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Recent Tendencies in Ethics, by William Ritchie Sorley 12492
[Subtitle: Three Lectures to Clergy Given at Cambridge]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/9/12492 ]
[Files: 12492.txt; 12492-8.txt; ]
Twelve Types, by G.K. Chesterton 12491
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/9/12491 ]
[Files: 12491.txt; 12491-8.txt; 12491-h.htm]
Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885, by Various 12490
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/9/12490 ]
[Files: 12490.txt; 12490-8.txt; 12490-h.htm]
L'art de la mise en scene, by L. Becq de Fouquieres 12489
[Subtitle: Essai d'esthetique theatrale]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/8/12489 ]
[Files: 12489-8.txt; 12489-h.htm]
Nouveaux contes extraordinaires, by Benedict H. Revoil 12488
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/8/12488 ]
[Files: 12488-8.txt]
A quoi tient l'amour?, by Emile Blemont 12487
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/8/12487 ]
[Files: 12487-8.txt]
Indian Nullification, by William Apes 12486
[Full title: Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of
Massachusetts Relative to the Marshpee Tribe: or, The Pretended Riot
Explained]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/8/12486 ]
[Files: 12486.txt; 12486-8.txt]
The Three Brides, by Charlotte M. Yonge 12485
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/8/12485 ]
[Files: 12485.txt; 12485-h.htm]
The Knave of Diamonds, by Ethel May Dell 12484
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/8/12484 ]
[Files: 12484.txt; 12484-8.txt; ]
Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character, by Edward Bannerman Ramsay 12483
[And a Memoir of Dean E. B. Ramsay by Cosmo Innes]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/8/12483 ]
[Files: 12483.txt; 12483-8.txt; 12483-h.htm; ]
The Mettle of the Pasture, by James Lane Allen 12482
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/8/12482 ]
[Files: 12482.txt; ]
Hero Tales of the Far North, by Jacob A. Riis 12481
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/8/12481 ]
[Files: 12481.txt; 12481-8.txt; 12481-h.htm; ]
Clairvoyance and Occult Powers, by Swami Panchadasi 12480
[Subtitle: Including Clairvoyance, Clairaudience, Premonition And
Impressions, Clairvoyant Psychometry, Clairvoyant Crystal-Gazing,
Distant Clairvoyance, Past Clairvoyance, Future Clairvoyance,
Second-Sight, Prevision, Clairvoyant Development, Astral-Body Traveling,
Astral-Plane Phenomena, Psychic Influence--Personal and Distant Psychic
Attraction, Psychic Healing, Telepathy, Mind-Reading, Thought
Transference, and Other Psychic Phenomena]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/8/12480 ]
[Files: 12480.txt; 12480-h.htm; ]
San Zi Jing [220-581 A.D.], by Anonymous 12479
[Language: Chinese][Encoding: Big5]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/7/12479 ]
[Files: 12479.txt; 12479-8.txt]
Books and Characters, by Lytton Strachey 12478
[Subtitle: French and English]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/7/12478 ]
[Files: 12478.txt; 12478-8.txt; 12478-h.htm]
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, by Various 12477
[Subtitle: Volume 13, No. 356, Saturday, February 14, 1829]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/7/12477 ]
[Files: 12477.txt; 12477-8.txt; 12477-h.htm]
Ships That Pass In The Night, by Beatrice Harraden 12476
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/7/12476 ]
[Files: 12476.txt; 12476-8.txt]
Fires of Driftwood, by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay 12475
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/7/12475 ]
[Files: 12475.txt; 12475-h.htm]
Write It Right, by Ambrose Bierce 12474
[Subtitle: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/7/12474 ]
[Files: 12474.txt; 12474-8.txt; 12474-h.htm]
German Classics of the 19th & 20th Centuries, Vol. VI, Ed. by Francke 12473
[Title: The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,
Vol. VI]
[Subtitle: Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English.
In Twenty Volumes.]
[Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke]
[Contibutors: Heinrich Heine, Franz Grillparzer, Ludwig Van Beethoven]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/7/12473 ]
[Files: 12473.txt; 12473-8.txt]
Bataille De Dames, by Eugene Scribe and Ernest Legouve 12472
[With Introduction, Notes, and Vocabulary by Benj. W. Wells]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/7/12472 ]
[Files: 12472.txt; 12472-8.txt; 12472-h.htm]
What I Remember, Volume 2, by Thomas Adolphus Trollope 12471
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/7/12471 ]
[Files: 12471.txt; 12471-8.txt; ]
A Perilous Secret, by Charles Reade 12470
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/7/12470 ]
[Files: 12470.txt; 12470-8.txt]
Punch, Vol. 99, November 8, 1890, Ed. by Sir Francis Burnand 12469
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/6/12469 ]
[Files: 12469.txt; 12469-8.txt; 12469-h.htm]
Punch, Vol. 99, October 11, 1890, Ed. by Sir Francis Burnand 12467
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/6/12467 ]
[Files: 12467.txt; 12467-8.txt; 12467-h.htm]
Punch, Vol. 99, September 20, 1890, Ed. by Sir Francis Burnand 12466
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/6/12466 ]
[Files: 12466.txt; 12466-8.txt; 12466-h.htm]
Punch, Vol. 146, January 21, 1914, Ed. by Owen Seaman 12465
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/6/12465 ]
[Files: 12465.txt; 12465-8.txt; 12465-h.htm]
Messages and Papers of the Presidents: John Tyler, Ed. by Richardson 12464
[Title: A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents,
Vol. 4, Part 2 of 3, John Tyler]
[Edited by James D. Richardson]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/6/12464 ]
[Files: 12464.txt; 12464-8.txt; 12464-h.htm]
Messages and Papers of the Presidents: James Knox Polk, by Richardson 12463
[Title: A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents,
Vol. 4, Part 3 of 3, James Knox Polk]
[Edited by James D. Richardson]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/6/12463 ]
[Files: 12463.txt; 12463-8.txt; 12463-h.htm]
Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Abraham Lincoln, by Richardson 12462
[Title: A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents,
Vol. 6, Part 1 of 2, Abraham Lincoln]
[Edited by James D. Richardson]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/6/12462 ]
[Files: 12462.txt; 12462-8.txt; 12462-h.htm]
Castles in the Air, by Baroness Emmuska Orczy 12461
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/6/12461 ]
[Files: 12461.txt; 12461-8.txt]
Pomona's Travels, by Frank R. Stockton 12460
[Subtitle: A Series of Letters to the Mistress of Rudder Grange
from her Former Handmaiden]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/6/12460 ]
[Files: 12460.txt; 12460-8.txt; 12460-h.htm]
Contes et poesies de Prosper Jourdan: 1854-1866, by Prosper Jourdan 12459
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/5/12459 ]
[Files: 12459.txt; 12459-8.txt]
The Talisman, by George Borrow 12458
[Subtitle: From the Russian of Alexander Pushkin. With Other Pieces]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/5/12458 ]
[Files: 12458.txt; 12458-h.htm ]
El Diablo Cojuelo, by Luis Velez de Guevara 12457
[Prologo y Notas de Francisco Rodriguez Marin
[Language: Spanish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/5/12457 ]
[Files: 12457.txt; 12457-8.txt; 12457-h.htm]
The Troubadours, by H.J. Chaytor 12456
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/5/12456 ]
[Files: 12456.txt; 12456-8.txt; 12456-h.htm]
Legends of the Middle Ages, by H.A. Guerber 12455
[Subtitle: Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/5/12455 ]
[Files: 12455.txt; 12455-8.txt]
France At War, by Rudyard Kipling 12454
[Subtitle: On the Frontier of Civilization]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/5/12454 ]
[Files: 12454.txt]
Miriam Monfort, by Catherine A. Warfield 12453
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/5/12453 ]
[Files: 12453.txt; 12453-8.txt; 12453-h.htm]
Fort Lafayette or, Love and Secession, by Benjamin Wood 12452
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/5/12452 ]
[Files: 12452.txt; 12452-8.txt; 12452-h.htm]
De profundis! by Carolus [Charles-Auguste Durand] 12451
[Subtitle: Episode Maritime] [Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/5/12451 ]
[Files: 12451.txt; 12451-8.txt]
The Reason Why, by Elinor Glyn 12450
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/5/12450 ]
[Files: 12450.txt; 12450-8.txt; 12450-h.htm]
A Reputed Changeling, by Charlotte M. Yonge 12449
[Subtitle: Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/4/12449 ]
[Files: 12449.txt; 12449-h.htm ]
L'Orco, by George Sand 12448
[Author AKA: Aurore Dupin; Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/4/12448 ]
[Files: 12448-8.txt; ]
Pauline, by George Sand 12447
[Author AKA: Aurore Dupin; Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/4/12447 ]
[Files: 12447-8.txt; ]
Il Designato, by Luciano Zuccoli [AKA: Luciano Von Ingenheim] 12446
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/4/12446 ]
[Files: 12446-8.txt; ]
The Water-Witch, or, The Skimmer of the Seas, by James Fenimore Cooper 12445
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/4/12445 ]
[Files: 12445.txt; 12445-8.txt; 12445-h.htm]
Toaster's Handbook, compiled by Peggy Edmund & Harold W. Williams 12444
[Subtitle: Jokes Stories, and Quotations]
[Introductions by Mary Katharine Reely]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/4/4/12444 ]
[Files: 12444.txt; 12444-8.txt; 12444-h.htm]
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David Price, in "Cloudy England", sends along these notes about #12458
"The Talisman":
For those wishing to know: George Borrow, English traveller and polyglot
had been sent to Russia ("I possess some acquaintance with the Russian")
by the British Bible Society in order to supervise the production of a
Manchu (Chinese, he'd learnt that a few months before) Bible. The Talisman
is one of the two books he produced (and printed) whilst in Russia. It's
very short - just five translations of Russian poems. George wasn't a
good poet but what they lack in polish they make up for in spirit. The
book's important because of its place in George's life - rather than its
content.
This book is extremely rare - even in reprints. My own copy is a reprint
of 1913, part of a small print run. It cost me very serious money!
Those wishing to know more of George and his strange life can read all
about it in Herbert Jenkins' "The Life of George Borrow" - eText 3481.
. . .
Later, when it was just "Overcast England", he sent along this brief note
about #12485 "The Three Brides", by Charlotte M. Yonge:
For those wishing to know: Mrs. Charnock Poynsett, a rich widow, has four sons.
For reasons unknown three get married at the same time, and bring their
wives back to the family home. The story follows the brothers, wives, Mrs.
Poynsett and various other characters as the situation works itself out.
. . .
And the irrepressible Jim Tinsely, regarding eBook #12461, "Castles in
the Air", by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, commented thusly:
Seven stories about an amiable rogue whose schemes never turn out quite as
he expects.
. . .
Your whimsical editor would like to recommend #12474, "Write It Right",
by Ambrose Bierce; subtitled "A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults".
Possibly parts are a tad bit out of date, but still worth perusing and
considering, and, if nothing else, the pithy passages therein will be
entertaining.
. . .
--[Space available for comments on current postings, as above, at the whim
of the Whimsical Editor.]--
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