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by William Shakespeare DRAMATIS PERSONAE KING RICHARD THE SECONDJOHN OF GAUNT, Duke of Lancaster – uncle to the King EDMUND LANGLEY, Duke of York – uncle to the King HENRY, surnamed BOLINGBROKE, Duke of Hereford, son of John of Gaunt, afterwards King Henry IVDUKE OF AUMERLE, son of the Duke of York THOMAS MOWBRAY, Duke of NorfolkDUKE OF SURREYEARL OF SALISBURYLORD BERKELEYBUSHY – Servant to King RichardBAGOT – Servant to King RichardGREEN – Servant to King RichardEARL OF NORTHUMBERLANDHENRY PERCY, surnamed Hotspur, his son LORD ROSSLORD WILLOUGHBYLORD FITZWATERBISHOP OF CARLISLEABBOT OF WESTMINSTERLORD MARSHALSIR PIERCE OF EXTONSIR STEPHEN SCROOPCaptain of a band of Welshmen QUEEN TO KING RICHARDDUCHESS OF GLOUCESTERDUCHESS OF YORKLady attending on the Queen Lords, Heralds, Officers, Soldiers, Gardeners, Keeper, Messenger, Groom, and other Attendants SCENE: Dispersedly in England and Wales....

[Transcriber’s note: The spelling inconsistencies of the original are retained in this etext.] THE “WEARING OF THE GREEN,” OR THE PROSECUTED FUNERAL PROCESSION. * * * * * Let the echoes fall unbroken; Let our tears in silence flow; For each word thus nobly spoken, Let us yield a nation’s woe; Yet, while weeping, sternly keeping Wary watch upon the foe. Poem in the “NATION.” DUBLIN: A.M. SULLIVAN, ABBEY STREET....

[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.] LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES–The White Mr. Longfellow by William Dean Howells THE WHITE MR. LONGFELLOW We had expected to stay in Boston only until we could find a house in Old Cambridge. This was not so simple a matter as it might seem; for the ancient town had not yet quickened its scholarly pace to the modern step....

WE AREALL THINGS THATMAKE AND PASS,STRIVING UPON AHIDDEN MISSION,OUT TO THEOPEN SEA. THE WORLD SET FREE H.G. WELLS TOFREDERICK SODDY’S‘INTERPRETATION OF RADIUM’ THIS STORY, WHICH OWES LONG PASSAGESTO THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER OFTHAT BOOK, ACKNOWLEDGESAND INSCRIBESITSELF PREFACE THE WORLD SET FREE was written in 1913 and published early in 1914, and it is the latest of a series of three fantasias of possibility, stories which all turn on the possible developments in the future of some contemporary force or group of forces....

ByVICTOR APPLETON CONTENTS CHAPTER I A SUSPICIOUS JEWELERII A MIDNIGHT VISITIII A STRANGE STORYIV ANDY FOGER GETS A FRIGHTV A MYSTERIOUS MANVI MR. DAMON IS ON HANDVII MR. PARKER PREDICTSVIII OFF FOR THE WESTIX A WARNING BY WIRELESSX DROPPING THE STOWAWAYXI A WEARY SEARCHXII THE GREAT STONE HEADXIII ON PHANTOM MOUNTAINXIV WARNED BACKXV THE LANDSLIDEXVI THE VAST CAVERNXVII THE PHANTOM CAPTUREDXVIII BILL RENSHAW WILL HELPXIX IN THE SECRET CAVEXX MAKING THE DIAMONDSXXI FLASHING GEMSXXII PRISONERSXXIII BROKEN BONDSXXIV IN GREAT PERILXXV THE MOUNTAIN SHATTERED–CONCLUSION TOM SWIFT AMONG THE DIAMOND MAKERS CHAPTER I – A SUSPICIOUS JEWELER “Well, Tom Swift, I don’t believe you will make any mistake if you buy that diamond,” said the jeweler to a young man who was inspecting a tray of pins, set with the sparkling stones....

TOMMY AND GRIZEL BY J. M. BARRIE ILLUSTRATED BY BERNARD PARTRIDGE 1900, 1912 CONTENTS PART I CHAPTER I HOW TOMMY FOUND A WAY II THE SEARCH FOR THE TREASURE III SANDYS ON WOMAN IV GRIZEL OF THE CROOKED SMILE V THE TOMMY MYTH VI GHOSTS THAT HAUNT THE DEN VII THE BEGINNING OF THE DUEL VIII WHAT GRIZEL’S EYES SAID IX GALLANT BEHAVIOUR OF T. SANDYS X GAVINIA ON THE TRACK XI THE TEA-PARTY XII IN WHICH A COMEDIAN CHALLENGES TRAGEDY TO BOWLS XIII LITTLE WELLS OF GLADNESS XIV ELSPETH XV BY PROSEN WATER XVI “HOW COULD YOU HURT YOUR GRIZEL SO!...

ByFay-Cooper ColeAssistant Curator of Malayan Ethnology 1915 Contents Preface 3Introduction 5Tales of the Mythical Period 33Ritualistic and Explanatory Tales 171 Fables 195Abstracts 202 Preface The following myths were collected by the writer in 1907-8 during a stay of sixteen months with the Tinguian, a pagan tribe of northwestern Luzon in the Philippines. The material, for the most part gathered in texts, was partially translated in the Islands, while the balance was worked over during a brief visit to America in 1909....

AND OVER BY ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAYAuthor of “The House of Windows,” etc. The road runs back and the road runs on, But the air has a scent of clover. And another day brings another dawn, When we’re up the hill and over. TO MY MOTHER WHO MIGHT HAVE LIKED THIS BOOK HAD SHE LIVED TO READ IT CHAPTER I “From Wimbleton to Wombleton is fifteen miles, From Wombleton to Wimbleton is fifteen miles, From Wombleton to Wimbleton, From Wimbleton to Wombleton, From Wombleton–to Wimbleton–is fif–teen miles!...

Contents: PrefaceAn Imaginative WomanThe Three StrangersThe Withered ArmFellow-TownsmenInterlopers at the KnapThe Distracted Preacher PREFACE An apology is perhaps needed for the neglect of contrast which is shown by presenting two consecutive stories of hangmen in such a small collection as the following. But in the neighbourhood of county-towns tales of executions used to form a large proportion of the local traditions; and though never personally acquainted with any chief operator at such scenes, the writer of these pages had as a boy the privilege of being on speaking terms with a man who applied for the office, and who sank into an incurable melancholy because he failed to get it, some slight mitigation of his grief being to dwell upon striking episodes in the lives of those happier ones who had held it with success and renown....

WOMEN IN THE LIFE OF BALZAC By Juanita Helm Floyd TO MY SISTER NANNIE ” . . . for no one knows the secret of my life, and I do not wish to disclose it to any one.” /Lettres a l’Etrangere/, V. I, p. 418, July 19, 1837. PREPARER’S NOTE This text was originally published in 1921 by Henry Holt and Company. PREFACE In presenting this study of Balzac’s intimate relations with various women, the author regrets her inability, owing to war conditions, to consult a few books which are out of print and certain documents which have not appeared at all in print, notably the collection of the late Vicomte de Spoelberch de Lovenjoul....

WOODSTOCK; OR, THE CAVALIER BY SIR WALTER SCOTT 1855. APPENDIX TO INTRODUCTION. APPENDIX NO. I. THE WOODSTOCK SCUFFLE; or, Most dreadfull apparitions that were lately seene in the Mannor-house of Woodstock, neere Oxford, to the great terror and the wonderful amazement of all there that did behold them. It were a wonder if one unites,And not of wonders and strange sights; For ev’ry where such things affrightsPoore people, That men are ev’n at their wits’ end; God judgments ev’ry where doth send,And yet we don’t our lives amend,But tipple, And sweare, and lie, and cheat, and–, Because the world shall drown no more,As if no judgments were in storeBut water; But by the stories which I tell,You’ll heare of terrors come from hell, And fires, and shapes most terribleFor matter....

Dam Bor glued each of his six eyes to the lenses of the cosmoscope. His nasal tentacles were orange with fear, and his antennae buzzed hoarsely as he dictated his report to the operator behind him. “It has come!” he cried. “That blur in the ether can be nothing less than a fleet from outside the space-time continuum we know. Nothing like this has ever appeared before. It must be an enemy....

I reached the main landing on Venus March 18, terrestrial time; VI, 9 of the planet’s calendar. Being put in the main group under Miller, I received my equipment—watch tuned to Venus’s slightly quicker rotation—and went through the usual mask drill. After two days I was pronounced fit for duty. Leaving the Crystal Company’s post at Terra Nova around dawn, VI, 12, I followed the southerly route which Anderson had mapped out from the air....

THE OUTLAW OF TORN To My Friend JOSEPH E. BRAY CHAPTER I Here is a story that has lain dormant for seven hundred years. At first it was suppressed by one of the Plantagenet kings of England. Later it was forgotten. I happened to dig it up by accident. The accident being the relationship of my wife’s cousin to a certain Father Superior in a very ancient monastery in Europe....

THE PAST CONDITION OF ORGANIC NATURE by Thomas H. Huxley IN the lecture which I delivered last Monday evening, I endeavoured to sketch in a very brief manner, but as well as the time at my disposal would permit, the present condition of organic nature, meaning by that large title simply an indication of the great, broad, and general principles which are to be discovered by those who look attentively at the phenomena of organic nature as at present displayed....

THE PEOPLE OF THE ABYSS by Jack London The chief priests and rulers cry:- “O Lord and Master, not ours the guilt, We build but as our fathers built;Behold thine images how they standSovereign and sole through all our land. “Our task is hard–with sword and flame, To hold thine earth forever the same,And with sharp crooks of steel to keep, Still as thou leftest them, thy sheep.” Then Christ sought out an artisan,A low-browed, stunted, haggard man, And a motherless girl whose fingers thin Crushed from her faintly want and sin....

THE PILGRIMS OF THE RHINE TO WHICH IS PREFIXED THE IDEAL WORLD BY EDWARD BULWER LYTTON (LORD LYTTON) THE PILGRIMS OF THE RHINE TO HENRY LYTTON BULWER. ALLOW me, my dear Brother, to dedicate this Work to you. The greater part of it (namely, the tales which vary and relieve the voyages of Gertrude and Trevylyan) was written in the pleasant excursion we made together some years ago. Among the associations–some sad and some pleasing–connected with the general design, none are so agreeable to me as those that remind me of the friendship subsisting between us, and which, unlike that of near relations in general, has grown stronger and more intimate as our footsteps have receded farther from the fields where we played together in our childhood....

Translated in the original metresby Edgar Alfred Bowring THE TRANSLATOR’S ORIGINAL DEDICATION. TO THE COUNTESS GRANVILLE. MY DEAR LADY GRANVILLE,– THE reluctance which must naturally be felt by any one in venturing to give to the world a book such as the present, where the beauties of the great original must inevitably be diminished, if not destroyed, in the process of passing through the translator’s hands, cannot but be felt in all its force when that translator has not penetrated beyond the outer courts of the poetic fane, and can have no hope of advancing further, or of reaching its sanctuary....

A Tale by ARNOLD BENNETT 1914 CONTENTS CHAPTER I. MONEY IN THE HOUSE II. LOUIS’ DISCOVERY III. THE FEAST IV. IN THE NIGHT V. NEWS OF THE NIGHT VI. THEORIES OF THE THEFT VII. THE CINEMA VIII. END AND BEGINNING IX. THE MARRIED WOMAN X. THE CHASM XI. JULIAN’S DOCUMENT XII. RUNAWAY HORSES XIII. DEAD-LOCK XIV. THE MARKET XV. THE CHANGED MAN XVI. THE LETTER XVII. IN THE MONASTERY XVIII....

THE RENAISSANCESTUDIES IN ART AND POETRYby Walter Pater Sixth Edition DedicationTo C.L.S. PREFACE Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find a universal formula for it. The value of these attempts has most often been in the suggestive and penetrating things said by the way. Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have....