Dr. Faustusby Christopher MarloweTHE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUSBY CHRISTOPHER MARLOWEFROM THE QUARTO OF 1616.EDITED BY THE REV. ALEXANDER DYCE.The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus.Written by Ch. Mar. London, Printed for John Wright, and areto be sold at his shop without Newgate, at the signe of theBible, 1616, 4to.The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus.With new Additions. Written by Ch. Mar. Printed at London forJohn Wright, and are to be sold at his shop without Newgate,1624, 4to.The Tragicall Historie of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus....　

Beowulf AnonymousBeowulf AnonymousTranslated by Gummere1- Page 2-Beowulf AnonymousINow Beowulf bode in the burg of the Scyldings, leader beloved, andlong he ruled in fame with all folk, since his father had gone away fromthe world, till awoke an heir, haughty Healfdene, who held through life,sage and sturdy, the Scyldings glad. Then, one after one, there woke tohim, to the chieftain of clansmen, children four: Heorogar, then Hrothgar,...　

THE INDISCRETION OF ELSBETHThe American paused. He had evidently lost his way. For the lasthalf hour he had been wandering in a medieval town, in a profoundmedieval dream. Only a few days had elapsed since he had left thesteamship that carried him hither; and the accents of his owntongue, the idioms of his own people, and the sympathetic communityof New World tastes and expressions still filled his mind until hewoke up, or rather, as it seemed to him, was falling asleep in thepast of this Old World town which had once held his ancestors.Although a republican, he had liked to think of them in quaintdistinctive garb, representing state and importanceperhaps even...　

THE PROCESSION OF LIFELife figures itself to me as a festal or funereal procession. Allof us have our places, and are to move onward under the directionof the Chief Marshal. The grand difficulty results from theinvariably mistaken principles on which the deputy marshals seekto arrange this immense concourse of people, so much morenumerous than those that train their interminable length throughstreets and highways in times of political excitement. Theirscheme is ancient, far beyond the memory of man or even therecord of history, and has hitherto been very little modified bythe innate sense of something wrong, and the dim perception ofbetter methods, that have disquieted all the ages through 　

Second BookThe TheoryChapter 11Political and Cosmopolitical EconomyBefore Quesnay and the French economists there existed only apractice of political economy which was exercised by the Stateofficials, administrators, and authors who wrote about matters ofadministration, occupied themselves exclusively with theagriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation of thosecountries to which they belonged, without analysing the causes ofwealth, or taking at all into consideration the interests of thewhole human race.Quesnay (from whom the idea of universal free trade originated)...　

ON THE HEAVENSby Aristotletranslated by J. L. StocksBook I1THE science which has to do with nature clearly concerns itself for the most part with bodies and magnitudes and their properties and movements, but also with the principles of this sort of substance, as many as they may be. For of things constituted by nature some are bodies and magnitudes, some possess body and magnitude, and some are principles of things which possess these. Now a continuum is that which is divisible into parts always capable of subdivision, and a body is that which is every way divisible. A magnitude if divisible one way is a line, if two ways a surface, and if three a body. Beyond these there is no other magnit　

George Cruikshankby William Makepeace ThackerayAccusations of ingratitude, and just accusations no doubt, are madeagainst every inhabitant of this wicked world, and the fact is, thata man who is ceaselessly engaged in its trouble and turmoil, bornehither and thither upon the fierce waves of the crowd, bustling,shifting, struggling to keep himself somewhat above waterfightingfor reputation, or more likely for bread, and ceaselessly occupiedto-day with plans for appeasing the eternal appetite of inevitablehunger to-morrowa man in such straits has hardly time to think ofanything but himself, and, as in a sinking ship, must make his own...　

BEAUTY AND THE BEASTONCE upon a time, in a very far-off country, therelived a merchant who had been so fortunate in all hisundertakings that he was enormously rich. As he had,however, six sons and six daughters, he found that hismoney was not too much to let them all have everythingthey fancied, as they were accustomed to do.But one day a most unexpected misfortune befell them.Their house caught fire and was speedily burnt to theground, with all the splendid furniture, the books, pic-tures, gold, silver, and precious goods it contained; andthis was only the beginning of their troubles. Theirfather, who had until this moment prospered in all ways,...　

WHY GO TO COLLEGE?WHY GO TOCOLLEGE?ALICE FREEMAN PALMERFormerly President of Wellesley College1- Page 2-WHY GO TO COLLEGE?To a largely increasing number of young girls college doors areopening every year. Every year adds to the number of men who feel as afriend of mine, a successful lawyer in a great city, felt when in talking ofthe future of his four little children he said, "For the two boys it is not soserious, but I lie down at night afraid to die and leave my daughters only a...　

The Nabobby Alphonse DaudetTranslated by W. BlaydesINTRODUCTIONDaudet once remarked that England was the last of foreign countries to welcome his novels, and that he was surprised at the fact, since for him, as for the typical Englishman, the intimacy of home life had great significance. However long he may have taken to win Anglo-Saxon hearts, there is no question that he finally won them more completely than any other contemporary French novelist was able to do, and that when but a few years since the news came that death had released him from his sufferings, thousands of men and women, both in England and in America, felt that they had lost a real friend. Just at the present moment one d　

Bird Neighborsby Neltje Blanchan DoubledayBIRD NEIGHBORS. An Introductory Acquaintance With One Hundred and Fifty BirdsCommonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our HomesBy NELTJE BLANCHANINTRODUCTION BY JOHN BURROUGHS1897, 1904, 1922TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION BY JOHN BURROUGHSPREFACEI. BIRD FAMILIES: Their Characteristics and theRepresentatives of Each Family included in "BirdNeighbors"II. HABITATS OF BIRDSIII. SEASONS OF BIRDSIV. BIRDS GROUPED ACCORDING TO SIZEV. DESCRIPTIONS OF BIRDS GROUPED ACCORDING TO COLORBirds Conspicuously BlackBirds Conspicuously Black and WhiteDusky, Gray, and Slate-colored Birds...　

The Past Condition of Organic Natureby Thomas H. HuxleyIN the lecture which I delivered last Monday evening, I endeavoured tosketch in a very brief manner, but as well as the time at my disposalwould permit, the present condition of organic nature, meaning by thatlarge title simply an indication of the great, broad, and generalprinciples which are to be discovered by those who look attentively atthe phenomena of organic nature as at present displayed. The generalresult of our investigations might be summed up thus: we found that themultiplicity of the forms of animal life, great as that may be, may bereduced to a comparatively few primitive plans or types of construction;...