[Illustration] THE STORY OF LITTLE BLACK MINGO By The Author Of‘The Story Of Little Black Sambo’ The Story of Little Black Mingo. Once upon a time there was a little black girl, and her name was Little Black Mingo. [Illustration] She had no father and mother, so she had to live with a horrid cross old woman called Black Noggy, who used to scold her every day, and sometimes beat her with a stick, even though she had done nothing naughty....
Scanner’s Notes: What this is and isn’t. This was taken from a copy of Shakespeare’s first folio and it is as close as I can come in ASCII to the printed text. The elongated S’s have been changed to small s’s and the conjoined ae have been changed to ae. I have left the spelling, punctuation, capitalization as close as possible to the printed text. I have corrected some spelling mistakes (I have put together a spelling dictionary devised from the spellings of the Geneva Bible and Shakespeare’s First Folio and have unified spellings according to this template), typo’s and expanded abbreviations as I have come across them....
or, HOME IN THIS WORLD by CHARLOTTE MARY YONGE THE AUTHOR OF “THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE,” “HENRIETTA’S WISH,” “KENNETH,” “HEARTSEASE,” “THE CASTLE BUILDERS,” ETC. 1871 [Illustration: “Stay here, Marian! I don’t care if all the world heard me.”] PREFACE. In putting forth another work, the Author is anxious to say a few words on the design of these stories; not with a view to obviate criticism, but in hopes of pointing to the moral, which has been thought not sufficiently evident, perhaps because it has been desired to convey, rather than directly inculcate it....
The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Helene. The tiniest boat is not launched upon the sea without the protection of some living emblem or revered name, placed upon it by the mariners. In accordance with this time-honored custom, Madame, I pray you to be the protectress of this book now launched upon our literary ocean; and may the Imperial name which the Church has canonized and your devotion has doubly sanctified for me guard it from perils....
THE WORLD’S GREAT SERMONS GRENVILLE KLEISER Formerly of Yale Divinity School Faculty; Author of “How to Speak in Public,” Etc. With Assistance from Many of the Foremost Living Preachers and Other Theologians INTRODUCTION BY LEWIS O. BRASTOW, D.D. Professor Emeritus of Practical Theology in Yale University VOLUME VIII TALMAGE TO KNOX LITTLE 1908 CONTENTS VOLUME VIII. TALMAGE (1832-1901). A Bloody Monster SPURGEON (1834-1892). Songs in the Night POTTER (1834-1908) Memorial Discourse on Phillips Brooks ABBOTT (Born in 1835)....
BYVICTOR APPLETON CONTENTSCHAPTER I TOM IS PUZZLEDII A FIRE ALARMIII A DESPERATE BATTLEIV SUSPICIONSV A QUEER STRANGERVI THE AERIAL WARSHIPVII WARNINGSVIII A SUSPECTED PLOTIX THE RECOIL CHECKX THE NEW MENXI A DAY OFFXII A NIGHT ALARMXIII THE CAPTUREXIV THE FIRST FLIGHTXV IN DANGERXVI TOM IS WORRIEDXVII AN OCEAN FLIGHTXVIII IN A STORMXIX QUEER HAPPENINGSXX THE STOWAWAYSXXI PRISONERSXXII APPREHENSIONSXXIII ACROSS THE SEAXXIV THE LIGHTNING BOLTXXV FREEDOM TOM SWIFT AND HIS AERIAL WARSHIP CHAPTER I TOM IS PUZZLED “What’s the matter, Tom?...
Under King Constantine By Katrina Trask Third Edition 1893 To My Husband. The following tales, which have no legendary warrant, are supposed to belong to the time, lost in obscurity, immediately subsequent to King Arthur’s death; when, says Malory, in the closing chapter of LA MORT D’ARTHURE, “Sir Constantine, which was Sir Cadors son of Cornwaile, was chosen king of England; and hee was a full noble knight, and worshipfully hee ruled this realme” SANPEUR....
WE GIRLS: A HOME STORY By MRS. A.D.T. WHITNEY AUTHOR OF “FAITH GARTNEY’S GIRLHOOD,” “THE GAYWORTHYS,” “A SUMMER IN LESLIE GOLDTHWAITE’S LIFE,” ETC. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. BOSTON1870, 1890 CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. THE STORY BEGINS CHAPTER II. AMPHIBIOUS CHAPTER III. BETWIXT AND BETWEEN CHAPTER IV. NEXT THINGS CHAPTER V. THE “BACK YETT AJEE.” CHAPTER VI. CO-OPERATING CHAPTER VII. SPRINKLES AND GUSTS CHAPTER VIII. HALLOWEEN CHAPTER IX. WINTER NIGHTS AND WINTER DAYS. CHAPTER X....
WEBSTER’S SEVENTH OF MARCH SPEECHAND THE SECESSION MOVEMENT, 1850 By Herbert Darling Foster With foreword by Nathaniel Wright Stephenson American Historical Review Vol. XXVII., No. 2 January, 1922 FOREWORD It is very curious that much of the history of the United States in the Forties and Fifties of the last century has vanished from the general memory. When a skilled historian reopens the study of Webster’s “Seventh of March speech” it is more than likely that nine out of ten Americans will have to cudgel their wits endeavoring to make quite sure just where among our political adventures that famous oration fits in....
WHAT DREAMS MAY COME. by Frank Lin (pseud. of Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton) Dedicated to Muriel Atherton WHAT DREAMS MAY COME. THE OVERTURE. Constantinople; the month of August; the early days of the century. It was the hour of the city’s most perfect beauty. The sun was setting, and flung a mellowing glow over the great golden domes and minarets of the mosques, the bazaars glittering with trifles and precious with elements of Oriental luxury, the tortuous thoroughfares with their motley throng, the quiet streets with their latticed windows, and their atmosphere heavy with silence and mystery, the palaces whose cupolas and towers had watched over so many centuries of luxury and intrigue, pleasure and crime, the pavilions, groves, gardens, kiosks which swarmed with the luxuriance of tropical growth over the hills and valleys of a city so vast and so beautiful that it tired the brain and fatigued the senses....
When Hearts are Trumps By Tom Hall [Illustration] _New York_Frederick A. StokesCompanyPublishers Frederick H. StokesCompany Sixth EditionSeptember 1898 The verses in this volume have been selected from work that has appeared in various periodicals during the past five years. Especially to the editors of LIFE, TRUTH, TOWN TOPICS, VOGUE, and MUNSEY’S MAGAZINE I have to offer my thanks for their permission to republish the majority of them. T.H. NEW YORK, February 1, 1894....
YEAST: A PROBLEM PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION This book was written nearly twelve years ago; and so many things have changed since then, that it is hardly fair to send it into the world afresh, without some notice of the improvement–if such there be–which has taken place meanwhile in those southern counties of England, with which alone this book deals. I believe that things are improved. Twelve years more of the new Poor Law have taught the labouring men greater self-help and independence; I hope that those virtues may not be destroyed in them once more, by the boundless and indiscriminate almsgiving which has become the fashion of the day, in most parishes where there are resident gentry....
Arthur Jermyn went out on the moor and burned himself after seeing the boxed object which had come from Africa. It was this object, and not his peculiar personal appearance, which made him end his life. Many would have disliked to live if possessed of the peculiar features of Arthur Jermyn, but he had been a poet and scholar and had not minded. Learning was in his blood, for his great-grandfather, Sir Robert Jermyn, Bt....
I had known Denys Barry well in America, where he had grown rich, and had congratulated him when he bought back the old castle by the bog at sleepy Kilderry. It was from Kilderry that his father had come, and it was there that he wished to enjoy his wealth among ancestral scenes. Men of his blood had once ruled over Kilderry and built and dwelt in the castle, but those days were very remote, so that for generations the castle had been empty and decaying....
The Path Of Empire, A Chronicle Of The United States As A World Power by Carl Russell Fish CONTENTS I. THE MONROE DOCTRINEII. CONTROVERSIES WITH GREAT BRITAIN III. ALASKA AND ITS PROBLEMSIV. BLAINE AND PAN-AMERICANISMV. THE UNITED STATES AND THE PACIFIC VI. VENEZUELAVII. THE OUTBREAK OF THE WAR WITH SPAIN VIII. DEWEY AND MANILA BAYIX. THE BLOCKADE OF CUBAX. THE PREPARATION OF THE ARMYXI. THE CAMPAIGN OF SANTIAGO DE CUBA XII....
THE PHILOSOPHY OF STYLE. By Herbert Spencer PART I. CAUSES OF FORCE IN LANGUAGE WHICH DEPEND UPON ECONOMY OF THE MENTAL ENERGIES. i. The Principle of Economy. § 1. Commenting on the seeming incongruity between his fathers argumentative powers and his ignorance of formal logic, Tristram Shandy says:–“It was a matter of just wonder with my worthy tutor, and two or three fellows of that learned society, that a man who knew not so much as the names of his tools, should be able to work after that fashion with them....
To Alice Drysdale Vickery Whose prophetic vision of liberated womanhood has been an inspiration “I dream of a world in which the spirits of women are flames stronger than fire, a world in which modesty has become courage and yet remains modesty, a world in which women are as unlike men as ever they were in the world I sought to destroy, a world in which women shine with a loveliness of self-revelation as enchanting as ever the old legends told, and yet a world which would immeasurably transcend the old world in the self-sacrificing passion of human service....
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. I had not indeed published anything before I commenced “The Professor,” but in many a crude effort, destroyed almost as soon as composed, I had got over any such taste as I might once have had for ornamented and redundant composition, and come to prefer what was plain and homely....
THE RESCUE A ROMANCE OF THE SHALLOWS BYJOSEPH CONRAD ‘Allas!’ quod she, ‘that ever this sholde happe! For wende I never, by possibilitee,That swich a monstre or merveille mighte be!’ –THE FRANKELEYN’S TALE TOFREDERIC COURTLAND PENFIELDLAST AMBASSADOR OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE LATE AUSTRIAN EMPIRE, THIS OLD TIME TALE IS GRATEFULLY INSCRIBEDIN MEMORY OF THE RESCUE OF CERTAINDISTRESSED TRAVELLERS EFFECTED BY HIM IN THE WORLD’S GREAT STORM OF THE YEAR 1914 AUTHOR’S NOTE Of the three long novels of mine which suffered an interruption, “The Rescue” was the one that had to wait the longest for the good pleasure of the Fates....
CONTENTS CHAPTER I. OF HOW A BOY DRANK TOO MUCH WINE, AND WHAT CAME OF IT II. THE FRUIT OF INDISCRETION III. THE FIGHT IN THE HORSE-MARKET IV. FAIR RESCUERS V. MAZARIN, THE MATCH-MAKER VI. OF HOW ANDREA BECAME LOVESICK VII. THE CHÂTEAU DR CANAPLES VIII. THE FORESHADOW OF DISASTER IX. OF HOW A WHIP PROVED A BETTER ARGUMENT THAN A TONGUE X. THE CONSCIENCE OF MALPERTUIS XI. OF A WOMAN’S OBSTINACY XII....
