No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenthcentury that this world was being watched keenly and closely byintelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that asmen busied themselves about their various concerns they were...More...

Of all the beautiful women of history, none has left us such convincingproofs of her charms as Cleopatra, for the tide of Rome's destiny, and,therefore, that of the world, turned aside because of her beauty.More...

The object of this little work, and of others of its family, which mayperhaps follow, is, like that of the "Rollo Books," to furnish usefuland instructive reading to young children.More...

The history of the life of every individual who has, for any reason,attracted extensively the attention of mankind, has been written in agreat variety of ways by a multitude of authors, and persons sometimeswonder why we should have so many different accounts of the same...More...

The design of the series of volumes, which it is intended to issue underthe general title of MARCO PAUL'S ADVENTURES IN THE PURSUIT OFKNOWLEDGE, is not merely to entertain the reader with a narrative ofjuvenile adventures, but also to communicate, in connexion with them, as...More...

It is the object of this series of histories to present a clear,distinct, and connected narrative of the lives of those great personageswho have in various ages of the world made themselves celebrated asleaders among mankind, and, by the part they have taken in the public...More...

The author of this series has made it his special object to confinehimself very strictly, even in the most minute details which he records,to historic truth. The narratives are not tales founded upon history,but history itself, without any embellishment or any deviations from...More...

The great room was, as its name indicated, quite large, occupying aconsiderable portion of the lower floor of the farmer's house. There wasa very spacious fireplace in one side, with a settle, which was a longseat, with a very high back, near it.More...

It is the object of this series of histories to present a clear,distinct, and connected narrative of the lives of those greatpersonages who have in various ages of the world made themselvescelebrated as leaders among mankind, and, by the part they have taken...More...

The design of the series of volumes, entitled MARCO PAUL'S ADVENTURESIN THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE, is not merely to entertain the readerwith a narrative of juvenile adventures, but also to communicate, inconnection with them, as extensive and varied information as possible,...More...

The story of Margaret of Anjou forms a part of the history of England,for the lady, though of Continental origin, was the queen of one ofthe English kings, and England was the scene of her most remarkableadventures and exploits.More...

The development of the moral sentiments in the human heart, in earlylife,--and every thing in fact which relates to the formation ofcharacter,--is determined in a far greater degree by sympathy, andby the influence of example, than by formal precepts and didactic...More...

There are very few persons who have not heard of the fame of Peter theGreat, the founder, as he is generally regarded by mankind, of Russiancivilization. The celebrity, however, of the great Muscovite sovereignamong young persons is due in a great measure to the circumstance of...More...

The author of this series has made it his special object to confinehimself very strictly, even in the most minute details which herecords, to historic truth. The narratives are not tales founded uponhistory, but history itself, without any embellishment, or any...More...

It is to efforts which you have made in the cause of education, withspecial regard to its moral and religious aspects, that I have beenindebted for the opportunity to test by experiment, under the mostpleasant and favorable circumstances, the principles which form the...More...

In selecting the subjects for the successive volumes of this series, ithas been the object of the author to look for the names of those greatpersonages whose histories constitute useful, and not merelyentertaining, knowledge.More...

One special object which the author of this series has had in view, inthe plan and method which he has followed in the preparation of thesuccessive volumes, has been to adapt them to the purposes of text-booksin schools.More...

The Author is quite aware of the defects of this little story, manyof which were unavoidable, as it first appeared serially. But, asUncle Alec's experiment was intended to amuse the young folks,rather than suggest educational improvements for the...More...

Chapter V SecretsChapter VI SurprisesChapter VII Jill's MissionChapter VIII Merry and MollyChapter IX The Debating ClubChapter X The Dramatic ClubChapter XI "Down Brakes"Chapter XII The Twenty-second of February...More...

The four young faces on which the firelight shone brightenedat the cheerful words, but darkened again as Jo said sadly,"We haven't got Father, and shall not have him for a long time.More...

As authors may be supposed to know better than anyone else whatthey intended to do when writing a book, I beg leave to say thatthere is no moral to this story. Rose is not designed for a modelgirl, and the Sequel was simply written in fulfillment of a promise,...More...

IV. HIS STORYV. BEN GETS A PLACEVI. A CIRCULATING LIBRARYVII. NEW FRIENDS TROT INVIII. MISS CELIA'S MANIX. A HAPPY TEAX. A HEAVY TROUBLEXI. SUNDAYXII. GOOD TIMESXIII.More...

CHAPTER IEmma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.More...

About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seventhousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, ofMansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raisedto the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences...More...

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy wouldhave supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation in life, thecharacter of her father and mother, her own person and disposition,were all equally against her.More...

Chapter 1Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwelcome sensations, arising from domestic affairs changed naturally into pity and contempt as he turned over the almost endless creations of the last century; and there, if every other leaf were powerless, he could read his own history with an interest which never failed.More...

Chapter 1It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.More...

The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estatewas large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre oftheir property, where, for many generations, they had lived in sorespectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their...More...

PREFACE. This little book was written before either "Jane Eyre" or "Shirley," and yet no indulgence can be solicited for it on the plea of a first attempt. A first attempt it certainly was not, as the pen which wrote it had been previously worn a good deal in a practice of some years.More...

My godmother lived in a handsome house in the clean and ancient townof Bretton. Her husband's family had been residents there forgenerations, and bore, indeed, the name of their birthplace--Brettonof Bretton: whether by coincidence, or because some remote ancestor...More...

moaning a requiem for me in this doorway and I'm howling with it. I'mfinished. Some bastard in a dirty white cap - the cook in the office canteenat the National Economic Council - spilled some boiling water and scalded my...More...

At the sunset hour of one warm spring day two men were to be seen atPatriarch's Ponds. The first of them--aged about forty, dressed in a greyishsummer suit--was short, dark-haired, well-fed and bald.More...

"She wouldn't so much as give me a look when I stared," he added."I couldn't help it. Gad, I'm going to make a full-Page 'cover' ofher to-morrow for Burke's. Burke dotes on pretty women for thecover of his magazine.More...

Philip Weyman's buoyancy of heart was in face of the fact that hehad but recently looked upon Radisson's unpleasant death, and thathe was still in a country where the water flowed north.More...

At Point Fullerton, one thousand miles straight north of civilization,Sergeant William MacVeigh wrote with the stub end of a pencil betweenhis fingers the last words of his semi-annual report to theCommissioner of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police at Regina.More...

Kazan lay mute and motionless, his gray nose between his forepaws, hiseyes half closed. A rock could have appeared scarcely less lifeless thanhe; not a muscle twitched; not a hair moved; not an eyelid quivered.More...

It was late in the month of March, at the dying-out of the EagleMoon, that Neewa the black bear cub got his first real look at theworld. Noozak, his mother, was an old bear, and like an old personshe was filled with rheumatics and the desire to sleep late.More...

The wind is blowing a furious gale outside. From off the lake comevolleys of sleet, like shot from guns, and all the wild demons of thisblack night in the wilderness seem bent on tearing apart the hugeend-locked logs that form my cabin home.More...

Captain Rifle, gray and old in the Alaskan Steamship service, had notlost the spirit of his youth along with his years. Romance was not deadin him, and the fire which is built up of clean adventure and theassociation of strong men and a mighty country had not died out of his...More...

Not far from the rugged and storm-whipped north shore of LakeSuperior, and south of the Kaministiqua, yet not as far south asthe Rainy River waterway, there lay a paradise lost in the heartof a wilderness world--and in that paradise "a little corner of...More...

On an afternoon in the early summer of 1856 Captain Nathaniel Plum,master and owner of the sloop _Typhoon_ was engaged in nothing moreimportant than the smoking of an enormous pipe.More...

If you had stood there in the edge of the bleak spruce forest, with thewind moaning dismally through the twisting trees--midnight of deepDecember--the Transcontinental would have looked like a thing of fire;dull fire, glowing with a smouldering warmth, but of strange ghostliness...More...

An hour ago, under the marvelous canopy of the blue northern sky,David Carrigan, Sergeant in His Most Excellent Majesty's RoyalNorthwest Mounted Police, had hummed softly to himself, and hadthanked God that he was alive.More...

The deep hush of noon hovered over the vast solitude of Canadianforest. The moose and caribou had fed since early dawn, and wereresting quietly in the warmth of the February sun; the lynx was curledaway in his niche between the great rocks, waiting for the sun to...More...

Bram Johnson was an unusual man, even for the northland. He was,above all other things, a creature of environment--and necessity,and of that something else which made of him at times a man with asoul, and at others a brute with the heart of a devil.More...

It is with something like a confession that I offer this second of mynature books to the public--a confession, and a hope; the confession of onewho for years hunted and killed before he learned that the wild offered amore thrilling sport than slaughter--and the hope that what I have written...More...

The words came in a gentle whisper from the woman's lips. One white,thin hand lifted itself weakly to the rough face of the man who waskneeling beside her bed, and the great dark eyes from which he hadhidden his own grew luminously bright for a moment, as she whispered...More...

It was all new--most of it singularly dramatic and even appalling to thewoman who sat with the pearl-gray veil drawn closely about her face. Foreighteen hours she had been a keenly attentive, wide-eyed, and partlyfrightened bit of humanity in this onrush of "the horde.More...

Between Conniston, of His Majesty's Royal Northwest Mounted Police, andKeith, the outlaw, there was a striking physical and facialresemblance. Both had observed it, of course. It gave them a sort ofconfidence in each other.More...

Before the railroad's thin lines of steel bit their way up throughthe wilderness, Athabasca Landing was the picturesque thresholdover which one must step who would enter into the mystery andadventure of the great white North.More...

Cold winter lay deep in the Canadian wilderness. Over it the moon wasrising, like a red pulsating ball, lighting up the vast white silence ofthe night in a shimmering glow. Not a sound broke the stillness of thedesolation.More...

A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of acompany of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring underany suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though theshining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought...More...

Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for manyreasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and towhich I will assign no fictitious name, there is one ancientlycommon to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and...More...

If the readers of this volume will be so kind as to take theircredentials for the different places which are the subject of itsauthor's reminiscences, from the Author himself, perhaps they mayvisit them, in fancy, the more agreeably, and with a better...More...

My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any existence not in my imagination. They can examine for themselves whether there has been anything in the public career of that ...More...

At length I returned from two weeks leave of absence to findthat my patrons had arrived three days ago in Roulettenberg. Ireceived from them a welcome quite different to that which I hadexpected.More...

“Strike me dead, the track has vanished, Well, what now? We've lost the way, Demons have bewitched our horses, Led us in the wilds astray.What a number! Whither drift they? What's the mournful dirge they sing?More...

Dostoevsky was the son of a doctor. His parents were very hard-workingand deeply religious people, but so poor that they lived with their fivechildren in only two rooms. The father and mother spent their eveningsin reading aloud to their children, generally from books of a serious...More...

Underground* *The author of the diary and the diary itself are, of course, imaginary. Nevertheless it is clear that such persons as the writer of these notes not only may, but positively must, exist in our...More...

PREFACEFor the use of some of the following Tales I amindebted to the courtesy of the Proprietors of"Cornhill," "Temple Bar," "Belgravia," "LondonSociety," "Cassell's," and "The Boy's Own Paper.More...

During the course of the war some sixteen Editions of this workhave appeared, each of which was, I hope, a little more full andaccurate than that which preceded it. I may fairly claim, however,that the absolute mistakes made have been few in number, and that I...More...

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings,save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night,was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rugand picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the...More...

I was not surprised. Indeed, my only wonder was thathe had not already been mixed up in this extraordinarycase, which was the one topic of conversation throughthe length and breadth of England.More...

It was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested,and the fashionable world dismayed, by the murder of the HonourableRonald Adair under most unusual and inexplicable circumstances.More...

This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, ascolorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as theirises of children's eyes. From the western half of the sky thesun was shying little golden disks at the sea--if you gazed...More...

In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gonesince irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically atleast, descended upon him. Irony was the final polish of the shoe, theultimate dab of the clothes-brush, a sort of intellectual "There!More...

Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except thestray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. His father, anineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for Byron and a habit ofdrowsing over the Encyclopedia Britannica, grew wealthy at thirty...More...

"Once more I behold the face of her Whose actions all had the character Of an inexpressible charm, expressed; Whose movements flowed from a centre of rest, And whose rest was that of a swallow, rife...More...

It was a spring afternoon in the sixth year of the reign of King HenryVII. of England. There had been a great show in London, for that day hisGrace opened the newly convened Parliament, and announced to hisfaithful people--who received the news with much cheering, since war is...More...

It is a curious thing that at my age--fifty-five last birthday--Ishould find myself taking up a pen to try to write a history. I wonderwhat sort of a history it will be when I have finished it, if ever Icome to the end of the trip!More...

Nearly thirty-seven years have gone by, more than a generation, sincefirst we saw the shores of Southern Africa rising from the sea. Sincethen how much has happened: the Annexation of the Transvaal, the ZuluWar, the first Boer War, the discovery of the Rand, the taking of...More...

Sompseu, my father, I have written a book that tells of men andmatters of which you know the most of any who still look upon thelight; therefore, I set your name within that book and, such as it is,I offer it to you.More...

When you read her history in MS. you thought well of "Stella Fregelius"and urged her introduction to the world. Therefore I ask you, my severeand accomplished critic, to accept the burden of a book for which youare to some extent responsible.More...

R.M.S. Mongolia, 12th May, 1904 Mayhap, Ella, here too distancelends its enchantment, and these gallant brethren would havequarrelled over Rosamund, or even had their long swords at eachother's throat.More...

_"The Zulus about here have a strange story of a white girl who inDingaan's day was supposed to 'hold the spirit' of some legendary goddessof theirs who is also white. This girl, they say, was very beautiful andbrave, and had great power in the land before the battle of the Blood...More...

who "bound all to her" and, while her father cut his way through thehordes of the Ingobo Regiment, perished of the hardships of warat Buluwayo on 19th May, 1896, I dedicate these tales--and moreparticularly the last, that of a Faith which triumphed over savagery and...More...

The Proem"Fox-in-the-Morning"The Lotus and the BottleSmithCaughtCupid's Exile Number TwoThe Phonograph and the GraftMoney MazeThe AdmiralThe Flag ParamountThe Shamrock and the PalmThe Remnants of the CodeShoesShipsMasters of Arts...More...

I. Hearts and Crosses II. The Ransom of Mack III. Telemachus, Friend IV. The Handbook of Hymen V. The Pimienta Pancakes VI. Seats of the Haughty VII. Hygeia at the Solito VIII.More...

"The Rose of Dixie" The Third Ingredient The Hiding of Black Bill Schools and Schools Thimble, Thimble Supply and Demand Buried Treasure To Him Who Waits He Also Serves The Moment of Victory The Head-Hunter...More...

VIII. A Double-dyed Deceiver IX. The Passing of Black Eagle X. A Retrieved Reformation XI. Cherchez la Femme XII. Friends in San Rosario XIII. The Fourth in Salvador XIV.More...

XI. JIMMY HAYES AND MURIEL XII. THE DOOR OF UNREST XIII. THE DUPLICITY OF HARGRAVES XIV. LET ME FEEL YOUR PULSE XV. OCTOBER AND JUNE XVI. THE CHURCH WITH AN OVERSHOT-WHEEL XVII.More...

Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there wereonly "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worthnoticing. But a wiser man has arisen--the census taker--and hislarger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out...More...

I. The Octopus Marooned II. Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet III. Modern Rural Sports IV. The Chair of Philanthromathematics V. The Hand That Riles the World VI. The Exact Science of Matrimony VII.More...

THE TRIMMED LAMPA MADISON SQUARE ARABIAN NIGHTTHE RUBAIYAT OF A SCOTCH HIGHBALLTHE PENDULUMTWO THANKSGIVING DAY GENTLEMENTHE ASSESSOR OF SUCCESSTHE BUYER FROM CACTUS CITYTHE BADGE OF POLICEMAN O'ROONBRICKDUST ROWTHE MAKING OF A NEW YORKER...More...

II. THE COMPLETE LIFE OF JOHN HOPKINS III. A LICKPENNY LOVER IV. DOUGHERTY'S EYE-OPENER V. "LITTLE SPECK IN GARNERED FRUIT" VI. THE HARBINGER VII. WHILE THE AUTO WAITS VIII.More...

A favourite dodge to get your story read by the public is to assertthat it is true, and then add that Truth is stranger than Fiction.I do not know if the yarn I am anxious for you to read is true; butthe Spanish purser of the fruit steamer _El Carrero_ swore to me by...More...

It is the object of this series of histories to present a clear,distinct, and connected narrative of the lives of those great personageswho have in various ages of the world made themselves celebrated asleaders among mankind, and, by the part they have taken in the public...More...

The author of this series has made it his special object to confinehimself very strictly, even in the most minute details which he records,to historic truth. The narratives are not tales founded upon history,but history itself, without any embellishment or any deviations from...More...

2 The First Evening in New York3 What Can Be Seen From A Hotel Window4 Appetite Departs While Eating5 We Seek An Angel Without Wings6 Papa And Mamma7 The Electric Chair8 A New York Arena9 We Purchase an Automobile and Depart...More...

She had not meant to stay for the service. The door had stood invitinglyopen, and a glimpse of the interior had suggested to her the idea that itwould make good copy. "Old London Churches: Their Social and HistoricalAssociations.More...

Accordingly, I have tried. This is a sensible book. I want you tounderstand that. This is a book to improve your mind. In this bookI tell you all about Germany--at all events, all I know aboutGermany--and the Ober-Ammergau Passion Play.More...

III. How cousin Christopher became mixed up with it. IV. How it was kept from Mrs. Arlington. V. How it was told to Mrs. Marigold. VI. And how it was finished too soon.More...

Years ago, when I was very small, we lived in a great house in a long,straight, brown-coloured street, in the east end of London. It was anoisy, crowded street in the daytime; but a silent, lonesome street atnight, when the gas-lights, few and far between, partook of the character...More...

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Reginald Blake, Financier and CadAn item of Fashionable IntelligenceBlase BillyThe Choice of Cyril HarjohnThe Materialisation of Charles and MivanwayPortrait of a LadyThe Man Who Would ManageThe Man Who Lived For OthersA Man of Habit...More...

TO THE FRIEND WHO, TREATED WITH MARKED COOLNESS BY ALL THE FEMALE MEMBERS OF MY HOUSEHOLD, AND REGARDED WITH SUSPICION BY MY VERY DOG, NEVERTHELESS SEEMS DAY BY DAY TO BE MORE DRAWN BY ME, AND IN RETURN...More...

"It is not a large house," I said. "We don't want a large house.Two spare bedrooms, and the little three-cornered place you seemarked there on the plan, next to the bathroom, and which will justdo for a bachelor, will be all we shall require--at all events, for...More...

Three men need change--Anecdote showing evil result of deception--Moralcowardice of George--Harris has ideas--Yarn of the Ancient Mariner andthe Inexperienced Yachtsman--A hearty crew--Danger of sailing when thewind is off the land--Impossibility of sailing when the wind is off the...More...

THREE INVALIDS. - SUFFERINGS OF GEORGE AND HARRIS. - A VICTIM TO ONE HUNDRED AND SEVEN FATAL MALADIES. - USEFUL PRESCRIPTIONS. - CURE FOR LIVER COMPLAINT IN CHILDREN. - WE AGREE THAT WE ARE OVERWORKED, AND NEED REST.More...

One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he foundhimself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay onhis armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he couldsee his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff...More...

Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he haddone nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested. Every day ateight in the morning he was brought his breakfast by Mrs.More...

It is the object of this series of histories to present a clear,distinct, and connected narrative of the lives of those greatpersonages who have in various ages of the world made themselvescelebrated as leaders among mankind, and, by the part they have taken...More...

_The A.B.C., that semi-elected, semi-nominated body of a few scorepersons, controls the Planet. Transportation is Civilisation, our mottoruns. Theoretically we do what we please, so long as we do not interferewith the traffic_ and all it implies.More...

An Habitation Enforced The Recall Garm--a Hostage The Power of the Dog The Mother Hive The Bees and the Flies With the Night Mail The Four Angels A Deal in Cotton The New Knighthood The Puzzler The Puzzler Little Foxes...More...

A white-haired German reached for a sandwich, and grunted betweenbites: "I know der breed. Ameriga is full of dot kind. I dell youyou should imbort ropes' ends free under your dariff.More...

His name was Charlie Mears; he was the only son of his mother who was awidow, and he lived in the north of London, coming into the City every dayto work in a bank. He was twenty years old and suffered from aspirations.More...

Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher -the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum.Who hold Zam-Zammah, that 'fire-breathing dragon', hold thePunjab, for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the...More...

In Northern India stood a monastery called The Chubara of Dhunni Bhagat.No one remembered who or what Dhunni Bhagat had been. He had lived hislife, made a little money and spent it all, as every good Hindu shoulddo, on a work of piety--the Chubara.More...

Look, you have cast out Love! What Gods are these You bid me please?The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go.It may be they shall give me greater easeThan your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.More...

Weland's Sword Puck's Song A Tree SongYoung Men at the Manor Sir Richard's SongThe Knights of the Joyous Venture Harp Song of the Dane Women Thorkild's SongOld Men at Pevensey The Runes on Weland's SwordA Centurion of the Thirtieth...More...

IntroductionCold Iron Cold IronGloriana The Two Cousins The Looking-GlassThe Wrong Thing A Truthful Song King Henry VII and the ShipwrightsMarklake Witches The Way through the Woods Brookland RoadThe Knife and the Naked Chalk...More...

THE GOD FROM THE MACHINE OF THOSE CALLED PRIVATE LEAROYD'S STORY THE BIG DRUNK DRAF' THE WRECK OF THE VISIGOTH THE SOLID MULDOON WITH THE MAIN GUARD IN THE MATTER OF A PRIVATE BLACK JACK POOR DEAR MAMMA THE WORLD WITHOUT...More...

And we all praise famous men-- Ancients of the College;For they taught us common sense---Tried to teach us common sense--Truth and God's Own Common Sense Which is more than knowledge!More...

So we settled it all when the storm was done As comf'y as comf'y could be; And I was to wait in the barn, my dears, Because I was only three; And Teddy would run to the rainbow's foot, Because he was five and a man; ...More...

The stream is shrunk--the pool is dry, And we be comrades, thou and I; With fevered jowl and dusty flank Each jostling each along the bank; And by one drouthy fear made still, Forgoing thought of quest or kill.More...

Not with an outcry to Allah nor any complaining He answered his name at the muster and stood to the chaining. When the twin anklets were nipped on the leg-bars that held them, He brotherly greeted the armourers stooping to weld them.More...

XIII. WIE ES IHNEN GEFAELLT XIV. XX SETTEMBRE XV. A RAILWAY JOURNEY XVI. FLORENCE XVII. HIGH UP OVER THE CATHEDRAL SQUARE XVIII. THE MARCHESA XIX. CLEOPATRA, BUT NOT ANTHONY XX.More...

He was working on the edge of the common, beyond the small brook that ranin the dip at the bottom of the garden, carrying the garden path incontinuation from the plank bridge on to the common.More...

The present book is a continuation from "Psychoanalysis and theUnconscious." The generality of readers had better just leave italone. The generality of critics likewise. I really don't want toconvince anybody.More...

"THE BOTTOMS" succeeded to "Hell Row". Hell Row was a block of thatched,bulging cottages that stood by the brookside on Greenhill Lane. Therelived the colliers who worked in the little gin-pits two fields away.More...

Take a mining townlet like Woodhouse, with a population of tenthousand people, and three generations behind it. This space ofthree generations argues a certain well-established society.More...

The imperial road to Italy goes from Munich across the Tyrol, throughInnsbruck and Bozen to Verona, over the mountains. Here the greatprocessions passed as the emperors went South, or came home again fromrosy Italy to their own Germany.More...

CHAPTER I. SistersCHAPTER II. ShortlandsCHAPTER III. Class-roomCHAPTER IV. DiverCHAPTER V. In the TrainCHAPTER VI. Creme de MentheCHAPTER VII. FetishCHAPTER VIII.More...

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up newlittle habitats, to have new little hopes.More...

She had delayed, because of the dew-wet grass, in order to put on herovershoes, and when she emerged from the house found her waiting husbandabsorbed in the wonder of a bursting almond-bud.More...

It was a quiet night in the Shovel. At the bar, which ranged along oneside of the large chinked-log room, leaned half a dozen men, two ofwhom were discussing the relative merits of spruce-tea and lime-juiceas remedies for scurvy.More...

It began in the swimming pool at Glen Ellen. Between swims it wasour wont to come out and lie in the sand and let our skins breathethe warm air and soak in the sunshine. Roscoe was a yachtsman.More...

The one opened the door with a latch-key and went in, followed by a youngfellow who awkwardly removed his cap. He wore rough clothes that smackedof the sea, and he was manifestly out of place in the spacious hall inwhich he found himself.More...

But Michael never sailed out of Tulagi, nigger-chaser on the _Eugenie_.Once in five weeks the steamer _Makambo_ made Tulagi its port of call onthe way from New Guinea and the Shortlands to Australia.More...

They ran across the shining sand, the Pacific thundering its long surgeat their backs, and when they gained the roadway leaped upon bicycles anddived at faster pace into the green avenues of the park.More...

It cannot be said that the Everhard Manuscript is an importanthistorical document. To the historian it bristles with errors--noterrors of fact, but errors of interpretation. Looking back across theseven centuries that have lapsed since Avis Everhard completed her...More...

He awoke in the dark. His awakening was simple, easy, without movementsave for the eyes that opened and made him aware of darkness. Unlikemost, who must feel and grope and listen to, and contact with, theworld about them, he knew himself on the moment of awakening,...More...

"Speakin' in general, I 'ave tried 'em all, The 'appy roads that take you o'er the world. Speakin' in general, I 'ave found them good For such as cannot use one bed too long, But must get 'ence, the same as I 'ave done,...More...

I scarcely know where to begin, though I sometimes facetiouslyplace the cause of it all to Charley Furuseth's credit. He kept asummer cottage in Mill Valley, under the shadow of Mount Tamalpais,and never occupied it except when he loafed through the winter...More...

'Carmen won't last more than a couple of days.' Mason spat out achunk of ice and surveyed the poor animal ruefully, then put herfoot in his mouth and proceeded to bite out the ice whichclustered cruelly between the toes.More...

Old Long-Beard paused in his narrative, licked his greasy fingers,and wiped them on his naked sides where his one piece of raggedbearskin failed to cover him. Crouched around him, on their hams,were three young men, his grandsons, Deer-Runner, Yellow-Head, and...More...

Law, order, and restraint had carved Frederick Travers' face. It was thestrong, firm face of one used to power and who had used power withwisdom and discretion. Clean living had made the healthy skin, and thelines graved in it were honest lines.More...

Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The treeshad been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, andthey seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fadinglight.More...

Remember that as surely as we one day swung down out of the trees and walked upright, just as surely, on a far earlier day, did we crawl up out of the sea and achieve our first adventure on land.More...

A tall, slim girl, "half-past sixteen," with serious gray eyes and hairwhich her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstonedoorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe afternoon inAugust, firmly resolved to construe so many lines of Virgil.More...

Anne Shirley was curled up on the window-seat of Theodora Dix'ssitting-room one Saturday evening, looking dreamilyafar at some fair starland beyond the hills of sunset.Anne was visiting for a fortnight of her vacation at Echo Lodge,...More...

"Kilmeny looked up with a lovely grace, But nae smile was seen on Kilmeny's face; As still was her look, and as still was her ee, As the stillness that lay on the emerant lea, Or the mist that sleeps on a waveless sea.More...

II. Sheer Gossip III. The Ingleside Children IV. The Manse Children V. The Advent of Mary Vanse VI. Mary Stays at the Manse VII. A Fishy Episode VIII. Miss Cornelia Intervenes IX.More...

It was a warm, golden-cloudy, lovable afternoon. In the big living-roomat Ingleside Susan Baker sat down with a certain grim satisfactionhovering about her like an aura; it was four o'clock and Susan, who hadbeen working incessantly since six that morning, felt that she had...More...

Once upon a time we all walked on the golden road. It was a fairhighway, through the Land of Lost Delight; shadow and sunshinewere blessedly mingled, and every turn and dip revealed a freshcharm and a new loveliness to eager hearts and unspoiled eyes.More...

Leading Dates xviiiPeriodI. Britain before Written History beganII. The Geography of England in Relation to its HistoryIII. Roman Britain; A Civilization which did not civilizeIV.More...

In the year 423 B.C. Darius Nothus ascended the throne of Persia. Thatcountry was then the greatest empire in the world, and had an areanearly equal to that of the United States. The capital of this seeminglypowerful realm was the ancient city of Babylon on the lower Euphrates.More...

Its object is to present clearly and accurately those facts andprinciples in the lives of some of the chief founders and buildersof America which would be of interest and value to pupils beginningthe study of our history.More...

Henry VIII., the unconquered King of England, a prince adorned with allthe virtues that become a great monarch, having some differences of nosmall consequence with Charles the most serene Prince of Castile, sent meinto Flanders, as his ambassador, for treating and composing matters...More...

pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Bloodwas its Avatar and its seal--the redness and the horror ofblood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, andthen profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution.More...

could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowedrevenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul,will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to athreat. At length I would be avenged; this was a pointdefinitely settled--but the very definitiveness with which...More...

WILL you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, notdestroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. Iheard all things in the heaven and in the earth.More...

To S.L.O., an American gentleman in accordance with whose classic taste the following narrative has been designed, it is now, in return for numerous delightful hours, and with the kindest wishes, dedicated by his affectionate friend, the author.More...

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.And that was all his patrimony. His very paternity was obscure, although thevillage of Gavrillac had long since dispelled the cloud of mystery that hung...More...

Note: Footnotes in the printed book have been inserted in the etext in square brackets ("[]") close to the place where they were referenced by a suffix in the original text.More...

Introduction to Chronicles of the Canongate. Appendix to Introduction--The Theatrical Fund Dinner. Introductory--Mr. Chrystal Croftangry. The Highland Widow. The Two Drovers.More...

The Author of the Waverley Novels had hitherto proceeded in an unabatedcourse of popularity, and might, in his peculiar district of literature,have been termed "L'Enfant Gate" of success.More...

A certain degree of success, real or supposed, in the delineation ofQueen Mary, naturally induced the author to attempt something similarrespecting "her sister and her foe," the celebrated Elizabeth.More...

Sir Walter Scott's "Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft" were hiscontribution to a series of books, published by John Murray, whichappeared between the years 1829 and 1847, and formed a collection ofeighty volumes known as "Murray's Family Library.More...

The "Lay of the Last Minstrel," Scott's first romantic tale, waspublished in January, 1805, and won for its author his first greatsuccess. The writing of "Marmion" was begun in November, 1806.More...

The origin of "Old Mortality," perhaps the best of Scott's historicalromances, is well known. In May, 1816, Mr. Joseph Train, the gauger fromGalloway, breakfasted with Scott in Castle Street.More...

William, the Conqueror of England, was, or supposed himself to be, thefather of a certain William Peveril, who attended him to the battle ofHastings, and there distinguished himself.More...

The scene of this romance is laid in the fifteenth century, whenthe feudal system, which had been the sinews and nerves of nationaldefence, and the spirit of chivalry, by which, as by a vivifying soul,that system was animated, began to be innovated upon and abandoned...More...

When the Editor of the following volumes published, about two yearssince, the work called the "Antiquary," he announced that he was, for thelast time, intruding upon the public in his present capacity.More...

"'St. Ronan's Well' is not so much my favourite as certain of itspredecessors," Lady Louisa Stuart wrote to Scott on March 26, 1824. "Yetstill I see the author's hand in it, _et c'est tout dire_.More...

From what is said in the Introduction to the Monastery, it mustnecessarily be inferred, that the Author considered that romance assomething very like a failure. It is true, the booksellers did notcomplain of the sale, because, unless on very felicitous occasions, or...More...

The present work completes a series of fictitious narratives, intended toillustrate the manners of Scotland at three different periods. _Waverley_embraced the age of our fathers, _Guy Mannering_ that of our own youth,and the _Antiquary_ refers to the last ten years of the eighteenth...More...

The Tales of the Crusaders was determined upon as the title of thefollowing series of the Novels, rather by the advice of the fewfriends whom, death has now rendered still fewer, than by theauthor's own taste.More...

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Every quarter of Edinburgh has its own peculiar boast, so that thecity together combines within its precincts, if you take the wordof the inhabitants on the subject, as much of historical interestas of natural beauty.More...

Having, in the tale of the Heart of Mid-Lothian, succeeded in somedegree in awakening an interest in behalf of one devoid of thoseaccomplishments which belong to a heroine almost by right, I was nexttempted to choose a hero upon the same unpromising plan; and as worth...More...

SCOTT began to work on "The Heart of Mid-Lothian" almost before he hadcompleted "Rob Roy." On Nov. 10, 1817, he writes to Archibald Constableannouncing that the negotiations for the sale of the story to Messrs.More...

When I first saw Mr. Osgood's beautiful illustrated edition of The Ladyof the Lake, I asked him to let me use some of the cuts in a cheaperannotated edition for school and household use; and the present volumeis the result.More...

It would be difficult to assign any good reason why the author ofIvanhoe, after using, in that work, all the art he possessed to removethe personages, action, and manners of the tale, to a distance fromhis own country, should choose for the scene of his next attempt the...More...

The "Betrothed" did not greatly please one or two friends, whothought that it did not well correspond to the general title of"The Crusaders." They urged, therefore, that, without directallusion to the manners of the Eastern tribes, and to the...More...

[Transcriber's Note:I feel that it is important to note that this book is partof the Caledonian series. The Caledonian series is a groupof 50 books comprising all of Sir Walter Scott's works.More...

THE WOODSTOCK SCUFFLE; or, Most dreadfull apparitions that were latelyseene in the Mannor-house of Woodstock, neere Oxford, to the greatterror and the wonderful amazement of all there that did behold them.More...

I. Across The PlainsII. The Old Pacific CapitalIII. FontainebleauIV. Epilogue to "An Inland Voyage"V. Random MemoriesVI. Random Memories ContinuedVII. The Lantern-bearersVIII.More...

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For nearly ten years my health had been declining; and for somewhile before I set forth upon my voyage, I believed I was come tothe afterpiece of life, and had only the nurse and undertaker toexpect.More...

Gentlemen,--In the volume now in your hands, the authors havetouched upon that ugly devil of crime, with which it is your gloryto have contended. It were a waste of ink to do so in a seriousspirit.More...

'Nothing like a little judicious levity,' says Michael Finsbury in thetext: nor can any better excuse be found for the volume in the reader'shand. The authors can but add that one of them is old enough to beashamed of himself, and the other young enough to learn better.More...

[As given in the original edition.]The author of these Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my ancientand intimate friend; there is likewise some relation between us onthe mother's side.More...

"Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of theBuonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war,if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated bythat Antichrist--I really believe he is Antichrist--I will have...More...

Ivan Sergyevitch Turgenev came of an old stock of the Russian nobility.He was born in Orel, in the province of Orel, which lies more than ahundred miles south of Moscow, on October 28, 1818.More...

BUT the basin of the Mississippi is the BODY OF THE NATION. All theother parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more importantin their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part...More...

This book was not written for private circulation among friends; it wasnot written to cheer and instruct a diseased relative of the author's;it was not thrown off during intervals of wearing labor to amuse an idlehour.More...

Ryght honorable, Salutem in Christo Jesu, and Syr here ys no lesse joyngeand rejossynge in thes partees for the byrth of our prynce, hoom wehungurde for so longe, then ther was (I trow), inter vicinos att thebyrth of S.More...

DO you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures? I meanthe adventures we had down the river, and the time we set the darky Jimfree and Tom got shot in the leg. No, he wasn't.More...

[Footnote: Strange as the incidents of this story are, they are notinventions, but facts--even to the public confession of the accused. Itake them from an old-time Swedish criminal trial, change the actors, andtransfer the scenes to America.More...

PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted;persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; personsattempting to find a plot in it will be shot.More...

Since I came to this place I have been very restless, wasting my energies in the futile beginning of ill-conceived books. One does not settle down very readily at two and forty to a new way of living, and I have foundmyself with the teeming interests of the...More...

was expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone andtwinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated. Thefire burned brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescentlights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles that flashed and...More...

PREFACE THE WORLD SET FREE was written in 1913 and published early in 1914, and it is the latest of a series of three fantasias of possibility, stories which all turn on the possible developments in the future of some contemporary force or group of forces.More...

How People Think About the War I. Do they Really Think at all? II. The Yielding Pacifist and the Conscientious Objector III. The Religious Revival IV. The Riddle of the British V.More...