by E. Phillips Oppenheim CHAPTER I “Never heard a sound,” the younger of the afternoon callers admitted, getting rid of his empty cup and leaning forward in his low chair. “No more tea, thank you, Miss Fairclough. Done splendidly, thanks. No, I went to bed last night soon after eleven – the Colonel had been route marching us all off our legs – and I never awoke until reveille this morning....
TWENTY-TWO GOBLINS Translated from the Sanskrit by Arthur W. Ryder CONTENTS Introduction Goblin-story The Prince’s Elopement. Whose fault was the resulting death of his parents-in-law? The Three Lovers who brought the Dead Girl to Life. Whose wife should she be? The Parrot and the Thrush. Which are worse, men or women? King Shudraka and Hero’s Family. Which of the five deserves the most honour? The Brave Man, the Wise Man, and the Clever Man....
A CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF A TYRONE FAMILY AND THE MURDERED COUSIN Two stories by J.S. LeFanu A Chapter in the History was first published in 1836. The Murdered Cousin was first published in 1851. A CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF A TYRONE FAMILY Being a Tenth Extract from the Legacy of the Late Francis Purcell, P.P. of Drumcoolagh INTRODUCTION. In the following narrative, I have endeavoured to give as nearly as possible the “ipsissima verba” of the valued friend from whom I received it, conscious that any aberration from her mode of telling the tale of her own life, would at once impair its accuracy and its effect....
In this Etext, text in italics has been written in capital letters. Many French words in the text have accents, etc. which have been omitted. UNDER THE RED ROBE by STANLEY J. WEYMAN * CONTENTS CHAPTER I. AT ZATON’S CHAPTER II. AT THE GREEN PILLAR CHAPTER III. THE HOUSE IN THE WOOD CHAPTER IV. MADAM AND MADEMOISELLE CHAPTER V. REVENGE CHAPTER VI. UNDER THE PlC DU MIDI CHAPTER VII. A MASTER STROKE CHAPTER VIII....
UTILITARIANISM BY JOHN STUART MILL REPRINTED FROM ‘FRASER’S MAGAZINE’ SEVENTH EDITION LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1879 CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. GENERAL REMARKS CHAPTER II. WHAT UTILITARIANISM IS CHAPTER III. OF THE ULTIMATE SANCTION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF UTILITY CHAPTER IV. OF WHAT SORT OF PROOF THE PRINCIPLE OF UTILITY IS SUSCEPTIBLE CHAPTER V. OF THE CONNEXION BETWEEN JUSTICE AND UTILITY UTILITARIANISM. CHAPTER I. GENERAL REMARKS. There are few circumstances among those which make up the present condition of human knowledge, more unlike what might have been expected, or more significant of the backward state in which speculation on the most important subjects still lingers, than the little progress which has been made in the decision of the controversy respecting the criterion of right and wrong....
Utopia of Usurers and other Essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton CONTENTS A Song of Swords Utopia of Usurers I. Art and Advertisement II. Letters and the New Laureates III. Unbusinesslike Business IV. The War on Holidays V. The Church of the Servile State VI. Science and the Eugenists VII. The Evolution of the Prison VIII. The Lash for Labour IX. The Mask of Socialism The EscapeThe New RaidThe New NameA Workman’s History of EnglandThe French Revolution and the Irish Liberalism: A SampleThe Fatigue of Fleet StreetThe Amnesty for AggressionRevive the Court JesterThe Art of Missing the PointThe Servile State AgainThe Empire of the IgnorantThe Symbolism of KruppThe Tower of BebelA Real DancerThe Dregs of PuritanismThe Tyranny of Bad JournalismThe Poetry of the Revolution A SONG OF SWORDS “A drove of cattle came into a village called Swords; and was stopped by the rioters....
Virgie’s Inheritance By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon Author of “Nora,” “Trixy,”“Earle Wayne’s Nobility,”“Helen’s Victory,”“A True Aristocrat,” Etc. Copyright, 1887, 1888, 1891By Street & Smith Virgie’s Inheritance. Chapter I. Virgie and the Benighted Traveler. “Virgie, I shall have to give up the race.” “Papa!” “My strength is failing rapidly. It was all that I could do to creep home to-night. My trembling limbs, my labored breathing, and this dreadful cough, all warn me that I must set my house in order, and make provision for your future....
[Transcriber’s note: This was a catalog from a magazine subscription agency MANY YEARS AGO. It is presented in order to show a cross section of the periodicals for the general public, and some professional journals, published in the USA at that time, and the kinds of subscription prices they asked. Obviously, the offers are NO LONGER AVAILABLE and most of these periodicals are no longer published! The only other thing I know about Mr....
In a dentist’s operating room on a fine August morning in 1896. Not the usual tiny London den, but the best sitting room of a furnished lodging in a terrace on the sea front at a fashionable watering place. The operating chair, with a gas pump and cylinder beside it, is half way between the centre of the room and one of the corners. If you look into the room through the window which lights it, you will see the fireplace in the middle of the wall opposite you, with the door beside it to your left; an M....
‘Twixt Land & Sea Tales Contents A Smile of FortuneThe Secret SharerFreya of the Seven Isles A SMILE OF FORTUNE–HARBOUR STORY Ever since the sun rose I had been looking ahead. The ship glided gently in smooth water. After a sixty days’ passage I was anxious to make my landfall, a fertile and beautiful island of the tropics. The more enthusiastic of its inhabitants delight in describing it as the “Pearl of the Ocean....
MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-1798 TO PARIS AND PRISON, Volume 2b–VENICE THE RARE UNABRIDGED LONDON EDITION OF 1894 TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR MACHEN TO WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED THE CHAPTERS DISCOVERED BY ARTHUR SYMONS. VENICE CHAPTER X My Stay in Vienna–Joseph II–My Departure for Venice Arrived, for the first time, in the capital of Austria, at the age of eight-and-twenty, well provided with clothes, but rather short of money–a circumstance which made it necessary for me to curtail my expenses until the arrival of the proceeds of a letter of exchange which I had drawn upon M....
BORELLUS I. A Result and a Prologue 1. From a private hospital for the insane near Providence, Rhode Island, there recently disappeared an exceedingly singular person. He bore the name of Charles Dexter Ward, and was placed under restraint most reluctantly by the grieving father who had watched his aberration grow from a mere eccentricity to a dark mania involving both a possibility of murderous tendencies and a profound and peculiar change in the apparent contents of his mind....
MRS. COLMAN’S NEW JUVENILE SERIES I. THE TALISMAN OF THE GOOD GENIUS, &c. II. STORIES OF AFFECTION. III. THE PEARL STORY BOOK. IV. THE PET BUTTERFLIES; THE LITTLE SEEKERS FOR HAPPINESS, &c. &c. V. NEW AND TRUE STORIES. VI. HOLIDAY STORIES. THE PEARL STORY BOOK: A COLLECTION OF TALES, ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. BY MRS. COLMAN, AUTHOR OF INNOCENCE OF CHILDHOOD, ETC. ETC. 1850. CONTENTS. ~THE TURTLE-DOVES OF CARMEL.~ CHAPTER FIRST....
[Illustration: “M. Flocon interposed with uplifted hand.”] The ROME EXPRESS By Arthur Griffiths With a frontispiece in coloursBy Arthur O. Scott 1907 THE ROME EXPRESS CHAPTER I The Rome Express, the direttissimo, or most direct, was approaching Paris one morning in March, when it became known to the occupants of the sleeping-car that there was something amiss, very much amiss, in the car. The train was travelling the last stage, between Laroche and Paris, a run of a hundred miles without a stop....
by Joseph Conrad I On my right hand there were lines of fishing stakes resembling a mysterious system of half-submerged bamboo fences, incomprehensible in its division of the domain of tropical fishes, and crazy of aspect as if abandoned forever by some nomad tribe of fishermen now gone to the other end of the ocean; for there was no sign of human habitation as far as the eye could reach....
A Work Descriptive of the Virtues and the Vices, the Mysteries, Miseries and Crimes of New York City BY EDWARD WINSLOW MARTIN CHAPTER I. THE CITY OF NEW YORK. The City of New York is the largest and most important in America. Its corporate limits embrace the whole of Manhattan Island, on which it is situated, and which is bounded by the Hudson, the East and Harlem rivers, and by Spuyten Duyvil creek, which last connects the Harlem with the Hudson....
CONTENTS CHAPTER CRAIG KENNEDY’S THEORIES I The Silent BulletII The Scientific CracksmanIII The Bacteriological DetectiveIV The Deadly TubeV The Seismograph AdventureVI The Diamond MakerVII The Azure RingVIII “Spontaneous Combustion”IX The Terror In The AirX The Black HandXI The Artificial ParadiseXII The Steel Door CRAIG KENNEDY’S THEORIES “It has always seemed strange to me that no one has ever endowed a professorship in criminal science in any of our large universities....
Henry W. Longfellow CONTENTS Introductory NoteIntroductionI. The Peace-PipeII. The Four WindsIII. Hiawatha’s ChildhoodIV. Hiawatha and MudjekeewisV. Hiawatha’s FastingVI. Hiawatha’s FriendsVII. Hiawatha’s SailingVIII. Hiawatha’s FishingIX. Hiawatha and the Pearl-Feather X. Hiawatha’s WooingXI. Hiawatha’s Wedding-FeastXII. The Son of the Evening StarXIII. Blessing the Corn-FieldsXIV. Picture-WritingXV. Hiawatha’s LamentationXVI. Pau-Puk-KeewisXVII. The Hunting of Pau-Puk-Keewis XVIII. The Death of KwasindXIX. The GhostsXX. The FamineXXI. The White Man’s FootXXII. Hiawatha’s DepartureVocabulary Introductory Note The Song of Hiawatha is based on the legends and stories of many North American Indian tribes, but especially those of the Ojibway Indians of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota....
BEING A SERIES OF TWELVE LETTERSWRITTEN BY J. STARK MUNRO, M.B.,TO HIS FRIEND AND FORMER FELLOW-STUDENT, HERBERT SWANBOROUGH,OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS,DURING THE YEARS 1881-1884 EDITED AND ARRANGED BYA. CONAN DOYLE The letters of my friend Mr. Stark Munro appear to me to form so connected a whole, and to give so plain an account of some of the troubles which a young man may be called upon to face right away at the outset of his career, that I have handed them over to the gentleman who is about to edit them....
My name and origin need not be related to posterity; in fact, I fancy it is better that they should not be, for when a man suddenly migrates to the States or the Colonies, he leaves his past behind him. Besides, what I once was is not in the least relevant to my narrative; save perhaps the fact that during my service in India I was more at home amongst white-bearded native teachers than amongst my brother-officers....
