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What'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...

The 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...

Eugenie 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...

Another 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...

Lincoln; 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...

The 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...

Child 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...

La 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...

New 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,...

A 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...

A 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...

A 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...

A 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...

Pierrette 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...

Dead 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....

Little 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...

The 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...

The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 2Mr. Bront afflicted with blindness, and relieved by a successful operation for cataractCharlotte Bront's first work of fiction, "The Professor"She commences "Jane Eyre"Circumstances attending its compositionHer ideas of a heroineHer attachment to homeHaworth in DecemberA letter of...

The Vanished Messenger There were very few people upon Platform Number Twenty-one of Liverpool Street Station at a quarter to nine on the evening of April 2possibly because the platform in question is one of the most remote and least used in the great...

The Survivors of the ChancellorTHE SURVIVORS OF THE CHANCELLOR was issued in 1875. Shipwrecks occur in other of Verne's tales; but this is his only story devoted wholly to such a disaster. In it the author has gathered all the tragedy, the mystery, and...