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The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same SpeciesThe Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species The subject of the present volume, namely the differently formed flowers normally produced by certain kinds of plants, either on the same stock or on distinct stocks, ought to have been treated by...
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A Modern Cinderella Or, The Little Old Shoe, and Other StoriesA Modern Cinderella; Or, The Little Old Shoe, and Other Stories Among green New England hills stood an ancient house, many-gabled, mossy-roofed, and quaintly built, but picturesque and pleasant to the eye; for a brook ran babbling through the orchard that encompassed it about,...
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The VulturesThe Vultures Mr. Joseph P. Mangles, at his ease in a deck-chair on the broad Atlantic, was smoking a most excellent cigar. Mr. Mangles was a tall, thin man, who carried his head in the manner curtly known at a girls' school as poking....
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Pierre and JeanPierre and Jean Tschah! exclaimed old Roland suddenly, after he had remained motionless for a quarter of an hour, his eyes fixed on the water, while now and again he very slightly lifted his line sunk in the sea. I beg your pardon, Mme....
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File No. 113File No. 113 In the Paris evening papers of Tuesday, February 28, 1866, under the head of Local Items, the following announcement appeared: A daring robbery, committed against one of our most eminent bankers, M. Andre Fauvel, caused great excitement this morning throughout the...
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The Widow LerougeThe Lerouge Case On Thursday, the 6th of March, 1862, two days after Shrove Tuesday, five women belonging to the village of La Jonchere presented themselves at the police station at Bougival. They stated that for two days past no one had seen the...
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Napoleon and Blücher: An Historical NovelNapoleon and Blücher: An Historical NovelThis should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need about what they can legally...
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Ethica Ordine Geometrico DemonstrataEthics II. A thing is called finite after its kind, when it can be limited by another thing of the same nature; for instance, a body is called finite because we always conceive another greater body. So, also, a thought is limited by another...
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Landholding in EnglandLandholding in England This work is an expansion of a paper read at the meeting of the Royal Historical Society in May, 1875, and will be published in the volume of the Transactions of that body. But as it is an expensive work, and...
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Reminiscences of Captain GronowReminiscences of Captain Gronow The spelling in this book is rather creative (including the occasional spelling of "ankle" as "ancle"), and the punctuation is remarkably varied. I have tried to preserve both, except that the spaces between a word and the following colon or...
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In the Days of the CometIn the Days of the Comet He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived only distances, a remote horizon of sea, a headland and that vague haze and glitter...
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Rilla of InglesideRilla of Ingleside It was a warm, golden-cloudy, lovable afternoon. In the big living-room at Ingleside Susan Baker sat down with a certain grim satisfaction hovering about her like an aura; it was four o'clock and Susan, who had been working incessantly since six...
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Under the LilacsUnder the Lilacs Yet voices were heard about the place, the lilacs nodded over the high wall as if they said, "We could tell fine secrets if we chose," and the mullein outside the gate made haste to reach the keyhole, that it might...
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L. Annaeus Seneca on BenefitsL. Annaeus Seneca on Benefits Seneca, the favourite classic of the early fathers of the church and of the Middle Ages, whom Jerome, Tertullian, and Augustine speak of as "Seneca noster," who was believed to have corresponded with St. Paul, and upon whom [Footnote:...
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Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical NovelJoseph II. and His Court: An Historical NovelThis should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need about what they...
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Capitola the MadcapCapitola the Madcap "We met ere yet the world had come To wither up the springs of youth, Amid the holy joys of home, And in the first warm blush of youth. We parted as they never part, Whose tears are doomed to be...
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The Reign of Law a tale of the Kentucky hemp fieldsThe Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields The Anglo-Saxon farmers had scarce conquered foothold, stronghold, freehold in the Western wilderness before they became sowers of hempwith remembrance of Virginia, with remembrance of dear ancestral Britain. Away back in the days...
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Major BarbaraMajor Barbara It is after dinner on a January night, in the library in Lady Britomart Undershaft's house in Wilton Crescent. A large and comfortable settee is in the middle of the room, upholstered in dark leather. A person sitting on it [it is...
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Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to CriticsPreface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics N.B. The Euripidean verses in the second act of Major Barbara are not by me, or even directly by Euripides. They are by Professor Gilbert Murray, whose English version of The Baccha; came into our dramatic...
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HaydnHaydn The authority for Haydn's life is the biography begun by the late Dr Pohl, and completed after his death by E.V. Mandyczewski. To this work, as yet untranslated, every subsequent writer is necessarily indebted, and the present volume, which I may fairly claim...
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