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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

Produced by Sue Asscher and Stephen RadcliffeTHE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY GENTLEMANBy Laurence Sternetwo lines in GreekTo the Right Honourable Mr PittSirNever poor Wight of a Dedicator had less hopes from his Dedicationthan I have from this of mine for it is written in a bye corner of thekingdom and in a retird thatchd house where I live in a constantendeavour to fence against the infirmities of ill health and otherevils of life by mirth being firmly persuaded that every time a mansmilesbut much more so when he laughs it adds something to thisFragment of LifeI humbly beg Sir that you will honour this book by taking itnotunder your Protectionit must protect itself butinto the countrywith you where if I am ever told it has made you smile or canconceive it has beguiled you of one moments painI shall think myselfas happy as a minister of stateperhaps much happier than any one oneonly excepted that I have read or heard ofI am Great Sir and what is more to your Honour I am Good Sir YourWellwisher and most humble FellowsubjectThe AuthorTHE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY GENTVOLUME THE FIRSTChapter 1II wish either my father or my mother or indeed both of them as theywere in duty both equally bound to it had minded what they were aboutwhen they begot me had they duly considerd how much depended upon whatthey were then doingthat not only the production of a rationalBeing was concerned in it but that possibly the happy formation andtemperature of his body perhaps his genius and the very cast of hismindand for aught they knew to the contrary even the fortunes ofhis whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositionswhich were then uppermostHad they duly weighed and considered allthis and proceeded accordinglyI am verily persuaded I should havemade a quite different figure in the world from that in which thereader is likely to see meBelieve me good folks this is not soinconsiderable a thing as many of you may think ityou have all Idare say heard of the animal spirits as how they are transfused fromfather to son c cand a great deal to that purposeWell you maytake my word that nine parts in ten of a mans sense or his nonsensehis successes and miscarriages in this world depend upon their motionsand activity and the different tracks and trains you put them into sothat when they are once set agoing whether right or wrong tis nota halfpenny matteraway they go cluttering like heygo mad and bytreading the same steps over and over again they presently make a roadof it as plain and as smooth as a gardenwalk which when they areonce used to the Devil himself sometimes shall not be able to drivethem off itPray my Dear quoth my mother have you not forgot to wind up theclockGood G cried my father making an exclamation but takingcare to moderate his voice at the same timeDid ever woman since thecreation of the world interrupt a man with such a silly question Praywhat was your father sayingNothingChapter 1IIThen positively there is nothing in the question that I cansee either good or badThen let me tell you Sir it was a veryunseasonable question at leastbecause it scattered and dispersed theanimal spirits whose business it was to have escorted and gone hand inhand with the Homunculus and conducted him safe to the place destinedfor his receptionThe Homunculus Sir in however low and ludicrous a light he may appearin this age of levity to the eye of folly or prejudiceto the eye ofreason in scientific research he stands confessda Being guarded andcircumscribed with rightsThe minutest philosophers who by the byehave the most enlarged understandings their souls being inversely astheir enquiries shew us incontestably that the Homunculus is createdby the same handengenderd in the same course of natureendowdwith the same locomotive powers and faculties with usThat heconsists as we do of skin hair fat flesh veins arteriesligaments nerves cartilages bones marrow brains glands genitalshumours and articulationsis a Being of as much activityand in allsenses of the word as much and as truly our fellowcreature as my LordChancellor of EnglandHe may be benefittedhe may be injuredhemay obtain redress in a word he has all the claims and rights ofhumanity which Tully Puffendorf or the best ethick writers allow toarise out of that state and relationNow dear Sir what if any accident had befallen him in his wayaloneor that through terror of it natural to so young a travellermy little Gentleman had got to his journeys end miserably spenthismuscular strength and virility worn down to a threadhis own animalspirits ruffled beyond descriptionand that in this sad disorderdstate of nerves he had lain down a prey to sudden starts or aseries of melancholy dreams and fancies for nine long long monthstogetherI tremble to think what a foundation had been laid fora thousand weaknesses both of body and mind which no skill of thephysician or the philosopher could ever afterwards have set thoroughlyto rightsChapter 1IIITo my uncle Mr Toby Shandy do I stand indebted for the precedinganecdote to whom my father who was an excellent natural philosopherand much given to close reasoning upon the smallest matters had oftand heavily complained of the injury but once more particularly asmy uncle Toby well rememberd upon his observing a most unaccountableobliquity as he calld it in my manner of setting up my top andjustifying the principles upon which I had done itthe old gentlemanshook his head and in a tone more expressive by half of sorrow thanreproachhe said his heart all along foreboded and he saw it verifiedin this and from a thousand other observations he had made upon meThat I should neither think nor act like any other mans childButalas continued he shaking his head a second time and wiping awaya tear which was trickling down his cheeks My Tristrams misfortunesbegan nine months before ever he came into the worldMy mother who was sitting by lookd up but she knew no more thanher backside what

Produced by Brendan Lane Garrett Alley and PG Distributed ProofreadersTHE BOOKBILLS OF NARCISSUSAN ACCOUNT RENDERED BY RICHARD LE GALLIENNEWITH A FRONTISPIECE BY ROBERT FOWLER1895TABLE OF CHAPTERS I INTRODUCTORY II STILL INTRODUCTORY BUT THIS TIME OF A GREATER THAN THE WRITER III IN WHICH NARCISSUS OPENS HIS GLADSTONE IV ACCOUNTS RENDERED V AN IDYLL OF ALICE SUNSHINE WHICH REALLY BELONGS TO THE LAST CHAPTER VI THE SIBYLLINE BOOKS VII THE CHILDREN OF APOLLOVIII GEORGE MUNCASTER IX THAT THIRTEENTH MAID X IN VISHNULAND WHAT AVATARTO MILDRED Always thy book too late acknowledged thine Now when thine eyes no earthly page may read Blinded with death or blinded with the shine Of loves own lore celestial Small need Forsooth for thee to read my earthly line That on immortal flowers of fancy feed What should my angel do to stoop to mine Flowers of decay of no immortal seed Yet love if in thy lofty dwellingplace Higher than notes of any soaring bird Beyond the beam of any solar light A song of earth may scale the awful height And at thy heavenly window find thy face know my voice shall never fall unheard_December 6th_ 1894NOTE_This third edition has been revised and Chapter V is entirelynew_CHAPTER IINTRODUCTORYA WORD OF WISDOM FOUND WRITTEN LIKE THE MOST ANCIENT ONLEATHERAh old mens boots dont go there sir said the bootmaker to me oneday as he pointed to the toes of a pair I had just brought him formending It was a significant observation I thought and as I went onmy way home writing another such chronicle with every springing stepit filled me with much reflectionlargely of the nature of platitude Ihave little doubt such reflection Reader as is even already I doubtless rippling the surface of your mind with everwidening circles Yesyou sigh with an air it is in the unconscious autobiographies we areevery moment writingnot those we publish in two volumes and asupplementwhere the truth about us is hid Truly it is a thought thathas thrilled dead bosoms I agree but why be afraid of it for thatReader Truth is not become a platitude only in our day The Preacherknew it for such some considerable time ago and yet he did not fear towrite and set in order many proverbsYou have kept a diary for how many years Thirty dear me But have youkept your winebills If you ever engage me to write that life whichof course must some day be writtenI wouldnt write it myselfdonttrouble about your diary Lend me your private ledger There the actionlies in his true natureYet I should hardly perhaps have evoked this particular corollary fromthat man of leathers observation if I had not chanced one evening tocome across those old bookbills of my friend Narcissus about which Ihave undertaken to write here and been struckwellnigh awestruckbythe wonderful manner in which there lay revealed in them the story ofthe years over which they ran To a stranger I am sure they would befull of meaning but to me who lived so near him through so much of thetime how truly pregnant does each briefest entry seemTo Messrs Oldbuck and Sons they alas often came to be but so manyaccounts rendered to you being a philosopher they would as I havesaid mean more but to me they mean all that great sunrise the youthof NarcissusMany modern poets still young enough are fond of telling us wheretheir youth lies buried That of Narcissuswould ye knowrests amongthese old accounts Lo I would perform an incantation I throw theseold leaves into the _elixir vitae_ of sweet memory as Dr Heideggerthat old rose into his wonderful crystal water Have I power to makeNarcissus rose to bloom again so that you may know something of thebeauty it wore for us I wonder I would I had I must tryCHAPTER IISTILL INTRODUCTORY BUT THIS TIME OF A GREATER THAN THE WRITEROn the lefthand side of Tithefields just as one turns out of PrinceStreet in a certain wellknown Lancashire town is the unobtrusivebookshop of Mr Samuel Dale It must however be a very superficialglance which does not discover in it something characteristicdistinguishing it from other secondhand shops of the same size andstyleThere are alas treatises on farriery in the window geographieschemistries and French grammars on the trestles outside for Samuelalbeit so great a philosopher as indeed to have founded quite a schoolmust nevertheless live Those two cigars and that noggin of whiskeywhich he purchases with such a fine solemnity as he and I go hometogether for occasional symposia in his bachelor lodgingthose I saycome not without sale of such treatises such geographies chemistriesand French grammarsBut I am digressing There is a distinguishing air I but meant to sayabout the little shop Looking closer one generally finds that it comesof a choice bit of old binding or the quaint titlepage of some tunefulElizabethan It was an old Crashaw that first drew me inside andthough for some reason I did not buy it then I bought it a year afterbecause to it I owed the friendship of Samuel DaleAnd thus for three bright years that little shop came to be for a dailyhour or so a blessed palmtree away from the burden and heat of thenoon a holy place whither the moneychangers and such as sold dovesmight never come let their clamour in the outer courts ring never soloud There in Samuels talk did two wearyhearted bondservants ofEgypt draw a breath of the Infinite into their lives of the desk therecould they sit awhile by the eternal springs and feel the beating ofthe central heartSo it happened one afternoon about five years ago that I dropped inthere according to wont But Samuel was engaged with some

Produced by Amy M Zelmer Sue AsscherTHE MAKERS OF AUSTRALASIAEARLY VOLUMESIN PREPARATIONCAPTAIN COOK and his Predecessors in Australasian Waters by REGINALDFORD FRGS Member of the British National Antarctic ExpeditionGOVERNOR PHILLIP and his Immediate successors BY FM BLADEN ChiefLibrarian Public Library SydneyEDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD by THE EDITORSIR GEORGE GREY by JAMES COLLIER sometime Librarian General AssemblyLibrary WellingtonIllustration Captain Charles Sturt aged about 54 years From thepainting by CrosslandTHEEXPLORERS OF AUSTRALIAAND THEIR LIFEWORKBYERNEST FAVENCExplorer and Author of The History of Australian Exploration TheGeographical Development of Australia Tales of the Austral Tropics TheSecret of the Australian Desert etc and Voices of the Desert Poems1908AUTHORS PREFACEIn presenting to the public this history of those makers of Australasiawhose work consisted in the exploration of the surface of the continentof Australia I have much pleasure in drawing the readers attention tothe portraits which illustrate the text It is I venture to say themost complete collection of portraits of the explorers that has yet beenpublished in one volume Some of them of course must needs beconventional but many of them such as the portrait of Oxley when ayoung man and of AC Gregory have never been given publicity beforeand in many cases I have selected early portraits whenever I had theopportunity in preference to the oft published portrait of the samesubject when advanced in yearsThere are many who assisted me in the collection of these portraits ToMr F Bladen of the Public Library Sydney Mr Malcolm Fraser ofPerth Western Australia Mr Thomas Gill of Adelaide Sir John ForrestThe Reverend J Milne Curran Mr Archibald Meston and many others mybest thanks are due In fact in such a work as this one cannot hope forsuccess unless he seek the assistance of those who remembered theexplorers in life or have heard their friends and relatives talkfamiliarly of them Let me particularly hope that from these pages ouryouth who should be interested in the exploration of their native landwill form an adequate idea of the character of the men who helped to makeAustralia and of some of the adverse conditions against which theystruggled so noblyERNEST FAVENCSydney 1908BIBLIOGRAPHYThe published Journals of all the Explorers of AustraliaReports of Explorations published in Parliamentary PapersHistory of New South Wales from the Records Barton and BladenAccount of New South Wales by Captain Watkin TenchManuscript Diaries of Blaxland Lawson and WentworthManuscript Diaries of GW Evans Macquarie and Lachlan RiversThe Pioneers of Victoria and South Australia by various writersContemporaneous Australian Journals of the several StatesPrivate letters and memoranda of persons in all the StatesManuscript Diary of Charles BonneyPamphlets and other bound extracts on the subject of explorationThe Year Book of Western AustraliaRecords of the Geographical Societies of South Australia and VictoriaRussells Genesis of QueenslandBiographical Notes by JH MaidenSpinifex and Sand by David CarnegieINTRODUCTIONIn introducing this book I should like to commend it to its readers asgiving an account of the explorers of Australia in a simple and conciseform not hitherto availableIt introduces them to us tells the tale of their longtried patience andstubborn endurance how they lived and did their work and gives a shortbut graphic outline of the work they accomplished in opening out andpreparing Australia as another home for our race on this side of theworldThe battle that they fought and won was over great natural difficultiesand obstacles as fortunately there were no ferocious wild beasts inAustralia while the danger from the hostility of the aborigines thougha barbarous people was with care and judgment with a few exceptionsavoidedTheir triumph has resulted in peaceful progress and in permanentoccupation and settlement of a vast continentOf all the Australian explorers the fate of Leichhardt the Franklinof Australia as the author so justly terms him is alone shrouded inmystery No man knoweth his sepulchre to this day His party of sixwhite men including Leichhardt and two black boys with 12 horses 13mules 50 bullocks and 270 goats have never been heard of since theyleft McPhersons station on the Cogoon on 3rd April 1848 and althoughthere have been several attempts to unravel the mystery there isscarcely a possibility of any discovery in regard to their fate everbeing madeThere can be no doubt that the fascination concerning the work of theearly explorers of Australia will gather strength as it goes Hitherto wehave been too close to them rightly to appreciate what was done Thisbook therefore comes at an opportune time and is a valuable record Theauthor has already done a great service to Australian explorations by hiswritings and in the present instance has added to our obligation to himby condensing the records into a smaller compass and by that means hasbrought it within convenient limits for use in schools and for generalreadersOf the explorers of Australia eleven have been honoured by being placedon the Golden Roll Gold Medallists of the Royal Geographical Society ofLondon Edward John Eyre being the first to receive the honour in 1843and Ernest Giles being the eleventh and last to receive it in 1880 Inthe order of Nature one generation passeth away and another generationcometh and so it comes to pass that every one on the Golden Roll exceptmyself has gone to the undiscovered country from whose bourn no travellerreturnsThat the Australian people will always remember the deeds of those whoin their day and generation under arduous and difficult conditionsdevoted themselves to the exploration of the Continent goes withoutsaying and I who in bygone years had the honour of assisting in thetask heartily wish that such fruit may be born of those deeds thatAustralia will continue to increase and flourish more and moreabundantly and thus fulfil her destiny as the great civilising anddominating power in the Southern SeasJOHN FORRESTThe BungalowHay Street PerthWestern AustraliaJanuary 7th 1908CONTENTSPREFACEBIBLIOGRAPHYINTRODUCTION by Sir John ForrestCONTENTSLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSTABLE OF CONTENTSPART 1 EASTERN AUSTRALIACHAPTER 1 ORIGINS11 Governor Phillip12 Captain Tench13 The Blue Mountains Barallier14 The Blue Mountains BlaxlandCHAPTER 2 GEORGE WILLIAM EVANS21 First Inland Exploration22 The Lachlan River23 The Unknown WestCHAPTER 3 JOHN OXLEY31 General Biography32 His First Expedition33 The Liverpool Plains34 The Brisbane RiverCHAPTER 4 HAMILTON HUME41 Early Achievements42 Discovery of the

Produced by Ron BurkeyLIFE OF JOHN STERLINGBy Thomas CarlyleTranscribers Note Italics in the text are indicated by the use of anunderscore as delimiter _thusly_ All footnotes have been collected atthe end of the text and numbered sequentially in brackets thuslyOne illustration has been omitted The pound symbol has been replacedby the word pounds Otherwise all spelling punctuation etc havebeen left as in the printed textTaken from volume 2 of Carlyles Complete Works which additionallycontains the LatterDay Pamphlets to be provided as a separate etextPART ICHAPTER I INTRODUCTORYNear seven years ago a short while before his death in 1844 JohnSterling committed the care of his literary Character and printedWritings to two friends Archdeacon Hare and myself His estimate of thebequest was far from overweening to few men could the small sumtotalof his activities in this world seem more inconsiderable than in thoselast solemn days it did to him He had burnt much found much unworthylooking steadfastly into the silent continents of Death and Eternity abrave mans judgments about his own sorry work in the field of Time arenot apt to be too lenient But in fine here was some portion of hiswork which the world had already got hold of and which he could notburn This too since it was not to be abolished and annihilated butmust still for some time live and act he wished to be wisely settledas the rest had been And so it was left in charge to us the survivorsto do for it what we judged fittest if indeed doing nothing did notseem the fittest to us This message communicated after his deceasewas naturally a sacred one to Mr Hare and meAfter some consultation on it and survey of the difficulties anddelicate considerations involved in it Archdeacon Hare and I agreedthat the whole task of selecting what Writings were to be reprintedand of drawing up a Biography to introduce them should be left to himalone and done without interference of mineas accordingly it was 1in a manner surely far superior to the common in every good quality ofediting and visibly everywhere bearing testimony to the friendlinessthe piety perspicacity and other gifts and virtues of that eminent andamiable manIn one respect however if in one only the arrangement had beenunfortunate Archdeacon Hare both by natural tendency and by hisposition as a Churchman had been led in editing a Work not free fromecclesiastical heresies and especially in writing a Life very full ofsuch to dwell with preponderating emphasis on that part of his subjectby no means extenuating the fact nor yet passing lightly over it whicha layman could have done as needing no extenuation but carefullysearching into it with the view of excusing and explaining it dwellingon it presenting all the documents of it and as it were spreading itover the whole field of his delineation as if religious heterodoxy hadbeen the grand fact of Sterlings life which even to the Archdeaconsmind it could by no means seem to be _Hinc illae lachrymae_ For theReligious Newspapers and Periodical Heresyhunters getting very livelyin those years were prompt to seize the cue and have prosecutedand perhaps still prosecute it in their sad way to all lengths andbreadths John Sterlings character and writings which had littlebusiness to be spoken of in any Churchcourt have hereby been carriedthither as if for an exclusive trial and the mournfulest set ofpleadings out of which nothing but a misjudgment _can_ be formedprevail there ever since The noble Sterling a radiant child of theempyrean clad in bright auroral hues in the memory of all that knewhimwhat is he doing here in inquisitorial _sanbenito_ with nothingbut ghastly spectralities prowling round him and inarticulatelyscreeching and gibbering what they call their judgment on himThe sin of Hares Book says one of my Correspondents in those yearsis easily defined and not very condemnable but it is neverthelessruinous to his task as Biographer He takes up Sterling as a clergymanmerely Sterling I find was a curate for exactly eight months duringeight months and no more had he any special relation to the Church Buthe was a man and had relation to the Universe for eightandthirtyyears and it is in this latter character to which all the others werebut features and transitory hues that we wish to know him His battlewith hereditary Church formulas was severe but it was by no means hisone battle with things inherited nor indeed his chief battleneither according to my observation of what it was is it successfullydelineated or summed up in this Book The truth is nobody that hadknown Sterling would recognize a feature of him here you would neverdream that this Book treated of _him_ at all A pale sickly shadow intorn surplice is presented to us here weltering bewildered amidheaps of what you call Hebrew Oldclothes wrestling with impotentimpetuosity to free itself from the baleful imbroglio as if thathad been its one function in life who in this miserable figure wouldrecognize the brilliant beautiful and cheerful John Sterling withhis everflowing wealth of ideas fancies imaginations with his frankaffections inexhaustible hopes audacities activities and generalradiant vivacity of heart and intelligence which made the presence ofhim an illumination and inspiration wherever he went It is too badLet a man be honestly forgotten when his life ends but let him not bemisremembered in this way To be hung up as an ecclesiastical scarecrowas a target for heterodox and orthodox to practice archery upon is nofate that can be due to the memory of Sterling It was not as a ghastlyphantasm choked in Thirtyninearticle controversies or miserableSemitic AntiSemitic streetriotsin scepticisms agonizedselfseekings that this man appeared in life nor as such if the worldstill wishes to look at him should you suffer the worlds memory of himnow to be Once for all it is unjust emphatically untrue as an imageof John Sterling perhaps to few men that lived along with him couldsuch an interpretation of their existence be more inapplicableWhatever truth there might be in these rather passionaterepresentations and to myself there wanted not a painful feeling oftheir truth

Produced by The Internet Archive Childrens Library The Universityof Florida David King and the Online Distributed Proofreading TeamThe Baldwin LibraryRMBUniversity of FloridaFROM THE LIBRARY OFPAUL VIRGINIA CROWLEYOUR GIFTBOSTONABEL TOMPKINS NO 38 CORNHILL1851Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1850By ABEL TOMPKINSIn the Clerks Office of the District Court of the District ofMassachusettsDEDICATIONWe offer no words of inspired thoughtNo gems from the mines of wisdom broughtNo flowers of language to deck the pageNo borrowed glories of Muse or SageBut an offering simple and pure we bringAnd a wreath of wild roses around it flingNot culled from the shades of enamelled bowersBut watered by loves own gentle showersIn tones of affection we here would speakTo waken an echo of love we seekWe mingle our tears for the early deadTo the land of spirits before us fledWhile a moral we humbly would here entwineWith the flowers we lay on affections shrineWe pray that the light of religion may dawnTo brighten our pathway each coming mornThen with love for each other OUR GIFT we bringAnd love for the memories that round it clingAnd trust in the hopes that are lighted hereTo burn with new brightness each passing yearAnd as Time moves on with unceasing treadAnd the flowers of youth are withered and deadMay no sigh of regret to the past be givenAs it peacefully fades in the light of HeavenPREFACEOUR GIFT has been prepared as a token of affection for our Sundayschool Pupils and it is hoped that it may serve a similar purpose inthe hands of other teachers It has been said that _He who gives histhought gives a part of himself_ It was this idea that suggested theoffering we now bring We do not claim for it especial excellence Weare aware that its pages have not uniform merit When we state that theyare from the pens of twentyfive different teachers few of whom areaccustomed to write for the public eye we offer the only apology forthe imperfections of the work which in our judgment the circumstancesof the case demand If this explanation shall not cause the critic tothrow the work aside we would welcome him to whatever pleasure he mayfind in its perusal Of the defects which it contains we prefer toshare jointly the responsibility and have therefore omitted to attachsignatures to the several articles The shorter paragraphs scatteredthrough the work embody ideas from several contributions which havebeen excluded by its narrow limits Such as it is we present it to thepublic generally and especially to our pupils as a slight token of theardent love we bear them humbly praying that the moral lessons itcontains may find a place in their hearts and contribute to theformation of such a character as involves within itself the highest formof blessingTEACHERS OF THE SCHOOL STREET UNIVERSALIST SUNDAY SCHOOL BOSTONCONTENTSDedicationPrefaceRemember meHonor thy ParentsUncharitable JudgmentBoys become MenTo the Portrait of Father BallouSusans Repentance and Appeal to her Elder SisterLittle EmmaThe Old Sabbath SchoolroomThe Hunter and his Dog JowlerA FableTake Care of your BooksMy NieceTeachers LibraryScholars LibraryAgathaResponsibilityDuty of ParentsA Scholars Remembrance of the PicNic of 1850Rain DropsObey the RulesThe Ways of ProvidenceTo AlbertaThe Discontented SquirrelA FableSchool Street SocietyThe Example of the BeeThe Morning WalkTrue SatisfactionFemale EducationOne FamilySummer ThoughtsA FableA Talk with the ChildrenUncle JimmyThe Childs Dream of HeavenThe Influence of Sabbath SchoolsMemorySelfishnessTroubleRevengeA Biographical SketchThe Sabbath School BoysFear of DeathIll TemperReadingA Sabbath School ExcursionChrist and DutyOUR GIFTREMEMBER MERemember me How swift the tide Of memory glideth oer the pastThose sunny hours so quickly sped Perchance a few with clouds oercastBut memory hath more lasting flowers Which Times rude hand can neer effaceThe sweets we cull from friendships bowers The gems affections altar graceRemember me In youths bright morn Those simple words so lightly spokenFar into future years may reach And wake a spell which neer is brokenA star to gleam in Memorys sky A line on Memorys page to glowA smile to offer at her shrine Or tears which from her springs shall flowRemember me As one by one The cherished ties of earth are tornThe magic spell which Memory weaves Shall long in kindred hearts be wornAnd when the last farewell is said A solace to each heart shall beThe memory of that love which spoke In parting tones Remember meHONOR THY PARENTSCONVERSATION IHonor thy father and thy motherWell Clara said Mary as they left the church shall we go now andtake a walk before we go home Look there are William Johnson andGeorge Field waiting to see which way we shall turn in order toaccompany usNot this afternoon answered Clara I think we had better go homeThey continued their way homeward until they reached the street whereClara lived and were about to part when Mary asked her companion atwhat time she would meet her the next morning to take a long walkadding that William and George would go with themI will ask mother replied Clara and if she is willing I will meetyou at six oclockHow is this said Mary you never used to say you would ask yourmother besides there can be no possible objection to our going to takea walkTrue rejoined Clara there can be no objection to our taking a walkbut we have never told our mothers that William and George are in thehabit of going with usWell I dont see any _great_ harm in their going with us continuedMary with a tone which indicated that she did not see _any_ harm_whatever_ in itPerhaps there is not and yet Mary I have thought that there mightbe therefore I prefer to speak to my mother about itAnd pray Miss Clara what has made you so conscientious all at onceI will tell you Mary You recollect that on the last Sabbath ourpastor took for his text the fifth commandmentYes I doWell something which he said caused me to think more about thesewords than I ever did before and the more I think of them the moreconvinced I am that we do

Produced by Joshua Hutchinson Josephine Paolucci and theOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetThis file was produced from images generously madeavailable by Cornell University Digital CollectionsTHEATLANTIC MONTHLY_A Magazine of Literature Science Art and Politics_VOL XVIIIOCTOBER 1866NO CVIIIEntered according to Act of Congress in the year 1866 by TICKNOR ANDFIELDS in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the District ofMassachusettsTranscribers Note Minor typos have been corrected and footnotes movedto the end of the articleCHILDHOOD A STUDYThere is a rushing southwest wind It murmurs overhead among thewillows and the little riverwaves lap and wash upon the point belowbut not a breath lifts my hair down here among the treetrunks closeto the water Clear water ripples at my feet and a mile and more awayacross the great bay of the wide river the old compact brickred citylies silent in the sunshine Silent I say truly to me here it ismotionless and silent But if I should walk up into State Street and sayso my truth like many others when uprooted from among theircircumstances would turn into a disagreeable lie Sharp points riseabove the irregular profile of the line of roofs Some are churchspires and some are mastsmixed at the rate of about one church and ahalf to a schooner I smell the clear earthy smell of the pure graysand and the fresh cool smell of the pure water Tiny birdtracks liealong the edge of the water perhaps to delight the soul of somemillennial ichnologist A faint aromatic perfume rises from the stems ofthe willowbushes abraded by the ice of the winter floods I should notperceive it were they not tangled and matted all around so close to myheadJust this side of the city is the monstrous arms factory and over thelevel line of its great dike the chimneys of the attendant village ofboardinghouses peep up like irregular teeth A sailboat glides up theriver A silent brown sparrow runs along the stems of the willowthicket and delicate slender flies now and then alight on me They willdie tonight It is too early in the spring for themThe air is warm and soft Now and here I can write Utter solitudewarmth a landscape and a comfortable seat are the requisites Thefirst and the last are the chiefest if but one of the four could behad I think that as a writer I should take the seat That which ofall my writing I wrote with the fullest and keenest sense of creativepleasure I did while coiled up one summer day among the dry branchesof a fallen tree at the tip of a long promontorylike stretch ofmeadow on the quiet lonely level Glastenbury shore over against theConnecticut State Prison at WethersfieldWell here on the rivershore I begin but I shall not tell when Istop Doubtless there will be a jog in the composition The blue sky andclear water will fade out of my words all at once and a carpet andhotair furnace perhaps will appear NothingThen a life And so I entered this world a being sliding obscurely inamong human beings But whence or whither Those questions belong amongthe gigantic terrible ones insoluble silentthe unansweringprimeval sphinxes of the mind We can sit and stare at such questionsand wonder but staring and wondering are not thought They are close toidiocy both states drop the lower jaw and open the mouth and assumingthe idiotic _physique_ tends if there be any sympathetic and imitativepower to bring on the idiotic state If we stare and wonder too long atsuch questions we may make ourselves idiotsnever philosophersI do not recollect the innocent and sunny hours of childhoodA As toinnocence the remark of a certain ancient and reverend man thoughsour was critically accuratethat it is the weakness of infantslimbs and not their minds which are innocent It is most true Manyan impotent infantine screech or slap or scratch embodies an abandonmentand ecstasy of utter uncontrolled fury scarcely expressible by thegrownup man though he should work the bloodiest murder to express itAnd what adult manifestation except in the violent ward of an insaneretreat or perhaps among savagesthe infants of the worldequalsin exquisite concentration and rapture of fury that childs trick offlinging himself flat down and with kicks and poundings and howlsbanging his head upon the ground Without fear or knowledge his wholebeing centres in the one faculty of anger he hurls the whole of himselfslap against the whole world as readily as at a kitten or a playmateHe would fain scrabble down through the heart of the earth and kill itrend it to pieces if he could If human wickedness can be expressed insuch a mad child you have the whole of itperfectly ignorantperfectly furious perfectly feeble perfectly uselessAnd as to the sunny hours I believe those delights are like thephantasmal glories of elfland When the glamour is taken away thesplendid feasts and draperies and gold and silver and gallant knightsand lovely ladies are seen to have been a squalid misery of poor rootsand scraps tatters and pebbles and bark and dirt misshapen dwarfs andold hags Or else the deceitful vision vanishes all away and was onlyempty unconscious time Or am I indeed unfortunate and inferior toother men in innate qualities in social faculty in truthfulness ofremembranceLet me see Let me set it out as an attorney would say Let me stateand judge those primeval or preliminary or forming years of my lifeHow many were they More at the North than in the hot hurrying SouthAs a rule the Northerner should be twentyfive years old beforeassuming to be a man For my own part I have always had an unpleasantconsciousness which I am only now escaping from of nonprecocityantiprecocity in fact _post_cocity I have been relatively immatureIn important particulars I have been somehow ten years behindmenboys if you likeof my own age The particulars I mean are thoseof intercourse

Produced by Ted Garvin jayam and the Online Distributed ProofreadingTeamA NARRATIVE OF THE SIEGE OF DELHI WITH AN ACCOUNT OFTHE MUTINY AT FEROZEPORE IN 1857BY CHARLES JOHN GRIFFITHS LATE CAPTAIN 61ST REGIMENTEDITED BY HENRY JOHN YONGE LATE CAPTAIN 61ST REGIMENTWITH PLANS AND ILLUSTRATIONSLONDON JOHN MURRAY ALBEMARLE STREET W 1910INTRODUCTIONThe ever memorable period in the history of our Eastern Empire known asthe Great Indian Rebellion or Mutiny of the Bengal army was an epochfraught with the most momentous consequences and one which resulted incovering with undying fame those who bore part in its suppression Thepassions aroused during the struggle the fierce hate animating thebreasts of the combatants the deadly incidents of the strife whichwithout intermission lasted for nearly two years and deluged with bloodthe plains and cities of Hindostan have scarcely a parallel in historyOn the one side religious fanaticism when Hindoo and Mohammedanrestraining the bitter animosity of their rival creeds united togetherin the attempt to drive out of their common country that race which forone hundred years had dominated and held the overlordship of the greaterportion of India On the other side a small band of Englishmen afew thousand white men among millions of Asiatics stood shoulder toshoulder calm fearless determined ready to brave the onslaught oftheir enemies to maintain with undiminished lustre the proud deeds oftheir ancestors and to a man resolved to conquer or to dieWho can recount the numberless acts of heroism the hairbreadth escapesthe anxious days and nights passed by our gallant countrymen who fewin number and isolated from their comrades stood at bay in differentparts of the land surrounded by hundreds of pitiless miscreants tigersin human shape thirsting for their blood And can pen describe thenameless horrors of the timegently nurtured ladies outraged andslain before the eyes of their husbands children and helpless infantsslaughtereda very Golgotha of butchery as all know who have read ofthe Well of CawnporeThe first months of the rebellion were a fight for dear life a constantstruggle to avert entire annihilation for to all who were there itseemed as though no power on earth could save them But Providencewilled it otherwise and after the full extent of the danger wasrealized gloomy forebodings gave way to stern endeavours Men arosegreat in council and in the field statesmen and warriorsLawrenceMontgomery Nicholson Hodson and many others The crisis brought tothe front numbers of daring spirits full of energy and resource ofindomitable resolution and courage men who from the beginning saw themagnitude of the task set before them and with calm judgment faced theinevitable These were they who saved our Indian Empire and who by thedirection of their great organized armies brought those who but a fewyears before had been our mortal enemies to fight cheerfully on ourside and carrying to a successful termination the leaguer of Delhistemmed the tide of the rebellion and broke the backbone of the MutinyThe interest excited amongst all classes of our countrymen by the eventswhich happened during the momentous crisis of 1857 in India can scarcelybe appreciated by the present generation So many years have elapsedthat all those who held high commands or directed the councils of theGovernment have long since died and the young participants in thecontest who survived its toils and dangers are all now past middle ageBut the ofttold tale will still bear repetition and the recital of theachievements of Englishmen during the great Indian rebellion will fillthe hearts of their descendants for all time with pride and incite themto emulate their actions In the hour of danger the heart of the nationis stirred to its profoundest depths the national honour is at stakeand that heritage bequeathed to us by our ancestors must at all hazardsbe preserved Thus it happened in 1857 and the result is well known Soit may again occur and with confidence it may be predicted that as ofyore Britains sons will not be found wanting in the hour of trialthat keeping well in mind the glorious traditions of their race theywill maintain unsullied the reputation of their forefathers and add tothe renown of that Empire on which the sun never setsIt is unnecessary in this place to enter into the causes which ledto the mutiny of the Bengal army These can be read and studied in thegraphic pages of Kaye and Malleson My intention is to give as far asin me lies a truthful account of the events in which I personally borepart and which came under my own immediate observationCONTENTSCHAPTER IFEROZEPORE_May 10 to June 13_Outbreak at MeerutNeglect of arsenalsHMs 61stRegimentCharacteristics of the British troops in IndiaOutbreakunexpectedFirst indication of disaffectionNews of the Mutiny atMeerutSteps taken at FerozeporeWives and families moved to thebarracksA party of the 61st Regiment sent into the fortProceedingswithin the fort45th Regiment of Native Infantry tries to take thefortIt is repulsedCriticism of the Brigadiers conductHis want ofinitiativeThe cantonment firedThe damage doneBells of arms blownupThe 61st dismissed to barracksA patrol orderedState of thecantonmentAction of the mutineersOfficers quartered in thebarracksGrenadiers again on special dutyIndifference displayed bythe BrigadierMeasures adopted for the safety of the cantonmentSearchfor mess propertyParsimony of the GovernmentAnxiety in thePunjabLoyalty of the SikhsSir John Lawrences appeal tothemTheir characteristicsSpread of the MutinyReactionat FerozeporeNightattacksOne in particularTrial ofprisonersSentencesExecutionsCHAPTER IION THE MARCH_June 13 to July 1_A wing of the 61st ordered to DelhiThe five companiesselectedReadiness displayed by the regimentOn the marchCholeraappearsI visit an old friendBadlikiSeraiNews from DelhiEntryinto campCHAPTER IIIBEFORE DELHI_July 1 to September 7_A view of DelhiVicissitudes of the cityIts defencesdefencesTheridgePosition of our campOur positionThe GoorkhasCholeraragingHeat and fliesExecutionsThe Metcalfe picketsA sortieexpectedexpectedHodsonBombardment of Metcalfe picketEnemyreported moving on AliporeA force sent after themThe actiondescribedForces complimented by Sir Henry BarnardHis deathHisservicesOur meagre armamentScarcity of ammunitionAmusingincidentThe Metcalfe houseOur buglecalls in use by the enemyAsortieRuse by the enemys cavalryGallant conduct of LieutenantHills and Major Tombs Bengal ArtilleryExpedition under BrigadierChamberlainChamberlainGallant conduct of Brigadier Wm JonesFightat KishenganjMeeting with an old friendA sad storystoryStory ofC dA victim of the Meerut massacremassacreStrong feeling ofrevenge in all ranksA sortieAttack on Sabzi Mandi pickets and rightridgeAn awkward positionHeavy loss of enemyCholera and othersickness prevalentFishingProvisions etc much appreciatedGeneralReed resigns and is succeeded by General WilsonAttack on Sabzi

Produced by Charles Aldarondo Keren Vergon Julie Barkley and theOnline Distributed Proofreading TeamMY NATIVE LANDThe United States its Wonders its Beauties and its People withDescriptive Notes Character Sketches Folk Lore Traditions Legendsand History for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of theYoungBYJAMES COXAuthor of Our Own Country Missouri at the Worlds Fair Old andNew St Louis An Arkansas Eden Oklahoma Revisited Etc Breathes there a man with soul so dead Who never to himself has said This is my own my native landPROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED1903CONTENTSCHAPTER IOUR NATIONS BIRTHThe Story of Liberty BellImpartial Opinions on the RevolutionaryWarThe Shot that was Heard Around the WorldThe First Committee ofSafetyA Defeat which Equaled a VictoryWashingtons EarnestnessToCongress on HorsebackThe First 4th of July CelebrationCHAPTER IITHE WITCH OF SALEMA Relic of Religious BigotryParson Lawsons Tirade againstWitchcraftExtraordinary Court Records of Old Puritan DaysAllegedSupernatural ConjuringA Man and his Wife both put to DeathCrushedfor Refusing to PleadA Romance of the Old Days of Witch PersecutionCHAPTER IIIIN PICTURESQUE NEW YORKSome Local Errors CorrectedA Trip Down the Hudson RiverThe Last ofthe MohicansThe Home of Rip Van WinkleThe Ladies of Vassar and theirHomeWest Point and its HistorySing Sing PrisonThe Falls ofNiagaraIndians in New York StateCHAPTER IVIN THE CENTER OF THE COUNTRYThe Geographical Center of the United States and its Location West ofthe Mississippi RiverThe Center of PopulationHistory of FortRileyThe Gallant SeventhEarly Troubles of KansasExtermination ofthe BuffaloBut a Few Survivors out of Many MillionsCHAPTER VTHE MORMONS AND THEIR WIVESThe Pilgrimage Across the Bad Lands to UtahIncidents of theMarchSuccess of the New ColonyReligious PersecutionsMurder of anEntire FamilyThe Curse of PolygamyAn Ideal CityHumors of Bathingin Great Salt LakeCHAPTER VITHE INVASION OF OKLAHOMAA History of the Indian NationEarly Struggles of OklahomaBoomersFight between HomeSeekers and SoldiersScenes at the Openingof Oklahoma ProperA Miserable Night on the PrairieA Race forHomesLawlessness in the Old Indian TerritoryCHAPTER VIICOWBOYSREAL AND IDEALA Much Maligned ClassThe Cowboy as he Is and as he is Supposed tobePrairie Fever and how it is CuredLife on the Ranch Thirty YearsAgo and NowSingular Fashions and Changes of CostumeTroublesEncountered by wouldbe Bad MenCHAPTER VIIIWARDS OF OUR NATIVE LANDThe Indians Admirers and CriticsAt School and AfterIndian Courtshipand MarriageExtraordinary DancesGambling by InstinctHowCrossEye Lost his PonyPawning a BabyAmusing and Degrading Sceneson Annuity DayCHAPTER IXCIVILIZATIONACTUAL AND ALLEGEDTried in the Balances and Found WantingIndian ArchersBow and ArrowLoreBarbarous Customs that Die SlowlyGreat Wolf the IndianVanderbiltHow the Seri were Taught a Valuable LessonPlaying withRattlesnakes with ImpunityCHAPTER XOLD TIME COMMUNISTSHouses on Rocks and Sand HillsHow Many Families Dwelt Together inUnityPeculiarities of CostumesPueblo Architecture and Folk LoreAHistoric Struggle and how it EndedLegends Concerning MontezumaCuriousReligious CeremoniesCHAPTER XIHOW CUSTER LIVED AND DIEDRemember CusterAn EyeWitness of the MassacreCuster Cody andAlexisA Ride over the Scenes of the Unequal ConflictMajor RenosMarked FailureHow Sitting Bull Ran Away and Lived to Fight AnotherDayWhy a Medicine Man did not Summon RainCHAPTER XIIAMONG THE CREOLESMeaning of the word CreoleAn Old Aristocratic RelicThe Venice ofAmericaOrigin of the Creole CarnivalsRex and his AnnualDisguisesCreole BallsThe St Louis Veiled ProphetsThe FrenchMarket and other Landmarks in New OrleansA Beautiful Ceremony and anUnfinished MonumentCHAPTER XIIITHE HEATHEN CHINEE IN HIS ELEMENTA Trip to Chinatown San FranciscoA House with a HistoryNarrowAlleys and Secret DoorsOpium Smoking and its EffectsTheHighbindersCelestial TheatricalsChinese FestivalsThe Brighter Sideof a Great CityA Mammoth Hotel and a Beautiful ParkCHAPTER XIVBEFORE EMANCIPATION AND AFTERFirst Importation of Negro Slaves into AmericaThe OriginalAbolitionistsA Colored Enthusiast and a CowardOrigin of the wordSecessionJohn Browns FanaticismUncle Toms CabinFaithful untoDeathGeorge Augustus Sala on the Negro who Lingered too long in theMill PondCHAPTER XVOUR NATIONAL PARKA Delightful RhapsodyEarly History of Yellowstone ParkA Fish Storywhich Convulsed CongressThe First White Man to Visit the ParkA Racefor LifePhilosophy of the Hot SpringsMount EvertsFrom the Geysersto Elk ParkSome Old Friends and New OnesYellowstone LakeTheAnglers ParadiseCHAPTER XVITHE HEROES OF THE IRON HORSEHonor to whom Honor is DueA Class of Men Not Always ThoroughlyAppreciated at their WorthAn Amateurs Ride on a FlyingLocomotiveFrom Twelve Miles an Hour to Six Times that SpeedTheSignal Tower and the Men who Work in itStealing a TrainA Race withSteamStories about Bewitched Locomotives and Providential EscapesCHAPTER XVIIA RAILROAD TO THE CLOUDSEarly History of ManitouZebulon Pikes Important DiscoveryA YoungMedicine Mans Peril and Final TriumphA Health Resort in Years GoneByThe Garden of the GodsThe Railroad up Pikes PeakEarly Failuresand Final SuccessThe Most Remarkable Road in the WorldRiding Abovethe CloudsCHAPTER XVIIIINTO THE BOWELS OF THE EARTHThe Grand Canon of the ColoradoNiagara OutdoneThe Course of theColorado RiverA Survey Party Through the CanonExperiences of aTerrible NightWonderful Contrasts of Color in the Massive RocksANatural Wall a Thousand Feet HighHieroglyphics which have Never beenDecipheredRelics of a Superior RaceConjecture as to the Origin ofthe Ancient Bearded White MenCHAPTER XIXOUR GREAT WATERWAYSImportance of Rivers to Commerce a Generation AgoThe Ideal RiverManThe Great Mississippi River and its Importance to our NativeLandThe Treacherous MissouriA First Mate who Found a Cooks Disguisevery ConvenientHow a Second Mate got over the Inconvenience ofTemporary Financial EmbarrassmentCHAPTER XXTHROUGH THE GREAT NORTHWESTThe Importance of Some of our Newest StatesRomantic History ofMontanaThe Bad Lands and their Exact OppositeCivilization Away Up inthe MountainsIndians who have Never Quarreled with WhiteMenTraditions Concerning Mount TacomaWonderful Towns of the ExtremeNorthwestA State Shaped like a Large ChairThe Falls of ShoshoneCHAPTER XXIIN THE WARM SOUTHEASTFlorida and its Appropriate NameThe First Portions of North AmericaDiscovered by White MenEarly Vicissitudes of its ExplorersAnEnormous Coast LineHow Key West came to be a great Cigar TownTheSuwanee RiverSt Augustine and its WorldRenowned HotelOld FortMarionLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSStatue to Minute ManInterior of Independence Hall PhiladelphiaTomb of General Grant Riverside ParkA Memory of Rip Van WinkleThe Exact Center of United StatesBrigham Youngs Grave Salt Lake CityChief RainintheFace and his Favorite PonyThe Cowboy as He IsCivilized IndiansAn Uncivilized SavageThe Belle of the PuebloCuster Battlefield and MonumentThe Old French Market at New OrleansThe Prettiest Chinese Woman in AmericaYellowstone FallsIn and Around Yellowstone ParkA Marvel of MagnificenceClimbing Pikes Peak by RailHieroglyphic Memoirs of Past AgesA Fin de Siecle Pleasure SteamerWhaleback Steamer on the LakesTwo Views of Mount TacomaA Restful Southern HomeMY NATIVE LANDCHAPTER IOUR NATIONS BIRTHThe Story of Liberty BellImpartial Opinions on the RevolutionaryWarThe Shot that was Heard Around the WorldThe First Committee ofSafetyA Defeat which Equaled a VictoryWashingtons EarnestnessToCongress on

Produced by Internet Archive University of Florida Children HilaryCawsElwitt and the Online Distributed Proofreading TeamIllustration ARTHUR AND HIS DOGARTHUR HAMILTONAND HIS DOG_Written for the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society andapproved by the Committee of Publication_1851ARTHUR HAMILTONCHAPTER ILEAVING HOMEOne pleasant October evening Arthur Hamilton was at play in front ofthe small brown cottage in which he lived He and his brother Jameswere having a great frolic with a large spotted dog who was performinga great variety of antics such as only welleducated dogs understandBut Rover had been carefully initiated into the mysteries of making abow while standing on his hind legs tossing pieces of bread off hisnose putting up his forepaws with a most imploring look and piteouswhine which the boys called begging for money and when a chip hadbeen given him he uttered a most energetic bowwowwow which theyregarded as equivalent to thank you sir and walked offWhile they were thus amusing themselves their mother was sitting on therude piazza which ran along the front of the cottage now looking at themerry children and then thoughtfully gazing at the long shadows whichwere stretching across the road Mrs Hamilton was a woman of wonderfulstrength and energy both of body and mind and she had been sustainedfor many years by the Christians hope but there was now a heavy burdenresting on her soul which even her native energy and Christian trustwere unable to remove She had known many days of worldly prosperitysince she had resided in that little cottage but of late trials hadmultiplied and days and nights of heartcrushing sorrow had beenappointed unto her He who should have shared lifes trials andlightened their weight had proved recreant to his trust and was nowwandering she knew not whither and poverty was staring the desertedfamily in the face Debts had accumulated and though Mrs Hamilton haddone all that could be done to meet the emergency though she hadlabored incessantly and borne fatigue and selfdenial with a brave andcheerful spirit it had been found necessary to leave the home so dearto herthe home where she had been brought a fair and youthful bridewhere she had spent many happy years and which was endeared to her byso many sweet and hallowed as well as painful associations Every footof the green meadow the orchard on the hill and the pasture lyingbeyond was dear to her and it was painful to see them pass into otherhands But that heaviest of all the trials which poverty brings to themothers heart was hers also The conviction had been forced upon herthat she must separate the children and find other homes for such aswere old enough to do any thing for themselves This necessaryseparation had now taken place Her eldest son had gone to a distantsouthern state carrying with him his mothers prayers and blessingsand a strong arm and stout heart with which to win himself a name anda place in his adopted home John the second still remained with herassisting by his unceasing toil to earn a supply for their dailywants Henry the third son a brighteyed youth of sixteen hadattracted the notice of his pastor and by his advice and assistancehad been placed on the list of the beneficiaries of the AmericanEducation Society and was now at an Academy preparing for CollegeJames was living with a farmer in the neighborhood and was now on thegreen with Arthur These changes had already taken place and now couldshe part with Arthurher sweettempered gentle Arthur That was thequestion which agitated and saddened her An offer had been made her byMr Martin who lived in an adjoining town and whom she knew to be anexcellent man He wished to take Arthur and keep him till he wastwentyone would clothe him send him to school and treat him as oneof his own family training him to habits of industry and economy Couldshe hope any thing better for her darling boy There was a youngerbrother and two sisters still remaining at home and embarrassed as shewas ought she not to be grateful for such an opening and thankfullyavail herself of it Such was the view another might take of thesubject but to her it was unspeakably painful to think of theseparation Arthur was ten years old but he was a modest and timid boywhose sensitive nature had led him to cling more closely to his mothersside than his bolder and more active brothersMrs Hamilton knew that this was no time for the indulgence ofsentiment she knew that _duty_ must be done even though everychord of her heart quivered with agony After much consideration andearnest prayer she had concluded to let him go and the thought ofsending him away from her and all he loved among entire strangers waswhat made her so sorrowful She strove to calm herself by thereflection that she had done what seemed to be right and byremembering the blessed promises of Gods Holy Word to the fatherlessand to all those who put their trust in Him With a cheerful voice shecalled the boys telling James it was time for him to go home asCaptain L with whom he lived was a very particular man and would bedispleased if he staid out beyond the proper time Mrs Hamiltons sonshad been trained to obedience and James never thought of lingering andloitering for half an hour as I have seen some boys do after beingtold to go He just gave Rover a good pat on the back and saying ahasty goodnight to his mother and Arthur he ran homeArthur was alone with his mother and she told him of the arrangementshe had made for him and the reasons for it Arthur was quite overcomeat the idea of a separation from the mother he loved so dearly andexclaimedOh mother dont send me away from home I can earn something andwill work very hard if you will only let me stay Please mother let mestay with youIt is quite as painful to me Arthur said his mother to part fromyou as it can be to

Produced by Steven desJardins and the Online Distributed ProofreadingTeamIllustration Frank R StocktonThe Storiesof theThree BurglarsByFRANK R STOCKTON1889THE STORIES OF THE THREE BURGLARSI am a householder in a pleasant country neighbourhood about twentymiles from New York My family consists of myself and wife our boyGeorge William aged two two maidservants and a man but in thesummer we have frequent visitors and at the time of which I am about towrite my Aunt Martha was staying with usMy house is large and pleasant and we have neighbours near enough forsocial purposes and yet not too near or too many to detract from therural aspect of our surroundings But we do not live in a paradise weare occasionally troubled by mosquitoes and burglarsAgainst the first of these annoyances we have always been able to guardourselves at least in a measure and our man and the cook declare thatthey have become so used to them that they do not mind them but toguard against burglars is much more difficult and to become used tothem would I think require a great deal of practiceFor several months before the period of this narrative our neighbourhoodhad been subject to visits from burglars From time to time houses hadbeen entered and robbed and the offenders had never been detectedWe had no police force not even a village organization There was asmall railway station near our house and six miles away was the countytown For fire and police protection each household was obliged todepend upon itselfBefore the beginning of the burglarious enterprises in our midst we hadnot felt the need of much protection in this direction sometimespoultry was stolen but this was a rare occurrence and althoughwindows and doors were generally fastened for the night this labour wasoften considered much more troublesome than necessary But now a greatchange had taken place in the feelings of our community When the firstrobbery occurred the neighbours were inclined to laugh about it and tosay that Captain Hubbards habit of sitting up after the rest of hisfamily had gone to bed and then retiring and forgetting to close thefront door had invited the entrance of a passing tramp But when asecond and a third house where windows and doors had not been leftopen had been entered and in a measure despoiled people ceased tolaugh and if there had been any merriment at all on the subject itwould have been caused by the extraordinary and remarkable precautionstaken against the entrance of thieves by night The loaded pistol becamethe favourite companion of the head of the house those who had nowatchdogs bought them there were new locks new bolts new fasteningsAt one time there was a mounted patrol of young men which however wassoon broken up by their mothers But this trouble was unavailing for atintervals the burglaries continuedAs a matter of course a great many theories were broached as to thereasons for this disturbance in our hitherto peaceful neighbourhood Wewere at such a distance from the ordinary centres of crime that it wasgenerally considered that professional burglars would hardly take thetrouble to get to us or to get away from us and that therefore theoffences were probably committed by unsuspected persons living in thispart of the country who had easy means of determining which houses wereworth breaking into and what method of entrance would be most feasibleIn this way some families hitherto regarded as respectable familieshad fallen under suspicionSo far mine was the only house of any importance within the distance ofa mile from the station which had not in some way suffered fromburglars In one or two of these cases the offenders had been frightenedaway before they had done any other injury than the breaking of awindowshutter but we had been spared any visitation whatever After atime we began to consider that this was an invidious distinction Ofcourse we did not desire that robbers should break into our house andsteal but it was a sort of implied insult that robbers should thinkthat our house was not worth breaking into We contrived however tobear up under this implied contempt and even under the facetiousimputations of some of our lively neighbours who declared that itlooked very suspicious that we should lose nothing and even continue toadd to our worldly goods while everybody else was suffering fromabstractionsI did not however allow any relaxation in my vigilance in theprotection of my house and family My time to suffer had not yetarrived and it might not arrive at all but if it did come it shouldnot be my fault I therefore carefully examined all the new precautionsmy neighbours had taken against the entrance of thieves and where Iapproved of them I adopted themOf some of these my wife and I did not approve For instance a tin pancontaining iron spoons the dinner bell and a miscellaneous collectionof hardware balanced on the top stair of the staircase and so connectedwith fine cords that a thief coming up the stairs would send it rattlingand bounding to the bottom was looked upon by us with great disfavourThe descent of the pan whether by innocent accident or the approach ofa burglar might throw our little boy into a fit to say nothing of theterrible fright it would give my Aunt Martha who was a maiden lady ofmiddle age and not accustomed to a clatter in the night A bulldog inthe house my wife would not have nor indeed a dog of any kind GeorgeWilliam was not yet old enough to play with dogs especially a sharpone and if the dog was not sharp it was of no use to have him in thehouse To the ordinary burglaralarm she strongly objected She had beenin houses where these things went off of their own accord occasioninggreat consternation and besides she said that if thieves got into thehouse she did not want to know it and she did not want me to know itthe quicker they found what they came for and went away with it thebetter Of course she wished them kept out if

Produced by David WidgerCAPTAINS ALLBy WW JacobsCAPTAINS ALLIllustration Captains AllEvery sailorman grumbles about the sea said the nightwatchmanthoughtfully Its human nature to grumble and I spose they keep ongrumbling and sticking to it because there aint much else they can doTheres not many shoregoing berths that a sailorman is fit for andthose that they aresuch as a nightwatchmans for instancewants sucha good character that theres few as are to equal itSometimes they get things to do ashore I knew one man that took upbutchering and e did very well at it till the police took him upAnother man I knew gave up the sea to marry a washerwoman and theyhadnt been married six months afore she died and back he ad to go tosea agin pore chapA man who used to grumble awful about the sea was old Sam Smalla manIve spoke of to you before To hear im go on about the sea arter head spent four or five months money in a fortnight was artbreakingHe used to ask us wot was going to happen to im in his old age and whenwe pointed out that he wouldnt be likely to ave any old age if hewasnt more careful of imself he used to fly into a temper and call useverything e could lay his tongue toOne time when e was ashore with Peter Russet and Ginger Dick he seemedto ave got it on the brain He started being careful of is moneyinstead o spending it and three mornings running he bought a newspaperand read the advertisements to see whether there was any comfortableberth for a strong goodarted man wot didnt like workHe actually went arter one situation and if it hadnt ha been forseventynine other men he said he believed hed ha had a good chance ofgetting it As it was all e got was a black eye for shoving anotherman and for a day or two he was so downarted that e was no company atall for the other twoFor three or four days e went out by imself and then all of a suddenGinger Dick and Peter began to notice a great change in him He seemedto ave got quite cheerful and appy He answered em back pleasant whenthey spoke to im and one night he lay in is bed whistling comic songsuntil Ginger and Peter Russet ad to get out o bed to him When hebought a new necktie and a smart cap and washed imself twice in one daythey fust began to ask each other wot was up and then they asked himUp ses Sam nothingHes in love ses Peter RussetYoure a liar ses Sam without turning roundHell ave it bad at is age ses GingerSam didnt say nothing but he kept fidgeting about as though ed gotsomething on his mind Fust he looked out o the winder then he ummeda tune and at last looking at em very fierce he took a toothbrushwrapped in paper out of is pocket and began to clean is teethHe is in love ses Ginger as soon as he could speakOr else es gorn mad ses Peter watching im Which is it SamSam made believe that he couldnt answer im because o the toothbrushand arter hed finished he ad such a raging toothache that e sat in acorner holding is face and looking the pictur o misery They couldntget a word out of him till they asked im to go out with them and thenhe said e was going to bed Twenty minutes arterwards when Ginger Dickstepped back for is pipe he found he ad gornHe tried the same game next night but the other two wouldnt ave itand they stayed in so long that at last e lost is temper and arterwondering wot Gingers father and mother could ha been athinking aboutand saying that he believed Peter Russet ad been changed at birth for aseasick monkey he put on is cap and went out Both of em folleredim sharp but when he led em to a missionhall and actually wentinside they left im and went off on their ownThey talked it over that night between themselves and next evening theywent out fust and hid themselves round the corner Ten minutesarterwards old Sam came out walking as though e was going to catch atrain and smiling to think ow he ad shaken them off At the corner ofCommercial Road he stopped and bought imself a buttonhole for is coatand Ginger was so surprised that e pinched Peter Russet to make surethat he wasnt dreamingOld Sam walked straight on whistling and every now and then looking downat is buttonhole until byandby he turned down a street on the rightand went into a little shop Ginger Dick and Peter waited for im at thecorner but he was inside for so long that at last they got tired owaiting and crept up and peeped through the winderIt was a little tobacconists shop with newspapers and penny toys andsuchlike but as far as Ginger could see through two rows o pipes andthe Police News it was empty They stood there with their noses pressedagainst the glass for some time wondering wot had appened to Sam butbyandby a little boy went in and then they began to ave an idea wotSams little game wasAs the shopbell went the door of a little parlour at the back of theshop opened and a stout and uncommon goodlooking woman of about fortycame out Her ead pushed the _Police News_ out o the way and her andcame groping into the winder arter a toyGinger ad a good look at er out o the corner of one eye while hepretended to be looking at a tobaccojar with the other As the littleboy came out im and Peter Russet went inI want a pipe please he ses smiling at er a clay pipeone o yourbest The woman handed im

Produced by Juliet Sutherland David Garcia and the Online DistributedProofreading TeamA COMPILATION OF THE MESSAGES AND PAPERS OF THE PRESIDENTSBY JAMES D RICHARDSONA REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE STATE OF TENNESSEEVOLUME IIIPUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF CONGRESS 1902Copyright 1897BY JAMES D RICHARDSONPrefatory NoteThe second volume of this compilation issued a few weeks since wasreceived with the same degree of favor as the first volume It was amatter of surprise that only sixteen years of our history or eightCongresses could be comprised within the second volume while the firstcovered twentyeight years or fourteen Congresses There is greatersurprise that this volume includes only the period covered by the fouryears of the second term of Andrew Jackson and the four years of MartinVan Burens termeight years in all or four Congresses However itwill be found almost if not quite as interesting as the precedingones In it will be found the conclusion of the controversy over theUnited States Bank including President Jacksons reasons for theremoval of the deposits from that bank his Farewell Address and otherimportant papers all of which are characteristic of the man It wasduring the second Administration of President Jackson that the actchanging the ratio between the gold and silver dollar was passedThis volume contains President Van Burens message recommending theindependent treasury or subtreasury and the discussion of that subjectwhich terminated in what has been termed the divorce of the bank andstate in the fiscal affairs of the Federal Government and whichPresident Van Buren considered a second Declaration of Independence Thecontroversy with Great Britain in relation to the northeastern boundaryof the United States is also included in Van Burens Administration andwill prove highly interestingThe omission of indexes to Volumes I and II has been commented on Theanswer to such comments is it was deemed best to omit the index to eachvolume and publish a general and comprehensive index to the entire workin a separate volume This index will be ready for distribution soonafter the issuance of the last volumeJAMES D RICHARDSONNOVEMBER 261896Andrew JacksonMarch 4 1833 to March 4 1837Andrew JacksonSECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESSFELLOWCITIZENS The will of the American people expressed throughtheir unsolicited suffrages calls me before you to pass through thesolemnities preparatory to taking upon myself the duties of President ofthe United States for another term For their approbation of my publicconduct through a period which has not been without its difficultiesand for this renewed expression of their confidence in my goodintentions I am at a loss for terms adequate to the expression of mygratitude It shall be displayed to the extent of my humble abilities incontinued efforts so to administer the Government as to preserve theirliberty and promote their happinessSo many events have occurred within the last four years which havenecessarily called forthsometimes under circumstances the mostdelicate and painfulmy views of the principles and policy which oughtto be pursued by the General Government that I need on this occasion butallude to a few leading considerations connected with some of themThe foreign policy adopted by our Government soon after the formationof our present Constitution and very generally pursued by successiveAdministrations has been crowned with almost complete success and haselevated our character among the nations of the earth To do justice toall and to submit to wrong from none has been during my Administrationits governing maxim and so happy have been its results that we are notonly at peace with all the world but have few causes of controversyand those of minor importance remaining unadjustedIn the domestic policy of this Government there are two objectswhich especially deserve the attention of the people and theirrepresentatives and which have been and will continue to be thesubjects of my increasing solicitude They are the preservation ofthe rights of the several States and the integrity of the UnionThese great objects are necessarily connected and can only be attainedby an enlightened exercise of the powers of each within its appropriatesphere in conformity with the public will constitutionally expressedTo this end it becomes the duty of all to yield a ready and patrioticsubmission to the laws constitutionally enacted and thereby promote andstrengthen a proper confidence in those institutions of the severalStates and of the United States which the people themselves haveordained for their own governmentMy experience in public concerns and the observation of a lifesomewhat advanced confirm the opinions long since imbibed by me thatthe destruction of our State governments or the annihilation of theircontrol over the local concerns of the people would lead directlyto revolution and anarchy and finally to despotism and militarydomination In proportion therefore as the General Governmentencroaches upon the rights of the States in the same proportion doesit impair its own power and detract from its ability to fulfill thepurposes of its creation Solemnly impressed with these considerationsmy countrymen will ever find me ready to exercise my constitutionalpowers in arresting measures which may directly or indirectly encroachupon the rights of the States or tend to consolidate all political powerin the General Government But of equal and indeed of incalculableimportance is the union of these States and the sacred duty of allto contribute to its preservation by a liberal support of the GeneralGovernment in the exercise of its just powers You have been wiselyadmonished to accustom yourselves to think and speak of the Union as ofthe palladium of your political safety and prosperity watching for itspreservation with jealous anxiety discountenancing whatever may suggesteven a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned and indignantlyfrowning upon the first dawning of any attempt to alienate any portionof our country from the rest or to enfeeble the sacred ties which nowlink together the various parts Without union our independence andliberty would never have been achieved without union they never canbe maintained Divided into twentyfour or even a smaller number ofseparate communities we shall see our internal trade burdened withnumberless restraints and exactions communication between distantpoints and sections obstructed or cut off our sons made soldiers todeluge with blood the fields they now till in peace the mass of ourpeople borne down and impoverished by taxes to support armies andnavies and military

Produced by David Starner Garrett Alley and the Online DistributedProofreading TeamBUILDING A STATE IN APACHE LAND From articles of Charles D Poston in the _Overland Express_ 1894 IHow the Territory Was AcquiredIn San Francisco in the early fifties there was a house on thenortheast corner of Stockton and Washington of considerablearchitectural pretensions for the period which was called theGovernment Boarding HouseThe cause of this appellation was that the California senators and theirfamilies a member of Congress and his wife the United States marshaland several lesser dignitaries of the Federal Government resided thereIn those early days private mansions were few so the boardinghouseformed the only home of the ArgonautsAfter the ladies retired at night the gentlemen usually assembled inthe spacious parlor opened a bottle of Sazerac and discussed politicsIt was known to the senators that the American minister in Mexico hadbeen instructed to negotiate a new treaty with Mexico for theacquisition of additional territory not that there was a pressingnecessity for more land but for reasons which will be briefly stated1st By the treaty of 1848 usually called Guadaloupe HidalgoA thegovernment of the United States had undertaken to protect the Mexicansfrom the incursions of Indians within the United States boundary and asthis proved to be an impractical undertaking the damages on account offailure began to assume alarming proportions and the government of theUnited States was naturally anxious to be released from the obligation2 The Democratic party was in the plenitude of power and the SouthernStates were dominant in the Administration It had been the dream ofthis element for many years to construct a railroad from the MississippiRiver to the Pacific Ocean and the additional territory was requiredfor a pass It was not known at that early day that railroads could beconstructed across the Rocky Mountains at a higher latitude and it wasfeared that snow and ice might interfere with traffic in the extremes ofwinterThe State of Texas had already given encouragement to the constructionof such a railroad by a liberal grant of land reaching as far west asthe Rio Grande and it devolved upon the United States to provide themeans of getting on to the Pacific Ocean The intervening countrybelonged at that time to Mexico and for the purpose of acquiring thisland the treaty was authorizedThe condition of affairs in Mexico was favorable to a negotiation SantaAna had usurped the powers of the government and was absolute dictatorunder the name of President There was no Mexican Congress and none hadbeen convened since they were herded together at the conclusion of theMexican War under protection of American troopsThe condition of affairs in the United States was also extremelyfavorable The treasury was overflowing with California gold under thetariff of 1846 business was prosperous the public debt small and thefuture unclouded The American Minister to Mexico General Gadsden ofSouth Carolina was authorized to make several propositions1st Fifty Millions for a boundary line from the mouth of the Rio Grandewest to the Pacific Ocean2nd Twenty millions for a boundary line due east from the mouth of theYaqui River in the Gulf of Mexico to the Rio Grande This was to includethe peninsula of Lower California3rd Ten millions for a boundary line to include the railroad passA treaty was finally concluded for the smaller boundary including therailroad pass comprising the land between the Rio Grande and theColorado Rivers south of the Gila River with the boundary line betweenthe United States and Mexico about the shape of a dogs hind leg Theprice paid for the new territory which was temporarily called theGadsden Purchase was ten million dollarsA check for seven million was given by Mr Guthrie Secretary of theTreasury on the subtreasury in New York to the agent of Santa Anabut not a dollar of it ever reached the Mexican treasury as Santa Anafled with the spoil The remaining three millions were retained to paythe lobby and confirm the treaty The treaty was signed in Mexico onthe 23d day of December 1853Pending the negotiation of the treaty between the high contractingparties in the City of Mexico the discussion of the subject grewinteresting at the Government BoardingHouse in San Francisco and a newCalifornia was hoped for on the southern boundary Old Spanish historywas ransacked for information from the voyages of Cortez in the Gulf ofCalifornia to the latest dates and maps of the country were in greatdemandIn the mean time an agent of the Iturbide family had arrived in SanFrancisco with a Mexican Grant After the execution of the EmperorIturbide the Congress of the Mexican Republic voted an indemnity to thefamily of one million dollars but on account of successive revolutionsthis sum was never at the disposition of the Mexican treasury and inliquidation the Mexican government made the family a grant of land inCalifornia north of the Bay of San Francisco but before the land couldbe located the Americans had acquired the country and it was lostThe heirs then made application to the Mexican government for anothergrant of land in lieu of the California concession and were grantedseven hundred leagues of land to be located in Sonora Sinaloa andLower California in such parcels as they might selectSeven hundred leagues or 3000800 acres is a large tract of land in asingle body and the attorney of the heirs considered it more convenientto locate the land in small tracts of a league or two at a place Thegovernment of Mexico conceded whatever was required and the grant wasmade

Produced by The Internet Archive Childrens Library Ted Garvin andthe Online Distributed Proofreading TeamOLD BALLADS_Illustrated byJOHN EYRE RBA_CONTENTSCOME LASSES AND LADSCOMIN THRO THE RYECHERRYRIPEANNIE LAURIEROBIN ADAIRMOLLY BAWNGO HAPPY ROSETHE ANCHORS WEIGHDALICE GRAYHOME SWEET HOMEJOHN ANDERSON MY JOMY PRETTY JANEROCKD IN THE CRADLE OF THE DEEPTHE MINSTREL BOYON THE BANKS OF ALLAN WATERAULD LANG SYNEWITHIN A MILE OF EDINBURGH TOWNTHE NIGHTPIECE TO JULIATOM BOWLINGMY LOVE IS LIKE THE RED RED ROSEWIDOW MALONETHE JOLLY YOUNG WATERMANCALLER HERRINA HUNTING WE WILL GOHEARTS OF OAKTHE FINE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMANTHE BAY OF BISCAY OBLACKEYED SUSANDUNCAN GRAYTHE BAILIFFS DAUGHTER OF ISLINGTONTHE MILLER OF DEETHE ANGELS WHISPERSIMON THE CELLARERAULD ROBIN GRAYBONNIE DUNDEESALLY IN OUR ALLEYKITTY OF COLERAINEHERES TO THE MAIDEN OF BASHFUL FIFTEENTHE LEATHER BOTTELWOODMAN SPARE THAT TREETHE TOKENO WERT THOU IN THE CAULD BLASTTHE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVELOVELY NANTHE LASS OF RICHMOND HILLTELL ME NOT SWEETSHE WORE A WREATH OF ROSESO NANNY WILT THOU GO WITH MEDYE KEN JOHN PEEL COME LASSES AND LADSCome lasses and lads get leave of your dads And away to the Maypole hieFor evry fair has a sweetheart there And the fiddlers standing byFor Willy shall dance with Jane And Johnny has got his JoanTo trip it trip it trip it trip it Trip it up and downYoure out says Dick not I says Nick Twas the fiddler playd it wrongTis true says Hugh and so says Sue And so says evry oneThe fiddler than began To play the tune againAnd evry girl did trip it trip it Trip it to the menThen after an hour they went to a bowr And playd for ale and cakesAnd kisses toountil they were due The lasses held the stakesThe girls did then begin To quarrel with the menAnd bade them take their kisses back And give them their own againGoodnight says Harry goodnight says Mary Goodnight says Poll to JohnGoodnight says Sue to her sweetheart Hugh Goodnight says evry oneSome walkd and some did run Some loiterd on the wayAnd bound themselves by kisses twelve To meet the next holiday _Anon_COMING THRO THE RYEGin a body meet a body Comin thro the ryeGin a body kiss a body Need a body cryIlka lassie has her laddie Nane they say hae IYet a the lads they smile at me When comin thro the ryeGin a body meet a body Comin frae the townGin a body meet a body Need a body frown Ilka lassie has etcAmang the train there is a swain I dearly loe myselBut what his name or whaur his hame I dinna care to tell Ilka lassie has etc _Anon_CHERRYRIPECherryRipe ripe ripe I cry Full and fair ones come and buyIf so be you ask me whereThey do grow I answer ThereWhere my Julias lips do smileTheres the land or cherry isleWhose plantations fully showAll the year where cherries grow _Herrick_ANNIE LAURIEMaxwelton braes are bonnie Where early fas the dewAnd its there that Annie Laurie Gied me her promise trueGied me her promise true Which neer forgot will beAnd for bonnie Annie Laurie Id lay me doun and deeHer brow is like the snawdrift Her throat is like the swanHer face it is the fairest That eer the sun shone onThat eer the sun shone on And dark blue is her eeAnd for bonnie Annie Laurie Id lay me doun and deeLike dew on the gowan lying Is the fa o her fairy feetAnd like winds in summer sighing Her voice is low and sweetHer voice is low and sweet And shes all the world to meAnd for bonnie Annie Laurie Id lay me doun and dee _Trad_ROBIN ADAIRWhats this dull town to me Robins not nearWhat wast I wishd to see What wishd to hearWheres all the joy and mirthMade this town a heavn on earthOh theyre all fled with thee Robin AdairWhat made th assembly shine Robin AdairWhat made the ball so fine Robin was thereWhat when the play was oerWhat made my heart so soreOh it was parting with Robin AdairBut now thourt cold to me Robin AdairBut now thourt cold to me Robin AdairYet he I lovd so wellStill in my heart shall dwellOh I can neer forget Robin Adair _Anon_MOLLY BAWNOh Molly Bawn why leave me pining All lonely waiting here for youWhile the stars above are brightly shining Because theyve nothing else to doThe flowers late were open keeping To try a rival blush with youBut their mother Nature set them sleeping With their rosy faces washd with dewOh Molly Bawn why leave me pining All lonely waiting here for youNow the pretty flowers were made to bloom dear And the pretty stars were made to shineAnd the pretty girls were made for the boys dear And may be

Produced by Juliet Sutherland Deirdre_ca and PG Distributed ProofreadersFOUR FAMOUS AMERICAN WRITERSWashington IrvingEdgar Allan PoeJames Russell LowellBayard TaylorA Book For Young AmericansBySherwin Cody1899CONTENTSTHE STORY OF WASHINGTON IRVINGCHAPTERI HIS CHILDHOODII IRVINGS FIRST VOYAGE UP THE HUDSON RIVERIII A TRIP TO MONTREALIV IRVING GOES TO EUROPEV SALMAGUNDIVI DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKERVII A COMIC HISTORY OF NEW YORKVIII FIVE UNEVENTFUL YEARSIX FRIENDSHIP WITH SIR WALTER SCOTTX RIP VAN WINKLEXI LITERARY SUCCESS IN ENGLANDXII IRVING GOES TO SPAINXIII THE ALHAMBRAXIV THE LAST YEARS OF IRVINGS LIFETHE STORY OF EDGAR ALLAN POECHAPTERI THE ARTIST IN WORDSII POES FATHER AND MOTHERIII YOUNG EDGAR ALLANIV COLLEGE LIFEV FORTUNE CHANGESVI LIVING BY LITERATUREVII POES EARLY POETRYVIII POES CHILD WIFEIX POES LITERARY HISTORYX POE AS A STORYWRITERXI HOW THE RAVEN WAS WRITTENXII MUSIC AND POETRYXIII POES LATER YEARSTHE STORY OF JAMES RUSSELL LOWELLCHAPTERI ELMWOODII AN IMPETUOUS YOUNG MANIII COLLEGE AND THE MUSESIV HOW LOWELL STUDIED LAWV LOVE AND LETTERSVI THE UNCERTAIN SEAS OF LITERATUREVII HOSEA BIGLOW YANKEE HUMORISTVIII PARSON WILBURIX A FABLE FOR CRITICSX THE TRUEST POETRYXI PROFESSOR EDITOR AND DIPLOMATTHE STORY OF BAYARD TAYLORCHAPTERI HIS BIRTH AND CHILDHOODII SCHOOL LIFEIII HIS FIRST POEMIV SELFEDUCATION AND AMBITIONV A TRAVELER AT NINETEENVI TWO YEARS IN EUROPE FOR FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARSVII THE HARDSHIPS OF TRAMP TRAVELVIII HIS FIRST LOVE AND GREATEST SORROWIX THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAVELERX HIS POETRYXI POEMS OF THE ORIENTXII BAYARD TAYLORS FRIENDSHIPSXIII LAST YEARSTHE STORY OF WASHINGTON IRVINGIllustration _WASHINGTON IRVING_WASHINGTON IRVINGCHAPTER IHIS CHILDHOODThe Revolutionary War was over The British soldiers were preparing toembark on their ships and sail back over the ocean and GeneralWashington would soon enter New York city at the head of the Americanarmy While all true patriots were rejoicing at this happy turn ofaffairs a little boy was born who was destined to be the first greatAmerican authorWilliam Irving the father of this little boy had been a merchant inNew York city He had been very prosperous until the war broke outAfter the battle of Long Island the British then occupying the cityhe had taken his family to New Jersey But later although he was aloyal American he went back to the city to attend to his businessThere he helped the American cause by doing everything he could forthe American prisoners whom the British held His wife especiallyhad a happy way of persuading Sir Henry Clinton and when the Britishgeneral saw her coming he prepared himself to grant any request aboutthe prisoners which she might make Often she sent them food from herown table and cared for them when they were sickWhen their last son the eleventh child was born on April 3 1783the parents showed their loyalty by naming him Washington after thebeloved Father of his CountrySix years after this George Washington was elected president andwent to New York to live The Scotch maid who took care of littleWashington Irving made up her mind to introduce the boy to his greatnamesake So one day she followed the general into a shop andpointing to the lad said Please your honor heres a bairn wasnamed after you Washington turned around smiled and placing hishand on the boys head gave him his blessing Little did GeneralWashington suspect that in later years this boy grown to manhood andbecome famous would write his biographyIn those days New York was only a small town at the south end ofManhattan Island It extended barely as far north as the place wherenow stand the City Hall and the Postoffice Broadway was then acountry road The Irvings lived at 131 William Street afterwardmoving across to 128 This is now one of the oldest parts of New YorkThe streets in that section are narrow and the buildings though putup long after Irvings birth seem very oldHere the little boy grew up with his brothers and sisters At four hewent to school His first teacher was a lady but he was soontransferred to a school kept by an old Revolutionary soldier whobecame so fond of the boy that he gave him the pet name of GeneralThis teacher liked him because though often in mischief he nevertried to protect himself by telling a falsehood but always confessedthe truthWashington was not very fond of study but he was a great reader Ateleven his favorite stories were Robinson Crusoe and Sindbad theSailor Besides these he read many books of travel and soon foundhimself wishing that he might go to sea As he grew up he was able togratify his taste for travel and some of his finest books and storiesrelate to his experiences in foreign lands In the introduction to theSketch Book he says How wistfully would I wander about thepierheads in fine weather and watch the parting ships bound todistant climeswith what longing eyes would I gaze after theirlessening sails and waft myself in imagination to the ends of the earthCHAPTER IIIRVINGS FIRST VOYAGE UP THE HUDSON RIVERIrvings first literary composition seems to have been a play writtenwhen he was thirteen It was performed at the house of a friend inthe presence of a famous actress of that day but in after yearsIrving had forgotten even the titleHis schooling was finished when he was sixteen His elder brothers hadattended college and he never knew exactly why he did not But he wasnot fond of hard study or hard work He lived in a sort of dreamyleisure which seemed particularly suited to his light airy geniusso full of humor sunshine and lovingkindnessAfter leaving school he began to study law in the office of a certainHenry Masterton This was in the year 1800 He was admitted to the barsix years later but he spent a great deal more of the interveningtime in traveling and scribbling than in the study of law His firstpublished writing was a series of letters signed Jonathan Oldstyleprinted in his brothers daily paper The Morning Chronicle whenthe writer was nineteen years oldIrvings first journey was made the very year after he left school Itwas a voyage in a sailing boat up the Hudson river to Albany and aland journey from there to Johnstown New York to visit

Produced by Rick Niles John Hagerson Amy Petri and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading TeamIllustration I consented to deliver a message for himTHE SLIM PRINCESS _By_ GEORGE ADE1907 The Slim Princess has been elaborated and rewritten from a storyprinted in _The Saturday Evening Post_ of Philadelphia late in 1906 andcopyright 1906 by the Curtis Publishing Company CONTENTS I WOMAN IN MOROVENIA II KALORAS AFFLICTION III THE CRUELTY OF LAW IV THE GARDEN PARTY V HE ARRIVES VI HE DEPARTS VII THE ONLY KOLDOVIII BY MESSENGER IX AS TO WASHINGTON DC X ON THE WING XI AN OUTINGA REUNION XII THE GOVERNOR CABLESXIII THE HOMECOMING XIV HEROISM REWARDED THE SLIM PRINCESS IWOMAN IN MOROVENIAMorovenia is a state in which both the mosque and the motorcar nowoccur in the same landscape It started out to be Turkish and laterdecided to be EuropeanThe Mohammedan sanctuaries with their hideous stencil decorations andbulbous domes are jostled by many new shops with blinking fronts andGerman merchandise The orthodox turn their faces toward Mecca while theenlightened dream of a journey to Paris Men of title lately have madethe pleasing discovery that they may drink champagne and still be goodMussulmans The red slipper has been succeeded by the tan gaiter Thevoluminous breeches now acknowledge the superior graces of intimateEnglish trousers Frockcoats are more conventional than beaded jacketsThe fez remains as a part of the insignia of the old faith andhereditary devotion to the Sick ManThe generation of males which has been extricating itself from theshackles of Orientalism has not devoted much worry to the Condition ofWomanIn Morovenia woman is still unliberated She does not dine at apalmgarden or hop into a victoria on Thursday afternoon to go to themeeting of a club organized to propagate cults If she met a cult faceto face she would not recognize itNor does she suspect as she sits in her prison apartment peeping outthrough the lattice at the monotonous drift of the street life that hersisters in faraway Michigan are organizing and raising missionary fundsin her behalfShe does not read the dressmaking periodicals She never heard of theWednesday matinee When she takes the air she rides in a carriage thathas a sheltering hood and she is veiled up to the eyes and she mustnever lean out to wriggle her little fingertips at men lolling in frontof the cafes She must not see the men She may look at them but shemust not see them No wonder the sisters in Michigan are organizing tobatter down the walls of tradition and bring to her the more recentprivileges of her sexTwo years ago when this story had its real beginning the social statusof woman in Morovenia was not greatly different from what it is todayor what it was two centuries agoWoman had two important duties assigned to her One was to hide herselffrom the gaze of the multitude and the other was to be beautifulthatis fat A woman who was plump or buxom or chubby might be classed aspassably attractive but only the fat women were irresistible A womanweighing two hundred pounds was only twothirds as beautiful as oneweighing three hundred Those grading below one hundred and fifty wereverging upon the impossibleIIKALORAS AFFLICTIONIf it had been planned to make this an oldfashioned discursive novelsay of the Victor Hugo variety the second chapter would expend itselfupon a philosophical discussion of Fat and a sensational showing of howand why the presence or absence of adipose tissue at certain importantcrises had altered the destinies of the whole raceThe subject offers vast possibilities It involves the physicalattractiveness of every woman in History and permits one to speculatewildly as to what might have happened if Cleopatra had weighed fortypounds heavier if Elizabeth had been a gaunt and wiry creature or ifJoan of Arc had been so bulky that she could not have fastened on herarmorThe soft layers which enshroud the hard machinery of the human frameseem to arrive in a merely incidental or accidental sort of way Yetonce they have arrived they exert a mysterious influence over careersBecause of a mere change in contour many a queen has lost her throneIt is a terrifying thought when one remembers that fat so often comesand so seldom goesIt has been explained that in Morovenia obesity and feminine beautyincreased in the same ratio The woman reigning in the hearts of men wasthe one who could displace the most atmosphereBecause of the fashionableness of fat Count Selim MalagaskiGovernorGeneral of Morovenia was very unhappy He had two daughtersOne was fat one was thin To be more explicit one was gloriously fatand the other was distressingly thinJeneka was the name of the one who had been blessed abundantly Severalof the younger men in official circles who had seen Jeneka at adistance when she waddled to her carriage or turned sidewise to entera shopdoor had written verses about her in which they compared her tothe blushing pomegranate the ripe melon the luscious grape and othervegetable luxuries more or

Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetDE AARDE EN HAAR VOLKEN1906HAARLEMH D TJEENK WILLINK ZOONDoor Holland met pen en cameraNaar het Fransch van_Lud Georges Hamön_ 1Elk land heeft een eigen karakter dat is onbetwistbaar Holland nuis zoowel om den aard van zijn grondgebied als om de kleeding zijnerboeren tegenwoordig het schilderachtigste land van EuropaHet is de moeite waard zich op te maken om met eigen oogen teaanschouwen die pijpjesrookers en kermisdansers die langzameschuiten en reusachtige bruggen die zwaaiende molenarmen en kalmeoverpeinzingen van rustige burgers over hun glas bier die boerinmet breede heupen de producten der eigen boerderij naar de stadbrengend die spannen van trekhonden die eeuwige kanalen bevolktmet eenden die nette dorpen en aardige huisjes die zonderlingevisschers grillige luchten moerassige vlakten Men kan dan op zijngemak zonder de oogen dicht te doen vóór zich zien verschijnende landschappen door Ruysdaels penseel op het doek gebracht en detronies der bierdrinkers die Teniers teekendeNaar Holland gaan beteekent trouwens zooveel niet Men stapts morgens aan t Noorderstation in een exprestrein en s avondszit men kalmpjes in een koffiehuis te midden van de diepe rust derweiden en de tonen van een klokkenspelAls men in één adem België is doorgespoord wat niet moeilijk ismet het oog op de kleinheid van het land komt men te Roozendaalhet grensstation waar het gebruikelijk is zijn krachten eenigszinste herstellen Daarna stapt men in een langzamen trein die ersaai uitziet en op weg is naar Zeeland het land der eilanden metzonderlinge namen doorsneden door vaarten kanalen rivierenslooten en booten en bevolkt door vrouwen met bloote armenMaar men houde wel voor oogen dat Holland een wanhopig vlakke eneentonige streek is dat het geen heftige aandoeningen wekt nochtot opgewonden geestdrift stemt of stille innerlijke verrukkingteweegbrengt Holland is het land der rust waar men zich dompelt inhet kalmste welbehagenIEen hollandsche stadMiddelburgDe wolkenDeboerinnenHet huisDe brugwachterDe marktEen hollandschdorpZoutelandeGoede herbergiersTypische avondDe klompjesder kleine kinderenDe kermisDe vroomheid van den HollanderNa veel eentonige moerassen te zijn voorbijgegaan en vochtigelanderijen na bruggen te zijn overgereden stopt de langzame treinte Goes en daarna te Middelburg de hoofdstad van het eiland WalcherenHet was grijs donker weêr op den morgen van mijn aankomst In Hollandvinden de wolken geen klokkentorens om ze tegen te houden noch boomenof heuvels en dus komen ze van alle kanten aandrijven wit en roseen zwart bruin oranje of rood al naar den tijd van den dag endoor den wind voortgestuwd Zij lossen zich op in zware regenbuien ofvluchten in compacte massas heen trachtend zich hier of daar vastte zetten maar de molens die steeds maar blijven zwenken en draaienschijnen ze uit te lachen net als de baders die in het water duikenals men ze roeptO hollandsche wolken wat hebt ge mij een last bezorgd Moet iker boos om blijven Ik weet het niet want gij ziet er toch nietkwaad uit en Holland zonder wolken zou een afschuwelijke woestijnzijn daarom hebben de wolken en het water samen vriendschap geslotenten bate van het landschapHet was dan grijs en leelijk weêr toen ik in Middelburg uitstapteMiddelburg hoort ge wel is een echt type van een hollandsche stadhalf en half grootsteedsch en half en half boersch Naast Goes enWemeldinge is het de interessantste plaats waar ik geweest benHet was morgen Overal ontmoette ik groenteboeren en groenteboerinnensommigen in lage wagentjes getrokken door kleine harige paardjesanderen bezig karren voort te duwen hoog opgestapeld vol met groenteboter eieren of melk_Trip trap trip trap_ Dat stapte maar voort zonderhaast Niemand heeft ooit haast in Holland Het paard in een zachtdrafje gebracht stond dadelijk stil als t noodig wasBoerinnen jonge meisjes nog goed gekleed in haar nauwsluitendejakjes met dikke heupen door de zware rokken liepen waggelendmet een juk op de schouders en boden aan de klanten melk en boteraan in blauwe of groene emmers met deksels alles van de uiterstezindelijkheid getuigendHet type is niet bijzonder mooi ik bedoel niet erg fijn maarschoonheid is een zaak die moeilijk uit te maken is en tot veelverschil van meening aanleiding geeft Ziet men niet dagelijks demenschen bewonderend stilstaan voor de schilderijen van Rubensalles vleesch want men weet dat hij bijna niet anders dan dikkeVlamingen op zijn doeken brachtDeze jonge dames kennen in t geheel geen beschroomdheid Meer daneene die op mij afkwam met de handen in de zij en met de schoudersschokkend in een droge beweging van onverschilligheid stond stilals ik haar aankeek ging met een coquet airtje vóór mij staan en gafmij door teekens te verstaan dat een geldstukje haar niet onwelkomzou wezen Als ik beproefde haar onverwacht te kieken stiet zij eenkreet van toorn uit en keerde mij met ostentatie den rug toe Opandere plaatsen bij voorbeeld op Marken wordt die belasting vanden vreemdeling bijna als een recht geheven een belachelijk misbruikMiddelburg Zeer net stadje met straten die alle aan elkaâr gelijkzijn Rondom kanalen en boven de daken uitstekend twee of driegroote molens Enkele oude monumenten geheel in stijl Zangerigeklokken spelen de uren en laten hun tonen plotseling druppelen inde doffe stilte der bijna verlaten wegen en straten waar men weinigwinkels zietEr wordt in Holland niet veel gewandeld en aan flaneeren wordt inhet geheel niet gedaan Men leeft te huis opgesloten in zijn dichten keurig goed onderhouden vroolijk woonhuis Geen huurhuizen vanvijf zes of tien verdiepingen Elk gezin heeft zijn thuis zijneigen woning waar alleen bekenden binnentreden van wie men zeker isMaar wat houdt men dan ook veel van dat home hoe graag versiertmen het en tooit het op wascht het verft het en boent erop naarhartelust Zulk een pijnlijke bezorgdheid doet het oog goed wantmen gevoelt dat zij één is met de plaatselijke zeden en gebruikenDe straten geplaveid met baksteenen vertoonen geen enkeleonreinheid De vensters van zonneblinden voorzien zijn nietgestoffeerd met nieuwsgierige gezichten die op den voorbijgangerneerzien met ingenomenheid of afkeuring Men ziet geen vrouwtjes bijde deuren staan praten of gewichtige samensprekingen houden op drukkekruispunten van wegen Zelfs de kinderen zijn maar juist even drukgenoeg om te bewijzen dat de stad niet door spoken wordt bewoondAlleen de spionnetjes kijken u aan spiegels die van buiten aan devensters zijn bevestigd en waarin de vrouw

Produced by Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed ProofreadingTeamEDUCATION AS SERVICEBYJ KRISHNAMURTIALCYONETHE RAJPUT PRESSCHICAGO1912EDUCATION AS SERVICEINTRODUCTIONIn long past lives the author of this little book had much to do witheducational work and he seems to have brought over with him an intenseinterest in education During his short visits to Benares he paid analert attention to many of the details of the work carried on in theCentral Hindu College observing and asking questions noting the goodfeeling between teachers and students so different from his own schoolexperiences in Southern India He appears to have been brooding overthe question and has in this booklet held up the educational idealswhich appear to him to be necessary for the improvement of the presentsystemThe position of the teacher must be raised to that which it used tooccupy in India so that to sit in the teachers chair will be a badgeof social honour His work must be seen as belonging to the greatTeaching Department in the Government of our world and his relationwith his pupils must be a copy of the relation between a Master and Hisdisciples Love protective and elevating on the one side must be metwith love confiding and trustful on the other This is in truth theold Hindu ideal exaggerated as it may seem to be today and if it bepossible in any country to rebuild this ideal it should be by anIndian for Indians Hence there is at the back of the authors mind adream of a future College and School wherein this ideal may bematerialiseda Theosophical College and School because the ancientIndian ideals now draw their life from Theosophy which alone can shapethe new vessels for the ancient elixir of life Punishment mustdisappearnot only the old brutality of the cane but all the forms ofcoercion that make hypocrites instead of honourable and manly youthsThe teacher must embody the ideal and the boy be drawn by admirationand love to copy it Those who know how swiftly the unspoiled childresponds to a noble ideal will realise how potent may be the influenceof a teacher who stimulates by a high example and rules by the sceptreof love instead of by the rod of fear Besides the One Life is inteacher and taught as Alcyone reminds us and to that Life which isDivine all things are possibleEducation must be shaped to meet the individual needs of the child andnot by a Government Procrustes bed to fit which some are draggedwellnigh asunder and others are chopped down The capacities of thechild the line they fit him to pursue these must guide his educationIn all the childs interest must be paramount the true teacher existsto serveThe school must be a centre of good and joyous influences radiatingfrom it to the neighbourhood Studies and games must all be turned tothe building of character to the making of the good citizen the loverof his countryThus dreams the boy who is to become a teacher of the possibilitiesthe future may unfold May he realise in the strength of a nobleManhood the pure visions of his youth and embody a Power which shallmake earths deserts rejoice and blossom as the roseANNIE BESANTTO THE SUPREME TEACHERAND TO THOSE WHO FOLLOW HIMFOREWORDMany of the suggestions made in this little book come from my ownmemories of early school life and my own experience since of themethods used in Occult training has shown me how much happier boyslives might be made than they usually are I have myself experiencedboth the right way of teaching and the wrong way and therefore I wantto help others towards the right way I write upon the subject becauseit is one which is very near to the heart of my Master and much of whatI say is but an imperfect echo of what I have heard from Him Thenagain during the last two years I have seen much of the work done inthe Central Hindu College at Benares by Mr GS Arundale and hisdevoted band of helpers I have seen teachers glad to spend their timeand energies in continual service of those whom they regard as theiryounger brothers I have also watched the boys in their turn showing areverence and an affectionate gratitude to their teachers that I hadnever thought possibleThough many people may think the ideals put forward are entirely beyondthe average teacher and cannot be put into practice in ordinaryschools I can thus point at least to one institution in which I haveseen many of the suggestions made in this book actually carried out Itmay be that some of them _are_ at present beyond most schools butthey will be recognised and practised as soon as teachers realise themas desirable and have a proper understanding of the importance of theirofficeMost of the recommendations apply I think to all countries and to allreligions and are intended to sound the note of our commonbrotherhood irrespective of religion or caste race or colour If theunity of life and the oneness of its purpose could be clearly taught tothe young in schools how much brighter would be our hopes for thefuture The mutual distrust of races and nations would disappear if thechildren were trained in mutual love and sympathy as members of onegreat family of children all over the world instead of being taught toglory only in their own traditions and to despise those of others Truepatriotism is a beautiful quality in children for it meansunselfishness of purpose and enthusiasm for great ideals but that isfalse patriotism which shows itself in contempt for other nations Thereare I am told many organisations within the various nations of theworld intended to inspire the children with a love for their countryand a desire to serve her and that is surely good but I wonder whenthere will be an international organisation to give the children of allnations common ideals also and a knowledge of the real foundation ofright action the Brotherhood of ManI desire to thank my dear mother Mrs Annie Besant for the help shehas given me while I have been writing this little book and

Produced by Donald LainsonFISHERMANS LUCK AND SOME OTHER UNCERTAIN THINGSby Henry van Dyke Now I conclude that not only in Physicke but likewise in sundry more certaine arts fortune hath great share in them M DE MONTAIGNE Divers EventsDEDICATION TO MY LADY GRAYGOWNHere is the basket I bring it home to you There are no great fish init But perhaps there may be one or two little ones which will be toyour taste And there are a few shining pebbles from the bed of thebrook and ferns from the cool green woods and wild flowers from theplaces that you remember I would fain console you if I could for thehardship of having married an angler a man who relapses into his maniawith the return of every spring and never sees a little river withoutwishing to fish in it But after all we have had good times together aswe have followed the stream of life towards the sea And we have passedthrough the dark days without losing heart because we were comradesSo let this book tell you one thing that is certain In all the life ofyour fisherman the best piece of luck is just YOUCONTENTS I Fishermans Luck II The Thrilling Moment III Talkability IV A Wild Strawberry V Lovers and Landscape VI A Fatal Success VII Fishing in BooksVIII A Norwegian Honeymoon IX Who Owns the Mountains X A Lazy Idle Brook XI The Open Fire XII A Slumber SongFISHERMANS LUCKHas it ever fallen in your way to notice the quality of the greetingsthat belong to certain occupationsThere is something about these salutations in kind which is singularlytaking and grateful to the ear They are as much better than an ordinarygood day or a flat how are you as a folksong of Scotland or theTyrol is better than the futile loveditty of the drawingroom Theyhave a spicy and rememberable flavour They speak to the imagination andpoint the way to treasuretroveThere is a touch of dignity in them too for all they are so free andeasythe dignity of independence the native spirit of one who takesfor granted that his mode of living has a right to make its own forms ofspeech I admire a man who does not hesitate to salute the world in thedialect of his callingHow salty and stimulating for example is the sailormans hail of Shipahoy It is like a breeze laden with briny odours and a pleasant dashof spray The miners in some parts of Germany have a good greeting fortheir dusky trade They cry to one who is going down the shaft Gluckauf All the perils of an underground adventure and all the joysof seeing the sun again are compressed into a word Even the trivialsalutation which the telephone has lately created and claimed for itspeculiar useHello helloseems to me to have a kind of fitnessand fascination It is like a thoroughbred bulldog ugly enough to beattractive There is a lively concentrated electric air about it Itmakes courtesy wait upon dispatch and reminds us that we live in an agewhen it is necessary to be wide awakeI have often wished that every human employment might evolve its ownappropriate greeting Some of them would be queer no doubt butat least they would be an improvement on the wearisome iteration ofGoodevening and Goodmorning and the monotonous inquiry Howdo you doa question so meaningless that it seldom tarries for ananswer Under the new and more natural system of etiquette when youpassed the time of day with a man you would know his business and thesalutations of the marketplace would be full of interestAs for my chosen pursuit of angling which I follow with diligence whennot interrupted by less important concerns I rejoice with every truefisherman that it has a greeting all its own and of a most honourableantiquity There is no written record of its origin But it is quitecertain that since the days after the Flood when Deucalion Did first this art invent Of angling and his people taught the sametwo honest and goodnatured anglers have never met each other by the waywithout crying out What luckHere indeed is an epitome of the gentle art Here is the spirit ofit embodied in a word and paying its respects to you with its nativeaccent Here you see its secret charms unconsciously disclosed Theattraction of angling for all the ages of man from the cradle to thegrave lies in its uncertainty Tis an affair of luckNo amount of preparation in the matter of rods and lines and hooksand lures and nets and creels can change its essential characterNo excellence of skill in casting the delusive fly or adjusting thetempting bait upon the hook can make the result secure You may reducethe chances but you cannot eliminate them There are a thousand pointsat which fortune may intervene The state of the weather the height ofthe water the appetite of the fish the presence or absence of otheranglersall these indeterminable elements enter into the reckoning ofyour success There is no combination of stars in the firmament by whichyou can forecast the piscatorial future When you go afishing you justtake your chances you offer yourself as a candidate for anything thatmay be going you try your luckThere are certain days that are favourites among anglers who regardthem as propitious for the sport I know a man who believes that thefish always rise better on Sunday than on any other day in the week Hecomplains bitterly of this supposed fact because his religious scrupleswill not allow him to take advantage of it He confesses that he hassometimes thought seriously of joining the SeventhDay BaptistsAmong the Pennsylvania Dutch in the Alleghany Mountains I have founda curious tradition that Ascension Day is the luckiest in the yearfor fishing

Produced by Jonathan Ingram Andrea Ball and the Online DistributedProofreading TeamIllustration DO YOU BEGIN TO SUSPECT THINGS SHE ASKEDTHEGRAFTERSBYFRANCIS LYNDEILLUSTRATED BYARTHUR I KELLERCONTENTSCHAPTER I ASHES OF EMPIRE II A MAN OF THE PEOPLE III THE BOSTONIANS IV THE FLESHPOTS OF EGYPT V JOURNEYS END VI OF THE MAKING OF LAWS VII THE SENTIMENTALISTS VIII THE HAYMAKERS IX THE SHOCKING OF HUNNICOTT X WITHOUT BENEFIT OF CLERGY XI THE LAST DITCH XII THE MAN IN POSSESSION XIII THE WRECKERS XIV THE GERRYMANDER XV THE JUNKETERS XVI SHARPENING THE SWORD XVII THE CONSPIRATORS XVIII DOWN BRUNO XIX DEEPSEA SOUNDINGS XX THE WINNING LOSER XXI A WOMAN INTERVENES XXII A BORROWED CONSCIENCE XXIII THE INSURRECTIONARIES XXIV INTO THE PRIMITIVE XXV DEAD WATER AND QUICK XXVI ON THE HIGH PLAINS XXVII BY ORDER OF THE COURTXXVIII THE NIGHT OF ALARMS XXIX THE RELENTLESS WHEELS XXX SUBHI SADIKTO MY GOOD FRIENDMR EDWARD YOUNG CHAPINTHE GRAFTERSIASHES OF EMPIREIn point of age Gaston the strenuous was still no more than a lustyinfant among the cities of the brown plain when the boom broke and thejunto was born though its beginnings as a halt camp ran back to the daysof the later Mormon migrations across the thirsty plain to that day whenthe advanced guard of Zophar Smiths oxtrain dug wells in the damp sandsof Dry Creek and called them the Waters of MeromLater one Jethro Simsby a Mormon deserter set up his rod and staff onthe banks of the creek homesteaded a quartersection of the sagebrushplain and in due time came to be known as the Dry Creek cattle king Andthe cowcamp was still Simsbys when the locating engineers of the WesternPacific searching for tank stations in a land where water was scarce andhard to come by drove their stakes along the north line of thequartersection and having named their last station Alphonse christenedthis one GastonFrom the stakedriving of the engineers to the spikedriving of thetracklayers was a full decade For hard times overtook the WesternPacific at Midland City eighty miles to the eastward while the Statecapital two days broncojolting west of Dry Creek had railroad outletsin plenty and no inducements to offer a newcomerBut with the breaking of the cloud of financial depression the WesternPacific succeeded in placing its extension bonds and a little later theearth began to fly on the grade of the new line to the west Within aSundayless month the electric lights of the night shift could be seenand when the wind was right the shriek of the locomotive whistle couldbe heard at Dry Creek and in this interval between dawn and daylightJethro Simsby sold his quartersection for the nominal sum of two thousanddollars spot cash to two men who buckboarded in ahead of thetracklayersThis purchase of the JlazyS ranch by Hawk and Guilford marked themodest beginning of Gaston the marvelous By the time the temporarysidings were down and the tank well was dug in the damp sands it washeralded far and wide that the Western Pacific would make the city on thebanks of Dry Creeka city consisting as yet only of the Simsby ranchshacksits western terminus Thereupon followed one of the senselessrushes that populate the waste places of the earth and give theprofessional citybuilder his reason for being In a fortnight after thedriving of the silver spike the dusty plain was dotted with theblackroofed shelters of the Argonauts and by the following spring theplow was furrowing the cattle ranges in everwidening circles and Gastonhad voted a bond loan of three hundred thousand dollars to pave itsstreetsThen under the forced draft of skilful exploitation three years of highpressure passed quickly years named by the promoters the period ofdevelopment In the Year One the very heavens smiled and the rainfallbroke the record of the oldest inhabitant Thus the region round aboutlost the word arid as a qualifying adjective and the picturesquefictions of the prospectus makers were miraculously justified In Year Twothere was less rain but still an abundant crop and Jethro Simsbydrifting in from some unnamed frontier of a newer cowcountry saw what hehad missed took to drink and shot himself in the lobby of theMidContinent Hotel an ornate fivestoried brickandterracottastructure standing precisely upon the site of the JlazyS brandingcorralIt was in this same Year Two the fame of the latest of western Meccas foryoung men having penetrated to the provincial backgrounds of NewHampshire that David Kent cameBy virtue of his diploma and three years of country practice in the NewHampshire county town where his father before him had read Blackstone andChitty he had his window on the fourth floor of the Farquhar Buildinglettered Attorney and Counselor at Law but up to the day in the latterpart of the fateful Year Three when the overdue crash came he was bestknown as a reckless plunger in real estatethis mind you at a momentwhen every third man counted his gains in front feet and was shoutinghimself hoarse at the daily brassband lot salesWhen the bottom fell out in the autumn of Year Three Kent fell with itthough not altogether as far or as hard as many another One of hisprofessional holdfastsit was the one that afterward became thebreadtackle in the famine timewas his position as local attorney forthe railway company By reason of this he was among the first to have ahint of the impending cataclysm The Western Pacific after so long apause on the banks of Dry Creek had floated its second mortgage bonds andwould presently build on to the capital leaving Gaston to waystationquietude Therefore and whereforeKent

Produced by Jonathan Ingram Leonard D Johnson and the Online DistributedProofreading TeamIllustration TOWER OF LA FUERZA_Havana_CUBAOLD AND NEWBYALBERT G ROBINSON1915CONTENTSCHAPTERI OLD CUBAII NEW CUBAIII THE COUNTRYIV THE OLD HAVANAV THE NEW HAVANAVI AROUND THE ISLANDVII AROUND THE ISLAND _Continued_VIII THE UNITED STATES AND CUBAIX CUBAS REVOLUTIONSX INDEPENDENCEXI FILIBUSTERINGXII THE STORY OF SUGARXIII VARIOUS PRODUCTS AND INDUSTRIESXIV POLITICS GOVERNMENT AND COMMERCELIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSTower of La Fuerza HavanaThe Morro HavanaA Planters Home Havana ProvinceIron Grille Gateway El Vedado suburb of HavanaWatering Herd of Cattle Luyano River near HavariaRoyal PalmsCustom House HavanaBalconies Old HavanaStreet in HavanaStreet and Church of the Angels HavanaA Residence in El VedadoThe Volante now quite rareA Village Street Calvario Havana ProvinceStreet and Church CamagueyCobre Oriente ProvinceHoisting the Cuban Flag over the Palace May 201902A Spanish Block HouseAlong the Harbor Wall HavanaCountry Road Havana ProvinceStreet in CamagueyPalmThatched RoofsA Peasants HomeCUBAOLD AND NEWI_OLD CUBA_Christopher Columbus was a man of lively imagination Had he been anordinary prosaic and plodding individual he would have stayed at homecombing wool as did his prosaic and plodding ancestors for severalgenerations At the age of fourteen he went to sea and soon developed anactive curiosity about regions then unknown but believed to exist Therewas even then some knowledge of western Asia and even of China asapproached from the west Two and two being properly put together theresult was a reasonable argument that China and India could be reached fromthe other direction that is by going westward instead of eastwardIn the early autumn of the year 1492 Columbus was busy discovering islandsin the Caribbean Sea region and incidentally seeking for the richestof the group From dwellers on other islands he heard of one calledCubanacan larger and richer than any that he had then discovered Amixture of those tales with his own vivid imagination produced a beliefin a country of wide extent vastly rich in gold and gems and already acentre of an extensive commerce Cruising in search of what he believed tobe the eastern coast of Asia he sighted the shore of Cuba on the morningof October 28 1492 His journal under date of October 24 states Atmidnight I tripped my anchors off this _Cabo del Isleo de Isabella_ whereI was pitched to go to the island of Cuba which I learn from these peopleis very large and magnificent and there are gold and spices in it andlarge ships and merchants And so I think it must be the island of CipangoJapan of which they tell such wonders The record under date ofSunday 28th of October states Continued for the nearest land of Cubaand entered a beautiful estuary clear of rocks and other dangers Themouth of the estuary had twelve fathoms depth and it was wide enough for aship to work into Students have disagreed regarding the first Cuban portentered by Columbus There is general acceptance of October 28 as thedate of arrival Some contend that on that day he entered Nipe Bay whileothers and apparently the greater number locate the spot somewhat to thewest of Nuevitas Wherever he first landed on it there is agreement thathe called the island Juana in honor of Prince Juan taking possession inthe name of Christ Our Lady and the reigning Sovereigns of SpainHis record of the landing place is obscure It is known that he sailed someleagues beyond it to the westward While on board his caravel on hishomeward voyage he wrote a letter to his friend Don Rafael SanchezTreasurer of their most Serene Highnesses in which the experience isdescribed The original letter is lost but it was translated into Latinand published in Barcelona in the following year 1493 While the Latinform is variously translated into English the general tenor of all is thesame He wrote When I arrived at Juana Cuba I sailed along the coastto the west discovering so great an extent of land that I could notimagine it to be an island but the continent of Cathay I did nothowever discover upon the coast any large cities all we saw being a fewvillages and farms with the inhabitants of which we could not obtain anycommunication they flying at our approach I continued my course stillexpecting to meet with some town or city but after having gone a greatdistance and not meeting with any and finding myself proceeding towardthe north which I was desirous to avoid on account of the cold andmoreover meeting with a contrary wind I determined to return to thesouth and therefore put about and sailed back to a harbor which I hadbefore observed That the actual landing was at or near the present portof Nuevitas seems to be generally acceptedColumbus appears to have been greatly impressed by the beauty of theisland In his _Life of Columbus_ Washington Irving says From hiscontinual remarks on the beauty of scenery and from his evident delight inrural sounds and objects he appears to have been extremely open to thosehappy influences exercised over some spirits by the graces and wondersof nature He gives utterance to these feelings with characteristicenthusiasm and at the same time with the artlessness and simplicity ofdiction of a child When speaking of some lovely scene among the groves oralong the flowery shores of these favored islands he says One couldlive there forever Cuba broke upon him like an elysium It is the mostbeautiful island he says that ever eyes beheld full of excellent portsand profound rivers A little discount must be made on such a statementGranting all that is to be said of Cubas scenic charms some allowance isto be made for two influences One is Don Cristobals exuberance and theother is the fact that when one has been knocking about as he had beenfor nearly three months on the open sea and among lowlying and sandyislands and keys any land verdure clad and hilly is a picture ofParadise Many people need only two or three days at sea to reach a similarconclusion

Produced by David WidgerDEEP WATERSBy WW JACOBSIllustration IN THE LIGHT OF THE LAMP I SAW THE DEAD WHITE FACECONTENTSSHAREHOLDERSPAYING OFFMADE TO MEASURESAMS GHOSTBEDRIDDENTHE CONVERTHUSBANDRYFAMILY CARESTHE WINTER OFFENSIVETHE SUBSTITUTESTMKING HARDDIRTY WORKSHAREHOLDERSSailor mansaid the nightwatchman musinglya sailorman is like a fishhe is safest when e is at sea When a fish comes ashore it is in fortrouble and so is sailorman One poor chap I knew ardly ever cameashore without getting married and he was found out there was no lessthan six wimmen in the court all taking away is character at once Andwhen he spoke up Solomon the magistrate pretty near bit is ead offThen look at the trouble they get in with their money They come ashorefrom a long trip smelling of it amost and they go from port to portlike a lord Everybody has got their eye on that moneyeverybody exceptthe sailorman that isand afore he knows wots appened and who asgot it hes looking for a ship agin When he aint robbed of is moneyhe wastes it and when e dont do either he loses itI knew one chap who hid is money Hed been away ten months andknowing ow easy money goes e made up sixteen pounds in a nice littleparcel and hid it where nobody could find it Thats wot he said andpraps e was right All I know is he never found it I did the samething myself once with a couple o quid I ran acrost unexpected onyunfortunately for me I hid it the day afore my missus started erspringcleaningOne o the worst men I ever knew for getting into trouble when he cameashore was old Sam Small If he couldnt find it by imself Ginger Dickand Peter Russet would help im look for it Generally speaking theyfound it without straining their eyesightI remember one time they was home arter being away pretty near a yearand when they was paid off they felt like walking goldmines They wentabout smiling all over with goodtemper and appiness and for the firstthree days they was like brothers That didnt last of course and onthe fourth day Sam Small arter saying wot e would do to Ginger andPeter if it wasnt for the police went off by imselfHis temper passed off arter a time and e began to look cheerful aginIt was a lovely morning and having nothing to do and plenty in ispocket to do it with he went along like a schoolboy with a arf holidayHe went as far as Stratford on the top of a tram for a mouthful o freshair and came back to his favourite coffeeshop with a fine appetite fordinner There was a very nice gentlemanly chap sitting opposite im andthe way he begged Sams pardon for splashing gravy over im made Sam takea liking to him at once Nicely dressed he was with a gold pin in istie and a fine gold watchchain acrost his weskit and Sam could see head been brought up well by the way he used is knife and fork He keptlooking at Sam in a thoughtful kind o way and at last he said wot abeautiful morning it was and wot a fine day it must be in the countryIn a little while they began to talk like a couple of old friends and hetold Sam all about is father wot was a clergyman in the country andSam talked about a father of his as was living private on three undred ayearAh moneys a useful thing ses the manIt aint everything ses Sam It wont give you appiness Ive runthrough a lot in my time so I ought to knowI expect youve got a bit left though ses the man with a winkSam laughed and smacked is pocket Ive got a trifle to go on withhe ses winking back I never feel comfortable without a pound or twoin my pocketYou look as though youre just back from a vyge ses the man lookingat im very hardI am ses Sam nodding Just back arter ten months and Im going tospend a bit o money afore I sign on agin I can tell youThats wot it was given to us for ses the man nodding at himThey both got up to go at the same time and walked out into the streettogether and when Sam asked im whether he might have the pleasure ofstanding im a drink he said he might He talked about the differentkinds of drink as they walked along till Sam wot was looking for a highclass pub got such a raging thirst on im he hardly knew wot to do withimself He passed several pubs and walked on as fast as he could tothe Three WiddersDo you want to go in there partikler ses the man stopping at thedoorNo ses Sam staringCos I know a place where they sell the best glass o port wine inLondon ses the manHe took Sam up two or three turnings and then led him into a quietlittle pub in a back street There was a cosy little saloon bar withnobody in it and arter Sam had ad two port wines for the look of thething he ad a pint o sixale because he liked it His new pal had onetoo and he ad just taken a pull at it and wiped his mouth when enoticed a little bill pinned up at the back of the bar_Lost betweenthe Mint andTower Stairs_ he ses leaning forwardand reading very slow _a goldlocketset withdiamonds Whoeverwillreturnthe same toMr SmithOrange VillaBarnetwill receivethirty poundsreward_Ow much ses Sam starting Thirty pounds ses the man Must be agood locket Whered you get that he ses turning to the barmaidGentleman came in an hour ago ses the gal and arter he had ad twoor three drinks with the guvnor he asks im to stick it up Arfcrying he wassaid it

Produced by Suzanne Shell Beginners Projects Mary Meehan and theOnline Distributed Proofreading Team The Obstacle Race By Ethel M Dell 1921 I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO MY DEAR HALFSISTER MARY WITH MY LOVE So run that ye may obtain_I Corinthians 924_ Give me the ready brain and steadfast face To dare the hazard and to run the race The high heart that no scathing word can stay Oerleaping obstacles that bar the way The sportsmans soul that failing at the end Can smile upon the victory of a friend And to my judges make this one protest A poor performance butI did my bestCONTENTSPART ICHAPTER IBETTER THAN LONDON IISACRIFICE IIIMAGIC IVBROTHER DICK VTHE GREAT MAN VITHE VISITOR VIITHE OFFER VIIIMRS FIELDING IXTHE INTRUDERPART II ITHE WAND OF OFFICE IIMIDSUMMER MADNESS IIIA DRAWN BATTLE IVA POINT OF HONOUR VTHE WAY TO HAPPINESS VIRECONCILIATION VIITHE SPELL VIIITHE HONOURS OF WARPART III IBIRDS OF A FEATHER IISALTASH IIITHE PRICE IVKISMET VTHE DRIVING FORCE VITHE SISTER OF MERCY VIITHE SACRIFICE VIIITHE MESSAGE IXTHE ANSWERPART IV ITHE FREE GIFT IIFRIENDSHIP IIICONFESSION IVCOUNSEL VTHE THUNDERBOLT VICOALS OF FIRE VIIFLIGHT VIIIOUT OF THE NIGHT IXTHE FREE PARDON XTHE LAST FENCETHE OBSTACLE RACEPART ICHAPTER IBETTER THAN LONDONA long green wave ran up gleaming like curved glass in the sunlightand broke in a million sparkles against a shelf of shingle Above theshingle rose the soft cliffs clothed with scrubby grass and crownedwith gorseColumbus said the stranger this is just the place for usColumbus wagged a cheery tail and expressed complete agreement He waswatching a small crab hurrying among the stones with a funny frownbetween his brows He was not quite sure of the nature or capabilities ofthese creatures and till he knew more he deemed it advisable to let thempass without interference A canny Scot was Columbus and it was veryseldom indeed that anyone ever got the better of him He was also agentleman to the backbone and no word his mistress uttered howevercasual ever passed unacknowledged by him He always laughed when shelaughed however obscure the jokeHe smiled now since she was obviously pleased but without taking hissharp little eyes off the object of his interest Suddenly the scuttlingcrab disappeared and he started up with a whine In a moment he wasscratching in the shingle in eager search flinging showers of stonesover his companion in the processShe protested seizing him by his wiry tail to make him desistColumbus Dont Youre burying me alive Do sit down and be sensibleor Ill never be wrecked on a desert island with you againColumbus subsided not very willingly dropping with a grunt into thehole he had made His mistress released him and took out a goldcigarette caseI wonder what I shall do when Ive finished these she mused Thesimple life doesnt include luxuries of this sort Only three leftColumbus After that your missisll starveShe lighted a cigarette with a faint pucker on her wide brow Her eyeslooked out over the empty tumbling seagrey eyes very level in theirregard under black brows that were absolutely straight and inclined to berather heavily accentuatedYes I wish Id asked Muff for a few before I came away was theoutcome of her reflections By this time tomorrow I shant have oneleft Just think of that my Christopher and be thankful that yourejust a dog to whom one rat tastes very like anotherColumbus sneezed protestingly Whatever his taste in ratscigarette smoke did not appeal to him His mistresss fondness for itwas her only failing in his eyesShe went on reflectively her eyes upon the skyline I shall have totake in washing to eke out a modest living in cigarettes and chocolatesI cant subsist on Mr Ricketts Woodbines thats quite certain Iwonder if theres a pawnshop anywhere nearHer voice was low and peculiarly soft she uttered her words withsomething of a drawl Her hands were clasped about her knees delicatehands that yet looked capable The lips that held the cigarette weredelicately moulded also but they had considerable characterIf I were Lady Joanna Farringmore I suppose I should say somethingrather naughty in French Columbus to relieve my feelings But you and Idont talk French do we And we have struck the worthy Lady Jo and allher crowd off our visitinglist for some time to come I dont supposeany of them will miss us much do you old chap Theyll just go on roundand round in the old eternal waltz and never realize that it leads tonowhere She stretched out her arms suddenly towards the horizon thenturned and lay down by Columbus on the shingle Oh Im glad weve cutadrift arent you Even without

Produced by Garrett Alley and PG Distributed ProofreadersON COMPROMISE _It makes all the difference in the world whether we put Truth in the first place or in the second place_ WHATLEYON COMPROMISEBYJOHN MORLEYMACMILLAN AND CO LIMITEDST MARTINS STREET LONDON1908_This Edition first printed 1886_NOTEThe writer has availed himself of the opportunity of a new edition toadd three or four additional illustrations in the footnotes Thecriticisms on the first edition call for no remark excepting thisperhaps that the present little volume has no pretensions to beanything more than an Essay To judge such it performance as if itprofessed to be an exhaustive Treatise in casuistry is to subject it totests which it was never designed to bear Merely to open questions toindicate points to suggest cases to sketch outlinesas an Essay doesall these thingsmay often be a process not without its own modestusefulness and interest_May 4 1877_CONTENTS CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY Design of this Essay The question stated Suggested by some existing tendencies in England Comparison with other countries Test of this comparison The absent quality specifically defined History and decay of some recent aspirations Illustrations Characteristics of one present mood Analysis of its causes 1 Influence of French examples 2 Influence of the Historic Method 3 Influence of the Newspaper Press 4 Increase of material prosperity 5 Transformation of the spiritual basis of thought 6 Influence of a State Church CHAPTER II OF THE POSSIBLE UTILITY OF ERROR Questions of a dual doctrine lies at the outset of our inquiry This doctrine formulated Marks the triumph of _status quo_ Psychological vindication of such a doctrine Answered by assertion of the dogmatic character of popular belief And the pernicious social influence of its priests The root idea of the defenders of a dual doctrine Thesis of the present chapter against that idea Examination of some of the pleas for error I That a false opinion may be clothed with good associations II That all minds are not open to reason III That a false opinion considered in relation to the general mental attitude may be less hurtful than its premature demolition IV That mere negative truth is not a guide V That error has been a steppingstone to truth We cannot tell how much truth has been missed Inevitableness is not utility CHAPTER III INTELLECTUAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THE POLITICAL SPIRIT The modern _disciplina arcani_ Humes immoral advice Evil intellectual effects of immoral compromise Depravation that follows its grosser forms The three provinces of compromise Radical importance of their separation Effects of their confusion in practical politics Economy or management in the Formation of opinion Its lawfulness turns on the claims of majority and minority over one another Thesis of the present chapter Its importance owing to the supremacy of the political spirit in England Effects of the predominance of this spirit Contrasted with epochs of intellectual responsibility A modern movement against the political spirit An objection considered Importance to character of rationalised conviction and of ideals The absence of them attenuates conduct Illustrations in modern politics Modern latitudinarianism Illustration in two supreme issues Pascals remarks upon a state of Doubt Dr Newman on the same Three ways of dealing with the issues Another illustration of intellectual improbity The Savoyard Vicar Mischievousness of substituting spiritual selfindulgence for reason CHAPTER IV RELIGIOUS CONFORMITY Compromise in Expression Touches religion rather than politics Hume on nonresistance Reason why rights of free speech do not exactly coincide with rights of free thought Digression into the matter of free speech Dissent no longer railing and vituperative Tendency of modern free thought to assimilate some elements from the old faith A wide breach still remains Heresy however no longer traced to depravity Tolerance not necessarily acquiescence in scepticism Object of the foregoing digression The rarity of plainspeaking a reason why it is painful Conformity in the relationship between child and parent Between husband and wife In the education of children The case of an unbelieving priest The case of one who fears to lose his influence Conformity not harmless nor unimportant CHAPTER V THE REALISATION OF OPINION The application of opinion to conduct Tempering considerations Not to be pressed too far Our action in realising our opinions depends on our social theory Legitimate and illegitimate compromise in view of that The distinction equally sound on the evolutional theory Condition of progressive change A plea for compromise examined A second plea The allegation of provisional usefulness examined Illustrated in religious institutions In political institutions Burkes commendation of political compromise The saying that small reforms may be the worst enemies of great ones In what sense true Illustration in the Elementary Education Act Wisdom of social patience The considerations which apply to political practice do not apply to our own lives Nor to the publication of social

Produced by Tonya Allen Christine De Ryck and PG DistributedProofreaders This file was produced from images generously madeavailable by the Bibliothèque nationale de France BnFGallica athttpgallicabnffrMARK TWAINPlus fort que Sherlock HolmèsTRADUIT PAR FRANÇOIS DE GAILDEUXIÈME ÉDITIONMCMVIIPREMIÈRE PARTIEILa première scène se passe à la campagne dans la province de Virginieen lannée 1880Un élégant jeune homme de vingtsix ans de fortune médiocre vientdépouser une jeune fille très riche Mariage damour à première vueprécipitamment conclu mais auquel le père de la jeune personne unveuf sest opposé de toutes ses forcesLe marié appartient à une famille ancienne mais peu estimée qui avaitété contrainte à émigrer de Sedgemoor pour le plus grand bien du roiJacques Cétait du moins lopinion générale les uns le disaient avecune pointe de malice les autres en étaient intimement persuadésLa jeune femme a dixneuf ans et est remarquablement belle Grandebien tournée sentimentale extrêmement fière de son origine et trèséprise de son jeune mari elle a bravé pour lépouser la colère de sonpère supporté de durs reproches repoussé avec une inébranlable fermetéses avertissements et ses prédictions elle a même quitté la maisonpaternelle sans sa bénédiction pour mieux affirmer aux yeux du monde lasincérité de ses sentiments pour ce jeune hommeUne cruelle déception lattendait le lendemain de son mariage Son maripeu sensible aux caresses que lui prodiguait sa jeune épouse lui tintce langage étrangeAsseyezvous jai à vous parler Je vous aimais avant de demandervotre main à votre père son refus ne ma nullement blessé jen aifait dailleurs peu de cas Mais il nen est pas de même de ce quilvous a dit sur mon compte Ne cherchez pas à me cacher ses propos à monégard je les connais par le menu et les tiens de source authentiqueIl vous a dit entre autres choses aimables que mon caractère estpeint sur mon visage que jétais un individu faux dissimulé fourbelâche en un mot une parfaite brute sans le moindre coeur un vrai typede Sedgemoor atil même ajoutéTout autre que moi aurait été le trouver et laurait tué chez lui commeun chien Je voulais le faire jen avais bien envie mais il mest venuune idée que jestime meilleure Je veux lhumilier le couvrir dehonte le tuer à petites doses cest là mon plan Pour le réaliser jevous martyriserai vous son idole Cest pour cela que je vous aiépousée et puis Patience vous verrez bientôt si je my entendsPendant trois mois à partir de ce jour la jeune femme subit toutes leshumiliations les vilenies les affronts que lesprit diabolique de sonmari put imaginer il ne la maltraitait pas physiquement au milieu decette épreuve sa grande fierté lui vint en aide et lempêcha de trahirle secret de son chagrin De temps à autre son mari lui demandait Maispourquoi donc nallezvous pas trouver votre père et lui raconter ce quevous endurezPuis il inventait de nouvelles méchancetés plus cruelles que lesprécédentes et renouvelait sa même question Elle répondaitinvariablement Jamais mon père napprendra rien de ma bouche Elle enprofitait pour le railler sur son origine et lui rappeler quelleétait de par la loi lesclave dun fils desclaves quelle obéiraitmais quil nobtiendrait delle rien de plus Il pouvait la tuer silvoulait mais non la dompter son sang et léducation qui avait forméson caractère lempêcheraient de faiblirAu bout de trois mois il lui dit dun air courroucé et sombre Jaiessayé de tout sauf dun moyen pour vous dompter puis il attendit laréponseEssayez de ce dernier répliquatelle en le toisant dun regard pleinde dédainCette nuitlà il se leva vers minuit shabilla et lui commandaLevezvous et apprêtezvous à sortirComme toujours elle obéit sans un motIl la conduisit à un mille environ de la maison et se mit à la battrenon loin de la grande route Cette fois elle cria et chercha à sedéfendre Il la bâillonna lui cravacha la figure et excita contreelle ses chiens qui lui déchirèrent ses vêtements elle se trouva nueIl rappela ses chiens et lui ditLes gens qui passeront dans trois ou quatre heures vous trouveront danscet état et répandront la nouvelle de votre aventure MentendezvousAdieu Vous ne me reverrez plus Il partitPleurant sous le poids de sa honte elle pensa en ellemêmeJaurai bientôt un enfant de mon misérable mari Dieu veuille que cesoit un filsLes fermiers témoins de son horrible situation lui portèrent secourset sempressèrent naturellement de répandre la nouvelle Indignés dunetelle sauvagerie ils soulevèrent le pays et jurèrent de venger lapauvre jeune femme mais le coupable était envolé La jeune femme seréfugia chez son père celuici anéanti par son chagrin ne voulut plusvoir âme qui vive frappé dans sa plus vive affection le coeur briséil déclina de jour en jour et sa fille ellemême accueillit comme unedélivrance la mort qui vint mettre fin à sa douleurElle vendit alors le domaine et quitta le paysIIEn 1886 une jeune femme vivait retirée et seule dans une petite maisondun village de New England sa seule compagnie était un enfantdenviron cinq ans Elle navait pas de domestiques fuyait lesrelations et semblait sans amis Le boucher le boulanger et les autresfournisseurs disaient avec raison aux villageois quils ne savaient riendelle on ne connaissait en effet que son nom Stillmann et celui deson fils quelle appelait Archy Chacun ignorait doù elle venait maisà son arrivée on avait déclaré que son accent était celui dune SudisteLenfant navait ni compagnons détudes ni camarades de jeux sa mèreétait son seul professeur Ses leçons étaient claires bien comprisesce résultat la satisfaisait pleinement elle en était même très fièreUn jour Archy lui demandaMaman suisje différent des autres enfantsMais non mon petit pourquoiUne petite fille qui passait par ici ma demandé si le facteur étaitvenu et je lui ai répondu que oui elle ma demandé alors depuiscombien de temps je lavais vu passer je lui ai dit que je ne lavaispas vu du tout Elle en a été étonnée et ma demandé comment je pouvaisle savoir puisque je navais pas vu le facteur je lui ai répondu quejavais flairé ses pas sur la route Elle ma traité de fou et sestmoquée de moi Pourquoi doncLa jeune femme pâlit et pensa Voilà

Produced by Tonya Allen Christine De Ryck and PG DistributedProofreaders This file was produced from images generously madeavailable by the Bibliotheque nationale de France BnFGallica athttpgallicabnffrMARK TWAINPlus fort que Sherlock HolmesTRADUIT PAR FRANCOIS DE GAILDEUXIEME EDITIONMCMVIIPREMIERE PARTIEILa premiere scene se passe a la campagne dans la province de Virginieen lannee 1880Un elegant jeune homme de vingtsix ans de fortune mediocre vientdepouser une jeune fille tres riche Mariage damour a premiere vueprecipitamment conclu mais auquel le pere de la jeune personne unveuf sest oppose de toutes ses forcesLe marie appartient a une famille ancienne mais peu estimee qui avaitete contrainte a emigrer de Sedgemoor pour le plus grand bien du roiJacques Cetait du moins lopinion generale les uns le disaient avecune pointe de malice les autres en etaient intimement persuadesLa jeune femme a dixneuf ans et est remarquablement belle Grandebien tournee sentimentale extremement fiere de son origine et treseprise de son jeune mari elle a brave pour lepouser la colere de sonpere supporte de durs reproches repousse avec une inebranlable fermeteses avertissements et ses predictions elle a meme quitte la maisonpaternelle sans sa benediction pour mieux affirmer aux yeux du monde lasincerite de ses sentiments pour ce jeune hommeUne cruelle deception lattendait le lendemain de son mariage Son maripeu sensible aux caresses que lui prodiguait sa jeune epouse lui tintce langage etrangeAsseyezvous jai a vous parler Je vous aimais avant de demandervotre main a votre pere son refus ne ma nullement blesse jen aifait dailleurs peu de cas Mais il nen est pas de meme de ce quilvous a dit sur mon compte Ne cherchez pas a me cacher ses propos a monegard je les connais par le menu et les tiens de source authentiqueIl vous a dit entre autres choses aimables que mon caractere estpeint sur mon visage que jetais un individu faux dissimule fourbelache en un mot une parfaite brute sans le moindre coeur un vrai typede Sedgemoor atil meme ajouteTout autre que moi aurait ete le trouver et laurait tue chez lui commeun chien Je voulais le faire jen avais bien envie mais il mest venuune idee que jestime meilleure Je veux lhumilier le couvrir dehonte le tuer a petites doses cest la mon plan Pour le realiser jevous martyriserai vous son idole Cest pour cela que je vous aiepousee et puis Patience vous verrez bientot si je my entendsPendant trois mois a partir de ce jour la jeune femme subit toutes leshumiliations les vilenies les affronts que lesprit diabolique de sonmari put imaginer il ne la maltraitait pas physiquement au milieu decette epreuve sa grande fierte lui vint en aide et lempecha de trahirle secret de son chagrin De temps a autre son mari lui demandait Maispourquoi donc nallezvous pas trouver votre pere et lui raconter ce quevous endurezPuis il inventait de nouvelles mechancetes plus cruelles que lesprecedentes et renouvelait sa meme question Elle repondaitinvariablement Jamais mon pere napprendra rien de ma bouche Elle enprofitait pour le railler sur son origine et lui rappeler quelleetait de par la loi lesclave dun fils desclaves quelle obeiraitmais quil nobtiendrait delle rien de plus Il pouvait la tuer silvoulait mais non la dompter son sang et leducation qui avait formeson caractere lempecheraient de faiblirAu bout de trois mois il lui dit dun air courrouce et sombre Jaiessaye de tout sauf dun moyen pour vous dompter puis il attendit lareponseEssayez de ce dernier repliquatelle en le toisant dun regard pleinde dedainCette nuitla il se leva vers minuit shabilla et lui commandaLevezvous et appretezvous a sortirComme toujours elle obeit sans un motIl la conduisit a un mille environ de la maison et se mit a la battrenon loin de la grande route Cette fois elle cria et chercha a sedefendre Il la baillonna lui cravacha la figure et excita contreelle ses chiens qui lui dechirerent ses vetements elle se trouva nueIl rappela ses chiens et lui ditLes gens qui passeront dans trois ou quatre heures vous trouveront danscet etat et repandront la nouvelle de votre aventure MentendezvousAdieu Vous ne me reverrez plus Il partitPleurant sous le poids de sa honte elle pensa en ellememeJaurai bientot un enfant de mon miserable mari Dieu veuille que cesoit un filsLes fermiers temoins de son horrible situation lui porterent secourset sempresserent naturellement de repandre la nouvelle Indignes dunetelle sauvagerie ils souleverent le pays et jurerent de venger lapauvre jeune femme mais le coupable etait envole La jeune femme serefugia chez son pere celuici aneanti par son chagrin ne voulut plusvoir ame qui vive frappe dans sa plus vive affection le coeur briseil declina de jour en jour et sa fille ellememe accueillit comme unedelivrance la mort qui vint mettre fin a sa douleurElle vendit alors le domaine et quitta le paysIIEn 1886 une jeune femme vivait retiree et seule dans une petite maisondun village de New England sa seule compagnie etait un enfantdenviron cinq ans Elle navait pas de domestiques fuyait lesrelations et semblait sans amis Le boucher le boulanger et les autresfournisseurs disaient avec raison aux villageois quils ne savaient riendelle on ne connaissait en effet que son nom Stillmann et celui deson fils quelle appelait Archy Chacun ignorait dou elle venait maisa son arrivee on avait declare que son accent etait celui dune SudisteLenfant navait ni compagnons detudes ni camarades de jeux sa mereetait son seul professeur Ses lecons etaient claires bien comprisesce resultat la satisfaisait pleinement elle en etait meme tres fiereUn jour Archy lui demandaMaman suisje different des autres enfantsMais non mon petit pourquoiUne petite fille qui passait par ici ma demande si le facteur etaitvenu et je lui ai repondu que oui elle ma demande alors depuiscombien de temps je lavais vu passer je lui ai dit que je ne lavaispas vu du tout Elle en a ete etonnee et ma demande comment je pouvaisle savoir puisque je navais pas vu le facteur je lui ai repondu quejavais flaire ses pas sur la route Elle ma traite de fou et sestmoquee de moi Pourquoi doncLa jeune femme palit et pensa Voila

Produced by Malcolm Farmer Wilelmina Malliere and PG DistributedProofreadersCOLLECTIONS AND RECOLLECTIONSGeorge William Erskine RussellTHE MOST GENIAL OF COMPANIONSJAMES PAYNAT WHOSE SUGGESTION THESE PAPERS WERE WRITTEN AND TO WHOM THEY WEREINSCRIBEDDIED MARCH 25 1898 Is he gone to a land of no laughter This man that made mirth for us all Proves Death but a silence hereafter Where the echoes of earth cannot fall Once closed have the lips no more duty No more pleasure the exquisite ears Has the heart done oerflowing with beauty As the eyes have with tears Nay if aught be sure what can be surer Than that earths good decays not with earth And of all the hearts springs none are purer Than the springs of the fountains of mirth He that sounds them has pierced the hearts hollows The places where tears are and sleep For the foamflakes that dance in lifes shallows Are wrung from lifes deepJ RHOADESPREFACEIt has been suggested by Mr Reginald Smith to whose friendliness andskill the fortunes of this book have been so greatly indebted that arather fuller preface might be suitably prefixed to this EditionWhen the book first appeared it was stated on the titlepage to bewritten by One who has kept a Diary My claim to that modest titlewill scarcely be challenged by even the most carping critic who isconversant with the facts On August 13 1865 being then twelve yearsold I began my Diary Several attempts at diarykeeping I had alreadymade and abandoned This more serious endeavour was due to the fact thata young lady gave me a manuscriptbook attractively bound in scarletleather and such a gift inspired a resolution to live up to it Shall Ibe deemed to lift the veil of private life too roughly if I transcribesome early entries 23rd Dear Kate came very nice 25th Kate isvery delightful 26th Kate is a darling girl _She kissed me_Before long Loves young dream was dispersed by the realities ofHarrow but the scarlet book continued to receive my daily confidencesSoonalas for puerile ficklenessthe name of Kate disappears andis replaced by rougher appellations such as Bob and CharlieCarrots this and Chaw that To Harrow succeeds Oxford and nowmore recognizable names begin to appearLiddon and Holland Goreand Milner and LymingtonBut through all these personal permutations the continuous Life of theDiary remained unbroken and so remains even to the present date Not aday is missing When I have been laid low by any of the rather numerousills to which if to little else my flesh has been heir I have alwaysbeen able to jot down such pregnant entries as Temperature 102 degSalicine Boiled Chicken Bath Chair It is many a year since thescarlet book was laid aside but it has had a long line of successorsand together they contain the record of what I have been done seenand heard during thirtyeight years of chequered existence Entertaininga strong and wellfounded suspicion that Posterity would burn theseprecious volumes unread I was moved some few years ago to compressinto small compass the little that seemed worth remembering At thattime my friend Mr James Payn was already confined to the house by thebeginnings of what proved to be his last illness His host of friendsdid what they could to relieve the tedium of his suffering days and theonly contribution which I could make was to tell him at my weekly visitsanything interesting or amusing which I collected from the reperusal ofmy diary Greatly to my surprise he urged me to make theseCollections into a book and to add to them whatever Recollectionsthey might suggest Acting on this advice I published during the year1897 a series of weekly papers in the _Manchester Guardian_ They werereceived more kindly than I had any right to expect and early in 1898 Ireproduced them in the present volumejust too late to offer it exceptin memory to dear James PaynThe fortunes of the book from that time till now would not interestthe public but are extremely interesting to me The book brought memany friends One story at any rate elicited the gracious laughter ofQueen Victoria A pauper who had known better days wrote to thank mefor enlivening the monotony of a workhouse infirmary Literary clerksplied me with questions about the sources of my quotations A Scotchdoctor demurred to the prayerWater that sparkon the ground thatthe water would put the spark out Elderly clergymen in countryparsonages revived the rollicking memories of their undergraduate daysand sent me academic quips of the forties and fifties From the mostvarious quarters I received suggestions corrections and enrichmentswhich have made each edition an improvement on the last The publicnotices were on the whole extremely kind and some wereunintentionally amusing Thus one editor putting two and two togethercalculated that the writer could not be less than eighty years oldwhile another like Mrs Prig didnt believe there was no sich aperson and acutely divined that the book was a journalistic squibdirected against my amiable garrulity The most pleasing notice was thatof Jean La Frette some extracts from which I venture to append It istrue that competent judges have questioned the accuracy of M LaFrettes idiom but his sentiments are unimpeachable The necessarycorrective was not wanting for a weekly journal of high culturedescribed my poor handiwork as Snobbery and Snippets There was aboisterousnessalmost a brutalityabout the phrase which deterred mefrom reading the review but I am fain to admit that there was a certainrude justice in the implied criticismGWER_Christmas

Produced by Janet Kegg Josephine Paolucci and the Online DistributedProofreading TeamMade Easy SeriesENTERTAINING MADE EASYBYEMILY ROSE BURT1919_Acknowledgment is made to Womans Home Companion The Ladies HomeJournal Farm and Fireside and the Designer for their courteouspermission to reprint certain material in this book_TABLE OF CONTENTSSOCIALS AND PARTIES A SMILES SOCIAL AN AVIATION MEET A MOCK CANTEEN A PROGRESSIVE MARCH PARTY AN AUTUMN LEAF DANCE A HARVEST HOME PARTY A NUTTY PARTY FOR OCTOBER A MAY POLE PARTY FOR CHILDRENOUTDOOR AFFAIRS A BACON BAT A CHILDRENS DAISY PARTY A HAWAIIAN PORCH LUNCHEON A WATERMELON FROLIC A JAPANESE GARDEN PARTY A COMMENCEMENT PICNIC A PROGRESSIVE MOTOR PARTYBIRTHDAYS AND OTHER ANNIVERSARIES A BACHELOR SUPPER MOTHERS BIRTHDAY TEA A PUSSY CAT PARTY A GIRLS BIRTHDAY LUNCHEON THE WOODEN WEDDING THE TIN WEDDING A MOCK WEDDING A SILVER WEDDING SHOWER A CAPE COD LUNCHEONANNOUNCEMENTS AND SHOWERS A LITTLE BIRD TOLD ME LUNCHEON A HAPPINESS TEA A HELLO PARTY AN APPLE SHOWER AN OLD ROSE SHOWER A KITTY SHOWER A CAMP FIRE SHOWER A ONE I LOVE SHOWER AN INDIAN SUMMER SHOWER A CHRISTMAS TREE SHOWERWEDDINGS SUMMER WEDDING DECORATIONS THE TABLE DECORATIONS MENUS FOR THE BUFFET LUNCHEON THE FAVORS TWO SUMMER WEDDINGS A Wild Rose Wedding A Field Flower Wedding OUTDOOR WEDDINGS An Orchard Pageant A Wedding on the Lawn FALL WEDDINGS A Blue and Gold Fall Wedding Oak Leaves and Cosmos THREE WINTER WEDDINGS A Christmas Wedding A Rainbow Wedding A Colonial Wedding_INTRODUCTION_It is fun to entertainif you dont make hard work of itAnd why make hard work of it when there are ways to entertain easilyBesides you know that the more easily you do it the more successfulyoull be and theres hardly a woman in the worldis therewhowouldnt like to be known as a good hostessBut says one of you I havent the knackAnd another says I havent the time or moneyAnd yet another Oh I never have any ideasNonsenseIts not a question of knack or money or ideas All you need is toknow the secret and its an open secret at thatFirst ask yourself what you mean by a successful hostess Your answerwill be One whose guests have so good a time that they want to comeagainSure enough The secret is out thenentertaining successfully isgiving the guests a good timeMore easily said than done you say What must I _do_ to give theguests a good timeAnd the answer to that is in a nutshell Make your entertainment fitthe folks to be entertainedYou wouldnt for instance think of inviting your grandmothersfriends in of an afternoon in honor of the old ladys birthday andplaying stagecoach or blindmans buffAnd if you have your Sunday School class of lively boys in for theevening you wont expect them to play paper and pencil games fromeight to tenIts really just a matter of common sense coupled with someimagination and forethought to choose the right kind of entertainmentAlong with choosing the right variety of amusement remember thatfolks generally like the simple things best and if theres a touch oforiginality in addition youve won their hearts For you see youvemade them feel that you took the trouble to plan something differentin their honorBecause its different it isnt necessarily hard to preparethereare lots of novelties in decoration amusement and eats thatare perfectly simple and inexpensive They are what help to makeentertaining easy in fact And just at this point you see comes inthe reason for the writing of this little bookIt aims to make entertaining easy by suggesting plans that are simpleand a little outoftheordinary to fit the most frequent occasionswhen you wish to entertain or perhaps _must_ do so Special care hasbeen taken to consider time and expense but at the same time to bringin a touch of the unusualDont miss the fun of entertaining because youve always thought ithard work This book has been prepared to show you how easilyafter all it can be done And may you have the reward of joy andsatisfaction that comes with successful hospitalitySOCIALS AND PARTIESPerhaps youre appointed chairman of the social committee of youryoung peoples church society of or some club Or maybe you want toentertain for a friend who is visiting you so that she may meetyour circle of friends Anyway its up to you to plan an eveningsamusement for a big crowd of people If its a mixed crowdyoung andold and inbetween as church socials often areyou need one kindof plan if its a bunch of young folks or a school class party orsomething for the children you need other plansBut the secret of all good times for big crowds is to chooseentertainment that draws the individuals together in some kind ofcomradeship gives them all something in common and puts them on afriendly footingA SMILES SOCIALOn the door of the parish house as well as in the postoffice windowappeared a poster adorned with a big smiling facethe kind made bydrawing a circle and putting inside of it two eye dots a nose lineand a cheerful curve for a mouthBeneath it the invitation urged everybody to come to a Smiles Socialwearing a smile and bringing an extra one in the pocket Admissionone smileThe parish house parlors were decorated with all the laughing orsmiling pictures that could be found by the committee in charge MonaLisa was there with her inscrutable smile The Laughing Cavalieras well as less famous characters such as smiling girls on calendarsand magazine covers An amusing display of newspaper cartoons alsofilled one portion of the wall space Smilax was appropriately enoughused for trimmingAt the door was stationed a smiling admission collector who insistedon an entering smile from everyone The extra one was not

Produced by Tapio RiikonenKARKURITNäytelmä viidessä näytöksessäKirjALEKSIS KIVI1919JÄSENETPAROONI MARKUS Viitalan omistajaTYKO poikansaPAROONI MAUNO Kuuselan omistajaPAULI poikansaELMA tyttärensäNIILO Markuksen ottopoikaHANNA Maunon kasvatetytärYRJÖMARTTI pehtoori KuuselassaEräs paimenpoika ViitalassaEräs akkaTapaus on SuomessaENSIMÄINEN NÄYTÖSMetsäinen tieno perillä avara näkyala Elma ja Hanna tulevatHANNA Mun sisareni tuossa näkyy tieELMA Ja koto tuolla eksymisen vaaraEi enään uhkaa meitä ole rauhassMe Tornivuorella jo seisommeHANNA Mä pelosta jo olin levotonJa kovin sykkii sydämmeni vieläMut kiitos taivaan tuolla ViitalaJa kuusistossa tuolla KuuselaSe koto armasELMA Mutta kauvan tokiEi ollakaan se kotonamme saaMe kohta sieltä karkoitetaan poisSen tekee herra Markus armotonHANNA Oi aika murheellinenELMA KoivikossaSä näet Viitalan Ja huomaa HannaKuin kuningatar lemmekäs hän katsooPäin Kuuselaan ja hymyileepi silleTaas Kuusela kuin jalo kuningasMut miksi toki koska itse luontoNäin lempeen kehoittaapi miksi tokiNe kaksi hallitsijat kartanoinNäin vimmatusti toinen toistaan vainooHANNA He eivät näe vihans pimeydessKuink ihanaa on ystävinä elääELMA Mut katsos tuota kanervaista nummeeJa vuorta Kumajan sen takanaLomasta pilvein sinne päivä paistaaJa jylhä vuori hohtehessa seisooJa sielun ihmeellisest armahastiNyt riutuu nähdessäni tämän näynOi kerran anastaapi lemmen voimaMaan pinnan asujamet ja he silloinNyt toinen toistaan raadellen kuin pedotKäs kädessä he silloin käyskelevätJa riemu kaikuu kaukaisimpiin ääriinMut missä lienemmekään silloin meHe muistavatko meitä kutsutaankoMeit ilojuhlaan suureen vierahaiksiJaa mitä tiedämme Mut ehkäpäKuin haamut sumupilvein kierroksissaMe heidän päällä kiitelemmeJa iloitsemme heidän ilostaanHANNA Taas haaveksii sun mieles Murheen auerMiks ei se enään otsaltasi poistuAlakuloisuuden tummaan hämäräänSä eksyt enemmin ja enemminELMA Miks kadotin mä armaan kultaseinMiks kadotin mä sankarini TykonHANNA Hän tulee vielä se on uskoniELMA 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miksi et ennenHANNA Oi sitä kainostelin sinulle tunnustaaELMA Erositteko lujilla lupauksilla myöskin teHANNA Ilman lupausta ilman ainokaista sanaa lemmestä Nuori oli hänsilloin minä nuorempi vielä mutta koska hän oli lähtenyt niin tunsinsyvän kaipauksen povessani enkä ole häntä tainnut unohtaa vaansuloisuudella muistelen häntä alatiELMA Ja koska hän tulee niin ottaa hän sun kullaksensaHANNA Sitä en rohkene toivoaELMA Toivo tokiSiis molemmat me samalla ikävyyden oksallavaikertelemme ja varromme heitä ja jos emme heitä enään saa nähdä niinyhdessä harmenemme yhdessä murehdimme toinentoistamme lohdutellenKentulee pitkin tietä tuossaHANNA Se suuri tietäjäakkaELMA Jolla on niin ihmeellinen voima katsoa tulevaisuuteenHANNA Tapahtuvan sanotaan mitä hän ennustaa Hänelle en pistäisikättäni minä Akka tuleeAKKA Herran rauha teille kunnioitettavat fröökinätELMA Olkaat tervehditty vanha eukko Kauvan olette olleet näkymätönnäseuduillammeAKKA Sentähden tuon terveisiä avaralta maailmaltaELMA Vieläkö 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Produced by Dave Morgan Bradley Norton and PG Distributed ProofreadersGARDENING FOR THE MILLION_By_ ALFRED PINKAUTHOR OF RECIPES FOR THE MILLIONT FISHER UNWINPREFACEIt is with the object of stimulating the cultivation of gardens stillmore beautiful than those generally to be met with that the presentvolume has been written It has not been thought necessary to repeatin each case the times when the seeds of the various flowers andplants are to be sown A careful attention to the remarks madeunder the headings of Annuals Biennials Perennials andSeedSowing will supply all the information needed That the workmay prove useful to those at least who supervise their own gardens isthe sincere wish of the authorDULWICHGARDENING FOR THE MILLIONAAarons Rod_See_ SolidagoAbeliaVery ornamental evergreen shrubs bearing tubularfunnelshaped flowers They succeed in any ordinary soil if thesituation is warm and sheltered and are readily raised by cuttingsHeight 3 ft to 4 ftAbies _Spruce Firs_Among these ornamental conifers mention may bemade of the beautiful Japanese Spruce Ajanensis which grows freelyin most soils and has dualcoloured leavesdark green on the uppersurface and silvery white underneath this makes a grand singlespecimen anywhere The White Spruce _Abies Alba Glauca_ is a rapidgrower but while it is small makes a lovely show in the border itprefers a moist situation Of the slowgrowing and dwarf varietiesGregorii is a favourite The Caerulea or Blue Spruce is also verybeautiful Clanbrasiliana is a good lawn shrub never exceeding 4 ftin height The Pigmy Spruce _A Pygmea_ is the smallest of all firsonly attaining the height of 1 ft Any of these may be increased bycuttingsAbroniaHandsome halfhardy annual trailers Grow in sandy peat andmultiply by root division Flowers in April Height 4 in to 6 inAbutilonEvergreen greenhouse shrubs of great beauty and easycultivation May be raised from seed or by cuttings of young shootsplaced in spring or summer in sand under glass or with a bottom heatCut the old plants back in January and when new shoots appear repotthe plants Height 5 ft to 8 ftAcaciaWinter and spring flowering greenhouse shrubs with charmingflowers and graceful foliage May be grown from seed which should besoaked in warm water for twentyfour hours or they may be propagatedby layers cuttings placed in heat or suckers They like a rich sandyloam soil Height 2 ft to 3 ftAcaenaThese shrubby plants are herbaceous and mostly hardy of acreeping nature fast growers and suitable for dry banks or roughstony places They flourish best in sandy loam and peat and may beincreased by cuttings placed under glass The flowers which aregreen are produced in May The height of the various kinds variesfrom 3 in to 2 ftAcantholimon Glumaceum _Prickly Thrift_This is a frame evergreenperennial thriving in any light rich soil It can be increased bydividing the roots In May it puts forth its rosecoloured flowersHeight 3 inAcanthusA coarse yet stately hardy perennial which has largeornamental foliage and flowers in August It is not particular as tosoil or situation but free space should be given it Will grow fromseed sown from March to midsummer or in August or September in asheltered situation Will also bear dividing Height 3 ftAcer _Maple_Very vigorous plants suitable when young for potsand afterwards for the shrubbery The A Negundo Variegata has silveryvariegated leaves which contrast effectively with dark foliageCampestre Colchicum Rubrum with its bright crimson palmate leavesis very ornamental as is also Negundo Californicum Aurem with itsgoldenyellow foliage The Maple grows best in a sandy loam It may beincreased by cuttings planted in a shaded situation or by layers butthe choice varieties are best raised from seed sown as soon as it isripeAchillea Ptarmica _Sneezewort_A pure white hardy perennial whichblooms in August The dried leaves powdered produce sneezingAny soil Best increased by rooted offsets Flowers from July toSeptember Height 112 ftAchimenesFine plants suitable for the greenhouse sittingroom orhanging baskets Plant six tubers in a 5in pot with their growingends inclining to the centre and the roots to the edge of the pot andcover them an inch deep with a compost of peat loam and leafmouldor a light sandy soil Keep them well supplied with liquid manurewhile in a growing state Height 6 in to 212 ftAconite _MonksHood or WolfsBane_Very pretty and very hardyand succeeds under the shade of trees but being very poisonous shouldnot be grown where there are children Increased by division orby seeds Flowers June to July Height 4 ft _See also_ WinterAconitesAcorus _Sweet Flag_A hardy bog plant having an abundance oflightcoloured evergreen foliage It will grow in any wet soilHeight 2 ftAcrocliniumDaisylike everlastings Halfhardy annuals suitablefor cutting during summer and for winter bouquets Sow in pots inFebruary or March cover lightly with fine soil plunge the pot ingentle heat place a square of glass on the top and gradually hardenoff Seed may also be sown in the open during May or in autumn forearly flowering Height 1 ftAcrophyllum VerticillatumA greenhouse evergreen shrub It will growin any soil and may be increased by cuttings of halfripened woodMarch is its flowering season Height 3 ftAcrotisThese are mostly hardy herbaceous plants from South AfricaThe soil should consist of two parts loam and one part leafmould andthe situation should be dry and sunny Seed may be sown early in Marchin gentle heat and the plants grown on in a cold frame till May whenthey may be planted out a foot apart They will flower at midsummerWinter in a warm greenhouse Height 2 ft Some few are of a creepingnatureActaea Spicata _Bane Berry_A hardy herbaceous perennial whichdelights in a shady position and will even grow under trees It isincreased by division of the roots or it may readily be raised fromseed in ordinary soil May is its flowering month Height 3 ftActinella GrandifloraA showy herbaceous plant bearing largeorangecoloured flowers in July It is not particular as to soil andis increased by dividing the roots Height 1 ftActinomeris SquarrosaThis hardy and ornamental herbaceous plantbears heads of bright yellow flowers resembling small sunflowersfrom June to August It thrives in any loamy soil and is easilyincreased by dividing the root Height 4 ftAdams Needle_See_ YuccaAdenandra

Produced by MBP and the Online Distributed Proofreading TeamPEACE THEORIES AND THE BALKAN WARBYNORMAN ANGELLAuthor of The Great Illusion1912PEACE THEORIES AND THE BALKAN WARBy NORMAN ANGELLAuthor of The Great Illusion1912THE TEXT OF THIS BOOK Whether we blame the belligerents or criticise the powers or sit in sackcloth and ashes ourselves is absolutely of no consequence at the present moment We have sometimes been assured by persons who profess to know that the danger of war has become an illusion Well here is a war which has broken out in spite of all that rulers and diplomatists could do to prevent it a war in which the Press has had no part a war which the whole force of the money power has been subtly and steadfastly directed to prevent which has come upon us not through the ignorance or credulity of the people but on the contrary through their knowledge of their history and their destiny and through their intense realisation of their wrongs and of their duties as they conceived them a war which from all these causes has burst upon us with all the force of a spontaneous explosion and which in strife and destruction has carried all before it Face to face with this manifestation who is the man bold enough to say that force is never a remedy Who is the man who is foolish enough to say that martial virtues do not play a vital part in the health and honour of every people Cheers Who is the man who is vain enough to suppose that the long antagonisms of history and of time can in all circumstances be adjusted by the smooth and superficial conventions of politicians and ambassadorsMR WINSTON CHURCHILL at Sheffield Mr Norman Angells theory was one to enable the citizens of this country to sleep quietly and to lull into false security the citizens of all great countries That is undoubtedly the reason why he met with so much success It was a very comfortable theory for those nations which have grown rich and whose ideals and initiative have been sapped by over much prosperity But the great delusion of Norman Angell which led to the writing of The Great Illusion has been dispelled for ever by the Balkan League In this connection it is of value to quote the words of Mr Winston Churchill which give very adequately the reality as opposed to theory_The Review of Reviews_ from an article on The Débâcle of Norman AngellAnd an odd score of like pronouncements from newspapers and public mensince the outbreak of the Balkan WarThe interrogations they imply have been put definitely in the firstchapter of this book the replies to those questions summarised in thatchapter and elaborated in the others_The key to this book and the summary of its arguments are containedin Chapter I pp 712_CONTENTSI The Questions and their AnswersII Peace and War in the BalkansIII Economic Causes in the Balkan WarIV Turkish Ideals in our Political ThoughtV Our Responsibility for Balkan WarsVI Pacifism Defence and the Impossibility of WarVII Theories False and True their Role in European PoliticsVIII What Shall we DOCHAPTER ITHE QUESTIONS AND THEIR ANSWERCHAPTER IIPEACE AND WAR IN THE BALKANSPeace in the Balkans under the Turkish SystemThe inadequacy of ourtermsThe repulsion of the Turkish invasionThe Christian effort tobring the reign of force and conquest to an endThe difference betweenaction designed to settle relationship on force and counter actiondesigned to prevent such settlementThe force of the policeman and theforce of the brigandThe failure of conquest as exemplified by theTurkWill the Balkan peoples prove Pacifist or Bellicist adopt theTurkish or the Christian SystemCHAPTER IIIECONOMICS AND THE BALKAN WARThe economic system of the TurkThe Turkish Trade of Conquest as acause of this warRacial and Religious hatred of primitivesocietiesIndustrialism as a solventIts operation in EuropeBalkansgeographically remote from main drift of European economicdevelopmentThe false economies of the Powers as a cause of theirjealousies and quarrels This has prevented settlementWhat is theeconomic motiveImpossible to separate moral andmaterialNationality and the War SystemCHAPTER IVTURKISH IDEALS IN OUR POLITICAL THOUGHTThis war and the Turks of Britain and PrussiaThe AngloSaxon andopposed idealsMr C Chestertons case for killing and being killedas the best method of settling differencesIts application to CivilConflictsAs in SpanishAmericaThe difference between Devonshire andVenezuelaWill the Balkans adopt the TurcoVenezuelan political idealsor the BritishCHAPTER VOUR RESPONSIBILITY FOR BALKAN WARSMr Winston Churchill on the Responsibility of DiplomacyWhat does hemeanAn easy and popular philosophyCan we neglect past if we wouldavoid future errorsBritish temper and policy in the Crimean WarWhatare its lessonsWhy we fought a war to sustain the integrity andindependence of the Turkish dominion in EuropeSupporting the Turkagainst his Christian victimsFrom fear of Russian growth which we arenow aidingThe commentary of eventsShall we back the wrong horseagainCHAPTER VIPACIFISM DEFENCE AND THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF WARDid the Crimean War prove Bright and Cobden wrongOur curiousreasoningMr Churchill on illusionsThe danger of war is not theillusion but its benefitsWe are all Pacifists now since we all desirePeaceWill more armaments alone secure itThe experience ofmankindWar the failure of human wisdomTherefore more wisdom is theremedyBut the Militarists only want more armsThe German LordRobertsThe military campaign against political RationalismHow tomake war certainCHAPTER VIITHEORIES FALSE AND TRUE THEIR ROLE IN EUROPEAN PROGRESSThe improvement of ideas the foundation of all improvementShootingstraight and thinking straight the one as important as theotherPacifism and the MillenniumHow we got rid of wars ofreligionA few ideas have changed the face

Produced by PG Distributed ProofreadersFOURDIMENSIONALVISTASbyClaude BragdonIllustrationNew York _Perception has a destiny_ _Emerson_INTRODUCTIONThere are two notable emancipations of the mind from the tyranny ofmere appearances that have received scant attention save frommathematicians and theoretical physicistsIn 1823 Bolyai declared with regard to Euclids socalled axiom ofparallels I will draw two lines through a given point both ofwhich will be parallel to a given line The drawing of these linesled to the concept of the curvature of space and this to the ideaof _higher_ spaceThe recently developed Theory of Relativity has compelled therevision of the time concept as used in classical physics Oneresult of this has been to introduce the notion of _curved_ timeThese two ideas of curved time and higher space by their verynature are bound to profoundly modify human thought They loosen thebonds within which advancing knowledge has increasingly laboredthey lighten the dark abysses of consciousness they reconcile thediscoveries of Western workers with the inspirations of Easterndreamers but best of all they open vistas they offer glimpsesthat may make us less forlornCONTENTSI THE QUEST OF FREEDOMThe Undiscovered CountryMiraclesThe Failure of Common SenseTheFunction of ScienceMathematicsIntuitionOur Sense of SpaceTheSubjectivity of SpaceThe Need of an Enlarged SpaceConceptII THE DIMENSIONAL LADDERLearning to Think in Terms of SpacesFrom the Cosmos to theCorpuscleAnd BeyondEvolution as SpaceConquestDimensionalSequencesMan the GeometerHigher and Highest SpaceIII PHYSICAL PHENOMENALooking for the Greater in the LessSymmetryOther AlliedPhenomenaIsomerismThe Orbital Motion of Spheres CellSubdivisionThe Electric CurrentThe Greater UniverseA Hint from AstronomyGravitationThe Ether of SpaceIV TRANSCENDENTAL PHYSICSZoellnerApparitionsPossessionClairvoyance in SpaceClairvoyancein TimePisgah Sights of Lifes PageantV CURVED TIMETime from the Standpoint of Experiment and of Conscious ExperienceRelativityThe SpoonManThe Orbital Movement of TimeMaterialitythe Mirror of ConsciousnessPeriodicityVI SLEEP AND DREAMSSleepDreamsTime in DreamsThe Eastern Teaching in regard to Sleepand DreamsSpace in DreamsThe Phenomenon of PauseVII THE NIGHT SIDE OF CONSCIOUSNESSThe Field of Psychic ResearchModifying the PastKarma andReincarnationColonel De Rochas ExperimentsVIII THE EASTERN TEACHINGOriental Physics and MetaphysicsThe SelfRecovered Memory of pastBirthsReleaseIX THE MYSTICSHermes TrismegistusThe Page and the PressThe Ship and itsCaptainDirect VisionPlatos ShadowWatchersSwedenborgManthe SpaceEaterThe Within and WithoutIntuition and ReasonTheCoil of LifeX GENIUSImmanenceTimelessnessBeyond Good and Evil BeautyThe DaemonicA Dream and a ForgettingThe Play of BrahmXI THE GIFT OF FREEDOMConcept and ConductSelflessnessHumilitySolidarityLive OpenlyNonResistance to EvilThe Immanent DivineFOURDIMENSIONAL VISTASI THE QUEST OF FREEDOMTHE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRYExpectancy of freedom is the dominant note of today Amid the crashof armies and the clash of systems we await some liberating strokewhich shall release us from the old dreary thralldoms As Nietzschesays It would seem as though we had before us as a reward for allour toils a country still undiscovered the horizons of which noone has yet seen a beyond to every country and every refuge of theideal that man has ever known a world so overflowing with beautystrangeness doubt terror and divinity that both our curiosity andour lust of possession are frantic with eagernessShould a name be demanded for this home of freedom there are thosewho would unhesitatingly call it _The Fourth Dimension of Space_For such readers as may be ignorant of the amazing content of thisseemingly meaningless phrase any summary attempt at enlightenmentwill lead only to deeper mystification To the question where andwhat is the fourth dimension the answer must be it is herein usand all about usin a direction toward which we can never pointbecause at right angles to all the directions that we know Ourspace cannot contain it because it contains our space No wallsseparate us from this demesne not even the walls of our fleshlyprison yet we may not enter even though we are already there Itis the place of dreams of living dead men it is _At the Back ofthe North Wind_ and _Behind the Looking Glass_So might one go on piling figure upon figure and paradox uponparadox to little profit The effective method is the ordered anddeliberate one therefore the author asks of his reader theendurance of his curiosity pending certain necessary preparations ofthe mindMIRACLESCould one of our aviators have landed in ancient Athens doubtlesshe would have been given a place in the Greek Pantheon for the oldidea of a demigod was a man with wings Why then does a flying manso little amaze us Because we know about engines and the smell ofgasoline has dulled our sense of the sublime The living voice of adead man leaves us unterrified if only we can be sure that it comesfrom a phonograph but let that voice speak to us out of vacancy andwe fall a prey to the same order of alarm that is felt by a savageat the report of a gun that he has never seenThis illustration very well defines the nature of a miracle it is amanifestation of power new to experience and counter to the currentthought of the time Miracles are therefore always in order theyalways happen It is nothing that the sober facts of today are moremarvellous than the fictions of Baron Munchausen so long as weunderstand them it is everything that phenomena are multiplyingthat we are unable to understand This increasing pressure uponconsciousness _from a new direction_ has created a need to foundbelief on something firmer than a bottomless gullibility of mindThis book is aimed to meet that need by giving the mind the freedomof new spaces but before it can even begin to do so the readermust be brought to see the fallacy of attempting to measure thelimits of the possible by that faculty known as common sense And bycommon sense is meant not the appeal to abstract reason but toconcrete experienceTHE FAILURE OF COMMON SENSECommon sense had scarce had its laugh at Bell and its shout ofI told you so at poor Langley when lo the telephone became theworlds nervous system and aeroplanes began to multiply like summerflies To common sense the alchemists dream of transmuting leadinto gold seems preposterous yet in a hundred laboratories radiumis breaking down into helium and the new chemistry bids fair toturn the timehonored jeer at the alchemists completely upside downA wife whose mind

Produced by Ben Courtney and the Online Distributed Proofreading TeamTHE WISE MAMMA GOOSEBy CHARLOTTE B HERRDesigns FRANCES BEEM1913THIS LITTLE STORY IS TOLD AND THE LITTLE PICTURES WERE DRAWN FOR A GOODLITTLE CHILD NAMED _______________THE WISE MAMMA GOOSEMamma Goose was trying to think She had left the barnyard because itwas so noisy there that she could not collect her wits and had hiddenherself between the rows of tall red hollyhocks which border one side ofthe garden Here at least it was quietThinking had always been hard work for Mamma Goose And besides herfamily kept her so busy that she had no time for it anyway There wasalways something to be done for the babiesFor Mamma Goose had a whole dozen of the dearest little goslings andshe was very proud of them They were soft and round and fluffy likelittle yellow balls and besides being prettier than any other babies inthe barnyard they were so bright too and knew as much as any goslingcould be expected to knowfar more than little Red Hens chicks eventhough she did make such a fuss about themThe goslings could hunt for their breakfasts almost as well as theirmother while little Red Hen had to scratch up every thing her childrenate And as for the waterwell the chicks were simply not in it thereThey did not like to be in the water at all but the goslings lovedtheir morning bath in the brook better than anything else in the wholedayYes her goslings were by far the finer babies Mamma Goose swelled withpride when she thought of it and carefully smoothed her feathers Shecould have been perfectly happy except for just one thing She wasafraid that before long something dreadful might happen to the goslingsand once more she settled herself to thinkThere was something wrong in the barnyard What could it be that cameeach night when every one was sound asleep And what was it that carriedone of the chickens away each time so that when the next morning camethere was always one less than there had been the day before Whateverit was it made no noise Only always the next morning some one wasmissing and usually it was a little baby chick that was gone The worstof it was that no one else knew any more about it than she did To besure little Bantam Rooster had said it was the hawk But then Bantamalways thought he knew everything and was almost always wrong so thatnobody ever believed anything he saidBesides if it had been the big white cock would have known it for thebig white cock knew everything He was the king of the barnyard andtook care of them all He had a bright red comb and beautiful longgreen tailfeathers and Mamma Goose thought him the most wonderfulbeing in the whole worldBut something seemed to be wrong with him too He did not crow half sooften as he used to and his beautiful red comb did not stand stiff andstraight any more It drooped to one side and he looked very tired andvery unhappy as if he too had been trying to think But if he did notknow what it was that came night after night then nobody knewEverything had been very different when old Fido lived in his littlehouse by the barnyard gate Nothing had ever happened to trouble themthen But old Fido was gone now and nobody knew about that either Onemorning after breakfast he had trotted off behind the wagon and nobodyhad seen him since Every one liked old Fido and they all missed himbut he had never come back and his little house stood empty all nightlongSome thought that he had gone to take care of the sheep who lived in thebig field on the other side of the hill But it was only little BantamRooster who said so Nobody knew Things had been better though beforeFido went away for he had always stayed awake all night and watched tosee that no harm came to any of themThen suddenly Mamma Goose had a thought and a very bright idea it wastoo She would stay awake all night herself and watch and see with herown eyes what it was that carried away the little chicks As soon as shehad made this plan she stopped thinking for it was such hard work andthe sun was getting very hot on her poor head Besides the goslings hadbeen in the water long enough They never did know when to come outSo she waddled down to the brook to get them Then they all went for awalk in the meadow where the red clovertops nod in the wind and MammaGoose did no more thinking that dayBut when night came she did not forget her plan As soon as the sun hadgone down behind the hill the chickens all perched themselves along theroost with the big white cock at the end of the row and soon they wereall fast asleep Little Red Hen gathered her chicks under her wing tokeep them cosy and warm and then she too went to sleepMamma Goose tucked her babies in also and spread her wings wide overthem all but she did not go to sleepInstead she kept both eyes wide open and stared straight at the bigwhite cock that she might not go to sleep without knowing it It wasvery hard to sit so long in the dark and keep awake First one eye andthen the other would close tight but Mamma Goose would stretch themwide open again and stare harder than ever at the big cock and thenshe saw that the cock was watching too and that made it much easierThen it happened after a long time when the moon had climbed high abovethe trees and everything was very quiet that a long slim fox stolesoftly beneath the fence and came creepingcreeping across the barnyard Mamma Goose was so frightened that she almost said Quack quackout loud but still she kept her eyes on the big white cock and thatwas a

Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet Folklore of the Santal Parganas Translated by Cecil Henry Bompas of the Indian Civil Service 1909PrefaceThe Santals are a Munda tribe a branch of that aboriginal elementwhich probably entered India from the North East At the present daythey inhabit the Eastern outskirts of the Chutia Nagpore plateauOriginally hunters and dwellers in the jungle they are still butindifferent agriculturists Like the Mundas and Hos and otherrepresentatives of the race they are jovial in character fond oftheir rice beer and ready to take a jokeTheir social organization is very complete each village has itsheadman or manjhi with his assistant the paranik the jogmanghiis charged with the supervision of the morals of the young men andwomen the naeke is the village priest the godet is the villageconstable Over a group of villages is the pargana or tribal chief TheSantals are divided into exogamous septsoriginally twelve in numberand their social observances are complex eg while some relationstreat each other with the greatest reserve between others the utmostfreedom of intercourse is allowedTheir religion is animistic spirits _bongas_ are everywhere aroundthem the spirits of their ancestors the spirit of the house thespirit dwelling in the patch of primeval forest preserved in eachvillage Every hill tree and rock may have its spirit These spiritsare propitiated by elaborate ceremonies and sacrifices which generallyterminate in dances and the drinking of rice beerThe Santal Parganas is a district 4800 sq miles in area lyingabout 150 miles north of Calcutta and was formed into a separateadministration after the Santals had risen in rebellion in 1856 TheSantals at present form about onethird of the populationThe stories and legends which are here translated have been collectedby the Rev O Bodding DD of the Scandinavian Mission to theSantals To be perfectly sure that neither language nor ideas should inany way be influenced by contact with a European mind he arranged formost of them to be written out in Santali principally by a Christianconvert named Sagram Murmu at present living at Mohulpahari in theSantal ParganasSantali is an agglutinative language of great regularity and complexitybut when the Santals come in contact with races speaking an Aryanlanguage it is apt to become corrupted with foreign idioms Thelanguage in which these stories have been written is beautifullypure and the purity of language may be accepted as an index thatthe ideas have not been affected as is often the case by contactwith EuropeansMy translation though somewhat condensed is very literal and thestories have perhaps thereby an added interest as shewing the way inwhich a very primitive people look at things The Santals are greatstory tellers the old folk of the village gather the young peopleround them in the evening and tell them stories and the men whenwatching the crops on the threshing floor will often sit up all nighttelling storiesThere is however no doubt that at the present time the knowledge ofthese stories tends to die out Under the peace which British rulebrings there is more intercourse between the different communitiesand castes a considerable degree of assimilation takes placeand old customs and traditions tend to be obliteratedSeveral collections of Indian stories have been made _eg_ StokesIndian Fairy Tales Frere Old Deccan Days Day Folk Tales ofBengal and Knowles Folk Tales of Kashmir and it will be seenthat all the stories in the present collection are by no means ofpure Santal origin Incidents which form part of the common stock ofIndian folklore abound and many of the stories professedly relateto characters of various Hindu castes others again deal with suchessentially Santal beliefs as the dealings of men and _bongas_The Rev Dr Campbell of Gobindpore published in 1891 a collectionof Santal Folk Tales He gathered his material in the District ofManbhum and many of the stories are identical with those included inthe present volume I have added as an appendix some stories which Icollected among the Hos of Singhbhum a tribe closely related to theSantals and which the Asiatic Society of Bengal has kindly permittedme to reprint hereMy task has been merely one of translation it is due solely to MrBoddings influence with and intimate knowledge of the people thatthe stories have been committed to writing and I have to thank himfor assistance and advice throughout my work of translationI have roughly classified the stories in part 1 are stories of ageneral character part 2 stories relating to animals in part 3stories which are scarcely folklore but are anecdotes relating toSantal life in Part 4 stories relating to the dealings of _bongas_and men In part 5 are some legends and traditions and a few notesrelating to tribal customs Part 6 contains illustrations of thebelief in witchcraft I have had to omit a certain number of storiesas unsuited for publicationC H BompasTable of ContentsPART II Bajun and JhoreII Anuwa and His MotherIII Ledha and the LeopardIV The Cruel StepmotherV Karmu and DharmuVI The Jealous StepmotherVII The Pious WomanVIII The Wise DaughterinLawIX The

Produced by David A Schwan davidschearthlinknetLifes EnthusiasmsByDavid Starr JordanPresident of Leland Stanford Junior UniversityBostonAmerican Unitarian AssociationMDCCCCVITo Melville Best AndersonThat is poetry in which truth is expressed in the fewest possible wordsin words which are inevitable in words which could not be changedwithout weakening the meaning or throwing discord into the melody Tochoose the right word and to discard all others this is the chieffactor in good writing To learn good poetry by heart is to acquire helptoward doing this instinctively automatically as other habits areacquired In the affairs of life then is no form of good manners nohabit of usage more valuable than the habit of good EnglishLifes EnthusiasmsIt is the laymans privilege to take the text for his sermonswherever he finds it I take mine from a French novel a cynical storyof an unpleasant person Samuel Brohl by Victor Cherbuliez And this isthe text and the whole sermonMy son we should lay up a stock of absurd enthusiasms in our youth orelse we shall reach the end of our journey with an empty heart for welose a great many of them by the wayAnd my message in its fashion shall be an appeal to enthusiasm in thingsof life a call to do things because we love them to love thingsbecause we do them to keep the eyes open the heart warm and the pulsesswift as we move across the field of life To take the old world bythe hand and frolic with it this is Stevensons recipe for joyousnessOld as the world is let it be always new to us as we are new to it Letit be every morning made afresh by Him who instantly and constantlyreneweth the work of creation Let the bit of green sod under yourfeet be the sweetest to you in this world in any world Half the joyof life is in little things taken on the run Let us run if we musteven the sands do thatbut let us keep our hearts young and our eyesopen that nothing worth our while shall escape us And everything isworth our while if we only grasp it and its significance As we growolder it becomes harder to do this A grown man sees nothing he was notready to see in his youth So long as enthusiasm lasts so long is youthstill with usTo make all this more direct we may look to the various sources fromwhich enthusiasm may be derived What does the school give us in thisdirection Intellectual drill broadening of mental horizonprofessional training all this we expect from school college anduniversity and in every phase of this there is room for a thousandenthusiasms Moreover the school gives us comradeship the outlook onthe hopes and aspirations of our fellows It opens to us the resourcesof young life the luminous visions of the boys that are to be men Wecome to know the wonderful fellow to dream and plan with the greatthing always to come who knows His dream may be our inspiration as itpasses as its realization may be the inspiration of future generationsIn the school is life in the making and with the rest we are making ourown lives with the richest materials ever at our hand Life iscontagious and in the fact lies the meaning of ComradeshipGemeingeist unter freien Geistern comradery among free spirits thisis the definition of College Spirit given us by Hutten at Greifeswaldfour centuries ago This definition serves for us today Life is thesame in every age All days are one for all good things They are allholydays to the freshman of today all joys of comradery all delightsof free enthusiasm are just as open just as fresh as ever they wereFrom the teacher like influences should proceed Plodding and proddingis not the teachers work It is inspiration onleading the flashingof enthusiasms A teacher in any field should be one who has chosen hiswork because he loves it who makes no repine because he takes with itthe vow of poverty who finds his reward in the joy of knowing and inthe joy of making known It requires the masters touch to develop thegerms of the naturalist the philosopher the artist or the poet Ourteacher is the man who has succeeded along the line in which we hope tosucceed whose success is measured as we hope to measure our own Eachleader of science and of intellectual life is in some degree thedisciple of one who has planned and led before him There is a heredityof intellect a heredity of action as subtle and as real as theheredity of the continuous germplasm Ask the teacher who has helpedmould your life who in turn was his own master In a very fewgenerations you trace back your lineage to one of the great teachers theworld knows and loves Who was your teacher in Natural History inAmerica Was he a pupil of Agassiz or was he a student of one ofAgassizs pupils Or again are there three generations back from youto the grand master of enthusiasmsAnd there are masters in the art of living as well as in other arts andsciences A log with Mark Hopkins at one end and myself at the otherThat was Garfields conception of a university It was said of EliphaletNott at Union College that he took the sweepings of other colleges andsent them back to society pure gold The older students of Stanfordwill always show the traces of the master teacher Thoburn In terms oflife thus he construed all problems of Science of Philosophy ofReligion In terms of life Thoburns students will interpret all theirown various problems for in terms of life all things we do must finallybe formulated Every observation we make every thought of our mindsevery act of our hands has in some degree an ethical basis It involvessomething of right or wrong and without adhesion to right all thoughtall action must end in folly And there is no road to righteousness sosure as that which has right living as a traveling companionThe very humanity of men at

Produced by Mark Hamann Yvonne Dailey Tom Allen and PG DistributedProofreadersPRESIDENTIAL EDITIONTHE WINNING OF THE WESTBYTHEODORE ROOSEVELTVOLUME ONEFROM THE ALLEGHANIES TO THE MISSISSIPPI17691776WITH MAPThis book is dedicated with his permissionto FRANCIS PARKMANTo whom Americans who feel a pride in the pioneer historyof their country are so greatly indebted O strange New World that yit wast never young Whose youth from thee by gripin need was wrung Brown foundlin o the woods whose babybed Was prowled roun by the Injuns cracklin tread And who grewst strong thru shifts an wants an pains Nursed by stern men with empires in their brains Who saw in vision their young Ishmel strain With each hard hand a vassal oceans mane Thou skilled by Freedom and by gret events To pitch new states ez Old World men pitch tents Thou taught by fate to know Jehovahs plan Thet mans devices cant unmake a man Oh my friends thank your God if you have one that he Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea Be strongbacked brownhanded upright as your pines By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs LOWELLPREFACEMuch of the material on which this work is based is to be found in thearchives of the American Government which date back to 1774 when thefirst Continental Congress assembled The earliest sets have beenpublished complete up to 1777 under the title of American Archivesand will be hereafter designated by this name These early volumescontain an immense amount of material because in them are to be foundmemoranda of private individuals and many of the public papers of thevarious colonial and State governments as well as those of theConfederation The documents from 1789 onno longer containing anypapers of the separate Stateshave also been gathered and printedunder the heading of American State Papers by which term they willbe hereafter referred toThe mass of public papers coming in between these two series andcovering the period extending from 1776 to 1789 have never beenpublished and in great part have either never been examined or elsehave been examined in the most cursory manner The original documentsare all in the Department of State at Washington and for conveniencewill be referred to as State Department MSS They are bound in twoor three hundred large volumes exactly how many I cannot saybecause though they are numbered yet several of the numbersthemselves contain from two or three to ten or fifteen volumes apieceThe volumes to which reference will most often be made are thefollowing No 15 Letters of HuntingtonNo 16 Letters of the Presidents of CongressNo 18 LetterBook BNo 20 Vol 1 Reports of Committees on State PapersNo 27 Reports of Committees on the War Office 1776 to 1778No 30 Reports of CommitteesNo 32 Reports of Committees of the States and of the WeekNo 41 Vol 3 Memorials E F G 17761788No 41 Vol 5 Memorials K L 17771789No 50 Letters and Papers of Oliver Pollock 17771792No 51 Vol 2 Intercepted Letters 17791782No 56 Indian AffairsNo 71 Vol 1 Virginia State PapersNo 73 Georgia State PapersNo 81 Vol 2 Reports of Secretary John JayNo 120 Vol 2 American LettersNo 124 Vol 3 Reports of JayNo 125 Negotiation BookNo 136 Vol 1 Reports of Board of TreasuryNo 136 Vol 2 Reports of Board of TreasuryNo 147 Vol 2 Reports of Board of WarNo 147 Vol 5 Reports of Board of WarNo 147 Vol 6 Reports of Board of WarNo 148 Vol 1 Letters from Board of WarNo 149 Vol 1 Letters and Reports from B Lincoln Secretary atWarNo 149 Vol 2 Letters and Reports from B Lincoln Secretary atWarNo 149 Vol 3 Letters and Reports from B Lincoln Secretary atWarNo 150 Vol 1 Letters of H Knox Secretary at WarNo 150 Vol 2 Letters of H Knox Secretary at WarNo 150 Vol 3 Letters of H Knox Secretary at WarNo 152 Vol 11 Letters of General WashingtonNo 163 Letters of Generals Clinton Nixon Nicola Morgan HarmarMuhlenburgNo 169 Vol 9 Washingtons LettersNo 180 Reports of Secretary of CongressBesides these numbered volumes the State Department contains otherssuch as Washingtons letterbook marked War Department 1792 3 45 There are also a series of numbered volumes of Letters toWashington Nos 33 and 49 containing reports from Geo Rogers ClarkThe Jefferson papers which are likewise preserved here are bound inseveral series each containing a number of volumes The Madison andMonroe papers also kept here are not yet bound I quote them as theMadison MSS and the Monroe MSSMy thanks are due to Mr W C Hamilton Asst Librarian for givingme every facility to examine the materialAt Nashville Tennessee I had access to a mass of original matter inthe shape of files of old newspapers of unpublished letters diariesreports and other manuscripts I was given every opportunity toexamine these at my leisure and indeed to take such as were mostvaluable to my own home For this my thanks are especially due toJudge John M Lea to whom as well as to my many other friends inNashville I shall always feel under a debt on account of theunfailing courtesy with which I was treated I must express myparticular acknowledgments to Mr Lemuel R Campbell The Nashvillemanuscripts etc of which I have made most use are the following The Robertson MSS comprising two large volumes entitled theCorrespondence

Produced by Paul Murray Josephine Paolucci and the Online DistributedProofreading TeamIllustration NIGHT OVER THE BLACK SEAA TRAMPS SKETCHESBYSTEPHEN GRAHAM1913TOTHE CELESTIALSPREFACEThis book was written chiefly whilst tramping along the Caucasian andCrimean shores of the Black Sea and on a pilgrimage with Russianpeasants to Jerusalem Most of it was written in the open air sittingon logs in the pine forests or on bridges over mountain streams bythe side of my morning fire or on the sea sand after the morning dipIt is not so much a book about Russia as about the tramp It is thelife of the wanderer and seeker the walking hermit the rebelagainst modern conditions and commercialism who has gone out into thewildernessI have tramped alone over the battlefields of the Crimea visited thecemetery where lie so many British dead wandered along the Black Seashores a thousand miles to New Athos monastery and Batum have beenwith seven thousand peasant pilgrims to Jerusalem and lived theirlife in the hospitable Greek monasteries and in the great Russianhostelry at the Holy City have bathed with them in Jordan where allwere dressed in their deathshrouds and have slept with them a wholenight in the SepulchreOne cannot make such a journey without great experiences bothspiritual and material On every hand new significances are revealedboth of Russian life and of life itselfIt is with life itself that this volume is concerned It is personaland friendly and on that account craves indulgence Here are thesongs and sighs of the wanderer many lyrical pages and the veryminimum of scientific and topographical matter It is all writtenspontaneously and without study and as such goes forthall that aseeker could put down of his visions or could tell of what he soughtThere will follow if it is given to the author both to write and topublish a full story of the places he visited along the Black Seashore and of the life of the pilgrims on the way to the shrine of theSepulchre and at the shrine itself It will be a continuation of thework begun in _Undiscovered Russia_Several of these sketches appeared in the _St Jamess Gazette_ twoin _Country Life_ and one in _Colliers_ of New York being sent outto these papers from the places where they were written The authorthanks the Editors for permission to republish and for their courtesyin dealing with MSSSTEPHEN GRAHAMCONTENTSI1 FAREWELL TO THE TOWN2 NIGHTS OUT ON A PERFECT VAGABONDAGE3 THE LORDS PRAYER4 DAYS5 THE QUESTION OK THE SCEPTIC6 A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOR EVER7 A STILLCREATIONDAY8 SUNSET FROM THE GATE OF BAIDARI9 THE MEANING OF THE SEAII1 HOSPITALITY2 THE RICH MAN AND THE POOR MAN3 A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT4 SOCRATES OF ZUGDIDA5 HAVE YOU A LIGHT HAND6 ST SPIRIDON OF TREMIFOND7 AT A FAIR8 A TURKISH COFFEEHOUSE9 AT A GREAT MONASTERYIII1 THE BOY WHO NEVER GROWS OLD2 ZENOBIA3 THE LITTLE DEAD CHILD4 HOW THE OLD PILGRIM REACHED BETHLEHEMIVTHE WANDERERS STORYI MY COMPANION II HOW HE FOUND HIMSELFIN A COACH III IRRECONCILABLESIV THE TOWNSMAN V HIS CONVERSIONVTHE UNCONQUERABLE HOPEVITHE PILGRIMAGE TO JERUSALEMVIITHE MESSAGE FROM THE HERMIT FRONTISPIECENIGHT OVER THE BLACK SEAIIFAREWELL TO THE TOWNThe town is one large house of which all the little houses are roomsThe streets are the stairs Those who live always in the town arenever out of doors even if they do take the air in the streetsWhen I came into the town I found that in my soul were reflected itsblank walls its interminable stairways and the shadows of hurryingtrafficA thousand sights and impressions unbidden unwelcome floodedthrough the eyegate of my soul and a thousand harsh sounds andnoises came to me through my ears and echoed within me I became awareof confused influences of all kinds striving to find some habitationin the temple of my beingWhat had been my delight in the country my receptivity andhospitality of consciousness became in the town my misery and mydespairFor imagine Within my own calm mirror a beautiful world had seenitself rebuilded Mountains and valleys lay within me robed in sunnyand cloudy days or marching in the majesty of storm I had inbreathedtheir mystery and outbreathed it again as my own I had gazed at thewide foaming seas till they had gazed into me and all their waveswaved their proud crests within me Beauteous plains had temptedmysterious dark forests lured me and I had loved them and given themhabitation in my being My soul had been wedded to the great strongsun and it had slumbered under the watchful starsThe silence of vast lonely places was preserved in my breast Oragainst the background of that silence resounded in my being the roarof the billows of the ocean Great winds roared about my mountains orthe whispering snow hurried over them as over tents In my valleys Iheard the sound of rivulets in my forests the birds Choirs of birdssang within my breast I had been a playfellow with God God hadplayed with me as with a childBound by so intimate a tie how terrible to have been betrayed to atownFor now fain would the evil city reflect itself in my calm soul itscommerce take up a place within the temple of my being I had leftGods handiwork and come to the manmade town I had left theinexplicable and come to the realm of the explained In the holytemple were arcades of shops through its precincts hurried the tramsthe pictures of trade were displayed men were building hoardings inmy soul and posting notices of idolworship and hurrying throngs werereading books of the rites of idolatry Instead of the mighty anthemof the ocean I heard the roar of traffic Where had been mysteriousforests now stood dark chimneys and the songs of birds were exchangedfor the shrill whistle of trainsAnd my being began to express itself to itself in terms of commerceOh God I cried in my sorrow who did

Produced by David Starner Carol David and the Online DistributedProofreading Team_Books by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi_ THE KISS OF APOLLO GABRIELLE AND OTHER POEMS THE SIN OF ANGELS A Novel A COSSACK LOVER A Novel THE CUCKOOS NEST A Novel A MODERN PROMETHEUS A Novel of Italy With a frontispieceRUSSIAN LYRICS AND COSSACK SONGSRUSSIAN LYRICSSONGS OF COSSACK LOVERPATRIOT AND PEASANT_DONE INTO ENGLISH VERSE_BYMARTHA GILBERT DICKINSON BIANCHI_Author of Within the Hedge The Cathedral A Modern PrometheusThe Cuckoos Nest etc_NEW YORKDUFFIELD AND COMPANY1916COPYRIGHT 1910 BYDUFFIELD AND COMPANY_ToA soul of passion mirth and tears_CONTENTSThe Song of the Kazak PushkinCradle Song of a Cossack Mother LermontoffThe Dagger LermontoffDont Give Me the WineFrom the Georgian of Prince TschawtschawadzeThe Delibash PushkinTo the Don PushkinThe Caucas PushkinThe Cloister on Kasbek PushkinGoblins of the Steppes PushkinUnder a Portrait of Jukowsky PushkinThe Vision PushkinI Loved Thee PushkinSerenade PushkinA Winter Evening PushkinThe Last Flower PushkinStanzas from Onegin Our Northern Winters fickle Summer Pushkin Sometimes He read Aloud with Olga Pushkin Love Condescends to Every Altar Pushkin How Sad to Me is Thine Appearing PushkinThe Memorial PushkinTamara LermontoffThe Gift of the Terek LermontoffOn Departure for the Caucas LermontoffTo the Clouds LermontoffTo My Country LermontoffTo Kasbek LermontoffThe Angel LermontoffA Prayer LermontoffThe Sail LermontoffI Am Not Byron LermontoffLike An Evil Spirit LermontoffTo ACS LermontoffA Song LermontoffFrom Demon LermontoffThe Prayer LermontoffThe Palm Branch of Palestine LermontoffThe Dispute LermontoffHeaven and the Stars LermontoffOn Napoleons Death LermontoffOn the Death of Pushkin LermontoffRussia O My Russia Hail TolstoyThe Wolves TolstoyAutumn TolstoyBurnt Out Is Now My Misery TolstoyIn Hours of Ebbing Tide TolstoySwans MaikowTo Sleep MaikowIn Memory of My Daughter MaikowMother and Child MaikowAn Easter Greeting MaikowAt Easter MaikowO Mountains of My Native Country MaikowThe Aeolian Harp MaikowYe Songs of Mine NekrassowIn War NekrassowA Song of Siberian Exiles NekrassowFreedom NekrassowA Farewell NekrassowThe Love Letter NekrassowWhat the Sleepless Grandam Thinks NekrassowTo Russia NikitinThe Song of the Spendthrift NikitinThe Spade is Deep Digging a Grave in the Mould NikitinGossip NikitinIn a Peasant Hut NikitinWinter Night in the Village NikitinThe Birch Tree NikitinNorth and South NikitinHunger FofanowFaded the Footstep of Spring from Our Garden FofanowThe Beggar FofanowWith Roses From the Georgian of Prince TschawtschawadzeThe Stars From the Caucasian of Prince OberlaineWhispers and the Timid Breathing Fete ChenchineThe Tales of the Stars FofanowOne Dearest Pair of Eyes I Love Gipsy SongA Gipsy Song PolonskyAt Last PlestcheeffBy An Open Window The Grand Duke ConstantineWith the Greatness of God All My Heart Is On Fire NadsonThe Poet NadsonTo the Muse NadsonA Fragment NadsonIn May NadsonIn Memory of NMD NadsonAt the Grave of NMD NadsonIn Dreams NadsonThe Old Grey House NadsonCall Him Not DeadHe Lives NadsonBrief Biographical Notes Alexander Sergjewitsch Pushkin Michail Jurjewitsch Lermontoff Count Alexis Constantinowitsch Tolstoy Apollon Nikolajewitsch Maikow Nikolai Alexajewitsch Nekrassow Ivan Ssawitsch Nikitin Constantine Michailowitsch Fofanow Semijon Jakolowitsch NadsonTo the ReaderThe translations in this little collection make no pretension to beingmore than an effort to share the delight found in them from which mostof the world is debarred by the difficulty of the language in which theyare written They have been chosen at random each for some intrinsiccharm or because of its bearing upon some peculiar phase of the authorVery few of the lyrics of Pushkin have been included for the reasonthat the great founder of Russian poetry has been more widely translatedthan any other Russian poet and is therefore available in severallanguagesRemembering always that Heine declared translation was betrayaltherhyme and smoothness have in every case been sacrificed when necessaryto preserve the exact rhythm and as far as possible the vigour andcolour as well as thought of the original a task entirely beyond mesave for the cooperation of an accomplished Russian linguist who haskindly assisted in the literal translation of every poem here presentedMGDBRUSSIAN LYRICS ANDCOSSACK SONGSTHE SONG OF THE KAZAKKazak speeds ever toward the North Kazak has never heart for restNot on the field nor in the wood Nor when in face of danger pressedHis steed the raging stream must breastKazak speeds ever toward the NorthWith him a mighty power bringsTo win the honour of his land Kazak his life unheeding flingsTill fame of him eternal singsKazak brought all SiberiaAt foot of Russias throne to lieKazak left glory in the Alps His name the Turk can terrifyHis flag he ever carries highKazak speeds ever toward the NorthKazak has never heart for restNot on the field nor in the wood Nor when in face of danger pressedHis steed the raging stream must breastPUSHKIN_The accent in singing falls sharply on the second halfKazak_CRADLE SONG OF A COSSACK MOTHERSlumber sweet my fairest baby Slumber calmly sleepPeaceful moonbeams light thy chamber In thy cradle creepI will tell to thee a story Pure as dewdrop glowClose those two beloved eyelids Lullaby BylowList The Terek oer its pebbles Blusters through the valeOn its shores the little Khirgez Whets his murdrous bladeYet thy father grey in battle Guards thee child of woeSafely rest thee in thy cradle Lullaby BylowGrievous times will sure befall thee Danger slaughterous fireThou shalt on a charger gallop Curbing at desireAnd a saddle girth all silken Sadly I will sewSlumber now my wideeyed darling Lullaby BylowWhen I see thee my own Being As a Cossack trueMust I only convoy give thee Mother

Produced by Marc DHoogheJEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAUEEN BEELD VAN ZIJN LEVEN EN WERKENMET EENIGE PORTRETTENvanHENRIETTE ROLAND HOLSTIllustratie JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAUINHOUDEERSTE HOOFDSTUK Jeugd I Geneve aan den aanvang der XVIIIde eeuw II KindsheidIII De zwerver IV GroeiTWEEDE HOOFDSTUK Parijs I Midden der XVIIIde eeuw II Het moeizame levenIII De eerste fanfarenDERDE HOOFDSTUK De groote foren I Naar de vereenzaming II De KatastropheIII De werken der groote jarenVIERDE HOOFDSTUKDe laatste worstelingVIJFDE HOOFDSTUKWaan en VredeLijst van illustratiesEERSTE HOOFDSTUKJEUGDI GENEVE AAN DEN AANVANG DER XVIIIDE EEUWIn de stad aan het donkerblauwe meer waar in de XVIde eeuw het kalvinismegeboren wasde richting van het protestantisme die zich het scherpsten felst in vorm en wezen tegenover Rome had gesteldbleef hetmaatschappelijk en geestelijk leven zich geslachten lang in de banenbewegen waarin de machtige greep van den grooten hervormer het hadgestuwdDit kon zoo zijn omdat het stelsel van Kalvijn nog langen tijd passenbleef bij de sociale en geestelijke behoeften der bevolking van Geneveterwijl in Holland bv die andere burcht van het protestantisme haarheerschend deel spoedig daaraan ontgroeide Het protestantisme was in deXVIde eeuw ontstaan uit den drang der opkomende burgerlijke klassen vanverschillende landen om zich aan de uitbuiting van Rome te onttrekkenHet spiegelde de denkvormen de aspiraties en de idealen dier klassenweer toen zij aan den drempel stonden van geweldige ekonomische ensociale veranderingen Daar waar de XVIdeeeuwsche burgerij dien drempeloverschreed dat is in die landen waar de XVIIde eeuw een groote expansiebracht en de overzeesche handel de koloniale uitbuiting en de bloei dermanufaktuur een ongekendsnelle kapitaalakkumulatie ten gevolg haddenwaar de krachtige ontwikkeling der produktiewijze een deel der burgerijtot grootburgerlijk bezit en grootburgerlijke levensvormen tilde maar ookhet proletariaat deed aanzwellen en de vroegere betrekkelijk geringekloven tusschen de stedelijke klassen zich haast plotseling tot afgrondenverdieptendaar kon het kalvinisme den staat niet blijven beheerschende maatschappij niet blijven doortrekken met engen onverdraagzamenpuriteinschen geest Die geest was in tegenspraak met de eischen enbehoeften van het grootburgerlijk leven Het moest zich vergenoegen inHolland als in Engeland met eene in het spel der krachten te zijn diehet karakter eener maatschappij bepalen en den godsdienst der lagereklassen te blijven den godsdienst van kleinburgers handwerkersvisschers en boerenHet meest waardevolle element uit de kleine burgerij de gezetenhandwerkersstand maakte in Geneve de ruggegraat der bevolking uiten wegens het overheerschend kleinburgerlijk karakter der stad konhet kalvinisme er ongestoord doorwerken Zij miste de voorwaarden totonstuimige ekonomische ontwikkeling en grootkapitalistische expansieDe stad lag ver van de zee en van bevaarbare rivieren aan de zuidpuntvan een groot meer deze ligging maakte dat de oude productie enlevensverhoudingen zich er langen tijd bestendigen konden Hoogstenswas zij aangewezen om een centrum van den lokalen handel te zijnVan kleinbedrijf en handwerk bleef zich de massa der burgerij geneerenen de krachten ontbraken hier die elders de wig dreven in haregelijkvormige massaOnder de ambachten was er een van oudsher inheemsch in Geneve vanbijzonder karakter zoowel door de groote kunstvaardigheid die heteischte als door den hoogen welstand dien het verschafte Dat wasde horlogemakerij Haar beoefenaars vormden het puikje van denhandwerkersstand gezeten burgers waren zij aan aanzienlijke geslachtender stad vermaagschapt en ook goede patriotten en mannen van kennis enbeschaving op wier werktafel naast de fijne instrumenten van hunberoep de geschriften van Tacitus en Plutarchus lagenDe horlogemakerij werkte natuurlijk grootendeels voor den uitvoerZij verbond de stad zoo geisoleerd door godsdienst en regeeringsvormtusschen haar naburen aan de wereld daarbuiten In de schommelingendie dit bedrijftoen veel sterker dan nu een luxeambachtdoormaakteondervond het den weerslag van verre oorlogen of van groote finantieeleberoeringen in de machtige rijken rondom En die wisselvalligheid moestbij den eerzamen ambachtsman tegengaan het verstijven in bekrompenzelfbehagen zijn blik uitzenden over de wallen der stad tot waar haargebied eindigde en een andere wereld begon die van het katholicisme ende absoluutgeregeerde staten ten zuiden en westenDe stad was en bleef klein ook naar den maatstaf dier dagen In hetbegin der XVIIIde eeuw telde zij nauwelijks 20000 inwoners En haarkleinheid maakte het voortbestaan van instellingen en zeden mogelijkdie ware de bevolking snel toegenomen door den stroom van het levenzouden zijn weggespoeldHet doet vreemd aan zich die bescheiden tweederangschprovinciestadvoor te stellen met de enkele dorpjes buiten haren wallen eenonafhankelijken staat vormend de fiere zelfbewuste vertegenwoordigervan demokratie en protestantisme te midden van het katholiekefeudaalabsolutistisch Europa Om haar heen gehoorzaamden de kleinesteden van Waadtland en Savoye aan edellieden door de verre regeeringenvan Parijs of Turijn gezonden en mestten zich adel en papen van goeden bloed der arme boeren Het bewustzijn een eiland der burgerlijkevrijheid een vooruitgeschoven post van het protestantisme te zijnwerkte als een veer die de strijdbaarheid der stad gespannen hieldHet stelsel van Kalvijn had wereldlijke en geestelijke overheid in demeest innige verbinding gebracht Wel waren in Geneve de funkties vankerk en staat gescheiden de regeering vormde geen eigenlijketheokratie maar de staat was zoo gedrenkt met den geest der kerk dekerk zoo vastgegroeid in het lichaam van den staat dat beide machtenvoor het bewustzijn der burgers in een ongedeelden glans verschenenevenals de liefde voor hun geloof en hun politieke vrijheid daarin toteen gevoel waren samengegroeidKalvijn had niet slechts de godsdienstige denkvormen maar ook dekerkelijke instellingen gevonden die aan de behoeften der burgerijin de XVIde eeuw beantwoordden Hiertoe behoorde de invoering derdemokratie in de kerkelijke organisatie en deze werkte door het nauwverband tusschen kerk en staat natuurlijk ook op den vorm der politiekeorganisatie terug De staat Geneve was schijnbaar demokratischSchijnbaar van een ware demokratie een regeering door het volk wasin de kleine republiek evenmin sprake als in hare roemrijke zuster deVereenigde Nederlanden De drie ondersten der vijf klassen waarin debevolking van Geneve naar half middeneeuwschen trant noggelijk reedsuit de namen inwoners inboorlingen en onderdanen blijktverdeeldwas waren politiek onmondig Slechts de twee bovenste klassen decitoyens en bourgeois bezaten politieke rechten Deze benoemdenin algemeene vergadering den magistraat hadden het recht vanbelastingheffing en van oorlog en vrede formuleerden hun grieven enbezwaren tegen de handelingen der regeerende lichamen den kleinenen den grooten raad Het geringe aantal volmondige burgersdealgemeene vergadering telde niet meer dan 1600 personenmaakte hetvertegenwoordigend stelsel onnoodigIn den loop der XVIIde eeuw nam de politieke invloed der kleine en dergezeten burgerij steeds meer af De eigenlijke regeerende klasse deoude

Produced by Charles Aldarondo Leah Moser and PG Distributed ProofreadersTHE MERCHANT OF BERLINAn Historical NovelL MUeHLBACHTRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY AMORY COFFIN MD1910CONTENTS BOOK I CHAP IThe Festival IIThe Workmans Holiday IIIBrother and Sister IVFeodor von Brenda VMr Kretschmer of the Vossian Gazette VIThe Cowards Race VIIThe Interrupted Festival VIIIThe Leader of the People IXThe Russian is at the Gates XBe Prudent XIThe Night of Horrors XIIRussians and Austrians XIIIA Maidens Heart XIVA Faithful Friend XVAn Unexpected Meeting XVIThe Fugitive XVIIThe Eavesdropper XVIIIThe Two Cannoneers XIXFather Gotzkowsky BOOK II CHAP IThe Two Editors IIThe Chief Magistrate of Berlin IIIThe Russian the Saxon and the Austrian in Berlin IVThe Cadets VThe Explosion VIJohn Gotzkowsky VIIThe Horrors of War VIIIBy Chance IXMistress or Maid XAn Unexpected Ally XIThe Jew Ephraim XIIThe Russian General and the German Man XIIIThe Execution XIVBride and Daughter XVThe Rivals XVIThe Punishment XVIIThe Banquet of Gratitude XVIIIA Royal Letter BOOK III CHAP IFrederick the Great at Meissen IIThe Winterquarters in Leipsic IIIThe Friend in Need IVGratitude and Recompense VFour Years Labor VIDays of Misfortune VIIConfessions VIIIThe Russian Prince IXOld LoveNew Sorrow XThe Magistracy of Berlin XIThe Jews of the Mint XIIThe Leipsic Merchant XIIIEphraim the Tempter XIVElise XVThe Rescue XVIRetribution XVIITardy Gratitude XVIIIThe AuctionILLUSTRATIONS Feodors Visit to the Garden The Merchant draws Feodor from his Hidingplace The Rich Jews appeal to Gotzkowsky The Great Frederick examining the Porcelain CupBOOK ICHAPTER ITHE FESTIVALThe sufferings of the long war still continued still stood Frederickthe Great with his army in the field the tremendous struggle betweenPrussia and Austria was yet undecided and Silesia was still the appleof discord for which Maria Theresa and Frederick II had been strivingfor years and for which in so many battles the blood of Germanbrothers had been spiltEverywhere joy seemed extinguished the light jest was hushed eachone looked silently into the future and none could tell in whosefavor this great contest would finally be decided whether Austria orPrussia would be victoriousThe year 1760 the fifth of the war was particularly sad for Prussiait was marked in the history of Germany with tears and blood EvenBerlin which up to that time had suffered but little from theunhappy calamities of war assumed now an earnest mournful aspectand it seemed as if the bright humor and sarcastic wit which hadalways characterized the inhabitants of this good city had nowentirely deserted them Going through the wide and almost emptystreets there were to be met only sad countenances women clothed inblack who mourned their husbands or sons fallen in one of the manybattles of this war or mothers who were looking with anxiety into thefuture and thinking of their distant sons who had gone to the armyHere and there was seen some wounded soldier wearily dragging himselfalong the street but hearty healthy men were seldom to be met andstill more seldom was seen the fresh countenance of youthBerlin had been obliged to send not only her men and youths butalso her boys of fourteen years to the army which according to theconfession of Frederick the Great consisted in the campaign of theyear 1760 only of renegades marauders and beardless boysFor these reasons it seemed the more strange to hear at this timeissuing from one of the largest and handsomest houses on the LeipsicStreet the unwonted sounds of merry dancemusic cheerful singing andshouting which reached the streetThe passersby stopped and looked with curiosity up to the windows atwhich could be seen occasionally a flushed joyous mans face or prettywomans head But the men who were visible through the panes evidentlydid not belong to the genteeler classes of society their faces weresunburnt their hair hung down carelessly and unpowdered upon thecoarse and unfashionable cloth coat and the attire of the maidens hadlittle in common with the elegance and fashion of the dayThe rich Gotzkowsky gives a great feast to his workmen todayremarked the people

Produced by Steven desJardins and Distributed ProofreadersAdopting An Abandoned FarmBY KATE SANBORN1891CONTENTSCHAPTER IFROM GOTHAM TO GOOSEVILLE IIAUCTIONS IIIBUYING A HORSE IVFOR THOSE WHO LOVE PETS VSTARTING A POULTRY FARM VIGHOSTS VIIDAILY DISTRACTIONSVIIITHE PROSE OF NEW ENGLAND FARM LIFE IXTHE PASSING OF THE PEACOCKS XLOOKING BACKAn old farmhouse with meadows wideAnd sweet with clover on each side MARION DOUGLASSADOPTING AN ABANDONED FARMCHAPTER IFROM GOTHAM TO GOOSEVILLE I have now come to the farmers life with which I am exceedingly delighted and which seems to me to belong especially to the life of a wise man CICEROWeary of boarding at seashore and mountain tired of traveling in searchof comfort hating hotel life I visited a country friend at GoosevilleConn an assumed name for Foxboro Mass and passed three happy weeksin her peaceful homeFar away at last from the garish horrors of dress formal dinnersvisits and drives the inevitable and demoralizing gossip and scandalfar away from hotel piazzas with their tedious accompaniments ofcorpulent dowagers exclusive or inquisitive slowly dying from too muchfood and too little exercise ennuied spinsters gushing buds athleticcollegians cigarettes in mouths and hands in pockets languid drawlingdudes old bachelors fluttering around the fair human flower likeSeptember butterflies fancy work fancy work like Penelopes webnever finished pug dogs of the aged and asthmatic variety Everythingthere but MENthey are wise enough to keep far awayBefore leaving this haven of rest I heard that the oldfashionedfarmhouse just opposite was for sale And as purchasers of real estatewere infrequent at Gooseville it would be rented for forty dollars ayear to any responsible tenant who would keep it upAfter examining the house from garret to cellar and looking over thefields with a critical eye I telegraphed to the owner fearful oflosing such a prize that I would take it for three years For itcaptivated me The cosy settinroom with a pie closet and an uppertiny cupboard known as a rum closet and its pretty fire placebrickedup but capable of being rescued from such prosaic desuetude a largesunny diningroom with a brick oven an oven suggestive of brown breadand baked beansyes the baked beans of my childhood that adorned thebreakfast table on a Sunday morning cooked with just a little molassesand a square piece of crisp salt pork in center a dish to tempt a dyinganchoriteThere wore two broad landings on the stairs the lower one just theplace for an old clock to tick out its impressiveForeverNeverNeverForever ia lai Longfellow Then the long shedchamber with a wide swinging door opening to the west framing asunset gorgeous enough to inspire a mummy And the attic with itspossible treasuresThere was also a queer little room dark and mysterious in the centerof house on the ground floor without even one window convenient toretire to during severe thunder storms or to evade a personal interviewwith a burglar just the place too for a restless ghost to revisitBest of all every room was blessed with two closetsOutside what rare attractions Twentyfive acres of arable landstretching to the south a grand old barn with dusty cobwebbedhayfilled lofts stalls for two horses and five cows hen houses withplenty of room to carry out a longcherished plan of starting a poultryfarmThe situation too was exceptional since the station from which Icould take trains direct to Boston and New York almost touched thenorthern corner of the farm and nothing makes one so willing to stayin a secluded spot as the certainty that he or she can leave it at anytime and plunge directly into the excitements and pleasures which only alarge city givesWhat charmed me most of all was a tiny but fascinating lakelet in thepasture near the house a springhole it was called by the nativesbut a lakelet it was to me full of the most entrancing possibilitiesIt could be easily enlarged at once and by putting a windmill on thehill by the deep pool in Chicken Brook where the pickerel loved tosport and damming something somewhere I could create or evolve aminiature pond transplant water lilies pink and white set willowshoots around the wellturfed graveled edge with roots of theforgetmenot hiding under the banks their blue blossoms just theflower for happy lovers to gather as they lingered in their rambles tofeed my trout And there should be an arbor vineclad and shelteredfrom the curious gaze of the passersby and a little boat moored at alittle wharf and a plank walk leading up to the house Andand oh theidealism possible when an enthusiastic woman first rents a farmanabandoned farmIt may be more exact to say that my farm was not exactly abandoned asits owner desired a tenant and paid the taxes say rather depressedfull of evil from long neglect suffering from lack of food and generaldebilityAs abandoned farms are now a subject of general interest let me saythat my find was nothing unusual The number of farms without occupantsin New Hampshire in August 1889 was 1342 and in Maine 3318 and Isaw lately a farm of twenty acres advertised free rent and a present offifty dollarsBut it is my farm I want you to care about I could hardly wait untilwinter was over to begin my new avocation By the last of March I wasassured by practical agriculturists who regarded me with amusementtempered with pity that it was high time to prune the lazy fruit treesand arouse if possible the debilitated soilin short begin to keepit upSo I left New York for the scene of my future labors and novel lessonsin life accompanied by a German girl who proved to be merely ananimated onion in matters of cooking a halfbreed hired man and afullbred setter pup who suffered severely from nostalgia and stronglyobjected to the baggage car and separation from his playmatesIf wit is as has been averred the juxtaposition of dissimilar ideasthen from Gotham to Gooseville is the most scintillating epigram everachieved Nothing was going on at Gooseville except time

Produced by Joel Erickson Michael Ciesielski and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading TeamTHE VALUE OF A PRAYING MOTHERBY ISABEL C BYRUMGOSPEL TRUMPET COMPANYFirst Printing 1911PREFACEThis book has a purpose it is sent forth as precious seed with theprayer that it will fall into good soil in many hearts and bring forthan hundredfoldAll parents with natural affection desire the best things for theirchildren Such fathers and mothers have high hopes that from their homewill go forth noble men and womenyes even heroes Many fail torealize the attainment of this ideal in their children because of alack of the knowledge necessary to bring about the desired developmentin the childlifeThe following pages were written with the fervent hope that they wouldat least in some measure be a help in developing the young livesentrusted to your care If your harvesttime is past if your childrenhave grown up and have left the old home you may be able to help someone who still has little ones to trainOne object in relating actual experiences was that the reader might beguided in the application of those principles of childtraining whichif merely stated in the abstract might be hard to understand anddifficult of application The principles herein stated are not meretheories but they have the commendation of having stood the test ofuse Two other objects of this simple story of home life are that thethoughtful mother may get a view of the effects of certain extremeenvironments on the childlife and by observing the substantial resultsaccomplished by a praying mother she may discover the secret ofsuccessThe incidents of this little home story are all true even to minutedetails as far as memory serves one of the actors in this drama of homelife after the lapse of many years but as most of the principalcharacters are still living the correct names have for the most partbeen withheld Should one of your children ask Mama who was BessieWorthington you can truthfully answer She was a little girl wholived in Michigan and she and her papa and mama are still livingIf by reading this little book any mother shall see wherein she canimprove upon her past teaching and thus be able to do more for thespiritual and moral wellbeing of her children the writer will feelamply rewarded May the blessing of God attend it as it goes forth Yours in Him Isabel C ByrumCONTENTS CHAPTER I Two Scenes CHAPTER II A Praying Mother CHAPTER III Early Training CHAPTER IV Gods Care CHAPTER V Consecration CHAPTER VI Conscience CHAPTER VII A Downward Step CHAPTER VIII A Wise Decision CHAPTER IX SelfControl CHAPTER X Parental Control CHAPTER XI Christian Experience CHAPTER XII The Beautiful Secret CHAPTER XIII Blessing and Trial CHAPTER XIV The Surprise Party CHAPTER XV Leroys Healing CHAPTER XVI Explaining the Divine Life CHAPTER XVII Temptations CHAPTER XVIII Answers to Prayer CHAPTER XIX Lost in the Woods CHAPTER XX NovelReading CHAPTER XXI Glad Tidings CHAPTER XXII The Meetings CHAPTER XXIII Bessie Sees Her Duty CHAPTER XXIV Reverie CHAPTER XXV A Plea to Mothers CHAPTER XXVI Parental Duty CHAPTER XXVII Useful HintsTHE VALUE OF A PRAYING MOTHERCHAPTER ITWO SCENESHow delightful to step into the home where God is counselor of bothparent and child How blessed the companionship in such a home ThereGod counsels in sweet tender tones He teaches his will and gives theneeded wisdom God is mans truest and best teacher James says If anyof you lack wisdom let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally and it shall be given him Be the home ever so beautiful if it isnot a house of prayer it is not a place of true happiness Parentsshould often commune with the Lord especially the mother with her manycares and perplexities if she would do justice to the little onesentrusted to her careA beautiful picture now comes to my minda picture of an ideal motherof olden time She dwelt in Ramah of Palestine Her lonely home nestledamong the lonely hills She loved to commune with the Lord for deep inher bosom she carried a sorrow that only he could help her to bear Herhome lacked that sweet sunlight which innocent childhood brings Shelonged and prayed for a little life to guide and direct in the ways ofthe LordOnce every year she went with her husband to Shiloh where sacrificeswere offered and there publicly worshiped the Lord When at the houseof the Lord one day she prayed long and earnestly that God would grantthe desire of her heart O Lord of hosts she prayed if thou wiltindeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid and remember me andnot forget thine handmaid but wilt give unto thine handmaid a manchild then I will give him unto the Lord all the days of his life andthere shall no razor come upon his headA scene like this must have been rare even to the priest of God for hemistook this sad woman for one drunken with wine She begged him not tolook upon her as such When the man of God saw by her modest earnestwords that she was not drunken as he had supposed he changed hisreproof into a blessing Go in peace he said and the God of Israelgrant thy petition that thou hast asked of him With perfect confidencethat God had heard and answered prayer the woman arose and returnedwith her husband to their home in RamahThe next year she did not go up to Shiloh for God had granted herpetition and had given her a little son Her husband was willing for herto remain at home but he cautioned her not to forget her promise to theLord He feared perhaps that the mother might become so attached

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eventjes er in te kruipen Zoonvacantie was juist zoo heerlijk vond ze omdat je dan niet zooonmogelijk vroeg op behoefde te staan Half acht vond ze nu eenmaalonmogelijk vroeg Ze vond alles trouwens gauw onmogelijk vooralals ze er geen lust in hadZeg eens Door zou ik mijn nieuwe gele schoentjes aan mogendoen vroeg LeniIk weet t niet schattepoesTrek jij je gele schoentjes maar aan hoor zei Nel t Is vandaagfeest omdat de vacantie begonnen is en die schoentjes heb je gekregenvoor Zon en FeestdagenZou moesje t goed vinden weifelde LeniNatuurlijk vindt ma het goed pleitte Nel weer Zie je den rechterschoen doe je aan omdat het de eerste vacantiedag is en dus eenfeestdag en den linker ja den linkerIk weet het den linker doe ik aan omdat Bob en Hansje komenO ja hoe leuk Wacht ik zal je even helpen ter eere van Boben HansjeEn ik voor den eersten vacantiedag Ga maar op den rand van jeledikant zitten Beenen stijf houden hoorO jullie gooit mij haast om zei Leni met een wanhopig gezichtDat is niets hou je maar flink vast je valt niet in t water Wachtnog een duwtje Wat is datDaar lag Leni achterover in bed met de beenen in de lucht tespartelen Nel en Door lachten dat de tranen haar over de wangenliepen en met de kam begon Nel de maat te slaant Is vacantie t blijft vacantieTwee gele schoentjes bovenWie dat niet met ons zingen wilDie moet er aan geloovenEn met de beenen in de lucht hoorde men Leni meezingenLaten we ons nu gauw klaar maken Lieve deugd kijk eens op de klokJa maar mijn schoenen zitten nog niet goed klaagde Leen die metveel moeite uit het bed geklauterd wasStamp maar op den grond dan zul je er wel in schieten zeiDoor Toe Nel jij bent al verder dan ik help jij haar even mett haar Ik moet mij nog wasschen Maar waar is mijn handdoek Wieheeft mijn handdoek toch gezienPak den mijnen maar die hangt op den stoel Wat doe je vroeg Neltoen Door den handdoek recht voor zich uit hield en dien aandachtigbekeekIk zoek overal je natte puntje zei ze plagendDenk je dat ik mij na dat waterbad van jou nog ben gaanwasschen Dank je wel hoor Ik heb mij lekkertjes met den handdoekafgedroogd Wees maar blij je kunt hem nu heerlijk gebruiken Hoejij zoon ding ook altijd zoo nat krijgt is mij een raadsel Je kunttoch wel schoon worden zonder zoo te plassen Bah Dat koude waterdaar moet ik niets van hebbenEn ik vind dat koude water nu juist zoo onmogelijk lekker Zoomet je geheele gezicht in de kom zei Door terwijl ze voorover gingstaan en haar gezicht nat gooide LekkerJe schreeuwde toch maar moord en brand toen ik met de natte sponsvoor je bed stond lachte NelNu ja die aanval was ook verraderlijkMaar Door Pas

Produced by Leah Moser and the Online Distributed Proofreading TeamIllustration LOOK AT ME MARGARETREVELATIONS OF A WIFEThe Story of a HoneymoonBYADELE GARRISON1915 1916 1917CONTENTSCHAPTER I I WILL BE HAPPY I WILL I WILL II THE FIRST QUARREL III KNOWN TO FAME AS LILLIAN GALE IV DIVIDED OPINIONS V ALWAYS YOUR JACK VI A MAID AND MODEL VII A FRIENDLY WARNING VIII A TRAGEDY AVERTED IX THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN X GRACE BY NAME AND GRACE BY NATURE XI I OWE YOU TOO MUCH XII LOST AND FOUND XIII IF YOU ARENT CROSS AND DISPLEASED XIV A QUARREL AND A CRISIS XV BUT I LOVE YOU XVI INTERRUPTED SIGHTSEEING XVII A DANGER AND A PROBLEM XVIII CALL ME MOTHERIF YOU CAN XIX LILLIAN UNDERWOODS STORY XX LITTLE MISS SONNOTS OPPORTUNITY XXI LIFES JOGTROT AND A QUARREL XXII AN AMAZING DISCOVERY XXIII BLUEBEARDS CLOSET XXIV A SUMMER OF HAPPINESS THAT ENDS IN FEAR XXV PLAYING THE GAME XXVI A VOICE THAT CARRIED FAR XXVII HOW NEARLY I LOST YOU XXVIII A DARK NIGHT AND A TROUBLED DAWN XXIX BUT YOU WILL NEVER KNOW XXX THE WEEKS THAT FOLLOWED XXXI A MYSTERIOUS STRANGER XXXII THE DEAREST FRIEND I EVER HAD XXXIII MOTHER GRAHAM HAS SOMETHING TO SAY XXXIV A MESSAGE FROM THE PAST XXXV THE WORD OF JACK XXXVI AND YET XXXVII A CHANGE IN LILLIAN UNDERWOOD XXXVIII NONURSEJUSTLILLIAN XXXIX HARRY CALLS TO SAY GOODBY XL MADGE FACES THE PAST AND HEARS A DOOR SOFTLY CLOSE XLI WHY DID DICKY GO XLII DAYS THAT CREEP SLOWLY BY XLIII TAKE ME HOMEINTRODUCTIONProbably it is true that no two persons entertain precisely the sameview of marriage If any two did and one happened to be a man and theother a woman there would be many advantages in their exemplifyingthe harmony by marrying each otherunless they had already marriedsome one elseSourminded critics of life have said that the only persons who arelikely to understand what marriage ought to be are those whohave found it to be something else Of course most of the foolishcriticisms of marriage are made by those who would find the same faultwith life itself One man who was asked whether life was worth livinganswered that it depended on the liver Thus it has been pointed outthat marriage can be only as good as the persons who marry This issimply to say that a partnership is only as good as the partnersRevelations of a Wife is a womans confession Marriage is so vitala matter to a woman that when she writes about it she is always likelyto be in earnest In this instance the likelihood is borne out AdeleGarrison has listened to the whisperings of her own heart She hasdone more She has caught the wireless from a mans heart And she haspoured the record into this storyThe woman of this story is only one kind of a woman and the manis only one kind of a man But their experiences will touch theconsciousnessI was going to say the conscienceof every man orwoman who has either married or measured marriage and weve all doneone or the otherPIERRE RAVILLERevelations of a WifeII WILL BE HAPPY I WILL I WILLToday we were marriedI have said these words over and over to myself and now I havewritten them and the written characters seem as strange to me as theuttered words did I cannot believe that I Margaret Spencer 27 yearsold I who laughed and sneered at marriage justifying myself by thetragedies and unhappiness of scores of my friends I who have made formyself a place in the worlds work with an assured comfortable incomehave suddenly thrown all my theories to the winds and given myselfin marriage in as impetuous unreasoning fashion as any foolishschoolgirlI shall have to change a word in that last paragraph I forgot thatI am no longer Margaret Spencer but Margaret Graham Mrs RichardGraham or more probably Mrs Dicky Graham I dont believeanybody in the world ever called Richard anything but DickyOn the other hand nobody but Richard ever called me anything shorterthan my own dignified name I have been Madge to him almost eversince I knew himDear dear Dicky If I talked a hundred years I could not express thedifference between us in any better fashion He is Dicky and I amMargaretHe is downstairs now in the smoking room impatiently humoring thislifelong habit of mine to have one hour of the day all to myselfMy mother taught me this when I was a tiny girl My thinking hourshe called it a time when I solved my small problems or pondered mybaby sins All my life I have kept up the practice And now I am goingto devote it to another request of the little mother who went awayfrom me forever last yearMargaret darling she said to me on the last day we ever talkedtogether some time you are going to marryyou

Produced by Joshua Hutchinson Tonya Allen and PG DistributedProofreaders Produced from page scans provided by Cornell UniversityTHEATLANTIC MONTHLYA MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE ART AND POLITICS VOL IXMAY 1862NO LV MAN UNDER SEALED ORDERSA vessel of war leaves its port but no one on board knows for whatobject nor whither it is bound It is a secret Government expeditionAs it sets out a number of documents carefully sealed are put incharge of the commander in which all his instructions are containedWhen far away from his sovereign these are to be the authority which hemust obey as he sails on in the dark these are to be the lights on thedeep by which he must steer They provide for every stage of the wayThey direct what ports to approach and what ports to avoid what to doin different seas what variation to make in certain contingencies andwhat acts to perform at certain opportunities Each paper of the seriesforbids the opening of the next until its own directions have beenfulfilled so that no one can see beyond the immediate point for whichhe is makingThe wide ocean is before that ship and a wider mystery But in thepassage of time as the strange cruise proceeds its course begins totell upon the chart The zigzag line like obscure chirography has anintelligible look and seems to spell out intimations As order afterorder is opened those sibyl leaves of the cabin commence to prophesyglimpses multiply surmises come quick and shortly the whole shipscompany more than suspect from the accumulating _data_ behind themwhat must be their destination and the mission they have been sent toaccomplishPeople are beginning to imagine that the career of the human race issomething like this There is a fastgrowing conviction that man hasbeen sent out from the first to fulfil some inexplicable purpose andthat he holds a Divine commission to perform a wonderful work on theearth It would seem as if his marvellous brain were the bundle ofmystic scrolls on which it is written and within which its terms arehidand as if his imperishable soul were the great seal bearing theDivine image and superscription which attests its Almighty originalThis commission is yet obscure It has so far only gradually opened tohim for he is sailing under sealed orders He is still led on frompoint to point But the farther he goes and the more his past gathersbehind him the better is he able to imagine what must be before himHis chart is every day getting more full of amazing indications He isbeginning to feel about him the increasing press of some Providentialdesign that has been permeating and moulding age after age and todiscover that be has been all along unconsciously prosecuting a secretmission And so it comes at last that everything new takes that lookevery evolution of mind every addition to knowledge every discovery oftruth every novel achievement appearing like the breaking of seals andopening of rolls in the performance of an inexhaustible and mysterioustrust that has been committed to his handsIt is the purpose of this paper to collect together some of these factsand incidents of progress in order to show that this is not a meredream but a stupendous reality History shall be the inspiration of ourprophecyThere is a past to be recounted a present to be described and a futureto be foretold An immense review for a magazine article and it willrequire some ingenuity to be brief and graphic at the same time In theattempt to get as much as possible into the smallest space many thingswill have to be omitted and some most profound particulars merelyglanced at but enough will be furnished perhaps to make the point wehave in viewWe may compare human progress to a tall tree which has reared itselfslowly and imperceptibly through century after century hardly morethan a bare trunk with here and there only the slight outshoot of sometemporary exploit of genius but which in this age gives the signs ofthat immense foliage and fruitage which shall in time embower the wholeearth We see but its springtime of leaffor it is only within fiftyyears that this rich outburst of wonders began We live in an era whenprogress is so new as to be a matter of amazement A hundred yearshence perhaps it will have become so much a matter of course todevelop to expand and to discover that it will excite no comment Butit is yet novel and we are yet fresh Therefore we may gaze back atwhat has been and gaze forward at what is promised to be with morelikelihood of being impressed than if we were a few centuries olderIf we look down at the roots out of which this tree has risen and thenup at its spreading branchesomitting its intermediate trunk of agesthrough which its processes have been secretly workingperhaps we mayrealize in a briefer space the wonder of it allIn the beginning of history according to received authority therewas but a little tract of the earth occupied and that by one familyspeaking but one tongue and worshipping but one Godall the rest ofthe world being an uninhabited wild At _this_ stage of history thewhole globe is explored covered with races of every color a host ofnations and languages with every diversity of custom development ofcharacter and form of religion The physical bound from that to this isequalled only by the leap which the world of mind has madeOnce upon a time a man hollowed a tree and launching it upon thewater found that it would bear him up After this a few little floatscreeping cautiously near the land were all on which men were wont

Produced by David WidgerTHE LADY OF THE BARGEAND OTHER STORIESBy W W JacobsCUPBOARD LOVEIn the comfortable livingroom at Neggets farm half parlour and halfkitchen three people sat at tea in the waning light of a Novemberafternoon Conversation which had been brisk had languished somewhatowing to Mrs Negget glancing at frequent intervals toward the doorbehind which she was convinced the servant was listening and checkingthe finest periods and the most startling suggestions with a warning_ssh_Go on uncle she said after one of these interruptionsI forget where I was said Mr Martin Bodfish shortlyUnder our bed Mr Negget reminded himYes watching said Mrs Negget eagerlyIt was an odd place for an expoliceman especially as a small legacyadded to his pension had considerably improved his social position butMr Bodfish had himself suggested it in the professional hope that theperson who had taken Mrs Neggets gold brooch might try for furtherloot He had indeed suggested baiting the dressingtable with thefarmers watch an idea which Mr Negget had promptly vetoedI cant help thinking that Mrs Pottle knows something about it saidMrs Negget with an indignant glance at her husbandMrs Pottle said the farmer rising slowly and taking a seat on theoak settle built in the fireplace has been away from the village fornear a fortnitI didnt say she took it snapped his wife I said I believe sheknows something about it and so I do Shes a horrid woman Look atthe way she encouraged her girl Looey to run after that young travellerfrom Smithsons The whole fact of the matter is it isnt your broochso you dont careI said began Mr NeggetI know what you said retorted his wife sharply and I wish youd bequiet and not interrupt uncle Heres my uncle been in the policetwentyfive years and you wont let him put a word in edgewaysMy way o looking at it said the expoliceman slowly is differentto that o the law my idea is an always has been that everybody isguilty until theyve proved their innocenceIts a wonderful thing to me said Mr Negget in a low voice to hispipe as they should come to a house with a retired policeman living init Looks to me like somebody that aint got much respect for thepoliceThe expoliceman got up from the table and taking a seat on the settleopposite the speaker slowly filled a long clay and took a spill from thefireplace His pipe lit he turned to his niece and slowly bade her goover the account of her loss once moreI missed it this morning said Mrs Negget rapidly at ten minutespast twelve oclock by the clock and halfpast five by my watch whichwants looking to Id just put the batch of bread into the oven andgone upstairs and opened the box that stands on my drawers to get alozenge and I missed the broochDo you keep it in that box asked the expoliceman slowlyAlways replied his niece I at once came down stairs and told Emmathat the brooch had been stolen I said that I named no names anddidnt wish to think bad of anybody and that if I found the brooch backin the box when I went up stairs again I should forgive whoever tookitAnd what did Emma say inquired Mr BodfishEmma said a lot o things replied Mrs Negget angrily Im sure bythe lot she had to say youd ha thought she was the missis and me theservant I gave her a months notice at once and she went straight upstairs and sat on her box and criedSat on her box repeated the exconstable impressively OhThats what I thought said his niece but it wasnt because I gother off at last and searched it through and through I never sawanything like her clothes in all my life There was hardly a button or atape on and as for her stockingsShe dont get much time said Mr Negget slowlyThats right I thought youd speak up for her cried his wifeshrillyLook here began Mr Negget laying his pipe on the seat by his sideand rising slowlyKeep to the case in hand said the exconstable waving him back to hisseat again Now LizzieI searched her box through and through said his niece but it wasntthere then I came down again and had a rare good cry all to myselfThats the best way for you to have it remarked Mr Negget feelinglyMrs Neggets uncle instinctively motioned his niece to silence andholding his chin in his hand scowled frightfully in the intensity ofthoughtSee a cloo inquired Mr Negget affablyYou ought to be ashamed of yourself George said his wife angrilyspeaking to uncle when hes looking like thatMr Bodfish said nothing it is doubtful whether he even heard theseremarks but he drew a huge notebook from his pocket and after vainlytrying to point his pencil by suction took a knife from the table andhastily sharpened itWas the brooch there last night he inquiredIt were said Mr Negget promptly Lizzie made me get up just as theowd clock were striking twelve to get her a lozengeIt seems pretty certain that the brooch went since then mused MrBodfishIt would seem like it to a plain man said Mr Negget guardedlyI should like to see the box said Mr BodfishMrs Negget went up and fetched it and stood eyeing him eagerly as heraised the lid and inspected the contents It contained only a fewlozenges and some bone studs Mr Negget helped himself to a lozengeand going back to his seat breathed peppermintProperly speaking that ought not to have been touched said theexconstable regarding him with some severityEh said the startled farmer putting his finger to his lipsNever mind said the other shaking his head Its too late nowHe doesnt care a bit said Mrs Negget somewhat sadly He used tokeep buttons in that box with the lozenges until one night he gave

Produced by Juliet Sutherland Shawn Cruze and PG DistributedProofreadersJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY STUDIESINHISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCEHERBERT B ADAMS EditorHistory is past Politics and Politics present History_Freeman_NINTH SERIESIIIGOVERNMENT AND ADMINISTRATIONOF THEUNITED STATESBYWESTEL W WILLOUGHBY AB_Fellow in History_ANDWILLIAM F WILLOUGHBY AB_US Department of Labor_1801TABLE OF CONTENTSChaptersI PrefaceII Government Monarchy Absolute Limited Aristocracy Democracy Republic Popular GovernmentIII Functions of Government Necessary OptionalIV Colonial Governments Their Relation to Each Other and to England Provincial Proprietary CharterV Steps Toward UnionArticles of Confederation New England Confederation Albany Convention Stamp Act Congress First Continental Congress Second Continental Congress Articles of Confederation Elements Tending to Separation and to Union Purposes of the Confederation Scheme of Government under the Articles Defects of the ArticlesVI Adoption of the Constitution The Constitutional Convention Arguments For and Against AdoptionVII Presidential SuccessionVIII Election of SenatorsIX Congressional GovernmentX Cabinet and Executive Departments State Department Treasury Department War Department Navy Department Interior Department Commissioner of Land Office Commissioner of Pensions Commissioner of Patents Commissioner of Indian Affairs Bureau of Education Commissioner of Railroads Geological Survey Superintendent of the Census Post Office Department Department of Justice Department of Agriculture Department of Labor Interstate Commerce Commission Fish Commission Civil Service Commission Government Printing Office National Museum Smithsonian Institution and Bureau of Ethnology Librarian of CongressXI The Federal Judiciary Federal Judicial System District Courts Circuit Courts JurisdictionXII Ordinance for Government of the Northwest TerritoryXIII Government of Territories Admission of a Territory as a StateXIV State Governments State Constitutions State Legislatures State Executives State JudiciaryXV Local Government In New England In the South In the WestXVI City GovernmentXVII Government Revenue and Expenditure Federal Government State and Local Taxes Expenditures Maryland BaltimoreXVIII Money Gold Coin Gold Bullion and Gold Certificates Silver Dollars and Silver Certificates Subsidiary and Minor Coins Treasury Notes Notes of National BanksXIX Public Lands of the United States Educational Grants Land Bounties for Military and Naval Service Land Grants to States for Internal Improvement Sale of Public Land Under Preemption

Produced by Suzanne Shell Leah Moser and the Online DistributedProofreading TeamTHE GRINGOSA STORY OF THE OLD CALIFORNIA DAYS IN 1849BY BM BOWER1913WIth Illustrations By Anton Otto FischerIllustration Gringos are savages and worse than savagesAUTHORS NOTEI wish to make public acknowledgment of the assistance I have receivedfrom George W Lee a Fortyniner who has furnished me with datamaterial and color which have been invaluable in the writing of thisstoryCONTENTSI THE BEGINNING OF ITII THE VIGILANTESIII THE THING THEY CALLED JUSTICEIV WHAT HAPPENED AT THE OAKV HOSPITALITYVI THE VALLEYVII THE LORD OF THE VALLEYVIII DON ANDRES WANTS A MAJORDOMOIX JERRY SIMPSON SQUATTERX THE FINEST LITTLE WOMAN IN THE WORLDXI AN ILL WINDXII POTENTIAL MOODSXIII BILL WILSON GOES VISITINGXIV RODEO TIMEXV WHEN CAMPFIRES BLINKXVI FOR WEAPONS I CHOOSE RIATASXVII A FIESTA WE SHALL HAVEXVIII WHAT IS LOVE WORTHXIX ANTICIPATIONXX LOST TWO HASTY TEMPERSXXI FIESTA DAYXXII THE BATTLE OF BEASTSXXIII THE DUEL OF RIATASXXIV FOR LOVE AND A MEDALXXV ADIOS_List of Illustrations_Gringos are savages and worse than savagesHe twisted in the saddle and sent leaden answer to the spitefulbarking of the gunsMrs Jerry took the senoritas hand and smiled up at herAn accident it must appear to those who watch_The Gringos_CHAPTER ITHE BEGINNING OF ITIf you would glimpse the savage which normally lies asleep thank Godin most of us you have only to do this thing of which I shall tellyou and from some safe sanctuary where leaden couriers may not bearprematurely the tidings of mans debasement watch the world belowYou may see civilization swing back with a snap to savagery andworsebecause savagery enlightened by the civilization of centuriesis a deadly thing to let loose among men Our savage forebears werebut superior animals groping laboriously after economic security anda social condition that would yield most prolifically the fruit of allthe worlds desire happiness today when we swing back to somethingakin to savagery we do it for lust of gain like our forebears butwe do it wittingly So if you would look upon the unlovely spectacleof civilized men turned savage and see them toil painfully back tolawful living you have but to do thisSeek a spot remote from the great centers of our vaunted civilizationwhere Nature in a wanton goldrevel of her own has sprinkled herriver beds with the shining dust hidden it away under ledges buriedit in deep canyons in playful miserliness and salved with its potentglow the timescars upon the cheeks of her gaunt mountains You havebut to find a tiny bit of Natures gold fling it in the face ofcivilization and raise the hunting cry Then from that safe sanctuarywhich you have chosen you may look your fill upon the awakening ofthe primitive in man see him throw off civilization as a sleeperflings aside the cloak that has covered him watch the savages fightwhom your gold has conjuredThey will come those savages straight as the arrow flies they willcome though mountains and deserts and hurrying rivers bar their wayAnd the plodding lawabiding citizens who kiss their wives andhold close their babies and fling hasty comforting words over theirshoulders to tottering old mothers when they go to answer the huntingcallthey will be your savages when the gold lust grips them Andthe towns they build of their greed will be but the nucleus of all thecrime let loose upon the land There will be men among your savagesmen in whom the finer stuff outweighs the grossness and the greed Butto save their lives and that thing they prize more than life or goldand call by the name of honor or friendship or justicethat thingwhich is the essence of all the fineness in their naturesto savethat and their lives they also must fight like savages who woulddestroy them There was a little straggling hamlet born of the Mission which thepadres founded among the sand hills beside a great uneasy stretch ofwater which a dreamer might liken to a naughty child that had run awayfrom its mother the ocean through a little gateway which the landleft open by chance and was hiding there among the hills listening tothe calling of the surf voice by night out there beyond the gate andlying sullen and still when mother ocean sent the fog and the tidesaseeking a truant child that played by itself and danced little wavedances which it had learned of its mother ages agone and laughed upat the hills that smiled down upon itThe padres thought mostly of the savages who lived upon the land andstrove earnestly to teach them the lessons which sandalshod withcrucifix to point the way they had marched up from the south to setbefore these children of the wild Also came ships searching for thattruant oceanchild the bay of which men had heard and so the hamletwas born of civilizationCame afterwards noblemen from Spain with parchments upon which theking himself had set his seal Mile upon mile they chose the landthat pleased them best and by virtue of the kings word called ittheir own They drove cattle up from the south to feed upon thehills and in the valleys They brought beautiful wives and set themaqueening it over spacious homes which they built of clay and nativewood and furnished with the luxuries they brought with them in theships They reared lovely daughters and strong hotblooded sons andthey grew rich in cattle and in contentment in this paradise whichNature had set apart for her own playground and which the zeal of thepadres had found and claimed in the name of God and their kingThe hamlet beside the bay was small but it received the ships and thegoods they brought and bartered for tallow and hides and althoughthe place numbered less than a thousand souls it was large enough toplease the dons who dwelt like the patriarchs of old in the valleysThen Chance that sardonic jester who loves best to thwart

Produced by Curtis Weyant Leah Moser and the Online DistributedProofreading TeamWOMEN WORKERS IN SEVEN PROFESSIONSA SURVEY OF THEIR ECONOMIC CONDITIONS AND PROSPECTSEDITED FOR THE STUDIES COMMITTEE OF THE FABIAN WOMENS GROUPBYEDITH J MORLEY1914PREFATORY NOTEThe task of collecting and editing the various essays of which thisbook is comprised has not been altogether easy Some literary defectsand absence of unity are by the nature of the scheme inevitablewe hope these are counterbalanced by the collection of firsthandevidence from those in a position to speak authoritatively of theprofessions which they follow _Experientia docet_ and those whodesire to investigate the conditions of womens public work in variousdirections as well as those who are hesitating in their choice of acareer may like carefully to weigh these opinions formed as a resultof personal experienceFor other defects in selection arrangement proportion and the likeI am alone responsible I have from the first been consciousthat many people were better suited to the editorial task thanmyselfwomen with more knowledge of social and economic problemsand perhaps with more leisure But at the moment no one seemed tobe available and I was persuaded to do what I could to carry out thewishes of the Studies Committee of the Fabian Womens Group If Ihave in any measure succeeded it is owing to the generous help andunvarying kindness I have received in all directions In the firstplace I would express my gratitude to the members of the StudiesCommittee and more particularly to Mrs Charlotte Wilson the fountand inspiration of the whole scheme to Mrs Pember Reeves and toMrs Bernard Shaw My indebtedness to all the contributors for theirpromptitude patience and courtesy it is impossible to exaggerateI hope it will not be thought invidious if I say that without DrMurrells subeditorship of the Medical and Nursing Sections and theunstinted and continual help of Dr OBrien Harris the book couldnot have appeared at all The latters paper on Secondary SchoolTeaching has had the benefit of criticism and suggestions from oneof the most notable HeadMistresses of her dayMrs Woodhouse whoseexperience of work in the schools of the Girls Public Day SchoolTrust was kindly placed at the authors disposal Similarly some ofthe details mentioned in the section on Acting were kindly suppliedby Mrs St John Ervine Lastlyfor it is impossible to mention allwho have assistedI wish to thank Miss Ellen Smith for her unsparingsecretarial labours and Miss MG Spencer and Miss Craig of theCentral Bureau for the Employment of Women for the Table whichappears at the end of Section I This is unique as an exhaustivesummary of a mass of information hitherto not easily accessible tothe general publicEDITH J MORLEYUNIVERSITY COLLEGE READING _December_ 1913CONTENTSPREFATORY NOTE By the EditorFOREWORDS ON BEHALF OF THE STUDIES COMMITTEE OF THE FABIAN WOMENSGROUPI THE TEACHING PROFESSION I INTRODUCTION By EDITH J MORLEY Oxford Honour School of English Language and Literature Professor of English Language University College Reading Fellow and Lecturer of University of London Kings College for Women II WOMEN AT THE UNIVERSITIES AND UNIVERSITY TEACHING AS A PROFESSION By EDITH J MORLEY III SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHING By Mrs M OBRIEN HARRIS DSc London Hon Member of Somerville College Oxford Headmistress of the County Secondary School South Hackney IV ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHING By Mrs KATE DICE CT Class Teacher in the service of the London County Council Hon Sec of the Fabian Education Group V TEACHING IN SCHOOLS FOR THE MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY DEFECTIVE By Mrs JESSIE E THOMAS CT Class Teacher at the London County Council School for Physically Defective Children Turney Road Dulwich VI THE TEACHING OF GYMNASTICS By MARY HANKINSON Hon Sec of the Ling Association Diploma of the Dartford Physical Training College VII THE TEACHING OF DOMESTIC SUBJECTS By Mrs MARGARET MKILLOP MA Dublin Oxford Honour Schools of Natural Science and of Mathematics Fellow and Tutor of University of London Kings College for Women and E BEATRICE HOGG firstclass Diploma National Training School of Cookery Instructress London County Council Probationary and Training Centres Examiner in Domestic Subjects to the City and Guilds of London Institute the Nautical School of Cookery etc Some time Hon Sec London Branch Assistant Teachers of Domestic Subjects TABLE I SHOWING THE COST AND DURATION OF EDUCATION IN ARTS AND SCIENCE AND THE SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE FOR WOMEN STUDENTS AT THE VARIOUS BRITISH UNIVERSITIES Reprinted with additions by special permission from the pamphlet Openings for University Women published by the Central Bureau for the Employment of Women for the Students Careers Association TABLE II SHOWING SOME ADDITIONAL POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS IN ARTS AND SCIENCE AVAILABLE FOR WOMEN STUDENTS AWARDED BY BODIES OTHER THAN UNIVERSITIES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM Compiled with additions by special permission from the Report on the Opportunities for PostGraduate Work open to Women published by the Federation of University WomenII THE MEDICAL PROFESSION INCLUDING DENTISTRY SubEditor CHRISTINEM MURRELL MD BS London Assistant Medical Officer of HealthSpecial Schools London County Council Lecturer and Examiner onAdolescence Health First Aid Infant Care etc London CountyCouncil and Battersea Polytechnic Honorary Medical OfficerPaddington Creche and for Infant Consultations North Marylebonelate Medical Registrar and Electrician and late Resident HousePhysician Royal Free Hospital I MEDICINE AND SURGERY By the SubEditor II DENTAL SURGERY By Mrs Eva M HANDLEY READ MRCS LRCP LSA LDS Dental Surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital the Margaret MDonald Baby Clinic and the Cripple Hostel CamberwellIII THE NURSING PROFESSION TOGETHER WITH MIDWIFERY AND MASSAGESubEditor CHRISTINE M MURRELL PREFACE By the SubEditor I GENERAL SURVEY AND INTRODUCTION By EM Musson Matron of the General Hospital Birmingham II NURSING IN GENERAL HOSPITALS By EM MUSSON III NURSING IN PRIVATE HOMES AND CoOPERATIONS By GERTRUDE TOWNEND Sister in her own Nursing Home

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muodottomuudetovat järjestänsä venehojalaisten suurista ansioista peräisin Mitäerityisesti tuohon heidän merkillisimpään ominaisuuteensa eli päänsuureen takaraivoon tulee josta heitä tyhmiksi tuomitaan niin ovathanperäaivot muistokyvyn ja perinnöllisen viisauden säilytyspaikkanaSenvuoksi jos takaraivo rupeaa ylenmäärin paisumaan ei se tarvitsetodistaa muuta kuin että tämä viisaus ei ole voinut löytää luonnollistalaskua ympäristöänsä hedelmöittääkseen koska ihminen on ihmeellistenolojen ja vaiheiden pakotuksesta asettunut korpeen elämään erilleenmuiden ihmisten kyliltä ja hänen lapsensa ja lapsenlapsensatäysiikäisiksi kerittyänsä eivät jää isäinsä asunnoille vaan yhäsyvempiin korpiin painuvatOliko heissä siis joku erikoinen roturakkaus korpeen Tai kammoihmisyhteyteenSilloinpa olisikin voinut sanoa heitä tyhmiksi sillä totisesti on seihminen tyhmä joka erakoksi eriytyy kun hänen päänsä kaikkiVäinämöisen viisaudet sisältäisiMutta seuraavasta näkee että venehojalaisten koko elämäntaistelu 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neuvosherra nämä sanonut oli muuttui kuninkaan hahmo ja hänkysyi Ketä he siis tottelevat ja ketä he kunnioittavatPaholainen sanoi Yksi heillä on viisauden ja laulun kuningas jotasanovat Venehojan Heikiksi sitä he kaikki kuuntelevatJa valtakunnan herra sanoi Käske kaikki joilla viisauden lahjaa jalaulun ääntä on tänne minun kaupunkiini täällä he laulelkoot ja minäolen heitä palkitseva itsekutakin ansionsa mukaan Mutta että seVenehojan Heikki on itsensä kuninkaaksi tehnyt hakkautan minä häneltäpäänNeuvosherra sanoi Sata Heikkiä nousisi sijalle ja viimeinen villitystulisi ensimäistä pahemmaksiJa tämän kuultuansa kuningas tuli surulliseksi ja sanoi Siksi sinä oletneuvosherra että sinä neuvon tietäisit mutta et sinä mitään keksiJa neuvosherra sanoi anna minulle kolme valtaa jotka ovat jakajanvalta sovittajan valta ja kieltäjän valta ja minä sinulle sen kylänhajotan niin ettei venehojalaisista koskaan enää kahta tai kolmeayhteen tuleJa nämä kolme valtaa kuninkaalta saatuansa paholainen pukeutuimaamittariksi ja meni Venehojaan Mutta Venehojan nuoriso oli kylänkeinulla Koska he siis keinun pysäyttivät sanoi maamittari olenkuninkaalta lähetetty teille maita jakamaan että jokaisella olisiomansa Ja suuri riemu nousi nuorten joukossa jotka eivät uskoneetpirua olevan Mutta vanhat jotka uskoivat pirun olevan katsoivatkarsaasti maamittariin ja sanoivat emme tahdo jakaa vaan elämme kokokylä yhtenä pesänä niinkuin tähän asti Tämän kuultuansa nuorethuusivat kuningas lupaa meille maat omiksemme Ja suuri riita nousivanhojen ja nuorten välille Mutta kun riita oli ylimmillään pukeutuipaholainen tuomarin pukuun ja tuli Venehojaan ja sanoi minunkuninkaani on rauhaa rakastava mies eikä hän salli riideltävän vaan onminun lähettänyt sovittajaksi teidän välillenneJa avasi lakikirjan jaluki Olkoon valta sen joka jakaa tahtoo Ja vahvisti maamittarin jaonantaen kiinnekirjat itsekullekin ja tuomiten jokaisen muuttamaanriitaisesta kylästä hajalleen kunkin omille maillensa Mutta etteiheille tulisi erakkoina ikävä opetti paholainen heille viinankeitonNäin hajosi Venehojan kylä ja näin joutui Venehojan Heikkirintaperillisineen takamaille vaikka hän oli tähän asti kylänjohtomiehenä ollut vaikka oli viisaudestaan ja hurskaudestaan kuulu jaoli kaikkea ihmisyhteyttä rakastaen aina ollut emäkylän yhdistävänäsiteenäTämän isonjaon suoritettuansa paholainen muutti sihteeriksi kauppalaanSillä ei hän vielä uskonut sitoneensa Venehojan HeikkiäKului muutamia vuosikymmeniä ja Heikin maat olivatkin kuokittuinakannot juurinensa pengottuina ojat kaivettuinaJakamattomille takamaille oli Venehojan Heikin ympärille uusi kyläsyntynyt pojat kasvaneet ja menneet naimisiin tyttäret tuoneet kyläänkotivävyjä Ja Heikin peräaivot jotka korpielämässä luonnollisenlaskun puutteessa olivat ruvenneet arveluttavasti pään takaraivoapaisuttamaan pysähtyivät vähitellen kasvussaan kun hänen perinnöllinenviisautensa ja mahdoton muistinsa alkoi jälleen löytää hedelmöittäväävaikutusalaa ihmisyhteydessäEleli siis 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kuitenkaan näyttäytynyt vaan oli antanutTyrväntäiselle käskyjänsä viattomien ihmisten suullaNiinpä kerran kauppalan torilla Tyrväntäinen hevosta myydessään olikuullut takaansa jonkun sanovan haasta se käräjille mutta kun häntaaksensa katsahti ei siellä ketään ollut ja hän sillä hetkellä ymmärsinoiden sanojen tulleen paholaisen suusta Tyrväntäinen mietti päänsäpuhki mitä olisi paholaisen käskyn johdosta tekeminen ketä haastettavakäräjille ja minkä syyn varjolla Kolme päivää hän maleksi kauppalankatuja vaikka markkinat olivat jo toisena päättyneet ja kaduttyhjenneet Neljäntenä päivänä juoksi muutamasta portista kaksi ämmäähänen ohitsensa joista toinen sanoi toiselle kolkuta sihteerinovelle Ja koska Tyrväntäinen taaksensa katsahti olivat he kulman taamenneet eikä ketään näkynyt Piru voi olla yhtä lailla hameessakinajatteli hän ja kääntyi oikopäätä siitä portista pihalle eikä sydänehtinyt pampatuksellaan häntä herpaista ennenkuin hän oli jokoputtamassa sihteerin kyökinovelle Sieltä neuvottiin valkosen salinläpitse kilisevän kynttiläkruunun alitse peräkamariin missä istuikeinuskellen pieni mies pitkä piippu hampaissa punanen nokkasavuisissa parroissa mutta muu pää kumotti kaljuna ja kelmeänä sarvenalkuja näkyi siellä täällä pääkallossa Tyrväntäinen tiesi nyt visustiettä hänen edessään oli pirujen pääpappa itseSihteeri alkoi kysellä ja tiuskia ja kun ei päässyt muka milläänpuheilla Tyrväntäisen asiasta perille oli vihdoin suutuksissaanajavinaan ulos Vasta ovessa kysyi nimeä Tyrväntäinen antoi nytneuvotun merkin koskettaen toisella kädellä niskaansa ja toisellakantapäätänsä Silloin sihteeri rykäsi meni pöydän ääreen ja paiskasiauki suuren kirjan Ja koska hän oli aikansa kirjan lehtiä käännellytnosti hän katseensa TyrväntäiseenKetä sinä aijot

Produced by Charles Aldarondo Mary Meehan and the Online DistributedProofreading Team THE RED AXE By SR Crockett 1900CONTENTS I DUKE CASIMIR RIDES LATE II THE LITTLE PLAYMATE COMES HOME III THE RED AXE OF THE WOLFMARK IV THE PRINCESS HELENE V THE BLOODHOUNDS ARE FED VI DUKE CASIMIRS FAMILIAR VII I BECOME A TRAITOR VIII AT THE BAR OF THE WHITE WOLF IX A HERO CARRIES WATER IN THE SUN X THE LUBBER FIEND XI THE VISION IN THE CRYSTAL XII EYES OF EMERALD XIII CHRISTIANS ELSA XIV SIR AMOROUS IS PLEASED WITH HIMSELF XV THE LITTLE PLAYMATE SETTLES ACCOUNTS XVI TWO WOMENAND A MAN XVII THE RED AXE IS LEFT ALONE XVIII THE PRIME OF THE MORNING XIX WENDISH WIT XX THE EARTHDWELLERS OF NO MANS LAND XXI I STAND SENTRY XXII HELENE HATES ME XXIII HUGO OF THE BROADAXE XXIV THE SORTIE XXV MINE HOST RUNS HIS LAST RACE XXVI PRINCE JEHU MILLERS SON XXVII ANOTHER MANS COAT XXVIII THE PRINCES COMPACT XXIX LOVES MELOVES ME NOT XXX INSULT AND CHALLENGE XXXI I FIND A SECOND XXXII THE WOLVES OF THE MARK XXXIII THE FLIGHT OF THE LITTLE PLAYMATE XXXIV THE GOLDEN NECKLACE XXXV THE DECENT SERVITOR XXXVI YSOLINDES FAREWELL XXXVII CAPTAIN KARL MILLERS SONXXXVIII THE BLACK RIDERS XXXIX THE FLAG ON THE RED TOWER XL THE TRIAL OF THE WITCH XLI THE GARRET OF THE RED TOWER XLII PRINCESS PLAYMATE XLIII THE TRIAL FOR WITCHCRAFT XLIV SENTENCE OF DEATH XLV THE MESSAGE FROM THE WHITE GATE XLVI A WOMAN SCORNED XLVII THE RED AXE DIES STANDING UP XLVIII HUGO GOTTFRIED RED AXE OF THE WOLFMARK XLIX THE SERPENTS STRIFE L THE DUNGEON OF THE WOLFSBERG LI THE NIGHT BEFORE THE MORN LII THE HEADSMANS RIGHT LIII THE LUBBER FIENDS RETURN LIV THE CROWNING OF DUKE OTHO LV THE LADY YSOLINDE SAVES HER SOUL LVI HELENA PRINCESS OF PLASSENBURGTHE RED AXECHAPTER IDUKE CASIMIR RIDES LATEWell do I Hugo Gottfried remember the night of snow and moonlight whenfirst they brought the Little Playmate home I had been sleepingasturdy wellgrown fellow I ten years or so as to my agein a stomacherof blanket and a bedgown my mother had made me before she died at thebeginning of the cold weather Suddenly something awoke me out of mysleep So all in the sharp chill of the night I got out of my bedsitting on the edge with my legs dangling and looked curiously at thebright streams of moonlight which crossed the wooden floor of my garretI thought if only I could swim straight up one of them as the motes didin the sunshine I should be sure to come in time to the place where mymother wasthe place where all the pretty white things came fromthesunshine the moonshine the starshine and the snowAnd there would be children to play with up therehundreds of childrenlike myself and all close at hand I should not any longer have to situp aloft in the Red Tower with none to speak to meall alone on the topof a walljust because I had a crimson patch sewn on my bluecordedblouse on my little white shirt embroidered in red wool on each of mywarm winter wristlets and staring out from the front of both mystockings It was a pretty enough pattern too Yet whenever one of thechildren I so much longed to play with down on the paved roadway beneathour tower caught sight of it he rose instantly out of the dust and hurledoaths and illwords at meaye and oftentimes other missiles that hurteven worseat a little lonely boy who was breaking his heart with lovinghim up there on the towerCome down and be killed foul brood of the Red Axe the children criedAnd with that they ran as near as they dared and spat on the wall of ourhouse or at least on the little wooden panel which opened inward in thegreat trebly spiked iron door of the Dukes courtyardBut this night of the first homecoming of the Little Playmate I awokecrying and fearful in the dead vast of the night when all the otherchildren who would not speak to me were asleep Then pulling on mycomfortable shoes of woollen list for my father gave me all things tomake me warm thinking me delicate of body and drawing the manypatchedcoverlet of the bed about me I clambered up the stone stairway to thevery top of the tower in which I slept The moon was broad like one ofthe shields in the great hall whither I went often when the great Dukewas not at home and when old Hanne would be busy cleaning the pavementand scrubbing

Produced by John Hagerson Rick Niles Mary Meehan and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team THE MYSTERY OF METROPOLISVILLE BY EDWARD EGGLESTON AUTHOR OF THE HOOGLEE SCHOOLMASTER THE END OF THE WORLD ETC 1888TO ONE WHO KNOWS WITH ME A LOVESTORY NOW MORE THAN FIFTEEN YEARS INLENGTH AND BETTER A HUNDREDFOLD THAN ANY I SHALL EVER BE ABLE TO WRITETHIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED ON AN ANNIVERSARYMARCH 18TH 1873PREFACEA novel should be the truest of books It partakes in a certain sense ofthe nature of both history and art It needs to be true to human naturein its permanent and essential qualities and it should truthfullyrepresent some specific and temporary manifestation of human nature thatis some form of society It has been objected that I have copied lifetoo closely but it seems to me that the work to be done just now is torepresent the forms and spirit of our own life and thus free ourselvesfrom habitual imitation of that which is foreign I have wished to makemy stories of value as a contribution to the history of civilization inAmerica If it be urged that this is not the highest function I replythat it is just now the most necessary function of this kind ofliterature Of the value of these stories as works of art others mustjudge but I shall have the satisfaction of knowing that I have at leastrendered one substantial though humble service to our literature if Ihave portrayed correctly certain forms of American life and mannersBROOKLYN March 1873CONTENTSPREFACEWORDS BEFOREHAND CHAPTER I The Autocrat of the StageCoach CHAPTER II The Sod Tavern CHAPTER III Land and Love CHAPTER IV Albert and Katy CHAPTER V Corner Lots CHAPTER VI Little Katys Lover CHAPTER VII Catching and Getting Caught CHAPTER VIII Isabel Marlay CHAPTER IX Lovers and Lovers CHAPTER X Plausaby Esq takes a Fatherly Interest CHAPTER XI About Several Things CHAPTER XII An Adventure CHAPTER XIII A Shelter CHAPTER XIV The Inhabitant CHAPTER XV An Episode CHAPTER XVI The Return CHAPTER XVII Sawney and his Old Love CHAPTER XVIII A Collision CHAPTER XIX Standing Guard in Vain CHAPTER XX Sawney and Westcott CHAPTER XXI Rowing CHAPTER XXII Sailing CHAPTER XXIII Sinking CHAPTER XXIV Dragging CHAPTER XXV Afterwards CHAPTER XXVI The Mystery CHAPTER XXVII The Arrest CHAPTER XXVIII The Tempter CHAPTER XXIX The Trial CHAPTER XXX The Penitentiary CHAPTER XXXI Mr Lurton CHAPTER XXXII A Confession CHAPTER XXXIII Death CHAPTER XXXIV Mr Lurtons Courtship CHAPTER XXXV Unbarred CHAPTER XXXVI Isabel CHAPTER XXXVII The LastWORDS AFTERWARDSILLUSTRATIONS BY FRANK BEARDThe Superior BeingMr Minorkey and the Fat GentlemanPlausaby sells LotsBy George He he heMrs PlausabyThe InhabitantA Pinch of SnuffMrs FerretOne Savage Blow full in the FaceWhat on Airths the MatterHis Unselfish Love found a Melancholy RecompenseThe Editor of The WindmillGit up and FollerTHE MYSTERY OF METROPOLISVILLEWORDS BEFOREHANDMetropolisville is nothing but a memory now If Jonahs gourd had notbeen a little too much used already it would serve an excellent turnjust here in the way of an apt figure of speech illustrating the growththe wilting and the withering of Metropolisville The last time I sawthe place the grass grew green where once stood the City Hall thecornstalks waved their banners on the very site of the old storeI askpardon the Emporiumof Jackson Jones Co and what had been thesquare staring white courthousenot a Temple but a Barn ofJusticehad long since fallen to base uses The walls which had echoedwith forensic grandiloquence were now forced to hear only the bleating ofsilly sheep The church the schoolhouse and the City Hotel had beenmoved away bodily The village grew as hundreds of other frontiervillages had grown in the flush times it died as so many others diedof the financial crash which was the inevitable sequel and retributionof speculative madness Its history resembles the history of otherWestern towns of the sort so strongly that I should not take the troubleto write about it nor ask you to take the trouble to read about it ifthe history of the town did not involve also the history of certain humanlivesof a tragedy that touched deeply more than one soul And what ishistory worth but for its human interest The history of Athens is not ofvalue on account of its temples and statues but on account of its menand women And though the Main street of Metropolisville is now acountry road where the dogfennel blooms almost undisturbed by comers andgoers though the plowshare remorselessly turns over the earth in placeswhere corner lots were once sold for a hundred dollars the front footand though the

Produced by Jonathan Ingram Jonathan Ingram Charles M Bidwell andthe Online Distributed Proofreading TeamBEGGARS BUSHA COMEDYPersons Represented in the PlayWolfort _an usurper of the Earldom of_ FlandersGerrard _falsely called_ Clause _King of the Beggars Father in Law to_FlorezHubert _an honest Lord a friend to_ GerrardFlorez _falsely called_ Goswin _a rich Merchant of_ BrugesHempskirke _a Captain under_ WolfordHerman _a Courtier_ _inhabitants of__A_ Merchant FlandersVandunke _a drunken Merchant friend to_ Gerrard _falsely called Fatherto_ BerthaVanlock _and_ 4 Merchants _of_ BrugesHiggen Prigg _Three Knavish Beggars_Snapp Ferret _Two Gentlemen disguised under thoseGinkes names of_ Gerrards _party_ClownBooresServantsGuard_A_ Sailor_WOMEN_Jaculin _Daughter to_ Gerrard _beloved of_ HubertBertha _called_ Gertrude _Daughter to the Duke of_ Brabant _Mistress to_FlorezMargaret _Wife to_ VandunkeMrs Frances _a frow Daughter to_ Vanlock_The Scene_ Flanders_ACTUS PRIMUS SCENA PRIMA__Enter a_ Merchant _and_ Herman_Mer_ Is he then taken_Her_ And brought back even now Sir_Mer_ He was not in disgrace_Her_ No man more lovdNor more deservd it being the only manThat durst be honest in this Court_Mer_ IndeedWe have heard abroad Sir that the State hath sufferedA great change since the Countesses death_Her_ It hath Sir_Mer_ My five years absence hath kept me a strangerSo much to all the occurents of my CountryAs you shall bind me for some short relationTo make me understand the present times_Her_ I must begin then with a War was madeAnd seven years with all cruelty continuedUpon our _Flanders_ by the Duke of _Brabant_The cause grew thus during our Earls minority_Wolfort_ who now usurps was employed thitherTo treat about a match between our EarlAnd the Daughter and Heir of _Brabant_ during which treatyThe _Brabander_ pretends this Daughter wasStoln from his Court by practice of our StateThough we are all confirmd twas a sought quarrelTo lay an unjust gripe upon this EarldomIt being here believd the Duke of _Brabant_Had no such loss This War upont proclaimedOur Earl being then a Child although his FatherGood _Gerrard_ livd yet in respect he wasChosen by the Countesses favour for her HusbandAnd but a Gentleman and _Florez_ holdingHis right unto this Country from his MotherThe State thought fit in this defensive War_Wolfort_ being then the only man of markTo make him General_Mer_ Which place we have heardHe did discharge with honour_Her_ I so longAnd with so blest successes that the _Brabander_Was forct his treasures wasted and the choiceOf his best men of Armes tyrd or cut offTo leave the field and sound a base retreatBack to his Country but so broken bothIn mind and means ere to make head againThat hitherto he sits down by his lossNot daring or for honour or revengeAgain to tempt his fortune But this VictoryMore broke our State and made a deeper hurtIn _Flanders_ than the greatest overthrowShe ever receivd For _Wolfort_ now beholdingHimself and actions in the flattering glassOf selfdeservings and that cherisht byThe strong assurance of his power for thenAll Captains of the Army were his creaturesThe common Souldier too at his devotionMade so by full indulgence to their rapinesAnd secret bounties this strength too well knownAnd what it could effect soon put in practiceAs furtherd by the Childhood of the EarlAnd their improvidence that might have pierctThe heart of his designs gave him occasionTo seize the whole and in that plight you find it_Mer_ Sir I receive the knowledge of thus muchAs a choice favour from you_Her_ Only I must add_Bruges_ holds out_Mer_ Whither Sir I am goingFor there last night I had a ship put inAnd my Horse waits me _Exit__Her_ I wish you a good journey_Enter_ Wolfort Hubert_Wol_ What _Hubert_ stealing from me who disarmd himIt was more than I commanded take your swordI am best guarded with it in your handI have seen you use it nobly_Hub_ And will turn itOn my own bosom ere it shall be drawnUnworthily or rudely_Wol_ Would you leave meWithout a farewel _Hubert_ flie a friendUnwearied in his study to advance youWhat have I ere possessd which was not yoursOr either did not court you to command itWho ever yet arrivd to any graceReward or trust from me but his approachesWere by your fair reports of him preferdAnd what is more I made my self your ServantIn making you the Master of those secretsWhich not the rack of Conscience could draw from meNor I when I askt mercy trust my prayers withYet after these assurances of loveThese tyes and bonds of friendship to forsake meForsake me as an enemy come you mustGive me a reason_Hub_ Sir and so I willIf I may dot in private and you hear it_Wol_ All leave the room you have your will sit downAnd use the liberty of our first friendship_Hub_ Friendship when you provd Traitor first that vanishdNor do I owe you any thought but hateI know my flight hath forfeited my headAnd so I may make you first understandWhat a strange monster you have made your selfI welcome it_Wol_ To me this is strange language_Hub_ To you why what are you_Wol_ Your Prince and MasterThe Earl of _Flanders_Hub By a proper titleRaisd to it by cunning circumvention forceBlood and proscriptions_Wol_ And in all this wisdomHad I not reason when by _Gerrards_ plotsI should have first been calld to a strict accomptHow and which way I had consumd that massOf money as they term it in the WarWho underhand had by his MinistersDetracted my great action made my faithAnd loyalty suspected in which failingHe sought my life by practice_Hub_ With what foreheadDo you speak this to me who as I knowtMust and will say tis false_Wol_ My Guard there_Hub_ Sir you bad me sit and promisd you would hearWhich I now say you shall not a sound moreFor I that am contemner of mine ownAm Master of your life then heres a SwordBetween you and all aids Sir though you blindThe credulous beast the multitude you pass notThese gross untruths on me_Wol_ How gross untruths_Hub_ I and it is

Produced by David Newman and PG Distributed Proofreaders Producedfrom images provided by the Million Book ProjectFATHER PAYNEBy Arthur Christopher Benson1915PREFACEOften as I have thought of my old friend Father Payne as weaffectionately called him I had somehow never intended to write about himor if I did it was like as a dream when one awaketh a vision thatmelted away at the touch of common life Yet I always felt that his was oneof those rich personalities well worth depicting if the attitude andgesture with which he faced the world could be caught and fixed Thedifficulty was that he was a man of ideas rather than of performancesuggestive rather than active and the whole history of his experiment withlife was evasive and even to ordinary views fantasticBesides my own life has been a busy one full of hard ordinary work itwas not until the war gave me like many craftsmen a most reluctant andunwelcome space of leisure that I ever had the opportunity of consideringthe possibility of writing this book I am too old to be a combatant andtoo much of a specialist in literature to transmute my activities I latelyfound myself with my professional occupations suddenly suspended andmoreover like many men who have followed a wholly peaceful professionplunged in a dark bewilderment as to the onset of the forces governing thesocial life of Europe In the sad inactivity which followed I set to workto look through my old papers for the sake of distraction and employmentand found much material almost ready for use careful notes ofconversations personal reminiscences jottings of characteristic toucheswhich seemed as if they could be easily shaped Moreover the past suddenlyrevived and became eloquent and vivid I found in the beautiful memoriesof those glowing days that I spent with Father Payneit was only threeyearssome consolation and encouragement in my distressThis little volume is the result I am well aware that the busy years whichhave intervened have taken the edge off some of my recollections while thelapse of time has possibly touched others with a sunset glow That canhardly be avoided and I am not sure that I wish to avoid itI am not here concerned with either criticising or endorsing Father Paynesviews I see both inconsistencies and fallacies in them I even detectprejudices and misinterpretations of which I was not conscious at the timeI have no wish to idealise my subject unduly but it is clear to me and Ihope I have made it clear to others that Father Payne was a man who had avery definite theory of life and faith and who at all events livedsincerely and even passionately in the light of his beliefs Moreover whenhe came to put them to the supreme test the test of death they did notdesert or betray him he passed on his way rejoicingHe used I remember to warn us against attempting too close an analysis ofcharacter He used to say that the consciousness of a man the intuitiveinstinct which impelled him his _attack_ upon experience was a thingalmost independent both of his circumstances and of his reason He used totake his parable from the weaving of a tapestry and say that a box full ofthread and a loom made up a very small part of the process It was theinventive instinct of the craftsman the faculty of designing that wasallimportantHe himself was a man of large designs but he lacked perhaps the practicalgift of embodiment I looked upon him as a man of high poetical powerswith a great range of hopes and visions but without the technicalaccomplishment which lends these their final coherence He was fully awareof this himself but he neither regretted it nor disguised it The truthwas that his interest in existence was so intense that he lacked the powerof selflimitation needed for an artistic success What however he gaveto all who came in touch with him was a strong sense of the richness andgreatness of life and all its issues He taught us to approach it with nopreconceived theories no fears no preferences He had a great mistrust ofconventional interpretation and traditional explanations At the same timehe abhorred controversy and wrangling He had no wish to expunge the idealsof others so long as they were sincerely formed rather than meeklyreceived Though I have come myself to somewhat different conclusions heat least taught me to draw my own inferences from my own experienceswithout either deferring to or despising the conclusions of othersThe charm of his personality lay in his independence his sympathy hiseager freshness of view his purity of motive his perfect simplicity andit is all this which I have attempted to depict rather than to trace histheories or to present a philosophy which was always concrete rather thanabstract and passionate rather than deliberate To use a homely proverbFather Payne was a man who filled his chairOf one thing I feel sure and that is that wherever Father Payne is andwhatever he may be doingfor I have as absolute a conviction of thecontinued existence of his fine spirit as I have of the present existenceof my ownhe will value my attempt to depict him as he was I remember histelling me a story of Dr Johnson how in the course of his last illnesswhen he could not open his letters he asked Boswell to read them for himBoswell opened a letter from some person in the North of England of acomplimentary kind and thinking it would fatigue Dr Johnson to have itread aloud merely observed that it was highly in his praise Dr Johnsonat once desired it to be read to him and said with great earnestness_The applause of a single human being is of great consequence_Father Payne added that it was one of Johnsons finest sayings and had notouch of vanity or selfsatisfaction in it but the vital stuff ofhumanity That I believe to be profoundly true and that is the spirit inwhich I have set all this down_September_ 30 1915CONTENTSI FATHER PAYNEII

Produced by Charles Franks and the DP TeamHohe SommertageNeue Gedichtevon Gustav FalkeHamburgAlfred Janssen1902Seinen lieben FreundenKarl und Elisabeth Schützeherzlichst zugeeignetInhaltSommerDer ParkteichTrüber TagVergebliche BitteLiebesgestammelWaldgangIn tiefer SchamAus tiefer QualIm EntschlummernBitteErinnerungBesitzAusklangZu HauseHeimkehrVor SchlafengehenMondlichtMusikEs schneitDie WeihnachtsbäumeMeinem Sohn zur TaufeDie MutterSteernkikerLengenVerbaden LeewAn de GorenportGo NachLütt UrselDe SnurkersDe lütt BoomDe StormflothRitornelleFrühlingstrunkenEin silbernes MärchenPfingstliedWunschSeeleIrrende SeeleRosentodAuf meinen ausgestopften FalkenMorgen zwischen HeckenUnd gar nicht langeDie bunten KüheAuf der BleicheWäsche im WindWinterwaldWinterDie NetzflickerinnenDas Mädchen mit den RosenDas NixchenFeierabendDas MädelIm SchnellzugReigenDer BackfischDer seltene VogelIdyllPusteblumenKonsequenzDie RäuberDenkmalkantateBescheidener WunschZweimal ist vierProlog zur 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Zweigen überdämmertHalbausgelöschte Spuren sind im WegVom Regen halb verwaschen und vom WindSacht überstäubt Von wem erzählen sieMir ist als müsste diese große StilleEin Mädchenlachen plötzlich unterbrechenAus ihrem grünen Traum aufstören Wenn der WindDas Laub ein wenig hebt und in dem SpiegelDes dunklen Teichs ein Licht aufblitzt gedenk ichEines tieflieben jungen AugenpaaresDas ich aus einem stillen MädchentraumManchmal aufleuchten sehe und ich meineEs hätte hier wohl einmal vor dem BildParkstillen Friedens lieblich sich erhelltEin sanftes Wellchen hebt sich an das UferWill es den Platz mir zeigen wo sie standWo sie gesessen Leise rauscht das LaubEs ist ein Flüstern Ach was flüsterts dochNichts Nur ein Laub im Wind Doch in mir wachtEin Holdes auf und sucht nach Worten findetNur einen lieben Namen und der schwebtLeise dem Wind vertraut über den TeichBewahr den Namen märchentiefe StilleBewahre ihn dass er ein süßer LautDer lieblichen Natur hier Heimat hatUnd kehrt sie wieder wandelt einmal nochDurch diesen Frieden der nun doppelt heiligMag sie wie ich heut lauschend stehn und fragenWas flüstert doch das Laub Und mag errötenUnd lächeln meint sie übern Teich her ruftEin andrer sie mit Namen Leise rauschtDas sommerdunkle Laub rings um den TeichEin Sonnenlächeln zittert auf dem SpiegelUnd horch Ein Mädchenlachen Nein Herz neinTraumstille Einsamkeit nur atmeteEinmal aus ihrem Frieden selig aufTrüber TagEin feuchtes Wehen wühlt im Laub und streutIns nasse Gras ringsum den TropfenfallUnd wo noch gestern laute Lust träumt heutSchwermütiges Schweigen überallDie frühen Rosen frieren so im WindGestern als heißer Mittag darauf lagBrach ich die schönste dir Wo bist du KindWo ist die Rose Wo der helle TagAuch morgen wenn die Sonne wieder scheintUnd ganz voll Duft mein kleiner Garten istRuft dich mein Herz und weintUnd weiß nicht wo du bistVergebliche BitteMaiblumen deinem Herzen nahBlühten an deinem KleideIch bat Schenk mir den Frühling daNein riefst du mir zu LeideEs war nur Spiel war nur zum ScherzDass ich mich damit schmückteUnd wie ein Stich ging mirs durchs HerzAls deine Hand die Blumen schnellVom Busen riss und auf der StellZerpflückte zerpflückteWas gabst du mir die Blumen nichtMir dem die Jugend schwindetUnd der auf deinem AngesichtIhr letztes Glück noch findetMir wars als so umsonst ich warbUm diese FrühlingsspendenAls ob nun mit den Blumen starbAuch meiner Jugend goldner TagUnd seine letzte Blüte lagZerpflückt von deinen HändenLiebesgestammelEs ist alles nicht auszusagenWas ich um dich gelittenDu musst meine schlaflosen Nächte fragenDa ich mit Beten um dich gestrittenMit Wünschen und Sehnen und Hoffen vielTrieb ein thörichtes LiebesspielUnd wenn ich dann an deiner SeiteWunderseliges tief gespürtUnd wie auf seinem TeppichgebreiteDes Moslems Stirn die Erde berührtVor dir anbetend die Seele geneigtDie sich so gern in Stolz versteigtDa ist mir so recht in Wonnen und BangenDas Wesen der Liebe aufgegangenSo willenlos keusch himmelsreinIn eine Seele versunken seinHoldeste ZweieinigkeitOhne SinnenwiderstreitAber getrennt ging ich umherEine einsame Seele die keiner verstehtSie bangt um ihren Himmel sehrUnd weiß nicht wo die Straße gehtSchlägt in rastlosem SehnsuchtsspielTausend Brücken nach ihrem ZielÜber die mit zitternden KnienAll ihre weinenden Wünsche ziehnIch bin deinO wärst du meinHülfe mir Beten hülfe mir BittenAber ich will mich des Hoffens entschlagenEs ist alles nicht auszusagenWas ich so lange um dich gelittenWaldgangHeut bin ich durch den fremden Wald gegangenAbseits von Dorf und Feld und ErntemühenDen ganzen Tag trug ich ein HerzverlangenNach diesem Gang Nun stahl das erste GlühenDes Abends heimlich sich ins DämmerreichDes Buchenschlages und das Laub entbrannteIn einem roten Gold ringsum und gleichGlühwürmchen lags auf Moos und Kraut Ich kannteNicht Weg und Steg und ließ dem Fuß den WillenDer ziellos ging indes die Augen schweifenHier stand ich still und sah erschreckt vom schrillenRaubvogelruf den Weih die Wipfel 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Geliebte StammelteGeliebte Liebstes Seele Hör mich anIch kann nicht mehr Die Wege die ich gehSind so voll Dornen Sieh mein Blut es kannNicht still werden So

Produced by Jayam Subramanian and PG Distributed Proofreaders The Expansion of the Republic Series THE HISTORY OF PUERTO RICO FROM THE SPANISH DISCOVERY TO THE AMERICAN OCCUPATION BY RA VAN MIDDELDYK EDITED BY MARTIN G BRUMBAUGH PHD LLD PROFESSOR OF PEDAGOGY UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA AND FIRST COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION FOR PUERTO RICOCOPYRIGHT 1903Illustration Columbus statue San JuanEDITORS PREFACEThe latest permanent possession of the United States is also theoldest in point of European occupation The island of Puerto Rico wasdiscovered by Columbus in 1493 It was occupied by the United StatesArmy at Guanica July 25 1898 Spain formally evacuated the islandOctober 18 1898 and military government was established untilCongress made provision for its control By act of Congress approvedApril 12 1900 the military control terminated and civil governmentwas formally instituted May 11900Puerto Rico has an interesting history Its four centuries underSpanish control is a record of unusual and remarkable events Thisrecord is unknown to the American people It has never been writtensatisfactorily in the Spanish language and not at all in the Englishlanguage The author of this volume is the first to give to the readerof English a record of Spanish rule in this pearl of the AntillesMr Van Middeldyk is the librarian of the Free Public Library of SanJuan an institution created under American civil control He has hadaccess to all data obtainable in the island and has faithfully andconscientiously woven this data into a connected narrative thusgiving the reader a view of the social and institutional life of theisland for four hundred yearsThe author has endeavored to portray salient characteristics of thelife on the island to describe the various acts of the reigninggovernment to point out the evils of colonial rule and to figure thegeneral historical and geographical conditions in a manner thatenables the reader to form a fairly accurate judgment of the past andpresent state of Puerto RicoNo attempt has been made to speculate upon the setting of this recordin the larger record of Spanish life That is a work for the futureBut enough history of Spain and in general of continental Europe isgiven to render intelligible the various and varied governmentalactivities exercised by Spain in the island There is no doubt muchomitted that future research may reveal and yet it is just to statethat the record is fairly continuous and that no salient factors inthe islands history have been overlookedThe people of Puerto Rico were loyal and submissive to their parentgovernment No record of revolts and excessive rioting is recordedThe island has been continuously profitable to Spain With evenordinarily fair administration of government the people have beenselfsupporting and in many cases have rendered substantial aid toother Spanish possessions Her native lifethe BoriquenIndiansrapidly became extinct due to the gold fever and theintermarriage of races The peon class has always been a faithfullaboring class in the coffee sugar and tobacco estates and theslave element was never large A few landowners and the professionalclasses dominate the islands life There is no middle class There isan utter absence of the legitimate fruits of democratic institutionsThe poor are in every way objects of pity and of sympathy They arethe hope of the island By education widely diffused a great unrestwill ensue and from this unrest will come the social moral andcivic uplift of the peopleThese people do not suffer from the lack of civilization They sufferfrom the kind of civilization they have endured The life of thepeople is static Her institutions and customs are so set upon themthat one is most impressed with the absence of legitimate activitiesThe people are stoically content Such at least was the condition in1898 Under the military government of the United States much was doneto prepare the way for future advance Its weakness was due to itseffectiveness It did for the people what they should learn to do forthemselves The island needed a radically new governmentalactivityan activity that would develop each citizen into aselfrespecting and selfdirecting force in the islands uplift Thishas been supplied by the institution of civil government The outlookof the people is now infinitely better than ever before The progressnow being made is permanent It is an advance made by the people forthemselves Civil government is the fundamental need of the islandUnder civil government the entire reorganization of the life of thepeople is being rapidly effected The agricultural status of theisland was never so hopeful The commercial activity is greatlyincreased The educational awakening is universal and healthyNotwithstanding the disastrous cyclone of 1898 and the confusionincident to a radical governmental reorganization the wealth percapita has increased the home life is improved and the illiteracy ofthe people is being rapidly lessenedPresident McKinley declared to the writer that it was his desire toput the conscience of the American people into the islands of thesea This has been done The result is apparent Under wise andconservative guidance by the American executive officers the peopleof Puerto Rico have turned to this Republic with a patriotism a zealan enthusiasm that is perhaps without a parallelIn 1898 under President McKinley as commanderinchief the army ofthe United States forcibly invaded this island This occupation bythe treaty of Paris became permanent Congress promptly providedcivil government for the island and in 1901 this conquered peoplealmost one million in number shared in the keen grief that attendeduniversally the untimely death of their conqueror The island on theoccasion of the martyrs death was plunged in profound sorrow and ata hundred memorial services President McKinley was mourned bythousands and he was tenderly characterized as the founder of humanliberty in Puerto RicoThe judgment of the American people relative to this island is basedupon meager data The legal processes attending its entrance into theUnion have been the occasion of much comment This comment hasinvariably lent itself to a discussion of the effect of judicialdecision upon our home institutions It has been largely a speculativeconcern In some cases it has become a political concern in thenarrowest partizan sense The effect of all this upon the people ofPuerto Rico has not been considered Their

Produced by Distributed ProofreadersThe Right and Wrong Uses of the BibleByR Heber NewtonIn it _is contained_ Gods true Word_Homily on the HolyScriptures_New YorkJohn W Lovell Company14 16 Vesey StreetWorks by the Same AuthorThe Morals 1 Vol 12mo cloth gilt 100Studies of Jesus 1 vol 12mo cloth gilt 100Womanhood 1 vol 12mo cloth gilt 125The above all will be sent by mail postpaid on receipt of price byJohn W Lovell Co14 and 16 Vesey St New YorkCopyright 1883Contents I The Unreal Bible II The Real BibleIII The Wrong Uses of the Bible IV The Wrong Uses of the Bible V The Right Critical Use of the Bible VI The Right Historical Use of the BibleVII The Right Ethical and Spiritual Use of the Bible The Gospel doth not so much consist _in verbis_ as _in virtute_ _John Smith_ Liberty in prophesying without prescribing authoritatively to other mens consciences and becoming lords and masters of their faitha necessity derived from the consideration of the difficulty of Scripture in questions controverted and the uncertainty of any internal medium of interpretation _Jeremy Taylor_ To those who follow their reason in the interpretation of the Scriptures God will either give his grace for assistance to find the truth or His pardon if they miss it _Lord Falkland_Rational Theology in England in the Seventeenth Century John TullochDD II 181 I398 I160PrefaceIt has been my custom for several years to give occasionally a series ofsermons having in view some systematic instruction of the peoplecommitted to my care Such a series of sermons on the Bible had been forsome time in my mind With the recurrence of BibleSunday in our Churchyear this thought crystallized in the outline of a course that shouldpresent the nature and uses of the Bible both negatively and positivelyin a manner that should be at once reverent and rational In the course ofthis parochial ministration public attention was called to it in a waythat has rendered a complete report of my words desirableThe views set forth in these sermons were not hastily reached or lightlyaccepted They represent a growth of years Their essential thought wasstated in a sermon that was preached and published eight years ago Mypositions concerning certain books etc have been taken in deference towhat seems to me the weight of judgment among the master critics They areopen to correction as the young science of Biblical criticism gains newlight The general view of the Bible herein set forth rests upon theconclusions of no new criticism In varying forms it has been that of anhistorical school of thought in the English Church and in its Americandaughter It is a view that has been recognized as a legitimate child ofthe mother Church and that has been given the freedom of our ownhomestead in the undogmatic language of the sixth of the Articles ofReligion of the Protestant Episcopal Church It is distinctly enunciatedin the first sentence of the first sermon in the Book of Homilies setforth officially for the instruction of the people in both of theseChurches Unto a Christian man there can be nothing more necessary or profitable than the knowledge of holy scripture forasmuch as _in it is contained Gods true word_ setting forth his glory and also mans dutyThe whole controversy in Protestantism over the Bible may be summed intothe question whether the Bible _is_ Gods word or _contains_ Gods wordOn this question I stand with the Book of HomiliesThese sermons were meant for that large and rapidly growing body of menwho can no longer hold the traditional view of the Bible but who yetrealize that within this view there is a real and profound truth a truthwhich we all need if haply we can get it out from its archaic formwithout destroying its life and can clothe it anew in a shape that we canintelligently grasp and sincerely hold To such alone would I speak inthese pages to help them hold the substance of their fathers faithR Heber NewtonAll Souls Church _March_ 1 1883IThe Unreal Bible The Bible and the reading of the Bible as an instrument of instruction may be said to have been begun on the sunrise of that day when Ezra unrolled the parchment scroll of the Law It was a new thought that the Divine Will could be communicated by a dead literature as well as by a living voice In the impassioned welcome with which this thought was received lay the germs of all the good and evil which were afterwards to be developed out of it on the one side the possibility of appeal in each successive age to the primitive undying document that should rectify the fluctuations of false tradition and fleeting opinion on the other hand the temptation to pay to the letter of the sacred book a worship as idolatrous and as profoundly opposed to its spirit as once had been the veneration paid to the sacred trees or the sacred stones of the consecrated groves or hills Dean Stanley History of the Jewish Church iii 158IThe Unreal Bible Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to draw up a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us even as they delivered them unto us which from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word it seemed good to me also having traced the course of all things accurately from the first to write unto thee in

Produced by Michael GrayRUDIMENTAL DIVINESCIENCERUDIMENTALDIVINE SCIENCEBYMARY BAKER EDDYAUTHOR OF SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TOTHE SCRIPTUESImage Publishing Company LogoRegisteredU S Patent OfficePublished by TheTrustees under the Will of Mary Baker G EddyBOSTON USAAuthorized Literature ofTHE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTISTIn Boston Massachusetts_Copyright 1891 1908_BY MARY BAKER G EDDYCopyright renewed 1919All rights reservedPRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICATHIS LITTLE BOOKISTENDERLY AND RESPECTFULLY DEDICATEDTO ALLLOYAL STUDENTS WORKING AND WAITINGFOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THESCIENCE OF MINDHEALING MARY BAKER EDDYCONTENTSDEFINITION OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCEPRINCIPLE OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCEPERSONALITY OF GODHEALING SICKNESS AND SININDIVIDUALITY OF GODMATERIAL AND SPIRITUAL SCIENCENONEXISTENCE OF MATTERMATERIALITY INTANGIBLEBASIS OF MINDHEALINGMATERIAL AND SPIRITUAL MANDEMONSTRATION IN HEALINGMEANS AND METHODSONLY ONE SCHOOLRUDIMENTAL DIVINESCIENCE_How would you define Christian Science_ 1AS the law of God the law of good interpreting anddemonstrating the divine Principle and rule of 3universal harmony_What is the Principle of Christian Science_It is God the Supreme Being infinite and immortal 6Mind the Soul of man and the universe It is our Fatherwhich is in heaven It is substance Spirit Life Truthand Love these are the deific Principle 9_Do you mean by this that God is a person_The word person affords a large margin for misapprehension as well as definition In French the equivalent 12word is _personne_ In Spanish Italian and Latin it is_persona_ The Latin verb _personare_ is compounded ofthe prefix _per_ through and _sonare_ to sound 15In law Blackstone applies the word _personal_ to _bodilypresence_ in distinction from ones appearance in courtfor example by deputy or proxy 18Other definitions of _person_ as give by Webster are 1a living soul a selfconscious being a moral agentespecially a living human being a corporeal man woman 3or child an individual of the human race He addsthat among Trinitarian Christians the word stands for oneof the three subjects or agents constituting the Godhead 6In Christian Science we learn that God is definitely individual and not a _person_ as that word is used by the bestauthorities if our lexicographers are right in defining 9_person_ as especially a finite _human being_ but God ispersonal if by _person_ is meant infinite SpiritWe do not conceive rightly of God if we think of Him 12as less than infinite The human person is finite andtherefore I prefer to retain the proper sense of Diety byusing the phrase _an individual_ God rather than _a per 15sonal_ God for there is and can be but on infinite individual spirit who mortals have named GodScience defines the individuality of God as supreme 18good Life Truth Love This term enlarges our senseof Diety takes away the trammels assigned to God byfinite though and introduces us to higher definitions 21_Is healing the sick the whole of Science_Healing physical sickness is the smallest part of Christian Science It is only the buglecall to thought and 24action in the higher range of infinite goodness Theemphatic purpose of Christian Science is the healing ofsin and this task sometimes may be harder than the 27cure of disease because while mortals love to sin they 1do not love to be sick Hence their comparative acquiescence in your endeavors to heal them of bodily ills and 3their obstinate resistance to all efforts to save them fromsin through Christ spiritual Truth and Love whichredeem them and become their Saviour through the 6flesh from the flesh the material world and evilThis Life Truth and Love this trinity of good wasindividualized to the perception of mortal sense in the 9man Jesus His history is emphatic in our hearts and itlives more because of his spiritual than his physical healingHis example is to Christian Scientists what the models 12of the masters in music and painting are to artistsGenuine Christian Scientists will no more deviate morally from that divine digest of Science called the Sermon 15on the Mount than they will manipulate invalids prescribedrugs or deny God Jesus healing was spiritual in itsnature method and design He wrought the cure of 18disease through the divine Mind which gives all truevolition impulse and action and destroys the mentalerror made manifest physically and establishes the oppo 21site manifestation of Truth upon the body in harmonyand health_By the individuality of God do you mean that God has_ 24_a finite form_No I mean the infinite and divine Principle of

Produced by David Starner Jonathan Chaney and the Online DistributedProofreading TeamThe Jewish ManualORPractical Information in Jewish And Modern CookeryWith a Collection of Valuable Recipes Hints Relating to theToiletteEdited by a LadyLONDON 1846EDITORS PREFACEAmong the numerous works on Culinary Science already in circulationthere have been none which afford the slightest insight to the Cookeryof the Hebrew kitchenReplete as many of these are with information on various importantpoints they are completely valueless to the Jewish housekeeper notonly on account of prohibited articles and combinations being assumedto be necessary ingredients of nearly every dish but from the entireabsence of all the receipts peculiar to the Jewish peopleThis deficiency which has been so frequently the cause ofinconvenience and complaint we have endeavoured in the present littlevolume to supply And in taking upon ourselves the responsibility ofintroducing it to the notice of our readers we have been actuatedby the hope that it will prove of some practical utility to those forwhose benefit it is more particularly designedIt has been our earnest desire to simplify as much as possible thedirections given regarding the rudiments of the art and to render thereceipts which follow clear easy and concise Our collection willbe found to contain all the best receipts hitherto bequeathed onlyby memory or manuscript from one generation to another of the Jewishnation as well as those which come under the denomination of plainEnglish dishes and also such French ones as are now in general use atall refined modern tablesA careful attention has been paid to accuracy and economy in theproportions named and the receipts may be perfectly depended upon aswe have had the chief part of them tested in our own kitchen and underour own _surveillance_All difficult and expensive modes of cookery have been purposelyomitted as more properly belonging to the province of theconfectioner and foreign to the intention of this little work theobject of which is to guide the young Jewish housekeeper in theluxury and economy of The Table on which so much of the pleasure ofsocial intercourse dependsThe various acquirements which in the present day are deemedessential to female education rarely leave much time or inclinationfor the humble study of household affairs and it not unfrequentlyhappens that the mistress of a family understands little moreconcerning the dinner table over which she presides than the gracefularrangement of the flowers which adorn it thus she is incompetent todirect her servant upon whose inferior judgment and taste she isobliged to depend She is continually subjected to impositions fromher ignorance of what is required for the dishes she selects while alavish extravagance or parsimonious monotony betrays her utterinexperience in all the minute yet indispensible details of eleganthospitalityHowever there are happily so many highly accomplished andintellectual women whose example proves the compatability of unitingthe cultivation of talents with domestic pursuits that it would besuperfluous and presumptuous were we here to urge the propriety andimportance of acquiring habits of usefulness and household knowledgefurther than to observe that it is the unfailing attribute of asuperior mind to turn its attention occasionally to the lesser objectsof life aware how greatly they contribute to its harmony and itshappinessThe _Cuisine_ of a woman of refinement like her dress or herfurniture is distinguished not for its costliness and profusion butfor a pervading air of graceful originality She is quite sensibleof the regard due to the reigning fashion of the day but her owntasteful discrimination is always perceptible She instinctivelyavoids every thing that is hackneyed vulgar and common placeand uniformly succeeds in pleasing by the judicious novelties sheintroducesWe hope therefore that this unpretending little work may not provewholly unacceptable even to those ladies who are not of the Hebrewpersuasion as it will serve as a sequel to the books on cookerypreviously in their possession and be the medium of presenting themwith numerous receipts for rare and exquisite compositions which ifuncommemorated by the genius of Vatel Ude or Careme are deliciousenough not only to gratify the lovers of good cheer generally but tomerit the unqualified approbation of the most fastidious epicuresWe ought perhaps to apologize for the apparent incongruity ofconnecting the Toilet with the Kitchen but the receipts andsuggestions comprised in the Second Part of the work before uswill not we trust be considered misplaced in a volume addressedexclusively to the ladiesMany of the receipts are for articles in common use but which withproper directions are prepared with greater economy and in a superiormanner at home the others are all original receipts many of themextremely ancient and given to us by a person who can vouch for theirefficacy from personal experience and observationWe must now conclude our preliminary remarks but cannot take leave ofour patient readers without availing ourselves of the opportunity oureditorial capacity affords to express our hope that with all itsfaults and deficiencies The Jewish Manual may prove to them a usefulassistant and be fortunate enough to meet with their lenient kindand favourable considerationCONTENTS PART IINTRODUCTIONMISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS FOR THE USE OF THE COOK CHAPTER I SOUPSCHAPTER II SAUCES AND FORCEMEATCHAPTER III FISHCHAPTER IV MEATS AND POULTRY COOKED IN VARIOUS WAYSCHAPTER V VEGETABLES OMELETTES FONDEAUX CROQUETTES RISOLES CCHAPTER VI PASTRYCHAPTER VII SWEET DISHES PUDDINGS JELLIES CREAMS CHARLOTTESSOUFLES GATEAUX TRIFLES CUSTARDS CAKES CCHAPTER VIII PRESERVES AND BOTTLINGCHAPTER IX PICKLINGCHAPTER X RECEIPTS FOR INVALIDSAPPENDIXTHE TOILETTE CHAPTER I THE COMPLEXION c cCHAPTER II THE HAIRCHAPTER III THE TEETHCHAPTER IV THE HANDS AND NAILSCHAPTER V DRESSCHAPTER VI EFFECTS OF DIET ON THE COMPLEXIONCHAPTER VII INFLUENCE OF THE MIND

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told to me by one of the principalparticipantsI shall not repeat to you one of the same old timeworn tales of howslick hoboes beat trains nor fabled romance concerning harmlesswanderlusters nor jokes at the expense of the poor but honest man insearch of legitimate employment but I shall relate to you a rarelystrange story that will stir your hearts to their innermost depths andwill cause you to shudder at the villainy of certain human beings wholike vultures seeking carrion hunt for other peoples sons with theintention of turning them into tramps beggars drunkards andcriminalsinto despised outcastsThe man who spoke was a typical oldtime harvester who was knownamongst his acquaintances as Canada Joe and the men for whoseentertainment he offered to tell this story had like himself workedfrom dawn until nearly dark in the blazing sun and the choking dust ofthe harvest field gathering the bounteous wheat crop of one of SouthDakotas Bonanza farms and who now that their days toil had beenaccomplished and their suppers partaken of were lounging upon thevelvety lawn in front of the ranch foremans residence and while thesilvery stars were peacefully twinkling in the heavens overhead theywere repeating stories of their checkered lives which only too oftenbrought back memories of those longago days before they too had joinedthe flotsam of that class of the underworld who too proud to degradethemselves to the level of outright vagrancy while yet there was achance to exchange long and weary hours of the hardest kind of labor forthe right to earn an honorable existence were nevertheless included bycritical society in that large clan of homeless driftersThe TrampsIllustration This evening it was Canada Joes turn to tell a story And this evening it was for Canada Joe to tell a storyIllustration a farm sceneCHAPTER IIThe SamaritansMany years have passed since the day that Peoria Red and I were caughtout of doors and entirely unprepared to face one of the worst blizzardsthat ever swept down from the Arctic regions across the shelterlessplains of the DakotasWe had been hoboing a ride upon a freight train and had been fired offby its crew at a lone siding about fifty miles east of Minot NorthDakota In those early days trains were few and the chances that one ofthem would stop at this lone siding were so small that we decided towalk to the nearest water tank which in those days of small engineswere never more than twenty miles apart and there catch another rideIt was a clear winter morning and the suns rays were vacillating uponthe snow that like a gigantic bedspread covered the landscape andwhich made walking upon the hidden and uneven track a most wearisometask the more so as neither of us had tasted a mouthful of food sincethe preceding days dinner hour While we were debating and wonderinghow and where we would rake up a meal amongst the few and widelyscattered ranches the wind veered to the north and commenced to blowwith ever increasing force Soon heavy gray clouds followed in itswake and quickly overcast the sky and by two oclock in the afternoonthe rapidly growing fury of the wind commenced to drive sharp pointedparticles of snow before it which as the storm increased to cyclonicproportions changed to masses of rotating darts which cut into theexposed portions of our illyclad

Produced by Sami Sieranoja and Tapio RiikonenKALEVALAN AVAINElias Lönnrotin muistolleKirjoittanutPEKKA ERVAST1916SISÄLLYSALKUSANAI KALEVALA PYHÄNÄ KIRJANA1 Mitä Kalevala on2 Kalevala pyhänä kirjana3 Kalevalan avainII KALEVALAN MYSTERIOTIETOA4 Eikö muinaissuomalaisten uskonto ollut animismia5 Ihmisiä vaiko jumalia6 Pyhä kolminaisuus7 Neitseestä syntynyt8 Luomistyö9 Pelastustyö10 Lemminkäisvoimat11 LemminkäinenKristus12 Ilmarisvoimat13 Ilmarinen tuli ja rauta14 Ilmarinen ja Sampo15 Jälleensyntyminen16 Tuonelan tuvilla17 Väinämöisen soittoIII KALEVALAN SISÄISTÄ SIVEYSOPPIA18 Tiedon tie19 Joukahainen20 Aino21 Lemminkäinen22 Ilmarinen23 Ansiotyöt24 Tuonelan joutsen25 Pohjolan häät26 Kultainen neito27 Pohjan neidon nuorempi sisar28 Hengen miekka29 Venematka30 Kanteleen soitto31 Sammon ryöstö32 Viimeiset epäilykset33 Viimeinen taisteluIV KALEVALAN MAGIAA34 Mitä magialla tässä tarkoitamme35 Ennen ja nyt kaksi ihmistyyppiä36 Atlantalaista magiaa Kalevalassa37 Aikojen vaihteessa38 Väinämöinen ja Aino39 Marjatta40 Marjatan poika Ja VäinämöinenV VÄINÄMÖISEN PALUU41 Väinämöinen ja Suomen kansaALAVIITTEETALKUSANATämä kirja puolustaa ja kunnioittaa kaikkea sitä Kalevalassa jotanykyaikainen sivistyksemme enimmäkseen pitää tuulesta temmattuna sensatuja sen ihmeitä sen liiotteluja sen luonnottomuuksia ja lukijahavaitsee ensi riviltä että kirjan tekijä on tosissaanTuntien oman vähäpätöisyytensä niiden oppineiden rinnalla jotka ovatKalevalaa tutkineet ja selittäneet ei tekijä tähän työhön olisiuskaltanut ryhtyä ellei hänellä olisi vakaumus ja näkemys siitä ettäKalevalan todellinen sisältö sittenkin on jäänyt oppineilta huomaamattaTällä sanallaan hän ei suinkaan väitä että hänen oma tietonsa Kalevalantodellisesta sisällöstä olisi tyhjentävä tai erehtymätön hänenkäsityksensä on epäilemättä sekä vaillinainen että korjauksia kaipaavamutta oikein ymmärrettynä se avaa uusia uria vastaiselle tutkimukselleJa koska tekijä ei tunnepaitsi HP Blavatskyn viittauksiaSalaisessa Opissa ja eräässä aikakauskirjaartikkelissa Kalevalasuomalaisten kansalliseepos joka on suomeksi julkaistu Tietäjässä1909muita tämänlaatuisia kokeita kuin Martti Humun M Ramstedtinbroshyyrin Kalevalan sisäinen perintö joka oli ylimalkaista jajohdannollista laatua Herman Hellnerin kirjotuksen Kalevala ettteosofiskt diktvärk joka on painettu Teosofisk Tidskriftissä 1904 jaRudolf Steinerin Helsingissä huhtikuun 9 pnä 1912 pitämän esitelmänDas Wesen nationaler Epen mit speziellem Hinweis auf Kalevalapainettu manuskriptina samana vuonna rohkenee hän toivoa että tätähänen tutkielmaansa otettaisiin vastaan edes johonkin määrin silläanteeksi antavalla suopeudella jota yleensä ensimäiselle yrityksellesuodaan Jos kohtalo myöntää toivoo tekijä saavansa tulevissatutkimuksissa laajemmin ja seikkaperäisemmin syventyä moniin suomalaistasalatiedettä koskeviin aineihin joita hän tässä on vain alustavastikosketellutSillä kuten Kalevala sanoo Ei sanat salahan joua Eikä luottehet lovehen Mahti ei joua maan rakohon Vaikka mahtajat menevätSammatissa elokuulla 1916 TekijäIKALEVALA PYHÄNÄ KIRJANAIlman seitsenhaaraisen symbologian apua ei mitään vanhaa pyhää kirjaavoida oikein ymmärtää Symbologia on tutkittava jokaiselta puoleltaansillä jokaisella kansalla oli omintakeinen ilmaisutapansaHP Blavatsky1MITÄ KALEVALA ONKysymykseen mitä Kalevala on tulemme tässä kirjassa vastaamaantavalla joka luultavasti on outo ja uusi useimmille lukijoille Tulemmeheti esittämään Kalevalasta sen synnystä ja sisäisestä arvostamielipiteen joka hämmästyttää sekä oppinutta että oppimatonta lukijaaTulemme sitten kirjassamme pitkin matkaa selvittämään ja puolustamaanmielipidettämme ja jätämme hyväntahtoisen lukijan arvosteltavaksionnistuuko meidän vakuuttaa häntä sen oikeudesta vai jääkö hän yhäihmettelemään ja kukaties paheksumaan ylen outoa kantaammeEnnenkuin annamme oman vastauksemme kysymykseen mitä Kalevala ontahdomme parilla sanalla muistuttaa lukijan mieleen mitä meillä yleensäon Kalevalasta arveltu ja mikä tieteellisten tutkijain kantakysymyksessä onKalevalan suuri esilleuneksija Elias Lönnrot uskoi että Kalevalassakuvastui esiisäimme muinainen permalainen sivistys Sen runoista astuielävänä esiin kuva Suomen kansan menneisyydestä tämän kansan uskonnostaja elämistavoista sen pyrkimyksistä ihanteista ja sankareistaLönnrotin usko tarttui toisiin Kalevalaa alettiin pitää lähteenä Suomenkansan muinaisuuden tutkimiselle sekä kotona että ulkomailla Kalevalanmukana levisi ympäri sivistyneen maailman Suomen kansasta maine jakaikkialla alettiin huomata että tuolla kaukana Pohjolassa asuu pienikorpikansa joka on luonut eepoksen jommoisia on harvoja maailmassaMikä runollinen kansa kulki kuiskeena yli maiden ja mantereittenmikä menneisyys sillä on takanaan Missä onkaan sen historia Sankarienja tietäjäin kansaTämä valtava innostus herätti Suomen kansan vuosisataisesta unestaanSuomalaiset tunsivat itsensä yhtenäiseksi kansaksi koska heillä oliyhteinen menneisyys ja tuon yhteisen menneisyyden mahtava muistomerkkiKuinka luonnollista että tätä ensimäistä uskonnollisrunollistaheräymystä seurasi toinen Snellmanin valtiolliskielellinen Suomenkansa oppi itsensä tuntemaan ja tiesi paikkansa maailman näyttämölläAleksanteri Isen profetalliset sanat olivat toteutuneet Suomen kansaoli noussut kansakuntien joukkoonNyt elämme toisessa ajassa Innostus on laimennut Kalevala ei ole enäämitä se oli ennen Kyllä sitä pidetään kansallisena eepoksena ja kylläsitä kouluissa luetaan mutta tieteellisellä taholla se on kadottanutpätevyytensä historiallisena lähdekirjana Kalevalassa ei kuvastukaanvanha permalainen sivistys Lönnrotin usko oli Suomen suuren Eliaanunelmaa vainKalevalassa ei kerrota mistään kadonneesta kultaajasta Kalevala onrunokokoelma Se kertoo kansamme onnen haaveista siitä kesämaasta jokaeli kansamme mielikuvituksessa Se todistaa vain mikä voimakas mikäkuolematon laulunhenki aina on ollut Suomen kansalle ominainenTätä nykyistä kantaansa tieteelliset tutkijamme perustelevat sillä ettäKalevala kuten sanottu on runokokoelma ei yhtenäinen eepos jokasemmoisena olisi säilynyt kansan muistissa Kansa on lukuisissatoisinnoissa eri paikoissa eri aikoina laulanut VäinämöisestäIlmarisesta Lemminkäisestä ja niiden urotöistä toinen laulaja ontoisesta asiasta kertonut toinen toisesta Elias Lönnrot kokoili jakeräili näitä runolauluja hän oli ensimäinen joka väsymättömälläinnolla ja uskolla samoili Karjalan laulumaita sai sanan sieltä toisentäältä sommitteli kuulemansa yhteen ja rakensi runoista kokonaisuudenMitä ennen häntä Porthan Lencqvist Ganander Becker Topelius vanhempiym olivat tehneet oli ollut enimmäkseen hajanaista valmistustyötäMutta Lönnrotin jälkeen on tehty uusia keräilymatkoja ja tieteellisestitarkattu Lönnrotin käsikirjotuksia ja muistiinpanoja ja päästy siihenlopulliseen selvyyteen ja varmuuteen mikä nyt on vallallaKalevalatutkimuksessa Lönnrot oli itse viimeinen suuri runojenlaulaja Hän oli niin kalevalaisen hengen läpäisemä että hän kykenisiihen mihin ei kukaan ennen häntä ollut kyennyt luomaan milteiyhtenäisen eepoksen hajanaisista runokatkelmista Hän uppoutui Suomenkansan henkeen itsensä unohtaen siinä määrin että hänEino Leinonsanoillaoli silloisen Suomen itsetietoon tullut kansallishenki1Kalevala oli sentähden hänen työtänsä vaikkei hän ollut runojen tekijäTarkempi tutkimus on myös paljastanut että Kalevalan runot eivät oleyhtä vanhoja eivät samalta alkuajalta Toiset ovat pakanallisia toisetkristityltä ajalta viimeinen50s runoesim on varmastikristillinen Näin ollen on mahdotonta pitää Kalevalaa kaukaisenmenneisyyden historiallisena muistomerkkinä Tietysti siinä näkyypiirteitä Suomen kansan elämästä ja ennen kaikkea selviä piirteitäkansan uskonnollisesta eli paremmin sanoen taikauskoisrunollisestaelämänkatsomuksesta mutta nämä piirteet eivät kuvasta puhdastapakanallista aikaa vaan kuuluvat pakanuuden ja kristinuskonvaiheaikaan niin että mitä Kalevalassa ihailemme se on tutkimuksenvalossa katsottuna runollisesti verhottua kristinuskoa kuten prof KKrohn sanoo2Onpa äskettäin lausuttu semmoinenkin väite ettei Kalevalan sisällysoikeastaan ole Suomen kansan hengen tuotetta vaan germanilaistalahjatavaraa

Produced by Al HainesTHE BIBLES MESSAGE TO MODERN LIFETwelve Studies onThe Making of a NationThe Beginnings of Israels HistoryBYCHARLES FOSTER KENTJEREMIAH WHIPPLE JENKS1912The best of allies you can procure for us is the Bible That willbring us the realityfreedom_Garibaldi_If the common schools have found their way from the Atlantic to thePacific if slavery has been abolished if the whole land has beenchanged from a wilderness into a garden of plenty from ocean toocean if education has been fostered according to the best lightsof each generation since then if industry frugality and sobrietyare the watchwords of the nation as I believe them to be I say itis largely due to those first emigrants who landing with theEnglish Bible in their hands and in their hearts establishedthemselves on the shores of America_Joseph H Choate_And as it is owned the whole scheme of Scripture is not yetunderstood so if it comes to be understood it must be in thesame way as natural knowledge is come at by the continuance andprogress of learning and liberty and by particular personsattending to comparing and pursuing intimations scattered up anddown it which are overlooked and disregarded by the generality ofthe world Nor is it at all incredible that a book which has beenso long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths asyet undiscovered_Butler_Mr Lincoln as I saw him every morning in the carpet slippers hewore in the house and the black clothes no tailor could make reallyfit his gaunt bony frame was a homely enough figure The routineof his life was simple too it would have seemed a treadmill tomost of us He was an early riser when I came on duty at eight inthe morning he was often already dressed and reading in thelibrary There was a big table near the centre of the room thereI have seen him reading many times And the book It was theBible which I saw him reading while most of the householdslept_William H Crook_ in _Harpers Magazine_The Bible has such power for teaching righteousness that even tothose who come to it with all sorts of false notions about the Godof the Bible it yet teaches righteousness and fills them with thelove of it how much more those who come to it with a true notionabout the God of the Bible_Matthew Arnold_CONTENTSINTRODUCTION The Rediscovery of the Bible The Object of These Studies The Plan of Work Books of ReferenceSTUDY I MANS PLACE IN THE WORLD The Story of Creation Gen 12 1 The Different Theories of Creation 2 The Priestly Story of Creation 3 The Early Prophetic Story of Creation 4 A Comparison of the Two Accounts of Creation 5 Mans Conquest and Rulership of the World 6 Mans Responsibility as the Ruler of the WorldSTUDY II MANS RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIS ACTS The Story of theGarden of Eden Gen 3 1 The Nature of Sin 2 The Origin of Sin According to the Story in Genesis 3 3 The Different Theories Regarding the Origin of Sin 4 The Effects of Sin upon the Wrongdoer 5 Gods Attitude toward the Sinner 6 The Effect of Sin upon SocietySTUDY III THE CRIMINAL AND HIS RELATION TO SOCIETY The Storyof Cain Gen 4116 1 The Meaning of the Story of Cain 2 The Making of a Criminal 3 The Criminals Attitude toward Society 4 The Ways in which Society Deals with the Criminal 5 How to Deal with Criminals 6 The Prevention of CrimeSTUDY IV THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST The Story of the GreatFlood Gen 69 1 The Two Biblical Accounts of the Flood 2 The Corresponding Babylonian Flood Stories 3 History of the Biblical Flood Stories 4 Aim of the Biblical Writers in Recounting the Flood Stories 5 The Survival of the Fittest in the Natural World 6 In Social and Political LifeSTUDY V THE PIONEERS INFLUENCE UPON A NATIONS IDEAL Abrahamthe Traditional Father of the Race Gen 1218 13113 16 1819 2117 22119 1 The Reasons for Migration 2 The Prophetic Stories about Abraham 3 The Meaning of the Early Prophetic Stories about Abraham 4 The Prophetic Portrait of Abraham 5 The Tendency to Idealize National Heroes 6 The Permanent Value and Influence of the Abraham NarrativesSTUDY VI THE POWER OF AMBITION Jacob the Persistent Gen25103320 1 The Two Brothers Jacob and Esau 2 The Man with a Wrong Ambition 3 Jacobs Training in the School of Experience 4 The Invincible Power of Ambition and Perseverance 5 The Different Types of Ambition 6 The Development of Right AmbitionsSTUDY VII A SUCCESSFUL MAN OF AFFAIRS Josephs AchievementsGen 37 3948 50 1 The Qualities Essential to Success 2 The Limitations and Temptations of Josephs Early Life 3 The Call of a Great Opportunity 4 The Temptations of Success 5 The Standards of Real Success 6 The Methods of SuccessSTUDY VIII THE TRAINING OF A STATESMAN Moses in Egypt and theWilderness Ex 1175 1 The Egyptian Background 2 The Making of a Loyal Patriot 3 The School of the Wilderness 4 Moses Call to Public Service 5 The Education of Public Opinion 6 The Training of Modern StatesmenSTUDY IX THE ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF LAW Moses Work as Judge andProphet Ex 18527 33511 1 The Needs that Give Rise to Law 2 The Growth of Customary Law 3 The Authority Underlying all Law 4 Moses Relations to the Old Testament Laws 5 The Development of Modern Law 6 The Attitude of Citizens toward the LawSTUDY X THE FOUNDATIONS OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP The TenCommandments Ex 20117 1 The History of the Prophetic Decalogue 2 Obligations of the Individual to God 3 The Social and Ethical Basis of the Sabbath Law 4 The Importance of Childrens Loyalty to Parents 5 Primary Obligations of Man to Man 6 The Presentday Authority of the Ten CommandmentsSTUDY XI THE EARLY TRAINING OF A RACE Israels Experience inthe Wilderness

Produced by Curtis Weyant Charlie Kirschner and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading TeamIN THEDAYS OF MY YOUTHA NOVELBYAMELIA B EDWARDS1874IllustrationCAXTON PRESS OFSHERMAN CO PHILADELPHIACHAPTER IMY BIRTHPLACE AND PARENTAGE Dolce sentier Colle che mi piacesti Ovancor per usanza amor mi mena PETRARCHSweet secluded shady Saxonholme I doubt if our whole England containsanother hamlet so quaint so picturesquely irregular so thoroughlynational in all its rustic characteristics It lies in a warm hollowenvironed by hills Woods parks and young plantations clothe everyheight and slope for miles around whilst here and there peeping downthrough green vistas or towering above undulating seas of summerfoliage stands many a fine old country mansion turreted and gabledand built of that warm red brick that seems to hold the light of thesunset long after it has faded from the rest of the landscape A silverthread of streamlet swift but shallow runs noisily through the meadowsbeside the town and loses itself in the Chad about a mile and a halffarther eastward Many a picturesque old wooden bridge many a foamingweir and ruinous watermill with weedy wheel may be found scattered upand down the wooded banks of this little river Chad while to the brookwhich we call the Gipstream attaches a vague tradition of troutThe hamlet itself is clean and oldfashioned consisting of one longstraggling street and a few tributary lanes and passages The housessome few years back were mostly long and lowfronted with projectingupper stories and diamondpaned baywindows bowered in with myrtle andclematis but modern improvements have done much of late to sweep awaythese antique tenements and a fine new suburb of Italian and Gothicvillas has sprung up between the town and the railway station Besidesthis we have a new church in the mediaeval style rich in gilding andcolors and thirteenthcentury brasswork and a new cemetery laid outlike a pleasuregarden and a new schoolhouse where the children aretaught upon a system with a foreign name and a Mechanics Institutewhere London professors come down at long intervals to expound popularscience and where agriculturists meet to discuss popular grievancesAt the other extremity of the town down by Girdlestone Grange an oldmoated residence where the squires family have resided these fourcenturies past we are full fifty years behind our modern neighborsHere stands our famous old Kingshead Inn a wellknown place ofresort so early as the reign of Elizabeth The great oak beside theporch is as old as the house itself and on the windows of a littledisused parlor overlooking the garden may still be seen the names ofSedley Rochester and other wits of the Restoration They scrawled thoseautographs after dinner most likely with their diamond rings and wentreeling afterwards arminarm along the village street singing andswearing and eager for adventuresas gentlemen were wont to be inthose famous old times when they drank the kings health more freelythan was good for their ownNot far from the Kings Head and almost hidden by the trees whichdivide it from the road stands an ancient charitable institution calledthe Collegequadrangular mullionwindowed manygabled and colonizedby some twenty aged people of both sexes At the back of the collegeadjoining a space of waste ground and some ruined cloisters lies thechurchyard in the midst of which surrounded by solemn yews andmouldering tombs stands the Priory Church It is a rare old churchfounded according to the county history in the reign of Edward theConfessor and entered with a full description in Domesday Book Itssculptured monuments and precious brasses its Norman crypt carvedstalls and tattered banners drooping over faded scutcheons tell all ofgenerations long gone by of noble families extinct of gallant deedsforgotten of knights and ladies remembered only by the names abovetheir graves Amongst these some two or three modest tablets record thepassing away of several generations of my own predecessorsobscureprofessional men for the most part of whom some few became soldiers anddied abroadIn close proximity to the church stands the vicarage once the Priory aquaint old rambling building surrounded by magnificent old trees Herefor long centuries a tribe of rooks have held undisputed possessionfilling the boughs with their nests and the air with their voices andlike genuine lords of the soil descending at their own grave will andpleasure upon the adjacent landsPicturesque and mediaeval as all these old buildings and old associationshelp to make us we of Saxonholme pretend to something more We claim tobe not only picturesque but historic Nay more than thiswe areclassical WE WERE FOUNDED BY THE ROMANS A great Roman road well knownto antiquaries passed transversely through the old churchyard Romancoins and relics and fragments of tesselated pavement have been foundin and about the town Roman camps may be traced on most of the heightsaround Above all we are said to be indebted to the Romans for thatinestimable breed of poultry in right of which we have for years carriedoff the leading prizes at every poultryshow in the county and haveeven been enabled to make head against the exaggerated pretensions ofmodern CochinChina interlopersSuch briefly sketched is my native Saxonholme Born beneath the shadeof its towering trees and overhanging eaves brought up to reverence itsantiquities and educated in the love of its natural beauties whatwonder that I cling to it with every fibre of my heart and even whenaffecting to smile at my own fond prejudice continue to believe it theloveliest peacefulest nook in rural EnglandMy fathers name was John Arbuthnot Sprung from the Arbuthnots ofMontrose we claim to derive from a common ancestor with the celebratedauthor of Martinus Scriblerus Indeed the first of our name whosettled at Saxonholme was one James Arbuthnot son to a certainnonjuring parson Arbuthnot who lived and died abroad and was ownbrother to that famous wit physician and courtier whose genius myfather was wont to say conferred a higher distinction upon our branchof the family than did those Royal LettersPatent whereby the elderstock was ennobled by His most Gracious Majesty King George the Fourthon the occasion of his visit to Edinburgh in 1823 From this JamesArbuthnot who being

Produced by Suzanne Shell Shawn Cruze and the Online DistributedProofreading TeamIllustration Not by a glance or a turn of the head did he let hisbride see how wildly her superlative attraction had kindled the fire inhis bloodTHE REASON WHYBY ELINOR GLYN1911Author of His Hour Three Weeks etcILLUSTRATED BY EDMUND FREDERICKLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSNot by a glance or a turn of his head did he let his bride see howwildly her superlative attraction had kindled the fire in his bloodThe whole expression of her face changed as he came and leaned upon thepianoWith his English selfcontrol and horror of a scene he followed hiswife to the doorZara he said distractedly Can I not help youTHE REASON WHYCHAPTER IPeople often wondered what nation the great financier Francis Markruteoriginally sprang from He was now a naturalized Englishman and helooked English enough He was slight and fair and had an immaculatelygroomed appearance generallywhich even the best of valets cannotalways produce He wore his clothes with that quiet unconscious airwhich is particularly English He had no perceptible accentonly adeliberate way of speaking But Markrutesuch a name might have comefrom anywhere No one knew anything about him except that he wasfabulously rich and had descended upon London some ten years previouslyfrom Paris or Berlin or Vienna and had immediately become a power inthe city and within a year or so had grown to be omnipotent in certaincirclesHe had a wonderfully appointed house in Park Lane one of those smallerones just at the turn out of Grosvenor Street and there he entertainedin a reserved fashionIt had been remarked by people who had time to thinkrare cases inthese daysthat he had never made a disadvantageous friend from hisvery first arrival If he had to use undesirables for business purposeshe used them only for that in a crisp hard way and never went totheir houses Every acquaintance even was selected with care for adefinite end One of his favorite phrases was that it is only the foolwho coins for himself limitationsAt this time as he sat smoking a fine cigar in his library which lookedout on the park he was perhaps fortysix years old or thereabouts andbut for his eyeswise as serpentshe might have been ten yearsyoungerOpposite to him facing the light a young man lounged in a great leatherchair The visitors in Francis Markrutes library nearly always facedthe light while he himself had his back to itThere was no doubt about this visitors nation He was flamboyantlyEnglish If you had wished to send a prize specimen of the race to aWorlds Fair you could not have selected anything finer He was perhapsmore Norman than Saxon for his hair was dark though his eyes were blueand the marks of breeding in the creature showed as plainly as in aDerby winner Francis Markrute always smoked his cigars to the end ifhe were at leisure and the weed happened to be a good one but LordTancred Tristram Lorrimer Guiscard Guiscard 24th Baron Tancred ofWrayth in the County of Suffolk flung his into the grate after a fewwhiffs and he laughed with a slightly whimsical bitterness as he wenton with the conversationYes Francis my friend the game here is played out I am thirty andthere is nothing interesting left for me to do but emigrate to Canadafor a while at least and take up a ranchWrayth mortgaged heavily I suppose said Mr Markrute quietlyPretty well and the Northern property too When my mothers jointureis paid there is not a great deal left this year it seems I dont mindmuch I had a pretty fair time before these beastly Radicals made thingsso difficultThe financier nodded and the young man went on My forbears got rid ofwhat they could there was not much ready money to come into and one hadto liveFrancis Markrute smoked for a minute thoughtfullyNaturally he said at last Only the question isfor how long Iunderstand a plunge if you settle its duration it is the drifting andtrusting to chance and a gradual sinking which seem to me a poor gameDid you ever read de Mussets RollaThe fellow who had arrived at his last night and to whom the littlegirl was so kind Yes wellYou reminded me of Jacques Rolla that is allOh come It is not as bad as that Lord Tancred exclaimedand helaughed I can collect a few thousands still even here and I can goto Canada I believe there is any quantity of money to be made therewith a little capital and it is a nice openair life I just looked inthis afternoon on my way back from Scotland to tell you I should begoing out to prospect about the end of November and could not join youfor the pheasants on the 20th as you were good enough to ask me to doThe financier half closed his eyes When he did this there was alwayssomething of importance working in his brainYou have not any glaring vices Tancred he said You are no gamblereither on the turf or at cards You are not over addicted to expensiveladies You are cultivated for a sportsman and you have made one ortwo decent speeches in the House of Lords You are in fact rather afine specimen of your class It seems a pity you should have to shutdown and go to the ColoniesOh I dont know And I have not altogether got to shut down theyoung man said only the show is growing rather rotten over here Wehave let the rabblethe most unfit and ignoranthave the casting voteand the machine now will crush any man I have kept out of politics asmuch as I can and I am gladFrancis Markrute got up and lowered the blind a few inchesa miserableSeptember sun was trying to shine into the room If Lord Tancred had notbeen so preoccupied with his own thoughts he would have remarked thisrestlessness on the part of his host He was no fool but his mind wasfar away It almost startled him when the cold deliberate voicecontinuedI have a proposition to make

Produced by Clare Boothby Ben Harris and PG Distributed ProofreadersWRITE IT RIGHT_A LITTLE BLACKLIST OF LITERARY FAULTS_BY AMBROSE BIERCE1909AIMS AND THE PLANThe authors main purpose in this book is to teach precision inwriting and of good writing which essentially is clear thinkingmade visible precision is the point of capital concern It isattained by choice of the word that accurately and adequatelyexpresses what the writer has in mind and by exclusion of that whicheither denotes or connotes something else As Quintilian puts it thewriter should so write that his reader not only may but mustunderstandFew words have more than one literal and serviceable meaning howevermany metaphorical derivative related or even unrelated meaningslexicographers may think it worth while to gather from all sorts andconditions of men with which to bloat their absurd and misleadingdictionaries This actual and serviceable meaningnot alwaysdetermined by derivation and seldom by popular usageis the oneaffirmed according to his light by the author of this little manualof solecisms Narrow etymons of the mere scholar and loose locutionsof the ignorant are alike denied a standingThe plan of the book is more illustrative than expository the aimbeing to use the terms of etymology and syntax as little as iscompatible with clarity familiar example being more easilyapprehended than technical precept When both are employed the preceptis commonly given after the example has prepared the student to applyit not only to the matter in mind but to similar matters notmentioned Everything in quotation marks is to be understood asdisapprovedNot all locutions blacklisted herein are always to be reprobatedas universal outlaws Excepting in the case of capitaloffendersexpressions ancestrally vulgar or irreclaimablydegenerateabsolute proscription is possible as to seriouscomposition only in other forms the writer must rely on his sense ofvalues and the fitness of things While it is true that somecolloquialisms and with less of license even some slang may besparingly employed in light literature for point piquancy or any ofthe purposes of the skilled writer sensible to the necessity and charmof keeping at least one foot on the ground to others the virtue ofrestraint may be commended as distinctly superior to the joy ofindulgencePrecision is much but not all some words and phrases are disallowedon the ground of taste As there are neither standards nor arbiters oftaste the book can do little more than reflect that of its authorwho is far indeed from professing impeccability In neither taste norprecision is any mans practice a court of last appeal for writersall both great and small are habitual sinners against the light andtheir accuser is cheerfully aware that his own work will supply as inmaking this book it has supplied many awful exampleshis laterwork less abundantly he hopes than his earlier He neverthelessbelieves that this does not disqualify him for showing by otherinstances than his own how not to write The infallible teacher isstill in the forest primeval throwing seeds to the white blackbirdsABTHE BLACKLIST_A_ for _An_ A hotel A heroic man Before an unaccented aspirateuse an The contrary usage in this country comes of too stronglystressing our aspirates_Action_ for _Act_ In wrestling a blow is a reprehensible actionA blow is not an action but an act An action may consist of manyacts_Admission_ for _Admittance_ The price of admission is one dollar_Admit_ for _Confess_ To admit is to concede something affirmed Anunaccused offender cannot admit his guilt_Adopt_ He adopted a disguise One may adopt a child or anopinion but a disguise is assumed_Advisedly_ for _Advertently_ _Intentionally_ It was doneadvisedly should mean that it was done after advice_Afford_ It is not well to say the fact affords a reasonablepresumption the house afforded ample accommodation The factsupplies a reasonable presumption The house offered or gave ampleaccommodation_Afraid_ Do not say I am afraid it will rain Say I fear that itwill rain_Afterwards_ for _Afterward__Aggravate_ for _Irritate_ He aggravated me by his insolence Toaggravate is to augment the disagreeableness of something alreadydisagreeable or the badness of something bad But a person cannot beaggravated even if disagreeable or bad Women are singularly prone tomisuse of this word_All of_ He gave all of his property The words are contradictoryan entire thing cannot be of itself Omit the preposition_Alleged_ The alleged murderer One can allege a murder but not amurderer a crime but not a criminal A man that is merely suspectedof crime would not in any case be an alleged criminal for anallegation is a definite and positive statement In their tiresomeaddiction to this use of alleged the newspapers though having mainlyin mind the danger of libel suits can urge in further justificationthe lack of any other single word that exactly expresses theirmeaning but the fact that a mudpuddle supplies the shortest route isnot a compelling reason for walking through it One can go around_Allow_ for _Permit_ I allow you to go Precision is betterattained by saying permit for allow has other meanings_Allude to_ for _Mention_ What is alluded to is not mentioned butreferred to indirectly Originally the word implied a playful orsportive reference That meaning is gone out of it_And so_ _And yet_ And so they were married And yet a womanOmit the conjunction_And which_ _And who_ These forms are incorrect unless the relativepronoun has been used previously in the sentence The colt spiritedand strong and which was unbroken escaped from the pasture JohnSmith one of our leading merchants and who fell from a windowyesterday died this morning Omit the conjunction_Antecedents_ for _Personal History_ Antecedents are predecessors_Anticipate_ for _Expect_ I anticipate trouble To anticipate is toact on an expectation in a way to promote or forestall the eventexpected_Anxious_ for _Eager_ I was anxious to go Anxious should not befollowed by an infinitive Anxiety is contemplative eagerness alertfor action_Appreciate_ for _Highly Value_ In the sense of value it means valuejustly not highly In another and preferable sense it means toincrease in value_Approach_ The juror was approached that is overtures were madeto him with a view to bribing him As there is no other single wordfor it approach is made to serve figuratively and being graphic itis not altogether objectionable_Appropriated_ for _Took_ He

Produced by Charles Keller and David WidgerLAST OF THE GREAT SCOUTSThe Life Story of William F Cody Buffalo Billby Helen Cody WetmoreLAST OF THE GREAT SCOUTSTHE LIFE STORY OF COL WILLIAM F CODY BUFFALO BILLAS TOLD BY HIS SISTER HELEN CODY WETMORETO THE MEMORY OF A MOTHER WHOSE CHRISTIAN CHARACTER STILL LIVES AHALLOWED INFLUENCEGENEALOGY OF BUFFALO BILLThe following genealogical sketch was compiled in 1897 The crest iscopied from John Rooneys Genealogical History of Irish FamiliesIt is not generally known that genuine royal blood courses in ColonelCodys veins He is a lineal descendant of Milesius king of Spain thatfamous monarch whose three sons Heber Heremon and Ir founded thefirst dynasty in Ireland about the beginning of the Christian era TheCody family comes through the line of Heremon The original name wasTireach which signifies The Rocks Muiredach Tireach one of thefirst of this line and son of Fiacha Straivetine was crowned king ofIreland Anno Domini 320 Another of the line became king of ConnaughtAnno Domini 701 The possessions of the Sept were located in the presentcounties of Clare Galway and Mayo The names ConnaughtGallway aftercenturies gradually contracted to Connallway Connellway ConnellyConly Cory Coddy Coidy and Cody and is clearly shown by ancientindentures still traceable among existing records On the maternal sideColonel Cody can without difficulty follow his lineage to the bestblood of England Several of the Cody family emigrated to America in1747 settling in Maryland Pennsylvania and Virginia The name isfrequently mentioned in Revolutionary history Colonel Cody is a memberof the Cody family of Revolutionary fame Like the other SpanishIrishfamilies the Codys have their proof of ancestry in the form of a crestthe one which Colonel Cody is entitled to use being printed herewithThe lion signifies Spanish origin It is the same figure that forms apart of the royal coatofarms of Spain to this dayCastile andLeon The arm and cross denote that the descent is through the line ofHeremon whose posterity were among the first to follow the cross as asymbol of their adherence to the Christian faithPREFACEIn presenting this volume to the public the writer has a twofoldpurpose For a number of years there has been an increasing demand foran authentic biography of Buffalo Bill and in response many booksof varying value have been submitted yet no one of them has bornethe hallmark of veracious history Naturally there were incidents inColonel Codys lifemore especially in the earlier yearsthat could begiven only by those with whom he had grown up from childhood Formany incidents of his later life I am indebted to his own and othersaccounts I desire to acknowledge obligation to General P H SheridanColonel Inman Colonel Ingraham and my brother for valuable assistancefurnished by Sheridans Memoirs The Santa Fe Trail The Great SaltLake Trail Buffalo Bills Autobiography and Stories from the Lifeof Buffalo BillA second reason that prompted the writing of my brothers lifestory ispurely personal The sobriquet of Buffalo Bill has conveyed to manypeople an impression of his personality that is far removed from thefacts They have pictured in fancy a rough frontier character withouttenderness and true nobility But in very truth has the poet sung The bravest are the tenderest The loving are the daringThe public knows my brother as boy Indianslayer a championbuffalohunter a brave soldier a daring scout an intrepidfrontiersman and a famous exhibitor It is only fair to him that aglimpse be given of the parts he played behind the scenesdevotion toa widowed mother that pushed the boy so early upon a stage of ceaselessaction continued care and tenderness displayed in later years and thegenerous thoughtfulness of manhoods primeThus a part of my pleasant task has been to enable the public to see mybrother through his sisters eyeseyes that have seen truly if kindlyIf I have been tempted into praise where simple narrative might to thereader seem all that was required if I have seemed to exaggerate in anyof my historys details I may say that I am not conscious of having setdown more than a plain unvarnished tale Embarrassed with riches offact I have had no thought of fiction H C WCODYVIEW DULUTH MINNESOTA February 26 1899LAST OF THE GREAT SCOUTSCHAPTER I THE OLD HOMESTEAD IN IOWAA PLEASANT roomy farmhouse set in the sunlight against a backgroundof cool green wood and mottled meadowthis is the picture that myearliest memories frame for me To this home my parents Isaac and MaryCody had moved soon after their marriageThe place was known as the Scott farm and was situated in Scott CountyIowa near the historic little town of Le Clair where but a few yearsbefore a village of the Fox Indians had been located where Black Hawkand his thousand warriors had assembled for their last wardance wherethe marquee of General Scott was erected and the treaty with the Sacsand Foxes drawn up and where in obedience to the Sac chiefs termsAntoine Le Clair the famous halfbreed Indian scholar and interpreterhad built his cabin and given to the place his name Here in thisatmosphere of pioneer struggle and Indian warfarein the farmhousein the dancing sunshine with the background of wood and meadowmybrother William Frederick Cody was born on the 26th day of February1846Of the good oldfashioned sort was our family numbering five daughtersand two sonsMartha Samuel Julia William Eliza Helen and MaySamuel a lad of unusual beauty of face and nature was killed throughan unhappy accident before he was yet fourteenHe was riding Betsy Baker a mare well known among old settlersin Iowa as one of speed and pedigree yet displaying at times a mostmalevolent temper accompanied by Will who though only seven yearsof age yet sat his pony with the ease and grace that distinguished theveteran rider of the future Presently Betsy Baker became fractious andsought to throw her rider In vain did she rear and plunge he kept hissaddle Then seemingly she gave up the fight and Samuel cried inboyish exultationAh Betsy Baker you didnt quite come it that timeHis last words As if she knew her