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2) News
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Tues Mozart presents The Jungle Book.
Wen Bugsy treats us all to a live reading of Ring Lardner's The Real Dope,
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As etexts are posted up there are occasional comments and notes that
are worth reading , but don't get recorded. In a bid to make the
newsletter more helpful and interesting (Now there's a challenge -
Ed), I will be including some of these on the usual semi-irregular
basis (i.e. when someone sends to posted with a comment).
Apr 2005 Behind the Bungalow, by EHA [bbngxxx.xxx]7953
[Author AKA: Edward Hamilton Aitken]
[Text in bbng10.txt/.zip, XHTML in bbng10h.htm/.zip]
For those wishing to know: a while ago a journalist
from the Calcutta Times emailed us with a list of fifty
books about Indian social life that he'd like to see us
do. As far as I know this is the first of that list.
It's a comic look at the various relationships that
the English and the native Indians had - of their
misunderstandings of each other and their attempts
at accommodation. There's a very human side
to EHA which takes some of the edge of the
unpleasantness of "days of empire".
Also, the word Bungalow came from India - at
the time the title would have sounded much stranger
than it does to our ears.
Apr 2005 Twenty-Five Village Sermons, by Charles Kingsley [vsrmxxx.xxx]7954
[Text in vsrm10.txt/.zip, XHTML in vsrm10h.htm/.zip]
Well, it's twenty-five sermons that the Rev. Charles Kingsley
preached - probably whilst he was rector at Eversley. This
was early days for Kingsley and one edition has "Charles
Kingsley, Jun." as the author - his father being better known
at that point. Of course Kingsley went on to be one of the
great Victorians and had a substantial impact on his society.
He's now known for The Water Babies, Westward Ho! etc.
and people tend to have forgotten that he was a clergyman.
Of the sermons there's little to say. Kingsley is very Church
of England and so there's an all-inclusiveness in his preaching
and a general theme that everything is getting better.
Apr 2005 The Bible, King James, Ezra Book 15[#35][bib15xxx.xxx]8015
Apr 2005 The Bible, King James, 2 Chronicles Book 14[#34][bib14xxx.xxx]8014
Apr 2005 The Bible, King James, 1 Chronicles Book 13[#33][bib13xxx.xxx]8013
Apr 2005 The Bible, King James, 2 Kings Book 12[#32][bib12xxx.xxx]8012
Apr 2005 The Bible, King James, 1 Kings Book 11[#31][bib11xxx.xxx]8011
Apr 2005 The Bible, King James, 2 Samuel Book 10[#30][bib10xxx.xxx]8010
Apr 2005 The Bible, King James, 1 Samuel Book 9[#29][bib09xxx.xxx]8009
Apr 2005 The Bible, King James, Ruth Book 8[#28][bib08xxx.xxx]8008
Apr 2005 The Bible, King James, Judges Book 7[#27][bib07xxx.xxx]8007
Apr 2005 The Bible, King James, Joshua Book 6[#26][bib06xxx.xxx]8006
Apr 2005 The Bible, King James, Numbers Book 5[#25][bib05xxx.xxx]8005
Apr 2005 The Bible, King James, Deuteronomy Book 4[#24][bib04xxx.xxx]8004
Apr 2005 The Bible, King James, Leviticus Book 3[#23][bib03xxx.xxx]8003
Apr 2005 The Bible, King James, Exodus Book 2[#22][bib02xxx.xxx]8002
Apr 2005 The Bible, King James, Genesis Book 1[#21][bib01xxx.xxx]8001
Apr 2005 The Bible, King James, Complete Contents [#20][bib00xxx.xxx]7999
Note:
Explanation of this production of "The Project Gutenberg Bible" may be in order.
PG was asked a short while ago to provide all the "Books" of The Bible
in individual files. This provided an opportunity to correct and
update our edition 12 of the King James version to an edition 13.
Posting of the entire series will be completed by the end of this
month. Each book is available in both plain text and htm. I believe
the htm files will be the most useful as they are each provided with
links to the previous Book, the next Book, and the general index: the
user may start in any book and navigate directly up and down the
entire series. At the end of the month a single 8mb htm file
including all the Books will be posted for those whose computers have
the speed and capacity to handle it. So the entire Bible in htm may be
accessed quickly by the slowest computer from any of the small
individual htm files or the tiny 25kb Index htm file:
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext05/bib0010h.htm
Of course this index file will presently only direct to the first fifteen Books
posted today. When the entire 66 Books are posted we hope to have a panel of
biblical scholars review the texts for accuracy.
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Series 2 [AA#24][aa24wxxx.xxx]7924
[Full Title: American Historical Antiquities]
[Full Author: John Jay Smith][Includes #7911-7922][22 mb]
[Illustrated HTML, zipped only - aa24w10.zip]
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Series 1 [AA#23][aa23wxxx.xxx]7923
[Full Title: American Historical Antiquities]
[Full Author: John Jay Smith][Includes #7901-7910][22 mb]
[Illustrated HTML, zipped only - aa23w10.zip]
These two full sized books in illustrated html format, complete the American
Antiquities series. At over 20 mb each they are likely more appropriate for those
with broadband connection (or those with a regular phone line modem and great
patience).
Apr 2005 The slave trade, domestic and foreign, by H. Carey[slvtrxxx.xxx]8000
[Author's Full Name: Henry Charles Carey]
[Subtitle: why it exists, and how it may be extinguished]
This book is a milestone of abolitionism, that is supported on
humanitarian but mainly on economical reasons.
The book has a rich index, that is not included in the present
edition, since it still requires a lot of work. An updated edition
will be posted when it is ready.
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A Complete Grammar of Esperanto, by Ivy Kellerman Mar 2005[esperxxx.xxx]7787
The Female Gamester, by Gorges Edmond Howard Apr 2005[fmgstxxx.xxx]7840
[Subtitle: A Tragedy]
A Primary Reader, by E. Louise Smythe Apr 2005[preadxxx.xxx]7841
[Also posted: illustrated HTML, zipped only - pread10h.zip]
The Rise of Iskander, by Benjamin Disraeli Apr 2005[?riskxxx.xxx]7842
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[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7hpnd10.txt and 7hpnd10.zip]
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Three Dramas, by Bjornstjerne M. Bjornson [ Apr 2005?3dramxxx.xxx]7844
[Subtitle: The Editor; The Bankrupt; The King]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 73dram10.txt and 73dram10.zip]
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Toward the Gulf, by Edgar Lee Masters [#2] Apr 2005[?gulfxxx.xxx]7845
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3) Notes and Queries
From: Brett Fishburne
The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells
H.G. Wells is a name that rings with respect in the science fiction community. His first book is a trip into the future of the 29th century. One wonders, however, if this is really a trip to the future. The evils found by the time traveller are not the evils of science, but the evils of social policy intended as a reflection of the "current" industrial policy of his age.
To step from the book to the man for a moment, let us consider Herbert G. Wells. He was born to a modest family in Bromley, Kent in 1866. His father was a professional athelete as well as a shop keeper. Wells was a good student and even studied biology under T. H. Huxley, but did not earn a degree. Wells was twice married (first to his cousin and then to a student in his correspondence school). While his books were often fantasies, he was a sociologist at heart and even joined the famous Fabian Society (headed by George Bernard Shaw). While with this society, he fell into their disfavor and eventually left writing a satire novel feature many of the more prominent members. During both World Wars, Wells was horrified by the events of the time and worked stridently to try to develop and implement world-saving ideas. Wells died on August 13, 1946 pessimistic about the future of mankind.
In this book, Wells attempts to send a message to the upper class of Victorian English Society. He warns, through this cautionary tale, of the dangers of not sharing the largess of societal gains more equally across the classes. Since the disparity between rich and poor has been the downfall of many successful societies, as archeology has shown us, it is well worth paying close attention to what is between the lines in this story of adventure both exciting and fanciful.
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John Gabriël Stedman's Reise naar Surinamen
Currently, DP is processing John Gabriël Stedman's Reise naar Surinamen, the Dutch translation of Narrative of a Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam.
The book is a very nice travelogue. Stedman clearly belongs to the school of 'if you notice it, write it down'.
He writes about plants, animals; a snake with a bulbous belly he cuts open to see what it has eaten. He frees a frog, or so the frog thinks, because Stedman ties it to a rope to see if the eating by a snake has any adverse effects.
He writes about the food he tastes, about the bustling life of Paramaribo: a pretty naked native girl he sees is a starting point for a discussion of his views on how differences in skin color came to be. His view is that the native American bronze must be the original human skin color, at which point the translator feels the need to point to other theories that champion the white skin as the original (and handsomer one).
To me, as a child of the 20th century, the book is full of surprises. Almost every medium of the most recent 20 years has prepared me to see racists as people who feel their 'race' is superiour. Stedman does not have this belief, even though he clearly is a racist. He is constantly marvelling about superiour traits in 'negroes' and 'indians'.
The book is also an indictment of maltreating slaves. From what I understand (I have only proofed 70 or so pages so far), Stedman was pro-slavery. To him, that did not mean slaves had to be treated badly. So, ironically enough, his book became an argument for the abolishionists. Even now, William Blake's etchings in the book are well known.
As a travelogue, the book is an exciting read. But it also served as a shocking indictment of the treatment of slaves, and so is an historically important book.
The language of the book may be offensive to some. I hope the original English version will also go through the site.
Branko Collin
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The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter 11th June 2003
eBooks Readable By Both Humans and Computers For Since 1971
Part 3
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= [ Here Are The Updated Listings For This Past Week ] =
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TOTAL COUNT as of today, Wed 06/11/03: 8,221 (incl. 238 Aus.).
Last week the Total Count was 8,075, including 233 at PG of Australia.
This week we added 73 new.
RESERVED count: 39
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email: newsletter at schiffwood dot co dot uk
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May 2005 National Epics, by Kate Milner Rabb [?ntlexxx.xxx]8072
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7ntle10.txt and 7ntle10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8ntle10.txt and 8ntle10.zip]
May 2005 Expositions of Holy Scripture, Alex. Maclaren [#7][?smrkxxx.xxx]8071
[St. Mark]
[Full author: Alexander Maclaren]
May 2005 Expositions of Holy Scripture, Alex. Maclaren [#6][stjonxxx.xxx]8070
[Subtitle: St. John Chapters I to XIV]
[Full author: Alexander Maclaren]
May 2005 Expositions of Holy Scripture, Alex. Maclaren [#5][isjerxxx.xxx]8069
[Subtitle: Isaiah and Jeremiah]
[Full author: Alexander Maclaren]
May 2005 Expositions of Holy Scripture, Alex. Maclaren [#4][djjrsxxx.xxx]8068
[Subtitle: Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel,
Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII]
[Full author: Alexander Maclaren]
May 2005 The, Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island, Herbert Carter[bssisxxx.xxx]8067
[Subtitle: or Marooned Among The Game-fish Poachers]
Apr 2005 The Bible, King James, Ezra Book 15[#35][bib15xxx.xxx]8015
Apr 2005 The Bible, King James, 2 Chronicles Book 14[#34][bib14xxx.xxx]8014
Apr 2005 The Bible, King James, 1 Chronicles Book 13[#33][bib13xxx.xxx]8013
Apr 2005 The Bible, King James, 2 Kings Book 12[#32][bib12xxx.xxx]8012
Apr 2005 The Bible, King James, 1 Kings Book 11[#31][bib11xxx.xxx]8011
Apr 2005 The Bible, King James, 2 Samuel Book 10[#30][bib10xxx.xxx]8010
Apr 2005 The Bible, King James, 1 Samuel Book 9[#29][bib09xxx.xxx]8009
Apr 2005 The Bible, King James, Ruth Book 8[#28][bib08xxx.xxx]8008
Apr 2005 The Bible, King James, Judges Book 7[#27][bib07xxx.xxx]8007
Apr 2005 The Bible, King James, Joshua Book 6[#26][bib06xxx.xxx]8006
Apr 2005 The Bible, King James, Numbers Book 5[#25][bib05xxx.xxx]8005
Apr 2005 The Bible, King James, Deuteronomy Book 4[#24][bib04xxx.xxx]8004
Apr 2005 The Bible, King James, Leviticus Book 3[#23][bib03xxx.xxx]8003
Apr 2005 The Bible, King James, Exodus Book 2[#22][bib02xxx.xxx]8002
Apr 2005 The Bible, King James, Genesis Book 1[#21][bib01xxx.xxx]8001
Apr 2005 The Slave Trade, Domestic And Foreign, By H. Carey[slvtrxxx.xxx]8000
[Author's Full Name: Henry Charles Carey]
[Subtitle: Why It Exists, And How It May Be Extinguished]
Apr 2005 The Bible, King James, Complete Contents [#20][bib00xxx.xxx]7999
Apr 2005 The Frogs, by Aristophanes [#6][?frogxxx.xxx]7998
Apr 2005 Moorish Literature, by Various Authors [?moorxxx.xxx]7977
[Introduction by Rene Basset]
Apr 2005 Der Traum ein Leben, by Franz Grillparzer [#3][?trlbxxx.xxx]7996
[Language: German]
Apr 2005 Reconciliation of Races/Religions,Thomas K. Cheyne[?recnxxx.xxx]7995
[Full title: The Reconciliation of Races and Religions]
[Full author: Thomas Kelly Cheyne]
[Also in UTF-8 - 8recn10u.txt and 8recn10u.zip]
Apr 2005 The Crayon Papers, by Washington Irving [?crypxxx.xxx]7994
[Author AKA: Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7cryp10.txt and 7cryp10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8cryp10.txt and 8cryp10.zip]
Apr 2005 Oliver Goldsmith, by Washington Irving [?ogldxxx.xxx]7993
[Subtitle: A Biography]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7ogld10.txt and 7ogld10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8ogld10.txt and 8ogld10.zip]
Apr 2005 Better Homes in America, by Mrs W.B. Meloney [btrhaxxx.xxx]7992
[Subtitle: Plan Book for Demonstration Week October 9 to 14, 1922]
Apr 2005 The Storm, by Aleksandr Nicolaevich Ostrovsky [?strmxxx.xxx]7991
[Tr: Constance Garnett]
Apr 2005 Conspiracy of Catiline, by Sallust [#2][?ccatxxx.xxx]7990
[Full title: Conspiracy of Catiline and The Jurgurthine War]
Apr 2005 God Success,John Graham (David Graham Phillips[#7][?gtgdxxx.xxx]7989
[Full title: The Great God Success]
Apr 2005 A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago, B. Hecht[?toacxxx.xxx]7988
[Author's Full Name: Ben Hecht]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7toac10.txt and 7toac10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8toac10.txt and 8toac10.zip]
Apr 2005 The Fair Maid of Perth, by Sir Walter Scott [mprthxxx.xxx]7987
[Subtitle: St. Valentine's Day]
[HTML version in mprth10h.htm and mprth10h.zip]
Apr 2005 Second Series Plays, by Anton Chekhov [#30][?pla2xxx.xxx]7986
[Full title: Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series]
Contents:
On the High Road
The Proposal
The Wedding
The Bear
A Tragedian In Spite of Himself
The Anniversary
The Three Sisters
The Cherry Orchard
Apr 2005 Zur Freundlichen Erinnerung, by Oscar Maria Graf [?zfrexxx.xxx]7985
[Language: German]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7zfre10.txt and 7zfre10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8zfre10.txt and 8zfre10.zip]
Apr 2005 The Old Santa Fe Trail, By Colonel Henry Inman [?osftxxx.xxx]7984
[Subtitle: The Story of a Great Highway]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7osft10.txt and 7osft10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8osft10.txt and 8osft10.zip]
Apr 2005 The Vitamine Manual, by Walter H. Eddy [?vtmnxxx.xxx]7983
Apr 2005 A Traveller in Little Things, by W. H. Hudson[#11][?travxxx.xxx]7982
Apr 2005 Synthetic Tannins, by Georg Grasser [?sytnxxx.xxx]7981
Apr 2005 The Sewerage of Sea Coast Towns, by Henry C. Adams[?sewrxxx.xxx]7980
Apr 2005 Jean-Christophe, Vol. I, by Romain Rolland [?jcr1xxx.xxx]7979
[Subtitle: Dawn, Morning, Youth, Revolt] [Tr.: Gilbert Cannan]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7jcr110.txt and 7jcr110.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8jcr110.txt and 8jcr110.zip]
Apr 2005 Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or [lgtrdxxx.xxx]7978
[Full Title: Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations,
and History of the Tuscarora Indians]
[Author's Full Name: Elias Johnson]
Apr 2005 Purgatory, by Mary Anne Madden Sadlier [?purgxxx.xxx]7977
[Subtitle: Doctrinal, Historical, and Poetical]
[Author AKA: Mrs. James Sadlier; Mrs. J. Sadlier]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7purg10.txt and 7purg10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8purg10.txt and 8purg10.zip]
Apr 2005 Mr. Dooley's Philosophy, by Finley Peter Dunne [?mrdpxxx.xxx]7976
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7mrdp10.txt and 7mrdp10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8mrdp10.txt and 8mrdp10.zip]
Apr 2005 Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, V2, by Ornsby [?mjrhxxx.xxx]7975
Apr 2005 Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 [?mjrhxxx.xxx]7975
[Full title: Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott of Abbotsford, D.C.L.,
Q.C.: Late Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, With Selections from
His Correspondence, Volume 2] [Full Author: Robert Ornsby]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7mjrh10.txt and 7mjrh10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8mjrh10.txt and 8mjrh10.zip]
Apr 2005 The Pilot, by J. Fenimore Cooper [#15][?piltxxx.xxx]7974
Apr 2005 Napoleon in Russia, by Achilles Rose [?naprxxx.xxx]7973
[Full title: Napoleon's Campaign in Russia Anno 1812 - Medico-Historical]
Apr 2005 Homer and His Age, by Andrew Lang [#36][?homrxxx.xxx]7972
Apr 2005 The Fugitive, by Rabindranath Tagore [tfgtvxxx.xxx]7971
Apr 2005 Life of Luther, by Julius Koestlin [?luthxxx.xxx]7970
Apr 2005 Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting, Harold P. Manly[?oxacxxx.xxx]7969
[Also posted: illustrated HTML, zipped only - 8oxac10h.zip]
Apr 2005 Lying Prophets, by Eden Phillpotts [#2][?lproxxx.xxx]7968
Apr 2005 Jean-Christophe Journey's End, by Romain Rolland [?jendxxx.xxx]7967
Apr 2005 Child in Folk-Thought, by Alexander F. Chamberlain[?chldxxx.xxx]7966
[Full title: The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought]
Apr 2005 Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Part 2 [mhbh2xxx.xxx]7965
[Full Title: The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Part 2]
[Tr.: Kisari Mohan Ganguli]
Apr 2005 Mystery of Cloomber, by Arthur Conan Doyle[ACD#33][cloomxxx.xxx]7964
Apr 2005 The Eskdale Herd-boy, by Mrs Blackford [eskhbxxx.xxx]7963
[Subtitle: A Scottish Tale for the Instruction and Amusement of Young People]
[Author AKA: Martha Blackford]
Apr 2005 Over The Top, by Arthur Guy Empey [ovtopxxx.xxx]7962
[Also posted HTML - ovtop10h.zip and ovtop10h.htm]
Apr 2005 In and Out of Three Normandy Inns,Anna Bowman Dodd[?3nnsxxx.xxx]7961
[Plain text in 73nns10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 83nns10.txt/.zip]
Apr 2005 Early European History, By Hutton Webster [?euhsxxx.xxx]7960
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7euhs10.txt and 7euhs10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8euhs10.txt and 8euhs10.zip]
Apr 2005 The Reign Of Tiberius, By Tacitus [?Rtibxxx.Xxx]7959
[Full Title: The Reign Of Tiberius, Out Of The First Six Annals Of Tacitus]
[Subtitle: With His Account Of Germany, And Life Of Agricola]
[Ed.: Arthur Galton] [Tr.: Thomas Gordon]
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[8-Bit Version With Accented Characters In 8Rtib10.Txt And 8Rtib10.Zip]
Apr 2005 The Napoleon of the People, by Honore de Balzac [nppplxxx.xxx]7958
Apr 2005 Out of the Fog, by C. K. Ober [outfgxxx.xxx]7957
[Also posted HTML - outfg10h.zip and outfg10h.htm]
Apr 2005 Married, by August Strindberg [#6][?marrxxx.xxx]7956
Apr 2005 Historical Miniatures, by August Strindberg [#5][?hsmnxxx.xxx]7955
[Tr.: Claud Field, M.A.]
Apr 2005 Twenty-Five Village Sermons, by Charles Kingsley [vsrmxxx.xxx]7954
[Text in vsrm10.txt/.zip, XHTML in vsrm10h.htm/.zip]
Apr 2005 Behind the Bungalow, by EHA [bbngxxx.xxx]7953
[Author AKA: Edward Hamilton Aitken]
[Text in bbng10.txt/.zip, XHTML in bbng10h.htm/.zip]
Apr 2005 The Pleasures of Life, by Sir John Lubbock [?pllfxxx.xxx]7952
[Plain text in 7pllf10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8pllf10.txt/.zip]
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Series 2 [AA#24][aa24wxxx.xxx]7924
[Full Title: American Historical Antiquities]
[Full Author: John Jay Smith][Includes #7911-7922][22 mb]
[Illustrated HTML, zipped only - aa24w10h.zip]
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Series 1 [AA#23][aa23wxxx.xxx]7923
[Full Title: American Historical Antiquities]
[Full Author: John Jay Smith][Includes #7901-7910][22 mb]
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[This was the start of an entire new edition of the complete Shakespeare]
Oct 1998 King Henry VI, Part 1, by William Shakespeare [2ws01xxx.xxx]1500
Oct 1998 Beacon Lights of History, by John Lord [V3 Part 2][32blhxxx.xxx]1499
Oct 1998 Beacon Lights of History, by John Lord [V3 Part 1][31blhxxx.xxx]1498
Oct 1998 The Republic by Plato, Tr. Benjamin Jowett/see 150[repub11x.xxx]1497
Oct 1998 Massacre at Paris, by Christopher Marlowe [CM #5][msprsxxx.xxx]1496
Oct 1998 The Golf Course Mystery, by Chester K. Steele [glfmsxxx.xxx]1495
Oct 1998 The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg Volume 2[2lotjxxx.xxx]1494
Oct 1998 The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg Volume 1[1lotjxxx.xxx]1493
Oct 1998 The Life of Columbus, [in his own words] by Hale [tloccxxx.xxx]1492
Oct 1998 Letters to Dead Authors, by Andrew Lang [Lang #9] [letdaxxx.xxx]1491
Oct 1998 The New McGuffey Fourth Reader[McGuffey Reader #2][4nmcgxxx.xxx]1490
Oct 1998 The New McGuffey First Reader [McGuffey Reader #1][1nmcgxxx.xxx]1489
Oct 1998 True Story of Christopher Columbus, by E.S. Brooks[ttsccxxx.xxx]1488
Oct 1998 Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary the Ring, by GB Shaw[sringxxx.xxx]1487
[Author: George Bernard Shaw]
Oct 1998 The Unseen World and Other Essays, by John Fiske [nswoexxx.xxx]1486
Oct 1998 The Use and Need of the Life of Carrie A. Nation [crntnxxx.xxx]1485
Oct 1998 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, by Ibanez [4hrsmxxx.xxx]1484
[Author: Blasco Ibanez]
Oct 1998 Forty Centuries of Ink, by David N. Carvalho [40cnkxxx.xxx]1483
Oct 1998 Modeste Mignon, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac#45][mdmgnxxx.xxx]1482
Oct 1998 A Daughter of Eve, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac#44][doevexxx.xxx]1481
Oct 1998 Tom Brown's School Days, by Thomas Hughes ][tbssdxxx.xxx]1480
Oct 1998 A Vanished Arcadia, by R. B. Cunninghame Graham ][vajipxxx.xxx]1479
Oct 1998 A Parody Outline of History, by D. O. Stewart [#2][apoohxxx.xxx]1478
Oct 1998 The Toys of Peace by H.H. Munro ("Saki") [Saki #3][toypcxxx.xxx]1477
Sep 1998 Chance, by Joseph Conrad [Joseph Conrad #22][chancxxx.xxx]1476
Sep 1998 Gaudissart II, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #43][2gdsrxxx.xxx]1475
Sep 1998 The Illustrious Gaudissart by Honore de Balzac #42[1gdsrxxx.xxx]1474
Sep 1998 The Absentee, by Maria Edgeworth [Edgeworth #2][bsntexxx.xxx]1473
Sep 1998 In a German Pension, by Katherine Mansfield[KM #2][inagpxxx.xxx]1472
Sep 1998 New Poems, by Francis Thompson[Francis Thompson#3][npbftxxx.xxx]1471
Sep 1998 Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan, by Keene [tfmehxxx.xxx]1470
Sep 1998 Poems, by Francis Thompson [Francis Thompson #2][pmbftxxx.xxx]1469
Sep 1998 History of England, James II Vol. 1, Macaulay[#2][1hoejxxx.xxx]1468
[Title: The History of England from the Accession of James II]
[Author's Name: Thomas Babington Macaulay]
Sep 1998 Some Christmas Stories, by Charles Dickens[CD #50][cdscsxxx.xxx]1467
Sep 1998 Creatures That Once Were Men, by Maxim Gorky [#1a][crmenxxa.xxx]1466
Sep 1998 Wreck of the Golden Mary, by Charles Dickens [#49][wrkgmxxx.xxx]1465
Sep 1998 Contributions to: All The Year Round, Dickens #48[allyrxxx.xxx]1464
Sep 1998 The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, by Gissing [ppohrxxx.xxx]1463
Sep 1998 Some Roundabout Papers, by Thackeray[Thackeray #3][rndbtxxx.xxx]1462
.(Note: the filename rndbtxxx.xxx is also used for a totally different
.(eBook, #2608 in etext01)
Sep 1998 A Legend of Montrose, by Walter Scott [W Scott #5][mntrsxxx.xxx]1461
(Note: from Tales Of My Landlord, 3rd Series)
Sep 1998 The Black Dwarf, by Walter Scott [Walter Scott #4][bdwrfxxx.xxx]1460
[Note: from Tales Of My Landlord, 1st Series)
Sep 1998 Prufrock and Other Observations, by T. S. Eliot #2[prfrkxxx.xxx]1459
Sep 1998 Dream Life and Real Life, by Olive Schreiner [#5][dlarlxxx.xxx]1458
Sep 1998 Mistress Wilding, by Rafael Sabatini [Sabatini #1][wldngxxx.xxx]1457
Sep 1998 An Episode Under the Terror, by Balzac[Balzac #41][aeuttxxx.xxx]1456
Sep 1998 The Hated Son, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #40][htdsnxxx.xxx]1455
Sep 1998 Maitre Cornelius, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #39][crnlsxxx.xxx]1454
Sep 1998 The Alkahest, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #38][lkhstxxx.xxx]1453
Sep 1998 Native Life in South Africa, by Sol Plaatje [nlisaxxx.xxx]1452
Sep 1998 The Art of Lawn Tennis, by William T. Tilden, 2D [tenisxxx.xxx]1451
Sep 1998 Pollyanna, by Eleanor H. Porter[Eleanor Porter #4][plynaxxx.xxx]1450
Sep 1998 The Valley of the Moon, by Jack London[London #49][vlymnxxx.xxx]1449
Sep 1998 Heidi, by Johanna Spyri [Popular Children's Story][heidixxx.xxx]1448
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DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING MADE EASY
Berkeley scientist David Anderson has devised a cheaper and easier way to
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http://www.popsci.com/popsci/computers/article/0,12543,454648,00.html
ANDREW SULLIVAN SAYS: 'THE INTERNET DID IT'
Prominent blogger-journalist Andrew Sullivan, former editor of the New
Republic magazine, says that the Internet should be given much of the
credit for forcing the resignation of top New York Times editors Howell
Raines and Gerald Boyd: "Only, say, five years ago, the editors of the New
York Times had much more power than they have today. If they screwed up, no
one would notice much. A small correction would be buried days, sometimes
weeks, later... The blogosphere in general created a growing chorus of
criticism that helped create public awareness of exactly what Raines was up
to." Sullivan quotes a letter from one of his readers: "Now in newspaper
journalism, as in so many other traditional industries (real estate,
banking, computers, retail sales, airlines, travel, etc.), we see that the
Internet strips away discretion, power and secrecy. It is very hard to
withstand the forced transparency induced by this new technology." To which
Sullivan adds: "And you ain't seen nothing yet." (The Daily Dish 6 Jun 2003)
http://www.andrewsullivan.com
PALM BUYS HANDSPRING FOR $192 MILLION
Palm is acquiring struggling Handspring for $192 million in stock in a deal
that reflects the new stark reality of Silicon Valley economics. Back in
its late-2000 heyday, Handspring -- the scrappy upstart founded by Palm
veterans Donna Dubinsky, Jeff Hawkins and Ed Colligan -- was valued at $9.2
billion. Dubinsky will now assume a position on Palm's board, while Hawkins
will become Palm's chief technology officer and Colligan will lead a Palm
division. The deal is expected to boost Palm's presence in the
up-and-coming "smartphone" market -- an area in which Palm has been
conspicuously absent. According to IDC, sales of handheld computers will be
flat this year, while smartphone sales are expected to triple to more than
13 million units. The acquisition will coincide with Palm's official
spinoff of its PalmSource software unit. (Wall Street Journal 5 Jun 2003)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB105472474479757100.djm,00.html (sub req'd)
NOVELL CLAIMS UNIX PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS NEVER TRANSFERRED
Conflicting claims of Unix intellectual property ownership have come to
light, with Novell saying it sold SCO Group broad rights to the Unix
operating system but retained the copyrights and patents. According to a
1995 contract, Novell sold "all rights and ownership of Unix and UnixWare"
to SCO's predecessor, the Santa Cruz Operation. But the asset purchase
agreement filed with the SEC specifically excludes "all copyrights" and
"all patents" from the purchase. "This agreement is kind of murky. You end
up with a lot of questions, to put it mildly," says one intellectual
property lawyer. The question of Unix patent and copyright ownership is
central to SCO's attempt to force companies using Linux software to pay
royalties for Unix software code that SCO says was illegally incorporated
into Linux. On May 14, SCO sent letters to 1,500 of the world's largest
corporations warning them that using Linux could open them up to legal
liability for infringement. SCO CEO Darl McBride acknowledged last week
that the contract contained "conflicting statements," but added: "It
doesn't make sense. How would you transfer the product but not have the
copyright attached? That would be like transferring a book but only getting
the cover." Novell CEO Jack Messerman, meanwhile, said his company is
basing future operating system products on Linux: "Novell is an ardent
supporter of Linux and the open-source development community."
(CNet News.com 4 Jun 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1013229.html?tag=fd_lede1_hed
[Merger Mania Continues. . .With Some Interesting Twists]
TECH CONSOLIDATION ON THE HORIZON?
Oracle's hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft is a harbinger of things to
come, say many analysts, who've been watching for signs of an impending
consolidation in the software market. "This is the first week of what will
be a decade of consolidation in the applications space," says a Banc of
America securities analyst. "The large suite vendors are going to get
larger and stronger, and everyone else is going to get weaker. If
stand-alone firms are attractive, they'll be swallowed." Experts say Oracle
CEO Larry Ellison's surprise move is a shrewd one -- one that will benefit
his company whether or not he actually makes the acquisition. If the deal
goes through, Oracle will surpass Microsoft in the market for
business-application software, and if it's rebuffed (as expected), Oracle
may still succeed in sowing doubt among PeopleSoft's customers following
Ellison's pledge to stop selling PeopleSoft's HR management software.
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plans to acquire J.D. Edwards. If PeopleSoft backs out, Oracle may snap up
J.D. Edwards for itself, and if Oracle's bid for PeopleSoft doesn't pan
out, it's rumored that No. 1 business applications maker SAP might make a
play for it. (Los Angeles Times 10 Jun 2003)
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-merger10jun10,1,278214.story?coll=la
FTC ASKS FOR NEW POWERS TO FIGHT SPAM
U.S. Federal Trade Commission Chairman Timothy Muris is asking Congress to
broaden the FTC's authority to investigate and prosecute spammers. The
request follows congressional hearings on the subject and an FTC study
concluding that two-thirds of spam is fraudulent or misleading. Meanwhile,
several bills to fight spam have been introduced in Congress, the
frontrunner of which is sponsored by Rep. W.J. Tauzin (R-La.), chairman of
the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Tauzin's proposed legislation
would require e-mail marketers to reveal their true e-mail addresses, honor
consumer requests to be removed from mailing lists, and require that
p*ornographic spam be labeled as such. The bill would authorize ISPs, state
attorneys general and federal law-enforcement officials to track down
suspected spammers and would allow fines up to $1.5 million and jail time
up to two years for guilty parties. Consumer groups have criticized the
Tauzin bill, saying it would override tougher state laws and is full of
loopholes. (Wall Street Journal 11 Jun 2003)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1055288329568200.djm,00.html (sub req'd)
[Hollywood Rules. . .Or Is It "Hollywood Rules?"]
REPLAYTV BLINKS IN FIGHT WITH HOLLYWOOD & NETWORKS
When Digital Networks North America acquired the ReplayTV brand from
SonicBlue, it evidently decided to establish better relations with the film
and TV industries, which had sued SonicBlue because ReplayTV allowed
consumers to skip commercials (offending the TV industry) and sharing
movies with friends (offending the movie industry). And so the latest
version of ReplayTV's digital video recorder comes without the "automatic
commercial advance" and the "send show" features. Phillip Swann of
TVPredictions.com says that the moves indicate "a whole new approach to
marketing ReplayTV. It's a smart one -- at least it's a heck of a lot
smarter than what the previous regime was doing." Others are less happy.
Gwen Hinze of the Electronic Frontier Foundation sees what's happening as
blows to both consumers and innovators: "There's a pretty clear message
being sent that Hollywood can dictate what technologies consumers can and
cannot use. What we are concerned about is there's little room for
technological innovation." (San Jose Mercury News 11 Jun 2003)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6062475.htm
WAL-MART LAUNCHES ONLINE DVD RENTALS
Wal-Mart has launched its online DVD rental business, in a move that pits
it head-to-head against similar offerings from Netflix and Blockbuster. A
Netflix spokeswoman said she thought Wal-Mart and Blockbuster would end up
battling for the No. 2 spot, noting that her company had already signed up
1 million customers. "We're not sure what Wal-Mart has, but we're sure it's
a fraction of that. Until Wal-Mart hits 100,000 they won't be a threat,"
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can browse through and order online. The DVDs will then be shipped from
distribution points in Arkansas, California, Georgia, Indiana, Nevada and
New York, ensuring two-day delivery to 90% of the U.S. Pricing plans start
at $15.54 a month for unlimited rentals with a maximum of two movies out at
a time. To keep three or four movies the monthly fees rise to $18.76 and
$21.94, respectively. (AP 10 Jun 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030610/D7RJ558O0.html
INTEL: FOLLOW THE MARKETS (AND GO EAST)
Since the fastest-growing markets for Intel chips are India, China, Russia,
Eastern Europe and South America, Intel president and chief operating
officer Paul Otellini says that's where new development centers will be
located: "Our resources will go where our markets are." The company will be
investing in a software development hub in Bangalore and expanding its
staff in India to 3,000. Otellini explains: "We can access incredible
talent for software engineering in India. To get these skills, we may not
be able to hire and train people quickly in the United States."
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JUDGES UPHOLD PHONE-NUMBER PORTABILITY
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled against
Verizon Wireless and a cell phone trade group, upholding a rule passed
by the Federal Communications Commission that allows cell phone
consumers to change carriers but keep their phone numbers. Wireless
carriers had argued that the rule was unnecessary, but the judges
concluded that having to change a phone number constituted a
significant barrier to changing carriers. The Cellular
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rule, said it was disappointed with the appellate court ruling.
Land-line phone carriers are already required to allow customers to
keep phone numbers when they change carriers.
Reuters, 6 June 2003
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=2890803
[If It Were Students' Grades Or Scholarship Info, Would They Shut Down?]
ROGUE E-MAILS AT STANFORD CIRCULATE CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
The rapidly spreading Bugbear.B computer virus hit Stanford University,
randomly sending out files from campus PCs, including highly confidential
information about employee salaries and bonuses. Some within Stanford's
35,000 user computer system received rogue e-mail generated by the virus,
including Chris Handley, who directs the campus computer system.
Handley's team subsequently intercepted messages containing salary
and bonus information. Although it is not known if the e-mails were
read by those outside Stanford, Handley made the decision to block
outgoing e-mails. Handley called the president of the university
to inform him that network would be down until the problem is resolved.
San Jose Mercury News, 6 June 2003
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6027714.htm
FEDERAL DO-NOT-CALL LIST CLOSE TO LAUNCH
Officials from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) now say that the
federal do-not-call registry will be available on or before July 1,
almost two months earlier than the agency had previously predicted.
Eileen Harrington of the FTC said, "We initially thought things would
take longer ... but now we're really confident we can get the entire
system up quickly." Marketing organizations including the Direct
Marketing Association fought the registry in court and in Congress, but
ultimately the registry was allowed to proceed. Consumers will be able
to add their names to the registry, and, beginning in September,
marketers will not be allowed to call anyone whose name appears on the list.
Those who violate the statute face fines of up to $11,000 per violation.
Wall Street Journal, 4 June 2003 (sub. req'd)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB105467702262503100,00.html
STUDY SHOWS RISKS TO BROADBAND USE
A new study from the National Cyber Security Alliance indicates a gap
between broadband users' perceptions of how secure their systems are
and the real level of security. According to the study of 120 broadband
users, 77 and 86 percent consider their systems safe from hackers and
online threats, respectively. More than 40 percent, however, do not
have a firewall. A majority of the users in the study have antivirus
software installed on their systems, but most do not regularly update
that software, leaving them vulnerable to new viruses. Keith Nahigian,
spokesman for the alliance and a consultant to the Office of Homeland
Security, noted that broadband users are at significantly higher risk
for security problems than dial-up users because of the speed of
broadband connections and the fact that they typically are always on.
New York Times, 4 June 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/04/technology/04NET.html
ROYALTY DEAL REACHED FOR NON-COMMERCIAL WEBCASTERS
The recording industry and non-commercial Webcasters have reached an
agreement on royalty rates that will avoid a potentially lengthy and
expensive arbitration process and will allow most stations to continue
Webcasts. Non-commercial stations, including many college radio
stations, had been involved in a lengthy dispute over the royalty rates
set by the Librarian of Congress, rates the stations said were too high
for non-commercial operations. Under the deal, non-commercial
Webcasters can choose to pay 0.0762 cents per song per listener or
0.0117 cents per listener hour. The deal is retroactive to 1998, the
year in which Congress mandated that Webcasters must pay royalties to
artists and music labels.
Internet News, 3 June 2003
http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/2216941
[How Much Fast Would The Internet Run Without Spam???]
NO CONSOLATION IN NEW DATA ON SPAM
A recent survey by Symantec finds that significant percentages of
children are exposed to spam regularly, often outside the scope of
parental supervision. According to the survey, 47 percent of kids
between the ages of 7 and 18 have received pornographic spam, and 21
percent read spam. Nearly a third said they do not know if spam is good
or bad, and 22 percent said their parents have not talked to them about
spam. Forty-six percent said they give their e-mail addresses to
friends or to Web sites without parental permission. Separately, the
Radicati Group released new estimates for the monetary costs of spam.
According to the group, if nothing is done to curb the spread of spam,
by 2007 there will be more than 33 billion corporate spam e-mails per
day, costing businesses nearly $200 billion annually. The group
projects that spam could account for 49 percent of all corporate e-mail
traffic by 2007, compared to 24 percent in 2003.
Internet News, 9 June 2003
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/2219211
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1404 New eBooks So Far in 2003
It took us 27 years for the first 1405!
That's the 22 WEEKS of 2003 as Compared to 27 YEARS!!!
Here Is A Sample Of What Books Were Being Done Around #1405
Aug 1998 El Verdugo, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #30][vrdugxxx.xxx]1425
Aug 1998 Castle Rackrent, by Maria Edgeworth [Edgeworth #1][rkrntxxx.xxx]1424
Aug 1998 No Thoroughfare, by Dickens [#47] & Collins [#5] [nothoxxx.xxx]1423
Aug 1998 Going into Society, by Charles Dickens[Dickens#46][gisocxxx.xxx]1422
Aug 1998 Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy by Charles Dickens [CD #45][mlrlgxxx.xxx]1421
Aug 1998 London's Underworld, by Thomas Holmes [lndwdxxx.xxx]1420
Aug 1998 Mugby Junction, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #44][mgjncxxx.xxx]1419
Aug 1998 Country Sentiment, by Robert Graves [csentxxx.xxx]1418
Aug 1998 Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #29][ssoilxxx.xxx]1417
Aug 1998 Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings, by Charles Dickens [#43][mlldgxxx.xxx]1416
Aug 1998 Doctor Marigold, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #42][drmrgxxx.xxx]1415
Aug 1998 Somebody's Luggage, by Charles Dickens[Dickens#41][smlggxxx.xxx]1414
Aug 1998 Tom Tiddler's Ground, by Charles Dickens [CD #40][ttgndxxx.xxx]1413
Aug 1998 Masterman Ready, by Captain Marryat [Marryat #1][mmrdyxxx.xxx]1412
Aug 1998 Domestic Peace by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #28][dmspcxxx.xxx]1411
Aug 1998 The Commission in Lunacy by Honore de Balzac [#27][lunacxxx.xxx]1410
Aug 1998 The Soul of the Far East, by Percival Lowell [#1][sofrexxx.xxx]1409
Aug 1998 The Natural History of Selborne, by Gilbert White [tnhosxxx.xxx]1408
Aug 1998 A Message From the Sea by Charles Dickens [CD #39][amftsxxx.xxx]1407
Aug 1998 Perils of Certain English Prisoners by Dickens #38[pocepxxx.xxx]1406
Aug 1998 The Collection of Antiquities, by Balzac [HDB #26][clntqxxx.xxx]1405
Jul 1998 The Federalist Papers, by Hamilton, Jay & Madison [federxxa.xxx]1404
Jul 1998 A Start in Life, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #25][stlifxxx.xxx]1403
Jul 1998 Where the Blue Begins, by Christopher Morley [wtbbgxxx.xxx]1402
Jul 1998 Tarzan the Untamed, Edgar R. Burroughs [Tarzan #7][tarz7xxx.xxx]1401
[Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs]
Jul 1998 Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens[Dickens#38][grexpxxx.xxx]1400
Jul 1998 Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy/Tolstoi [Tolstoy #5][nkrnnxxx.xxx]1399
Jul 1998 Dore Lectures on Mental Science, by Thomas Troward[dorelxxx.xxx]1398
Jul 1998 The Ruins by C. F. [Constantin Francois de] Volney[ruinsxxx.xxx]1397
Jul 1998 Rienzi, last of the Roman Tribunes, by E. B.Lytton[rienzxxx.xxx]1396
Jul 1998 Letters on Literature, by Andrew Lang [Lang #8] [ltlitxxx.xxx]1395
Jul 1998 The Holly-Tree, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #37] [hlytrxxx.xxx]1394
Jul 1998 Amours de Voyage, by Arthur Hugh Clough [mrvygxxx.xxx]1393
Jul 1998 The Seven Poor Travellers, by Charles Dickens[#36][svprtxxx.xxx]1392
Jul 1998 Penelope's Irish Experiences by Kate D. Wiggin[#7][pnliexxx.xxx]1391
[Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin]
Jul 1998 The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories by Wister [jmyjnxxx.xxx]1390
Jul 1998 Gobseck, by Honore de Balzac[Honore de Balzac #24][gbsekxxx.xxx]1389
Jul 1998 Padre Ignacio, by Owen Wister [Owen Wister #7] [igncoxxx.xxx]1388
Jul 1998 Mother, by Owen Wister [Owen Wister #6] [mothrxxx.xxx]1387
.(Note: the filename mothrxx.xxx is also used for a totally different
.(eBook, #3635 in etext03)
Jul 1998 Lady Baltimore, by Owen Wister [Owen Wister #5] [lbaltxxx.xxx]1386
Jul 1998 Lin McLean, by Owen Wister [Owen Wister #4] [lmclnxxx.xxx]1385
Jul 1998 The Ayrshire Legatees, by John Galt [John Galt #3][ayrlgxxx.xxx]1384
Jul 1998 Poems by George Meredith - Volume 3 [Meredith #5] [pmgm3xxx.xxx]1383
Jul 1998 Poems by George Meredith - Volume 2 [Meredith #4] [pmgm2xxx.xxx]1382
Jul 1998 Poems by George Meredith - Volume 1 [Meredith #3] [pmgm1xxx.xxx]1381
Jul 1998 The Two Brothers, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #23][brthrxxx.xxx]1380
Jul 1998 A Straight Deal, by Owen Wister [Owen Wister #3] [strdlxxx.xxx]1379
Jul 1998 A Straight Deal, by Owen Wister [Owen Wister #3] [strdlxxx.xxx]1379
Jul 1998 The Land of Footprints, by Stewart Edward White #4[fprntxxx.xxx]1378
Jul 1998 The Talisman, by Walter Scott[Sir Walter Scott #3][tlsmnxxx.xxx]1377
(Note: Vols. III & IV of Tales of the Crusaders)
Jul 1998 The Little White Bird, by J.M. Barrie [Barrie #4][tlwbdxxx.xxx]1376
Jul 1998 New Chronicles of Rebecca by Kate Douglas Wiggin 7[tncorxxx.xxx]1375
Jul 1998 Vendetta, by Honore de Balzac[Honore de Balzac#22][vndtaxxx.xxx]1374
Jul 1998 Study of a Woman, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #21][sowmnxxx.xxx]1373
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[Damn, I Shoulda NEVER Put My Pics On The Web!]
CIA BANKROLLS DEVELOPMENT OF PHOTO-SEARCHING SOFTWARE
The CIA's venture capital group, In-Q-Tel, is funding the development of
innovative software from California startup PiXlogic, designed to sift
through millions of digital photos or video clips and pick out specific
cars, street signs or, eventually, human faces. "There was a great deal of
interest in these capabilities," says In-Q-Tel president Mike Griffin.
"Because more and more of what is on the Internet is in visual form, the
ability to search on those materials is important and getting more
important all the time." PiXlogic CEO Joseph Santucci says his company is
probably about a year away from adding effective face-recognition
capabilities to the software to help CIA operatives track specific people.
PiXlogic's software analyzes each photo or video frame, identifies each
item by geometry, color and other characteristics, and stores these details
in files linked to the image. It can then compare details from a sample
image with those stored in its database or on the Web to make a likely
match. "We're able to emulate the sight process pretty well, but there are
no cognitive capabilities built into the software," says Santucci. Thus, it
can recognize the side view of a car, but can't infer what that vehicle
might look like from the front. (AP 3 Jun 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030603/D7REF2GG0.html
BROADBAND BROADENS RISK AS WELL AS PERFORMANCE
A study of 120 broadband users conducted by the National Cyber Security
Alliance (a group of business and government entities) has found that
although 77% think their systems are protected from outside hackers, fewer
than 60% had installed firewalls to keep their systems safe. "The
disconnect means we have to do more to educate people," says Alliance
spokesman Keith Nahigan, who is also a consultant to the national Office of
Homeland Security. Despite the vulnerability of their systems, 86% of
broadband users keep sensitive information on their computers. Broadband
systems are "always-on" and Nahigan notes: "When you have your connection
open all day and all night, it's easier for hackers to get in." (New York
Times 4 Jun 2003)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/06/04/technology/04NET.html
FUND THE SCIENTISTS, NOT THE MACHINES, SAY BELL AND GRAY
Influential computer scientists Gordon Bell and Jim Gray say that "today's
supercomputer centers will become superdata centers in the future," and
that federal money should be diverted from machines and given directly to
people: "The core of our argument is to give money back to the sciences and
let them do the planning." They believe that huge storehouses of digital
data are increasingly playing a critical role in scientific research, and
also that innovations in data-storage technology are significantly
outpacing progress in computer processing technology. What they want to see
are planning and funding strategies that invest in "data-centric,"
"information-centric," and "community-centric" approaches that make use of
inexpensive clusters of linked computers running the Linux operating
system. (New York Times 2 Jun 2003)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/06/02/technology/02SUPE.html
BROWSER WAR ENDS IN TRUCE
After years of mutual animosity and legal wrangling, Microsoft has agreed to
pay AOL Time Warner $750 million in a settlement that lays a foundation for
further cooperation between the two companies. As part of the agreement, AOL
will receive a seven-year royalty-free license of Microsoft's Internet
Explorer browser, as well as a long-term nonexclusive license to use
Microsoft's Windows Media 9 software. The companies will also work toward
making AOL and MSN Messenger interoperable, and will explore ways to boost
the adoption and distribution of digital media. Finally, Microsoft will
distribute AOL CD-ROMs to PC manufacturers along with Windows operating
software and will expand its support contract with AOL. The settlement is
being described by both companies as a win-win -- it enables AOL to reduce
some of its $23 billion debt burden and relieves Microsoft of one of its
nagging legal problems. "Microsoft has been very pragmatic in putting its
antitrust issues behind it," says one antitrust attorney. "What will be
interesting to see is if they settle with Sun. That's a bit more of a grudge
match." (CNet News.com 29 May 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1032-1011296.html?tag=nl
APPLE IS THE NEW MTV
Numair Faraz, who has started several online service companies, says of the
current music scene: "Apple is the new MTV. It is the new funnel for music.
When things moved from radio to video, MTV was the sole source of music. Now
Apple is going to control the distribution and promotion of music. The
entire ecosystem they are using is theirs." (New York Times 29 May 2003)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/05/29/arts/music/29POPL.html
MIND MADE UP: MUNICH LIKES LINUX, WILL GET UNIQUE PRICING PLAN
After months of analysis and discussions, the city government in Munich,
Germany, has decided to drop Microsoft products completely and make a
strategic decision in favor of Linux, migrating its entire computer network
to the open source Linux operating system. SuSE Linux AG and IBM worked
closely with the city to come up with a Windows-to-Linux migration program
that will begin next year. A SuSE executive says the company has proposed a
new price-per-inhabitant pricing model: "We've decided to charge not on a
PC basis but rather on a resident basis. This approach is unique in the
industry. Each resident should know what IT costs he or she generates."
(Linux World 28 May 2003)
http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0528.munich.html
TIVO TO MARKET VIEWER DATA
TiVo, recently described as "God's machine" by FCC chairman Michael Powell,
has begun offering advertisers and broadcasters detailed information on
what TV programs and commercials its users are watching -- or skipping.
TiVo executives say they will be gathering information only in the
aggregate, keeping individual user data anonymous. "Advertisers and
programmers undoubtedly will want to understand how the technology will
impact viewer behavior, and this is the first opportunity for them to get
data to understand how viewers are using the technology," says an IDC
analyst. Unlike traditional TV rating surveys that indicate which shows
consumers are watching, the TiVo data reveals *how* viewers are watching --
at which points they're fast-forwarding or rewinding for an instant replay.
For instance, during the Grammy Awards, TiVo noticed a spike in instant
replays when Julia Roberts walked on stage to give an award. TiVo's
measurement service will initially focus on viewer habits during prime-time
programs and will be marketed as a quarterly subscription report.
Customized data will be available as well. (AP 2 Jun 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030603/D7RDUTBG0.html
[And On A Similar Note]
LOOKING FOR MEANINGFUL PATTERNS IN YOUR LIFE? SEE DARPA!
The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is taking
bids on a new project called LifeLog, which will help someone capture his
or her "experience in and interactions with the world" via cameras,
microphones, and sensors; the goal is to created advanced software to
assist in the analysis of a person's behavior, habits, and routines.
Privacy advocates are expressing concern, but DARPA spokesperson Jan Walker
says that the "allegation that this technology would create a machine to
spy on others and invade people's privacy is way off the mark." LifeLog's
software "will be able to find meaningful patterns in the timetable, to
infer the user's routines, habits and relations with other people,
organizations, places and objects." (AP/USA Today 2 Jun 2003)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2003-06-02-lifelog_x.htm
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MICROSOFT AND AOL REACH TRUCE
Rivals Microsoft and AOL Time Warner have settled their dispute over
Internet browsers. AOL is dropping its antitrust suit, filed against
Microsoft in January 2002, that alleged anticompetitive business
practices favoring Microsoft's Internet Explorer browsing software
over Netscape's software. Netscape, a subsidiary of AOL and the former
industry leader, now claims only five percent of the browser market
compared to Internet Explorer's 90 percent. Microsoft has agreed to
pay AOL $750 million and to license free-of-charge its browsing
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including integrating their instant-messaging services. AOL, which
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on its Windows operating systems and will pair AOL-branded Internet
service software with Windows on some hardware, which could expand
AOL's reach by millions. The deal issues in a new era of cooperation
between the software and media giants.
New York Times, 30 May 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Microsoft-AOL.html
REPORT SAYS CIA NOT USING IT CREATIVELY
A report written by a member of a CIA think tank argues that the
agency's use of information technology is handicapped by a culture
that treats technology as a threat rather than a benefit. In the
report, "Failing to Keep Up With the Information Revolution," Bruce
Berkowitz writes that the agency's focus on security prevents the
CIA's Directorate of Intelligence "from applying information
technology more effectively." Berkowitz points to a CIA database, the
Corporate Information Retrieval and Storage (CIRAS) database, which the
report states is the most-used database at the CIA. Compared to systems
outside the CIA, he said, CIRAS is primitive. Because of the
shortcomings of CIRAS, CIA analysts depend largely on an informal
source network, according to Berkowitz, who characterized such an
informal network as "exactly what the World Wide Web does in an
automated fashion when it is combined with a search engine like Google
or Alta Vista."
Internet News, 29 May 2003
http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/2213741
STUDY SHOWS IMPROVED VISUAL PERCEPTION FROM VIDEO GAMES
A study conducted at the University of Rochester indicates that playing
high-action video games can increase a person's performance on a range
of visual tests. The tests included locating the position of a blinking
object, counting simultaneous objects on a screen, and identifying the
color of an alphabet letter. In the study, subjects who spent several
months regularly playing action video games consistently performed
better on the tests than those who did not play the games. The study
did not address the question of how violence in video games influences
those who play them. The authors of the study said the results suggest
that such video games could be beneficial to people with visual
impairments or to soldiers training for combat. Military experts
confirmed the latter notion, saying that soldiers who have spent many
years playing action video games are often better at certain combat
skills, such as operating long-range unmanned aerial vehicles.
Wall Street Journal, 28 May 2003 (sub. req'd)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB105413319494664400,00.html
REALNETWORKS LOWERS THE BAR FOR PER-SONG DOWNLOAD PRICE
Not long after Apple Computer's new music service went online selling
songs for 99 cents each, RealNetworks announced that its new Rhapsody
music service would charge just 79 cents per song. Rhapsody is based on
the Listen.com service, which RealNetworks acquired last month.
According to RealNetworks's Dan Sheeran, users who subscribe to the
service for $9.95 per month will be able to download songs for the
79-cent price. Sheeran said the revenues from subscriptions will allow
the service to run at a profit. By comparison, Apple's service is
available to anyone with a Mac, without a monthly subscription fee.
Subscribers to the Rhapsody service will be allowed unlimited downloads
and can burn any downloaded songs to CDs.
Internet News, 28 May 2003
http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/2213011
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Apr 2005 The Jealousies of a Country Town, Honore de Balzac[jlsctxxx.xxx]7950
Contents:
An Old Maid (See eBook #1352)
The Collection of Antiquities (See eBook #1405)
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[Author's Full Name: Rafael Sabatini]
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[Full title: Der Zweyte Theil von Koenig Heinrich dem vierten]
[Full author: William Shakespeare] [King Henry IV, Part II]
[Language: German]
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[Full title: Der Erste Theil von Koenig Heinrich dem vierten]
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[Language: German]
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[Contents: The Illustrious Gaudissart, and The Muse of the Department]
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[Subtitle: Essays on the Character and Mission of the Poet as Interpreted in
English Verse of the Last One Hundred and Fifty Years]
[Plain text in 7ptpt10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8ptpt10.txt/.zip]
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Contents:
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[Author AKA: The Earl of Beaconsfield]
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[Subtitle: Psalms] [Author's Full Name: Alexander Maclaren]
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 22[AA#22][aa22wxxx.xxx]7922
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[Full title: The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and
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[Completed by Walter Besant]
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[Language: German] (See also #7875)
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Apr 2005 Expositions of Holy Scripture, Alex. Maclaren [#3][exp2kxxx.xxx]7883
[Subtitle: Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and
Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes]
[Full author: Alexander Maclaren]
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[Subtitle: Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian Agent and Colonel U.S.A.]
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Apr 2005 English Notebooks, Complete, Nath. Hawthorne [#19][engn3xxx.xxx]7878
[Full title: Passages From the English Notebooks]
[Full author: Nathaniel Hawthorne][Includes #7876 and #7877]
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Apr 2005 Roemische Elegien, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[#37][?elegxxx.xxx]7875
[Language: German]
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Contents:
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The Vicar of Tours
The Two Brothers]
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Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 21[AA#21][aa21wxxx.xxx]7921
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 20[AA#20][aa20wxxx.xxx]7920
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 19[AA#19][aa19wxxx.xxx]7919
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 18[AA#18][aa18wxxx.xxx]7918
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 17[AA#17][aa17wxxx.xxx]7917
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 16[AA#16][aa16wxxx.xxx]7916
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 15[AA#15][aa15wxxx.xxx]7915
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 14[AA#14][aa14wxxx.xxx]7914
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 13[AA#13][aa13wxxx.xxx]7913
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 12[AA#12][aa12wxxx.xxx]7912
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 11[AA#11][aa11wxxx.xxx]7911
[Full Title: American Historical Antiquities]
[Subtitle: Consisting of Fac-similies of Original Documents, etc, etc]
[Full Author: John Jay Smith]
[Illustrated HTML, zipped only - aa??w10h.zip]
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 10[AA#10][aa10wxxx.xxx]7910
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 9 [AA#9][aa09wxxx.xxx]7909
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 8 [AA#8][aa08wxxx.xxx]7908
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 7 [AA#7][aa07wxxx.xxx]7907
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 6 [AA#6][aa06wxxx.xxx]7906
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 5 [AA#5][aa05wxxx.xxx]7905
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 4 [AA#4][aa04wxxx.xxx]7904
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 3 [AA#3][aa03wxxx.xxx]7903
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 2 [AA#2][aa02wxxx.xxx]7902
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 1 [AA#1][aa01wxxx.xxx]7901
[Full Title: American Historical and Literary Curiosities]
[Subtitle: Consisting of Fac-similies of Original Documents, etc, etc]
[Authors: John Jay Smith and John F. Watson]
[Illustrated HTML, zipped only - aa??w10h.zip]
pr 2005 Principal Navigations, V5, by Richard Hakluyt [#8][?hk05xxx.xxx]7900
[Full title: The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and
Discoveries of The English Nation, v5] [Language: English and Latin]
Apr 2005 The Radio Boys' First Wireless, by Allen Chapman [?rboyxxx.xxx]7899
[Subtitle: Or Winning the Ferberton Prize]
Apr 2005 Mouser Cats' Story, by Amy Prentice [mousrxxx.xxx]7898
[Also posted: illustrated HTML, zipped only- mousr10h.zip]
Apr 2005 The Gray Goose's Story, by Amy Prentice [grgosxxx.xxx]7897
[Also posted: illustrated HTML, zipped only - grgos10h.zip]
Apr 2005 Eight Strokes of the Clock, by Maurice Le Blanc [?stclxxx.xxx]7896
[Also posted HTML - 8stcl10h.zip and 8stcl10h.htm]
Apr 2005 A Terrible Temptation, by Charles Reade [#12][terrbxxx.xxx]7895
Apr 2005 The Fallen Leaves, by Wilkie Collins [#34][leavexxx.xxx]7894
Apr 2005 Hide and Seek, by Wilkie Collins [#33][chidexxx.xxx]7893
Apr 2005 Heart and Science, by Wilkie Collins [#32][heartxxx.xxx]7892
Apr 2005 The Dead Alive, by Wilkie Collins [#31][cdeadxxx.xxx]7891
Apr 2005 Blind Love, by Wilkie Collins [#30][blindxxx.xxx]7890
[Completed by Walter Besant]
Apr 2005 Erotica Romana, by Johann Wolfgang Goethe [#38][?erotxxx.xxx]7889
[Language: German] (See also #7875)
Apr 2005 Wie Wiselis Weg gefunden, by Johanna Spyri [#3][?wwwgxxx.xxx]7888
[Full title: Wie Wiselis Weg gefunden wird Erzahlung] [Language: German]
Apr 2005 Fortitude, by Hugh Walpole [?frttxxx.xxx]7887
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7frtt10.txt and 7frtt10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8frtt10.txt and 8frtt10.zip]
Apr 2005 Steam Steel and Electricity, by James W. Steele [?ststxxx.xxx]7886
[Also posted in HTML, zipped only - 8stst10h.zip]
Apr 2005 Celtic Fairy Tales, by Joseph Jacobs (coll. & ed [?celtxxx.xxx]7885
Apr 2005 In the Fog, by Richard Harding Davis [infogxxx.xxx]7884
[Also posted in illustrated HTML, zipped only - infog10h.zip]
Apr 2005 Expositions of Holy Scripture, Alex. Maclaren [#3][exp2kxxx.xxx]7883
[Subtitle: Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and
Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes]
[Full author: Alexander Maclaren]
Apr 2005 The Life of Kit Carson, by Edward S. Ellis [lfktcxxx.xxx]7882
[Subtitle: Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian Agent and Colonel U.S.A.]
[Plain text in lfktc10.txt/.zip; non-accented HTML in lfktc10h.htm/.zip]
Apr 2005 French and Italian Notebooks, by N. Hawthorne[#22][frit3xxx.xxx]7881
[Full title: Passages From the French and Italian Notebooks]
[Full author: Nathaniel Hawthorne][Includes #7879 and #7880]
Apr 2005 French/Italian Notebooks, V2, Nath. Hawthorne[#21][frit2xxx.xxx]7880
Apr 2005 French/Italian Notebooks, V1, Nath. Hawthorne[#20][frit1xxx.xxx]7879
Apr 2005 English Notebooks, Complete, Nath. Hawthorne [#19][engn3xxx.xxx]7878
[Full title: Passages From the English Notebooks]
[Full author: Nathaniel Hawthorne][Includes #7876 and #7877]
Apr 2005 English Notebooks, V2, by Nathaniel Hawthorne[#18][engn2xxx.xxx]7877
Apr 2005 English Notebooks, V1, by Nathaniel Hawthorne[#17][engn1xxx.xxx]7876
Apr 2005 Roemische Elegien, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[#37][?elegxxx.xxx]7875
[Language: German]
Apr 2005 Audio: Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad [lrdjmxxx.xxx]7874C
[45 MP3 files in lrdjm???.mp3, lrdjm000.mp3 thru lrdjm045.mp3]
[A compressed version is also available as lrdjm3.zip] (See Also: #5658)
Apr 2005 Audio: The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, by Sax Rohmer [fumanxxx.xxx]7873C
[MP3 files in lrdjm???.mp3] (See Also: #173)
[A compressed version is also available as fuman3.zip]
Apr 2005 Audio: The Dubliners, by James Joyce [dblnrxxx.xxx]7872C
[MP3 files in dblnr???.mp3] (See Also: #2814)
[A compressed version is also available as dblnr3.zip]
Apr 2005 Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks,by W. E. Griffis[?dfryxxx.xxx]7871
[Full author: William Elliot Griffis]
[Also posted in illustrated HTML, zipped only - 8dfry10h.zip]
Apr 2005 Tales of Daring and Danger, by G. A. Henty [?tdarxxx.xxx]7870
[Also posted HTML - 8tdar10h.zip and 8tdar10h.htm]
Apr 2005 Audio: A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens [2cityxxx.xxx]7869C
[All files are in the format 2cityNNN.mp3, where NNN ranges from 000-045]
[A compressed version is also available as 2city3.zip]
[See Also: the etext is #98, edition 12]
Apr 2005 Child's Story Garden, Compiled by Elizabeth Heber [cgardxxx.xxx]7868
Apr 2005 Crooked Trails, by Frederic Remington [crktrxxx.xxx]7867
[Full title: Crooked Trails]
[Full author: Written and Illustrated by Frederic Remington]
[Also posted: HTML zipped only - crktr10h.zip]
Apr 2005 An Ambitious Man, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox [ammnxxxx.xxx]7866
[Text in ammn10.txt/.zip, XHTML in ammn10h.htm/.zip]
Apr 2005 Jackanapes, by Juliana Horatio Ewing [?jcknxxx.xxx]7865
[Full title: Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories]
[Plain text in 7jckn10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8jckn10.txt/.zip]
[HTML with accents in 8jckn10h.htm; Illustrated HTML in 8jckn10h.zip only]
Apr 2005 Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana,by K. M. Ganguli[?mkdwxxx.xxx]7864
[Full title: The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into
English Prose]
[Full author: Kisari Mohan Ganguli]
Apr 2005 Religious Liberty, by M. Louise Greene, Ph. D [?rlibxxx.xxx]7863
[Full title: The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut]
Apr 2005 The Sword of Antietam, by Joseph A. Altsheler [tsantxxx.xxx]7862
Apr 2005 Moisasurs Zauberfluch, by Ferdinand Raimund [#9][?zaubxxx.xxx]7861
[Language: German]
Apr 2005 Die unheilbringende Krone,by Ferdinand Raimund[#7][?kronxxx.xxx]7860
[Language: German]
Apr 2005 Der Diamant des Geisterkoenigs, by F. Raimund [#6][?diamxxx.xxx]7859
[Full author: Ferdinand Raimund] [Language: German]
Apr 2005 L'Arrabbiata, by Paul Heyse [#2][?heysxxx.xxx]7858
[Language: German]
Apr 2005 The Way of an Indian, by Frederic Remington [wyindxxx.xxx]7857
[Full author: Written and Illustrated by Frederic Remington]
[Also posted in illustrated HTML, zipped only - wyind10h.zip]
Apr 2005 The Cheerful Cricket and Others,byJeannette Marks [chrcrxxx.xxx]7856
Apr 2005 The Vision of Desire, by Margaret Pedler [?vsdsxxx.xxx]7855
[Plain text in 7vsds10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8vsds10.txt/.zip]
Apr 2005 Les Noces Chimiques, by Christian Rosencreutz [ncschxxx.xxx]7854
[Author AKA: Johann Valentin Andreae] [Language: French; Tr. from German]
[The zip file contains 6 images]
Apr 2005 Quentin Durward, by Sir Walter Scott [qntdrxxx.xxx]7853
[Plain text qntdr10.txt/.zip; HTML version in qntdr10h.htm/.zip]
Apr 2005 Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete, Matthew L. Davis[?bur3xxx.xxx]7852
Apr 2005 Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 2., Matthew L. Davis[?bur2xxx.xxx]7851
Apr 2005 Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 1., Matthew L. Davis[?bur1xxx.xxx]7850
Apr 2005 The Trial, Franz Kafka, Trans. David Wyllie [FK 2][ktriaxxx.xxx]7849C
[Plain text in ktria10.txt/.zip; RTF in ktria10r.zip - zip only]
Apr 2005 Last Poems, by A. E. Housman [#3][?lspmxxx.xxx]7848
Apr 2005 Jack North's Treasure Hunt, by Roy Rockwood [?jnthxxx.xxx]7847
[Subtitle: Daring Adventures in South America]
[Also posted HTML - 8jnth10h.zip and 8jnth10h.htm]
Apr 2005 Departmental Ditties/Barrack Room Ballads, Kipling[dptdtxxx.xxx]7846
[Full Title: Departmental Ditties & Barrack Room Ballads]
[Author's Full Name: Rudyard Kipling] (See also: #2334 & #2819)
Apr 2005 Toward the Gulf, by Edgar Lee Masters [#2][?gulfxxx.xxx]7845
Apr 2005 Three Dramas, by Bjornstjerne M. Bjornson [?3dramxx.xxx]7844
Contents:
The Editor
The Bankrupt
The King
[Plain text in 73dram10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 83dram10.txt/.zip]
Apr 2005 The Happy End, by Joseph Hergesheimer [?hpndxxx.xxx]7843
[Plain text in 7hpnd10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8hpnd10.txt/.zip]
Apr 2005 The Rise of Iskander, by Benjamin Disraeli [?riskxxx.xxx]7842
[Plain text in 7risk10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8risk10.txt/.zip]
[RTF version with numbered paragraphs in 8risk10r.rtf/.zip]
Apr 2005 A Primary Reader, by E. Louise Smythe [preadxxx.xxx]7841
[Subtitle: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold by Children]
[Also posted: illustrated HTML, zipped only - pread10h.zip]
Apr 2005 The Female Gamester, by Gorges Edmond Howard [fmgstxxx.xxx]7840
[Subtitle: A Tragedy]
Apr 2005 A Foregone Conclusion, by W. D. Howells [#65][?frcnxxx.xxx]7839
Apr 2005 Fifty-One Tales, by E. J. M. D. Plunkett [#2][?51taxxx.xxx]7838
[Full author: Lord Dunsany [Edward J. M. D. Plunkett]]
Apr 2005 Nest Builder, by Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale [?nestxxx.xxx]7837
Apr 2005 Jewish History, by S. M. Dubnow [?jwhsxxx.xxx]7836
[Subtitle: An Essay in the Philosophy of History]
[Plain text in 7jwhs10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8jwhs10.txt/.zip]
Apr 2005 Lothair, by Benjamin Disraeli [lothaxxx.xxx]7835
[Plain text in lotha10.txt/.zip; RTF version in lotha10r.rtf/.zip]
[RTF version has numbered paragraphs, accented characters]
Apr 2005 Wagner's Tristan und Isolde,byGeorge Ainslie Hight[?wrtixxx.xxx]7834
[Subtitle: An Essay on the Wagnerian Drama]
[Plain text in 7wrti10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8wrti10.txt/.zip]
[HTML version with accented characters in 8wrti10h.htm and 8wrti10h.zip]
[HTML zip file includes 21 graphic images]
Apr 2005 Samantha on the Woman Question, by Marietta Holley[samwqxxx.xxx]7833
[Also posted: illustrated HTML, zipped only - samwq10h.zip]
Apr 2005 The Deluge, by David Graham Phillips [?dlugxxx.xxx]7832
[Plain text in 7dlug10.txt.zip; 8-bit version in 8dlug10.txt/.zip]
Apr 2005 When London Burned, by G. A. Henty [?wlnbxxx.xxx]7831
[Plain text in 7wlnb10.txt.zip; 8-bit version in 8wlnb10.txt/.zip]
Apr 2005 Domestic Pleasures, by F. B. Vaux [?firexxx.xxx]7830
Apr 2005 Prisoners of the Revolution, by Danske Dandridge [?prisxxx.xxx]7829
[Full title: American Prisoners of the Revolution]
Apr 2005 The Web of Life, by Robert Herrick [#2][webolxxx.xxx]7828
Apr 2005 Fan, by Henry Harford [?fanxxxx.xxx]7827
[Subtitle: The Story of a Young Girl's Life][Author AKA: W. H. Hudson]
[Plain text in 7fanx10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8fanx10.txt/.zip]
Apr 2005 L. P. M., by J. Stewart Barney [?lpmwxxx.xxx]7826
[Subtitle: The End of The Great War]
Apr 2005 Geometrical Solutions, by Archimedes [geomcxxx.xxx]7825
[Full title: Geometrical Solutions Derived from Mechanics]
[Plain text in geomc10.txt][ .pdf/ .txt/ .tex files in geomc10.zip]
Apr 2005 Melody, by Laura E. Richards [#2][?meloxxx.xxx]7824
Apr 2005 The Attache, by Thomas Chandler Haliburton [#5][ttchcxxx.xxx]7823
Apr 2005 The Attache V2, by Thomas Chandler Haliburton [#4][ttch2xxx.xxx]7822
Apr 2005 The Attache V1, by Thomas Chandler Haliburton [#3][ttch1xxx.xxx]7821
[Full title: The Attache; or, Sam Slick in England]
Apr 2005 Monitress Merle, by Angela Brazil [?mmrlxxx.xxx]7820
[Plain text in 7mmrl10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8mmrl10.txt/.zip]
Apr 2005 An Enquiry on War, by Bernard Mandeville [?chwrxxx.xxx]7819
[Full title: An Enquiry into the Origin of Honour, and the Usefulness of
Christianity in War]
[Also posted HTML - 8chwr10h.zip and 8chwr10h.htm]
Apr 2005 Niels Henrik Abel, by G. Mittag-Leffler [?abelxxx.xxx]7818
[Language: French]
Apr 2005 Alessandro Manzoni, by Alessandro De Gubernatis [amanzxxx.xxx]7817
[Subtitle: Studio Biografico - Letture fatte alla Taylorian Institution di
Oxford nel maggio dell'anno 1878, notevolmente ampliate]
[Language: Italian]
Apr 2005 The Voyage of Captain Popanilla, by Disraeli [vcpopxxx.xxx]7816
[Author: Benjamin Disraeli] [Ed.: K. Kay Shearin]
(Note: sometimes published simply as Popanilla)
[Plain text in vcpop10.txt/.zip; RTF in vcpop10r.txt/.zip]
Apr 2005 Hereward, by Charles Kingsley [#18][?herexxx.xxx]7815
[Full title: Hereward, The Last of the English]
Apr 2005 Daybreak: A Romance of an Old World,by James Cowan[daybrxxx.xxx]7814
Apr 2005 Madame de Mauves, by Henry James [###][mauvexxx.xxx]7813
Apr 2005 Delphine, by Madame de Stael [delphxxx.xxx]7812
[Author AKA: Anne Louise Germaine Necker; Madame de Stael-Holstein]
[Language: French]
Apr 2005 War Romance Salvation Army,E. Booth and G. L. Hill[?warmxxx.xxx]7811
[Full Title: The War Romance of the Salvation Army]
[Full Author: Evangeline Booth and Grace Livingston Hill]
[Also posted: illustrated HTML, zipped only - 8warm10h.zip]
Apr 2005 Schatzkaestlein des rheinischen,Johann Peter Hebel[?schrxxx.xxx]7810
[Title: Schatzkaestlein des rheinischen Hausfreundes] [Language: German]
Apr 2005 Les desenchantees, by Pierre Loti [#11][?dechxxx.xxx]7809
[Language: French]
Apr 2005 Grand-Daddy Whiskers, M.D., by Nellie M. Leonard [gdwmdxxx.xxx]7808
[Also posted: illustrated HTML, zipped only - gdwmd10h.zip]
Apr 2005 Georgina of the Rainbows,by Annie Fellows Johnston[georgxxx.xxx]7807
[Also posted: illustrated HTML zipped only - georg10h.zip]
Mar 2005 A Boy's Ride, by Gulielma Zollinger [bridexxx.xxx]7806
Apr 2005 First Plays, by A. A. Milne [?frplxxx.xxx]7805
[Plain text in 7frpl10.txt.zip; 8-bit version in 8frpl10.txt/.zip]
Apr 2005 Expressive Voice Culture,Jessie Eldridge Southwick[?expvxxx.xxx]7804
Apr 2005 The Story of Sugar, by Sara Ware Bassett [sugarxxx.xxx]7803
Apr 2005 Seven O'Clock Stories, by Robert Gordon Anderson [sevocxxx.xxx]7802
Apr 2005 Five Little Friends, by Sherred Willcox Adams [flfrnxxx.xxx]7801
Mar 2005 Outlines of English Literature, by William J. Long[?elitxxx.xxx]7800
[Full Title: Outlines of English and American Literature]
Feb 2005 An American Robinson Crusoe, by Samuel B. Allison [arcruxxx.xxx]7799
Mar 2005 The Village Coquette, R. Dufresny, Morlock tr.[#4][vilcoxxx.xxx]7798C
[Author: Riviere Dufresny] [Tr.: Frank Morlock]
Mar 2005 The Lady of the Aroostook, by W. D. Howells [#64][?arooxxx.xxx]7797
Mar 2005 Poems, by Madison Cawein [?poemxxx.xxx]7796
[With a Foreword by William Dean Howells]
[Plain text in 7poem10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8poem10.txt/.zip]
Mar 2005 Pelle the Conqueror, by Martin Anderson Nexo [#5][?pel5xxx.xxx]7795
[Full Title: Pelle the Conqueror, Complete]
Mar 2005 Pelle the Conqueror, V4, Martin Anderson Nexo [#4][?pel4xxx.xxx]7794
Mar 2005 Pelle the Conqueror, V3, Martin Anderson Nexo [#3][?pel3xxx.xxx]7793
Mar 2005 Pelle the Conqueror, V2, Martin Anderson Nexo [#2][?pel2xxx.xxx]7792
Mar 2005 Pelle the Conqueror, V1, Martin Anderson Nexo [#1][?pel1xxx.xxx]7791
Mar 2005 Captain January, by Laura E. Richards [cpjanxxx.xxx]7790
Mar 2005 Memoirs of My Dead Life, by George Moore [?mmdlxxx.xxx]7789
[Plain text in 7mmdl10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8mmdl10.txt/.zip]
[HTML version with accented characters in 8mmdl10h.htm and 8mmdl10h.zip]
[HTML zip incorporates two gif files]
Mar 2005 Blindfolded, by Earle Ashley Walcott [?blnfxxx.xxx]7788
[Plain text in 7blnf10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8blnf10.txt/.zip]
Mar 2005 A Complete Grammar of Esperanto, by Ivy Kellerman [esperxxx.xxx]7787
[Also posted: HTML version in esper10h.htm/.zip]
Mar 2005 The One Great Reality, by Louisa Clayton [?1grlxxx.xxx]7786
[Plain text in 71grl10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 81grl10.txt/.zip]
Mar 2005 Leonardo da Vinci, by Maurice W. Brockwell [?ldvnxxx.xxx]7785
[Also posted in illustrated HTML, zipped only - 8ldvn10h.zip]
Mar 2005 From The Lips of the Sea, by Clinton Scollard [?ftlsxxx.xxx]7784
[Plain text in 7ftls10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8ftls10.txt/.zip]
Mar 2005 Birch Bark Legends of Niagara,Owahyah [brchbxxx.xxx]7783
Mar 2005 The Last Tournament, by Alfred Lord Tennyson [tltrnxxx.xxx]7782
Mar 2005 La vita sul pianeta Marte, by G. Schiaparelli [martexxx.xxx]7781
[Full Author: Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli] [Language: Italian]
(Note: Images in marte10.zip only)
Mar 2005 Johnson on Shakespeare, by Samuel Johnson [#9][?joshxxx.xxx]7780
[Full Title: Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare Vol. I Comedies]
Mar 2005 Of Captain Mission, by Daniel Defoe [#12][?cmisxxx.xxx]7779
Mar 2005 History of California, by Helen Elliott Bandini [?hcalxxx.xxx]7778
Mar 2005 Voyages Of Captain James Cook, by A. Kippis [?vcjcxxx.xxx]7777
[Full Title: Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by
Captain James Cook]
[Subtitle: With an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening
Periods]
Mar 2005 Call of the Cumberlands, by Charles Neville Buck [?cumbxxx.xxx]7776
Mar 2005 Life of R. B. Sheridan, V2, by Thomas Moore [#2][?rbs2xxx.xxx]7775
[Title: Memoirs of the Life of Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan Vol 2]
Mar 2005 Journal of Arthur Stirling, by Upton Sinclair[#20][?stirxxx.xxx]7774
[Subtitle: The Valley of the Shadow]
Mar 2005 Diamond Dust, by Kay Shearin [didstxxx.xxx]7773C
[Plain text in didst10.txt/.zip; RTF in didst10r.txt/.zip]
Mar 2005 Les Quarante-Cinq, by Alexandre Dumas, V3 [#35][?lqc3xxx.xxx]7772
[Language: French]
Mar 2005 Les Quarante-Cinq, by Alexandre Dumas, V2 [#34][?lqc2xxx.xxx]7771
[Language: French]
Mar 2005 Les Quarante-Cinq, by Alexandre Dumas, V1 [#33][?dlqcxxx.xxx]7770
[Language: French]
Mar 2005 Principal Navigations, V4, by Richard Hakluyt [#7][?hk04xxx.xxx]7769
[Full Title: The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and
Discoveries of The English Nation, v4]
[Subtitle: North-Eastern Europe and Adjacent Countries, Part III. The
Muscovy Company and the North-Eastern Passage. Section II]
[Ed.: Edmund Goldsmid]
[Plain text in 7hk0410.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8hk0410.txt/.zip]
(See also #7476, 7466 & 7182)
Mar 2005 The Adventures Of Ulysses, By Charles Lamb [advulxxx.xxx]7768
Mar 2005 The Graymouse Family, by Nellie M. Leonard [grymsxxx.xxx]7767
Mar 2005 A Dog of Flanders, by Louisa de la Rame [?dgflxxx.xxx]7766
[Author AKA: Ouida]
[Plain text in in 7dgfl10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8dgfl10.txt/.zip]
Mar 2005 Night Must Fall, by Williams, Emlyn [nmfalxxx.xxx]7765
Mar 2005 Little Bear at Work and Play, Frances Margaret Fox[lbearxxx.xxx]7764
[Full Title: Little Bear at Work and at Play]
Mar 2005 Law-Breakers and Other Stories, by Robert Grant [?lbrkxxx.xxx]7763
Mar 2005 Wanderers, by Knut Hamsun [#4][?wandxxx.xxx]7762
Mar 2005 Falkland, by E. B. Lytton, Complete[BL#188][b188wxxx.xxx]7761
[Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton][Contains: EBooks #7756-7760]
Mar 2005 Falkland, by E. B. Lytton, Book 4 [BL#187][b187wxxx.xxx]7760
Mar 2005 Falkland, by E. B. Lytton, Book 3 [BL#186][b186wxxx.xxx]7759
Mar 2005 Falkland, by E. B. Lytton, Book 2 [BL#185][b185wxxx.xxx]7758
Mar 2005 Falkland, by E. B. Lytton, Book 1 [BL#184][b184wxxx.xxx]7757
Mar 2005 Godolphin, by E. B. Lytton, Complete[BL#183][b183wxxx.xxx]7756
[Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton][Contains: EBooks #7750-7755]
Mar 2005 Godolphin, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 6 [BL#182][b182wxxx.xxx]7755
Mar 2005 Godolphin, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 5 [BL#181][b181wxxx.xxx]7754
Mar 2005 Godolphin, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 4 [BL#180][b180wxxx.xxx]7753
Mar 2005 Godolphin, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 3 [BL#179][b179wxxx.xxx]7752
Mar 2005 Godolphin, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 2 [BL#178][b178wxxx.xxx]7751
Mar 2005 Godolphin, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 1 [BL#177][b177wxxx.xxx]7750
Mar 2005 The Parisians, by E. B. Lytton, Complete[BL#176][b176wxxx.xxx]7749
[Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton][Contains: EBooks #7737-7748]
Mar 2005 The Parisians, by E. B. Lytton, Book 12 [BL#175][b175wxxx.xxx]7748
Mar 2005 The Parisians, by E. B. Lytton, Book 11 [BL#174][b174wxxx.xxx]7747
Mar 2005 The Parisians, by E. B. Lytton, Book 10 [BL#173][b173wxxx.xxx]7746
Mar 2005 The Parisians, by E. B. Lytton, Book 9 [BL#172][b172wxxx.xxx]7745
Mar 2005 The Parisians, by E. B. Lytton, Book 8 [BL#171][b171wxxx.xxx]7744
Mar 2005 The Parisians, by E. B. Lytton, Book 7 [BL#170][b170wxxx.xxx]7743
Mar 2005 The Parisians, by E. B. Lytton, Book 6 [BL#169][b169wxxx.xxx]7742
Mar 2005 The Parisians, by E. B. Lytton, Book 5 [BL#168][b168wxxx.xxx]7741
Mar 2005 The Parisians, by E. B. Lytton, Book 4 [BL#167][b167wxxx.xxx]7740
Mar 2005 The Parisians, by E. B. Lytton, Book 3 [BL#166][b166wxxx.xxx]7739
Mar 2005 The Parisians, by E. B. Lytton, Book 2 [BL#165][b165wxxx.xxx]7738
Mar 2005 The Parisians, by E. B. Lytton, Book 1 [BL#164][b164wxxx.xxx]7737
Mar 2005 Tomlinsoniana, by E. B. Lytton, [BL#163][b163wxxx.xxx]7736
Mar 2005 Paul Clifford, by E. B. Lytton, Complete[BL#162][b162wxxx.xxx]7735
[Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton][Contains: EBooks #7728-7734]
Mar 2005 Paul Clifford, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 7 [BL#161][b161wxxx.xxx]7734
Mar 2005 Paul Clifford, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 6 [BL#160][b160wxxx.xxx]7733
Mar 2005 Paul Clifford, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 5 [BL#159][b159wxxx.xxx]7732
Mar 2005 Paul Clifford, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 4 [BL#158][b158wxxx.xxx]7731
Mar 2005 Paul Clifford, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 3 [BL#157][b157wxxx.xxx]7730
Mar 2005 Paul Clifford, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 2 [BL#156][b156wxxx.xxx]7729
Mar 2005 Paul Clifford, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 1 [BL#155][b155wxxx.xxx]7728
Mar 2005 Lysistrata, by Aristophanes [#5][alyssxxx.xxx]7700
Feb 2005 Select Speeches of Daniel Webster, Daniel Webster [?swebxxx.xxx]7600
[Also posted XML - 8sweb10h.zip and 8sweb10h.htm]
Feb 2005 Shallow Soil, by Knut Hamsun [#3][?shslxxx.xxx]7537
Feb 2005 The Road Leads On, by Knut Hamsun [#2][?roadxxx.xxx]7536
Feb 2005 Book of Old Ballads, ed. B. Nichols, Complete [#5][?bld5xxx.xxx]7535
[Full Editor: Beverly Nichols]
[7-bit version in 7bld510.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8bld510.txt/.zip]
[Illustrated HTM zip only in 8bld510h.zip][5mb][Includes #7531-7534]
Feb 2005 Book of Old Ballads, ed. B. Nichols, Vol. 4 [#4][8bld4xxx.xxx]7534
Feb 2005 Book of Old Ballads, ed. B. Nichols, Vol. 3 [#3][8bld3xxx.xxx]7533
Feb 2005 Book of Old Ballads, ed. B. Nichols, Vol. 2 [#2][8bld2xxx.xxx]7532
Feb 2005 Book of Old Ballads, ed. B. Nichols, Vol. 1 [#1][8bld1xxx.xxx]7531
[Full author: Selected by Beverly Nichols]
[Illustrated HTM zip only in 8bld?10h.zip][Size varies from 1-2mb]
Feb 2005 Renascence Hebrew Literature, by Nahum Slouschz [?rhebxxx.xxx]7530
[Full Title: The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885)]
Feb 2005 The Reverberator, by Henry James [###][reverxxx.xxx]7529
Feb 2005 Roman Pronunciation of Latin, by Frances E. Lord [?rlatxxx.xxx]7528
Feb 2005 The Little Daisy Girl and Other Poems, by Cheney [ldsygxxx.xxx]7527C
[Authors: Jacquelyn Hedge-Cheney and Roland Cheney]
[Note: ldsyg10.zip contains 9 Illustrations]
Feb 2005 Englishwoman in America, by I. Lucy Bird [ILB#6][?ewamxxx.xxx]7526
Feb 2005 A History of Roman Literature, by C. T. Cruttwell [?romnxxx.xxx]7525
[Subtitle: From The Earliest Period To The Death Of Marcus Aurelius]
[Full author: Charles Thomas Cruttwell]
Feb 2005 Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus,by Tacitus[#2][?aggrxxx.xxx]7524
[Title: The Germany And The Agricola Of Tacitus]
[Note: The Oxford Translation Revised, With Notes, With An Introduction
By Edward Brooks, Jr.]
Feb 2005 Lady of the Decoration, by Frances Little [?lddcxxx.xxx]7523
[Plain text in 7lddc10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8lddc10.txt/.zip]
Feb 2005 King Coal, by Upton Sinclair [#20][?coalxxx.xxx]7522
[Subtitle: A Novel]
Feb 2005 The History Of Education, By Ellwood P. Cubberley [?hsedxxx.xxx]7521
[Subtitle: Educational Practice and Progress Considered as a Phase of the
Development and Spread of Western Civilization]
[Plain text in 7hsed10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8hsed10.txt/.zip]
Feb 2005 Snow-Blind, by Katharine Newlin Burt [sblndxxx.xxx]7520
Feb 2005 The Nomad of the Nine Lives, by A. Frances Friebe [nmd9lxxx.xxx]7519
Feb 2005 More Jataka Tales, by Re-told by Ellen C. Babbitt [mrjtkxxx.xxx]7518
[HTML version in mrjtk10h.htm, HTML with Illustrations in mrjtk10h.zip]
Feb 2005 Sanctuary, by Edith Wharton [snctrxxx.xxx]7517
Feb 2005 Crucial Instances, by Edith Wharton [?crcixxx.xxx]7516
[Plain text in 7crci10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8crci10.txt/.zip]
Feb 2005 The Glory of the Trenches, by Coningsby Dawson [?glttxxx.xxx]7515
[Subtitle: An Interpretation]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7gltt10.txt and 7gltt10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8gltt10.txt and 8gltt10.zip]
Feb 2005 A Little Book of Stoicism, by St George Stock [#2][stoicxxx.xxx]7514
Feb 2005 O. T., A Danish Romance, by Hans C. Andersen [#3][?anotxxx.xxx]7513
[Full author: Hans Christian Andersen]
Feb 2005 Heidi, Vol. 2, by Johanna Spyri [#5][?hid2xxx.xxx]7512
[Full title: Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat]
[Language: German]
Feb 2005 Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre, by Johanna Spyri[#4][?heidxxx.xxx]7511
[Language: German]
[7-bit version in 7heid10a.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8heid10a.txt/.zip]
Feb 2005 Keith of the Border, by Randall Parrish [?kethxxx.xxx]7510
[Also posted HTML - 8keth10h.zip and 8keth10h.htm]
Feb 2005 The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson, by Ida Lee [lgnelxxx.xxx]7509
[Also posted: illustrated HTML - lgnel10h.zip and lgnel10h.htm]
Feb 2005 A Mummer's Wife, by George Moore [#4][?mumrxxx.xxx]7508
Feb 2005 13th String Quartet, Ludwig van Beethoven [LVB #9][lv130xxx.zip]7507
[Musical score in Finale's .MUS format]
Feb 2005 The Huge Hunter, by Edward S. Ellis [Ellis#3][steamxxx.xxx]7506
[Subtitle: Or, The Steam Man of the Prairies]
Feb 2005 Half-Past Seven Stories, by Robert Gordon Anderson[hfpssxxx.xxx]7505
[Also posted illustrated HTML zip only - hfpss10h.zip]
Feb 2005 Tom of the Raiders, by Austin Bishop [traidxxx.xxx]7504
Feb 2005 Mozart auf der Reise nach Prag, by Eduard Morike [?mzrtxxx.xxx]7503
[Language: German]
Feb 2005 Annie Kilburn, by W. D. Howells [#64][?annixxx.xxx]7502
Feb 2005 Tales of the Wilderness, by Boris Pilniak (pseud.)[?wildxxx.xxx]7501
[Author Note: Boris Pilniak is a pseudonym for Boris Andreievich Vogau]
Feb 2005 Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre, by Johanna Spyri[#3][?heidxxx.xxx]7500
[Language: German]
Feb 2005 Five Republics on Horseback, by G. Whitfield Ray [?5repxxx.xxx]7499
[Full title: Through Five Republics on Horseback]
Feb 2005 Five Little Peppers Grown Up, Margaret Sidney [#5][5peprxxx.xxx]7498
Feb 2005 Further Adventures of Q. A. Sawyer,by C. F. Pidgin[?faqsxxx.xxx]7497
[Full Title: The Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's
Corner Folks]
[Full author: Charles Felton Pidgin]
Feb 2005 Jack Ranger's Western Trip, by Clarence Young [#2][jrwtrxxx.xxx]7496
[Subtitle: From Boarding School to Ranch and Range]
Feb 2005 To Infidelity and Back, by Henry F. Lutz [infidxxx.xxx]7495
Feb 2005 Outdoor Girls in Army Service, Laura Lee Hope[#17][tdgrsxxx.xxx]7494
[Subtitle: Doing Their Bit for the Soldier Boys]
Feb 2005 The Daughter of the Chieftain, by Edward S. Ellis [dchefxxx.xxx]7493
[Also posted HTML - dchef10h.zip and dchef10h.htm]
Feb 2005 The Fighting Chance, by Robert W. Chambers [?fghtxxx.xxx]7492
[Also posted HTML - 8fght10h.zip and 8fght10h.htm]
Feb 2005 De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream,Marcus Tull. Ciceronis[?amscxxx.xxx]7491
[Full author: Marcus Tullius Ciceronis][AKA: Cicero]
Feb 2005 Palamon and Arcite, by John Dryden [#3][?paarxxx.xxx]7490
Feb 2005 Through Central Borneo, by Carl Lumholtz [?bornxxx.xxx]7489
Feb 2005 Celtic Tales, by Louey Chisholm [celttxxx.xxx]7488
[Also in Illustrated HTML zipped only - celtt10h.zip]
Feb 2005 Count Alarcos, by Benjamin Disraeli [#3][ctlrcxxx.xxx]7487
[Also posted RTF format as ctlrc10r.rtf and ctlrc10r.zip]
Feb 2005 The Master of Silence, by Irving Bacheller [#2][msslnxxx.xxx]7486
[Also posted HTML - mssln10h.zip and mssln10h.htm]
Feb 2005 The Last American, by J. A. Mitchell [lsmrcxxx.xxx]7485
Feb 2005 Guan zi, by guan zhong, Vol. 2 [#3][?zi06xxx.xxx]7484
[Language: Chinese]
Feb 2005 Guan zi, by guan zhong, Vol. 1 [#2][?zi01xxx.xxx]7483
[Language: Chinese]
Feb 2005 Stories of the Prophets, by Isaac Landman [prophxxx.xxx]7482
[Subtitle: Before the Exile]
Feb 2005 The Three Clerks, by Anthony Trollope [#43][?tclrxxx.xxx]7481
Feb 2005 The Created Legend, by Feodor Sologub [?crlgxxx.xxx]7480
[Authorized Translation from the Russian by John Cournos]
Feb 2005 Dorothy Dainty at Glenmore, by Amy Brooks [#3][ddglnxxx.xxx]7479
Feb 2005 Toby Tyler, by James Otis [tbytyxxx.xxx]7478
[Subtitle: or, Ten Weeks with a Circus]
[HTML version in tbyty10h.htm and tbyty10h.zip]
Feb 2005 Book of Wonder, by Edward J. M. Plunkett [EJMDP#4][?wondxxx.xxx]7477
[Full author: Edward J. M. D. Plunkett, Lord Dunsany]
Feb 2005 Principal Navigations, V3, by Richard Hakluyt [#6][?hk03xxx.xxx]7476
[Full title: The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and
Discoveries of The English Nation, v3] [Ed.: Edmund Goldsmid]
[Subtitle: North-Eastern Europe and Adjacent Countries Part II. The
Muscovy Company and the North-Eastern Passage] (See also #7466 & 7182)
Feb 2005 From the Easy Chair, vol. 1, George William Curtis[easchxxx.xxx]7475
[Also posted HTML - easch10h.zip and easch10h.htm]
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[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300821.txt or ZIP]
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A Complete Grammar of Esperanto, by Ivy Kellerman Mar 2005[esperxxx.xxx]7787
The Female Gamester, by Gorges Edmond Howard Apr 2005[fmgstxxx.xxx]7840
[Subtitle: A Tragedy]
A Primary Reader, by E. Louise Smythe Apr 2005[preadxxx.xxx]7841
[Also posted: illustrated HTML, zipped only - pread10h.zip]
The Rise of Iskander, by Benjamin Disraeli Apr 2005[?riskxxx.xxx]7842
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Memorial Day in the US seemed a good time to start posting this series
of illustrated html files.
The exhaustive title page goes on: "With a Variety of Reliques,
Antiquities and Modern Autographs(1861)".
There will be fourteen more eBooks of these "American Antiquities"
to follow in the next weeks. Many of the large images require use
of the "Full Size" button under each image to appreciate detail.
Anyone with a bit of time to explore old American history might
download the following volume (Plate 46 in this Vol. 7 will
tear your heart out):
http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext05/aa07w10h.zip
For this project we took advantage of Internet Archive's kind offer
of their orbital scanner as many of the images are well beyond the
size of an ordinary flatbed. The 14"x19" books were surface mailed
from New York to California to Geof Pawlicki who scanned the double
page images.
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 10[AA#10][aa10wxxx.xxx]7910
[Full Title: American Historical and Literary Curiosities]
[Subtitle: Consisting of Fac-similies of Original Documents, etc, etc]
[Authors: John Jay Smith and John F. Watson]
[Illustrated HTML, zipped only - aa??w10h.zip]
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 9 [AA#9][aa09wxxx.xxx]7909
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 8 [AA#8][aa08wxxx.xxx]7908
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 7 [AA#7][aa07wxxx.xxx]7907
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 6 [AA#6][aa06wxxx.xxx]7906
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 5 [AA#5][aa05wxxx.xxx]7905
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 4 [AA#4][aa04wxxx.xxx]7904
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 3 [AA#3][aa03wxxx.xxx]7903
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 2 [AA#2][aa02wxxx.xxx]7902
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 1 [AA#1][aa01wxxx.xxx]7901
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The Female Gamester, by Gorges Edmond Howard Apr 2005[fmgstxxx.xxx]7840
[Subtitle: A Tragedy]
A Primary Reader, by E. Louise Smythe Apr 2005[preadxxx.xxx]7841
[Also posted: illustrated HTML, zipped only - pread10h.zip]
The Rise of Iskander, by Benjamin Disraeli Apr 2005[?riskxxx.xxx]7842
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Three Dramas, by Bjornstjerne M. Bjornson [ Apr 2005?3dramxxx.xxx]7844
[Subtitle: The Editor; The Bankrupt; The King]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 73dram10.txt and 73dram10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 83dram10.txt and 83dram10.zip]
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Departmental Ditties & Barrack Room Ballads Apr 2005[dptdtxxx.xxx]7846
[Author's Full Name: Rudyard Kipling]
[This work combines two books by Rudyard Kipling: "Departmental Ditties,"]
[originally published in 1886, and "Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads,"]
[originally published in 1892. Both works are already in the PG ]
[collection with separate eBook numbers.]
Jack North's Treasure Hunt, by Roy Rockwood Apr 2005[?jnthxxx.xxx]7847
[Also posted HTML - 8jnth10h.zip and 8jnth10h.htm]
Last Poems, by A. E. Housman [#3] Apr 2005[?lspmxxx.xxx]7848
The Trial, Franz Kafka, Trans. David Wyllie [FK 2] Apr 2005[metamxxx.xxx]7849C
Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 1., Matthew L. Davis Apr 2005[?bur1xxx.xxx]7850
Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 2., Matthew L. Davis Apr 2005[?bur2xxx.xxx]7851
Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete, Matthew L. Davis Apr 2005[?bur3xxx.xxx]7852
Quentin Durward, by Sir Walter Scott Apr 2005[qntdrxxx.xxx]7853
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in qntdr10.txt and qntdr10.zip]
[HTML version in qntdr10h.htm and qntdr10h.zip]
Les Noces Chimiques, by Christian Rosencreutz Apr 2005[ncschxxx.xxx]7854
[Author AKA: Johann Valentin Andreae]
[Language: French]
[Translated from German]
[The zip file contains 6 images]
The Vision of Desire, by Margaret Pedler Apr 2005[?vsdsxxx.xxx]7855
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7vsds10.txt and 7vsds10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8vsds10.txt and 8vsds10.zip]
The Cheerful Cricket and Others,byJeannette Marks Apr 2005[chrcrxxx.xxx]7856
The Way of an Indian, by Frederic Remington Apr 2005[wyindxxx.xxx]7857
[Full author: Written and Illustrated by Frederic Remington]
[Also posted in illustrated HTML, zipped only - wyind10h.zip]
L'Arrabbiata, by Paul Heyse [#2] Apr 2005[?heysxxx.xxx]7858
[Language: German]
Der Diamant des Geisterkoenigs, by F. Raimund [#6] Apr 2005[?diamxxx.xxx]7859
[Full author: Ferdinand Raimund]
[Language: German]
Die unheilbringende Krone,by Ferdinand Raimund[#7] Apr 2005[?kronxxx.xxx]7860
[Language: German]
Moisasurs Zauberfluch, by Ferdinand Raimund [#9] Apr 2005[?zaubxxx.xxx]7861
[Language: German]
The Sword of Antietam, by Joseph A. Altsheler Apr 2005[tsantxxx.xxx]7862
American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 1 [AA#1] Apr 2005[aa01wxxx.xxx]7901
American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 2 [AA#2] Apr 2005[aa02wxxx.xxx]7902
American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 3 [AA#3] Apr 2005[aa03wxxx.xxx]7903
American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 4 [AA#4] Apr 2005[aa04wxxx.xxx]7904
American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 5 [AA#5] Apr 2005[aa05wxxx.xxx]7905
American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 6 [AA#6] Apr 2005[aa06wxxx.xxx]7906
American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 7 [AA#7] Apr 2005[aa07wxxx.xxx]7907
American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 8 [AA#8] Apr 2005[aa08wxxx.xxx]7908
American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 9 [AA#9] Apr 2005[aa09wxxx.xxx]7909
American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 10[AA#10] Apr 2005[aa10wxxx.xxx]7910
[Full Title: American Historical and Literary Curiosities]
[Subtitle: Consisting of Fac-similies of Original Documents, etc, etc]
[Authors: John Jay Smith and John F. Watson]
[Illustrated HTML, zipped only - aa??w10h.zip]
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Last week the Total Count was 8,021, including 233 at PG of Australia.
This week we added 54 new.
RESERVED count: 39
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Corrected EDITIONS of our eBooks get a new NUMBER, xxxxx11.txt, and
prior to 1998, occasionally a new eBook number.
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not zziji):
Jan 2005 Wenyuange Sikuquanshu, Several Chinese Authors [wenskxxx.xxx]7221
The following is being re-indexed to correct the title:
Jan 2005 Second Treatise of Civil Government, by John Locke[trgovxxx.xxx]7370
[Note: Book II of Two Treatises of Government]
The following have been posted in new formats as indicated:
Mar 2005 Lysistrata, by Aristophanes [#5][alyssxxx.xxx]7700
[Illustrated HTML, zippped only, in alyss10h.zip]
Sep 1997 Style, by Walter Raleigh [WR#2][stylexxx.xxx]1038
[XHTML in style10h.htm/.zip]
Aug 1997 Diary of a Nobody, by George and Weedon Grossmith [dnbdyxxx.xxx]1026
[XHTML in dnbdy10h.htm/.zip]
Aug 1997 The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley [Kingsley #3][wtrbsxxx.xxx]1018
[XHTML in wtrbs10h.htm/.zip]
Jun 1997 More Bab Ballads, by W. S. Gilbert [Gilbert #4] [3babbxxx.xxx] 933
[XHTML in 3babb10h.htm/.zip]
The following are being re-posted in a new format as indicated; also
re-indexed to include supplemental title info:
Aug 1997 The Soul of Man, by Oscar Wilde [Wilde #14] [slmanxxx.xxx]1017
[Title AKA: The Soul of Man under Socialism]
[XHTML in slman10h.htm/.zip]
Jul 1997 Eastern Counties of England by Daniel Defoe [DD#5][ttecexxx.xxx] 983
[Full Title: Tour through the Eastern Counties of England in 1722]
[XHTML in ttece10h.htm/.zip]
The following have been reposted in an improved 11th Edition:
April 2000 Mary Barton, by Elizabeth Gaskell [mbrtnxxx.xxx]2153
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Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 10[AA#10][aa10wxxx.xxx]7910
[Full Title: American Historical and Literary Curiosities]
[Subtitle: Consisting of Fac-similies of Original Documents, etc, etc]
[Authors: John Jay Smith and John F. Watson]
[Illustrated HTML, zipped only - aa??w10h.zip]
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 9 [AA#9][aa09wxxx.xxx]7909
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 8 [AA#8][aa08wxxx.xxx]7908
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 7 [AA#7][aa07wxxx.xxx]7907
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 6 [AA#6][aa06wxxx.xxx]7906
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 5 [AA#5][aa05wxxx.xxx]7905
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 4 [AA#4][aa04wxxx.xxx]7904
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 3 [AA#3][aa03wxxx.xxx]7903
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 2 [AA#2][aa02wxxx.xxx]7902
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 1 [AA#1][aa01wxxx.xxx]7901
Apr 2005 Tales of Daring and Danger, by G. A. Henty [?tdarxxx.xxx]7870
[Also posted HTML - 8tdar10h.zip and 8tdar10h.htm]
Apr 2005 Audio: A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens [2cityxxx.xxx]7869C
[All files are in the format 2cityNNN.mp3, where NNN ranges from 000-045]
[A compressed version is also available as 2city3.zip]
[See Also: the etext is #98, edition 12]
Apr 2005 Child's Story Garden, Compiled by Elizabeth Heber [cgardxxx.xxx]7868
Apr 2005 Crooked Trails, by Frederic Remington [crktrxxx.xxx]7867
[Full title: Crooked Trails]
[Full author: Written and Illustrated by Frederic Remington]
[Also posted: HTML zipped only - crktr10h.zip]
Apr 2005 An Ambitious Man, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox [ammnxxxx.xxx]7866
[Text in ammn10.txt/.zip, XHTML in ammn10h.htm/.zip]
Apr 2005 Jackanapes, by Juliana Horatio Ewing [?jcknxxx.xxx]7865
[Full title: Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories]
[Plain text in 7jckn10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8jckn10.txt/.zip]
[HTML with accents in 8jckn10h.htm; Illustrated HTML in 8jckn10h.zip only]
Apr 2005 Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana,by K. M. Ganguli[?mkdwxxx.xxx]7864
[Full title: The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into
English Prose]
[Full author: Kisari Mohan Ganguli]
Apr 2005 Religious Liberty, by M. Louise Greene, Ph. D [?rlibxxx.xxx]7863
[Full title: The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut]
Apr 2005 The Sword of Antietam, by Joseph A. Altsheler [tsantxxx.xxx]7862
Apr 2005 Moisasurs Zauberfluch, by Ferdinand Raimund [#9][?zaubxxx.xxx]7861
[Language: German]
Apr 2005 Die unheilbringende Krone,by Ferdinand Raimund[#7][?kronxxx.xxx]7860
[Language: German]
Apr 2005 Der Diamant des Geisterkoenigs, by F. Raimund [#6][?diamxxx.xxx]7859
[Full author: Ferdinand Raimund] [Language: German]
Apr 2005 L'Arrabbiata, by Paul Heyse [#2][?heysxxx.xxx]7858
[Language: German]
Apr 2005 The Way of an Indian, by Frederic Remington [wyindxxx.xxx]7857
[Full author: Written and Illustrated by Frederic Remington]
[Also posted in illustrated HTML, zipped only - wyind10h.zip]
Apr 2005 The Cheerful Cricket and Others,byJeannette Marks [chrcrxxx.xxx]7856
Apr 2005 The Vision of Desire, by Margaret Pedler [?vsdsxxx.xxx]7855
[Plain text in 7vsds10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8vsds10.txt/.zip]
Apr 2005 Les Noces Chimiques, by Christian Rosencreutz [ncschxxx.xxx]7854
[Author AKA: Johann Valentin Andreae] [Language: French; Tr. from German]
[The zip file contains 6 images]
Apr 2005 Quentin Durward, by Sir Walter Scott [qntdrxxx.xxx]7853
[Plain text qntdr10.txt/.zip; HTML version in qntdr10h.htm/.zip]
Apr 2005 Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete, Matthew L. Davis[?bur3xxx.xxx]7852
Apr 2005 Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 2., Matthew L. Davis[?bur2xxx.xxx]7851
Apr 2005 Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 1., Matthew L. Davis[?bur1xxx.xxx]7850
Apr 2005 The Trial, Franz Kafka, Trans. David Wyllie [FK 2][metamxxx.xxx]7849C
[Plain text in ktria10.txt/.zip; RTF in ktria10r.zip - zip only]
Apr 2005 Last Poems, by A. E. Housman [#3][?lspmxxx.xxx]7848
Apr 2005 Jack North's Treasure Hunt, by Roy Rockwood [?jnthxxx.xxx]7847
[Subtitle: Daring Adventures in South America]
[Also posted HTML - 8jnth10h.zip and 8jnth10h.htm]
Apr 2005 Departmental Ditties/Barrack Room Ballads, Kipling[dptdtxxx.xxx]7846
[Full Title: Departmental Ditties & Barrack Room Ballads]
[Author's Full Name: Rudyard Kipling] (See also: #2334 & #2819)
Apr 2005 Toward the Gulf, by Edgar Lee Masters [#2][?gulfxxx.xxx]7845
Apr 2005 Three Dramas, by Bjornstjerne M. Bjornson [?3dramxx.xxx]7844
Contents:
The Editor
The Bankrupt
The King
[Plain text in 73dram10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 83dram10.txt/.zip]
Apr 2005 The Happy End, by Joseph Hergesheimer [?hpndxxx.xxx]7843
[Plain text in 7hpnd10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8hpnd10.txt/.zip]
Apr 2005 The Rise of Iskander, by Benjamin Disraeli [?riskxxx.xxx]7842
[Plain text in 7risk10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8risk10.txt/.zip]
[RTF version with numbered paragraphs in 8risk10r.rtf/.zip]
Apr 2005 A Primary Reader, by E. Louise Smythe [preadxxx.xxx]7841
[Subtitle: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold by Children]
[Also posted: illustrated HTML, zipped only - pread10h.zip]
Apr 2005 The Female Gamester, by Gorges Edmond Howard [fmgstxxx.xxx]7840
[Subtitle: A Tragedy]
Mar 2005 A Complete Grammar of Esperanto, by Ivy Kellerman [esperxxx.xxx]7787
[Also posted: HTML version in esper10h.htm/.zip]
Mar 2005 Falkland, by E. B. Lytton, Complete[BL#188][b188wxxx.xxx]7761
[Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton][Contains: EBooks #7756-7760]
Mar 2005 Falkland, by E. B. Lytton, Book 4 [BL#187][b187wxxx.xxx]7760
Mar 2005 Falkland, by E. B. Lytton, Book 3 [BL#186][b186wxxx.xxx]7759
Mar 2005 Falkland, by E. B. Lytton, Book 2 [BL#185][b185wxxx.xxx]7758
Mar 2005 Falkland, by E. B. Lytton, Book 1 [BL#184][b184wxxx.xxx]7757
Mar 2005 Godolphin, by E. B. Lytton, Complete[BL#183][b183wxxx.xxx]7756
[Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton][Contains: EBooks #7750-7755]
Mar 2005 Godolphin, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 6 [BL#182][b182wxxx.xxx]7755
Mar 2005 Godolphin, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 5 [BL#181][b181wxxx.xxx]7754
Mar 2005 Godolphin, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 4 [BL#180][b180wxxx.xxx]7753
Mar 2005 Godolphin, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 3 [BL#179][b179wxxx.xxx]7752
Mar 2005 Godolphin, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 2 [BL#178][b178wxxx.xxx]7751
Mar 2005 Godolphin, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 1 [BL#177][b177wxxx.xxx]7750
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UNLIMITED CALLING PLANS ARE THE NEW STANDARD
Leading phone companies AT&T, BellSouth, Qwest, SBC, and Verizon are all
now offering programs that allow their customers in some states to make
unlimited local and national calls at one flat rate, typically for about
$50-60 a month with voicemail and caller ID bundled in. How did this come
about? AT&T spokeswoman Eileen Connolly explains: "It^Rs human nature.
People have less desire to move away from you if you have all their
business." The trend started with wireless plans, which were the first to
"tear down the thinking of distance-depending thinking," in the words of
Forrester researcher Charles Golvin. Will the switch to these new plans
cause consumers to use more and more telecommunications services? Yes, says
market researcher Berge Ayvazian of The Yankee Group: "Usage more than
doubles on unlimited wireless-calling plans, and if broadband is always on,
the Internet is always in use." (New York Times 23 May 2003)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/05/23/business/23PHON.html
70 PLAYSTATION 2s + 1 NETWORK SWITCH + LINUX = 1 SUPERCOMPUTER
An increasing trend in computing is the development of ever-faster
computers for the consumer market: Dan Reed of the National Center for
Supercomputer Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois says, "If
you look at the economics of game platforms and the power of computing on
toys, this is a long-term market trend and computing trend. The economics
are just amazing. This is going to drive the next big wave in high-
performance computing." The NCSA has used the Linux operating system and a
Hewlett-Packard network switch to tie together 70 individual game machines
into a single supercomputing system capable of a half-trillion operations
a second. Total cost: about $50,000. Most difficult part of the project:
"It took a lot of time because you have to cut all of these things out of
the plastic packaging," said NCSA senior research scientist Craig Steffen.
(New York Times 26 May 2003)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/05/26/technology/26XSUPE.html
EBAY LOSES PATENT-INFRINGEMENT LAWSUIT
A federal jury in Virginia has concluded that online auction eBay and its
Half.com unit intentionally infringed on patents belonging to MercExchange.
MercExchange is also seeking an injunction prohibiting eBay from continuing
its current "Buy it now" program, which allows eBay customers to make
fixed-priced purchases rather than participating in auctions. EBay is
asking the judge to reverse the $35-million judgment against it, whereas
MercExchange is saying that the judgment should be tripled, because the
jury's verdict was that the patent infringement was deliberate rather than
accidental. (Bloomberg/New York Times 28 May 2003)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/05/28/technology/28EBAY.html
REALNETWORKS ROLLS OUT 79 CENT MUSIC DOWNLOADS
Spurred on by the overnight success of Apple's iTunes Music Store,
RealNetworks has revamped its own online music service to offer single
downloads for 79 cents a track. "We want to draft off the attention they've
gotten before they come out with a Windows service," says RealNetworks
marketing VP Dan Sheeran, referring to Apple's current concentration on the
Macintosh market. RealNetworks' new offering is based on the Rhapsody
service from Listen.com, which RealNetworks agreed to acquire last month.
The company also owns a 40% share of MusicNet, the online music venture it
launched with EMI Group and AOL Time Warner, but has said it will no longer
promote that service and instead will be competing vigorously for MusicNet
customers. (Wall Street Journal 28 May 2003)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB105407898712518500.djm,00.html (sub req'd)
GERMAN SOFTWARE GROUP THREATENS SCO OVER LINUX
German software alliance Linuxtag, which backs the Linux operating system,
has issued an ultimatum to SCO Group: prove your claims that Linux
infringes on your Unix technology patents by May 30 or we'll see you in
court. "SCO is massively unsettling our members and the companies that are
potential exhibitors at the fair with those claims," says a Linuxtag
spokesman. "It they don't stop that, or present proof for the intellectual
property rights they are claiming, we are going to apply for a preliminary
injunction at the court on Friday." SCO's German unit says it's received
Linuxtag's motion and is considering whether to respond before SCO's case
against IBM, a major Linux promoter, goes to court. Some of Germany's
largest companies, including Siemens AG, the Deutsche Bundesbahn and
Volkswagen, have received letter from SCO notifying them their use of Linux
may be in violation of its rights. (Reuters 28 May 2003)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&ncid=581&e=3&u=/nm/20030528/
tc_nm/tech_sco_linux_dc
THE NEED FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION TO FIGHT SPAM
The president of Brightmail (a company that helps Internet providers block
spam) predicts that by the end of this year half of all e-mail will be spam
messages, and says that spam costs U.S. businesses $10 billion a year in
lost productivity. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has called for
international organizations to join the anti-spam effort, and Sen. Charles
Schumer (D,NY) says: "As soon as we tighten up our laws here and institute
vigorous enforcement, those who want to violate our laws move abroad. A
global agreement will ensure that anti-spam standards protecting American
computers are enforceable both here and abroad." (AP/San Jose Mercury News
22 May 2003)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5920220.htm
STUDY SHOWS SPAM PAYS
While the battle against spam intensifies, the Direct Marketing Association
has just released figures showing that commercial e-mail advertisements
generated more than $7 billion in sales last year. The DMA's study is
intended to bolster its claim that commercial e-mail plays a significant
role in the U.S. economy. According to the report, about 36% of e-mail
users, or 21% of all adult Americans, have purchased a product or service
as the result of receiving commercial e-mail over the past year, with
purchases valued at an average of $168. About 9% of these e-mail users said
they made their purchases as the result of unsolicited commercial e-mail.
(Wall Street Journal 22 May 2003)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB105358168385262900.djm,00.html (sub req'd)
BERNERS-LEE SAYS NEW POLICY WILL KEEP THE WEB FREE
Touting the recently announced W3C Patent Policy, Web creator Tim
Berners-Lee told participants at the 12th International World Wide Web
Conference that in order for the Web to flourish, it must remain open,
nonproprietary, innovative, free and inclusive. The W3C Patent Policy,
which is aimed at reducing the threat of patents blocking future Web
infrastructure developments, is designed to discourage revenue-generating
strategies that "work by forcing standards-compliant applications to pay
licensing fees." While the policy necessarily involved choices that could be
perceived as threatening certain business models, I believe that this
policy is the right one, from a revenue perspective, for all who seek to
contribute to the development of the Web and who ultimately seek to profit
from its growth. However, it does not preclude licensing activity for all
technologies on the Web. Indeed, by supporting the continued growth of the
underlying Web infrastructure and by growing the overall market for the
Web, this policy increases the opportunity for financial gain (including
patent licenses) on applications that depend upon the Web."
(Wired.com 22 May 2003)
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58942,00.html
[What About Merrill Lynch, Salomon Smith Barney, etc?]
EX-STUDENT FINED MORE THAN $500,000 FOR STOCK FRAUD ON NET
Former UCLA student Refael Shaoulian has been ordered by a federal judge to
pay $534,000 in fines for using university computers and false identities
to post intentionally incorrect about stocks so that he could profit from
the buying and selling sprees he caused. The civil suit was brought by the
Securities and Exchange Commission. (APOnline/USA Today 22 May 2003)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/2003-05-21-bruin-amuck_x.htm
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CALIFORNIA LAWMAKERS PUSH FOR STRICTER LIMITS ON SPAM
The California State Senate this week approved legislation that would
create an "opt-in" requirement for e-mail marketers. If passed, the law
would require an e-mail marketer to obtain approval to send promotional
messages unless it already has a relationship with the recipient. The
state currently has an "opt-out" law on the books, which requires
e-mailers to stop sending messages if users so request. The current law
also requires that "ADV" be included in the subject line for
promotional e-mails. State Sen. Debra Bowen, who had introduced the
existing law, said she proposed the opt-in bill because the opt-out
bill has done little to stem the onslaught of spam. The opt-in measure,
which now goes to the California Assembly, carries a per-message fine
of $500, which can be tripled by a judge if the action is deemed to be
in willful and knowing violation of the law.
CNET, 22 May 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-1009411.html
PENTAGON TRIES TO CALM FEARS ABOUT DATA-MINING PROGRAM
This week the Pentagon continued recent efforts to address negative
public reaction to its data-mining project. The Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency, which oversees the project, submitted a
report to Congress about some of the details of the project, which the
report said remains in very early stages of development. According to
the report, "safeguarding the privacy and civil liberties of Americans
is a bedrock principle." The report also pointed out that the
project's name has been changed from Total Information Awareness to
Terrorism Information Awareness. Opponents generally were not swayed by
the report. Lee Tien of the Electronic Frontier Foundation said, "After
more than a hundred pages, you don't know anything more about whether
TIA will work or whether your civil liberties will be safe against it."
Lori Waters of the Eagle Forum, a conservative political organization,
said the TIA is based on the idea that "anybody is guilty until proven
innocent in America."
Wired News, 21 May 2003
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,58936,00.html
[Doesn't Play Well With Others]
DHS STILL NOT SHARING WELL
Tom Ridge, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), told
Congress this week that the agency continues to have difficulty
exchanging information with other agencies. After the September 11
attacks, questions were raised about why the CIA did not share its
watch list, which included two of the hijackers, and why a report from
an FBI field agent about non-citizens taking flying lessons was also
not shared. Ridge told members of the House Select Committee on
Homeland Security that DHS has not worked out technical issues for
sharing information or resolved who should be on a watch list. Rep. Jim
Turner (D-Tex.) had harsh words for Ridge and DHS's performance so
far. Turner said DHS was created to "connect the dots" of intelligence
but that he was unconvinced that the department was effectively doing this.
Federal Computer Week, 21 May 2003
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2003/0519/web-ridge-05-21-03.asp
ACADEMIC SUPPORT FOR VERIZON
In its ongoing struggle to protect the identity of some of its users,
Verizon Communications has won support from academic-library and other
academic groups. The Recording Industry Association of America has
subpoenaed Verizon to reveal the identities of suspected music pirates,
citing a provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Many in the
academic community worry about the repercussions if the subpoena is
upheld. If it is, they fear the recording industry could make similar
demands for the identities of students thought to be using campus
networks for illegally trading files. Supporters of Verizon in the case
object to the fact that the law allows subpoenas to be issued without
judicial review and without proof that the individual being sought is
guilty of the allegation.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 19 May 2003
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/05/2003051901t.htm
WEB GROUP ACCEPTS PATENT POLICY
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has finally accepted a policy for
the contentious issue of patents and royalties for them. The W3C has
long maintained that its development of Web standards and
recommendations should not include royalty payments for patented
components of those standards. Under the terms of the new policy, those
involved in developing standards must disclose information about
possible patents included, and those who review recommendation drafts
must be similarly forthcoming. The policy does include a provision,
however, to include patented content in Web standards in special
circumstances. The new policy, according to W3C Director Tim
Berners-Lee, gives the group a clear road "to successfully develop
royalty-free Web standards in the current patent environment."
Internet News, 21 May 2003
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/2210201
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