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Remote in the desert of Araby lies the nameless city, crumbling and inarticulate, its low walls nearly hidden by the sands of uncounted ages. It must have been thus before the first stones of Memphis were laid, and while the bricks of Babylon were yet unbaked. There is no legend so old as to give it a name, or to recall that it was ever alive; but it is told of in whispers around campfires and muttered about by grandams in the tents of sheiks, so that all the tribes shun it without wholly knowing why....

DESIDERIUS ERASMUS THE PRAISE OF FOLLY Translated by John Wilson 1668 ERASMUS OF ROTTERDAM to his friend THOMAS MORE, health: As I was coming awhile since out of Italy for England, that I might not waste all that time I was to sit on horseback in foolish and illiterate fables, I chose rather one while to revolve with myself something of our common studies, and other while to enjoy the remembrance of my friends, of whom I left here some no less learned than pleasant....

GEORGE MACDONALD CONTENTS Why the Princess Has a Story About Her 2. The Princess Loses Herself3. The Princess and – We Shall See Who 4. What the Nurse Thought of It5. The Princess Lets Well Alone6. The Little Miner7. The Mines 448. The Goblins9. The Hall of the Goblin Palace10. The Princess’s King-Papa11. The Old Lady’s Bedroom12. A Short Chapter About Curdie13. The Cobs’ Creatures14. That Night Week15. Woven and then Spun16....

CONTENTS THE SISTERS’ TRAGEDYTHE LAST CAESARIN WESTMINSTER ABBEYALEC YEATON’S SONAT THE FUNERAL OF A MINOR POETBATUSCHKAACT VTENNYSONTHE SHIPMAN’S TALE“I VEX ME NOT WITH BROODING ON THE YEARS” MONODY ON THE DEATH OF WENDELL PHILLIPSINTERLUDES ECHO-SONG A MOOD GUILIELMUS REX “PILLARED ARCH AND SCULPTURED TOWER THRENODY SESTET A TOUCH OF NATURE MEMORY “I’LL NOT CONFER WITH SORROW” A DEDICATION NO SONGS IN WINTER “LIKE CRUSOE, WALKING BY THE LONELY STRAND THE LETTER SARGENT’S PORTRAIT OF EDWIN BOOTH AT “THE PLAYERS” PAULINE PAVLOVNABAGATELLE....

The Sportsman by Xenophon Translation by H. G. Dakyns Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land and property in Scillus, where he lived for many years before having to move once more, to settle in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C. The Sportsman is a manual on hunting hares, deer and wild boar, including the topics of dogs, and the benefits of hunting for the young....

[Illustration: JAMES, THOMAS, AND GEORGE.] THE VILLAGE SUNDAY-SCHOOL: With brief Sketches ofTHREE OF ITS SCHOLARS. BY JOHN C. SYMONS. REVISED BY DANIEL P. KIDDER. New York: PUBLISHED BY LANE & SCOTT, FOR THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 200 MULBERRY-STREET. JOSEPH LONGKING, PRINTER.1850. PREFACE. The writer of the following pages makes no pretension to authorship. He is deeply conscious that many defects characterize his production; and he hopes that they will be treated with the consideration which so candid an avowal merits, and which the fact demands....

by Virginia Woolf(1882-1941) Chapter I As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk down them arm-in-arm. If you persist, lawyers’ clerks will have to make flying leaps into the mud; young lady typists will have to fidget behind you. In the streets of London where beauty goes unregarded, eccentricity must pay the penalty, and it is better not to be very tall, to wear a long blue cloak, or to beat the air with your left hand....

AN INTIMATE BIOGRAPHY BY WILLIAM ROSCOE THAYER 1919 PREFACE In finishing the correction of the last proofs of this sketch, I perceive that some of those who read it may suppose that I planned to write a deliberate eulogy of Theodore Roosevelt. This is not true. I knew him for forty years, but I never followed his political leadership. Our political differences, however, never lessened our personal friendship. Sometimes long intervals elapsed between our meetings, but when we met it was always with the same intimacy, and when we wrote it was with the same candor....

As the manager of the Performance sits before the curtain on the boards and looks into the Fair, a feeling of profound melancholy comes over him in his survey of the bustling place. There is a great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting, laughing and the contrary, smoking, cheating, fighting, dancing and fiddling; there are bullies pushing about, bucks ogling the women, knaves picking pockets, policemen on the look-out, quacks (OTHER quacks, plague take them!...

VENETIAN LIFE by W. D. HOWELLS ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION. In correcting this book for a second edition, I have sought to complete it without altering its original plan: I have given a new chapter sketching the history of Venetian Commerce and noticing the present trade and industry of Venice; I have amplified somewhat the chapter on the national holidays, and have affixed an index to the chief historical persons, incidents, and places mentioned....

Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre–Buch 6 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sechstes Buch Bekenntnisse einer schˆnen Seele Bis in mein achtes Jahr war ich ein ganz gesundes Kind, weifl mich aber von dieser Zeit so wenig zu erinnern als von dem Tage meiner Geburt. Mit dem Anfange des achten Jahres bekam ich einen Blutsturz, und in dem Augenblick war meine Seele ganz Empfindung und Ged‰chtnis. Die kleinsten Umst‰nde dieses Zufalls stehn mir noch vor Augen, als h‰tte er sich gestern ereignet....

YEAST by Thomas H. Huxley I HAVE selected to-night the particular subject of Yeast for two reasons–or, rather, I should say for three. In the first place, because it is one of the simplest and the most familiar objects with which we are acquainted. In the second place, because the facts and phenomena which I have to describe are so simple that it is possible to put them before you without the help of any of those pictures or diagrams which are needed when matters are more complicated, and which, if I had to refer to them here, would involve the necessity of my turning away from you now and then, and thereby increasing very largely my difficulty (already sufficiently great) in making myself heard....

ZANONI BY EDWARD BULWER LYTTON (PLATE: “Thou art good and fair,” said Viola. Drawn by P. Kauffmann, etched by Deblois.) DEDICATORY EPISTLEFirst prefixed to the Edition of 1845 TO JOHN GIBSON, R.A., SCULPTOR. In looking round the wide and luminous circle of our great living Englishmen, to select one to whom I might fitly dedicate this work,–one who, in his life as in his genius, might illustrate the principle I have sought to convey; elevated by the ideal which he exalts, and serenely dwelling in a glorious existence with the images born of his imagination,–in looking round for some such man, my thoughts rested upon you....

THE PERSONAL LIFE OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE LL.D., D.C.L. CHIEFLY FROM HIS UNPUBLISHEDJOURNALS AND CORRESPONDENCEIN THE POSSESSION OF HIS FAMILY BY W. GARDEN BLAIKIE, D.D., LLD.Author of “Heroes of Israel,” etc. PREFACE. The purpose of this work is to make the world better acquainted with the character of Livingstone. His discoveries and researches have been given to the public in his own books, but his modesty led him to say little in these of himself, and those who knew him best feel that little is known of the strength of his affections, the depth and purity of his devotion, or the intensity of his aspirations as a Christian missionary....

THE PIGEON PIE by Charlotte M. Yonge CHAPTER I. Early in the September of the year 1651 the afternoon sun was shining pleasantly into the dining-hall of Forest Lea House. The sunshine came through a large bay-window, glazed in diamonds, and with long branches of a vine trailing across it, but in parts the glass had been broken and had never been mended. The walls were wainscoted with dark oak, as well as the floor, which shone bright with rubbing, and stag’s antlers projected from them, on which hung a sword in its sheath, one or two odd gauntlets, an old-fashioned helmet, a gun, some bows and arrows, and two of the broad shady hats then in use, one with a drooping black feather, the other plainer and a good deal the worse for wear, both of a small size, as if belonging to a young boy....

** Transcriber’s Notes ** The printed edition from which this e-text has been produced retains the spelling and abbreviations of Hakluyt’s 16th-century original. In this version, the spelling has been retained, but the following manuscript abbreviations have been silently expanded: – vowels with macrons = vowel + ‘n’ or ‘m’ – q; = -que (in the Latin) – y[e] = the; y[t] = that; w[t] = with This edition contains footnotes and two types of sidenotes....

THE QUAKER COLONIES, A CHRONICLE OF THE PROPRIETORS OF THE DELAWARE By Sydney G. Fisher New Haven: Yale University PressToronto: Glasgow, Brook & Co.London: Humphrey MilfordOxford University Press 1919 CONTENTS I. THE BIRTH OF PENNSYLVANIA II. PENN SAILS FOR THE DELAWAREIII. LIFE IN PHILADELPHIAIV. TYPES OF THE POPULATIONV. THE TROUBLES OF PENN AND HIS SONS VI. THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WARVII. THE DECLINE OF QUAKER GOVERNMENT VIII. THE BEGINNINGS OF NEW JERSEYIX....

THE RED MAN’S CONTINENT, A CHRONICLE OF ABORIGINAL AMERICA BY ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESSTORONTO: GLASGOW, BROOK & CO.LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORDOXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS1919 PREFACE In writing this book the author has aimed first to present in readable form the main facts about the geographical environment of American history. Many important facts have been omitted or have been touched upon only lightly because they are generally familiar. On the other hand, special stress has been laid on certain broad phases of geography which are comparatively unfamiliar....

The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible By R. Heber Newton. “In it is contained God’s true Word.”–Homily on the Holy Scriptures. New York:John W. Lovell Company,14 & 16 Vesey Street. Works by the Same Author. The Morals. 1. Vol. 12mo, cloth, gilt, $1.00 Studies of Jesus. 1 vol. 12mo, cloth, gilt, 1.00 Womanhood. 1 vol. 12mo, cloth, gilt, 1.25 The above all will be sent by mail, postpaid, on receipt of price, by John W....

ARTHURIAN ROMANCES Unrepresented in Malory’s “Morte d’Arthur” No. IV. MORIEN ARTHURIAN ROMANCES UNREPRESENTED IN MALORY’S “MORTE D’ARTHUR” I. SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT. A Middle-English Romance retold in Modern Prose, with Introduction and Notes, by JESSIE L. WESTON. With Designs by M. M. CRAWFORD. 1898. 2s. net. II. TRISTAN AND ISEULT. Rendered into English from the German of Gottfried of Strassburg by JESSIE L. WESTON. With Designs by CAROLINE WATTS....