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The Legends of the Jews — Volume 2 The arrangement and presentation of the material in this volume are the same as in Volume I. In both my efforts have been directed to bringing together as full as possible a collection of Jewish legends...

The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1 Was sich nie und nirgends hat begeben, das allein veraltet nie. The term Rabbinic was applied to the Jewish Literature of post-Biblical times by those who conceived the Judaism of the later epoch to be something...

The Life of Columbus - From His Own Letters and Journals and Other Documents of His Time This book contains a life of Columbus, written with the hope of interesting all classes of readers. His life has often been written, and it has sometimes...

Letters to Dead AuthorsSixteen of these Letters, which were written at the suggestion of the Editor of the St. Jamess Gazette, appeared in that journal, from which they are now reprinted, by the Editors kind permission. They have been somewhat emended, and a few...

The New McGuffey Fourth ReaderIt is now nearly three quarters of a century since the appearance of the first edition of McGuffey's Readers, compiled by Dr. William H. McGuffey. Revisions have since been made from time to time as the advancement in educational theories...

The New McGuffey First ReaderThe New McGuffey First Reader has been prepared in conformity with the latest and most approved ideas regarding the teaching of reading, and its lessons embody and illustrate the best features of the word, the phonic, and the sentence or...

The True Story of Christopher Columbus, Called the Great Admiral This "True Story of Christopher Columbus" is offered and inscribed to the boys and girls of America as the opening volume in a series especially designed for their reading, and to be called "Children's...

The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring This book is a commentary on The Ring of the Niblungs, Wagner's chief work. I offer it to those enthusiastic admirers of Wagner who are unable to follow his ideas, and do not in the...

The Unseen World, and Other Essays "What are you, where did you come from, and whither are you bound?"the question which from Homer's days has been put to the wayfarer in strange landsis likewise the all-absorbing question which man is ever asking of the...

The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. NationPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove...

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse PART I CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V PART II CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI PART III CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V...

Forty Centuries of Ink - Or, A chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds, introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels of time and color phenomena, bibliography, chemistry, poetical effusions, citations, anecdotes and curiosa together with some evidence respecting the evanescent character of most inks...

Modeste Mignon At the beginning of October, 1829, Monsieur Simon Babylas Latournelle, notary, was walking up from Havre to Ingouville, arm in arm with his son and accompanied by his wife, at whose side the head clerk of the lawyers office, a little hunchback...

A Daughter of Eve In one of the finest houses of the rue Neuve-des-Mathurins, at half-past eleven at night, two young women were sitting before the fireplace of a boudoir hung with blue velvet of that tender shade, with shimmering reflections, which French industry...

A Vanished Arcadia: Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767Please take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not...

A Parody Outline of History - Wherein May Be Found a Curiously Irreverent Treatment of American Historical Events, Imagining Them as They Would Be Narrated by America's Most Characteristic Contemporary Authors In the Manner of William Lyon Phelps On a memorable evening in the...

The Toys of Peace, and Other PapersThanks are due to the Editors of the Morning Post, the Westminster Gazette, and the Bystander for their amiability in allowing tales that appeared in these journals to be reproduced in the present volume. When peace comes, wrote...

Chance: A Tale in Two PartsI believe he had seen us out of the window coming off to dine in the dinghy of a fourteen-ton yawl belonging to Marlow my host and skipper. We helped the boy we had with us to haul the...

Gaudissart II To know how to sell, to be able to sell, and to sell. People generally do not suspect how much of the stateliness of Paris is due to these three aspects of the same problem. The brilliant display of shops as rich...

The Illustrious Gaudissart The commercial traveller, a personage unknown to antiquity, is one of the striking figures created by the manners and customs of our present epoch. May he not, in some conceivable order of things, be destined to mark for coming philosophers the...