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CHRONICLES OF CANADAEdited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton In thirty-two volumes Volume 10 THE PASSING OF NEW FRANCEA Chronicle of Montcalm By WILLIAM WOOD TORONTO, 1915 CHAPTER I MONTCALM IN FRANCE1712-1756 ‘War is the grave of the Montcalms.’ No one can tell how old this famous saying is. Perhaps it is as old as France herself. Certainly there never was a time when the men of the great family of Montcalm-Gozon were not ready to fight for their king and country; and so Montcalm, like Wolfe, was a soldier born....

THE PROSPECTOR RALPH CONNOR CONTENTS I. A SOCIAL IMPOSSIBILITY II. ‘VARSITY VERSUS MCGILL III. THE VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS IV. ONLY ONE CLAIM V. “YEA, AND HIS OWN LIFE ALSO” VI. ON THE TRAIL VII. THE OUTPOST VIII. THE OLD PROSPECTOR IX. TIM CARROLL X. THE TURF MEET XI. “I WAS A STRANGER, AND YE TOOK ME IN” XII. HIS KEEPER XIII. THE PRESIDENT OF GUY’S, LONDON XIV. OLD PROSPECTOR’S AWAKING XV....

THE RED INN BY HONORE DE BALZAC Translated ByKatharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Monsieur le Marquis de Custine. THE RED INN In I know not what year a Parisian banker, who had very extensive commercial relations with Germany, was entertaining at dinner one of those friends whom men of business often make in the markets of the world through correspondence; a man hitherto personally unknown to him. This friend, the head of a rather important house in Nuremburg, was a stout worthy German, a man of taste and erudition, above all a man of pipes, having a fine, broad, Nuremburgian face, with a square open forehead adorned by a few sparse locks of yellowish hair....

[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. 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....

I started to assure him vehemently that I never had. Then, as if Time had thrown a picture on a screen before me, I saw myself as a little girl preach- ing alone in the forest, as I had so often preached to a congregation of listening trees. I qualified my answer. “Never,” I said, “to human beings.” Dr. Peck smiled again. “Well,” he told me, “the door is open....

THE STORY OF KENNETT BY BAYARD TAYLOR PROLOGUE. TO MY FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS OF KENNETT: I wish to dedicate this Story to you, not only because some of you inhabit the very houses, and till the very fields which I have given to the actors in it, but also because many of you will recognize certain of the latter, and are therefore able to judge whether they are drawn with the simple truth at which I have aimed....

THE THRESHOLD GRACE MEDITATIONS IN THE PSALMS BY PERCY C. AINSWORTH AUTHOR OF ‘THE PILGRIM CHURCH.’ ‘THE BLESSED LIFE,’ ETC. PREFATORY NOTE During his brief ministry Mr. Ainsworth published a series of meditations in the columns of the Methodist Times, which are here reprinted by the kind permission of the Editor, Dr. Scott Lidgett. The rare interest aroused by the previous publication of Mr. Ainsworth’s sermons encourages the hope that the present volume may find a place in the devotional literature to which many turn in the quiet hour....

Supposed to be written by Himself Sperate miseri, cavete faelices There are an hundred faults in this Thing, and an hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless. A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. The hero of this piece unites in himself the three greatest characters upon earth; he is a priest, an husbandman, and the father of a family....

THE LETTERS OF CHARLES AND MARY LAMB 1796-1820 EDITED BY E. V. LUCAS WITH A FRONTISPIECE PREFACE This edition of the correspondence of Charles and Mary Lamb contains 618 letters, of which 45 are by Mary Lamb alone. It is the only edition to contain all Mary Lamb’s letters and also a reference to, or abstract of, every letter of Charles Lamb’s that cannot, for reasons of copyright, be included....

THREE YOUNG KNIGHTS By Annie Hamilton Donnell CHAPTER I. The last wisp of hay was in the Eddy mows. “Come on!” shouted Jot. “Here she goes–hip, hip, hoo-ray!” “Hoor-a-ay!” echoed Kent. But of course Old Tilly took it calmly. He planted his brown hands pocket-deep and his bare, brown legs wide apart, and surveyed the splendid, bursting mows with honest pride. “Yes, sir, that’s the finest lot o’ hay in Hexham county; beat it if you can, sir!...

[Illustration: THE AUTHOR AND HIS GUIDES THREE FAITHFUL MEN] THROUGH FIVE REPUBLICS ON HORSEBACK BEING AN ACCOUNT OF MANY WANDERINGS IN SOUTH AMERICA BY G. WHITFIELD RAY, F. R. G. S.Pioneer Missionary and Government Explorer With an Introduction by the Rev. J. G. Brown, D. D. Secretary for the Foreign Missions of the Canadian Baptist Church TWELFTH EDITION–REVISED EVANGELICAL PUBLISHING HOUSEC. HAUSER, AgentCLEVELAND, OHIO, U. S. A.1915 [Illustration: SOUTH AMERICA] PREFACE The Missionary Review of the World has described South America as THE DARKEST LAND....

eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971 These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers!***** Title: Tom Swift and his Wireless Message Author: Victor Appleton Release Date: July, 2003 [EBook #4227] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [Most recently updated: March 11, 2002] Edition: 11 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII Produced by Greg Weeks, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team TOM SWIFT AND HIS WIRELESS MESSAGEORTHE CASTAWAYS OF EARTHQUAKE ISLAND BY VICTOR APPLETON AUTHOR OF “TOM SWIFT AND HIS MOTOR-CYCLE,” “TOM SWIFT AND HIS MOTOR BOAT,” “TOM SWIFT AND HIS AIRSHIP,” “TOM SWIFT AND HIS SUBMARINE BOAT,” “TOM SWIFT AND HIS ELECTRIC RUNABOUT,” ETC....

TRAVELS IN MOROCCO, BY THE LATE JAMES RICHARDSON, AUTHOR OF “A MISSION TO CENTRAL AFRICA,” “TRAVELS IN THE DESERT OF SAHARA,” &C. EDITED BY HIS WIDOW. [Illustration] IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. INTRODUCTION. Having made a limited tour in the Empire of Morocco a few years since, I am enabled to appreciate the information imparted to us by the lamented Richardson, and am desirous of adding a few observations of my own upon the present state of affairs in that part of the African Continent....

By Joel Chandler Harris PREFACE AND DEDICATIONTO THE NEW EDITION To Arthur Barbette Frost: DEAR FROST: I am expected to supply a preface for this new edition of my first book–to advance from behind the curtain, as it were, and make a fresh bow to the public that has dealt with Uncle Remus in so gentle and generous a fashion. For this event the lights are to be rekindled, and I am expected to respond in some formal way to an encore that marks the fifteenth anniversary of the book....

Virgin Soil by Ivan S. Turgenev Translated from the Russian by R. S. Townsend INTRODUCTION TURGENEV was the first writer who was able, having both Slavic and universal imagination enough for it, to interpret modern Russia to the outer world, and Virgin Soil was the last word of his greater testament. It was the book in which many English readers were destined to make his acquaintance about a generation ago, and the effect of it was, like Swinburne’s Songs Before Sunrise, Mazzini’s Duties of Man, and other congenial documents, to break up the insular confines in which they had been reared and to enlarge their new horizon....

The English Comédie Humaine Second Series VIVIAN GREY BY THE EARL OF BEACONSFIELD PUBLISHER’S NOTE. As a novelist, Benjamin Disraeli belongs to the early part of the nineteenth century. “Vivian Grey” (1826-27) and “Sybil” (1845) mark the beginning and the end of his truly creative period; for the two productions of his latest years, “Lothair” (1870) and “Endymion” (1880), add nothing to the characteristics of his earlier volumes except the changes of feeling and power which accompany old age....

Weir of Hermiston TO MY WIFE I saw rain falling and the rainbow drawn On Lammermuir. Hearkening I heard againIn my precipitous city beaten bells Winnow the keen sea wind. And here afar, Intent on my own race and place, I wrote. Take thou the writing: thine it is. For who Burnished the sword, blew on the drowsy coal, Held still the target higher, chary of praise And prodigal of counsel – who but thou?...

WHO GOES THERE? THE STORY OF A SPY IN THE CIVIL WAR BY B.K. BENSON 1900 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION.I. THE ADVANCE.II. A SHAMEFUL DAY.III. I BREAK MY MUSKET.IV. A PERSONAGE.V. WITH THE DOCTOR IN CAMP.VI. THE USES OF INFIRMITY.VII. A SECOND DISASTER.VIII. THE TWO SOUTHS.IX. KILLING TIME.X. THE LINE OF THE WARWICK.XI. FORT WILLIS.XII. MORE ACTIVE SERVICE.XIII. JONES ON THE BLACK HORSE.XIV. OUT OF SORTS.XV. WITH THE DOCTOR ON THE RIGHT....

By Captain Ralph Bonehill CONTENTS CHAPTERS I. Four Lively Boys II. Swimming, and What Followed III. A Trick That Failed IV. The Story of a Ghost V. A Fourth of July Celebration VI. Preparing for the Grand Outing VII. At the Boathouse VIII. How Two Prowlers Were Treated IX. The First Day of the Outing X. The Story of a Strange Disappearance XI. A Search for a Rowboat XII. The Camp on Lake Cameron XIII....

That Crawford Tillinghast should ever have studied science and philosophy was a mistake. These things should be left to the frigid and impersonal investigator, for they offer two equally tragic alternatives to the man of feeling and action; despair if he fail in his quest, and terrors unutterable and unimaginable if he succeed. Tillinghast had once been the prey of failure, solitary and melancholy; but now I knew, with nauseating fears of my own, that he was the prey of success....