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** 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 And the following substitutions have been made: – I + reversed ‘C’ (for the number 500) = D – CI + reversed ‘C’ (for 1000) = M This edition contains footnotes and two types of sidenotes....

[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. SIX NOTES BY MARCHENA....

Note: Images of the original pages are available through the project for Preservation and Access for American and British Children’s Literature, 1850-1869, from an original source held at the University of Florida. See http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/tc/juv/UF00001888.jpg or http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/tc/juv/UF00001888.pdf THE SNOW-DROP A Holiday Gift BY MISS SARAH S. MOWER. 1851 PREFACE. The Authoress of “THE SNOW-DROP” has been misfortune’s child. Disease laid its relentless hand upon her in early childhood. It deprived her of a common school education and the world’s sweet intercourse....

The Twins of Table Mountain by Bret Harte CONTENTS I. THE TWINS OF TABLE MOUNTAIN II. AN HEIRESS OF RED DOG III. THE GREAT DEADWOOD MYSTERY IV. A LEGEND OF SAMMTSTADT V. VIEWS FROM A GERMAN SPION THE TWINS OF TABLE MOUNTAIN. CHAPTER I. A CLOUD ON THE MOUNTAIN. They lived on the verge of a vast stony level, upheaved so far above the surrounding country that its vague outlines, viewed from the nearest valley, seemed a mere cloud-streak resting upon the lesser hills....

THE WILD KNIGHT AND OTHER POEMS BY GILBERT CHESTERTON 1900 NOTE My thanks are due to the Editors of the Outlook and the Speaker for the kind permission they have given me to reprint a considerable number of the following poems. They have been selected and arranged rather with a view to unity of spirit than to unity of time or value; many of them being juvenile. CONTENTS BY THE BABE UNBORN THE WORLD’S LOVER THE SKELETON A CHORD OF COLOUR THE HAPPY MAN THE UNPARDONABLE SIN A NOVELTY ULTIMATE THE DONKEY THE BEATIFIC VISION THE HOPE OF THE STREETS ECCLESIASTES SONG OF THE CHILDREN THE FISH GOLD LEAVES THOU SHALT NOT KILL A CERTAIN EVENING A MAN AND HIS IMAGE THE MARINER THE TRIUMPH OF MAN CYCLOPEAN JOSEPH MODERN ELFLAND ETERNITIES A CHRISTMAS CAROL ALONE KING’S CROSS STATION THE HUMAN TREE TO THEM THAT MOURN THE OUTLAW BEHIND THE END OF FEAR THE HOLY OF HOLIES THE MIRROR OF MADMEN E....

ByVICTOR APPLETON CONTENTS I The Prize Offer II Mr. Swift Is Ill III The Plans Disappear IV Anxious Days V Building the Sky Racer VI Andy Foger Will Contest VII Seeking a Clue VIII The Empty Shed IX A Trial Flight X A Midnight Intruder XI Tom Is Hurt XII Miss Nestor Calls XIII A Clash with Andy XIV The Great Test XV A Noise in the Night XVI A Mysterious Fire XVII Mr....

[Illustration: [Signature of] Austin Steward] TWENTY-TWO YEARS A SLAVE,ANDFORTY YEARS A FREEMAN; EMBRACING ACORRESPONDENCE OF SEVERAL YEARS, WHILE PRESIDENT OF WILBERFORCE COLONY,LONDON, CANADA WEST, BYAUSTIN STEWARD. 1856 FROM GOVERNOR CLARK. STATE OF NEW YORK,EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Albany, May 10, 1856. MR. A. STEWARD, Canandaigua, Dear Sir:–I notice a paragraph in the “Ontario Times” of this date, making the announcement that you are preparing “a sketch of events occurring under your own observation during an eventful life,” to be entitled, “Twenty Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman;” and that you design soon to make an effort to obtain subscribers for the book....

THE MENDENHALL LECTURES, THIRD SERIES DELIVERED AT DEPAUW UNIVERSITY UNDERSTANDINGTHE SCRIPTURES BY FRANCIS J. McCONNELL Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church CONTENTS FORWARD I. PRELIMINARY II. THE BOOK OF LIFEIII. THE BOOK OF HUMANITY IV. THE BOOK OF GOD V. THE BOOK OF CHRIST VI. THE BOOK OF THE CROSS FOREWORD The Mendenhall Lectures, founded by Rev. Marmaduke H. Mendenhall, D.D., of the North Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, are delivered annually in De Pauw University to the public without any charge for admission....

Sir Thomas More, son of Sir John More, a justice of the King’s Bench, was born in 1478, in Milk Street, in the city of London. After his earlier education at St. Anthony’s School, in Threadneedle Street, he was placed, as a boy, in the household of Cardinal John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor. It was not unusual for persons of wealth or influence and sons of good families to be so established together in a relation of patron and client....

Source: Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1620-1673), alias Molière, “Oeuvres de Molière, avec des notes de tous les commentateurs”, Tome Premier,Paris, Librarie de Firmin-Didot et Cie, Imprimeurs de l’Institut, rue Jacob, 56, 1890. [Spelling of the 1890 edition. Footnotes have been retained because they provide the meanings of old French words or expressions. Footnote are indicated by numbers in brackets, and are grouped at the end of the Etext.Downcase accents have been kept, but not upcase accents (not well supported by all software)....

WAR-TIME FINANCIAL PROBLEMS by HARTLEY WITHERS Works by Hartley Withers THE BUSINESS OF FINANCE. 6s. net. Second Impression. “He treats of the subject mainly in its relation to industry, and smooths the path for those who find the way rather thorny. Timely and instructive.”–Financial Times. OUR MONEY AND THE STATE. 3s. 64 net. Second Impression. “It should be read at once by every taxpayer. Mr. Withers’ latest book can be most heartily commended,”–Morning Post....

In Ulthar, before ever the burgesses forbade the killing of cats, there dwelt an old cotter and his wife who delighted to trap and slay the cats of their neighbours. Why they did this I know not; save that many hate the voice of the cat in the night, and take it ill that cats should run stealthily about yards and gardens at twilight. But whatever the reason, this old man and woman took pleasure in trapping and slaying every cat which came near to their hovel; and from some of the sounds heard after dark, many villagers fancied that the manner of slaying was exceedingly peculiar....

He knew that for him its meaning must once have been supreme; though in what cycle or incarnation he had known it, or whether in dream or in waking, he could not tell. Vaguely it called up glimpses of a far, forgotten first youth, when wonder and pleasure lay in all the mystery of days, and dawn and dusk alike strode forth prophetick to the eager sound of lutes and song; unclosing faery gates toward further and surprising marvels....

That my memory is broken, I do not wonder; for my health, physical and mental, was gravely disturbed throughout the period of my residence in the Rue d’Auseil, and I recall that I took none of my few acquaintances there. But that I cannot find the place again is both singular and perplexing; for it was within a half-hour’s walk of the university and was distinguished by peculiarities which could hardly be forgotten by anyone who had been there....

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Volume 2 Translated by Jean Paul Richter 1888 XI. The notes on Sculpture. Compared with the mass of manuscript treating of Painting, a very small number of passages bearing on the practice and methods of Sculpture are to be found scattered through the note books; these are here given at the beginning of this section (Nos. 706-709). There is less cause for surprise at finding that the equestrian statue of Francesco Sforza is only incidentally spoken of; for, although Leonardo must have worked at it for a long succession of years, it is not in the nature of the case that it could have given rise to much writing....

OR CAMPING AND TRAMPING FOR FUN AND HEALTH BY LAURA LEE HOPE 1913 CONTENTS CHAPTER I A FLUTTERING PAPER II THE TRAMPING CLUB III JEALOUSIES IV A TAUNT V AMY’S MYSTERY VI THE LEAKY BOAT VII TO THE RESCUE VIII CLOSING DAYS IX OFF ON THE TOUR X ON THE WRONG ROAD XI THE BARKING DOG XII AT AUNT SALLIE’S XIII THE MISSING LUNCH XIV THE BROKEN RAIL XV “IT’S A BEAR!...

Scanned by Dianne Bean. Proofed by Doris Ringbloom. THE PATHS OF INLAND COMMERCE, A CHRONICLE OF TRAIL, ROAD, AND WATERWAY By Archer B. Hulbert PREFACE If the great American novel is ever written, I hazard the guess that its plot will be woven around the theme of American transportation, for that has been the vital factor in the national development of the United States. Every problem in the building of the Republic has been, in the last analysis, a problem in transportation....

Of the great thinkers of the nineteenth century, Thomas Henry Huxley, son of an Ealing schoolmaster, was undoubtedly the most noteworthy. His researches in biology, his contributions to scientific controversy, his pungent criticisms of conventional beliefs and thoughts have probably had greater influence than the work of any other English scientist. And yet he was a “self-made” intellectualist. In spite of the fact that his father was a schoolmaster he passed through no regular course of education....

** 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....

The Puritans By Arlo Bates The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. All’s Well That Ends Well, iv. 3. “Abandoning my heart, and rapt in ecstasy, I ran after her till I came to a place in which religion and reason forsook me.” _Persian Religious Hymn. CONTENTS I. AFTER SUCH A PAGAN CUT II. THERE BEGINS CONFUSION III. AS FALSE AS STAIRS OF SAND IV....