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# Stories by Foreign Authors (German I)

Stories by Foreign Authors, Vol. 4 Fifty-one tales in ten volumes, comprising a careful selection of the best Continental short stories by contemporary or nearly contemporary writers, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
PAUL HEYSE
STORIES BY
FOREIGN AUTHORS
GERMAN
| THE FURY | By Paul Heyse |
| THE PHILOSOPHER'S PENDULUM | By Rudolph Lindau |
| THE BOOKBINDER OF HORT | By Leopold von Sacher-Masoch |
| THE EGYPTIAN FIRE-EATER | By Rudolph Baumbach |
| THE CREMONA VIOLIN | By E. T. A. Hoffmann |
| ADVENTURES OF A NEW-YEAR'S EVE | By Heinrich Zschokke |
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Copyright, 1898, by Charles Scribner's Sons
PUBLISHERS' NOTE
The translations in this volume, where previously published, are used by arrangement with the owners of the copyrights (as specified at the beginning of each story). Translations made especially for the series are covered by its general copyright. All rights in both classes are reserved.
CONTENTS
| | | page |
| The Fury | Paul Heyse | 11 |
| The Philosopher's Pendulum | Rudolph Lindau | 45 |
| The Bookbinder of Hort | L.von Sacher-Masoch | 91 |
| The Egyptian Fire-Eater | Rudolph Baumbach | 111 |
| The Cremona Violin | E. T. W. Hoffmann | 125 |
| Adventures of a New-Year's Eve | Heinrich Zschokke | 167 |
# Stories by Foreign Authors (French III)

Stories by Foreign Authors, Vol. 3 Fifty-one tales in ten volumes, comprising a careful selection of the best Continental short stories by contemporary or nearly contemporary writers, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
STORIES BY
FOREIGN AUTHORS
FRENCH
| THE HIDDEN MASTERPIECE | By Honoré de Balzac |
| THE SORROW OF AN OLD CONVICT | By Pierre Loti |
| THE MUMMY'S FOOT | By Théophile Gautier |
| FATHER AND SON | By Edouard Rod |
| LAURETTE OR THE RED SEAL | By Alfred De Vigny |
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Copyright, 1898, by Charles Scribner's Sons
PUBLISHERS' NOTE
The translations in this volume, where previously published, are used by arrangement with the owners of the copyrights (as specified at the beginning of each story). Translations made especially for the series are covered by its general copyright. All rights in both classes are reserved.
CONTENTS
| | | page |
| The Hidden Masterpiece | Honoré de Balzac | 11 |
| The Sorrow of an Old Convict | Pierre Loti | 57 |
| The Mummy's Foot | Théophile Gautier | 65 |
| Father and Son | Edouard Rod | 87 |
| Laurette or the Red Seal | Alfred de Vigny | 119 |
# The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 2/Number 1/Shipwreck

Featured in Vol 2., No.1 of The Atlantic Monthly.
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SHIPWRECK.
We who by shipwreck only find the shores  Of divine wisdom can but kneel at first,  Can but exult to feel beneath our feet,  That long stretched vainly down the yielding deeps,  The shock and sustenance of solid earth:  Inland afar we see what temples gleam  Through immemorial stems of sacred groves,  And we conjecture shining shapes therein;  Yet for a space 'tis good to wonder here  Among the shells and seaweed of the beach.
# The Annotated The Tales of John Oliver Hobbes/A Bundle of Life/Dedication

To
WALTER SPINDLER.
AH, not for me—to learn the truth by dreaming,
To hear the cries of earth in melody,
To know 'tis night but when the stars are gleaming,—
Ah, not for me.
Music of form and colour's mystery,
The joy of fashioning in fairest seeming
Life's dullest clay and Winter's barest tree;
To count the years as moments—only deeming
That truly Time which makes thy Art to thee
The one thing needful and the all-redeeming,—
Ah, not for me!
September 23, 1893.

## Notes

* ↑ [Walter Spindler] was a close, platonic friend of Hobbes'.
The Annotated The Tales of John Oliver Hobbes
# The Annotated The Tales of John Oliver Hobbes/A Bundle of Life/Epilogue

Spoken by a Daughter of Eve, who is weeping, and an Angel, who looks out of fashion.
The Angel.
This is only sorrow For To-Day. Life begins To-Morrow!
A Daughter of Eve.
So they say.
The Angel.
Life with one love and laughter Gay and free— Yet no heartache after.
A Daughter of Eve.
Can it be?
The Angel.
Life with work that reaches
To the sky;
Life that never teaches
How to die.
Life that is eternal,
Ever young, Ever bright and vernal Just begun!
A Daughter of Eve.
Will To-Morrow ever dawn? Shall we wake that golden morn But to see All the treasures gained by tears, All the faith that's won by fears— Vanity?
The Angel.
Doubter, look behind thee In the past, All the dreams that pleased thee Did one last? Is a wish remaining From thy youth? This thou art retaining If 'twas truth. Mortal passions sicken, Fade away— Love alone can quicken Earthly clay. Faith, and all endeavour That is pure, Hope, and Love, for ever These endure. All things else are folly To the wise,— Quit thy melancholy And thy sighs!

## Notes

* ↑ Meaning a young girl; According to the Bible, Eve is the "mother of all living" (Genesis 3:20)
* ↑ Human desires (such as lust)
* ↑ Meaning the human body; Adam was made from "dust from the ground" (Genesis 2:7)
The Annotated The Tales of John Oliver Hobbes/A Bundle of Life - Epilogue
# The Annotated The Tales of John Oliver Hobbes/A Bundle of Life/Characters

Lord Twacorbie.
Sidney Wiche, M.P., Proprietor and Editor of "The Watchman."
Nicholas T. Van Huyster, an American millionaire and poet.
Captain Saville Rookes.
Sir Ventry Coxe, a widower.
Lady Twacorbie, his sister.
The Hon. Felicia Gorm, her step-daughter.
Teresa Warcop, an heiress, cousin to Lady Itvacorbic.
Lady Mallinger, a very young widow.
Luffy, the head-gardener.
Spalding, the butler.
Mrs. Danby, the housekeeper.
The scene is laid at Arden Lodge, the country seat of Lord Twacorbie, in Mertfordshire. The action takes place in the course of twenty-four hours.
" One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."
# The Annotated The Tales of John Oliver Hobbes/A Study in Temptations

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# The Annotated The Tales of John Oliver Hobbes/A Study in Temptations/Author's Note

Author's Note.
In the brief sketches of Farmer Battle and Miss Caroline Battle, the author's aim has been to suggest, not to reproduce, a dialect; and by so doing he ventures to think he is humbly following many great examples.
# The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

First published in instalments in The Atlantic Monthly between 1857 and 1858.
* "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table" in The Atlantic Monthly 1 (1)
* "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table" in The Atlantic Monthly 1 (2)
* "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table" in The Atlantic Monthly 1 (3)
* "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table" in The Atlantic Monthly 1 (4)
* "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table" in The Atlantic Monthly 1 (5)
* "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table" in The Atlantic Monthly 1 (6)
* "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table" in The Atlantic Monthly 1 (7)
* "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table" in The Atlantic Monthly 2 (1)
* "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table" in The Atlantic Monthly 2 (2)
* "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table" in The Atlantic Monthly 2 (3)
* "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table" in The Atlantic Monthly 2 (4)
* "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table" in The Atlantic Monthly 2 (5)
* The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, illustrated by Augustus Hoppin (1858)
* The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, illustrated by Howard Pyle, (1894) wikidata commons IA

## See also

* The Chambered Nautilus
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# Street v. New York

In Street v. New York, 394 U.S. 576 (1969), the United States Supreme Court held that a New York state law making it a crime "publicly [to] mutilate, deface, defile, or defy, trample upon, or cast contempt upon either by words or act [any flag of the United States]" was, in part, unconstitutional because it prohibited speech against the flag. The Court left for a later day the question of whether it is constitutional or unconstitutional to prohibit, without reference to the utterance of words, the burning of the flag (see Texas v. Johnson and United States v. Eichman). Warning: template has been deprecated.

## Dissenting Opinions

    Warren
    Black
    White
    Fortas
United States Supreme Court
394 U.S. 576
Street v. New York
Argued: Oct. 21, 1968. --- Decided: April 21, 1969
David T. Goldstick, New York City, for appellant.
Harry Brodbar, Brooklyn, N.Y., for appellee.
Mr. Justice HARLAN delivered the opinion of the Court.

## Notes

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# Street v. New York/Dissent Black

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United States Supreme Court
394 U.S. 576
Street v. New York
Argued: Oct. 21, 1968. --- Decided: April 21, 1969
Mr. Justice BLACK, dissenting.
I agree with the excellent opinion written by Chief Judge Fuld for a unanimous Court of Appeals, upholding the New York statute which this Court now holds unconstitutional as applied. The entire state court construed the statute as applied to this appellant as making it an offense publicly to burn an American flag in order to protest something that had occurred. In other words the offense which that court sustained was the burning of the flag and not the making of any statements about it. The Court seems to console itself for holding this New York flag-burning law unconstitutional as applied by saying that, as it reads the record, the conviction could have been based on the words spoken by the appellant as he was burning the flag. Those words indicated a desire on appellant's part to degrade and defame the flag. If I could agree with the Court's interpretation of the record as to the possibility of the conviction's resting on these spoken words, I would firmly and automatically agree that the law is unconstitutional. I would not feel constrained, as the Court seems to be, to search my imagination to see if I could think of interests the State may have in suppressing this freedom of speech. I would not balance away the First Amendment mandate that speech not be abridged in any fashion whatsoever. But I accept the unanimous opinion of the New York Court of Appeals that the conviction does not and could not have rested merely on the spoken words but that it rested entirely on the fact that the defendant had publicly burned the American flag-against the law of the State of New York.
It passes my belief that anything in the Federal Constitution bars a State from making the deliberate burning of the American flag an offense. It is immaterial to me that words are spoken in connection with the burning. It is the burning of the flag that the State has set its face against. 'It rarely has been suggested that the constitutional freedom for speech and press extends its immunity to speech or writing used as an integral part of conduct in violation of a valid criminal statute.' Giboney v. Empire Storage & Ice Co., 336 U.S. 490, 498, 69 S.Ct. 684, 688, 93 L.Ed. 834 (1949). In my view this quotation from the Giboney case precisely applies here. The talking that was done took place 'as an integral part of conduct in violation of a valid criminal statute' against burning the American flag in public. I would therefore affirm this conviction.

## Notes

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# Street v. Shipowners' Association of Pacific Coast

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United States Supreme Court
263 U.S. 334
Street v. Shipowners' Association of Pacific Coast
Argued: Nov. 15, 1923. --- Decided: Nov 26, 1923
Mr. H. W. Hutton, of San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 335-336 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. Edward J. McCutchen, A. Crawford Greene, W. F. Sullivan, and Warren Olney, all of San Francisco, Cal., for appellees.
Mr. Justice McKENNA delivered the opinion of the Court.

## Notes

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# The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Finland, Gulf of

Edition of 1879. See also Gulf of Finland on Wikipedia; and the disclaimer.
​FINLAND, Gulf of, the eastern arm of the Baltic sea, extending from the S. W. extremity of Finland and Dagö island eastwardly to the bay of Cronstadt and St. Petersburg, between lon. 22° and 30° 18′ E., and intersected by the 60th parallel of north latitude. It is 250 m. long, with a mean breadth of 60 or 70 m. Its coasts are entirely Russian possessions; namely, Finland on the north, and the governments of Esthonia and St. Petersburg on the south. Its E. extremity is the bay of Cronstadt, which is almost encircled by the shores of the last named government. The waters of the great lakes Onega and Ladoga, N. E. of St. Petersburg, flow into the gulf of Finland, the first by the river Svir into Lake Ladoga, and the latter by the Neva into the bay of Cronstadt. The bed of the gulf is of calcareous rock, in some parts compact and naked, in others covered and filled with shells. Occasional points of granite are intermingled with this general character. The depth of water is nowhere great, and is least along the southern coast, of which the submerged descent is gradual. The northern shore is much hemmed in with islands and granite rocks. In its eastern parts, particularly between Cronstadt and St. Petersburg, are numerous sand banks and shallows. In addition to these the huge masses of ice which in spring and autumn block up the mouths of the rivers present a serious impediment to navigation. The water is very slightly salt, and is readily drunk by cattle. The harbors of the gulf of Finland are closed by ice every year from early in December to the middle or end of April. It has several times happened that the waters of the gulf, driven by westerly gales, have submerged whole streets in St. Petersburg, even up to the first floor of houses; an event against which no provision for the future has appeared possible.
# The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Finlayson, George

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​FINLAYSON, George, a British surgeon and traveller, born in Thurso about 1790, died on the passage from Bengal to Scotland in August, 1823. He was a surgeon in the British army, was present at the battle of Waterloo, and served in Ceylon and India. In 1821 he accompanied Crawfurd in his mission to the sovereigns of Siam and Hué (Cochin China), and wrote an interesting journal of it, which was edited and published after his death by Sir T. S. Raffles (London, 1825).
# The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Finney, Charles G.

Edition of 1879. See also Charles Grandison Finney on Wikipedia; and the disclaimer.
​ FINNEY, Charles G., an American preacher and author, born in Warren, Litchfield co., Conn., Aug. 29, 1792. He studied law in Jefferson co., N. Y. In 1824 he commenced the career of a preacher, and labored as an evangelist with great success until 1835, when he accepted a professorship in Oberlin college, Ohio; and in 1837 he became pastor of the first Congregational church at Oberlin. He however continued to preach in New York and elsewhere at intervals, and in 1848 went to England, where he remained three years. In 1852 he became president of Oberlin college, which position he held until 1866. His principal works are: “Lectures on Revivals” (Boston, 1835; 13th ed., 1840; new and enlarged ed., Oberlin, 1868); “Lectures to Professing Christians” (Oberlin, 1836); “Sermons on Important Subjects” (New York, 1839); and “Lectures on Systematic Theology” (2 vols. 8vo, Oberlin, 1847). All of these have passed through several editions.
# The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Finlay, John

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​FINLAY, John, a Scottish poet and biographer, born in Glasgow in 1782, died at Moffat, Dec. 8, 1810. His principal poem, “Wallace, or the Vale of Ellerslie,” was published when he was only 18 years old. The more important of his other works are: “Scottish Historical and Romantic Ballads, chiefly Ancient, with Explanatory Notes,” &c. (2 vols., Edinburgh, 1808), and a “Life of Cervantes.” He also edited Blair's “Grave” and Smith's “Wealth of Nations.”
# The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Finley, Samuel

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​ FINLEY, Samuel, an American Presbyterian clergyman, born in Armagh, Ireland, in 1715, died in Philadelphia, July 17, 1766. He arrived in America in 1734, studied theology, and was licensed to preach in 1740. The first part of his ministry was occupied with itinerant labors in promoting a revival of religion. In 1744 he was settled at Nottingham, Md., where he remained seven years, and carried on in addition to his ministerial labors an academy which acquired a high reputation. On the death of President Davies of the college of New Jersey, he was chosen his successor, and removed to Princeton in 1761. The college flourished while under his care.
# The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Finn, Henry J.

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​ FINN, Henry J., an American actor and author, born at Sydney, Cape Breton, about 1785, perished in the conflagration of the steamboat Lexington in Long Island sound on the night of Jan. 13, 1840. He went to England in his youth, on the invitation of a rich uncle residing there, who died without making any provision for him, and he was obliged to resort to the stage for a support. After a few years he returned to New York, subsequently revisited England, and in 1822 made his first appearance at the Federal street theatre in Boston. He was one of the most popular actors on the stage, his forte being broad comedy. He accumulated a competency, and was on his way to his residence in Newport, R. I., at the time of his death. He enjoyed a considerable reputation as a humorous writer, and published a “Comic Annual” and a number of articles in the periodicals. He published a drama entitled “Montgomery, or the Falls of Montmorenci,” which was acted with success, and he left besides a manuscript tragedy.
# The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Finlay, George

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​FINLAY, George, a British historian, born at Glasgow, Scotland, about 1800. He enlisted at an early age in the cause of Greek independence, and has since resided in Athens, acting for many years as the special correspondent of the London “Times.” He is noted for his thorough knowledge of Greek topography, art, and antiquity, and is the author of a series of works on Greek history, comprising “History of Greece under the Romans” (1843; 2d ed., 1857); “History of Mediaeval Greece and Trebizond” (1851); “History of the Byzantine and Greek Empires from 716 to 1057” (2 vols., 1853-'4); “History of Greece under Othman and Venetian Dominion” (1854); and “History of the Greek Revolution” (2 vols., 1861).
# The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Finley, James Bradley

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​FINLEY, James Bradley, an American clergyman, born in North Carolina, July 1, 1781, died in Cincinnati, O., Sept. 6, 1856. He joined the Ohio conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1809. From 1816 to 1821 he was presiding elder of the Steubenville, Ohio, and Lebanon districts. In 1821 he was sent as missionary to the Wyandot Indians, where he remained six years. Retaining the superintendency of this mission for two years, he ​subsequently continued in the itinerant ministry as pastor and presiding elder till 1845, when he was appointed chaplain of the Ohio penitentiary. He retained this office till 1849. During his later years he acted as conference missionary and pastor of churches in southern Ohio. His chief works are: “Autobiography” (Cincinnati, 1854); “Wyandotte Mission;” “Sketches of Western Methodism” (1857); “Life among the Indians” (1857); and “Memorials of Prison Life” (1860).
# The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Finmark

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​ FINMARK, a bailiwick of Norway, forming the N. E. division of the province of Tromsö, and the northernmost region of the continent of Europe, formerly including also what is now the bailiwick of Tromsö; area, 18,306 sq. m.; pop. in 1872, 20,329. It lies wholly within the arctic circle. Its northernmost point is the North cape, in lat. 71° 10′. Its coasts are thickly indented by long winding inlets, and are bordered by a vast number of irregular islands. It has important cod fisheries. The principal rivers are the Alten and Tana, the valleys of which are fertile and well cultivated. The climate of the coasts is so mild that some of the fiords never freeze. Hammerfest, an active trading place, is one of the principal towns.
# The Bar-tender's Guide/Whiskey Fix

Whiskey Fix.
* Take 1 large tea-spoonful of powdered white sugar, dissolved in a little water.
* Take The juice of half a lemon.
* Take 1 wine-glass of Bourbon or rye whiskey.
Fill up the glass about two-thirds full of shaved ice, stir well, and ornament the top of the glass as directed in the last recipe.
# The Bar-tender's Guide/Vanilla Punch

Vanilla Punch.
(Use large bar-glass.)
* Take 1 table-spoonful of sugar.
* Take 1 wine-glass of brandy.
* Take The juice of quarter of a lemon.
Fill the tumbler with shaved ice, shake well, ornament with one or two slices of lemon, and flavor with a few drops of vanilla extract.
This is a delicious drink, and should be imbibed through a glass tube or straw.
# The Bar-tender's Guide/Wedding Punch

Wedding Punch.
* Take ½ pint of pineapple juice.
* Take 1 pint of lemon juice. ​
* Take 1 pint of lemon syrup.
* Take 1 bottle of Claret or Port wine.
* Take ½ pound of sugar.
* Take ½ pint of boiling water.
* Take 6 grains of vanilla.
* Take 1 grain of ambergris.
* Take 1 pint of strong brandy.
Rub the vanilla and ambergris with the sugar in the brandy thoroughly; let it stand in a corked bottle for a few hours, shaking occasionally. Then add the lemon juice, pineapple juice and wine; filter through flannel, and lastly, add the syrup.
# The Bar-tender's Guide/West India Couperee

West India Couperee.
(Use large soda-glass.)
* Take 1½ pony-glass of brandy.
* Take 1 pony-glass Maraschino or Curaçoa.
Fill the glass one-third full of vanilla ice cream. ​Mix thoroughly, and fill the glass nearly full with plain soda. Grate a littie nutmeg on top, and serve.
# The Bar-tender's Guide/West Indian Punch

West Indian Punch.
This is made in the same manner as Brandy Punch (see page 65), by adding to each glass a small piece of preserved ginger, and a little of the syrup.
# The Bar-tender's Guide/Whiskey Cocktail

Whiskey Cocktail.
(Use small bar-glass.)
* Take 3 or 4 dashes of gum syrup.
* Take 2 dashes of bitters (Boker’s).
* Take 1 wine-glass of whiskey.
Fill one-third full of fine ice; shake and strain in a fancy red wine-glass. Put in a piece of twisted lemon peel in the glass and serve.
# The Bar-tender's Guide/Whiskey Daisy

Whiskey Daisy.
(Use small bar-glass.)
* Take 3 dashes gum syrup.
* Take 2 dashes Orgeat syrup.
* Take The juice of half a small lemon.
* Take 1 wine-glass of Bourbon, or rye whiskey.
Fill glass one-third full of shaved ice.
Shake well, strain into a large cocktail glass, and fill up with Seltzer or Apollinaris water.