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RECOLLECTIONS OF THE PRIVATE LIFE OF NAPOLEON, V1 By CONSTANT PREMIER VALET DE CHAMBRE TRANSLATED BY WALTER CLARK 1895 PREFACE. Though this work was first published in 1830, it has never before been translated into English. Indeed, the volumes are almost out of print. When in Paris a few years ago the writer secured, with much difficulty, a copy, from which this translation has been made. Notes have been added by the translator, and illustrations by the publishers, which, it is believed, will enhance the interest of the original work by Constant....

[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.] RECOLLECTIONS OF THE PRIVATE LIFE OF NAPOLEON, V12 By CONSTANT PREMIER VALET DE CHAMBRE TRANSLATED BY WALTER CLARK 1895 CHAPTER XXIV. After the brilliant successes obtained by the Emperor in such a short time, and with forces so exceedingly inferior to the great masses of the enemy, his Majesty, realizing the necessity of allowing his troops to take a rest of some days at Troyes, entered into negotiations for an armistice with the Prince von Schwarzenberg....

In 1889 I was an auditor and investigator connected with the Tlaxcala Mining Company of San Francisco, which operated several small silver and copper properties in the San Mateo Mountains in Mexico. There had been some trouble at Mine No. 3, which had a surly, furtive assistant superintendent named Arthur Feldon; and on August 6th the firm received a telegram saying that Feldon had decamped, taking with him all the stock records, securities, and private papers, and leaving the whole clerical and financial situation in dire confusion....

THE OLD BUSH SONGS Second Impressioncompleting the Tenth Thousand THE OLD BUSH SONGS Composed and sung in the Bushranging, Digging, and Overlanding Days EDITED BY A. B. PATERSONAUTHOR OF “THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER,” AND “RIO GRANDE’S LAST RACE” SYDNEYANGUS AND ROBERTSON89 CASTLEREAGH STREET1906 Websdale, Shoosmith and Co., Printers, Sydney PREFACE The object of the present publication is to gather together all the old bush songs that are worth remembering....

The Piper A PLAY IN FOUR ACTS By JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY BOSTON and NEW YORKHOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge1910 COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY JOSEPHINE PEABODY MARKS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Published November 1909 SEVENTH IMPRESSION TO LIONEL S. MARKS Anno 1284Am Dage Johannis et PauliWar der 26 JuniiDorch einen piper mit allerlei farve bekledet Gewesen CXXX kinder verledet binnen Hamelen geboren To Calvarii bi den koppen verloren [THE HAMELIN INSCRIPTION] CHARACTERS THE PIPER )MICHAEL-THE-SWORD-EATER ) Strolling Players CHEAT-THE-DEVIL ) JACOBUS the Burgomeister )KURT the Syndic )PETER the Cobbler )HANS the Butcher )AXEL the Smith ) Men of Hamelin MARTIN the Watch )PETER the Sacristan )ANSELM, a young priest )OLD CLAUS, a miser )TOWN CRIER ) JAN )HANSEL )ILSE ) ChildrenTRUDE )RUDI ) VERONIKA, the wife of KurtBARBARA, daughter of JacobusWIFE of HANS the ButcherWIFE of AXEL the SmithWIFE of MARTIN the WatchOLD URSULA Burghers, nuns, priests, and children SCENE: HAMELIN ON THE WESER, 1284 A....

EDINBURGH PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY, PAUL’S WORK. THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN. With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes BY THE REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN. VOL. I. M. DCCC. LV. THE LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN. John Dryden was born on the 9th of August 1631, at a place variously denominated Aldwincle, or Oldwincle, All Saints; or at Oldwincle, St Peter’s, in Northamptonshire. The name Dryden or Driden, is from the North....

Scanned by Charles Keller with OmniPage Professional OCR software THE RIDDLEOF THE RHINECHEMICAL STRATEGY IN PEACE AND WAR An account of the critical struggle for power and for the decisive war initiative. The campaign fostered by the great Rhine factories, and the pressing problems which they represent. A matter of pre-eminent public interestconcerning the sincerity of disarmament, the future of warfare, and the stability of peace. BY VICTOR LEFEBUREOfficer of the Order of the British Empire (Mil....

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XV. AND XVI. Being Secret Memoirs of Madame du Hausset, Lady’s Maid to Madame de Pompadour,and of an unknown English Girland the Princess Lamballe LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSLouis the Fifteenth “It Was an Indigestion Madame du Hausset Madame de Pompadour Madame Adelaide Madame Sophie Madame Elizabeth Mirabeau and the Queen Princess de Lamballe Marie Antoinette in the Temple Interviewing Little Louis Marie Antoinette to the Guillotine ADVERTISEMENT. [FROM THE LONDON MAGAZINE, NO....

E-mail: CFWLibrary@CRF.CUIS.EDU Surface Mail: 6600 N. Clinton St., Ft. Wayne, IN 46825 USA Phone: (219) 481-2123 Fax: (219) 481-2126 The Smalcald Articles.Articles of Christian Doctrinewhich were to have been presented on our part to the Council, if any had been assembled at Mantua or elsewhere, indicating what we could accept or yield, and what we could not._by Dr. Martin Luther, 1537Translated by F. Bente and W. H. T. Dau Published in:Triglot Concordia: The Symbolical Books of the Ev....

PREPARER’S NOTE This text was prepared from a 1911 edition, published by The Century Co., New York. The Spell of Egypt by Robert Hichens CONTENTS THE PYRAMIDS THE SPHINX SAKKARA ABYDOS THE NILE DENDERAH KARNAK LUXOR COLOSSI OF MEMNON MEDINET-ABU THE RAMESSEUM DEIR-EL-BAHARI THE TOMBS OF THE KINGS EDFU KOM OMBOS PHILAE “PHARAOH’S BED” OLD CAIRO I THE PYRAMIDS Why do you come to Egypt? Do you come to gain a dream, or to regain lost dreams of old; to gild your life with the drowsy gold of romance, to lose a creeping sorrow, to forget that too many of your hours are sullen, grey, bereft?...

The Story of an African Farm by Ralph Iron (Olive Schreiner) Preface. I have to thank cordially the public and my critics for the reception they have given this little book. Dealing with a subject that is far removed from the round of English daily life, it of necessity lacks the charm that hangs about the ideal representation of familiar things, and its reception has therefore been the more kindly....

This PG project is dedicated to retired teacher Betty Sheridan, who introduced me to the “Twins” stories. She generously loaned this book to be produced for PG. THE SWISS TWINS By Lucy Fitch Perkins Also by Lucy Fitch Perkins Geographical Series THE DUTCH TWINS PRIMER. Grade!. THE DUTCH TWINS AND LITTLE BROTHER. Grade II. THE FARM TWINS. Grades I-III. THE ESKIMO TWINS. Grade II. THE DUTCH TWINS. Grade III. THE PICKANINNY TWINS....

THE THREE BRIDES CHAPTER IThe Model And Her Copies There is sure another Flood toward, that so many couples are coming to the Ark.–As You Like It “Ah! it is a pitiable case!” “What case, boys?” “Yours, mother, with such an influx of daughters-in-law.” “I suspect the daughters-in-law think themselves more to be pitied.” “As too many suns in one sphere.” “As daughters-in-law at all.” “There’s a ready cure for that....

by William Shakespeare Persons Represented. Lear, King of Britain.King of France.Duke of Burgundy.Duke of Cornwall.Duke of Albany.Earl of Kent.Earl of Gloster.Edgar, Son to Gloster.Edmund, Bastard Son to Gloster.Curan, a Courtier.Old Man, Tenant to Gloster.Physician.Fool.Oswald, steward to Goneril.An Officer employed by Edmund.Gentleman, attendant on Cordelia.A Herald.Servants to Cornwall. Goneril, daughter to Lear.Regan, daughter to Lear.Cordelia, daughter to Lear. Knights attending on the King, Officers, Messengers, Soldiers, and Attendants. Scene,–Britain. ACT I....

“I quite agree–in regard to Griffin’s ghost, or whatever it was– that its appearing first to the little boy, at so tender an age, adds a particular touch. But it’s not the first occurrence of its charming kind that I know to have involved a child. If the child gives the effect another turn of the screw, what do you say to TWO children–?” “We say, of course,” somebody exclaimed, “that they give two turns!...

THE UNKNOWN GUEST BY MAURICE MAETERLINCK Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos INTRODUCTION 1 My Essay on Death[1] led me to make a conscientious enquiry into the present position of the great mystery, an enquiry which I have endeavoured to render as complete as possible. I had hoped that a single volume would be able to contain the result of these investigations, which, I may say at once, will teach nothing to those who have been over the same ground and which have nothing to recommend them except their sincerity, their impartiality and a certain scrupulous accuracy....

(a critique by Lichtenstein himself) I Because I believe that many do not understand the verse of Lichtenstein, do not correctly understand, do not clearly understand– II The first eighty poems are lyric. In the usual sense. They are not much different from poetry that praises gardens. The content is the distress of love, death, universal longing. The impulse to formulate them in the “cynical” vein (like cabaret songs) may, for example, might have arisen from the wish to feel superior....

THE VIRGINIA HOUSEWIFE Or, Methodical Cook By MRS. MARY RANDOLPH 1860 Method Is the Soul of Management PREFACE The difficulties I encountered when I first entered on the duties of a housekeeping life, from the want of books sufficiently clear and concise to impart knowledge to a Tyro, compelled me to study the subject, and by actual experiment to reduce every thing in the culinary line, to proper weights and measures....

THE WORLD’S GREAT SERMONS COMPILED BY GRENVILLE KLEISER Formerly of Yale Divinity School Faculty; Author of “How to Speak in Public,” Etc. With Assistance from Many of the Foremost Living Preachers and Other Theologians INTRODUCTION BY LEWIS O. BRASTOW, D.D. Professor Emeritus of Practical Theology in Yale University IN TEN VOLUMES VOLUME X DRUMMOND TO JOWETT General Index 1908 CONTENTS VOLUME X. DRUMMOND (1851–1897).The Greatest Thing in the World WAGNER (Born in 1851)....

The Yellow GodAn Idol of Africa CHAPTER I SAHARA LIMITED Sir Robert Aylward, Bart., M.P., sat in his office in the City of London. It was a very magnificent office, quite one of the finest that could be found within half a mile of the Mansion House. Its exterior was built of Aberdeen granite, a material calculated to impress the prospective investor with a comfortable sense of security. Other stucco, or even brick-built, offices might crumble and fall in an actual or a financial sense, but this rock-like edifice of granite, surmounted by a life-sized statue of Justice with her scales, admired from either corner by pleasing effigies of Commerce and of Industry, would surely endure any shock....