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About the online edition. Italics are represented as /italics/. THE CHARM OF OXFORD by J. WELLS, M.A.Warden of Wadham College, Oxford Illustrated by W. G. BLACKALL Second Edition (Revised) SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTONKENT & CO., LTD., 4 STATIONERS’ HALL COURT : : LONDON, E.C.4 CopyrightFirst published 1920Second edition 1921 “‘Home of lost causes’–this is Oxford’s blame; ‘Mother of movements’–this, too, boasteth she; In the same walls, the same yet not the same, She welcomes those who lead the age-to-be....

Conventions: Numbers in square brackets (e.g. [245]) refer to original page numbers. Original footnotes were numbered page-by-page, and are collected at the end of the text. In the text, numbers in slashes (e.g./1/) refer to original footnote numbers. In the footnote section, a number such as 245/1 refers to (original) page 245, footnote 1. The footnotes are mostly citations to old English law reporters and to commentaries by writers such as Ihering, Bracton and Blackstone....

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ARTEMUS WARD PART 4, TO CALIFORNIA AND RETURN (CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE) With a biographical sketch by Melville D. Landon, “Eli Perkins” CONTENTS. PART IV. TO CALIFORNIA AND RETURN. 4.1. On the Steamer. 4.2. The Isthmus. 4.3. Mexico. 4.4. California. 4.5. Washoe. 4.6. Mr. Pepper. 4.7. Horace Greeley’s Ride to Placerville. 4.8. To Reese River. 4.9. Great Salt Lake City. 4.10. The Mountain Fever. 4.11. “I am Here....

By JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD 1910 CONTENTS CHAPTER I. The Girl of the SnowsCHAPTER II. Lips That Speak NotCHAPTER III. The Mysterious AttackCHAPTER IV. The WarningCHAPTER V. Howland’s Midnight Visitor CHAPTER VI. The Love of a ManCHAPTER VII. The Blowing of the Coyote CHAPTER VIII. The Hour of DeathCHAPTER IX. The TrystCHAPTER X. A Race Into the NorthCHAPTER XI. The House of the Red Death CHAPTER XII. The FightCHAPTER XIII. The PursuitCHAPTER XIV....

THE DEATH OF THE LION CHAPTER I. I had simply, I suppose, a change of heart, and it must have begun when I received my manuscript back from Mr. Pinhorn. Mr. Pinhorn was my “chief,” as he was called in the office: he had the high mission of bringing the paper up. This was a weekly periodical, which had been supposed to be almost past redemption when he took hold of it....

E-text prepared by Aaron G. Wells Formatting notes: Footnotes are in [square brackets] and embedded in the e-text at the location of the superscript number in the original text. Words and phrases in italics are surrounded with underlines. Everything that appears in all-caps in this e-text was in all-caps in the original text. THE EGYPTIAN CONCEPTION OF IMMORTALITY The Ingersoll Lecture, 1911 by GEORGE ANDREW REISNER THE INGERSOLL LECTURESHIP Extract from the will of Miss Caroline Haskell Ingersoll, who died in Keene, County of Cheshire, New Hampshire, Jan....

THE FITZ-BOODLE PAPERS. by William Makepeace Thackeray CONTENTS THE FITZ-BOODLE PAPERS. FITZ-BOODLE’S CONFESSIONS:– Preface Dorothea Ottilia FITZ-BOODLE’S PROFESSIONS:– First Profession Second Profession FITZ-BOODLE’S CONFESSIONS.* PREFACE. GEORGE FITZ-BOODLE, ESQUIRE, TO OLIVER YORKE, ESQUIRE. OMNIUM CLUB, May 20, 1842. DEAR SIR,–I have always been considered the third-best whist- player in Europe, and (though never betting more than five pounds) have for many years past added considerably to my yearly income by my skill in the game, until the commencement of the present season, when a French gentleman, Monsieur Lalouette, was admitted to the club where I usually play....

A ROMANCE OF THE WILD BY JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD 1918 ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRANK B. HOFFMAN [Illustration: “As Thor had more than once come into contact with porcupine quills, he hesitated.”] ToMY BOY PREFACE It is with something like a confession that I offer this second of my nature books to the public–a confession, and a hope; the confession of one who for years hunted and killed before he learned that the wild offered a more thrilling sport than slaughter–and the hope that what I have written may make others feel and understand that the greatest thrill of the hunt is not in killing, but in letting live....

THE HUMAN COMEDY:INTRODUCTIONS AND APPENDIX CONTENTS Honore de Balzac Introduction and brief biography by George Saintsbury. Appendix List of titles in French with English translations and grouped in the various classifications. Author’s introduction Balzac’s 1842 introduction to The Human Comedy. HONORE DE BALZAC /”Sans genie, je suis flambe!”/ Volumes, almost libraries, have been written about Balzac; and perhaps of very few writers, putting aside the three or four greatest of all, is it so difficult to select one or a few short phrases which will in any way denote them, much more sum them up....

THE KINGDOM OF LOVE AND OTHER POEMS by Ella Wheeler Wilcox Contents: The Kingdom Of LoveMeg’s CurseSolitudeThe GossipsPlatonicGrandpa’s ChristmasAfter The EngagementA HolidayFalseTwo SinnersThe Phantom BallWords And ThoughtsWanted–A Little GirlThe Suicide“Now I Lay Me”The MessengerA Servian LegendPeek-A-BooThe Falling Of ThronesHer Last LetterThe Princess’s Finger-NailA Baby In The HouseThe Foolish ElmRobin’s MistakeNew Year ResolveWhat We WantBreaking The Day In TwoThe Rape Of The MistThe Two GlassesThe ManiacWhat Is Flirtation?Husband And WifeHow Does Love Speak?...

[Note on text: Italicized words or phrases are capitalized. Some obvious errors have been corrected.] [William Gilmore Simms, American (South Carolinian) Writer. 1806-1870.] The Life of Francis Marion. By W. Gilmore Simms,Author of “Yemassee”, “History of South Carolina”, etc. “The British soldier trembles When Marion’s name is told.” Bryant. Contents. Chapter 1. Introduction — The Huguenots in South Carolina. Chapter 2. The Marion Family — Birth of Francis Marion — His Youth — Shipwreck....

THE LIFE OF LORD BYRON AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION My present task is one of considerable difficulty; but I have long had a notion that some time or another it would fall to my lot to perform it. I approach it, therefore, without apprehension, entirely in consequence of having determined, to my own satisfaction, the manner in which the biography of so singular and so richly endowed a character as that of the late Lord Byron should be treated, but still with no small degree of diffidence; for there is a wide difference between determining a rule for one’s self, and producing, according to that rule, a work which shall please the public....

[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of the file for those who may wish to sample the author’s ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.] MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XV. AND XVI. Being Secret Memoirs of Madame du Hausset, Lady’s Maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of an unknown English Girl and the Princess Lamballe BOOK 2. Madame sent for me yesterday evening, at seven o’clock, to read something to her; the ladies who were intimate with her were at Paris, and M....

The Mystery of Monastery Farm By H. R. NAYLOR 1908 CHAPTER I A GREAT BANK ROBBERY On the eleventh day of April, 18–, the officers of the Bank of England were greatly excited on receiving notice of a special meeting called for that night at ten o’clock, an unusual hour, and indicating, surely, something of great importance. Promptly at the hour appointed fifteen directors occupied their usual places in the council chamber....

THE NABOB by ALPHONSE DAUDET Translated ByW. Blaydes INTRODUCTION Daudet once remarked that England was the last of foreign countries to welcome his novels, and that he was surprised at the fact, since for him, as for the typical Englishman, the intimacy of home life had great significance. However long he may have taken to win Anglo-Saxon hearts, there is no question that he finally won them more completely than any other contemporary French novelist was able to do, and that when but a few years since the news came that death had released him from his sufferings, thousands of men and women, both in England and in America, felt that they had lost a real friend....

MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-1798 SPANISH PASSIONS, Volume 6e–OLD AGE AND DEATH THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA DE SEINGALT THE RARE UNABRIDGED LONDON EDITION OF 1894 TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR MACHEN TO WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED THE CHAPTERS DISCOVERED BY ARTHUR SYMONS. OLD AGE AND DEATH OF CASANOVA APPENDIX AND SUPPLEMENT Whether the author died before the work was complete, whether the concluding volumes were destroyed by himself or his literary executors, or whether the MS....

IN AND OUT OF THREE NORMANDY INNS BY ANNA BOWMAN DODD [Illustration: GUILLAUME-LE-CONQUERANT-DIVES] TO EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN. My Dear Mr. Stedman: To this little company of Norman men and women, you will, I know, extend a kindly greeting, if only because of their nationality. To your courtesy, possibly, you will add the leaven of interest, when you perceive–as you must–that their qualities are all their own, their defects being due solely to my own imperfect presentment....

In Defense of Womenby H. L. Mencken Contents IntroductionI The Feminine MindII The War between The SexesIII MarriageIV Woman SuffrageV The New Age Introduction As a professional critic of life and letters, my principal business in the world is that of manufacturing platitudes for tomorrow, which is to say, ideas so novel that they will be instantly rejected as insane and outrageous by all right thinking men, and so apposite and sound that they will eventually conquer that instinctive opposition, and force themselves into the traditional wisdom of the race....

In Freedom’s Cause G. A. Henty PREFACE. MY DEAR LADS, There are few figures in history who have individually exercised so great an influence upon events as William Wallace and Robert Bruce. It was to the extraordinary personal courage, indomitable perseverance, and immense energy of these two men that Scotland owed her freedom from English domination. So surprising were the traditions of these feats performed by these heroes that it was at one time the fashion to treat them as belonging as purely to legend as the feats of St....