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# The Life of the Spider/Translator's Note

New York: Blue Ribbon Books, pages 36-38
TRANSLATOR'S NOTE
The following essays have been selected from the ten volumes composing the Souvenirs entomologiques. Although a good deal of Henri Fabre's masterpiece has been published in English, none of the articles treating of spiders has been issued before, with the exception of that forming Chapter II of the present volume, The Banded Epeira, which first appeared in The English Review. The rest are new to England and America.
The Fabre books already published are Insect Life, translated by the author of Mademoiselle Mori (Macmillan Co., 1901); The Life and Love of the Insect, translated by myself (Macmillan Co., 1911); and Social Life in the Insect World, translated by Mr. Bernard Miall (Century Co., 1912). References to the above volumes will be found, whenever necessary, in the foot-notes to the present edition.
For the rest, I have tried not to overburden my version with notes; and, in view of this, I have, as far as possible, simplified the ​scientific terms that occur in the text. In so doing I know that I have but followed the wishes of the author, who never wearies of protesting against 'the barbarous terminology' favoured by his brother-naturalists. The matter became even more urgent in English than in any of the Latin languages; and I readily agreed when it was pointed out to me that, in a work essentially intended for general reading, there was no purpose in speaking of a Coleopteron when the word 'beetle' was to hand. In cases where an insect had inevitably to be mentioned by its Greek or Latin name, a note is given explaining, in the fewest words, the nature of the insect in question.
I have to thank my friend, M. Maurice Maeterlinck, for the stately preface which he has contributed to this volume, and Mr. Marmaduke Langdale and Miss Frances Rodwell for the generous assistance which they have given me in the details of my work. And I am also greatly indebted to Mr. W. S. Graff Baker for his invaluable help with the mathematical difficulties that confronted me in the translation of the Appendix.
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos.
Chelsea, 10 October, 1912.
# The Life of Buddha/Part Three

* Mahaprajapati is Admitted to the Community
* The Buddha Exposes the Imposters
* Suprabha
* Virupa
* Sinca's Deceit
* The Buddha Tames a Wild Buffalo
* Dissension Among the Monks
* Kuvalaya the Dancer
* The God Alavaka Defeated by the Buddha
* Devadatta Expelled from the Community
* Ajatasatru's Treachery
* The Death of Devadatta
* Prasenajit and Ajatasatru
* The Buddha Teaches the Doctrine
* The Buddha and the Shepherd
* The Buddha Instructs the Monks of Vaisali
* The Meal at Cunda's
* The Buddha Enters Nirvana
# The Life of Buddha/Part One/8. Siddhartha Leads a Life of Pleasure

PRINCE Siddhartha lived happily with his wife, the princess. And the king, whose love for his son now verged on adoration, took infinite care to spare him the sight of anything that might distress him. He built three magnificent palaces for him: one for the winter, one for the summer, and the third for the rainy season; and these he was forbidden ever to leave, to wander over the broad face of the earth.
In his palaces, white as autumn clouds and bright as the celestial chariots of the Gods and Goddesses, the prince drained the cup of pleasure. He led a life of voluptuous ease; he spent languid hours listening to music played by the princess and her maidens, and when beautiful, smiling dancers appeared before him and performed to the sound of golden kettle-drums, with delight he watched them as they swayed with a grace and loveliness rare even among the happy Apsarases.
Women cast furtive glances at him: their eyes boldly offered or archly pleaded, and their drooping lashes were a promise of ineffable delight. Their games amused him, their charms held him in thrall, and he was content to remain in these palaces so full of their laughter and song. For he knew nothing of old age and sickness; he knew nothing of death.
Suddhodana rejoiced at the life his son was leading, though his own conduct he judged with the utmost severity. He strove to keep his soul serene and pure; he refrained from doing evil, and he lavished gifts on those who were virtuous. He never yielded to indolence or pleasure; he was never burned by the poison of avarice. As wild horses are made to bear the yoke, even so did he subdue his passions, and in virtue he surpassed his kinsmen and his friends. The knowledge he acquired he placed at the service of his fellow-men, and he only studied those subjects that were useful to all. He not only sought the welfare of his own people but he also wanted the whole world to be happy. He purified his body with the water from the sacred ponds, and he purified his soul with the holy water of virtue. He never uttered a word that was pleasant and yet a lie; the truths he spoke never gave offense or pain. He tried to be just, and it was by honesty, not by force, that he defeated the pride of his enemies. He did not strike, he did not even look with anger upon those who deserved the penalty of death; instead, he gave them useful advice, and then their freedom.
The king was an example to all his subjects, and Kapilavastu was the happiest and most virtuous of kingdoms.
Then beautiful Gopa bore the prince a son, and he was given the name of Rahula. King Suddhodana was happy to see his family prosper, and he was as proud of the birth of his grandson as he had been of the birth of his son.
He continued in the path of virtue, he lived almost like a hermit, and his actions were saintly; yet he kept urging on his beloved son to new pleasures, so great was his fear to see him leave the palace and the city and seek the austere refuge of the holy forests.
# The Man of Property/Part III

PART III
* Chapter 1. MRS. MACANDER'S EVIDENCE
* Chapter 2. NIGHT IN THE PARK
* Chapter 3. MEETING AT THE BOTANICAL
* Chapter 4. VOYAGE INTO THE INFERNO
* Chapter 5. THE TRIAL
* Chapter 6. SOAMES BREAKS THE NEWS
* Chapter 7. JUNE'S VICTORY
* Chapter 8. BOSINNEY'S DEPARTURE
* Chapter 9. IRENE'S RETURN
# The Little Huguenot

The stillness of the forest compelled de Guyon to remember upon what emprise he was embarked. He began to wonder by what manner of cunning and tale he should lead "the little Huguenot," Gabrielle de Vernet, from her nest in the forest to the intrigues and dangers of the palace. He asked himself if all the stories of her wit and beauty were the mere fancies of her friends, or pretty realities which he must know and cope with....
What a task the conversion would be. He began even to wonder who would marry her when the royal ears were weary of her platitudes, and the spell of debauchery had chilled her zeal.
"THE LITTLE HUGUENOT"
A Romance of Fontainebleau
BY
MAX PEMBERTON
AUTHOR OF "THE IMPREGNABLE CITY," ETC
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY
1895
Copyright 1895, By
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY

### CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.
Pepin is Blessed
CHAPTER II.
At the Gate of the Château
CHAPTER III.
Gabrielle de Vernet
CHAPTER IV.
The Kingfisher and the Crows
CHAPTER V.
The Abbé Gondy Counts his Spoons
CHAPTER VI.
In the Bower of Violets
CHAPTER VII.
The Abbé Gondy Writes a Sermon
CHAPTER VIII.
Masking in the Woods
CHAPTER IX.
Pepin Makes a Bargain
CHAPTER X.
The Woman and the Priest
CHAPTER XI.
The Abbé and the Tree
CHAPTER XII.
De Guyon Hears the News
CHAPTER XIII.
The Apparition
CHAPTER XIV.
The King Sups
CHAPTER XV.
Exodus
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# The Kural or the Maxims of Tiruvalluvar/Chapter 21

CHAPTER 21
FEAR OF EVIL-DOING
201. The evil fear not the folly called sin : but the worthy flee from it.
202. Evil bringeth forth evil: evil therefore shall be feared even more than fire.
203. The chiefest wisdom, they say, is to abstain from injury even to an enemy.
204. Let not a man compass another's ruin even by oversight : for Justice will compass the ruin of him that plotteth evil.
205. Let not a man work evil saying, I am poor: for, if he do, he will sink into a lower destitution than before.
​206. Whoso desireth not to be saddened by ills, let him abstain from doing injury to others.
207. There is a way of escape from every other enemy: but ill deeds never die but pursue and destroy their author.
208. As the shadow leaveth not a man but doggeth his steps wherever he goeth, even so do evil deeds pursue their author and work his destruction.
209. If a man love his own self, let him not incline toward evil in any degree.
210. Know that man to be secure from ills who leaveth not the straight path in order to commit wrong.
# The Kural or the Maxims of Tiruvalluvar/Chapter 25

SECTION ii
THE LIFE OF THE ASCETIC
A. DISCIPLINE
CHAPTER 25
MERCY
241. The chiefest wealth is a heart that is rich in mercy : for material wealth is found even in the hands of vile men.
242. Reason by the right method and take up Mercy : and if thou inquire of all religions also, thou shalt see that Mercy is the only salvation.
243. They enter not into the dark and bitter world whose heart is joined unto mercy.
244. The results of actions at which the soul trembleth pursue not him who is kind and merciful to all life.
245. Affliction is not for the merciful : the teeming air-encircled earth is a witness thereto.
​246. Behold the man that hath forsaken mercy and doth iniquity : though he must have suffered cruelly in past births for abandoning virtue, he hath forgotten the lesson, say the wise.
247. The other world is not for those that have not mercy, even as this world is not for them that are without riches.
248. The poor in substance may one day thrive and prosper : but they that lack pity are poor indeed and their day cometh never.
249. It is as easy for the hard of heart to do deeds of righteousness as for the confused in mind to realise the Truth.
250. When thou art tempted to oppress the weak, consider how it would be for thee to tremble before a stronger.
# The Kural or the Maxims of Tiruvalluvar/Chapter 22

CHAPTER 22
COMPLAISANCE
211. The gracious expect no return when they oblige : how ever can the world repay the rain-cloud ?
212. The substance gathered in by the worthy by the labour of their hands is all for others' use.
213. A better thing than a gracious complaisance cannot be had either here or in heaven.
214. He alone liveth who knoweth what is proper : he who knoweth not what is fitting shall be classed with the dead.
215. Behold the village tank filled with water to its brim : like unto it is the prosperity of the wise man that loveth the world.
​216. Like unto a fruit-tree in the middle of the village bearing fruit is riches in the hands of the man of heart.
217. Like unto a tree that yieldeth medicinal drugs and drieth not is riches in the hands of the generous man.
218. Behold the men who know what is just and proper : they fail not to oblige others even when fallen on evil days.
219. The complaisant man thinketh himself poor only when he is impotent to oblige those who solicit his aid.
220. If ruin cometh as a result of complaisance, it is worth courting even by selling one's own self into slavery.
# The Kural or the Maxims of Tiruvalluvar/Chapter 26

CHAPTER 26
ABJURING OF FLESH-MEAT
251. How can he feel pity, who eateth other flesh in order to fatten his own?
252. Riches are not for the thriftless: even so pity is not for those that eat meat.
253. The heart of the man that tasteth flesh turneth not towards good, even as the heart of him that is armed with steel.
254. The killing of animals is veritable hardness of heart: but the eating of their flesh is iniquity indeed.
255. In non-eating of flesh is Life: if thou eat, the pit of hell will not open its mouth to let thee out.
​256. If the world desireth not meat for eating, there will be none to offer it for sale.
257. If a man can only realise to himself the agony and pain suffered by other living beings, he would not desire to eat flesh-meat.
258. Behold the men who have escaped from the bonds of illusion and ignorance: they eat not the flesh from which life hath flown out.
259. To abstain from the killing and eating of living things is better than to perform a thousand sacrifices in the sacrificial fire.
260. Behold the man who killeth not and abstaineth from flesh-meat : all the world joineth hands to do him reverence.
# The Kural or the Maxims of Tiruvalluvar/Chapter 24

CHAPTER 24
GLORY
231. Give to the poor and add glory unto thy name : there is no greater profit for man than this.
232. The one theme in the mouth of all that praise is the glory of those that give unto the poor.
233. Everything else dieth on earth : but the fame that hath no rival endureth for ever.
234. Behold the man that hath won a lasting, world-wide fame: the Gods on high prefer him even before saints.
235. The ruin that addeth unto fame and the death that bringeth glory belong only to the great-souled.
​236. If men must needs be born into the world, let them earn glory : as to those who earn it not, it were better for them not to have been born at all.
237. Those that are not free from blemish chafe not at themselves : why then are they wroth against their calumniators ?
238. It is a disgrace for all men if they earn not the memory called fame.
239. Behold the land weighed down beneath the tread of an inglorious people : its riches, even though renowned in the past, will wane away.
240. They alone live who live without blemish : and they alone die who have lived without glory.
HERE ENDETH SECTION i OF PART I
ENTITLED THE LIFE OF THE HOUSEHOLDER
# The Kural or the Maxims of Tiruvalluvar/Chapter 29

CHAPTER 29
ABSTAINING FROM FRAUD
281. Whoso wanteth not to be held in contempt, let him guard himself against every thought of fraud.
282. It is a sin even to say in one's heart, I shall cheat my neighbour of his substance.
283. The fortune that is built up by fraud may appear to thrive ; but it is doomed for ever.
284. The thirst for plunder leadeth in its season to endless grief.
285. Behold the man that coveteth other men's substance and lieth in wait to catch them napping: he thinketh not of grace and love is far from his heart.
​286. The man who thirsteth after plunder cannot weigh things aright: nor can he walk in the way of righteousness.
287. Behold the man that hath weighed the things of this world and made his heart firm : he committeth not the folly of cheating his neighbour.
288. As Righteousness resideth in the heart of him who valueth things aright, even so Deceit hath its seat in the heart of the thief.
289. Behold the man who meditateth on nothing but theft and plunder: he will leave the right path and perish.
290. He that deceiveth others is not master even of his own body: but the world of the Gods itself is a never-failing inheritance unto the men that are righteous.
# The Music-Lesson

* "The Music-Lesson" in The Ascent of Man (1889)
* "The Music-Lesson" in Poetical works of Mathilde Blind (1900)
# The Music of Bohemia

THE MUSIC OF BOHEMIA
BY LADISLAV URBAN
CZECHOSLOVAK ARTS CLUB OF NEW YORK CITY 1919
Copyright, 1919, by Ladislav Urban
D. B. Upidike • The Merrymount Press • Boston
* The Music of Bohemia
* Part I
* Part II
* Part III
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# The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants—

* "The Mushroom" in Poems: Second Series (1891)
* "The mushroom is the elf of plants" in The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1924)
# The Music Grinders

There are three ways in which men take  One's money from his purse, And very hard it is to tell  Which of the three is worse; But all of them are bad enough  To make a body curse.
You're riding out some pleasant day,  And counting up your gains; A fellow jumps from out a bush  And takes your horse's reins, Another hints some words about  A bullet in your brains.
It's hard to meet such pressing friends  In such a lonely spot; It's very hard to lose your cash,  But harder to be shot; And so you take your wallet out,  Though you would rather not.
Perhaps you're going out to dine,—  Some filthy creature begs You'll hear about the cannon-ball  That carried off his pegs, And says it is a dreadful thing  For men to lose their legs.
He tells you of his starving wife,  His children to be fed, Poor, little, lovely innocents,  All clamorous for bread,— And so you kindly help to put  A bachelor to bed.
You're sitting on your window-seat  Beneath a cloudless moon; You hear a sound, that seems to wear  The semblance of a tune, As if a broken fife should strive  To drown a crack'd bassoon.
And nearer, nearer still, the tide  Of music seems to come, There's something like a human voice,  And something like a drum; You sit, in speechless agony,  Until your ear is numb.
Poor "Home, sweet home" should seem to be  A very dismal place; Your "Auld acquaintance," all at once,  Is alter'd in the face; Their discords sting through Burns and Moore,  Like hedgehogs dressed in lace.
You think they are crusaders, sent  From some infernal clime, To pluck the eyes of Sentiment,  And dock the tail of Rhyme, To crack the voice of Melody,  And break the legs of Time.
Bur, hark! the air again is still,  The music all is ground, And silence, like a poultice, comes  To heal the blows of sound; It cannot be,—it is,—it is,—  A hat is going round!
No! Pay the dentist when he leaves  A fracture in your jaw, And pay the owner of the bear,  That stunn'd you with his paw, And buy the lobster, that has had  Your knuckles in his claw;
But if you are a portly man,  Put on your fiercest frown, And talk about a constable  To turn them out of town; Then close your sentence with an oath,  And shut the window down!
And if you are a slender man,  Not big enough for that, Or, if you cannot make a speech,  Because you are a flat, Go very quietly and drop  A button in the hat!
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# The New International Encyclopædia/Fisher, Charles (statesman)

Edition of 1905. See also Charles Fisher (Canadian politician) on Wikipedia; and the disclaimer.
​ FISH′ER, Charles (1808-80). A Canadian statesman, born in New Brunswick, Canada. In 1837 he entered the Provincial Cabinet. He was a member of the Executive Council from 1848 to 1857, was a commissioner to consolidate and codify the statute law of the province in 1852, and was Attorney-General from 1854 to 1861 and again in 1866. In 1867 he attended the conference of the representatives of British North America in London, which arranged the terms of union.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Fish Manure

Edition of 1905. See also Fish meal on Wikipedia; and the disclaimer.
​ FISH MANURE. Dried and ground fish or fish guano is a valuable fertilizer obtained mainly from two sources: (1) The refuse from fish packing and canning establishments, and (2) the pomace from the extraction of oil from fish—in America, chiefly the menhaden. The product from the latter source is especially rich in fertilizing constituents, containing from 7 to 8 per cent. of nitrogen and 6 to 8 per cent. of phosphoric acid. The availability of the nitrogen is nearly as great as that of dried blood and tankage. The phosphoric acid is frequently more available than that in other organic matter. The availability of the fertilizing constituents depends largely upon the proportion of oil present. A considerable proportion of the latter delays decomposition in the soil, and thus reduces the availability. The oil is removed and the fish prepared for use as a fertilizer on a commercial scale by cooking with water in tanks heated with steam. The oil rises to the surface of the water and the two are drawn off together. The residue is pressed, dried, and ground. In some cases, after the first pressing, the material is subjected to the action of steam under pressure and sulphuric acid (5 per cent.) to render the fertilizing constituents more available. The uncooked fish is sometimes treated directly with sulphuric acid ​to prevent offensive decomposition and to increase the availability of the nitrogen and phosphoric acid.
Fish manures are prepared and used in considerable quantities, especially along the northeastern coast in America, in Norway, and other regions where the supply of material is abundant. Fish manure is exported in considerable quantities from Norway.
In localities where it can be readily obtained from fishermen, fish-scrap is frequently used without preparation of any kind. Naturally, this product is very variable in composition, the nitrogen ranging from 2.5 to 8 per cent. and the phosphoric acid from 2 to 6 per cent. The fertilizing constituents of this material are less available than those of the dried and finely ground fish. The whole fish are also sometimes used as a manure, either directly or composted with other materials. It is stated in Bradford, History of Plymouth Plantation (Boston, 1856), that the Indian Squanto first taught the New England colonists to use the menhaden as a fertilizer for corn, instructing them to put the fish under the hills at the time of planting. (See also Manures and Manuring.) Consult: Voorhees, Fertilizers (New York, 1898); Aikman, Manures and the Principles of Manuring (Edinburgh, 1894); Storer, Agriculture (7th ed., New York, 1897).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Fish of Paradise

Edition of 1905. See also Paradise fish on Wikipedia; and the disclaimer.
​ FISH OF PARADISE. An East Indian fish (Macropodus viridiauratus) related to the gouramis, and noted for its extended fins and brilliant colors. It is cultivated for ornamental aquariums.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Fisher, Clara

Edition of 1905. See also Clara Fisher on Wikipedia; and the disclaimer.
​ FISHER, Clara (1811-98). A popular actress; after 1834 the wife of the composer J. G. Maeder. She was born in London, July 14, 1811, and first made a sensation on the boards of Drury Lane when she was about six years old (December 10, 1817) as Lord Flimnap, the Prime Minister of Lilliput, and in a part in Richard III. After ten years of prosperity in various British theatres, her precocious versatility showing itself even in such an ill-chosen role as that of Shylock, she came with her family to America, where she made her appearance late in 1827. Her charms, both as an actress and as a singer, were largely those of manner. Ophelia and Viola were her best Shakespearean parts, and as Lady Teazle she ​won many successes; but her favorite characters were such as Clari in The Maid of Milan, and the Four Mowbrays in Old and Young. She died at Metuchen, N. J. Consult: the Autobiography of Clara Fisher Maeder, edited by Douglas Taylor (Dunlap Society, New York, 1897); Ireland, in Matthew and Huttun. ed., Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States (New York, 1886).