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A COMEDY _Audire est operæ pretium_, _procedere recte_ _Qui mæchis non vultis_.—HOR.

To which is added, THE NARRATIVE OF ASA-ASA, A CAPTURED AFRICAN.

1. Moral philosophy, or the science of human nature, may be treated after two different manners; each of which has its peculiar merit, and may contribute to the entertainment, instruction, and refo...

CHAPTER I THERE IS NO ONE LEFT When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.

BOOK I Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc'd by fate, And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate, Expell'd and exil'd, left the Trojan shore.

Anne Boykin, PhD, RN Dean and Professor Director, Christine E. Lynn Center for Caring College of Nursing Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, Florida Savina O. Schoenhofer, PhD P...

CHAPTER I "THE ENGLISH LADY" On one of the granitic peninsulas of Western Brittany stands the little town of Quilaix, situated in a hollow facing the sea.

BEFORE THE CURTAIN As the manager of the Performance sits before the curtain on the boards and looks into the Fair, a feeling of profound melancholy comes over him in his survey of the bustling pl...

BY ANTON TCHEKHOV Translated by CONSTANCE GARNETT CONTENTS THE LADY WITH THE DOG A DOCTOR'S VISIT AN UPHEAVAL IONITCH THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY THE BLACK MONK VOLODYA AN ANONYMOUS STORY...

By H. G. Wells "I can assure you," said I, "that it will take a very tangible ghost to frighten me."

ILLUSTRATED BY EBEL The claws were bad enough in the first place--nasty, crawling little death-robots.

THE ILIAD OF HOMER Rendered into English Prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Samuel Butler BOOK I The quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles--Achilles with...

CHAPTER 1 -- Pudd'nhead Wins His Name _Tell the truth or trump--but get the trick._ --Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar The scene of this chronicle is the town of Dawson's Landing, on the M...

Author of "The Descent of Man," etc., etc.

UNCLE VANYA SCENES FROM COUNTRY LIFE IN FOUR ACTS By Anton Checkov CHARACTERS ALEXANDER SEREBRAKOFF, a retired professor HELENA, his wife, twenty-seven years old SONIA, his daughter by a ...

Bibliography' (1912), and in the publication of Mark Twain's Notebook (1935).

"Is this the end?

Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) KOREAN FOLK TALES IM...

WITH A PREFACE BY MRS. STEVENSON PREFACE TO THE BIOGRAPHICAL EDITION While my husband and Mr. Henley were engaged in writing plays in Bournemouth they made a number of titles, hoping to use the...

CHAPTER I. How Sir Tristram jousted, and smote down King Arthur, because he told him not the cause why he bare that shield.

Translated by Theodore Graebner PREFACE The preparation of this edition of Luther's Commentary on Galatians was first suggested to me by Mr. P. J. Zondervan, of the firm of publishers, in Marc...

_The First Proposition_ 58 33.

* CHAPTER III. THE SINS OF OTHERS * CHAPTER IV. THE CRIPPLE * CHAPTER V. THE SUBTLE SERPENT * PART II * CHAPTER I. NIGHT * CHAPTER II. NIGHT (continued) * CHAPTER III...

Chapter 1 The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.

Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION.

file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) THE MEMOIRS OF THE CONQUISTADOR BERNAL DIAZ DEL CASTILLO WRITTEN BY HIMSELF CONTAINING A...

Algernon Blackwood 1910 I A considerable number of hunting parties were out that year without finding so much as a fresh trail; for the moose were uncommonly shy, and the various Nimrods ret...

INDEX OF FIRST LINES I I thought once how Theocritus had sung II But only three in all God's universe III Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart!

CHAPTER I. A Boarding School.

Edited by two of her friends MABEL LOOMIS TODD and T.W. HIGGINSON PREFACE.

(Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910) CONTENTS: What Is Man?

BOOK I I. Darius and Parysatis had two sons: the elder was named Artaxerxes, and 1 the younger Cyrus.

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926.

One dollar and eighty-seven cents.

185 CHAPTER XIV THE PIRATE SHIP 201 CHAPTER XV 'HOOK OR ME THIS TIME' 214 CHAPTER XVI THE RETURN HOME 232 CHAPTER XVII WHEN WENDY GREW UP ...

To the Memory of John Stuart Mill from whom I first learned the pragmatic openness of mind and whom my fancy likes to picture as our leader were he alive to-day.

CONTENTS I THE EXPERIMENT II MR. CLARKE'S MEMOIRS III THE CITY OF RESURRECTIONS IV THE DISCOVERY IN PAUL STREET V THE LETTER OF ADVICE VI THE SUICIDES VII THE ENCOUNTER...

dull care, 142.

And their several Crews.

Every pair of eyes in the hushed courtroom watched Jake Emspak walk slowly toward the prospective juror.

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.

Chapter 1 ON THE LOOK OUT In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on...

RUSKIN HOUSE 40 MUSEUM STREET, W.C.1 _First published_ _February 1911_ _Reprinted_ _January 1912_ " _ " 1912_ " _February 191...

_The_ Dunwich Horror by H. P. LOVECRAFT "Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras--dire stories of Celæno and the Harpies--may reproduce themselves in the brain of ...

By G. K. Chesterton Contents The Blue Cross The Secret Garden The Queer Feet The Flying Stars ...

Transcribed from the 1886 George Routledge and Sons edition--first edition (London Magazine) text, by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER: BEING AN E...

[Preparer's notes: 1) Though the original title does not appear in this version, this is (apart from the preface) a translation of: "Brevisima relacion de la destruccíon de las Indias", ...

CHAPTER I In the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses--and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread-lace, had their toy spinning-wheels of polished oak--there might b...

[May 5, 1840.] We have undertaken to discourse here for a little on Great Men, their manner of appearance in our world's business, how they have shaped themselves in the world's history, what idea...