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TWO LITTLE KNIGHTS OFKENTUCKY TOMARGARET AND ALBION,MARY, HELEN, LURA AND ROSE,WILLIAM AND GEORGE CONTENTS CHAPTER I. TWO TRAMPS AND A BEAR. II. GINGER AND THE BOYS. III. THE VALENTINE PARTY. IV. A FIRE AND A PLAN. V. JONESY’S BENEFIT. VI. THE LITTLE COLONEL’S TWO RESCUES. VII. A GAME OF INDIAN.VIII. “FAIRCHANCE”. [Illustration: PLANS.] TWO LITTLE KNIGHTS OFKENTUCKY. * * * * *CHAPTER I. TWO TRAMPS AND A BEAR. It was the coldest Saint Valentine’s eve that Kentucky had known in twenty years....

TWO MONTHS IN THE CAMP OF BIG BEAR. The Life and AdventuresOfTheresa Gowanlock and Theresa Delaney. CONTENTS. PART I. INTRODUCTIONWE LEAVE ONTARIOINCIDENTS AT BATTLEFORDON TO OUR HOMEAT HOMEWOOD AND PLAIN INDIANSTHE MASSACREWITH THE INDIANSPROTECTED BY HALF-BREEDSTHEY TAKE FORT PITTCOOKING FOR A LARGE FAMILYINCIDENTS BY THE WAYDANCING PARTIESANOTHER BATTLEINDIAN BOYSHOPE ALMOST DEFERREDOUT OF BIG BEAR’S CAMPRESCUEDWE LEAVE FOR HOMEAT HOMETO ONE OF THE ABSENTSHOT DOWN.J. A. GOWANLOCK.W. C. GILCHRIST. PART II....

Uncles Josh’sPunkin Centre Stories By Cal Stewart Preface To the Reader. The one particular object in writing this book is to furnish you with an occasional laugh, and the writer with an occasional dollar. If you get the laugh you have your equivalent, and the writer has his. In Uncle Josh Weathersby you have apurely imaginary character, yet one true to life. A character chuck full of sunshine and rural simplicity....

[Illustration: She paid a visit to the little garden. FRONTISPIECE.] WHAT KATY DID NEXT BY SUSAN COOLIDGE This Story is Dedicated TO THE MANY LITTLE GIRLS (SOME OF THEM GROWN TO BE GREAT GIRLS NOW), Who, during the last twelve years, have begged that something more might be told them about KATY CARR, and what she did after leaving school. CONTENTS CHAPTER I. AN UNEXPECTED GUEST II. AN INVITATION III....

WHAT TO SEE IN ENGLAND A GUIDE TO PLACES OF HISTORIC INTEREST, NATURAL BEAUTY, OR LITERARY ASSOCIATION BY GORDON HOME 1908 [Illustration: BOOTHAM BAR, AND YORK MINSTER.] [Illustration: SKETCH PLAN OF LONDON SHOWING RAILWAY STATIONS] [Illustration: REFERENCE TO RAILWAY STATIONS Broad StreetCannon St. (South Eastern & Chatham) Charing Cross (South Eastern & Chatham) Euston Station (London & North Western) Fenchurch St. (London, Tilbury, & Southend) Great Central StationGreat Eastern (Liverpool St....

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WITH SHORT INTRODUCTIONS AND EXPLANATORY NOTES. BY CHARLES HERON WALL ‘Psyche’ is a tragedie-ballet. Moliere had sketched the plan, written the prologue, the first act, and the first scenes of the second and third acts, when the King asked him to have the play finished before Lent. Pierre Corneille, then sixty years old, helped him, and wrote the other scenes in a fortnight. Quinault wrote the words of the songs....

So they sat pondering their fate through the long night with the poisonous vapors rising around them and the forest singing its mournful song and the shadows of the fires leaped about them in the soundless dance and it seemed as if it won’t be a shadows dancing but the evil spirits of forest and bog celebrating their triumph. Danko was one of them and he was young and handsome....

THE ORATIONS OF MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO LITERALLY TRANSLATED BY C.D. YONGE, M.A. FELLOW OF THE ROYAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, ETC. VOL. IV. CONTAINING THE FOURTEEN ORATIONS AGAINST MARCUS ANTONIUS; TO WHICH ARE APPENDED THE TREATISE ON RHETORICAL INVENTION; THE ORATOR; TOPICS; ON RHETORICAL PARTITIONS, ETC. 1903 [Reprinted from Stereotype plates.] CONTENTS. The Fourteen Orations against M. Antonius, called Philippics:– The First Philippic The Second Philippic The Third Philippic The Fourth Philippic The Fifth Philippic The Sixth Philippic The Seventh Philippic The Eighth Philippic The Ninth Philippic The Tenth Philippic The Eleventh Philippic The Twelfth Philippic The Thirteenth Philippic The Fourteenth Philippic * * * * * TREATISE ON RHETORICAL INVENTION:– Book I....

THE PATH OF LIFE by STIJN STREUVELS Translated From The West-Flemish By ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS * * * * * TRANSLATOR’s NOTE In introducing this new writer to the English-speaking public, I may be permitted to give a few particulars of himself and his life. Stijn Streuvels is accepted not only in Belgium, but also in Holland as the most distinguished Low-Dutch author of our time: his vogue, in fact, is even greater in the North Netherlands than in the southern kingdom....

THE POETS AND POETRY OF CECIL COUNTY, MARYLAND COLLECTED AND EDITED BYGEORGE JOHNSTON,AUTHOR OF THE HISTORY OF CECIL COUNTY. A verse may finde him whom a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. –Herbert. ELKTON, MD:PUBLISHED BY THE EDITOR. 1887 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1887, by GEORGE JOHNSTON, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D.C. PREFACE. This volume owes its existence to the desire of some of the teachers and pupils of the public schools in the northeastern part of Cecil county, to do honor to the memory of the late School Commissioner David Scott....

THE PRECIPICE byIVAN GONCHAROV Original Russian Title: OBRYV TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL RUSSIAN; TRANSLATOR UNKNOWN [This text is condensed from the original.] PREFACE Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (1812-1891) was one of the leading members of the great circle of Russian writers who, in the middle of the nineteenth century, gathered around the Sovremmenik (Contemporary) under Nekrasov’s editorship–a circle including Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Byelinsky, and Herzen. He had not the marked genius of the first three of these; but that he is so much less known to the western reader is perhaps also due to the fact that there was nothing sensational either in his life or his literary method....

Nicolo Machiavelli, born at Florence on 3rd May 1469. From 1494 to 1512 held an official post at Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts. Imprisoned in Florence, 1512; later exiled and returned to San Casciano. Died at Florence on 22nd June 1527. INTRODUCTION Nicolo Machiavelli was born at Florence on 3rd May 1469. He was the second son of Bernardo di Nicolo Machiavelli, a lawyer of some repute, and of Bartolommea di Stefano Nelli, his wife....

THEPURCELL PAPERS. BY THE LATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU,AUTHOR OF ‘UNCLE SILAS.’ With a Memoir byALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES IN THREE VOLUMES.VOL. I. CONTENTS OF VOL. I. MEMOIR OF JOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU THE GHOST AND THE BONE-SETTER THE FORTUNES OF SIR ROBERT ARDAGH THE LAST HEIR OF CASTLE CONNOR THE DRUNKARD’S DREAM MEMOIROFJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU.—— A noble Huguenot family, owningconsiderable property in Normandy, the Le Fanus of Caen, were, upon the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, deprived of their ancestral estates of Mandeville, Sequeville, and Cresseron; but, owing to their possessing influential relatives at the court of Louis the Fourteenth, were allowed to quit their country for England, unmolested, with their personal property....

THEPURCELL PAPERS. BY THE LATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU,AUTHOR OF ‘UNCLE SILAS.’ With a Memoir byALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES IN THREE VOLUMES.VOL. II. CONTENTS OF VOL. II.—- PASSAGE IN THE SECRET HISTORY OF AN IRISH COUNTESS THE BRIDAL OF CARRIGVARAHSTRANGE EVENT IN THE LIFE OF SCHALKEN THE PAINTER SCRAPS OF HIBERNIAN BALLADS THE PURCELL PAPERS. PASSAGE IN THESECRET HISTORY OF AN IRISHCOUNTESS. Being a Fifth Extract from the Legacy of the late Francis Purcell, P....

The Real Thing by Henry James CHAPTER I. When the porter’s wife (she used to answer the house-bell), announced “A gentleman–with a lady, sir,” I had, as I often had in those days, for the wish was father to the thought, an immediate vision of sitters. Sitters my visitors in this case proved to be; but not in the sense I should have preferred. However, there was nothing at first to indicate that they might not have come for a portrait....

THE RUINS, OR, MEDITATION ON THE REVOLUTIONS OF EMPIRES: AND THE LAW OF NATURE, by C. F. VOLNEY, COMTE ET PAIR DE FRANCE. COMMANDEUR DE LA LEGION D’HONNEUR, MEMBRE DE L’ACADEMIE FRANCAISE, ET DE PLUSIEURS AUTRES SOCIETES SAVANTES. DEPUTY TO THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF 1789, AND AUTHOR OF “TRAVELS IN EGYPT AND SYRIA,” “NEW RESEARCHES ON ANCIENT HISTORY,” ETC. TO WHICH IS ADDED VOLNEY’S ANSWER TO DR. PRIESTLY, A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE BY COUNT DARU, AND THE ZODIACAL SIGNS AND CONSTELLATIONS BY THE EDITOR....

By CHARLES LATHROP PACK PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN TREE ASSOCIATION 1922 [Illustration: FOREST FIRE GUARD STATIONED IN A TREE TOP] THE AUTHOR GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE FROM THE WRITINGS AND REPORTS OF COL. W.B. GREELEY, U.S. FORESTER; COL. HENRY S. GRAVES, FORMER U.S. FORESTER; GIFFORD PINCHOT, FORMER U.S. FORESTER; DR. B.E. FERNOW, DR. J.W. TOUMEY, F.W. BESLEY, W.I. HUTCHINSON, R.H.D. BOERKER, PROF. NELSON C. BROWN, PROF. R.S. HOSMER, E....

THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE COURT OF JUSTINIAN PROCOPIUS LITERALLY AND COMPLETELY TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK FOR THE FIRST TIME ATHENS: PRIVATELY PRINTED FOR THE ATHENIAN SOCIETY: MDCCCXCVI PREFACE Procopius, the most important of the Byzantine historians, was born at Caesarea in Palestine towards the beginning of the sixth century of the Christian era. After having for some time practised as a “Rhetorician,” that is, advocate or jurist, in his native land, he seems to have migrated early to Byzantium or Constantinople....

The Stillwater Tragedy By Thomas Bailey Aldrich I It is close upon daybreak. The great wall of pines and hemlocks that keep off the west wind from Stillwater stretches black and indeterminate against the sky. At intervals a dull, metallic sound, like the guttural twang of a violin string, rises form the frog-invested swamp skirting the highway. Suddenly the birds stir in their nests over there in the woodland, and break into that wild jargoning chorus with which they herald the advent of a new day....