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SUNDAY UNDER THREE HEADS DEDICATION To The Right ReverendTHE BISHOP OF LONDON MY LORD, You were among the first, some years ago, to expatiate on the vicious addiction of the lower classes of society to Sunday excursions; and were thus instrumental in calling forth occasional demonstrations of those extreme opinions on the subject, which are very generally received with derision, if not with contempt. Your elevated station, my Lord, affords you countless opportunities of increasing the comforts and pleasures of the humbler classes of society–not by the expenditure of the smallest portion of your princely income, but by merely sanctioning with the influence of your example, their harmless pastimes, and innocent recreations....

TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE CHARLES AND MARY LAMB PREFACE The following Tales are meant to be submitted to the young reader as an introduction to the study of Shakespeare, for which purpose his words are used whenever it seemed possible to bring them in; and in whatever has been added to give them the regular form of a connected story, diligent are has been taken to select such words as might least interrupt the effect of the beautiful English tongue in which he wrote: therefore, words introduced into our language since his time have been as far as possible avoided....

TALES OF THE ENCHANTED ISLANDS OF THE ATLANTIC BY THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON TO General Sir George Wentworth Higginson, K. C. B. Gyldernscroft, Marlow, England THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED, IN TOKEN OF KINDRED AND OF OLD FAMILY FRIENDSHIPS, CORDIALLY PRESERVED INTO THE PRESENT GENERATION THESE LEGENDS UNITE THE TWO SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC AND FORM A PART OF THE COMMON HERITAGE OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING RACE Preface Hawthorne in his Wonder Book has described the beautiful Greek myths and traditions, but no one has yet made similar use of the wondrous tales that gathered for more than a thousand years about the islands of the Atlantic deep....

BY KATE DICKINSON SWEETSER AUTHOR OF “TEN BOYS FROM DICKENS” “TEN GREAT ADVENTURERS” “BOOK OF INDIAN BRAVES” ETC. ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE ALFRED WILLIAMS [Illustration: LITTLE NELL AND HER GRANDFATHER] PREFACE As a companion volume to Ten Boys from Dickens, this book of girl-life, portrayed by the great author, is offered. The sketches have the same underlying motive as those of boy-life, and have been compiled in the same manner, with the same purpose in view....

UNITED STATES CONGRESS DIRECTORY Congress Cannon=Cannon BuildingCapitol=Capitol BuildingFHOB=Ford House Office BuildingLHOB=Longworth House Office Bulding O’Neill=O’Neill BuildingRHOB=Rayburn House Office Building Address: Washington, D.C. 20515 Sample Mailing Address:Rep. Don YoungRayburn House Office BuildingWashington, D.C. 20515 ST Representative (Party)Phone & E-Mail Fax AK Young, Don (R)1-202-225-5765 1-202-225-5765RHOB AL Callahan, H. L. (R)1-202-225-4931 1-202-225-0562RHOB AL Everett, Terry (R)1-202-225-2901 naCannon AL Browder, Glen (D)1-202-225-3261 1-202-225-9020RHOB AL Bevill, Thomas (D)1-202-225-4876 1-202-225-0842RHOB AL Cramer Jr, Robert E....

THE ADVENTURESOF A SPECIALCORRESPONDENT AMONG THE VARIOUS RACES ANDCOUNTRIES OF CENTRAL ASIA BEING THE EXPLOITS AND EXPERIENCES OF CLAUDIUS BOMBARNAC OF “THE TWENTIETHCENTURY” BY JULES VERNE BIOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY Jules Verne, French author, was born at Nantes, France, in 1828, and died in 1905. In 1850 he wrote a comedy in verse, but he eventually confined himself to the writing of scientific and geographical romances, achieving a great reputation. He visited the United States in 1867, sailing for New York on the Great Eastern, and his book, A Floating City, was the result of this voyage....

THE ANTI-SLAVERY EXAMINER PART 2 OF 4 BY The American Anti-Slavery Society 1838 No. 5. THE CHATTEL PRINCIPLE THE ABHORRENCE OF JESUS CHRIST AND THE APOSTLES; OR NO REFUGE FOR AMERICAN SLAVERY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. No. 6. NARRATIVE OF JAMES WILLIAMS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE. No. 7. EMANCIPATION IN THE WEST INDIES. No. 8. CORRESPONDENCE, BETWEEN THE HON. F.H. ELMORE, ONE OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA DELEGATION IN CONGRESS, AND JAMES G....

THE BOY SCOUT AVIATORS BY GEORGE DURSTON CHAPTER I SERIOUS NEWS “As long as I can’t be at home,” said Harry Fleming, “I’d rather be here than anywhere in the world I can think of !” “Rather!” said his companion, Dick Mercer. “I say, Harry, it must be funny to be an American!” Harry laughed heartily. “I’d be angry, Dick,” he said, finally, “if that wasn’t so English — and so funny!...

The Captives by Hugh Walpole TO ARNOLD BENNETT WITH DEEP AFFECTION “I confess that I do not see why the very existence of an invisible world may not in part depend on the personal response which any of us may make to the religious appeal. God Himself, in short, may draw vital strength and increase of very being from our fidelity. For my own part I do not know what the sweat and blood and tragedy of this life mean, if they mean anything short of this....

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DEEP WATERS By W.W. JACOBS THE CONVERT Mr. Purnip took the arm of the new recruit and hung over him almost tenderly as they walked along; Mr. Billing, with a look of conscious virtue on his jolly face, listened with much satisfaction to his friend’s compliments. “It’s such an example,” said the latter. “Now we’ve got you the others will follow like sheep. You will be a bright lamp in the darkness....

by Thomas Troward ENTERING INTO THE SPIRIT OF ITINDIVIDUALITY THE NEW THOUGHT AND THE NEW ORDERTHE LIPS OF THE SPIRITALPHA AND OMEGA THE CREATIVE POWER OF THOUGHTTHE GREAT AFFIRMATIVECHRIST THE FULFILLING OF THE LAWTHE STORY OF EDENTHE WORSHIP OF ISHITHE SHEPHERD AND THE STONESALVATION IS OF THE JEWS FOREWORD. The addresses contained in this volume were delivered by me at the Dore Gallery, Bond Street, London, on the Sundays of the first three months of the present year, and are now published at the kind request of many of my hearers, hence their title of “The Dore Lectures....

THE EBB-TIDE A TRIO AND QUARTETTE ‘There is a tide in the affairs of men.’ Chapter 1. NIGHT ON THE BEACH Throughout the island world of the Pacific, scattered men of many European races and from almost every grade of society carry activity and disseminate disease. Some prosper, some vegetate. Some have mounted the steps of thrones and owned islands and navies. Others again must marry for a livelihood; a strapping, merry, chocolate-coloured dame supports them in sheer idleness; and, dressed like natives, but still retaining some foreign element of gait or attitude, still perhaps with some relic (such as a single eye-glass) of the officer and gentleman, they sprawl in palm-leaf verandahs and entertain an island audience with memoirs of the music-hall....

Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 13 The Edda II The Heroic Mythology of the North By Winifred Faraday, M.A. Published by David Nutt, at the Sign of the Phoenix, Long Acre, London 1902 Author’s Note The present study forms a sequel to No. 12 (The Edda: Divine Mythology of the North), to which the reader is referred for introductory matter and for the general Bibliography. Additional bibliographical references are given, as the need occurs, in the notes to the present number....

The Athenian Society ARISTOPHANES THE ELEVEN COMEDIES Now For The First Time Literally And Completely Translated From The Greek Tongue Into English With Translator’s Foreword An Introduction To Each Comedy And Elucidatory Notes The First Of Two Volumes * * * * * CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME Translator’s ForewordAuthorities THE KNIGHTSIntroductionText And Notes THE ACHARNIANSIntroductionText And Notes PEACEIntroductionText And Notes LYSISTRATAIntroductionText And Notes THE CLOUDSIntroductionText And Notes INDEX * * * * * Translator’s Foreword Perhaps the first thing to strike us–paradoxical as it may sound to say so–about the Athenian ‘Old Comedy’ is its modernness....

by E. Nesbit To Margaret Ostler with love from E. Nesbit Peggy, you came from the heath and moor, And you brought their airs through my open door; You brought the blossom of youth to blow In the Latin Quarter of Soho.For the sake of that magic I send you here A tale of enchantments, Peggy dear, A bit of my work, and a bit of my heart… The bit that you left when we had to part....

THE FOREIGNERA TALE OF SASKATCHEWAN Ralph Connor PREFACE In Western Canada there is to be seen to-day that most fascinating of all human phenomena, the making of a nation. Out of breeds diverse in traditions, in ideals, in speech, and in manner of life, Saxon and Slav, Teuton, Celt and Gaul, one people is being made. The blood strains of great races will mingle in the blood of a race greater than the greatest of them all....

[Illustration: AT THE CORRECT MOMENT PEGGY DROPPED THE WEIGHTED BUNDLE OVERBOARD.–Page 103.] THE GIRL AVIATORS’ SKY CRUISE BY MARGARET BURNHAM AUTHOR OF “THE GIRL AVIATORS AND THE PHANTOM AIRSHIP,” “THE GIRL AVIATORS ON GOLDEN WINGS,” ETC. NEW YORK HURST & COMPANY 1911 CONTENTS CHAPTER I. A NEW VENTURE IN SANDY BEACH II. MR. HARDING DECLARES HIMSELF III. A NAVAL VISITOR IV. ALOFT IN A STORM V. PEGGY A HEROINE VI....

THE GLIMPSES OF THE MOON by EDITH WHARTON PART I I IT rose for them–their honey-moon–over the waters of a lake so famed as the scene of romantic raptures that they were rather proud of not having been afraid to choose it as the setting of their own. “It required a total lack of humour, or as great a gift for it as ours, to risk the experiment,” Susy Lansing opined, as they hung over the inevitable marble balustrade and watched their tutelary orb roll its magic carpet across the waters to their feet....

THE GOVERNESS; OR, THE LITTLE FEMALE ACADEMY (1749) by Sarah Fielding There lived in the northern parts of England, a gentlewoman who undertook the education of young ladies; and this trust she endeavoured faithfully to discharge, by instructing those committed to her care in reading, writing, working, and in all proper forms of behaviour. And though her principal aim was to improve their minds in all useful knowledge; to render them obedient to their superiors, and gentle, kind, and affectionate to each other; yet did she not omit teaching them an exact neatness in their persons and dress, and a perfect gentility in their whole carriage....