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BY E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM 1921 CHAPTER I The Marchioness of Amesbury was giving a garden party in the spacious but somewhat urban grounds of her mansion in Kensington. Perhaps because it was the first affair of its sort of the season, and perhaps, also, because Cecilia Amesbury had the knack of making friends in every walk of life, it was remarkably well attended. Two stockbrokers, Roger Kendrick and his friend Maurice White, who had escaped from the City a little earlier than usual, and had shared a taxicab up west, congratulated themselves upon having found a quiet and shady seat where iced drinks were procurable and the crush was not so great....

PLAYS FOURTH SERIES By John Galsworthy PLAYS in the FOURTH SERIES A BIT O’ LOVE THE FOUNDATIONS THE SKIN GAME THE SKIN GAME (A TRAGI-COMEDY) “Who touches pitch shall be defiled” CHARACTERS HILLCRIST ……………A Country Gentleman AMY …………………His WifeJILL ………………..His Daughter DAWKER ………………His AgentHORNBLOWER …………..A Man Newly-Rich CHARLES ……………..His Elder SonCHLOE ……………….Wife to Charles ROLF ………………..His Younger Son FELLOWS ……………..Hillcrist’s Butler ANNA ………………..Chloe’s MaidTHE JACKMANS …………Man and Wife AN AUCTIONEERA SOLICITORTWO STRANGERS ACT I....

Translated by C. K. [Charles Kenneth] Moncreiff Anonymous Old French epic, dating perhaps as early as the middle 11th century. This electronic edition was produced, edited, and prepared by Douglas B. Killings (DeTroyes@AOL.COM), August 1995. Proofreading by R.J. Maley and Douglas B. Killings. Document scanning provided by R.J. Maley. I Charles the King, our Lord and Sovereign, Full seven years hath sojourned in Spain, Conquered the land, and won the western main, Now no fortress against him doth remain, No city walls are left for him to gain,Save Sarraguce, that sits on high mountain....

[Illustration: “WHAT IS IS THIS TINY DOTTED LINE ACROSS THE GROUNDS?” WIN INQUIRED] THE SPANISH CHEST BY EDNA A. BROWN ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN GOSS AND FROM PHOTOGRAPHS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF FLORENCE AND CLARA who shared a winter spent in the Channel Islands and have now gone on a longer journey. This little book I wrote for thee Thy friendly eyes will never see. It was not meant for critics’ reading, Nor for the world that scans unheeding....

by RICHARD JEFFERIES CHAPTER I THE story of my heart commences seventeen years ago. In the glow of youth there were times every now and then when I felt the necessity of a strong inspiration of soulthought. My heart was dusty, parched for want of the rain of deep feeling; my mind arid and dry, for there is a dust which settles on the heart as well as that which falls on a ledge....

THE STREET OF SEVEN STARS by MARY ROBERTS RINEHART CHAPTER I The old stucco house sat back in a garden, or what must once have been a garden, when that part of the Austrian city had been a royal game preserve. Tradition had it that the Empress Maria Theresa had used the building as a hunting-lodge, and undoubtedly there was something royal in the proportions of the salon. With all the candles lighted in the great glass chandelier, and no sidelights, so that the broken paneling was mercifully obscured by gloom, it was easy to believe that the great empress herself had sat in one of the tall old chairs and listened to anecdotes of questionable character; even, if tradition may be believed, related not a few herself....

THE THREE PARTNERS by Bret Harte PROLOGUE. The sun was going down on the Black Spur Range. The red light it had kindled there was still eating its way along the serried crest, showing through gaps in the ranks of pines, etching out the interstices of broken boughs, fading away and then flashing suddenly out again like sparks in burnt-up paper. Then the night wind swept down the whole mountain side, and began its usual struggle with the shadows upclimbing from the valley, only to lose itself in the end and be absorbed in the all-conquering darkness....

The Toys of Peace Contents: The Toys of PeaceLouiseTeaThe Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh The Wolves of CernogratzLouisThe GuestsThe PenanceThe Phantom LuncheonA Bread and Butter MissBertie’s Christmas EveForewarnedThe InterlopersQuail SeedCanossaThe ThreatExcepting Mrs. PentherbyMarkThe HedgehogThe Mappined LifeFateThe BullMorlveraShock TacticsThe Seven Cream JugsThe Occasional GardenThe SheepThe OversightHyacinthThe Image of the Lost SoulThe Purple of the Balkan KingsThe Cupboard of the YesterdaysFor the Duration of the War THE TOYS OF PEACE “Harvey,” said Eleanor Bope, handing her brother a cutting from a London morning paper of the 19th of March, “just read this about children’s toys, please; it exactly carries out some of our ideas about influence and upbringing....

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....

by William Shakespeare PERSONS REPRESENTED. SATURNINUS, Son to the late Emperor of Rome, afterwards declared Emperor.BASSIANUS, Brother to Saturninus, in love with Lavinia. TITUS ANDRONICUS, a noble Roman, General against the Goths. MARCUS ANDRONICUS, Tribune of the People, and Brother to Titus. LUCIUS, Son to Titus Andronicus.QUINTUS, Son to Titus Andronicus.MARTIUS, Son to Titus Andronicus.MUTIUS, Son to Titus Andronicus. YOUNG LUCIUS, a Boy, Son to Lucius.PUBLIUS, Son to Marcus the Tribune....

THE VERTICAL CITY By FANNIE HURST Author of “GASLIGHT SONATAS” “HUMORESQUE” ETC. 1922 CONTENTS SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY BACK PAY THE VERTICAL CITY THE SMUDGE GUILTY ROULETTE SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY By that same architectural gesture of grief which caused Jehan at Agra to erect the Taj Mahal in memory of a dead wife and a cold hearthstone, so the Bon Ton hotel, even to the pillars with red-freckled monoliths and peacock-backed lobby chairs, making the analogy rather absurdly complete, reared its fourteen stories of “elegantly furnished suites, all the comforts and none of the discomforts of home....

CHAPTER I. The rambler who, for old association or other reasons, should trace the forsaken coach-road running almost in a meridional line from Bristol to the south shore of England, would find himself during the latter half of his journey in the vicinity of some extensive woodlands, interspersed with apple-orchards. Here the trees, timber or fruit-bearing, as the case may be, make the way- side hedges ragged by their drip and shade, stretching over the road with easeful horizontality, as if they found the unsubstantial air an adequate support for their limbs....

THREE EXPEDITIONS INTO THE INTERIOR OF EASTERN AUSTRALIA; WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF THE RECENTLY EXPLORED REGION OF AUSTRALIA FELIX, AND OF THE PRESENT COLONY OF NEW SOUTH WALES: BY MAJOR T.L. MITCHELL, F.G.S. & M.R.G.S. SURVEYOR-GENERAL. SECOND EDITION, CAREFULLY REVISED. … IN TWO VOLUMES. VOLUME 1. LONDON:T. & W. BOONE, NEW BOND STREET. … PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. The following Journals were written at the close of many a laborious day, when the energies both of mind and body were almost exhausted by long-continued toil....

CONTENTS CHAPTER I ON A LIVE WIRE II “WE’LL TAKE A CHANCE!” III PLANNING A BIG GUN IV KOKU’S BRAVE ACT V OFF TO SANDY HOOK VI TESTING THE WALLER GUN VII THE IMPOSSIBLE OCCURS VIII A BIG PROBLEM IX THE NEW POWDER X SOMETHING WRONG XI FAILURE AND SUCCESS XII A POWERFUL BLAST XIII CASTING THE CANNON XIV A NIGHT INTRUDER XV READY FOR THE TEST XVI A WARNING XVII THE BURSTING DAM XVIII THE DOPED POWDER XIX BLOWING DOWN THE BARRIER XX THE GOVERNMENT ACCEPTS XXI OFF FOR PANAMA XXII AT GATUN LOCKS XXIII NEWS OF THE MINE XXIV THE LONGEST SHOT XXV THE LONG-LOST MINE TOM SWIFT AND HIS GIANT CANNON CHAPTER I ON A LIVE WIRE “Now, see here, Mr....

TURKEY: A PAST AND A FUTURE BY A.J. TOYNBEE MCMXVII CONTENTS I THE PAST II THE PRESENT III THE FUTURE I What is Turkey? It is a name which explains nothing, for no formula can embrace the variety of the countries marked “Ottoman” on the map: the High Yemen, with its monsoons and tropical cultivation; the tilted rim of the Hedjaz, one desert in a desert zone that stretches from the Sahara to Mongolia; the Mesopotamian rivers, breaking the desert with a strip of green; the pine-covered mountain terraces of Kurdistan, which gird in Mesopotamia as the hills of the North-West Frontier of India gird the Plains; the Armenian highlands, bleak as the Pamirs, which feed Mesopotamia with their snows and send it the soil they cannot keep themselves; the Anatolian peninsula–an offshoot of Central Europe with its rocks and fine timber and mountain streams, but nursing a steppe in its heart more intractable than the Puszta of Hungary; the coast-lands–Trebizond and Ismid and Smyrna clinging to the Anatolian mainland and Syria interposing itself between the desert and the sea, but all, with their vines and olives and sharp contours, keeping true to the Mediterranean; and then the waterway of narrows and land-locked sea and narrows again which links the Mediterranean with the Black Sea and the Russian hinterland, and which has not its like in the world....

TWO POETS (Lost Illusions Part I) BY HONORE DE BALZAC Translated By Ellen Marriage PREPARER’S NOTE Two Poets is part one of a trilogy and begins the story of Lucien, his sister Eve, and his friend David in the provincial town of Angouleme. Part two, A Distinguished Provincial at Paris is centered on Lucien’s Parisian life. Part three, Eve and David, reverts to the setting of Angouleme. In many references parts one and three are combined under the title Lost Illusions and A Distinguished Provincial at Paris is given its individual title....

TWO YEARS IN THE FORBIDDEN CITYBY THE PRINCESS DER LING FIRST LADY IN WAITINGTO THE EMPRESS DOWAGER TOMY BELOVED FATHERLORD YU KENG FOREWORDTHE author of the following narrative has peculiar qualifications for her task. She is a daughter of Lord Yu Keng, a member of the Manchu White Banner Corps, and one of the most advanced and progressive Chinese officials of his generation. Lord Yu Keng entered the army when very young, and served in the Taiping rebellion and the Formosan war with France, and as Vice Minister of War during the China-Japan war in 1895....

WOMAN’S INSTITUTE LIBRARY OF COOKERY VOLUME ONE ESSENTIALS OF COOKERY CEREALS BREAD HOT BREADS WOMAN’S INSTITUTE OF DOMESTIC ARTS AND SCIENCES, Inc. PREFACE The Woman’s Institute Library of Cookery consists of five volumes that cover the various phases of the subject of cookery as it is carried on in the home. These books contain the same text as the Instruction Papers of the Institute’s Course in Cookery arranged so that related subjects are grouped together....

“TIS SIXTY YEARS SINCE” ADDRESS OF CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS FOUNDERS’ DAY, JANUARY 16, 1913 “‘TIS SIXTY YEARS SINCE” In the single hour self-allotted for my part in this occasion there is much ground to cover,–the time is short, and I have far to go. Did I now, therefore, submit all I had proposed to say when I accepted your invitation, there would remain no space for preliminaries. Yet something of that character is in place....

I have frequently wondered if the majority of mankind ever pause to reflect upon the occasionally titanic significance of dreams, and of the obscure world to which they belong. Whilst the greater number of our nocturnal visions are perhaps no more than faint and fantastic reflections of our waking experiences—Freud to the contrary with his puerile symbolism—there are still a certain remainder whose immundane and ethereal character permits of no ordinary interpretation, and whose vaguely exciting and disquieting effect suggests possible minute glimpses into a sphere of mental existence no less important than physical life, yet separated from that life by an all but impassable barrier....