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Subject: October Project Gutenberg Newsletter [Early Edition]
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 15:32:16 -0500 (CDT)
This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for Wednesday, October 7, 1998
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A change in filenames of one of the files we announced last month, both
filenames will work for now, but the old one duplicated an /etext97....
Charmides, by Plato, B. Jowett, Translator #5 [crmdsxxx.xxx]1580old
Charmides, by Plato, B. Jowett, Translator #5 [chmdsxxx.xxx]1580new
^^^^^
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
****A "C" Following a Project Gutenberg Etext Number Indicates Copyright****
Jan 1999 Lion and the Unicorn, by Richard Harding Davis[10][liunixxx.xxx]1620
Jan 1999 La Celestina, by Fernando de Rojas, in Spanish (C)[clstnxxx.xxx]1619C
Jan 1999 In Shadow of the Glen, by J. M. Synge [Synge #5][sglenxxx.xxx]1618
Jan 1999 Stories Of The Supernatural, by Mary Wilkins [sotsnxxx.xxx]1617
Jan 1999 The Wind in the Rose-Bush, et al, by Mary Wilkins [sotsnxxx.xxx]1617
Jan 1999 Cratylus, by Plato, B. Jowett, Trans. [Plato #10][crtlsxxx.xxx]1616
Jan 1999 Old English Libraries, by Ernest A. Savage [nglbsxxx.xxx]1615
Jan 1999 The Golden Fleece, by Julian Hawthorne [gldflxxx.xxx]1614
Jan 1999 Count Bunker, by J. Storer Clausen [cbnkrxxx.xxx]1613
Jan 1999 Poems By a Little Girl, by Hilda Conkling [pbalgxxx.xxx]1612
Jan 1999 Seventeen, by Booth Tarkington [B. Tarkington #7][svntnxxx.xxx]1611
Reserved for:
Jan 1999 The Holy Bible, Douay-Rheims Version, O.T. Part 2 [2drvbxxx.xxx]1610*
Jan 1999 The Holy Bible, Douay-Rheims Version, O.T. Part 1 [1drvbxxx.xxx]1609*
Jan 1999 Camille [La Dame aux Camilias], by A. Dumas, fils [cmllexxx.xxx]1608
Jan 1999 A Journey in Other Worlds, by J. J. Astor [ajiowxxx.xxx]1607
Jan 1999 Kenilworth, by Walter Scott [Walter Scott #6][knlwtxxx.xxx]1606
Jan 1999 The Crock of Gold, by James Stephens [crkgdxxx.xxx]1605
Jan 1999 The Ebb-Tide by R.L. Stevenson and L. Osbourne[#3][ebtidxxx.xxx]1604
Jan 1999 The Blue Flower, by Henry van Dyke [van Dyke #5][blflrxxx.xxx]1603
Jan 1999 Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed, by Edna Ferber [dwnhrxxx.xxx]1602
Jan 1999 The Breaking Point, by Mary Roberts Rinehart [#6][brkptxxx.xxx]1601
Plato's translator, B. Jowett, says of the Symposium
"Of all the works of Plato the Symposium is the most perfect
in form, and may be truly thought to contain more than any
commentator has ever dreamed of; or, as Goethe said of one
of his own writings, more than the author himself knew."
Jan 1998 Symposium, by Plato, B. Jowett, Trans. [Plato #9][sympoxxx.xxx]1600
Jan 1999 Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper, et. al. [cndrlxxx.xxx]1599
Jan 1998 Euthydemus, by Plato, B. Jowett, Trans. [Plato #8][uthydxxx.xxx]1598
Jan 1999 [Hans Christian] Andersen's Fairy Tales [HCA #1][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The Emperor's New Clothes/Andersen Fairy Tales[#1][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The Swineherd, Hans C. Andersen's Fairy Tales[#2][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The Real Princess Hans C. Andersen Fairy Tales[#3][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The Fir Tree Hans C. Andersen Fairy Tales[#4][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The Snow Queen Hans C. Andersen Fairy Tales[#5][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The Leap-Frog Hans C. Andersen Fairy Tales[#6][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The Elderbush Hans C. Andersen Fairy Tales[#7][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The Bell Hans C. Andersen Fairy Tales[#8][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The Old House Hans C. Andersen Fairy Tales[#9][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The Happy Family/Hans C. Andersen Fairy Tales[#10][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The Story of a Mother Andersen Fairy Tales[#11][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The False Collar/Hans C. Andersen Fairy Tales[#12][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The Shadow Hans C. Andersen Fairy Tales[#13][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The Little Match Girl Andersen Fairy Tales[#14][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The Dream of Little Tuk Andersen Fairy Tales[#15][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The Naughty Boy Hans C. Andersen Fairy Tales[#16][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The Red Shoes Hans C. Andersen Fairy Tales[#17][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 Smoke Bellew, by Jack London [Jack London #50][smkblxxx.xxx]1596
Jan 1999 Whirligigs, by O Henry [O Henry #3][whrlgxxx.xxx]1595
Jan 1999 Essays in Little, by Andrew Lang [Andrew Lang #11][eslttxxx.xxx]1594
Jan 1999 How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers, by Woods [httbfxxx.zip]1593
Jan 1999 Study of the King James Bible, Cleland Boyd McAfee[sokjvxxx.xxx]1592
Jan 1998 Protagoras, by Plato, B. Jowett, Trans. [Plato #7][prtgsxxx.xxx]1591
Jan 1999 The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart[#5][mzgntxxx.xxx]1590
Jan 1999 Tamburlaine the Great PT 2, by Christopher Marlowe[tmbn2xxx.xxx]1589
Jan 1999 A Rogue's Life, by Wilkie Collins [W. Collins #9][rgslfxxx.xxx]1588
Jan 1999 The Black Robe, by Wilkie Collins [W. Collins #8][blkrbxxx.xxx]1587
Jan 1999 Man and Wife, by Wilkie Collins [W. Collins #7][mandwxxx.xxx]1586
Jan 1999 The Wrong Box, by Stevenson & Osbourne [RLS#40][wrngbxxx.xxx]1585
and one for February:
Feb 1999 A Monk of Fife, by Andrew Lang [Andrew Lang #12][mnkffxxx.xxx]1631
[The first 10 February slots were reserved for Wilkie Collins, so that is why
the number is 10 higher than you may have expected.]
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