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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY. [New Series, Volume XIII] [London, Trübner and Company] [1881] ART. XIII.–__Translation of the Mârkandeya Purâna__Books VII. VIII. By the Rev. B. HALE WORTHAM. BOOK VII. ONCE upon earth there lived a saintly kingNamed Harišchandra; pure in heart and mind,In virtue eminent, he ruled the world,Guarding mankind from evil. While he reignedNo famine raged, nor pain; untimely deathNe’er cut men off; nor were the citizensOf his fair city lawless....

No. 31.] Saturday, June 1. 1850. [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. *{1} CONTENTS. NOTES:– Parish Registers–Statistics 1 The Hudibrastic Verse, by S.W. Singer 3 Custom of presenting Gloves, by Jas. Crosby 4 Folk Lore: Exhumation of Body ominous to Family of the Deceased–Suffolk Folk Lore–Cure for Fits–Bible and Key 4 Notes on Jeremy Taylor’s Life of Christ, &c., by J.E.B. Mayor 5 Unpublished Epigrams in the British Museum 6 On Authors and Books, No....

These cycles of experience, of course, all stem from that worm-riddled book. I remember when I found it—in a dimly lighted place near the black, oily river where the mists always swirl. That place was very old, and the ceiling-high shelves full of rotting volumes reached back endlessly through windowless inner rooms and alcoves. There were, besides, great formless heaps of books on the floor and in crude bins; and it was in one of these heaps that I found the thing....

I. Not many weeks ago, on a street corner in the village of Pascoag, Rhode Island, a tall, heavily built, and wholesome-looking pedestrian furnished much speculation by a singular lapse of behaviour. He had, it appears, been descending the hill by the road from Chepachet; and encountering the compact section, had turned to his left into the main thoroughfare where several modest business blocks convey a touch of the urban. At this point, without visible provocation, he committed his astonishing lapse; staring queerly for a second at the tallest of the buildings before him, and then, with a series of terrified, hysterical shrieks, breaking into a frantic run which ended in a stumble and fall at the next crossing....

THE OPEN DOOR, AND THE PORTRAIT Stories of the Seen and the Unseen By Margaret O. Wilson Oliphant’s 1881 I THE OPEN DOOR. I took the house of Brentwood on my return from India in 18–, for the temporary accommodation of my family, until I could find a permanent home for them. It had many advantages which made it peculiarly appropriate. It was within reach of Edinburgh; and my boy Roland, whose education had been considerably neglected, could go in and out to school; which was thought to be better for him than either leaving home altogether or staying there always with a tutor....

THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER by Mark Twain Part 4. Chapter XII. The Prince and his deliverer. As soon as Miles Hendon and the little prince were clear of the mob, they struck down through back lanes and alleys toward the river. Their way was unobstructed until they approached London Bridge; then they ploughed into the multitude again, Hendon keeping a fast grip upon the Prince’s –no, the King’s–wrist. The tremendous news was already abroad, and the boy learned it from a thousand voices at once–“The King is dead!...

THE PROFITS OF RELIGION An Essay in Economic Interpretation By UPTON SINCLAIR The Profits of Religion OFFERTORY This book is a study of Supernaturalism from a new point of view–as a Source of Income and a Shield to Privilege. I have searched the libraries through, and no one has done it before. If you read it, you will see that it needed to be done. It has meant twenty-five years of thought and a year of investigation....

BOHN’S STANDARD LIBRARY THE PROSE WORKS OF JONATHAN SWIFT VOL. III [Illustration: Jonathan Swift, from a picture by Frances Bindon In the possession of Sir F R Falkiner] THE PROSE WORKS OF JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D. EDITED BY TEMPLE SCOTT WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION BY THE RT. HON. W. E. H. LECKY, M.P. VOL III 1898 SWIFT’S WRITINGS ON RELIGION AND THE CHURCH VOL. I EDITED BY TEMPLE SCOTT 1898 PREFACE....

To be completed in 12 volumes, 3s. 6d. each. THE PROSE WORKS OF JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D. EDITED BY TEMPLE SCOTT VOL. I. A TALE OF A TUB AND OTHER EARLY WORKS. Edited by TEMPLE SCOTT. With a biographical introduction by W.E.H. LECKY, M.P. With Portrait and Facsimiles. VOL. II. THE JOURNAL TO STELLA.Edited by FREDERICK RYLAND, M.A.With two Portraits of Stella and a Facsimile of one of the Letters. VOLS....

[Illustration:_Lafayette, Manchester._THE REV. T. K. CHEYNE, D. LITT, D. D.] THE RECONCILIATION OF RACES AND RELIGIONS BY THOMAS KELLY CHEYNE, D. LITT., D. D. FELLOW OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY, MEMBER OF THE NAVA VIDHAN (LAHORE), THE BAHAI COMMUNITY, ETC. RUHANI; PRIEST OF THE PRINCE OF PEACE To my dear wife in whose poems are combined an ardent faith, an universal charity, and a simplicity of style which sometimes reminds me of the poet seer William Blake may she accept and enjoy the offering and may a like happiness be my lot when the little volume reaches the hands of the ambassador of peace....

Stephen Crane (1871-1900) An Episode of the American Civil War Chapter 1 The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors. It cast its eyes upon the roads, which were growing from long troughs of liquid mud to proper thoroughfares....

THE RED THUMB MARK BY R. AUSTIN FREEMAN PREFACE In writing the following story, the author has had in view no purpose other than that of affording entertainment to such readers as are interested in problems of crime and their solutions; and the story itself differs in no respect from others of its class, excepting in that an effort has been made to keep within the probabilities of ordinary life, both in the characters and in the incidents....

THE RETURN OF PETER GRIMM [Illustration: DAVID BELASCO] DAVID BELASCO (Born, San Francisco, July 25, 1853) The present Editor has had many opportunities of studying the theatre side of David Belasco. He has been privileged to hear expressed, by this Edison of our stage, diverse opinions about plays and players of the past, and about insurgent experiments of the immediate hour. He has always found a man quickly responsive to the best memories of the past, an artist naively childlike in his love of the theatre, shaped by old conventions and modified by new inventions....

CHAPTER I THE LONE CANOE A light canoe of bark, containing a single human figure, moved swiftly up one of the twin streams that form the Ohio. The water, clear and deep, coming through rocky soil, babbled gently at the edges, where it lapped the land, but in the center the full current flowed steadily and without noise. The thin shadows of early dusk were falling, casting a pallid tint over the world, a tint touched here and there with living fire from the sun, which was gone, though leaving burning embers behind....

THE SLEEPER AWAKES A Revised Edition of “When the Sleeper Wakes” H.G. WELLS 1899 PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION When the Sleeper Wakes, whose title I have now altered to The Sleeper Awakes, was first published as a book in 1899 after a serial appearance in the Graphic and one or two American and colonial periodicals. It is one of the most ambitious and least satisfactory of my books, and I have taken the opportunity afforded by this reprinting to make a number of excisions and alterations....

THE SPECTATOR A NEW EDITION REPRODUCING THE ORIGINAL TEXT BOTH AS FIRST ISSUED AND AS CORRECTED BY ITS AUTHORS WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES, AND INDEX BY HENRY MORLEY PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON IN THREE VOLUMES VOL. I. 1891 [advertisement] EACH IN THREE VOLS., PRICE 10s. 6d. CHARLES KNIGHT’S SHAKSPERE. NAPIER’S HISTORY OF THE PENINSULAR WAR. With Maps and Plans. LONGFELLOW’S WORKS–Poems–Prose–Dante. BOSWELL’S LIFE OF JOHNSON. With Illustrations. MOTLEY’S RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC....

CONTENTS BOOK ONE THE OBLATE CHAPTER I. NOMEN ET OMEN II. GINO FALCONE III. THE PIETISTIC THRALL IV. LUISINA V. REBELLION VI. FRA GERVASIO BOOK TWO GIULIANA I. THE HOUSE OF ASTORRE FIFANTI II. HUMANITIES III. PREUX-CHEVALIER IV. MY LORD GAMBARA CLEARS THE GROUND V. PABULUM ACHERONTIS VI. THE IRON GIRDLE BOOK THREE THE WILDERNESS I. THE HOME-COMING II. THE CAPTAIN OF JUSTICE III. GAMBARA’S INTERESTS IV. THE ANCHORITE OF MONTE ORSARO V....

The Two Elsies A Sequel to Elsie at Nantucket BOOK 10 By Martha Finley 1868 LIST OF THE ELSIE BOOKS AND OTHER POPULAR BOOKS BY MARTHA FINLEY ELSIE DINSMORE.ELSIE’S HOLIDAYS AT ROSELANDS.ELSIE’S GIRLHOOD.ELSIE’S WOMANHOOD.ELSIE’S MOTHERHOOD.ELSIE’S CHILDREN.ELSIE’S WIDOWHOOD.GRANDMOTHER ELSIE.ELSIE’S NEW RELATIONS.ELSIE AT NANTUCKET.THE TWO ELSIES.ELSIE’S KITH AND KIN.ELSIE’S FRIENDS AT WOODBURN.CHRISTMAS WITH GRANDMA ELSIE.ELSIE AND THE RAYMONDS.ELSIE YACHTING WITH THE RAYMONDS.ELSIE’S VACATION.ELSIE AT VIAMEDE.ELSIE AT ION.ELSIE AT THE WORLD’S FAIR.ELSIE’S JOURNEY ON INLAND WATERS....

by E. Phillips Oppenheim CHAPTER I There were very few people upon Platform Number Twenty-one of Liverpool Street Station at a quarter to nine on the evening of April 2 – possibly because the platform in question is one of the most remote and least used in the great terminus. The station-master, however, was there himself, with an inspector in attendance. A dark, thick-set man, wearing a long travelling ulster and a Homburg hat, and carrying in his hand a brown leather dressing-case, across which was painted in black letters the name MR....

THE WANDERING JEW By Eugene Sue BOOK II. INTERVAL.–THE WANDERING JEW’S SENTENCE. XVII. The AjoupaXVIII. The TattooingXIX. The SmugglerXX. M. Joshua Van DaelXXI. The Ruins of TchandiXXII. The AmbuscadeXXIII. M. RodinXXIV. The TempestXXV. The ShipwreckedXXVI. The Departure for ParisXXVII. Dagobert’s WifeXXVIII. The Sister of the Bacchanal Queen XXIX. Agricola BaudoinXXX. The ReturnXXXI. Agricola and Mother BunchXXXII. The AwakeningXXXIII. The PavilionXXXIV. Adrienne at her ToiletXXXV. The Interview INTERVAL. THE WANDERING JEW’S SENTENCE....