The 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 theYoung.  more...

Although tales of these old British heroes have been published beforein a form intended for young people, it is believed that they havenever been related quite in the same spirit nor from the same point  more...

ANDREW LANG Poet, Romancer, Scholar, and Friend of the goodly fellowship of the White Rose I, born of the Hill-Folk dedicate this attempt at a true history of some who fought bravely beneath the  more...

I. DUKE CASIMIR RIDES LATE II. THE LITTLE PLAYMATE COMES HOME III. THE RED AXE OF THE WOLFMARK IV. THE PRINCESS HELENE V. THE BLOOD-HOUNDS ARE FED VI. DUKE CASIMIRS FAMILIAR VII.  more...

Two men were sitting side by side on a stone bench in the forgottengarden of the Arcadian Society, in Rome; and it was in early spring, notlong ago. Few people, Romans or strangers, ever find  more...

The Reverend Augustin Ambrose would gladly have given up taking pupils.He was growing old and his sight was beginning to trouble him; he wasvery weary of Thucydides, of Homer, of the works of Mr.  more...

XXI.--GREGORY MAKES UP HIS MIND XXII.--A PAINFUL REVELATION XXIII.--THROUGH THE SNOW XXIV.--THE LANDING XXV.--NEWS OF DISASTER XXVI.--THE RESCUE XXVII.--IN THE WILDERNESS XXVIII.  more...

This volume does not aim to contain all "the best American humorousshort stories"; there are many other stories equally as good, Isuppose, in much the same vein, scattered through the range ofAmerican literature.  more...

Daniel Defoe is, perhaps, best known to us as the author of _RobinsonCrusoe_, a book which has been the delight of generations of boys andgirls ever since the beginning of the eighteenth century.  more...

War and Peace had swapped corners that morning in the village of FortCanibas. War was muttering at the end where two meeting-houses placidlyfaced each other across the street. Peace brooded over the ancientblockhouse, relic of  more...

Lo stretto di Gibilterra и forse di tutti gli stretti quello che separapiщ nettamente due paesi piщ diversi, e questa diversitа appare anchemaggiore andando a Tangeri da Gibilterra.  more...

The pages which follow have been extracted from a pile of manuscriptwhich was apparently meant for the eye of one woman only. She seems tohave been the writer’s childhood’s friend.  more...

I. THE THEORY OF WAR II. NATURES OF WARS--OFFENSIVE AND DEFENSIVE III. NATURES OF WARS--LIMITED AND UNLIMITED IV. LIMITED WAR AND MARITIME EMPIRES V. WARS OF INTERVENTION--LIMITED INTERFERENCE IN UNLIMITED WAR...  more...

John Dryden was born on the 9th of August 1631, at a place variouslydenominated Aldwincle, or Oldwincle, All Saints; or at Oldwincle, StPeters, in Northamptonshire. The name Dryden or Driden, is from theNorth.  more...

In our Life of Dryden we promised to say something about the question,how far is a poet, particularly in the moral tendency and taste of hiswritings, to be tried--and either condemned or justified--by thecharacter and  more...

A writer on Slavery has no difficulty in tracing back its origin. There isalso the advantage of finding it, with its continued history, and the lawsgiven by God to govern his own institution, in the  more...

As long as gentlemen feel a deficiency in their own education, whenthey have not a competent knowledge of the learned languages, so longmust a parent be anxious, that his son should not be exposed to  more...

As long as gentlemen feel a deficiency in their own education, whenthey have not a competent knowledge of the learned languages, so longmust a parent be anxious, that his son should not be exposed to  more...

Roald Amundsen FrontispieceApproximate Birds-eye View, Drawn from the First TelegraphicAccount 1Reproduced by permission of the Daily ChronicleThe Opening of Roald Amundsens Manuscript 1Helmer Hanssen, Ice Pilot, a Member of the Polar Party 50...  more...

"Let us thank God for having given us such ancestors; and let each successive generation thank him not less fervently, for being one step further from them in the march of ages.  more...

This volume does not aim to contain all "the best American humorousshort stories"; there are many other stories equally as good, Isuppose, in much the same vein, scattered through the range ofAmerican literature.  more...

Although the title-page of Volume I announces four volumes, the workis continued in a fifth volume of the same date. Like Volumes II, III,and IV, it is by "Mr. CIBBER, and other Hands" and is  more...

was the eldest son of Gilbert Budgell, D.D. of St. Thomas near Exeter,by his first wife Mary, the only daughter of Dr. William Gulston, bishopof Bristol; whose sister Jane married dean Addison, and was mother  more...

Preface Formula Fidei de SS. Trinitate Nightly Prayer Notes on The Book of Common Prayer Notes on Hooker Notes on Field Notes on Donne Notes on Henry More Notes on Heinrichs Notes on Hacket  more...

This book in its first form was written nearly twenty years ago with theintention of contributing a volume to a series of University ExtensionManuals. For that purpose it included a sketch of Ruskins "Work," withsome  more...

Although the title-page of Volume I announces four volumes, the workis continued in a fifth volume of the same date. Like Volumes II, III,and IV, it is by "Mr. CIBBER, and other Hands" and is  more...

"The smiling Garden of Persian Literature": a Garden which I would describe, in the Eastern style, as a happy spot, where lavish Nature with profusion strews the most fragrant and blooming flowers, where the most  more...

BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the 31st day of March, in the 50th year of theIndependence of the United States of America, A. D. 1826, Hugh L. Hodge,Franklin Bache, Charles D. Meigs, Benjamin H.  more...

The long clatter of an irregular volley of musketry rattled warninglyfrom the naked mountain ridges; over a great grey shoulder of rockthe sun sank in a splendid opal glow; from very near at hand came  more...

Somewhat less than a hundred years ago a party of travelers might havebeen seen crossing over the Simplon Road, _en route_ for Italy. Theyhad been detained at Brieg by reports that the road was impassable;and,  more...

VI The Celebrated Case of Bardell Against Pickwick. Sergeant Buzfuzs Speech and an Unexpected Verdict 238 VII Winkle Has an Exciting Adventure With Mr. Dowler, and With the Aid of Mr.  more...

The horseman rode slowly toward the west, stopping once or twice toexamine the wide circle of the horizon with eyes that were trained tonote every aspect of the wilderness. On his right the plains melted  more...

"The Texan Star," while a complete story in itself, is the first ofthree, projected by the author, and based upon the Texan struggle forliberty against the power of Mexico. This revolution, epic in itsnature, and  more...

In history the events here described filled a period of almost thirtyyears duration. From reasons easily understood, it was necessary toshorten, or at least to disguise, this long interval.  more...

Missions to the Oriental Churches occupy a large space in theforty-nine volumes of the Missionary Herald, and in as many AnnualReports of the Board; and in view of the multitude of facts, fromwhich selections must  more...

DedicationPreface.Introduction. General Welfare.Part I. Productive Industries: Analysis of Aims, Forces, Means andMethods. Chapter I. Aims Of Industry. Chapter II. Forces In Production Of Wealth.  more...

THE LIFE OF THE SPIDERTHE LIFE OF THE FLYTHE MASON-BEESBRAMBLE-BEES AND OTHERSTHE HUNTING WASPSTHE LIFE OF THE CATERPILLARTHE LIFE OF THE GRASSHOPPERTHE SACRED BEETLE AND OTHERSTHE MASON-WASPSTHE GLOW-WORM AND OTHER BEETLES...  more...

The collected addresses and state papers of Elihu Root, of which this isone of several volumes, cover the period of his service as Secretary ofWar, as Secretary of State, and as Senator of the United  more...

This noble novel, now translated into English for the first time, waswritten nearly fifty years ago. On its first appearance, Hungariancritics of every school at once hailed it as a masterpiece.  more...

BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the 31st day of March, in the 50th year of theIndependence of the United States of America, A. D. 1826, Hugh L. Hodge,Franklin Bache, Charles D. Meigs, Benjamin H.  more...

The great Pacific is the scene of our story. On a beautiful morning,many years ago, a little schooner might have been seen floating, lightand graceful as a seamew, on the breast of the slumbering ocean.  more...

TO WHICH IS ADDED,A RELIGIOUS CORRESPONDENCE,BETWEENTHE REV. HOSEA BALLOU, AND THE REV. DR. JOSEPH BUCKMINSTERAND REV. JOSEPH WALTON, PASTORS OF CONGREGATIONALCHURCHES IN PORTSMOUTH, N.  more...

The two first references to Fredericksborg Castle (in "city toFredericksborg" and "surrounds Fredericksborg") should correctly say"Fredericksberg Castle". This is a mistake by the author.  more...

As a preface I wish to say only a very few words--namely, that but forthe great pressure put upon me I should not have ventured to write,or allowed to be published, any reminiscences of mine,  more...

Upon the village of Camylott there had rested since the earliest peepof dawn a hush of affectionate and anxious expectancy, the veryplough-boys going about their labours without boisterous laughter, thechildren playing quietly, and the good  more...

(I) As everyone knows, the general idea of the Doctrine of Descent isthat the plants and animals of the present day are the linealdescendants of ancestors on the whole somewhat simpler, that theseagain are descended  more...

"Who amongst this merry party will become sufficiently sober to assistme in a work of charity?" was Mrs. Hamiltons address, one afternoon, asshe entered her daughters room, where Emmeline, her young friends LadyFlorence and Lady  more...

A Ninth Edition of the following Poems having been called for by thepublic, the author is induced to say a few words, particularlyconcerning those which, under the name of Sonnets, describe his personalfeelings.  more...

Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions  more...

As I put down my name and the number of the crack engine of America--aswell as the imprint of a greasy thumb--on the register of our roundhouselast Saturday night, the foreman borrowed a chew of  more...

WHO, HIMSELF A WRITER, TRAINED ME IN THE WORK HE LOVED. WHAT MERIT THEREADER MAY FIND IN THESE PAGES IS THE RESULT OF THAT TRAINING, UNDERTAKENWITH A FATHERS PRIDE, CARRIED ON WITH A FATHERS BELIEF  more...

While Pulci in Florence was elevating romance out of the street-ballads,and laying the foundation of the chivalrous epic, a poet appeared inLombardy (whether inspired by his example is uncertain) who was destinedto carry it to  more...