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HOMEWARE. PROFESSOR SPIRAL. ARDEN,…………. In love with Astraea. SWITHIN,……….. Sympathetics. OSIER, DAME DRESDEN,…… Sister to Homeware. ASTRAEA,……….. Niece to Dame Dresden and Homeware. LYRA,………….. A Wife. LADY OLDLACE. VIRGINIA. WINIFRED. THE SENTIMENTALISTS AN UNFINISHED COMEDY The scene is a Surrey garden in early summer. The paths are shaded by tall box-wood hedges. The–time is some sixty years ago. SCENE I PROFESSOR SPIRAL, DAME DRESDEN, LADY OLDLACE, VIRGINIA, WINIFRED, SWITHIN, and OSIER (As they slowly promenade the garden, the professor is delivering one of his exquisite orations on Woman....

He had read much of things as they are, and talked with too many people. Well-meaning philosophers had taught him to look into the logical relations of things, and analyse the processes which shaped his thoughts and fancies. Wonder had gone away, and he had forgotten that all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other....

THE STOLEN BACILLUS AND OTHER INCIDENTS BY H.G. WELLS AUTHOR OF “THE TIME MACHINE” METHUEN & CO.36 ESSEX STREET, STRANDLONDON1895_Colonial Library_ TO H.B. MARRIOTT WATSON Most of the stories in this collection appeared originally in the Pall Mall Budget, two were published in the Pall Mall Gazette, and one in St James’s Gazette. I desire to make the usual acknowledgments. The third story in the book was, I find, reprinted by the Observatory, and the “Lord of the Dynamos” by the Melbourne Leader....

THE TEETH OF THE TIGER An Adventure Story BY MAURICE LEBLANC Author of “Arsene Lupin,” “The Hollow Needle,” “The Crystal Stopper” 1914 CONTENTS CHAPTER I. D’ARTAGNAN, PORTHOS … AND MONTE CRISTO II. A MAN DEAD III. A MAN DOOMED IV. THE CLOUDED TURQUOISE V. THE IRON CURTAIN VI. THE MAN WITH THE EBONY WALKING-STICK VII. SHAKESPEARE’S WORKS, VOLUME VIII VIII. THE DEVIL’S POST-OFFICE IX. LUPIN’S ANGER X. GASTON SAUVERAND EXPLAINS XI....

THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER CHAPTER I–HIS GENERAL LINE OF BUSINESS Allow me to introduce myself–first negatively. No landlord is my friend and brother, no chambermaid loves me, no waiter worships me, no boots admires and envies me. No round of beef or tongue or ham is expressly cooked for me, no pigeon-pie is especially made for me, no hotel-advertisement is personally addressed to me, no hotel-room tapestried with great-coats and railway wrappers is set apart for me, no house of public entertainment in the United Kingdom greatly cares for my opinion of its brandy or sherry....

by Ralph Parlette The School That Completes Our Education “He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son”–Revelation 21:7. “Sweet are the uses of adversity;Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;And thus our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks Sermons in stones, and good in everything....

–Introduction– 1. The Cyclone 2. The Council with the Munchkins 3. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow 4. The Road Through the Forest 5. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman 6. The Cowardly Lion 7. The Journey to the Great Oz 8. The Deadly Poppy Field 9. The Queen of the Field Mice 10. The Guardian of the Gates 11. The Emerald City of Oz 12. The Search for the Wicked Witch 13....

I have transliterated the Greek passages. Here are some approximate translations (with thanks to a nameless Radlettite and www.perseus.tufts.edu):–philomathestatoi ton neaniskon: some of the youths most eager for knowledge–Ne^pios: childish–hexeis apodeiktikai: things that can be proven (Aristotle, Nic. Ethics)–eido^lon amauron: shadowy phantom (phrase used by Homer in The Odyssey to describe the specter Athena sends to comfort Penelope) –all’ aiei: but always–tina pho^ta megan kai kalon edegmen: I received some great and beautiful light The Works of Max Beerbohm by Max Beerbohm With a Bibliography by John Lane Amid all he has here already achieved, full, we may think, of the quiet assurance of what is to come, his attitude is still that of the scholar; he seems still to be saying, before allthings, from first to last, “Iam utterly purposedthat I will notoffend....

[Illustration: FRONTISPIECE] Here you may see what’s very rare, The world turn’d upside down; A tree and castle in the air, A man walk on his crown. THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN, OR, No News, and Strange News. [Illustration: TAILOR RIDING A GOOSE.] Roman Capital and Small Letters. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z a b e d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ae oe &...

THE YATES PRIDEA ROMANCE BYMARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN PART I THE YATES PRIDE Opposite Miss Eudora Yates’s old colonial mansion was the perky modern Queen Anne residence of Mrs. Joseph Glynn. Mrs. Glynn had a daughter, Ethel, and an unmarried sister, Miss Julia Esterbrook. All three were fond of talking, and had many callers who liked to hear the feebly effervescent news of Wellwood. This afternoon three ladies were there: Miss Abby Simson, Mrs....

CHAPTER I It was late summer-time, and the perfume of flowers stole into the darkened room through the half-opened window. The sunlight forced its way through a chink in the blind, and stretched across the floor in strange zigzag fashion. From without came the pleasant murmur of bees and many lazier insects floating over the gorgeous flower beds, resting for a while on the clematis which had made the piazza a blaze of purple splendour....

THIS IS THE END BY STELLA BENSON 1917 This is the end, for the moment, of all my thinking, this is my unfinal conclusion. There is no reason in tangible things, and no system in the ordinary ways of the world. Hands were made to grope, and feet to stumble, and the only things you may count on are the unaccountable things. System is a fairy and a dream, you never find system where or when you expect it....

Through the Mackenzie Basin A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 By Charles Mair To the Hon. David LairdLeader of the Treaty Expedition of 1899 This Record is Cordially InscribedBy His Old Friend the Author CONTENTS Introduction Important events of the year 1857–The Nor’-Wester newspaper–The Duke of Newcastle and the Hudson’s Bay Co.’s Charter–The “Anglo-International Financial Association”–The New Hudson’s Bay Company–Offers of American capitalists to purchase the Company’s interests–Bill providing for purchase of the same introduced into the United States Congress–Senator Sumner’s memorandum to Secretary Fish–Various efforts to arouse public interest in the Hudson’s Bay Territories–Former Treaties with the Indians–Motives for treating with the Indians of Athabasca–Rush of miners and prospectors into the district–The Indian Treaty and Half-breed Commission–The Royal North-West Mounted Police Contingent–Special stipulations with the Indians provided for....

TRAFFICS AND DISCOVERIES By Rudyard Kipling CONTENTS from the Masjid-al-Aqsa of Sayyid Ahmed(Wahabi) THE CAPTIVE Poseidon’S Law THE BONDS OF DISCIPLINE The Runners A SAHIBS’ WAR The Wet Litany “THEIR LAWFUL OCCASIONS”–PART I. “THEIR LAWFUL OCCASIONS”–PART II. The King’s Task THE COMPREHENSION OF PRIVATE COOPER The Necessitarian STEAM TACTICS Kaspar’s Song in “Varda” “WIRELESS” Song of the Old Guard THE ARMY OF A DREAM–PART I. THE ARMY OF A DREAM–PART II....

TWO THOUSAND MILES ON AN AUTOMOBILE BEING A DESULTORY NARRATIVE OFA TRIP THROUGH NEW ENGLAND,NEW YORK, CANADA, ANDTHE WEST BY“CHAUFFEUR” 1902 WITH EIGHTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS by FRANK VERBECK To L. O. E. Who for more than sixteen hundred miles of the journey faced dangers and discomforts with an equanimity worthy a bettercause, and whose company lightened the burdens and enhanced the pleasure of the “Chauffeur” ———– CONTENTS CHAPTERI.—–Some Preliminary Observations II....

South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines by H. Wilfrid Walker Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society To My brother CharlesThis record of my wanderingsin which he took so deep an interest, is affectionately dedicated. Preface In a book of this kind it is often the custom to begin by making apologies. In my case I feel it to be a sheer necessity. In the first place what is here printed is for the greater part copied word for word from private letters that I wrote in very simple language in Dayak or Negrito huts, or in the lonely depths of tropical forests, in the far-off islands of the Southern Seas....

WHO WROTE THE BIBLE? BY WASHINGTON GLADDEN CONTENTS. I. A LOOK INTO THE HEBREW BIBLE II. WHAT DID MOSES WRITE? III. SOURCES OF THE PENTATEUCH IV. THE EARLIER HEBREW HISTORIES V. THE HEBREW PROPHECIES VI. THE LATER HEBREW HISTORIES VII. THE POETICAL BOOKSVIII. THE EARLIER NEW TESTAMENT WRITINGS IX. THE ORIGIN OF THE GOSPELS X. NEW TESTAMENT HISTORY AND PROPHECY XI. THE CANON XII. HOW THE BOOKS WERE WRITTENXIII. HOW MUCH IS THE BIBLE WORTH?...

Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre–Buch 4 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Viertes Buch Erstes Kapitel Laertes stand nachdenklich am Fenster und blickte, auf seinen Arm gest¸tzt, in das Feld hinaus. Philine schlich ¸ber den groflen Saal herbei, lehnte sich auf den Freund und verspottete sein ernsthaftes Ansehen. “Lache nur nicht”, versetzte er, “es ist abscheulich, wie die Zeit vergeht, wie alles sich ver‰ndert und ein Ende nimmt! Sieh nur, hier stand vor kurzem noch ein schˆnes Lager, wie lustig sahen die Zelte aus!...

WILLIAM OF GERMANY by STANLEY SHAW, LL.D.Trinity College Dublin WITH A FRONTISPIECE 1913 The Frontispiece is from a photograph by E. Bieber, of Berlin CONTENTS PAGE I. INTRODUCTORY………………………………… 1 II. YOUTH (1859-1881)……………………………. 10 III. PRE-ACCESSION DAYS (1881-1887)………………… 42 IV. “VON GOTTES GNADEN”………………………….. 56 V. THE ACCESSION (1888-1890)…………………….. 69 VI. THE COURT OF THE EMPEROR……………………… 105 VII. “DROPPING THE PILOT”…………………………. 125 VIII. SPACIOUS TIMES (1891-1899)……………………. 144 IX. THE NEW CENTURY (1900-1901)…………………… 189 X....