THE QUEEN OF THE AIR Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm BY JOHN RUSKIN, LL.D. TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE I. ATHENA CHALINITIS. (Athena in the Heavens.)Lecture on the Greek myths of Storm, given (partly) in University College, London, March 9, 1869. II. ATHENA KERAMITIS. (Athena in the Earth.)Study, supplementary to the preceding lecture, of the supposed and actual relations of Athena to the vital force in material organism....
THE RED ONE Contents: The Red OneThe HussyLike Argus of the Ancient TimesThe Princess STORY: THE RED ONE There it was! The abrupt liberation of sound! As he timed it with his watch, Bassett likened it to the trump of an archangel. Walls of cities, he meditated, might well fall down before so vast and compelling a summons. For the thousandth time vainly he tried to analyse the tone-quality of that enormous peal that dominated the land far into the strong-holds of the surrounding tribes....
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[Illustration] THE STURDY OAK A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors: SAMUEL MERWINHARRY LEON WILSONFANNIE HURSTDOROTHY CANFIELDKATHLEEN NORRISHENRY KITCHELL WEBSTERANNE O’HAGANMARY HEATON VORSEALICE DUER MILLERETHEL WATTS MUMFORDMARJORIE BENTON COOKEWILLIAM ALLEN WHITEMARY AUSTINLEROY SCOTT THEME BY MARY AUSTIN The chapters collected and (very cautiously) edited by ELIZABETH JORDAN Illustrations by HENRY RALEIGH NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1917 [Blank-copyright info] PREFACE At a certain committee meeting held in the spring of 1916, it was agreed that fourteen leading American authors, known to be extremely generous as well as gifted, should be asked to write a composite novel....
THE TRIMMED LAMP And Other Stories of the Four Million By O. HENRY CONTENTS THE TRIMMED LAMPA MADISON SQUARE ARABIAN NIGHTTHE RUBAIYAT OF A SCOTCH HIGHBALLTHE PENDULUMTWO THANKSGIVING DAY GENTLEMENTHE ASSESSOR OF SUCCESSTHE BUYER FROM CACTUS CITYTHE BADGE OF POLICEMAN O’ROONBRICKDUST ROWTHE MAKING OF A NEW YORKERVANITY AND SOME SABLESTHE SOCIAL TRIANGLETHE PURPLE DRESSTHE FOREIGN POLICY OF COMPANY 99THE LOST BLENDA HARLEM TRAGEDY“THE GUILTY PARTY”–AN EAST SIDE TRAGEDY ACCORDING TO THEIR LIGHTSA MIDSUMMER KNIGHT’S DREAMTHE LAST LEAFTHE COUNT AND THE WEDDING GUESTTHE COUNTRY OF ELUSIONTHE FERRY OF UNFULFILMENTTHE TALE OF A TAINTED TENNERELSIE IN NEW YORK THE TRIMMED LAMP Of course there are two sides to the question....
THE TROUBADOURS BY REV. H.J. CHAYTOR, M.A. AUTHOR OF“THE TROUBADOURS OF DANTE”ETC. Cambridge:at the University Press1912 With the exception of the coat of arms at the foot, the design on the title page is a reproduction of one used by the earliest known Cambridge printer, John Siberch, 1521 PREFACE This book, it is hoped, may serve as an introduction to the literature of the Troubadours for readers who have no detailed or scientific knowledge of the subject....
THE Velveteen Rabbit OR HOW TOYS BECOME REAL by Margery Williams Illustrations by William Nicholson DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC. Garden City New York _________________________________________________________________ To Francesco Bianco from The Velveteen Rabbit _________________________________________________________________ List of Illustrations Christmas Morning The Skin Horse Tells His Story Spring Time Summer Days Anxious Times The Fairy Flower At Last! At Last! _________________________________________________________________ HERE was once a velveteen rabbit, and in the beginning he was really splendid....
CHAPTER I. THE RIVER BANK II. THE OPEN ROAD III. THE WILD WOOD IV. MR. BADGER V. DULCE DOMUM VI. MR. TOAD VII. THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN VIII. TOAD’S ADVENTURES IX. WAYFARERS ALL X. THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF TOAD XI. “LIKE SUMMER TEMPESTS CAME HIS TEARS” XII. THE RETURN OF ULYSSES THE RIVER BANK The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home....
CHAPTER 1. THE HARMAS. CHAPTER 2. THE GREEN GRASSHOPPER. CHAPTER 3. THE EMPUSA. CHAPTER 4. THE CAPRICORN. CHAPTER 5. THE BURYING-BEETLES: THE BURIAL. CHAPTER 6. THE BURYING-BEETLES: EXPERIMENTS. CHAPTER 7. THE BLUEBOTTLE. CHAPTER 8. THE PINE-PROCESSIONARY. CHAPTER 9. THE SPIDERS. CHAPTER 10. THE BANDED EPEIRA. CHAPTER 11. THE EUMENES. CHAPTER 12. THE OSMIAE. CHAPTER 13. THE GLOW-WORM. CHAPTER 14. THE CABBAGE-CATERPILLAR. INDEX. Note:–Chapters 5 and 6 have been translated by Mr....
THE WORKS OF CHARLES AND MARY LAMB, VOLUME 2 ELIA; and THE LAST ESSAYS OF ELIA BY CHARLES LAMB EDITED BY E.V. LUCAS [Illustration] WITH A FRONTISPIECE INTRODUCTION This volume contains the work by which Charles Lamb is best known and upon which his fame will rest–Elia and The Last Essays of Elia. Although one essay is as early as 1811, and one is perhaps as late as 1832, the book represents the period between 1820 and 1826, when Lamb was between forty-five and fifty-one....
THE WORLD’S GREAT MEN OF MUSIC BY HARRIETTE BROWER Author of “Piano Mastery, First and Second Series,” “Home-Help in Music Study,” “Self-Help in Piano Study,” “Vocal Mastery,” etc. Also Published Under the Title of“Story-Lives of Master Musicians” 1922 FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY Printed in the United States of America FOREWORD The preparation of this volume began with a period of delightful research work in a great musical library. As a honey-bee flutters from flower to flower, culling sweetness from many blossoms, so the compiler of such stories as these must gather facts from many sources–from biography, letters, journals and musical history....
THE WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Volume Six CONSTITUTIONAL EDITION WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1862-1863 RECOMMENDATION OF NAVAL OFFICERS MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. WASHINGTON, D.C., May 14, 1862. TO SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: The third section of the “Act further to promote the efficiency of the Navy,” approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: “That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service requires to be thus placed in command; and such officers may, if upon the recommendation of the President of the United States they shall receive a vote of thanks of Congress for their services and gallantry in action against an enemy, be restored to the active list, and not otherwise....
The Zincali – An Account of the Gypsies of Spain PREFACE IT is with some diffidence that the author ventures to offer the present work to the public. The greater part of it has been written under very peculiar circumstances, such as are not in general deemed at all favourable for literary composition: at considerable intervals, during a period of nearly five years passed in Spain – in moments snatched from more important pursuits – chiefly in ventas and posadas, whilst wandering through the country in the arduous and unthankful task of distributing the Gospel among its children....
TWILIGHT STORIES BY MARGARET SYDNEY, SUSAN COOLIDGE, JOAQUIN MILLER, AUTHOR OF “JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN,” MRS. AMY THERESE POWELSON, Etc. We went to the show one night, And it certainly was a great sight, This tiger to see, Fierce as he could be, And roaring with all his might. CHRISTMAS DAY. The Christmas chimes are pealing high Beneath the solemn Christmas sky, And blowing winds their notes prolong Like echoes from an angel’s song; Good will and peace, peace and good will Ring out the carols glad and gay, Telling the heavenly message still That Christ the Child was born to-day....
WHAT DRESS MAKES OF US By DOROTHY QUIGLEY Illustrations byANNIE BLAKESLEE 1897 I am indebted to the editors of the New York Sun and New York Journal for kindly allowing me to include in this book articles which I contributed to their respective papers. PREFACE. Did you ever observe, dear comrade, what an element of caricature lurks in clothes? A short, round coat on a stout man seems to exaggerate his proportions to such a ridiculous degree that the profile of his manly form suggests “the robust bulge of an old jug....
With us the idea of a fall is more complex: to the general ideas of space and movement which it implies, we add that of attraction or direction towards a centre, which gives us the higher idea of cause. But if physics has fully corrected our judgment in this respect, we still make use of the prejudice of St. Augustine; and when we say that a thing has FALLEN, we do not mean simply and in general that there has been an effect of gravitation, but specially and in particular that it is towards the earth, and FROM ABOVE TO BELOW, that this movement has taken place....
Wonderful Balloon Ascents: or, the Conquest of the Skies A History of Balloons and Balloon Voyages. from the French of F. Marion 1870 PREFACE “Let posterity know, and knowing be astonished, that on the fifteenth day of September, 1784, Vincent Lunardi of Lucca, in Tuscany, the first aerial traveller in Britain, mounting from the Artillery Ground in London, and traversing the regions of the air for two hours and fifteen minutes, on this spot revisited the earth....
NO. 22., SATURDAY, MARCH 30. 1850. [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4d.] CONTENTS. NOTES:– PagesThe Taming of the Shrew, by Samuel HicksonProverbial Sayings and their OriginsWilliam Basse and his PoemsFolk Lore:–Something else about Salting. Norfolk Weather Proverb,Irish Medical Charms. Death-bed SuperstitionsNote on Herodotus by Dean SwiftHerrick’s Hesperides, by J.M. Gutch QUERIES:–Rev. Dr. Thomlinson 350Minor Queries:–“A” or “An”–The Lucky have whole Days–Line quotedby De Quincey–Bishop Jewel’s Papers–Allusion in Friar Brackley’sSermon–Quem Deus Vult perdere–Snow of Chicksand Priory–TheBristol Riots–A living Dog better than a dead Lion–AmericanBittern–Inquisition in Mexico–Masters of St....
[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, V7 By CONSTANT PREMIER VALET DE CHAMBRE TRANSLATED BY WALTER CLARK 1895 CHAPTER XIII. His Majesty remained only ten days at Saint-Cloud, passed two or three of these in Paris at the opening of the session of the Corps Legislatif, and at noon on the 29th set out a second time for Bayonne....
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