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  • LETTERS OF CATHERINE BENINCASA

    Table of Persons AddressedSt. Catherine of Siena as seen in her lettersChief Events in the life of St. CatherineBrief Outline of Contemporary Public EventsTo Monna Alessa dei SaraciniTo Benincasa her brother, when he was in Florence...

  • Alices Abenteuer im Wunderland

    ALICE was beginning to get very tired of sitting by hersister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she hadpeeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures orconversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice,...

  • SPAENS HEYDINNETIE

    t Is een vervolg op een vroeger werk, t Houwelick; "door eenvorigh Boeck" heeft hij "de gronden van een goet houwelyck geleyt,en een afkeer gepooght te maken van quade gangen die in soodanigengelegentheyt sigh openbaren"; en daarom heeft hij het "dienstigh...

  • ONE DAY AND ANOTHER

    The poem herewith presented was first published some ten years ago in a volume entitled _Days and Dreams_. The original verses have been re-written throughout and extensively added to, making it comparatively a new poem.

  • BLOOMS OF THE BERRY

    Fleet swallows soared and darted Neath empty vaults of blue; Thick leaves close clung or parted To let the sunlight through; Each wild rose, honey-hearted, Bowed full of living dew.

  • DAYS AND DREAMS

    There is a fading inward of the day, And all the pansy sunset hugs one star; To eastward dwindling all the land is gray, While barley meadows westward smoulder far.

  • THE GARDEN OF DREAMS

    Nevermore at doorways that are barken Shall the madcap wind knock and the noonlight; Nor the circle, which thou once didst darken, Shine with footsteps of the neighboring moonlight, Visitors for whom thou oft didst hearken.

  • IDYLLIC MONOLOGUES

    This collection of poems is entirely new with the exception of three orfour which appeared in two earlier volumes, published some ten yearsago. The reprinted poems have been carefully re-written, and so changedthroughout as to hardly bear any resemblance, except that of subject, to...

  • TO MY FRIEND

    _There is no rhyme that is half so sweetAs the song of the wind in the rippling wheat;There is no metre thats half so fineAs the lilt of the brook under rock and vine;And the loveliest lyric I ever heardWas the wildwood strain of a forest bird.

  • BY MADISON CAWEIN

    The verses composing this volume have been selected by the author almostentirely from the five-volume edition of his poems published by theBobbs-Merrill Company in 1907. A number have been included from the threeor four volumes which have been published since the appearance of the...

  • BY MADISON CAWEIN

    _For permission to reprint most of the poems included in this volumethanks are due to the "Atlantic Monthly," "Harpers Magazine" and"Bazar," "Lippincotts," "Saturday Evening Post," "New EnglandMagazine," "Leslies Monthly," "Smart Set," "Truth," "Outlook,"...

  • CAXTONS. GAME AND PLAYE OF THE CHESSE.

    [Transcribers Note: This is a reprint of Caxtons 1474 original."Englifh" long ss which look very similar to fs have been transposedto ss for readability; yogh (looks like a mutated 3) has been renderedas a 3; thorn, ŝ, has been left as such and macrons over letters are...

  • THE BUSIE BODY

    EMMETT L. AVERY, _State College of Washington_BENJAMIN BOYCE, _University of Nebraska_LOUIS I. BREDVOLD, _University of Michigan_CLEANTH BROOKS, _Yale University_JAMES L. CLIFFORD, _Columbia University_ARTHUR FRIEDMAN, _University of Chicago_...

  • THE STORY OF DON QUIXOTE

    VIII-IX OF THE GOOD FORTUNE WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE HAD IN THE TERRIBLE AND UNDREAMT-OF ADVENTURE OF THE WINDMILLS, WITH OTHER OCCURRENCES WORTHY TO BE FITLY RECORDED, INCLUDING THE TERRIBLE BATTLE BETWEEN THE...

  • VIAGE AL PARNASO

    Dirijo á Vm. este Viage que hice al Parnaso, que no desdice á su edadflorida, ni á sus loables y estudiosos exercicios. Si Vm. le hace elacogimiento que yo espero de su condicion ilustre, él quedará famosoen el mundo, y mis deseos premiados.

  • WIT AND WISDOM OF DON QUIXOTE

    extolls the Golden Age, 29; his requisites for a knight-errant, 35; at the interment of Chrysostom, 41; his adventure with a dead body, 51; captures Mambrinos helmet, 56; performs penance, 63; his views of knight-errantry, 76, 82;...

  • AN ESSAY ON THE SCRIPTURAL DOCTRINE OF IMMORTALITY

    Considering that under the existing conditions of humanity, disease,and decay, and death abound on every side, it is surprising that theword "immortality" obtained a place in systems of philosophy, theauthors of which must be supposed to have been unacquainted with divine...

  • AINO FOLK-TALES

    A. MACHADO Y ALVAREZ. THE EARL BEAUCHAMP, F.S.A. EDWARD BRABROOK, F.S.A. DR. D. G. BRINTON JAMES BRITTEN, F.L.S. LOYS BRUEYRE. MISS C. S. BURNE. EDWARD CLODD. PROFESSOR D. COMPARETTI.

  • THE EARLY FRENCH POETS

    The papers of which this volume is composed originally appeared in theLondon Magazine, between the years 1821 and 1824. It was the authorsintention to continue the series of Lives to a later period, but achange in the proprietorship of the Magazine prevented the completion of...

  • THE Crime Against Europe

    The reader must remember that these articles were written beforethe war began. They are in a sense prophetic and show a remarkableunderstanding of the conditions which brought about the present greatwar in Europe.

  • EIDOLON, OR THE COURSE OF A SOUL; AND OTHER POEMS

    Hazlitt says, one cannot "make an allegory go on all fours," it mustto a certain degree be obscure and shadowy, like the images which thetraveller in the desert sees mirrored on the heavens, wherein he cantrace but a dreamy resemblance to the reality beneath.

  • BY WALTER R. CASSELS

    MABELHEBESPRINGTHE BITTERNGONEBEATRICE DI TENDASERENADETHE EAGLEWHITHER?THE MORNING STARTHE DELECTABLE MOUNTAINSTHE DARK RIVERWYTHAM WOODSTHE STAR IN THE EASTUNDER THE SEAWINDA CHALLENGEAT PARTINGA WITHERED ROSE-BUDDE PROFUNDIS...

  • ELAM STORM, THE WOLFER OR THE LOST NUGGET

    "You mout, and then again you moutnt. It aint everybody who can coaxone of them smart prowlers to stick his foot in a trap. If that was thecase, my neighbors would have had more sheep, and Elam Storm would beworth a bushel of dollars.

  • THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN SERIES

    "Pull him along, Carlos! Pull him along!" shouted a young gentlemanabout sixteen years of age, as he danced about on the back porch of hisuncles house, in a state of great excitement; "why dont you pull himalong?