by Henry James CHAPTER I “Every one asks me what I ‘think’ of everything,” said Spencer Brydon; “and I make answer as I can – begging or dodging the question, putting them off with any nonsense. It wouldn’t matter to any of them really,” he went on, “for, even were it possible to meet in that stand-and-deliver way so silly a demand on so big a subject, my ‘thoughts’ would still be almost altogether about something that concerns only myself....
The Legends of KING ARTHUR and his KNIGHTS Sir James Knowles Illustrated by Lancelot Speed TOALFRED TENNYSON, D.C.L.POET LAUREATE THIS ATTEMPT AT A POPULAR VERSION OFTHE ARTHUR LEGENDSIS BY HIS PERMISSION DEDICATEDAS A TRIBUTEOF THE SINCEREST AND WARMEST RESPECT 1862 PREFACE TO THE EIGHTH EDITION The Publishers have asked me to authorise a new edition, in my own name, of this little book–now long out of print–which was written by me thirty-five years ago under the initials J....
Taken from volume 2 of Carlyle’s Complete Works, which additionally contains the Latter-Day Pamphlets, to be provided as a separate etext. LIFE OF JOHN STERLING.By Thomas Carlyle. PART I.CHAPTER I.INTRODUCTORY. Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world seem more inconsiderable than, in those last solemn days, it did to him....
The Lights of the Church and the Light of Science by Thomas Henry HuxleyThis is Essay #6 from “Science and Hebrew Tradition” There are three ways of regarding any account of past occurrences, whether delivered to us orally or recorded in writing. The narrative may be exactly true. That is to say, the words, taken in their natural sense, and interpreted according to the rules of grammar, may convey to the mind of the hearer, or of the reader an idea precisely correspondent with one which would have remained in the mind of a witness....
THE MASTER DETECTIVE _Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles_ BY PERCY JAMES BREBNER AUTHOR OF “CHRISTOPHER QUARLES.” 1916 CONTENTS CHAPTER I. THE STRANGE CASE OF SIR GRENVILLE RUSHOLM II. THE KIDNAPING OF EVA WILKINSON III. THE DELVERTON AFFAIR IV. THE MYSTERIOUS HOUSE IN MANLEIGH ROAD V. THE DIFFICULTY OF BROTHER PYTHAGORAS VI. THE TRAGEDY IN DUKE’S MANSIONS VII. THE STOLEN AEROPLANE MODEL VIII. THE AFFAIR OF THE CONTESSA’S PEARLS IX....
THE MASTER OF MRS. CHILVERS–AN IMPROBABLE COMEDY by Jerome K. Jerome THE FIRST ACTSCENE: Drawing-room, 91, Russell Square. TIME: 3 p.m. THE SECOND ACTSCENE: Liberal Committee Room, East India Dock Road. TIME: 5 p.m. THE THIRD ACTSCENE: The Town Hall, East Poplar.TIME: 10 p.m. THE FOURTH ACTSCENE: Russell SquareTIME: Midnight THE CAST OF “THE MASTER OF MRS. CHILVERS” AS IT WAS PRODUCED AT THE ROYALTY THEATRE, LONDON, ON APRIL 26TH, 1911, UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MESSRS....
VOL. 10, No. 282.] SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1827. [PRICE 2d. * * * * * ARCHITECTURAL ILLUSTRATIONS. NO. III. [Illustration: HANOVER TERRACE, REGENT’S PARK.] “The architectural spirit which has arisen in London since the late peace, and ramified from thence to every city and town of the empire, will present an era in our domestic history.” Such is the opinion of an intelligent writer in a recent number of Brande’s “Quarterly Journal;” and he goes on to describe the new erections in the Regent’s Park as the “dawning of a new and better taste, and in comparison with that which preceded it, a just subject of national exultation;” in illustration of which fact we have selected the subjoined view of Hanover Terrace, being the last group on the left of the York-gate entrance, and that next beyond Sussex-place, distinguishable by its cupola tops....
THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. [NO. 321.] SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1828. [PRICE 2d.] EATON HALL, CHESHIRE, The Seat of the Rt. Hon. Earl Grosvenor. [Illustration] This mansion is a princely specimen of Gothic architecture; and is in every respect calculated for the residence of its noble possessor, whose taste and munificence in patronizing the Fine Arts are well known to our readers. Nevertheless, it is worthy of special remark, that not only is the name of GROSVENOR conspicuous in this patronage, but his lordship has further evinced his love of art in the construction of one of the most splendid buildings in the whole empire,–the present mansion having been completed within a few years....
THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. NO. 329.] SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1828. [PRICE 2d. NEW CHURCH, BUILDING AT STAINES. [Illustration: NEW CHURCH, BUILDING AT STAINES.] Who has journeyed on the Exeter road without noticing the town of STAINES, with its host of antiquarian associations–as the Stana (Saxon) or London Stone,[1] its ancient bridge, for the repair of which three oaks out of Windsor Forest were granted by the crown in the year 1262, besides pontage or temporary tolls previous to the year 1600....
THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. 17, No. 487.] SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1831. [PRICE 2d. * * * * * [Illustration: BIRTHPLACE OF LOCKE.] At the village of Wrington, in Somersetshire, in a cottage by the churchyard, was born JOHN LOCKE. What a simple, unostentatious record is this of him whom the biographers call “one of the most eminent philosophers and valuable writers of his age and country....
THE MONEYCHANGERS By Upton Sinclair NEW YORK 1908 To Jack London CHAPTER I “I am,” said Reggie Mann, “quite beside myself to meet this Lucy Dupree.” “Who told you about her?” asked Allan Montague. “Ollie’s been telling everybody about her,” said Reggie. “It sounds really wonderful. But I fear he must have exaggerated.” “People seem to develop a tendency to exaggeration,” said Montague, “when they talk about Lucy.” “I am in quite a state about her,” said Reggie....
BY F.A.M. MIGNET INTRODUCTION Of the great incidents of History, none has attracted more attention or proved more difficult of interpretation than the French Revolution. The ultimate significance of other striking events and their place in the development of mankind can be readily estimated. It is clear enough that the barbarian invasions marked the death of the classical world, already mortally wounded by the rise of Christianity. It is clear enough that the Renaissance emancipated the human intellect from the trammels of a bastard mediaevalism, that the Reformation consolidated the victory of the “new learning” by including theology among the subjects of human debate....
This etext was produced by Judy Boss. IN THE DAYS OF THE COMET BY H. G. WELLS “The World’s Great Age begins anew,The Golden Years return,The Earth doth like a Snake renewHer Winter Skin outworn:Heaven smiles, and Faiths and Empires gleam Like Wrecks of a Dissolving Dream. CONTENTS PROLOGUE PAGE THE MAN WHO WROTE IN THE TOWER . 3 BOOK THE FIRST THE COMET CHAPTER I. DUST IN THE SHADOWS ....
SPARKS FROM WAR EAGLE’SLODGE-FIRE FRANK B. LINDERMAN[CO SKEE SEE CO COT] I DEDICATE THIS LITTLE BOOK TO MY FRIEND CHARLES M. RUSSELLTHE COWBOY ARTISTGEORGE BIRD GRINNELLTHE INDIAN’S FRIEND AND TO ALL OTHERS WHO HAVE KNOWN AND LOVED OLD MONTANA FOR I HOLD THEM ALL AS KINWHO HAVE BUILDED FIRES WHERE NATURE WEARS NO MAKE-UP ON HER SKIN PREFACE THE great Northwest–that wonderful fron- tier that called to itself a world’s hardiest spirits–is rapidly becoming a settled country; and before the light of civilizing influences, the blanket-Indian has trailed the buffalo over the divide that time has set between the pioneer and the crowd....
JOURNALOF AVOYAGE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC: WITH NOTES ONCANADA & THE UNITED STATES;ANDRETURN TO GREAT BRITAIN,IN 1844 BY GEORGE MOORE, ESQ. LONDON:PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION1845. Printed by Palmer and Clayton, Crane-court, Fleet-street. TOELIZA MOORE THIS LITTLE VOLUMEIS MOST AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED BYTHE AUTHOR. PREFACE. Having a large circle of friends who feel interested in my American trip, the propriety of publishing my observations, to avoid going over the same ground again and again, was suggested by one of them–a hint with which I have complied....
by William Shakespeare Dramatis Personae KING HENRY the SixthDUKE OF GLOUCESTER, uncle to the King, and Protector DUKE OF BEDFORD, uncle to the King, and Regent of France THOMAS BEAUFORT, Duke of Exeter, great-uncle to the King HENRY BEAUFORT, great-uncle to the King, Bishop of Winchester, and afterwards CardinalJOHN BEAUFORT, Earl, afterwards Duke, of Somerset RICHARD PLANTAGENET, son of Richard, late Earl of Cambridge, afterwards Duke of YorkEARL OF WARWICKEARL OF SALISBURYEARL OF SUFFOLKLORD TALBOT, afterwards Earl of Shrewbury JOHN TALBOT, his sonEDMUND MORTIMER, Earl of MarchSIR JOHN FASTOLFESIR WILLIAM LUCYSIR WILLIAM GLANSDALESIR THOMAS GARGRAVEMayor of LondonWOODVILE, Lieutenant of the TowerVERNON, of the White-Rose or York faction BASSET, of the Red-Rose or Lancaster faction A Lawyer, Mortimer’s Keepers CHARLES, Dauphin, and afterwards King, of France REIGNIER, Duke of Anjou, and titular King of Naples DUKE OF BURGUNDYDUKE OF ALENCONBASTARD OF ORLEANSGovernor of ParisMaster-Gunner of Orleans and his Son General of the French forces in Bordeaux A French Sergeant A PorterAn old Shepherd, father to Joan la Pucelle MARGARET, daughter to Reignier, afterwards married to King HenryCOUNTESS OF AUVERGNEJOAN LA PUCELLE, Commonly called Joan of Arc Lords, Warders of the Tower, Heralds, Officers, Soldiers, Messengers, and Attendants Fiends appearing to La Pucelle SCENE: Partly in England, and partly in France The First Part of King Henry VI ACT FIRST SCENE I Westminster Abbey....
LACHES by PLATO Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION. Lysimachus, the son of Aristides the Just, and Melesias, the son of the elder Thucydides, two aged men who live together, are desirous of educating their sons in the best manner. Their own education, as often happens with the sons of great men, has been neglected; and they are resolved that their children shall have more care taken of them, than they received themselves at the hands of their fathers....
LAVENGROTHE SCHOLAR, THE GYPSY, THE PRIEST PREFACE In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe a dream, partly of study, partly of adventure, in which will be found copious notices of books, and many descriptions of life and manners, some in a very unusual form. The scenes of action lie in the British Islands;–pray be not displeased, gentle reader, if perchance thou hast imagined that I was about to conduct thee to distant lands, and didst promise thyself much instruction and entertainment from what I might tell thee of them....
LEGENDS OF THE GODS The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations by E. A. Wallis Budge London, 1912 [Editorial note: Throughout the text “####” represents images which cannot be transcribed.] PREFACE The welcome which has been accorded to the volumes of this Series, and the fact that some of them have passed into second and third editions, suggest that these little books have been found useful by beginners in Egyptology and others....
Pierre LouËs LES CHANSONS DE BILITIS roman lyrique CE PETIT LIVRE D’AMOUR ANTIQUE EST Dâ¦DI⦠RESPECTUEUSEMENT AUX JEUNES FILLES DE LA SOCIET⦠FUTURE VIE DE BILITIS Bilitis naquit au commencement du sixiÃme siÃcle avant notre Ãre, dans un village de montagnes situà sur les bords du MÃlas, vers l’orient de la Pamphylie. Ce pays est grave et triste, assombri par des forÃts profondes, dominà par la masse Ãnorme du Taurus; des sources pÃtrifiantes sortent de la roche; de grands lacs salÃs sÃjournent sur les hauteurs, et les vallÃes sont pleines de silence....
