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Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since The plan of this Edition leads me to insert in this place some account of the incidents on which the Novel of WAVERLEY is founded. They have been already given to the public, by my late lamented friend,...

The Unknown Guest1 My Essay on Death[1] led me to make a conscientious enquiry into the present position of the great mystery, an enquiry which I have endeavoured to render as complete as possible. I had hoped that a single volume would be able...

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard I have been asked to introduce Miss Farjeon to the American public, and although I believe that introductions of this kind often do more harm than good, I have consented in this case because the instance is rare...

The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations: Real LifePlease 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....

Legends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew Tradition The beginning of the text is wanting, and the earliest lines preserved of the First Column open with the closing sentences of a speech, probably by the chief of the four creating deities, who...

Lahoma "Then if I must die," Gledware cried, his voice, in its shrill excitement, dominating the ferocious insults of the ruffians, "don't kill the childyou see she is asleepand she's so youngonly five. Even if she were awake, she wouldn't know how to tell...

The Yellow Claw I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII XIX XX XXI XXII XXIII XXIV XXV XXVI XXVII XXVIII XXIX XXX XXXI XXXII XXXIII XXXIV XXXV XXXVI XXXVII XXXVIII XXXIX XL XLI...

Tartuffe; Or, The HypocriteJean Baptiste Poquelin, better known by his stage name of Moliere, stands without a rival at the head of French comedy. Born at Paris in January, 1622, where his father held a position in the royal household, he was educated at...

The Coming Conquest of England I recall to mind a British colonel, who said to me in Calcutta: This is the third time that I have been sent to India. Twenty-five years ago, as lieutenant, and then the Russians were some fifteen hundred miles...

My Lady Caprice I sat fishing. I had not caught anything, of courseI rarely do, nor am I fond of fishing in the very smallest degree, but I fished assiduously all the same, because circumstances demanded it. It had all come about through Lady...

Diary of a PilgrimageSaid a friend of mine to me some months ago: Well now, why dont you write a sensible book? I should like to see you make people think. Do you believe it can be done, then? I asked. Well, try, he...

Malvina of Brittany The Preface. I. The Story. II. How it came about. III. How cousin Christopher became mixed up with it. IV. How it was kept from Mrs. Arlington. V. How it was told to Mrs. Marigold. VI. And how it was finished...

Angling SketchesSeveral of the sketches in this volume have appeared in periodicals. The Bloody Doctor was in Macmillans Magazine, The Confessions of a Duffer, Loch Awe, and The Lady or the Salmon? were in the Fishing Gazette, but have been to some extent re-written....

Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard Nostromo is the most anxiously meditated of the longer novels which belong to the period following upon the publication of the Typhoon volume of short stories. I dont mean to say that I became then conscious of any...

Tarzan the Terrible Silent as the shadows through which he moved, the great beast slunk through the midnight jungle, his yellow-green eyes round and staring, his sinewy tail undulating behind him, his head lowered and flattened, and every muscle vibrant to the thrill of...

The Bat "You've got to get him, boysget him or bust!" said a tired police chief, pounding a heavy fist on a table. The detectives he bellowed the words at looked at the floor. They had done their best and failed. Failure meant "resignation"...

The LibraryThe pages in this volume on illuminated and other MSS. (with the exception of some anecdotes about Bussy Rabutin and Julie de Rambouillet) have been contributed by the Rev. W. J. Loftie, who has also written on early printed books (pp. 9495). The...

Dhammapada, a Collection of Verses; Being One of the Canonical Books of the Buddhists DHAMMAPADA Chapter I. The Twin-Verses Chapter II. On Earnestness Chapter III. Thought Chapter IV. Flowers Chapter V. The Fool Chapter VI. The Wise Man (Pandita) Chapter VII. The Venerable (Arhat)....

The 1998 CIA World FactbookAfghanistan Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antarctica Antigua and Barbuda Arctic Ocean Argentina Armenia Aruba Ashmore and Cartier Islands Atlantic Ocean Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas, The Bahrain Baker Island Bangladesh Barbados Bassas da India Belarus Belgium Belize Benin...

A Miscellany of Men Rightly or wrongly, it is certain that a man both liberal and chivalric, can and very often does feel a dis-ease and distrust touching those political women we call Suffragettes. Like most other popular sentiments, it is generally wrongly stated...