Mark Twain, A Biography, 1900-1907By Albert Bigelow PaineVOLUME III, Part 1: 1900-1907CCXIITHE RETURN OF THE CONQUERORIt would be hard to exaggerate the stir which the newspapers and thepublic generally made over the homecoming of Mark Twain. He had leftAmerica, staggering under heavy obligation and set out on a pilgrimage ofredemption. At the moment when this Mecca, was in view a great sorrowhad befallen him and, stirred a world-wide and soul-deep tide of humansympathy. Then there had followed such ovation as has seldom beenconferred upon a private citizen, and now approaching old age, still inthe fullness of his mental vigor, he had returned to his native soil with...
THE CRUISE OF THE JASPER B.THE CRUISE OF THEJASPER B.BY DON MARQUIS1- Page 2-THE CRUISE OF THE JASPER B.CHAPTER IA BRIGHT BLADE LEAPSFROM A RUSTY SCABBARDOn an evening in April, 191-, Clement J. Cleggett walked sedately intothe news room of the New York Enterprise with a drab-colored walking-stick in his hand. He stood the cane in a corner, changed his sober streetcoat for a more sober office jacket, adjusted a green eyeshade below his...
THE GOLF COURSE MYSTERYTHE GOLF COURSEMYSTERYby Chester K. Steele1- Page 2-THE GOLF COURSE MYSTERYCHAPTER IPUTTING OUTThere was nothing in that clear, calm day, with its blue sky and itsflooding sunshine, to suggest in the slightest degree the awful tragedy soclose at hand - that tragedy which so puzzled the authorities and whichcame so close to wrecking the happiness of several innocent people....
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRAANTONY ANDCLEOPATRAWilliam Shakespeare16071- Page 2-ANTONY AND CLEOPATRADRAMATIS PERSONAEMARK ANTONY, Triumvirs OCTAVIUS CAESAR, " M.AEMILIUS LEPIDUS, " SEXTUS POMPEIUS, " DOMITIUSENOBARBUS, friend to Antony VENTIDIUS, " " " EROS, " " "SCARUS, " " " DERCETAS, " " " DEMETRIUS, " " " PHILO, " " "MAECENAS, friend to Caesar AGRIPPA, " " " DOLABELLA, " " "...
29BC THE GEORGICS29BC THE GEORGICSby Virgil1- Page 2-29BC THE GEORGICSGEORGIC IWhat makes the cornfield smile; beneath what star Maecenas, it ismeet to turn the sod Or marry elm with vine; how tend the steer; Whatpains for cattle-keeping, or what proof Of patient trial serves for thriftybees;- Such are my themes. O universallights Most glorious! ye that lead the gliding year Along the sky, Liber and...
The Grand Canyon of Arizona: How to See Itby George Wharton JamesRevised EditionBoston: Little, Brown, and CompanyKansas City: Fred Harvey1912PREFACE TO REVISED EDITIONBecause of the completion of a new driveway along the Rim of the Grand Canyon, and of a new trail to the Colorado River, a second edition of this book is deemed necessary.These improvements, which have recently been made by the Santa Fe Railway, are known as Hermit Rim Road and Hermit Trail. The first, said to be the most unique road in the world, is nine miles long on the brink of the Canyon, and the other, a wide and safe pathway down the south wall.The contents of the volume has been revised, and descriptions of Hermit Rim
Anthology of Massachusetts Poetsby William Stanley Braithwaite (editor)CONTENTSHOME BOUNDJOSEPH AUSLANDERAMERICA THE BEAUTIFULKATHERINE LEE BATESYELLOW CLOVERKATHERINE LEE BATESTHE RETURNINGSYLVESTER BAXTERTWO MOODS FROM THE HILLERNEST BENSHIMOLA BANQUETERNEST BENSHIMOLSONGGEORGE CABOT LODGETHE WORLDSMARTHA GILBERT DICKINSON BIANCHITHE RIOTGAMALIEL BRADFORDHUNGERGAMALIEL BRADFORDEXIT GODGAMALIEL BRADFORDROUSSEAUGAMALIEL BRADFORDJOHN MASEFIELDAMY BRIDGMAN1620-1920LE BARON RUSSEL BRIGGS...
EARLY KINGS OF NORWAY.EARLY KINGS OFNORWAY.by Thomas Carlyle1- Page 2-EARLY KINGS OF NORWAY.The Icelanders, in their long winter, had a great habit of writing; andwere, and still are, excellent in penmanship, says Dahlmann. It is to thisfact, that any little history there is of the Norse Kings and their oldtragedies, crimes and heroisms, is almost all due. The Icelanders, it seems,not only made beautiful letters on their paper or parchment, but were...
THE LIFTED VEILTHE LIFTED VEILby George Eliot [Mary Anne Evans]1- Page 2-THE LIFTED VEILCHAPTER IThe time of my end approaches. I have lately been subject to attacksof angina pectoris; and in the ordinary course of things, my physician tellsme, I may fairly hope that my life will not be protracted many months.Unless, then, I am cursed with an exceptional physical constitution, as Iam cursed with an exceptional mental character, I shall not much longer...
THE ADVENTURES OF REDDY FOXTHE ADVENTURES OFREDDY FOXBY THORNTON W. BURGESS1- Page 2-THE ADVENTURES OF REDDY FOXI. Granny Fox Gives Reddy a ScareReddy Fox lived with Granny Fox. You see, Reddy was one of a largefamily, so large that Mother Fox had hard work to feed so many hungrylittle mouths and so she had let Reddy go to live with old Granny Fox.Granny Fox was the wisest, slyest, smartest fox in all the country round,and now that Reddy had grown so big, she thought it about time that he...
THE NIXY[15][15] From the German. Kletke.There was once upon a time a miller who was very well off, andhad as much money and as many goods as he knew what to do with.But sorrow comes in the night, and the miller all of a suddenbecame so poor that at last he could hardly call the mill inwhich he sat his own. He wandered about all day full of despairand misery, and when he lay down at night he could get no rest,but lay awake all night sunk in sorrowful thoughts.One morning he rose up before dawn and went outside, for hethought his heart would be lighter in the open air. As hewandered up and down on the banks of the mill-pond he heard a...
A Daughter of Eveby Honore de BalzacTranslated by Katharine Prescott WormeleyDEDICATIONTo Madame la Comtesse Bolognini, nee Vimercati.If you remember, madame, the pleasure your conversation gave to atraveller by recalling Paris to his memory in Milan, you will notbe surprised to find him testifying his gratitude for manypleasant evenings passed beside you by laying one of his works atyour feet, and begging you to protect it with your name, as informer days that name protected the tales of an ancient writerdear to the Milanese.You have an Eugenie, already beautiful, whose intelligent smile...