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A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky.

PART ONE It is a sin to write this.

statement is made that it may be rejected.

This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.

PREFACE The greater part of what is contained in these pages was published in the _New York Age_ June 25, 1892, in explanation of the editorial which the Memphis whites considered sufficiently in...

singly or combined.

Transcribed by Allen Lutins with assistance from Jim Tarzia.

ACT I _The scene is laid in the park on SORIN'S estate.

[Illustration] I--DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do.

LONDON PRINTED FOR SHERWOOD, NEELY, AND JONES PATERNOSTER ROW 1819 [Entered at Stationers' Hall, March...

Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION.

Late Lieutenant in the Lancashire Fusiliers Erskine Macdonald, Ltd.

Manila: 1912 Philippine Education Company 34 Escolta "In the Philippine Islands the American government has tried, and is ...

OUR age is retrospective.

I am a rather elderly man.

Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald Contents: Introduction.

Suffering is one very long moment.

THE MIDDLE CLASS GENTLEMAN (Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme) By MOLIERE (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, 1622-1673) Translated by Philip Dwight Jones Comedy-Ballet presented at Chambord, for the entertainment...

I was suddenly wide awake and listening.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE Basilio King of Poland.

ILLUSTRATED BY EBEL The claws were bad enough in the first place--nasty, crawling little death-robots.

UNCLE VANYA SCENES FROM COUNTRY LIFE IN FOUR ACTS By Anton Checkov CHARACTERS ALEXANDER SEREBRAKOFF, a retired professor HELENA, his wife, twenty-seven years old SONIA, his daughter by a ...

Bibliography' (1912), and in the publication of Mark Twain's Notebook (1935).

"Is this the end?

Algernon Blackwood 1910 I A considerable number of hunting parties were out that year without finding so much as a fresh trail; for the moose were uncommonly shy, and the various Nimrods ret...

RUSKIN HOUSE 40 MUSEUM STREET, W.C.1 _First published_ _February 1911_ _Reprinted_ _January 1912_ " _ " 1912_ " _February 191...

_The_ Dunwich Horror by H. P. LOVECRAFT "Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras--dire stories of Celæno and the Harpies--may reproduce themselves in the brain of ...

I On my right hand there were lines of fishing stakes resembling a mysterious system of half-submerged bamboo fences, incomprehensible in its division of the domain of tropical fishes, and crazy ...

WHAT MEN LIVE BY AND OTHER TALES By Leo Tolstoy "We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren.

B. and Esther N. Keyser THE ART OF MONEY GETTING or GOLDEN RULES FOR MAKING MONEY By P.T. Barnum In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult f...

Published by Brentano's at 31 Union Square New York THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING "Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy."

by WILDE An amusing chronicle of the tribulations of the Ghost of Canterville Chase when his ancestral halls became the home of the American Minister to the Court of St. James.

By G.K. Chesterton Prefatory Note: This ballad needs no historical notes, for the simple reason that it does not profess to be historical.

DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION CENTENNIAL 1876-1976 Facsimile reprinted by Forest Press Division Lake Placid Educational Foundation * * * Printed and Bound Kingsport Press, Inc.

ROBERT LOVIS STEVENSON WITH ILLVSTRATIONS BY JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS NEW YORK MCMV CONTENTS TO ALISON CUNNINGHAM ...

ILLUSTRATIONS Page Rizal's pencil sketch of himself 1 Rizal at 14 ...

I From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou, contrac...

2002 Edition edited by Lightheart at PracticeGodsPresence.com Includes: Editor's Preface Conversations and Letters Editor's Preface Brother Lawrence was born Nicholas Herman around 1610 in Herim...

By Thornton W. Burgess I. Granny Fox Gives Reddy a Scare Reddy Fox lived with Granny Fox.

TENDER BUTTONS Objects · Food · Rooms Gertrude Stein 1914 CONTENTS OBJECTS FOOD ROOMS OBJECTS A CARAFE, THAT IS A BLIND GLASS.

intention of changing his nationality, a characteristic jest, which was only taken seriously, oddly enough, in Ireland.

Geography may be divided into the geography of the home and the geography of the world at large.

PREFACE TO THIS EDITION This preface, though placed at the beginning, as a preface must be, should be read at the end of the book.

CHAPTER I For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Eveque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite.

I 1887 From Clee to heaven the beacon burns, The shires have seen it plain, From north and south the sign returns And beacons burn again.

I. It was many years ago.

CHAPTER I What determined the speech that startled him in the course of their encounter scarcely matters, being probably but some words spoken by himself quite without intention--spoken as they l...

http://www.pgdp.net _Cover design after engraving from Diderot._ CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY: PAPER 51 WOODWORKING TOOLS, 1600-1900 _Peter C. ...

Barnsdall and Arthur Bissell), at the Fine Arts Theater, Chicago, February 11, 1915.

[Illustration: TAKE MINE!] * * * * * MY YOUNG DAYS.