mountains, and unite; four thousand miles away the mighty Missouri debouches into the Mexican Gulf as the result of that junction. Did the rivulets propose or plan the river? Not at all; but they knew, each, its private need to find a lower level; the universal law they obeyed accomplished the rest....

Booth Tarkington Chapter One Nothing could have been more painful to my sensitiveness than to occupy myself, confused with blushes, at the center of the whole world as a living advertisement of the least amusing ballet in Paris. To be the day’s sensation of the boulevards one must possess an eccentricity of appearance conceived by nothing short of genius; and my misfortunes had reduced me to present such to all eyes seeking mirth....