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THE WORLD’S GREATEST BOOKS JOINT EDITORS ARTHUR MEE Editor and Founder of the Book of Knowledge J.A. HAMMERTON Editor of Harmsworth’s Universal Encyclopaedia VOL. V FICTION * * * * * Acknowledgment Acknowledgment and thanks for permission to use “The Garden of Allah,” by Mr. Robert Hichens, are herewith tendered to A.P. Watt & Son, London, England, for the author. * * * * * Table of Contents GRAY, MAXWELL Silence of Dean Maitland GRIFFIN, GERALD The Collegians HABBERTON, JOHN Helen’s Babies HALEVY, LUDOVIC Abbe Constantin HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL The Scarlet Letter House of the Seven Gables HICHENS, ROBERT The Garden of Allah HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL Elsie Venner HUGHES, THOMAS Tom Brown’s Schooldays Tom Brown at Oxford HUGO, VICTOR Les Miserables Notre Dame de Paris The Toilers of the Sea The Man Who Laughs INCHBALD, ELIZABETH A Simple Story JAMES, G....

THE YOUTH OF THE GREAT ELECTOR An Historical Romance BY L. MUHLBACH AUTHOR OF JOSEPH II. AND HIS COURT, FREDERICK THE GREAT AND HIS COURT, LOUISA OF PRUSSIA AND HER TIMES, HENRY VIII. AND HIS COURT, ETC. TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMANBY MARY STUART SMITH 1909 CONTENTS BOOK I. I. GEORGE WILLIAM, THE ELECTORII. EVIL TIDINGSIII. COUNT ADAM VON SCHWARZENBERGIV. SOLDIERS AND DIPLOMATISTSV. THE ELECTOR AND HIS FAVORITEVI. REVELATIONS BOOK II....

THEOCRITUS TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH VERSE. BY C.S. CALVERLEY, LATE FELLOW OF CHRIST’S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. AUTHOR OF “FLY LEAVES,” ETC. THIRD EDITION. PREFACE. I had intended translating all or nearly all these Idylls into blank verse, as the natural equivalent of Greek or of Latin hexameters; only deviating into rhyme where occasion seemed to demand it. But I found that other metres had their special advantages: the fourteen-syllable line in particular has that, among others, of containing about the same number of syllables as an ordinary line of Theocritus....

THREE MEN IN A BOAT(TO SAY NOTHING OF THE DOG). Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome CHAPTER I. 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. – A WEEK ON THE ROLLING DEEP? – GEORGE SUGGESTS THE RIVER....

THREE TIMES AND OUT TOLD BY PRIVATE SIMMONS WRITTEN BY NELLIE L. MCCLUNG Author of SOWING SEEDS IN DANNY, IN TIMES LIKE THESE, and THE NEXT OF KIN With Illustrations TORONTO THOMAS ALLEN BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY 1918 To the companion who failed through no fault of his and no lack of courage TOM BROMLEY loyal friend and best of com- rades, this book is dedicated. PREFACE When a young man whom I had not seen until that day came to see me in Edmonton, and told me he had a story which he thought was worth writing, and which he wanted me to write for him, I told him I could not undertake to do it for I was writing a story of my own, but that I could no doubt find some one who would do it for him....

TRENT’S TRUST AND OTHER STORIES by Bret Harte CONTENTS TRENT’S TRUST MR. MACGLOWRIE’S WIDOW A WARD OF COLONEL STARBOTTLE PROSPER’S “OLD MOTHER” THE CONVALESCENCE OF JACK HAMLIN A PUPIL OF CHESTNUT RIDGE DICK BOYLE’S BUSINESS CARD TRENT’S TRUST I Randolph Trent stepped from the Stockton boat on the San Francisco wharf, penniless, friendless, and unknown. Hunger might have been added to his trials, for, having paid his last coin in passage money, he had been a day and a half without food....

— John iv. 19-21, 23. THERE were once two old men who decided to go on a pilgrimage to worship God at Jerusalem. One of them was a well-to-do peasant named Efím Tarásitch Shevélef. The other, Elisha Bódrof, was not so well off. Efím was a staid man, serious and firm. He neither drank nor smoked nor took snuff, and had never used bad language in his life. He had twice served as village Elder, and when he left office his accounts were in good order....

Much of the colloquial grammar and spelling is retained, only minimal corrections have been made in obvious cases. Vanished Arizona,Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman by Martha Summerhayes TO MY SON HARRY SUMMERHAYESWHO SHARED THE VICISSITUDES OF MY LIFE IN ARIZONA, THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED Preface I have written this story of my army life at the urgent and ceaseless request of my children. For whenever I allude to those early days, and tell to them the tales they have so often heard, they always say: “Now, mother, will you write these stories for us?...

WASHINGTON AND HIS COMRADES IN ARMS, A CHRONICLE OF THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE BY GEORGE M. WRONG Volume 12 in the Chronicles of America Series. Abraham Lincoln Edition. PREFATORY NOTE The author is aware of a certain audacity in undertaking, himself a Briton, to appear in a company of American writers on American history and above all to write on the subject of Washington. If excuse is needed it is to be found in the special interest of the career of Washington to a citizen of the British Commonwealth of Nations at the present time and in the urgency with which the editor and publishers declared that such an interpretation would not be unwelcome to Americans and pressed upon the author a task for which he doubted his own qualifications....

WASHINGTON IRVING By Charles Dudley Warner 1891 EDITOR’S NOTE WASHINGTON IRVING, the first biography published in the American Men of Letters Series, came out in December, 1881. It was an expansion of a biographical and critical sketch prefixed to the first volume of a new edition of Irving’s works which began to appear in 1880. It was entitled the Geoffrey Crayon edition, and was in twenty-seven volumes, which were brought out, in most cases, in successive months....

Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre–Buch 8 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Achtes Buch Erstes Kapitel Felix war in den Garten gesprungen, Wilhelm folgte ihm mit Entz¸cken, der schˆnste Morgen zeigte jeden Gegenstand mit neuen Reizen, und Wilhelm genofl den heitersten Augenblick. Felix war neu in der freien und herrlichen Welt, und sein Vater nicht viel bekannter mit den Gegenst‰nden, nach denen der Kleine wiederholt und unerm¸det fragte. Sie gesellten sich endlich zum G‰rtner, der die Namen und den Gebrauch mancher Pflanzen hererz‰hlen muflte; Wilhelm sah die Natur durch ein neues Organ, und die Neugierde, die Wiflbegierde des Kindes lieflen ihn erst f¸hlen, welch ein schwaches Interesse er an den Dingen aufler sich genommen hatte, wie wenig er kannte und wuflte....

Yankee Gypsies by John Greenleaf Whittier “Here’s to budgets, packs, and wallets; Here’s to all the wandering train.”BURNS.(1) I CONFESS it, I am keenly sensitive to “skyey influences.” (2) I profess no indifference to the movements of that capricious old gentleman known as the clerk of the weather. I cannot conceal my interest in the behavior of that patriarchal bird whose wooden similitude gyrates on the church spire. Winter proper is well enough....

Erzählung (1812) Braka, die alte Zigeunerin im zerlumpten roten Mantel, hatte kaum ihrdrittes Vaterunser vor dem Fenster abgeschnurrt, wie sie es zum Zeichenverabredet hatte, als Bella schon den lieben, vollen, dunkelgelockten Kopfmit den glänzenden, schwarzen Augen zum Schieber hinaus in den Schein desvollen Mondes streckte, der glühend wie ein halbgelöschtes Eisen aus demDuft und den Fluten der Schelde eben hervorkam, um in der Luft immerheller wieder aus seinem Innern heraus zu glühen....

The appointment of Dr. Alfred Clarendon as medical director of San Quentin Penitentiary in 189- was greeted with the keenest enthusiasm throughout California. San Francisco had at last the honour of harbouring one of the greatest biologists and physicians of the period, and solid pathological leaders from all over the world might be expected to flock thither to study his methods, profit by his advice and researches, and learn how to cope with their own local problems....

MARIA EDGEWORTH In the flats of the featureless county of Longford stands the large and handsome but unpretentious house of Edgeworthstown. The scenery here has few natural attractions, but the loving care of several generations has gradually beautified the surroundings of the house, and few homes have been more valued or more the centre round which a large family circle has gathered in unusual sympathy and love. In his Memoirs, Mr....

THE OLD SANTA FE TRAIL The Story of a Great Highway By COLONEL HENRY INMAN Late Assistant Quartermaster, United States Army With a Preface by W. F. “BUFFALO BILL” CODY PREFACE. As we look into the open fire for our fancies, so we are apt to study the dim past for the wonderful and sublime, forgetful of the fact that the present is a constant romance, and that the happenings of to-day which we count of little importance are sure to startle somebody in the future, and engage the pen of the historian, philosopher, and poet....

THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES* by Thomas H. Huxley [footnote] ’The Westminster Review’, April 1860. MR. DARWIN’S long-standing and well-earned scientific eminence probably renders him indifferent to that social notoriety which passes by the name of success; but if the calm spirit of the philosopher have not yet wholly superseded the ambition and the vanity of the carnal man within him, he must be well satisfied with the results of his venture in publishing the ‘Origin of Species’....

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: “Sunrise” is an elegy to James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States, who died on September 19, 1881, from a gunshot wound received in an assassination attempt in July of that year. “The New Colossus” is engraved on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. THE POEMS of EMMA LAZARUS in Two Volumes VOL. I. Narrative, Lyric, and dramatic CONTENTS. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF EMMA LAZARUS. EPOCHS....

THE PUZZLE OF DICKENS’S LAST PLOT INTRODUCTION Forster tells us that Dickens, in his later novels, from Bleak House onwards (1853), “assiduously cultivated” construction, “this essential of his art.” Some critics may think, that since so many of the best novels in the world “have no outline, or, if they have an outline, it is a demned outline,” elaborate construction is not absolutely “essential.” Really essential are character, “atmosphere,” humour....

THE RENAISSANCE: STUDIES IN ART AND POETRY WALTER HORATIO PATER London: 1910. (The Library Edition.) NOTES BY THE E-TEXT EDITOR: Notes: The 1910 Library Edition employs footnotes, a style inconvenient in an electronic edition. I have therefore placed an asterisk immediately after each of Pater’s footnotes and a + sign after my own notes, and have listed each chapter’s notes at that chapter’s end. Pagination and Paragraphing: To avoid an unwieldy electronic copy, I have transferred original pagination to brackets....