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succession he took on two wheels, but never for an instant slackened
the pace; and within five minutes the last uneasy sounds of pursuit
had died away. Still we continued to press on. The pair of us seemed
to realise by silent agreement that it would be a good thing for us to
vanish at once into some burrow where we co... | |
Seek the spirit’s shrine of prayer,
Jesus there will meet and bless you
And you’ll leave your burdens there.
* * * * *
As the blessed, healing mentha
Holds for mortal pains nepentha,
So hath sympathy the art
To soothe the bruises of the heart.
* * * * *
From each act, how... | |
[_She runs hurriedly and makes the rope fast to the mast,
while Finn remains gazing at it as if dazed. In a moment
the Climber is seen swinging along it, immediately followed
by the Gripper, the Listener, and the Marksman. Finn
remains as if spellbound, while the Gripper runs to the
tiller, seizes it from him, and turn... | |
and, under the Mycroft & Moran imprint,
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PRINCE ZALESKI & CUMMINGS KING MONK, by M. P. Shiel
THE CASEBOOK OF SOLAR PONS, by August Derleth
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would help him in the difficult task of telling a straight story. He
knew, however, that she would not be satisfied with the perversion of
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explosion were remarkable. The whole city was shaken. Ponderous houses
reeled and tottered, and buildings miles away were rent and split.
Every tree within a radius of a couple of hundred yards was blasted and
withered. Huge masses of masonry were hurled high into the air. Heavy
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somebody into the last row, next to the last seat, during the second
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The grape it rattled like hail,
The minies were dropping like rain,
The first of a thunder shower;
The wads were blowing like chaff,
(There was pounding like floor and flail,
All the front of our line!)
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But our eagle, he felt fine!
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As the door closed, Johnny could have sworn he heard an extra click.
“Locking us in?” he asked pleasantly, and Emanuel’s eyebrows rose.
“Locking you in, Johnny? Why, do you think I’m afraid of losing you,
like you’re afraid of losing Marney?”
Johnny sipped the glass of water, his eyes fixed on the old man’s
face. What ... | |
One day a woman told me that her two little boys had been playing in the
courtyard while she was at work, and the “Muchwezi” (evil spirit) from
the Crater hill two miles away had come and run off with her elder child.
For two years he had remained lost to them, when suddenly he returned
clothed in a strip of bark-cloth... | |
calm exterior lay a tremendous latent power that once aroused could be
terrible and deadly to his enemies, and that this was really the case
was soon to be amply proved.
Another of the group was a still younger man, handsome as Apollo, and
with a frame that seemed to be knit with steel. Although younger his
military ra... | |
spectator at the Oval? How could he do himself justice as a bat
under such a humiliation? And think of the report the next
day--"Wynne, the brother of the notorious Suffragette, secured a
well-merited duck," or, "To be 'caught out' seems just now to run in
the Wynne family." Lionel's fancy played with the theme like... | |
of the engine will be sustained on three points. Now it is a well
known fact that any tripod, like that on which an engineer’s level is
mounted, or a three-legged stool, will adjust itself to any surface,
however uneven, and stand firmly in any position; whereas if there are
more than three points of support, if they a... | |
now that it began to look real nifty.
And the inside looked as fine as the outside. When we began, the
woodwork was discolored both by age and dirt. This made the whole
interior look worse than a cheap tenement. Twenty dollars’ worth of
white lead and oil changed this as though by magic into a clean white,
as fresh as ... | |
By Ben Ray Redman. Nat. (N. Y.) Sept. 27. (115: 311.)
NEVINS, ALLAN.
Anton Chekhov. Post. Nov. 26, ’21. (2: 200.)
NEWTON, ALMA.
Algernon Blackwood. N. Y. Times. April 2. (16.)
NOCK, ALBERT JAY.
Sherwood Anderson. Free. Feb. 8. (4: 513.)
Arthur Machen. Free. Aug. 2. (5: 502.)
O’Higgins, Harvey.
By Heywood Brown. Book. (... | |
address to the Queen of Ygoth.
"My first memories are of the clash and ring of metal upon metal in
the heat of a great battle and sweat and blood on my face as I called
our battle-cry. I was a mercenary on the field of Sate fighting in the
service of the fool King Tærus, whom later I had the satisfaction of
spitting on... | |
moment his face registered intense surprise, followed instantly by an
abysmal fear, as his glance centered on the menacing figure of Skookum.
Then, swiftly he swung his dogs clear of the trail, and urging them on
gave wide margin on the frozen crust. As he passed his eyes met the
girl’s in a gleam of sullen hate. The n... | |
Yoné’s strangled “h’s” of admiration grew deeper and deeper. Her
admiration for the _Ijin San’s Bot’chan_ knew no bounds; and then
the pride of having a foreign-dressed baby of her own! Why, not one
of her acquaintances, not even the rich _saké_ merchant at the corner,
dressed their children “foreign fashion.” It was a... | |
[Illustration: “_The valley became muddier and muddier._”
SEE PAGE 66.]
[Illustration: “_The sun’s farewell glance spread a woven gold mantilla
on the naked shoulders of a grim, forbidding world and the motor car
sank, helpless, into the mud as if, also, its day was done._”
SEE PAGE 69.]
We had crossed several rivers t... | |
of use to one man in France,[21] whom he is not, as you know,
fond of. He says that in England they considered him as merely
speaking like a Russian parrot when he said that the Emperor
Nicholas did not wish for war, and that he was considered in
Russia almost a treacherous Anglomane when he declared that
our Governmen... | |
Then she said: “Do you remember your father, Saint?”
“Sometimes, just barely--but to-night at supper----”
“Yes, I know. It was when Charles Raymond came to our table. I saw him
then too. You’re a strange boy. Sometimes I’m glad. Charles’s son would
never have gotten that.”
She stood for a moment considering, her glance... | |
absolutely essential, which generally resolved itself into cooking the
one meal for the day. Their homes offered no occupation for them. The
rude grass huts possessed no furnishing, for their wants were of the
simplest. Bark cloth stripped off the wild fig tree and beaten out into | |
stone. Often we would travel through a whole day seeing no more than some
shed feathers; and on the morrow, within a few hours a shift of wind
would drive all the few ptarmigan in the district out into the open.
The traveller over the high ground of Labrador, even if he carries a
shot-gun, will be rash to trust to obta... | |
5. Three triple bandeaus in front; a small “catogan” surrounded by three
rows of plaits; three large curls behind.
The hair was generally worn high, and dressed in a complicated style, but
it was, above all, dishevelled. It was frequently worn quite loose and in
disorder; less so, however, than in 1875.
The ornamental ... | |
universally nevertheless. It sounded odd to compliment a lady on her
Bedouin sleeves, or her busked or loosely-laced bodice!
Head coverings underwent singular changes. The “bibi” was suddenly
transformed into the “cabas,” with a deep crown concealing the neck; and
the next season brought in Pamela bonnets, with rounded... | |
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The days sped rapidly; boats went to and from St. Peter Port bringing
stores and taking various goods for sale. Half-a-dozen carpenters and
a smith, besides the sailmaker and others, were busy with the ship’s
hull and rigging, refitting and altering, repairing and renewing all
kinds of gear, and over these men was plac... | |
back, eh stuff de moss een de holler, an eh pit fire ter um, an eh mek
er hebby smoke; but eh cant see ner yeddy nuttne bout Buh Rabbit. Den
eh biggin fuh spicion say Buh Rabbit might er git out, an eh tackle de
Goose bout um. Eh notus de Goose yeye red an eh duh run water. De Goose
tell um how Buh Rabbit bin trow rott... | |
again starts, by means of inclined planes, or marine railways.
The other method is by “locks,” as they are called. That is, there are
built a series of basins with powerful, water-tight gates dividing
them. Boys who live along canals well know how locks work.
A boat comes along until it reaches the place where the lock... | |
been injurious.
By an ingenious mechanism the special bed could be hoisted, tilted and
inclined till it was in any desired plane and at any convenient height,
and any portion of the patient’s body could be reached without turning
him over.
A Perfect Hospital.
This Hospital of St. John is perhaps the most perfect we hav... | |
About a week after the above conversation with Mr. Alcando, the
Spaniard came to the boys, waving an open letter in his hand. The mail
had just come in, bringing missives to Blake and Joe. Some were of a
business nature, but for each boy there was an envelope, square and of
delicate tint--such stationery as no business... | |
carbonic acid gas the refreshing, while the hop extract strengthens the
stomach, helps digestion, acts on the bladder and is grateful to the
human constitution. There is no doubt that lager beer brewed and stored
strictly as before mentioned is hardly intoxicating.”
An impression has gained ground in some quarters that... | |
“Oh, very well, nine it shall be.”
“I said eight, and I shall pay no more.”
“Ah, I misunderstood you then. We will call it eight per cent, though
there is no one else in town to whom I would lend on such terms. I | |
suffers from it who is an habitual walker. Rheumatism and gout are
caused by the settling of deposits about the joints. Those deposits
of poisonous matter are not permitted to form if there is a thorough
elimination by means of walking and much water drinking.
Indigestion in its various forms can be corrected, especial... | |
But the death in the deep awoke not then;
Mine and torpedo they spoke not then;
From the heights that loomed on our passing line
The thunders broke not then.
Safe through the perilous dark we sped,
Quiet each ship as the quiet dead,
Till the guns of El Fraile roared--too late,
And the steel prows forged ahead.
Mute eac... | |
THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH.
(By special permission of the author, and of Harper and Brothers.)
7
THE YANKEE MAN-OF-WAR
’Tis of a gallant Yankee ship that flew the Stripes and Stars,
And the whistling wind from the west-nor’-west blew through the pitch-pine spars,--
With her starboard tacks a-board, my boys, she hung upon the ... | |
Blake spent a week at Culebra Cut, making pictures of the removal
of the great mass of earth that had slid into the water. The chief
engineer, General George W. Goethals, had ordered every available man
and machine to the work, for though the Canal had not been formally
opened, many vessels had started to make trips th... | |
included a shifty-eyed old priest in charge of two nuns, the rules of
whose order forbade them to speak to men, and the mozo of an influential
Honduranean who had shot a man the night before and was taking advantage
of his master's personal friendship with the judge of the district. The
launch wound between bushy banks... | |
wealth of proof which he brought to their defence. The earliest
evolutionists tried to solve their problems by deduction, making the
theory first, and searching for the facts afterward. Darwin’s method
was just the opposite. As he himself says, he searched for fact
after fact, at the same time straining to keep all tho... | |
which cost me £18 some years ago, now stands in the booksellers’
catalogues at £30. It may be assumed that my pleasure, as a cultured
man, in the possession of this first edition is measured by something
like £30. But suppose I now suffer a reverse of fortune. The subjective
use value of the book remains as before: the... | |
give reverential greetings.
“To the honoured Mahomed Emin, Mudir of Hatalastiva.
“May God lead him in the paths of His gifts. Amen.
“After greeting you, I would remind you that the world is a house of
change and decay, and everything in it must one day perish. God is the
Master of all His creatures.
“We are of the army... | |
_B_, ....
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guides are usually ....
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... changed to ... the journals of the coupling-rods, the brasses at | |
Granada,
Leon, rivalry with, 77 ff.;
capture of (1855), 81
Granados, Miguel García, 52
Great Britain,
bondholders in Guatemala supported by, 289;
bondholders in Honduras supported by, 294;
bondholders in Nicaragua supported by, 240;
Central American commerce with, 274 f., 277 ff., 282;
protectorate on Mosquito Coast, 9... | |
bestowed in recognition of gifts to the Society’s Menagerie, and not for
contributions to zoological knowledge. Flower’s contributions to both
the _Transactions_ and the _Proceedings_ of the Society were numerous,
and, needless to say, valuable; the earliest in the former having been
published in 1866, and in the latte... | |
“If races are to evolve into a higher state it must be through
finer, cleverer methods than war. War is a stupid return for
education.... Internationalism is a remedy.”
_Cloth, 12mo, net $1.35_
Publishers · FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY · New York
GRAPHID PRESS, NEW YORK
Transcriber’s Notes
Advertisements were collected ... | |
war aims, as this would be a step toward peace. Before this note was
completed, the German Government sent out a communication, asking the
same definition. But the German Government issued this document on the
idea that the German armies had triumphed, and incorporated in it a
threat to neutral governments. From a thou... | |
attitude of indifference.
“It’s a very nice name,” Ann reflected. “I like it. I shall call him
Angelina too.”
“If you do, you won’t do it a second time,” her brother mentioned in
accents of quiet rage.
Ann was astonished. “Don’t you like it? Why do people call you it then?”
“Nobody calls me it, except a lot of fools wh... | |
XXXVI. There is another objection to experimental observations, which
is not more reasonable, or better founded than that we have just
mentioned, which is made by some superficial schoolmen, who say, that
these sort of enquiries, do not require reason and perspicuity, but
only eye-sight, diligence, and memory; on which... | |
have a dim idea that silver, as one of the precious metals, has a value
almost innate. Yet after 1873 mine after mine was abandoned although
the ores were as rich and the reefs as plentiful as ever. What was
the cause?—Simply that silver was discarded as currency in certain
countries: that is to say, silver fell in the... | |
It is therefore natural that the deer should desert the woods and waters
at the fly season to seek relief on high and open ground, where they can,
to a certain extent at least, escape from this plague.
[Illustration: A Bear-Path over the Reindeer moss.]
[Illustration: Antlers of Caribou killed by Nascaupee Indians at a... | |
I thought you had a little common sense.
Didn’t I tell you she was bound
To carry you quite safe and sound
From earth to Heaven, if you could handle
Her properly. It’s a fair scandal
To see the way you hold the tiller.
You’ll sink her. Look! You’ll sink and fill her!
[_The ship heels and dips, the Tracker yells again, ... | |
their wages to the latter's eight or ten cents a day. In this case, as
the world over, the workmen earned about what he was paid, or rather
succeeded in keeping his capacity down to the wages paid him. Many
galleries of the mine were "worked on contract," and almost all gangs
had their self-chosen leader. A peon with a... | |
the day off his hands on his weather-beaten overalls. “I shore thought
yuh was Magpie. Yuh see we ain’t used to havin’ strangers hereabouts.
Magpie’s my pardner and he’s supposed to be down at th’ cabin gittin’
dinner.”
“I saw a man sitting on a log down the trail a ways as I rode up,” I
remarked. “Seemed like a curiou... | |
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small fat envelope in the same hand, but more recognisable to my eye.
It was, so far as I could remember, the writing of Ronald Mirlees.
"Dear Hugh Jevons" (ran the missive)--
"It becomes necessary that you should step in to help me a second
time--and a last time--in my life. I have not forgotten how you helped
me befo... | |
Louis Panzer, a Broadway theatre-manager.
James Peale, the Don Juan of “Gunplay.”
Eve Ellis. The quality of friendship is not strained.
Stephen Barry. One can understand the perturbation of the juvenile lead.
Lucille Horton, the “lady of the streets”—in the play.
Hilda Orange, a celebrated English character-actress.
Th... | |
of entrepreneur’s cost (not that they employed the term entrepreneur’s
cost), co-ordinate with wages and “profits of stock.” Ricardo never
stated a law of entrepreneur’s cost plainly, formally, as such, though
he gave it an obscure recognition as a source of difficulty to the pure
labor theory of value. But he influenc... | |
But Mabel was busy examining a watercolour sketch on the wall, and did
not notice her cousin's question. "This is very pretty," she said—"I am
so fond of drawing and painting. Is it yours?"
"No, that is one of Julia's. Nothing of mine will ever be worth
framing, I am afraid, for I like music best, and care very little ... | |
mind, became his bold self again. He set his eyes fiercely on the
shining form, and although his limbs still shook from the internal
holocaust he spoke bravely.
"Curse these hell-haunted dungeons where a man cannot even die in
peace! And curse your chattering, woman--if woman you are! If I had
but freedom and a sword--... | |
raised, and the smaller vessel rose and fell softly upon it for an
instant as it crept along.
"_Hoo-o-o-o-ooh!_" That would be the Boston turbine.
"Starboard a hair, Sims!"
"Starboard, sir!"
"_Hoo-o-o-o-ooh!_"
A dripping gray shape with phosphorescent rows of dim lights along her
decks forged by, high over the port rai... | |
[15] Darwin seemed unable to speak of Lamarck without
contempt or derision. Certainly he was not familiar
with Lamarck’s writings in the French, and
attributed to that naturalist certain erroneous
ideas for which he was not responsible. Also, it
would seem that Darwin failed to make allowances for
Lamarck’s insuperable... | |
‘Undoubtedly. Lady Frances could help a man very much in politics if
she chose. She might help you--but it must be in her own way. She is
interested in you already.’
‘Of course she’s all for Party. She says I must join her Party, or else
there is no chance.’
‘You’ve heard that before, haven’t you? Well, there is no cha... | |
[14] “Mammifers” = mammals; that is, animals which suckle
their young.
[15] Darwin seemed unable to speak of Lamarck without
contempt or derision. Certainly he was not familiar
with Lamarck’s writings in the French, and
attributed to that naturalist certain erroneous
ideas for which he was not responsible. Also, it
wou... | |
well enough to see his own reflection in the lid of a Huntley & Palmer’s
biscuit tin—the only looking-glass then in his possession, as he had lost
most of his things through a recent act of incendiarism.
We were delighted to catch sight of the hills that lie round Hoima, the
capital of Bunyoro, on the seventh day. Mr. ... | |
_Field Infirmary, near Petersburg, Va.,
June 24, 1864._
When I wrote to you two days ago I said appearances indicated that we
were about to have a fight. Sure enough, about half an hour after I had
finished writing the battle began. Our division was engaged. McGowan’s
Brigade did not suffer much. It supported Wright’s ... | |
an' a holler further."
The farmers in this section had once been wont to measure distance by
sound and the expression still lingered, even though meaningless to a
modern generation.
The route was more direct than it sounded. It was not a waste of
time to listen to the directions for they ensured a through journey
once... | |
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officer reached for a memo pad.
“Very well then, Galladay,” he sighed. “I’ll recommend that you be
attached to this new air-force group. They’ll need some one to teach
machine gunnery. But get this! They’ll assign you to that job and keep
you on the ground for the duration of the war. Serve you right, too.”
“Keep me on... | |
you and me. Jist driftin’ and driftin’----”
“Well, gol dang it, Magpie,” sez I, “that’s th’ only reasonable way fer
uh poor man to git depth. Uh course if yuh think we’ll hit it any sooner
by sinkin’ uh shaft, why----”
“Ike Harper,” states Magpie, sort uh lofty like, “yuh got uh soul like
uh packburrow. All yuh knows i... | |
Something white bubbled up above it, checked its fall. Lazily it drifted
down. The balloon struck the ground four hundred feet below. Before the
parachute had come to earth, Kisner and Welkfurn rode frantically along
a road toward where it would come down....
Six minutes later they were lifting Conway carefully into th... | |
It was Saturday afternoon before they could drag themselves off the | |
Laura was startled, offended. Marcie had no right to say such a thing.
“What do you mean?” she said.
“Your dress,” Marcie said, nodding at it.
Laura looked down at it. Beebo had dragged it over the bathroom floor
and the dirt, together with a hasty pressing job, made her look like
she’d been through a scuffle. “Marcie,... | |
In the days of the Chinese pilgrims there was a great stone pillar which
had been erected by King Asōka; but it had been struck by lightning,
and lay on the ground when they saw it, split in the middle. The pillar
with a perfectly preserved inscription by King Asōka stands close to the
temple. But the most striking pro... | |
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further breach of discipline.
By May 8th, the column was able to resume its march. The route was to
the south, skirting the region of the forests, which Stanley with his
present party would not have dared to face, as the Egyptians seemed
to have very vague notions about the journey. Besides, there was the
question of f... | |
first opportunity. Godolphin sat apart from the talkers playing a quiet
game at ecarte. Constance’s eyes stole ever and anon to his countenance;
and when she turned at length away with a sigh, she saw that Radclyffe’s
deep and inscrutable gaze was bent upon her, and the proud countess
blushed, although she scarce knew ... | |
had been put away, for the views to be obtained then were of too much
sameness to attract Joe or Blake, “it would never happen, and I hope it
never does; but if it did it would make a wonderful picture; would it
not?” he asked.
“What are you talking about?” asked Blake.
“The Gatun Dam,” was the answer. “If ever it was ... | |
stories that had started, but the people who were still interested
said it was just because the bank didn’t want any fuss or
scandal--and the rest had forgotten: that is, they’d forgotten what
had happened, but they remembered that somehow I just wasn’t a young
fellow to be trusted----”
Hemmick paused and laughed again... | |
“You’re ice all right,” she nodded, “but you’ve got to cut out this
cheap pilfering, otherwise you’re liable to spoil a real big thing and
I can’t afford to see it spoilt. If you want a share of big money
you’ve got to come in with people who are working big--do you get
that?”
“I get it,” said Thalia, “and who are your... | |
“I think so, Mr. Ives-Pope,” answered the Inspector. “Well, sir, thank
you for your courtesy. And now we must be going—lots of work to do.
Coming, Henry?”
Five minutes later Queen, Ellery and District Attorney Sampson were
striding side by side down Riverside Drive toward 72nd Street,
earnestly discussing the events of... | |
and the different manner in which the two had accepted her decision the
night before.
Helen had been delighted, enthusiastic, but, Ruth could not help
feeling, a wee bit envious. For where is the girl, even one engaged and
in love, who does not in her heart cherish an ambition to be a movie
star? But on the whole Helen... | |
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me home."
She folded her tiny hands, closed her tired eyes and, while her soft
lips murmured their pathetic appeal, drifted off into the land of
dreams.
Stephen, comforted by the thought of a guardian angel, was already
asleep.
CHAPTER III
MARIA FINDS A COMPANION
"Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord."--Ps. cxxvii,... | |
hearing, understood. America was there, to fight side by side with
them, to suffer with them, to die with them, that the cause of liberty
for which Lafayette had fought on two continents might live. The world
war had menaced the United States in its sacred institution of freedom,
and the United States had met the chall... |
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