THE REGISTER by William D. Howells I. SCENE: In an upper chamber of a boarding-house in Melanchthon Place, Boston, a mature, plain young lady, with every appearance of establishing herself in the room for the first time, moves about, bestowing little touches of decoration here and there, and talking with another young lady, whose voice comes through the open doorway of an inner room. MISS ETHEL REED, from within: “What in the world are you doing, Nettie?...
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALAMITY BY EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE A Complete and Accurate Account of the Fearful Disaster which Visited the Great City and the Pacific Coast, the Reign of Panic and Lawlessness, the Plight of 300,000 Homeless People and the World-wide Rush to the Rescue. TOLD BY EYE WITNESSES INCLUDING GRAPHIC AND RELIABLE ACCOUNTS OF ALL GREAT EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS IN THE WORLD’S HISTORY, AND SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATIONS OF THEIR CAUSES....
Among the difficulties which beset the path of the conscientious translator, a sense of his own unworthiness must ever take precedence; but another, scarcely less disconcerting, is the likelihood of misunderstanding some allusion which was perfectly familiar to the author and his public, but which, by reason of its purely local significance, is obscure and subject to the misinterpretation and emendation of a later generation. A translation worthy of the name is as much the product of a literary epoch as it is of the brain and labor of a scholar; and Melmouth’s version of the letters of Pliny the Younger, made, as it was, at a period when the art of English letter writing had attained its highest excellence, may well be the despair of our twentieth century apostles of specialization....
[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.] THE SATYRICON OF PETRONIUS ARBITER Complete and unexpurgated translation by W. C. Firebaugh, in which are incorporated the forgeries of Nodot and Marchena, and the readings introduced into the text by De Salas. BRACKET CODE: (Forgeries of Nodot) [Forgeries of Marchena] {Additions of De Salas} DW VOLUME 4....
The Social Cancer The Social CancerA Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere from the Spanish ofJosé Rizal By Charles Derbyshire Manila1912 THE NOVELS OF JOSÉ RIZAL Translated from Spanish into English BY CHARLES DERBYSHIRE THE SOCIAL CANCER (NOLI ME TANGERE)THE REIGN OF GREED (EL FILIBUSTERISMO) Translator’s Introduction “We travel rapidly in these historical sketches. The reader flies in his express train in a few minutes through a couple of centuries....
BY HUGH LOFTING To Colin and Elizabeth CONTENTSPART ONE PROLOGUEI THE COBBLER’S SONII I HEAR OF THE GREAT NATURALISTIII THE DOCTOR’S HOMEIV THE WIFF-WAFFV POLYNESIAVI THE WOUNDED SQUIRRELVII SHELLFISH TALKVIII ARE YOU A GOOD NOTICER?IX THE GARDEN OF DREAMSX THE PRIVATE ZOOXI MY SCHOOLMASTER, POLYNESIAXII MY GREAT IDEAXIII A TRAVELER ARRIVESXIV CHEE-CHEE’S VOYAGEXV I BECOME A DOCTOR’S ASSISTANT PART TWOI THE CREW OF “THE CURLEW”II LUKE THE HERMITIII JIP AND THE SECRETIV BOBV MENDOZAVI THE JUDGE’S DOGVII THE END OF THE MYSTERYVIII THREE CHEERSIX THE PURPLE BIRD-OF-PARADISEX LONG ARROW, THE SON OF GOLDEN ARROW XI BLIND TRAVELXII DESTINY AND DESTINATION PART THREEI THE THIRD MANII GOOD-BYE!...
THIRTY YEARS IN THE ITINERANCY, BY REV. W.G. MILLER, D.D. 1875 DEDICATION. * * * * * TO THEMINISTERS AND LAYMENOF THEWISCONSIN CONFERENCE,WITH WHOMTHE AUTHOR HAS BEEN ASSOCIATEDIN CHRISTIAN LABORDURING THE PASTTHIRTY YEARSARE THESE PAGESRESPECTFULLY DEDICATED. PREFACE. * * * * * The following pages were prepared in the midst of the taxing labors of the Ministerial calling. The materials have been drawn from a multitude of sources, and, though the recollections of individuals have not been entirely harmonious in all cases, the facts and dates are believed to be mainly reliable....
THREE DRAMAS THE EDITOR–THE BANKRUPT–THE KING BY BJORNSTJERNE BJORNSON INTRODUCTION The three plays here presented were the outcome of a period when Bjornson’s views on many topics were undergoing a drastic revision and he was abandoning much of his previous orthodoxy in many directions. Two of them were written during, and one immediately after, a three years’ absence from Norway–years spent almost entirely in southern Europe. [Note: Further details respecting Bjornson’s life will be found in the Introduction to Three Comedies by Bjornson, published in Everyman’s Library in 1912....
BYVICTOR APPLETON CONTENTSCHAPTER I A STRANGE OFFERII A MAN IN THE SNOW BANKIII TOM MAKES UP HIS MINDIV HELD FASTV TOM GETS A WARNINGVI TRYING THE CAMERAVII WHAT THE CAMERA CAUGHTVIII PHOTOS FROM THE AIRSHIPIX OFF FOR INDIAX UNEXPECTED EXCITEMENTXI AN ELEPHANT STAMPEDEXII THE LION FIGHTXIII A SHOT IN TIMEXIV IN A GREAT GALEXV SNAPPING AN AVALANCHEXVI TELEGRAPH ORDERSXVII SUSPICIOUS STRANGERSXVIII THE NATIVE BATTLEXIX A HEAVY LOSSXX AFTER THE ENGLISHMENXXI THE JUNGLE FIREXXII A DANGEROUS COMMISSIONXXIII AT THE VOLCANOXXIV THE MOLTEN RIMXXV THE EARTHQUAKE–CONCLUSION TOM SWIFT AND HIS WIZARD CAMERA CHAPTER I – A STRANGE OFFER “Some one to see you, Mr....
TWO MEN OF SANDY BAR by Bret Harte DRAMATIS PERSONAE The Prodigals. “SANDY” . . Son of Alexander Morton, sen. JOHN OAKHURST . . His former partner, personating the prodigal son, Sandy. COL. STARBOTTLE . . Alexander Morton, sen.’s, legal adviser. OLD MORTON . . Alexander Morton, sen. DON JOSE . . Father of Jovita Castro. CAPPER . . A detective. CONCHO . . Major-domo of Don Jose’s rancho. YORK ....
Under the Redwoods by Bret Harte CONTENTS JIMMY’S BIG BROTHER FROM CALIFORNIA THE YOUNGEST MISS PIPER A WIDOW OF THE SANTA ANA VALLEY THE MERMAID OF LIGHTHOUSE POINT UNDER THE EAVES HOW REUBEN ALLEN “SAW LIFE” IN SAN FRANCISCO THREE VAGABONDS OF TRINIDAD A VISION OF THE FOUNTAIN A ROMANCE OF THE LINE BOHEMIAN DAYS IN SAN FRANCISCO UNDER THE REDWOODS JIMMY’S BIG BROTHER FROM CALIFORNIA As night crept up from the valley that stormy afternoon, Sawyer’s Ledge was at first quite blotted out by wind and rain, but presently reappeared in little nebulous star-like points along the mountain side, as the straggling cabins of the settlement were one by one lit up by the miners returning from tunnel and claim....
P. J. PROUDHON: HIS LIFE AND HIS WORKS PREFACE FIRST MEMOIR CHAPTER I. METHOD PURSUED IN THIS WORK.–THE IDEA OF A REVOLUTION CHAPTER II. PROPERTY CONSIDERED AS A NATURAL RIGHT.–OCCUPATION AND CIVIL LAW AS EFFICIENT BASES OF PROPERTY.–DEFINITIONS CHAPTER III. LABOR AS THE EFFICIENT CAUSE OF THE DOMAIN OF PROPERTY CHAPTER IV. THAT PROPERTY IS IMPOSSIBLE DEMONSTRATION. AXIOM. Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own....
WHIG AGAINST TORY: OR, THE MILITARY ADVENTURES OF A SHOEMAKER. A TALE OF THE REVOLUTION. FOR CHILDREN. 1851. CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION CHAP. I. Gen P. tells about the early life of Enoch Crosby. CHAP. II. Gen. P. tells about the war, and how Crosby enlisted as a soldier for one campaign. CHAP. III. Gen. P. tells how Crosby again enlisted as a soldier, and of his singular adventures. CHAP. IV. Gen....
Wild Animals I Have KnownBy Ernest Thompson Seton Books by Ernest Thompson SetonBiography of a GrizzlyLives of the HuntedWild Animals at HomeWild Animal Ways Stories in This BookLobo, the King of Currumpaw Silverspot, the Story of a CrowRaggylug, the Story of a Cottontail Rabbit Bingo, the Story of My DogThe Springfield FoxThe Pacing MustangWully, the Story of a Yaller DogRedruff, the Story of the Don Valley Partridge THESE STORIES are true....
WYLDER’S HAND A NOVEL by J. SHERIDAN LE FANU First published 1864 CONTENTS CHAP. I.–RELATING HOW I RODE THROUGH THE VILLAGE OF GYLINGDEN WITH MARK WYLDER’S LETTER IN MY VALISE II.–IN WHICH I ENTER THE DRAWING-ROOM III.–OUR DINNER-PARTY AT BRANDON IV.–IN WHICH WE GO TO THE DRAWING-ROOM AND THE PARTY BREAKS UP V.–IN WHICH MY SLUMBER IS DISTURBED VI.–IN WHICH DORCAS BRANDON SPEAKS VII.–RELATING HOW A LONDON GENTLEMAN APPEARED IN REDMAN’S DELL VIII....
TO COUSIN ANNIE (MRS. HARRY COGHILL) THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED IN LOVE OF OUR COMMON HEROINE AND IN REMEMBRANCE OF LONG AND FAITHFUL AFFECTION AND FRIENDSHIP PREPARER’S NOTE The original book for this text was published as a volume in a series “Heroes of the Nations,” edited by Evelyn Abbot, M.H., Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons / The Knickerbocker Press in 1896. The title material includes the note: FACTA DUCIS VIVENT, OPEROSAQUE GLORIA RERUM–OVID, IN LIVIAM, 265....
NARRATIVE OF THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. RATTLESNAKE, COMMANDED BY THE LATE CAPTAIN OWEN STANLEY, R.N., F.R.S. ETC. DURING THE YEARS 1846-1850. INCLUDING DISCOVERIES AND SURVEYS IN NEW GUINEA, THE LOUISIADE ARCHIPELAGO, ETC. TO WHICH IS ADDED THE ACCOUNT OF MR. E.B. KENNEDY’S EXPEDITION FOR THE EXPLORATION OF THE CAPE YORK PENINSULA. BY JOHN MACGILLIVRAY, F.R.G.S. NATURALIST TO THE EXPEDITION. PUBLISHED UNDER THE SANCTION OF THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF THE ADMIRALTY....
[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.] RECOLLECTIONS OF THE PRIVATE LIFE OF NAPOLEON, V10 By CONSTANT PREMIER VALET DE CHAMBRE TRANSLATED BY WALTER CLARK 1895 CHAPTER VIII. During the whole Russian campaign, the Emperor was nearly always badly lodged. It was necessary, however, to accommodate himself to circumstances; though this was a somewhat difficult task to those who were accustomed to lodge in palaces....
Chapter I In the Spring of 1847, the little village of Ruralville was thrown into a state of excitement by the landing of a strange Brig in the harbour. It carried no flag, and no name was painted on its side, and everything about it was such as would excite suspicion. It was from Tripoli, Africa, and the captain was named Manuel Ruello. The Excitement increased, however; when John Griggs, (The magnate of the villiage) suddenly disappeared from his home....
My long work of the summer was completed when I left the city, and the large mural design produced by it had been entered in the contest. It had taken me the bulk of the year to finish the painting, and when the last brush was cleaned I was no longer reluctant to yield to the claims of health and find rest and seclusion for a time. Indeed, when I had been a week on the beach I recalled only now and then the work whose success had so recently seemed all-important....
