by Natalie Sumner Lincoln CHAPTER I IN THE POLICE COURT Te Assistant District Attorney glanced down at the papers in his hand and then up at the well-dressed, stockily built man occupying the witness stand. His manner was conciliatory. “According to your testimony, Mr. Clymer, the prisoner, John Sylvester, was honest and reliable, and faithfully performed his duties as confidential clerk,” he stated. “Just when was Sylvester in your employ?...
BY SAX ROHMER CHAPTER I A MIDNIGHT SUMMONS “When did you last hear from Nayland Smith?” asked my visitor. I paused, my hand on the syphon, reflecting for a moment. “Two months ago,” I said; “he’s a poor correspondent and rather soured, I fancy.” “What–a woman or something?” “Some affair of that sort. He’s such a reticent beggar, I really know very little about it.” I placed a whisky and soda before the Rev....
The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray PRELUDE It happened that the undersigned spent the last Christmas season in a foreign city where there were many English children. In that city, if you wanted to give a child’s party, you could not even get a magic-lantern or buy Twelfth-Night characters–those funny painted pictures of the King, the Queen, the Lover, the Lady, the Dandy, the Captain, and so on– with which our young ones are wont to recreate themselves at this festive time....
THE SECRET PLACES OF THE HEART BY H. G. WELLS 1922 CONTENTS Chapter THE CONSULTATION LADY HARDY THE DEPARTURE AT MAIDENHEAD IN THE LAND OF THE FORGOTTEN PEOPLES THE ENCOUNTER AT STONEHENGE COMPANIONSHIP FULL MOON THE LAST DAYS OF SIR RICHMOND HARDY THE SECRET PLACES OF THE HEART CHAPTER THE FIRST THE CONSULTATION Section 1 The maid was a young woman of great natural calmness; she was accustomed to let in visitors who had this air of being annoyed and finding one umbrella too numerous for them....
Note: I have made the following changes to the text: PAGE NOTE LINE ORIGINAL CHANGED TO 97 10 to too 126 4 Heddekel Hiddekel 139 1 3 Cratyluo Cratylus 147 11 tiouous tinuous 178 18 Los- Los 180 1 17 Scoreby, Scoresby, THE SMOKY GOD OR A Voyage to the Inner World BY WILLIS GEORGE EMERSONAUTHOR OF “BUELL HAMPTON,” “THE BUILDERS,” ETC. Copyright, 1908,By WILLIS GEORGE EMERSON DedicatedTOMY CHUM AND COMPANIONBONNIE EMERSONMY WIFE CONTENTS PART I....
Herein Is Written The Forethought I. Of Our Spiritual Strivings II. Of the Dawn of Freedom III. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others IV. Of the Meaning of Progress V. Of the Wings of Atalanta VI. Of the Training of Black Men VII. Of the Black BeltVIII. Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece IX. Of the Sons of Master and Man X. Of the Faith of the Fathers XI....
NIGHT WATCHES by W.W. Jacobs THE THREE SISTERS Thirty years ago on a wet autumn evening the household of Mallett’s Lodge was gathered round the death-bed of Ursula Mallow, the eldest of the three sisters who inhabited it. The dingy moth-eaten curtains of the old wooden bedstead were drawn apart, the light of a smoking oil- lamp falling upon the hopeless countenance of the dying woman as she turned her dull eyes upon her sisters....
The TinguianSocial, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe ByFay-Cooper ColeAssistant Curator of Malayan Ethnology 1922 CONTENTS List of Illustrations Introduction I. Geographical Relations and History II. Physical Type and Relationships III. The Cycle of Life Birth Childhood Engagement and Marriage Death and Burial The Layog IV. Religion and Magic V. The Ceremonies 1. The Minor Ceremonies 2. The Great Ceremonies 3. Special Ceremonies VI. Social Organization. Government. The Village VII....
THROUGH THE GRAND CANYON FROM WYOMING TO MEXICO By E.L. Kolb With a Foreword by Owen Wister New EditionWith Additional Illustrations(72 Plates)From Photographs by the Author and His Brother 1915 Dedication TO THE MANY FRIENDS WHO “PULLED” FOR US, IF NOT WITH US DURING THE ONE HUNDRED ONE DAYS OF OUR RIVER TRIP, THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED. FOREWORD It is a dogged courage of which the author of this book is the serene possessor–shared equally by his daring brother; and evidence of this bravery is made plain throughout the following pages....
TILL THE CLOCK STOPS BY J. J. BELL AUTHOR OF “WEE MACGREEGOR,” ETC. 1917 THE PROLOGUE On a certain brilliant Spring morning in London’s City the seed of the Story was lightly sown. Within the directors’ room of the Aasvogel Syndicate, Manchester House, New Broad Street, was done and hidden away a deed, simple and commonplace, which in due season was fated to yield a weighty crop of consequences complex and extraordinary....
After what has happened to me in Daalbergen, I can almost share the opinion of the villagers. I am not sure that my uncle is dead, but I am very sure that he is not alive upon this earth. There is no doubt that the old sexton buried him once, but he is not in that grave now. I can almost feel him behind me as I write, impelling me to tell the truth about those strange happenings in Daalbergen so many years ago....
[Transcriber’s note: there is no Chapter XI.] UNCLE TOM’S CABIN YOUNG FOLKS’ EDITION By HARRIET BEECHER STOWE UNCLE TOM’S CABIN CHAPTER I UNCLE TOM AND LITTLE HARRY ARE SOLD Very many years ago, instead of having servants to wait upon them and work for them, people used to have slaves. These slaves were paid no wages. Their masters gave them only food and clothes in return for their work. When any one wanted servants he went to market to buy them, just as nowadays we buy horses and cows, or even tables and chairs....
Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley Etext prepared by John Bickers, jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz and Bonnie Sala URSULA BY HONORE DE BALZAC Translated ByKatharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Mademoiselle Sophie Surville, It is a true pleasure, my dear niece, to dedicate to you this book, the subject and details of which have won the approbation, so difficult to win, of a young girl to whom the world is still unknown, and who has compromised with none of the lofty principles of a saintly education....
[Illustration: Alinari, Photo. In the Bologna Gallery THE INFANT CHRIST ELISABETTA SIRANI] WOMEN IN THE FINE ARTS FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY B. C. TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A. D. BY CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENT 1904 PREFATORY NOTE As a means of collecting material for this book I have sent to many artists in Great Britain and in various countries of Europe, as well as in the United States, a circular, asking where their studies were made, what honors they have received, the titles of their principal works, etc....
WYOMING A STORY OF THE OUTDOOR WEST by William MacLeod Raine TABLE OF CONTENTS A DESERT MEETING2. THE KING OF THE BIG HORN COUNTRY 3. AN INVITATION GIVEN AND ACCEPTED4. AT THE LAZY D RANCH5. THE DANCE AT FRASER’S6. A PARTY CALL7. THE MAN FROM THE SHOSHONE FASTNESSES 8. IN THE LAZY D HOSPITAL9. A RESCUE12. MISTRESS AND MAID13. THE TWO COUSINS14. FOR THE WORLD’S CHAMPIONSHIP15. JUDD MORGAN PASSES16. HUNTING BIG GAME17....
Vorwort Vor funfzehn Jahren machte es mir Freude, die folgende einfacheGeschichte niederzuschreiben. Sie sollte nur die Einfassung mehrererschöner altdeutschen Erzählungen sein, die sie mit mancherleiEreignissen aus dem Zusammenleben des alten Ritters Veltlin vonTürlingen und seiner drei Töchter unterbricht, mit deren Versorgungund der Abreise des Erzählers sie schließt. So lieb ich das Gedichthatte, blieb es doch unterbrochen; der Sinn der Leser schien dazu zufehlen. Jetzt, da diese Erzählung mehr, ja selbst die altdeutschenRöcke vor sich hat, fiel sie mir wieder in die Hände, und ichversuche es, sie den Lesern vorzulegen mit der Erinnerung, daß sie zupädagogischen Zwecken entworfen worden, als ich von der sogenanntenRomantik noch wenig wußte, und daß sie daher neben den allerneuestenRitterromandichtern in ihrer redseligen Einfalt um Schonung bittet....
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the beginning of the nineteenth century Volume II, 1521-1569 Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne....
THE PONY RIDER BOYS IN THE GRAND CANYON orThe Mystery of Bright Angel Gulch byFrank Gee Patchin CONTENTS CHAPTERS I. Westward Ho! II. A View of the Promised Land III. Tenderfeet Show Their Skill IV. A Night in the Crater V. Tad Lend a Helping Hand VI. A Sight that Thrilled VII. On the Rim of Eternity VIII. The City in the Skies IX. Chunky Wants to go Home X....
The Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins LETTER OF DEDICATION. ———TO EMILE FORGUES.—– AT a time when French readers were altogether unaware of the existence of any books of my writing, a critical examination of my novels appeared under your signature in the Revue des Deux Moudes. I read that article, at the time of its appearance, with sincere pleasure and sincere gratitude to the writer, and I have honestly done my best to profit by it ever since....
[Illustration: “Not by a glance or a turn of the head did he let his bride see how wildly her superlative attraction had kindled the fire in his blood.”] THE REASON WHY BY ELINOR GLYN 1911 Author of “His Hour,” “Three Weeks,” etc. ILLUSTRATED BY EDMUND FREDERICK LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS “Not by a glance or a turn of his head did he let his bride see how wildly her superlative attraction had kindled the fire in his blood” “The whole expression of her face changed as he came and leaned upon the piano” “With his English self-control and horror of a scene, he followed his wife to the door” “‘Zara!...
