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ECLECTIC ENGLISH CLASSICS THE SPY A TALE OF THE NEUTRAL GROUND BY JAMES FENIMORE COOPER EDITED BY NATHANIEL WARING BARNES PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH COMPOSITIONIN DE PAUW UNIVERSITYGREENCASTLE, INDIANA JAMES FENIMORE COOPER “I believe I could write a better story myself!” With these words, since become famous, James Fenimore Cooper laid aside the English novel which he was reading aloud to his wife. A few days later he submitted several pages of manuscript for her approval, and then settled down to the task of making good his boast....

[Illustration: Ellen Terry drawn from photographs by Albert Sterner] THE STORY OF MY LIFE RECOLLECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS BY ELLEN TERRY [Illustration] ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO. MCMIX 1908, The McClure Company 1907, 1908, The S.S. McClure Company 1907, 1908, Ellen Terry TO EDY CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. A CHILD OF THE STAGE, 1848-56 The Charles Keans, 1856 Training in Shakespeare, 1856-59 II. ON THE ROAD, 1859-61 Life in a Stock Company, 1862-63 1864 III....

THE THIRSTY SWORD A Story of the Norse Invasion of Scotland (1262-1263) BY ROBERT LEIGHTON CHAPTER I. THE WITCH OF BUTE. “Ah, if only Kenric were here!” It was on the evening of a bright day in June, in the year 1262, and a girl, clasping her hands in distress, walked restlessly to and fro on the bank of a stream that tinkled merrily along its gravelly bed towards the sea....

[Illustration: “‘Then in charity say that word!’”] THE TRACER OF LOST PERSONS BY R. W. CHAMBERS TO MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM A. HALL 1906 For the harmony of the world, like that of a harp, is made up of discords. –HERACLITUS. THE TRACER OF LOST PERSONS CHAPTER I He was thirty-three, agreeable to look at, equipped with as much culture and intelligence as is tolerated east of Fifth Avenue and west of Madison....

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The Internet Wiretap Online Edition of THE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLEBY CHARLES DARWIN About the online edition. The degree symbol is represented as “degs.” Italics are represented as italics. Footnotes are collected at the end of each chapter. THE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE PREFACE I have stated in the preface to the first Edition of this work, and in the Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle, that it was in consequence of a wish expressed by Captain Fitz Roy, of having some scientific person on board, accompanied by an offer from him of giving up part of his own accommodations, that I volunteered my services, which received, through the kindness of the hydrographer, Captain Beaufort, the sanction of the Lords of the Admiralty....

NIGHT WATCHES By W.W. Jacobs THE WEAKER VESSEL Mr. Gribble sat in his small front parlour in a state of angry amazement. It was half-past six and there was no Mrs. Gribble; worse still, there was no tea. It was a state of things that had only happened once before. That was three weeks after marriage, and on that occasion Mr. Gribble had put his foot down with a bang that had echoed down the corridors of thirty years....

THE WORLD’S GREATEST BOOKS JOINT EDITORS ARTHUR MEE Editor and Founder of the Book of Knowledge J.A. HAMMERTON Editor of Harmsworth’s Universal Encyclopaedia VOL. XI ANCIENT HISTORY MEDIAEVAL HISTORY * * * * * Table of Contents ANCIENT HISTORY EGYPT MASPERO, GASTON Dawn of Civilization Struggle of the Nations Passing of the Empires JEWS JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS Antiquities of the Jews Wars of the Jews MILMAN, HENRY History of the Jews GREECE HERODOTUS History THUCYDIDES Peloponnesian War XENOPHON Anabasis GROTE, GEORGE History of Greece SCHLIEMANN, HEINRICH Troy and Its Remains ROME CAESAR, JULIUS Commentaries on the Gallic War TACITUS, PUBLIUS CORNELIUS Annals SALLUST, CATOS CRISPUS Conspiracy of Catiline GIBBON, EDWARD Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire MOMMSEN, THEODOR History of Rome MEDIAEVAL HISTORY HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE GIBBON, EDWARD The Holy Roman Empire EUROPE GUIZOT, F....

THE WORLD’S GREATEST BOOKS JOINT EDITORS ARTHUR MEE Editor and Founder of the Book of Knowledge J.A. HAMMERTON Editor of Harmsworth’s Universal Encyclopaedia VOL. VIII FICTION MCMX * * * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS SCOTT, SIR WALTER (Continued) Quentin Durward Rob Roy Talisman SHELLEY, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Frankenstein SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP Arcadia SMOLLET, TOBIAS Roderick Random Peregrine Pickle STAEL, MME. DE Corinne STENDHAL (HENRI BEYLE) Chartreuse of Parma STERNE, LAURENCE Tristram Shandy STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER Uncle Tom’s Cabin SUE, EUGENE Mysteries of Paris SWIFT, JONATHAN Gulliver’s Travels THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE Newcomes Virginians Vanity Fair TOLSTOY, COUNT LYOF N....

[Illustration: “I SWIPED TWO O’ THEM QUARANTINE SIGNS OFFEN TWO DOORS.”] TOM SLADE BOY SCOUT OF THE MOVING PICTURES BY PERCY K. FITZHUGH Adapted and Illustrated from the Photo Play “The Adventures of a Boy Scout” TABLE OF CONTENTS I. STICKS AND STONES II. HATS OFF! III. IN JAIL AND OUT AGAIN IV. CAMP SOLITAIRE V. CONNOVER’S PARTY VI. HITTING THE BULL’S EYE VII. “ON MY HONOR” VIII. STUNG! IX....

Tommy and Co. by Jerome K. Jerome STORY THE FIRST–Peter Hope plans his Prospectus “Come in!” said Peter Hope. Peter Hope was tall and thin, clean-shaven but for a pair of side whiskers close-cropped and terminating just below the ear, with hair of the kind referred to by sympathetic barbers as “getting a little thin on the top, sir,” but arranged with economy, that everywhere is poverty’s true helpmate. About Mr....

TRUE TO THE OLD FLAG A TALE OF THE AMERICAN WAROF INDEPENDENCE ByG. A. HENTY Author Of “With Clive In India,” “The Dragon And The Raven,” “With Lee In Virginia,” “By England’s Aid,” “In The Reign Of Terror,” “With Wolfe In Canada,” “Captain Bayley’s Heir,” Etc. CONTENTS CHAPTER I. A FRONTIER FARM II. AN INDIAN RAID III. THE REDSKIN ATTACK IV. THE FIGHT AT LEXINGTON V. BUNKER’S HILL VI. SCOUTING VII....

“Let him sing to me Who sees the watching of the stars above the day, Who hears the singing of the sunrise On its way Through all the night. Let him sing to me Who is the sky-voice, the thunder-lover, Who hears above the winds’ fast flying shrouds The drifted darkness, the heavenly strife, The singing on the sunny sides of all the clouds Of his own life.” UNCLE WILLIAM I “Yes, I’m shif’less....

WE CAN’T HAVE EVERYTHING BOOKS BY RUPERT HUGHES We Can’t Have Everything In A Little Town The Thirteenth Commandment Clipped Wings What Will People Say? The Last Rose Of Summer Empty Pockets [Illustration: WAR, THE SUNDERER, HAD REACHED THEM WITH HIS GREAT DIVORCE] WE CAN’T HAVE EVERYTHING A NOVEL BY RUPERT HUGHES AUTHOR OF What Will People Say? ILLUSTRATED BY JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG CONTENTS THE FIRST BOOKMISS KEDZIE THROPP COMES TO TOWN THE SECOND BOOKMRS....

Worldly Ways and Byways A Table of Contents To the READER Charm2. The Moth and the Star3. Contrasted Travelling4. The Outer and the Inner Woman5. On Some Gilded Misalliances6. The Complacency of Mediocrity7. The Discontent of Talent8. Slouch9. Social Suggestion10. Bohemia11. Social Exiles12. “Seven Ages” of Furniture13. Our Elite and Public Life14. The Small Summer Hotel15. A False Start16. A Holy Land17. Royalty at Play18. A Rock Ahead19. The Grand Prix20....

MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-1798 THE ETERNAL QUEST, Volume 3e–WITH VOLTAIRE THE RARE UNABRIDGED LONDON EDITION OF 1894 TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR MACHEN TO WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED THE CHAPTERS DISCOVERED BY ARTHUR SYMONS. THE ETERNAL QUEST WITH VOLTAIRE CHAPTER XIX M. de Voltaire; My Discussions with That Great Man–Ariosto–The Duc de Villars–The Syndic and the Three Girls–Dispute with Voltaire– Aix-en-Savoie–The Marquis Desarmoises “M. de Voltaire,” said I, “this is the happiest moment of my life....

I have seen the dark universe yawningWhere the black planets roll without aim—Where they roll in their horror unheeded,Without knowledge or lustre or name. —Nemesis. Cautious investigators will hesitate to challenge the common belief that Robert Blake was killed by lightning, or by some profound nervous shock derived from an electrical discharge. It is true that the window he faced was unbroken, but Nature has shewn herself capable of many freakish performances....

THE PAGANS By Arlo Bates The web of our life is a mingled yarn, good and ill together. All’s Well That Ends Well; iv–3 DEDICATION. To those who would be Pagans, did any such organization exist, I take pleasure in offering this attempt to picture a phase of life which they know. She answered, “cast thy rosary on the ground; bind on thy shoulder the thread of paganism; throw stones at the glass of piety; and quaff from a full goblet....

THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE by Oliver Wendell Holmes PREFACE. In this, the third series of Breakfast-Table conversations, a slight dramatic background shows off a few talkers and writers, aided by certain silent supernumeraries. The machinery is much like that of the two preceding series. Some of the characters must seem like old acquaintances to those who have read the former papers. As I read these over for the first time for a number of years, I notice one character; presenting a class of beings who have greatly multiplied during the interval which separates the earlier and later Breakfast-Table papers,–I mean the scientific specialists....

A Novel by ARNOLD BENNETT 1918 “Virtue has never yet been adequately represented by any who have had any claim to be considered virtuous. It is the sub-vicious who best understand virtue. Let the virtuous people stick to describing vice–which they can do well enough.” SAMUEL BUTLER CONTENTS Chapter THE PROMENADE THE POWER THE FLAT CONFIDENCE OSTEND THE ALBANY FOR THE EMPIRE BOOTS THE CLUB THE MISSION THE TELEGRAM RENDEZVOUS IN COMMITTEE QUEEN EVENING OUT THE VIRGIN SUNDAY AFTERNOON THE MYSTIC THE VISIT MASCOT THE LEAVE-TRAIN GETTING ON WITH THE WAR THE CALL THE SOLDIER THE RING THE RETURN THE CLYDE SALOME THE STREETS THE CHILD’S ARM “ROMANCE” MRS....