My name is Seymour Wilbraham Wentworth. I am brother-in-law andsecretary to Sir Charles Vandrift, the South African millionaire andfamous financier. Many years ago, when Charlie Vandrift was a smalllawyer in Cape Town, I had the  more...

An attempt is made in the following pages to determine the positionand character of Donatellos art in relation to that of hiscontemporaries and successors. The subject must be familiar to manywho have visited Florence, but  more...

I desire to express my profound indebtedness, for the centralmythological idea embodied in this tale, to Mr. J.G. Frazers admirableand epoch-making work, "The Golden Bough," whose main contention I haveendeavored incidentally to popularize in my  more...

A series of papers which originally appeared in вЂ�Fraser’ are now, for thefirst time, published in a collected form with the consent of theproprietors of that Magazine. It should, however, be stated, that thisis not  more...

A series of papers which originally appeared in вЂ�Fraser’ are now, for thefirst time, published in a collected form with the consent of theproprietors of that Magazine. It should, however, be stated, that thisis not  more...

"Bless my soul! I nearly forgot," exclaimed Colonel Jinks, as he came back into the store. "To-morrow is Sams birthday and I promised Ma to bring him home something for a present.  more...

In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere bornfree, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless these be oftheir own individual making. Especially in countries where excessiveliberty or excessive tyranny  more...

Ilyen forma ГЎrtatlan csalogatГЎsok az AkadГ©miГЎk jutalomtГ©telei, melyekkГ¶ltЕ‘i mЕ±vekre tЕ±zetnek ki. SzegГ©nyes irodalmi viszonyokra mutatnak. AjeligГ©s levelekbЕ‘l ki-kibontakozik egy-egy nГ©v, s van nagy Г¶rvendezГ©s,...  more...

My chief object in writing this volume was to discuss the relations ofmodern discoveries concerning hormones or internal secretions to thequestion of the evolution of adaptations, and on the other hand to theresults of recent  more...

I. HOW "THE MORRISON" BROKE ST. RONANS RULE II. THE THREAT OF WHAT THE NIGHT MAY BRING III. THE MORRISON ASSUMES SOME CONTRACTS IV. ANSWERING THE FIRST ALARM V. THE MEN WHO WERE WAITING  more...

"WHICH? OR, BETWEEN TWO WOMEN," is the latest and most powerful novel from the pen of the celebrated French novelist, Ernest Daudet. It is fully worthy of its famous authors great reputation, for a  more...

I had not the slightest intention of ever publishing these notes inbook form while jotting them down for the sole purpose of giving mywife some connected idea of how we at the Front were spending  more...

Natuur plaatst onzen geest als t waare in t aangezicht;Zy doet der menschen ziel meest door zyne oogen spreken; Wie onze werken leest herkent dra ook zeer ligtUyt beider Beeltenis, wie BEKKER zy, wie  more...

"It is so good of you to come early," said Mrs. Porter, as AliceLangham entered the drawing-room. "I want to ask a favor of you. Imsure you wont mind. I would ask one of the  more...

"The Exiles" and "The Boy Orator of Zepata City" from "The Exiles,"copyright, 1894, by HARPER & BROTHERS."The Other Woman" from "Gallagher," copyright, 1891, by CHARLESSCRIBNERS SONS; "On the Fever Ship," "The Lion and the Unicorn,"  more...

He was almost too good to be true. In addition, the gods loved him, andso he had to die young. Some people think that a man of fifty-two ismiddle-aged. But if R. H. D. had  more...

King Richard the Second lived in the days when the chivalry of feudaltimes was in all its glory. His father, the Black Prince; his uncles,the sons of Edward the Third, and his ancestors in a  more...

"I have not one feeling which I wish to conceal from you. There havebeen moments when I liked Mr. Franklin," and a pretty color crossedher cheek, "but I have been struck with a peculiarity which  more...

Archibald Dundass was a rich Jamaica planter, whose estates weresituated in one of the most delightful regions in that garden of theWest India isles. His wife, an English lady, of great personalattractions and highly connected,  more...

II. THE CAPTAIN OF THE SEAMEW III. THE QUEEN OF SHEBA IV. AT THE LATHAM HOUSE V. LOOKING FOR IDA MAY VI. AN UNSATISFACTORY INTERVIEW VII. AT THE RESTAURANT VIII.  more...

It was early afternoon. Near by, the smaller hills shimmered in theradiant warmth of late spring, the brownness of their foliage andboulders merging gradually upward to the green of the spruces and pinesof the higher  more...

... To-day the first glimpse of this manuscript as a whole. It was alldetached pieces before, done over a period of many months, with manyintervening tasks, the main idea slightly drifting from time to time.  more...

It was over. The rambling house, with its rickety, old-fashionedfurniture--and its memories--was now deserted, except for RobertFairchild, and he was deserted within it, wandering from room to room,staring at familiar objects with the unfamiliar gaze  more...

Kun Jдrvelдn Santra rupesi ihmistelemддn, s. o. pддsi ripille ja alkoiottaa vastaan kosimatarjouksia, rupesi Jдrvelдn kartanolla yцllisiinaikoihin olemaan oikein kansanvaellus. Santra makasi, yleisen tavanmukaan, ruokapuodin pддllд lutissa.  more...

It seems inexcusable to remind the public that one has written a book.Poppa says I ought not to feel that way about it--that he might just aswell be shy about referring to the baking soda  more...

It was my purpose to dedicate, exclusively, these pages to my belovedparents. What correctness of sentiment appears in this book is mainlyascribable to a principle they endeavored to instil into the minds oftheir children, that  more...

VI.----BuffaloVII.---Buffalo to CanandaiguaVIII.--The Morgan MysteryIX.----Through Western New YorkX.-----The Mohawk ValleyXI.----The Valley of LebanonXII.---An Incident of TravelXIII.  more...

LONDON:SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE,NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, CHARING CROSS, W.C.;43, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET, E.C.;26, ST. GEORGES PLACE, HYDE PARK CORNER S.W.BRIGHTON: 133, NORTH STREET.  more...

"No? Well, you shore misses knowin a man! Still, it aint none sostrange neither; even Wolfvilles acquaintance with Dead Shots onlywhat you-all might call casyooal, him not personally lastin morenthree months.  more...

Many a strange and curious romance has been handed down in the historyof our great families, relative to the terrible curses uttered incases of dire extremity against persons considered guilty of injusticeand wrong doing.  more...

Apart from botanical science, there is perhaps no subject of inquiryconnected with plants of wider interest than that suggested by the studyof folk-lore. This field of research has been largely worked of lateyears, and has  more...

Each contains seven half-tone engravings and _color frontispiece_. Theymake more real the fortunes and adventures of the heroic little bandthat journeys through the wilderness and prairies from the Ohio to thePacific.  more...

The Spanish-American War--The Movement AgainstCuba--The Destruction of Cerveras Fleet--AdmiralSampson--Admiral Schley--"Fighting Bob" Evans--CommodoreJohn C. Watson--Commodore JohnW.  more...

On the evening of a dismal, rainy day in spring, a mother and her sonwere sitting in their log-cabin home in the southern portion of thepresent State of Missouri. The settlement bore the name of  more...

Those of my friends who have done me the honor of reading "Campfire andWigwam," will need little help to recall the situation at the close ofthat narrative. The German lad Otto Relstaub, having lost his  more...

IT had been snowing hard for twenty-four hours at Dead Mans Gulch.Beginning with a few feathery particles, they had steadily increasedin number until the biting air was filled with billions of snowflakes,which whirled and eddied  more...

I. INTRODUCTIONII. EVOLUTION AND WARIII. WAR AND EUGENICSIV. MORALITY IN WARFAREV. IS WAR DIMINISHINGVI. WAR AND THE BIRTH-RATEVII. WAR AND DEMOCRACYVIII. FEMINISM AND MASCULINISMIX.  more...

Lombre.Le papillon.Papotages denfants.La pвquerette.La petite fille aux allumettes.La petite Poucette.La petite sirиne.La plume et lencrier.La princesse au petit pois.La princesse et le porcher.  more...

The present story is meant to complete the picture. It deals with thatwonderful upbuilding of the great West which immediately followed thewar, and in which the best of the young Virginians played an importantpart.  more...

For Text: Words surrounded by a cedilla such as ~this~ signifies thatthe words are bolded in the text. Words surrounded by underscores like_this_ signifies the words are in italics in the text.  more...

Often as the campaign of Waterloo has been described by historians andfrequently as it has been celebrated in fiction it has rarely beennarrated from the stand-point of a private soldier participating in itand telling only  more...

Laiguille а repriser.Les amours dun faux colLes aventures du chardon.La bergиre et le ramoneur.Le bisaпeulLe bonhomme de neige.Bonne humeur.Le briquetCe que le Pиre fait est bien faitChacun et chaque chose а sa place.  more...

It is the pretty unanimous conclusion of book-writers that prefaces aremost unnecessary and useless prependages, since nobody reads them. Andit is the pretty unanimous practice of book-writers to continue to writethem with such pains and  more...

When the downfall of Tryggvi had been accomplished, Astrid fled awaybearing with her what chattels she might. And with her went herfoster-father Thorolf Louse-Beard, who never left her, whereas othertrusty men, loyal to her, fared  more...

TO ONE WHO KNOWS WITH ME A LOVE-STORY, NOW MORE THAN FIFTEEN YEARS INLENGTH, AND BETTER A HUNDREDFOLD THAN ANY I SHALL EVER BE ABLE TO WRITE,THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED, ON AN ANNIVERSARY.  more...

“First understand, then judge.”“Bring forth the people blind, although they have eyes;And deaf, although they have ears.Let them produce their witnesses, that they may be justified;Or let them hear their turn, and say, THIS IS  more...

"An eternal being created human society as it is to-day, and submissionto superiors and authority is imposed on the lower classes bydivine will." This suggestion, coming from pulpit, platform and press,has hypnotized the minds of  more...

Mijne lezers mogen niet klagen over dit langdurig vertoeven in dekraamkamer van ons hooger onderwijs. Maar de opmerking staat hun vrijdat het eerste beginselen zonder wiekslag geweest zijn.  more...

_Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid, for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. And in that shall ye say,  more...

One day in the autumn Terence Clark came to the house of FrederickLinden and urged him to join in a hunt for a cow that had been missingsince the night before. The latter got the  more...

This is a story from the Jutland sand-hills, but it does not commencethere; on the contrary, it commences far away towards the south, inSpain. The sea is the highway between the two countries.  more...

Shakespeare Definition Of Poetry. Greek Drama. Progress Of The Drama. The Drama Generally, And Public Taste. Shakespeare, A Poet Generally. Shakespeare’s Judgment equal to his Genius.  more...

In preparing this sketch it is needless to say how deeply I am indebtedto Mr. Spedding and Mr. Ellis, the last editors of Bacons writings, thevery able and painstaking commentators, the one on Bacons life,  more...

_Columbiad._--A cannon, invented by Colonel Bomford, of very largecalibre, used for throwing shot or shells. A ten-inch columbiad weighs15,400 pounds, and is ten and a half feet long.  more...

One of the admirers of Goлthe, commenting on his characteristicexcellencies, has remarked that he is the most _suggestive_ of writers.Were we to seek an epithet by which to describe the architectural remainsand historical monuments of  more...

SECT. II.--_Quakers cannot learn instrumental on the usual motives ofthe world--nor consider it as a source of moral improvement, or ofsolid comfort to the mind--but are fearful that, if indulged in, itwould interfere with the  more...

To the Right Honourable Robert Deuorax, Earle of Essex and Ewe, Viscount Hereford, and Bourghchier, Lorde Ferrers of Chartley, Bourghchier and Louaine, Maister of the Queenes Maiesties _Horse, and Knight of the most noble  more...

Apache Gold The Quest of the Four The Last of the Chiefs In Circling Camps The Last Rebel A Soldier of Manhattan The Sun of Saratoga A Herald of the West The Wilderness Road  more...

This book is not a disquisition on the details of the Home Rule Bill. Itis an examination into the leading principles of the Bill with a view toestablishing two conclusions. The first is, that the  more...

The Guns of Bull Run The Star of GettysburgThe Guns of Shiloh The Rock of ChickamaugaThe Scouts of Stonewall The Shades of the WildernessThe Sword of Antietam The Tree of Appomattox...  more...

A crowded New York street,--Fifth Avenue at the height of the afternoon;a gallant and brilliant throng. Looking over the glittering array, thepurple and fine linen, the sweeping robes, the exquisite equipages, thestately houses; the faces,  more...

The Hundreth ChanceGreatheartThe Lamp in the DesertThe Tidal WaveThe Top of the WorldThe Obstacle RaceThe Way of an EagleThe Knave of DiamondsThe Rocks of ValprйThe SwindlerThe Keeper of the DoorBars of IronRosa MundiEtc.  more...

The Way of an Eagle The Knave of Diamonds The Rocks of Valprй The Swindler The Keeper of the Door Bars of Iron Rosa Mundi The Hundredth Chance The Safety Curtain Greatheart The Lamp  more...

Once upon a time there was a schooner belonging to Boston which wasregistered under the somewhat singular name of the "Rev. Amos Adams."This was her formal title, used on state occasions, and was, nodoubt, quite  more...

"The Guns of Europe" is the first of three connected romances, of which"The Forest of Swords" and "The Hosts of the Air" are to be respectivelythe second and third, dealing with the world war in  more...

"The Lords of the Wild" tells a complete story, but it is also a partof the French and Indian War Series, of which the predecessors were"The Hunters of the Hills," "The Shadow of the North,"  more...

Whilst I was working on the various problems of "The WindBloweth"--problems of wisdom, of color, of phrasing, and trying tocapture the elusive, unbearable ache that is the mainspring of humanity,and doing this through the medium  more...

Master John Donne was born in London, in the year 1573, of good andvirtuous parents: and, though his own learning and other multipliedmerits may justly appear sufficient to dignify both himself and hisposterity, yet the  more...

It was a white caravan that looked down from the crest of the mountainsupon the green wilderness, called by the Indians, _Kain-tuck-ee_. Thewagons, a score or so in number, were covered with arched canvas,bleached by  more...

_The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes__The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes__The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes__The Return of Sherlock Holmes__His Last Bow__The Hound of the Baskervilles__The Sign of Four__The Valley of Fear__Sir Nigel_...  more...

Every one knows that Sir Dominick Holden, the famous Indian surgeon,made me his heir, and that his death changed me in an hour from ahard-working and impecunious medical man to a well-to-do landedproprietor.  more...

"The Masters of the Peaks," while presenting a complete story initself is the fourth volume of the French and Indian War Series, ofwhich the predecessors were "The Hunters of the Hills," "The Shadowof the North,"  more...

In writing ths narrative, which relates to the decisive campaignwhich freed the Northern States from invasion, it may not be outof place to state what facilities I have had for observation inthe fulfilment of so  more...

The real romance of Haddon Hall is a sweet, old-world idyll ofsingular attractiveness and interest. The gems of the story have beenreset by dramatists in different surroundings; but while, as in theSullivan-Grundy opera, many of  more...

"I believe I have the pleasure of seeing Mr ----," said a voice inEnglish, as I paused for a moment, my breakfast concluded, before thedoor of a Palais Royal coffee-house, planning the disposal of my  more...

The "Interlude of Youth" is probably the most interesting early-printedmoral play that has descended to our times, and it may therefore beconsidered somewhat singular that it has hitherto escaped the notice ofthe publication societies.  more...

In presenting to the public the life and adventures of Black Hawk, someaccount of the Sac and Fox Indians--of Keokuk, their distinguishedchief--and of the causes which led to the late contest between thesetribes and the  more...

XI The Cabin in the Pines XII Thraldom XIII Kennys Truth Crusade XIV In Somebodys Boat XV In Which Caliban Scores XVI Tantrums XVII Kenny Disappears XVIII Brian Solves a Problem XIX Samhain...  more...

Bad Case of Self-poisoning, 502; Boils, their Cause and Cure, 498; Canary _versus_ Jamaica Bananas, 579; Can Malaria be Prevented? 466; Cereal Food in the Treatment of Neuritis, 619; Correct Blending of Foods, 655;...  more...

I knew James Runciman but little, and that little for the most partin the way of business. But no one could know that ardent and eagersoul at all, no matter how slightly, without admiring and  more...

Before the railroads thin lines of steel bit their way up through thewilderness, Athabasca Landing was the picturesque threshold over whichone must step who would enter into the mystery and adventure of thegreat white North.  more...

Il na point йtй composй avec des lambeaux de souvenirs, des haillonsde documents, les loques pailletйes des rйcits suspects. Ce nest pas unhabit dArlequin, cest une casaque de forзat--sans doublure.  more...

This book comes from the reflections and experience of more than fortyyears spent in court. Aside from the practice of my profession, thetopics I have treated are such as have always held my interest andinspired  more...

Astier, commonly called Astier-Rйhu (Pierre Alexandre Lйonard), Memberof the Acadйmie Franзaise, was born in 1816 at Sauvagnat (Puy-de-Dфme).His parents belonged to the class of small farmers.  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  more...

The author of the romance "A Captive of the Roman Eagles"--published inGermany under the title of "Bissula"--is one of the most distinguishednovelists of the present day in his own country, and will doubtless beequally appreciated  more...

Five oclock in the afternoon. Rain ever since the morning, a gray sky,so low that one can touch it with ones umbrella, dirty weather,puddles, mud, nothing but mud, in thick pools, in gleaming streaks alongthe  more...

Out with the kegs of Eau-de-Vie.Says the Lander to his men,Get your grummets on the pin, Theres a blue light burning out at sea.The windward anchors creep,And the Gaugers fast asleep, And the kegs  more...

"I congratulate you on your increased industry and application, thoughyou were always more studious than myself. I wish, dear Florry,you could imbue me with some of your fondness for metaphysics andmathematics," Mary replied, with a  more...

An English Version of the Foreword; The Fooling of Gylfe, The Afterword; Brage’s Talk, The Afterword to Brage’s Talk, and the Important Passages in the Poetical Diction (Skaldskaparmal).  more...

The career of Hernando Cortez is one of the most wild and adventurousrecorded in the annals of fact or fiction, and yet all the prominentevents in his wondrous history are well authenticated.  more...

The first edition of _JanicsГЎrok vГ©gnapjai_ appeared forty-five yearsago. It was immediately preceded by the great historical romance,_Erdely aranykora_ (_The Golden Age of Transylvania_), and the stillmore famous novel of manners, _Egy Magyar NГЎbob_ (_A  more...

"His youth was innocent; his riper age, Marked with some act of goodness every day; And watched by eyes that loved him, calm and sage, Faded his late declining years away.  more...

Dear Reader, most people prefer a short to a long preface. Permit me,therefore, to cut this one short, by simply expressing an earnest hopethat my book may afford you much profit and amusement.  more...

It would be difficult to find, in all the range of the past, a manwhose career has been so full of wonderful and exciting vicissitudeas that of Louis Philippe. His life covers the most eventful  more...

The lack of any adequate discussion of Scotts critical work is asufficient reason for the undertaking of this study, the subject ofwhich was suggested to me more than three years ago by Professor Trentof Columbia  more...

In de prachtige zeestad Genua, de trotsche bijgenaamd, werdomstreeks het jaar 1435 een knaapje geboren, dat nu in alle landenals Christophorus Columbus bekend is. Het juiste jaar zijner geboortekent men niet.  more...

For convenience sake I have arranged in alphabetical order the subjectstreated of, and for economys sake I have kept in mind that "he thatuses many words for the explaining of any subject doth, like thecuttle-fish,  more...

From the time that he had first found, himself alone with them, Oliverhad felt sure that the animals could come alive again if they wished.That was one blowy afternoon about a week after his father  more...

No indeed, my dear Louis, I am neither dead nor ruined, nor have Iturned pirate, trappist, or rural guard, as you might imagine in orderto explain my silence these four months since I last appeared  more...

The French Revolution was perhaps as important an event as has occurredin the history of nations. It was a drama in three acts. The first wasthe Revolution itself, properly so called, with its awful scenes  more...

Maria Antoinette, Madame Roland, and Josephine are the three mostprominent heroines of the French Revolution. The history of their livesnecessarily records all the most interesting events of that most fearfultragedy which man has ever enacted.  more...

In this little book I have endeavoured to maintain the simplicitywhich is the ideal of this series. It is more difficult, however, tobe simple in a topic which, even in its illustrations, demands of thereader  more...

A number of typographical errors and inconsistencies have beenmaintained in this version of this book. They have been marked with a[TN-#], which refers to a description in the complete list found at theend of the  more...

The sea of time we navigate is full of perils. But it is not anunknown sea. It has been traversed for ages, and there is not a sunkenrock or a treacherous sand-bar which is not  more...

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The object aimed at in the following pages has been to offer tothe general reader a plain account of the wonderful investigationswhich have revolutionized all ideas as to the antiquity and thelevel of the earliest  more...

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We all live a double life: the external life which the world sees, andthe internal life of hopes and fears, joys and griefs, temptations andsins, which the world sees not, and of which it knows  more...

Wenn man die bedeutendsten Erzдhlungskьnstler der verschiedenenLiteraturen aufzдhlt, wird der Name Balzac mitgenannt werden. Seinenganz besondern und festen Platz in der Weltliteratur hat er jedoch alsBegrьnder und erster Meister des realistischen Romans und damit als...  more...

_Que votre nom, vous dont le portrait est le plus bel ornement de cetouvrage, soit ici comme une branche de buis bйnit, prise on ne sait аquel arbre, mais certainement sanctifiйe par la religion et  more...

MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY; THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIANSOCIETY; THE NUMISMATIC AND ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY OF PHILA., ETC.; AUTHOR OF"THE MYTHS OF THE NEW WORLD;" "THE RELIGIOUS SENTIMENT.  more...

The romantic tales here retold for the English reader belong neitherto the category of folk-lore nor of myth, although most of themcontain elements of both. They belong, like the tales of Cuchulain,which have been similarly  more...

Mythology, since it began to receive a scientific handling at all, hasbeen treated as a subordinate branch of history or of ethnology. The“science of religion,” as we know it in the works of Burnouf, MГјller,and  more...

One of the thriftiest of the pioneer cow-hunters, he was the first torealize that if he would profit by the fruits of his labor he must pushout to the north in search of a market  more...

Im Jack. Ive always been Jack, ever since I can remember at least,though I suppose I must have been called Baby for a bit before Serenacame. But shes only a year and a half younger  more...

This happened a very little time after we left our humble home inLewisham, and went to live at the Blackheath house of our Indian uncle,which was replete with every modern convenience, and had a big  more...

The following pages have afforded occupation for many hours, which mightelse have been wasted in idle amusements, or embittered by still idlerregrets at the destiny which carried the writer to a region so littleseductive as  more...

I. The Three Cranes in the Vintry II. Sir Giles Mompesson and his partner III. The French ordinary IV. A Star-Chamber victim V. Jocelyn Mounchensey VI. Provocation VII.  more...

As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and moreupon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hopethat I can find out the ways of the Eternal  more...

The authors abiding interest in Emerson is shown in his close andeager study of the Journals during these later years. He hungered foreverything that concerned the Concord Sage, who had been one of themost potent  more...

My reader will find this volume quite a departure in certain ways fromthe tone and spirit of my previous books, especially in regard to thesubject of animal intelligence. Heretofore I have made the most ofevery  more...