The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter December 5, 2003
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Feb 1995 Tao/Dao Te/h King/Ching, by Lao Tzu [Hsuan Chiao] [taotexxx.xxx] 216
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Feb 1995 Tao Teh King, by Lao-Tse [Hsuan Chiao] [taotexxx.xxx] 216
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[Author AKA: Lao Tzu; Laozi]
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[Title AKA: Tao te ching]
[Author AKA: Lau-tzu; Laozi]
[Language: Chinese]
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La Fiammetta, by Giovanni Boccaccio 10006
[Tr.: James C. Brogan]
Oct 2004 The Poetics (On the Art of Poetry), Aristotle [poetixxx.xxx] 6763
[Tr: Ingram Bywater]
[See also: #1974]
Oct 2002 Fabre, Poet of Science, by G. V. (C. V.) Legros [fbrpsxxx.xxx] 3489
[Tr.: Bernard Miall]
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[Often listed as J. H. Fabre or J. Henri Fabre or [J. H.] Henri Fabre]
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Apr 1998 Tales from Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb [tshakxxa.xxx] 1286
Jun 1996 Tales from Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb [tshakxxx.xxx] 573
The following are being re-indexed to included subtitles:
The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck, by James Branch Cabell 10041
[Subtitle: A Comedy of Limitations]
Wild Northern Scenes, by S. H. Hammond 10009
[Subtitle: Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod]
The following has been re-posted in a corrected 11th edtion:
Jul 2003 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce[#3][prtrtxxx.xxx] 4217
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American Indian stories, by Zitkala-Sa 10376
[Author AKA: Gertrude Bonnin]
[Files: 10376.txt; 10376-8.txt]
England's Antiphon, by George MacDonald 10375
[Files: 10375.txt; 10375-8.txt]
The Ramblin' Kid, by Earl Wayland Bowman 10374
[Files: 10374.txt; 10374-8.txt]
The Middle Temple Murder, by J.S. Fletcher 10373
[Files: 10373.txt; 10373-8.txt]
Bunch Grass, by Horace Annesley Vachell 10372
[Subtitle: A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch]
[Files: 10372.txt; 10372-8.txt]
The Cinema Murder, by E. Phillips Oppenheim 10371
Sustained honor, by John R. Musick 10370
[Subtitle: The Age of Liberty Established]
[Files: 10370.txt; 10370-h.htm]
Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel,John Yeardley 10369
[Files: 10369.txt; 10369-8.txt]
The Vizier of the Two-Horned Alexander, by Frank R. Stockton 10368
[Files: 10368.txt; 10368-h.htm]
Poems, by Sir John Carr 10367
[Files: 10367.txt; 10367-8.txt]
Freedom's Battle, by Mahatma Gandhi 10366
[Subtitle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches
on the Present Situation]
[Files: 10366.txt; 10366-h.htm]
Precaution, by James Fenimore Cooper 10365
[Files: 10365.txt; 10365-8.txt; 10365-h.htm]
Yeast: A Problem, by Charles Kingsley 10364
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/6/10364 ]
[Files: 10364.txt; 10364.zip; 10364-h.htm; 10364-h.zip ]
The Bravo, by J. Fenimore Cooper 10363
[Files: 10363.txt; 10363-8.txt; 10363-h.htm]
Sketches of the East Africa Campaign, by Robert Valentine Dolbey 10362
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/6/10362 ]
[Files: 10362.txt; 10362.zip; 10362-8.txt; 10362-8.zip; 10362-h.htm;
10362-h.zip; ]
The Creative Process in the Individual, by Thomas Troward 10361
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/6/10361 ]
[Files: 10361.txt; 10361.zip; 10361-8.txt; 10361-8.zip; 10361-h.htm;
10361-h.zip; ]
Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories, by Louisa M. Alcott 10360
[Author AKA: Louisa May Alcott]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/6/10360 ]
[Files: 10360.txt; 10360.zip; 10360-8.txt; 10360-8.zip; ]
Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville, by Edith Van Dyne 10359
[Author AKA: L. Frank Baum]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/5/10359 ]
[Files: 10359.txt; 10359.zip; ]
The Boss of Little Arcady, by Harry Leon Wilson 10358
[Files: 10358.txt; 10358-8.txt; 10358-h.htm]
Life Of Johnson, Volume 4 (of 6), by Boswell 10357
[Files: 10357.txt; 10357-8.txt; 10357-h.htm]
Travels in Morocco, Vol. 2., by James Richardson 10356
[Files: 10356.txt; 10356-8.txt]
Travels in Morocco, Vol. 1., by James Richardson 10355
[Files: 10355.txt; 10355-8.txt]
Die Laune des Verliebten, by J.W. Goethe 10354
[Language: German]
[Files: 10354.txt; 10354-8.txt]
Satyros oder Der Vergoetterte Waldteufel, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 10353
[Title AKA English: Goethe's Satyros and Prometheus]
[Language: German]
[Files: 10353.txt, 10353-8.txt, 10353.zip, 10353-8.zip]
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 11., by Samuel Johnson 10352
[Subtitle: Parliamentary Debates II.]
[Files: 10352.txt; 10352-8.txt; 10352-h.htm]
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 10., by Samuel Johnson 10351
[Subtitle: Parliamentary Debates I.]
[Files: 10351.txt; 10351-8.txt; 10351-h.htm]
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 6, by Samuel Johnson 10350
[Subtitle: Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons]
[Files: 10350.txt; 10350-8.txt; 10350-h.htm]
Naar het middelpunt der Aarde, by Jules Gabriel Verne 10349
[Language: Dutch]
[Files: 10349.txt; 10349-8.txt]
Audio: Bad Medicine, by Robert Sheckley 10347C
[Also see eBook #9055]
C'Etait ainsi..., by Cyriel Buysse 10346
[Language: French]
[Files: 10346.txt; 10346-8.txt]
Domestic Manners of the Americans, by Fanny Trollope 10345
[Author AKA: Frances Milton Trollope 1780-1863]
[Note: Mother of Anthony Trollope]
Autumn Anthem, by Joel A. Erickson (Musical score) 10344C
[Musical score in Sibelius' .sib format]
[Files: 10344-readme.txt 10344-h.htm 10344-sib.sib]
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2, by Charles Lamb 10343
[Subtitle: Elia; and The Last Essays of Elia]
[Editor: E. V. Lucas]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/4/10343 ]
[Files: 10343.txt; 10343.zip; 10343-8.txt; 10343-8.zip; ]
The Velvet Glove, by Henry Seton Merriman 10342
[Author AKA: Hugh Stowell Scott]
[Files: 10342.txt; 10342-8.txt; 10342-h.htm]
Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 21, Editor: Charles F. Horne 10341
[Subtitle: The Recent Days (1910-1914)]
[Files: 10341.txt; 10341-8.txt]
Dab Kinzer, by William O. Stoddard 10340
[Subtitle: A Story of a Growing Boy]
[Files: 10340.txt]
An Antarctic Mystery, by Jules Verne 10339
[Translated by Mrs. Cashel Hoey]
[Files: 10339-h.htm]
With the Turks in Palestine, by Alexander Aaronsohn 10338
[Files: 10338.txt; 10338-8.txt; 10338-h.htm]
Lady Into Fox, by David Garnett 10337
[HTML files include images.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/3/10337 ]
[Files: 10337.txt; 10337.zip; 10337-h.htm; 10337-h.zip; ]
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edn.), Various 10336
[Subtitle: Originally published by Robert Dodsley in the Year 1744, Now
first chronologically arranged, revised and enlarged with the Notes of
all the Commentators, and new Notes; 1876.]
[Editor: Robert Dodsley]
[Contents:
Tancred and Gismunda, by Gentlemen of the Inner Temple
The Wounds of Civil War, by Thomas Lodge, Gent.
Mucedorus, by author unknown
The Two Angry Women of Abington, by Henry Porter, Gent.
Look about You, by unknown]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/3/10336 ]
[Files: 10336.txt; 10336.zip; 10336-8.txt; 10336-8.zip; ]
Children's Rights, by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith 10335
[Ed.: Kate Douglas Wiggin]
[Contents:
The Rights Of The Child
Children's Plays
Children's Playthings
What Shall Children Read?
Children's Stories. _Nora A. Smith_
The Relation Of The Kindergarten To Social Reform
How Shall We Govern Our Children? _Nora A. Smith_
The Magic Of "Together." _Nora A. Smith_.
The Relation Of The Kindergarten To The Public School
Other People's Children]
[Files: 10335.txt; 10335-8.txt]
Van 't viooltje dat weten wilde, by Maria Catherina Metz-Koning 10334
[Files: 10334.txt; 10334-8.txt]
[Language: Dutch]
The European Anarchy, by G. Lowes Dickinson 10333
[Files: 10333.txt; 10333-8.txt]
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, by Various 10332
[Subtitle: Volume XII. F, No. 325, August 2, 1828.]
[Files: 10332.txt; 10332-8.txt; 10332-h.htm]
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, by Various 10331
[Subtitle: Volume XII., No. 324, July 26, 1828]
[Files: 10331.txt; 10331-8.txt; 10331-h.htm]
Fruitfulness, by Emile Zola 10330
[Original title: Fecondite]
[Translated by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly]
[Files: 10330.txt]
Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes, by Laura Rountree Smith 10329
[Files: 10329.txt]
Poems, by Walter R. Cassels 10328
[Files: 10328.txt; 10328-8.txt]
Alias The Lone Wolf, by Louis Joseph Vance 10327
[Files: 10327.txt; 10327-8.txt; 10327-h.htm]
David, by Charles Kingsley 10326
[Subtitle: Five Sermons]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/2/10326 ]
[Files: 10326.txt; 10326.zip; 10326-h.htm; 10326-h.zip]
The Gospel of the Pentateuch, by Charles Kingsley 10325
[Subtitle: A Set of Parish Sermons]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/2/10325 ]
[Files: 10325.txt; 10325.zip; 10325-h.htm; 10325-h.htm]
Bull Hunter, by Max Brand 10324
[Author AKA: Frederick Faust]
[Files: 10324.txt]
The Rover Boys at College, by Edward Stratemeyer 10323
[Files: 10323.txt]
Miss Prudence, by Jennie Maria (Drinkwater) Conklin 10322
[Subtitle: A Story of Two Girls' Lives.]
[Files: 10322.txt; 10322-8.txt]
Dragon's blood, by Henry Milner Rideout 10321
[Files: 10321.txt; 10321-8.txt; 10321-h.htm]
Dotty Dimple at Play, by Sophie May 10320
[Files: 10320.txt]
Dave Darrin's Third Year at Annapolis, by H. Irving Hancock 10319
[Subtitle: Leaders of the Second Class Midshipmen]
[Files: 10319.txt]
Damon and Delia, by William Godwin 10318
[Subtitle: A Tale]
[Files: 10318.txt; 10318-8.txt; 10318-h.htm]
Betty Gordon at Boarding School, by Alice Emerson 10317
[Subtitle: The Treasure of Indian Chasm]
[Files: 10317.txt; 10317-8.txt]
Roy Blakeley's Adventures in Camp, by Percy Keese Fitzhugh 10316
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/1/10316 ]
[Files: 10316.txt; 10316.zip; ]
Persian Literature, V1, The Shah Nameh, Rubaiyat, Divan, Gulistan 10315
[Title: Persian Literature, Volume 1, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The
Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan]
[Author: Anonymous; special introduction by Richard J. H. Gottheil]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/1/10315 ]
[Files: 10315.txt; 10315.zip; 10315-8.txt; 10315-8.zip; ]
Sonnets, by Michael Angelo Buonarroti & Tommaso Campanella 10314
[Translator: John Addington Symonds]
[Files: 10314.txt; 10314-8.txt]
Audio: The Fifth Regiment March, by Issler's Orchestra 10313
[Author: Walter H. Miller (technician)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. March 1889 in West Orange, New Jersey or local vicinity]
[NPS: EDIS 564]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/1/10313 ]
[Files: 10313-m-readme.txt; 10313-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: The Pattison Waltz, by Effie Stewart (vocal) 10312
[Author: Theo Wangemann (piano)]
[Author: Theo Wangemann (technician)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded Feb 25, 1889 at The Edison Laboratory, West Orange, New Jersey]
[NPS: EDIS 565]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/1/10312 ]
[Files: 10312-m-readme.txt; 10312-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Around the World on the Phonograph, by Thomas A. Edison 10311
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Note: believed to be the earliest existing recording of Thomas Edison's
voice.]
[Recorded c. late Oct 1888 at West Organge, New Jersey or local vicinity]
[NPS: EDIS 566]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/1/10311 ]
[Files: 10311-m-readme.txt; 10311-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: After Dinner Toast at Little Menlo, by Arthur Sullivan 10310
[Author: Col. George Gouraud (Introduction)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded October 5, 1888 at Little Menlo, London, England]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/1/10310 ]
[Files: 10310-m-readme.txt; 10310-m-001.mp3; 10310.txt; 10310.zip; ]
Audio: The Lost Chord, by Arthur Sullivan (Composer) 10309
[Author: Performers Unknown]
[Author: Col. George Gouraud (technician)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. August 1888 at London, England]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/0/10309 ]
[Files: 10309-m-readme.txt; 10309-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Handel Festival, by August Manns (conductor) 10308
[Subtitle: Israel in Egypt (excerpt)]
[Author: George Frideric Handel (composer)]
[Author: Col. George Gouraud (technician)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Note: earliest known recorded music in existence; A chorus of 4000
voices recorded with phonograph over 100 yards away.]
[Recorded June 29, 1888 at the Crystal Palace, London, England]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/0/10308 ]
[Files: 10308-m-readme.txt; 10308-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: At the Moving Picture Ball, by Maurice Burkhart 10307
[Author: Joseph H. Santly (composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. 1920]
[NPS: EDIS 75987]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/0/10307 ]
[Files: 10307-m-readme.txt; 10307-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Moonlight Bay, by The Premier Quartet 10306
[Author AKA: The American Quartet]
[Author: Percy Wenrich (Composer); Edward Madden (Lyricist)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Note: Recorded c. 1915]
[Note: Robert D. Amour or John Young (first tenor); Billy Murray (second
tenor); Steve Porter (baritone); William F. Hooley (bass)]
[NPS: EDIS 40555]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/0/10306 ]
[Files: 10306-m-readme.txt; 10306-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Alexander's Ragtime Band, by Billy Murray 10305
[Author: Irving Berlin (Composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Note: Recorded c. November 1911]
[NPS: EDIS 36065]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/0/10305 ]
[Files: 10305-m-readme.txt; 10305-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Some of These Days, by Sophie Tucker 10304
[Subtitle: From Honky Tonk]
[Author: Shelton Brooks (Composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. June 1911]
[NPS: EDIS 35979]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/0/10304 ]
[Files: 10304-m-readme.txt; 10304-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Jere Sanford's Yodeling and Whistling Specialty, by Jere Sanford 10303
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. 1910]
[NPS: EDIS 36577]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/0/10303 ]
[Files: 10303-m-readme.txt; 10303-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Just Because She Made Dem Goo-Goo Eyes, by John Dobbs 10302
[Author: John Queen, Hughie Cannon (Composers)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded December 29, 1901]
[NPS: EDIS 4778]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/0/10302 ]
[Files: 10302-m-readme.txt; 10302-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder?, Edward M. Favor 10301
[Author: George L. Giefer (Composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. February 1901]
[NPS: EDIS 24893]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/0/10301 ]
[Files: 10301-m-readme.txt; 10301-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Snyder, Does Your Mother Know You're Out?, by George P. Watson 10300
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. July 1899]
[NPS: EDIS 4765]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/0/10300 ]
[Files: 10300-m-readme.txt; 10300-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Poet and Peasant Overture, by Eddie Peabody (banjo) 10299
[Author: Fanz von Suppe (Composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded on March 4, 1925]
[NPS: EDIS 42876]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/9/10299 ]
[Files: 10299-m-readme.txt; 10299-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Flow Gently Sweet Afton and Bonnie, Sweet Bonnie 10298
[Author: Robert Trucksess (American Guitar)]
[Author: J. E. Spilman (Composer, Flow...)]
[Author: J. L. B. Gilbert (Composer, Bonnie...)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded September 12, 1921]
[NPS: EDIS 42253]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/9/10298 ]
[Files: 10298-m-readme.txt; 10298-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Saxema, by Rudy Wiedoeft 10297
[Author: Rudy Wiedoeft (Composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. 1920]
[NPS: EDIS 68208]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/9/10297 ]
[Files: 10297-m-readme.txt; 10297-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, by Fisk University Jubilee Quartette 10296
[Author AKA: The Southern Four]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded December 7, 1921]
[NPS: EDIS 42717]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/6/10268 ]
[Files: 10268-m-readme.txt; 10268-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: The Band of Gideon, by Fisk University Jubilee Quartette 10295
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. 1912]
[NPS: EDIS 36410]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/6/10267 ]
[Files: 10267-m-readme.txt; 10267-m-001.mp3; ]
Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading, Horace Elisha Scudder, editor 10294
[Subtitle: Selected from English and American Literature]
[Files: 10294.txt]
Relacion historica de la rebelion de Tupac-Amaru, by Anonymous 10293
[Full title: Relacion historica de los sucesos de la rebelion de
Jose Gabriel Tupac-Amaru en las provincias del Peru, el ano de 1780]
[Files: 10293.txt; 10293-8.txt]
[Language: Spanish]
Punchinello, Vol. 2, No. 36, December 3, 1870, by Various 10292
[Files: 10292.txt; 10292-8.txt; 10292-h.htm]
In The Fourth Year, by H.G. Wells 10291
[Subtitle: Anticipations of a World Peace (1918)]
[Files: 10291.txt; 10291-8.txt]
Confession de Minuit, by Georges Duhamel 10290
[Subtitle: Roman]
[Files: 10290.txt; 10290-8.txt; 10290-h.htm]
[Language: French]
Le Chat du Neptune, by Ernest D'Hervilly 10289
[Files: 10289.txt; 10289-8.txt; 10289-h.htm]
[Language: French]
Audio: Ragtime Echoes, by Samuel Siegel (mandolin) 10288
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: Marie Caveny (ukelele)]
[Author: Samuel Siegel (Composer)]
[Recorded c. 1918]
[NPS: EDIS 76220]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/8/10288 ]
[Files: 10288-m-readme.txt; 10288-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: New York Blues, by Pietro Frosini (accordion) 10287
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: Pietro Frosini (Composer)]
[Recorded c. 1916]
[NPS: EDIS 41040]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/8/10287 ]
[Files: 10287-m-readme.txt; 10287-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Arbucklenian Polka, by Bohumir Kryl (coronet) 10286
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. January 1903]
[NPS: EDIS 37408]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/8/10286 ]
[Files: 10286-m-readme.txt; 10286-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Ma Rag Time Baby, by Peerless Orchestra 10285
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: Fred S. Stone (Composer)]
[Recorded c. 1903]
[NPS: EDIS 37289]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/8/10285 ]
[Files: 10285-m-readme.txt; 10285-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Spring of Love, by Jaudas (violin) 10284
[Author: Sam Ehrlich (composer)]
[Author: Eugene]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Flute: Louis Atz]
[Recorded c. 1903]
[NPS: EDIS 4791]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/8/10284 ]
[Files: 10284-m-readme.txt; 10284-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Dinah Polka, by Charles P. Lowe (xylophone) 10283
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. 1900]
[NPS: EDIS 4815]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/8/10283 ]
[Files: 10283-m-readme.txt; 10283-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Polish National Dance, by Charles D'Almaine (violin) 10282
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. 1900]
[NPS: EDIS 4788]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/8/10282 ]
[Files: 10282-m-readme.txt; 10282-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Antony's Address Over the Body of Caesar, by Harry E. Humphrey 10281
[Subtitle: Julius Caesar]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: William Shakespeare (Writer)]
[Recorded c. 1914]
[NPS: EDIS 40512]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/8/10281 ]
[Files: 10281-m-readme.txt; 10281-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: In de Mornin' and Jes Gib Him One Ob Mine, Edward Sterling Wright 10280
[Author: Paul Lawrence Dunbar (Writer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. April 1914]
[Note: Wright was an African-American actor educated at Emerson College
of Oratory in Boston. His recitations helped to introduce and puplarize
the works of African-American poet Dunbar.]
[NPS: EDIS 34435]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/8/10280 ]
[Files: 10280-m-readme.txt; 10280-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Len Spencer 10279
[Author: And Company]
[Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe (Writer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Subtitle: Entrance of Topsy]
[Recorded c. December 1910]
[NPS: EDIS 36848]
[See Also: eBook #203]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/7/10279 ]
[Files: 10279-m-readme.txt; 10279-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Sei Forse L'Angelo Fedele, by Claudia Muzio (soprano) 10278
[Author: Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Subtitle: Eugene Onegin]
[Recorded c. 1920]
[NPS: EDIS 44126]
[Language: Russian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/7/10278 ]
[Files: 10278-m-readme.txt; 10278-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Hallelujah Chorus, by Oratorio Chorus 10277
[Author: George Frideric Handel (Composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Subtitle: Messiah]
[Recorded c. 1916]
[NPS: EDIS 43552]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/7/10277 ]
[Files: 10277-m-readme.txt; 10277-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Gloria, by Gregorian Choir 10276
[Subtitle: The Twelfth Mass]
[Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. 1915]
[NPS: EDIS 43552]
[Language: Latin]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/7/10276 ]
[Files: 10276-m-readme.txt; 10276-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: La Gioconda, by Paola Koraleck 10275
[Author: Preste Benedetti]
[Author: Amilcare Ponchielli (Composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. July 1911]
[NPS: EDIS 83615]
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/7/10275 ]
[Files: 10275-m-readme.txt; 10275-m-001.mp3; ]
Sermons on Evil-Speaking, by Isaac Barrow 10274
[Editor: Henry Morley]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/7/10274 ]
[Files: 10274.txt; 10274.zip; 10274-h.htm, 10274-h.zip]
Audio: Ah! Fors' e Lui, by Lucrezia Bori (soprano) 10273
[Subtitle: La Traviata]
[Author: Giuseppe Verdi (Composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. August 1910]
[NPS: EDIS 87690-a]
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/7/10273 ]
[Files: 10273-m-readme.txt; 10273-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Sono Un Poeta, by Florencio Constantino (tenor) 10272
[Subtitle: La Boheme]
[Author: Giacomo Puccini (Composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. July 1908]
[NPS: EDIS 38051]
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/7/10272 ]
[Files: 10272-m-readme.txt; 10272-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Hochstes Vertrauen, by Heinrich Knote (tenor) 10271
[Subtitle: Lohengrin]
[Author: Richard Wagner (Composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. February 1906]
[NPS: EDIS 38238]
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/7/10271 ]
[Files: 10271-m-readme.txt; 10271-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: What Band Is This?, by Hann's Emperors of Song 10270
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison']
[Recorded January 4, 1926]
[NPS: EDIS 78332]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/7/10270 ]
[Files: 10270-m-readme.txt; 10270-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Pharoah's Army Got Drowned, by "Colored Quartet" (name unknown) 10269
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded July 9, 1924]
[NPS: EDIS 87051]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/6/10269 ]
[Files: 10269-m-readme.txt; 10269-m-001.mp3; ]
Patty at Home, by Carolyn Wells 10268
[Files: 10268.txt; 10268-8.txt]
The Outdoor Chums, by Captain Quincy Allen 10267
[Subtitle: The First Tour of the Rod, Gun and Camera Club]
[Files: 10267.txt]
The Glands Regulating Personality, by Louis Berman, M.D 10266
[Files: 10266.txt; 10266-8.txt]
Audio: Anssin Jukka Ja Harman Haat, by Otto Pyykkonen 10265
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded March 8, 1928]
[Language: Finnish]
[NPS: EDIS 44417]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/6/10265 ]
[Files: 10265-m-readme.txt; 10265-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Skamba Kankliah ir Trimintia, by Jouzas Suildauskas (baritonas) 10264
[Author: Mikas Petraushas (Composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded on May 22, 1925]
[Language: Lithuanian]
[NPS: EDIS 41305]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/6/10264 ]
[Files: 10264-m-readme.txt; 10264-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Envoyons d'l'avant nos gens!, by Charles Marchand (basse) 10263
[Subtitle: Folklore du Canada]
[Author: Harm, D'Amedee Tremblay (Composer)]
[Author: Ernest Patience (au piano)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded May 12, 1925]
[NPS: EDIS 44392]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/6/10263 ]
[Files: 10263-m-readme.txt; 10263-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Que Partes El Alma, by Juan de la Cruz (tenor) 10262
[Subtitle: Rumba Son]
[Author: Manuel Mendez (Composer)]
[Author: Bienvenido Leon (baritono)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded on September 29, 1924]
[NPS: EDIS 41247]
[Language: Spanish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/6/10262 ]
[Files: 10262-m-readme.txt; 10262-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: La Bella Cubano, by El Trio Cubano 10261
[Subtitle: Habenera]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded on September 18, 1924]
[Note: Violins and piano]
[NPS: EDIS 77575]
[Language: Spanish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/6/10261 ]
[Files: 10261-m-readme.txt; 10261-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Narodowe Melodye, by Aleksander Iwanowski (Harmonika) 10260
[Subtitle: Polka]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded on July 24, 1922]
[NPS: EDIS 71105]
[Language: Polish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/6/10260 ]
[Files: 10260-m-readme.txt; 10260-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Smes Esko - Slovackych Pisni, by Milan Lusk (houslove solo) 10259
[Subtitle: Cis 1]
[Author: Ludmila Vojackova (Wetche, klavirni doprovod)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. 1921]
[NPS: EDIS 41274]
[Language: Slovak]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/5/10259 ]
[Files: 10259-m-readme.txt; 10259-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Nataligino Kolo, by Jugoslavensko Tamburasko Drustvo 10258
[Author AKA: Jugo-Slav Tamburitza Orchestra (English Translation)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. 1920]
[NPS: EDIS 41283]
[Language: Hungarian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/5/10258 ]
[Files: 10258-m-readme.txt; 10258-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Mazel Tov, by I. J. Hochman's Yiddisher Orchester 10257
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded on December 11, 1918]
[NPS: EDIS 44419]
[Language: Yiddish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/5/10257 ]
[Files: 10257-m-readme.txt; 10257-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: O, Tannenbaum, by Nebe Quartett 10256
[Author: Richard Wagner (Composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. 1907]
[NPS: EDIS 38244]
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/5/10256 ]
[Files: 10256-m-readme.txt; 10256-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: La Paloma, by Banda de Zapadores de Mexico 10255
[Author: Sebastian Yradier (Composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded in July 1905]
[NPS: EDIS 38222]
[Language: Spanish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/5/10255 ]
[Files: 10255-m-readme.txt; 10255-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: The Birth of the Telephone, by Thomas A. Watson 10254
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. 1914 at the Edison Motion Picture Film Studio, Bronx, New
York]
[Note: The motion picture element of this sound film is believed lost.]
[NPS: EDIS 4634]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/5/10254 ]
[Files: 10254-m-readme.txt; 10254-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Andrew Carnegie, by Andrew Carnegie 10253
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: Daniel Higham (Director)]
[Recorded on January 20, 1914]
[Recorded at the Edison Motion Picture Film Studio, Bronx, New
York]
[Note: The motion picture element of this sound film is believed lost.]
[NPS: EDIS 4640]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/5/10253 ]
[Files: 10253-m-readme.txt; 10253-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: The Old Violin, by Daniel Higham (Director) 10252
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded January 1914 at the Edison Motion Picture Film Studio in Bronx,
New York]
[NPS: EDIS 4627]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/5/10252]
[Files: 10252-m-readme.txt; 10252-m-001.mp3; ]
Town Geology, by Charles Kingsley 10251
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/5/10251]
[Files: 10251.txt; 10251.zip; 10251-h.htm; 10251-h.zip]
Audio: The Five Bachelors, by Ramsay (Director) 10250
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded December 7, 1912 or February 16, 1913, at the Edison Motion
Picture Film Studio, Bronx, New York]
[NPS: EDIS 4632]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/5/10250]
[Files: 10250-m-readme.txt; 10250-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: The St. Louis Blues, by Frank Ferera 10249
[Author: W. C. Handy (Composer)]
[Author: John Paaluhi]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded on September 4, 1925]
[NPS: EDIS 78255]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/4/10249]
[Files: 10249-m-readme.txt; 10249-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Blues my Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me,by Raderman's Jazz Orchestra 10248
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. 1920]
[NPS: EDIS 76868]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/4/10248]
[Files: 10248-m-readme.txt; 10248-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Dixieland, by Lopez and Hamilton's Kings of Harmony 10247
[Subtitle: One-Step]
[Author: Dixieland Jazz Band (Composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. 1920]
[NPS: EDIS 76857]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/4/10247]
[Files: 10247-m-readme.txt; 10247-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Sensation Jazz, by The All Star Trio 10246
[Subtitle: One-Step]
[Author: Dixieland Jazz Band (Composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Note: saxophone, xylophone, and piano]
[Recorded c. 1919]
[NPS: EDIS 42041]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/4/10246]
[Files: 10246-m-readme.txt; 10246-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Jazz de Luxe, by Earl Fuller's Famous Jazz Band 10245
[Subtitle: Fox Trot]
[Author: Earl Fuller (Composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. 1919]
[NPS: EDIS 42041]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/4/10245]
[Files: 10245-m-readme.txt; 10245-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Johnson "jass" Blues, by Friscoe "Jass" Band 10244
[Subtitle: Fox Trot]
[Author: E. Arnold Johnson (Composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded on May 10, 1917]
[NPS: EDIS 41060]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/4/10244]
[Files: 10244-m-readme.txt; 10244-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Radio Program for WAAM, Newark, New Jersey, Scott (organ, vocal) 10243
[Author: Mr. Greenfield]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Organ and vocals by John A. Scott]
[Recorded April 12, 1928, at Columbia Street Studio, Edison Laboratory,
West Orange, New Jersey; this was an experimental slow speed (30 RPM)
record used for an experimental pre-recorded radio broadcast.]
[NPS: EDIS 78047]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/4/10243]
[Files: 10243-m-readme.txt; 10243-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Plaque No. 6, by Losey's Orchestra 10242
[Subtitle: Exp. No. 27, Recorder #20]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded December 16, 1925, at Columbia Street Studio, Edison Laboratory,
West Orange, New Jersey, with an experimental 125 ft long recording horn]
[NPS: EDIS 77947]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/4/10242]
[Files: 10242-m-readme.txt; 10242-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Plaque No. 2, by Losey's Orchestra 10241
[Subtitle: Exp. No. 5-6-7-8, Recorder #20]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded December 8, 1925, at Columbia Street Studio, Edison Laboratory,
West Orange, New Jersey, with an experimental 125 ft long recording horn.]
[NPS: EDIS 77879]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/4/10241]
[Files: 10241-m-readme.txt; 10241-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Plaque No. 1, by Losey's Orchestra 10240
[Subtitle: Exp. No. 1-2-3-4, Recorder #20]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded December 8, 1925, at Columbia Street Studio, Edison Laboratory,
West Orange, New Jersey, with an experimental 125 ft long recording horn.]
[NPS: EDIS 77879]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/4/10240]
[Files: 10240-m-readme.txt; 10240-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: 2nd Record, by Losey's Orchestra 10239
[Author: A. Paganucci (director)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded September 15, 1924 at the Columbia Street Studio, Edison
Laboratory, West Orange, New Jersey, using an experimental 125 foot
recording horn.]
[NPS: EDIS 87052]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/3/10239]
[Files: 10239-m-readme.txt; 10239-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Ediphone School Record No. 2, by Thomas A. Edison 10238
[Subtitle: 90 WPM-1]
[Recorded c. 1943]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/3/10238]
[Files: 10238-m-readme.txt; 10238-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Siegel-Myers School of Music - Vocal Record F,by Thomas A. Edison 10237
[Recorded c. 1906]
[NPS: EDIS 103642]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/3/10237]
[Files: 10237-m-readme.txt; 10237-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: International Correspondence School - Spanish Lesson #9,by Edison 10236
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. 1902]
[NPS: EDIS 38902-a]
[Language: English/Spanish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/3/10236]
[Files: 10236-m-readme.txt; 10236-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Discussion on Edison's Monoid Theory, by Theodore M. Edison 10235
[Note: Theodore M. Edison is the son of Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded July 26, 1970 at Glenmont (Edison's home), 2nd Floor Library,
West Orange, New Jersey]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/3/10235]
[Files: 10235-m-readme.txt; 10235-m-001.mp3; ]
Old Creole Days, by George Washington Cable 10234
[Files: 10234.txt; 10234-8.txt]
Audio: Transcontinental Telephone Address to Thomas A. Edison,Hutchinson 10233
[Author: Miller Reese Hutchinson]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. October 17, 1915]
[Note: On October 21, 1915 a group of Thomas Edison's friends and
business associates played this recording in the library of the Edison
Laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey and transmitted it to Edison at the
Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California via
the American Telephone and Telegraph Company's newly completed
transcontinental telephone line.]
[NPS: EDIS 584]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/3/10233]
[Files: 10233-m-readme.txt; 10233-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Remarks from a Visit to Edison Laboratory,General Nelson A. Miles 10232
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded on December 28, 1914]
[Note: Nelson A. Miles was a Major General of Volunteers for the Union
Army during the Civil War. In 1866 he led the defeat of Apache leader
Geronimo. He was Commander of the United States Army during the
Spanish-American War.]
[NPS: EDIS 5062]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/3/10232]
[Files: 10232-m-readme.txt; 10232-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Remarks from a Visit to Edison Laboratory, by Daniels 10231
[Author: Addie Worth nee Bagley Daniels]
[Editor: Thomas A Edison]
[Recorded on October 10, 1914]
[Note: Daniels was the wife of the then Secretary of the Navy]
[NPS: EDIS 5061]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/3/10231]
[Files: 10231-m-readme.txt; 10231-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Remarks from a Visit to Edison Laboratory, by Josephus Daniels 10230
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded October 10, 1914]
[Note: Daniels was then the US Secretary of the Navy]
[NPS: EDIS 5060]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/3/10230]
[Files: 10230-m-readme.txt; 10230-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: My South Polar Expedition, by Lt. Ernest H. Shackleton 10229
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded March 30, 1910]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/2/10229]
[Files: 10229-m-readme.txt; 10229-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: El Presidente Diaz al Senor Edison, by Porfirio Diaz 10228
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. August 1909 in Mexico]
[Note: Diaz was the president of Mexico]
[NPS: EDIS 39847]
[Language: Spanish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/2/10228]
[Files: 10228-m-readme.txt; 10228-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Tolstoy's Plower Story, by John Wanamaker 10227
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded on November 5, 1908]
[NPS: EDIS 39834]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/2/10227]
[Files: 10227-m-readme.txt; 10227-m-001.mp3; ]
Beautiful Joe, by Marshall Saunders 10226
[Subtitle: An Autobiography of a Dog]
[Files: 10226.txt; 10226-h.htm]
Their Crimes, by Various 10225
[Files: 10225.txt; 10225-8.txt]
Kalitan, Our Little Alaskan Cousin, by Mary F. Nixon-Roulet 10224
[Files: 10224.txt]
Meyers Konversationslexikon Volume 15 10223
[Language: German]
[Files: 10223-8.txt, 10223-0.txt, 10223-h.htm]
The Pilgrims of New England, by Mrs. J. B. Webb 10222
[Subtitle: A Tale Of The Early American Settlers]
[Files: 10222.txt; 10222-8.txt]
Purple Springs, by Nellie L. McClung 10221
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/2/10221]
[Files: 10221.txt; 10221.zip; ]
Daddy Takes Us Skating, by Howard R. Garis 10220
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/2/10220]
[Files: 10220.txt; 10220.zip; ]
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Edited by William Knight 10219
[Subtitle: Volume 1 of 8]
[Files: 10219.txt; 10219-8.txt; 10219-h.htm]
Stauder, by G.N. Brandt 10218
[Files: 10218.txt; 10218-8.txt]
[Language: Danish]
The Land Of Little Rain, by Mary Hunter Austin 10217
[Files: 10217.txt; 10217-8.txt]
Poems, by Marietta Holley 10216
[Files: 10216.txt]
Manfredo Palavicino, by Giuseppe Rovani 10215
[Subtitle: o I Francesi e gli Sforzeschi]
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/1/10215]
[Files: 10215.txt; 10215.zip; 10215-8.txt; 10215-8.zip; ]
Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato, by Thomas Taylor 10214
[Files: 10214.txt; 10214-8.txt]
The Everlasting Whisper, by Jackson Gregory 10213
[Files: 10213.txt; 10213-8.txt]
Peck's Bad Boy at the Circus, by George W. Peck 10212
[Files: 10212.txt; 10212-h.htm]
At Whispering Pine Lodge, by Lawrence J. Leslie 10211
[Files: 10211.txt; 10211-h.htm]
Wolves of the Sea, by Randall Parrish 10210
[Subtitle: Being a Tale of the Colonies From the Manuscript of One
Geoffry Carlyle, Seaman, Narrating Certain Strange Adventures Which
Befell Him Aboard the Pirate Craft "Namur"]
[Files: 10210.txt; 10210-8.txt]
Audio: Electricity and Progress, by Thomas A. Edison 10209
[Subtitle: Opening of the New York Electrical Show]
[Recorded October 3, 1908]
[NPS: EDIS 39385]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/0/10209]
[Files: 10209-3-readme.txt; 10209-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: The Rights of Labor, by William H. Taft 10208
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Note: Taft was a candidate for US President]
[Recorded Aug 3, 1908, at the Homestead Hotel of Hot Springs, Virginia]
[NPS: EDIS 39851]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/0/10208]
[Files: 10208-3-readme.txt; 10208-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: The Railroad Question, by William Jennings Bryan 10207
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Note: Bryan was a candidate for US President]
[Recorded May 1908 at Bryan's home in Lincoln, Nebraska]
[NPS: EDIS 37849]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/0/10207]
[Files: 10207-3-readme.txt; 10207-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: The Liver Complaint Story, by Thomas A. Edison 10206
[Recorded 1906]
[NPS: EDIS 39838]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/0/10206]
[Files: 10206-3-readme.txt; 10206-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Words of Welcome, by Garrett A. Hobart 10205
[Subtitle: Opening of the Electrical Exposition of New York City]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded on May 1, 1898, in Washington D.C.]
[NPS: EDIS 39849]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/0/10205]
[Files: 10205-3-readme.txt; 10205-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Charge of the Light Brigade, by Trumpeter Landfrey 10204
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Note: Landfrey was a bugler in the Light Brigade at the Battle of
Balaklava, October 25, 1854, of the Crimean War. On this recording
Landfrey plays a trumpet that was used at the battle of Waterloo,
June 18, 1815, of the Napoleonic Wars.]
[Recorded August 2, 1890, in London, England]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/0/10204]
[Files: 10204-3-readme.txt; 10204-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Big Ben Clock Tower of Westminster, by Miss. Ferguson 10203
[Subtitle: Striking half past 10, quarter to 11, and 11 o'clock]
[Author: Graham Hope]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded July 16, 1890, at Westminster, London, England]
[NPS: EDIS 39839]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/0/10203]
[Files: 10203-3-readme.txt; 10203-3-001.mp3; ]
Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals, by Maria Mitchell 10202
[Files: 10202.txt; 10202-8.txt]
The Desert of Wheat, by Zane Grey 10201
[Files: 10201.txt; 10201-8.txt; 10201-h.htm]
Audio: To Edison from Colonel Gouraud, Introducing Mr. Gladstone 10200
[Subtitle: The Phonograph's Salutation]
[Author: William E. Gladstone; Intro. by George Gouraud]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Note: Mr. Gladstone was the British Prime Minister at the time]
[Recorded on December 18, 1888, in London, England]
[NPS: EDIS 39852]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/0/10200]
[Files: 10200-3-readme.txt; 10200-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Down in a Georgia Jail, by Posey Rorer 10199
[Author: His North Carolina Ramblers]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded on September 26, 1928]
[NPS: EDIS 81450]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/9/10199]
[Files: 10199-3-readme.txt; 10199-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Barbara Allen, by Frank Luther 10198
[Author: His Pards]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded August 15, 1928]
[NPS: EDIS 81262]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/9/10198]
[Files: 10198-3-readme.txt; 10198-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: He Was Nailed to the Cross for Me, by Earnest V. Stoneman 10197
[Author: His Dixie Mountineers]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded April 24, 1928]
[NPS: EDIS 80960]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/9/10197]
[Files: 10197-3-readme.txt; 10197-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Cluck Old Hen, by Fiddlin' Powers and Family 10196
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded on October 6, 1925]
[NPS: EDIS 78487]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/9/10196]
[Files: 10196-3-readme.txt; 10196-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Lonesome Road Blues, by The Blue Ridge Duo 10195
[Author AKA: Gene Austin; George Reneau]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded on September 22, 1924]
[NPS: EDIS 42868]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/9/10195]
[Files: 10195-3-readme.txt; 10195-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Opera Reel with Calls, by Jasper Bisbee (Fiddle) 10194
[Author: Beulah Bisbee-Schuler (Piano)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded on November 24, 1923]
[NPS: EDIS 42632]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/9/10194]
[Files: 10194-3-readme.txt; 10194-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Backyard Conversation Between Mrs. Reilly & Mrs. Finnegan, Jones 10193
[Author: Ada Jones, Steve Porter]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded 1920]
[NPS: EDIS 43047]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/9/10193]
[Files: 10193-3-readme.txt; 10193-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Interruptions, by Tom Woottwell 10192
[Subtitle: Comic Sketch]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded 1909]
[NPS: EDIS 36622]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/9/10192]
[Files: 10192-3-readme.txt; 10192-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Fourth of July at Punkin Center, by Cal Stewart 10191
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded July 1911]
[NPS: EDIS 36009]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/9/10191]
[Files: 10191-3-readme.txt; 10191-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: A Bunch of Nonsense, by Murray K. Hill 10190
[Subtitle: Vaudeville Specialty]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded November 1908]
[NPS: EDIS 36631]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/9/10190]
[Files: 10190-3-readme.txt; 10190-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Three Rubes Seeing New York, by Edison Vaudeville Company 10189
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded November 1907]
[NPS: EDIS 38839]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/8/10189]
[Files: 10189-3-readme.txt; 10189-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Two Rubes at the Vaudeville, by Byron G. Harlan 10188
[Author: Frank C. Stanley]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded July 1904]
[NPS: EDIS 4776]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/8/10188]
[Files: 10188-3-readme.txt; 10188-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Reuben Haskin's ride on the Cyclone Auto, by Len Spencer 10187
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded February 1904]
[NPS: EDIS 4779]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/8/10187]
[Files: 10187-3-readme.txt; 10187-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Schultz at the Paris Exposition, by Frank Kennedy 10186
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded September 1900]
[NPS: EDIS 24876]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/8/10186]
[Files: 10186-3-readme.txt; 10186-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Minstrel Potpourri, by Edison Minstrels 10185
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. July 1899]
[NPS: EDIS 4751]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/8/10185]
[Files: 10185-3-readme.txt; 10185-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Quartet in G, 1st Movement, Pt. 1, by Roth String Quartet 10184
[Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded on October 10, 1929]
[NPS: EDIS 84282]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/8/10184]
[Files: 10184-3-readme.txt; 10184-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Etude Nouvelle in A Flat and Etude in C Major, Op. 10, No. 1 10183
[Author: Frederic Chopin (Composer)]
[Author: Moriz Rosenthal (Piano)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded April 4, 1929]
[NPS: EDIS 44236]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/8/10183]
[Files: 10183-3-readme.txt; 10183-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Trio No. 1 in B Flat, Pt. 1, by The New York Trio 10182
[Subtitle: 1st Movement, allegro moderato, Op. 99]
[Author: Franz Schubert (Composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded May 23, 1928]
[NPS: EDIS 80125]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/8/10182]
[Files: 10182-3-readme.txt; 10182-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Clair de Lune, by Hotel Commodore Ensemble 10181
[Subtitle: Suite Bergamasque]
[Author: Claude Debussey (Composer)]
[Author: Bernhard Levitow (Director)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded July 21, 1927]
[NPS: EDIS 40629]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/8/10181]
[Files: 10181-3-readme.txt; 10181-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Slavonic Dance, No. 1, by Carl Flesch (Violin) 10180
[Author: Antonin Dvorak and Fritz Kreisler (Composers)]
[Author: Kurt Ruhrseitz (Piano)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded March 5, 1926]
[NPS: EDIS 43934]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/8/10180]
[Files: 10180-3-readme.txt; 10180-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Extracts from the Ballet-Suite Scherazada, Pt. 1 10179
[Author: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakow (Composer)]
[Performed by: American Concert Orchestra]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded on April 28, 1925]
[NPS: EDIS 43889]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/7/10179]
[Files: 10179-3-readme.txt; 10179-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Moonlight Sonata, by Bellini Ensemble Unique 10178
[Author: Ludwig von Beethoven (Composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded 1924]
[NPS: EDIS 41945]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/7/10178]
[Files: 10178-3-readme.txt; 10178-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Ride of the Valkyries, by American Symphony Orchestra 10177
[Subtitle: From "Die Valkyrie"]
[Author: Richard Wagner (Composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded 1921]
[NPS: EDIS 41877]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/7/10177]
[Files: 10177-3-readme.txt; 10177-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: The Debutante, by Edna White (Trumpet) 10176
[Subtitle: Caprice Brillante]
[Author: Herbert L. Clarke (Composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded 1920]
[NPS: EDIS 41889]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/7/10176]
[Files: 10176-3-readme.txt; 10176-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Prelude in C Sharp Minor, Op. 3, by Sergie Rachmaninoff 10175
[Author: Sergie Rachmaninoff (Composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded 1919]
[NPS: EDIS 73898]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/7/10175]
[Files: 10175-3-readme.txt; 10175-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: William Tell Overture, Pt. 2, by Sodero's Band 10174
[Author: Gioacchino Rossini (Composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded 1911?]
[NPS: EDIS 43455]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/7/10174]
[Files: 10174-3-readme.txt; 10174-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, Part 1, by Edison Concert Band 10173
[Author: Franz Liszt (Composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded 1913]
[NPS: EDIS 43462]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/7/10173]
[Files: 10173-3-readme.txt; 10173-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Menuett G Flat Major and Valse Bluette, Kathleen Parlow (Violin) 10172
[Author: Ludwig von Beethoven (Composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Pianist: George Falkenstein]
[Recorded September 1912]
[NPS: EDIS 36520]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/7/10172]
[Files: 10172-3-readme.txt; 10172-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Santa Lucia, by His Majesty's Irish Guards Band 10171
[Author: Adolph Lotter (Composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded July 1912]
[NPS: EDIS 37943]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/7/10171]
[Files: 10171-3-readme.txt; 10171-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Stars and Stripes Forever, by Sousa's Band 10170
[Author: John Phillip Sousa (Composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded November 1909]
[NPS: EDIS 36682]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/7/10170]
[Files: 10170-3-readme.txt; 10170-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Semper Fidelis March, by United States Marine Band 10169
[Author: John Phillip Sousa (Composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded June 1909]
[NPS: EDIS 35806]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/6/10169]
[Files: 10169-3-readme.txt; 10169-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Kaiser Frederick March, by British Military Band 10168
[Author: Carl Friedemann (Composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded 1905]
[NPS: EDIS 38237]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/6/10168]
[Files: 10168-3-readme.txt; 10168-3-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Mr. Thomas Cat, by Edison Grand Concert Band 10167
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Released December 1900]
[NPS: EDIS 4795]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/6/10167]
[Files: 10167-3-readme.txt; 10167-3-001.mp3; ]
What Germany Thinks, by Thomas F. A. Smith 10166
[Subtitle: The War as Germans see it]
[Files: 10166.txt; 10166-8.txt; 10166-h.htm]
Across the Zodiac, by Percy Greg 10165
[Subtitle: The Story of a Wrecked Record]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/6/10165]
[Files: 10165.txt; 10165.zip; 10165-8.txt; 10165-8.zip; ]
The Black Creek Stopping-House, by Nellie McClung 10164
[Files: 10164.txt; 10164-8.txt]
Mohammedanism, by C. Snouck Hurgronje 10163
[Subtitle: Lectures on Its Origin, Its Religious and Political Growth,
and Its Present State]
[Files: 10163.txt; 10163-8.txt]
Dio's Rome, Vol. III, by Cassius Dio 10162
[Subtitle: An Historical Narrative Originally Composed In Greek During
The Reigns Of Septimius Severus, Geta And Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus
And Alexander Severus]
[Translator: Herbert Baldwin Foster]
[Files: 10162.txt; 10162-8.txt]
English Poets of the Eighteenth Century, by Bernbaum 10161
[Selected and Edited with an Introduction by Ernest Bernbaum]
[Files: 10161.txt; 10161-8.txt]
Pierre Noziere, by Anatole France 10160
[Language: French]
[Files: 10160.txt; 10160-8.txt]
England and the War, by Walter Raleigh 10159
[Speeches]
[Files: 10159.txt; 10159-8.txt]
Audio: Daybreak at Calamity Farm, by Gilbert Girard 10158
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded in 1915]
[NPS: EDIS 40809]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/5/10158]
[Files: 10158-m-readme.txt; 10158-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Which Switch is the Switch, Miss, for Ipswich?, by Billy Murray 10157
[Subtitle: from Rosy Rapture]
[Composers: Worton David, J. Barnett, Herman Darewski]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded 1915]
[NPS: EDIS 40585]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/5/10157]
[Files: 10157-m-readme.txt; 10157-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: M'appari - Martha, by Allesandro Bonci 10156
[Composer: Friedrich von Flotow]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded 1914]
[NPS: EDIS 75936]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/5/10156]
[Files: 10156-m-readme.txt; 10156-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: The Right of the People to Rule, by Theodore Roosevelt 10155
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. August 1912, Sagamore Hill (Roosevelt's home) in Oyster Bay,
New York]
[NPS: EDIS 39850]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/5/10155]
[Files: 10155-m-readme.txt; 10155-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Voice Trial - Kinetophone Actor Audition,by Siegfried Von Schultz 10154
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. 1913, at Edison motion picture film studio, Bronx, NY]
[NPS: EDIS 44830]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/5/10154]
[Files: 10154-m-readme.txt; 10154-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Voice Trial - Kinetophone Actor Audition, by Frank Lenord 10153
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. 1913, at Edison Motion Picture Film Studio, Bronx, NY]
[NPS: EDIS 44830]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/5/10153]
[Files: 10153-m-readme.txt; 10153-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Voice Trial - Kinetophone actor audition, by Bob Lett 10152
[Recorded June 24, 1913, the Edison motion picture film studio, Bronx, NY]
[NPS: EDIS 44833]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/5/10152]
[Files: 10152-m-readme.txt; 10152-m-001.mp3; ]
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 5, by Various 10151
[Subtitle: A Comprehensive and Readable Account of the World's History.
Emphasizing the More Important Events, and Presenting These as Complete
Narratives in the Master-Words of the Most Eminent Historians]
[Editor: Rossiter Johnson, Supervising Editor; Charles F. Horne and
John Rudd, Literary Editors; Walter F. Austin, Directing Editor]
[Contents:
An Outline Narrative of the Great Events, by Charles F. Horne
Feudalism: its Frankish Birth and English Development, by
William Stubbs
Decay of the Frankish Empire, by Francois P. G. Guizot
Career of Alfred the Great, by Thomas Hughes and John R. Green
Henry the Fowler Founds the Saxon Line of German Kings, by
Wolfgang Menzel
Conquest of Egypt by the Fatimites, by Stanley Lane-Poole
Growth and Decadence of Chivalry, by Leon Gautier
Conversion of Vladimir the Great, by A. N. Mouravieff
Leif Ericson Discovers America, by Charles C. Rafn
Mahometans in India, by Alexander Dow
Canute Becomes King of England, by David Hume
Henry III Deposes the Popes, by Ferdinand Gregorovius and Joseph Darras
Dissension and Separation of the Greek and Roman Churches, by Henry F.
Tozer and Joseph Deharbe
Norman Conquest of England, by Sir Edward S. Creasy
Triumphs of Hildebrand, by Arthur R. Pennington and Artaud de Montor
Completion of the Domesday Book, by Charles Knight
Decline of the Moorish Power in Spain, by S. A. Dunham
The First Crusade, by Sir George W. Cox
Foundation of the Order of Knights Templars, by Charles G. Addison
Stephen Usurps the English Crown, by Charles Knight
Antipapal Democratic Movement, by Johann A. W. Neander
Decline of the Byzantine Empire, by George Finlay
Universal Chronology, by John Rudd]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/5/10151]
[Files: 10151.txt; 10151.zip; 10151-8.txt; 10151-8.zip; 10151-h.htm;
10151-h.zip; ]
Dracula's Guest, by Bram Stoker 10150
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/5/10150]
[Files: 10150.txt; 10150.zip; 10150-8.txt; 10150-8.zip; 10150-h.htm;
10150-h.zip; ]
Home as Found, by James Fenimore Cooper 10149
[Subtitle: Sequel to "Homeward Bound"]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/4/10149]
[Files: 10149.txt; 10149.zip; 10149-8.txt; 10149-8.zip; 10149-h.htm;
10149-h.zip; ]
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, by Howard Pyle 10148
[See also: #965]
[Files: 10148.txt; 10148-h.htm]
America's War for Humanity, by Thomas Herbert Russell 10147
[Additional Contributors: General John J. Pershing; William Dunseath
Eaton, Contributing Editor; James Martin Miller]
[Files: 10147.txt; 10147-8.txt; 10147-h.htm]
Reminiscences of Pioneer Days in St. Paul, by Frank Moore 10146
[Subtitle: A Collection of Articles Written for and Published in the
Daily Pioneer Press]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/4/10146]
[Files: 10146.txt; 10146.zip; ]
Turkey: A Past and a Future, by Arnold Joseph Toynbee 10145
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/4/10145]
[Files: 10145.txt; 10145.zip; 10145-8.txt; 10145-8.zip; ]
Punchinello, Vol. II., No. 35, November 26, 1870, by Various 10144
[Files: 10144.txt; 10144-8.txt; 10144-h.htm]
Punch, Volume 153, July 11, 1917, by Various 10143
[Subtitle: Or the London Charivari]
[Files: 10143.txt; 10143-8.txt; 10143-h.htm]
Maezli, by Johanna Spyri 10142
[Subtitle: A Story of the Swiss Valleys]
[Translated by Elisabeth P. Stork]
[Files: 10142.txt; 10142-8.txt; 10142-h.htm]
A Discourse on the Life, Character and Writings of Gulian Crommelin Verp 10141
[Title: A Discourse on the Life, Character and Writings of Gulian
Crommelin Verplanck]
[Subtitle: Delivered before the New-York Historical Society, May 17th,
1870]
[Author: William Cullen Bryant]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/4/10141]
[Files: 10141.txt; 10141.zip; 10141-h.htm; 10141-h.zip; ]
Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance, by Donald Lemen Clark 10140
[Subtitle: A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance
Literary Criticism]
[Files (Unicode): 10140-0.txt; 10140-h.htm]
The Faith of the Millions (2nd series), by George Tyrrell 10139
[Subtitle: A Selection of Past Essays]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/3/10139]
[Files: 10139.txt; 10139.zip; 10139-8.txt; 10139-8.zip; ]
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 2, December, 1857, by Various 10138
[Subtitle: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/3/10138]
[Files: 10138.txt; 10138.zip; 10138-8.txt; 10138-8.zip; 10138-h.htm;
10138-h.zip; ]
Audio: Mary Had a Little Lamb, by Thomas A. Edison 10137
[Subtitle: Recording taken from Movietone Production news film]
[Recorded August 12, 1927 at the Golden Jubilee of the Phonograph
Ceremony, held in Glenmont (Edison's Home), West Orange, New Jersey]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/3/10137]
[Files: 10137-3-readme.txt; 10137-3-001.mp3; ]
The Book of Household Management, by Mrs. Isabella Beeton 10136
[Subtitle: Comprising Information for the Mistress, Housekeeper, Cook,
Kitchen-Maid, Butler, Footman, Coachman, Valet, Upper And Under
House-Maids, Lady's-Maid, Maid-Of-All-Work, Laundry-Maid, Nurse And
Nurse-Maid, Monthly, Wet, And Sick Nurses, Etc. Etc.; Also, Sanitary,
Medical, & Legal Memoranda; With A History Of The Origin, Properties,
And Uses Of All Things Connected With Home Life And Comfort.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/3/10136]
[Files: 10136.txt; 10136.zip; 10136-8.txt; 10136-8.zip; ]
The Great English Short-Story Writers, Vol. 1, by Various 10135
[Author: Introductory essays by William Dawson and Coningsby W. Dawson]
[Contents:
The Apparition of Mrs. Veal, by Daniel Defoe
The Mysterious Bride, by James Hogg
The Devil and Tom Walker, by Washington Irving
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Purloined Letter, by Edgar Allan Poe
Rab and His Friends, by Dr. John Brown
The Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn, by Charles Dickens
A Story of Seven Devils, by Frank R. Stockton
A Dog's Tale, by Mark Twain
The Outcasts of Poker Flat, by Bret Harte
The Three Strangers, by Thomas Hardy
Julia Bride, by Henry James
A Lodging for the Night, by Robert Louis Stevenson
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/3/10135]
[Files: 10135.txt; 10135.zip; 10135-8.txt; 10135-8.zip; ]
John Wesley, Jr., by Dan B. Brummitt 10134
[Subtitle: The Story of an Experiment]
The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems by "Q" 10133
[AKA: Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch]
[Files: 10133.txt; 10133-8.txt; 10133-h.htm]
The Sowers, by Henry Seton Merriman 10132
[Files: 10132.txt; 10132-8.txt]
Required Poems for Reading and Memorizing, by Anonymous 10131
[Subtitle: Third and Fourth Grades, Prescribed by State Courses of Study]
[Files: 10131.txt]
Books for Children, by Charles and Mary Lamb 10130
[Subtitle: The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 3]
[Files: 10130.txt; 10130-8.txt]
Excellent Women, by Various 10129
[Contents:
Elizabeth Fry. By James Macaulay, M.A., M.D.
Selina, Countess Of Huntingdon. By Rev. R. Lovett, M.A.
Rachel, Lady Russell. By James Macaulay, M.A., M.D.
Frances Ridley Havergal. By Rev. J.P. Hobson, M.A.
Hannah More. By Henry Johnson.
Susanna Wesley. By Rev. J. Cunningham, M.A.
Mrs. Hemans. By Rev. S.F. Harris, M.A., B.C.L.
Madame Guyon. By William Nichols.
Ann Judson. By Fred. A. Mckenzie.
Mary Louisa Whately. By Rev. W.R. Bowman.
Agnes Jones. By Ellen L. Courtenay.
Elizabeth, Duchess Of Gordon. By Rev. S.F. Harris, M.A., B.C.L.]
[Files: 10129.txt; 10129-8.txt]
Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 17, by Charles Francis Horne 10128
[Files: 10128.txt; 10128-8.txt]
Abducted to Oz, by Bob Evans and Chris Dulabone 10127
[Files: 10127.txt; 10127-8.txt]
Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine, Waugh 10126
[Author: Edwin Waugh]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/2/10126]
[Files: 10126.txt; 10126.zip; 10126-h.htm; 10126-h.zip]
The Best Letters of Charles Lamb, ed: Edward Gilpin Johnson 10125
[Files: 10125.txt; 10125-8.txt]
Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John, by Edith Van Dyne 10124
[Author AKA: L. Frank Baum]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/2/10124]
[Files: 10124.txt; 10124.zip; 10124-8.txt; 10124-8.zip; ]
Aunt Jane's Nieces, by Edith Van Dyne 10123
[Author AKA: L. Frank Baum]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/2/10123]
[Files: 10123.txt; 10123.zip; ]
Fairies and Fusiliers, by Robert Graves 10122
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/2/10122]
[Files: 10122.txt; 10122.zip; 10122-8.txt; 10122-8.zip; 10122-h.htm;
10122-h.zip]
Oriental Literature, by Anonymous 10121
[Subtitle: The Literature of Arabia]
[With Critical and Biographical Sketches by Epiphanius Wilson]
[Files: 10121.txt; 10121-8.txt]
England of My Heart--Spring, by Edward Hutton 10120
[Illustrated by Gordon Home]
[Files: 10120.txt; 10120-8.txt; 10120-h.htm]
Adonais, by Shelley 10119
[Introduction and Notes by William Michael Rossetti]
[Files: 10119.txt; 10119-8.txt; 10119-h.htm]
The Folk-lore of Plants, by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer 10118
[Files: 10118.txt; 10118-8.txt]
Den siste atenaren, by Viktor Rydberg 10117
[Language: Swedish]
[Files: 10117.txt; 10117-8.txt]
All Saints' Day and Other Sermons, by Charles Kingsley 10116
[Editor: Rev. W. Harrison]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/1/10116]
[Files: 10116.txt; 10116.zip; 10116-h.htm; 10116-h.zip]
Two Centuries of Costume in America, Vol. 1 (1620-1820), by Earle 10115
[Author: Alice Morse Earle]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/1/10115]
[Files: 10115-h.htm; 10115-h.zip; ]
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 2, by Various 10114
[Subtitle: A Comprehensive and Readable Account of the World's History.
Emphasizing the More Important Events, and Presenting These as Complete
Narratives in the Master-Words of the Most Eminent Historians]
[Editor: Rossiter Johnson]
[Associate Editors: Charles Horne and John Rudd]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/1/10114]
[Files: 10114.txt; 10114.zip; 10114-8.txt; 10114-8.zip; 10114-h.htm;
10114-h.zip; ]
De mannen van '80 aan het woord, by E. D'Oliveira 10113
[Language: Dutch]
[Files: 10113.txt; 10113-8.txt]
American Political Ideas, by John Fiske 10112
[Full title: American Political Ideas Viewed From The Standpoint
Of Universal History]
[Files: 10112.txt; 10112-8.txt; 10112-h.htm]
Boys and Girls from Thackeray , by Kate Dickinson Sweetser 10111
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/1/10111]
[Files: 10111.txt; 10111.zip; 10111-8.txt; 10111-8.zip; ]
The Postmaster's Daughter, by Louis Tracy 10110
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/1/10110]
[Files: 10110.txt; 10110.zip; 10110-8.txt; 10110-8.zip; ]
The Unspeakable Gentleman, by John P. Marquand 10109
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/0/10109]
[Files: 10109.txt; 10109.zip; ]
A Treatise Of Daunses, by Anonymous 10108
[Subtitle: Wherin It Is Shewed, That They Are As It Were Accessories
And Dependants (Or Thynges Annexed) To Whoredome, (1581)]
[Files: 10108.txt]
With British Guns in Italy, by Hugh Dalton 10107
[Subtitle: A Tribute to Italian Achievement]
[Files: 10107.txt; 10107-8.txt]
Punchinello, Vol. II., No. 34, November 19, 1870, by Various 10106
[Files: 10106.txt; 10106-8.txt; 10106-h.htm]
Punchinello, Vol. II., No. 33, November 12, 1870, by Various 10105
[Files: 10105.txt; 10105-8.txt; 10105-h.htm]
Punchinello, Vol. II., No. 32, November 8, 1870, by Various 10104
[Files: 10104.txt; 10104-8.txt; 10104-h.htm]
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 8, by Rossiter Johnson 10103
[Subtitle: The Later Renaissance: From Gutenberg To The Reformation]
[Editor-in-Chief: Rossiter Johnson]
[Files: 10103.txt; 10103-8.txt]
The Czar's Spy, by William Le Queux 10102
[Subtitle: The Mystery of a Silent Love]
[Files: 10102.txt; 10102-8.txt; 10102-h.htm]
A Little Boy Lost, by W. H Hudson 10101
[Files: 10101.txt]
Byron, by John Nichol 10100
[Files: 10100.txt; 10100-8.txt]
Towards The Goal, by Mrs. Humphry Ward 10099
[Files: 10099.txt; 10099-8.txt]
How Jerusalem Was Won, by W.T. Massey 10098
[Subtitle: Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine]
[Files: 10098.txt; 10098-8.txt]
The Healing of Nations, by Edward Carpenter 10097
[Title: The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife]
[Files: 10097.txt; 10097-8.txt]
The Trojan Women of Euripides, by Euripides 10096
[Translated by Gilbert Murray]
[Files: 10096.txt; 10096-8.txt]
The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales, by Richard Garnett 10095
[Files: 10095.txt; 10095-8.txt; 10095-h.htm]
A Soldier of Virginia, by Burton Egbert Stevenson 10094
[Subtitle: A Tale of Colonel Washington and Braddock's Defeat]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/0/9/10094]
[Files: 10094.txt; 10094.zip; 10094-8.txt; 10094-8.zip]
The History of Gutta-Percha Willie, by George MacDonald 10093
[Subtitle: The Working Genius]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/0/9/10093]
[Files: 10093.txt; 10093.zip]
Punchinello Vol. II., No. 30, October 22, 1870, by Various 10092
[Files: 10092.txt; 10092-8.txt; 10092-h.htm]
Punchinello, Vol. II., Issue 31, October 29, 1870, by Various 10091
[Files: 10091.txt; 10091-8.txt; 10091-h.htm]
Peaceless Europe, by Francesco Saverio Nitti 10090
[Files: 10090.txt; 10090-8.txt]
Elves and Heroes, by Donald A. MacKenzie 10089
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/0/8/10089]
[Files: 10089.txt; 10089.zip; 10089-8.txt; 10089-8.zip]
Thaumaturgia, by An Oxonian 10088
[Subtitle: Or, Elucidations of the Marvellous]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/0/8/10088]
[Files: 10088.txt; 10088.zip; 10088-8.txt; 10088-8.zip]
Old Lady Number 31, by Louise Forsslund 10087
[Forsslund is a pseudonym for Mary Louise Foster, 1873-1910]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/0/8/10087]
[Files: 10087.txt; 10087.zip; ]
The Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley, by James Otis 10086
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/0/8/10086]
[Files: 10086.txt; 10086.zip; 10086-8.txt; 10086-8.zip; 10086-h.htm;
10086-h.zip; ]
Moorish Literature, by Anonymous 10085
[Subtitle: Romantic Ballads, Tales Of The Berbers, Stories Of The Kabyles,
Folk-Lore, And National Traditions]
[Translated Into English By Rene Basset]
[Files: 10085.txt; 10085-8.txt; 10085-h.htm]
Kazan, by James Oliver Curwood 10084
[Files: 10084.txt; 10084-8.txt; 10084-h.htm]
The House of the Whispering Pines, by Anna Katharine Green 10083
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/0/8/10083]
The Hampstead Mystery, by John R. Watson and Arthur J. Rees 10082
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/0/8/10082]
The Boy Allies at Jutland, by Robert L. Drake 10081
[Subtitle: Or, The Greatest Naval Battle of History]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/0/8/10081]
Mobilizing Woman-Power, by Harriot Stanton Blatch 10080
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/0/8/10080]
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Number 9, July, 1858, by Various 10079
[Subtitle: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/0/7/10079]
Plain Words From America, by Douglas W. Johnson 10078
[Subtitle: A Letter to a German Professor (1917)]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/0/7/10078]
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 60, October 1862, by Various 10077
[Files: 10077.txt; 10077.zip; 10077-8.txt; 10077-8.zip; 10077-h.htm;
10077-h.zip]
Lister's Great Adventure, by Harold Bindloss 10076
[Files: 10076.txt; 10076.zip; 10076-8.txt; 10076-8.zip; 10076-h.htm;
10076-h.zip]
A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, by Venture Smith 10075
[Full Title: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native
of Africa, But Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America,
Related by Himself]
[Files: 10075.txt; 10075.zip; 10075-h.htm; 10075-h.zip]
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, Issue 269 10074
[Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10,
Issue 269, August 18, 1827]
[Author: Various]
[Files: 10074.txt; 10074.zip; 10074-8.txt; 10074-8.zip; 10074-h.htm;
10074-h.zip]
The Century Vocabulary Builder, by Creever & Bachelor 10073
[Files: 10073.txt; 10073-8.txt]
English Housewifery Exemplified, by Elizabeth Moxon 10072
[Subtitle: In above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts Giving Directions
for most Parts of Cookery]
[Files: 10072.txt]
By-Ways of Bombay, by S. M. Edwardes, C.V.O 10071
[Files: 10071.txt; 10071-8.txt]
Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans, by Edward Eggleston 10070
[Files: 10070.txt]
Account of the Romansh Language, by Joseph Planta, Esq. F. R. S 10069
[Subtitle: In a Letter to Sir John Pringle, Bart. P. R. S.]
[Files: 10069.txt; 10069-8.txt]
The Power and the Glory, by Grace MacGowan Cooke 10068
[Files: 10068.txt; 10068-8.txt]
The Mystery Of The Boule Cabinet, by Burton Egbert Stevenson 10067
[Subtitle: A Detective Story]
[Files: 10067.txt; 10067-8.txt]
Gunman's Reckoning, by Max Brand 10066
[Files: 10066.txt; 10066-8.txt]
The Constitution of the United States, by James M. Beck 10065
[Subtitle: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political
Philosophy of the Constitution]
[Preface by the Earl of Balfour]
[Files: 10065.txt]
Beltane The Smith, by Jeffery Farnol 10064
[Files: 10064.txt; 10064-8.txt]
Happiness and Marriage, by Elizabeth (Jones) Towne 10063
[Files: 10063.txt; 10063-h.htm]
The Iron Game, by Henry Francis Keenan 10062
[Subtitle: A Tale of the War]
[Files: 10062.txt; 10062-8.txt]
Les Heures Claires, by Emile Verhaeren 10061
[Language: French]
[Files: 10061.txt; 10061-8.txt]
Discourses, by Thomas H. Huxley 10060
[Subtitle: Biological and Geological Essays]
[Files: 10060.txt; 10060-8.txt]
Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation, by Edith Van Dyne 10059
[Files: 10059.txt]
The Divine Office, by Rev. E. J. Quigley 10058
[Files: 10058.txt]
The Secret of the Tower, by Hope, Anthony 10057
[Files: 10057.txt]
Chinese Literature, by Anonymous 10056
[Subtitle: Comprising The Analects of Confucius, The Sayings of
Mencius, The Shi-King, The Travels of Fa-Hien, and The Sorrows of Han]
[Additional Author: With critical and biographical sketches by Epiphanius
Wilson, A.M.]
[Files: 10056.txt; 10056-8.txt]
Hamburgische Dramaturgie, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 10055
[Language: German]
[Files: 10055.txt; 10055-8.txt]
Nova analysis aquarum Medeviensium, by Joens Jacob Berzelius 10054
[Language: Latin]
[Files: 10054.txt; 10054-8.txt]
La vampire, by Paul H.C. Feval 10053
[Language: French]
The Open Door, and the Portrait., by Margaret O. (Wilson) Oliphant 10052
[Subtitle: Stories of the Seen and the Unseen]
[Files: 10052.txt; 10052-8.txt]
Little Pilgrim: Further Experiences., by Margaret O. (Wilson) Oliphant 10051
[Subtitle: Stories of the Seen and the Unseen]
[Files: 10051.txt]
A Little Pilgrim, by Margaret O. (Wilson) Oliphant 10050
[Subtitle: Stories of the Seen and the Unseen]
[Files: 10050.txt]
Old Lady Mary, by Margaret O. (Wilson) Oliphant 10049
[Subtitle: A Story of the Seen and the Unseen]
[Files: 10049.txt]
Billie Bradley and Her Inheritance, by Janet D. Wheeler 10048
[Subtitle: The Queer Homestead at Cherry Corners]
[Files: 10048.txt]
Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 29, October 15, 1870, by Various 10047
[Files: 10047.txt; 10047-8.txt; 10047-h.htm with images]
Salute to Adventurers, by John Buchan 10046
[Files: 10046.txt]
Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis, by H. Irving Hancock 10045
[Subtitle: Two Midshipmen as Naval Academy "Youngsters"]
[Files: 10045.txt]
The Father of British Canada: A Chronicle of Carleton, by William Wood 10044
[Chronicles of Canada, Volume 12 of 32]
[Ed.: George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton]
Klondyke Nuggets, by Joseph Ladue 10043
[Subtitle:A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest]
[Files: 10043.txt; 10043-8.txt]
The Child Under Eight, by E.R. Murray and Henrietta Brown Smith 10042
[Files: 10042.txt; 10042-8.txt]
The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck, by James Branch Cabell 10041
[Files: 10041.txt; 10041-8.txt]
Alaska Indian Dictionary, by Charles A. Lee 10040
[Subtitle:Aleutian Indian and English Dictionary: Common Words In The
Dialects Of The Aleutian Indian Language: As Spoken By The Oogashik,
Egashik, Egegik, Anangashuk And Misremie Tribes Around Sulima River
And Neighboring Parts Of The Alaska Peninsula]
[Files: 10040.txt]
The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III, by Aphra Behn 10039
[Files: 10039.txt; 10039-8.txt; 10039-h.htm]
The Magnetic North, by Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond) 10038
[Files: 10038.txt; 10038-8.txt; 10038-h.htm with images]
A Beautiful Possibility, by Edith Ferguson Black 10037
[Files: 10037.txt; 10037-8.txt]
Punchinello Vol. 1, No. 28, October 8, 1870, by Various 10036
[[Files: 10036.txt; 10036-8.txt; 10036-h.htm with images]
Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 27, October 1, 1870, by Various 10035
[Files: 10035.txt; 10035-8.txt; 10035-h.htm with images]
Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 26, September 24, 1870, by Various 10034
[Files: 10034.txt; 10034-8.txt; 10034-h.htm with images]
Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 25, September 17, 1870, by Various 10033
[Files: 10033.txt; 10033-8.txt; 10033-h.htm with images]
Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 24, September 10, 1870, by Various 10032
[Files: 10032.txt; 10032-8.txt; 10032-h.htm with images]
Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works, by Edgar Allan Poe 10031
[Edited by John H. Ingram]
[Files: 10031.txt; 10031-8.txt; 10031-h.htm with images]
The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, by William F. Cody 10030
[Subtitle: Known as Buffalo Bill The Famous Hunter, Scout and Guide]
[Files: 10030.txt; 10030-8.txt]
The Hunt Ball Mystery, by William Magnay 10029
[Files: 10029.txt; 10029-8.txt]
Spalding's Official Baseball Guide - 1913, Edited by John B. Foster 10028
[Files: 10028.txt; 10028.zip; 10028-h.htm; 10028-h.zip]
The Triple Alliance, by Harold Avery 10027
[Subtitle: Its Trials and Triumphs]
[Files: 10027.txt; 10027.zip]
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, Issue 268 10026
[Files: 10026.txt; 10026.zip; 10026-8.txt; 10026-8.zip; 10026-h.htm;
10026-h.zip]
Gaslight Sonatas, by Fannie Hurst 10025
[Files: 10025.txt; 10025-8.txt]
Beneath the Banner, by F. J. Cross 10024
[Files: 10006.txt; 10006-8.txt]
There's Pippins And Cheese To Come, by Charles S. Brooks 10023
[Files: 10006.txt]
White Queen of the Cannibals: The Story of Mary Slessor,A. J. Bueltmann 10022
[Files: 10006.txt; 10006-8.txt]
Tenterhooks, by Ada Leverson 10021
[Contents: 10021.txt; 10021.zip; 10021-8.txt; 10021-8.zip]
Strand Magazine: Vol. VII, No. 37, by Edited by George Newnes 10020
[Title: The Strand Magazine: Volume VII, Issue 37. January, 1894.]
[Files: 10020.txt; 10020-8.txt; 10020-h.htm with images]
Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 22, August 27, 1870, by Various 10019
[Files: 10019.txt; 10019-8.txt; 10019-h.htm with images]
Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 5, April 30, 1870, by Various 10018
Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 23, September 3, 1870, by Various 10017
[Files: 10017.txt; 10017-8.txt; 10017-h.htm/ with images]
Punchinello Vol. 1, No. 21, August 20, 1870, by Various 10016
[Files: 10016.txt; 10016-8.txt; 10016-h.htm/ with images]
Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 19, August 6, 1870, by Various 10015
[Files: 10015.txt; 10015-8.txt; 10015-h.htm/ with images]
Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870, by Various 10014
[Files: 10014.txt; 10014-8.txt; 10014-h.htm/ with images]
Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 9, May 28, 1870, by Various 10013
[Files: 10013.txt; 10013-8.txt; 10013-h.htm/ with images]
The Mountains of California, by John Muir 10012
[Files: 10012.txt; 10012-8.txt; 10012-h.htm]
365 Foreign Dishes, by Unknown Author 10011
[Subtitle: A Foreign Dish for every day in the year]
[Files: 10011.txt; 10011-8.txt; 10011-h.htm]
The Eulogies of Howard, by William Hayley 10010
[Files: 10010.txt; 10010-8.txt; 10010-h.htm]
Wild Northern Scenes, by S. H. Hammond 10009
The Mystery, by Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams 10008
[Files: 10008.txt; 10008-8.txt; 10008-h.htm with images]
Carmilla, by J. Sheridan LeFanu 10007
[Files: 10007.txt; 10007-8.txt; 10007-h.htm]
La Fiammetta, by Giovanni Boccaccio 10006
[Files: 10006.txt; 10006-8.txt; 10006-h.htm]
A Voyage to the Moon, by George Tucker (AKA Joseph Atterley) 10005
[Files: 10005.txt; 10005-8.txt]
The Warriors, by Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown 10004
My First Years As A Frenchwoman, 1876-1879, by Mary King Waddington 10003
[Files: 10003.txt]
The House on the Borderland, by William Hope Hodgson 10002
[Files: 10002.txt; 10002-8.txt; 10002-h.htm]
Apocolocyntosis, by Lucius Seneca 10001
[English Translation By W.H.D. Rouse]
[Files: 10001.txt]
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Feb 2006 Harriet, The Moses of Her People, by S.H. Bradford[?htubxxx.xxx] 9999
[The Story of Harriet Tubman] [Author: Sarah H. Bradford]
[Also posted HTML - 8htub10h.zip and 8htub10h.htm]
Feb 2006 Poems, by Matilda Betham [?bethxxx.xxx] 9998
[Also posted HTML - 8beth10h.zip and 8beth10h.htm]
Feb 2006 France and England in North America, by F. Parkman[?fen3xxx.xxx] 9997
[Title: France and England in North America, a Series of Historical
Narratives, Part Third]
[Subtitle: The Discovery of the Great West]
[Author: Francis Parkman]
Feb 2006 'Tis Sixty Years Since, by Charles Francis Adams [?sxysxxx.xxx] 9996
[Also posted HTML - 8sxys10h.zip and 8sxys10h.htm]
Feb 2006 Little Journey to Puerto Rico, by Marian M. George[?prroxxx.xxx] 9995
[Subtitle: For Intermediate and Upper Grades]
Feb 2006 Indian Lily and Other Stories,by Hermann Sudermann[?lilyxxx.xxx] 9994
[Contents:
The Indian Lily
The Purpose
The Song Of Death
The Victim
Autumn
Merry Folk
Thea
Feb 2006 Captivating Mary Carstairs, Henry Sydnor Harrison [?cmcrxxx.xxx] 9993
Feb 2006 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327,by Various[?b327xxx.xxx] 9992
[Also posted HTML - 8b32710h.zip and 8b32710h.htm]
Feb 2006 Ancient Man, by Hendrik Willem Van Loon [anmanxxx.xxx] 9991
[Subtitle: The Beginning of Civilizations]
[Also posted Illustrated HTML - anman10h.zip; and anman10h.htm]
Feb 2006 Brave and Bold, by Horatio Alger, Jr. [?boldxxx.xxx] 9990
[Subtitle: The Fortunes Of Robert Rushton]
Feb 2006 Bees in Amber, by John Oxenham [?beesxxx.xxx] 9989
[Subtitle: A Little Book Of Thoughtful Verse]
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Hello,
Hey! Look, it's a desk! Wow! And I thought my computer was balanced on
a big pile of paper. I see someone's tided up too, oh, and are those
clean mugs. Gosh, even the strange looking thing in the fridge that we
had forgotten about has gone. Oh well, there goes the mold growing
experiment. Isn't it amazing what having someone else around can do
for the place.
Well, it is nice to be back after two weeks away, not that I actually
got to go anywhere (Boo!). I have been looking at a few newsletter
related things though, and hopefully, you will notice a few
improvements. Not least of which will be my nice new, never used (no
surprise there) spellchecker! I was looking through some old
newsletters to sort out some features for the website, and I think I
probably have the most forgiving audience ever. There are so many
spelling mistakes, and almost no-one corrects me. I think I could
probably count the emails on one finger in fact. I have to admit to some
surprise at this given the way almost every person in PG I have
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elses mistakes at any given opportunity. I look forward to a rapid
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and that is the automation of our email newsletters. Before almost everything
on the newsletter was done by a human, now hopefully only the article
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The Crew I keep company with for now is very small, just the three of us, and
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voice vibrant disagreement, for I am only sharing what has become
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I do not set up a distinction here between DP and PG. My experience
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December not only closes the circle on the year, it brings the
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If you want to share what you find, write, I am very interested in
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We hope everyone enjoyed last week's recipes. I tried Potatoes and
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it was quite good. This week we are featuring Simple Italian
Cookery, by Antonia Isola, pen name of Mabel Earl McGinnis. (I suppose
she thought it would be more convincing if the author's name was also
Italian.) This is an interesting collection recipes published in
1912. It's a bit easier to use than The Belgian Cook-Book, because it
follows a standard "modern" recipe format--a list of ingredients with
exact measurements, and suggested cooking times. I was interested to
see that a number of recipes suggest using canned
vegetables. Macaroni, spaghetti, and vermicelli recipes are available,
some familiar-sounding (e.g., Macaroni with Butter and Cheese), some
not so much (e.g., Ravioli with Brains). The distressing tendency of
19th and early 20th century cookbooks to dwell on brains, hearts,
etc., is, of course, carried on in this book. Ham fat seems to be used
as often as olive oil. This week's menu is not very balanced; perhaps
you should think of it more as a buffet; just take a little of each
dish, or you'll get full too soon.
SALAD "DEL PREVOSTO"
Boil in their skins three good-sized potatoes, peel them and slice
them, then put them into a salad bowl, and pour over them one-half a
glass of white wine. Do this about two or three hours before they are
wanted, so the potatoes will have time thoroughly to absorb the
wine. From time to time mix them with a fork and spoon to let the wine
permeate. A few minutes before the meal make a good French salad
dressing, add some pickled peppers cut up, some capers, and some
chopped-up parsley, pour on the French dressing, mix up well, and
serve.
MACARONI "ALLA SAN GIOVANNELLO"
While three-quarters of a pound of macaroni are boiling in salted
water prepare the following: Chop up fine two ounces of ham fat with a
little parsley. Peel six medium-sized tomatoes, cut them open, remove
the seeds, and any hard or unripe parts, and put them on one
side. Take a frying-pan and put into it one scant tablespoon of butter
and the chopped ham fat. When the grease is colored put in the sliced
tomatoes with salt and pepper. When the tomatoes are cooked and begin
to sputter put the macaroni into the pan with them, mix well, add
grated Parmesan cheese, and serve.
RICE WITH BUTTER AND CHEESE (_Riso in Bianco_) Take one-half cup of
rice. Boil in salted water. After twenty minutes of boiling take off
the fire and drain. Then put the rice back into a saucepan with three
tablespoons of grated cheese (Parmesan) and three tablespoons of
butter. Mix well and serve as an entree, or around a plate of meat.
TOMATOES WITH EGGS Choose round tomatoes of about equal size and peel
them. Cut off their tops, take out their insides, and drop a raw egg
into each, replacing the top as cover. Put the tomatoes in a
baking-dish and bake for about ten minutes, until the eggs are
set. Serve up in the baking-dish very hot, with Bechamel sauce (see
Sauces, page 29), or some brown gravy.
CHESTNUTS "ALLA LUCIFERO" Take forty good chestnuts and roast them
over a slow fire. Do not allow them to become dried up or
colored. Remove the shells carefully, put them in a bowl, and pour
over them one-half a glass of rum and two or three tablespoons of
powdered sugar. Set fire to the rum and baste the chestnuts constantly
as long as the rum will burn, turning the chestnuts about so they will
absorb the rum and become colored.
Tonya Allen
Extra to this weeks cookery club
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. Indeed, the way that people cooked and ate their food has
changed radically over the past one hundred years or so. So whilst, we
accept that perhaps, we cannot recreate the tastes and smells exactly
as say my great-grandparents would have experienced them, what we can
do is estabilish whether some of our 'lost' cookery books are still
relevant and we can perhaps also begin to understand why some books
are still popular and regular bestsellers over one hundred years since
their first publication.
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Another interesting addition to PG collection is the lections on geology by Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), English clergyman, poet and novelist, to students in Chester, England. The author,who was a conservative President of the Midland Institute in Birmingham, took surprisingly unortodox position in these lections, supporting Lyell's geological theory. See http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/5/10251
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Hieroglyphs and cuneiform, Chinese and Arabic characters - millions of signs that learned scribes and calligraphists traced out painstakingly on stones and papyruses in sumptuous palaces and humble monasteries during the history of human civilization. The concrete buildings are now in ruins and sands are covering the walls of great palaces, but strangely enough, the most virtual part of civilization - the signs are still alive. They are changing slowly, but still reflects the thousand of years passed since the sinful tower was destroyed, supplying the beauty of variety and the sense of "far away land" for the travelers (which can be, of course, kind of annoying when you try to find your hotel in China or small Russian town ? ). They are very important part of mental environment and I believe that their influence on the world perception should be considerable. So for the ancient Egyptians the world probably looked much more picturesque than for us writing in economical and r
ational 20+ alphabets ... Japanese and Russian, Hebrew and Arabic - plenty of copyright free texts are waiting for to be included to PG in their original beauty together with their translated reflections. This is an important theme and we will continue to explore it in the future issues
Editor
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Cookery Club unveiling dinner ...
Last week we issued an invitation to join PG's Cookery Club, a series of virtual dinner parties based on some of PG's extensive cookery book collections, and proposed a starter from The Belgian Cookbook called Gourmand's Mushrooms. As you may recall, part of the fun is reporting back each week on how we fared preparing the recipes. So here is my report on Gourmand's Mushrooms.
One of the challenges of old cookery books is their inattention to features we take for granted in modern recipes, such as exactly measured amounts and times. The Belgian Cookbook is especially notable for its vague directions in this area, and thus in making Gourmand's Mushrooms we were asked to measure butter in terms of a tangerine. I did happen to have a tangerine on hand, but I couldn't help wondering if they might have been smaller back then. Then there was the matter of the gravy. "Moisten them with gravy" says the recipe, without mentioning where the gravy was to come from. Are we supposed to have it on hand, like eggs and milk (and tangerines)? I think so, because further exploration of The Belgian Cookbook reveals other recipes calling for gravy in an offhand manner. But if this dish is "fit for the greatest saints to eat on Fridays," which I take to mean that it is meatless, then what kind of gravy would this be exactly? (Ed. It might be a saint vegan gravy, howeve
r we'll never know ...)
In the event, I didn't think the mushrooms needed any moistening, so I skipped this step. Otherwise, the recipe was very straightforward. I'm not sure I'm a fan of Gourmand's Mushrooms though; could it be I am a Prussian?
[Ed. Our chief editor's response was quite different - 'tried out the recipe from last week, minus egg yolk as we have no eggs at the moment. The verdict from us is that it was different, having the lemon taste with mushrooms was nice, but the quantity required in the recipe would have been too much for two of us. Overall, 6 out of 10 and we might try it again in the future.' So to summarize: the Gourmand's Mushrooms get average 3 out of 10 based on 2 reviews. However, remember, dear guest on our virtual dinner, that You still have a chance to change the statistics by trying the receipt at home and sending us your comments ...]
For the remainder of our menu, which is a vegetarian menu suitable for a cool evening in autumn (or spring, if you are in that part of the world), we propose the three recipes below. Once again, you are invited to partake by trying one or more of these recipes, and sending your comments to us. Before presenting the recipes, though, here are few interesting findings about The Belgian Cookbook:
The most interesting fact, I think is that it was published in 1915, and, as noted in the Preface, "The recipes in this little book have been sent by Belgian refugees from all parts of the United Kingdom." So while we are wondering where the gravy comes from, we can recall that all these recipes were contributed by war refugees who comforted themselves in their exile by cooking the dishes of their country, and sharing them with the people of their host nation.
Getting past this somber fact, we notice some amusing instructions in the preface. Savories, we are told (of which Gourmand's Mushrooms could be considered an example), should be "like an ankle, small and neat and alluring." Hmm. And as for soup,
"Let your soup be extremely hot; do not let it be like the Laodiceans. You know what St. John said about them, and you would be sorry to think of your soup sharing the fate which he describes with such saintly verve."
I'll have to investigate my PG edition of the New Testament to find out what this means. Meantime,
"Be sure that your soup has a good foundation, and avoid the Italian method of making _consommé_, which is to put a pot of water on to warm and to drive a cow past the door."
I think I've heard that joke about other soup, such as the kind served in the prison camps, but rest assured that our soup will not be like that.
CAULIFLOWER SOUP
After you have boiled a cauliflower, it is a great extravagance to throw away the liquor; it is delicately flavored and forms the basis of a good soup. Wash well your cauliflower, taking great care to remove all grit and insects. Place it to simmer with its head downwards, in salted water; and, when it is tender, remove it. Now for the soup. Let all the outer leaves and odd bits simmer well, then pass them through a sieve. Fry some chopped onions, add the liquor of the cauliflower and the pieces that have been rubbed through the sieve, add a little white pepper and a slice of brown bread. Let all cook gently for half-an-hour, then, just before serving it, take out the slice of bread and sprinkle in two teaspoonfuls of grated Gruyere cheese.
POTATOES AND CHEESE
Every one likes this nourishing dish, and it is a cheap one. Peel some potatoes and cut them in rounds. In a fireproof dish put a layer of these, sprinkle them with flour, grated cheese, pepper, salt, a few pats of butter. Then some more potatoes, and so on till the dish is full. Beat the yolks of two eggs in a pint of milk, add pepper and salt and pour it over the dish. Leave it on the top of the stove for five minutes, then cook it for half-an-hour in a moderate oven. Less time may be required if the dish is small, but the potatoes must be thoroughly cooked. The original recipe directs Gruyère cheese, but red or pale Canadian Cheddar could be used.
APPLE FRITTERS
Put half pound of flour in a deep dish and work it with beer, beating it well till there are no lumps left. Make it into a paste that is not very liquid. Peel and core some good apples, cut them into rounds, put them in the paste so that each one is well covered with it. Have a pan of boiling fat and throw in the apple slices for two minutes. They ought to be golden by then, if that fat has been hot enough. Serve them dusted with powdered sugar and the juice of half a lemon squeezed on them. Icing sugar is another term for powdered sugar
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Audio: Alexander's Ragtime Band, by Billy Murray 10305
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: Irving Berlin (Composer)]
[Note: Recorded c. November 1911]
[NPS: EDIS 36065]
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Audio: Some of These Days, by Sophie Tucker 10304
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: Shelton Brooks (Composer)]
[Subtitle: From Honky Tonk]
[Note: Recorded c. June 1911]
[NPS: EDIS 35979]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/0/10304 ]
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Audio: Jere Sanford's Yodeling and Whistling Specialty, by Jere Sanford 10303
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Note: Recorded c. 1910]
[NPS: EDIS 36577]
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Audio: Just Because She Made Dem Goo-Goo Eyes, by John Dobbs 10302
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: John Queen (Composer)]
[Author: Hughie Cannon (Composer)]
[Note: Recorded December 29, 1901]
[NPS: EDIS 4778]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/0/10302 ]
[Files: 10302-m-readme.txt; 10302-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder?, Edward M. Favor 10301
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: George L. Giefer (Composer)]
[Recorded c. February 1901]
[NPS: EDIS 24893]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/0/10301 ]
[Files: 10301-m-readme.txt; 10301-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Snyder, Does Your Mother Know You're Out?, by George P. Watson 10300
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. July 1899]
[NPS: EDIS 4765]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/0/10300 ]
[Files: 10300-m-readme.txt; 10300-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Poet and Peasant Overture, by Eddie Peabody (banjo) 10299
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: Fanz von Suppe (Composer)]
[Recorded on March 4, 1925]
[NPS: EDIS 42876]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/9/10299 ]
[Files: 10299-m-readme.txt; 10299-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Flow Gently Sweet Afton and Bonnie, Sweet Bonnie 10298
[Author: Robert Trucksess (American Guitar)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: J. E. Spilman (Composer, Flow...)]
[Author: J. L. B. Gilbert (Composer, Bonnie...)]
[Recorded September 12, 1921]
[NPS: EDIS 42253]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/9/10298 ]
[Files: 10298-m-readme.txt; 10298-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Saxema, by Rudy Wiedoeft 10297
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: Rudy Wiedoeft (Composer)]
[Recorded c. 1920]
[NPS: EDIS 68208]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/9/10297 ]
[Files: 10297-m-readme.txt; 10297-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, by Fisk University Jubilee Quartette 10296
[Author AKA: The Southern Four]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded December 7, 1921]
[NPS: EDIS 42717]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/6/10268 ]
[Files: 10268-m-readme.txt; 10268-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: The Band of Gideon, by Fisk University Jubilee Quartette 10295
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. 1912]
[NPS: EDIS 36410]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/6/10267 ]
[Files: 10267-m-readme.txt; 10267-m-001.mp3; ]
Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading, Horace Elisha Scudder, editor 10294
[Subtitle: Selected from English and American Literature]
[Files: 10294.txt]
Relacion historica de la rebelion de Tupac-Amaru, by Anonymous 10293
[Full title: Relacion historica de los sucesos de la rebelion de
Jose Gabriel Tupac-Amaru en las provincias del Peru, el ano de 1780]
[Files: 10293.txt; 10293-8.txt]
[Language: Spanish]
Punchinello, Vol. 2, No. 36, December 3, 1870, by Various 10292
[Files: 10292.txt; 10292-8.txt; 10292-h.htm]
In The Fourth Year, by H.G. Wells 10291
[Subtitle: Anticipations of a World Peace (1918)]
[Files: 10291.txt; 10291-8.txt]
Confession de Minuit, by Georges Duhamel 10290
[Subtitle: Roman]
[Files: 10290.txt; 10290-8.txt; 10290-h.htm]
[Language: French]
Le Chat du Neptune, by Ernest D'Hervilly 10289
[Files: 10289.txt; 10289-8.txt; 10289-h.htm]
[Language: French]
Audio: Ragtime Echoes, by Samuel Siegel (mandolin) 10288
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: Marie Caveny (ukelele)]
[Author: Samuel Siegel (Composer)]
[Recorded c. 1918]
[NPS: EDIS 76220]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/8/10288 ]
[Files: 10288-m-readme.txt; 10288-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: New York Blues, by Pietro Frosini (accordion) 10287
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: Pietro Frosini (Composer)]
[Recorded c. 1916]
[NPS: EDIS 41040]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/8/10287 ]
[Files: 10287-m-readme.txt; 10287-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Arbucklenian Polka, by Bohumir Kryl (coronet) 10286
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. January 1903]
[NPS: EDIS 37408]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/8/10286 ]
[Files: 10286-m-readme.txt; 10286-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Ma Rag Time Baby, by Peerless Orchestra 10285
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Composer: Fred S. Stone]
[Recorded c. 1903]
[NPS: EDIS 37289]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/8/10285 ]
[Files: 10285-m-readme.txt; 10285-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Spring of Love, by Jaudas (violin) 10284
[Composer: Sam Ehrlich]
[Author: Eugene]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Flute: Louis Atz]
[Recorded c. 1903]
[NPS: EDIS 4791]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/8/10284 ]
[Files: 10284-m-readme.txt; 10284-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Dinah Polka, by Charles P. Lowe (xylophone) 10283
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. 1900]
[NPS: EDIS 4815]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/8/10283 ]
[Files: 10283-m-readme.txt; 10283-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Polish National Dance, by Charles D'Almaine (violin) 10282
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. 1900]
[NPS: EDIS 4788]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/8/10282 ]
[Files: 10282-m-readme.txt; 10282-m-001.mp3; ]
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[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: William Shakespeare (Writer)]
[Subtitle: Julius Caesar]
[Recorded c. 1914]
[NPS: EDIS 40512]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/8/10281 ]
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[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: Paul Lawrence Dunbar (Writer)]
[Recorded c. April 1914]
[Note: Wright was an African-American actor educated at Emerson College
of Oratory in Boston. His recitations helped to introduce and puplarize
the works of African-American poet Dunbar.]
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[Files: 10280-m-readme.txt; 10280-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Len Spencer 10279
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: And Company]
[Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe (Writer)]
[Subtitle: Entrance of Topsy]
[Recorded c. December 1910]
[NPS: EDIS 36848]
[See Also: eBook #203]
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[Files: 10279-m-readme.txt; 10279-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Sei Forse L'Angelo Fedele, by Claudia Muzio (soprano) 10278
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Composer)]
[Subtitle: Eugene Onegin]
[Recorded c. 1920]
[NPS: EDIS 44126]
[Language: Russian]
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[Files: 10278-m-readme.txt; 10278-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Hallelujah Chorus, by Oratorio Chorus 10277
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: George Frideric Handel (Composer)]
[Subtitle: Messiah]
[Recorded c. 1916]
[NPS: EDIS 43552]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/7/10277 ]
[Files: 10277-m-readme.txt; 10277-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Gloria, by Gregorian Choir 10276
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer)]
[Subtitle: The Twelfth Mass]
[Recorded c. 1915]
[NPS: EDIS 43552]
[Language: Latin]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/7/10276 ]
[Files: 10276-m-readme.txt; 10276-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: La Gioconda, by Paola Koraleck 10275
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: Preste Benedetti]
[Author: Amilcare Ponchielli (Composer)]
[Recorded c. July 1911]
[NPS: EDIS 83615]
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/7/10275 ]
[Files: 10275-m-readme.txt; 10275-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Ah! Fors' e Lui, by Lucrezia Bori (soprano) 10273
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: Giuseppe Verdi (Composer)]
[Subtitle: La Traviata]
[Recorded c. August 1910]
[NPS: EDIS 87690-a]
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/7/10273 ]
[Files: 10273-m-readme.txt; 10273-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Sono Un Poeta, by Florencio Constantino (tenor) 10272
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: Giacomo Puccini (Composer)]
[Subtitle: La Boheme]
[Recorded c. July 1908]
[NPS: EDIS 38051]
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/7/10272 ]
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Audio: Hochstes Vertrauen, by Heinrich Knote (tenor) 10271
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: Richard Wagner (Composer)]
[Subtitle: Lohengrin]
[Recorded c. February 1906]
[NPS: EDIS 38238]
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/7/10271 ]
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Audio: What Band Is This?, by Hann's Emperors of Song 10270
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison']
[Recorded January 4, 1926]
[NPS: EDIS 78332]
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[Files: 10270-m-readme.txt; 10270-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Pharoah's Army Got Drowned, by "Colored Quartet" (name unknown) 10269
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded July 9, 1924]
[NPS: EDIS 87051]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/6/10269 ]
[Files: 10269-m-readme.txt; 10269-m-001.mp3; ]
Patty at Home, by Carolyn Wells 10268
[Files: 10268.txt; 10268-8.txt]
The Outdoor Chums, by Captain Quincy Allen 10267
[Subtitle: The First Tour of the Rod, Gun and Camera Club]
[Files: 10267.txt]
The Glands Regulating Personality, by Louis Berman, M.D 10266
[Files: 10266.txt; 10266-8.txt]
Audio: Anssin Jukka Ja Harman Haat, by Otto Pyykkonen 10265
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded March 8, 1928]
[Language: Finnish]
[NPS: EDIS 44417]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/6/10265 ]
[Files: 10265-m-readme.txt; 10265-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Skamba Kankliah ir Trimintia, by Jouzas Suildauskas (baritonas) 10264
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Composer: Mikas Petraushas]
[Recorded on May 22, 1925]
[Language: Lithuanian]
[NPS: EDIS 41305]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/6/10264 ]
[Files: 10264-m-readme.txt; 10264-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Envoyons d'l'avant nos gens!, by Charles Marchand (basse) 10263
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: Ernest Patience (au piano)]
[Author: Harm, D'Amedee Tremblay (Composer)]
[Subtitle: Folklore du Canada]
[Recorded May 12, 1925]
[NPS: EDIS 44392]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/6/10263 ]
[Files: 10263-m-readme.txt; 10263-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Que Partes El Alma, by Juan de la Cruz (tenor) 10262
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: Bienvenido Leon (baritono)]
[Author: Manuel Mendez (Composer)]
[Subtitle: Rumba Son]
[Recorded on September 29, 1924]
[NPS: EDIS 41247]
[Language: Spanish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/6/10262 ]
[Files: 10262-m-readme.txt; 10262-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: La Bella Cubano, by El Trio Cubano 10261
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Subtitle: Habenera]
[Recorded on September 18, 1924]
[Note: Violins and piano]
[NPS: EDIS 77575]
[Language: Spanish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/6/10261 ]
[Files: 10261-m-readme.txt; 10261-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Narodowe Melodye, by Aleksander Iwanowski (Harmonika) 10260
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Subtitle: Polka]
[Recorded on July 24, 1922]
[NPS: EDIS 71105]
[Language: Polish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/6/10260 ]
[Files: 10260-m-readme.txt; 10260-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Smes Esko - Slovackych Pisni, by Milan Lusk (houslove solo) 10259
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: Ludmila Vojackova (Wetche, klavirni doprovod)]
[Subtitle: Cis 1]
[Recorded c. 1921]
[NPS: EDIS 41274]
[Language: Slovak]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/5/10259 ]
[Files: 10259-m-readme.txt; 10259-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Nataligino Kolo, by Jugoslavensko Tamburasko Drustvo 10258
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author AKA: Jugo-Slav Tamburitza Orchestra (English Translation)]
[Recorded c. 1920]
[NPS: EDIS 41283]
[Language: Hungarian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/5/10258 ]
[Files: 10258-m-readme.txt; 10258-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Mazel Tov, by I. J. Hochman's Yiddisher Orchester 10257
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded on December 11, 1918]
[NPS: EDIS 44419]
[Language: Yiddish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/5/10257 ]
[Files: 10257-m-readme.txt; 10257-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: O, Tannenbaum, by Nebe Quartett 10256
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: Richard Wagner (Composer)]
[Recorded c. 1907]
[NPS: EDIS 38244]
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/5/10256 ]
[Files: 10256-m-readme.txt; 10256-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: La Paloma, by Banda de Zapadores de Mexico 10255
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: Sebastian Yradier (Composer)]
[Recorded in July 1905]
[NPS: EDIS 38222]
[Language: Spanish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/5/10255 ]
[Files: 10255-m-readme.txt; 10255-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: The Birth of the Telephone, by Thomas A. Watson 10254
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. 1914 at the Edison Motion Picture Film Studio, Bronx, New York]
[Note: The motion picture element of this sound film is believed lost.]
[NPS: EDIS 4634]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/5/10254 ]
[Files: 10254-m-readme.txt; 10254-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Andrew Carnegie, by Andrew Carnegie 10253
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: Daniel Higham (Director)]
[Recorded on January 20, 1914]
[Recorded at the Edison Motion Picture Film Studio, Bronx, New
York]
[Note: The motion picture element of this sound film is believed lost.]
[NPS: EDIS 4640]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/5/10253 ]
[Files: 10253-m-readme.txt; 10253-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: The Old Violin, by Daniel Higham (Director) 10252
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded January 1914 at the Edison Motion Picture Film Studio in Bronx,
New York]
[NPS: EDIS 4627]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/5/10252]
[Files: 10252-m-readme.txt; 10252-m-001.mp3; ]
Town Geology, by Charles Kingsley 10251
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/5/10251]
[Files: 10251.txt; 10251.zip; 10251-h.htm; 10251-h.zip]
Audio: The Five Bachelors, by Ramsay (Director) 10250
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded on December 7, 1912 or February 16, 1913]
[Recorded at the Edison Motion Picture Film Studio, Bronx, New
York]
[NPS: EDIS 4632]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/5/10250]
[Files: 10250-m-readme.txt; 10250-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: The St. Louis Blues, by Frank Ferera 10249
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: John Paaluhi]
[Author: W. C. Handy (Composer)]
[Recorded on September 4, 1925]
[NPS: EDIS 78255]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/4/10249]
[Files: 10249-m-readme.txt; 10249-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Blues my Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me,by Raderman's Jazz Orchestra 10248
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. 1920]
[NPS: EDIS 76868]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/4/10248]
[Files: 10248-m-readme.txt; 10248-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Dixieland, by Lopez and Hamilton's Kings of Harmony 10247
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: Dixieland Jazz Band (Composer)]
[Subtitle: One-Step]
[Recorded c. 1920]
[NPS: EDIS 76857]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/4/10247]
[Files: 10247-m-readme.txt; 10247-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Sensation Jazz, by The All Star Trio 10246
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: Dixieland Jazz Band (Composer)]
[Subtitle: One-Step]
[Note: saxophone, xylophone, and piano]
[Recorded c. 1919]
[NPS: EDIS 42041]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/4/10246]
[Files: 10246-m-readme.txt; 10246-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Jazz de Luxe, by Earl Fuller's Famous Jazz Band 10245
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: Earl Fuller (Composer)]
[Subtitle: Fox Trot]
[Recorded c. 1919]
[NPS: EDIS 42041]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/4/10245]
[Files: 10245-m-readme.txt; 10245-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Johnson "jass" Blues, by Friscoe "Jass" Band 10244
[Subtitle: Fox Trot]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Composer: E. Arnold Johnson]
[Recorded on May 10, 1917]
[NPS: EDIS 41060]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/4/10244]
[Files: 10244-m-readme.txt; 10244-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Radio Program for WAAM, Newark, New Jersey, Scott (organ, vocal) 10243
[Author: Mr. Greenfield]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Organ and vocals by John A. Scott]
[Recorded April 12, 1928, at Columbia Street Studio, Edison Laboratory,
West Orange, New Jersey; this was an experimental slow speed (30 RPM)
record used for an experimental pre-recorded radio broadcast.]
[NPS: EDIS 78047]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/4/10243]
[Files: 10243-m-readme.txt; 10243-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Plaque No. 6, by Losey's Orchestra 10242
[Subtitle: Exp. No. 27, Recorder #20]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded December 16, 1925, at Columbia Street Studio, Edison Laboratory,
West Orange, New Jersey, with an experimental 125 ft long recording horn]
[NPS: EDIS 77947]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/4/10242]
[Files: 10242-m-readme.txt; 10242-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Plaque No. 2, by Losey's Orchestra 10241
[Subtitle: Exp. No. 5-6-7-8, Recorder #20]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded December 8, 1925, at Columbia Street Studio, Edison Laboratory,
West Orange, New Jersey, with an experimental 125 ft long recording horn.]
[NPS: EDIS 77879]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/4/10241]
[Files: 10241-m-readme.txt; 10241-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Plaque No. 1, by Losey's Orchestra 10240
[Subtitle: Exp. No. 1-2-3-4, Recorder #20]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded December 8, 1925, at Columbia Street Studio, Edison Laboratory,
West Orange, New Jersey, with an experimental 125 ft long recording horn.]
[NPS: EDIS 77879]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/4/10240]
[Files: 10240-m-readme.txt; 10240-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: 2nd Record, by Losey's Orchestra 10239
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: A. Paganucci (director)]
[Recorded September 15, 1924 at the Columbia Street Studio, Edison
Laboratory, West Orange, New Jersey, using an experimental 125 foot
recording horn.]
[NPS: EDIS 87052]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/3/10239]
[Files: 10239-m-readme.txt; 10239-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Ediphone School Record No. 2, by Thomas A. Edison 10238
[Subtitle: 90 WPM-1]
[Recorded c. 1943]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/3/10238]
[Files: 10238-m-readme.txt; 10238-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Siegel-Myers School of Music - Vocal Record F,by Thomas A. Edison 10237
[Recorded c. 1906]
[NPS: EDIS 103642]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/3/10237]
[Files: 10237-m-readme.txt; 10237-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: International Correspondence School - Spanish Lesson #9,by Edison 10236
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. 1902]
[NPS: EDIS 38902-a]
[Language: English/Spanish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/3/10236]
[Files: 10236-m-readme.txt; 10236-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Discussion on Edison's Monoid Theory, by Theodore M. Edison 10235
[Note: Theodore M. Edison is the son of Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded July 26, 1970 at Glenmont (Edison's home), 2nd Floor Library, West
Orange, New Jersey]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/3/10235]
[Files: 10235-m-readme.txt; 10235-m-001.mp3; ]
Old Creole Days, by George Washington Cable 10234
[Files: 10234.txt; 10234-8.txt]
Audio: Transcontinental Telephone Address to Thomas A. Edison,Hutchinson 10233
[Author: Miller Reese Hutchinson]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. October 17, 1915]
[Note: On October 21, 1915 a group of Thomas Edison's friends and
business associates played this recording in the library of the Edison
Laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey and transmitted it to Edison at the
Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California via
the American Telephone and Telegraph Company's newly completed
transcontinental telephone line.]
[NPS: EDIS 584]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/3/10233]
[Files: 10233-m-readme.txt; 10233-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Remarks from a Visit to Edison Laboratory,General Nelson A. Miles 10232
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded on December 28, 1914]
[Note: Nelson A. Miles was a Major General of Volunteers for the Union
Army during the Civil War. In 1866 he led the defeat of Apache leader
Geronimo. He was Commander of the United States Army during the
Spanish-American War.]
[NPS: EDIS 5062]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/3/10232]
[Files: 10232-m-readme.txt; 10232-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Remarks from a Visit to Edison Laboratory, by Daniels 10231
[Author: Addie Worth nee Bagley Daniels]
[Editor: Thomas A Edison]
[Recorded on October 10, 1914]
[Note: Daniels was the wife of the then Secretary of the Navy]
[NPS: EDIS 5061]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/3/10231]
[Files: 10231-m-readme.txt; 10231-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Remarks from a Visit to Edison Laboratory, by Josephus Daniels 10230
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded October 10, 1914]
[Note: Daniels was then the US Secretary of the Navy]
[NPS: EDIS 5060]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/3/10230]
[Files: 10230-m-readme.txt; 10230-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: My South Polar Expedition, by Lt. Ernest H. Shackleton 10229
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded March 30, 1910]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/2/10229]
[Files: 10229-m-readme.txt; 10229-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: El Presidente Diaz al Senor Edison, by Porfirio Diaz 10228
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. August 1909 in Mexico]
[Note: Diaz was the president of Mexico]
[NPS: EDIS 39847]
[Language: Spanish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/2/10228]
[Files: 10228-m-readme.txt; 10228-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Tolstoy's Plower Story, by John Wanamaker 10227
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded on November 5, 1908]
[NPS: EDIS 39834]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/2/10227]
[Files: 10227-m-readme.txt; 10227-m-001.mp3; ]
Beautiful Joe, by Marshall Saunders 10226
[Subtitle: An Autobiography of a Dog]
[Files: 10226.txt; 10226-h.htm]
Their Crimes, by Various 10225
[Files: 10225.txt; 10225-8.txt]
Kalitan, Our Little Alaskan Cousin, by Mary F. Nixon-Roulet 10224
[Files: 10224.txt]
Meyers Konversationslexikon Volume 15 10223
[Language: German]
[Files: 10223-8.txt, 10223-0.txt, 10223-h.htm]
The Pilgrims of New England, by Mrs. J. B. Webb 10222
[Subtitle: A Tale Of The Early American Settlers]
[Files: 10222.txt; 10222-8.txt]
Purple Springs, by Nellie L. McClung 10221
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/2/10221]
[Files: 10221.txt; 10221.zip; ]
Daddy Takes Us Skating, by Howard R. Garis 10220
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/2/10220]
[Files: 10220.txt; 10220.zip; ]
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Edited by William Knight 10219
[Subtitle: Volume 1 of 8]
[Files: 10219.txt; 10219-8.txt; 10219-h.htm]
Stauder, by G.N. Brandt 10218
[Files: 10218.txt; 10218-8.txt]
[Language: Danish]
The Land Of Little Rain, by Mary Hunter Austin 10217
[Files: 10217.txt; 10217-8.txt]
Poems, by Marietta Holley 10216
[Files: 10216.txt]
Manfredo Palavicino, by Giuseppe Rovani 10215
[Subtitle: o I Francesi e gli Sforzeschi]
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/1/10215]
[Files: 10215.txt; 10215.zip; 10215-8.txt; 10215-8.zip; ]
Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato, by Thomas Taylor 10214
[Files: 10214.txt; 10214-8.txt]
The Everlasting Whisper, by Jackson Gregory 10213
[Files: 10213.txt; 10213-8.txt]
Peck's Bad Boy at the Circus, by George W. Peck 10212
[Files: 10212.txt; 10212-h.htm]
At Whispering Pine Lodge, by Lawrence J. Leslie 10211
[Files: 10211.txt; 10211-h.htm]
Wolves of the Sea, by Randall Parrish 10210
[Subtitle: Being a Tale of the Colonies From the Manuscript of One
Geoffry Carlyle, Seaman, Narrating Certain Strange Adventures Which
Befell Him Aboard the Pirate Craft "Namur"]
[Files: 10210.txt; 10210-8.txt]
Audio: Electricity and Progress, by Thomas A. Edison 10209
[Subtitle: Opening of the New York Electrical Show]
[Recorded October 3, 1908]
[NPS: EDIS 39385]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/0/10209]
[Files: 10209-m-readme.txt; 10209-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: The Rights of Labor, by William H. Taft 10208
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Note: Taft was a candidate for US President]
[Recorded Aug 3, 1908, at the Homestead Hotel of Hot Springs, Virginia]
[NPS: EDIS 39851]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/0/10208]
[Files: 10208-m-readme.txt; 10208-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: The Railroad Question, by William Jennings Bryan 10207
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Note: Bryan was a candidate for US President]
[Recorded May 1908 at Bryan's home in Lincoln, Nebraska]
[NPS: EDIS 37849]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/0/10207]
[Files: 10207-m-readme.txt; 10207-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: The Liver Complaint Story, by Thomas A. Edison 10206
[Recorded 1906]
[NPS: EDIS 39838]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/0/10206]
[Files: 10206-m-readme.txt; 10206-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Words of Welcome, by Garrett A. Hobart 10205
[Subtitle: Opening of the Electrical Exposition of New York City]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded on May 1, 1898, in Washington D.C.]
[NPS: EDIS 39849]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/0/10205]
[Files: 10205-m-readme.txt; 10205-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Charge of the Light Brigade, by Trumpeter Landfrey 10204
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Note: Landfrey was a bugler in the Light Brigade at the Battle of
Balaklava, October 25, 1854, of the Crimean War. On this recording
Landfrey plays a trumpet that was used at the battle of Waterloo,
June 18, 1815, of the Napoleonic Wars.]
[Recorded August 2, 1890, in London, England]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/0/10204]
[Files: 10204-m-readme.txt; 10204-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Big Ben Clock Tower of Westminster, by Miss. Ferguson 10203
[Subtitle: Striking half past 10, quarter to 11, and 11 o'clock]
[Author: Graham Hope]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded July 16, 1890, at Westminster, London, England]
[NPS: EDIS 39839]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/0/10203]
[Files: 10203-m-readme.txt; 10203-m-001.mp3; ]
Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals, by Maria Mitchell 10202
[Files: 10202.txt; 10202-8.txt]
The Desert of Wheat, by Zane Grey 10201
[Files: 10201.txt; 10201-8.txt; 10201-h.htm]
Audio: To Edison from Colonel Gouraud, Introducing Mr. Gladstone 10200
[Subtitle: The Phonograph's Salutation]
[Author: William E. Gladstone; Intro. by George Gouraud]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Note: Mr. Gladstone was the British Prime Minister at the time]
[Recorded on December 18, 1888, in London, England]
[NPS: EDIS 39852]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/0/10200]
[Files: 10200-m-readme.txt; 10200-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Down in a Georgia Jail, by Posey Rorer 10199
[Author: His North Carolina Ramblers]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded on September 26, 1928]
[NPS: EDIS 81450]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/9/10199]
[Files: 10199-m-readme.txt; 10199-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Barbara Allen, by Frank Luther 10198
[Author: His Pards]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded August 15, 1928]
[NPS: EDIS 81262]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/9/10198]
[Files: 10198-m-readme.txt; 10198-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: He Was Nailed to the Cross for Me, by Earnest V. Stoneman 10197
[Author: His Dixie Mountineers]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded April 24, 1928]
[NPS: EDIS 80960]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/9/10197]
[Files: 10197-m-readme.txt; 10197-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Cluck Old Hen, by Fiddlin' Powers and Family 10196
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded on October 6, 1925]
[NPS: EDIS 78487]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/9/10196]
[Files: 10196-m-readme.txt; 10196-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Lonesome Road Blues, by The Blue Ridge Duo 10195
[Author AKA: Gene Austin; George Reneau]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded on September 22, 1924]
[NPS: EDIS 42868]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/9/10195]
[Files: 10195-m-readme.txt; 10195-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Opera Reel with Calls, by Jasper Bisbee (Fiddle) 10194
[Author: Beulah Bisbee-Schuler (Piano)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded on November 24, 1923]
[NPS: EDIS 42632]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/9/10194]
[Files: 10194-m-readme.txt; 10194-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Backyard Conversation Between Mrs. Reilly and Mrs. Finnegan,Jones 10193
[Author: Ada Jones, Steve Porter]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded 1920]
[NPS: EDIS 43047]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/9/10193]
[Files: 10193-m-readme.txt; 10193-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Interruptions, by Tom Woottwell 10192
[Subtitle: Comic Sketch]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded 1909]
[NPS: EDIS 36622]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/9/10192]
[Files: 10192-m-readme.txt; 10192-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Fourth of July at Punkin Center, by Cal Stewart 10191
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded July 1911]
[NPS: EDIS 36009]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/9/10191]
[Files: 10191-m-readme.txt; 10191-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: A Bunch of Nonsense, by Murray K. Hill 10190
[Subtitle: Vaudeville Specialty]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded November 1908]
[NPS: EDIS 36631]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/9/10190]
[Files: 10190-m-readme.txt; 10190-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Three Rubes Seeing New York, by Edison Vaudeville Company 10189
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded November 1907]
[NPS: EDIS 38839]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/8/10189]
[Files: 10189-m-readme.txt; 10189-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Two Rubes at the Vaudeville, by Byron G. Harlan 10188
[Author: Frank C. Stanley]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded July 1904]
[NPS: EDIS 4776]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/8/10188]
[Files: 10188-m-readme.txt; 10188-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Reuben Haskin's ride on the Cyclone Auto, by Len Spencer 10187
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded February 1904]
[NPS: EDIS 4779]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/8/10187]
[Files: 10187-m-readme.txt; 10187-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Schultz at the Paris Exposition, by Frank Kennedy 10186
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded September 1900]
[NPS: EDIS 24876]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/8/10186]
[Files: 10186-m-readme.txt; 10186-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Minstrel Potpourri, by Edison Minstrels 10185
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. July 1899]
[NPS: EDIS 4751]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/8/10185]
[Files: 10185-m-readme.txt; 10185-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Quartet in G, 1st Movement, Pt. 1, by Roth String Quartet 10184
[Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded on October 10, 1929]
[NPS: EDIS 84282]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/8/10184]
[Files: 10184-m-readme.txt; 10184-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Etude Nouvelle in A Flat and Etude in C Major, Op. 10, No. 1 10183
[Composer: Frederic Chopin]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Pianist: Moriz Rosenthal]
[Recorded April 4, 1929]
[NPS: EDIS 44236]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/8/10183]
[Files: 10183-m-readme.txt; 10183-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Trio No. 1 in B Flat, Pt. 1, by The New York Trio 10182
[Subtitle: 1st Movement, allegro moderato, Op. 99]
[Composer: Franz Schubert]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded May 23, 1928]
[NPS: EDIS 80125]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/8/10182]
[Files: 10182-m-readme.txt; 10182-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Clair de Lune, by Hotel Commodore Ensemble 10181
[Subtitle: Suite Bergamasque]
[Composer: Claude Debussey]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Directed by Bernhard Levitow]
[Recorded July 21, 1927]
[NPS: EDIS 40629]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/8/10181]
[Files: 10181-m-readme.txt; 10181-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Slavonic Dance, No. 1, by Carl Flesch (Violin) 10180
[Composer: Antonin Dvorak and Fritz Kreisler]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Pianist: Kurt Ruhrseitz]
[Recorded March 5, 1926]
[NPS: EDIS 43934]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/8/10180]
[Files: 10180-m-readme.txt; 10180-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Extracts from the Ballet-Suite Scherazada, Pt. 1 10179
[Composer: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakow]
[Performed by: American Concert Orchestra]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded on April 28, 1925]
[NPS: EDIS 43889]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/7/10179]
[Files: 10179-m-readme.txt; 10179-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Moonlight Sonata, by Bellini Ensemble Unique 10178
[Composer: Ludwig von Beethoven]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded 1924]
[NPS: EDIS 41945]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/7/10178]
[Files: 10178-m-readme.txt; 10178-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Ride of the Valkyries, by American Symphony Orchestra 10177
[Subtitle: From "Die Valkyrie"]
[Composer: Richard Wagner]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded 1921]
[NPS: EDIS 41877]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/7/10177]
[Files: 10177-m-readme.txt; 10177-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: The Debutante, by Edna White (Trumpet) 10176
[Subtitle: Caprice Brillante]
[Composer: Herbert L. Clarke]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded 1920]
[NPS: EDIS 41889]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/7/10176]
[Files: 10176-m-readme.txt; 10176-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Prelude in C Sharp Minor, Op. 3, by Sergie Rachmaninoff 10175
[Composer: Sergie Rachmaninoff]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded 1919]
[NPS: EDIS 73898]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/7/10175]
[Files: 10175-m-readme.txt; 10175-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: William Tell Overture, Pt. 2, by Sodero's Band 10174
[Composer: Gioacchino Rossini]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded 1911?]
[NPS: EDIS 43455]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/7/10174]
[Files: 10174-m-readme.txt; 10174-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, Part 1, by Edison Concert Band 10173
[Composer: Franz Liszt]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded 1913]
[NPS: EDIS 43462]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/7/10173]
[Files: 10173-m-readme.txt; 10173-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Menuett G Flat Major and Valse Bluette, Kathleen Parlow (Violin) 10172
[Composer: Ludwig von Beethoven]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Pianist: George Falkenstein]
[Recorded September 1912]
[NPS: EDIS 36520]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/7/10172]
[Files: 10172-m-readme.txt; 10172-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Santa Lucia, by His Majesty's Irish Guards Band 10171
[Composer: Adolph Lotter]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded July 1912]
[NPS: EDIS 37943]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/7/10171]
[Files: 10171-m-readme.txt; 10171-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Stars and Stripes Forever, by Sousa's Band 10170
[Composer: John Phillip Sousa]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded November 1909]
[NPS: EDIS 36682]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/7/10170]
[Files: 10170-m-readme.txt; 10170-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Semper Fidelis March, by United States Marine Band 10169
[Composer: John Phillip Sousa]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded June 1909]
[NPS: EDIS 35806]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/6/10169]
[Files: 10169-m-readme.txt; 10169-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Kaiser Frederick March, by British Military Band 10168
[Composer: Carl Friedemann]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded 1905]
[NPS: EDIS 38237]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/6/10168]
[Files: 10168-m-readme.txt; 10168-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Mr. Thomas Cat, by Edison Grand Concert Band 10167
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Released December 1900]
[NPS: EDIS 4795]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/6/10167]
[Files: 10167-m-readme.txt; 10167-m-001.mp3; ]
What Germany Thinks, by Thomas F. A. Smith 10166
[Subtitle: The War as Germans see it]
[Files: 10166.txt; 10166-8.txt; 10166-h.htm]
Across the Zodiac, by Percy Greg 10165
[Subtitle: The Story of a Wrecked Record]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/6/10165]
[Files: 10165.txt; 10165.zip; 10165-8.txt; 10165-8.zip; ]
The Black Creek Stopping-House, by Nellie McClung 10164
[Files: 10164.txt; 10164-8.txt]
Mohammedanism, by C. Snouck Hurgronje 10163
[Subtitle: Lectures on Its Origin, Its Religious and Political Growth,
and Its Present State]
[Files: 10163.txt; 10163-8.txt]
Dio's Rome, Vol. III, by Cassius Dio 10162
[Subtitle: An Historical Narrative Originally Composed In Greek During
The Reigns Of Septimius Severus, Geta And Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus
And Alexander Severus]
[Translator: Herbert Baldwin Foster]
[Files: 10162.txt; 10162-8.txt]
English Poets of the Eighteenth Century, by Bernbaum 10161
[Selected and Edited with an Introduction by Ernest Bernbaum]
[Files: 10161.txt; 10161-8.txt]
Pierre Noziere, by Anatole France 10160
[Language: French]
[Files: 10160.txt; 10160-8.txt]
England and the War, by Walter Raleigh 10159
[Speeches]
[Files: 10159.txt; 10159-8.txt]
Audio: Daybreak at Calamity Farm, by Gilbert Girard 10158
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded in 1915]
[NPS: EDIS 40809]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/5/10158]
[Files: 10158-m-readme.txt; 10158-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Which Switch is the Switch, Miss, for Ipswich?, by Billy Murray 10157
[Subtitle: from Rosy Rapture]
[Composers: Worton David, J. Barnett, Herman Darewski]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded 1915]
[NPS: EDIS 40585]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/5/10157]
[Files: 10157-m-readme.txt; 10157-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: M'appari - Martha, by Allesandro Bonci 10156
[Composer: Friedrich von Flotow]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded 1914]
[NPS: EDIS 75936]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/5/10156]
[Files: 10156-m-readme.txt; 10156-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: The Right of the People to Rule, by Theodore Roosevelt 10155
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. August 1912, Sagamore Hill (Roosevelt's home) in Oyster Bay,
New York]
[NPS: EDIS 39850]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/5/10155]
[Files: 10155-m-readme.txt; 10155-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Voice Trial - Kinetophone Actor Audition,by Siegfried Von Schultz 10154
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. 1913, at Edison motion picture film studio, Bronx, NY]
[NPS: EDIS 44830]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/5/10154]
[Files: 10154-m-readme.txt; 10154-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Voice Trial - Kinetophone Actor Audition, by Frank Lenord 10153
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. 1913, at Edison Motion Picture Film Studio, Bronx, NY]
[NPS: EDIS 44830]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/5/10153]
[Files: 10153-m-readme.txt; 10153-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Voice Trial - Kinetophone actor audition, by Bob Lett 10152
[Recorded June 24, 1913, the Edison motion picture film studio, Bronx, NY]
[NPS: EDIS 44833]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/5/10152]
[Files: 10152-m-readme.txt; 10152-m-001.mp3; ]
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 5, by Various 10151
[Subtitle: A Comprehensive and Readable Account of the World's History.
Emphasizing the More Important Events, and Presenting These as Complete
Narratives in the Master-Words of the Most Eminent Historians]
[Editor: Rossiter Johnson, Supervising Editor; Charles F. Horne and
John Rudd, Literary Editors; Walter F. Austin, Directing Editor]
[Contents:
An Outline Narrative of the Great Events, by Charles F. Horne
Feudalism: its Frankish Birth and English Development, by
William Stubbs
Decay of the Frankish Empire, by Francois P. G. Guizot
Career of Alfred the Great, by Thomas Hughes and John R. Green
Henry the Fowler Founds the Saxon Line of German Kings, by
Wolfgang Menzel
Conquest of Egypt by the Fatimites, by Stanley Lane-Poole
Growth and Decadence of Chivalry, by Leon Gautier
Conversion of Vladimir the Great, by A. N. Mouravieff
Leif Ericson Discovers America, by Charles C. Rafn
Mahometans in India, by Alexander Dow
Canute Becomes King of England, by David Hume
Henry III Deposes the Popes, by Ferdinand Gregorovius and Joseph Darras
Dissension and Separation of the Greek and Roman Churches, by Henry F.
Tozer and Joseph Deharbe
Norman Conquest of England, by Sir Edward S. Creasy
Triumphs of Hildebrand, by Arthur R. Pennington and Artaud de Montor
Completion of the Domesday Book, by Charles Knight
Decline of the Moorish Power in Spain, by S. A. Dunham
The First Crusade, by Sir George W. Cox
Foundation of the Order of Knights Templars, by Charles G. Addison
Stephen Usurps the English Crown, by Charles Knight
Antipapal Democratic Movement, by Johann A. W. Neander
Decline of the Byzantine Empire, by George Finlay
Universal Chronology, by John Rudd]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/5/10151]
[Files: 10151.txt; 10151.zip; 10151-8.txt; 10151-8.zip; 10151-h.htm;
10151-h.zip; ]
Dracula's Guest, by Bram Stoker 10150
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/5/10150]
[Files: 10150.txt; 10150.zip; 10150-8.txt; 10150-8.zip; 10150-h.htm;
10150-h.zip; ]
Home as Found, by James Fenimore Cooper 10149
[Subtitle: Sequel to "Homeward Bound"]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/4/10149]
[Files: 10149.txt; 10149.zip; 10149-8.txt; 10149-8.zip; 10149-h.htm;
10149-h.zip; ]
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, by Howard Pyle 10148
[See also: #965]
[Files: 10148.txt; 10148-h.htm]
America's War for Humanity, by Thomas Herbert Russell 10147
[Additional Contributors: General John J. Pershing; William Dunseath
Eaton, Contributing Editor; James Martin Miller]
[Files: 10147.txt; 10147-8.txt; 10147-h.htm]
Reminiscences of Pioneer Days in St. Paul, by Frank Moore 10146
[Subtitle: A Collection of Articles Written for and Published in the
Daily Pioneer Press]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/4/10146]
[Files: 10146.txt; 10146.zip; ]
Turkey: A Past and a Future, by Arnold Joseph Toynbee 10145
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/4/10145]
[Files: 10145.txt; 10145.zip; 10145-8.txt; 10145-8.zip; ]
Punchinello, Vol. II., No. 35, November 26, 1870, by Various 10144
[Files: 10144.txt; 10144-8.txt; 10144-h.htm]
Punch, Volume 153, July 11, 1917, by Various 10143
[Subtitle: Or the London Charivari]
[Files: 10143.txt; 10143-8.txt; 10143-h.htm]
Maezli, by Johanna Spyri 10142
[Subtitle: A Story of the Swiss Valleys]
[Translated by Elisabeth P. Stork]
[Files: 10142.txt; 10142-8.txt; 10142-h.htm]
A Discourse on the Life, Character and Writings of Gulian Crommelin Verp 10141
[Title: A Discourse on the Life, Character and Writings of Gulian
Crommelin Verplanck]
[Subtitle: Delivered before the New-York Historical Society, May 17th,
1870]
[Author: William Cullen Bryant]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/4/10141]
[Files: 10141.txt; 10141.zip; 10141-h.htm; 10141-h.zip; ]
Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance, by Donald Lemen Clark 10140
[Subtitle: A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance
Literary Criticism]
[Files (Unicode): 10140-0.txt; 10140-h.htm]
The Faith of the Millions (2nd series), by George Tyrrell 10139
[Subtitle: A Selection of Past Essays]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/3/10139]
[Files: 10139.txt; 10139.zip; 10139-8.txt; 10139-8.zip; ]
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That's the 47 WEEKS of 2003 as Compared to ~31 YEARS!!!
Here Is A Sample Of What Books Were Being Done Around #3822
Mar 2003 Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw [Shaw #23][pygmlxxx.xxx] 3825
Mar 2003 The Lamp of Fate, Margaret Pedler [Pedler #2][lmpftxxx.xxx] 3824
Mar 2003 Thelma, by Marie Corelli [thlmaxxx.xxx] 3823
Mar 2003 Balzac, Frederick Lawton [balzaxxx.xxx] 3822
Mar 2003 Roman and the Teuton, by Charles Kingsley [CK #12][rmtutxxx.xxx] 3821
Mar 2003 Nathan the Wise, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing [natwsxxx.xxx] 3820
Mar 2003 The Euahlayi Tribe, Langloh Parker [tetasxxx.xxx] 3819
[Title: The Euahlayi Tribe--A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia] Mar 2003
By Reef and Palm, Louis Becke [breepxxx.xxx] 3818 Mar 2003
To Let, by John Galsworthy [John Galsworthy #35][toltgxxx.xxx] 3817 Mar 2003
The Witch of Prague, by F. Marion Crawford [twoprxxx.xxx] 3816
Mar 2003 Rolling Stones, by O. Henry [O Hentry #13][rllstxxx.xxx] 3815
Mar 2003 Robert Louis Stevenson, by E. Blantyre Simpson [rlstvxxx.xxx] 3814
Mar 2003 The Lady Of Blossholme, by H. Rider Haggard[HRH35][blshlxxx.xxx] 3813
Mar 2003 The Mirrors of Washington, by Anonymous [tmrowxxx.xxx] 3812
[Author: Clinton W. Gilbert] Mar 2003 The Star of Gettysburg, Joseph A.
Altsheler [#3][tsgttxxx.xxx] 3811
Mar 2003 The Man-eaters of Tsavo, by J. H. Patterson [tsavoxxx.xxx] 3810
[Title: The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures] Mar 2003 The
Master of the World, Jules Verne [Verne #19][thmstxxx.xxx] 3809 Mar 2003
Robur
the Conqueror, Jules Verne [Verne #18][?robcxxx.xxx] 3808 Mar 2003
Different Forms of Flowers, by Charles Darwin #19][dfmflxxx.xxx] 3807 [Title:
The Different Forms Of Flowers On Plants Of The Same Species] Mar 2003 A Modern
Cinderella, by Louisa May Alcott[LMA #10][mdcndxxx.xxx] 3806
Contains:
A Modern Cinderella: or The Little Old Shoe
Debby's Debut
Brothers
Nelly's Hospital
Mar 2003 The Vultures, by Henry Seton Merriman [vltrsxxx.xxx] 3805
Mar 2003 Pierre And Jean, by Guy de Maupassant [G de M #19][pandjxxx.xxx] 3804
Mar 2003 File No. 113, by Emile Gaboriau[Emile Gaboriau#10][no113xxx.xxx] 3803
Mar 2003 The Widow Lerouge, by Emile Gaboriau [Gaboriau #9][lergexxx.xxx] 3802
[Alternate Title: The Lerouge Case] Mar 2003 Napoleon And Blucher, by Louise
Muhlbach [LM #9][nplblxxx.xxx] 3801 [Variant spellings: Louisa, Louise, Luise
Muhlbach; and Luise von Muhlbach]
Feb 2003 The Ethics, by Benedict de Spinoza [Spinoza #11][ethicxxx.xxx] 3800
[Full Latin Title: Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata] Feb 2003 Landholding
In England, by Joseph Fisher[Fisher#2][lndiexxx.xxx] 3799 Feb 2003
Reminiscences
of Captain Gronow, by Captain Gronow[grnowxxx.xxx] 3798 [Author: Captain Rees
Howell Gronow] Feb 2003 In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells[Wells
#21][incomxxx.xxx] 3797 Feb 2003 Rilla of Ingleside, by Lucy Maud
Montgomery[LMM#7][rillaxxx.xxx] 3796
Feb 2003 Under the Lilacs, by Louisa May Alcott [Alcott #9 [ullcsxxx.xxx] 3795
Feb 2003 L. Annaeus Seneca On Benefits, by Aubrey Stewart [bnftsxxx.xxx] 3794
Feb 2003 Joseph II. and His Court, by L. Muhlbach [LM #8][j2ahcxxx.xxx] 3793
Feb 2003 Capitola The Madcap, by Emma D. E. N. Southworth [mdcapxxx.xxx] 3792
Feb 2003 The Reign Of Law, by James Lane Allen [rolawxxx.xxx] 3791
Feb 2003 Major Barbara, George Bernard Shaw[G. B. Shaw #22][mjbrbxxx.xxx] 3790
Feb 2003 Preface to Major Barbara, George Bernard Shaw[#21][pmbrbxxx.xxx] 3789
Feb 2003 Haydn, by J. Cuthbert Hadden [Master Musicians] [hhmmsxxx.xxx] 3788
Feb 2003 Nature And Art, by Mrs. [Elizabeth] Inchbald [naartxxx.xxx] 3787
Feb 2003 Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Henry Kingsley[hmlynxxx.xxx] 3786
Feb 2003 In The Reign Of Terror, by G. A. Henty [Henty #4][reterxxx.xxx] 3785
Feb 2003 The Sheridan Road Mystery by Paul and Mabel Thorne[shrdnxxx.xxx] 3784
Feb 2003 Mother, by Maxim Gorky [Maxim Gorky PG eBook #4][mthrgxxx.xxx] 3783
Feb 2003 Huntingtower, John Buchan [John Buchan #7][hntngxxx.xxx] 3782
Feb 2003 The Jewel of Seven Stars, Bram Stoker [bstoker #5][thjwlxxx.xxx] 3781
Feb 2003 The King's Highway, by G.P.R. James [knghwxxx.xxx] 3780
Feb 2003 Events Culminating in The Great Conflict, Marshall[ecigcxxx.xxx] 3779
[Complete Listing: A History of The Nations and Empires Involved and a Study
of
the Events Culminating in The Great Conflict, by Logan Marshall] Feb 2003 The
Interdependence of Literature, Georgina Curtis[ntrdpxxx.xxx] 3778 [Author:
Georgina Pell Curtis] Feb 2003 Tom Swift & His Electric Rifle, by Victor
Appleton[10tomxxx.xxx] 3777 Feb 2003 The Valley of Fear, by Arthur Conan
Doyle[Doyle29][vfearxxa.xxx] 3776 (See also: #3289) Feb 2003 Napoleon
Bonaparte, John S. C. Abbott [nplnbxxx.xxx] 3775
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THE WIRELESS, THE SEEKERS, AND THE SORTERS
A new study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project has found that 27%
of teenagers and 20-somethings are considering abandoning their home phones in
favor using only their cell phones. Overall, 21% of cell phone users of all
ages
have considered canceling their home phone service, but as of now only 3% have
actually gotten rid of their fixed-line phones. The study also found that the
tech elite consists mostly of 30-somethings who spend an average of $169 a
month
on information goods. Study author John Horrigan points out as a new paradox
the fact that those who consume more information technology are the least
likely
to report feeling overwhelmed by the volume of information: "They know how to
sort through that." (Washington Post 24 Nov 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8674-2003Nov23.html
VIRTUAL HIGH SCHOOL
The Michigan Virtual High School program has become the second-largest such
program in the country, with more than 7,200 student enrollments. The program
allows students to take courses over the Internet to earn credit for a variety
of classes not offered in their own schools. One student in the program says:
"It's not as hard as I thought it would be. You don't have to sit in a
classroom
and listen to teachers talk. I can only listen to a teacher for so long." Out
of
13 states with the program, Florida has the highest enrollment, with an
expected
20,000 student enrollments this school year. (AP/USA Today 23 Nov 2003)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/2003-11-23-virtual-school
-michigan_x.htm
PRAGUE: WHERE IT'S AT, INFORMATION-WISE
The Czech Republic is being increasingly seen by global corporations as an
excellent location for their customer call centers as well as back-office
and IT operations. DHL, the logistics group, will eventually be employing
1,000 people at a data center in Prague to track shipments, customer queries
and
billing activities throughout Europe, and Accenture, the consulting firm, plans
a five-fold increase in employees in Prague over the next five years, to 1,500
employees. The Los Angeles Times reports that whereas previously service
projects went to cheaper destinations such as India and the Philippines,
Western
companies now see central Europe as a viable alternative because it is closer
in
culture and time zone to companies' headquarters, and because it has a
better-qualified workforce, with a large pool of expatriates who can speak
multiple languages. (Los Angeles Times 24 Nov 2003)
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-ft-czech24nov24,1,6399557.story?coll=la
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CELLPHONE SWITCHING
About a hundred thousand cellphone users changed their wireless service
carriers yesterday, taking advantage of a new federal rule allowing
consumers to switch without penalty. However, the number of people making
the switch was far smaller than what had been predicted, and a Consumers
Union spokesperson said, "Our guess is today people may be taking it kind of
slow." People are now allowed to keep their phone numbers when they switch
wireless carriers or when they convert from fixed-line to wireless phone
service. (San Jose Mercury News 25 Nov 2003)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7345268.htm
ANTI-SPAM BILL PASSES IN HOUSE, SENATE
The Senate passed a bill to curb junk commercial e-mail by voice vote on
Tuesday, and the House passed a similar measure on Saturday by a vote of
392 to 5. President Bush is expected to sign the legislation (known as the
"Can Spam" Act) once the two bills are reconciled. Many are skeptical.
California state Democrat senator Debra Bowen says, "The bill doesn't can
spam, it legalizes it. It's full of loopholes. It's difficult to enforce.
It's weaker than many state laws." And telecom attorney Charlie Kennedy
advised: "The best line of defense for consumers are the antispam filters
which are available commercially." (New York Times 26 Nov 2003)
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and just one percent of the consumer market. Hameroff said CA's
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Headline News Mostly Avoided By The Major U.S. Media
IF WE HAD A BOOMING ECONOMY IN THE 90'S, THEN WHY DID
THE BANKRUPTCY RATE DOUBLE IN THE LAST 10 YEARS?
Personal bankruptcies in the U.S. have doubled over
the past 10 years, pretty consistently, at a yearly
rate of increase of 7%. This was true even during
the major economic boom period of the 1990s, and it
has recently increased to 8%, which means that at
the rate bankruptcies are doubling every 9 years.
According to a Harvard study, the major reason is
that the economic boom has only been paying any
returns to the upper crust, while the daily jobs
have been being shipped overseas, or merely just
downsized out of existence.
This has been getting media coverage only in the
off peak programs off the major media pathways.
***
Speaking of our major television anchors last week:
"Do you ever wonder why Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings
and even Jim Lehrer started reading off GDP statistics instead
of GNP numbers?"
Someone pointed out that the three major TV anchors are each
about twice as old as the US median age of 33. . . .
On the average they started as news anchors when Reagan was
just starting his first administration.
Name Born Ages Anchor
Dan Rather 1931 72 and Anchor since 1981
Tom Brokaw 1940 63 and Anchor since 1982
Peter Jennings 1938 65 and Anchor since 1983
Jim Lehrer 1934 69 and Anchor since 1975
==========================================================
Average 1936 67 and Anchor since 1980
I've noticed that each of them is stuttering more now, but
I'm sure they'll all try to make it through the upcoming
presidential election, but their average age will be 72
by the one after that, and I'll bet they all go within
about the same number of years as they were hired. . . .
The real question is: who will replace them? And why?
What will be the criteria for the new news anchors?
If the new ones start today and are the same age as
these were when they started anchoring, they will
each have been born at an average date of 1959. . . .
It looks as if we will never have an era of anchors
who were developing in the 50's and 60's. . . .
We could go straight from those who developed in
the Great Depression and WWII, those we have now,
to those who came from the MBA and disco generation.
***
"NO BLOOD FOR DRUGS???"
Apparently Vioxx is over $100 a month in the U.S.
and $35 a month in Canada.
$27B in tax dollars spent on basic research in
the U.S. dollars, much of which benefits the
pharmaceutical industry, which they not only
don't pay for, but they don't pay tax dollars
on their own research or advertizing; says the
Chairman of the House Science Committee. This
means the U.S. taxpayers pay three subsidies
to the pharmaceutical industry:
1. By paying so much more for their products.
2. By paying for most of the $27 of research above.
3. Oof, sorry, I forgot the third one. . . .
***
KIDS RESTRAINTS MANDATED TO AGE 8 IN ILLINOIS
Kids who had graduated from car seats at age 5
are going back into their padded restraints
for another 3 years in Illinois.
I once did some research that indicated the
odds of a child being saved by one of these
was something quite minimal. . .way under 1%.
I don't like the idea of creating industries
mandated by goverment to protect against the
odds things that are less than 1% that takes
a billion dollars out of our pockets to give
it to someone such as Cosco, whose product
was denounced this week by the major media
as allowing kids to be tossed out onto the
highway in collisions as slow as 30 MPH.
I wonder if kids raised in car seats are
going to be severely underdeveloped.
***
My best friend just sent me this reply:
"Maximum Security is ALWAYS a Prison."
She works at a school where NO incidents
have EVER been reported, yet they will be
going to a high security system next spring
in which everyone has to have a badge on
and visible at all times, keyless entry
that works like a times bank vault. . .
we're just waiting for the schood day
when no one can get in at all. . . .
Of course, it does nothing to stop anyone
who just throws bricks through the window
and climbs in. . . .
***
Last, but not least. . .
ECONOMIC WARFARE ON THE MEDICAL FRONT
1. Americans have been going to Canada
to buy their prescription drugs for half
as much as they pay here in the U.S.
2. There are those who claim these drugs
are inferior to those bought in the U.S.
3. These are the same drugs, often from
the same production lots they buy here,
filled from the same U.S. prescriptions.
4. The drug companies nearly lobbied in
a law that would prevent this, or ordering
from Canadian drug stores over the Internet,
the phone, etc.
5. Finally, the drug companies have stopped
or reduced shipping to Canadian drug stores
they suspect are selling to Americans.
6. In response, the Illinois Governor,
Rod Blagojievich has said he will eliminate
as many of the products of these companies
as possible from the preferred list for
Illinois drug purchases.
7. Those of you who have been reading this
Newsletter for some time may recall that I
predicted some kind of economic warfare on
the medical front.
It's not just free things like Naptster they
want to shut down, these drugs were paid for,
by all parties concerned. It's just that the
U.S. wants to allow for non-competition to a
degree that even prevents the re-importation
of things made in the U.S.
Apparently some 60% of the price paid by U.S.
citizens for many prescriptions goes to the
bottom line, leaving only 40% to pay for the
research, advertising and salaries. . . . I
heard that the drug companies are spending
twice as much on advertising than research
since the onslaught of TV ads that bypass
doctors and present products directly to
the public [which used to be illegal].
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Jan 2003 The Courtship of Susan Bell, Anthony Trollope[#17][crtsbxxx.xxx] 3700
Jan 2003 Miss Sarah Jack of Spanish Town, by Trollope [#16][sarjkxxx.xxx] 3699
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Jan 2003 Little Wars, by (H)erbert (G)eorge Wells[Wells#20][ltwrsxxx.xxx] 3691
Jan 2003 Floor Games, by (H)erbert (G)eorge Wells[Wells#19][flrgmxxx.xxx] 3690
Jan 2003 Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 1, Paris To Rome [1loflxxx.xxx] 3689
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Jan 2003 The Army of the Cumberland, Henry M. Cist [?cmbrxxx.xxx] 3686
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Jan 2003 Mr. Crewe's Career, V. 2, by Winston Churchill[#7][wc07vxxx.xxx] 3682
Jan 2003 Mr. Crewe's Career, V. 1, by Winston Churchill[#6][wc06vxxx.xxx] 3681
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Jan 2003 Cartrefi Cymru, by Owen M. Edwards[O M Edwards #2][crtcmxxx.xxx] 3680
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Jan 2003 Getting Gold, by J. C. F. Johnson [Miner Handbook][ggoldxxx.xxx] 3679
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Jan 2003 On Our Selection, by Steele Rudd [onssrxxx.xxx] 3677
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Jan 2003 Die Versuchung des Pescara, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer[?versxxx.xxx] 3675
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Jan 2003 Essays Before a Sonata, by Charles Ives [ivessxxx.xxx] 3673
Jan 2003 The 2000 CIA World Factbook[CIA Factbook#10][No#7][world00x.xxx] 3672
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Jan 2003 The Woman-Hater, by Charles Reade[Charles Reade#6][wmnhtxxx.xxx] 3669
Jan 2003 The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, Baker[angbnxxx.xxx] 3668
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Jan 2003 Wolfville Days, by Alfred Henry Lewis [wlfdzxxx.xxx] 3667
Jan 2003 Andreas Hofer, by Lousia Muhlbach [Muhlbach #6] [hoferxxx.xxx] 3666
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Jan 2003 Maurine and Other Poems, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox[5][maurnxxx.xxx] 3665
Jan 2003 Yvette, by Henri Rene Guy de Maupassant [GM#17][yvttexxx.xxx] 3664
Jan 2003 The Girl From Keller's, by Harold Bindloss [tgfksxxx.xxx] 3663
[Alternate Title From The UK: Sadie's Conquest]
Jan 2003 Oscar Wilde, His Life & Confessions, V1 by Harris [1whlcxxx.xxx] 3662
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Jan 2003 Quotations from The Essays of Montaigne, by Widger[dwqmnxxx.xxx] 3661
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Jan 2003 Out Of The Triangle, by Mary E. Bamford [outrixxx.xxx] 3660
Jan 2003 The Rosary, by Florence L. Barclay [rosryxxx.xxx] 3659
Jan 2003 The Prospector, by Ralph Connor [Ralph Connor #7][prspcxxx.xxx] 3658
Jan 2003 Wild Beasts and their Ways V1 by Samuel W. Baker#7[wbatwxxx.xxx] 3657
Jan 2003 Cyprus, as I Saw it in 1879, by Samuel W. Baker #6[cyprsxxx.xxx] 3656
Jan 2003 The Parent's Assistant, by Maria Edgeworth [prtasxxx.xxx] 3655
Jan 2003 Alfred Tennyson, by Andrew Lang [Andrew Lang #33][alftnxxx.xxx] 3654
Jan 2003 The Guns of Bull Run, by Joseph A. Altsheler [tgobrxxx.xxx] 3653
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GDP IS LITERALLY A DILUTED SPIN DOCTORING OF GNP
GDP = Gross Domestic Product GNP = Gross National Product
Do you ever wonder why Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings
and even Jim Lehrer started reading off GDP statistics instead
of GNP numbers?
It's just more spin doctoring to make the U.S. economy not
look as weak as it really is. I wondered about his when it
started, and downloaded much of the following:
It is literally impossible to count every single product the U.S.
makes and every single hour of labor we provide. Therefore our GNP
is only an estimate. The way the government figures GNP is to put
products and services into five major categories: consumer (C),
investment (I), government spending (G), exports (X), and imports (M).
GNP = C+I+G+X-M is the formula. We add up the first four categories,
then subtract our imports because imports, of course, are not made in
this country. Lately the U.S. has not really counted exports and imports.
The government is now just adding up C+I+G and forgetting about the
X and M. This new measure is called Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
The formula is GDP=C+I+G. Notice that GDP is actually larger than GNP
because the dollar value of our imports is greater than the dollar value
of our exports. By using GDP, our economy doesn't show up as being as weak
due to the fact our imports outweigh our exports by a huge amount.
This is now simply eliminated from the news by the stroke of a gov't pen.
Try counting up just how much of the Evening News is written by such pens.
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We noticed another one of these since writing the above:
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of the reports being issued are continuing to say "seasonally adjusted."
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Brand-new e-gourmet club is inviting you to the dinner next week ...
Alice made a little expedition to find out what Early English Text Society really is ...
Tomorrow is Universal Children's day, so it seems naturally to mention some works of Lewis Carroll in the Math and Poetry series ?
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2) The Distributed Proofreaders Update is coming this week together with the new tools
by Thierry Alberto
Transitional periods are often disconcerting. History reveals that people throughout the
world develop a fondness for the known and potentially familiar. While working on the
upgrade of a web site interface a couple of years ago, I was involved in a debate with
another designer over the scale of some new additions. He argued for keeping the old
designs just as they were, adding that this was sure to be the preference of the existing
audience. Then, as if to solidify his stance he said, "The only person who likes regular
change is a wet baby."
He did not win that day, but his words were tattooed upon my memory, by their charm.
I have thought about them now and again, because I do not necessarily agree with their
view. I believe that there is a certain type of individual who thrives within a transitional
environment. Granted, you will not find large crowds of such people in any one place.
By nature, such a person tends to be more at home in a small, loosely woven social cell.
I can speak for this group because I am kin. After observing and interacting with the DP
community for 9 months, I would say that here is the largest gathering of situational
nomads I have ever encountered.
Change is a constant at DP. The project is like a river which is different every time that
you wade in, transforming even as it flows around you. This dynamic nature does not
suit everyone, and after a taste or two a number of folks will move on. Among those who
have stayed with DP for a measurable time are some who would never consider leaving,
not with any lasting seriousness, anyway. It is this fair sized circle of people who are ever
in the midst of the great transformations to the project. It might be fair to say that they are
in fact the very agents of change, always at the heart of the latest upgrade, feature addition
or process innovation.
In searching for the thread to tie the weekly news with the production focus of this week,
I found myself looking into these ever turning wheels of change that have made DP the
unique success it is today. There is a loosely worded creed of sorts which is passed
around the community now and again. While it is not officially stated anywhere, it comes
very close to a standing policy. It goes more or less like, "If you see something that
clearly needs doing, take the initiative and set it in motion. Others will soon join with you
and iron out the wrinkles."
Whether this process works or not is now beyond the shadows of doubt. Distributed
Proofreaders itself is an example of this method; the follow through of an idea from one
person is today a collective endeavor of thousands. Whether it is an easy choice to
embrace such a process and remain dedicated is a topic for another column.
One example of personal initiative at DP was introduced in last week's newsletter and
will be explored a little further today. This is the development of the series of tool
programs that help automate the different stages of text processing. The people who
built these tools did not wait for approval or instructions, they saw a need and they
went to work at constructing a satisfying solution. Over time, with trial and input, they
evolved their initial efforts and continue to do so today. The exact measure of value
these programs and scripts have added to DP's output is not possible to calculate.
After you have used some of them a few times, it becomes clear that whatever the
specific measurement, this contribution has made a profound difference in the both the
degree and quality of DP's final product.
Among the most widely used tools are Steve Schulze's guiprep and guiguts, their alter
egos Winprep and Winguts; the tool suite of GutAxe; GutHammer; GutSweeper;
GutWrench, written by Bill Flis and the Re-Wrap and Indent script created by Bill
Keir. These are by no means all the tools available to assist the DP process but those
which are utilized in the Pre and Post production stages, that have been featured within
the column previously. There are many other tools which have become incorporated
into the proofing process. One is the customized proofing font, which makes it easier
on the eyes to spot less obvious errors. Another valuable assist is the transliteration
panel for Greek letters, originally created by DP's Donovan and long since incorporated
as a fixed component in the proofing interface.
In future columns we will explore each of these tools a little further. A permanent feature
for the off-line programs and scripts is presently being constructed upon the newsletter
archive site. Here, tools will be available for download to independent text developers
along with background information and extensive help files. This effort has the full support
of the tool masters, thus the archive feature should evolve into a valuable resource over time.
Here in the column we will be providing space for the developers to introduce the tools
in their own words. This week we begin our spotlight with the suite of tools created
and maintained by Bill Flis
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GUTWRENCH SUITE (Windows only)
All four programs are contained in a single .zip file, downloadable at:
http://frankfordinstitute.bravepages.com/GutWrench.htm
The programs come with documentation that explains their function in more detail. Email the
author at flis@detk.com if you have any problems or suggestions. GutAxe and GutHammer
are probably of most interest outside DP, as they are not at all DP-specific. Anyone interested
in the Visual Basic source code is welcome to it.
GutAxe
This simple program helps make rapid corrections to errors in e-texts. These include many
"Stealth Scannos" (OCR errors that will pass a spell-checker), words that are usually hyphenated
or have accents or ligatures, and mistakes in punctuation and markups. It is intended mainly as a
quick-and-dirty, time-saving, error-reducing tool, not as a replacement for other more thorough
tools, such as Gutcheck or a spell-checker.
It works much like a spell-checker: when it finds an error, it shows the context and proposes the
likely correction, asking the user to confirm. For example, if it finds the word "arid", it asks
whether this should be changed to "and" (a "Stealth Scanno", because the erroneous word "arid"
will pass a spell-checker). If it finds the string "Mrs," (with a comma), it asks whether it should
be changed to "Mrs." (with a period). Of course, many errors do not have such predictable
corrections or are too unlikely to occur (it doesn't flag "and" as possibly "arid", e.g.), and GutAxe
does not attempt to be a completely general tool. However, it flags a relatively low percentage of
"false positives" and enables the user to not only find but also correct a large number of errors in
a short time.
It is now set up to check English-language texts (with some French words). However, the errors
that it detects and the corrections it offers are all contained in external text files, which could easily
be edited to handle other languages (no re-programming needed).
GutSweeper
GutSweeper is a little time-saving tool intended to be used first in post-processing at DP. It
automatically cleans up clear-cut errors. It divides any very long lines of text (over a specified
length). It does some general cleaning up: removes trailing and double blanks, and deletes blank
lines at the bottoms of pages (before the DP-style Page Separators). A preliminary text-checking
feature insures that it will not be confused by erroneous poetry and other mark-ups.
GutWrench
This multi-purpose error-finding tool performs three kinds of functions:
1. Mapping the text. This function creates various tables concerning the text:
a) List of all characters in the file and their frequencies.
b) "Page Map" gives a brief (one-line) summary of special features (such as italic markups,
paragraphs, special characters) that appear on each page of text (between DP-style Page
Separators). This may be printed then quickly compared with the scan images to find missing
features in the text.
c) List of all hyphenated words, and occurrences of unhyphenated versions of them.
d) List of all accented words, and occurrences of unaccented versions.
e) Concordance (alphabetic list of all words, their frequencies, and point of first occurrence)
f) List of all lines of text having adjacent UPPER CASE characters (useful for checking chapter headings and finding some errors).
2. Checking the text for errors (intended as a supplement to Gutcheck):
a) Hyphens and dashes
b) Italic and bold (HTML-style) markups
c) Stealth scannos, including also optional lists of "ftealth fcannof" (old-style long "s" confused
with "f") and French and "other" (mostly a few German) stealth scannos. (These lists are all
contained in external text files, easily modified or expanded.)
d) Other assorted errors in punctuation.
3. Modifying the text:
a) Joins short lines of text (outside of poetry and other markups, and provided the result is
shorter than a specified length).
b) Deletes trailing blanks.
c) Deletes DP-style Page Separators.
d) Deletes poetry, block quote, and stet markups.
GutHammer
This is an easy-to-use text-rewrapping program. It uses a simplified version of Big_Bill's
markups (see his RewrapIndent program) to handle poetry (indented), block quotes (indented
and rewrapped), and tables (left as is). Optionally, it will simultaneously replace HTML-style
<i>italic</i> and <b>bold</b> markups with specified characters, or convert <b>bold</b> to
ALL UPPER CASE. It uses a GUI to adjust its settings (e.g., column width), but it runs
non-interactively--just a few mouse-clicks and you're done!
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Next week we spotlight the tools of Steve Schulze and take a closer look at the forerunners
of today's tools; GutCheck and PRTK (Proof Reader's Tool Kit). This week is still unfolding
around us and there is much change taking place, even as I write these words. The most
prominent alterations in recent days are immediately obvious to any regular visitor to the DP
forums. In fact, it is fair to say that if you tend to the familiar and cozy, you may still be a
little startled by the depth and width of the to this week's forum transformations. While it may
seem to have occurred with the suddenness of an earthquake, the reorganization is long in
planning and implemented with the best intentions for DP's future.
The most important thing to be aware of is that nothing has been lost or removed. It may
require a little searching around, but you will find everything is still there. Several new
forums have been created, some for better organization, some to make the forums more
friendly and accessible to new members and others were added because their time had
come. Among the new additions is a tier specifically set aside for new proofers and new
forums for Project Management; Mentoring; Promotion, even a gathering place for
historical events and discussions of significance to the various DP cultures.
It may all be somewhat overwhelming at first. If so, take your time exploring and getting
accustomed to all the new avenues and interesting side destinations. Just keep in mind,
there's still proofing and content development to do! Not that the new forums will fare
much better than anything else at slowing us down. I am running out of superlatives to
relate this continuous growth in production. If October called us to reach up and stretch
to be the best that we could, November is making that expanded effort look like our
average workaday pace.
We reached 2,500 distinctive texts posted to PG in the past week, without even much of a
murmur in the forums. In November alone, 215 projects have been posted. By month's
end that number will be greater than any previous month. The same looks to be true for all
other measurements of production as quality and output continue to expand. On this course,
November shall be the finest month to date for Distributed Proofreaders, and it appears certain
that at December's end there will be great things to celebrate. The year behind us was nothing
short of wondrous from beginning to end. The year ahead is already shining with promise and
bright indications of great prosperity for world's first free and international library. If they only
knew what was in store for 2004, many book lovers would agree, change is a good thing!
Until next week...
All the best!
Thierry Alberto
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3) Newsletter news:
We are starting the new cookery club in the newsletter. See below an invitation to the perfect fall dinner by lovely club hostess Tonya Allen:
Project Gutenberg's Cookery Club
A few weeks ago we ran an article about PG's cookery book collection. Since then, still more cookbooks have been added, including the five-volume Library of Cookery; English Housewifery Exemplified In above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts Giving Directions for most Parts of Cookery; Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches; 365 Foreign Dishes (well, foreign from the point of view of the apparently American author); and the most recent addition, the mammoth compendium The Book of Household Management, by Isabella Beeton.
It occurred to some of us that this rich and growing collection could serve as the basis of an interactive weekly column. Each week we will present a menu, with recipes (or links to them). Our intrepid editorial staff will prepare one or more of these dishes, and will report successes, challenges, improvements, and even utter flops in the following issue of the newsletter. Now here's the interactive part: you, our readers, are invited to join the feast. Pick a recipe or two, give it a try at home, and send us your comments and ratings! All comments will be carefully collected and will be available online:
INVITATION [loosely based on Mrs. Beeton's suggestions for civilized conduct in this sphere]
The editorial staff present their compliments to their gentle readers,
and request the honour of their company
at dinner on Wednesday (or Thursday), the 26th (or 27th) of November next, depending on the publishing schedule.
No R.S.V.P. necessary. Come as you are.
An endless candlelit dining table with flexible seating awaits you in our corner of cyberspace.
Our first full menu will appear next week. Meantime, we'll whet your appetites with this starter from The Belgian Cookbook http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext05/7blgn10.txt :
GOURMANDS' MUSHROOMS
There was a man in Ghent who loved mushrooms, but he could only eat them
done in this fashion. If you said, "Monsieur, will you have them tossed
in butter?" he would roar out, "No--do you take me for a Prussian? Let me
have them properly cooked."
Melt in a pan a lump of butter the size of a tangerine orange and squeeze
on it the juice of half a lemon. The way to get a great deal of juice
from a lemon is to plunge it first of all for a few minutes, say five
minutes, in boiling water. When the butter simmers, throw in a pound of
picked small mushrooms, stir them constantly, do not let them get black.
Then in three or four minutes they are well impregnated with butter, and
the chief difficulty of the dish is over. Put the saucepan further on the
fire, let it boil for a few minutes. Take out the mushrooms, drain them,
sprinkle them with flour, moisten them with gravy, season with salt and
pepper, put them back in the butter and stir in the yolk of an egg. Add
also a little of the lemon juice that remains. While you are doing this
you must get another person to cut and toast some bread and to butter it.
Pour on to the bread the mushrooms (which are fit for the greatest saints
to eat on Fridays), and serve them very hot.
Tonya Allen
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3) Notes and Queries, Reviews and Features
Note 1:
Early English Text Society
Following a recent posting on gutvol about the EETS I decided to take
a look and see what it was. Founded by Frederick James Furnivall, with
the help of others in 1864, EETS seems to be an early prototype for
Project Gutenberg. It's aims are to bring the mass of unprinted Early
English literature within the reach of students and also to provide
sound texts that could be a source for what is now called the Oxford
English Dictionary. It continues to publish medieval English texts
today.
So what sorts of texts are we talking about? Current Publications
include The Old English Gospels, Sidrack and Bokkus, and The First
Translation of the Imitatio Christi. What??? Further investigation on
the Oxford University Press website reveals these to be very highly
regarded as texts that give a rare insigt into some of the popular
beliefs of medieval England. Sidrack and Bokkus for example, is a
previously unpublished book of knowledge, written in question and
answer form and enclosed in a framing adventure story taken from an
old French source. The archive looks like it could be a very valuable
addition to Project Gutenberg, and I understand there may be a
possibility that one of those marvellous Uber Projects at Distributed
Proofreaders could be a useful way to get these through (This is known
as a 'hint'!)
You can find out more about EETS at
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~eets/eetshome.htm
Alice Wood
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Note 2:
Math and Poetry.
The works of Lewis Carroll.
Tomorrow is the Universal children day so it seems to me as non-English person very logical to speak about Lewis Carroll in our math and poetry series. It can be started something like ? ? once upon a time there was a mathematician who?s name was Lewis Carroll ?? And this is of course all wrong ? everybody knows that there was a poet called Lewis Carroll but his name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and he was actually a mathematician ? His mind games are fascinating, even as brightly pointed out our chief-editor, a little bit too much well-known. However, here is the paradox ? how much out of more than 15 books and plentitude of other printed works, you can list in your memory right now? I bet, that not more than are submitted on Project Gutenberg ?Alice in Wonderland?, ?Through the Looking-Glass?, ?Haunting of the Snark?, ?Sylvie and Bruno? ? what else do we have in GUTINDEX ? http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext03/thgmf10.txt and the Phantasmagoria and Other Poems http://www
.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext96/fntsm10.txt. Bright and genius they are, with amusing interweaving of math and poetry inside. The highly structured formlessness of his poetry is always reminding me the water ? it suits every occasion but yet it can not be squeezed much. Zen koans are somewhat similar ? the huge mind space created by skilful nonsense. Speaking about the kids and math, my favorite math book in the childhood was A Tangled Tale with its Mad Mathesis (translated to my home language as Mad Mathemathilda ?), Her Radiance and other strange personages. You can find it on the internet http://home.earthlink.net/~lfdean/carroll/tangled/, so as usually if not to submit to PG, but at least to enjoy the reading. There is quite many other
e-texts forgotten due to the overwhelming popularity of their author, which sounds as another L.C. paradox, isn?t it? This one however is easier to solve than one of the Achilles , I think ?
List of works:
http://lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk/pages/lewiscarroll/carrollbiblio.html
Diaries:
http://lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk/pages/lewiscarroll/carrolldiary.html
Nursery Alice:
http://home.earthlink.net/~lfdean/carroll/nursery/
Complete stories:
http://www.bootlegbooks.com/fiction/Caroll/CompleteWorks/
What Tortoise said to Achilles:
http://www.lewiscarroll.org/achilles.html
'Achilles had overtaken the Tortoise, and had seated himself comfortably on its back.
"So you've got to the end of our race-course?" said the Tortoise. "Even though it does consist of an infinite series of distances? I thought some wiseacre or other had proved that the thing couldn't be done?"
"It can be done," said Achilles. "It has been done! Solvitur ambulando. You see the distances were constatntly diminishing: and so -"
"But if they had been constantly increasing?" the Tortoise interrupted. "How then?"
"Then I shouldn't be here," Achilles modestly replied; "and you would have got several times round the world, by this time!"
"You flatter me - flatten, I mean," said the Tortoise; "for you are a heavy weight, and no mistake! Well now, would you like to hear of a race-course, that most people fancy they can get to the end of in two or three steps, while it really consists of an infinite number of distances, each one longer than the previous one?"
"Very much indeed!" said the Grecian warrior, as he drew from his helmet (few warriors possessed pockets in those days) an enormous note-book and a pencil. "Proceed! And speak slowly, please! Short-hand isn't invented yet!"
"That beautiful First Proposition of Euclid!" the Tortoise murmured dreamily. "You admire Euclid?"
"Passionately! So far, at least, as one can admire a treatise that won't be published for some centuries to come!" ?..?
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And for the desert and entertainment let's play Doublets - the word game invented by mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson with much help of poet Lewis Carroll. Its name got transformed to the Word Ladders, Word Chains or Stepword however it's essence remained untouched since 1879, when Mr.Dodgson has published his new invention in the magazine Vanity Fair : "The rules of the Puzzle are simple enough. Two words are proposed, of the same length; and the Puzzle consists in linking these together by interposing other words, each of which shall differ from the next word in one letter only. That is to say, one letter may be changed in one of the given words, then one letter in the word so obtained, and so on, till we arrive at the other given word. The letters must not be interchanged among themselves, but each must keep to its own place. As an example, the word 'head' may be changed into 'tail' by interposing the words 'heal, teal, tell, tall'. I call the given words 'a Doublet'
, the interposed words 'Links', and the entire series 'a Chain', of which I here append an example:
Head
Heal
Teal
Tell
Tall
Tail
It is, perhaps, needless to state that it is de rigueur that the links should be English words, such as might be used in good society."
Here are a few more examples:
Make DOOR LOCK in 3 steps
DOOR
boor
book
look
LOCK
Obtain LOAN from BANK
BANK
bonk
book
look
loon
LOAN
See on the http://thinks.com/puzzles/doublets.htm for more interesting word ladders' examples. You can also try on your own:
Turn RIVER to FLOOD (suggested 11 steps)
HARD to SOFT (suggested 4 steps)
CLIMB to HILLS (suggested 8 steps)
SMALL to GREAT (suggested 9 steps)
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Editorial
Hello,
Maths. Not a subject you might expect from a newsletter concerned with
literature I suppose, well, Gali takes a look at both maths and poetry
this week. I am planning an article on some of the mathematical texts
we have here at Project Gutenberg in the near future. A useful website
also comes out of the shadows this week at authorama.
Talking of websites, moves are afoot with the main Project Gutenberg
website. Expect to find yourself quoting the super snappy
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was the old address where you couldn't get any up to date
information. Well, ladies and gentlemen while you have been distracted
by the perfectly fomed vision of the newsletter these last few weeks,
many of our hard working troops have been out the back, dragging in
the scenery and some of the more useful props to improve your website
reading pleasure. I can't name them all as I don't know them all, and
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players in the field including Project Gutenberg.
You can find out more at http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20031110-121313-6810r
Part 2 of the article is at
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Look out for an article on Project Gutenberg shortly too.
You can find out much more about digital content at http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html
Many thanks to Sam Vaknin.
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Authorama Public Domain Books
I would like to let you know about my site, Authorama Public Domain
Books: http://www.authorama.com
The idea of this site is to bring the "Plain Vanilla ASCII" etexts
from Project Gutenberg into easily readable and searchable (X)HTML. So
I spend quite an amount of my spare-time to do the conversions, and
I've written server-side software to split up the larger HTMLs into
sub-chapters.
One of my main aims is to make the site accessible to the visitor, as
well as tools like search-engines. In fact I get 1,000s of visitors
per day coming from Google! They look for different words, and find my
site. I didn't know that would happen but that alone is a reward! When
a Google-user arrives on my Authorama-site, I also try to highlight
the keywords dynamically. Also, I then provide another book-restricted
search-facility, by utilizing the Google Web API (a SOAP/ Web Service
kinda thingie). I then also try to merge it with the Amazon Services
to display related books.
Finally, I still keep a plain-HTML-one-page version of every book on
my page, so that when people want to download or print it, they have
something to go along with.
As a technical detail I deliver the documents as HTML, not XML,
because that causes some browser-problems. I then add CSS to do the
styling, and otherwise separate layout from content. That should do
best on a variety of exotic devices I believe.
Philipp Lenssen
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Other news items this week
Newsletter website
Every single newsletter we could find is now available should you wish
to catch up on any history.
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PG/DP Shop
That's all I'm saying, watch this space for more details and start
saving those monetary units.
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Distributed Proofreaders Update
Traditionally with creative projects development tends to slow down as
the year draws to a close. This year at PG/DP just the opposite seems
to be true. As we enter the final fifty days of 2003 we can look
around us and see vibrant activity in just about every sector of
production. This is not simply busy work, but solid, quantifiable
output and significant innovation.
At DP attendance remains steady, while the pages proofed continue to
follow their upward trend of previous weeks and months. One of the
recent innovations to the proofing process is the implementation of
theme based releases. This is an initiative which began with the
commemoration of authors' birthdays. The idea proved so popular that
with broad support an organized system is coming together that will
help DP plan and prepare well in advance for significant international
events and holidays.
The first significant test of this new release method was
yesterday. In honor of Armistice, Remembrance and Veterans' Day, DP
ceased the normal release of projects and turned primary proofing
attention to works associated with the First World War. While the
services and ceremonies of November 11th have expanded over the
decades to recognize participants in other conflicts, the origin of
this memorial day are bound to the ceasing of hostilities in 1918 of
the initial World War.
Some forty books were provided for proofing yesterday and released in
a manner that would allow for a world spanning participation across
all time zones. This extended time of recognition will be continued
for future days of significance. The support for yesterday's day of
observance was far beyond anyone's expectations. With no special
advance notice beyond a one day headline in the DP site news, and no
stated rally in the forums, yesterday finished proofing as the third
most productive day in DP's history. That follows only the original
Slashdot wave of 2002, and the 'Big Climb' of October 31st. At days
end, over 13,000 pages had been completed.
If you were not able to participate yesterday, but would still like to
offer your own gesture, there are several titles remaining to be
proofed. You will find these indicated with red backgrounds to
symbolize the poppy which has long been associated with Armistice
Day. These projects will remain distinctive in the rounds until they
complete proofing.
There are several other events and holidays which will be recognized
between now and the end of the year. These include the a wide range of
faith based days, beginning this week and stretching all the way into
the new year. Also this month are extended recognitions of Native
American history and culture and Childrens' literature. The latter
begins with National Children's Book Week, which is November 17-23 in
the US and November 20, which is Universal Children's Day. We may
also look forward to several more author birthdays this month.
If you have ideas for theme based days, would like to provide content
or find some way to participate, go to the Content Providers forum at
DP. You will see several threads established for collaboration.
In past weeks we have talked about picking up the ongoing exploration
through the various production phases of DP. The pace and import of
recent newsworthy events have kept us off the path of our course,
although we have never strayed too far. While this week's news is also
abundant we will try to take a closer look at the next stage in our
journey, that will, time-willing, resume fully next week. A while back
we took an peek into the Post-production process, and will work our
way back in the DP family tree to the Pre-production process.
For those readers just tuning into the column, or new to DP, there is
a decent amount of work involved in getting projects fully prepared
for the proofreading rounds. When a text appears in the first round of
proofing it has already been advanced through several steps in the
development process of being available on Project Gutenberg. To reach
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other step, it must be ascertained that the book is in fact within the
public domain. This requires that the title page, preferably with an
edition number, is scannable accompanied by the verso page, which
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Once a content provider has viewable images of these two pages, the
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Depending upon the number of submissions a clearance should take no
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under development. The best place to do this is the wondrous golden
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If a submission proves to be legal to reproduce, there should be no
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Once this has been completed, the text and images must be processed
and readied for the DP development system. This stage of production
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growth and innovations throughout DP, the advances in pre-production
have made content providing easier to approach, swifter to complete
and more efficient overall. As with post-production, the contribution
which has made a profound difference in the quality and speed of
preparation is the set of text checking and modifying tools which have
been constructed by members of the DP community.
A full history of the evolution of the tools which are involved in the
DP process is simply not possible in the space we have. To recognize
this contribution to Project Gutenberg and to promote the use of these
tools for independent content developers, the newsletter will be
adding an evolving feature to the archive. Every week or so there will
be a profile of one of the tools and a background with useful
suggestions provided by the developers. A full history of the tools of
PG/DP will supplement the profiles. It will also be possible to
download each tool directly from the newsletter archive.
So that's an introduction to the pre-production process which is about
what we have time and space for this week. More and more, what you
will be seeing is an expansion of topics and features from the DP
column covered in-depth on the newsletter's archive site. At present,
all previous issues of the PG Newsletter are now available for
viewing, going all the way back to 1989. You can also find a distinct
section set aside for all editions of the DP column to date. It's
beginning to look like a new on-line destination to me.
As always, if you have an idea that seems like it may enrich the
newsletter archive or be of interest to the PG community at large,
please feel free to suggest it to Alice via the archive site. The same
holds for any topics that you would like to see explored in future
issues, feel welcome to suggest them.
To everyone who participated in yesterday's recognition of Armistice day
and particularly to the content providers who worked overtime to
prepare texts, a very sincere and earned Thank You!
Until next week...
Thierry Alberto
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Radio Gutenberg Update
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channel 1 - Sherlock Holmes "The Sign of Four"
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Both are high quality live readings from the collection.
Jon and I are working on a new service for Project Gutenberg
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We may ask for testers sometime in November.
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3) Notes and Queries, Reviews and Features
Math and Poetry ? What a theme of plenty it is!
A wasteland for aimless wanderings and a huge space for speculation -
Science of emotions and harmony of numbers, mathematicians that wrote
poetry and poets that proved theorems. Besides a few interesting math
books were joining their poetic brothers on PG during the past few
weeks, and the thesis that math and poetry are at their best when
people are young and the their minds are still clean from the dust of
unnecessary information? So in order not to play the ambivalent donkey
of Buridan, I'll close my eyes and pick up a ticket from an old hat ?
Let me see what is written there:
The Moving Finger writes, and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
Ah, Homer K.M as large as life, though. This brilliant combination of
inspired mathematician and poetic genius is certainly a good start
that serves well the cause. The blur of romance and mystery wraps
round his life in the Near East on the border between 11th and 12th
centuries A.D and our knowledge about it is based on the legends and
indirect evidence quite similar to the one of the Bard. His date of
birth is known precisely from his horoscope, that was deciphered by
his Indian admirer Swami Govinda Tirtha in 20th century A.D. The
profession of his father supposed to be a tent maker because the
literate translation of his name means such.
His closest school friends were the two other famous Persians, the
politician and reformist Nizam-Al-Mulk and Hassan Sabah the founder of
the ill-famous Assassin sect, the grandfather of nowadays
terrorists. He is well known now mostly by his amazing four line
poems, is an author of fundamental mathematical works most of them we
written before he turned even 25, including Problems of Arithmetic and
Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra, the book of math and
philosophy, ornamented in words with an oriental splendor - 'By the
help of God and with His precious assistance, I say that Algebra is a
scientific art'. May we see the times when its red and gold volume
will get dusty on the long shelves of PG library!
Let me skip the theory that there were two people with the same name
living at the same time - one poet and one philosopher and
mathematicians, since a) it is highly improbable and b) it is not
suitable for the theme of this piece. It is better to open a new
browser window and put in the address line
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext95/rubai10.txt, to enjoy the
deep philosophical and extremely beautiful verses, born in the mind
that could structure the chaos in order to create the harmony. Liben
Damen und Herren, welcome great Ghiyath al-Din Abu'l-Fath Umar ibn Ibrahim Al-Nisaburi al-Khayyami -
And strange to tell, among that Earthen Lot
Some could articulate, while others not:
And suddenly one more impatient cried--
"Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?"
P.S. There is another PG item with the Rubayat -
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext04/rubwi10.txt , which claimed
to be written by Omar Khayyam's son - O.Kh. Junior. You should learn
probably the Persian and original Bornese in order to feel the
difference in the language, that the translator Wallace Irwin is
talking about.
Few internet pages for biography and work details
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Khayyam.html
or
http://www.okonlife.com/
Gali Sirkis
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From Newsscan:
FTC TAKES AIM AT MESSENGER POP-UPS
The Federal Trade Commission has obtained a temporary restraining order
against D Squared Solutions, accusing it of "high-tech extortion" for its
annoying marketing campaign, which bombards Microsoft Windows users with
pop-up ads touting its $29.95 pop-up blocker software designed to prevent
such intrusions. The company set out "to create a problem for consumers and
then try to charge them for a solution," said Howard Beales, head of the
FTC's consumer protection unit. The FTC is seeking to recoup "hundreds of
thousands" of dollars that beleaguered consumers paid to D Squared
Solutions for the ad-blocking software. The ads take advantage of a
security feature in Microsoft's Windows Messenger service that was
originally designed to enable corporate network administrators to send
internal messages. These messages are different from the ones imposed on
users who visit a Web site, said Beales. "What we are challenging is this
'backdoor' kind of advertising, particularly when it is done in a way and
with a frequency that threatens to impair consumers' ability to use their
computers." (Los Angeles Times 7 Nov 2003)
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-popup7nov07,1,2914685.story?coll=la-head
lines-technology
PENN STATE STUDENTS BLAST NAPSTER DEAL
Pennsylvania State University is catching flak for yesterday's announced
deal to provide all students with access to Napster's revamped
music-subscription service, paid for by the university's existing
information technology fees. The school had viewed the university-wide
arrangement as a way to circumvent the music download controversy and
provide students with a legal alternative, but some students say they
resent this use of their funds. "The money I pay could go to much better
things such as rebuilding the network or better lab equipment," says one
disgruntled student. "Almost every single student I have talked to is
outraged that their money is going to a program that they don't even want^E
(and that) their money is being sent to the music industry without their
consent." Penn State president Graham Spanier said he had not personally
received any complaints about the new deal and that students didn't protest
over cable TV service and newspaper subscriptions, which were also covered
by mandatory student fees. (CNet News.com 6 Nov 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5103918.html?tag=nefd_top
[Why Is It So Hard For MicroSoft NOT To Play MicroHardball???]
[And You Thought This Was Only About People Pointing Nasty Bugs]
OOPS! MICROSOFT DROPS THE BALL ON U.K. HOTMAIL DOMAIN
Microsoft apparently forgot to renew its registration for hotmail.co.uk,
sending the domain name back into the pool of available names. It was
snapped up immediately by a do-gooder, who then contacted Microsoft to
alert it to its oversight and arrange a transfer of ownership back to the
software giant. However, these efforts to do the right thing were rebuffed
and it was only when The Register contacted the company to inquire about
the snafu that the matter was "escalated" to upper-level officials who then
sought to work out a deal. By all accounts, hotmail.co.uk will be restored
to the Microsoft fold within the next few days. (The Register 6 Nov 2003)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/33814.html
["Diversification, philanthropic giving or estate planning. . . ."]
["Sound financial practices."] [Don't You Just LOVE Spin-Doctoring?]
TURNER, BARKSDALE UNLOAD TIME WARNER SHARES
Ted Turner, James Barksdale, and two other directors of Time Warner's board
of directors have been heavy sellers of the company's stock this year,
unloading a total of more than 68 million shares. There have been 52
reported sales and 4 purchases of Time Warner stock by corporate officers
and directors since the beginning of 2003. Time Warner spokesperson Tricia
Primrose said that the four directors "all continue to have significant
holdings in Time Warner," and that each of them is "pursuing some form of
diversification, philanthropic giving or estate planning, resulting in the
sale of shares or the exercising of options, which is in keeping with sound
financial practices." (Washington Post 11 Nov 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28161-2003Nov11.html
[Let's NOT Forget That WIPO, The World Intellectual Property Organization,
Is Part Of The U.N., And Would Undoubtedly Try To Force Copyright Extensions
On All Countries On The Internat, Just As They Have Via Government Lobbies.
In Fact, They Don't Even Hide Their Desire For A Permanent New Copyright!!!]
WILL THE U.N. TAKE OVER THE INTERNET?
Some of the developing countries want to put management of the Internet
under United Nations control. U.N. officials expect governments to continue
talks on Internet governance with the aim of reaching accord by 2005.
Brazil, India, South Africa, China and Saudi Arabia are dissatisfied with
the current Internet regulator, the semi-private California-based ICANN (the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), and argue that the
Internet is a public resource that should be managed by national governments
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From Edupage
PENN STATE TO OFFER FREE MUSIC TO STUDENTS FROM NEW NAPSTER
Pennsylvania State University has struck a deal with the recently
launched second-generation Napster to provide online music to all of
the university's students, faculty, and staff. The university
negotiated a discounted fee from Napster--which otherwise charges $9.95
per month--and will pay the cost of the service out of a mandatory,
$160 information technology fee that students pay each year. Penn State
users will be allowed to download unlimited numbers of songs on up to
three computers. Students who want to keep songs after they have left
Penn State, or users who want to save the songs to CDs, will have to
pay 99 cents per song. Officials and student leaders from Penn State
hope that this approach will appease student demand for online music
while satisfying record companies by using the now-legal Napster
service. Some students expressed reservations that a portion of student
technology fees is being used for online music. Students also said that
the restrictions of the new Napster/Penn State deal will encourage some
to continue using peer-to-peer networks that have no restrictions.
New York Times, 7 November 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/07/national/07STAT.html
FTC FIGHTS WINDOWS POP-UPS
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) this week shut down a marketer for
taking advantage of a feature of Microsoft Windows to send unwanted
pop-up ads, even to users who were not browsing the Internet. According
to the FTC, D Squared Solutions used a tool called the Windows
Messenger Service--which is enabled by default in Windows systems--to
send pop-up ads selling software to block pop-up ads. Calling such a
tactic extortion, the FTC has temporarily shut down D Squared. The
agency also advised users to disable Windows Messenger, which is not
related to instant-messaging programs. Last month Microsoft recommended
that users disable Windows Messenger as a precaution against the spread
of Internet viruses. Microsoft's Sean Sundwall said the pop-up ads
that take advantage of Windows Messenger do not pose any threat to a
system's security.
Reuters, 6 November 2003
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=3771523
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Headline News Mostly Avoided By The Major U.S. Media
The Grocery Store Employees Union strike and lockout
in California isn't getting much coverage, but the
last time something like this happened, it was with
the Meat Cutters Union. That event finished up ~10
years ago with a total drop in meat cutters' pay of
30% during a period in which inflation and the cost
of living rose ~10%, leaving the meat cutters with
just over 50% of their original buying power from
The current event has been sparked by fear of the
proposed Wal-Mart expansion that is scheduled to
build some 40 new Wal-Mart Super Centers in the
affected area, which includes 850 grocery stores
that are currently on strike or in lockouts.
*
Obviously the media DID report on that major high school
drug bust in which a dozen students were handcuffed as
the police ran up and down the halls with guns drawn,
at the request of the school principal.
Amazingly enough, not one single illegal drug was found,
even with the aid of the famous drug sniffing K-9 corps,
nor were any guns found. . .the two stated objectives.
Not even one pill was found from a parent's prescription,
given illegally by a parent to a student for allergies,
or anything else that a parent might give them what was
in a student's legitimate interest, but techinally illegal.
Not even any Viagra was turned up. [Don't forget the grade
school kid who was kicked out of school for bringing some
just a few days earlier.]
People are asking if a similar surprise bust of school staff
and the police station would have come up so empty handed.
*
There Oughta Be A Law. . . .
From personal experience I have the following news report:
In trying to buy my tickets to the upcoming December 10 PG
events, I ended up getting tickets from Orbis that had never
even appeared on the screen. I could see some kind of error
that might have gotten me tickets I had on the screen earlier,
but these were for some other flight than had appeared. They
were to the right places, but at the wrong times. I called up
their 800 number immediately, and was told there would be some
serious fees for cancellation, but I managed to get the flights
cancelled without these fees by insisting that I had called in
only a few minutes after the fact. However, they said they are
going to keep my $800 for 3-4 billing periods on my Visa card.
At the normal Visa rate of 18%, that would be around ~$50.
They just wrote themselves a loan of my $800 for 3-4 months.
There Oughta Be A Law Against This:
Anyone want to inquire with the Federal Trade Commission
or whoever oversees this sort of thing?
They can take your $800 in one second, but it takes 3-4 months
to give it back, even if you call immediately.
*
Low Cost Jobs Are Filled Outside The U.S. Via "Outsourcing,"
While High Cost Prescriptions Must Be Filled Inside the U.S.
The U.S. goverment encourages your employers to send your jobs
to other countries, but won't allow you fill prescriptions in
other countries. . .insuring ever decreasing big business costs
by cutting hiring inside the U.S., and insuring ever increasing
business big business profits by insisting you pay twice as much
for products sold in the U.S. as they are in Canada.
***
From The Ironic Times: making the connections
that other news outfits can't or won't !
U.S. Pulling Troops From WMD Hunt In Iraq
Hunt will be taken over by White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives.
GDP Advance Could Spark Job Recovery
Companies may finally hire workers to demolish empty factories.
Bush Court Nominee Faces Stiff Opposition
Attila the Hun has long record of opposing civil rights laws.
Findings Confirm Universe Mostly Dark, Mysterious Energy
Just as Mr. Spock determined on sixteenth episode of "Star Trek."
Study Links TV Problems to Reading
Young children who read too much are likely
to have difficulty watching TV later in life.
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