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[Illustration: Cleansing the Leper.] THE GOOD CHILD’S LIBRARY. TENTH BOOK. THE PARABLES OF THE SAVIOUR, IN EASY VERSE. WITH BRILLIANT ILLUMINATIONS, FROM ORIGINAL DESIGNS 1851. PREFACE. The object of the “GOOD CHILD’S LIBRARY,” is to encourage a taste for Scripture reading, by presenting some of the most interesting portions of the New Testament narrative, in the attractive form of verse. While the children read these verses, they will not only become acquainted with the principal events in the lives of our Blessed Saviour and His Apostles–their travels, their sufferings and their death,–but they will see that the Bible is a readable book, and a book that may be read every day, without any fear of becoming the unhappy being that some persons suppose; and besides this, the tone which is given to the affections, the minds, and the morals of children by such reading, is of almost infinite value....

THE PIRATES OWN BOOK Authentic Narratives of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers. by Charles Ellms 1837 [Illustration: A Piratical Scene–“Walking the Death Plank.”] [Illustration] PREFACE. In the mind of the mariner, there is a superstitious horror connected with the name of Pirate; and there are few subjects that interest and excite the curiosity of mankind generally, more than the desperate exploits, foul doings, and diabolical career of these monsters in human form....

** Transcriber’s Notes ** The printed edition from which this e-text has been produced retains the spelling and abbreviations of Hakluyt’s 16th-century original. In this version, the spelling has been retained, but the following manuscript abbreviations have been silently expanded: – vowels with macrons = vowel + ‘n’ or ‘m’ – q; = -que (in the Latin) – y[e] = the; y[t] = that; w[t] = with This edition contains footnotes and two types of sidenotes....

or, The Yankee-Canadian Wireless Trail by J. W. DUFFIELD Author of RADIO BOYS IN THE SECRET SERVICE; or, Cast Away on an Iceberg. RADIO BOYS IN THE FLYING SERVICE; or, Held For Ransom by Mexican Bandits. RADIO BOYS IN THE ROCKIES; or, The Mystery of the Lost Valley. 1922 CONTENTS Chapter I Vacation Plans II Tragedy or Joke III Talking it over IV The Catwhisker V A Baffling Situation VI A Mystery and Cub’s “Goat” VII Returning Cub’s “Goat” VIII Mathematics or Geography?...

[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.] THE SATYRICON OF PETRONIUS ARBITER Complete and unexpurgated translation by W. C. Firebaugh, in which are incorporated the forgeries of Nodot and Marchena, and the readings introduced into the text by De Salas. BRACKET CODE: (Forgeries of Nodot) [Forgeries of Marchena] {Additions of De Salas} DW VOLUME 5....

1 What man may lay bare the soul of England as it was stirred during those days of July when suddenly, without any previous warning, loud enough to reach the ears of the mass of people, there came the menace of a great, bloody war, threatening all that had seemed so safe and so certain in our daily life? England suffered in those summer days a shock which thrilled to its heart and brain with an enormous emotion such as a man who has been careless of truth and virtue experiences at a “Revivalist” meeting or at a Catholic mission when some passionate preacher breaks the hard crust of his carelessness and convinces him that death and the judgment are very near, and that all the rottenness of his being will be tested in the furnace of a spiritual agony....

Again I say, I do not know what has become of Harley Warren; though I think—almost hope—that he is in peaceful oblivion, if there be anywhere so blessed a thing. It is true that I have for five years been his closest friend, and a partial sharer of his terrible researches into the unknown. I will not deny, though my memory is uncertain and indistinct, that this witness of yours may have seen us together as he says, on the Gainesville pike, walking toward Big Cypress Swamp, at half past eleven on that awful night....

[Illustration: Frank R. Stockton] The Storiesof theThree Burglars ByFRANK R. STOCKTON 1889 THE STORIES OF THE THREE BURGLARS. I am a householder in a pleasant country neighbourhood, about twenty miles from New York. My family consists of myself and wife, our boy, George William, aged two, two maid-servants, and a man; but in the summer we have frequent visitors, and at the time of which I am about to write my Aunt Martha was staying with us....

The Story of CRISCO 1913191419151916The Procter & Gamble Co.Cincinnati ELEVENTH EDITION Price Twenty-Five Cents [Illustration: The Story of CRISCO] TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction The Story of Crisco Things To Remember Hints To Young Cooks How To Choose Foods Methods of Cooking Time Table for Cooking The Art of Carving Soups Fish Meats Vegetables Salads Puddings Sandwiches Pastries Breads Cakes Vegetarian Dishes Eggs Candies Calendar of Dinners A APPETIZERS Lettuce Cocktail 153 Onion Cocktail 161 B BREADS Apple Strudel 221 Boston Brown 98 Brown Nut 98 Coffee 99 Coffee, Swedish 113 Corn 100 Crisco Milk 101 Fruit, Yorkshire 114 Gluten 104 Graham 102 Health 105 Hominy 105 Nut, Steamed 112 Raisin and Buttermilk 109 Raisin and Nut 221 Rolled Oats 109 Rye, Swedish 113 Savarin 110 Southern Spoon 112 Water 114 Wheat, Entire 102 BREADSBiscuits, Rolls, Etc....

By the same Author: THE CREATORSTHE DIVINE FIRETWO SIDES OF A QUESTIONTHE HELPMATEKITTY TAILLEURMR. AND MRS. NEVILL TYSONANN SEVERN AND THE FIELDINGSARNOLD WATERLOW: A LIFEUNCANNY STORIESTHE RECTOR OF WYCKTHE ALLINGHAMSA CURE OF SOULSFAR ENDHISTORY OF ANTHONY WARINGTALES TOLD BY SIMPSONETC. THE THREE BRONTES by MAY SINCLAIR 1912 PREFATORY NOTE My thanks are due, first and chiefly, to Mr. Clement K. Shorter who placed all his copyright material at my disposal; and to Mr....

[Illustration: SHARPLESS MINIATURE OF WASHINGTON, 1795] The True George Washington By Paul Leicester Ford Author of “The Honorable Peter Stirling” Editor of “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson” and “The Sayings of Poor Richard” “That I have foibles, and perhaps many of them, I shall not deny. I should esteem myself, as the world would, vain and empty, were I to arrogate perfection.” –Washington “Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice....

[Illustration: Elizabeth] THE VISITS OF ELIZABETH By ELINOR GLYN TWENTY SECOND EDITION. Cambridge U.S.A. MDCCCI (1901) Contents NAZEBY HALL300 EATON PLACEHEAVILAND MANORHAZELDENE COURTCHATEAU DE CROIXMAREYACHT “SAUTERELLE”CAUDEBECHOTEL FRASCATI, HAVRECHATEAU DE CROIXMARECHAMPS ELYSEESCHATEAU DE CROIXMARERETBYCARRISTON TOWERSCHEVENIX CASTLEFOLJAMBE PLACE NAZEBY HALL It was perhaps a fortunate thing for Elizabeth that her ancestors went back to the Conquest, and that she numbered at least two Countesses and a Duchess among her relatives. Her father had died some years ago, and, her mother being an invalid, she had lived a good deal abroad....

VITTORIA By George Meredith BOOK 6. XXIX. EPISODES OF THE REVOLT AND THE WAR–THE TOBACCO RIOTS –RINALDO GUIDASCARPIXXX. EPISODES OF THE REVOLT AND THE WAR–THE FIVE DAYS OF MILAN XXXI. EPISODES OF THE REVOLT AND THE WAR–VITTORIA DISOBEYS HER LOVER XXXII. EPISODES OF THE REVOLT AND THE WAR–THE TREACHERY OF PERICLES–THE WHITE UMBRELLA–THE DEATH OF RINALDO GUIDASCARPI CHAPTER XXIX EPISODES OF THE REVOLT AND THE WAR–THE TOBACCO-RIOTS–RINALDO GUIDASCARPI Anna von Lenkenstein was one who could wait for vengeance....

Produced by Distributed Proofreaders Europe, http://dp.rastko.net Project by Carlo TraversoThis file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliotheque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr. WARNING: this is an inferior ASCII version, in which all the accents in the letters have been removed. We suggest that you use instead the 8-bit version 11298-8.txt [Illustration: A BIT OF OLD FIGEAC. Frontispiece.] WANDERINGS BY SOUTHERN WATERS EASTERN AQUITAINE BY EDWARD HARRISON BARKER AUTHOR OF ‘WAYFARING IN FRANCE’ WITH ILLUSTRATIONS LONDON RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen 1893 CONTENTS THE VALLEY OF THE OUYSSE AND ROC-AMADOUR FROM THE ALZOU TO THE DORDOGNE WAYFARING UNDERGROUND IN THE VALLEY OF THE CELE IN THE ALBIGEOIS ACROSS THE ROUERGUE THE BLACK CAUSSE THE CANON OF THE TARN IN THE VALLEY OF THE LOT [Illustration:OAK CHIMNEY-PIECE AT THE SINECHAUSSEE (NOW HOTEL DE VILLE) OF MARTEL....

“About, about!Search Windsor Castle, elves, within and out.” SHAKESPEARE, Merry Wives of Windsor There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter, Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest, Doth all the winter time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragg’d horns; And there he blasts the tree, and takes the cattle, And makes milch-kine yield blood, and shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful manner:You have heard of such a spirit; and well you know, The superstitious idle-headed eldReceiv’d, and did deliver to our age, This tale of Herne the hunter for a truth....

Complete in One Volume. By J. Fenimore Cooper. 1871. “I venerate the Pilgrim’s cause, Yet for the red man dare to plead: We bow to Heaven’s recorded laws, He turns to Nature for his creed.” Sprague. Preface. The history of the borders is filled with legends of the sufferings of isolated families, during the troubled scenes of colonial warfare. Those which we now offer to the reader, are distinctive in many of their leading facts, if not rigidly true in the details....

A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS. VOL. VI.–JULY, 1860.–NO. XXXIII. METEOROLOGY. A GLANCE AT THE SCIENCE. The purpose of this article is to present, in a brief andsimple manner, the leading principles on which the science ofMeteorology is founded,–rather, however, in the spirit of aninquirer than of a teacher. For, notwithstanding the rapidprogress it has made within the last thirty years, it is farfrom having the authority of an exact science; many of itsphenomena are as yet inexplicable, and many differences ofopinion among the learned remain unreconciled on points at firstsight apparently easy to be settled....

[Spelling conforms to the original: “s’s” instead of our “z’s”; and “c’s” where we would have “s’s”; and “…our” as in colour and flavour; many interesting double consonants; etc.] THE FORSYTE SAGA VOLUME III–AWAKENING and TO LET By John Galsworthy AWAKENING Through the massive skylight illuminating the hall at Robin Hill, the July sunlight at five o’clock fell just where the broad stairway turned; and in that radiant streak little Jon Forsyte stood, blue- linen-suited....

I recalled forcibly the events preceding my confinement and seclusion in this veritable medieval fortress. They were not pleasant, and I shuddered anew when I remembered the couch that had held me before my tenancy of the present one—the couch that everyone supposed would be my last. Memory burned afresh regarding those hideous circumstances which had compelled me to choose between a true death and a hypothetical one—with a later re-animation by therapeutic methods known only to my comrade, Marshall Andrews....

THE PARIS SKETCH BOOK OF MR. M. A. TITMARSH by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY ESTES AND LAURIAT, BOSTON Publishers CONTENTS. THE PARIS SKETCH BOOK. An Invasion of France A Caution to Travellers The Fêtes of July On the French School of Painting The Painter’s Bargain Cartouche On some French Fashionable Novels A Gambler’s Death Napoleon and his System The Story of Mary Ancel Beatrice Merger Caricatures and Lithography in Paris Little Poinsinet The Devil’s Wager Madame Sand and the new Apocalypse The Case of Peytel Four Imitations of Béranger French Dramas and Melodramas Meditations at Versailles DEDICATORY LETTER TO M....