CONTENTS PREFACE THE HUDSON AND ITS HILLS RIP VAN WINKLE

By Various Compiled and Edited by Katharine Berry Judson Author of "Myths and Legends of Alaska", "Myths and Legends

By Andrew Lang CONTENTS PREFACE TO NEW IMPRESSION. PREFACE TO NEW EDITION. MYTH, RITUAL, AND RELIGION CHAPTER I.   SYSTEMS OF MYTHOLOGY

By Elmer U. Hoenshel, D. D., Principal of Shenandoah Collegiate Institute and School of Music In profound gratitude, this little volume is dedicated to the memory

INTRODUCTION. Silvio Pellico was born at Saluzzo, in North Italy, in the year of the fall of the Bastille, 1789.  His health as a child was feeble, his temper gentle, and he ha

By Charles Dudley Warner CONTENTS INTRODUCTORY LETTER BY WAY OF DEDICATION PRELIMINARY FIRST WEEK SECOND W

CHAPTER I. IN THE NOTARY'S OFFICE. Brain, or heart of the land, which you will, as large cities are, Paris may claim to have nerves, muscles, and arteries centering in it, w

CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE EXECUTION. The surprised lapidary rose and opened the door. Two men entered the garret. One of them was tall and thin, with a face mean and pimpled, su

CHAPTER II. It is necessary to go somewhat back in the course of this narrative, and account to the reader for the disappearance of Violante. It may be remembered that Pesch

CHAPTER II. A new Reign has commenced. There has been a general election; the unpopularity of the Administration has been apparent at the hustings. Audley Egerton, hitherto r

CHAPTER II. On their escape from the prison to which Mr. Avenel had condemned them, Leonard and his mother found their way to a small public-house that lay at a little distanc

CHAPTER II. "HALT, cried a voice; and not a little surprised was Leonard when the stranger who had accosted him the preceding evening got into the chaise. "Well," said Richa

CHAPTER II. Matrimony is certainly a great change in life. One is astonished not to find a notable alteration in one's friend, even if he or she have been only wedded a week.

CHAPTER II. "There has never been occasion to use them since I've been in the parish," said Parson Dale. "What does that prove?" quoth the squire, sharply, and looking the p

By Edward Bulwer-Lytton CONTENTS BOOK FIRST. INITIAL CHAPTER CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER

CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW TO MY WIFE MAY PALMER DEPEW THIS BOOK GREW FROM HER ENCOURAGEMENT FOREWORD For many years my friends have insisted upon my putti

I. It was in the little office of James T. Fields, over the bookstore of Ticknor & Fields, at 124 Tremont Street, Boston, that I first met my friend of now forty-four year

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL The papers collected here under the name of 'My Literary Passions' were printed serially in a periodical of such vast circulation that they might well have bee

My Life, Volume 1 By Richard Wagner TABLE OF CONTENTS MY LIFE, VOLUME 2 (ENGLISH TRANSLATION PUBLISHED IN NEW YORK, 1911) PART III PART IV MY LIFE, VOLUME 2

The contents of these volumes have been written down directly from my dictation, over a period of several years, by my friend and wife, who wished me to tell her the story of my li

by Wilkie Collins CONTENTS PART THE FIRST. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V.

By Randall Parrish CONTENTS MY LADY OF THE NORTH CHAPTER I. — A DESPATCH FOR LONGSTREET CHAPTER II. — THE NIGHT RIDE CHAPTER III.

CHAPTER I. I am an old woman now, and things are very different to what they were in my youth. Then we, who travelled, travelled in coaches, carrying six inside, and making a

CONTENTS I.   TREASURE TROVE II.   THE SHERIFF OF NOTTINGHAM III.   THE DESPERADOES IV.   MOON MAGIC V.   THE EPISODE OF THE I