THE RIVER WAR An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan (1902 edition) By Winston S. Churchill CONTENTS: ChapterI. The Rebellion of the MahdiII. The Fate of the EnvoyIII. The Dervish EmpireIV. The Years of PreparationV. The Beginning of WarVI. FirketVII. The Recovery of the Dongola Province VIII. The Desert RailwayIX. Abu HamedX. BerberXI. ReconnaissanceXII. The Battle of the AtbaraXIII. The Grand AdvanceXIV. The Operations of the First of September XV....
In which is related how Dorothy Gale of Kansas, The Shaggy Man, Button Bright, and Polychrome the Rainbow’s Daughter met on anEnchanted Road and followedit all the way to theMarvelous Landof Oz. by L. Frank Baum“Royal Historian of Oz” Contents –To My Readers–1. The Way to Butterfield2. Dorothy Meets Button-Bright3. A Queer Village4. King Dox5. The Rainbow’s Daughter6. The City of Beasts7. The Shaggy Man’s Transformation8. The Musicker9. Facing the Scoodlers10....
THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK by Rudyard Kipling CONTENTSHow Fear CameThe Law of the JungleThe Miracle of Purun BhagatA Song of KabirLetting in the JungleMowgli’s Song against PeopleThe UndertakersA Ripple SongThe King’s AnkusThe Song of the Little HunterQuiquern‘Angutivaun Taina’Red DogChil’s SongThe Spring RunningThe Outsong HOW FEAR CAME The stream is shrunk–the pool is dry, And we be comrades, thou and I;With fevered jowl and dusty flankEach jostling each along the bank;And by one drouthy fear made still, Forgoing thought of quest or kill....
The Secret Agent CHAPTER I Mr Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of his brother-in-law. It could be done, because there was very little business at any time, and practically none at all before the evening. Mr Verloc cared but little about his ostensible business. And, moreover, his wife was in charge of his brother-in-law. The shop was small, and so was the house....
The Three TavernsA Book of PoemsBy Edwin Arlington Robinson [American (Maine) Poet. 1869-1935.] [Note on text: Italicized words or phrases are CAPITALIZED. Lines longer than 78 characters are broken and the continuation is indented two spaces. Some obvious errors may have been corrected.] The Three TavernsA Book of PoemsBy Edwin Arlington RobinsonAuthor of “The Man Against the Sky”, “Merlin, A Poem”, etc. To THOMAS SERGEANT PERRY and LILLA CABOT PERRY Contents The Valley of the ShadowThe Wandering JewNeighborsThe MillThe Dark HillsThe Three TavernsDemos IDemos IIThe Flying DutchmanTactOn the WayJohn BrownThe False GodsArchibald’s ExampleLondon BridgeTasker NorcrossA Song at Shannon’sSouvenirDiscoveryFirelightThe New TenantsInferentialThe RatRahel to VarnhagenNimmoPeace on EarthLate SummerAn Evangelist’s WifeThe Old King’s New JesterLazarus Several poems included in this book appeared originally in American periodicals, as follows: The Three Taverns, London Bridge, A Song at Shannon’s, The New Tenants, Discovery, John Brown; Archibald’s Example, The Valley of the Shadow; Nimmo; The Wandering Jew, Souvenir; Neighbors, Tact; Demos; The Mill, An Evangelist’s Wife; Firelight; Late Summer; Inferential; The Flying Dutchman; On the Way, The False Gods; Peace on Earth; The Old King’s New Jester....
THE TRUE STORY OF MY LIFE: A SKETCH BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. TRANSLATED BY MARY HOWITT. To MESSRS. MUNROE AND CO. Gentlemen,–I take this opportunity of forwarding to you, the proof sheets of the unpublished Life of Hans Christian Andersen– translated from a copy transmitted to me for that purpose, by the Author. It is as well to state that this is the Author’s Edition, he being participant in the proceeds of this work....
NIGHT WATCHES by W.W. Jacobs THE UNDERSTUDY The Understudy “Dogs on board ship is a nuisance,” said the night-watchman, gazing fiercely at the vociferous mongrel that had chased him from the deck of the Henry William; “the skipper asks me to keep an eye on the ship, and then leaves a thing like that down in the cabin.” He leaned against a pile of empty casks to recover his breath, shook his fist at the dog, and said, slowly– Some people can’t make too much of ’em....
Transcriber’s Notes: Words which may seem to be transcriber’s typos, or otherwise suspect, but which are reproduced faithfully (archaic spellings, printer’s typos–sometimes I couldn’t tell): Ch. I: befel, undigged Ch. III: chaperon Ch. IV: babby, mun, valtz Ch. V: zounded, dimpsey, after’n, ax’n, ax Ch. VI: picquet, damitol Ch. XI: alwaies, Desarts, Eternitie Diphthongs, given as single characters in the printed copy, are transcribed as two separate characters. THE WESTCOTES by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH DEDICATION MY DEAR HENRY JAMES, A spinster, having borrowed a man’s hat to decorate her front hall, excused herself on the ground that the house ‘wanted a something....
PRESIDENTIAL EDITION THE WINNING OF THE WEST BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT VOLUME THREE THE FOUNDING OF THE TRANS-ALLEGHANY COMMONWEALTHS 1784-1790 WITH MAP THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED, WITH HIS PERMISSION TO FRANCIS PARKMAN TO WHOM AMERICANS WHO FEEL A PRIDE IN THE PIONEER HISTORY OF THEIR COUNTRY ARE SO GREATLY INDEBTED PREFACE TO THIRD VOLUME. The material used herein is that mentioned in the preface to the first volume, save that I have also drawn freely on the Draper Manuscripts, in the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, at Madison....
[Illustration: A Grand Jury Presentment for Witchcraft Reproduced from the original in the Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford May it please yr Honble Court, we the Grand inquest now setting for the County of Fairefeild, being made sensable, not only by Common fame (but by testamonies duly billed to us) that the widow Mary Staple, Mary Harvey ye wife of Josiah Harvey & Hannah Harvey the daughter of the saide Josiah, all of Fairefeild, remain under the susspition of useing witchecraft, which is abomanable both in ye sight of God & man and ought to be witnessed against....
THE WORLD OF ICE OR The Whaling Cruise of “The Dolphin” AND The Adventures of Her Crew in the Polar Regions By Robert Michael Ballantyne Author of “The Dog Crusoe and his Master,” “The Young Fur-Traders,” “The Gorilla-Hunters,” “Ungava,” “The Coral Island,” &c. 1893 PREFACE Dear Reader, most people prefer a short to a long preface. Permit me, therefore, to cut this one short, by simply expressing an earnest hope that my book may afford you much profit and amusement....
THE WRITINGS OF SAMUEL ADAMS COLLECTED AND EDITED BY HARRY ALONSO CUSHING VOLUME II 1770-1773 CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. 1770. Article Signed “Vindex,” January 8th . . . Power of Governer over sessions of General Assembly. Article Signed “Determinatus,” January 8th . . . Non-importation agreement. To the Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts, March 19th . . . Memorial of town of Boston–Apointment of special justices. To John Hancock, May 11th ....
THE YOUNG CAPTIVES A Story of Judah and Babylon By ERASMUS W. JONES [image 2] 1907 PREFACE. This volume is the fruit of my leisure hours; and those hours in the life of a pastor are not very abundant. That the story has suffered from this, I do not believe. Whatever its defects may be, they are not owing to “the pressure of other duties.” So, dear reader, if this little work proves a failure, let not that deep calamity be attributed to any lack but the lack of ability in the author....
THROUGH THE BRAZILIAN WILDERNESSBy Theodore Roosevelt Etext prepared by Dagny, dagnypg@yahoo.com and John Bickers, jbickers@ihug.co.nz THROUGH THE BRAZILIAN WILDERNESS BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT PREFACE This is an account of a zoo-geographic reconnaissance through the Brazilian hinterland. The official and proper title of the expedition is that given it by the Brazilian Government: Expedicao Scientifica Roosevelt- Rondon. When I started from the United States, it was to make an expedition, primarily concerned with mammalogy and ornithology, for the American Museum of Natural History of New York....
byVICTOR APPLETON THE TOM SWIFT SERIES TOM SWIFT AND HIS MOTOR-CYCLEOr Fun and Adventure on the Road TOM SWIFT AND HIS MOTOR-BOATOr the Rivals of Lake Carlopa TOM SWIFT AND HIS AIRSHIPOr the Stirring Cruise of the Red Cloud TOM SWIFT AND HIS SUBMARINE BOATOr Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure TOM SWIFT AND HIS ELECTRIC RUNABOUTOr the Speediest Car on the Road Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout CONTENTS CHAPTER I TOM HOPES FOR A PRIZE II MR....
eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971 These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers!***** Title: Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle Author: Victor Appleton Release Date: July, 2003 [EBook #4230] [Most recently updated: March 11, 2002] Edition: 11 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII Greg Weeks, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Tom Swift and his Motor-CycleorFun and Adventures on the Road by Victor Appleton CONTENTS I....
Vain Fortune A Novel By George Moore With Five Illustrations By__Maurice Greiffenhagen New Edition Completely Revised London: Walter Scott, Ltd. Paternoster Square 1895 Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, Printers to Her Majesty Prefatory Note I hope it will not seem presumptuous to ask my critics to treat this new edition of Vain Fortune as a new book: for it is a new book. The first edition was kindly noticed, but it attracted little attention, and very rightly, for the story as told therein was thin and insipid; and when Messrs....
WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS by Christopher Morley TO FELIX and TOTO “I am not free– And it may beLife is too tight around my shins; For, unlike you, I can’t break throughA truant where the blue begins. “Out of the very element Of bondage, that here holds me pent, I’ll make my furious sonnet: I’ll turn my noose To tightrope useAnd madly dance upon it. “So I will take My leash, and makeA wilder and more subtle fleeingÄ And I shall be More escapading and more freeThan you have ever dreamed of being!...
YORKSHIRE PAINTED AND DESCRIBED BY GORDON HOME Contents CHAPTER IACROSS THE MOORS FROM PICKERING TO WHITBY CHAPTER IIALONG THE ESK VALLEY CHAPTER IIITHE COAST FROM WHITBY TO REDCAR CHAPTER IVTHE COAST FROM WHITBY TO SCARBOROUGH CHAPTER VSCARBOROUGH CHAPTER VIWHITBY CHAPTER VIITHE CLEVELAND HILLS CHAPTER VIIIGUISBOROUGH AND THE SKELTON VALLEY CHAPTER IXFROM PICKERING TO RIEVAULX ABBEY CHAPTER XDESCRIBES THE DALE COUNTRY AS A WHOLE CHAPTER XIRICHMOND CHAPTER XIISWALEDALE CHAPTER XIIIWENSLEYDALE CHAPTER XIVRIPON AND FOUNTAINS ABBEY CHAPTER XVKNARESBOROUGH AND HARROGATE CHAPTER XVIWHARFEDALE CHAPTER XVIISKIPTON, MALHAM AND GORDALE CHAPTER XVIIISETTLE AND THE INGLETON FELLS CHAPTER XIXCONCERNING THE WOLDS CHAPTER XXFROM FILEY TO SPURN HEAD CHAPTER XXIBEVERLEY CHAPTER XXIIALONG THE HUMBER CHAPTER XXIIITHE DERWENT AND THE HOWARDIAN HILLS CHAPTER XXIVA BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE CITY OF YORK CHAPTER XXVTHE MANUFACTURING DISTRICT INDEX List of Illustrations...
—From a student theme.) The erroneous idea that Ibid is the author of the Lives is so frequently met with, even among those pretending to a degree of culture, that it is worth correcting. It should be a matter of general knowledge that Cf. is responsible for this work. Ibid’s masterpiece, on the other hand, was the famous Op. Cit. wherein all the significant undercurrents of Graeco-Roman expression were crystallised once for all—and with admirable acuteness, notwithstanding the surprisingly late date at which Ibid wrote....
