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PREPARER’S NOTE This Etext was prepared from a 1920 edition, published by Charles Scribner’s Sons. The book was first published in 1913. Theodore Roosevelt An autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt CONTENTS Forward Boyhood and Youth The Vigor of Life Practical Politics In Cowboy Land Applied Idealism The New York Police The War of America the Unready The New York Governorship Outdoors and Indoors The Presidency; Making an Old Party Progressive The Natural Resources of the Nation The Big Stick and the Square Deal Social and Industrial Justice The Monroe Doctrine and the Panama Canal The Peace of Righteousness FOREWORD Naturally, there are chapters of my autobiography which cannot now be written....

byVICTOR APPLETON CONTENTS I News of a Treasure Wreck II Finishing the Submarine III Mr. Berg Is Astonished IV Tom Is Imprisoned V Mr. Berg Is Suspicious VI Turning the Tables VII Mr. Damon Will Go VIII Another Treasure Expedition IX Captain Weston’s Advent X Trial of the Submarine XI On the Ocean Bed XII For a Breath of Air XIII Off for the Treasure XIV In the Diving Suits XV At the Tropical Island XVI “We’ll Race You For It!...

Vanishing RoadsAnd Other Essays By Richard Le Gallienne 1915 TO ROBERT HOBART DAVIS DEAR BOB: It is quite a long time now since you and I first caught sight of each other and became fellow wayfarers on this Vanishing Road of the world. O quite a lot of years now, Bob! Yet I control my tendency to shiver at their number from the fact that we have travelled them, always within hailing distance of each other, I with the comfortable knowledge that near by I had so good a comrade, so true a friend....

CHAPTER I. HANDICAPPED One may use the Old Man of the Sea, For a partner or patron,But helpless and hapless is heWho is ridden, inextricably, By a fond old mer-matron. The Warden house was more impressive in appearance than its neighbors. It had “grounds,” instead of a yard or garden; it had wide pillared porches and “galleries,” showing southern antecedents; moreover, it had a cupola, giving date to the building, and proof of the continuing ambitions of the builders....

WITH MOORE AT CORUNNA BY G. A. HENTY Author of “With Cochrane the Dauntless,” “A Knight of the White Cross,” “In Freedom’s Cause,” “St. Bartholomew’s Eve,” “Wulf the Saxon,” etc. [Illustration: TERENCE FINDS THAT THE SEA-HORSE_ HAS BEEN BADLY MAULED BETWEEN-DECKS.] WITH TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS BY WAL PAGET PREFACE From the termination of the campaigns of Marlborough–at which time the British army won for itself a reputation rivalled by that of no other in Europe–to the year when the despatch of a small army under Sir Arthur Wellesley marked the beginning of another series of British victories as brilliant and as unbroken as those of that great commander, the opinion had gained ground in Europe that the British had lost their military virtues, and that, although undoubtedly powerful at sea, they could have henceforth but little influence in European affairs....

THE PALMY DAYS OF NANCE OLDFIELD BY EDWARD ROBINS WITH PORTRAITS 1898 [Illustration: Mrs. Oldfield the celebrated Comedian] CONTENTS I. FROM TAVERN TO THEATRE II. AN ENTRE-ACTE III. A BELLE OF METTLE IV. MANAGERIAL WICKEDNESS V. A DEAD HERO VI. IN TRAGIC PATHS VII. NANCE AT HOME VIII. THE MIMIC WORLD IX. “GRIEF A LA MODE” X. THE BARTON BOOTHS XI. THE FADING OF A STAR APPENDIX PORTRAITS Frontispiece: Mrs....

[Illustration] THE PARISH CLERK BY P.H. DITCHFIELD M.A., F.S.A. WITH THIRTY-ONE ILLUSTRATIONS First Published in 1907. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. OLD-TIME CHOIRS AND PARSONS 1 II. THE ANTIQUITY AND CONTINUITY OF THE OFFICE OF CLERK 16 III. THE MEDIAEVAL CLERK 31 IV. HIS DUTIES OF READING AND SINGING 48 V. THE CLERK IN LITERATURE 63 VI. CLERKS TOO CLERICAL–SMUGGLING DAYS AND SMUGGLING WAYS 79 VII. THE CLERK IN EPITAPH 90 VIII....

THE PATH OF THE KING by John Buchan TOMY WIFEI DEDICATE THESE CHAPTERSFIRST READ BY A COTSWOLD FIRE CONTENTS PROLOGUE1. HIGHTOWN UNDER SUNFELL2. THE ENGLISHMAN3. THE WIFE OF FLANDERS4. EYES OF YOUTH5. THE MAID6. THE WOOD OF LIFE7. EAUCOURT BY THE WATERS8. THE HIDDEN CITY9. THE REGICIDE10. THE MARPLOT11. THE LIT CHAMBER12. IN THE DARK LAND13. THE LAST STAGE14. THE END OF THE ROAD EPILOGUE Linum fumigans non exstinguet; in veritate educet judicium....

THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE PLAYS OF SHAKSPERE UNFOLDED. BY DELIA BACON. WITH A PREFACE BY NATHANIAL HAWTHORNEAUTHOR OF ‘THE SCARLET LETTER,’ ETC Aphorisms representing A KNOWLEDGE broken do invite men to inquire further LORD BACON You find not the apostophes, and so miss the accent. LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST Untie the spell.–PROSPERO LONDON:GROOMBRIDGE AND SONSPATERNOSTER ROW.1857 AMES PRESSNEW YORK HARVARDUNIVERSITYLIBRARYDEC 6, 1972 Reprinted from a copy in the collection of the Harvard College LibraryReprinted from the edition of 1857, London First AMS EDITION published 1970Manufactured in the United States of America International Standard Book Number: 0-404-00443-1 Library of Congress Card Catalog Number: 73-113547 AMS PRESS, INC....

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James VOLUME I PREFACE “The Portrait of a Lady” was, like “Roderick Hudson,” begun in Florence, during three months spent there in the spring of 1879. Like “Roderick” and like “The American,” it had been designed for publication in “The Atlantic Monthly,” where it began to appear in 1880. It differed from its two predecessors, however, in finding a course also open to it, from month to month, in “Macmillan’s Magazine”; which was to be for me one of the last occasions of simultaneous “serialisation” in the two countries that the changing conditions of literary intercourse between England and the United States had up to then left unaltered....

[Illustration: RICHARD] THE PURPLE LAND Being the Narrative of One Richard Lamb’s Adventures in The Banda Oriental, in South America, as Told By Himself BY W. H. Hudson ILLUSTRATED BY Keith Henderson Second Edition, 1904 NEW YORK PREFACE This work was first issued in 1885, by Messrs. Sampson Low, in two slim volumes, with the longer, and to most persons, enigmatical title of The Purple Land That England Lost. A purple land may be found in almost any region of the globe, and ’tis of our gains, not our losses, we keep count....

[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of the file for those who may wish to sample the author’s ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.] THE SATYRICON OF PETRONIUS ARBITER Complete and unexpurgated translation by W. C. Firebaugh, in which are incorporated the forgeries of Nodot and Marchena, and the readings introduced into the text by De Salas. NOTES PROSTITUTION. There are two basic instincts in the character of the normal individual; the will to live, and the will to propagate the species....

THE SHADOW LINE A CONFESSION By JOSEPH CONRAD “Worthy of my undying regard” TOBORYSAND ALL OTHERS WHO, LIKE HIMSELF, HAVE CROSSED IN EARLY YOUTH THE SHADOW LINE OFTHEIR GENERATION WITH LOVE PART ONE THE SHADOW LINE –D’autre fois, calme plat, grand miroir De mon desespoir. –BAUDELAIRE I ONLY the young have such moments. I don’t mean the very young. No. The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privi- lege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the beautiful continuity of hope which knows no pauses and no introspection....

by William Morris CHAPTER I: OF THOSE THREE WHO CAME TO THE HOUSE OF THE RAVEN It has been told that there was once a young man of free kindred and whose name was Hallblithe: he was fair, strong, and not untried in battle; he was of the House of the Raven of old time. This man loved an exceeding fair damsel called the Hostage, who was of the House of the Rose, wherein it was right and due that the men of the Raven should wed....

THE TREMENDOUS ADVENTURES OF MAJOR GAHAGAN CHAPTER I “Truth is strange,Stranger than fiction.” I think it but right that in making my appearance before the public I should at once acquaint them with my titles and name. My card, as I leave it at the houses of the nobility, my friends, is as follows:- MAJOR GOLIAH O’GRADY GAHAGAN, H.E.I.C.S., Commanding Battalion ofIrregular Horse,AHMEDNUGGAR. Seeing, I say, this simple visiting ticket, the world will avoid any of those awkward mistakes as to my person, which have been so frequent of late....

THE WITCH AND OTHER STORIES ANTON CHEKHOV THE WITCHPEASANT WIVESTHE POSTTHE NEW VILLADREAMSTHE PIPEAGAFYAAT CHRISTMAS TIMEGUSEVTHE STUDENTIN THE RAVINETHE HUNTSMANHAPPINESSA MALEFACTORPEASANTS THE WITCH IT was approaching nightfall. The sexton, Savely Gykin, was lying in his huge bed in the hut adjoining the church. He was not asleep, though it was his habit to go to sleep at the same time as the hens. His coarse red hair peeped from under one end of the greasy patchwork quilt, made up of coloured rags, while his big unwashed feet stuck out from the other....

The “legal small print” and other information about this book may now be found at the end of this file. Please read this important information, as it gives you specific rights and tells you about restrictions in how the file may be used. TOM SWIFT IN CAPTIVITY OR A Daring Escape by Airship BY VICTOR APPLETON AUTHOR OF “TOM SWIFT AND HIS MOTOR-CYCLE,” “TOM SWIFT AND HIS WIRELESS MESSAGE,” “TOM SWIFT IN THE CITY OF GOLD,” ETC....

TREASURE _and_ TROUBLE THEREWITH _A TALE OF CALIFORNIA_ BY GERALDINE BONNER 1917 I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO THE MEMORY OF MY FATHER JOHN BONNER WHO, HIMSELF A WRITER, TRAINED ME IN THE WORK HE LOVED. WHAT MERIT THE READER MAY FIND IN THESE PAGES IS THE RESULT OF THAT TRAINING, UNDERTAKEN WITH A FATHER’S PRIDE, CARRIED ON WITH A FATHER’S BELIEF AND ENCOURAGEMENT. GERALDINE BONNER CONTENTS I. HANDS UP II....

Transcriber’s Note: This document is the text of Trial and Triumph. Any bracketed notations such as [?], and those inserting letters or other comments are from the original text. Transcriber’s Note About the Author:Francis Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) was born to free parents in Baltimore, Maryland. Orphaned at three, she was raised by her uncle, a teacher and radical advocate for civil rights. She attended the Academy for Negro Youth and was educated as a teacher....

Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery INTRODUCTORY WALES is a country interesting in many respects, and deserving of more attention than it has hitherto met with. Though not very extensive, it is one of the most picturesque countries in the world, a country in which Nature displays herself in her wildest, boldest, and occasionally loveliest forms. The inhabitants, who speak an ancient and peculiar language, do not call this region Wales, nor themselves Welsh....