INTRODUCTION. Games are meant to amuse, but in addition to amusing, a good game, played in the right spirit, may have great educational value. Now, this is distinctly a book

Enoch Soames A Memory of the Eighteen-nineties By MAX BEERBOHM When a book about the literature of the eighteen-nineties was given by Mr. Holbrook Jackson to the world

Prefatory Note. In a tolerably well-known passage in one of his essays De Quincey enumerates the multiform attainments and powers of Coleridge, and the corresponding varieties o

H.E. Marshall English Literature Chapter I IN THE LISTENING TIME Chapter II THE STORY OF THE CATTLE RAID OF COOLEY Chapter III ONE OF THE SORROWS

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION THE TUDOR PERIOD, 1485-1603 An era of Revolutions—The Intellectual Movement—The Reformation and Counter-Reformation—The New World—The Constitution

ENGLAND, MY ENGLAND He was working on the edge of the common, beyond the small brook that ran in the dip at the bottom of the garden, carrying the garden path in continuation

ENGLAND By Charles Dudley Warner England has played a part in modern history altogether out of proportion to its size. The whole of Great Britain, including Ireland, has onl

by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl Of Beaconsfield, K.G. First Published 1880 CONTENTS CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPT

By Louise Muhlbach Author Of: Daughter Of An Empress, Marie Antoinette, Joseph II and His Court, Frederick The Great and His Family, Berlin And Sans-Souci,

CONTENTS CHAPTER   I.   BROADWAY TO BUENOS AIRES II.   THANKS TO MISS MORRISSEY III.   A CLOSER CORPORATION IV.   BLUE SERGE

CHAPTER I Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived n

EMINENT VICTORIANS by Lytton Strachey Preface THE history of the Victorian Age will never be written; we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of t

EMILE ZOLA by William Dean Howells In these times of electrical movement, the sort of construction in the moral world for which ages were once needed,

By Jean-Jacques Rousseau Translated by Barbara Foxley CONTENTS Author’s Preface BOOK I BOOK II BOOK III BOOK

DOLLY                     King Rufus he did hunt the deer,                     With a hey ho, come and kiss me, Dolly!                     It was the spring-time of the ye

11 : Special for Businesses 12 : Special for Students and their Parents 13 : Special for Writers, Journalists, Publishers, and Printers 14 : Special for Elementary and High School

EL VERDUGO By Honore De Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Martinez de la Rosa.

ELSON GRAMMAR SCHOOL LITERATURE BOOK FOUR BY WILLIAM H. ELSON SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, CLEVELAND, OHIO AND CHRISTINE KECK PRINCIPAL OF SIGSBEE SCHOOL, GRAND RAPIDS, M

By Oliver Wendell Holmes CONTENTS PREFACE. A SECOND PREFACE. PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION. ELSIE VENNER. CHAPTER I. THE BRAHMIN CASTE OF NEW

PREFACE Some years have now elapsed since my little heroine "ELSIE DINSMORE" made her début into the great world. She was sent out with many an anxious thought regarding the r

CHAPTER FIRST    "I never saw an eye so bright,      And yet so soft as hers;    It sometimes swam in liquid light,      And sometimes swam in tears;    It seemed a

DEDICATION To the Memory of the Child Nada Burnham, who “bound all to her” and, while her father cut his way through the hordes of the Ingobo Regiment, perished of the ha

ELINOR WYLLYS; OR, THE YOUNG FOLK OF LONGBRIDGE. A TALE. BY AMABEL PENFEATHER. "Familiar matter of to-day; Some natural sorrow, loss or pain, That has been, and may

EDITOR'S PREFACE. THERE is so much of mystification resorted to, at the present time, in the publication of books, that it has become proper that the editor of Elinor Wyllys s