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Translated by Gertrude Hall Pictured by Henry McCarter [Illustration: "Portrait of Paul Verlaine"] Contents I. FÊTES GALANTES Clair de Lune Sur L'Herbe L'Allée A la Prom...

WEDDING MORN The morning breaks like a pomegranate In a shining crack of red, Ah, when to-morrow the dawn comes late Whitening across the bed, It will find me watching at the marriage gat...

Preface This book is not about heroes.

A PLAY IN ONE ACT By J. M. Synge INTRODUCTION It must have been on Synge's second visit to the Aran Islands that he had the experience out of which was wrought what many believe to be his gre...

I They had marched more than thirty kilometres since dawn, along the white, hot road where occasional thickets of trees threw a moment of shade, then out into the glare again.

"The whole show is dreadful," she cried coming out of the menagerie of M. Martin.

TRANSLATIONS BY EZRA POUND FOR THE MOST PART FROM THE CHINESE OF RIHAKU, FROM THE NOTES OF THE LATE ERNEST FENOLLOSA, AND THE DECIPHE...

Earth maintained an important garrison on Asteroid Y-3. Now suddenly it was imperiled with a biological impossibility--men becoming plants!

[translated from Bengali to English by the author] New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916 [Frontispiece in color by Willy Pogány] To T. HARA of Yokohama 1 Stray birds of summer come to my...

_John Deere in 1837 invented a plow that could be used successfully in the sticky, root-filled soil of the prairie.

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Internet 25 August 1987 Ed Krol krol@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu This document was produced through ...

"In the spring of 1840, the attention of the New York police was attracted by the many cases of well-known men found drowned in the various waters surrounding the lower portion of our great city.

Published 1902.

By WILLIAM S. LYON, In charge of seed and plant introduction.

As fully and voluntarily made to THOMAS R. GRAY, In the prison where he was confined, and acknowledged by him to be such when read before the Court of Southampton; with the certificate, under sea...

[Illustration: A TEN-YEAR-OLD BOY GROWS UP FAST WHEN HISTORY CATCHES UP WITH THE HUMAN RACE.] Reddish-yellow sunlight filtered through the thick quartz windows into the sleep-compartment.

A PLAY IN ONE ACT SCENE.--{The last cottage at the head of a long glen in County Wicklow.

I Bed in Summer In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light.

Illustrated by EMSH _Strange how often the Millennium has been at hand.

In choosing a few typical cases which illustrate the remarkable mental qualities of my friend, Sherlock Holmes, I have endeavoured, as far as possible, to select those which presented the minimum o...

PREFACE Like many other works of mine, this playlet is a piece d'occasion.

For a moment, after the screen door snapped and wakened him, Lee Richardson sat breathless and motionless, his eyes still closed, trying desperately to cling to the dream and print it upon his cons...

Napoleon, you see, my friends, was born in Corsica, which is a French island warmed by the Italian sun; it is like a furnace there, everything is scorched up, and they keep on killing each other fr...

You ask me how I became a madman.

SHIP'S COMPANY By W.W. Jacobs THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA "What I want you to do," said Mr. George Wright, as he leaned towards the old sailor, "is to be an uncle to me."

(Nothing in this article is to be considered as an attempt to advance any theory in opposition to accepted history.

Mike Flannery, the Westcote agent of the Interurban Express Company, leaned over the counter of the express office and shook his fist.

The popular notion about marriage and love is that they are synonymous, that they spring from the same motives, and cover the same human needs.

LAST POEMS By A. E. Housman I publish these poems, few though they are, because it is not likely that I shall ever be impelled to write much more.

Summary: Originally this was published by the author (1784-1849), a former governor of South Carolina, as a 22-page booklet, in 1838.

Mrs. Hudson, the landlady of Sherlock Holmes, was a long-suffering woman.

originally published in 1706.

[Illustration: Julith clasped the star-man's arm with one hand, while her other arm gripped his waist.

Illustrated With Eight Reproductions in Colour [Illustration] "Leonardo," wrote an English critic as far back as 1721, "was a Man so happy in his genius, so consummate in his Profession, so acco...

http://www.pgdp.net BIRD HOUSES BOYS CAN BUILD BY ALBERT F. SIEPERT, B.S. Professor of Manual Arts, Bradley Polytechnic Institute Editor, Shop Problems Series (on tracing paper) Editor...

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_STATE OF NEW YORK_ _Department of Public Instruction_ _SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE_ _Albany_ December 26, 1896.

_By_ FRANCIS THOMPSON WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY STELLA LANGDALE NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1926 COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, INC.

[Illustration: The Jade Flute--Chinese Poems in Prose] THE JADE FLUTE ...

EARTH'S HOLOCAUST Once upon a time--but whether in the time past or time to come is a matter of little or no moment--this wide world had become so overburdened with an accumulation of worn-out t...

TO V.B.W. SLAVE-DRIVER AND FRIEND Introduction Father, what is a Legislature?

[Left out of A Tramp Abroad, because it was feared that some of the particulars had been exaggerated, and that others were not true.

newly illustrated, the Publishers have requested the Artist, Mr. L. Leslie Brooke, to do a similar service for a further selection from Lear's Nonsense Songs, thus practically completing them.

"Well, Mrs. Warren, I cannot see that you have any particular cause for uneasiness, nor do I understand why I, whose time is of some value, should interfere in the matter.

[_From MSS.

the second of four stories entitled "Holiday Romance" and was published originally in a children's magazine in America.

WITH THE STAGE BUSINESS, CAST OF CHARACTERS, COSTUMES, RELATIVE POSITIONS, &c. NEW YORK: DOUGLAS, NO. 11 SPRUCE ST AND FOR SALE BY ALL BOOKSELLERS.

Tack power drives on a sewing circle and you can needle the world into the darndest mess!

It is well known that the number of elements has grown from four in the days of the Greeks to 103 at present, but the change in methods needed for their discovery is not so well known.