LIN McLEANLIN McLEANByOWEN WISTER1- Page 2-LIN McLEANDEDICATIONMY DEAR HARRY MERCER: When Lin McLean was only a hero inmanuscript, he received his first welcome and chastening beneath yourpatient roof. By none so much as by you has he in private been helped andaffectionately disciplined, an now you must stand godfather to him upon...
1872FAIRY TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSENTHE STORY OF A MOTHERby Hans Christian AndersenA MOTHER sat by her little child; she was very sad, for she fearedit would die. It was quite pale, and its little eyes were closed,and sometimes it drew a heavy deep breath, almost like a sigh; andthen the mother gazed more sadly than ever on the poor littlecreature. Some one knocked at the door, and a poor old man walkedin. He was wrapped in something that looked like a greathorse-cloth; and he required it truly to keep him warm, for it wascold winter; the country everywhere lay covered with snow and ice
SHERLOCK HOLMESTHE ADVENTURE OF THE CARDBOARD BOXby Sir Arthur Conan DoyleIn choosing a few typical cases which illustrate the remarkablemental qualities of my friend, Sherlock Holmes, I have endeavoured, asfar as possible, to select those which presented the minimum ofsensationalism, while offering a fair field for his talents. It is,however, unfortunately impossible entirely to separate the sensationalfrom the criminal, and a chronicler is left in the dilemma that hemust either sacrifice details which are essential to his statement and...
THE COMPARISON OF FABIUS WITH PERICLESby Plutarchtranslated by John DrydenWE have here had two lives rich in examples, both of civil andmilitary excellence. Let us first compare the two men in their warlikecapacity. Pericles presided in his commonwealth when it was in itsmost flourishing and opulent condition, great and growing in power; sothat it may be thought it was rather the common success and fortunethat kept him from any fall or disaster. But the task of Fabius, whoundertook the government in the worst and most difficult times, was...
Martin Guerreby Alexandre Dumas, PereWe are sometimes astonished at the striking resemblance existingbetween two persons who are absolute strangers to each other, but infact it is the opposite which ought to surprise us. Indeed, whyshould we not rather admire a Creative Power so infinite in itsvariety that it never ceases to produce entirely differentcombinations with precisely the same elements? The more oneconsiders this prodigious versatility of form, the more overwhelmingit appears.To begin with, each nation has its own distinct and characteristic...
THE RIGHT EYE OF THE COMMANDERThe year of grace 1797 passed away on the coast of California in asouthwesterly gale. The little bay of San Carlos, albeit shelteredby the headlands of the blessed Trinity, was rough and turbulent;its foam clung quivering to the seaward wall of the Mission garden;the air was filled with flying sand and spume, and as the SenorCommandante, Hermenegildo Salvatierra, looked from the deepembrasured window of the Presidio guardroom, he felt the saltbreath of the distant sea buffet a color into his smoke-driedcheeks....
The Mystery of the Yellow Roomby Gaston LerouxCHAPTER IIn Which We Begin Not to UnderstandIt is not without a certain emotion that I begin to recount herethe extraordinary adventures of Joseph Rouletabille. Down to thepresent time he had so firmly opposed my doing it that I had cometo despair of ever publishing the most curious of police storiesof the past fifteen years. I had even imagined that the publicwould never know the whole truth of the prodigious case known asthat of The Yellow Room, out of which grew so many mysterious,cruel, and sensational dramas, with which my friend was so cl
THE SECRET GARDENBY FRANCES HODGSON BURNETTCONTENTSCHAPTER TITLEI THERE IS NO ONE LEFTII MISTRESS MARY QUITE CONTRARYIII ACROSS THE MOORIV MARTHAV THE CRY IN THE CORRIDORVI "THERE WAS SOME ONE CRYINGTHERE WAS!"VII THE KEY TO THE GARDENVIII THE ROBIN WHO SHOWED THE WAYIX THE STRANGEST HOUSE ANY ONE EVER LIVED INX DICKONXI THE NEST OF THE MISSEL THRUSHXII "MIGHT I HAVE A BIT OF EARTH?"XIII "I AM COLIN"XIV A YOUNG RAJAHXV NEST BUILDING...
TOM SWIFT AND HIS ELECTRIC RUNABOUT or The Speediest Car on the RoadTOM SWIFT AND HISELECTRIC RUNABOUTor The Speediest Car onthe RoadVICTOR APPLETON1- Page 2-TOM SWIFT AND HIS ELECTRIC RUNABOUT or The Speediest Car on the RoadCHAPTER ITOM HOPES FOR A PRIZE"Father," exclaimed Tom Swift, looking up from a paper he was...
The Princess de Montpensierby Mme. de LafayetteIntroductionby Oliver C. ColtThis story was written by Madame de Lafayette and publishedanonymously in 1662. It is set in a period almost 100 yearspreviously during the sanguinary wars of the counter-reformation,when the Catholic rulers of Europe, with the encouragement of thePapacy, were bent on extirpating the followers of the creeds ofLuther and Calvin. I am not qualified to embark on a historicalanalysis, and shall do no more than say that many of the personswho are involved in the tale actually existed, and the events...
Medical Essaysby Oliver Wendell Holmes1842-1882CONTENTS:I. HOMEOPATHY AND ITS KINDRED DELUSIONSII. THE CONTAGIOUSNESS OF PUERPERAL FEVERIII. CURRENTS AND COUNTER-CURRENTS IN MEDICAL SCIENCEIV. BORDER LINES OF KNOWLEDGE IN SOME PROVINCES OF MEDICAL SCIENCEV. SCHOLASTIC AND BEDSIDE TEACHINGVI. THE MEDICAL PROFESSION IN MASSACHUSETTSVII. THE YOUNG PRACTITIONERVIII. MEDICAL LIBRARIESIX. SOME OF MY EARLY TEACHERSPREFACE.The character of the opposition which some of these papers have met with suggests the inference that they contain really important, but unwelcome truths. Negatives multipl
The Idea of Justice in Political Economyby Gustav Schmoller1881Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social ScienceVolume 4, (1893-4)German edition: Jahrbuch fur Gesetzgebung Verwallung, undVolkswirtschaft.volume 1, new series 1881.Translated by Ernest Halle and Carl SchutzIs there a just distribution of economic goods? Or shouldthere be? This is a question which is raised again to-day, aquestion which has been asked as long as human society and socialinstitutions have existed. The greatest thinker of ancienthistory asked the question and thousands after him have repeated...
The Story of Little Black SamboThe Story of Little Black Mingoby Helen BannermanThe Story of Little Black SamboBy Helen BannermanPREFACE.There is very little to say about the story of LITTLE BLACKSAMBO. Once upon a time there was an English lady in India,where black children abound and tigers are everyday affairs,who had two little girls. To amuse these little girls sheused now and then to invent stories, for which, beingextremely talented, she also drew and coloured the pictures.Among these stories LITTLE BLACK SAMBO, which was made up on a...
Lecture VThe Chief and His OrderNothing seems to me to have been more clearly shown by recentresearches than the necessity of keeping apart the Tribe and theTribal Chief as distinct sources of positive institutions. Thelines of descent are constantly entwined, but each of them isfound to run up in the end to an independent origin. If I were toapply this assertion to political history, I should be onlyrepeating much of what has been said by Mr Freeman in his...
A First Family of Tasajaraby Bret HarteCHAPTER I."It blows," said Joe Wingate.As if to accent the words of the speaker a heavy gust of wind atthat moment shook the long light wooden structure which served asthe general store of Sidon settlement, in Contra Costa. Even afterit had passed a prolonged whistle came through the keyhole, sides,and openings of the closed glass front doors, that served equallyfor windows, and filled the canvas ceiling which hid the roof abovelike a bellying sail. A wave of enthusiastic emotion seemed to be...
The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, V1by Duc de Saint-SimonMEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV AND HIS COURT AND OF THE REGENCYBY THE DUKE OF SAINT-SIMONVOLUME 1:CONTENTS OF THE 15 VOLUMES:CHAPTER IBirth and Family.Early Life.Desire to join the Army.Enter theMusketeers.The Campaign Commences.Camp of Gevries.Siege of Namur.Dreadful Weather.Gentlemen Carrying Corn.Sufferings during theSiege.The Monks of Marlaigne.Rival Couriers.Naval Battle.Playing with Fire-arms.A Prediction Verified....