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THE POEMS OFWILLIAM WATSON New YorkMACMILLAN AND CO.AND LONDON1893 Norwood PressJ.S. Cushing & Co.–Berwick & Smith. Boston, Mass., U.S.A. CONTENTS MISCELLANEOUS– PRELUDE AUTUMN WORLD-STRANGENESS “WHEN BIRDS WERE SONGLESS” THE MOCK SELF “THY VOICE FROM INMOST DREAMLAND CALLS” IN LALEHAM CHURCHYARD THE FLIGHT OF YOUTH “NAY, BID ME NOT MY CARES TO LEAVE” A CHILD’S HAIR THE KEY-BOARD “SCENTLESS FLOW’RS I BRING THEE” ON LANDOR’S “HELLENICS” To —- ON EXAGGERATED DEFERENCE TO FOREIGN LITERARY OPINION ENGLAND TO IRELAND MENSIS LACRIMARUM “UNDER THE DARK AND PINY STEEP” THE BLIND SUMMIT TO LORD TENNYSON SKETCH OF A POLITICAL CHARACTER ART MAXIMS THE GLIMPSE THE BALLAD OF THE “BRITAIN’S PRIDE” LINES THE RAVEN’S SHADOW LUX PERDITA ENGLAND AND HER COLONIES HISTORY THE EMPTY NEST IRELAND THE LUTE-PLAYER “AND THESE–ARE THESE INDEED THE END” THE RUSS AT KARA LIBERTY REJECTED LIFE WITHOUT HEALTH TO A FRIEND, CHAFING AT ENFORCED IDLENESS FROM INTERRUPTED HEALTH “WELL HE SLUMBERS, GREATLY SLAIN” AN EPISTLE TO AUSTIN DOBSON TO EDWARD CLODD TO EDWARD DOWDEN FELICITYVER TENEBROSUM, SONNETS OF MARCH AND APRIL 1885– THE SOUDANESE HASHEEN THE ENGLISH DEAD GORDON GORDON (concluded) THE TRUE PATRIOTISM RESTORED ALLEGIANCE THE POLITICAL LUMINARY FOREIGN MENACE HOME-ROOTEDNESS OUR EASTERN TREASURE REPORTED CONCESSIONS NIGHTMARE LAST WORD: TO THE COLONIESEPIGRAMSWORDSWORTH’S GRAVELACHRYMAE MUSARUMDEDICATION OF “THE DREAM OF MAN”THE DREAM OF MANSHELLEY’S CENTENARYA GOLDEN HOURAT THE GRAVE OF CHARLES LAMBLINES IN A FLYLEAF OF “CHRISTABEL”LINES TO OUR NEW CENSORRELUCTANT SUMMERTHE GREAT MISGIVING“THE THINGS THAT ARE MORE EXCELLENT” BEAUTY’S METEMPSYCHOSISENGLAND MY MOTHERNIGHTTHE FUGITIVE IDEAL“THE FORESTERS”SONGCOLUMBUSTHE PRINCE’S QUESTANGELOTHE QUESTIONERTHE RIVERCHANGED VOICESA SUNSETA SONG OF THREE SINGERSLOVE’S ASTROLOGYTHREE FLOWERSTHREE ETERNITIESLOVE OUTLOVEDVANISHINGSBEETHOVENGOD-SEEKINGSKYFARING MISCELLANEOUS PRELUDE The mighty poets from their flowing store Dispense like casual alms the careless ore; Through throngs of men their lonely way they go, Let fall their costly thoughts, nor seem to know....

LES PRÉCIEUSES RIDICULES: COMÉDIE EN UN ACTE. 1659. * * * * * THE PRETENTIOUS YOUNG LADIES: A COMEDY IN ONE ACT. (THE ORIGINAL IN PROSE.)1659. INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. Molière began in The Pretentious Young Ladies to paint men and women as they are; to make living characters and existing manners the ground-work of his plays. From that time he abandoned all imitation of Italian or Spanish imbroglios and intrigues. There is no doubt that aristocratic society attempted, about the latter years of the reign of Louis XIII....

The Psychology of Beauty by Ethel D. Puffer PREFACE THE human being who thrills to the experience of beauty in nature and in art does not forever rest with that experience unquestioned. The day comes when he yearns to pierce the secret of his emotion, to discover what it is, and why, that has so stung him–to defend and to justify his transport to himself and to others. He seeks a reason for the faith that is in him....

by William Shakespeare THE RAPE OF LUCRECE TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE HENRY WRIOTHESLY, EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON, AND BARON OF TITCHFIELD. THE love I dedicate to your Lordship is without end; whereof this pamphlet, without beginning, is but a superfluous moiety. The warrant I have of your honourable disposition, not the worth of my untutored lines, makes it assured of acceptance. What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours....

THE ROMANTIC ADVENTURES OF A MILKMAID by Thomas Hardy CHAPTER I It was half-past four o’clock (by the testimony of the land-surveyor, my authority for the particulars of this story, a gentleman with the faintest curve of humour on his lips); it was half-past four o’clock on a May morning in the eighteen forties. A dense white fog hung over the Valley of the Exe, ending against the hills on either side....

THE SHADES OF THE WILDERNESSA STORY OF LEE’S GREAT STAND by JOSEPH A. ALTSHELER FOREWORD “The Shades of the Wilderness” is the seventh volume of the Civil War Series, of which the predecessors have been “The Guns of Bull Run,” “The Guns of Shiloh,” “The Scouts of Stonewall,” “The Sword of Antietam”, “The Star of Gettysburg” and “The Rock of Chickamauga.” The romance in this story reverts to the Southern side and deals with the fortunes of Harry Kenton and his friends....

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 VANISHING MAN A Detective Romance BY R. AUSTIN FREEMAN 1911 TO MY FRIEND A.E.B. CONTENTS CHAPTER I THE VANISHING MAN II THE EAVESDROPPER III JOHN THORNDYKE IV LEGAL COMPLICATIONS AND A JACKAL V THE WATERCRESS-BED VI SIDELIGHTS VII JOHN BELLINGHAM’S WILL VIII A MUSEUM IDYLL IX THE SPHINX OF LINCOLN’S INN X THE NEW ALLIANCE XI THE EVIDENCE REVIEWED XII A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY XIII THE CROWNER’S QUEST XIV WHICH CARRIES THE READER INTO THE PROBATE COURT XV CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE XVI “O!...

THE VITAL MESSAGE BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE PREFACE In “The New Revelation” the first dawn of the coming change has been described. In “The Vital Message” the sun has risen higher, and one sees more clearly and broadly what our new relations with the Unseen may be. As I look into the future of the human race I am reminded of how once, from amid the bleak chaos of rock and snow at the head of an Alpine pass, I looked down upon the far stretching view of Lombardy, shimmering in the sunshine and extending in one splendid panorama of blue lakes and green rolling hills until it melted into the golden haze which draped the far horizon....

THE WARD OF KING CANUTEA Romance of the Danish Conquest by Ottilie A. Liljencrantz Acknowledgment For the facts of this romance I have made free use of the following authorities: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; The Venerable Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of England; Ingulph’s History of the Abbey of Croyland; William of Malmesbury’s Chronicle of the Kings of England; The Chronicles of Florence of Worcester; Lingard’s History and Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church, and Lingard’s History of England; Dean Spencer’s The White Robe of Churches; Collier’s Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain; Montalembert’s Monks of the West; Thrupp’s Anglo-Saxon Home; Hall’s Queens Before the Conquest; Kemble’s Saxons in England; Ridgway’s Gem of Thorney Island; Brayley and Britton’s History of the Ancient Palace and Late Houses of Parliament; Loftie’s Westminster Abbey and Loftie’s History of London; Allen’s History and Antiquities of London; Lappenberg’s History of England Under the Anglo-Saxon Kings; Sharon Turner’s History of the Anglo-Saxons; Knight’s Old England; Hume’s History of England; Green’s Conquest of England; Thierry’s History of the Conquest of England by the Normans; Freeman’s History of the Norman Conquest....

by Margaret Deland TO LORIN DELAND KENNEBUNKPORT, MAINE AUGUST 12TH, 1910 I ATHALIA HALL stopped to get her breath and look back over the road climbing steeply up from the covered bridge. It was a little after five, and the delicate air of dawn was full of wood and pasture scents– the sweetness of bay and the freshness of dew-drenched leaves. In the valley night still hung like gauze under the trees, but the top of the hill was glittering with sunshine....

THOMAS WINGFOLD, CURATE. By George MacDonald, LL.D. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL I. THOMAS WINGFOLD, CURATE. CHAPTER I. HELEN LINGARD. A swift, gray November wind had taken every chimney of the house for an organ-pipe, and was roaring in them all at once, quelling the more distant and varied noises of the woods, which moaned and surged like a sea. Helen Lingard had not been out all day. The morning, indeed, had been fine, but she had been writing a long letter to her brother Leopold at Cambridge, and had put off her walk in the neighbouring park till after luncheon, and in the meantime the wind had risen, and brought with it a haze that threatened rain....

TRUE VERSION OF THE PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION BY DON EMILIO AGUINALDO Y FAMY PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINE REPUBLIC. Tarlak (Philippine Islands), 23rd September, 1899. TO ALL CIVILIZED NATIONS AND ESPECIALLY TO THE GREAT NORTH AMERICAN REPUBLIC. I dedicate to you this modest work with a view to informing you respecting the international events which have occurred during the past three years and are still going on in the Philippines, in order that you may be fully acquainted with the facts and be thereby placed in a position to pronounce judgment upon the issue and be satisfied and assured of the Justice which forms the basis and is in fact the foundation of our Cause....

VOLCANIC ISLANDS BY CHARLES DARWIN EDITORIAL NOTE. Although in some respects more technical in their subjects and style than Darwin’s “Journal,” the books here reprinted will never lose their value and interest for the originality of the observations they contain. Many parts of them are admirably adapted for giving an insight into problems regarding the structure and changes of the earth’s surface, and in fact they form a charming introduction to physical geology and physiography in their application to special domains....

WHAT I REMEMBER BY THOMAS ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II 1887 CONTENTS. CHAPTER I.IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND CHAPTER II.JOURNEY IN BRITTANY CHAPTER III.AT PENRITH.–AT PARIS CHAPTER IV.IN WESTERN FRANCE.–AGAIN IN PARIS CHAPTER V.IN IRELAND.–AT ILFRACOMBE–IN FLORENCE CHAPTER VI.IN FLORENCE CHAPTER VII.CHARLES DICKENS CHAPTER VIII.AT LUCCA BATHS CHAPTER IX.THE GARROWS.–SCIENTIFIC CONGRESSES.–MY FIRST MARRIAGE CHAPTER XELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING CHAPTER XI.REMINISCENCES AT FLORENCE CHAPTER XII.REMINISCENCES AT FLORENCE CHAPTER XIII.LETTERS FROM PEARD–GARIBALDI–LETTERS FROM PULSZKY CHAPTER XIV....

WHERE THE TRAIL DIVIDES By WILL LILLIBRIDGE Author of “BEN BLAIR,” Etc. With Frontispiece in ColorsBy The Kinneys 1907 CONTENTS I. PRESENTIMENT II. FULFILMENT III. DISCOVERY IV. RECONSTRUCTION V. THE LAND OF LICENCE VI. THE RED MAN AND THE WHITE VII. A GLIMPSE OF THE UNKNOWN VIII. THE SKELETON WITHIN THE CLOSET IX. THE VOICE OF THE WILD X. THE CURSE OF THE CONQUERED XI. THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE XII....

Wilson’s TALES OF THE BORDERS AND OF SCOTLAND. HISTORICAL, TRADITIONARY, & IMAGINATIVE. REVISED BY ALEXANDER LEIGHTON, One of the Original Editors and Contributors. VOL. XXIII. CONTENTS. THE LAWYER’S TALES (Alexander Leighton)–LORD KAMES’S PUZZLE. THE ORPHAN (John Mackay Wilson). THE BURGHER’S TALES (Alexander Leighton)–THE BROWNIE OF THE WEST BOW. GLEANINGS OF THE COVENANT (Professor Thomas Gillespie)–THE LAST SCRAP. THE STORY OF MARY BROWN (Alexander Leighton). TIBBY FOWLER (John Mackay Wilson). THE CRADLE OF LOGIE (Alexander Leighton)....

Tot op zekere hoogte is de Franse dagbladpers een oligarchie, zeker geen democratie. Dat komt, omdat een krant stichten in Frankrijk met zoveel kosten en moeite gepaard gaat, dat alleen mensen die in staat zijn zeer grote sommen op tafel te leggen een dagblad kunnen oprichten. Het zijn dus gewoonlijk kapitalisten, of hier en daar een industriëel, die het geld voorschieten om een krant te stichten. Zij speculeren daarbij over de afzet, die het blad zou kunnen vinden zodra dat zich weet te profileren als het orgaan van de een of andere partij....

Well do I remember the night of the great Aurora, when over the swamp played the shocking coruscations of the daemon-light. After the beams came clouds, and then I slept. And it was under a horned waning moon that I saw the city for the first time. Still and somnolent did it lie, on a strange plateau in a hollow betwixt strange peaks. Of ghastly marble were its walls and its towers, its columns, domes, and pavements....

by Fergus Hume CONTENTS CHAPTER I THE LOVERS II PROFESSOR BRADDOCK III A MYSTERIOUS TOMB IV THE UNEXPECTED V MYSTERY VI THE INQUEST VII THE CAPTAIN OF “THE DIVER” VIII THE BARONET IX MRS. JASHER’S LUCK X THE DON AND HIS DAUGHTER XI THE MANUSCRIPT XII A DISCOVERY XIII MORE MYSTERY XIV THE UNEXPECTED HAPPENS XV AN ACCUSATION XVI THE MANUSCRIPT AGAIN XVII CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE XVIII RECOGNITION XIX NEARER THE TRUTH XX THE LETTER XXI A STORY OF THE PAST XXII A WEDDING PRESENT XXIII JUST IN TIME XXIV A CONFESSION XXV THE MILLS OF GOD XXVI THE APPOINTMENT XXVII BY THE RIVER The Green Mummy CHAPTER I THE LOVERS “I am very angry,” pouted the maid....