The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter 9th April 2003
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1) Editorial
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2) Weekly eBook update
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RESERVED count: 39
Last week the Total Count was 7,549, including 208 at PG of Australia.
This week we added 62 new (incl. Aus.).
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Nov 2004 Works, Vol XII, Miscellanies Pt II, Fielding [#9][wfld2xxx.xxx]6828
[Full Title: The Works of Henry Fielding, Volume XII, Miscellanies, Part II]
[Ed. by George Saintsbury]
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Dec 2004 The Tattva-Muktavali, by Purnananda Chakravartin [?ttvaxxx.xxx]7175
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Dec 2004 Markandeya Purana, by Rev. B. H. Wortham (Tr.) [?markxxx.xxx]7169
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Oct 1999 Christ in Flanders, by Honore de Balzac [flndrxxx.xxx]1940
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May 1999 Cousin Betty, by Honore de Balzac [cbttyxxx.xxx]1759
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Dec 1998 Adieu, by Honore de Balzac [#47][adieuxxx.xxx]1554
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Nov 1996 Emile Zola, by William Dean Howells [howells #5] [ezolaxxx.xxx] 728
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Jan 1994 Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass, a Slave [dugl2xxx.xxx] 99
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Mar 2001 Man of Property, by John Galsworthy[Forsyte#1JG#4][mnprpxxx.xxx]2559
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Mar 2005 Harold, by E. B. Lytton, Complete[BL#112][b112wxxx.xxx]7684
[Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton][Contains: EBooks #7672-7683]
Mar 2005 Harold, by E. B. Lytton, Book 12 [BL#111][b111wxxx.xxx]7683
Mar 2005 Harold, by E. B. Lytton, Book 11 [BL#110][b110wxxx.xxx]7682
Mar 2005 Harold, by E. B. Lytton, Book 10 [BL#109][b109wxxx.xxx]7681
Mar 2005 Harold, by E. B. Lytton, Book 9 [BL#108][b108wxxx.xxx]7680
Mar 2005 Harold, by E. B. Lytton, Book 8 [BL#107][b107wxxx.xxx]7679
Mar 2005 Harold, by E. B. Lytton, Book 7 [BL#106][b106wxxx.xxx]7678
Mar 2005 Harold, by E. B. Lytton, Book 6 [BL#105][b105wxxx.xxx]7677
Mar 2005 Harold, by E. B. Lytton, Book 5 [BL#104][b104wxxx.xxx]7676
Mar 2005 Harold, by E. B. Lytton, Book 4 [BL#103][b103wxxx.xxx]7675
Mar 2005 Harold, by E. B. Lytton, Book 3 [BL#102][b102wxxx.xxx]7674
Mar 2005 Harold, by E. B. Lytton, Book 2 [BL#101][b101wxxx.xxx]7673
Mar 2005 Harold, by E. B. Lytton, Book 1 [BL#100][b100wxxx.xxx]7672
Feb 2005 Images from Droz's M.M. and Bebe, by David Widger [dw59wxxh.zip]7575
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Jan 2005 William Tell Told Again, by P. G. Wodehouse [#24][?wtttxxx.xxx]7298
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Jan 2005 The Vedanta-Sutras, by Trans. George Thibaut [?sutrxxx.xxx]7297
[Full title: The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja]
Jan 2005 John M. Synge, by John Masefield [#3][syngexxx.xxx]7296
[Title: John M. Synge: A Few Personal Recollections, with Biographical Notes]
Jan 2005 A Woman's Life-Work, by Laura S. Haviland [wlwrkxxx.xxx]7295
Jan 2005 Battle Studies, by C. Ardant du Picq [?btstxxx.xxx]7294
[Author's Full Name: Colonel Charles-Jean-Jacques-Joseph Ardant du Picq]
[Subtitle: Ancient and Modern Battle]
[Tr.: Col. John N. and Major Robert C. Cotton Greely]
[Plain text in 7btst10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8btst10.txt/.zip]
Jan 2005 The Opium Habit, by Horace B. Day [?opimxxx.xxx]7293
Jan 2005 The Two Paths, by John Ruskin [?ttpaxxx.xxx]7291
[Plain text in 7ttpa10.txt/.zip, [8-bit version in 8ttpa10.txt/.zip]
Jan 2005 Han shi wai chuan, by Song yu, Complete [#6][?han0xxx.xxx]7290
[Language: Chinese][Includes: Etext#7285-7289]
Jan 2005 Han shi wai chuan, by Song yu, Vol. 9-10 [#5][?han9xxx.xxx]7289
Jan 2005 Han shi wai chuan, by Song yu, Vol. 7-8 [#4][?han7xxx.xxx]7288
Jan 2005 Han shi wai chuan, by Song yu, Vol. 5-6 [#3][?han5xxx.xxx]7287
Jan 2005 Han shi wai chuan, by Song yu, Vol. 3-4 [#2][?han3xxx.xxx]7286
Jan 2005 Han shi wai chuan, by Song yu, Vol. 1-2 [#1][?han1xxx.xxx]7285
[Language: Chinese]
Jan 2005 Short Stories and Selections, Emilie Kip Baker [shstoxxx.xxx]7283
[Full Title: Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools]
[Compiled and Annotated by Emilie Kip Baker]
Jan 2005 The Captiva and The Mostellaria, by Plautus [camosxxx.xxx]7282
Jan 2005 Tom Cringle's Log, by Michael Scott [tcrinxxx.xxx]7281
Jan 2005 My Boyhood, by John Burroughs [?mbhdxxx.xxx]7280
[Additional author: Julian Burroughs]
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Jan 2005 Shopkeeper Turned Gentleman, Moli_re (Poquelin) [?brghxxx.xxx]7279
[Full title: The Shopkeeper Turned Gentleman (Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme)]
Jan 2005 Horace, by Theodore Martin [?hrcexxx.xxx]7278
Jan 2005 Green Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang, Ed. [?gfryxxx.xxx]7277
Jan 2005 Hamlet, by William Shakespeare [#26][?gs26xxx.xxx]7276
[Full title: Hamlet, Prinz von Dannemark] [Language: German]
Jan 2005 Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry, by T.S. Eliot [?epndxxx.xxx]7275
Jan 2005 Poets of the South, by F.V.N. Painter [?posoxxx.xxx]7274
[Subtitle: A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies with Typical Poems,
Annotated]
[Plain text in 7poso10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8poso10.txt/.zip]
Jan 2005 Sou Shen Ji, volume 18-20, 300 A.D., by Bao Gan [ss18jxxx.xxx]7273
[Language: Chinese][Character set encoding: BIG-5]
Jan 2005 Sou Shen Ji, volume 15-17, 300 A.D., by Bao Gan [ss15jxxx.xxx]7272
[Language: Chinese][Character set encoding: BIG-5]
Jan 2005 Sou Shen Ji, volume 11-14, 300 A.D., by Bao Gan [ss11jxxx.xxx]7271
[Language: Chinese][Character set encoding: BIG-5]
Jan 2005 Sou Shen Ji, volume 04-10, 300 A.D., by Bao Gan [ss04jxxx.xxx]7270
[Language: Chinese][Character set encoding: BIG-5]
Jan 2005 Macbeth, by William Shakespeare [#34][?gs34xxx.xxx]7269
[Tr.: Christoph Martin Wieland][Language: German]
[7-bit version in 7gs3410a.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8gs3410a.txt/.zip]
Jan 2005 Monsieur Bergeret a Paris, by Anatole France [mnsrbxxx.xxx]7268
[Subtitle: Histoire Contemporaine][Author AKA: Jacques Anatole Thibault]
[Language: French]
Jan 2005 Cardello, by Luigi Capuana [?crdlxxx.xxx]7267
[Language: Italian]
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Jan 2005 Gsou shen hou ji, by Gao qian [?gsouxxx.xxx]7266
[Language: Chinese]
Jan 2005 History of Pendennis, by William M. Thackeray [pendnxxx.xxx]7265
Jan 2005 Ein St. Johannis Nachts-Traum, W. Shakespeare[#17][?gs17xxx.xxx]7264
[Full title: Ein St. Johannis Nachts-Traum (A Midsummer Night's Dream)]
[Full author: William Shakespeare] [Language: German]
Jan 2005 Le Mariage de Loti, by Pierre Loti [#10][?mlotxxx.xxx]7263
[Language: French]
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[HTML version in 8mlot10h.htm and 8mlot10h.zip]
Jan 2005 The Country Housewife, by Richard Bradley [hwifexxx.xxx]7262
[Full title: The Country Housewife and Lady's Director In the Management
of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm]
Jan 2005 Siksha-Patri, by Professor Monier Williams (Tr.) [?skptxxx.xxx]7261
[Full title: The Siksha-Patri of the Swami-Narayana Sect]
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Apr 2003 The Dance of Life, by Havelock Ellis [030067xx.xxx]0216A
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Apr 2003 The Devil's Guard, by Talbot Mundy [030066xx.xxx]0215A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300661.txt or .ZIP]
Apr 2003 Nature in Downland, by W H Hudson [030065xx.xxx]0214A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300651.txt or .ZIP]
Apr 2003 A Hind in Richmond Park, by W H Hudson [030064xx.xxx]0213A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300641.txt or .ZIP]
Apr 2003 A Search for America, by Frederick Philip Grove [030063xx.xxx]0212A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300631.txt or .ZIP]
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5) This week in history
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April
9th Jacques Futrelle, Elias Lonnrot, Charles Baudelaire(1), Maria
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10th Joseph Pulitzer, Pertti Pasanen
11th Attila Josef
12th Leslie Charteris, Elechi Amadi
13th Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, Georg Lukacs
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15th Henry James(2), Thomas Transtromer
Deaths
1984 Basil Henry Blackwell, publisher
1987 Primo Levi
1987 Erskine Caldwell
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6) Headline News from around the world
ONLINE WIRETAPPING POSES LEGAL, TECHNICAL OBSTACLES
As the Internet telephony market expands, law enforcement officials are
facing both legal and technical hurdles as they seek to block the emerging
services from becoming a haven for criminals and terrorists. The FBI wants
regulators to affirm that tapping into Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
networks is covered under the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law
Enforcement Act, and is also pushing the industry to create technical
standards that would make such wiretaps easier and cheaper. Because VoIP is
so new, standards don't yet exist for setting up networks, but several
groups, including the Telecommunications Industry Association, are working
on them. "We're seeing major changes in the network, and we are trying to
be ahead of the curve," says the FBI's unit chief for electronic
surveillance. Privacy advocates, on the other hand, fear that because of
the nature of the technology, tapping into the data stream for voice would
also possibly retrieve more than what the court ordered, including people's
e-mail and other digital communications. (AP 3 Apr 2003)
http://news.excite.com/tech/index/id/technology
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MICROWAVE DOUBLES AS FRIDGE WHILE YOU'RE AT WORK
Descriptions of futuristic remote-controlled kitchen appliances have always
seemed a little impractical because it's unsafe to leave your dish
unrefrigerated all day before cooking it in time for dinner. But a company
called Tonight's Menu Intelligent Ovens has solved that dilemma with a
refrigerated microwave that can be controlled by a cell phone or over the
Internet. The company has unveiled a prototype to demonstrate the
technology, using what is called a Peltier cooling device. "It has two
plates of metal over which you pass an electrical current and it either
heats or cools," says TMIO president David Mansbery. "It was somewhat of a
dumb appliance until we put our chips in it and turned it into a smart
appliance." The company uses the same embedded Web technology developed by
NASA to control its experiments without the need for a built-in computer in
every device. TMIO plans to build the ovens itself and sell them over the
Web. The first appliances should be commercially available by the end of
the year priced at about $2,000. (BBC News 6 Apr 2003)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2921413.stm
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PRIVACY ACT OF 2003 INTRODUCED IN SENATE
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has introduced legislation known as
the Privacy Act of 2003 (S.745) to safeguard privacy rights and help
prevent the increase in identity theft and other abuses of personal
information. The bill seeks to establish a national standard to protect
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Internet News, 3 April 2003
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NATIONAL ARCHIVE DOCUMENTS GO ONLINE
Fifty million historical records in the National Archives are now
available online. Instead of visiting the Archives or requesting
records by phone, researchers, genealogists, and others can now search
for records ranging from the details of battles to immigration
information remotely and free of charge. Veterans in particular are
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integrity, the records from the different agencies have not been
altered, so some contain typographical and historical errors.
Associated Press, 4 April 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/840830p-5910961c.html
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