MY BURIED TREASUREMY BURIEDTREASUREby Richard Harding Davis- Page 2-MY BURIED TREASUREThis is a true story of a search for buried treasure. The only part that isnot true is the name of the man with whom I searched for the treasure.Unless I keep his name out of it he will not let me write the story, and, as itwas his expedition and as my share of the treasure is only what I can makeby writing the story, I must write as he dictates. I think the story should be...
Memoirs of the Comtesse du Barry With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV"Written by Herself"by Baron Etienne Leon Lamothe-LangonTABLE OF CONTENTSCHAPTER ILetter from LebelVisit from LebelNothing conclusiveAnother visit from LebelInvitation to sup with the kingInstructions of the comte Jean to the comtesseCHAPTER IIA slight prefaceArrival at VersaillesPortrait of the kingThe duc de RichelieuThe marquis de ChauvelinThe duc de la Vauguyon-Supper with the kingThe first nightThe following dayThe curiosity of comte JeanPresents from the kingHow disposed of...
A Ward of the Golden Gateby Bret HartePROLOGUE.In San Francisco the "rainy season" had been making itself areality to the wondering Eastern immigrant. There were short daysof drifting clouds and flying sunshine, and long succeeding nightsof incessant downpour, when the rain rattled on the thin shinglesor drummed on the resounding zinc of pioneer roofs. The shiftingsand-dunes on the outskirts were beaten motionless and sodden bythe onslaught of consecutive storms; the southeast trades broughtthe saline breath of the outlying Pacific even to the busy haunts...
FAIRY TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSENUNDER THE WILLOW-TREEby Hans Christian AndersenTHE region round the little town of Kjoge is very bleak andcold. The town lies on the sea shore, which is always beautiful; buthere it might be more beautiful than it is, for on every side thefields are flat, and it is a long way to the forest. But whenpersons reside in a place and get used to it, they can always findsomething beautiful in it,- something for which they long, even in themost charming spot in the world which is not home. It must be owned...
A SONG ABOUT MYSELFby John KeatsI.There was a naughty boy,A naughty boy was he,He would not stop at home,He could not quiet be-He tookIn his knapsackA bookFull of vowelsAnd a shirtWith some towels,A slight capFor night cap,A hair brush,...
FAIRY TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSENTHE FIR TREEby Hans Christian AndersenFAR down in the forest, where the warm sun and the fresh airmade a sweet resting-place, grew a pretty little fir-tree; and yetit was not happy, it wished so much to be tall like its companions-the pines and firs which grew around it. The sun shone, and the softair fluttered its leaves, and the little peasant children passed by,prattling merrily, but the fir-tree heeded them not. Sometimes thechildren would bring a large basket of raspberries or strawberries,...
THE FORTY THIEVESIN a town in Persia there dwelt two brothers, one namedCassim, the other Ali Baba. Cassim was married to arich wife and lived in plenty, while Ali Baba had to maintainhis wife and children by cutting wood in a neighboringforest and selling it in the town. One day, when AliBaba was in the forest, he saw a troop of men on horseback,coming toward him in a cloud of dust. He wasafraid they were robbers, and climbed into a tree forsafety. When they came up to him and dismounted, hecounted forty of them. They unbridled their horses and...
Undineby Friedrich de la Motte FouqueTranslated from the German by F. E. BunnettCONTENTS.DEDICATIONCHAPTERI. HOW THE KNIGHT CAME TO THE FISHERMANII. IN WHAT WAY UNDINE HAD COME TO THE FISHERMANIII. HOW THEY FOUND UNDINE AGAINIV. OF THAT WHICH THE KNIGHT ENCOUNTERED IN THE WOODV. HOW THE KNIGHT LIVED ON THE LITTLE PROMONTORYVI. OF A NUPTIAL CEREMONYVII. WHAT FURTHER HAPPENED ON THE EVENING OF THE WEDDINGVIII. THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDINGIX. HOW THE KNIGHT TOOK HIS YOUNG WIFE WITH HIM...
The Quest of the Golden GirlBy Richard le GallienneA ROMANCETOPRIOR AND LOUISE CHRISTIAN,WITH AFFECTION.CONTENTSBOOK ICHAPTERI. AN OLD HOUSE AND ITS BACHELORII. IN WHICH I DECIDE TO GO ON PILGRIMAGEIII. AN INDICTMENT OF SPRINGIV. IN WHICH I EAT AND DREAMV. CONCERNING THE PERFECT WOMAN, AND THEREFORE CONCERNING ALLFEMININE READERSVI. IN WHICH THE AUTHOR ANTICIPATES DISCONTENT ON THE PART OFHIS READERVII. PRANDIALVIII. STILL PRANDIALIX. THE LEGEND OF HEBES OR THE HEAVENLY HOUSEMAID...
The Age of Invention, A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquestby Holland ThompsonPREFATORY NOTEThis volume is not intended to be a complete record of inventive genius and mechanical progress in the United States. A bare catalogue of notable American inventions in the nineteenth century alone could not be compressed into these pages. Nor is it any part of the purpose of this book to trespass on the ground of the many mechanical works and encyclopedias which give technical descriptions and explain in detail the principle of every invention. All this book seeks to do is to outline the personalities of
THE BEEIt was Maeterlinck who introduced me to the bee. I mean, inthe psychical and in the poetical way. I had had a businessintroduction earlier. It was when I was a boy. It is strangethat I should remember a formality like that so long; it must benearly sixty years.Bee scientists always speak of the bee as she. It isbecause all the important bees are of that sex. In the hivethere is one married bee, called the queen; she has fiftythousand children; of these, about one hundred are sons; the restare daughters. Some of the daughters are young maids, some are...
The Tale of Balenby Algernon Charles SwinburneDEDICATIONTO MY MOTHERLove that holds life and death in fee,Deep as the clear unsounded seaAnd sweet as life or death can be,Lays here my hope, my heart, and meBefore you, silent, in a song.Since the old wild tale, made new, found grace,When half sung through, before your face,It needs must live a springtide space,While April suns grow strong.March 24, 1896.THE TALE OF BALENIn hawthorn-time the heart grows light,The world is sweet in sound and sight,Glad thoughts and birds take flower and flight,...
"FREE SHIPS MAKE FREE GOODS"_To the U.S. Minister to France_(ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON)_Monticello, Sep. 9, 1801_DEAR SIR, You will receive, probably by this post, from theSecretary of State, his final instructions for your mission toFrance. We have not thought it necessary to say anything in them onthe great question of the maritime law of nations, which at presentagitates Europe; that is to say, whether free ships shall make freegoods; because we do not mean to take any side in it during the war....
75 ADCICERO106-43 B.C.by Plutarchtranslated by John DrydenCICEROIT is generally said, that Helvia, the mother of Cicero, was bothwell-born and lived a fair life; but of his father nothing is reportedbut in extremes. For whilst some would have him the son of a fuller,and educated in that trade, others carry back the origin of his familyto Tullus Attius, an illustrious king of the Volscians, who waged...
Phenomenology of Mindby Hegel(P) Preface: On Scientific Knowledge2. The element of truth is the Concept and its true form the scientific system3. Present position of the spirit4. The principle is not the completion; against formalism5. The absolute is subject —6. — and what this is7. The element of knowledge8. The ascent into this is the Phenomenology of the Spirit9. The transformation of the notion and the familiar into thought ...10. — and this into the Concept/Notion...
SHERLOCK HOLMESTHE GREEK INTERPRETERby Sir Arthur Conan DoyleDuring my long and intimate acquaintance with Mr. Sherlock HolmesI had never heard him refer to his relations, and hardly ever to hisown early life. This reticence upon his part had increased thesomewhat inhuman effect which he produced upon me, until sometimes Ifound myself regarding him as an isolated phenomenon, a brainwithout a heart, as deficient in human sympathy as he was preeminentin intelligence. His aversion to women and his disinclination to...