NIGHT WATCHES by W.W. Jacobs THE VIGIL “I’m the happiest man in the world,” said Mr. Farrer, in accents of dreamy tenderness. Miss Ward sighed. “Wait till father comes in,” she said. Mr. Farrer peered through the plants which formed a welcome screen to the window and listened with some uneasiness. He was waiting for the firm, springy step that should herald the approach of ex-Sergeant-Major Ward. A squeeze of Miss Ward’s hand renewed his courage....
THE WANDERING JEW By Eugene Sue BOOK III. XXXVI. A Female JesuitXXXVII. The PlotXXXVIII. Adrienne’s EnemiesXXXIX. The SkirmishXL. The RevoltXLI. TreacheryXLII. The SnareXLIII. A False FriendXLIV. The Minister’s CabinetXLV. The VisitXLVI. PresentimentsXLVII. The LetterXLVIII. The ConfessionalXLIX. My Lord and Spoil-sportL. AppearancesLI. The ConventLII. The Influence of a Confessor LIII. The Examination CHAPTER XXXVI. A FEMALE JESUIT. During the preceding scenes which occurred in the Pompadour rotunda, occupied by Miss de Cardoville, other events took place in the residence of the Princess Saint-Dizier....
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE RALPH, EARL OF MOUNTAGUE, ETC. My Lord,–Whether the world will arraign me of vanity or not, that I have presumed to dedicate this comedy to your lordship, I am yet in doubt; though, it may be, it is some degree of vanity even to doubt of it. One who has at any time had the honour of your lordship’s conversation, cannot be supposed to think very meanly of that which he would prefer to your perusal....
[Transcriber’s note: The inconsistent orthography of the original is retained in this etext.] THE WONDERFUL ADVENTURES of NILS by SELMA LAGERLOeF TRANSLATED FROM THE SWEDISHBY VELMA SWANSTON HOWARD CONTENTS The Boy Akka from Kebnekaise The Wonderful Journey of Nils Glimminge Castle The Great Crane Dance on Kullaberg In Rainy Weather The Stairway with the Three Steps By Ronneby River Karlskrona The Trip to Oeland Oeland’s Southern Point The Big Butterfly Little Karl’s Island Two Cities The Legend of Smaland The Crows The Old Peasant Woman From Taberg to Huskvarna The Big Bird Lake Ulvasa-Lady The Homespun Cloth The Story of Karr and Grayskin The Wind Witch The Breaking Up of the Ice Thumbietot and the Bears The Flood Dunfin Stockholm Gorgo the Eagle On Over Gaestrikland A Day in Haelsingland In Medelpad A Morning in Angermanland Westbottom and Lapland Osa, the Goose Girl, and Little Mats With the Laplanders Homeward Bound Legends from Haerjedalen Vermland and Dalsland The Treasure on the Island The Journey to Vemminghoeg Home at Last The Parting with the Wild Geese Some of the purely geographical matter in the Swedish original of the “Further Adventures of Nils” has been eliminated from the English version....
THREE FRENCHMEN IN BENGAL [Illustration: THE GANGES VALLEY AND THE EUROPEAN SETTLEMENTS IN BENGAL, 1756 (After Rennell.)] THREE FRENCHMEN IN BENGAL OR THE COMMERCIAL RUIN OF THE FRENCH SETTLEMENTS IN 1757 BY S.C. HILL, B.A., B.Sc. OFFICER IN CHARGE OF THE RECORDS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA AUTHOR OF “MAJOR-GENERAL CLAUD MARTIN” WITH MAPS AND PLANS 1903 TO MY DEAR WIFE PREFACE This account of the commercial ruin of the French Settlements, taken almost entirely from hitherto unpublished documents, originated as follows....
Chapter I. THE SWEETHEART OF A KING. The scene was not exactly new to me. Moved by the spirit of adventure, or by an access of ennui which overtakes me at times, Ihad several times visited the gaudy establishment of Mercer, on thefashionable side of Fifth Avenue in the Fifties. In either case Ihad found disappointment; where the stake is a matter of indifferencethere can be no excitement; and besides, I had been always in luck....
Stendhal Malheureusement pour moi comme pour le lecteur ceci n’est point un roman, mais la traduction fidle d’un rcit fort grave crit Padoue en dcembre 1585. Je me trouvais Mantoue il y a quelques annes, je cherchais des bauches et de petits tableaux en rapport avec ma petite fortune, mais je voulais les peintres antrieurs l’an 1600, vers cette poque acheva de mourir l’originalit italienne dj mise en grand pril par la prise de Florence en 1530....
WHEN A MAN MARRIES by Mary Roberts Rinehart Contents I At Least I Meant WellII The Way It BeganIII I Might Have Known ItIV The Door Was ClosedV From The Tree Of LoveVI A Mighty Poor JokeVII We Make An OmeletVIII Correspondents’ DepartmentIX Flannigan’s FindX On The StairsXI I Make A DiscoveryXII The Roof GardenXIII He Does Not Deny ItXIV Almost, But Not QuiteXV Suspicion and DiscordXVI I Face FlanniganXVII A Clash and A KissXVIII It’s All My FaultXIX The Harbison ManXX Breaking Out In A New PlaceXXI A Bar of SoapXXII It Was A DeliriumXXIII Coming Needles and pinsNeedles and pins,When a man marriesHis trouble begins....
WHEN GOD LAUGHS, AND OTHER STORIES CONTENTS WHEN GOD LAUGHSTHE APOSTATEA WICKED WOMANJUST MEATCREATED HE THEMTHE CHINAGOMAKE WESTINGSEMPER IDEMA NOSE FOR THE KINGTHE “FRANCIS SPAIGHT”A CURIOUS FRAGMENTA PIECE OF STEAK WHEN GOD LAUGHS (with compliments to Harry Cowell) “The gods, the gods are stronger; time Falls down before them, all men’s knees Bow, all men’s prayers and sorrows climb Like incense toward them; yea, for these Are gods, Felise.” Carquinez had relaxed finally....
[Illustration: JOSEPHINE] World’s Best Histories: FRANCE BY M. GUIZOT AND MADAME GUIZOT DE WITT IN EIGHT VOLUMES VOLUME SEVEN HISTORY OF FRANCE VOLUME SEVEN TABLE OF CONTENTS–VOL. VII. CHAPTER VII. The Consulate (1799-1804) CHAPTER VIII. Glory and Success (1804-1805) CHAPTER IX. Glory and Conquest (1805-1808) CHAPTER X. The Home Government (1804-1808) CHAPTER XI. Glory and Illusions. Spain and Austria CHAPTER XII. The Divorce (1809-1810) CHAPTER XIII. Glory and Madness. The Russian Campaign (1811-1812) THE HISTORY OF FRANCE CHAPTER VII....
by Jack London PART I CHAPTER I It was a quiet night in the Shovel. At the bar, which ranged along one side of the large chinked-log room, leaned half a dozen men, two of whom were discussing the relative merits of spruce-tea and lime-juice as remedies for scurvy. They argued with an air of depression and with intervals of morose silence. The other men scarcely heeded them. In a row, against the opposite wall, were the gambling games....
MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-1798 TO PARIS AND PRISON, Volume 2e–UNDER THE LEADS THE RARE UNABRIDGED LONDON EDITION OF 1894 TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR MACHEN TO WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED THE CHAPTERS DISCOVERED BY ARTHUR SYMONS. UNDER THE LEADS CHAPTER XXVI Under The Leads–The Earthquake What a strange and unexplained power certain words exercise upon the soul! I, who the evening before so bravely fortified myself with my innocence and courage, by the word tribunal was turned to a stone, with merely the faculty of passive obedience left to me....
I called at that asylum because a few of the oldest settlers told me I would find something important there. Neither Indians nor white men would discuss the snake-god legends I had come to trace. The oil-boom newcomers, of course, knew nothing of such matters, and the red men and old pioneers were plainly frightened when I spoke of them. Not more than six or seven people mentioned the asylum, and those who did were careful to talk in whispers....
Most horrible of all sights are the little unpainted wooden houses remote from travelled ways, usually squatted upon some damp, grassy slope or leaning against some gigantic outcropping of rock. Two hundred years and more they have leaned or squatted there, while the vines have crawled and the trees have swelled and spread. They are almost hidden now in lawless luxuriances of green and guardian shrouds of shadow; but the small-paned windows still stare shockingly, as if blinking through a lethal stupor which wards off madness by dulling the memory of unutterable things....
THE PRINCESS OF CLEVES Grandeur and gallantry never appeared with more lustre in France, than in the last years of Henry the Second’s reign. This Prince was amorous and handsome, and though his passion for Diana of Poitiers Duchess of Valentinois, was of above twenty years standing, it was not the less violent, nor did he give less distinguishing proofs of it. As he was happily turned to excel in bodily exercises, he took a particular delight in them, such as hunting, tennis, running at the ring, and the like diversions....
BOHN’S STANDARD LIBRARY THE PROSE WORKS OF JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D. EDITED BY TEMPLE SCOTT WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION BY THE RT. HON. W.E.H. LECKY, M.P. VOL. IV [Illustration] LONDON GEORGE BELL AND SONS 1898 CHISWICK PRESS:–CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO. TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON. SWIFT’S WRITINGS ON RELIGION AND THE CHURCH VOL. II [Illustration] CONTENTS. TRACTS ON THE SACRAMENTAL TEST: A Letter Concerning the Sacramental Test The Presbyterian’s Plea of Merit Narrative of Attempts for the Repeal of the Sacramental Test Queries relating to the Sacramental Test Advantages proposed by Repealing the Sacramental Test Reasons for Repealing the Sacramental Test in Favour of the Catholics Some Few Thoughts concerning the Repeal of the Test Ten Reasons for Repealing the Test Act SERMONS: On Mutual Subjection On the Testimony of Conscience On the Trinity On Brotherly Love On the Difficulty of Knowing One’s Self On False Witness On the Wisdom of this World On Doing Good On the Martyrdom of King Charles I On the Poor Man’s Contentment On the Wretched Condition of Ireland On Sleeping in Church APPENDICES: I....
THEPURCELL PAPERS. BY THE LATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU,AUTHOR OF ‘UNCLE SILAS.’ With a Memoir byALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES IN THREE VOLUMES.VOL. III. LONDON:RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON,Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen. 1880. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data LeFanu, Joseph Sheridan, 1814-1873. The Purcell papers. Reprint of the 1880 ed. published by R. Bentley, London. I. Title.PZ3.L518Pu5 [PR4879.L7] 823′.8 71-148813 ISBN 0-404-08880-5 Reprinted from an original copy in the collection of the University of Chicago Library....
THE ROADMENDER I have attained my ideal: I am a roadmender, some say stonebreaker. Both titles are correct, but the one is more pregnant than the other. All day I sit by the roadside on a stretch of grass under a high hedge of saplings and a tangle of traveller’s joy, woodbine, sweetbrier, and late roses. Opposite me is a white gate, seldom used, if one may judge from the trail of honeysuckle growing tranquilly along it: I know now that whenever and wherever I die my soul will pass out through this white gate; and then, thank God, I shall not have need to undo that trail....
Dedicated to “The uplifters” of Los Angeles, California, in grateful appreciation of the pleasure I have derived from association with them, and in recognition of their sincere endeavor to uplift humanity through kindness, consideration and good-fellowship. They are big men–all of them–and all with the generous hearts of little children. L. Frank Baum THE SCARECROW of OZby L. Frank Baum “TWIXT YOU AND ME The Army of Children which besieged the Postoffice, conquered the Postmen and delivered to me its imperious Commands, insisted that Trot and Cap’n Bill be admitted to the Land of Oz, where Trot could enjoy the society of Dorothy, Betsy Bobbin and Ozma, while the one- legged sailor-man might become a comrade of the Tin Woodman, the Shaggy Man, Tik-Tok and all the other quaint people who inhabit this wonderful fairyland....
BY HUGH WALPOLE STUDIES IN PLACE THE SECRET CITY THE DARK FOREST THE GOLDEN SCARECROW THE WOODEN HORSE MARADICK AT FORTY THE GODS AND MR. PERRIN TWO PROLOGUES THE PRELUDE TO ADVENTURE FORTITUDE THE RISING CITY 1. THE DUCHESS OF WREXE 2. THE GREEN MIRROR THE SECRET CITY A NOVEL IN THREE PARTS BY HUGH WALPOLE AUTHOR OF “FORTITUDE,” “THE DARK FOREST,” “THE DUCHESS OF WREXE,” ETC. NEW YORK GEORGE H....
