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[Transcriber’s Notes: Footnotes have been renumbered and moved to the end of the work.] The Symbolism of Freemasonry: Illustrating and ExplainingIts Science and Philosophy, its Legends, Myths and Symbols. By Albert G. Mackey, M.D. “Ea enim quae scribuntur tria habere decent, utilitatem praesentem, certum finem, inexpugnabile fundamentum.” Cardanus. 1882. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by ALBERT G. MACKEY, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of South Carolina....

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE. CHAPTER I. The public may possibly wonder why it is that they have never heard in the papers of the fate of the passengers of the Korosko. In these days of universal press agencies, responsive to the slightest stimulus, it may well seem incredible that an international incident of such importance should remain so long unchronicled. Suffice it that there were very valid reasons, both of a personal and of a political nature, for holding it back....

On a verdant slope of Mount Maenalus, in Arcadia, there stands an olive grove about the ruins of a villa. Close by is a tomb, once beautiful with the sublimest sculptures, but now fallen into as great decay as the house. At one end of that tomb, its curious roots displacing the time-stained blocks of Pentelic marble, grows an unnaturally large olive tree of oddly repellent shape; so like to some grotesque man, or death-distorted body of a man, that the country folk fear to pass it at night when the moon shines faintly through the crooked boughs....

CAPTAINS ALL By W.W. Jacobs THE WHITE CAT [Illustration: “The White Cat.”] The traveller stood looking from the tap-room window of the Cauliflower at the falling rain. The village street below was empty, and everything was quiet with the exception of the garrulous old man smoking with much enjoyment on the settle behind him. “It’ll do a power o’ good,” said the ancient, craning his neck round the edge of the settle and turning a bleared eye on the window....

THE WORKS OFEDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Contents Volume III Narrative of A. Gordon PymLigeiaMorellaA Tale of the Ragged MountainsThe SpectaclesKing PestThree Sundays in a Week NARRATIVE OF A. GORDON PYM INTRODUCTORY NOTE UPON my return to the United States a few months ago, after the extraordinary series of adventure in the South Seas and elsewhere, of which an account is given in the following pages, accident threw me into the society of several gentlemen in Richmond, Va....

TheWorksOfJohn Dryden, Now First Collected_In Eighteen Volumes_. IllustratedWith Notes,Historical, Critical, And Explanatory, AndA Life Of The Author, by Walter Scott, Esq. VOL. II.1808. CONTENTSOFVOLUME SECOND. Dedication of Mr Congreve’s edition of Dryden’s Dramatic Works to the Duke of Newcastle The Wild Gallant, a Comedy Preface The Rival Ladies, a Tragi-comedy Dedication to the Earl of Orrery The Indian Queen, a Tragedy The Indian Emperor, or the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards Dedication to the Duchess of Monmouth and Buccleuch Defence of an Essay of Dramatic Poesy Connection of the Indian Emperor to the Indian Queen Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen Preface THEWORKSOFJOHN DRYDEN....

[Illustration: MEETING OF THEOBALD AND ARNOLD.–SEE CHAPTER III.] THEOBALD, THE IRON-HEARTED; OR, LOVE TO ENEMIES. FROM THE FRENCH OF REV. CESAR MALAN. 1808 CONTENTS CHAPTER I. GOTTFRIED AND ERARD–PURSUIT OF A HORSEMAN–RESCUE OF THE WOUNDED CHEVALIER CHAPTER II TRAPPINGS OF THE HORSE–MIDNIGHT ARRIVAL–CHARACTER OF THE WOUNDED MAN DISCOVERED–HIS NARRATIVE–FAMILY WORSHIP CHAPTER III THEOBALD’S ACCOUNT OF HIS CONFLICT WITH ARNOLD THE LION–HATRED OF ENEMIES–DISTRESS OF THE FAMILY CHAPTER IV. KINDNESS TO AN ENEMY–ARNOLD ARRIVES ALIVE, BUT WOUNDED–THEOBALD’S AMAZEMENT AT THE KINDNESS HE RECEIVES CHAPTER V....

THEY AND I by Jerome K. Jerome CHAPTER I “It is not a large house,” I said. “We don’t want a large house. Two spare bedrooms, and the little three-cornered place you see marked there on the plan, next to the bathroom, and which will just do for a bachelor, will be all we shall require–at all events, for the present. Later on, if I ever get rich, we can throw out a wing....

Randolph Carter, who had all his life sought to escape from the tedium and limitations of waking reality in the beckoning vistas of dreams and fabled avenues of other dimensions, disappeared from the sight of man on the seventh of October, 1928, at the age of fifty-four. His career had been a strange and lonely one, and there were those who inferred from his curious novels many episodes more bizarre than any in his recorded history....

by JOSEPH CONRAD “I would take liberty from any hand as a hungry man would snatch a piece of bread.”Miss HALDIN PART FIRST To begin with I wish to disclaim the possession of those high gifts of imagination and expression which would have enabled my pen to create for the reader the personality of the man who called himself, after the Russian custom, Cyril son of Isidor–Kirylo Sidorovitch– Razumov. If I have ever had these gifts in any sort of living form they have been smothered out of existence a long time ago under a wilderness of words....

This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliotheque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr. VIEWS A-FOOT; OR EUROPE SEEN WITH KNAPSACK AND STAFF. BY J. BAYARD TAYLOR. WITH A PREFACE BY N.P. WILLIS. “Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a; A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a.” Winter’s Tale. IN TWO PARTS. PART I. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1846, by WILEY AND PUTNAM, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York....

VIRGINIA: THE OLD DOMINION As seen from its Colonial waterway, the Historic River James, whose every succeeding turn reveals country replete with monuments and scenes recalling the march of history and its figures from the days of Captain John Smith to the present time. By FRANK AND CORTELLE HUTCHINS With a map, and fifty-four plates, of which six are in full color, from photographs by the authors. 1910 [Illustration: The Portico of Brandon, from the Garden....

Confusion of years in the case of the months of January (etc.) Else he is a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment Fixed that the year should commence in January instead of March He knew nothing about the navyHe made the great speech of his life, and spoke for three hours I never designed to be a witness against any man In perpetual trouble and vexation that need it least Inoffensive vanity of a man who loved to see himself in the glass Learned the multiplication table for the first time in 1661 Montaigne is conscious that we are looking over his shoulder Nothing in it approaching that single page in St....

[Illustration: He smashed down upon me again, and made that hole in my leg above the knee. I handled my knife in a hurry, and made more than one hole in his skin, while he stuck a prong through my arm.] WILD NORTHERN SCENES. OR SPORTING ADVENTURES WITH THE RIFLE AND THE ROD. BY S. H. HAMMOND. 1857 TO JOHN H. REYNOLDS, ESQ., OF ALBANY. You have floated over the beautiful lakes and along the pleasant rivers of that broad wilderness lying between the majestic St....

PREPARER’S NOTE This text was prepared from a 1913 edition, published by Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York. Within an Inch of His Life by Emile Gaboriau FIRST PART FIRE AT VALPINSON These were the facts:– I. In the night from the 22nd to the 23rd of June, 1871, towards one o’clock in the morning, the Paris suburb of Sauveterre, the principal and most densely populated suburb of that pretty town, was startled by the furious gallop of a horse on its ill-paved streets....

YOUNG LIVES BY RICHARD LE GALLIENNE 1899 TO ALFRED LEE IN MEMORY OF ANGEL September, 1898. Let thy soul strive that still the same Be early friendship’s sacred flame; The affinities have strongest part In youth, and draw men heart to heart: As life wears on and finds no rest, The individual in each breast Is tyrannous to sunder them. CONTENTS Chapter I. HARD YOUNG HEARTS. II. CONCERNING THOSE “ATLANTIC LINERS” AND AN OLD DESK....

BUNYAN CHARACTERS (THIRD SERIES) by Alexander Whyte CHAPTER I–THE BOOK ‘–the book of the wars of the Lord.’–Moses. John Bunyan’s Holy War was first published in 1682, six years before its illustrious author’s death. Bunyan wrote this great book when he was still in all the fulness of his intellectual power and in all the ripeness of his spiritual experience. The Holy War is not the Pilgrim’s Progress–there is only one Pilgrim’s Progress....

Sheehan’s Pool Room, which adorns one of the lesser alleys in the heart of Chicago’s stockyard district, is not a nice place. Its air, freighted with a thousand odours such as Coleridge may have found at Cologne, too seldom knows the purifying rays of the sun; but fights for space with the acrid fumes of unnumbered cheap cigars and cigarettes which dangle from the coarse lips of unnumbered human animals that haunt the place day and night....

of the EMOTIONS Miscellaneous Papers BY GEORGE W. CRILE, M.D. PROFESSOR OF SURGERY, SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY VISITING SURGEON TO THE LAKESIDE HOSPITAL, CLEVELAND EDITED BYAMY F. ROWLAND, B. S. PREFACE IN response to numerous requests I have brought together into this volume eight papers which may serve as a supplement to the volumes previously published[] and as a preface to monographs now in preparation. [] Surgical Shock, 1899; Surgery of the Respiratory System, 1899; Problems Relating to Surgical Operations, 1901; Blood Pressure in Surgery, 1903; Hemorrhage and Transfusion, 1909; Anemia and Resuscitation, 1914; and Anoci-association, 1914 (with Dr....

[Errors in the original have been preserved and noted at the end of this etext.] [Plate: F. & A. JARDINE. Black and white photograph.] NARRATIVE OF THE OVERLAND EXPEDITION OF THE MESSRS. JARDINE, FROM ROCKHAMPTON TO CAPE YORK, NORTHERN QUEENSLAND. COMPILED FROM THE JOURNALS OF THE BROTHERS, AND EDITED BY FREDERICK J. BYERLEY, (ENGINEER OF ROADS, NORTHERN DIVISION OF QUEENSLAND). BRISBANE PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. W. BUXTON, BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER....