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by Gaston Leroux CONTENTS Chapter I GAYETY AND DYNAMITEII NATACHAIII THE WATCHIV “THE YOUTH OF Moscow Is DEAD”V BY ROULETABILLE’S ORDER THE GENERAL PROMENADES VI THE MYSTERIOUS HANDVII ARSENATE OF SODAVIII THE LITTLE CHAPEL OF THE GUARDS IX ANNOUCHEAX A DRAMA IN THE NIGHTXI THE POISON CONTINUESXII PERE ALEXISXIII THE LIVING BOMBSXIV THE MARSHESXV “I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU”XVI BEFORE THE REVOLUTIONARY TRIBUNAL XVII THE LAST CRAVATXVIII A SINGULAR EXPERIENCEXIX THE TSAR THE SECRET OF THE NIGHT I GAYETY AND DYNAMITE “BARINIA, the young stranger has arrived....

THE SPANISH CURATE, A COMEDY. * * * * * Persons Represented in the Play. Don Henrique, an uxorious Lord, cruel to his Brother. Don Jamie, younger Brother to Don Henrique. Bartolus, a covetous Lawyer Husband to Amaranta. Leandro, a Gentleman who wantonly loves the Lawyers Wife. Angelo, } Three Gentlemen Friend[s] Milanes,} to Leandro. Arsenio,} Ascanio, Son to Don Henrique. Octavio, supposed Husband to Jacintha. Lopez, the Spanish Curate....

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....

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. [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....

THE TWO LOVERS OF HEAVEN: CHRYSANTHUS AND DARIA. A Drama of Early Christian Rome. FROM THE SPANISH OF CALDERON. With Dedicatory Sonnets toLONGFELLOW,ETC. BYDENIS FLORENCE MAC-CARTHY, M.R.I.A. POR LA FE MORIRE. Calderon’s Family Motto. DUBLIN:JOHN F. FOWLER, 3 CROW STREET. LONDON:JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN, 74 and 75 PICCADILLY. 1870. Calderon’s Family Motto. “POR LA FE MORIRE”. —FOR THE FAITH WELCOME DEATH. THIS motto is taken from the engraved coat of arms prefixed to an historical account of “the very noble and ancient house of Calderon de la Barca”–a rather scarce work which I have never seen alluded to in any account of the poet....

THE WANDERING JEW By Eugene Sue A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR OF The Wandering Jew EUGENE SUE (1804-1857) Time and again physicians and seamen have made noteworthy reputations as novelists. But it is rare in the annals of literature that a man trained in both professions should have gained his greatest fame as a writer of novels. Eugene Sue began his career as a physician and surgeon, and then spent six years in the French Navy....

CHAPTER I: OF GOLDEN WALTER AND HIS FATHER Awhile ago there was a young man dwelling in a great and goodly city by the sea which had to name Langton on Holm. He was but of five and twenty winters, a fair-faced man, yellow-haired, tall and strong; rather wiser than foolisher than young men are mostly wont; a valiant youth, and a kind; not of many words but courteous of speech; no roisterer, nought masterful, but peaceable and knowing how to forbear: in a fray a perilous foe, and a trusty war-fellow....

THE WORKS OFEDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES VOLUME FOUR Contents The Devil in the BelfryLionizingX-ing a ParagrabMetzengersteinThe System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.How to Write a Blackwood articleA PredicamentMystificationDiddlingThe Angel of the OddMellonia TautaThe Duc de l’OmletteThe Oblong BoxLoss of BreathThe Man That Was Used UpThe Business ManThe Landscape GardenMaelzel’s Chess-PlayerThe Power of WordsThe Colloquy of Monas and UnaThe Conversation of Eiros and Charmion Shadow....

The subject-matter of this book, then unknown to the public, Ashe professes to embody in ‘The Spirit of “The Book;” or, Memoirs of Caroline, Princess of Hasburgh, a Political and Amatory Romance’ (3 vols., 1811). The letters, which purport to be written from Caroline to Charlotte, and contain (vol. ii. pp. 152-181) an attack on the Lady Jersey, who attended the princess, are absolutely dull, and scarcely even indecent. Ashe’s ‘Memoirs and Confessions’ (3 vols....

by Rudyard Kipling CONTENTS VOLUME I DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES AND OTHER VERSES DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES Prelude General Summary Army Headquarters Study of an Elevation, in Indian Ink A Legend of the Foreign Office The Story of Uriah The Post that Fitted Public Waste Delilah What Happened Pink Dominoes The Man Who Could Write Municipal A Code of Morals The Last Department OTHER VERSES Recessional The Vampire To the Unknown Goddess The Rubaiyat of Omar Kal’vin La Nuit Blanche My Rival The Lovers’ Litany A Ballad of Burial Divided Destinies The Masque of Plenty The Mare’s Nest Possibilities Christmas in India Pagett, M....

THE WORLD’S BEST POETRY [Illustration] I Home: Friendship II Love III Sorrow and Consolation IV The Higher Life V Nature VI Fancy: Sentiment VII Descriptive: Narrative VIII National Spirit IX Tragedy: Humor X Poetical Quotations THE WORLD’S BEST POETRY IN TEN VOLUMES, ILLUSTRATED Editor-in-ChiefBLISS CARMAN Associate EditorsJohn Vance CheneyCharles G.D. RobertsCharles F. RichardsonFrancis H. Stoddard Managing EditorJohn R. Howard 1904 The World’s Best PoetryVol. X POETICAL QUOTATIONS AFTER ALL, WHAT IS POETRY ByJOHN R....

THE WORLD’S GREATEST BOOKS JOINT EDITORS ARTHUR MEE Editor and Founder of the Book of Knowledge J.A. HAMMERTON Editor of Harmsworth’s Universal Encyclopaedia VOL. VI FICTION MCMX * * * * * Table of Contents LE FANU, SHERIDAN Uncle Silas LESAGE, RENE Gil Blas LEVER, CHARLES Charles O’Malley Tom Burke of Ours LEWIS, M.G. Ambrosio, or the Monk LINTON, MRS. LYNN Joshua Davidson LOVER, SAMUEL Handy Andy LYTTON, EDWARD BULWER Eugene Aram Last Days of Pompeii The Last of the Barons MACKENZIE, HENRY Man of Feeling MAISTRE, COUNT XAVIER DE A Journey Round my Room MALORY, SIR THOMAS Morte d’Arthur MANNING, ANNE Household of Sir Thomas More MANZONI, ALESSANDRO The Betrothed MARRYAT, CAPT Mr....

THE WRECK OF THE GOLDEN MARY THE WRECK I was apprenticed to the Sea when I was twelve years old, and I have encountered a great deal of rough weather, both literal and metaphorical. It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only one subject is next tiresome to the man who knows no subject. Therefore, in the course of my life I have taught myself whatever I could, and although I am not an educated man, I am able, I am thankful to say, to have an intelligent interest in most things....

THROUGH THE WALL BY CLEVELAND MOFFETT AUTHOR OF THE BATTLE, ETC. With Illustrations by H. HEYER NEW YORK 1909 TO MY WIFE AND OUR DELIGHTFUL PARIS HOME IN THE VILLA MONTMORENCY, WHERE THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN C. M. NEW YORK, AUGUST 1, 1909. CONTENTS CHAPTER I.–A BLOOD-RED SKYII.–COQUENIL’S GREATEST CASEIII.–PRIVATE ROOM NUMBER SIXIV.–“IN THE NAME OF THE LAW”V.–COQUENIL GETS IN THE GAMEVI.–THE WEAPONVII.–THE FOOTPRINTSVIII.–THROUGH THE WALLIX.–COQUENIL MARKS HIS MANX.–GIBELIN SCORES A POINTXI....

TRAILIN’! By Max Brand 1919 ToROBERT HOBART DAVISMaker of Books and Men CONTENTS CHAPTER I.——“LA-A-A-DIES AN’ GEN’L’MUN” II.—–SPORTING CHANCE III.—-SOCIAL SUICIDE IV.—–A SESSION OF CHAT V.——ANTHONY IS LEFT IN THE DARK VI.—–JOHN BARD VII.—-BLUEBEARD’S ROOM VIII.—MARTY WILKES IX.—–“THIS PLACE FOR REST” X.——A BIT OF STALKING XI.—–THE QUEST BEGINS XII.—-THE FIRST DAY XIII.—A TOUCH OF CRIMSON XIV.—-LEMONADE XV.—–THE DARKNESS IN ELDARA XVI.—-BLUFF XVII.—BUTCH RETURNS XVIII.–FOOLISH HABITS XIX.—-THE CANDLE XX.—–JOAN XXI.—-THE SWIMMING OF THE SAVERACK XXII....

[Illustration: PETER BROWN’S ARMS.] TRAVELS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797. With The Author’s Journals of his Two Voyages Across the Atlantic * * * * * BY WILLIAM PRIEST, Musician,Late of the Theatres Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston. * * * * * CAPPRICCIO con—- * * * * * LONDON:Printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul’s Church-Yard * * * * * 1802....

Edited By WILLIAM ROUGHEAD Author of “Twelve Scots Trials,” “The Riddle of the Ruthvens,” “Glengarry’s Way,” &c. ILLUSTRATED 1914 [Illustration: Miss Blandy in her cell in Oxford Castle. (From an unpublished Sepia Drawing in the Collection of Mr. Horace Bleackley.)] TO LORD DUNSANY THIS RECORD OF GRIM REALITYIN EXCHANGE FORHIS BEAUTIFUL DREAMS PREFACE In undertaking to prepare an account of this celebrated trial, the Editor at the outset fondly trusted that the conviction of “the unfortunate Miss Blandy” might, upon due inquiry, be found to have been, as the phrase is, a miscarriage of justice....

TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MASTA Personal Narrative of Life at Sea By Richard Henry Dana, Jr. With an introduction and notes byHomer Eaton Keyes, B.L.Assistant Professor of Art in Dartmouth College —-Crowded in the rank and narrow ship,– Housed on the wild sea with wild usages,– Whate’er in the inland dales the land conceals Of fair and exquisite, O! nothing, nothing, Do we behold of that in our rude voyage....

CELEBRATED CRIMES, VOLUME 4(of 8), Part 2 By Alexandre Dumas, Pere URBAIN GRANDIER 1634 CHAPTER I On Sunday, the 26th of November, 1631, there was great excitement in the little town of Loudun, especially in the narrow streets which led to the church of Saint-Pierre in the marketplace, from the gate of which the town was entered by anyone coming from the direction of the abbey of Saint-Jouin-les-Marmes. This excitement was caused by the expected arrival of a personage who had been much in people’s mouths latterly in Loudun, and about whom there was such difference of opinion that discussion on the subject between those who were on his side and those who were against him was carried on with true provincial acrimony....

[Illustration: “I must think!” I said. “Let me be!”] VANDEMARK’S FOLLY BY HERBERT QUICK 1922 CONTENTS CHAPTER I A Flat Dutch Turnip Begins Its Career. II I Learn and Do Some Teaching.III I See the World, and Suffer a Great Loss. IV I Become a Sailor, and Find a Clue.V The End of a Long Quest.VI I Become Cow Vandemark.VII Adventure on the Old Ridge Road. VIII My Load Receives an Embarrassing Addition....