Contents I.   The Vision II.   In the Earth III.   The Return IV.   Volpatte and Fouillade V.   Sanctuary VI.   Habi

Contents PAGE Note.  By R. A. Streatfeild viii Introduction.  By Professor Marcus Hartog ix Author’s Preface xxxvii Chapter I.  Int

By Honore De Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Monsieur le Comte Jules de Castellane.

THE MAN WHO WAS SHIF’LESS By Jennette Lee TO GERALD STANLEY LEE “Let him sing to me Who sees the watching of the stars above the day, Wh

CHARACTERS ALEXANDER SEREBRAKOFF, a retired professor HELENA, his wife, twenty-seven years old SONIA, his daughter by a former marriage

Eliza comes to tell Uncle Tom that he is sold, and that she is running away to save her child. THE AUCTION SALE. THE FREEMAN’S DEFENCE. LITTLE EVA READING THE BIBLE TO UNCLE TO

By Joel Chandler Harris CONTENTS PREFACE AND DEDICATION INTRODUCTION LEGENDS OF THE OLD PLANTATION I. UNCLE REMUS INITIATES THE LITTLE B

Preface To the Reader. The one particular object in writing this book is to furnish you with an occasional laugh, and the writer with an occasi

UNBEATEN TRACKS IN JAPAN AN ACCOUNT OF TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR INCLUDING VISITS TO THE ABORIGINES OF YEZO AND THE SHRINE OF NIKKÔ BY ISABELLA L. BIRD AUTHOR OF ‘SIX MONTHS

[ 1 ] Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustain

CHAPTER XLIII. Katuti had kept her unfortunate nephew Paaker concealed in one of her servants' tents. He had escaped wounded from the battle at Kadesh, and in terrible pain h

CHAPTER XXXVIII. During the night which had proved so eventful to our friends, much had occurred in the king's camp, for the troops were to advance to the long- anticipated ba

CHAPTER XXXIV. Two months had past since Bent-Anat's departure from Thebes, and the imprisonment of Pentaur. Ant-Baba is the name of the valley, in the western half of the pe

CHAPTER XXX. While the banquet was going forward at the temple, and Ameni's messengers were on their way to the valley of the kings' tombs, to waken up old Hekt, a furious sto

CHAPTER XXV. While Nefert, frozen with horror, could not find a word of greeting for her royal friend, Bent-Anat with native dignity laid before the widow her choice of Nefert

CHAPTER XXII. At the time of this conversation the leech Nebsecht still lingered in front of the hovel of the paraschites, and waited with growing impatience for the old man's

CHAPTER XVI. The sun had set, and darkness covered the City of the Dead, but the moon shone above the valley of the kings' tombs, and the projecting masses of the rocky walls

CHAPTER V. During the events we have described the house of the charioteer Mena had not remained free from visitors. It resembled the neighboring estate of Paaker, though th

CHAPTER VI. During the occurrence we have described, the king's pioneer and the young wife of Mena were obliged to wait for the princess. The sun stood in the meridian, when

DEDICATION.                Thou knowest well from what this book arose.                When suffering seized and held me in its clasp                Thy fostering hand rel

By Georg Ebers Translated from the German by Clara Bell DEDICATION. Th

By Joseph Conrad Far as the mariner on highest mast Can see all around upon the calmed vast, So wide was Neptune's hall . . . — KEATS

PREFACE This collection of specimens of children's literature has evolved itself naturally and, as it were, inevitably out of the editor's experience in teaching classes in ch

PREFACE More than three years have elapsed since the occurrence of the events recorded in this volume. The interval, with the exception of the last few months, has been chiefl