By Gustave Dore Volume 8. With a click all images will expand to their full size This volume, as its title indicates, is a collectio

By Gustave Dore Volume 9. With a click all images will expand to their full size This volume, as its title indicates, is a collectio

C O N T E N T S   PREFACE I.   THE FUGITIVES II.   THE BATTLE OF KESTEVEN III.   THE MASSACRE AT CROYLAND IV.   THE INVASION O

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION By the Editor. DRAYMAN HENSCHEL (Fuhrmann Henschel) Translated by the Editor. ROSE BERND (Rose Bernd) Translated by the Editor. THE RATS (Die R

CHAPTER I During the severe winter of 1860 the river Oise was frozen over and the plains of Lower Picardy were covered with deep snow. On Christmas Day, especially, a heavy sq

THE DUEL BETWEEN FRANCE AND GERMANY, WITH ITS LESSON TO CIVILIZATION. LECTURE IN THE MUSIC HALL, BOSTON, OCTOBER 26, 1870. "When kings make war,  No law betwixt two sover

THE DUENNA A COMIC OPERA DRAMATIS PERSONAE AS ORIGINALLY ACTED AT COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE, NOV. 21, 1775 DON FERDINAND Mr. Mattocks. DON JEROME

SCENE I The Vatican Enter CÆSAR and VANNOZZA CÆSAR Now, mother, though thou love my brother more, Am I not more thy son than he? VANNOZZA       Not more. CÆSAR Have I

By Lieutenant Maturin Murray Ballou CONTENTS PREFACE. CHAPTER I.—FLORENCE. CHAPTER II.—OUR HE

CHAPTER IX At certain moments during the days that followed the degree of tension her relationship with Ditmar had achieved tested the limits of Janet's ingenuity and powers o

Preface A Critical edition of Tennyson’s poems has long been an acknowledged want. He has taken his place among the English Classics, and as a Classic he is, and will be, stud

JIMMY TORRANCE, JR. Return to Table of Contents The gymnasium was packed as Jimmy Torrance stepped into the ring for the final event of the evening that was to decide the boxin

MAURICE LE BLANC AUTHOR'S NOTE These adventures were told to me in the old days by Arsène Lupin, as though they had happened to a friend of his, named Prince R

By George MacDonald CONTENTS THE ELECT LADY CHAPTER I. LANDLORD'S DAUGHTER AND TENANT'S SON. CHAPTER II. AN ACCIDENT. CHAPTER III.

THE ELEMENTS OF CHARACTER. BY MARY G. CHANDLER. "An exclusively intellectual education leads, by a very obvious process, to hard-heartedness and the contempt of all mo

INTRODUCTION performance of 'The Clouds,' may be taken as in some sort a companion picture to that piece. Here the satire is directed against the passion of the Athenians for

PREFACE. The Author of this volume does not feel much apology necessary for its publication, though the world is already flooded with Rhyme, upon almost every conceivable subj

CHAPTER I There were three of them Jerry, Jimmy, and Kathleen. Of course, Jerry's name was Gerald, and not Jeremiah, whatever you may think; and Jimmy's name was James; and Ka

CONTENTS I.   INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION. II.   THE CABINET. III.   THE MONARCHY. IV.   THE HOUSE OF LORDS. V.   THE H

TO MRS. KATHERINE S. COBB. I have not asked your leave, dear friend, to dedicate to you these pages of my experience in the heart of an Asiatic court; but I know you will indu

INTRODUCTION The Author of this little Work, many years ago, spent a few weeks in Eskdale, the scene where she has placed the principal events of her tale. The beauty of the c

By John Ruskin, LL.D., CONTENTS DEDICATION. PERSONAE PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. PREFACE. LECT

PREFACE. Will the readers of this little work please bear in mind the difficulties which must attend the painting of a very large picture, with multitudinous characters and de