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THE UNSPEAKABLE GENTLEMAN BY J.P. MARQUAND 1922 I I have seen the improbable turn true too often not to have it disturb me. Suppose these memoirs still exist when the French royalist plot of 1805 and my father’s peculiar role in it are forgotten. I cannot help but remember it is a restless land across the water. But surely people will continue to recollect. Surely these few pages, written with the sole purpose of explaining my father’s part in the affair, will not degenerate into anything so pitifully fanciful as the story of a man who tried his best to be a bad example because he could not be a good one....

The value of Zeta(3) to 1,000,000 decimal digits. the number is defined as sum(1/n^3,n=1..infinity), the sum of inverses of cubes and equals 1.2020569031… Computed by : Sebastian Wedeniwski (wedeniws@de.ibm.com) who computed more than 128 million digits using this more efficient formula found by Theodor Amdeberhan and Doron Zeilberger. / \ | —— 3 | | \ n A(n) ((2 n + 1)! (2 n)! n!) | Zeta(3) = 1/24 | ) (-1) —————————— | | / 3 | | —— (3 n + 2)!...

THE VARIATION OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS UNDER DOMESTICATION BY CHARLES DARWIN, M.A., F.R.S., ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES VOLUME I. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. During the seven years which have elapsed since the publication in 1868 of the first edition of this Work, I have continued to attend to the same subjects, as far as lay in my power; and I have thus accumulated a large body of additional facts, chiefly through the kindness of many correspondents....

THE WANDERING JEW By Eugene Sue BOOK V. XIV. The Eve of a Great DayXV. The ThugXVI. The Two Brothers of the Good Work XVII. The House in the Rue Saint-Francois XVIII. Debit and CreditXIX. The HeirXX. The RuptureXXI. The ChangeXXII. The Red RoomXXIII. The TestamentXXIV. The Last Stroke of NoonXXV. The Deed of Gift CHAPTER XIV. THE EVE OF A GREAT DAY. About two hours before the event last related took place at St....

“I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined; In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. “To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think, What man has made of man.” WORDSWORTH. Once upon a time there was a little chimney-sweep, and his name was Tom. That is a short name, and you have heard it before, so you will not have much trouble in remembering it....

THE WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN CONSTITUTIONAL EDITION WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN VOLUME II. 1843-1858 FIRST CHILD TO JOSHUA F. SPEED.SPRINGFIELD, May 18, 1843. DEAR SPEED:–Yours of the 9th instant is duly received, which I do not meet as a “bore,” but as a most welcome visitor. I will answer the business part of it first. In relation to our Congress matter here, you were right in supposing I would support the nominee....

[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks at the end of this file for those who may wish to sample the author’s ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.] THEIR SILVER WEDDING JOURNEY PART II. XXVI. They found Burnamy expecting them at the station in Carlsbad, and she scolded him like a mother for taking the trouble to meet them, while she kept back for the present any sign of knowing that he had staid over a day with the Triscoes in Leipsic....

We Two By Edna Lyall CHAPTER I. Brian Falls in Love Still humanity grows dearer,Being learned the more. Jean Ingelow. There are three things in this world which deserve no quarter– Hypocrisy, Pharisaism, and Tyranny. F. Robertson People who have been brought up in the country, or in small places where every neighbor is known by sight, are apt to think that life in a large town must lack many of the interests which they have learned to find in their more limited communities....

WHITE LIES by CHARLES READE CHAPTER I. Towards the close of the last century the Baron de Beaurepaire lived in the chateau of that name in Brittany. His family was of prodigious antiquity; seven successive barons had already flourished on this spot when a younger son of the house accompanied his neighbor the Duke of Normandy in his descent on England, and was rewarded by a grant of English land, on which he dug a mote and built a chateau, and called it Beaurepaire (the worthy Saxons turned this into Borreper without delay)....

Vast are the stones which sleep beneath coverlets of dank moss, and mighty were the walls from which they fell. For all time did their builders erect them, and in sooth they yet serve nobly, for beneath them the grey toad makes his habitation. At the very bottom of the valley lies the river Than, whose waters are slimy and filled with weeds. From hidden springs it rises, and to subterranean grottoes it flows, so that the Daemon of the Valley knows not why its waters are red, nor whither they are bound....

THE OPIUM HABIT, WITH SUGGESTIONS AS TO THE REMEDY. “After my death, I earnestly entreat that a full and unqualified narrative of my wretchedness, and of its guilty cause, may be made public, that at least some little good may be effected by the direful example.”–COLERIDGE. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION A SUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO ABANDON OPIUM DE QUINCEY’S “CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER” OPIUM REMINISCENCES OF COLERIDGE WILLIAM BLAIR OPIUM AND ALCOHOL COMPARED INSANITY AND SUICIDE FROM AN ATTEMPT TO ABANDON MORPHINE A MORPHINE HABIT OVERCOME ROBERT HALL–JOHN RANDOLPH–WILLIAM WILBERFORCE WHAT SHALL THEY DO TO BE SAVED?...

THE QUEST BY PIO BAROJA TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH By ISAAC GOLDBERG CONTENTS PART ONE I Preamble–Somewhat Immoral Notions of a Boarding-House Keeper–A Balcony is Heard Closing–A Cricket Chirps II Dona Casiana’s House–A Morning Ceremony–Conspiracy–Wherein is Discussed The Nutritive Value of Bones–Petra and Her Family–Manuel; his Arrival in Madrid III First Impressions of Madrid–The Boarders–Idyll–Sweet and Delightful Lessons IV Oh, Love, Love!–What’s Don Telmo Doing?–Who is Don Telmo?–Wherein the Student and Don Telmo Assume Certain Novelesque Proportions PART TWO I “The Regeneration of Footgear” and “The Lion of the Bootmaker’s Art”–The First Sunday–An Escapade–El Bizco and his Gang II The “Big Yard” or Uncle Rilo’s House–Local Enmities III Roberto Hastings at the Shoemaker’s–The Procession of Beggars–Court of Miracles IV Life in the Cobbler’s Shop–Manuel’s Friends V La Blasa’s Tavern VI Roberto in Quest of a Woman–El Tabuenca and his Inventions–Don Alonso or the Snake-Man VII The Kermesse on Pasion Street–“The Dude”–A Cafe Chantant VIII Leandro’s Irresolution–In La Blasa’s Tavern–The Man with the Three Cards–The Duel with Valencia IX An Unlikely Tale–Manuel’s Sisters–Life’s Baffling Problems PART THREE I Uncle Patas’ Domestic Drama–The Bakery–Karl the Baker–The Society of the Three II One of the Many Disagreeable Ways of Dying in Madrid–The Orphan–El Cojo and his Cave–Night in the Observatory III Meeting with Roberto–Roberto Narrates the Origin of a Fantastic Fortune IV Dolores the Scandalous–Pastiri’s Tricks–Tender Savagery–A Modest Out-of-the-way Robbery V Gutter Vestals–The Troglodites VI Senor Custodio and his Establishment–The Free Life VII Senor Custodio’s Ideas–La Justa, el Carnicerin and El Conejo VIII The Square–A Wedding in La Bombilla–The Asphalt Caldrons PART ONE CHAPTER I Preamble–Somewhat Immoral Notions of a Boarding-House Keeper–A Balcony Is Heard Closing–A Cricket Chirps....

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....

Until then I also saw nothing but madness in the wild tales I have acted on. Even now I ask myself whether I was misled—or whether I am not mad after all. I do not know—but others have strange things to tell of Edward and Asenath Derby, and even the stolid police are at their wits’ ends to account for that last terrible visit. They have tried weakly to concoct a theory of a ghastly jest or warning by discharged servants, yet they know in their hearts that the truth is something infinitely more terrible and incredible....

CHAPTER I “Dr. Lavendar,” said WilliamKing, “some time when Goliathis doing his 2.40 on a plank road, don’t you want to pull him up at that houseon the Perryville pike where the Grays used to live, and make a call? An oldfellow called Roberts has taken it; he is a–“ “Teach your grandmother,” saidDr. Lavendar; “he is an Irvingite. He comes from Lower Ripple, down on theOhio, and he has a daughter, Philippa....

THIS SIDE OF PARADISE By F. SCOTT FITZGERALD . . . Well this side of Paradise! . . . There’s little comfort in the wise. –Rupert Brooke. Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes. –Oscar Wilde. To SIGOURNEY FAY CONTENTS BOOK ONE: The Romantic Egotist 1. AMORY, SON OF BEATRICE 2. SPIRES AND GARGOYLES 3. THE EGOTIST CONSIDERS 4. NARCISSUS OFF DUTY [INTERLUDE: MAY, 1917-FEBRUARY, 1919....

TIMAEUS by Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS. Of all the writings of Plato the Timaeus is the most obscure and repulsive to the modern reader, and has nevertheless had the greatest influence over the ancient and mediaeval world. The obscurity arises in the infancy of physical science, out of the confusion of theological, mathematical, and physiological notions, out of the desire to conceive the whole of nature without any adequate knowledge of the parts, and from a greater perception of similarities which lie on the surface than of differences which are hidden from view....

[Transcriber’s Note: the Contents and Index were added to this e-book by the transcriber] TOASTER’S HANDBOOK JOKES, STORIES, ANDQUOTATIONS Compiled by PEGGY EDMUND and HAROLD WORKMAN WILLIAMS Introductions by MARY KATHARINE REELY 1916 CONTENTS PREFACE ON THE POSSESSION OF A SENSE OF HUMOR TOASTERS, TOASTMASTERS AND TOASTS TOASTER’S HANDBOOK INDEX PREFACE Nothing so frightens a man as the announcement that he is expected to respond to a toast on some appallingly near-by occasion....

TWELVE TYPES BY G.K. CHESTERTON LONDONARTHUR L. HUMPHREYS1902 NOTE These papers, with certain alterations and additions, are reprinted with the kind permission of the Editors of The Daily News and The Speaker. G.K.C.KENSINGTON. CONTENTS CHARLOTTE BRONTEWILLIAM MORRIS AND HIS SCHOOLTHE OPTIMISM OF BYRONPOPE AND THE ART OF SATIREFRANCISROSTANDCHARLES IISTEVENSONTHOMAS CARLYLETOLSTOY AND THE CULT OF SIMPLICITYSAVONAROLATHE POSITION OF SIR WALTER SCOTT CHARLOTTE BRONTE Objection is often raised against realistic biography because it reveals so much that is important and even sacred about a man’s life....

TYPHOON BYJOSEPH CONRAD Far as the mariner on highest mastCan see all around upon the calmed vast, So wide was Neptune’s hall . . . — KEATS AUTHOR’S NOTE THE main characteristic of this volume consists in this, that all the stories composing it belong not only to the same period but have been written one after another in the order in which they appear in the book. The period is that which follows on my connection with Blackwood’s Magazine....