The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter December 10, 2003
eBooks Readable By Both Humans and Computers For Since 1971
Part 2
In this week's Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter:
1) Editorial
2) News and Comment
3) Notes and Queries, Reviews and Features
4) Mailing list information
Editorial
Hello,
Right, where is it? Who's got my Kool and the Gang CD? Ah! Here it
is. Turn it up to 11 please. That's it. And...
"Celebrate good times, come on"
You'll have to provide your own music I'm afraid, and I hope your
singing is better then mine. Here we are at December 10th and just
look at what we have achieved. So it's time to have some fun, let your
hair down (I'm assuming you have hair*) and relax.
There are various get-togethers planned for both PGers and DPers
alike, see below for more details. If you can't get to one of those
then maybe like me you'll be logging on to DP instead for a cyber
get-together
One essential thing to help you celebrate is Joel Erickson's latest
creation. Joel has been working on music files for a while now and has
this week submitted the Project Gutenberg Fanfare! Dedicated to 'the
public domain and PG's 10,000 book achievement'. Joel's fanfare will
be posted live during events this week and I'm sure you'll agree this
is a marvellous way to celebrate.
* Please don't mail us to let us know, we are quite satisfied with
ignorance on this particular point.
Happy reading,
Alice
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Walpole. In the preface Walpole explains that the book is the authors'
attempt at a school-story.Indeed, a quotation from Tom Brown's
Schooldays appears just above this sentence. The author states that he
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attempting sentimentality. You can find the book through the Project
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As mentioned in this weeks ebook listing (part 3)
The Life of Lord Byron, by John Galt - 10421
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/2/10421 ]
[Files: 10421.txt; 10421.zip; 10421-h.htm; 10421-h.zip ]
For those wishing to know: Scottish author John Galt (wrote Annals of the
Parish etc) met and became friends with Byron. This biography, whilst dealing
with the key events in Byron's life, aims more to paint a picture of the
development of Byron's mind.
Scientific Essays and Lectures, by Charles Kingsley 10427
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/2/10427 ]
[Files: 10427.txt; 10427.zip; 10427-h.htm; 10427-h.zip ]
For those wishing to know: a few odds and ends essays and lectures by Rev.
Charles Kingsley on science. He was very keen on geology and natural history
generally and almost all of the essays cover these areas.
For the terminally keen: I'm using a "Collected Works" edition for this and
most of the other Kingsley ones I've done. This one, in the Collected Works,
also contained "Town Geology" - which was a separate book by Kingsley but
which, to pad this particular volume, Macmillan included in the Scientific
Essays volume. I've released "Town Geology" separately (because anyone
following a bibliography will expect to see it as such). I've not re-included
it in this eBook but have put an explanatory footnote in the book to explain
this.
With thanks to David Widger
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Distributed Proofreaders Update for December 10, 2003
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3) Notes and Queries, Reviews and Features
Newsletter Cookery Club
Greetings again. Did anyone try one of those recipes from Simple
Italian Cookery? I tried the Chestnuts "Alla Lucifero." This was the
first time I ever deliberately set food on fire as part of the recipe
(we won't talk about those other times when I did it by
accident). Such a pretty blue flame. The taste was interesting, but I
think I prefer the traditional "roasted on an open fire" flavor.
Before proceeding to this week's menu, I would like to reply to the
comment made by a correspondent last week, summarized thus by the
editor in the previous issue:
"We received a note here this week about our starting the cookery
club. It was pointed out that we were perhaps, trying to achieve
something that is not possible, i.e. the recreation of dishes whose
recipes were published in some cases over 100 years ago, when tastes
and ingredients were completely different from today's instant tv
dinners."
My response: Of course we can not replicate exactly the dishes of one
or two hundred or more years ago, but it's fun to try, and in doing so
we learn a little bit about life back then. And there is certainly a
general interest in the cooking of times past, as evidenced by the
books of "Grandmother's Recipes" and the "Olde Englishe Fudge" and so
on that is for sale in America, Britain, and doubtless other countries
as well. The reason I like old recipes is exactly because they can be
so different from what we're used to, and because they give us a
window into the past. The older the recipe, the better I like it. So
what if my milk is pasteurized and my flour doesn't contain weevils
and I'm not going to kill the chicken myself. This way I can get a
taste of the past without all the inconvenience our grandmothers had
to put up with.
On to this week's menu. As we are exploring our current collection of
cookery books, it becomes clear that the range is a bit limited in
certain ways. For instance, we thought of doing a menu for Eid, or a
menu for Hanukkuh, but we just didn't find the recipes in our existing
cookery books. There's a hint to anyone who would like to enrich and
expand our cookery collection in a different direction!
So, the next few menus are going to be heavily
Christmas-oriented. This week we are sampling some Christmas sweets.
From 365 Foreign Dishes
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/0/0/1/10011/10011-h/10011-h.htm
Hungarian Spice Cakes.
[These are not labeled "Christmas" cakes, but were suggested as a
December recipe, and certainly contain the traditional Christmas
ingredients.]
Sift 1 pound of flour; beat the yolks of 4 eggs with 1 pound of sugar;
add 1/2 ounce cinnamon, 1/2 ounce of ginger, 1/4 teaspoonful of
cloves, some grated lemon peel and a pinch of salt. Make all into a
dough and roll into small cakes about an inch in diameter. Put on
well-buttered baking-plates, sprinkled with flour, and bake in a
moderate oven until a rich brown. Serve with wine.
From Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext06/8loc410.txt
FRUIT CAKE
3/4 c. raisins
1/2 c. milk
3/4 c. currants
2 c. flour
1/2 c. finely cut citron
1/2 tsp. Soda
1/2 c. butter
1 tsp. Cinnamon
3/4 c. sugar
1/2 tsp. Allspice
2 eggs
1/4 tsp. Nutmeg
1/2 c. molasses
1/4 tsp. cloves
First prepare the fruits for the cake. Cream the butter, stir in the
sugar gradually, add the eggs unbeaten, and continue beating. Add the
molasses, milk, and flour with which the soda and spices have been
sifted, and then fold the fruits, which have been prepared, into this
mixture. Another way of adding the fruit is to pour a layer of the
cake mixture into the cake pan, sprinkle this generously with the
fruit, then another layer of dough and another layer of fruit, and
finally a layer of dough with just a little fruit sprinkled on
top. Whichever plan is followed, prepare the pan by covering the
bottom with 1/2 inch of flour and then placing a piece of greased
paper over this. This heavy layer of flour prevents the cake from
burning. Put the cake in a very moderate oven and bake for about 2
hours. If a fruit cake without a heavy crust is desired, the mixture
may be steamed for 3 hours in an ordinary steamer and then placed in
the oven just long enough to dry the surface.
CHRISTMAS PUDDING
(Sufficient to Serve Twelve)
2-1/2 c. stale bread crumbs
1/2 c. milk
1 c. beef suet
1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. molasses
2 eggs
1 c. chopped raisins
1/2 c. chopped citron
1/2 c. chopped nuts
1 c. flour
1/2 tsp. Soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. Salt
1/3 c. fruit juice
Soak the bread crumbs in the milk. Work the suet with the hands until
it is creamy, and to it add the sugar, molasses, and well-beaten
eggs. Mix with the milk and bread crumbs, and add the fruit and
nuts. Mix the dry ingredients and sift them into the mixture. Add the
fruit juice, turn into a buttered mold, and steam for 3 hours. Serve
hot with hard sauce or any other desired sauce.
From Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry Cakes, and Sweetmeats, by Miss Leslie
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext04/svfvr10.txt
GINGERBREAD NUTS
Two pounds of flour, sifted.
One pound of fresh butter.
One quart of sugar-house molasses.
Two ounces of ginger, or more, if it is not very strong.
Twelve dozen grains of allspice, powdered and sifted
Six dozen cloves, powdered and sifted.
Half an ounce of cinnamon, powdered and sifted.
A half tea-spoonful of pearl-ash or salaeratus, dissolved in a little vinegar.
Cut up the butter in the flour, and mix it with the ginger and other
spice. Wet the whole with the molasses, and stir all well together
with a knife. Then add the dissolved pearl-ash or salaeratus. Throw
some flour on your paste-board, take the dough (a large handful at a
time) and knead it in separate cakes. Then put all together, and knead
It very hard for a long time, in one large lump. Cut the lump in half,
roll it out in two even sheets, about half an inch thick, and cut it
out in little cakes, with a very small tin, about the size of a
cent. Lay them in buttered pans, and bake them in a moderate oven,
taking care they do not scorch, as gingerbread is more liable to burn
than any other cake, You may, if you choose, shape the gingerbread
nuts, by putting flour in your hand, taking a very small piece of the
dough, and rolling it into a little round ball.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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Quiz: From The First 100 Etexts
Project Gutenberg's first 100 etexts were added slowly and
laboriously, and include some classics of literature and historical
documents. A random sample of ten of these is listed below. Try to
match the first lines with the titles. (These should be pretty easy!)
Titles:
1. The Declaration of Independence (etext #1)
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext90/when12.txt
2. The Gettysburg Address of Abraham Lincoln (etext #4)
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext90/getty11.txt
3. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll (etext #11)
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext91/alice30.txt
4. Paradise Lost, by John Milton (etext #20)
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext91/plboss10.txt
5. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (etext #23)
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext92/duglas11.txt
6. The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (etext #33)
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext92/scrlt12.txt
7. Song of the Lark, by Willa Cather (etext #44)
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext92/song10.txt
8. Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (etext #57)
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext93/alad10.txt
9. The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels (etext #61)
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext93/manif12.txt
10. A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens (etext #98)
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext94/2city12.txt
First Lines:
a. There once lived a poor tailor, who had a son called Aladdin, a
careless, idle boy who would do nothing but play all day long in the
streets with little idle boys like himself.
b. Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit
Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast
Brought Death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of EDEN, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,
Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top
Of OREB, or of SINAI, didst inspire
That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed,
In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth
Rose out of CHAOS:
c. Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the
Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying
overnight in Moonstone.
d. Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this
continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal.
e. A throng of bearded men, in sad-coloured garments and grey
steeple-crowned hats, inter-mixed with women, some wearing hoods, and
others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the
door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron
spikes.
f. Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on
the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped
into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or
conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice,
'without pictures or conversation?'
g. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age
of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief,
it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was
the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter
of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we
were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other
way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that
some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for
good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
h. When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one
people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with
another, and to assume, among the Powers of the earth, the separate
and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God
entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires
that they should declare the causes which impel them to the
separation.
i. A spectre is haunting Europe -- the spectre of Communism.
j. I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles
from Easton, in Talbot county, Maryland.
Tonya Allen
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Credits
I know we didn't include any credits last week, although I suspect
this was probably the smallest of our errors. This now leaves me with
a list of people to thank that would put an Oscar winner to shame, but
here goes.
Thanks to Brett and George for the numbers and the booklists, Thierry,
Gali, Tonya, Greg 'structure guy' Newby, Michael Hart, Larry
Wall, Steve Herber and Jon Hagerson. Thanks also to Branko Collin and
Michael Dyck for their help with the website. A huge thank you to
Brett Fishburne for his help with the automation, Nick Park and Peter
Hall for inspiration, and a special mention for Simon Kirke, Paul
Rodgers, Paul Kossoff and Andy Fraser for keeping me sane on Sunday.
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