THE YOUNG ENGINEERS IN MEXICO or, Fighting the Mine Swindlers by H. IRVING HANCOCK CONTENTS CHAPTERS I. The Land of Golden Eggs II. The Wolf Who Showed His Teeth III. Gato Strikes the Up Trail IV. Tom Does Some Sampling V. The Mine That Did and Didn’t VI. Watching the Midnight Lights VII. Don Luis’s Engineering Problem VIII. Dangling the Golden Bait IX. Don Luis Shows His Claws X. The Spirit of a True Engineer XI....
THOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINS by Mark Twain A man who is born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality. He knows these people, he knows the selected locality, and he trusts that he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results....
THROUGH THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE A Romance WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY W. D. HOWELLS 1907 INTRODUCTION Aristides Homos, an Emissary of the Altrurian Commonwealth, visited the United States during the summer of 1893 and the fall and winter following. For some weeks or months he was the guest of a well-known man of letters at a hotel in one of our mountain resorts; in the early autumn he spent several days at the great Columbian Exhibition in Chicago; and later he came to New York, where he remained until he sailed, rather suddenly, for Altruria, taking the circuitous route by which he came....
TIME AND LIFE*MR. DARWIN’S “ORIGIN OF SPECIES” by Thomas H. Huxley [footnote] *”Macmillan’s Magazine”, December 1859. EVERYONE knows that that superficial film of the earth’s substance, hardly ten miles thick, which is accessible to human investigation, is composed for the most part of beds or strata of stone, the consolidated muds and sands of former seas and lakes, which have been deposited one upon the other, and hence are the older the deeper they lie....
To Have and To Hold: by Mary Johnston TO THE MEMORY OFMY MOTHER CONTENTSCHAPTER I. IN WHICH I THROW AMBS-ACE CHAPTER II. IN WHICH I MEET MASTER JEREMY SPARROW CHAPTER III. IN WHICH I MARRY IN HASTECHAPTER IV. IN WHICH I AM LIKE TO REPENT AT LEISURE CHAPTER V. IN WHICH A WOMAN HAS HER WAYCHAPTER VI. IN WHICH WE GO TO JAMESTOWN CHAPTER VII. IN WHICH WE PREPARE TO FIGHT THE SPANIARD CHAPTER VIII....
TWO SUMMERS IN GUYENNE A Chronicle of the Wayside and Waterside BYEDWARD HARRISON BARKER Author of ‘Wayfaring in France’, ‘Wanderings by Southern Waters,’ ETC. WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS [Illustration: G. Vuillies DOORWAY OF THE ABBEY CHURCH AT BEAULIEU (CORREZE).] PREFACE Of the four summers which the writer of this ‘Chronicle of the Wayside and Waterside’ spent by Aquitanian rivers, the greater part of two provided the impressions that were used in ‘Wanderings by Southern Waters....
VITTORIA By Geoerge Meredith BOOK 8. XL. THROUGH THE WINTERXLI. THE INTERVIEWXLII. THE SHADOW OF CONSPIRACYXLIII. THE LAST MEETING IN MILANXLIV. THE WIFE AND THE HUSBANDXLV. SHOWS MANY PATHS CONVERGING TO THE END XLVI. THE LAST EPILOGUE CHAPTER XL THROUGH THE WINTER Weisspriess and Wilfrid made their way toward Milan together, silently smoking, after one attempt at conversation, which touched on Vittoria’s marriage; but when they reached Monza the officer slapped his degraded brother in arms upon the shoulder, and asked him whether he had any inclination to crave permission to serve in Hungary....
POPULAR NOVELS BY JOSEPH HOCKING * * * * * THE STORY OF ANDREW FAIRFAX JABEZ EASTERBROOK ALL MEN ARE LIARS FIELDS OF FAIR RENOWN WEAPONS OF MYSTERY THE PURPLE ROBE THE SCARLET WOMAN THE BIRTHRIGHT MISTRESS NANCY MOLESWORTH LEST WE FORGET GREATER LOVE THE COMING OF THE KING ROGER TREWINION THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD GOD AND MAMMON AN ENEMY HATH DONE THIS THE RING OF DESTINY HEARTSEASE THE TENANT OF CROMLECH COTTAGE NANCY TREVANION’S LEGACY THE SIGN OF THE TRIANGLE The Weapons of Mystery by Joseph Hocking AUTHOR OF “ALL MEN ARE LIARS”, “THE PURPLE ROBE”, “THE SCARLET WOMAN”, ETC....
AObaist6 (?), p.p. Abashed; confounded; discomfited. [Obs.] Chaucer. AbOal6ienOate (?), v.t. [L. abalienatus, p.p. of abalienare; ab + alienus foreign, alien. See Alien.] 1. (Civil Law) To transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate. 2. To estrange; to withdraw. [Obs.] 3. To cause alienation of (mind). Sandys. AbOal7ienOa6tion (?), n. [L. abalienatio: cf. F. abalianation.] The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement. [Obs.] XAb7aOlo6ne (?), n. (Zol.) A univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis....
WHO CAN BE HAPPY AND FREE IN RUSSIA? BY NICHOLAS NEKRASSOV Translated by Juliet M. Soskice With an Introduction by Dr. David Soskice 1917 [Illustration: Nicholas Nekrassov] NICHOLAS ALEXEIEVITCH NEKRASSOV Born, near the town Vinitza, province of Podolia, November 22, 1821 Died, St. Petersburg, December 27, 1877. ’Who can be Happy and Free in Russia?’ was first published in Russia in 1879. In ‘The World’s Classics’ this translation was first published in 1917....
[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.] ZIBELINE By PHILIPPE DE MASSA BOOK 2. CHAPTER XIII THE INDUSTRIAL ORPHAN ASYLUM When the prefectoral axe of the Baron Haussmann hewed its way through the Faubourg St. Germain in order to create the boulevard to which this aristocratic centre has given its flame, the appropriation of private property for public purposes caused to disappear numerous ancient dwellings bearing armorial devices, torn down in the interest of the public good, to the equalizing level of a line of tramways....
—Baudelaire. May the merciful gods, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man devises, can keep me from the chasm of sleep. Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but with him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore. Fool that I was to plunge with such unsanctioned phrensy into mysteries no man was meant to penetrate; fool or god that he was—my only friend, who led me and went before me, and who in the end passed into terrors which may yet be mine....
Hard by a great forest dwelt a wood-cutter with his wife, who had an only child, a little girl three years old. They were so poor, however, that they no longer had daily bread, and did not know how to get food for her. One morning the wood-cutter went out sorrowfully to his work in the forest, and while he was cutting wood, suddenly there stood before him a tall and beautiful woman with a crown of shining stars on her head, who said to him, “I am the Virgin Mary, mother of the child Jesus....
“Yes, he lived here—but I don’t advise your doing anything. Your curiosity makes you irresponsible. We never come here at night, and it’s only because of his will that we keep it this way. You know what he did. That abominable society took charge at last, and we don’t know where he is buried. There was no way the law or anything else could reach the society. “I hope you won’t stay till after dark....
THE PERILS OF PAULINE By Charles Goddard CHAPTER I THE BREATH OF DEAD CENTURIES In one of the stateliest mansions on the lower Hudson, near New York, old Stanford Marvin, president of the Marvin Motors Company, dozed over his papers, while Owen, his confidential secretary, eyed him across the mahogany flat-topped desk. A soft purring sound floated in the open window and half-roused the aged manufacturer. It came from one of his own cars–six cylinders chanting in unison a litany of power to the great modern god of gasoline....
BY B. M. BOWER Author of Chip of the Flying-U, The Flying-U’s Last Stand, The Gringos, etc. 1916 FOREWORD For the accuracy of certain parts of this story which deal most intimately with the business of making motion pictures, I am indebted to Buck Connor. whose name is a sufficient guarantee that all technical points are correct. His criticism, advice and other assistance have been invaluable, and I take this opportunity of expressing my appreciation and thanks for the help he has given me....
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY1890, 13-CHAPTER VERSION CONTENTS Chapter I: 3-12Chapter II: 12-22Chapter III: 22-32Chapter IV: 32-36Chapter V: 36-43Chapter VI: 43-52Chapter VII: 52-58Chapter VIII: 58-64Chapter IX: 65-77Chapter X: 77-81Chapter XI: 81-86Chapter XII: 86-93Chapter XIII: 94-100 CHAPTER I [3] The studio was filled with the rich odor of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn....
THE PIRATES OF MALABARANDAN ENGLISHWOMAN IN INDIA TWOHUNDRED YEARS AGO [Illustration: MAHRATTA GRABS AND GALLIVATS ATTACKING AN ENGLISH SHIP.] THEPIRATES OF MALABARANDAN ENGLISHWOMAN IN INDIATWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO BYCOLONEL JOHN BIDDULPH 1907 PREFACE For most people, interest in the doings of our forefathers in India dates from our wars with the French in the middle of the eighteenth century. Before then their lives are generally supposed to have been spent in monotonous trade dealings in pepper and calico, from which large profits were earned for their masters in England, while their principal excitements were derived from drinking and quarrelling among themselves....
THE PRINCE AND THE PAGE by Charlotte M. Yonge PREFACE In these days of exactness even a child’s historical romance must point to what the French term its pieces justficatives. We own that ours do not lie very deep. The picture of Simon de Montfort drawn by his wife’s own household books, as quoted by Mrs. Everett Green in her Lives of the Princesses, and that of Edward I. in Carte’s History, and more recently in the Greatest of the Plantagenets, furnished the two chief influences of the story....
The “legal small print” and other information about this book may now be found at the end of this file. Please read this important information, as it gives you specific rights and tells you about restrictions in how the file may be used. CHRONICLES OF CANADAEdited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton In thirty-two volumes Volume 5 THE SEIGNEURS OF OLD CANADAA Chronicle of New-World Feudalism By WILLIAM BENNETT MUNROTORONTO, 1915 CHAPTER I AN OUTPOST OF EMPIRE What would history be without the picturesque annals of the Gallic race?...
