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The Man Who Knew Too MuchThe Man Who Knew Too Much Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and commons, the horizon of which was fringed with the far-off woods of the famous estate of Torwood Park. He was...
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The Ballad of the White HorseThe Ballad of the White Horse This ballad needs no historical notes, for the simple reason that it does not profess to be historical. All of it that is not frankly fictitious, as in any prose romance about the past, is meant to emphasize...
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ManaliveManalive A wind sprang high in the west, like a wave of unreasonable happiness, and tore eastward across England, trailing with it the frosty scent of forests and the cold intoxication of the sea. In a million holes and corners it refreshed a man...
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What's Wrong with the WorldWhat's Wrong with the World DEDICATION To C. F G. Masterman, M. P. My Dear Charles, I originally called this book What is Wrong, and it would have satisfied your sardonic temper to note the number of social misunderstandings that arose from the use...
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The Copy-Cat, and Other StoriesThe Copy-Cat, and Other Stories THAT affair of Jim Simmons's cats never became known. Two little boys and a little girl can keep a secretthat is, sometimes. The two little boys had the advantage of the little girl because they could talk over the...
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Eugenie GrandetEugenie Grandet There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation of ruins. Within these houses there is, perhaps, the silence of the cloister, the barrenness of moors, the...
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Another Study of WomanAnother Study of Woman At Paris there are almost always two separate parties going on at every ball and rout. First, an official party, composed of the persons invited, a fashionable and much-bored circle. Each one grimaces for his neighbors eye; most of the...
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Lincoln An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of WarLincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War Authority for all important statements of facts in the following pages may be found in the notes; the condensed references are expanded...
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The Rescue: A Romance of the ShallowsThe Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows 'Allas!' quod she, 'that ever this sholde happe! For wende I never, by possibilitee, That swich a monstre or merveille mighte be!' THE FRANKELEYN'S TALE TO FREDERIC COURTLAND PENFIELD LAST AMBASSADOR OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...
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Child of StormChild of Storm For twenty years, I believe I am right in saying, you, as Assistant Secretary for Native Affairs in Natal, and in other offices, have been intimately acquainted with the Zulu people. Moreover, you are one of the few living men who...
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La Grande BretecheLa Grande Breteche Ah! madame, replied the doctor, I have some appalling stories in my collection. But each one has its proper hour in a conversationyou know the pretty jest recorded by Chamfort, and said to the Duc de Fronsac: Between your sally and...
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New Grub StreetNew Grub Street As the Milvains sat down to breakfast the clock of Wattleborough parish church struck eight; it was two miles away, but the strokes were borne very distinctly on the west wind this autumn morning. Jasper, listening before he cracked an egg,...
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A History of Science — Volume 4A History of Science — Volume 4 AS regards chronology, the epoch covered in the present volume is identical with that viewed in the preceding one. But now as regards subject matter we pass on to those diverse phases of the physical world which...
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A History of Science — Volume 3A History of Science — Volume 3 BOOK III CHAPTER I. THE SUCCESSORS OF NEWTON IN ASTRONOMY The work of Johannes HeveliusHalley and HeveliusHalley's observation of the transit of Mercury, and his method of determining the parallax of the planetsHalley's observation of meteorsHis inability...
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A History of Science — Volume 2A History of Science — Volume 2 The studies of the present book cover the progress of science from the close of the Roman period in the fifth century A.D. to about the middle of the eighteenth century. In tracing the course of events...
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A History of Science — Volume 1A History of Science — Volume 1 Should the story that is about to be unfolded be found to lack interest, the writers must stand convicted of unpardonable lack of art. Nothing but dulness in the telling could mar the story, for in itself...
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PierrettePierrette At the dawn of an October day in 1827 a young fellow about sixteen years of age, whose clothing proclaimed what modern phraseology so insolently calls a proletary, was standing in a small square of Lower Provins. At that early hour he could...
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Dead Men Tell No TalesDead Men Tell No Tales CHAPTER I. LOVE ON THE OCEAN CHAPTER II. THE MYSTERIOUS CARGO CHAPTER III. TO THE WATER'S EDGE CHAPTER IV. THE SILENT SEA CHAPTER V. MY REWARD CHAPTER VI. THE SOLE SURVIVOR CHAPTER VII. I FIND A FRIEND CHAPTER VIII....
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Little Masterpieces of Autobiography: ActorsLittle Masterpieces of Autobiography: ActorsA good play gives us in miniature a cross-section of life, heightened by plot and characterisation, by witty and compact dialogue. Of course we should honour first the playwright, who has given form to each well knit act and telling...
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The Story of Waitstill BaxterThe Story of Waitstill Baxter FAR, far up, in the bosom of New Hampshire's granite hills, the Saco has its birth. As the mountain rill gathers strength it takes Now it leaves the mountains and flows through green Fryeburg's woods and farms. In the...
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