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Produced by Imran Ghory Stan Goodman Josephine Paolucciand PG Distributed ProofreadersBENEATH THE BANNERBEING NARRATIVES OF NOBLE LIVES AND BRAVE DEEDSBYFJ CROSS_ILLUSTRATED_ I have done my best for the honour of our countryGORDONSECOND EDITION1895_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_GOOD MORNING GOOD NIGHTTRUE STORIES PURE AND BRIGHTIn this work will be found a Series of upwards of sixty Chats withChildren suitable for morning and evening reading The book aboundswith anecdotes and contains numerous illustrations_Ready about May 1895_CONTENTS_Only a Nurse Girl_ALICE AYRES_A Slave Trade Warrior_SIR SAMUEL BAKER_Two Working Men Heroes_CASE AND CHEW_The Commander of the Thin Red Line_SIR COLIN CAMPBELL_A Sailor Bold and True_LORD COCHRANE_A Rough Diamond that was Polished_JOHN CASSELL_A Brave Fearless Sort of Lass_GRACE DARLING_A Friend of Lepers_FATHER DAMIEN_A Great Arctic Explorer_SIR JOHN FRANKLIN_A Saviour of Six_FIREMAN FORD_A Blind Helper of the Blind_ELIZABETH GILBERT_A Great Traveller in the Air_JAMES GLAISHER_The Soldier with the Magic Wand_GENERAL GORDON_Valiant and True_SIR RICHARD GRENVILLE_One who Left All_BISHOP HANNINGTON_A Man who Conquered Disappointments_SIR HENRY HAVELOCK_A Friend of Prisoners_JOHN HOWARD_A Hero of the Victoria Cross_KAVANAGH_The Man who Braved the Flood_CAPTAIN LENDY_A Temperance Leader_JOSEPH LIVESEY_A Great Missionary Explorer_DAVID LIVINGSTONE_From Farm Lad to Merchant Prince_GEORGE MOORE_A Man who Asked and Received_GEORGE MUeLLER_A Labourer in the Vineyard_ROBERT MOFFAT_The Lady with the Lamp_FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE_For England Home and Duty_THE DEATH OF NELSON_A Woman who Succeeded by Failure_HARRIET NEWELL_A Martyr of the South Seas_BISHOP PATTESON_KG and Coster_LORD SHAFTESBURY_A Statesman who had no Enemies_WH SMITH_Greater than an Archbishop_THE REVC SIMEON_A Soldier Missionary_HEDLEY VICARS_A Lass that Loved the Sailors_AGNES WESTON_A Great Commander on a Famous Battlefield_ THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON_A Prince of Preachers_JOHN WESLEY_Some Children of the Kingdom__The Victor the Story of an Unknown Man__A Boy Hero_JOHN CLINTON_Postscript_BENEATH THE BANNER_STORIES OF MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN STEADY WHEN UNDER FIRE_ONLY A NURSE GIRLTHE STORY OF ALICE AYRESOn the night of Thursday 25th April 1886 the cry rang through UnionStreet Borough that the shop of Chandler the oilman was in flamesSo rapid was the progress of the fire that by the time the escapesreached the house tongues of flame were shooting out from thewindows and it was impossible to place the ladders in position Thegunpowder had exploded with great violence and casks of oil wereburning with an indescribable furyAs the people rushed together to the exciting scene they werehorrified to find at one of the upper windows a girl clad only in hernightdress bearing in her arms a child and crying for helpIt was Alice Ayres who finding there was no way of escape by thestaircase was seeking for some means of preserving the lives of thechildren in her charge The frantic crowd gathered below shouted forher to save herself but that was not her first aim Darting back intothe blinding smoke she fetched a featherbed and forced it throughthe window This the crowd held whilst she carefully threw down tothem one of the children which alighted safe on the bedAgain the people in the street called on her to save her own life buther only answer was to go back into the fierce flames and stiflingsmoke and bring out another child which was safely transferred tothe crowd belowOnce again they frantically entreated her to jump down herself andonce again she staggered back blinded and choking into the fieryfurnace and for the third time emerged bearing the last of hercharges whose life also was savedThen at length she was free to think of herself But alas her headwas dizzy and confused and she was no longer able to act as surely asshe had hitherto done She jumpedbut to the horror of that anxiousadmiring throng below her body struck against the projectingshopsign and rebounded falling with terrific force on to the hardpavement belowHer spine was so badly injured that although everything possible wasdone for her at Guys Hospital whither she was removed she died onthe following SundayBeautiful windows have been erected at Red Cross Hall Southwark tocommemorate her heroism but the best memorial is her own expressionI tried to do my bestfor this will live in the hearts of all whoread of her selfdevotion She had tried to do her best _always_ Herloving tenderness to the children committed to her care and her puregentle life were remarked by those around her before there was anythought of her dying a heroic death So when the great trial cameshe was prepared and what seems to us Divine unselfishness appearedto her but simple dutyA SLAVE TRADE WARRIORSOME STORIES OF SIR SAMUEL BAKERSir Samuel Baker who died at the end of the year 1893 agedseventythree will always be remembered for the splendid work hedid in the Soudan during the four years he ruled there and for hisexplorations in AfricaIn earlier life he had done good service in Ceylon had been in theCrimea during the Russian war and had superintended the constructionof the first Turkish railwayThen at the age of forty he turned his attention to African travelAccompanied by his wife he left Cairo in 1861 and after exploringthe Blue Nile arrived in 1862 at Khartoum situated at the junctionof the White and Blue Nile Later on he turned southward In spite ofthe opposition of slave owners and without guide or interpreter hereached the Albert Nyanza and when after many perils he got safelyback to Northern Egypt his fame as an explorer was fully establishedHis was the first expedition which had been successful in penetratinginto Central Africa from the north On his return to England he waswelcomed with enthusiasm and received many honoursIn the year 1869 at the request of the Khedive of Egypt Sir Samuelundertook a journey to the Soudan to put down the slave tradeHe was given supreme power for a period of four years In Decemberwith a small army of about 1500 men he left Cairo for Gondokoroabout 3000 miles up the Nile accompanied by his wife It was aterrible journey His men fell ill the water in the river was lowin many places and the passage blocked up At times he had to cutchannels for his ships the men lost heart and had the leader notbeen firm and

Produced by Suzanne Shell Anita Paque Shawn WheelerDavid Schaal Anuradha Valsa Raj and PG Distributed ProofreadersTHE MAGNETIC NORTHBy ELIZABETH ROBINSC E Raimond Author of The Open Question Below the Salt etc_With a Map_1904CONTENTSCHAPTERI WINTER CAMP IN THE YUKONII HOUSEWARMINGIII TWO NEW SPISSIMENSIV THE BLOWOUTV THE SHAMANVI A PENITENTIAL JOURNEYVII KAVIAKS CRIMEVIII CHRISTMASIX A CHRISTIAN AGNOSTICX PRINCESS MUCKLUCKXI HOLY CROSSXII THE GREAT WHITE SILENCEXIII THE PITXIV KURILLAXV THE ESQUIMAUX HORSEXVI MINOOKXVII THE GREAT STAMPEDEXVIII A MINERS MEETINGXIX THE ICE GOES OUTXX THE KLONDYKEXXI PARDNERSXXII THE GOING HOMETHE MAGNETIC NORTHCHAPTER IWINTER CAMP ON THE YUKONTo labour and to be content with that a man hath is a sweet life buthe that findeth a treasure is above them both_Ecclesiasticus_Of course they were bound for the Klondyke Every creature in theNorthwest was bound for the Klondyke Men from the South too and menfrom the East had left their ploughs and their pens their factoriespulpits and easychairs each man like a magnetic needle suddenly setfree and turning sharply to the North all set pointing the selfsameway since that July day in 97 when the _Excelsior_ sailed into SanFrancisco harbour bringing from the uttermost regions at the top ofthe map close upon a million dollars in nuggets and in golddustSome distance this side of the Arctic Circle on the right bank of theYukon a little detachment of that great army pressing northward hadbeen wrecked early in the month of SeptemberThey had realised on leaving the oceangoing ship that landed them atSt Michaels Island near the mouth of the great river that theycould not hope to reach Dawson that year But instead of getting coldfeet as the phrase for discouragement ran and turning back asthousands did or putting in the winter on the coast they determinedwith an eye to the spring rush to cover as many as possible of theseventeen hundred miles of waterway before navigation closedThey knew in a vague way that winter would come early but they hadnot counted on the big September storm that dashed their heavyladenboats against the floeice ultimately drove them ashore and nearlycost the little party their lives On that last day of the longstruggle up the stream a stiff northeaster was cutting the middlereach of the mighty river two miles wide here into a choppy anddangerous seaDay by day five men in the two little boats had kept serious eyes onthe shore Then came the morning when out of the monotonous cold andsnowflurries something new appeared a narrow white rim forming onthe river marginthe first iceWinter beginning to show his teeth said one man with an effort atjocosityDay by day nearer came the menace narrower and swifter still ran thedeep black water strip between the encroaching icelines But thethought that each days sailing or rowing meant many days nearer theKlondyke seemed to inspire a superhuman energy Day by day each manhad felt and no man yet had said We must camp tonight for eightmonths They had looked landward shivered and held on their wayBut on this particular morning when they took in sail they realisedit was to be that abomination of desolation on the shore or death Andone or other speedilyNearer the white teeth gleamed fiercer the gale swifter the currentsweeping back the boats The _Mary C_ was left behind fighting forlife while it seemed as if no human power could keep the _Tulare_ frombeing hurled against the western shore Twice in spite of all theycould do she was driven within a few feet of what looked like certaindeath With a huge effort that last time her little crew had just gother well in midstream when a heavy roller breaking on the starboardside drenched the men and half filled the cockpit Each rower stillpulling for dear life with one hand bailed the boat with the otherbut for all their promptness a certain amount of the water froze solidbefore they could get it outGreat luck if were going to take in water like this said thecheerful Kentuckian shipping his oar and knocking off the icegreatluck that all the stores are so well protectedProtected snapped out an anxious castironlooking man at therudderYes protected Hows water to get through the icecoat thats overeverythingThe castiron steersman set his jaw grimly They seemed to becomparatively safe now with half a mile of open water between them andthe western shoreBut they sat as before stiff alert each man in his ice jacket thatcracked and crunched as he bent to his oar Now right now left againthey eyed the shoreWould it becould it be there they would have to land And if theydidLord how it blewHard aport called out the steersman There just ahead was a greatwhitecapped roller comingcoming the biggest wave they hadencountered since leaving open seaBut MacCann the steersman swung the boat straight into the crestedroller and the _Tulare_ took it gamely bow on All was going wellwhen just in the boiling middle of what they had thought was foamingwhitecap the boat struck something solid shivered and wentshooting down half under water recovered up again and seemed topause in a seconds doubt on the very top of the great wave In thatsecond that seemed an eternity one mans courage snappedPotts threw down his oar and swore byand byhe wouldnt pullanotherstroke on theYukonWhile he was pouring out the words the steersman sprang from thetiller and seized Potts oar just in time to save the boat fromcapsizing Then he and the big Kentuckian both turned on the distractedPottsYou infernal quitter shouted the steersman and choked with furyBut even under the insult of that meanest word in the language Pottssat glaring defiantly with his halffrozen hands in his pocketsIt aint a river anyhow this aint he said Its plain simpleHell and waterThe others had no time to realise that Potts was clean out of hissenses for the moment and the Kentuckian still pulling like madfaced the quitter with a determination born of terrorIf you cant row take the rudder Damnation Take that rudder Quick_or well kill you_ And he half rose up never dropping his oarBlindly Potts obeyedThe

Produced by Juliet Sutherland Dave Morgan and PG Distributed ProofreadersIllustration Darrins Blow Knocked the Midshipman DownDAVE DARRINS SECOND YEAR AT ANNAPOLISorTwo Midshipmen as Naval Academy YoungstersByH IRVING HANCOCKIllustratedMCMXICONTENTSCHAPTERI A QUESTION OF MIDSHIPMAN HONORII DAVES PAPSHEET ADVICEIII MIDSHIPMAN PENNINGTON GOES TOO FARIV A LITTLE MEETING ASHOREV WHEN THE SECONDS WONDEREDVI IN TROUBLE ON FOREIGN SOILVII PENNINGTON GETS HIS WISHVIII THE TRAGEDY OF THE GALEIX THE DESPAIR OF THE RECALLX THE GRIM WATCH FROM THE WAVESXI MIDSHIPMAN PENNINGTONS ACCIDENTXII BACK IN THE HOME TOWNXIII DAN RECEIVES A FEARFUL FACERXIV THE FIRST HOP WITH THE HOME GIRLSXV A DISAGREEABLE FIRST CLASSMANXVI HOW DAN FACED THE BOARDXVII LOSING THE TIMEKEEPERS COUNTXVIII FIGHTING THE FAMOUS DOUBLE BATTLEXIX THE OFFICER IN CHARGE IS SHOCKEDXX CONCLUSIONCHAPTER IA QUESTION OF MIDSHIPMAN HONORHow can a midshipman and gentleman act in that wayThe voice of Midshipman David Darrin United States Navy vibrateduneasily as he turned to his comradesIts a shamethats what it is quivered Mr Farley also of thethird class at the United States Naval AcademyBut the question is propounded Midshipman Dan Dalzell what are wegoing to do about itIs it any part of our business to bother with the fellow demandedFarley half savagelyNow Farley was rather hottempered though he was all there in pointsthat involved the honor of the brigade of midshipmenFive midshipmen stood in the squalid illodored back room of a Chineselaundry in the town of AnnapolisThere was a sixth midshipman present in the handsome blue uniform of thebrigade and it was upon this sixth one that the anger and disgust ofthe other five had centeredHe lay in a sleep too deep for stirring On the still foul air floatedfumes that were new to those of his comrades who now gazed down on himTo think that one of our class could make such a beast of himselfsighed Dave DarrinAnd on the morning of the very day were to ship for the summercruise uttered Farley angrilyOh well growled Hallam why not let this animal of lower grade sleepjust where he is Let him take what he has fairly brought upon himselfThats the very question that is agitating me declared Dave Darrinto whom these other members of the third class looked as a leader whenthere was a point involving class honorDave had became a leader through sufferingReaders of the preceding volume in this series DAVE DARRINS FIRSTYEAR AT ANNAPOLIS will need no introduction to this fine specimen ofspirited and honorable young AmericanReaders of that preceding volume will recall how Dave Darrin and DanDalzell entered the United States Naval Academy one appointed by aCongressman and the other by a United States Senator Such readers willremember the difficult time that Dave and Dan had in getting through thework of the first hard grinding year They will also recall how DaveDarrin when accused of treachery to his classmates patiently bided histime until he with the aid of some close friends was able todemonstrate his innocence Our readers will also remember how twoevilminded members of the then fourth class plotted to increase Damnsdisgrace and to drive him out of the brigade also how these twoplotters Midshipmen Henkel and Brimmer were caught in their plottingand were themselves forced out of the brigade Our readers know thatbefore the end of the first year at the Naval Academy Dave had fullyreinstated himself in the esteem of his manly classmates and how hequickly became the most popular and respected member of his classIt was now only the day after the events whose narration closed thepreceding volumeDave Darrin and Dalzell were first of all brought to notice in THE HIGHSCHOOL BOYS SERIES In their High School days back in Gridley thesetwo had been famous members of Dick Co a sextette of youngsters whohad made a name for themselves in school athleticsDick Prescott and Greg Holmes two other members of the sextette hadbeen appointed to the United States Military Academy at West Pointwhere they were serving in the corps of cadets and learning how tobecome Army officers in the not far distant future All of theadventures of Dick and Greg are set forth in THE WEST POINT SERIESThe two remaining members of famous old Dick Co Tom Reade and HarryHazelton became civil engineers and went West for their first taste ofengineering work Tom and Harry had some wonderful and startlingadventures as fully set forth in THE YOUNG ENGINEERS SERIESOn this early June day when we again encounter Dave Darrin and DanDalzell in their handsome Naval uniforms all members of the firstsecond and third classes were due to be aboard one of the three greatbattleships that lay off the Yard at Annapolis at four pmThese three great battleships were the Massachusetts the Iowa andthe Indiana These three huge turreted fighting craft had their fullcrews aboard Not one of the battleship commanders would allow ajackie ashore except on business through fear that many of thewilder ones might find the attractions on shore too alluring and failto return in timeWith the young midshipmen it was different These young men wereofficially and actually gentlemen and could be trustedYet here in the back room of this laundry was one who was apparentlynot dependableThis young midshipmans name was Pennington and the fact was that helay in deep stupor from the effects of smoking opiumIt had been a storekeeper with a shop across the street who had calledthe attention of Dave and his four comrades to the probable fate ofanother of their classChow Hop runs a laundry but I have heard evil stories about a lot ofyoung fools who flock to his back room and get a chance to hit theopium pipe the storekeeper had stated to Dave One of your men or atleast one in a midshipmans uniform went in there at eleven oclockthis forenoon and he hasnt been out since It is now nearly twooclock and Ive been looking for some midshipmen to informSuch had been the storekeepers careful statement The merchants ofAnnapolis always have a kindly feeling toward these fine youngmidshipmen The storekeepers purpose was to enable them to help theircomrade outSo

Produced by Stan Goodman Mary Meehanand the Online Distributed Proofreading Team THE LITTLE PILGRIM Further Experiences By Margaret O Wilson OliphantITHE LITTLE PILGRIM IN THE SEEN AND UNSEENThe little Pilgrim whose story has been told in another place and whohad arrived but lately on the other side among those who know troubleand sorrow no more was one whose heart was always full of pity for thesuffering And after the first rapture of her arrival and of the blessedwork which had been given to her to do and all the wonderful things shehad learned of the new life there returned to her in the midst of herhappiness so many questions and longing thoughts that They were touchedby them who have the care of the younger brethren the simple ones ofheaven These questions did not disturb her peace or joy for she knewthat which is so often veiled on earththat all is accomplished by thewill of the Father and that nothing can happen but according to Hisappointment and under His care And she was also aware that the endis as the beginning to Him who knows all and that nothing is lost thatis in His hand But though she would herself have willingly borne thesufferings of earth ten times over for the sake of all that was now hersyet it pierced her soul to think of those who were struggling indarkness and whose hearts were stifled within them by all the bitternessof the mortal life Sometimes she would be ready to cry out with wonderthat the Lord did not hasten His steps and go down again upon the earthto make all plain or how the Father himself could restrain His powerand did not send down ten legions of angels to make all that was wrongright and turn all that was mournful into joyIt is but for a little time said her companions When we have reachedthis place we remember no more the anguish But to them in theirtrouble it does not seem a little time the Pilgrim said And in herheart there rose a great longing Oh that He would send me that I mighttell my brethrennot like the poor man in the land of darkness of thegloom and misery of that distant place but a happier message of thelight and brightness of this and how soon all pain would be over Shewould not put this into a prayer for she knew that to refuse a prayeris pain to the Father if in His great glory any pain can be And thenshe reasoned with herself and said What can I tell them except thatall will soon be well and this they know for our Lord has said it butI am like them and I do not understandOne fair morning while she turned over these thoughts in her mind theresuddenly came towards her one whom she knew as a sage of the number ofthose who know many mysteries and search into the deep things of theFather For a moment she wondered if perhaps he came to reprove her fortoo many questionings and rose up and advanced a little towards him withfolded hands and a thankful heart to receive the reproof if it should besofor whether it were praise or whether it were blame it was from theFather and a great honor and happiness to receive But as he cametowards her he smiled and bade her not to fear I am come he said totell you some things you long to know and to show you some things thatare hidden to most Little sister you are not to be charged with anymissionOh no she said oh no I was not so presumingIt is not presuming to wish to carry comfort to any soul but it ispermitted to me to open up to you so far as I may some of the secretsThe secrets of the Father are all beautiful but there is sorrow in themas well as joy and Pain you know is one of the great angels at thedoorIs his name Pain and I took him for Consolation the little PilgrimsaidHe is not Consolation he is the schoolmaster whose face is often sternBut I did not come to tell you of him whom you know I am going to takeyouback the wise man saidBack She knew what this meant and a great pleasure yet mingled withfear came into her mind She hesitated and looked at him and did notknow how to accept though she longed to do so for at the same time shewas afraid He smiled when he saw the alarm in her faceDo you think he said that you are to go this journey on your owncharges Had you insisted as some do to go at all hazards you mightindeed have feared And even now I cannot promise that you will not feelthe thorns of the earth as you pass but you will be cared for so thatno harm can comeAh she said wistfully it is not for harm and could say nothingmoreHe laid his hand upon her arm and he said Do not fear though they seeyou not it is yet sweet for a moment to be there and as you pass itbrings thoughts of you to their mindsFor these two understood each other and knew that to see and yet not beseen is only a pleasure for those who are most like the Father and canlove without thought of love in returnWhen he touched her it seemed to the little Pilgrim suddenly thateverything changed round her and that she was no longer in her ownplace but walking along a weary

Produced by Christine De Ryck and PG Distributed ProofreadersThis file was produced from images generously made available bythe Bibliotheque nationale de France BnFGallica athttpgallicabnffrEm VerhaerenLesheures claires1896O la splendeur de notre joieTissee en or dans lair de soieVoici la maison douce et son pignon legerEt le jardin et le vergerVoici le banc sous les pommiersDou seffeuille le printemps blancA petales frolants et lentsVoici des vols de lumineux ramiersPlanant ainsi que des presagesDans le ciel clair du paysageVoicipareils a des baisers tombes sur terreDe la bouche du frele azurDeux bleus etangs simples et pursBordes naivement de fleurs involontairesO la splendeur de notre joie et de nousmemesEn ce jardin ou nous vivons de nos emblemesLabas de lentes formes passentSontce nos deux ames qui se delassentAu long des bois et des terrassesSontce tes seins sontce tes yeuxCes deux fleurs dor harmonieuxEt ces herbeson dirait des plumagesMouilles dans la source quils plissentSontce tes cheveux frais et lissesCertes aucun abri ne vaut le clair vergerNi la maison au toit legerNi ce jardin ou le ciel trameCe climat cher a nos deux amesQuoique nous le voyions fleurir devant nos yeuxCe jardin clair ou nous passons silencieuxCest plus encore en nous que se fecondeLe plus joyeux et le plus doux jardin du mondeCar nous vivons toutes les fleursToutes les herbes toutes les palmesEn nos rires et en nos pleursDe bonheur pur et calmeCar nous vivons toutes les transparencesDe letang bleu qui reflete lexuberanceDes roses dor et des grands lys vermeilsBouches et levres de soleilCar nous vivons toute la joieDardee en cris de fete et de printempsEn nos aveux ou se cotoientLes mots fervents et exaltantsOh dis cest bien en nous que se fecondeLe plus joyeux et clair jardin du mondeCe chapiteau barbare ou des monstres se tordentSoudes entre eux a coups de griffes et de dentsEn un tumulte fou de sang de cris ardentsDe blessures et de gueules qui sentremordentCetait moimeme avant que tu fusses la mienneO toi la neuve o toi lancienneQui vins a moi des loins deterniteAvec entre tes mains lardeur et la bonteJe sens en toi les memes choses tres profondesQuen moimeme dormirEt notre soif de souvenirBoire lecho ou nos passes se correspondentNos yeux ont du pleurer aux memes heuresSans le savoir pendant lenfanceAvoir memes effrois memes bonheursMemes eclairs de confianceCar je te suis lie par linconnuQui me fixait jadis au fond des avenuesPar ou passait ma vie aventuriereEt certes si javais regarde mieuxJaurais pu voir souvrir tes yeuxDepuis longtemps en ses paupieresLe ciel en nuit sest deplieEt la lune semble veillerSur le silence endormiTout est si pur et clairTout est si pur et si pale dans lairEt sur les lacs du paysage amiQuelle angoisse la goutte deauQui tombe dun roseauEt tinte et puis se tait dans leauMais jai tes mains entre les miennesEt tes yeux surs qui me retiennentDe leurs ferveurs si doucementEt je te sens si bien en paix de toute choseQue rien pas meme un fugitif soupcon de crainteNe troublera futce un momentLa confiance sainteQui dort en nous comme un enfant reposeChaque heure ou je pense a ta bonteSi simplement profondeJe me confonds en prieres vers toiJe suis venu si tardVers la douceur de ton regardEt de si loin vers tes deux mains tenduesTranquillement par a travers les etenduesJavais en moi tant de rouille tenaceQui me rongeait a dents rapacesLa confianceJetais si lourd jetais si lasJetais si vieux de mefianceJetais si lourd jetais si lasDu vain chemin de tous mes pasJe meritais si peu la merveilleuse joieDe voir tes pieds illuminer ma voieQue jen reste tremblant encore et presquen pleursEt humble a tout jamais en face du bonheurTu arbores parfois cette grace benigneDu matinal jardin tranquille et sinueuxQui deroule labas parmi les lointains bleusSes doux chemins courbes en cols de cygneEt dautres fois tu mes le frisson clairDu vent rapide et miroitantQui passe avec ses doigts declairDans les crins deau de letang blancAu bon toucher de tes deux mainsJe sens comme des feuillesMe doucement frolerQue midi brule le jardinLes ombres aussitot recueillentLes paroles cheres dont ton etre a trembleChaque moment me semble grace a toiPasser ainsi divinement en moiAussi quand lheure vient de la nuit blemeOu tu te celes en toimemeEn refermant les yeuxSenstu mon doux regard devotieuxPlus humble et long quune priereRemercier le tien sous tes closes paupieresOh laisse frapper a la porteLa main qui passe avec ses doigts futilesNotre heure est si unique et le reste quimporteLe reste avec ses doigts futilesLaisse passer par le cheminLa triste et fatigante joieAvec ses crecelles en mainsLaisse monter laisse bruireEt sen aller le rireLaisse passer la foule et ses milliers de voixLinstant est si beau de lumiereDans le jardin autour de nousLinstant est si rare de lumiere tremiereDans notre coeur au fond de nousTout nous preche de nattendre plus rienDe ce qui vient ou passeAvec des chansons lassesEt des bras las par les cheminsEt de rester les doux qui benissons le jourMeme devant la nuit dombre barricadeeAimant en nous par dessus tout lideeQue bellement nous nous faisons de notre amourComme aux ages naifs je tai donne mon coeurAinsi quune ample fleurQui souvre au clair de la roseeEntre ses plis freles ma bouche sest poseeLa fleur je la cueillis au pre des fleurs en flammeNe lui dis rien car la parole entre nous deuxSerait banale et tous les mots sont hasardeuxCest a travers les yeux que lame ecoute une ameLa fleur qui est mon coeur et mon aveuTout simplement a tes levres confieQuelle est loyale et claire et bonne et quon se fieAu vierge amour comme un enfant se fie a DieuLaissons lesprit fleurir sur les collinesEn de capricieux chemins de vaniteEt faisons simple accueil a la sinceriteQui tient nos deux coeurs clairs en ses mains cristallinesEt rien nest beau comme une confession damesLune a lautre le soir lorsque la flammeDes incomptables diamantsBrule comme autant dyeuxSilencieuxLe silence des firmamentsLe printemps jeune et benevoleQui vet le jardin de beauteElucide nos voix et nos parolesEt les trempe dans sa limpiditeLa brise et les levres des feuillesBabillentet effeuillentEn nous les syllabes de leur clarteMais le meilleur de

Produced by Greg LindahlA Treatise Of Daunses wherin it is shewed that they are as it wereaccessories and dependants or thynges annexed to whoredome wherealso by the way is touched and proued that _Playes are ioyned andknit togeather in a rancke or rowe with them_I Thessal 5_Let eurie one possesse his vessel in holines and honor_Anno 1581A Treatise of Daunses in which is shewed that daunses beeintisementes to whoredome and that the abuse of playes ought not tobe among ChristiansI Doubt not but that some into whose handes this little treatiseshall come will thinke me to be at greate leasure that haueenterprised largely to leuie out and handle this argument which totheir seeming is not otherwise of great importaunce For be it thatdaunses were allowed or condemned or els yet they were putt in therowe of thinges indifferent men might easily iudge according to theiropinion that that should not bring great profit or hurt to ourchristian common wealth seeing that ther are diuers pointes ofgreater weight and consequence which trouble the spirits of manyelearned men make afraide the consciences of the weake and simpleones which poyntes haue verye much nede to be opened and made plainerather then to trouble a mans selfe to write agaynst playes anddaunses Furthermore men should be in very great forwardnes if euerythinge were so well refourmed that they were come euen unto daunsesthat is to say that all that which is corrupted and those abuseswhich beare the sway among Christians were so cut off and this sosick a body againe so wel restored to his soundnes and health thatthere should remayne nothing els but to debate the question of leapingskippings and daunsesTher will be found an other manner sort of people who will make noaccoumpte at all to mocke at this matter as indeede the world is fulof mockers and men without Godlines without God and withoutreligion Now as concerninge these persons they deserue no manner ofaunsweare at al because they do as soone scoffe at the principallpointes of christian religion and that which directly concerneth theseruice of God as matters of lesse weight and importaunce WhereforeI not much regarding or caringe for the iudgement of such iudges willlet them runne to the water with the bridle uppon their head or intheir necke as they say But as touchinge the first because they beenot altogeather malicious and obstinate I hope that ha uingaunsweared their obiections and declared the reasons which hauemoued yea rather driuen me forward or inforsed mee to descipher andsett out this matter they will iudge my labour not to haue benealtogeather unprofitableIt is then in the first place to bee wished and desired that troublesbeyng pacified and all dissentions repressed and put out thespirits and consciences of men should be assured and thorowlyperswaded of that which appertaineth to their saluation And indeedeour Lorde hath stirred and raised up so perfect an age in al sciences know ledge in which so many learned men and of excellent learningand knowledge haue so blessedly and diligently imployed them seluesto teach us the order and maner to liue well some after one sort andfashion and some after an other that those which be not yetsatisfyed can not or ought not to lay the fault in any but inthemseluesNext all good men ought to wishe and desire that those which put theirhande to this is to say trauaile for the reformation of manersshould do it with such good argumentes that there shoulde remayne orbe left but euen a very litle to be corrected and amended And yetthis wish desire should not let or hinder the trauaile of such as doindeuor to pull up by the rootes such herbes as be hurtful to thefield of the Lord be they neuer so small and little and I do orwhich thing I labour to do in this little boke according to thetalente graces which are geuen me from aboueAdde also that if any do deeply seasonably consider this matter Ihope he shal not finde it so barren and of little edification that itought to be dispised or troden under foote for many men of qualityyea euen in the company of notable personages of name and authoritymake no conscience to demaunde and aske whether it be yll done todaunce demaunding also a formall or playne parcell and text ofScripture by which it may appeare that daunses be prohibited andforbidden otherwise they think not that they do euill indaunsing Some others goe further and alledging or rather indeedeabusing some peece of the Scripture where it appeareth that thefaithfull haue leaped and daunsed they thinke verily that they hauefounde the beane in the cake as though this were a proper couerture cloke to couer the infection and filthines of their dauncesSeyng then that many be foulie grosely deceaued in this behalfe andthat possible for want of beyng sufficiently instructed and informedor taught touching this matter I haue bene so much the more willingto ease them in this question by how much I hope to profit in commonthat is to do good to the greatest multitude as also being willinghereby to satisfy some which haue earnestly and instantly required itat my handesNow to answeare them which demaund and aske a playne peece or text ofScripture in which daunses should be forbidden let them know thatthere be many wicked and euill thinges which are not euidently andplaynly expressed in the Scripture to be forbidden notwithstandingthey bee of the same kynd and nature or else dependences of somethynges which are therein expressed and under which they ought to becomprehended or els when the contrary of these things is praised andcommended we are sufficiently taught and instructed to cast themaway as things condemned by the holy Ghost because ther is one theselfe same reason in contrary thingsI will place put in the order or rowe of the first playes anddaunses I meane such playes as by which man draweth or getteth tohymselfe his neighboures money It is true that

Produced by Juliet Sutherland Mary Meehan and the Online DistributedProofreading Team KALITAN Our Little Alaskan Cousin By Mary F NixonRoulet_Author of Our Little Spanish Cousin With a pessimist in SpainGod the King My Brother etc_ 1907_Illustrated_TO MY LITTLE SON John Nixon de RouletPrefaceAway up toward the frozen north lies the great peninsula which theUnited States bought from the Russians and thus became responsible forthe native peoples from whom the Russians had taken the landThere are many kinds of people there from Indians to Esquimos and theyare under the American Government yet they have no votes and are notcalled American citizensIt is about this country and its people that this little story iswritten and in the hope of interesting American girls and boys in thesevery strange people their Little Alaskan CousinsContents I KALITAN TENAS II AROUND THE CAMPFIRE III TO THE GLACIER IV TED MEETS MR BRUIN V A MONSTER OF THE DEEP VI THE ISLAND HOME OF KALITAN VII TWILIGHT TALES AND TOTEMS VIII THE BERRY DANCE IX ON THE WAY TO NOME X IN THE GOLD COUNTRY XI AFTERNOON TEA IN AN EGLU XII THE SPLENDOUR OF SAGHALIE TYEEList of IllustrationsKALITAN FISHED DILIGENTLY BUT CAUGHT LITTLEAWAY WENT ANOTHER STINGING LANCEA GROUP OF PEOPLE AWAITING THE CANOESMOUNT SHISHALDINLETS WATCH THOSE TWO MEN THEY HAVE EVIDENTLY STAKED A CLAIMTOGETHERTWO FUNNY LITTLE LAPP BABIES HE TOOK TO RIDE ON A LARGE REINDEERKALITANOur Little Alaskan CousinCHAPTER IKALITAN TENASIt was bitterly cold Kalitan Tenas felt it more than he had in the longwinter for then it was still and calm as night and now the wind wasblowing straight in from the sea and the river was frozen tight Amonth before the ice had begun to break and he had thought the cold wasover and that the all too short Alaskan summer was at hand Now it wasthe first of May and just as he had begun to think of summer pleasureslo a storm had come which seemed to freeze the very marrow of his bonesHowever our little Alaskan cousin was used to cold and trained to itand would not dream of fussing over a little snowstormKalitan started out to fish for his dinner and though the snow came downheavily and he had to break through the ice to make a fishinghole andsoon the ice was a windswept plain where even his own tracks werecovered with a white pall he fished steadily on He never dreamed ofstopping until he had fish enough for dinner for like most of histribe he was persevering and industriousKalitan was a Thlinkit though if you asked him he would say he wasKlinkit This is a tribe which has puzzled wise people for a longtime for the Thlinkits are not Esquimos not Indians not colouredpeople nor whites They are the tribes living in Southeastern Alaska andalong the coast Many think that a long long time ago they came fromJapan or some far Eastern country for they look something like theJapanese and their language has many words similar to Japanese in itPerhaps long years ago some shipwrecked Japanese were cast upon thecoast of Alaska and finding their boats destroyed and the land good tolive in settled there and thus began the Thlinkit tribesThe Chilcats Haidahs and Tsimsheans are all Thlinkits and are by farthe best of the brown people of the Northland They are honest simpleand kind and more intelligent than the Indians living farther north inthe colder regions The Thlinkit coast is washed by the warm current fromthe Japan Sea and it is not much colder than Chicago or Boston thoughthe winter is a little longerKalitan fished diligently but caught little He was warmly clad insealskin around his neck was a white bearskin ruff as warm as toastand very pretty too as soft and fluffy as a ladys boa On his feetwere moccasins of walrus hide He had been perhaps an hour watching thehole in the ice and knelt there so still that he looked almost as thoughhe were frozen Indeed that was what those thought who saw him therefor suddenly a dogsledge came round the corner of the hill and a loudhalloo greeted his earsBoston men he said to himself as he watched them lost the trailThey had indeed lost the trail and Ted Strong had begun to think theywould never find it againChetwoof their Indian guide had not talked very much about it butlapsed into his favourite No understan a remark he always made whenhe did not want to answer what was said to himTed and his father were on their way from Sitka to the Copper River MrStrong was on the United States Geological Survey which Ted knew meantthat he had to go all around the country and poke about all day amongrocks and mountains and glaciers He had come with his father to this farAlaskan clime in the happiest expectation of adventures with bears andIndians always dear to the heart of a boyHe was pretty tired of the sledge having been in it since early morningand he was cold and hungry besides so he was delighted when the dogsstopped and his father saidHop out son and stretch your legs Well try to find

Thanks to Andrew SlySatyros oder Der vergoetterte Waldteufel by Johann Wolfgang Goethein GermanThis text was originally produced in HTML for ProjektGutenbergDE bybelmekhirahotmailcom from pages 188 to 202 of Goethes WerkeHamburger Ausgabe Band 4 Dramen II the fourth volume of an editionof Goethes works published in 1982 by CH BeckscheVerlagshandlung Muenchen ISBN 3406084842Johann Wolfgang GoetheSatyrosoderDer vergoetterte WaldteufelDramaErster AktEinsiedlerIhr denkt ihr Herrn ich bin alleinWeil ich nicht mag in Staedten seinIhr irrt euch liebe Herren meinIch hab mich nicht hierher begebenWeil sie in Staedten so ruchlos lebenUnd alle wandeln nach ihrem TriebDer Schmeichler Heuchler und der DiebDas haett mich immerfort ergetztWollten sie nur nicht sein hochgeschaetztBestehlen und bescheissen mich wie die RabenUnd noch dazu Reverenzen habenIhrer langweiligen Narrheit sattBin herausgezogen in Gottes StadtWos freilich auch geht drueber und drunterUnd geht demohngeacht nicht unterIch sah im Fruehling ohne ZahlBlueten und Knospen durch Berg und TalWie alles draengt und alles treibtKein Plaecklein ohne Keimlein bleibtDa denkt nun gleich der steif PhilisterDas ist fuer mich und meine GeschwisterUnser Herrgott ist so gnaedig heuerHaett ichs doch schon in Fach und ScheuerUnser Herrgott spricht Aber mir nit soEs sollens ander auch werden frohDa lockt uns denn der SonnenscheinStoerch und Schwalb aus der Fremd hereinDen Schmetterling aus seinem HausDie Fliegen aus den Ritzen rausUnd bruetet das Raupenvoelklein ausDas quillt all von ErzeugungskraftWie sichs hat aus dem Schlaf gerafftVoegel und Froesch und Tier und MueckenBegehn sich zu allen AugenblickenHinten und vorn auf Bauch und RueckenDass man auf jeder Bluet und BlattEin Eh und Wochenbettlein hatUnd sing ich denn im Herzen meinLob Gott mit allen WuermeleinDas Volk will dann zu essen habenVerzehren bescherte GottesgabenSo frissts Wuermlein frisch KeimleinBlattDas Wuermlein macht das Lerchlein sattUnd weil ich auch bin zu essen hierMir das Lerchlein zu Gemuete fuehrIch bin denn auch ein haeuslich MannHab Haus und Stall und Garten dranMein Gaertlein Fruechtlein ich beschuetzVor Kaelt und Raupen und duerrer HitzKommt aber herein der KieselschlagUnd furaschiert mir an einem TagSo aergert mich der Streich fuerwahrDoch leb ich noch am End vom JahrWo mancher Werwolf ist schon totAus Aengsten vor der HungersnotMan hoert von ferne heulenU U Au Au Weh Weh Ai AiEinsiedlerWelch ein erbaermlich WehgeschreiMuss eine verwundte Besti seinSatyrosO weh mein Ruecken o weh mein BeinEinsiedlerGut Freund was ist Euch Leids geschehnSatyrosDumme Frag Ihr koennts ja sehnIch bin gestuerzt entzwei mein BeinEinsiedlerHockt auf Hier in die Huetten reinEinsiedler hockt ihn auf traegt ihn in die Huette und legt ihn aufsBettEinsiedlerHalt still dass ich die Wund besehSatyrosIhr seid ein Flegel Ihr tut mir wehEinsiedlerIhr seid ein Fratz so halt denn stillWie Teufel ich Euch da schindeln willVerbindet ihnSo bleibt nur wenigstens in RuhSatyrosSchafft mir Wein und Obst dazuEinsiedlerMilch und Brot sonst nichts auf der WeltSatyrosEure Wirtschaft ist schlecht bestelltEinsiedlerDes vornehm Gasts mich nicht versahDa kostet von dem Topfe daSatyrosPfui was ist das ein ae GeschmackUnd magrer als ein BettelsackDa droben im Gbirg die wilden ZiegenWenn ich eine bein Hoernern tu kriegenFass mit dem Maul ihre vollen ZitzenTu mir mit Macht die Gurgel bespritzenDas ist bei Gott ein ander WesenEinsiedlerDrum eilt Euch wieder zu genesenSatyrosWas blast Ihr da so in die HandEinsiedlerSeid Ihr nicht mit der Kunst bekanntIch hauch die Fingerspitzen warmSatyrosIhr seid doch auch verteufelt armEinsiedlerNein Herr ich bin gewaltig reichMeinem eignen Mangel helf ich gleichWollt Ihr von Supp und Kraut nicht wasSatyrosDas warm Geschlapp was soll mir dasEinsiedlerSo legt Euch denn einmal zur RuhBringt ein paar Stund mit Schlafen zuWill sehen ob ich nicht etwanFuer Euren Gaum was finden kannEnde des ersten AktsZweiter AktSatyros erwachendDas ist ein HundeLagerstaettEins Missetaeters FolterbettAufliegen hab ich tan meinn RueckenUnd die Unzahl verfluchte MueckenBin kommen in ein garstig LochIn meiner Hoehl da lebt man dochHat Wein im wohlgeschnitzten KrugUnd fette Milch und Kaes genug Kann doch wohl wieder den Fuss betreten Da ist dem Kerl sein Platz zu betenEs tut mir in den Augen wehWenn ich dem Narren seinen Herrgott sehWollt lieber eine Zwiebel anbetenBis mir die Traen in die Augen traetenAls oeffnen meines Herzens SchreinEinem Schnitzbildlein QuerhoelzeleinMir geht in der Welt nichts ueber michDenn Gott ist Gott und ich bin ichIch denk ich schleiche so hinausDer Teufel hol den Herrn vom HausKoennt ich nicht etwa brauchen wasDas Leinwand nu waer so ein SpassDie Maidels laufen so vor mirIch denk ich binds so etwa fuerSeinen Herrgott will ich runter reissenUnd draussen in den Giessbach schmeissenEnde des zweiten AktsDritter AktSatyrosIch bin doch mued s ist hoellisch schwuelDer Brunn der ist so schattenkuehlHier hat mir einen KoenigsthronDer Rasen ja bereitet schonUnd die Lueftelein laden mich allWie lose Buhlen ohne ZahlNatur ist rings so liebebangIch will dich letzen mit Floet und SangZwei Maegdlein mit WasserkruegenArsinoeHoer wies daher so lieblich schalltEs koemmt vom Brunn oder aus m WaldPsycheEs ist kein Knab von unsrer FlurSo singen Himmelsgoetter nurKomm lass uns lauschenArsinoe Mir ist bangPsycheMein Herz ach lechzt nach dem GesangSatyros singtDein Leben Herz fuer wen ergluehtsDein Adlerauge was ersiehtsDir huldigt ringsum die Naturs ist alles deinUnd bist alleinBist elend nurArsinoeDer singt wahrhaftig gar zu schoenPsycheMir will das Herz in meiner Brust vergehnSatyros singtHast Melodie vom Himmel gefuehrtUnd Fels und Wald und Fluss geruehrtUnd wonnlicher war dein Lied der FlurAls SonnescheinUnd bist alleinBist elend nurPsycheWelch goettlich hohes AngesichtArsinoeSiehst denn seine langen Ohren nichtPsycheWie gluehend stark umher er schautArsinoeMoecht drum nicht sein des Wunders BrautSatyrosO Maedchen hold der Erde ZierIch bitt euch fliehet nicht vor mirPsycheWie kommst du an den Brunnen hierSatyrosWoher ich komm kann ich nicht sagenWohin ich geh muesst ihr nicht fragenGebenedeit sind mir die StundenDa ich dich liebes Paar gefundenPsycheO lieber Fremdling sag uns rechtWelch ist dein Nam und dein GeschlechtSatyrosMeine Mutter hab ich nie gekanntHat niemand mir meinn Vater genanntIm fernen Land hoch Berg und WaldIst mein beliebter AufenthaltHab weit und breit meinen Weg genommenPsycheSollt er wohl gar vom Himmel kommenArsinoeVon was o Fremdling lebst du dannSatyrosVom Leben wie ein andrer MannMein ist die ganze weite WeltIch wohne wo mirs wohlgefaelltIch herrsch uebers Wild und VoegelheerFruecht auf der Erden und Fisch im MeerAuch ist aufm ganzen ErdenstrichKein Mensch

Produced by Ted Garvin and PG Distributed ProofreadersAT LOVES COSTBy CHARLES GARVICEAT LOVES COSTCHAPTER 1Until this moment I have never fully realised how great an ass a mancan be When I think that this morning I scurried through what mighthave been a decent breakfast left my comfortable diggings and wascooped up in a train for seven hours that I am now driving in apelting rain through so far as I can see for the mist what appears tobe a howling wilderness I ask myself if I am still in possession of mysenses I ask myself why I should commit such lurid folly Last night Iwas sitting over the fire with a bookfor it was cold though not socold as this the speaker shivered and dragged the collar of hisovercoat still higherat peace with all the world with Omar purringplacidly by my side and my soul wrapped in that serenity which belongsto a man who has long since rid himself of that inconvenientappendagea conscience and has hit upon the right brand ofcigarettes and nowHe paused to sigh to groan indeed and shifted himself uneasily in thewellpadded seat of the luxurious mailphaetonWhen Williams brought me your note vilely writtenwere you soberStaffordblandly asking me to join you in this mad business I smiledto myself as I pitched the note on the fire Omar smiled too the verycigarette smiled I said to myself I would see you blowed first thatnothing would induce me to join you that Id read about the lakes toomuch and too often to venture upon them in the early part of June infact had no desire to see the lakes at any time or under anyconditions I told Omar that I would see you in the lowest pit ofTophet before I would go with you towhatever the name of this placeis And yet here I amThe speaker paused in his complaint to empty a pool water from hismackintosh and succeededin turning it over his own legHe groaned again and continuedAnd yet here I am My dear Stafford I do not wish to upbraid you Iam simply making to myself a confession of weakness which would bepitiable in a stray dog but which in a man of my years with myexperience of the world and reputation for common sense is simplycriminal I do not wish to reproach you I am quite aware that noreproach not even the spectacle of my present misery would touch yourcallous and permit me to frankly add your abominably selfish naturebut I do want to ask quite calmly and without any display of temperwhat the blazes you wanted to come this way round and why you wantedme with youThe speaker a slightly built man just beyond the vague line ofyoung glanced up with his dark somewhat sombre and yet softlycynical eyes at the face of his companion who was driving Thiscompanion was unmistakably young and there was not a trace of cynicismin his greyblue eyes which looked out upon the rain and mist withpleasant cheerfulness He was neither particularly fair nor dark butthere was a touch of brighter colour than usual in his short crisphair and no woman had yet found fault with the moustache or the lipsbeneath And yet though Stafford Ormes face was rather too handsomethan otherwise the signs of weakness which one sees in so manygoodlooking faces did not mar it indeed there was a hint ofstrength not to say sternness in the wellcut lips a glint of powerand masterfulness in the grey eyes and the brows above them whichimpressed one at first sight though when one came to know him theimpression was soon lost effaced by the charm for which Stafford wasfamous and which was perpetually recruiting his army of friendsNo doubt it is easy to be charming when the gods have made you good tolook upon and have filled your pockets with gold into the bargainLife was a pageant of pleasure to Stafford Orme no wonder he sang andsmiled upon the way and had no lack of companionsEven this man beside him Edmund Howard whose name was a byword forcynicism who had never until he had met Stafford Orme gone an inchout of his selfcontained way to please or benefit a fellowman wasthe slave of the young fellows imperious will and though he madeburlesque complaint of his bondage did not in his heart rebel againstitStafford laughed shortly as he looked at the rainswept hills roundwhich the two good horses were taking the wellappointed phaetonOh I knew you would come he said It was just this way You knowthe governor wrote and asked me to come down to this new place of hisat BryndermerePardon me Stafford you forget that I have been down Southwhere Iwish to Heaven I had remainedand that I only returned yesterdayafternoon and that I know nothing of these sudden alarums andexcursions of your esteemed parentAh no so you dont assented Stafford thought Id told you shallhave to tell you now Ill cut it as short as possible He paused fora moment and gently drew the lash of the whip over the wet backs of thetwo horses who were listening intently to the voice of their belovedmaster Well three days ago I got a letter from my father it was along one I think its the first long letter I ever received from himHe informed me that for some time past he has been building a littleplace on the east side of Bryndermere Lake that he thought it would beready by the ninth of this month and would I go downor is itupthere and meet him as he was coming to England and would gostraight there from Liverpool Of course there was not time for me toreply and equally of course I prepared to obey I meant goingstraight down to Bryndermere and I should have done so but two daysago I received a telegram telling me that the place would not be readyand that he would not be there until the eleventh and asking me tofill up the interval by

Produced by David Widger Juliet Sutherland Linda Cantoni and PGDistributed ProofreadersSTOLEN TREASUREBYHOWARD PYLEAuthor of Men of Iron Twilight Land The Wonder Clock Pepper andSaltILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHORMCMVIICONTENTSI WITH THE BUCCANEERSII TOM CHIST AND THE TREASUREBOXIII THE GHOST OF CAPTAIN BRANDIV THE DEVIL AT NEW HOPEILLUSTRATIONSIVE KEPT MY EARS OPEN TO ALL YOUR DOINGSTHIS FIGURE OF WAR OUR HERO ASKED TO STEP ASIDE WITH HIMOUR HERO LEAPING TO THE WHEEL SEIZED THE FLYING SPOKESSHE AND MASTER HARRY WOULD SPEND HOURS TOGETHER AND TWENTYONE AND TWENTYTWOTIS ENOUGH CRIED OUT PARSON JONES TO MAKE US BOTH RICH MENCAPTAIN MALYOE SHOT CAPTAIN BRAND THROUGH THE HEADHE WOULD SHOUT OPPROBRIOUS WORDS AFTER THE OTHER IN THE STREETSSTOLEN TREASUREI WITH THE BUCCANEERS_Being an Account of Certain Adventures that Befell Henry Mostyn underCaptain H Morgan in the Year 166566_IAlthough this narration has more particularly to do with the taking ofthe Spanish ViceAdmiral in the harbor of Puerto Bello and of therescue therefrom of Le Sieur Simon his wife and daughter theadventure of which was successfully achieved by Captain Morgan thefamous buccaneer we shall nevertheless premise something of theearlier history of Master Harry Mostyn whom you may if you pleaseconsider as the hero of the several circumstances recounted in thesepagesIn the year 1664 our heros father embarked from Portsmouth inEngland for the Barbadoes where he owned a considerable sugarplantation Thither to those parts of America he transported withhimself his whole family of whom our Master Harry was the fifth ofeight childrena great lusty fellow as little fitted for the Churchfor which he was designed as could be At the time of this storythough not above sixteen years old Master Harry Mostyn was as big andwellgrown as many a man of twenty and of such a reckless anddaredevil spirit that no adventure was too dangerous or too mischievousfor him to embark uponAt this time there was a deal of talk in those parts of the Americasconcerning Captain Morgan and the prodigious successes he was havingpirating against the SpaniardsThis man had once been an indentured servant with Mr Rolls a sugarfactor at the Barbadoes Having served out his time and being oflawless disposition possessing also a prodigious appetite foradventure he joined with others of his kidney and purchasing acaraval of three guns embarked fairly upon that career of piracy themost successful that ever was heard of in the worldMaster Harry had known this man very well while he was still with MrRolls serving as a clerk at that gentlemans sugar wharf a tallbroadshouldered strapping fellow with red cheeks and thick redlips and rolling blue eyes and hair as red as any chestnut Many knewhim for a bold gruffspoken man but no one at that time suspectedthat he had it in him to become so famous and renowned as he afterwardsgrew to beThe fame of his exploits had been the talk of those parts for above atwelvemonth when in the latter part of the year 1665 Captain Morganhaving made a very successful expedition against the Spaniards into theGulf of Campeachywhere he took several important purchases from theplate fleetcame to the Barbadoes there to fit out another suchventure and to enlist recruitsHe and certain other adventurers had purchased a vessel of some fivehundred tons which they proposed to convert into a pirate by cuttingportholes for cannon and running three or four carronades across hermaindeck The name of this ship be it mentioned was the _GoodSamaritan_ as illfitting a name as could be for such a craft whichinstead of being designed for the healing of wounds was intended toinflict such devastation as those wicked men proposedHere was a piece of mischief exactly fitted to our heros tasteswherefore having made up a bundle of clothes and with not above ashilling in his pocket he made an excursion into the town to seek forCaptain Morgan There he found the great pirate established at anordinary with a little court of ragamuffins and swashbucklers gatheredabout him all talking very loud and drinking healths in raw rum asthough it were sugared waterAnd what a fine figure our buccaneer had grown to be sure Howdifferent from the poor humble clerk upon the sugarwharf What a dealof gold braid What a fine silverhilted Spanish sword What a gayvelvet sling hung with three silvermounted pistols If Master Harrysmind had not been made up before to be sure such a spectacle of glorywould have determined itThis figure of war our hero asked to step aside with him and when theyhad come into a corner proposed to the other what he intended andthat he had a mind to enlist as a gentleman adventurer upon thisexpedition Upon this our rogue of a buccaneer Captain burst outalaughing and fetching Master Harry a great thump upon the back sworeroundly that he would make a man of him and that it was a pity to makea parson out of so good a piece of stuffIllustration THIS FIGURE OF WAR OUR HERO ASKED TO STEP ASIDE WITHHIMNor was Captain Morgan less good than his word for when the _GoodSamaritan_ set sail with a favoring wind for the island of JamaicaMaster Harry found himself established as one of the adventurersaboardIICould you but have seen the town of Port Royal as it appeared in theyear 1665 you would have beheld a sight very well worth while lookingupon There were no fine houses at that time and no greatcountinghouses built of brick such as you may find nowadays but a crowdof board and wattled huts huddled along the streets and all so gay withflags and bits of color that Vanity Fair itself could not have beengayer To this place came all the pirates and buccaneers that infestedthose parts and men shouted and swore and gambled and poured outmoney like water and then maybe wound up their merrymaking by dying offever For the sky in these torrid latitudes is all full of cloudsoverhead and as hot as any blanket and when the sun shone forth itstreamed down upon the smoking sands so that the houses were ovens andthe streets were furnaces so

This etext was produced by Gardner BuchananThe Story of Louis RielThe Rebel Chiefby Joseph Edmond CollinsToronto 1885CHAPTER IAlong the banks of the Red River over those fruitfulplains brightened with wild flowers in summer and sweptwith fierce storms in the wintertime is written thelife story of Louis Riel Chance was not blind when shegave as a field to this mans ambition the plains whereonvengeful Chippewas and ferocious Sioux had waged theirbattles for so many centuries a country dyed so oftenwith blood that at last Red River came to be its nameBut while our task is to present the career of thisapostle of insurrection and unrest stirred as we may beto feelings of horror for the misery the tumult theterror and the blood of which he has been the author wemust not neglect to do him even him the justice whichis his rightHe is not as so many suppose a halfbreed moved bythe vengeful irresponsible savage blood in his veinsMr Edward Jack Footnote I cannot make out what MrJacks views are respecting Riel When I asked him hesimply turned his face toward the sky and made some remarkabout the weather I know that he has strong Frenchproclivities though the blood of a Scottish bailie isin his veins of New Brunswick who is well informed onall Canadian matters hands me some passages which hehas translated from M Tasses book on Canadians in theNorth West and from these I learn that Riels fatherwhose name also was Louis was born at the island ofLa Crosse in the NorthWest Territories This parent wasthe son of Jean Baptiste Riel who was a French Canadianand a native of Berthier _en haut_ His mother thatis the rebels grandmother was a FrancoMontagnaiseMetis From this it will be seen that instead of beinga half breed Louis Riel is only oneeighth Indian oris if we might use the phrase employed in describing amixture of Ethiopian and Caucasian blood an OctoroonNay more than this we have it shown that our rebel canlay claim to no small share of respectability as thatword goes During the summer of 1822 Riels father thenin his fifth year was brought to Canada by his parentswho caused the ceremony of baptism to be performed withmuch show at Berthier In 1838 M Riel _pere_ enteredthe service of the Hudson Bay Company and left LowerCanada where he had been attending school for theNorthWest He was stationed at Rainy Lake but did notcare for his occupation He returned therefore tocivilization and entered as a novice in the community ofthe Oblat Fathers where he remained for two years Therewas a strong yearning for the free wild life of theboundless prairies in this man and Red River with itsherds of roaming buffalo its myriads of duck and geeseand prairie hens began to beckon him home again Hefollowed his impulse and departed joining the Metishunters in their great biennial campaigns against theherds over the rolling prairie Many a buffalo fell uponthe plain with Louis Riels arrow quivering in his flankmany a feast was held around the giant pot at which nohunter received honours so marked as stolid male andoliveskinned brighteyed supple female accorded himSurfeited for the time of the luxury of the limitlessplain Riel took rest and then a girl with the lustrouseyes of Normandy began to smile upon him and to besiegehis heart with all her mysterious force of coquetry Hewas not proof and the hunter soon lay entangled in themeshes of the brown girl of the plains In the autumn of1843 he married her Her name was Julie de Lagimodierea daughter of Jean Baptiste de LagimodiereLouis _pere_ was now engaged as a carder of wool andhaving much ability in contrivance he constructed a littlemodel of a carding mill which with much enthusiasm heexhibited to some officers of the Hudson Bay CompanyBut the Company though having a great body possessedno soul and the disappointed inventor returned to hiswaiting wife with sorrow in his eyes He next betookhimself to the cultivation of a farm upon the banks ofthe little Seine and his good patient wife when theautumn came toiled with him all day with her sickleamong the sheavesTilling the soil proved too laborious and he determinedto erect a grist mill but the stream that ran throughthe clayey channel of the _Seine petite_ was too feebleto turn the ponderous wheels So he was obliged to movetwelve miles to the east where flowed another smallstream bearing the aesthetic name Grease River Thiswas not large enough either for his purposes so withstupendous enterprise he cut a canal nine miles longand through it decoyed the waters of the little Seineinto the arms of the Greasy paramour At this mill wasground the grain that grew for many a mile around andin a little while Louis Riel became known as the mostenterprising and important settler in Red River But hewas not through all his career a man of peace The mostdeadly feud had grown up through many long years betweenthe Hudson Bay Company and the Metis settled upon theirterritory and it is only bald justice to say that thereprisals of the halfbreeds the revolts the hatred ofeverything in official shape were not altogetherundeserved Louis Riel was at the head of many a jarringdiscord How such an unfortunate condition grew we shallsee later on and we may also be able to determine ifthere are any shoulders upon which we can lay blame forthe murder and misery that since have blighted one ofthe fairest portions of CanadaLouis Riel the elder was in due time blessed with a sonthe same about whom it is our painful duty to write thislittle book Estimating at its fullest the value ofeducation the father was keenly anxious for an opportunityto send _Louis fils_ to a school but fortune had notbeen liberal with him in later years though the sweatwas constantly upon his brow and his good wifes fingerswere never still This son had unusual precocity andstrangers who looked upon him used to say that a greatfire slumbered in his eye He was bright quick andpiquant and it is

Produced by Dave Morgan and the Online Distributed Proofreading TeamIllustration _Daniel Drayton_PERSONAL MEMOIR Of DANIEL DRAYTONFor Four Years And Four MonthsA PRISONER FOR CHARITYS SAKE IN WASHINGTON JAILIncluding A Narrative Of TheVOYAGE AND CAPTURE OF THE SCHOONER PEARL We hold these truths to be selfevident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life _liberty_ and the pursuit of happinessDECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE1855Entered according to Act of Congress In the year 1853 byDANIEL DRAYTONIn the Clerks Office of the District Court of the District ofMassachusettsADVERTISEMENTConsidering the large share of the public attention which the case ofthe schooner Pearl attracted at the time of its occurrence perhaps thefollowing narrative of its origin and of its consequences to himselfby the principal actor in it may not be without interest It is properto state that a large share of the profits of the sale are secured toCaptain Drayton the state of whose health incapacitates him from anylaborious employmentMEMOIRI was born in the year 1802 in Cumberland County Downs Township inthe State of New Jersey on the shores of Nantuxet Creek not far fromDelaware Bay into which that creek flows My father was a farmernota very profitable occupation in that barren part of the country Mymother was a widow at the time of her marriage with my father havingthree children by a former husband By my father she had six more ofwhom I was the youngest but one She was a woman of strong mind andmarked character a zealous member of the Methodist church andalthough I had the misfortune to lose her at an early age herinstructionsthough the effect was not apparent at the momentmade adeep impression on my youthful mind and no doubt had a very sensibleinfluence over my future lifeJust previous to or during the war with Great Britain my fatherremoved still nearer to the shore of the bay and the sight of thevessels passing up and down inspired me with a desire to follow the lifeof a waterman but it was some years before I was able to gratify thiswish I well remember the alarm created in our neighborhood by theincursions of the British vessels up the bay during the war and thatat these times the women of the neighborhood used to collect at ourhouse as if looking up to my mother for counsel and guidanceI was only twelve years old when this good mother died but so strongwas the impression which she left upon my memory that amid thestruggles and dangers and cares of my subsequent life I have seldomclosed my eyes to sleep without some thought or image of herAs my father soon after married another widow with four small childrenit became necessary to make room in the house for their accommodationand with a younger brother of mine I was bound out an apprentice in acotton and woollen factory at a place called Cedarville Manufactureswere just then beginning to be introduced into the country and greathopes were entertained of them as a profitable business Myemployeror bos as we called himhad formerly been a schoolmasterand he did not wholly neglect our instructions in other things besidescottonspinning Of this I stood greatly in need for there were nopublic schools in the neighborhood in which I was born and my parentshad too many children to feed and clothe to be able to pay much forschooling We were required on Sundays by our employer to learn twolessons one in the forenoon the other in the afternoon after recitingwhich we were left at liberty to roam at our pleasure Winter eveningswe worked in the factory till nine oclock after which and beforegoing to bed we were required to recite over one of our lessons Theseadvantages of education were not great but even these I soon lostWithin five months from the time I was bound to him my employer diedThe factories were then sold out to three partners The one who carriedon the cottonspinning took me but he soon gave up the business andwent back to farming which had been his original occupation I remainedwith him for a year and a half or thereabouts when my father bound meout apprentice to a shoemakerMy new bos was in some respects a remarkable man but not a very goodsort of one for a boy to be bound apprentice to He paid very littleattention to his business which he seemed to think unworthy of hisgenius He was a kindhearted man fond of company and frolics in whichhe indulged himself freely and much given to speeches and harangues inwhich he had a good deal of fluency In religion he professed to be aUniversalist holding to doctrines and opinions very different fromthose which my mother had instilled into me He ridiculed thoseopinions and argued against them but without converting me to his wayof thinking though as far as practice went I was ready enough toimitate his example My Sundays were spent principally in tavernsplaying at dominos which then was and still is a favorite game inthat part of the country and as the unsuccessful party was expected totreat I at times ran up a bill at the bar as high as four or sixdollarsno small indebtedness for a young apprentice with no moremeans than I hadAs I grew older this method of living grew less and less satisfactoryto me and as I saw that no good of any kind not even a knowledge ofthe trade he had undertaken to teach me was to be got of my presentbos I bought my time of him and went to work with another man to payfor it Before I had succeeded in doing that and while I was not yetnineteen I took upon myself the still further responsibility ofmarriage This was a step into which I was led rather by the impulse ofyouthful passion than by any thoughtful foresight Yet it had at leastthis advantage that it obliged me

Produced by Jon Ingram David King and the Online DistributedProofreading TeamThe Crisis of theNaval WarByADMIRAL OF THE FLEETVISCOUNT JELLICOE OF SCAPAGCB OM GCVO_With 8 Plates and 6 Charts_1920CONTENTSCHAPTER1 ADMIRALTY ORGANIZATION THE CHANGES IN 19172 SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN IN THE EARLY PART OF 19173 ANTISUBMARINE OPERATIONS4 THE INTRODUCTION OF THE CONVOY SYSTEM5 THE CONVOY SYSTEM AT WORK6 THE ENTRY OF THE UNITED STATES OUR NAVAL POLICY EXPLAINED7 PATROL CRAFT AND MINESWEEPING SERVICES8 THE DOVER PATROL AND THE HARWICH FORCES9 THE SEQUEL10 PRODUCTION AT THE ADMIRALTY DURING 191711 NAVAL WORK12 THE FUTUREINDEXLIST OF PLATESA Mine ExplodingA German Submarine of the UC TypeA German Submarine of the later Cruiser ClassA Smoke Screen for a ConvoyThe Dummy Deckhouse of a Decoy ShipA Convoy ZigzaggingA Convoy with an AirshipDrifters at SeaA Paddle MinesweeperA German Mine on the SurfaceTwo Depth Charges after ExplosionThe Telltale Oil PatchA Submarine SubmergingPeriscope of Submerged Submarine Travelling at Slow SpeedA Submarine SubmergedLIST OF CHARTSCONTAINED IN THE POCKET AT THE END OF THE BOOKA Approach Areas and Typical RoutesB Typical Approach LinesC Barred Zones Proclaimed by the GermansD Patrol Areas British IslesE Patrol and Minesweeping Zones in the MediterraneanF Showing French and British Ports within Range of theGerman Bases at Ostend and Zeebrugge To The Officers and Men of our Convoy Escort Patrol and Minesweeping Vessels and their Comrades of the Mercantile Marine by whose splendid gallantry heroic selfsacrifice and unflinching endurance the submarine danger was defeatedINTRODUCTIONOwing to the peculiar nature and demands of naval warfare but fewdispatches corresponding to those describing the work and achievementsof our great armies were issued during the progress of the war In aformer volume I attempted to supply this defect in the historicalrecords which will be available for future generations so far as theGrand Fleet was concerned during my period as its CommanderinChiefThe present volume which was commenced and nearly completed in 1918was to have been published at the same time My departure on a Navalmission early in 1919 prevented me however from putting the finishingtouches to the manuscript until my return this springI hesitated as to the publication of this portion of what is in effectone complete narrative but eventually decided not to depart from myoriginal purpose There is some reason to believe that the account ofthe work of the Grand Fleet gave the nation a fuller conception of theservices which the officers and men of that force rendered incircumstances which were necessarily not easily appreciated by landsmenThis second volume dealing with the defeat of the enemys submarinecampaign the gravest peril which ever threatened the population of thiscountry as well as of the whole Empire may not be unwelcome as astatement of facts They have been set down in order that the sequenceand significance of events may be understood and that the nation mayappreciate the debt which it owes in particular to the seamen of theRoyal Navy and the Mercantile Marine who kept the seas during theunforgettable days of the intensive campaignThis book therefore gives the outline of the work accomplished by theNavy in combating the unrestricted submarine warfare instituted by theCentral Powers in February 1917 It would have been a labour of love totell at greater length and in more detail how the menace was graduallyovercome by the gallantry endurance and strenuous work of those servingafloat in ships flying the White or the Red Ensigns but I had not thenecessary materials at my disposal for such an exhaustive recordThe volume is consequently largely concerned with the successive stepstaken at the Admiralty to deal with a situation which was alwaysserious and which at times assumed a very grave aspect The ultimateresult of all Naval warfare must naturally rest with those who areserving afloat but it is only just to the Naval officers and others whodid such fine work at the Admiralty in preparing for the sea effortthat their share in the Navys final triumph should be known Thewriting of this book appeared also to be the only way in which I couldshow my keen appreciation of the loyalty and devotion to duty of theNaval Staff of the many clever ingenious and audacious schemesdeveloped and carried through for the destruction of submarines and thesafeguarding of oceanborne trade and of the skilful organization whichbrought into being and managed with such success that great network ofconvoys by which the sea communications of the Allies were kept openThe volume shows how the officers who accompanied me to the Admiraltyfrom the Grand Fleet at the end of 1916 in association with thosealready serving in Whitehall and others who joined in 1917 with thenecessary and valuable assistance of our comrades of the MercantileMarine gradually produced the measures by which the Sea Serviceconquered the gravest danger which has ever faced the EmpireThere were at times inevitable setbacks as the enemy gained experienceof our methods and new ones had then to be devised and we were alwaysmost seriously handicapped by the strain imposed upon the Fleet by ournumerous military and other commitments overseas and by the difficultyof obtaining supplies of material owing to the preoccupation of ourindustries in meeting the needs of our Armies in equipment andmunitions but generally speaking it may be said that in April 1917the losses reached their maximum and that from the following month andonwards the battle was being slowly but gradually won By the end of theyear it was becoming apparent that success was assuredThe volume describes the changes carried out in the Admiralty Stafforganization the position of affairs in regard to submarine warfare inthe early part of 1917 and the numerous antisubmarine measures whichwere

Produced by Suzanne Shell Gary Toffelmire Greg Dunham and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team The Powers and Maxine _By CN and AM Williamson_ Author of The Princess Virginia My Friend the Chauffeur The Car of Destiny The Princess Passes Lady Betty Across the Water Etc Copyright 1907 by CN and AM Williamson _With Illustrations By FRANK T MERRILL_ CONTENTS CHAPTER I LISAS KNIGHT AND LISAS SISTER II LISA LISTENS III LISA MAKES MISCHIEF IV IVOR TRAVELS TO PARIS V IVOR DOES WHAT HE CAN FOR MAXINE VI IVOR HEARS THE STORY VII IVOR IS LATE FOR AN APPOINTMENT VIII MAXINE ACTS ON THE STAGE AND OFF IX MAXINE GIVES BACK THE DIAMONDS X MAXINE DRIVES WITH THE ENEMY XI MAXINE OPENS THE GATE FOR A MAN XII IVOR GOES INTO THE DARK XIII IVOR FINDS SOMETHING IN THE DARK XIV DIANA TAKES A MIDNIGHT DRIVE XV DIANA HEARS NEWS XVI DIANA UNDERTAKES A STRANGE ERRAND XVII MAXINE MAKES A BARGAIN XVIII MAXINE MEETS DIANA XIX MAXINE PLAYS THE LAST HAND OF THE GAMELISA DRUMMONDS PARTThe Powers and MaxineCHAPTER ILISAS KNIGHT AND LISAS SISTERIt had come at last the moment I had been thinking about for days Iwas going to have him all to myself the only person in the world I everlovedHe had asked me to sit out two dances and that made me think he reallymust want to be with me not just because Im the pretty girlssister but because Im myself Lisa DrummondBeing what I amqueer and plain I cant bear to think that men likegirls for their beauty yet I cant help liking men better if they arehandsomeI dont know if Ivor Dundas is the handsomest man I ever saw but heseems so to me I dont know if he is very good or really verywonderful although hes clever and ambitious enough but he has a waythat makes women fond of him and men admire him too He looks straightinto your eyes when he talks to you as if he cared more for you thananyone else in the world and if I were an artist painting a picture ofa dark young knight starting off for the crusades I should ask IvorDundas to stand as my modelPerhaps his expression wouldnt be exactly right for the pious youngcrusader for it isnt at all saintly really still I have seen justthat rapt sort of look on his face It was generally when he was talkingto Di but I wouldnt let myself believe that it meant anything inparticular He has the reputation of having made lots of women fall inlove with him This was one of the first things I heard when Di and Icame over from America to visit Lord and Lady Mountstuart And of coursethere was the story about him and Maxine de Renzie Everyone was talkingof it when we first arrived in LondonMy heart beat very fast as I guided him into the room which LadyMountstuart has given Di and me for our special den It is separated byanother larger room from the ballroom but both doors were open and wecould see people dancingI told him he might sit by me on the sofa under Dis book shelvesbecause we could talk better there Usually I dont like being in frontof a mirror becausewell because Im only the pretty girls sisterBut tonight I didnt mind My cheeks were red and my eyes brightSitting down you might almost take me for a tall girl and the way mygown was made didnt show that one shoulder is a little higher than theother Di designed the dressI thought if I wasnt pretty I did look interesting and original Ilooked as if I could _think_ of things and as if I could feelAnd I was feeling I was wondering why he had been so good to me latelyunless he cared Of course it might be for Dis sake but I am not soqueerlooking that no man could ever be fascinated by meThey say pity is akin to love Perhaps he had begun by pitying mebecause Di has everything and I nothing and then afterwards he hadfound out that I was intelligent and sympatheticHe sat by me and didnt speak at first Just then Di passed thefaraway open door of the ballroom dancing with Lord Robert West theDuke of Glasgows brotherThank you so much for the book I saidHe had sent me a book that morningone hed heard me say I wantedHe didnt seem to hear and then he turned suddenly with one of hisnice smiles I always think he has the nicest smile in the world andcertainly he has the nicest voice His eyes looked very kind and alittle sad I willed him hard to love meIt made me happy to get it I went onIt made me happy to send it he saidDoes it please you to do things for me I askedWhy of courseYou do like poor little me a tiny bit then I couldnt helpaddingEven though Im different from other girlsPerhaps more for that reason he said with his voice as kind as hiseyesOh what shall I do if you go away I burst out partly because Ireally meant it and partly because I hoped it might lead him on to saywhat I wanted so much to hear Suppose you get that consulship atAlgiersI hope I may he said quickly A consulship isnt a very greatthingbutits a beginning I want it badlyI wish I had some influence with the Foreign Secretary said I nottelling him that the man actually dislikes me and looks at me as if Iwere a toad Of course hes Lord Mountstuarts cousin andbrotherinlaw as well and that makes him seem quite in the familydoesnt it But it isnt as if I were really related to LadyMountstuart I was never sorry before that Di and

Produced by An Anonymous VolunteerTHE RULING PASSIONby Henry van DykeA WRITERS REQUEST OF HIS MASTERLet me never tag a moral to a story nor tell a story without a meaningMake me respect my material so much that I dare not slight my work Helpme to deal very honestly with words and with people because they areboth alive Show me that as in a river so in a writing clearness isthe best quality and a little that is pure is worth more than much thatis mixed Teach me to see the local colour without being blind to theinner light Give me an ideal that will stand the strain of weaving intohuman stuff on the loom of the real Keep me from caring more for booksthan for folks for art than for life Steady me to do my full stint ofwork as well as I can and when that is done stop me pay what wagesThou wilt and help me to say from a quiet heart a grateful AMENPREFACEIn every life worth writing about there is a ruling passionthe verypulse of the machine Unless you touch that you are groping aroundoutside of realitySometimes it is romantic love Natures masterpiece of interestedbenevolence In almost all lives this passion has its season of empireTherefore and rightly it is the favourite theme of the storytellerRomantic love interests almost everybody because almost everybody knowssomething about it or would like to knowBut there are other passions no less real which also have their placeand power in human life Some of them come earlier and sometimes theylast longer than romantic love They play alongside of it and are mixedup with it now checking it now advancing its flow and tingeing it withtheir own colourJust because love is so universal it is often to one of the otherpassions that we must look for the distinctive hue the individualquality of a lifestory Granted if you will that everybody must fallin love or ought to fall in love How will he do it And what willhe do afterwards These are questions not without interest to one whowatches the human drama as a friend The answers depend upon thosehidden and durable desires affections and impulses to which men andwomen give themselves up for rule and guidanceMusic nature children honour strife revenge money pridefriendship loyalty dutyto these objects and others like them thesecret power of personal passion often turns and the life unconsciouslyfollows it as the tides in the sea follow the moon in the skyWhen circumstances cross the ruling passion when rocks lie in the wayand winds are contrary then things happen characters emerge slightevents are significant mere adventures are transformed into a realplot What care I how many hairbreadth scapes and moving accidentsyour hero may pass through unless I know him for a man He is buta puppet strung on wires His kisses are wooden and his wounds bleedsawdust There is nothing about him to remember except his name andperhaps a bit of dialect Kill him or crown himwhat difference doesit makeBut go the other way about your work Take the least man of all mankind as I Look at his head and heart find how and why He differs from his fellows utterlyand now there is something to tell with a meaningIf you tell it at length it is a novela painting If you tell it inbrief it is a short storyan etching But the subject is always thesame the unseen mysterious ruling passion weaving the stuff of humannature into patterns wherein the soul is imaged and revealedTo tell about some of these ruling passions simply clearly andconcretely is what I want to do in this book The characters arechosen for the most part among plain people because their feelingsare expressed with fewer words and greater truth not being costumed forsocial effect The scene is laid on Natures stage because I like to beoutofdoors even when I am trying to think and learning to writeAvalon Princeton July 22 1901CONTENTS I A Lover of Music II The Reward of Virtue III A Brave Heart IV The Gentle Life V A Friend of Justice VI The White Blot VII A Year of Nobility VIII The Keeper of the LightI A LOVER OF MUSICIHe entered the backwoods village of Bytown literally on the wings of thewind It whirled him along like a big snowflake and dropped him at thedoor of Moodys Sportsmens Retreat as if he were a New Years giftfrom the North Pole His coming seemed a mere chance but perhaps therewas something more in it after all At all events you shall hear ifyou will the time and the manner of his arrivalIt was the last night of December some thirtyfive years ago All thecity sportsmen who had hunted the deer under Bill Moodys direction hadlong since retreated to their homes leaving the little settlementon the border of the Adirondack wilderness wholly under the socialdirection of the nativesThe annual ball was in full swing in the diningroom of the hotel Atone side of the room the tables and chairs were piled up with theirlegs projecting in the air like a thicket of very dead treesThe huge stove in the southeast corner was blushing a rosy red throughits thin coat of whitewash and exhaling a furious dry heat flavouredwith the smell of baked iron At the north end however winter reignedand there were tiny ridges of fine snow on the floor sifted in by thewind through the cracks in the windowframesBut the bouncing girls and the heavyfooted guides and lumbermen whofilled the ballroom did not appear to mind the heat or the cold Theybalanced and sashayed from the tropics to the arctic circle Theyswung at corners and made

Produced by Afra Ullah Leonard D Johnson and PG Distributed ProofreadersPRACTICEBOOKLELAND POWERS SCHOOL1909IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT My gratitude to publishers who have generously permitted the reprinting ofcopyrighted selections I would here publicly express To Little Brown Company I am indebted for the use of the extract called Eloquence whichis taken from a discourse by Daniel Webster to Small Maynard Companyfor the poem A Conservative taken from a volume by Mrs Gilmanentitled In This Our World to the Lothrop Lee Shepard Company forthe poems by Mr Burton and to Longmans Green Company for the extractsfrom the works of John Ruskin The selections from Sill and Emerson areused by permission of and by special arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Company publishers of their worksThe quotations under the headings Exercises for Elemental VocalExpression and Exercises for Transition with a few exceptions aretaken from The Sixth Reader by the late Lewis B Monroe and are herereprinted through the courtesy of the American Book CompanyLELAND POWERSINDEX ACROSS THE FIELDS TO ANNE _Richard Burton_BROOK THE _Alfred Lord Tennyson_CAVALIER TUNES _Robert Browning_ I Give a Rouse II Boot and SaddleCOLUMBUS _Joaquin Miller_COMING OF ARTHUR THE _Alfred Lord Tennyson_CONSERVATIVE A _Charlotte Perkins Gilman_EACH AND ALL _Ralph Waldo Emerson_ELAINE _Alfred Lord Tennyson_ELOQUENCE _Daniel Webster_EXERCISES FOR ELEMENTAL VOCAL EXPRESSIONEXERCISES FOR TRANSITIONFEZZIWIG BALL THE _Charles Dickens_FIVE LIVES _Edward Rowland Sill_GREEN THINGS GROWING _Dinah Mulock Craik_HERVE RIEL _Robert Browning_IF WE HAD THE TIME _Richard Burton_LADY OF SHALOTT THE _Alfred Lord Tennyson_LAUGHING CHORUS ALIFE AND SONG _Sidney Lanier_LOCHINVAR _Sir Walter Scott_MONT BLANC BEFORE SUNRISE _ST Coleridge_MY LAST DUCHESS _Robert Browning_MY STAR _Robert Browning_PIPPA PASSES Extracts from _Robert Browning_ I Day II The Years at SpringRHODORA THE _Ralph Waldo Emerson_RING AND THE BOOK THE Extract from _Robert Browning_SCENE FROM DAVID COPPERFIELD I _Charles Dickens_SCENE FROM DAVID COPPERFIELD II _Charles Dickens_SCENE FROM KING HENRY IVFalstaffs Recruits _William Shakespeare_SCENE FROM THE SHAUGHRAUN _Boucicault_SELFRELIANCE _Ralph Waldo Emerson_TALE THEFrom The Two Poets of Croisic _Robert Browning_TRUE USE OF WEALTH THE _John Ruskin_TRUTH AT LAST _Edward Rowland Sill_WORK _John Ruskin_EXERCISES FOR ELEMENTAL VOCAL EXPRESSIONThe exercises under each chapter have _primarily_ the characteristicsof that chapter and _secondarily_ the characteristics of the othertwo chaptersCHAPTER IVITALITYMIND ACTIVITIES DOMINATED BY A CONSCIOUSNESS OF _Power LargenessFreedom Animation Movement_1 Ho strike the flagStaff deep Sir Knightho scatter flowers fair maids Ho gunners fire a loud saluteho gallants draw your blades 2 Awake Sir King the gates unspar Rise up and ride both fast and far The sea flows over bolt and bar 3 I would call upon all the true sons of New England to cooperate withthe laws of man and the justice of heaven 4 Robert of Sicily brother of Pope Urbane And Volmond emperor of Allemaine Apparelled in magnificent attire With retinue of many a knight and squire On St Johns eve at vespers proudly sat And heard the priest chant the Magnificat 5 Then the master With a gesture of command Waved his hand And at the word Loud and sudden there was heard All around them and below The sound of hammers blow on blow Knocking away the shores and spurs And see she stirs She startsshe movesshe seems to feel The thrill of life along her keel And spurning with her foot the ground With one exulting joyous bound She leaps into the oceans arms 6 Under his spurning feet the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed And the landscape sped away behind Like an ocean flying before the wind 7 The wind one morning sprang up from sleep Saying Now for a frolic now for a leap Now for a madcap galloping chase Ill make a commotion in every place

Produced by Distributed ProofreadersMERCY PHILBRICKS CHOICE1876I_To one who found us on a starless nightAll helpless groping in a dangerous wayWhere countless treacherous hidden pitfalls layAnd seeing all our peril flashed a lightTo show to our bewildered blinded sightBy one swift clear and piercing rayThe safe sure pathwhat words could reach the heightOf our great thankfulness And yet at mostThe most he saved was this poor paltry lifeOf flesh which is so little worth its costWhich eager sows but may not stay to reapAnd so soon breathless with the strain and strifeIts work halfdone exhausted falls asleep_II_But unto him who finds mens souls astrayIn night that they know not is night at allWalking with reckless feet where they may fallEach moment into deadlier deaths than slayThe fleshto him whose truth can rend awayFrom such lost souls their moral nights black pallOh unto him what words can hearts recallWhich their deep gratitude finds fit to sayNo words but theseand these to him are bestThat henceforth like a quenchless vestal flameHis words of truth shall burn on Truths pure shrineHis memory be truth worshipped and confessedOur gratitude and love the priestess lineWho serve before Truths altar in his name_Mercy Philbricks ChoiceChapter IIt was late in the afternoon of a November day The sky had worn all daythat pale leaden gray color which is depressing even to the leastsensitive of souls Now at sunset a dull red tint was slowly stealingover the west but the gray cloud was too thick for the sun to pierce andthe struggle of the crimson color with the unyielding sky only made theheavens look more stern and pitiless than beforeStephen White stood with his arms folded leaning on the gate which shutoff but seemed in no wise to separate the front yard of the house inwhich he lived from the public highway There is something always patheticin the attempt to enforce the idea of seclusion and privacy by building afence around houses only ten or twelve feet away from the public road andonly forty or fifty feet from each other Rows of picketed palings andgates with latches and locks seem superfluous when the passerby canlook if he likes into the very centre of your sittingroom and yourneighbors on the right hand and on the left can overhear every word yousay on a summer night where windows are openOne cannot walk through the streets of a New England village withoutbeing impressed by a sense of this futile semblance of barrier thistouching effort at withdrawal and reticence Often we see the tacitrecognition of its uselessness in an old gate shoved back to its farthestand left standing so till the very grass roots have embanked themselves oneach side of it and it can never again be closed without digging away thesods in which it is wedged The gate on which Stephen White was leaninghad stood open in that way for years before Stephen rented the house hadstood open in fact ever since old Billy Jacobs the owner of the househad been carried out of it dead in a coffin so wide that at first thebearers had thought it could not pass through the gate but by huddlingclose three at the head and three at the feet they managed to tug theheavy old man through without taking down the palings This was so longago that now there was nobody left who remembered Billy Jacobs distinctlyexcept his widow who lived in a poor little house on the outskirts of thetown her only income being that derived from the renting of the largehouse in which she had once lived in comfort with her husband and sonThe house was a double house and for a few years Billy Jacobss twinbrother a sea captain had lived in the other half of it But Mrs Billycould not abide Mrs John and so with a big heart wrench the twobrothers who loved each other as only twin children can love hadseparated Captain John took his wife and went to sea again The ship wasnever heard of and to the day of Billy Jacobss death he never forgavehis wife In his heart he looked upon her as his brothers murderer Verymuch like the perpetual presence of a ghost under her roof it must havebeen to the woman also the unbroken silence of those untenanted roomsand that never opened door on the left side of her hall which she mustpass whenever she went in or out of her house There were those who saidthat she was never seen to look towards that door and that whenever anoise as of a rat in the wall or a blind creaking in the wind came fromthat side of the house Mrs Billy turned white and shuddered Well shemight It is a fearful thing to have lying on ones heart in this life theconsciousness that one has been ever so innocently the occasion if notthe cause of a fellowcreatures turning aside into the path which wasdestined to take him to his deathThe very next day after Billy Jacobss funeral his widow left the houseShe sold all the furniture except what was absolutely necessary for avery meagre outfitting of the little cottage into which she moved Themiserly habit of her husband seemed to have suddenly fallen on her like amantle Her life shrank and dwindled in every possible way she almoststarved herself and her boy although the rent of her old homestead wasquite enough to make them comfortable In a few years to complete thepoor womans misery her son ran away and went to sea The seafarersstories which his Uncle John had told him when he was a little childhad never left his mind and the drearier his mother made life for him onland the more longingly he dwelt on his fancies of life at sea till atlast when he was only fifteen he disappeared one day leaving a notenot for his mother but for his Sundayschool teacherthe only humanbeing he loved This young woman carried the note to Mrs Jacobs She readit made no comment

Produced by Jonathan Ingram Tapio Riikonen and PG DistributedProofreadersA COLLECTION OF OLD ENGLISH PLAYS VOL IIIIn Four VolumesEdited byAH BULLEN18821889CONTENTSPrefaceSir Gyles GoosecappeThe Wisdome of Dr DodypollThe Distracted EmperorThe Tryall of ChevalryFootnotesPREFACEI have not been able to give in the present volume the unpublished playof Heywoods to which I referred in the Preface to Vol I When I cameto transcribe the play I found myself baffled by the villanous scrawlBut I hope that with the assistance of some expert in old handwritingI may succeed in procuring an accurate transcript of the piece for thefourth volumeOne of the plays here presented to the reader is printed for the firsttime and the others have not been reprinted I desire to thank ALFREDHENRY HUTH Esq for the loan of books from his magnificent collectionIt is pleasant to acknowledge an obligation when the favour has beenbestowed courteously and ungrudgingly To my friend FG FLEAY Esq Icannnot adequately express my gratitude for the great trouble that hehas taken in reading all the proofsheets and for his many valuablesuggestions Portions of the former volume were not seen by him in theproof and to this cause must be attributed the presence of some slightbut annoying misprints One serious fault not a misprint occurs in thefirst scene of the first Act of _Barnavelts Tragedy_ p 213 In themargin of the corrected proof opposite the lines And you shall find that the desire of glory Was the last frailty wise men ere putt ofI wrote That last infirmity of noble mindsa misquotation from _Lycidas_ The words were written in pencil andenclosed in brackets I was merely drawing Mr FLEAYS attention to thesimilarity of expression between Miltons words and the playwrightsbut by some unlucky chance my marginal pencilling was imported into thetext I now implore the reader to expunge the line On p 116 l 12 inthe same volume for _with_ read _witt_ p 125 l 2 for _He_ read_Ile_ p 128 l 18 for _pardue_ read _perdue_ p 232 for _Is_ read_In_ p 272 l 3 for _baste_ read _haste_ p 336 l 6 the speakershould evidently be not _Do_ the reading of the MS but _Sis_ and_noble Sir Richard_ should be _noble Sir Francis_ p 422 l 12 delcomma between _Gaston_ and _Paris_ Some literal errors may perhapsstill have escaped me but such words as _anottomye_ for _anatomy_ or_dietie_ for _deity_ must not be classed as misprints They arerecognised though erroneous forms and instances of their occurrencewill be given in the Index to Vol IV5 WILLOW ROAD HAMPSTEAD NWJanuary 24 1884INTRODUCTION TO SIR GYLES GOOSECAPPEThis clever though somewhat tedious comedy was published anonymouslyin 1606 There is no known dramatic writer of that date to whom it couldbe assigned with any great degree of probability The comic portionshows clearly the influence of Ben Jonson and there is much to remindone of Lylys courtcomedies In the serious scenes the philosophisingand moralising at one time expressed in language of inarticulateobscurity and at another attaining clear and dignified utterancesuggest a study of Chapman The unknown writer might have taken as hismotto a passage in the dedication of Ovids _Banquet of Sense_Obscurity in affection of words and indigested conceits is pedanticaland childish but where it shroudeth itself in the heart of his subjectuttered with fitness of figure and expressive epithets with thatdarkness will I still labour to be shrouded Chapmans _GentlemanUsher_ was published in the same year as _Sir Gyles Goosecappe_ and Iventure to think that in a passage of Act III Scene II our authorhad in his mind the exquisite scene between the wounded Strozza and hiswife Cynanche In Strozzas discourse on the joys of marriage occurthese lines If he lament she melts herselfe in teares If he be glad she triumphs if he stirre She moons his way in all things his _sweete Ape_The charming fitness of the expression sweet ape would impress anycapable reader I cannot think that by mere accident the anonymouswriter lighted on the same words Doe women bring no helpe of soule to men Why friend they either are mens soules themselves Or the most witty imitatrixes of them Or prettiest _sweet apes_ of humane soulesFrom a reference to Queen Elizabeth in Act I Scene I it is clearthat _Sir Gyles Goosecappe_ was written not later than 1603 The lines Ihave quoted may have been added later or our author may have seen the_Gentleman Usher_ in manuscriptChapmans influence is again _me judice_ apparent in the eloquent butsomewhat strained language of such a passage as the following Alas my noble Lord he is not rich Nor titles hath nor in his tender cheekes The standing lake of _Impudence_ corrupts Hath nought in all the world nor nought wood have To grace him in the prostituted light But if a man wood consort with a soule Where all mans sea of gall and bitternes Is quite evaporate with her holy flames And in whose powers a Dovelike innocence Fosters her own deserts and life and death Runnes hand in hand before them all the skies Cleare and transparent to her piercing eyes Then wood my friend be something but till then A _cipher_ nothing or the worst of men_Sir Gyles Goosecappe_ is the work of one who had chosen the fallentissemita vitae who was more at home in Academic cloisters than in thecrowded highways of the world None of the characters bears anyimpression of having been drawn from actual life The plot is of thethinnest possible texture but the fire of verbal quibbles is kept upwith lively ingenuity and plenty of merriment may be drawn from thehumours of

Produced by David WidgerSHIPS COMPANYBy WW JacobsFRIENDS IN NEEDR Joseph Gibbs finished his halfpint in the private bar of the Red Lionwith the slowness of a man unable to see where the next was coming fromand placing the mug on the counter filled his pipe from a small paperof tobacco and shook his head slowly at his companionsFirst Ive ad since ten oclock this morning he said in a hardvoiceCheer up said Mr George BrownIt cant go on for ever said Bob Kidd encouraginglyAll I ask foris work said Mr Gibbs impressively Not slaverymind yer but workIts rather difficult to distinguish said Mr BrownSpecially for some people added Mr KiddGo on said Mr Gibbs gloomily Go on Stand a man arf a pint andthen go and hurt is feelings Twice yesterday I wondered to myself whatit would feel like to make a hole in the waterLots o chaps do do it said Mr Brown musinglyAnd leave their wives and families to starve said Mr Gibbs icilyVery often the wife is better off said his friend Its one mouthless for her to feed Besides she genrally gets something When poreold Bill went they ad a Friendly Lead at the Kings Head and got hismissis pretty nearly seventeen poundsAnd I believe wed get more than that for your old woman said MrKidd Theres no kids and she could keep erself easy Not that Iwant to encourage you to make away with yourselfMr Gibbs scowled and tilting his mug peered gloomily into theinteriorJoe wont make no ole in the water said Mr Brown wagging his headIf it was beer nowMr Gibbs turned and drawing himself up to five feet three surveyed thespeaker with an offensive stareI dont see why he need make a ole in anything said Mr Kidd slowlyIt ud do just as well if we said he ad Then we could pass the hatround and share itDivide it into three halves and each ave one said Mr Brown noddingbut ow is it to be doneAve some more beer and think it over said Mr Kidd pale withexcitement Three pints pleaseHe and Mr Brown took up their pints and nodded at each other MrGibbs toying idly with the handle of his eyed them carefully MindIm not promising anything he said slowly Understand I aintacommitting of myself by drinking this ere pintYou leave it to me Joe said Mr KiddMr Gibbs left it to him after a discussion in which pints played apersuasive part with the result that Mr Brown sitting in the same barthe next evening with two or three friends was rudely disturbed by thecyclonic entrance of Mr Kidd who dripping with water sank on a benchand breathed heavilyWhats up Whats the matter demanded several voicesIts Joepoor Joe Gibbs said Mr Kidd I was on Smiths wharfshifting that lighter to the next berth and o course Joe must comeaboard to help He was shoving her off with is foot whenHe broke off and shuddered and accepting a mug of beer pending thearrival of some brandy that a sympathizer had ordered drank it slowlyIt all appened in a flash he said looking round By the time I adrun round to his end he was just going down for the third time I hungover the side and grabbed at im and his collar and tie came off in myhand Nearly went in I didHe held out the collar and tie and approving notice was taken of thefact that he was soaking wet from the top of his head to the middlebutton of his waistcoatPore chap said the landlord leaning over the bar He was in ereonly arf an hour ago standing in this very barWell hes ad his last drop o beer said a carman in a chastenedvoiceThats more than anybody can say said the landlord sharply I neverheard anything against the man hes led a good life so far as I knowand ow can we tell that he wont ave beerHe made Mr Kidd a present of another small glass of brandyHe didnt leave any family did he he inquired as he passed it overOnly a wife said Mr Kidd and whos to tell that pore soul I dontknow She fair doated on im Ow shes to live I dont know I shalldo what I can for erSame ere said Mr Brown in a deep voiceSomething ought to be done for er said the carman as he went outFirst thing is to tell the police said the landlord They ought toknow then praps one of themll tell her Its what theyre paid forIts so awfully sudden I dont know where I am ardly said Mr KiddI dont believe shes got a pennypiece in the ouse Pore Joe ad alot o pals I wonder whether we couldnt get up something for herGo round and tell the police first said the landlord pursing up hislips thoughtfully We can talk about that later onMr Kidd thanked him warmly and withdrew accompanied by Mr BrownTwenty minutes later they left the station considerably relieved at thematteroffact way in which the police had received the tidings andhurrying across London Bridge made their way towards a small figuresupporting its back against a post in the Borough marketWell said Mr Gibbs snappishly as he turned at the sound of theirfootstepsItll be all right Joe said Mr Kidd Weve sowed the seedSowed the wot demanded the otherMr Kidd explainedHo said Mr Gibbs An while your precious seed is acoming up wotam I to do Wot about my comfortable ome Wot about my bed and grubHis two friends looked at each other uneasily In the excitement of thearrangements they had for gotten these things and a long and sometimespainful experience of Mr Gibbs showed them only too plainly where theywere driftingYoull

Produced by Andrew Heath Joshua Hutchinson and the Online DistributedProofreading TeamFOR LUNCHEONAND SUPPER GUESTS TEN MENUSMORE THAN ONE HUNDRED RECIPES SUITABLE FOR COMPANY LUNCHEONSSUNDAY NIGHT SUPPERS AFTERNOON PARTIESAUTOMOBILE PICNICS EVENING SPREADSAND FOR TEA ROOMS LUNCH ROOMSCOFFEE SHOPS AND MOTOR INNS BYALICE BRADLEYPRINCIPAL OF MISS FARMERS SCHOOL OF COOKERYAUTHOR OF THE CANDY COOK BOOK AND COOKING FOR PROFIT WHITCOMB BARROWSBOSTON 1923 DEDICATEDTO THE THOUSANDS OF WOMEN WHO LIKE TO ENTERTAIN THEIR FRIENDSAND PREPARE FOR THEM SOMETHING NEW AND DELICIOUS TO EAT INTRODUCTIONMeals of many courses are neither practical nor popular with the modernhostess For a company luncheon or supper it is not necessary to servemore than a hot dish a salad a biscuit or sandwich a dessert and abeverage A first course and a relish may be provided if desiredSUNDAY NIGHT SUPPERSThe following menus were arranged especially as Sunday night suppersbut they are equally suitable for midday luncheons or high teas Many ofthe dishes will be found desirable for afternoon teas or eveningspreads and for use in tea and lunch rooms and for automobile picnicsPRELIMINARY PREPARATIONSPreparations for Sunday night suppers should be made on Saturday as faras possible For a luncheon it is a help to have some things done theday before For picnics and parties much must be done in advance As anaid to the hostess we have listed after each menu what these preliminarypreparations may beCOOKING AT THE TABLEMany of the hot dishes may be prepared in a chafing dish or on anelectric grill For these much of the measuring may be done in advancethe ingredients being put in small dishes on a tray Coffee and tea maybe made at the table with electric appliancesSANDWICHES AND BISCUITSSandwiches may be made and wrapped first in dry cheesecloth then indamp cheesecloth and placed in a covered crock some hours before ameal The hot biscuits may be replaced by rolls or bread and butter ifdesiredAUTOMOBILE PICNICSFor picnics the beverages and hot dishes may be prepared at home andcarried in thermos food jars The cold dishes may be packed in a smallportable refrigerator The biscuits sandwiches cakes and cookiesshould be carefully wrapped in wax paper and packed in boxes Ice creamsmay be taken in the freezer Hot sandwiches and bacon may be cooked overthe coals or on a portable oil or alcohol stove In some menus it may bedesirable to omit or modify a few of the dishes if food is to becarried several milesMARKET ORDERSSupplies for use on Sunday evening should of course be purchased onSaturday To prevent any mistakes in ordering we have listed under eachmenu the foodstuffs that will be required Supplies that are usuallykept on hand are not listed as Baking powder Cayenne Cornstarch Bread flour Pastry flour Molasses Mustard Paprika Pepper Rock salt Table salt Granulated sugar Soda Spices whole and ground Table sauce Vanilla VinegarHOW TO BUYSome things are listed in the market orders that many people always haveon hand This is for the benefit of those who do not prepare all theirmeals and have little space for seldom used supplies As far as feasiblethe amounts of material in the market orders are such as could bepurchased They may differ somewhat from the amounts called for in therecipes thus leaving some foodstuff on hand In many cases it may bemore economical to purchase in larger quantities than those given Insome cases smaller amounts are called for than can be purchased asonehalf can or onefourth cup in case supplies on hand are adequatewithout purchasing more than required Butter only is given in themarket orders In cooking margarine lard and other shortenings may beused instead if preferredMEASUREMENTSIn all recipes measurements are made level Measuring cups divided intothirds and quarters are used and tea and table measuring spoons Cupsof dry material are filled to overflowing by putting the material intothe cup with a tablespoon and are then leveled off with a knife Teaand tablespoons are filled heaping with dry material and then leveledoff with a knife Flour should be sifted once before measuringRECIPES AND MENUSThe recipes are planned to serve eight persons Most of them may bedivided for a smaller partyThe average cost of the menus is fifty cents per person Some of thedishes may be made less expensive and rich by substituting milk forcream and by other substitutions and omissions that will suggestthemselves to the resourceful hostess Many types of dishes are givenMany variations are possibleIn some menus a choice of dishes is suggested A few recipes are giventhat are not called for in the menus These are usually to show how toutilize in a different way something for which a recipe is given or touse in another meal some foodstuff left from a recipeThese recipes and

Produced by Juliet Sutherland Sjaani and the Online DistributedProofreading TeamGREAT POSSESSIONSBy David GraysonCHAPTER ITHE WELLFLAVOURED EARTHSweet as Eden is the air And Edensweet the rayNo Paradise is lost for themWho foot by branching root and stemAnd lightly with the woodland share The change of night and dayFor these many years since I have lived here in the country I have hadit in my mind to write something about the odour and taste of thiswellflavoured earth The fact is both the sense of smell and the senseof taste have been shabbily treated in the amiable rivalry of thesenses Sight and hearing have been the swift and nimble brothers andsight especially the tricky Jacob of the family is keen upon thebusiness of seizing the entire inheritance while smell like hairyEsau comes late to the blessing hungry from the hills and willing totrade its inheritance for a mess of pottageI have always had a kind of errant love for the improvident andadventurous Esaus of the Earth I think they smell a wilder fragrancethan I do and taste sweeter things and I have thought therefore ofbeginning a kind of fragrant autobiography a chronicle of all the goododours and flavours that ever I have had in my lifeAs I grow older a curious feeling comes often to me in the spring asit comes this spring more poignantly than ever before a sense of thetemporariness of all things the swiftness of life the sadness of abeauty that vanishes so soon and I long to lay hold upon it as itpasses by all the handles that I can I would not only see it and hearit but I would smell it and taste it and touch it and all with a newkind of intensity and eagernessHarriet says I get more pleasure out of the smell of my supper than Iget out of the supper itselfI never need to ring for you says she but only open the kitchendoor In a few minutes Ill see you straighten up lift your head sniffa little and come straight for the houseThe odour of your suppers Harriet I said after a day in thefields would lure a man out of purgatoryMy father before me had a singularly keen nose I remember well when Iwas a boy and drove with him in the wild North Country often throughmiles of unbroken forest how he would sometimes break a long silencelift his head with sudden awareness and say to meDavid I smell open fieldsIn a few minutes we were sure to come to a settlers cabin a log barnor a clearing Among the free odours of the forest he had caught afaroff the common odours of the work of manWhen we were tramping or surveying in that country I have seen him stopsuddenly draw in a long breath and remarkMarshes or A stream yonderPart of this strange keenness of sense often noted by those who knewthat sturdy old cavalryman may have been based as so many of ourtalents are upon a defect My father gave all the sweet sounds of theworld the voices of his sons the songs of his daughters to help freethe Southern slaves He was deafIt is well known that when one sense is defective the others fly to therescue and my fathers singular development of the sense of smell mayhave been due in part to this defect though I believe it to have beento a far larger degree a native gift Me had a downright good nose Allhis life long he enjoyed with more than ordinary keenness the odour offlowers and would often pick a sprig of wild rose and carry it alongwith him in his hand sniffing at it from time to time and he loved thelilac as I do after him To ill odours he was not less sensitive andwas impatient of rats in the barn and could smell them among otherodours the moment the door was opened He always had a peculiarsensitiveness to the presence of animals as of dogs cats muskratscattle horses and the like and would speak of them long before he hadseen them or could know that they were aboutI recall once on a wild Northern lake when we were working along theshore in a boat how he stopped suddenly and exclaimedDavid do you hear anythingfor I a boy was ears for him in thosewilderness placesNo Father What is itIndiansAnd sure enough in a short time I heard the barking of their dogs andwe came soon upon their camp where I remember they were drying deermeat upon a frame of poplar poles over an open fire He told me that thesmoky smell of the Indians tanned buckskin parched wild rice and thelike were odours that carried far and could not be mistakenMy father had a big hooked nose with long narrow nostrils I supposethat this has really nothing to do with the matter although I havecome after these many years to look with a curious interest uponpeoples noses since I know what a vehicle of delight they often areMy own nose is nothing to speak of good enough as noses gobut I thinkI inherited from my father something of the power of enjoyment he hadfrom that sense though I can never hope to become the accomplishedsmeller he wasI am moved to begin this chronicle because of my joy this morningearlya May morningjust after sunrise when the shadows lay longand blue to the west and the dew was still on the grass and I walked inthe pleasant spaces of my garden It was so stillso stillthatbirds afar off could be heard singing and once through the crystal aircame the voice of a neighbour calling his cows But the sounds and thesilences the fair sights of meadow and hill I soon put aside for thelilacs were in bloom and the bushhoneysuckles and the strawberriesThough no movement of the air was perceptible the lilacs well knew theway of the wind for if I stood to the north of them the odour was lessrich and free

HE Marshall English LiteratureChapter I IN THE LISTENING TIMEChapter II THE STORY OF THE CATTLE RAID OF COOLEYChapter III ONE OF THE SORROWS OF STORYTELLINGChapter IV THE STORY OF A LITERARY LIEChapter V THE STORY OF FINGALChapter VI ABOUT SOME OLD WELSH STORIES AND STORYTELLERSChapter VII HOW THE STORY OF ARTHUR WAS WRITTEN IN ENGLISHChapter VIII THE BEGINNING OF THE READING TIMEChapter IX THE PASSING OF ARTHURChapter X THE ADVENTURES OF AN OLD ENGLISH BOOKChapter XI THE STORY OF BEOWULFChapter XII THE FATHER OF ENGLISH SONGChapter XIII HOW CAEDMON SANG AND HOW HE FELL ONCE MORE ON SILENCEChapter XIV THE FATHER OF ENGLISH HISTORYChapter XV HOW ALFRED THE GREAT FOUGHT WITH HIS PENChapter XVI WHEN ENGLISH SLEPTChapter XVII THE STORY OF HAVELOK THE DANEChapter XVIII ABOUT SOME SONG STORIESChapter XIX PIERS THE PLOUGHMANChapter XX PIERS THE PLOUGHMAN continuedChapter XXI HOW THE BIBLE CAME TO THE PEOPLEChapter XXII CHAUCERBREAD AND MILK FOR CHILDRENChapter XXIII CHAUCERTHE CANTERBURY TALESChapter XXIV CHAUCERAT THE TABARD INNChapter XXV THE FIRST ENGLISH GUIDEBOOKChapter XXVI BARBOURTHE BRUCE THE BEGINNINGS OF A STRUGGLEChapter XXVII BARBOURTHE BRUCE THE END OF THE STRUGGLEChapter XXVIII A POET KINGChapter XXIX THE DEATH OF THE POET KINGChapter XXX DUNBARTHE WEDDING OF THE THISTLE AND THE ROSEChapter XXXI AT THE SIGN OF THE RED PALEChapter XXXII ABOUT THE BEGINNING OF THE THEATERChapter XXXIII HOW THE SHEPHERDS WATCHED THEIR FLOCKSChapter XXXIV THE STORY OF EVERYMANChapter XXXV HOW A POET COMFORTED A GIRLChapter XXXVI THE RENAISSANCEChapter XXXVII THE LAND OF NOWHEREChapter XXXVIII THE DEATH OF SIR THOMAS MOREChapter XXXIX HOW THE SONNET CAME TO ENGLANDChapter XL THE BEGINNING OF BLANK VERSEChapter XLI SPENSERTHE SHEPHERDS CALENDARChapter XLII SPENSERTHE FAERY QUEENChapter XLIII SPENSERHIS LAST DAYSChapter XLIV ABOUT THE FIRST THEATERSChapter XLV SHAKESPEARETHE BOYChapter XLVI SHAKESPEARETHE MANChapter LXVII SHAKESPEARETHE MERCHANT OF VENICEChapter XLVIII JONSONEVERY MAN IN HIS HUMOURChapter XLIX JONSONTHE SAD SHEPHERDChapter L RALEIGHTHE REVENGEChapter LI RALEIGHTHE HISTORY OF THE WORLDChapter LII BACONNEW WAYS OF WISDOMChapter LIII BACONTHE HAPPY ISLANDChapter LIV ABOUT SOME LYRIC POETSChapter LV HERBERTTHE PARSON POETChapter LVI HERRICK AND MARVELLOF BLOSSOMS AND BOWERSChapter LVII MILTONSIGHT AND GROWTHChapter LVIII MILTONDARKNESS AND DEATHChapter LIX BUNYANTHE PILGRIMS PROGRESSChapter LX DRYDENTHE NEW POETRYChapter LXI DEFOETHE FIRST NEWSPAPERSChapter LXII DEFOEROBINSON CRUSOEChapter LXIII SWIFTTHE JOURNAL TO STELLAChapter LXIV SWIFTGULLIVERS TRAVELSChapter LXV ADDISONTHE SPECTATORChapter LXVI STEELETHE SOLDIER AUTHORChapter LXVII POPETHE RAPE OF THE LOCKChapter LXVIII JOHNSONDAYS OF STRUGGLEChapter LXIX JOHNSONTHE END OF THE JOURNEYChapter LXX GOLDSMITHTHE VAGABONDChapter LXXI GOLDSMITHTHE VICAR OF WAKEFIELDChapter LXXII BURNSTHE PLOWMAN POETChapter LXXIII COWPERTHE TASKChapter LXXIV WORDSWORTHTHE POET OF NATUREChapter LXXV WORDSWORTH AND COLERIDGETHE LAKE POETSChapter LXXVI COLERIDGE AND SOUTHEYSUNSHINE AND SHADOWChapter LXXVII SCOTTTHE AWAKENING OF ROMANCEChapter LXXVIII SCOTTTHE WIZARD OF THE NORTHChapter LXXIX

Produced by Robert Connal and PG Distributed Proofreaders from imagesgenerously made available by the Canadian Institute for HistoricalMicroreproductionsLETTERS AND JOURNALS OFJAMES EIGHTH EARL OF ELGINGOVERNOR OF JAMAICA GOVERNORGENERAL OF CANADAENVOY TO CHINA VICEROY OF INDIAEDITED BY THEODORE WALROND CBWITH A PREFACE BY ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY DDDEAN OF WESTMINSTERPREFACEHaving been consulted by the family and friends of the late Lord Elgin asto the best mode of giving to the world some record of his life andhaving thus contracted a certain responsibility in the work now laidbefore the public I have considered it my duty to prefix a few words byway of Preface to the following pagesOn Lord Elgins death it was thought that a career intimately connectedwith so many critical points in the history of the British Empire andcontaining in itself so much of intrinsic interest ought not to be leftwithout an enduring memorial The need of this was the more felt becauseLord Elgin was prevented by the peculiar circumstances of his publiccourse from enjoying the familiar recognition to which he would else havebeen entitled amongst his contemporaries in England For if I may usethe words which I have employed on a former occasion it is one of thesad consequences of a statesmans life spent like his in the constantservice of his country on arduous foreign missions that in his own landin his own circle almost in his own home his place is occupied byothers his very face is forgotten he can maintain no permanent ties withthose who rule the opinion or obtain the mastery of the day he hasidentified himself with no existing party he has made himself felt innone of those domestic and personal struggles which attract the attentionand fix the interest of the many who contribute in large measure to formthe public opinion of the time For twenty years the few intervals of LordElgins residence in these islands were to be counted not by years but bymonths and the majority of those who might be reckoned amongst hisfriends and acquaintances remembered him chiefly as the eager andaccomplished Oxford student at Christ Church or at MertonThe materials for supplying this blank were in some respects abundantBesides the official despatches and other communications which had passedbetween himself and the Home Government during his successive absences inJamaica Canada China and India he had in the two latter positions keptup a constant correspondence almost of the nature of a journal with LadyElgin which combines with his reflections on public events the expressionof his more personal feelings and thus reveals not only his own genialand affectionate nature but also indicates something of that singularlypoetic and philosophic turn of mind that union of grace and power whichhad his course lain in the more tranquil walks of life would haveachieved no mean place amongst English thinkers and writersThese materials his family at my suggestion committed to my friend MrTheodore Walrond whose sound judgment comprehensive views and officialexperience are known to many besides myself and who seemed not lessfitted to act as interpreter to the public at large of such a life andcharacter because not having been personally acquainted with Lord Elginor connected with any of the public transactions recorded in the followingpages he was able to speak with the sobriety of calm appreciation ratherthan the warmth of personal attachment In this spirit he kindlyundertook in the intervals of constant public occupations to select fromthe vast mass of materials placed at his disposal such extracts as mostvividly brought out the main features of Lord Elgins career adding suchillustrations as could be gleaned from private or published documents orfrom the remembrance of friends If the work has unavoidably been delayedbeyond the expected term yet it is hoped that the interest in those greatcolonial dependencies for which Lord Elgin laboured has not diminishedwith the lapse of years It is believed also that there is no time when itwill not be good for his countrymen to have brought before them thosestatesmanlike gifts which accomplished the successful accommodation of amore varied series of novel and entangled situations than has perhapsfallen to the lot of any other public man within our own memoryEspecially might be named that rare quality of a strong overruling senseof the justice due from man to man from nation to nation thatcombination of speculative and practical ability so wrote one who haddeep experience of his mind which peculiarly fitted him to solve theproblem how the subject races of a civilised empire are to be governedthat firm courageous and farsighted confidence in the triumph of thoseliberal and constitutional principles in the best sense of the wordwhich having secured the greatness of England were in his judgmentalso applicable under other forms to the difficult circumstances of newcountries and diverse timesIt is a singular coincidence said Lord Elgin in a speech at Benares afew months before his end that three successive GovernorsGeneral ofIndia should have stood towards each other in the relationship ofcontemporary friends Lord Dalhousie when named to the government ofIndia was the youngest man who had ever been appointed to a situation ofsuch high responsibility and trust Lord Canning was in the prime of lifeand I if I am not already on the decline am nearer to the verge of itthan either of my contemporaries who have preceded me When I was leavingEngland for India Lord Ellenborough who is now alas the only survivingexGovernorGeneral said to me You are not a very old man but dependupon it you will find yourself by far the oldest man in India To thatmournful catalogue was added his own name within the brief space of oneyear and now a fourth not indeed bound to the others by ties of personalor political friendship but like in energetic discharge of his duties andin the prime of usefulness in which he was cut off has fallen by a fateyet more untimelyThese tragical incidents invest the high office to which such preciouslives have been sacrificed with a new and solemn interest There issomething especially pathetic when the gallant vessel as it were goesdown within very

Produced by Internet Archive University of Florida Children DavidGarcia and the Online Distributed Proofreading TeamJESUS SAYS SO BOSTONMASS SABBATH SCHOOL SOCIETYDepository No 13 Cornhill1851Illustration FrontispieceJESUS SAYS SOORA MEMORIAL OF LITTLESARAH GFROM THE LONDON EDITION_Approved by the Committee of Publication_BOSTONMASS SABBATH SCHOOL SOCIETYDepository No 13 Cornhill1851JESUS SAYS SOSarah G was one of several children living with their parents in anarrow lane in London Early in the year 1847 Sarahs father had metwith a serious accident and was then in the hospital where he remainedfor many weeks a severe sufferer Sarah and her brothers deprived ofthe usual means of support and their mother being in constantattendance on her husband were consequently often left in greatnecessity More than once have these little ones been known to reach thehour of four or five in the afternoon before taking any food butamidst all their privations no complaint was heard from the lips ofSarah It was not known until after her death how silently yet howpowerfully the Spirit of God was even at this time working in herheartThere was nothing particularly attractive in her appearance quiet andunobtrusive she seemed to the outward observer like most otherchildren but the Lord seeth not as man seeth The Great Shepherd ofthe sheep had his eye on this little lamb of the fold and marked herfor his own At home she was gentle and affectionate obedient to herparents and during their absence she watched kindly over her littlebrothersHer poor family tasted largely of the cup of sorrow but poverty anddistress instead of producing impatience and unkindness seemed to bindeach one more closely to the other They experienced the truth of thosewords Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox andhatred therewith Prov 1517 Better is a dry morsel and quietnesstherewith than a house full of sacrifices with strife Prov 171The death of her youngest brother appeared to make a strong impressionon Sarahs mind she said she liked to think she had a brother inheaven Soon after that event she was admitted into a Sabbath schooland it was her delight in the week to prepare her lessons Sunday issuch a happy day she would say and on that morning she would riseearlier than usual to get ready for schoolA little circumstance which occurred at this time marked hertenderness of conscience A new bonnet had been promised to her but notarriving at the time she had hoped her disappointment was so great thatshe shed many tears This was mentioned to a friend who talked to herabout it Sarah made no remark at the time but afterwards she said toher mother I did not know before that it was wrong to cry when we weredisappointed I will try not to do so again and in the evening herfather overheard her begging God to forgive her pride and fretting aboutthe bonnetAnother feature in Sarahs character may be here noticed this was herlove of truth She has never deceived me was her mothers frequentremark I cannot remember a single instance of untruth _even inplay_ and perhaps this truthfulness of spirit enabled her the morereadily to trust the word of another She promised me Sarah wouldsay and on the promise she would ever rest in all the sweet dependenceof a child Surely this may speak a word to those professing to be thefollowers of Him who keepeth his promise for everthe covenantkeepingGod How lightly are promises often made how carelessly andthoughtlessly brokenSarah was only permitted to attend the Sabbath school for a few weeksHer health and strength failed and soon she was confined to her roomthen to her bed which she scarcely left for several months But now thework of God within her became more evident It was a pleasant service tosit by the bed of this young disciple and read and talk with her of aSaviours love She said but little except in answer to questions buther bright and happy countenance showed how welcome was the subject Whothat witnessed her simple childlike faith would not acknowledge thefruit of the Spirits teaching It was the more apparent as she had butlittle help from man and few outward advantages not even being able toread but she treasured up in her mind all she heard and it was as foodto her soul the joy and rejoicing of her heartAt an early period of her illness a violent attack of pain andpalpitation of the heart made her think she was dying and she told hermother so adding But I am not afraid I am so happy What makes youso happy was asked Because I am going to heaven and when I pray toJesus my heart seems lifted up But Sarah do you think your sinsforgiven Yes mother I am sure so What makes you so sureBecause _Jesus says so_Jesus saysthis was ever the ground of her confidence and proved toall around her the Saviours oftrepeated lessonWhosoever shall notreceive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enterthereinSarah lingered many weeks after this Her mind was full of peace as shelay on her sick bed no shade of fear passed over her all was sunshinewithin This one happy thought filled her mindJesus loves me I amgoing to heavenA friend wishing to find out on what her hopes of happiness rested andif she had a real sense of sin said to her You talk much of going toheaven tell me do you deserve to go there Oh no was her replyI do not deserve it Why not In a solemn tone she answeredBecause I have sinned It was remarked How then can you go thereHeaven is such a holy place no sin can enter there With the brightestsmile she quietly replied Ah but Jesus says he will wash away all mysin and make my soul quite white and

Produced by Afra Ullah and PG Distributed ProofreadersBRITAIN AT BAYBYSPENSER WILKINSONNew York1909TO MY CHILDRENCONTENTSCHAPTERI THE NATION AND THE PARTIESII DEFEATIII FORCE AND RIGHTIV ARBITRATION AND DISARMAMENTV THE NATIONALISATION OF WARVI THE BALANCE OF POWERVII THE RISE OF GERMANYVIII NATIONHOOD NEGLECTEDIX NEW CONDITIONSX DYNAMICSTHE QUESTION OF MIGHTXI POLICYTHE QUESTION OF RIGHTXII THE NATIONXIII THE EFFECT OF THE NATIONALISATION OF WAR UPON LEADERSHIPXIV THE NEEDS OF THE NAVYXV ENGLANDS MILITARY PROBLEMXVI TWO SYSTEMS CONTRASTEDXVII A NATIONAL ARMYXVIII THE COSTXIX ONE ARMY NOT TWOXX THE TRANSITIONXXI THE PRINCIPLES ON WHICH ARMIES ARE RAISEDXXII THE CHAIN OF DUTYChapters XIV to XX have appeared as articles in the _Morning Post_and are by kind permission reproduced without substantial changeITHE NATION AND THE PARTIESI do not believe in the perfection of the British constitution as aninstrument of war it is evident that there is something in yourmachinery that is wrong These were the words of the late Marquis ofSalisbury speaking as Prime Minister in his place in the House of Lordson the 30th of January 1900 They amounted to a declaration by theBritish Government that it could not govern for the first business of aGovernment is to be able to defend the State of which it has chargethat is to carry on war Strange to say the people of England wereundisturbed by so striking an admission of national failureOn the 16th of March 1909 came a new declaration from another PrimeMinister Mr Asquith on the introduction of the Navy Estimatesexplained to the House of Commons that the Government had been surprisedat the rate at which the new German navy was being constructed and atthe rapid growth of Germanys power to build battleships But it is thefirst duty of a Government to provide for national security and toprovide means to foresee A Government that is surprised in a matterrelating to war is already half defeatedThe creation of the German navy is the creation of means that could beused to challenge Great Britains sea power and all that depends uponit There has been no such challenge these hundred years no challengeso formidable as that represented by the new German fleet these threehundred years It brings with it a crisis in the national life ofEngland as great as has ever been known yet this crisis finds theBritish nation divided unready and uncertain what leadership it is toexpectThe dominant fact the fact that controls all others is that from nowonwards Great Britain has to face the stern reality of war immediatelyby way of preparation and possibly at any moment by way of actualcollision England is drifting into a quarrel with Germany which if itcannot be settled involves a struggle for the mastery with thestrongest nation that the world has yet seena nation that under thepressure of necessity has learnt to organise itself for war as forpeace that sets its best minds to direct its preparations for warthat has an army of four million citizens and that is of one mind inthe determination to make a navy that shall fear no antagonist Aconflict of this kind is the test of nations not only of their strengthbut also of their righteousness or right to be It has two aspects Itis first of all a quarrel and then a fight and if we are to enter intoit without fear of destruction we must fulfil two conditions in thequarrel we must be in the right in the fight we must win The twoconditions are inseparable If there is a doubt about the justice of ourcause we shall be divided among ourselves and it will be impossible forus to put forth the strength of a united nationHave we really a quarrel with Germany Is she doing us any wrong Someof our people seem to think so though I find it hard to say in what thewrong consists Are we doing her any wrong Some Germans seem to thinkso and it behoves us if we can to find out what the German grievanceisSuppose that there is a cause for quarrel hidden at present but sooneror later to be revealed What likelihood is there that we shall be ableto make good our case in arms and to satisfy the world and posteritythat we deserved to winGermany can build fleets as fast as we can and although we have a startthe race will not be easy for us she has the finest school of war thatever existed against which we have to set an Admiralty so muchmistrusted that at this moment a committee of the Cabinet is inquiringinto its efficiencyIs it not time for us to find the answer to the question raised by LordSalisbury nine years ago to ascertain what it is that interferes withthe perfection of the British constitution as an instrument of war andto set right what is wrong with our machineryThe truth is that we have ceased to be a nation we have forgottennationhood and have become a conglomerate of classes partiesfactions and sects That is the disease The remedy consists inreconstituting ourselves as a nationWhat is a nation The inhabitants of a country constituted as one bodyto secure their corporate being and wellbeing The nation is all of usand its government is trusteeship for us all in order to give us peaceand security and in order that in peace and security we may make eachothers lives worth living by doing each the best work he can Thenature of a nation may be seen by distinguishing it from the othernations outside and from the parties within The mark of a nation issovereignty which means as regards other nations the right and thepower to make peace with them or to carry on war against them andwhich means as regards those within the right and the power to commandthemA nation is a people constituted as a State maintaining and supportinga Government which is at once the embodiment of right and the wielder offorce If the right represented by the Government is challenged eitherwithout or within the Government asserts it by force and in eithercase disposes to

Produced by Juliet Sutherland Gerald Tejada and the Online DistributedProofreading TeamTOWARDS THE GREAT PEACEBYRALPH ADAMS CRAM LITTD LLD1922INTRODUCTIONFor the course of lectures I am privileged to deliver at this time Idesire to take in some sense as a text a prayer that came to myattention at the outset of my preparatory work It is adapted from aprayer by Bishop Hacket who flourished about the middle of theseventeenth century and is as follows _Lord lift us out of Privatemindedness and give us Public souls to work for Thy Kingdom by daily creating that Atmosphere of a happy temper and generous heart which alone can bring the Great Peace_Each thought in this noble aspiration is curiously applicable to eachone of us in the times in which we fall the supersession of narrow andselfish and egotistical privatemindedness by a vital passion for thewinning of a Kingdom of righteousness consonant with the revealed willof God the lifting of souls from nervous introspection to a heightwhere they become indeed public souls the accomplishing of theKingdom not by great engines of mechanical power but by the dailyoffices of every individual the substitution in place of currenthatred fear and jealous covetousness of the unhappy temper andgenerous heart which are the only fruitful agencies of accomplishmentFinally the Great Peace as the supreme object of thought and act andaspiration for us and for all the world at this time of crisis whichhas culminated through the antithesis of great peace which is greatwarI have tried to keep this prayer of Bishop Hackets before me during thepreparation of these lectures I cannot claim that I have succeeded inachieving a happy temper in all things but I honestly claim that Ihave striven earnestly for the generous heart even when forced bywhat seem to me the necessities of the case to indulge in condemnationor to bring forward subjects which can only be controversial If theGreat War and the greater war which preceded comprehended andfollowed it were the result of many and varied errors it matterslittle whether these were the result of perversity bad judgment or themost generous impulses As they resulted in the Great War so they are adetriment to the Great Peace that must follow and therefore they mustbe cast away Consciousness of sin repentance and a will to do bettermust precede the act of amendment and we must see where we have erredif we are to forsake our ill ways and make an honest effort to strivefor something betterFor every failure I have made to achieve either a happy temper or agenerous heart I hereby express my regret and tender my apologies inadvanceCONTENTSLECTURE INTRODUCTION I A WORLD AT THE CROSSROADS II A WORKING PHILOSOPHY III THE SOCIAL ORGANISM IV THE INDUSTRIAL PROBLEM V THE POLITICAL ORGANIZATION OF SOCIETY VI THE FUNCTION OF EDUCATION AND ART VII THE PROBLEM OF ORGANIC RELIGION VIII PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY APPENDIX A APPENDIX BTOWARDS THE GREAT PEACEIA WORLD AT THE CROSSROADSFor two thousand years Christianity has been an operative force in theworld for more than a century democracy has been the controllinginfluence in the public affairs of Europe and the Americas for twogenerations education free general and comprehensive has been therule in the West Wealth incomparable scientific achievementsunexampled in their number and magnitude facile means of swiftintercommunication between peoples have all worked together towards anearthly realization of the early nineteenthcentury dream of proximateand unescapable millennium With the opening of the second decade of thetwentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act inan unquestioned evolutionary drama Man was master of all things andthe failures of the past were obliterated by the glory of the imminenteventThe Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment Thereineverything so carefully built up during the preceding four centuries wastried as by fire and each failedsave the indestructible qualities ofpersonal honour courage and fortitude Nothing corporate whethersecular or ecclesiastical endured the test nothing of government oradministration of science or industry of philosophy or religion Thevictories were those of individual character the things that stood thetest were not things but _men_The War to end war the war to make the world safe for democracycame to a formal ending and for a few hours the world gazed spellboundon golden hopes Greater than the disillusionment of war was that of themaking of the peace There had never been a war not even the ThirtyYears War in Germany the Hundred Years War in France or the warsof Napoleon that was fraught with more horror devastation anddishonour there had never been a Peace not even those of BerlinVienna and Westphalia more cynical or more deeply infected with thepoison of ultimate disaster And here it was not things that failed but_men_What of the world since the Peace of Versailles Hatred suspicionselfishness are the dominant notes The nations of Europe are bankruptfinancially and the governments of the world are bankrupt politicallySociety is dissolving into classes and factions either at open war ormanoeuvering for position awaiting the favourable moment Law and orderare mocked at philosophy and religion disregarded and of all thevaried objects of human veneration so loudly acclaimed and loftilyexalted by the generation that preceded the war not one remains tocommand a wide allegiance One might put it in a sentence and say thateveryone is dissatisfied with everything and is showing his feelingsafter varied but disquieting fashion It is a condition of unstableequilibrium constantly tending by its very nature to a point wheredissolution is apparently inevitableIt is no part of my task to elaborate this thesis and still less tomagnify its perils Enough has been said and written on

Produced by Anne Dreze and Marc DHoogheSPECIALITEITENDOORMULTATULITHE RIGHT MAN ON THE RIGHT PLACE_Het doet me groot genoegen dat er van dit werkjen n tweede drukgevraagd wordt En ronduit gezegd het viel me tegen dat die nietsedert lang noodig was t Zal me waarlijk n groote voldoening wezenals deze uitgaaf wat spoediger uitgeput raakt dan de eerste wantzooonbescheiden als men wil maar heel oprechtik geloof met zekeren myonbekenden recensent in den_ Spectator _dat er uit deze studie overSpecialiteiten wel iets zou te leeren vallen voor VolksvertegenwoordigersKiezers en sommige anderen_Bovenstaande regelen maakten in t najaar van 1875 den hoofdinhoud uitvan het _Voorbericht_ waarmee deze tweede druk van mn opstel overSpecialiteiten in t licht verschynen zou Velerlei verdrietigeomstandigheden maakten my het afwerken der in datzelfde _Voorbericht_toegezegde Noten totnogtoe onmogelykBovendien werd me van vele zyden onder t oog gebracht dat het voor dekoopers van den eersten druk myner werken niet aangenaam is de volgendeuitgaven daarvan al te zeer uitgebreid te zienNa vriendschappelyk overleg met mn uitgever verschynt nu deze tweededruk zonder die noten enop weinige min belangryke uitzonderingenna_onveranderd_1 De toelichtingen die me geschikt voorkomen totverdere staving van de juistheid der hoofddenkbeelden waaraan ditwerkje zn oorsprong te danken heeft zullen _zoo spoedig mogelijk_afzonderlyk worden uitgegevenHet is my onmogelyk dit berichtje te sluiten zonder melding te makenvan de echthumane wyze waarop ik in deze zaak door den heer WALTMAN2behandeld werdMet zachtmoedig geduld droeg hy den last en de schade die myn geduriguitstellen hem berokkenden zonder ooit de verdrietelykheden die vandat dralen oorzaak waren te vermeerderen door afdoening te vorderenop n wyze als waartoe hy van _zyn_ standpunt volkomen gerechtigd zougeweest zyn Hartelyk dank_Wiesbaden Oktober_ 1878 MULTATULINoten1 _Een maand later_ Onder t gereedmaken van mn werk voor de persbleek me dat ik myn hier geuit voornemen maar gedeeltelyk volbrengenkon De bydrage tot de physiologie van kamerdienaars is nieuw Hetviel my te zwaar die satyre achtertehouden er stonden zooveelknechts op n spiegeltje te wachtenOok op andere plaatsen heb ik my aan eenige toelichting en uitbreidingschuldig gemaakt zonder nu te spreken van de moeite die ik me gaf omdoor t omwerken van zinsneden die my in t oorspronkelyke nietkorrekt voorkwamen de uitdrukking beter in overeenstemming te brengenmet de gedachte Of die moeite steeds met goed gevolg bekroond werdis n verdrietige vraag die ik liever niet beantwoord Het is nueenmaal zoo dat ik hier en daar iets veranderd en bygevoegd heb endaarvoor vraag ik met n beroep op IDEE 112 verschooning aan dekoopers van de eersten drukDe uitbreiding en de veranderingen die ik my veroorloofde zyn evenwelgeenszins van dien aard dat zy de _Noten en Toelichtingen_ overbodigmaken waarvan ik in bovenstaand berichtje gesproken heb Ik meen zegrootendeels gereed te hebben maar weet by ondervinding dat ik by tovergeven van mn werk aan de pers gewoonlyk de behoelte aanomwerking inzie Voor dien arbeid is gezondheid stemming _loisir_noodig Zoodra ik kanMULT2 De uitgever van den 2en druk J WALTMAN JR te Delft Nota deruitgevers van den _vierden_ drukThe right man on the right placeINa _Carnaval de Venise_ en Duitsche eenheid zal men moeielykafgezaagder thema vinden dan dit arme mishandelde motto Wanneer ik nunog bovendien verklaar niet volkomen zeker te zyn dat ik de zaak vanDr DIBBETS onaangeroerd zal laten en zelfs beloof hierendaar ietste zeggen over vaderlandsche welzynen volksheilen en zulke zaken danzal men hoop ik inzien ditmaal niet tedoen te hebben met een der_exentrieke stukken gelyk men gewoon is van dien schryver telezen_ Een kwalifikatie welke ik aanbeveel in de aandacht vanreferenten die geen kans zien zoodanig stuk van zoodanigen schryverbehoorlyk te ontleden Dit zy gezegd zonder minachting voor anderemiddelen die niet minder efficace werken het zwartmaken byv van desschryvers karakter In beide gevallen kan men de moeite van tkennisnemen doorgronden en beoordeelen der behandelde zaak sparen enniets zeggende zich aanstellen alsof men iets gezegd hadWel kapitein hoe bevalt u Amboina vroeg onze goeie majoorHARTZFELD den Hollandschen gezagvoerder van t schip dat my zouovervoeren naar EuropaWat zal ik je zeggen mnheer Amboina Och Amboina is neilandWel referent wat heeft die schryver geleverdWat zal ik u zeggen Publiek Die schryver is excentriekDe goede majoor HARTZFELD toonde zich tevreden uit bescheidenheid Hyeischte van mn kaptein geen gemotiveerde analyse van den indruk dient hoogstinteressante Amboina op hem maakte En ook Publiek istevreden met zn referent al zy t dan niet heel bescheiden zoonarmen schryver doodteslaan met een slagHebt ge er wel eens aan gedacht Nederlanders hoe excentriek deschoonste stukken uit uw Bybel zynNu _ik_ zal t niet wezen En daarom de zaak DIBBITSKEER En daaromdat versleten motto En daarom ook die uitweiding over excentriciteiteen der meest afgezaagde minst excentrieke dingen van de wereld zaak woord en uitweiding daarover alle drieWie hedentendage iets te zeggen heeft waarby _the right man on theright place_ kan worden tepas gebracht maakt zich waarlyk nietschuldig aan ongewoonheid Men zegtmaar hier moet ik ernstigaandringen op geheimhoudingmen zegt dat ergens in ons land zekereredakteur bezig is met het schryven van n hoofdartikel waarin dattestimonium van het hedendaagsch _savoir faire_ maar driemaal zalvoorkomen Indien t hem gelukt zal hy daarna zn krachten beproevenaan n verhandeling zonder klinkers Daar ziet hy kans toe Maar tandere Van jongsaf lette ik vry nauwkeurig op eb en vloed van modewoordenIk herinner me den tyd toen _bluf_ geboren werd De lezer ziet hoegoedig ik hem gelegenheid bied tot goedkoope spotterny Ik heb dewoorden _type_ _humor_ en _genie_ in de kindsheid hunnerpopulariteit gekend _Bepaald_ is jonger Een der nog jongeren is_intens_ om nu van _objektief_ en _subjektief_ niet tespreken Tot mn schaamte moet ik erkennen dat mn omgeving niet gedistingeerdgenoeg was om my instaat te stellen tot het genieten der _primeur_van _Engelsche_ stopwoorden Een beetje Fransch wat schoolofstudentenlatyn een tot den huiselyken kring doorgedrongenstraattermmen kan zn ooren niet sluitenwas alles wat my in mnjeugd voortgezet werd De Engelsche praatjes uit dien tyd bepaaldenzich tot _the devil is an ass take

Produced by Rick Niles Wilelmina Malliere and PG DistributedProofreadersLIFE LETTERSANDEPICUREAN PHILOSOPHYOFNINONDE LENCLOSThe Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth CenturyROBINSONOVERTON1903CONTENTSLIFE OF NINON DE LENCLOSCHAPTER INinon de lEnclos as a StandardCHAPTER IIConsidered as a ParallelCHAPTER IIIYouth of Ninon de lEnclosCHAPTER IVThe Morals of the PeriodCHAPTER VNinon and Count de ColignyCHAPTER VIThe Birds of the TournellesCHAPTER VIIEffect of Her Mothers DeathCHAPTER VIIIHer Increasing PopularityCHAPTER IXNinons FriendshipsCHAPTER XSome of Ninons LoversCHAPTER XINinons Lovers ContinuedCHAPTER XIIThe Villarceaux AffairCHAPTER XIIIThe Marquis de SevigneCHAPTER XIVA Family TragedyCHAPTER XVNinons Bohemian EnvironmentsCHAPTER XVIA Remarkable Old AgeLETTERS TO THE MARQUIS DE SEVIGNEINTRODUCTION TO LETTERSIA Hazardous UndertakingIIWhy Love Is DangerousIIIWhy Love Grows ColdIVThe Spice of LoveVLove and TemperVICertain Maxims Concerning LoveVIIWomen Expect a Quid Pro Quo from MenVIIIThe Necessity for Love and Its Primitive CauseIXLove Is a Natural InclinationXThe Sensation of Love Forms a Large Part of a Womans NatureXIThe Distinction Between Love and FriendshipXIIA Man in Love Is an Amusing SpectacleXIIIVanity Is a Fertile Soil for LoveXIVWorth and Merit Are Not Considered in LoveXVThe Hidden Motives of LoveXVIHow to Be Victorious in LoveXVIIWomen Understand the Difference Between Real Love and FlirtationXVIIIWhen a Woman Is Loved She Need Not Be Told of ItXIXWhy a Lovers Vows Are UntrustworthyXXThe Halfway House to LoveXXIThe Comedy of ContrarinessXXIIVanity and SelfEsteem Obstacles to LoveXXIIITwo Irreconcilable Passions in WomanXXIVAn Abuse of Credulity Is IntolerableXXVWhy Virtue Is So Often OvercomeXXVILove Demands Freedom of ActionXXVIIThe Heart Needs Constant EmploymentXXVIIIMere Beauty Is Often of Trifling ImportanceXXIXThe Misfortune of Too Sudden an AvowalXXXWhen Resistance is Only a PretenceXXXIThe Opinion and Advice of Monsieur de la SabliereXXXIIThe Advantages of a Knowledge of the HeartXXXIIIA Heart Once Wounded No Longer Plays with LoveXXXIVAbsence Makes the Heart Grow FonderXXXVThe Heart Should Be Played Upon Like the Keys of a PianoXXXVIMistaken Impressions Common to All WomenXXXVIIThe Allurements of Stage WomenXXXVIIIVarieties of Resistance Are EssentialXXXIXThe True Value of Compliments Among WomenXLOratory and Fine Phrases Do Not Breed LoveXLIDiscretion Is Sometimes the Better Part of ValorXLIISurface Indications in Women Are Not Always GuidesXLIIIWomen Demand RespectXLIVWhy Love Grows WeakMarshal de SaintEvremonds OpinionXLVWhat Favors Men Consider FaultsXLVIWhy Inconstancy Is Not InjusticeXLVIICause of Quarrels Among RivalsXLVIIIFriendship Must Be FirmXLIXConstancy Is a Virtue Among Narrow MindedLSome Women Are Very CunningLIThe Parts Men and Women PlayLIILove Is a Traitor with Sharp ClawsLIIIOld Age Not a Preventive Against AttackLIVA Shrewd But Not an Unusual SchemeLVA Happy Ending CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN LORD SAINTEVREMOND AND NINON DE LENCLOSILovers and Gamblers Have Something in CommonIIIt Is Sweet to Remember Those We Have LovedIIIWrinkles Are a Mark of WisdomIVNear Hopes Are Worth as Much as Those Far OffVOn the Death of De CharlevalVIThe Weariness of MonotonyVIIAfter the Death of La Duchesse de MazarinVIIILove Banishes Old AgeIXStomachs Demand More Attention Than MindsXWhy Does Love Diminish After MarriageXIFew People Resist AgeXIIAge Has Some ConsolationsXIIISome Good Taste Still Exists in FranceXIVSuperiority of the Pleasures of the StomachXVLet the Heart Speak Its Own LanguageXVIThe Memory of YouthXVIII Should Have Hanged MyselfXVIIILife Is Joyous When It Is Without SorrowLetter to the Modern LeontiumNINON DE LENCLOSLIFE AND LETTERSINTRODUCTIONThe inner life of the most remarkable woman that ever lived is herepresented to American readers for the first time Ninon orMademoiselle de lEnclos as she was known was the most beautifulwoman of the seventeenth century For seventy years she heldundisputed sway over the hearts of the most distinguished men ofFrance queens princes noblemen renowned warriors statesmenwriters and scientists bowing before her shrine and doing her homageeven Louis XIV when she was eightyfive years of age declaring thatshe was the marvel of his reignHow she preserved her extraordinary beauty to so great an age andattracted to her side the greatest and most brilliant men of thecentury is told in her biography which has been entirely rewrittenand new facts and incidents added that do not appear in the FrenchcompilationsHer celebrated Letters to the Marquis de Sevigne newly translatedand appearing for the first time in the United States constitute themost remarkable pathology of the female heart its motives objectsand secret aspirations ever penned With unsparing hand she unmasksthe human heart and unveils the most carefully hidden mysteries offemininity and every one who reads these letters will see herselfdepicted as in a mirrorAt an early age she perceived the inequalities between the sexes andrefused to submit to the injustice of an unfair distribution of humanqualities After due deliberation she suddenly announced to herfriends I notice that the most frivolous things are charged up tothe account of women and that men have reserved to themselves theright to all the essential qualities from this moment I will be aman From that timeshe was twenty years of ageuntil her deathseventy years later she maintained the character assumed by herexercised all the rights and privileges claimed by the male sex andcreated for herself as the distinguished Abbe de Chateauneauf saysa place in the ranks of illustrious men while preserving all thegrace of her own sexLIFE OF NINON DE LENCLOSCHAPTER INinon de lEnclos as a StandardTo write the biography of so remarkable a woman as Ninon de lEnclosis to incur the animadversions of those who stand upon the dogma thatwhoso violates one of the Ten Commandments is guilty of violating themall particularly when one of the ten is conventionally selected asthe essential precept and the most important to be observed It ispurely a matter of predilection or fancy perhaps training andenvironment may have something to do with it though judgment iswanting but many will have it so and hence they arrive at theopinion that the end of the controversy has been reachedFortunately for the common sense of mankind there are others whorepudiate this rigid rule and excuse for human conduct who refuse toaccept as a pattern of morality the Sabbath breaker tyrantoppressor of the poor the grasping money maker or charity mongereven though his personal chastity may entitle him to canonizationThese insist that although Ninon de lEnclos may have persistentlytransgressed one

Produced by Glen Bledsoe Additional proofing by David WidgerPERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U S GRANTVolume Iby U S GrantPREFACEMan proposes and God disposes There are but few important events inthe affairs of men brought about by their own choiceAlthough frequently urged by friends to write my memoirs I haddetermined never to do so nor to write anything for publication Atthe age of nearly sixtytwo I received an injury from a fall whichconfined me closely to the house while it did not apparently affect mygeneral health This made study a pleasant pastime Shortly after therascality of a business partner developed itself by the announcement ofa failure This was followed soon after by universal depression of allsecurities which seemed to threaten the extinction of a good part ofthe income still retained and for which I am indebted to the kindly actof friends At this juncture the editor of the Century Magazine askedme to write a few articles for him I consented for the money it gaveme for at that moment I was living upon borrowed money The work Ifound congenial and I determined to continue it The event is animportant one for me for good or evil I hope for the formerIn preparing these volumes for the public I have entered upon the taskwith the sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to any one whether onthe National or Confederate side other than the unavoidable injusticeof not making mention often where special mention is due There must bemany errors of omission in this work because the subject is too largeto be treated of in two volumes in such way as to do justice to all theofficers and men engaged There were thousands of instances during therebellion of individual company regimental and brigade deeds ofheroism which deserve special mention and are not here alluded to Thetroops engaged in them will have to look to the detailed reports oftheir individual commanders for the full history of those deedsThe first volume as well as a portion of the second was written beforeI had reason to suppose I was in a critical condition of health LaterI was reduced almost to the point of death and it became impossible forme to attend to anything for weeks I have however somewhat regainedmy strength and am able often to devote as many hours a day as aperson should devote to such work I would have more hope of satisfyingthe expectation of the public if I could have allowed myself more timeI have used my best efforts with the aid of my eldest son F D Grantassisted by his brothers to verify from the records every statement offact given The comments are my own and show how I saw the matterstreated of whether others saw them in the same light or notWith these remarks I present these volumes to the public asking nofavor but hoping they will meet the approval of the readerU S GRANTMOUNT MACGREGOR NEW YORK July 1 1885CONTENTSVOLUME ICHAPTER I ANCESTRYBIRTHBOYHOODCHAPTER II WEST POINTGRADUATIONCHAPTER III ARMY LIFECAUSES OF THE MEXICAN WARCAMP SALUBRITYCHAPTER IV CORPUS CHRISTIMEXICAN SMUGGLINGSPANISH RULE IN MEXICOSUPPLYING TRANSPORTATIONCHAPTER V TRIP TO AUSTINPROMOTION TO FULL SECONDLIEUTENANTARMY OFOCCUPATIONCHAPTER VI ADVANCE OF THE ARMYCROSSING THE COLORADOTHE RIO GRANDECHAPTER VII THE MEXICAN WARTHE BATTLE OF PALO ALTOTHE BATTLE OFRESACA DE LA PALMAARMY OF INVASIONGENERAL TAYLORMOVEMENT ONCAMARGOCHAPTER VIII ADVANCE ON MONTEREYTHE BLACK FORTTHE BATTLE OFMONTEREYSURRENDER OF THE CITYCHAPTER IX POLITICAL INTRIGUEBUENA VISTAMOVEMENT AGAINST VERA CRUZSIEGE AND CAPTURE OF VERA CRUZCHAPTER X MARCH TO JALAPABATTLE OF CERRO GORDOPEROTEPUEBLASCOTTAND TAYLORCHAPTER XI ADVANCE ON THE CITY OF MEXICOBATTLE OF CONTRERASASSAULTAT CHURUBUSCONEGOTIATIONS FOR PEACEBATTLE OF MOLINO DEL REYSTORMING OF CHAPULTEPECSAN COSMEEVACUATION OF THE CITYHALLS OFTHE MONTEZUMASCHAPTER XII PROMOTION TO FIRST LIEUTENANTCAPTURE OF THE CITY OFMEXICOTHE ARMYMEXICAN SOLDIERSPEACE NEGOTIATIONSCHAPTER XIII TREATY OF PEACEMEXICAN BULL FIGHTSREGIMENTALQUARTERMASTERTRIP TO POPOCATAPETLTRIP TO THE CAVES OF MEXICOCHAPTER XIV RETURN OF THE ARMYMARRIAGEORDERED TO THE PACIFIC COASTCROSSING THE ISTHMUSARRIVAL AT SAN FRANCISCOCHAPTER XV SAN FRANCISCOEARLY CALIFORNIA EXPERIENCESLIFE ON THEPACIFIC COASTPROMOTED CAPTAINFLUSH TIMES IN CALIFORNIACHAPTER XVI RESIGNATIONPRIVATE LIFELIFE AT GALENATHE COMINGCRISISCHAPTER XVII OUTBREAK OF THE REBELLIONPRESIDING AT A UNION MEETINGMUSTERING OFFICER OF STATE TROOPSLYON AT CAMP JACKSONSERVICESTENDERED TO THE GOVERNMENTCHAPTER XVIII APPOINTED COLONEL OF THE 21ST ILLINOISPERSONNEL OF THEREGIMENTGENERAL LOGANMARCH TO MISSOURIMOVEMENT AGAINST HARRIS ATFLORIDA MOGENERAL POPE IN COMMANDSTATIONED AT MEXICO MOCHAPTER XIX COMMISSIONED BRIGADIERGENERALCOMMAND AT IRONTON MOJEFFERSON CITYCAPE GIRARDEAUGENERAL PRENTISSSEIZURE OF PADUCAHHEADQUARTERS AT CAIROCHAPTER XX GENERAL FREMONT IN COMMANDMOVEMENT AGAINST BELMONTBATTLEOF BELMONTA NARROW ESCAPEAFTER THE BATTLECHAPTER XXI GENERAL HALLECK IN COMMANDCOMMANDING THE DISTRICT OFCAIROMOVEMENT ON FORT HENRYCAPTURE OF FORT HENRYCHAPTER XXII INVESTMENT OF FORT DONELSONTHE NAVAL OPERATIONSATTACKOF THE ENEMYASSAULTING THE WORKSSURRENDER OF THE FORTCHAPTER XXIII PROMOTED MAJORGENERAL OF VOLUNTEERSUNOCCUPIEDTERRITORYADVANCE UPON NASHVILLESITUATION OF THE TROOPSCONFEDERATERETREATRELIEVED OF THE COMMANDRESTORED TO THE COMMANDGENERALSMITHCHAPTER XXIV THE ARMY AT PITTSBURG LANDINGINJURED BY A FALLTHECONFEDERATE ATTACK AT SHILOHTHE FIRST DAYS FIGHT AT SHILOHGENERALSHERMANCONDITION OF THE ARMYCLOSE OF THE FIRST DAYS FIGHTTHESECOND DAYS FIGHTRETREAT AND DEFEAT OF THE CONFEDERATESCHAPTER XXV STRUCK BY A BULLETPRECIPITATE RETREAT OF THECONFEDERATESINTRENCHMENTS AT SHILOHGENERAL BUELLGENERAL JOHNSTONREMARKS ON SHILOHCHAPTER XXVI HALLECK ASSUMES COMMAND IN THE FIELDTHE ADVANCE UPONCORINTHOCCUPATION OF CORINTHTHE ARMY SEPARATEDCHAPTER XXVII HEADQUARTERS MOVED TO MEMPHISON THE ROAD TO MEMPHISESCAPING JACKSONCOMPLAINTS AND REQUESTSHALLECK APPOINTEDCOMMANDERINCHIEFRETURN TO CORINTHMOVEMENTS OF BRAGGSURRENDEROF CLARKSVILLETHE ADVANCE UPON CHATTANOOGASHERIDAN COLONEL OF AMICHIGAN REGIMENTCHAPTER XXVIII ADVANCE OF VAN DORN AND PRICEPRICE ENTERS IUKABATTLEOF IUKACHAPTER XXIX VAN DORNS MOVEMENTSBATTLE OF CORINTHCOMMAND OF THEDEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEECHAPTER XXX THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST VICKSBURGEMPLOYING THE FREEDMENOCCUPATION OF HOLLY SPRINGSSHERMAN ORDERED TO MEMPHISSHERMANSMOVEMENTS DOWN THE MISSISSIPPIVAN DORN CAPTURES HOLLY SPRINGSCOLLECTING FORAGE AND FOODCHAPTER XXXI HEADQUARTERS MOVED TO HOLLY SPRINGSGENERAL MCCLERNAND INCOMMANDASSUMING COMMAND AT YOUNGS POINTOPERATIONS ABOVE VICKSBURGFORTIFICATIONS ABOUT VICKSBURGTHE CANALLAKE PROVIDENCEOPERATIONSAT YAZOO PASSCHAPTER XXXII THE BAYOUS WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPICRITICISMS OF THENORTHERN PRESSRUNNING THE BATTERIESLOSS OF THE INDIANOLADISPOSITION OF THE TROOPSCHAPTER XXXIII ATTACK ON GRAND GULFOPERATIONS BELOW VICKSBURGCHAPTER XXXIV CAPTURE OF PORT GIBSONGRIERSONS RAIDOCCUPATION OFGRAND GULFMOVEMENT UP THE BIG BLACKBATTLE OF RAYMONDCHAPTER XXXV MOVEMENT AGAINST JACKSONFALL OF JACKSONINTERCEPTINGTHE ENEMYBATTLE OF CHAMPIONS HILLCHAPTER XXXVI BATTLE OF BLACK RIVER BRIDGECROSSING THE BIG BLACKINVESTMENT OF VICKSBURGASSAULTING THE WORKSCHAPTER XXXVII SIEGE OF VICKSBURGCHAPTER XXXVIII JOHNSTONS MOVEMENTSFORTIFICATIONS AT

Produced by Karl Hagen and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team Transcribers Notes The printed edition from which this etext has been produced retains thespelling and abbreviations of Hakluyts 16thcentury original In thisversion the spelling has been retained but the following manuscriptabbreviations have been silently expanded vowels with macrons vowel n or m q que in the Latin ye the yt that wt withThis edition contains footnotes and two types of sidenotes Most footnotesare added by the editor They follow modern 19thcentury spellingconventions Those that dont are Hakluyts and are not alwayssystematically marked as such by the editor The sidenotes are Hakluytsown Summarizing sidenotes are labelled Sidenote and placed before thesentence to which they apply Sidenotes that are keyed with a symbol arelabeled Marginal note and placed at the point of the symbol except inpoetry where they are placed at a convenient point Additional notes oncorrections etc are signed KTH End Transcribers Notes THE PRINCIPALNAVIGATIONS VOYAGES TRAFFIQUESANDDISCOVERIESOFTHE ENGLISH NATIONCollected byRICHARD HAKLUYT PREACHERANDEdited byEDMUND GOLDSMID FRHSVOL VIIIASIA PART INavigations Voyages Traffiques and DiscoueriesOF THE ENGLISH NATION IN ASIAThe life and trauailes of Pelagius borne in WalesPelagius Cambrius ex ea Britanniæ parte oriundus famati illius CollegijBannochorensis a Cestria non procul præpositus erat in quo Christianorumphilosophorum duo millia ac centum ad plebis in Christo commoditatemmilitabant manuum suarum laboribus iuxta Pauli doctrinam victitantesPost quam plures exhibitos pro Christiana Repub labores vir eruditioneinsignis et tum Græcè tum Latinè peritus vt Tertullianus alterquorundam Clericorum lacessitus iniurijs grauatim tulit ac tandem a fidedefecitPeragratis igitur deinceps Gallijs in Aegyptum et Syriam aliásqueorientis Regiones demum peruenit Vbi ex earum partium Monacho præsulordinatus sui nominis hæresim fabricabat asserens hominem sine peccatonasci ac solo voluntatis imperio sine gratia saluari posse vt itanefarius baptismum ac fidem tolleret Cum his et consimilibus impostricisdoctrinæ fæcibus in patriam suam reuersus omnem illam Regionem Iuliano etCælestino Pseudoepiscopis fautoribus conspurcabat Verum ante lapsum suumstudia tractabat honestissima vt post Gennadium Bedam et Honorium alijferunt authores composuítque multos libros ad Christianam vtilitatem Atpostquam est Hereticus publicatus multo plures edidit hæresi succurrenteset ex diametro cum vera pietate pugnantes vnde erat a suis Britannis inexilium pulsus vt in Epistola ad Martinum 5 Valdenus habet Claruit annopost Christum incarnatum 390 sub Maximo Britannorum RegeThe same in EnglishPelagius borne in that part of Britaine which is called Wales was head orgouernour of the famous Colledge of Bangor not farre from Chester whereinliued a Societie of 2100 Diuines or Students of Christian philosophieapplying themselues to the profite of the Christian people and liuing bythe labours of their owne hands according to Pauls doctrine He was a manexcellently learned and skilfull both in the Greeke and Latine tonguesand as it were another Tertullian after his long and great trauailes forthe good of the Christian common wealth seeing himselfe abused andiniuriously dealt withall by some of the Clergie of that time he tooke thematter so grieuously that at the last he relapsed from the faithWhereupon he left Wales and went into France and hauing gone throughFrance Footnote He is said to have resided long at Rome only leaving onthe capture of that city by the Gottis hee went therehence into EgyptSyria and other Countries of the East and being made Priest by a certaineMonke of those partes he there hatched his heresie which according to hisname was called the heresie of the Pelagians which was that manne wasborne without sinne and might be saued by the power of his owne willwithout grace that so the miserable man might take away faith andbaptisme With this and the like dregges of false doctrine he returnedagaine into Wales and there by the meanes of the two false Prelates Iulianand Celestine who fauoured his heresie hee infected the whole Countreywith it But before his fall and Apostasie from the faith he exercisedhimselfe in the best studies as Gennadius Beda Honorius and otherauthors doe report of him and wrote many bookes seruing not a litle toChristian vtilitie but being once fallen into his heresie hee wrote manymore erroneous bookes then he did before honest and sincere whereuponat the last his owne Countreymen banished him as Walden testifieth in hisEpistle to Pope Martine the fift He flourished in the yere after theIncarnation 390 Maximus being then King of Britaine A testimonie of the sending of Sighelmus Bishop of Shirburne by King Alphred vnto Saint Thomas of India in the yeare of our Lord 883 recorded by William of Malmesburie in his second booke and fourth Chapter de gestis regum AnglorumEleemosynis intentus priuilegia ecclesiarum sicut pater statueratroborauit et trans mare Romam et ad sanctum Thomam in Indiam multa muneramisit Legatus in hoc missus Sighelmus Shirburnensis Episcopus cum magnaprosperitate quod quiuis hoc seculo miretur Indiam penetrauit inderediens exoticos splendores gemmarum et liquores aromatum quorum illahumus ferax est reportauitThe same in EnglishKing Alphred being addicted to giving of almes confirmed the priuileges ofChurches as his father had determined and sent also many giftes beyond theseas vnto Rome and vnto S Thomas of India His messenger in thisbusinesse was Sighelmus bishop of Schirburne Footnote Sherborne inDorsetshire where an abbey was founded in 700 who with great prosperitiewhich is a matter to be wondered at in this our age trauailed thoroughIndia and returning home brought with him many strange and precious vnionsand costly spyces such as that countrey plentifully yeeldeth A second testimony of the foresaid Sighelmus his voyage vnto Saint Thomas of India c out of William of Malmesburie his second booke de gestis pontificum Anglorum cap de episcopis Schireburnensibus Salisburiensibus WiltunensibusSighelmus trans mare causa

Produced by Jonathan Ingram Sheila Vogtmann and PG DistributedProofreadersCHARACTER WRITINGSOF THESEVENTEENTH CENTURYEDITED BYHENRY MORLEY LLDEMERITUS PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATUREUNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON1891CONTENTSCHARACTER WRITING BEFORE THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURYTHEOPHRASTUS StupidityTHOMAS HARMANS Caveat for Cursitors A RufflerBEN JONSONS Every Man out of his Humour and Cynthias Revels A Traveller The True Critic The Character of the Persons in Every Man out of his HumourCHARACTER WRITINGS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURYSir THOMAS OVERBURY A Good Woman A Very Woman Her Next Part A Dissembler A Courtier A Golden Ass A Flatterer An Ignorant GloryHunter A Timist An Amorist An Affected Traveller A Wise Man A Noble Spirit An Old Man A Country Gentleman A Fine Gentleman An Elder Brother A Braggadocio Welshman A Pedant A ServingMan An Host An Ostler The True Character of a Dunce A Good Wife A Melancholy Man A Sailor A Soldier A Tailor A Puritan A Mere Common Lawyer A Mere Scholar A Tinker An Apparitor An AlmanacMaker A Hypocrite A Chambermaid A Precisian An Inns of Court Man A Mere Fellow of a House A Worthy Commander in the Wars A Vainglorious Coward in Command A Pirate An Ordinary Fence A Puny Clerk A Footman A Noble and Retired Housekeeper An Intruder into Favour A Fair and Happy Milkmaid An Arrant HorseCourser A Roaring Boy A Drunken Dutchman resident in England A Phantastique An Improvident Young Gallant A ButtonMaker of Amsterdam A Distaster of the Time A Mere Fellow of a House A Mere Pettifogger An Ingrosser of Corn A Devilish Usurer A Waterman A Reverend Judge A Virtuous Widow An Ordinary Widow A QuackSalver A Canting Rogue A French Cook A Sexton A Jesuit An Excellent Actor A Franklin A Rhymer A Covetous Man The Proud Man A Prison A Prisoner A Creditor A Sergeant His Yeoman A Common Cruel Jailer What a Character is The Character of a Happy Life An Essay on ValourJOSEPH HALL HIS SATIRES A Domestic Chaplain The Witless Gallant HIS CHARACTERS OF VIRTUES AND VICES I _Virtues_ Character of the Wise Man Of an Honest Man Of the Faithful Man Of the Humble Man Of a Valiant Man Of a Patient Man Of the True Friend Of the Truly Noble Of the Good Magistrate Of the Penitent The Happy Man II _Vices_ Character of the Hypocrite Of the Busybody Of the Superstitious Of the Profane Of the Malcontent Of the Inconstant Of the Flatterer Of the Slothful Of the Covetous Of the Vainglorious Of the Presumptuous Of the Distrustful Of the Ambitious Of the Unthrift Of the EnviousJOHN STEPHENSJOHN EARLE MICROCOSMOGRAPHY A Child A Young Raw Preacher A Grave Divine A Mere Dull Physician An Alderman A Discontented Man An Antiquary A Younger Brother A Mere Formal Man A ChurchPapist A SelfConceited Man A Too Idly Reserved Man A Tavern A Shark A Carrier A Young Man An Old College Butler An Upstart Country Knight An Idle Gallant A Constable A Downright Scholar A Plain Country Fellow A Player A Detractor A Young Gentleman of the University A Weak Man A TobaccoSeller A Pot Poet A Plausible Man A BowlAlley The Worlds Wise Man A Surgeon A Contemplative Man A She Precise Hypocrite A Sceptic in Religion An Attorney A Partial Man A Trumpeter A VulgarSpirited Man A Plodding Student Pauls Walk A Cook A Bold Forward Man A Baker A Pretender to Learning A Herald The Common SingingMen in Cathedral Churches A Shopkeeper A Blunt Man A Handsome Hostess A Critic A Sergeant or Catchpole A University Dun A Staid Man A Modest Man A Mere Empty Wit A Drunkard A Prison A ServingMan An Insolent Man Acquaintance A Mere Complimental Man A Poor Fiddler A Meddling Man A Good Old Man A Flatterer A HighSpirited Man A Mere Gull Citizen A Lascivious Man A Rash Man An Affected Man A Profane Man A Coward A Sordid Rich Man A Mere Great Man A Poor Man An Ordinary Honest Man A Suspicious or Jealous ManNICHOLAS BRETON CHARACTERS UPON ESSAYS MORAL AND DIVINE Wisdom Learning Knowledge Practice Patience Love Peace War Valour Resolution Honour Truth Time Death Faith Fear THE GOOD AND THE BAD A Worthy King An Unworthy King A Worthy Queen A Worthy Prince An Unworthy Prince A Worthy Privy Councillor An Unworthy Councillor A Nobleman An Unnoble Man A Worthy Bishop An Unworthy Bishop A Worthy Judge An Unworthy Judge A Worthy Knight An Unworthy Knight A Worthy Gentleman An Unworthy Gentleman A Worthy Lawyer An Unworthy Lawyer A Worthy Soldier An Untrained Soldier A Worthy Physician An Unworthy Physician A Worthy Merchant An Unworthy

Produced by John Hagerson Kevin Handy and PG Distributed ProofreadersTHE WORLDS GREATEST BOOKSJOINT EDITORSARTHUR MEE Editor and Founder of the Book of KnowledgeJA HAMMERTON Editor of Harmsworth a Universal EncyclopaediaVOL XII MODERN HISTORY _Table of Contents_MODERN HISTORYAMERICA ELIOT SAMUEL History of the United Stales PRESCOTT WH History of the Conquest of Mexico History of the Conquest of PeruENGLAND EDWARD HYDE E OF CLARENDON History of the Rebellion MACAULAY LORD History of England BUCKLE HENRY History of Civilization in England BAGEHOT WALTER English ConstitutionFRANCE VOLTAIRE Age of Louis XIV TOCQUEVILLE DE Old Régime MIGNET FRANCOIS History of the French Revolution CARLYLE THOMAS History of the French Revolution LAMARTINE AML DE History of the Girondists TAINE HA Modern RégimeGERMANY CARLYLE THOMAS Frederick the GreatGREECE FINLAY GEORGE History of GreeceHOLLAND MOTLEY JL Rise of the Dutch Republic History of the United NetherlandsINDIA ELPHINSTONE MOUNTSTUART History of IndiaRUSSIA VOLTAIRE Russia under Peter the GreatSPAIN PRESCOTT WH Reign of Ferdinand and IsabellaSWEDEN VOLTAIRE History of Charles XIIPAPACY MILMAN HENRY History of Latin Christianity VON RANKE LEOPOLD History of the PopesA Complete Index of THE WORLDS GREATEST BOOKS will be found at the endof Volume XX _Acknowledgment_ Acknowledgment and thanks for permitting the use of the selection by HA Taine on Modern Régime appearing in this volume are hereby tendered to Madame TainePaulDubois of Menthon St Bernard France and Henry Holt Co of New York SAMUEL ELIOTHistory of the United States Samuel Eliot a historian and educator was born in Boston in 1821 graduated at Harvard in 1839 was engaged in business for two years and then travelled and studied abroad for four years more On his return he took up tutoring and gave gratuitous instruction to classes of young workingmen He became professor of history and political science in Trinity College Hartford Conn in 1856 and retained that chair until 1864 During the last four years of that time he was president of the institution From 1864 to 1874 he lectured on constitutional law and political science He lectured at Harvard from 1870 to 1873 He was President of the Social Science Association when it organised the movement for Civil Service reform in 1869 His history of the United States appeared in 1856 under the title of Manual of United States History between the Years 1792 and 1850 It was revised and brought down to date in 1873 under the title of History of the United States A third edition appeared in 1881 This work gained distinction as the first adequate textbook of United States history and still holds the place it deserves in popular favor The epitome is supplemented by a chronicle compiled from several sourcesThe first man to discover the shores of the United States according toIcelandic records was an Icelander Leif Erickson who sailed in theyear 1000 and spent the winter somewhere on the New England coastChristopher Columbus a Genoese in the Spanish service discovered SanSalvador one of the Bahama Islands on October 12 1492 He thoughtthat he had found the western route to the Indies and thereforecalled his discovery the West Indies In 1507 the new continentreceived its name from that of Amerigo Vespucci a Florentine who hadcrossed the ocean under the Spanish and Portuguese flags The middleages were Closing the great nations of Europe were putting forth theirenergies material and immaterial and the discovery of America camejust in season to help and be helped by the men of these stirring yearsPonce de Leon a companion of Columbus was the first to reach theterritory of the present United States On Easter Sunday 1512 hediscovered the land to which he gave the name of Florida or Flower LandNumberless discoverers succeeded him De Soto led a great expeditionnorthward and westward in 153943 with no greater reward than thediscovery of the Mississippi Among the French explorers to claim Canadaunder the name of New France were Verrazzano 1524 and Cartier153442 Champlain began Quebec in 1608 The oldest town in the UnitedStates St Augustine Florida was founded September 8 1565 byMenendez de Aviles who brought a train of soldiers priests and negroslaves The second oldest town Santa Fe was founded by the Spaniardsin 1581John Cabot a Venetian residing in Bristol was the first person sailingunder the English flag to

Produced by Robert Connal Wilelmina Malliere and PG DistributedProofreaders This file was produced from images generously madeavailable by gallica Bibliotheque nationale de France athttpgallicabnffrLETTRESECRITESDEGYPTE ET DE NUBIEEN 1828 ET 1829PARCHAMPOLLION LE JEUNENOUVELLE EDITION1868AVERTISSEMENTLes lettres dont joffre aujourdhui une nouvelle edition au public ontete ecrites par mon pere Champollion le jeune pendant le cours duvoyage quil fit en Egypte et en Nubie dans les annees 1828 et 1829Elles donnent ses impressions sur le vif au jour le jour et cestencore au dire des personnes competentes le meilleur et le plus surguide pour bien connaitre les monuments et lancienne civilisation de lavallee du Nil Elles furent successivement adressees a son frere etinserees en partie dans le _Moniteur universel_ pendant que mon perepoursuivant sa mission rassemblait les richesses archeologiques quonadmire au musee egyptien du Louvre dont il fut le fondateur etrecueillait les documents precieux quil neut pas le temps de mettre enlumiere puisque tout jeune encore en 1832 il fut enleve a la scienceet au glorieux avenir qui lui etait reserveEn 1833 mon oncle M ChampollionFigeac alors conservateur audepartement des manuscrits de la Bibliotheque royale publia chezFirmin Didot une edition de ces lettres dont il possedait lesoriginaux Cest cette edition epuisee depuis longtemps deja que jereproduis dans le present volumeLes savants qui ont marche dans la voie de Champollion le jeune montatteste que malgre les progres obtenus depuis trente ans dans lascience quil a fondee ces lettres etaient encore dune utiliteserieuse et dun grand interet cest cette conviction unie a un vifsentiment de respect pour la memoire de mon pere qui ma engagee afaire cette nouvelle editionZ CHERONNETCHAMPOLLIONParis le 15 septembre 1867MEMOIRESURUN PROJET DE VOYAGE LITTERAIREEN EGYPTEPRESENTE AU ROI EN 1827PLAN ET MOTIFS DU VOYAGEOn peut considerer comme un fait positif lorsquil sagit de nosconnaissances reelles sur lancienne Egypte que les recherches dessavants et des voyageurs nont produit jusquici de resultats completsde documents certains qua legard du seul systeme d_architecture_suivi pendant une si longue serie de siecles dans ce pays ou les artsont commence encore estil juste de dire que les travaux qui fixerontirrevocablement nos idees a cet egard ne sont point encore publies etquil reste de plus a reconnaitre les regles qui determinaient lechoix des ornements et des decorations selon la destination donnee achaque genre dedifice Ce point important pour la science ne peut etreeclairci que sur les lieux et par des personnes versees dans laconnaissance des symboles et du culte egyptiens car les plus simplesornements de cette architecture sont des emblemes parlants et tellefrise qui ne semble contenir que des arabesques ou une compositioncalculee pour loeil seulement renferme un precepte une date ou unfait historiqueLes doctrines le plus generalement adoptees sur _lart egyptien_ et surle degre davancement auquel ce peuple etait reellement parvenu soit ensculpture soit en peinture sont essentiellement fausses les nouvellesdecouvertes ont pu jeter de grands doutes sur leur exactitude mais cesdoctrines ne peuvent etre ramenees au vrai et assises sur des fondementssolides que par de nouvelles recherches faites sur les grands edificespublics de Thebes et des autres capitales de lEgypte Cest aussilunique moyen de decider clairement limportante question que desesprits diversement prevenus agitent encore si vivement celle de latransmission des arts de lEgypte a la GreceNos connaissances sur _la religion_ et le culte des Egyptiens nesetendent encore que sur les parties purement materielles lesmonuments de petites proportions nous font bien connaitre les noms etles attributs des divinites principales mais comme ces memes monumentsproviennent tous des catacombes et des sepultures nous navons derenseignements detailles que pour les personnages mystiques protecteursdes morts et presidant aux divers etats de lame apres sa separation ducorps La religion des hautes classes qui differait de celle destombeaux nest retracee que dans les sanctuaires des temples et leschapelles des palais sur ces edifices couverts interieurement etexterieurement de basreliefs colories charges de legendesinnombrables relatives a chaque personnage mythologique dont ilsretracent limage les divinites egyptiennes de tous les ordreshierarchiquement figurees et mises en rapport sont accompagnees de leurgenealogie et de tous leurs titres de maniere a faire completementconnaitre leur rang leur filiation leurs attributs et les fonctionsque chacune delles etait censee remplir dans le systeme theologiqueegyptien Il reste donc encore a reconnaitre sur les constructions delEgypte la partie la plus relevee et la plus importante de lamythologie egyptienneToutes les branches si variees des _arts_ et tous les procedes del_industrie egyptienne_ sont encore loin de nous etre connus On a bienrecueilli quelques tableaux et des inscriptions relatives a un certainnombre de metiers tels que la charpenterie la menuiserie la tanneriela construction navale le transport des masses la verrerie lart ducharron du forgeron du cordonnier de lemailleur etc etc etcmais les voyageurs qui ont dessine ces tableaux ont pour la plupartneglige les legendes explicatives qui les accompagnent et aucun deuxnetait en etat de lire sur les monuments ou ces tableaux ont etecopies les dates precises de lepoque ou ces divers arts furentpratiques Nous ignorons donc si la plupart de ces arts sont vraimentdorigine egyptienne propres a lEgypte ou sils ont ete introduitspar linfluence des peuples anciens qui comme les Perses les Grecs etles Romains ont tenu ce pays sous leur domination Cest donc encoreici une question tresimportante a eclaircir pour lhistoire delindustrie humaine et cependant il en est beaucoup dautres encore etdun interet bien plus releveSi lhistorien senquiert dabord des basreliefs historiques etethnographiques des scenes domestiques qui peignent les moeurs de lanation et celles des souverains etc _il demande precisement lesobjets qui sont le moins eclaircis_ Ainsi sexprimait il y a douzeans M de Heeren un des hommes les plus distingues de lAllemagne ettout ce quon a publie depuis loin de remplir cette importante lacunena pu quaugmenter encore les regrets des savants qui apprennentseulement par des dessins pris au hasard au milieu de series immensesde basreliefs que les grands edifices de lEgypte offrent encoresculptee dans tous ses details lhistoire entiere de ses plus grandssouverains et que des compositions dune immense etendue y retracentles epoques les plus glorieuses de lhistoire des Egyptiens car cepeuple a voulu quon put lire sur les murs des palais lhistoire de sesplus illustres monarques et

Produced by Janet Kegg and PG Distributed ProofreadersIllustration WITH A GRINDING CRASH THE EARTH ON WHICH JOESTOOD WENT OUT FROM UNDER HIMTHE MOVING PICTURE BOYS AT PANAMAORStirring Adventures Along the Great CanalByVICTOR APPLETON1915CONTENTSCHAPTER I TO THE RESCUE II ON THE BRINK III A SURPRISE IV A DELAYED LETTER V ANOTHER SURPRISE VI SOMETHING QUEER VII IN NEW YORK VIII OFF FOR PANAMA IX THE LITTLE BOX X THE SECRET CONFERENCE XI ALONG THE CANAL XII ALMOST AN ACCIDENT XIII IN THE JUNGLE XIV IN DIRE PERIL XV IN CULEBRA CUT XVI THE COLLISION XVII THE EMERGENCY DAM XVIII THE BIG SLIDE XIX JOES PLIGHT XX AT GATUN DAM XXI MR ALCANDOS ABSENCE XXII A WARNING XXIII THE FLASHLIGHT XXIV THE TICKTICK XXV MR ALCANDO DISAPPEARSTHE MOVING PICTURE BOYS AT PANAMACHAPTER ITO THE RESCUEWith a series of puffs and chugs a big shiny motorcycle turned from the road into the graveled drive at the side ofa white farmhouse Two boys sat on the creaking saddles The oneat the front handle bars threw forward the clutch lever and thenturned on the power sharply to drive the last of the gases out ofthe twin cylindersThe motor cycle came to a stop near a shed and the two ladsswinging off looked at each other for a momentSome ride that observed one You had her going then BlakeJust a little Joeyes It was a nice level stretch and Iwanted to see what she could doYou didnt let her out to the full at that did youI should say not answered the one who had ridden in front andguided the steed of steel and gasoline Shell do better thanninety miles an hour on the level but I dont want to ride on herwhen shes doing itNor I Well it was a nice little run all right Funny thoughthat we didnt get any mail wasnt itIt sure was I think somebody must be robbing the postofficefor we ought to have had a letter from Mr Hadley before thisand he laughed at his own jokeYes agreed Joe and I ought to have had one fromHe stopped suddenly and a blush suffused the tan of his cheeksMight as well say it as think it broke in Blake with anotherlaugh that showed his white even teeth Hasnt Mabel written toyou this weekWhat if she hasnt fired back JoeOh nothing OnlyOnly I suppose you are put out because you havent had a postcardfrom Birdie Lee challenged JoeOh well have it your own way and Blake with a shrug of hisbroad shoulders began to wheel the motor cycle into the shedNo but it is queer isnt it went on Joe Here weve beenback from the flood district over two weeks now and we haventhad a line from Mr Hadley He promised to write too and let usknow what sort of moving pictures he might be in line for nextOur vacation will soon be over and we dont want to be idleThats right agreed his chum Theres no money in sittingaround when the film isnt running Oh well I suppose MrHadley has been so busy that he hasnt had time to make his plansBesides Blake went on you know there was a lot of troubleover the Mississippi flood picturesreels of film getting lostand all thatto say nothing of the dangers our friends ranBirdie Lee said shed never forget what they sufferedI dont blame her Well maybe they havent got straightened outenough yet to feel like writing But it sure is nice here and Idont mind if we stay another week or so and he looked up thepleasant valley on one side of which was perched the farmhousewhere the two moving picture boys had been spending theirvacationIt sure is nice agreed Blake And its lots more fun since wegot this motor cycle for they had lately invested in thepowerful vehicle on which they had made many trips about thesurrounding countryAs Blake went to put the machine in the shed which theirfarmerlandlord had allowed them to use Joe turned to glance backalong the road they had comeThe farmhouse was set up on a little hill above the road and aglimpse of the highway could be had for a long distance It wasthe sight of something coming along this thoroughfare thatattracted Joes attentionWhat are you looking at asked Blake returning after having putaway the motor cycleThat horse and buggy Looks to me as though that horse wasfeeling his oats and that the fellow driving him didnt know anymore about handling the reins than the law allowsThats right Joe If he doesnt look out hell have an upset ora runawayThe vehicle in question was a light buggy drawn by a particularlylarge and spirited horse Seated in the carriage as the boyscould see from their point of vantage were two men Who they werecould not be distinguished at that distance but the carriage wasrapidly coming nearerThere he goes suddenly cried JoeAs his chum spoke Blake saw that one of the reins had partedprobably because the driver pulled on it too hard in trying tobring the restive steed down to a walkOnce the spirited horse felt that he was no longer under controlsave by one line which was worse than none he sprang forwardand at once began to gallop pulling after him the light carriagewhich swayed from side to side threatening every moment tocollapse overturn or at least be torn loose from the horseThere he goes yelled Joe againI should say so agreed Blake There are going to be somedoings soonThis was evident for the horse was running away a