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THE SHAGGANAPPI By E. Pauline Johnson With Introduction by Ernest Thompson Seton Dedicated to the Boy Scouts TEKAHIONWAKE (PAULINE JOHNSON) How well I remember my first meeting with Tekahionwake, the Indian girl! I see her yet as she stood in all ways the ideal type of her race, lithe and active, with clean-cut aquiline features, olive-red complexion and long dark hair; but developed by her white-man training so that the shy Indian girl had given place to the alert, resourceful world-woman, at home equally in the salons of the rich and learned or in the stern of the birch canoe, where, with paddle poised, she was in absolute and fearless control, watching, warring and winning against the grim rocks that grinned out of the white rapids to tear the frail craft and mangle its daring rider....

DEEP WATERS By W.W. JACOBS THE SUBSTITUTE The night watchman had just returned to the office fire after leaving it to attend a ring at the wharf bell. He sat for some time puffing fiercely at his pipe and breathing heavily. “Boys!” he said, at last. “That’s the third time this week, and yet if I was to catch one and skin ‘im alive I suppose I should get into trouble over it....

THE TRUE WOMAN: A SERIES OF DISCOURSES BY REV. J. D. FULTON, (TREMONT TEMPLE, BOSTON.) TO WHICH IS ADDED WOMAN VS. BALLOT. BOSTON, 1869 TO THE TRUE WOMAN, WHO, THROUGH CHRIST, BLESSES MAN, AND HELPS TO MAKE HIS HOME A JOY AND HIS LIFE A PRIVILEGE, THIS BOOK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED. PREFACE. This book grew. Its history is very brief. The lecture entitled “Woman versus Ballot,” while well received by the majority, has met with a strong opposition from those who do not believe in the position assigned to Woman in the Word of God....

CONTENTS I. OF PROGRESS AND THE SMALLWAYS FAMILY II. HOW BERT SMALLWAYS GOT INTO DIFFICULTIES III. THE BALLOON IV. THE GERMAN AIR-FLEET V. THE BATTLE OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC VI. HOW WAR CAME TO NEW YORK VII. THE “VATERLAND” IS DISABLED VIII. A WORLD AT WAR IX. ON GOAT ISLAND X. THE WORLD UNDER THE WAR XI. THE GREAT COLLAPSE THE EPILOGUE PREFACE TO REPRINT EDITION The reader should grasp clearly the date at which this book was written....

THE WARRIORS BY ANNA ROBERTSON BROWN LINDSAY PH.D. AUTHOR OF WHAT IS WORTH WHILE?CULTURE AND REFORMTHE VICTORY OF OUR FAITH PREFACE This work was begun nearly five years ago. Since then, the whole face of American history has changed. We have had the Spanish-American War, and the opening-up of our new possessions. In this period of time Gladstone, Li Hung Chang, and Queen Victoria have died; there has also occurred the assassination of the Empress of Austria and of President McKinley....

THE WORLD’S BEST POETRY I Home: Friendship II Love III Sorrow and Consolation IV The Higher Life V Nature VI Fancy Sentiment VII Descriptive: Narrative VIII National Spirit IX Tragedy: Humor X Poetical Quotations THE WORLD’S BEST POETRY IN TEN VOLUMES, ILLUSTRATED Editor-in-Chief BLISS CARMAN Associate Editors John Vance CheneyCharles G.D. RobertsCharles F. RichardsonFrancis H. Stoddard Managing Editor John R. Howard 1904 The World’s Best Poetry Vol. IV THE HIGHER LIFE RELIGION AND POETRY by WASHINGTON GLADDEN NOTICE OF COPYRIGHTS....

OR, THE WILD RIDERS OF THE PLAINS. THE VERITABLE ADVENTURES OF HAL HYDE AND NED BROWN, ON THEIR JOURNEY ACROSS THE GREAT PLAINS OF THE SOUTH-WEST. BY SAMUEL WOODWORTH COZZENS 1877 [Illustration: Prairie on Fire.] TO THE READER. From my youth up, no book ever fascinated me like one of travel and adventure in Indian lands, where danger attends every step; and, believing that the hair-breadth escapes of my young friends, Hal and Ned, in crossing with me, the great plains of the South-West, a few years since, will prove entertaining, as well as instructive, I have taken great pleasure in recounting them....

Tom Swift and His Airship by Victor Appleton Contents I – An Explosion II – Ned Sees Mysterious Men III – Whitewashed IV – A Trial Trip V – Colliding With A Tower VI – Getting Off The Roof VII – Andy Tries A Trick VIII – Winning a Prize IX – The Runaway Auto X – A Bag of Tools XI – The “Red Cloud” Departs XII – Some Startling News XIII – Mr....

TRIPS TO THE MOON by Lucian. Translated from the Greek by Thomas Francklin, D.D. CONTENTS. Introduction by Professor Henry Morley. Instructions for Writing History.The True History. Preface. Book 1. Book 2.Icaro-Menippus–A Dialogue. INTRODUCTION. Lucian, in Greek Loukianos, was a Syrian, born about the year 120 at Samosata, where a bend of the Euphrates brings that river nearest to the borders of Cilicia in Asia Minor. He had in him by nature a quick flow of wit, with a bent towards Greek literature....

“VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE” Contents Virginibus Puerisque Crabbed Age and Youth An Apology For Idlers Ordered South Aes Triplex El Dorado The English Admirals Some Portraits by Raeburn Child’s Play Walking Tours Pan’s Pipes A Plea For Gas Lamps CHAPTER I – “VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE” WITH the single exception of Falstaff, all Shakespeare’s characters are what we call marrying men. Mercutio, as he was own cousin to Benedick and Biron, would have come to the same end in the long run....

Voyage of the Paper Canoe, by N. H. Bishop, 1878 A GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNEY OF 2500 MILES FROM QUEBEC TO THE GULF OF MEXICO,DURING THE YEARS 1874-5. BY NATHANIEL H. BISHOP, AUTHOR OF “ONE THOUSAND MILES WALK ACROSS SOUTH AMERICA” AND CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY AND OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. BOSTON: LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS. NEW YORK: CHARLES T. DILLINGHAM. 1878. TO THE SUPERINTENDENT....

[Illustration: “I saw him gasp, reel, and fall.”] [Illustration: Wild Western Scenes] WILD WESTERN SCENES: A NARRATIVEOFADVENTURES IN THE WESTERN WILDERNESS, WHEREIN THE EXPLOITS OF DANIEL BOONE, THE GREAT AMERICAN PIONEER ARE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED ALSO, ACCOUNTS OF BEAR, DEER, AND BUFFALO HUNTS–DESPERATE CONFLICTS WITH THE SAVAGES–WOLF HUNTS–FISHING AND FOWLING ADVENTURES–ENCOUNTERS WITH SERPENTS, ETC. New Stereotype Edition, Altered, Revised, and Corrected By J.B. JONES. Author of “The War Path,” “Adventures of a Country Merchant,” etc....

[Stephen Vincent Bene’t, American Poet and short-story writer — 1898-1943.] [Note on text: Italicized stanzas will be indented 5 spaces. Italicized words or phrases have been capitalized. Lines longer than 77 characters have been broken, and the continuation is indented two spaces.] [Note: This etext was transcribed from the 1918 American (original) edition. There are some slight differences, such as making the titles in the contents conform exactly to the titles of the individual sections, for ease of searching, and correction of mistakes which are very obviously mistakes, and not merely archaic or unorthodox usage, but great care has been taken not to change the text, and hopefully this has been accomplished....

Es war Sommersfrühe, die Nachtigallen sangen erst seit einigen Tagendurch die Straßen und verstummten heut in einer kühlen Nacht, welchevon fernen Gewittern zu uns herwehte; der Nachtwächter rief die elfteStunde an, da sah ich, nach Hause gehend, vor der Tür eines großenGebäudes einen Trupp von allerlei Gesellen, die vom Biere kamen, umjemand, der auf den Türstufen saß, versammelt. Ihr Anteil schien mirso lebhaft, daß ich irgendein Unglück besorgte und mich näherte....

by Talbot Mundy To Jimgrim: whose real name, rank, and military distinctions, I promised never to make public. Contents I. “Look for a man named Grim.”II. “No objection; Only a stipulation.” III. “Do whatever the leader of the escort tells you.” IV. “I am willing to use all means–all methods.” V. “D’you mind if I use you?”VI. “That man will repay study.”VII. “Who gives orders to me?”VIII. “He will say next that it was he who set the stars in the sky over El-Kerak, and makes the moon rise!...

It was a lonely and deserted country, but at last I spied a roof among a clump of trees near the small river on my right; perhaps a full half-mile from the road, and probably reachable by some path or drive which I would presently come upon. In the absence of any nearer dwelling, I resolved to try my luck there; and was glad when the bushes by the roadside revealed the ruin of a carved stone gateway, covered with dry, dead vines and choked with undergrowth which explained why I had not been able to trace the path across the fields in my first distant view....

THE OXFORD MOVEMENT TWELVE YEARS 1833-1845 R.W. CHURCH, M.A., D.C.L. SOMETIME DEAN OF ST. PAUL’S AND FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD ADVERTISEMENT The revision of these papers was a task to which the late Dean of St. Paul’s gave all the work he could during the last months of his life. At the time of his death, fourteen of the papers had, so far as can be judged, received the form in which he wished them to be published; and these, of course, are printed here exactly as he left them....

NOTE: degrees A (Absolute?) is the same as the current degrees K (Kelvin). THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY VOLUME LXXXVI JULY TO SEPTEMBER, 1915 THE SCIENTIFIC MONTHLY VOLUME I OCTOBER TO DECEMBER, 1915 EDITED BY J. McKEEN CATTELL THE SCIENTIFIC MONTHLY —— OCTOBER, 1915 ————- THE EVOLUTION OF THE STARS AND THE FORMATION OF THE EARTH. II BY DR. WILLIAM WALLACE CAMPBELL DIRECTOR OF THE LICK OBSERVATORY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA THE PRINCIPLES OF SPECTROSCOPY THUS far our description of the stellar universe has been confined to its geometrical properties....

THE PURCHASE PRICE OR, THE CAUSE OF COMPROMISE By EMERSON HOUGH AUTHOR OFTHE MISSISSIPPI BUBBLE54-40 OR FIGHT WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY M. LEONE BRACKER AND EDMUND FREDERICK 1910 TO HON. ALBERT J. BEVERIDGEA PROGRESSIVE IN THE CAUSE OFACTUAL FREEDOM CONTENTS Chapter I A LADY IN COMPANY II THE GATEWAY AND SOME WHO PASSED III THE QUESTION IV THE GAME V SPOLIA OPIMA VI THE NEW MASTER VII A CONFUSION IN CHATTELS VIII THE SHADOW CABINET IX TALLWOODS X FREE AND THRALL XI THE GARMENTS OF ANOTHER XII THE NIGHT XIII THE INVASION XIV THE ARGUMENT XV THE ARBITRAMENT XVI THE ADJUDICATION XVII THE LADY AT TALLWOODS XVIII ON PAROLE XIX THE ENEMY XX THE ART OF DOCTOR JAMIESON XXI THE PAYMENT XXII THE WAY OF A MAID XXIII IN WASHINGTON XXIV IN THE NAME OF ALTRUISM XXV THE ARTFUL GENTLEMAN PROM KENTUCKY XXVI THE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN FROM NEW YORK XXVII A SPLENDID FAILUREXXVIII IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT XXIX IN OLD ST....

Scanner’s Notes: What this is and isn’t. This was taken from a copy of Shakespeare’s first folio and it is as close as I can come in ASCII to the printed text. The elongated S’s have been changed to small s’s and the conjoined ae have been changed to ae. I have left the spelling, punctuation, capitalization as close as possible to the printed text. I have corrected some spelling mistakes (I have put together a spelling dictionary devised from the spellings of the Geneva Bible and Shakespeare’s First Folio and have unified spellings according to this template), typo’s and expanded abbreviations as I have come across them....