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CHARACTERS THESEUS, son of Aegeus and King of Athens.

Translated By Ingram Bywater With A Preface By Gilbert Murray Oxford At The Clarendon Press First Published 1920 Reprinted 1925, 1928, 1932, 1938, 1945, 1947 1951, 1954, 1959.

The Shunned House By H. P. LOVECRAFT _A posthumous story of immense power, written by a master of weird fiction--a tale of a revolting ho...

Illustrated by Charles Robinson NEW YORK: BRENTANO'S First published by David Nutt, May, 1888 Reprinted January, 1889; February, 1902; September, 1905; February, 1907; March, 1908; March, ...

I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil--to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather t...

THE TAO TEH KING, OR THE TAO AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS by Lao-Tse Translated by James Legge PART 1. Ch.

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INTRODUCTORY NOTE Bacon's literary executor, Dr. Rowley, published "The New Atlantis" in 1627, the year after the author's death.

SCENE I SCENE--_The firemen's forecastle of a transatlantic liner an hour after sailing from New York for the voyage across.

I. The Cup of Humanity Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.

A HAUNTED HOUSE Whatever hour you woke there was a door shutting.

Solitary Worship.

Chapter 1 [Illustration] Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was readin...

LETTER OF MARTIN LUTHER TO POPE LEO X. Among those monstrous evils of this age with which I have now for three years been waging war, I am sometimes compelled to look to you and to call you to min...

by Plato (may be spurious--see Appendix I) Translated by Benjamin Jowett APPENDIX I. It seems impossible to separate by any exact line the genuine writings of Plato from the spurious.

_by_ ISAAC ASIMOV Red and Slim found the two strange little animals the morning after they heard the thunder sounds.

XV. "Revival of Gregorian Chant, Its Influence on English Hymnody."

SUN TZU ON THE ART OF WAR THE OLDEST MILITARY TREATISE IN THE WORLD Translated from the Chinese By LIONEL GILES, M.A. (1910) [This is the ...

FROM THE APPLIED GEOMETRY OF ALBRECHT DÜRER BOOK III. Now, since architects, painters & others at times are wont to set an inscription on lofty walls, it will make for the merit of the work that...

The Cock and the Pearl A cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard among the hens when suddenly he espied something shinning amid the straw.

CHAPTER I CORDAGE Kinds of Rope.

CHAPTER I The Revolution of 1896 Spain maintained control of the Philippine Islands for more than three centuries and a half, during which period the tyranny, misconduct and abuses of the Friars...

But the Dwarf answered: No; something human is dearer to me than the wealth of all the world."

APPENDIX-- LITTLE WARS AND KRIEGSPIEL I OF THE LEGENDARY PAST "LITTLE WARS" is the game of kings--for players in an inferior social position.

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[Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, Illinois Artist.

The whole of Germany is thus bounded; separated from Gaul, from Rhoetia and Pannonia, by the rivers Rhine and Danube; from Sarmatia and Dacia by mutual fear, or by high mountains: the rest is encom...

CHAPTER I The time of my end approaches.

Once upon a time, so long ago that I have quite forgotten the date, there lived a king and queen who had no children.

[Frontispiece: T. A. Browne] THE BELGIAN MOTHER AND BALLADS OF BATTLE TIME By T. A. BROWNE SECOND EDITION TORONTO: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA, LIMITED, AT ST. MAR...

Illustrated by Freas * * * * * [Illustration] Martha Dane paused, looking up at the purple-tinged copper sky.

"Light come, light go."

Introduction and translation by William Archer.

Translated by E. M. Edghill Section 1 Part 1 Things are said to be named 'equivocally' when, though they have a common name, the definition corresponding with the name differs for each.

TO A LORD 1845 I--GILLETTE On a cold December morning in the year 1612, a young man, whose clothing was somewhat of the thinnest, was walking to and fro before a gateway in the Rue des Grands...

P R E F A C E. THE following POEMS were written originally for the Amusement of the Author, as they were the Products of her leisure Moments.

Honorary Member Tioga Point Historical Society.

As this treatise is calculated for the improvement of the rising generation of _Females_ in America, the Lady of fashion and fortune will not be displeased, if many hints are suggested for the more...

Pinching yourself is no way to see if you are dreaming.

{Transcribers Notes: Do you remember how to spell "pharmacopoeia" or "Winnipiseogee"?

I was buried in one of those profound reveries to which everybody, even a frivolous man, is subject in the midst of the most uproarious festivities.

_A NEW TRANSLATION BY CHARLES WELSH_ WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY M.V. O'SHEA PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN ILLUSTRATED BY D....

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Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12 The Edda I The Divine Mythology of the North By Winifred Faraday, M.A. Published by David Nutt, at the Sign of the Phoenix, Lo...

(Originally published in THE SPECTATOR) CONTENTS.

way that enables a student to verify word by word what the able editor, Father V. Scheil, _Professeur a l'Ecole des Hautes-Etudes_, has given as his reading of the archaic signs.

_By_ _Philip K. Dick_ [Illustration] Kramer leaned back.

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CHAPTER I "Every one asks me what I 'think' of everything," said Spencer Brydon; "and I make answer as I can--begging or dodging the question, putting them off with any nonsense.