TO HIM THAT HATH A NOVEL OF THE WEST OF TODAY by RALPH CONNOR CONTENTS CHAPTER I THE GAME II THE COST OF SACRIFICE III THE HEATHEN QUEST IV ANNETTE V THE RECTORY VI THE GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE VII THE FOREMAN VIII FREE SPEECH IX THE DAY BEFORE X THE NIGHT OF VICTORY XI THE NEW MANAGER XII LIGHT THAT IS DARKNESS XIII THE STRIKE XIV GATHERING CLOUDS XV THE STORM XVI A GALLANT FIGHT XVII SHALL BE GIVEN TO HIM THAT HATH CHAPTER I THE GAME “Forty-Love....
TOM TIDDLER’S GROUND CHAPTER I–PICKING UP SOOT AND CINDERS “And why Tom Tiddler’s ground?” said the Traveller. “Because he scatters halfpence to Tramps and such-like,” returned the Landlord, “and of course they pick ’em up. And this being done on his own land (which it IS his own land, you observe, and were his family’s before him), why it is but regarding the halfpence as gold and silver, and turning the ownership of the property a bit round your finger, and there you have the name of the children’s game complete....
Underwoods Of all my verse, like not a single line; But like my title, for it is not mine.That title from a better man I stole: Ah, how much better, had I stol’n the whole! DEDICATION THERE are men and classes of men that stand above the common herd: the soldier, the sailor and the shepherd not unfrequently; the artist rarely; rarely still, the clergyman; the physician almost as a rule....
VENDETTA BY HONORE DE BALZAC Translated ByKatharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Puttinati, Milanese Sculptor. VENDETTA CHAPTER I PROLOGUE In the year 1800, toward the close of October, a foreigner, accompanied by a woman and a little girl, was standing for a long time in front of the palace of the Tuileries, near the ruins of a house recently pulled down, at the point where in our day the wing begins which was intended to unite the chateau of Catherine de Medici with the Louvre of the Valois....
VENUS IN FURS By LEOPOLD VON SACHER-MASOCH Translated from the German By FERNANDA SAVAGE INTRODUCTION Leopold von Sacher-Masoch was born in Lemberg, Austrian Galicia, on January 27, 1836. He studied jurisprudence at Prague and Graz, and in 1857 became a teacher at the latter university. He published several historical works, but soon gave up his academic career to devote himself wholly to literature. For a number of years he edited the international review, Auf der Hohe, at Leipzig, but later removed to Paris, for he was always strongly Francophile....
GEORGIC I What makes the cornfield smile; beneath what star Maecenas, it is meet to turn the sodOr marry elm with vine; how tend the steer; What pains for cattle-keeping, or what proof Of patient trial serves for thrifty bees;- Such are my themes. O universal lightsMost glorious! ye that lead the gliding year Along the sky, Liber and Ceres mild,If by your bounty holpen earth once changed Chaonian acorn for the plump wheat-ear,And mingled with the grape, your new-found gift, The draughts of Achelous; and ye FaunsTo rustics ever kind, come foot it, Fauns And Dryad-maids together; your gifts I sing....
by Jack London Contents: PrefaceThe Class StruggleThe TrampThe ScabThe Question of the MaximumA ReviewWanted: A New Land of DevelopmentHow I Became a Socialist PREFACE When I was a youngster I was looked upon as a weird sort of creature, because, forsooth, I was a socialist. Reporters from local papers interviewed me, and the interviews, when published, were pathological studies of a strange and abnormal specimen of man. At that time (nine or ten years ago), because I made a stand in my native town for municipal ownership of public utilities, I was branded a “red-shirt,” a “dynamiter,” and an “anarchist”; and really decent fellows, who liked me very well, drew the line at my appearing in public with their sisters....
Winesburg, Ohio CONTENTS INTRODUCTION by Irving Howe THE TALES AND THE PERSONS THE BOOK OF THE GROTESQUE HANDS, concerning Wing Biddlebaum PAPER PILLS, concerning Doctor Reefy MOTHER, concerning Elizabeth Willard THE PHILOSOPHER, concerning Doctor Parcival NOBODY KNOWS, concerning Louise Trunnion GODLINESS, a Tale in Four Parts I, concerning Jesse Bentley II, also concerning Jesse Bentley III Surrender, concerning Louise Bentley IV Terror, concerning David Hardy A MAN OF IDEAS, concerning Joe Welling ADVENTURE, concerning Alice Hindman RESPECTABILITY, concerning Wash Williams THE THINKER, concerning Seth Richmond TANDY, concerning Tandy Hard THE STRENGTH OF GOD, concerning the Reverend Curtis Hartman THE TEACHER, concerning Kate Swift LONELINESS, concerning Enoch Robinson AN AWAKENING, concerning Belle Carpenter “QUEER,” concerning Elmer Cowley THE UNTOLD LIE, concerning Ray Pearson DRINK, concerning Tom Foster DEATH, concerning Doctor Reefy and Elizabeth Willard SOPHISTICATION, concerning Helen White DEPARTURE, concerning George Willard INTRODUCTION by Irving Howe I must have been no more than fifteen or sixteen years old when I first chanced upon Winesburg, Ohio....
Mr. Typer was educated privately and at Columbia and Heidelberg Universities. All his life was spent as a student; the field of his researches including many obscure and generally feared borderlands of human knowledge. His papers on vampirism, ghouls, and poltergeist phenomena were privately printed after rejection by many publishers. He resigned from the Society for Psychical Research in 1902 after a series of peculiarly bitter controversies. At various times Mr....
THE PATROL OF THE SUN DANCE TRAIL by RALPH CONNOR CONTENTS CHAPTER I THE TRAIL-RUNNER II HIS COUNTRY’S NEED III A-FISHING WE WILL GO IV THE BIG CHIEF V THE ANCIENT SACRIFICE VI THE ILLUSIVE COPPERHEAD VII THE SARCEE CAMP VIII THE GIRL ON NO. 1 IX THE RIDE UP THE BOW X RAVEN TO THE RESCUE XI SMITH’S WORK XII IN THE SUN DANCE CANYON XIII IN THE BIG WIGWAM XIV “GOOD MAN–GOOD SQUAW” XV THE OUTLAW XVI WAR XVII TO ARMS!...
THE PAWNS COUNT BY E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM 1918 FOREWORD “I am for England and England only,” John Lutchester, the Englishman, asserted. “I am for Japan and Japan only,” Nikasti, the Jap, insisted. “I am for Germany first and America afterwards,” Oscar Fischer, the German-American pronounced. “I am for America first, America only, America always,” Pamela Van Teyl, the American girl, declared. They were all right except the German-American. CHAPTER I Mefiez-Vous!...
The Pension Beaurepas by Henry James CHAPTER I. I was not rich–on the contrary; and I had been told the Pension Beaurepas was cheap. I had, moreover, been told that a boarding- house is a capital place for the study of human nature. I had a fancy for a literary career, and a friend of mine had said to me, “If you mean to write you ought to go and live in a boarding-house; there is no other such place to pick up material....
THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN. by John Bunyan Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a Publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself; God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this Publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. And the Publican, standing afar off would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner....
THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH EDITED BY WILLIAM KNIGHT VOL. III 1896 CONTENTS 1804 “She was a Phantom of delight” “I wandered lonely as a cloud” The Affliction of Margaret– The Forsaken Repentance Address to my Infant Daughter, Dora The Kitten and Falling Leaves The Small Celandine At Applethwaite, near Keswick Vaudracour and Julia 1805 French Revolution Ode to Duty To a Sky-Lark Fidelity Incident characteristic of a Favourite Dog Tribute to the Memory of the same Dog To the Daisy (#4) Elegiac Stanzas Elegiac Verses “When, to the attractions of the busy world” The Cottager to her Infant The Waggoner The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet’s Mind From the Italian of Michael Angelo From the Same From the Same....
THE PRIME MINISTER by Anthony Trollope TABLE OF CONTENTS VOLUME I 1 Ferdinand Lopez2 Everett Wharton3 Mr Abel Wharton QC4 Mrs Roby5 ‘No one knows anything about him.’ 6 An Old Friend Goes to Windsor7 Another Old Friend8 The Beginning of a New Career9 Mrs Dicks’ Dinner Party – No 110 Mrs Dicks’ Dinner Party – No 211 Carlton Terrace12 The Gathering of Clouds13 Mr Wharton Complains14 A Lover’s Perseverance15 Arthur Fletcher16 Never Run Away!...
A Chronicle of the Frontier in Politics By FREDERIC AUSTIN OGG 1919 CONTENTS I. JACKSON THE FRONTIERSMAN II. THE CREEK WAR AND THE VICTORY OF NEW ORLEANS III. THE “CONQUEST” OF FLORIDA IV. THE DEATH OF “KING CAUCUS” V. THE DEMOCRATIC TRIUMPH VI. THE “REIGN” BEGINS VII. THE WEBSTER-HAYNE DEBATE VIII. TARIFF AND NULLIFICATION IX. THE WAR ON THE UNITED STATES BANK X. THE REMOVAL OF THE SOUTHERN INDIANS XI....
THE ROOF OF FRANCE OR THE CAUSSES OF THE LOZERE BY M. BETHAM-EDWARDS To M. SADI CARNOT. THIS VOLUME, THE THIRD OF MY PUBLISHED TRAVELS IN FRANCE, IS INSCRIBED WITH ALL RESPECT TO HER HONOURED PRESIDENT. CONTENTS. INTRODUCTORY PART I. MY FIRST JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF THE CAUSSES. CHAP. I. FROM LE PUY TO MENDE II. MENDE III. A GLIMPSE OF THE CAUSSES IV. ON THE TOP OF THE ROOF V....
I. SCENE: One side of a sleeping-car on the Boston and Albany Road. The curtains are drawn before most of the berths; from the hooks and rods hang hats, bonnets, bags, bandboxes, umbrellas, and other travelling gear; on the floor are boots of both sexes, set out for THE PORTER to black. THE PORTER is making up the beds in the upper and lower berths adjoining the seats on which a young mother, slender and pretty, with a baby asleep on the seat beside her, and a stout old lady, sit confronting each other–MRS....
THE STORY OF EVOLUTION BY JOSEPH McCABE 1912 PREFACE An ingenious student of science once entertained his generation with a theory of how one might behold again all the stirring chapters that make up the story of the earth. The living scene of our time is lit by the light of the sun, and for every few rays that enter the human eye, and convey the image of it to the human mind, great floods of the reflected light pour out, swiftly and indefinitely, into space....
[Transcriber’s Note: Footnotes have been numbered and moved to the end.] The Sylphs of the Seasons, with Other Poems. By W. Allston. Contents. The Sylphs of the Seasons; a Poet’s Dream The Two Pointers; a Tale Eccentricity The Paint King Myrtilla: addressed to a Lady, who lamented that she had never been in love To a Lady who spoke slightingly of Poets Sonnet on a Falling Group in the Last Judgment of Michael Angelo, in the Cappella Sistina Sonnet on the Group of the Three Angels before the Tent of Abraham, by Raffaelle, in the Vatican Sonnet, on seeing the Picture of AEolus, by Peligrino Tibaldi, in the Institute at Bologna Sonnet on Rembrant; occasioned by his Picture of Jacob’s Dream Sonnet on the Luxembourg Gallery Sonnet to my venerable Friend, the President of the Royal Academy The Mad Lover at the Grave of his Mistress First Love: a Ballad The Complaint Will, the Maniac: a Ballad The Sylphs of the Seasons; A Poet’s Dream....
