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CHAPTER I INSOMNIA One afternoon, at low water, Mr. Isbister, a young artist lodging at Boscastle, walked from that place to the picturesque cove of Pentargen, desiring to examine the caves there. Halfway down the precipitous path to the Pentargen beach he came suddenly upon a man sitting in an attitude of profound distress beneath a projecting mass of rock. The hands of this man hung limply over his knees, his eyes were red and staring before him, and his face was wet with tears....

D.W. CONTENTS: MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY, 1835-1866 by Albert Bigelow Paine [mt1bg10.txt] #2982 MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY, 1866-1875 by Albert Bigelow Paine [mt2bg10.txt] #2983 MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY, 1875-1886 by Albert Bigelow Paine [mt3bg10.txt] #2984 MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY, 1886-1900 by Albert Bigelow Paine [mt4bg10.txt] #2985 MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY, 1900-1907 by Albert Bigelow Paine [mt5bg10.txt] #2986 MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY, 1907-1910 by Albert Bigelow Paine [mt6bg10.txt] #2987 THE COMPLETE MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY, 1835-1910 by Paine [mt7bg10....

Wilson’s Tales of the Borders and of Scotland. HISTORICAL, TRADITIONARY, & IMAGINATIVE. WITH A GLOSSARY. REVISED BY ALEXANDER LEIGHTON, One of the Original Editors and Contributors. VOL. XXII. 1884. CONTENTS. UPS AND DOWNS; OR, DAVID STUART’S ACCOUNT OF HIS PILGRIMAGE, (John Mackay Wilson), THE BURGHER’S TALES. THE ANCIENT BUREAU. (Alexander Leighton), LADY RAE, (Alexander Campbell), THE DIAMOND EYES, (Alexander Leighton), DAVID LORIMER, (Anon.) THE CONVICT, (Anon.) THE AMATEUR ROBBERY, (Alexander Leighton), THE PROCRASTINATOR, (John Mackay Wilson), THE TEN OF DIAMONDS, (Alexander Leighton), WILSON’S TALES OF THE BORDERS, AND OF SCOTLAND....

[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, V2 By CONSTANT PREMIER VALET DE CHAMBRE TRANSLATED BY WALTER CLARK 1895 CHAPTER VII. In the month of May, 1801, there came to Paris, on his way to take possession of his new kingdom, the Prince of Tuscany, Don Louis the First, whom the First Consul had just made King of Etruria....

THE ONE GREAT REALITY By LOUISA CLAYTON Author of “Heart Lessons”, “Loving Messages”, “Winning and Warning”, “Wilderness Lessons”, etc. “I AM GOD, AND THERE IS NONE ELSE”–Isa. xiv. 22. THIS BOOK IS DEDICATEDto all my friends in Rusthall,in loving remembranceof our happy fellowship in the gospel during the past thirty years,with the earnest prayerthat the messages may be stored upin their heartsand bring forth fruit in their lives when the voicewhich delivered them is still....

The Orange Fairy Book Edited by Andrew Lang Preface The children who read fairy books, or have fairy books read to them, do not read prefaces, and the parents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, who give fairy books to their daughters, nieces, and cousines, leave prefaces unread. For whom, then, are prefaces written? When an author publishes a book ‘out of his own head,’ he writes the preface for his own pleasure....

The Pagan Tribes of Borneo A Description of Their Physical Moral and Intellectual Condition With Some Discussion of their Ethnic Relations by Charles Hose and William McDougall With an Appendix on the Physical Characters of the Races of Borneo by A. C. Haddon In Two Volumes Preface In writing this book we have aimed at presenting a clear picture of the pagan tribes of Borneo as they existed at the close of the nineteenth century....

The Peterkin PapersBy Lucretia P. Hale Mrs. Peterkin Puts Salt into Her Coffee. DedicatedTo Meggie (The Daughter of The Lady From Philadelphia) To Whom These Stories Were First Told The Peterkin PapersBy Lucretia P. Hale Preface to The Second Edition of The Peterkin Papers THE first of these stories was accepted by Mr. Howard M. Ticknor for the “Young Folks.” They were afterwards continued in numbers of the “St. Nicholas....

THE POETICAL WORKS OF GEORGE MACDONALD IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I 1893 CONTENTS. WITHIN AND WITHOUT A HIDDEN LIFE A STORY OF THE SEA-SHORE THE DISCIPLE THE GOSPEL WOMEN– 1. The Mother Mary 2. The Woman that lifted up her Voice 3. The Mother of Zebedee’s Children 4. The Syrophenician Woman 5. The Widow of Nain 6. The Woman whom Satan had bound 7. The Woman who came behind Him in the Crowd 8....

** Transcriber’s Notes ** The printed edition from which this e-text has been produced retains the spelling and abreviations 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....

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF REVOLUTION by GUSTAVE LE BON CONTENTS INTRODUCTION. THE REVISION OF HISTORY PART I THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ELEMENTS OF REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS BOOK I GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF REVOLUTIONS CHAPTER I. SCIENTIFIC AND POLITICAL REVOLUTIONS 1. Classification of Revolutions2. Scientific Revolutions3. Political Revolutions4. The results of Political Revolutions CHAPTER II. RELIGIOUS REVOLUTIONS1. The importance of the study of Religious Revolutions in respect of the comprehension of the great Political Revolutions2. The beginnings of the Reformation and its first disciples3....

BY J.S. FLETCHER 1922 CONTENTS I THE MIDNIGHT RIDE II THE DEAD MAN III THE SHOE BUCKLE IV MR. FRANKLIN FULLAWAY V THE NASTIRSEVITCH JEWELS VI THE PRIMA DONNA’S PORTRAIT VII THE FRANTIC IMPRESARIO VIII THE JEWEL BOX IX THE LADY’S MAID’S MOTHER X THE SECOND MURDER XI THE RUSSIAN BANK-NOTES XII THE THIRD MURDER XIII AMBLER APPLEYARD XIV FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS REWARD XV THE BAYSWATER BOARDING-HOUSE XVI MR. GERALD RAYNER XVII THE PHOTOGRAPH XVIII DEFINITE SUSPICION XIX THE LATE CALL XX NUMBER FIFTY-THREE XXI THE YOUNG MAN WHO LED PUGS XXII THICK FOG XXIII THE POSSIBLE DEATH WARRANT XXIV CONCERNING CARL FEDERMAN XXV THE CARD ON THE DOOR XXVI PARTICIPANTS IN THE SECRET XXVII THE MILLIONAIRE, THE STRANGER, AND THE PRINCESS XXVIII THE FIRST PURSUIT XXIX THE PARCEL FROM HULL XXX THE PACKET IN THE SAFE XXXI THE HYDE PARK TEA-HOUSE XXXII THE CHILVERTON ANTI-CLIMAX XXXIII THE SMART MISS SLADE XXXIV MERRIFIELD EXPLAINS XXXV THE ALLERDYKE WAY CHAPTER I THE MIDNIGHT RIDE About eleven o’clock on the night of Monday, May 12, 1914, Marshall Allerdyke, a bachelor of forty, a man of great mental and physical activity, well known in Bradford as a highly successful manufacturer of dress goods, alighted at the Central Station in that city from an express which had just arrived from Manchester, where he had spent the day on business....

[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 RED LILY By ANATOLE FRANCE BOOK 3. CHAPTER XXIII “ONE IS NEVER KIND WHEN ONE IS IN LOVE” The next day, in the hidden pavilion of the Via Alfieri, she found him preoccupied. She tried to distract him with ardent gayety, with the sweetness of pressing intimacy, with superb humility....

by Abraham Cahan Book I – Home and School Book II – Enter Satan Book III – I Lose My Mother Book IV – Matilda Book V – I Discover America Book VI – A Greenhorn No Longer Book VII – My Temple Book VIII – The Destruction of My Temple Book IX – Dora Book X – On the Road Book XI – Matrimony Book XII – Miss Tevkin Book XIII – At Her Father’s House Book XIV – Episodes of a Lonely Life BOOK I HOME AND SCHOOL CHAPTER I SOMETIMES, when I think of my past in a superficial, casual way, the metamorphosis I have gone through strikes me as nothing short of a miracle....

The Siksha-Patri of the Svami-Naraya.na Sect JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY. [New Series, Volume XIV] [London, Trubner and Company] [1882] {Scanned and edited by Christopher M. Weimer, May 2002. Circumflexes represent macrons in this file, and c represents c with an acute marking. Also, the name Brahma (not Param Brahma) is spelled with a breve over the final a, which is not represented.} ART. XXIV.–Sansk.rit Text of the Siksha-Patri of the Svami- Naraya....

BY ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge 1913 Nec prohibui cor meum. To PERCY LUBBOCK INTRODUCTION There are two ways of recording and communicating to others an impression, say, of a building or a place. One way is to sit down at a definite point, and make an elaborate picture. It is thus perhaps that one grasps the artistic significance and unity of the object best; one sees it in a chosen light of noon or eve; one feels its dominant emotion, its harmony of proportion and outline....

THE SPECTATOR VOL. II. A NEW EDITION REPRODUCING THE ORIGINAL TEXT BOTH AS FIRST ISSUED AND AS CORRECTED BY ITS AUTHORS WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES, AND INDEX BYHENRY MORLEY PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON IN THREE VOLUMES VOL. II. LONDON GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, LIMITED BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILLGLASGOW, MANCHESTER AND NEW YORK 1891 No. 203. Tuesday, October 23, 1711. Addison. Phoebe pater, si das hujus mihi nominis usum, Nec falsa Clymene culpam sub imagine celat; Pignora da, Genitor Ov....

THE STORY OF THE MORMONS: FROM THE DATE OF THEIR ORIGIN TO THE YEAR 1901 by WILLIAM ALEXANDER LINN PREFACE No chapter of American history has remained so long unwritten as that which tells the story of the Mormons. There are many books on the subject, histories written under the auspices of the Mormon church, which are hopelessly biased as well as incomplete; more trustworthy works which cover only certain periods; and books in the nature of “exposures by former members of the church, which the Mormons attack as untruthful, and which rest, in the minds of the general reader, under a suspicion of personal bias....

THE TALISMANFROM THE RUSSIAN OF ALEXANDER PUSHKIN WITH OTHER PIECES Contents: The Talisman The Mermaid Ancient Russian Song Ancient Ballad The Renegade THE TALISMAN From the Russian of Pushkin. Where fierce the surge with awful bellow Doth ever lash the rocky wall;And where the moon most brightly mellow Dost beam when mists of evening fall;Where midst his harem’s countless blisses The Moslem spends his vital span,A Sorceress there with gentle kisses Presented me a Talisman....

A Faithful Story of the Astonishing Adventure Undertaken by the Tin Woodman, assisted by Woot the Wanderer, the Scarecrow of Oz, and Polychrome, the Rainbow’s Daughter by L. FRANK BAUM “Royal historian of Oz” This Book is dedicated to the son of my son Frank Alden Baum TO MY READERS I know that some of you have been waiting for this story of the Tin Woodman, because many of my correspondents have asked me, time and again what ever became of the “pretty Munchkin girl” whom Nick Chopper was engaged to marry before the Wicked Witch enchanted his axe and he traded his flesh for tin....