A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS. VOL. II.–SEPTEMBER, 1858.–NO. XI. ELOQUENCE. It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or we boil at different degrees. One man is brought to the boiling point by the excitement of conversation in the parlor. The waters, of course, are not very deep....
MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-1798 IN LONDON AND MOSCOW, Volume 5b–TO LONDON 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. TO LONDON CHAPTER V I Meet the Venetian Ambassadors at Lyons, and also Marcoline’s Uncle –I Part from Marcoline and Set Out for Paris–An Amorous Journey Thus freed from the cares which the dreadful slanders of Possano had caused me, I gave myself up to the enjoyment of my fair Venetian, doing all in my power to increase her happiness, as if I had had a premonition that we should soon be separated from one another....
“Aye aye sir” answered John Towers & the boat was brought to a stand still Captain Jones reached out his hand for the object which he now discerned to be a glass bottle “Nothing but a rum flask that the men on a passing boat threw over” he said but from an impulse of curiosity he reached out for it. it was a rum flask & he was about to throw it away when he noticed a piece of paper in it....
THE PATCHWORK GIRL OF OZ by L. FRANK BAUM Affectionately Dedicated to my young friend Sumner Hamilton Britton of Chicago Prologue Through the kindness of Dorothy Gale of Kansas, afterward Princess Dorothy of Oz, an humble writer in the United States of America was once appointed Royal Historian of Oz, with the privilege of writing the chronicle of that wonderful fairyland. But after making six books about the adventures of those interesting but queer people who live in the Land of Oz, the Historian learned with sorrow that by an edict of the Supreme Ruler, Ozma of Oz, her country would thereafter be rendered invisible to all who lived outside its borders and that all communication with Oz would, in the future, be cut off....
The Pony Rider Boys with the Texas Rangers orOn the Trail of the Border Bandits By Frank Gee Patchin CONTENTS CHAPTERS I. Excitement on the West Fork II. A Mysterious Attack III. In a Bad Man’s Power IV. Tad Butler Makes a Discovery V. When the Tables Were Turned VI. The Camp in an Uproar VII. Receiving a Late Visitor VIII. A Much-Wanted Desperado IX. Showing Good Generalship X. The Pony Rider Boys Initiated XI....
THE POOL IN THE DESERT By Sara Jeanette Duncan Contents A Mother in India. An Impossible Ideal. The Hesitation of Miss Anderson. The Pool in the Desert. A Mother in India Chapter 1.I There were times when we had to go without puddings to pay John’s uniform bills, and always I did the facings myself with a cloth-ball to save getting new ones. I would have polished his sword, too, if I had been allowed; I adored his sword....
BOHN’S STANDARD LIBRARY THE PROSE WORKS OF JONATHAN SWIFT VOL. X [Illustration: Jonathan Swift on the bust by Rouldiac in Trinity College Dublin] THE PROSE WORKS OF JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D. EDITED BY TEMPLE SCOTT VOL. X HISTORICAL WRITINGS 1902 INTRODUCTION Of late years, that is to say, within the last thirty odd years, there has existed a certain amount of doubt as to whether or no the work known to us as “The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen,” was really the product of Swift’s pen....
by Sax Rohmer CONTENTS I. THE PHANTOM SCIMITAR. II. THE GIRL WITH THE VIOLET EYES III. “HASSAN OF ALEPPO” . IV. THE OBLONG BOX V. THE OCCUPANT OF THE BOX VI. THE RING OF THE PROPHET. VII. FIRST ATTEMPT ON THE SAFE VIII. THE VIOLET EYES AGAIN IX. SECOND ATTEMPT ON THE SAFE X. AT THE BRITISH ANTIQUARIAN MUSEUM XI. THE HOLE IN THE BLIND XII. THE HASHISHIN WATCH XIII....
The name given this story is that made glorious by the valor and achievements of the splendid First Division of the Fourteenth Army Corps, the cognizance of which was a crimson acorn, worn on the breasts of its gallant soldiers, and borne upon their battle flags. There are few gatherings of men into which one can go to-day without finding some one wearing, as his most cherished ornament, a red acorn, frequently wrought in gold and studded with precious stones, and which tells that its wearer is a veteran of Mill Springs, Perryville, Shiloh, Corinth, Stone River, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Atlanta, Jonesville, March to the Sea, and Bentonville....
As Soon as The Elder Lees were away the younger Lees went down cellar & began to rummage among the rubbish little alice leaned against the wall watching John. As John was making a boat of barrel staves the Little girl gave a piercing cry as the bricks behind her crumbled away he rushed up to her & Lifted her out screaming loudly as soon as her screams subsided she said “the wall went away” John went up & saw that there was a passage he said to the little girl “lets come & see what this is” “Yes” she said the entered the place they could stand up it the passage was farther than they could see they John went back upstairs & went to the kitchen drawer & got 2 candles & some matches & then they went back to the cellar passage....
THE SECRETS OF THE PRINCESSE DE CADIGNAN BY HONORE DE BALZAC Translated ByKatharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Theophile Gautier THE SECRETS OF THE PRINCESSE DE CADIGNAN CHAPTER I THE LAST WORD OF TWO GREAT COQUETTES After the disasters of the revolution of July, which destroyed so many aristocratic fortunes dependent on the court, Madame la Princesse de Cadignan was clever enough to attribute to political events the total ruin she had caused by her own extravagance....
BY HENRY SETON MERRIMAN PREFACE Henry Seton Merriman published his first novel, “Young Mistley,” in 1888, when he was twenty-six years old. Messrs. Bentley’s reader, in his critique on the book, spoke of its “powerful situations” and unconventionality of treatment: and, while dwelling at much greater length on its failings, declared, in effect, its faults to be the right faults, and added that, if “Young Mistley” was not in itself a good novel, its author was one who might hereafter certainly write good novels....
The South Pole An Account of the NorwegianAntarctic Expedition in the “Fram,” 1910 — 1912 By Roald Amundsen Translated from the Norwegian byA. G. Chater Contents of Vol. II Chapter PageX. The Start for the Pole 1 XI. Through the Mountains 41XII. At the Pole 107 XIII. The Return to Framheim 135XIV. Northward 176 XV. The Eastern Sledge Journey 204 By Lieutenant K. PrestrudXVI. The Voyage of the “Fram” 280 By First-Lieutenant Thorvald Nilsen I....
THE STUDENT’S ELEMENTS OF GEOLOGY. BY SIR CHARLES LYELL, BART., F.R.S., AUTHOR OF “THE PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY,” “THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN,” ETC. (FIGURE A. FROM BOTTOM TO TOP:PRIMARY OR PALEOZOIC. Bronteus flabellifer. SECONDARY OR MESOZOIC. Ammonites rhotomagensis. TERTIARY OR CAINOZOIC. Nummulites laevigata.) (FIGURE B. Thecosmilia annularis.) WITH MORE THAN 600 ILLUSTRATIONS ON WOOD. PREFACE. The LAST or sixth EDITION of my “Elements of Geology” was already out of print before the end of 1868, in which year I brought out the tenth edition of my “Principles of Geology....
THE UNITED STATES SINCE THE CIVIL WAR By CHARLES RAMSDELL LINGLEYProfessor of History, Dartmouth College. TO MY WIFE 1920. PREFACE To write an account of the history of the United States since the Civil War without bias, without misstatements of fact and without the omission of matters that ought to be included, would be to perform a miracle. I have felt no wonder-working near me. I can claim only to have attempted to overcome the natural limitations of having been brought up in a particular region and with a traditional political, economic and social philosophy....
THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE A Study in Human Nature BY WILLIAM JAMES ToE.P.G.IN FILIAL GRATITUDE AND LOVE CONTENTS LECTURE I RELIGION AND NEUROLOGY Introduction: the course is not anthropological, but deals with personal documents– Questions of fact and questions of value– In point of fact, the religious are often neurotic– Criticism of medical materialism, which condemns religion on that account– Theory that religion has a sexual origin refuted– All states of mind are neurally conditioned– Their significance must be tested not by their origin but by the value of their fruits– Three criteria of value; origin useless as a criterion– Advantages of the psychopathic temperament when a superior intellect goes with it– especially for the religious life....
THE YOUNG ENGINEERS IN NEVADA or, Seeking Fortune on the Turn of a Pick By H. IRVING HANCOCK CONTENTS CHAPTERS I. Alf and His “Makings of Manhood” II. Trouble Brews on the Trail III. Jim’s Army Appears IV. Sold Out for a Toy Bale! V. No Need to Work for Pennies VI. Tom Catches the “Nevada Fever” VII. Ready to Handle the Pick VIII. Jim Ferrers, Partner IX. Harry Does Some Pitching X....
With Proofs and Illustrations, in Four Parts By JAMES HUTTON, M.D. & F.R.S.E. 1795. CONTENTS. PART I. THEORY OF THE EARTH; with the Examination of different Opinions on that Subject. CHAP. I. THEORY OF THE EARTH; or an Investigation of the Laws observable in the Composition, Dissolution, and Restoration of Land upon the Globe. SECT. I.–Prospect of the Subject to be treated of. SECT. II.–An Investigation of the Natural Operations employed in consolidating the Strata of the Globe....
Transcriber’s note: The inconsistent spellings of the original have been retained in this etext. THIRTY YEARS A SLAVE From Bondage to Freedom. THE INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY AS SEEN ON THE PLANTATION AND IN THE HOME OF THE PLANTER. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LOUIS HUGHES. PREFACE. The institution of human slavery, as it existed in this country, has long been dead; and, happily for all the sacred interests which it assailed, there is for it no resurrection....
[Illustration: “Every morning Tiger and Tom stood faithfully in the market-place.”] Tiger and Tom and Other Stories for Boys * * * * * “WORDS FITLY SPOKEN”Every Story Contains an Important Lesson [Illustration: SABBATH READINGS FOR THE HOME CIRCLE] The stories in this book were compiled from a four volume set titled, Sabbath Readings. The stories were originally gathered from church papers in the 1870’s, Methodists, Lutheran, Presbyterian, etc. We bring to you this 1910 reproduction, which is when the stories were first illustrated....
