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To: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 00:27:26 -0600 (CST)
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>From me for: Sue Asscher <asschers@satcom.net.au>
We might need volume 1 of:
The History of Herodotus, by G. C. Macaulay
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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 17:49:17 +0000 (GMT)
From: Dianne Bean <beandp@primenet.com>
What I need most are people who already have books to scan, or who have
books to donate for scanning or typing.
Christine Miller <cch@classicalhomeschooling.org> I have. . . .
Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World by George Rawlinson;
no copyright date on the title page. I only have vol 3.: concludes the
fourth monarchy (Babylonia) and the fifth monarchy (Persia).
***She is willing to pay for the other two volumes if you can find them.
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Blackstone's Commentaries Request
Is this doable? I just got the first of four volumes (I'm not sure when
I'll be able to afford the other three -- they're about $16 each) of the
paperback facsimile edition the University of Chicago Press put out in 1979.
The facsimile title page says it was published in Oxford in M.DCC.LXV. It
has "s"s that look like "f"s, footnotes all over the place, and lots of
French and Latin phrases scattered thru it, all in Italics. Each volume is
about 500 pp. So I ask again, is this doable?
From: "K. Kay Shearin" <poach@ezol.com>
It's William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England: A Facsimile of
the First Edition of 1765-1769, from The University of Chicago Press,
copyright 1979.
There's a hardbound edition, too, but in paperback the ISBNs are:
Vol. 1: 0-226-05538-8 (this is the one I have)
Vol. 2: 0-226-05541-8
Vol. 3: 0-226-05543-4
Vol. 4: 0-226-05545-0
The intro says it's "the most important legal treatise ever written in the
English language," and this "edition is meant to make the book available to
students and scholars in an accurate, accessible, and inexpensive form," so
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Can anyone find:
Artistotle's Categories translated by E. M. Edghill
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From: Sandra Laythorpe <sandra@laythorpe.screaming.net>
Would anyone be willing to proofread the works of:
Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901) lived in the village of Otterbourne,
Hampshire, England, all her life. She was a friend of John Keble,
founder of The Oxford Movement, and would have known Florence Nightingale.
***
We have cleared four of the eight volume set of Elson Readers
[5-8 are ok, but our 1-4 are newer editions, so we need these
from before 1923, or at least with all copyright dates listed
before 1923] Mike Pullen <globaltraveler5565@yahoo.com>
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From: "Oliver.C.Colt. " <colt@guernsey.net>
Dear Professor Hart. Some time ago I sent you a transcript of a tale
written by Tolstoy and translated by Aylmer Maude, the title being "A
prisoner in the Caucuses". There was some uncertainty about the
copyright position, as the book from which I had taken this was
published in the U.K. in 1931. However, I find that this translation and
others by Aylmer Maude were being published long before that in a
variety of publications. It occurs to me that if the matter is investigated
it might well be that the story could be used in P.G. without infringing
any copyright. May I suggest that if you are interested you set your
bloodhounds on the trail, unless you feel quite sure that a search would
be pointless.
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From: Sandra Laythorpe. slaythorpe@cwcom.net
Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901) lived in the village of Otterbourne,
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The Oxford Movement, and would have known Florence Nightingale, who was a
near neighbour, and other notables. She was a very popular novelist, but
her books are little read nowadays, because they are considered by modern
critics to be sentimental and narrow. Her most popular work is 'The Heir of
Redclyffe' (1853), which has recently been reprinted. Miss Yonge was a
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great social changes of the 19th Century. I think her works are ideal for
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***Index Listings for the New Files
*****We Finished Some Index Entries That Were Reserved Earlier*****
Sep 2000 Hans Huckebein, by Wilhelm Busch [Three * Stories][7hckbxxx.xxx]2322
Sep 2000 Hans Huckebein, by Wilhelm Busch [Three * Stories][8hckbxxx.xxx]2322
*Hans Huckebein, der Ungluecksrabe; Das Pusterohr; Das Bad am Samstag Abend*
German/Two versions/7-bit version without accents/8-bit version with accents.
Aug 2000 The Descent of Man, by Charles Darwin [Darwin #7][dscmnxxx.xxx]2300
[This is a new version, which includes comprehensive corrections and index!!]
Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 13[13frdxxx.xxx]2113
*******And We Redid The Following So Each Volume Had A Single Entry*******
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 8, by Goethe[Goethe 20][8wml8xxx.xxx]2342
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 8, by Goethe[Goethe 20][7wml8xxx.xxx]2342
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 7, by Goethe[Goethe 19][8wml7xxx.xxx]2341
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 7, by Goethe[Goethe 19][7wml7xxx.xxx]2341
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 6, by Goethe[Goethe 18][8wml6xxx.xxx]2340
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 6, by Goethe[Goethe 18][7wml6xxx.xxx]2340
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 5, by Goethe[Goethe 17][8wml5xxx.xxx]2339
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 5, by Goethe[Goethe 17][7wml5xxx.xxx]2339
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 4, by Goethe[Goethe 16][8wml4xxx.xxx]2338
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 4, by Goethe[Goethe 16][7wml4xxx.xxx]2338
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 3, by Goethe[Goethe 15][8wml3xxx.xxx]2337
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 3, by Goethe[Goethe 15][7wml3xxx.xxx]2337
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 2, by Goethe[Goethe 14][8wml2xxx.xxx]2336
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 2, by Goethe[Goethe 14][7wml2xxx.xxx]2336
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 1, by Goethe[Goethe 13][8wml1xxx.xxx]2335
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 1, by Goethe[Goethe 13][7wml1xxx.xxx]2335
[A word of explanation--ALL the texts for the entire 8 volumes WERE posted in
the 2 volume names listed below. . .this was because I did not understand the
structure of the index entries I received until the last minute, and I wanted
to go ahead and make the files available then. In today's Newsletter. . .we
have divided these up into the 8 volumes. . .so if you want to keep them in a
larger file format, keep the old files. . . .for as of now the same filenames
for volumes 1 and 2 will actually only contain 1 volume each/did have 4 each]
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 2, by Goethe[Goethe 14][8wml2xxx.xxx]2336
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 2, by Goethe[Goethe 14][7wml2xxx.xxx]2336
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 1, by Goethe[Goethe 13][8wml1xxx.xxx]2335
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 1, by Goethe[Goethe 13][7wml1xxx.xxx]2335
*******Here Are The Project Gutenberg Entries for October, 2000*******
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Oct 2000 Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology, Mackail [7efgmxxx.xxx]2378
Oct 2000 Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology, Mackail [8efgmxxx.xxx]2378
[The 7 bit version does not contain accents, the 8 [binary] bit version does]
Oct 2000 The Son of the Wolf, by Jack London [London ###] [snwlfxxx.xxx]2377
[We stopped numbering such stories individually, but since these are close to
the last stories he ever wrote, we will finish Jack London this way. mh]
Contains. . . .
Oct 2000 An Odyssey of the North, by Jack London [J.L.#87] [snwlfxxx.xxx]2377
Oct 2000 The Wife of a King, by Jack London [London #86] [snwlfxxx.xxx]2377
Oct 2000 The Wisdom of the Trail, by Jack London [J.L.#85] [snwlfxxx.xxx]2377
Oct 2000 The Priestly Prerogative, by Jack London[J.L.#84] [snwlfxxx.xxx]2377
Oct 2000 To the Man on the Trail, by Jack London [J.L.#83] [snwlfxxx.xxx]2377
Oct 2000 In a Far Country, by Jack London [London #82] [snwlfxxx.xxx]2377
Oct 2000 The Men of Forty Mile, by Jack London[London #81] [snwlfxxx.xxx]2377
Oct 2000 The Son of the Wolf, by Jack London [London #80] [snwlfxxx.xxx]2377
Oct 2000 The White Silence, by Jack London [London #79] [snwlfxxx.xxx]2377
Oct 2000 Up From Slavery, by Booker T. Washington [slvryxxx.xxx]2376
Oct 2000 Tartarin de Tarascon, by Alphonse Daudet [trtrnxxx.xxx]2375
Oct 2000 The Princess de Montpensier by Madame de Lafayette[mntpnxxx.xxx]2374
Oct 2000 The Path of the Law, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.[#2][pthlwxxx.xxx]2373
Oct 2000 The Woman-Haters, by Joseph C. Lincoln [wmnhrxxx.xxx]2372
Oct 2000 The Filigree Ball, by Anna Katherine Green [AKG#4][flgblxxx.xxx]2371
Oct 2000 Sir Gibbie, by George MacDonald [G. MacDonald #8][sirgbxxx.xxx]2370
Oct 2000 One of Ours, by Willa Cather [Willa Cather #6][1oursxxx.xxx]2369
Oct 2000 The Angel and the Author et al, by J K Jerome[#23][angauxxx.xxx]2368
Oct 2000 Los Bombardeos Atomicos de Hiroshima y Nagasaki/SP[sbombxxh.xxx]2367
Oct 2000 The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki [SP][sbombxxh.xxx]2367
[This is our HTML Spanish edition: please see below for our Enlish edition.]
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Oct 2000 The Beldonald Holbein, by Henry James [James #22][bldhbxxx.xxx]2366
Oct 2000 The Princess de Montpensier, by Mme. de Lafayette [7mntpxxx.xxx]2365
Oct 2000 The Princess de Montpensier, by Mme. de Lafayette [8mntpxxx.xxx]2365
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Oct 2000 The Story of Wellesly, by Florence Converse [wlslyxxx.xxx]2362
Oct 2000 Why Go To College, by Alice Freeman Palmer [y2clgxxx.xxx]2361
Oct 2000 Riddle of the Sands, by Erskine Childers [riddlxxx.xxx]2360
Oct 2000 Stories by English Authors in France, Scribners Ed[sbeafxxx.xxx]2359
CONTENTS
A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT, by R. L. Stevenson
A LEAF IN THE STORM, by Ouida
A TERRIBLY STRANGE BED, by Wilkie Collins
MICHEL LORIO'S CROSS, by Hesba Stretton
A PERILOUS AMOUR, by Stanley J. Weyman
Oct 2000 The After House, by Mary Roberts Rinehart[MRR #14][ftrhsxxx.xxx]2358
Oct 2000 Great Jehoshaphat & Gully Dirt, Jewell Ellen Smith[gjagdxxx.xxx]2357C
Oct 2000 Great Jehoshaphat & Gully Dirt, Jewell Ellen Smith[gjagdxxh.xxx]2357C
[The HTML version of the first edition is named gjadh10h.htm and gjadh10h.zip]
[The plain version of this first edition is named gjadh10.txt and gjadh10.zip]
Oct 2000 Tommy and Co., by Jerome K. Jerome [Jerome #22][tomcoxxx.xxx]2356
Oct 2000 The Formation of Vegetable Mould, by Darwin [CD#9][vgmldxxx.xxx]2355
Oct 2000 On the Brain, by T. H. Huxley [THH#3] [Darwin #8][huxbrxxx.xxx]2354
Oct 2000 Tea-table Talk, by Jerome K. Jerome [Jerome #21][ttalkxxx.xxx]2353
Oct 2000 Eurasia, by Chris. Evans [uasiaxxx.xxx]2352
Oct 2008 John Halifax, Gentleman, by Mrs. Craik:Dinah Maria[halifxxx.xxx]2351
Oct 2000 His Last Bow, by Arthur Conan Doyle[A.C.Doyle #23][lstbwxxx.xxx]2350
Oct 2000 The Adv. of The Devil's Foot, A. Conan Doyle [#22][dvlftxxx.xxx]2349
Oct 2000 The Disappearance Of Lady Frances Carfax [ACD #21][lcrfxxxx.xxx]2348
Oct 2000 The Adv. Of The Dying Detective, A Conan Doyle #20[dydetxxx.xxx]2347
Oct 2000 The Adv. Of The Bruce-Partington Plans [Doyle #19][bplanxxx.xxx]2346
Oct 2000 The Adv. Of The Red Circle A. Conan Doyle [#18][rcrclxxx.xxx]2345
Oct 2000 The Adv. Of The Cardboard Box, by Connan Doyle #17[crdbdxxx.xxx]2344
Oct 2000 The Adv. Of Wisteria Lodge, A. Conan Doyle [#16][wstraxxx.xxx]2343
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 10:20:18 -0600
From: Judith Boss <jeboss@home.com>
To: hart@prairienet.org
Subject: Zane Grey book available
Michael:
In addition to the previous 6 books, I have a copy of Zane Grey's _The
Last Trail_ [TAKEN!] available for someone to work with.
B. M. Bower, _Casey Ryan_
_The Gringos_
_Skyrider_
Frances Hodgson Burnett, _In Connection with the DeWilloughby Claim_
W. W. Jacobs, _Many Cargoes_
H. G. Wells, _The Undying Fire_ TAKEN!
Time to run the copyright rules by them again, and also have had a couple
of complaints about the how-to input directions being wordy. I thought I
re-wrote them, but that's not what's at the site. Remind me again when the
time comes if you want me to do it.
Dianne
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by philip Hunt <phil@comuno.com>
There is a problem in that PG books are currently on the web
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is HTML. One solution would be to copy all the books into HTML.
However, this would present other problems, such as:
(1) what about other data formats such as WAP, RTF, DocBook,
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books into these formats as well?
(2) what about new PG books? We don't want to have to manually
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(3) HTML is popular now, but will it be in 10 years time? Will
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re-translating.
These problems can be solved by translating them not into HTML,
but into an XML-based format.
I envisage that most of ther work in translation can be done
programmatically -- I plan writing a few experimental Python scripts
to do this over the next few weeks.
Of course, it is necessary to define exactly what the XML-based format
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tags that HTML uses.
Once the data is in the XML format, translating to the other formats I
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automatically once the right programs are written. I do not envisage these
programs as being difficult to write. So once a book is in XML, it is
(almost) automatically available in all the other formats that we will
support. And if PG decides to use a new format, it is just a matter of
writing a smallish translation program, and hey presto all the existing
books are converted.
New PG books would be typed in in the XML format (another reason for
making it as simple as possible).
PERSONAL NOTES
I've got the programming skills to do the code-writing part of the
project, and I have a web server that I can host 500MB of data on.
The thing I would probably need most help on is manually formatting text
into XML (as I said, I hope most of this process can be automated).
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RACING TO CONVERT BOOKS TO BYTES
Although skepticism remains as to whether readers will embrace
digital books, interest in the electronic format is growing, with
young people leading the trend. The University of Texas at
Austin plans to spend $1 million to increase its current
collection of 6,000 electronic books. Students are checking out
the university's digital books at astonishing rates, says
librarian Dennis Dillon. "Usually a book has a one-third chance
of being checked out," Dillon says. "So to have some title
checked out 25 times in two months--that's shocking." Companies
such as Microsoft are preparing for a wave of digital reading,
predicting that electronic books will overtake print books within
10 years. Meanwhile, traditional publishers such as Random House
are skeptical about the new format but are still moving to
digitize all of their titles. Startups such as netLibrary, which
sells electronic books to libraries, are working to draw readers
by offering a large selection of titles. However, in order to
get publishers to sell titles, these companies need to prove that
sufficient demand exists for the digital format. (New York Times 12/09/99)
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This is a goal we may have already accomplished, though many
of the 10,000 files are still very much Limited Distribution
items, and we are working to get them posted in more places,
on more sites, for greater and greater public access. These
will hopefully all be posted on Project Gutenberg sites some
time in the not too distant future, we are dicsussing this a
lot with the other Etext makers. Creating a liaison between
all the Etexts makers is one of our major goals right now.
The 2350th Project Gutenberg Etext should be posted shortly!
And we should have created 1/3 of the 10,000 we hope to have
posted by the end of 2001, and hopefully encouraged donation
of the other 2/3 by the other Etext non-commerical efforts.
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Help with UMAX scanner for Win95 or 98 for Dianne Bean <beandp@primenet.com>
***
For any persons interested in working on the works of Sir Richard F.
Burton, we're trying to put together a Burton Team. The first objective
is to prepare the Arabian Nights for publication. Other works will be
forthcoming. If you are interested in participating on the team, please
contact me at jcbyers@netscape.com. The complete Table of Contents of
the Arabian Nights is available at
www.capitalnet.com/~jcbyers/default.htm. Feel free to peruse the site
and choose a 'Tale' to work on. jcbyers <jcbyers@netscape.net>
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If we are going to continue on past our first goal of 10,000 Etexts,
we are going to need some Big Time public relations help, and some
Big Time fundraising. . .here's why. . . .
1. Getting the Etexts to twice as many people is just as important
as creating twice as many Etexts. . .but without MAJOR publicity it
is not likely to happen. . .we constantly get messages from readers
who tell us they have been LOOKING for Etexts for years and just at
that present time FINALLY FOUND US. . . . That means we cannot get
to a major part of our audience with the kind of publicity we have,
we need something more. . . . For example, we were the first in an
entirely new column: "People To Watch" in the November 8th edition
of TIME magazine, but we have received less than a dozen emails per
that article. . .what we really need to do is get on Oprah Winfrey,
and hopefully add something to her book club. Those of you on AOL,
perhaps you could email the show and request they invite us. . . !
We should undoubtedly also try the other talk shows, and "magazine"
shows, etc. All the press we receive is from them contacting us, I
have had no luck "generating" publicity. . .which seems to be easy,
for those who have the knack. . .it's just not MY knack. . .help!!!
2. Running group of 1,000 volunteers to generate 10,000 Etexts has
been something that IS a knack I have. . .and it hasn't cost a very
large amount of money to do it. . .otherwise you wouldn't know that
we exist. . .but running a group of 10,000 volunteers to create the
1,000,000 Etext that are possible in the NEXT 10 years, is NOT easy
. . .even for someone such as myself. . .it will require more phone
lines and calls than I can afford. . .and more email than I can do,
on my own, so we either need volunteers to help coordinate, or, the
possibility looms that we should actually HIRE people. . . .
When I first started Project Gutenberg in 1971, I was sure I should
be able to find someone else to replace me, as it did not cost real
money or take real time to run. . .but for the last 10 years it has
taken just about all the time I have, including what I would need a
lot more of to have a personal life. . .and I would LIKE to have an
expectation that Project Gutenberg would survive at least 10 years,
after I am gone, and hopefully 100, and if I really dream, 1,000!!!
So. . .if you are willing and able to help us with these or in some
related manner, PLEASE LET ME KNOW. . . .
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Contents
Overview
0.
Etexts in Various Languages
1.
Copyright
2.
Scanning and Typing
3.
Proofreading
4.
FTP and WWW Sites
5.
Donations
6.
Raiders of the Lost Archives
7.
Special Requests
8.
Programming
9.
New Etexts Needing Proofreading
Followed By More Detailed Information On Most Of These Subjects
*******
0.
Etexts in Various Languages
As you may be aware, this last year we have greatly expanded our
output of Etexts in languages other than English, including:
1. French
2. German
3. Spanish
4. Italian
5. Danish
6. Swedish
7. Chinese
8. Japanese
9. Latin
and more. . .and we would like to continue doing more Etexts in
these language and even more languages. So. . .if you have the
skills to work in languages other than English, or to manage an
Etext Team in any language, English included please let me know!!!
Here is a request from our Spanish Team Leader:
From: Jesus Joglar" <joglar@iiqab.csic.es> our Spanish Team Leader
[He is very busy, so we could use more Spanish Team Leaders if any
of you are willing. . . .]
Besides I think that we did not get as much enthusiasm as expected from the
potential volunteers, but anyway I will keep going at my own pace. In this
context I would like to tell you that I have a file of a book written by
Francisco de Quevedo called "El buscsn" (a classic from the spanish golden
age) ready to get proofed. Is it possible to ask for help with this one?
I also have the book (46 files for the moment) of poems by a cuban writer
(Josi Martm: Versos Sencillos [Maybe you know it because it was sung by
people like Pete Seeger or Joan Baez]) and another spanish classic (Amadms
de Gaula written by Garci Rodrmguez de Montalvo. This is in 138 files and
it is a kind of Don Quijote with regard to the date and type).
I will go working on these and letting you know about my progress. As soon
as I have a little bit more of time I will contact some of the "old"
volunteers to try to forward a little the spanish etexts group unless
someone else would do it.
1.
Copyright
Project Gutenberg will do copyright research for you if you send us
xeroxes of the title page [both sides, even if one side is blank.]
We need people to hunt through libraries or bookstores for editions
that we can use to legally prepare our Electronic Texts [Etexts.]
Germany, Italy and Great Britain have each extended their copyright
to "life + 70 years," as opposed to the "life +50 years" of "Berne"
copyright conventions. Residents of those areas will have to be an
extra bit careful, as a million items that used to be Public Domain
in those countries reverted to copyright status, even though a vast
majority of them are no longer for sale. This is now true for some
other countries, including France and perhaps Brazil and Portugal.
More on the United States Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 in a
"More Detailed Information" section below.
2.
Scanning and Typing
Once we have located some proper edition[s], then our volunteers do
the books by scanning or typing them into the computer. Usually it
is the same person who does the proofreading, but not necessarily.
If you have a scanner, or have access to one, or plan to get one in
the future, please contact our Director of Production, Dianne Bean,
beandp@primenet.com, with a cc: to me at hart@pobox.com
2.
Proofreading
Often the only way for many of our volunteers to work on Etexts for
us is if they can ship their book to one of you, have it scanned in
and then returned to them for proofreading.
If you could do the scanning for them, it would help us immensely.
4.
FTP and WWW Sites
We would very much like to provide better access to Etext for sites
in Africa and South America, and other locales. If you know anyone
who might be able to help with this, please read this:
We are always in search of more FTP and World Wide Web sites, so an
increasing number of people can download our books without unusual,
even often fatal, delays and glitches in transmission.
If you, or someone you know, can spare a gigabyte on their servers,
please have them contact us about creating more mirror sites. This
is a particular need for countries south of the equator, where text
files are only available on one server that we know of. If you can
help us get our books into South America, Africa, and further, this
would be a great help. We have something restarted in New Zealand,
with extensions into Australia, but the load this server can handle
is probably going to be easily exhausted.
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Anything you can do in this are would be greatly appreciated, even,
since we are at this juncture, helping us get more Public Relations
coverage of our 2,000th Etext. This should not be too difficult in
one respect, as many of the sites on the World Wide Web have never,
not once, been updated, since 1995.
Project Gutenberg sites up updated more than once a day on average,
since we are presenting 432 Etexts per year, and plan to move to at
least 500 year after #2000, which is schedule for January 1, 2000.
As I said, anything would be greatly appreciated. This SHOULD BE a
great time to get some PR. . .but it still appears, even though the
project has been written up probably about 200 times, that they are
going to write us up when THEY have a reason to rather than when WE
have a reason, and we feel it is now time to try to break out of an
entirely too limiting niche in the computer oriented media, and get
some more general publicity out there to the millions of people who
aren't computer oriented at all, but will would like to receive the
Etexts for education or entertainment. This is a majority of world
population centers, and we should do more to reach them.
If you have any "ins" in the press or with the corporate world, this
would be a good time to use them.
6.
Raiders of the Lost Archives
As you may be aware from several events of a month ago, and earlier,
there is a downside to having Etext archives in limited distribution
modalities, simply because if one site, or one person, or even whole
countries, change their minds about what they are going to archive--
then the whole world loses access to those files.
A good example was the loss of The Oxford Book of English Verse from
Project Bartleby. We have taken great pains to get this book, which
is undoubtedly important, back on the Net. If you want to see which
sites have lost this file, just do a Yahoo search for the book, then
count the vast number of sites that have blank entries for the book,
once it was deleted from a multiplicity of links; this is an example
of how important it is for Etexts to be posted on many sites, rather
than just one site will many links to it!!!
We need volunteers who will search the world for every possible book
and help us preserve it.
Project Gutenberg will not release any of this material until we can
do the copyright research and prove it belongs in the Public Domain.
We realize that many of our volunteers sometimes get frustrated that
we do this research, which possibly takes half our time, but it will
become more and more apparent why this is a good policy as copyright
laws become stiffer and stiffer, and world intellectual property can
be limited in greater and great ways. It is quite likely that it is
going to be some time in the next calendar year that a United States
law killing off another 20 years of public domain in the US will get
passed, to join the countries listed above, in eliminating a million
books from potentially being posted as Etexts, even though 99% are a
dead issue, out of print for decades. . . .
7.
Special Requests
We occasionally receive scanned material which could have benefitted from
more cleanup before it was sent to us. What we need is proofers with
patience to read through an etext and take out stray letters, clean up the
punctuation, and send a list of questionable lines to the person who
scanned it so they can send corrections to be inserted. This usually takes
a couple of weeks, and is a good short-term project for folks who want to
get their feet wet with Project Gutenberg. Dianne Bean <beandp@primenet.com>
8.
Programming
Due to the various formats in which we receive many of our Etexts,
we need some assistance in writing PERL scripts, vi scripts, or an
assortment of other scripts that will assist our proofreaders, and
our editors, in dealing with page numbers, markups, italics and an
assortment of other formatting issue that come up time to time.
Most of these are fairly trivial and can be solved with a one line
script for each of the particular situations and we just need some
people to either run the scripts we already have, or to write some
new ones from time to time when a particularly rough Etext version
arrives at our doorstep. These scripts, which take minutes to set
up, and seconds to run, can save HOURS of proofreaders' time. You
can be a BIG help just running some of these scripts for us, or in
writing or rewriting some of them on occasion.
***
More Detailed Information
1.
Copyright
Copyright Extension Is Also Happening in the United States
[This has happened since our last message of this kind] and will be
happening in most other countries unless action is taken. Lawsuits
are being made to reverse this trend, but not much chance without a
lot of public relations efforts]
Rumor has it that the United States is pushing through HR604 & S505
[House Resolution #604 and Senate Bill #505] which comprise what is
called "The Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998" which will remove
20 years of what would be Public Domain information from our future
libraries. We strongly suggest you call AND write your congressmen
to avoid removing a million books from what is already becoming the
"Information Rich Versus Information Poor" in a nations in which an
illiteracy rate is virtually equal to the literacy rate, in adults,
aged 16 and over, as per the 1994 US Literacy Report.
You can subscribe to a listserver on copyright extension at:
extension-l@olemiss.edu
or go to web sites on the subject at:
http://www.public.asu.edu/~dkarjala/
http://davinci.marc.gatech.edu/~tad/dennis/no-cense.htm
2.
Scanning and Typing
We don't really want to get into a public recommendation about what
scanners and OCR [Optical Character Recognition] programs word best
. . .it is really the case that some do better on some books, while
other do better on others.
However, we ARE willing to share our experience if you ask.
3.
Proofreading
Our official accuracy level that we try to maintain has been 99.9%,
for our first release, which is usually raised to 99.95% before the
vast majority of people ever see them, and this standard has been a
standard that has been adopted by most Etext providers, including a
new effort toward Etext by the Library of Congress and the national
libraries of Great Britain and other countries.
What we hope you realize is that any serious effort to get an Etext
to 100% accuracy should take MORE effort than to create an entirely
new Etext with an accuracy level of 99.9% to 99.95%.
While many, even most, of the Project Gutenberg Etexts are accurate
to an amazing degree, even more amazing when you compare then to an
entire world of Etexts prepared by both the scholarly or commercial
Etext enterprises, we do not feel that the additional doubling of a
more than massive effort, to possibly reduce the errors, by another
.02% perhaps, would have anywhere near the value of the preparation
of an entirely new Etext with the same amount of effort.
Nevertheless, even the most famous universities of the world have a
collection of Etexts, many of which have vastly more errors that in
our collection. This is also true of the commercial Etexts. Don't
be afraid that your efforts won't be as good as all the others, the
process of improving Project Gutenberg Etexts is never ending.
In addition, there are many volunteers who would prefer to have an
Etext or at least an author selected for them to work on. As some
of you already know, _I_ have been reluctant to choose for anyone,
not wanting to bias the formation of our collection with my choice
of what are the great books of human history.
I have promised to do several things once we reached Etext #2,000,
one of which is to provide more guidance to those who seek it, and
that guidance will be coming from Dianne Bean, true librarian, who
is also working on the cataloguing project I also promised will be
forthcoming once we reach Etext #2,000.
More on:
Proofreading: We could also use people who know how to use DIFF or
similar programs that point out differences between two files, even
programmers that might only be able to search our files for matched
and unmatched quotes. [Remember that when quoting many paragraphs,
each internal paragraph gets only an opening quote.]
Our proofreading is a never-ending story. . .we run spell-checkers,
and other varieties of programs, on our Etexts, and have real human
proofreaders go over them in pretty incredible detail, but we would
be remiss if we did not tell you that over 99% of the books we work
from have their own errors, and that while we catch some of those--
we undoubtedly introduce errors of our own, and even though we will
gladly keep updating our editions, ad infinitum, the odds that this
will catch ALL the errors in the near future are virtually 0%.
Therefore. . .we need you to email us when you have suggestion, and
comments, and when you find possible errors that need correction.
4.
FTP and WWW Sites
We are willing to adjust the bandwidth on various sites by adjusting
the publicity various sites receive, and also by asking our users to
only use certain sites at certain times of the day or night. So the
drain on sites volunteering to mirror Etexts should not suffer any.
5.
Donations
We have never received any local, regional or national grants; your
donations, and the support of Carnegie Mellon University and people
I would hope to count as my friends are the backbone of our support
and we could hardly survive otherwise.
6.
Raiders of the Lost Archives
This is going to be particularly evident if the raggedy performances
that are destroying 99% of the Public Domain continue by raiding the
Public Domain, taking a million works out of the Public Domain, over
a period of 20 years, and putting perhaps 1% of 1% of them back in a
print version so that those who owned the copyrights for the past 75
years and made millions from them, can make another million per year
while 99.99% of those works disappear from public access altogether.
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And now here are the listings of our most recent Etexts, an extra month, just
for those of you who have read this far. . .we hope you enjoy them. . . .
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
*****A "C" Following a Project Gutenberg Etext Number Indicates Copyright****
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 8, by Goethe[Goethe 20][8wml8xxx.xxx]2342
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 8, by Goethe[Goethe 20][7wml8xxx.xxx]2342
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 7, by Goethe[Goethe 19][8wml7xxx.xxx]2341
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 7, by Goethe[Goethe 19][7wml7xxx.xxx]2341
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 6, by Goethe[Goethe 18][8wml6xxx.xxx]2340
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 6, by Goethe[Goethe 18][7wml6xxx.xxx]2340
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 5, by Goethe[Goethe 17][8wml5xxx.xxx]2339
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 5, by Goethe[Goethe 17][7wml5xxx.xxx]2339
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 4, by Goethe[Goethe 16][8wml4xxx.xxx]2338
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 4, by Goethe[Goethe 16][7wml4xxx.xxx]2338
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 3, by Goethe[Goethe 15][8wml3xxx.xxx]2337
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 3, by Goethe[Goethe 15][7wml3xxx.xxx]2337
******The ones below this line are done, the ones above are in progress******
[A word of explanation. . .ALL the text for the entire 8 volumes is posted in
the 2 volume names listed below. . .this was because I did not understand the
structure of the index entries I received until the last minute, and I wanted
to go ahead and make the files available now. In the next Newsletter we will
have divided these up into the 8 volumes. . .so if you want to keep them in a
larger file format, please download them now: as later on the same filenames
for volumes 1 and 2 will actually only contain 1 volume each; now have all 8]
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 2, by Goethe[Goethe 14][8wml2xxx.xxx]2336
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 2, by Goethe[Goethe 14][7wml2xxx.xxx]2336
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 1, by Goethe[Goethe 13][8wml1xxx.xxx]2335
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 1, by Goethe[Goethe 13][7wml1xxx.xxx]2335
Sep 2000 The Works of Rudyard Kipling/One Volume Edition/12[1vkipxxx.xxx]2334
This contains a HUGE number of titles, so just listing the volume names:
Departmental Ditties and Other Verses
Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads
The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories
Under the Deodars
Plain Tales from the Hills
The Light That Failed
The Story of the Gadsbys
from Mine Own People
Sep 2000 Critical and Historical Essays, by Macaulay V2[#8][2cahexxx.xxx]2333
Volume 2 still in Progress at this time. . . .
Sep 2000 Critical and Historical Essays, by Macaulay V1[#7][1cahexxx.xxx]2332
Sep 2000 History of Phoenicia, by George Rawlinson [hphncxxx.xxx]2331
Sep 2000 Religions of Ancient China, by Herbert A. Giles #4[rlchnxxx.xxx]2330
Sep 2000 Autobio. of a Pocket-Handkerchief by J F Cooper #6[aoaphxxx.xxx]2329
Sep 2000 The Lake Gun, by James Fenimore Cooper [Cooper #5][lkgunxxx.xxx]2328
Sep 2000 Some Short Stories, by Henry James[Henry James 22][ssshjxxx.xxx]2327
CONTAINS:
Brooksmith
The Real Thing
The Story of It
Flickerbridge
Mrs. Medwin
Sep 2000 His Own People, by Booth Tarkington [Booth T. #9] [ownplxxx.xxx]2326
Sep 2000 The Iceberg Express, by David Cory [icbxpxxx.xxx]2325
Sep 2000 A House to Let, by Dickens, et.al. [Dickens #53][hsletxxx.xxx]2324
Sep 2000 Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee[releexxx.xxx]2323
Sep 2000 Reserved for another Etext in German [ xxx.xxx]2322
Sep 2000 Goetz von Berlichingen, by Johann W. Goethe [#12][8getzxxx.xxx]2321
Sep 2000 Goetz von Berlichingen, by Johann W. Goethe [#12][7getzxxx.xxx]2321
Sep 2000 Novelle, by Johann Wolfgang Goethe [Goethe #11][8nvllxxx.xxx]2320
Sep 2000 Novelle, by Johann Wolfgang Goethe [Goethe #11][7nvllxxx.xxx]2320
Sep 2000 West-oestlicher Divan, by Johann W. Goethe[JWG#10][8wdvnxxx.xxx]2319
Sep 2000 West-oestlicher Divan, by Johann W. Goethe[JWG#10][7wdvnxxx.xxx]2319
German/Two versions/7-bit version without accents/8-bit version with accents.
Sep 2000 Droll Stories [V. 2], by Honore de Balzac[HdB #91][2drllxxx.xxx]2318
Sep 2000 The Story of My Heart, by Richard Jefferies [tsomhxxx.xxx]2317
Sep 2000 The Choir Invisible, by James Lane Allen [chrnvxxx.xxx]2316
Sep 2000 The Flag-Raising, by Kate Douglas Wiggin[Wiggin14][flgrsxxx.xxx]2315
Sep 2000 Geschichte des Agathon, Teil 2, by C M Wieland #3 [82agtxxx.xxx]2314
Sep 2000 Geschichte des Agathon, Teil 2, by C M Wieland #3 [72agtxxx.xxx]2314
Sep 2000 Geschichte des Agathon, Teil 1, by C M Wieland #2 [81agtxxx.xxx]2313
Sep 2000 Geschichte des Agathon, Teil 1, by C M Wieland #2 [71agtxxx.xxx]2313
Sep 2000 Hermann und Dorothea, by Goethe [German 8-bits] #9[8hermxxx.xxx]2312
Sep 2000 Hermann und Dorothea, by Goethe [German 7-bits] #9[7hermxxx.xxx]2312
German/Two versions/7-bit version without accents/8-bit version with accents.
Sep 2000 Travels through France & Italy, by Tobias Smollett[ttfaixxx.xxx]2311
Sep 2000 In The Carquinez Woods, by Bret Harte [Harte #13][crqnzxxx.xxx]2310
Sep 2000 The Freelands, by John Galsworthy [Galsworthy #2][frndsxxx.xxx]2309
Sep 2000 Bunyan Characters (3rd Series), by Alex. Whyte #3 [3bnchxxx.xxx]2308
Sep 2000 The Depot Master, by Joseph C. Lincoln [dpmstxxx.xxx]2307
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off what they hope will be a permanent feature.]
We should also be the cover story for the Chicago Tribune Sunday Supplement
on November 21st. . .this article has been in progress since March and they
say it should be the best one of these they have done in well over a year.
We shall see, eh?
Given that we are today releasing about 75 new Etexts, we are now approaching
being 10 months ahead of schedule. . .our current goal is to get to 12 months
. . .actually 12 1/2 months. . .ahead of schedule by the end of 2001, to have
3,333 Project Gutenberg Etexts online at that time. . .about 1/3 of that goal
we originally started with. . .but. . .that goal also included a prediction I
made that the other Etext producers would be happy to put their public domain
Etexts on our servers and help us do the appropriate copyright research. The
truth is that one of the things we need is a liaison person to coordinate our
efforts with the handful of other major Etext producers so we can provide the
10,000 Etexts now available in a proper manner through our worldwide servers.
So, if you are the kind of person who can do this, please. . .let us know!!!
Requests For Assistance
Ben Harper <rogajin@hotmail.com>
Requests: Purchas his Pilgrimages, by Samuel Purchas [~1614]
If indeed you have some kind of funding to ship over as precious
a thing as that book, I'd gladly be it's honored preserver.
I bought myself a scanner just today!
***
Comments About Our New Files
First a correction to an earlier comment:
I chose it because my goal was to change the way information is
passed from person to person as much as Johannes Gutenberg did.
He reduced the price of books to 1/400th of their previous cost
which was equal to that of the average family farm beforehand!!
Now you can buy a 25G hard drive for $300. . .and you **could**
put 5 thousand copies of the Complete Works of Shakespeare on a
drive like that, without compression. . .that's 6 cents a copy!
There are terabyte drive packs on the way, that will cost less,
and will hold just about every word in even a *large* library!!
It will not so many of these to hold the Library of Congress!!!
I have heard estimates from 2 to 20 terabytes. . .but when such
terabytes are as common as gigabytes are now. . .who will care?
Comments About Our New Files
We lead off this Newsletter Index with Uncle Remus, in honor of
the movie "Song of the South". . .which has been removed from a
circulating feature [I think by Disney] because of "politically
incorrect" catcalls from certain political action committees.
Millions of students saw this movie as "required viewing" in an
era before this kind of political pressure, but which had an
entirely different "politically incorrect" venue known as:
"The McCarthy Era Witch Hunts"
which didn't seem to be have the kind of power now wielded by a
wide range of groups who could be called politically incorrect,
themselves. Rewriting history, particularly history that was a
"staple" in our educational system, is totally incorrect. I do
understand that in any history there are events and values that
should not be passed on but neither should they be passed over.
By pretending these things never happened we do NOT encourage a
proper perspective, either by these committees, or on the parts
of the people more directly involved.
Meanwhile, our German Team continues to amaze me. . . .
Several more additions are listed below, and more on the way!!
I hope they are an inspiration to those considering helping us
do Etexts in other languages. . .it took us forever to get the
German Team rolling, and now. . .fantastic. . .please help get
us rolling with other languages!!!
***
Index Listings for the New Files
Aug 2000 Uncle Remus/Songs/Sayings, by Joel Chandler Harris[remusxxx.xxx]2306
Aug 2000 A Set of Six, by Joseph Conrad [Joseph Conrad #24][seto6xxx.xxx]2305
We have two versions: seto610.* and seto610m.* [markup with accents]. . . .
Please let us know which you prefer. . .
Aug 2000 Legends and Lyrics, Pt 2, by Adelaide Ann Proctor [lgly2xxx.xxx]2304
Aug 2000 Legends and Lyrics, Pt 1, by Adelaide Ann Proctor [lgly1xxx.xxx]2303
Aug 2000 Poor Folk, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Dostoyevsky #3][prflkxxx.xxx]2302
Aug 2000 A Simpleton, by Charles Reade [smptnxxx.xxx]2301
Aug 2000 The Descent of Man, by Charles Darwin [Darwin #7][dscmnxxx.xxx]2300
Aug 2000 Pandora, by Henry James [Henry James #21][pndraxxx.xxx]2299
Aug 2000 Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, by Irving #6[sbogcxxx.xxx]2298
Aug 2000 Snow-Bound at Eagle's, by Bret Harte [Harte #12][sbdaexxx.xxx]2297
Aug 2000 Pillars of Society, by Henrik Ibsen[Henrik Ibsen2][pllrsxxx.xxx]2296
Aug 2000 Waifs and Strays, etc, by O Henry Pt 1[O Henry #8][1waifxxx.xxx]2295
Contains:
The Red Roses of Tonia
Round The Circle
The Rubber Plant's Story
Out of Nazareth
Confessions of a Humorist
The Sparrows in Madison Square
Hearts and Hands
The Cactus
The Detective Detector
The Dog and the Playlet
A Little Talk About Mobs
The Snow Man
(Two were unavailable-
pages torn from book)
[If you can help. . .]
IN THE TROLLEY CAR
RUTH BALDWIN CHENERY
IN IRISH RAIN
MARTHA HASKELL CLARK
Aug 2000 Anthol. Massachusetts Poets/William S. Braithwaite[mpoetxxx.xxx]2294
Aug 2000 A New England Girlhood[Beverly, MA] by Lucy Larcom[grlhdxxx.xxx]2293
Aug 2000 Yet Again, by Max Beerbohm [Max Beerbohm #8][ytagnxxx.xxx]2292
Aug 2000 Yet Again, by Max Beerbohm[HTML] [Max Beerbohm #8][ytagnxxh.xxx]2292
Aug 2000 David Elginbrod, by George MacDonald[Scottish][#7][lgnbdxxx.xxx]2291
Aug 2000 Twenty-Two Goblins, Translated from the Sanskrit [22gblxxx.xxx]2290
Aug 2000 Rosmersholm, by Henrik Ibsen [Henrik Ibsen #1] [rsmrhxxx.xxx]2289
Aug 2000 Through Russia, by Maxim Gorky [Maxim Gorky #2] [trussxxx.xxx]2288
Aug 2000 Havoc, by E. Philips Oppenheim[E. P. Oppenheim #9][havocxxx.xxx]2287
Aug 2000 Devil's Ford by, Bret Harte [Bret Harte #11][dvlfdxxx.xxx]2286
Aug 2000 Ridgway of Montana, by William MacLeod Raine [#4][rdgwyxxx.xxx]2285
Aug 2000 Animal Heroes, by Ernest Thompson Seton [Seton #2][anhroxxx.xxx]2284
Aug 2000 The Lost Road, etc, by Richard Harding Davis [#30][lstrdxxx.xxx]2283
Contains:
THE LOST ROAD
THE MIRACLE OF LAS PALMAS
EVIL TO HIM WHO EVIL THINKS
THE MEN OF ZANZIBAR
THE LONG ARM
THE GOD OF COINCIDENCE
THE BURIED TREASURE OF COBRE
THE BOY SCOUT
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE
THE DESERTER
Aug 2000 Tales for Fifteen, by J. F. Cooper as Jane Morgan [tl415xxx.xxx]2282
Aug 2000 Imagination and Heart, by James F. Cooper [JFC #4][tl415xxx.xxx]2282
Aug 2000 The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh etc, by Bret Harte 11[dedloxxx.xxx]2281
Contains:
THE HERITAGE OF DEDLOW MARSH
A KNIGHT-ERRANT OF THE FOOT-HILLS
A SECRET OF TELEGRAPH HILL
CAPTAIN JIM'S FRIEND
Aug 2000 A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready, by Bret Harte 10[amrnrxxx.xxx]2280
Aug 2000 A Waif of the Plains, by Bret Harte[Bret Harte #9][awotpxxx.xxx]2279
Aug 2000 New Burlesques, by Bret Harte [Bret Harte #8] [nbrlqxxx.xxx]2278
CONTAINS:
RUPERT THE RESEMBLER [After Rupert of Hentzau and Prisoner of Zenda]
Also see:
Dec 1997 Rupert of Hentzau, by Anthony Hope #3 [rprhnxxx.xxx]1145
Dec 1993 The Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope[zenda10x.xxx] 95
THE STOLEN CIGAR CASE By A. CO--N D--LE
GOLLY AND THE CHRISTIAN, OR THE MINX AND THE MANXMAN
By H--LL C--NE
THE ADVENTURES OF JOHN LONGBOWE, YEOMAN
BEING A MODERN-ANTIQUE REALISTIC ROMANCE
(COMPILED FROM SEVERAL EMINENT SOURCES)
DAN'L BOREM BY E. N--S W--T--T
STORIES THREE BY R--DY--D K--PL--G
"ZUT-SKI" THE PROBLEM OF A WICKED FEME SOLE BY M--R--E C--R--LLI
Aug 2000 Condensed Novels, by Bret Harte [Bret Harte #7] [cndnsxxx.xxx]2277
HANDSOME IS AS HANDSOME DOES
LOTHOW, or THE ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN IN SEARCH OF A RELIGION
MUCK-A-MUCK, A MODERN INDIAN NOVEL, AFTER JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
TERENCE DENVILLE
SELINA SEDILIA
THE NINETY-NINE GUARDSMEN [AFTER THE THREE MUSKETEERS, BY DUMAS]
MISS MIX [AFTER CHARLOTTE BRONTE]
GUY HEAVYSTONE; OR, "ENTIRE."
MR. MIDSHIPMAN BREEZY
JOHN JENKINS; OR, THE SMOKER REFORMED
NO TITLE [AFTER WILKE COLLINS]
Contains:
MARY JONES'S NARRATIVE
THE SLIM YOUNG MAN'S STORY
NO. 27 LIMEHOUSE ROAD
COUNT MOSCOW'S NARRATIVE
DR. DIGGS'S STATEMENT
MARY MCGILLUP, A SOUTHERN NOVEL, AFTER BELLE BOYD
Aug 2000 Confessions of A Justified Sinner, by James Hogg [pmfjsxxx.xxx]2276
[Entire title: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of A Justified Sinner]
Aug 2000 The Pioneers, by James Fenimore Cooper [Cooper#3] [tpnrsxxx.xxx]2275
Aug 2000 How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, by Arnold Bennett [24hrsxxx.xxx]2274
Aug 2000 Tom Swift And His Motor-Boat, by Victor Appleton [02tomxxx.xxx]2273
Not on archive
Aug 2000 The Discovery of Guiana, by Walter Raleigh WR#3] [guianxxx.xxx]2272
Aug 2000 He Fell In Love With His Wife, by Edward P. Roe [inlhwxxx.xxx]2271
And a few for next month. . .
Sep 2000 Droll Stories [V. 2], by Honore de Balzac[HdB #91][2drllxxx.xxx]2318
Sep 2000 The Story of My Heart, by Richard Jefferies [tsomhxxx.xxx]2317
Sep 2000 The Choir Invisible, by James Lane Allen [chrnvxxx.xxx]2316
Sep 2000 The Flag-Raising, by Kate Douglas Wiggin[Wiggin14][flgrsxxx.xxx]2315
Sep 2000 Geschichte des Agathon, Teil 2, by C M Wieland #3 [82agtxxx.xxx]2314
Sep 2000 Geschichte des Agathon, Teil 2, by C M Wieland #3 [72agtxxx.xxx]2314
^^^This 7-bit version is not ready at the time the Newsletter is going out^^^
Sep 2000 Geschichte des Agathon, Teil 1, by C M Wieland #2 [81agtxxx.xxx]2313
Sep 2000 Geschichte des Agathon, Teil 1, by C M Wieland #2 [71agtxxx.xxx]2313
Sep 2000 Hermann und Dorothea, by Goethe [German 8-bits] #9[8hermxxx.xxx]2312
Sep 2000 Hermann und Dorothea, by Goethe [German 7-bits] #9[7hermxxx.xxx]2312
German/Two versions/7-bit version without accents/8-bit version with accents.
Sep 2000 Travels through France & Italy, by Tobias Smollett[ttfaixxx.xxx]2311
Sep 2000 In The Carquinez Woods, by Bret Harte [Harte #13][crqnzxxx.xxx]2310
Sep 2000 The Freelands, by John Galsworthy [Galsworthy #2][frndsxxx.xxx]2309
Sep 1999 Bunyan Characters (3rd Series), by Alex. Whyte #3 [3bnchxxx.xxx]2308
Sep 2000 The Depot Master, by Joseph C. Lincoln [dpmstxxx.xxx]2307
and we have the individual play files for our Shakespeare First Folio:
Jul 2000 The Complete Shakespeare's First Folio [35 Plays][00ws1xxx.xxx]2270
Jul 2000 Cymbeline, by Wm. Shakespeare [First Folio]=[FF][0ws39xxx.xxx]2269
Jul 2000 Anthony and Cleopater, by Wm. Shakespeare [FF][0ws35xxx.xxx]2268
Jul 2000 Othello, by William Shakespeare [FF][0ws32xxx.xxx]2267
Jul 2000 King Lear, by William Shakespeare [FF][0ws33xxx.xxx]2266
Jul 2000 Hamlet, by William Shakespeare [FF][0ws26xxx.xxx]2265
Jul 2000 Macbeth, by William Shakespeare [FF][0ws34xxx.xxx]2264
Jul 2000 Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare [FF][0ws24xxx.xxx]2263
Jul 2000 Timon of Athens, by William Shakespeare [FF][0ws37xxx.xxx]2262
Jul 2000 Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare [FF][0ws16xxx.xxx]2261
Jul 2000 Titus Andronicus, by William Shakespeare [FF][0ws09xxx.xxx]2260
Jul 2000 Coriolanus, by William Shakespeare [FF][0ws36xxx.xxx]2259
Jul 2000 Henry VIII, by William Shakespeare [FF][0ws42xxx.xxx]2258
Jul 2000 Richard III, by William Shakespeare [FF][0ws04xxx.xxx]2257
Jul 2000 Henry VI Part 3, by William Shakespeare [FF][0ws03xxx.xxx]2256
Jul 2000 Henry VI Part 2, by William Shakespeare [FF][0ws02xxx.xxx]2255
Jul 2000 Henry VI Part 1, by William Shakespeare [FF][0ws01xxx.xxx]2254
Jul 2000 Henry V, by William Shakespeare [FF][0ws23xxx.xxx]2253
Jul 2000 Henry IV Part 2, by William Shakespeare [FF][0ws21xxx.xxx]2252
Jul 2000 Henry IV Part 1, by William Shakespeare [FF][0ws19xxx.xxx]2251
Jul 2000 Richard II, by William Shakespeare [FF][0ws15xxx.xxx]2250
Jul 2000 King John, by William Shakespeare [FF][0ws14xxx.xxx]2249
Jul 2000 The Winters Tale, by William Shakespeare [FF][0ws40xxx.xxx]2248
Jul 2000 Twelfe-Night, by William Shakespeare [FF][0ws28xxx.xxx]2247
Jul 2000 All is well, that Ends well, by Shakespeare [FF][0ws30xxx.xxx]2246
Jul 2000 The Taming of the Shrew, by Wm. Shakespeare [FF][0ws10xxx.xxx]2245
Jul 2000 As you Like it, by William Shakespeare [FF][0ws25xxx.xxx]2244
Jul 2000 The Merchant of Venice, by Wm. Shakespeare [FF][0ws18xxx.xxx]2243
Jul 2000 Midsummer Nights Dreame, by Wm. Shakespeare [FF][0ws17xxx.xxx]2242
Jul 2000 Loves Labour Lost, by William Shakespeare [FF][0ws12xxx.xxx]2241
Jul 2000 Much adoo about Nothing, by Wm. Shakespeare [FF][0ws22xxx.xxx]2240
Jul 2000 The Comedy of Errours , by Wm. Shakespeare [FF][0ws06xxx.xxx]2239
Jul 2000 Measure for Measure, by William Shakespeare [FF][0ws31xxx.xxx]2238
Jul 2000 The Merry Wives of Windsor, by Shakespeare [FF][0ws20xxx.xxx]2237
Jul 2000 The Two Gentlemen of Verona, by Shakespeare [FF][0ws11xxx.xxx]2236
Jul 2000 The Tempest, by William Shakespeare [FF][0ws41xxx.xxx]2235
Notes from Edupage and News Scan
FCC CHAIR TO WORLDCOM: NOT SO FAST THERE
A statement by Federal Communications Commission chairman William E. Kennard
indicates that MCI WorldCom may have some difficulty getting FCC approval of
its $129-billion acquisition of Sprint: "Competition has produced a price
war in the long-distance market. This merger appears to be a surrender. How
can this be good for customers? The parties will bear a heavy burden to show
how consumers would be better off." (Washington Post 6 Oct 99)
jhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/daily/oct99/mci6.htm
The Vergil group, one of several "collective self-study" Latin groups
on latin@lists.colorado.edu, is currently translating the *Aeneid*
from Latin into English at the rate of 30-35 lines a week, using the PG text.
Participants translate each week's assignments, and then have the opportunity
to compare their translations with other participants' work. For more
information, contact Meredith Dixon <dixonm@access.mountain.net>
Not many notable stories this month. . .sorry. . . .
Unless you count TIME and the Trib. . .hee hee mh
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Subject: Project Gutenberg Newsletter for October
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 12:25:31 -0500 (CDT)
arcboss
This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter of Wednesday, October 6, 1999
Etexts Readable By Both Humans and Computers Since Before The Internet
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*Check out our Websites at promo.net, and ask me for our FTP servers.*
Table of Contents:
Headline News
Requests For Assistance
Comments About Our New Files
Index Listings for the New Files
Notes from Edupage and News Scan
Headline News
The "On-Line Books Page" allows you to search titles and authors
of nearly 10,000 books on sites all over the Internet, including
Project Gutenberg. Try http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
This should have over 10,000 listings by the time you get there.
Requests
Some time ago, after a request made by Michael Hart, a few volunteers
helped posting on PG the Spanish literature masterwork Don Quijote de la
Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. I think that this could be a good opportunity
to continue posting etexts in Spanish but we need help from people wanting
to volunteer. I do not have much time to dedicate to the effort alone, so I
ask anyone wanting to help to contribute to contact Michael or myself in
order to create a "stable" group (like the one that does German etexts, for
example) on Spanish texts. Basically what we need is someone who has time
enough to become a "leader" of the team (I can help a little if needed),
proofers (to check scanned or already digitized texts) and/or searchers
for copyright matters. We would appreciate any help on this.
Jesus Joglar <joglar@iiqab.csic.es>
***
Publicity and Public Relations in the UK
Please let me know of any others who would be willing to team up and work
on publicity/PR in the UK. Garry Gill <gill@geography.nottingham.ac.uk>
***
Is anyone within a hundred miles of Bridgeport, CT
upgrading to a new computer in the next half year?
I have someone out there who I am trying VERY hard
to get on the Net, and this would be a GREAT! home
for your current computer. . .will even pay. . . .
Email me, and let me know the possibilities. . .it
is for one of the nicest people I ever met. mh
**
Also - I have at
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/etext/
Jim Henry <jimhenry@avana.net>
an unfinished etext of Benjamin Thorpe's pd translation of the Elder
Edda. I can't finish it because I've developed tendonitis & must
minimize my typing. But it's there if any other Gutenberg
volunteers want to tackle it.
**
We have a Balzac in French if anyone would like to work on it.
Michael Crew <arion@earthling.net>, and please cc:me
And we need someone to do French spellchecking.
***
Comments About Our New Files
This month we have completed our first draft of the Human Genome. If you
have some interest in this area, we are working on a search program. . .
to locate "conserved sequences/motifs" as well as specific genes. Also,
if you would like to write an article about the Human Genome. . .or know
anyone who would, or who would like to play with the program, email me.
We have also gotten back on track with our calendar. . .having completed
the rather large extra tasks we set for ourselves a few months ago. You
will notice [at least while I am writing this, that there are full month
scheduled releases this month. . .and three from next month.
***
**And Now Our List of Current Postings of More Project Gutenberg Etexts**
Here is a listing of all the Etexts for both May AND June, 2000, and this
time I left in the number I use for counting to make sure there are 36...
since there are so many notes and comments. For those who actually count
. . .which I hope SOME of you do. . .as I lost track at least once. . . .
We also have a few listings from collections we started/reserved previously:
Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 12[12frdxxx.xxx]2112
[We have now posted 12 of the 21 volumes of this set]
May 2000 Misc Writings and Speeches, Lord Macaulay V4 of 4[4mwsmxxx.xxx]2170
[Volume 4 is not done yet at this time. . .]
May 2000 Misc Writings and Speeches, Lord Macaulay V3 of 4[3mwsmxxx.xxx]2169
May 2000 Misc Writings and Speeches, Lord Macaulay V2 of 4[2mwsmxxx.xxx]2168
May 2000 Misc Writings and Speeches, Lord Macaulay V1 of 4[1mwsmxxx.xxx]2167
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
*****A "C" Following a Project Gutenberg Etext Number Indicates Copyright****
Jul 2000 The Complete Shakespeare's First Folio [35 Plays] [00ws1xxx.xxx]2270
All 36 files for July, 2000 will be Shakespeare's First Folio, we have posted
the entire First Folio in one file already, and are making 35 more files. . .
36
Jun 2000 Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green, by Jerome 20[sklbgxxx.xxx]2234
Jun 2000 A Damsel in Distress, by P.G. Wodehouse [PGW #3] [dmsndxxx.xxx]2233
Jun 2000 Captain Stormfield, by Mark Twain [Mark Twain #17][cptstxxx.xxx]2232
Jun 2000 All Roads Lead to Calvary, by Jerome K. Jerome #20[rdclvxxx.xxx]2231
32
Jun 2000 Faust: Der Tragoedie [Part 2] by Goethe[Goethe #8][8fau2xxx.xxx]2230*
Jun 2000 Faust: Der Tragoedie [Part 2] by Goethe[Goethe #8][7fau2xxx.xxx]2230*
Jun 2000 Faust: Der Tragoedie [Part 1] by Goethe[Goethe #7][8fau1xxx.xxx]2229*
Jun 2000 Faust: Der Tragoedie [Part 1] by Goethe[Goethe #7][7fau1xxx.xxx]2229*
Jun 2000 Reineke Fuchs, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [#6][7fchsxxx.xxx]2228*
Jun 2000 Reineke Fuchs, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [#6][8fchsxxx.xxx]2228*
German/Two versions/7-bit version without accents/8-bit version with accents.*
Jun 2000 Soldiers Three [Part II] by Rudyard Kipling[RK#11][sldr3xxx.xxx]2227
This is "Part II" of Soldiers Three, we don't have "Part I" and Contains:
"LOVE-O'-WOMEN" - from "Many Inventions"
THE BIG DRUNK DRAF'
THE MUTINY OF THE MAVERICKS
THE MAN WHO WAS
ONLY A SUBALTERN
IN THE MATTER OF A PRIVATE
THE LOST LEGION - from "Many Inventions"
THE DRUMS OF THE FORE AND AFT
JUDSON AND THE EMPIRE - from "Many Inventions"
A CONFERENCE OF THE POWERS - from "Many Inventions"
28
Jun 2000 Kim, by Rudyard Kipling [Rudyard Kipling #10] [kimrkxxx.xxx]2226
Jun 2000 Captains Courageous, by Rudyard Kipling[Kipling#9][cptcrxxx.xxx]2225
[This is independent of the version of Etext #2186, and we would LOVE if this
could be compared to that version, and a better version of both created. Let
me know via email of you would be willing to work on this. . .Michael. . . .]
Bill Stoddard <hscrr@vgernet.net>,David Reed <davidr@inconnect.com>
[The following 24 files contain the ATGC codes from the Human Genome Project]
We will be updating these as more data becomes available, but not every month
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Y Chromosome [#24] [0yhgpxxx.xxx]2224
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, X Chromosome [#23] [0xhgpxxx.xxx]2223
24
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 22 [22hgpxxx.xxx]2222
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 21 [21hgpxxx.xxx]2221
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 20 [20hgpxxx.xxx]2220
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 19 [19hgpxxx.xxx]2219
20
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 18 [18hgpxxx.xxx]2218
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 17 [17hgpxxx.xxx]2217
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 16 [16hgpxxx.xxx]2216
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 15 [15hgpxxx.xxx]2215
16
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 14 [14hgpxxx.xxx]2214
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 13 [13hgpxxx.xxx]2213
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 12 [12hgpxxx.xxx]2212
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 11 [11hgpxxx.xxx]2211
12
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 10 [10hgpxxx.xxx]2210
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 09 [19hgpxxx.xxx]2209
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 08 [08hgpxxx.xxx]2208
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 07 [07hgpxxx.xxx]2207
8
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 06 [06hgpxxx.xxx]2206
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 05 [05hgpxxx.xxx]2205
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 04 [04hgpxxx.xxx]2204
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 03 [03hgpxxx.xxx]2203
4
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 02 [02hgpxxx.xxx]2202
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 01 [01hgpxxx.xxx]2201
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, About the Human Genome Files[0ahgpxxx.xxx]2200
[This file is reserved for information about the Human Genome Project Files.]
Jun 2000 The Iliad, by Homer, translated by Samuel Butler [iliadxxx.xxx]2199
May 2000 Stories from Pentamerone, by Giambattista Basile [pntmnxxx.xxx]2198
May 2000 The Gambler, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky[Dostoyevsky #2][gamblxxx.xxx]2197
May 2000 An Iceland Fisherman, by Pierre Loti [icfshxxx.xxx]2196
May 2000 The Master of Mrs. Chilvers by Jerome K. Jerome 19[mschlxxx.xxx]2195
32
May 2000 Mauprat, by George Sand [Aurore Dupin/Dedevant] #1[muprtxxx.xxx]2194
[Lucile Amandine Aurore Dupin / Armentine Lucile Aurore Dupin/later Dudevant]
Also see:
Jun 1994 Biography of George Sand, by Rene Doumic [sandb10x.xxx] 138
May 2000 A Ward of the Golden Gate, by Bret Harte[Harte #6][wotggxxx.xxx]2193
May 2000 The Dark Flower, by John Galsworthy [dkflrxxx.xxx]2192
May 2000 Boy Scouts in Mexico, by G. Harvey Ralphson [bsimxxxx.xxx]2191
28
May 2000 Isabella von Aegypten, by Ludwig Achim von Arnim [7isblxxx.xxx]2190*
May 2000 Isabella von Aegypten, by Ludwig Achim von Arnim [8isblxxx.xxx]2190*
May 2000 Der Gwissenswurm, by Ludwig Anzengruber [German] [7gwssxxx.xxx]2189*
May 2000 Der Gwissenswurm, by Ludwig Anzengruber [German] [8gwssxxx.xxx]2189*
May 2000 Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurid Brigge, by Rilke [7maltxxx.xxx]2188*
May 2000 Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurid Brigge, by Rilke [8maltxxx.xxx]2188*
May 2000 Oberon, by Christoph Martin Wieland [In German] [7oberxxx.xxx]2187*
May 2000 Oberon, by Christoph Martin Wieland [In German] [8oberxxx.xxx]2187*
German/Two versions/7-bit version without accents/8-bit version with accents.*
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May 2000 Captains Courageous, by Rudyard Kipling[Kipling#9][cptcrxxx.xxx]2186
Bill Stoddard <hscrr@vgernet.net>
This Project Gutenberg Etext prepared by Bill Stoddard <hscrr@vgernet.net>
[This will still need some serious proofreading, which will not be easy,^M
given the unusual spellings and language. Please cc: hart@pobox.com]^M
May 2000 Maruja, by Bret Harte [Bret Harte #5][hllhlxxx.xxx]2185
May 2000 Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, by Isabella L. Bird [utrkjxxx.xxx]2184
May 2000 Three Men on the Bummel, by Jerome K. Jerome [#18][tmotbxxx.xxx]2183
20
May 2000 The Marble Faun V. 2, by Nathaniel Hawthorne[NH#9][2faunxxx.xxx]2182*
[This one is almost ready, but not quite. . .will be online next week I hope]
May 2000 The Marble Faun V. 1, by Nathaniel Hawthorne[NH#8][1faunxxx.xxx]2181
May 2000 In A Hollow Of The Hills, by Bret Harte [Harte #5][hllhlxxx.xxx]2180
May 2000 Drift from Two Shores, by Bret Harte [Harte #4[[dftshxxx.xxx]2179
16
May 2000 By Shore and Sedge, by Bret Harte [Bret Harte #3][bysnsxxx.xxx]2178
May 2000 Thankful Blossom, by Bret Harte [Bret Harte #2][tkfblxxx.xxx]2177
May 2000 Seven Discourses on Art, by Joshua Reynolds [artdsxxx.xxx]2176
May 2000 You Never Can Tell, by [George] Bernard Shaw [#7] [nvrctxxx.xxx]2175
12
May 2000 Frau und Kindern auf der Spur, by Gerold K. Rohner[8spurxxx.xxx]2174C
May 2000 Frau und Kindern auf der Spur, by Gerold K. Rohner[7spurxxx.xxx]2174C
German/Two versions/7-bit version without accents/8-bit version with accents.*
May 2000 Thoughts on Present Discontents, etc., by Burke [thdscxxx.xxx]2173
May 2000 That Mainwaring Affair, by Maynard Barbour [mnwrnxxx.xxx]2172
May 2000 Brother Jacob, by George Eliot [George Eliot #5][brjcbxxx.xxx]2171
8
May 2000 Misc Writings and Speeches, Lord Macaulay V4 of 4[4mwsmxxx.xxx]2170*
[Volume 4 is not done yet at this time. . .]
May 2000 Misc Writings and Speeches, Lord Macaulay V3 of 4[3mwsmxxx.xxx]2169
May 2000 Misc Writings and Speeches, Lord Macaulay V2 of 4[2mwsmxxx.xxx]2168
May 2000 Misc Writings and Speeches, Lord Macaulay V1 of 4[1mwsmxxx.xxx]2167
4
May 2000 King Solomon's Mines, by H. Rider Haggard [HRH #9][7kslmxxx.xxx]2166
May 2000 King Solomon's Mines, by H. Rider Haggard [HRH #9][8kslmxxx.xxx]2166
**Two versions, 7-bit version without accents, 8-bit version with accents.**
May 2000 The Lifted Veil, by George Eliot [George Eliot #4][lftvlxxx.xxx]2165
May 2000 The Lumley Autograph Susan Fenimore Cooper[SFC#2][lumlyxxx.xxx]2164
May 2000 The Bridge-Builders, by Mark Twain[Mark Twain #16][brdgbxxx.xxx]2163
**And a few for next month, of course:
Aug 2000 How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, by Arnold Bennett [24hrsxxx.xxx]2274
Aug 2000 Not Ready Yet, Sorry. . .Michael [ xxx.xxx]2273
Aug 2000 The Discovery of Guiana, by Walter Raleigh WR#3] [guianxxx.xxx]2272
Aug 2000 He Fell In Love With His Wife, by Edward P. Roe [inlhwxxx.xxx]2271
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NEW HANDHELD COMPUTER TO COMPETE AGAINST PALMPILOT
The creators of the PalmPilot handheld computer, who left their former
company to form a new one called Handspring, are about to compete against
the PalmPilot. Called "Visor," their new device will be sold in modular
versions starting at $149 and will be aimed at both the consumer and office
markets. Various modules will enable the Visor to work as a digital camera,
music player, pager, and wireless telephone. (Reuters/New York Times 10 Sep 99)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/09/biztech/articles/10handspring.html
BRITISH TELECOM OFFERS FREE PCs
British Telecom has become the first U.K. Internet service provider to offer
customers a free personal computer as part of its BT Internet PC package.
The package, which costs 25.99 British pounds a month, also includes
installation, training, and free weekend ISP connections. At the end of
three years, customers will own their Fujitsu PC. BT says its new service
will cost less than 90p a day, and noted that the free weekend connections
would eliminate the potential problem of children running up phone bills
during peak Internet usage times. (Associated Newspapers Ltd. 14 Sep 99)
www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/new...review_id=177834&in_review_text_id=143513
WRITERS WIN INTERNET COPYRIGHT SUIT IN CHINA
In the first case of its kind in China, a group of six prominent writers has
been awarded compensatory damages for having their work published without
their permission. The court ruled that Century Internet Communications
Technology Co. had violated the writers' copyrights by putting their works
on Beijing Online's Web site. The writers will receive anywhere from 720
yuan ($87) to 12,380 yuan (about $1,480) each. (Reuters/San Jose Mercury
News 22 Sep 99) http://www.sjmercury.com/
FREELANCERS' PERMISSION NEEDED TO POST ELECTRONICALLY
A federal appeals-court panel has ruled that publishers must receive
permission from freelance writers, musicians, photographers and artists
before putting their material online or onto CD-ROMs, and must pay them
extra compensation for the privilege unless otherwise contractually
negotiated. The original suit was filed in 1993 by six writers who accused
several media companies, including the New York Times, Time Warner's Sports
Illustrated, Times Mirror's Newsday, and Reed-Elsevier's Lexis/Nexis
database, of copyright infringement for reproducing their work online
without permission. A federal court judge in 1997 sided with the publishers,
saying that electronic databases are simply revised versions of original
publications and that copyright law doesn't require extra payment by
publishers. The appeals-court panel on Friday found that databases differ
significantly because they contain thousands or millions of individual
articles that can be retrieved without reference to the original
publication. Most media companies today require "all rights" contracts,
which explicitly include electronic reproduction, but the real problem for
media organizations, says attorney Bruce Keller, is what should be done
about articles written during the 20 years prior to this case.
(Wall Street Journal 28 Sep 99)
PHONES OUTNUMBER UMBRELLAS IN LOST-AND-FOUND
Londoners are leaving up to 45 mobile phones on buses and trains every day
-- outnumbering the number of umbrellas left behind for the first time ever.
According to Maureen Beaumont, manager of London Transport's lost property
office, the number of handsets being turned in is up sharply: "It's just
creeping up and up and up. It was just 30 a day a couple of months ago. Now
we're up to 40 or 45 a day." This year so far, there are 4,000 abandoned
phones waiting to be claimed, but because many users have insurance policies
that replace their phones within a few days, most of the misplaced handsets
are just left in the lost property office for the requisite six months.
"After that we can sell them as a piece of hardware -- we just dispose of
the sim card," says Beaumont. (Financial Times 27 Sep 99)
http://www.ft.com/hippocampus/q181aba.htm
WIRED CITIES
An Ohio State University study has identified the 20 "most
Internet-accessible" U.S. cities: 1, Washington, DC; 2, Chicago; 3, Dallas;
4, New York; 5, Atlanta; 6, San Jose; 7, Los Angeles; 8, Houston; 9, San
Francisco; 10, Phoenix; 11, Boston; 12, Seattle; 13, Philadelphia; 14, St.
Louis; 15, Denver; 16, Baltimore; 17, Minneapolis; 18, Palo Alto; 19,
Detroit; 20, Santa Clara. The authors say, "In general, cities with more
linkages to the Internet backbone will have faster access and more reliable
connections to global information. This enhanced access results in a
comparative advantage that will grow in importance with the continuing
computerization of information." (Newsbytes News Network/USA Today 24 Sep 99)
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/nb/nb5.htm
MICROSOFT'S IE5 REELING AGAIN AFTER TWO NEW BUGS DISCOVERED
Experts this week found two new security bugs that affect
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 5 (IE5) browser. Security expert
Georgi Guninski discovered one spoofing glitch that would give
hackers access to data on IE5 even through a firewall. The bug
would allow an HTML JavaScript to activate once a user visits a
Web site, and then download files back to the user's computer.
Since the files are downloaded from the computer back to itself
rather than to another machine, firewalls do not prevent the
attack. After the information has been downloaded back to the
original computer, it can be sent to any IP address. Microsoft
is now working on a patch, and suggests in the meantime that
concerned users disable IE5's active scripting. A second bug,
confirmed this week by BugNet and its parent company KeyLabs,
would allow IE5's rendering engine to alter HTML tags. HTML tags
could change when users working with IE5 and Microsoft's MSHTML
editing and rendering engine use the "Web Page, complete" default
setting. Microsoft is working to repair the problem, and
suggests for now that users rely on the "Web Page, HTML only"
setting. (InfoWorld Electric 09/29/99)
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STUDY: HIGH COST FOR WINDOWS 2000 TRANSITION
The migration costs of Microsoft's Windows 2000 are so high that
companies implementing the operating system would be unlikely to
see a return on investment for at least three years, according to
a recent Gartner Group study. The report indicates that the
migration cost for Windows 2000 could amount to as much as $3,100
per PC. Gartner vice president Michael Gartenberg says by the
time a company would see a return on Windows 2000, it would be
time to switch to another operating system. Microsoft has
advertised Windows 2000 as offering "increased reliability,
availability, and scalability with end-to-end management features
that reduce operating costs." Microsoft studies indicate
companies migrating to Windows 2000 will see benefits
immediately. Microsoft concedes that migration can be expensive,
but says Windows 2000 can significantly reduce operating costs by
streamlining help-desk operations, improving PC manageability,
and offering businesses greater control over software
applications. (C|Net 09/09/99)
[For those of you who really think there are TERABYTE cables out there,
please note how this 4 GIGABYTE cable is referred to being so large mh]
CUT IN FIBER CABLE DISRUPTS INTERNET TRAFFIC NATIONWIDE
Internet traffic throughout the country was slowed dramatically
yesterday after a fiber cable was cut. A gas company in Ohio
inadvertently cut the cable with a backhoe at about noon
yesterday. Traffic between the East and West Coasts was as much
as 50 times slower than usual. Some companies experienced so
much trouble that they had no choice but to close down. Although
fiber cuts occur occasionally, a cut to such a large cable is
unusual, according to Bill Woodcock, a network architect for
regional ISP Zocalo. The cable was transmitting 40 billion bits
per second. Traffic that would usually move through the cable
was rerouted, but the congestion that resulted slowed data moving
through other network segments. GTE, which owned segments of the
cut cable, said last night that the cable would probably be fixed
by 9 p.m. (New York Times 09/30/99)
EXPERTS FEAR AN OUTBREAK OF Y2K VIRUSES
Computer security experts are concerned about a possible outbreak
of Y2K viruses after two Y2K-related viruses appeared last week.
Experts say Y2K hoaxes, viruses that are spread via
Y2K-remediation software, and viruses designed to first appear on
January 1, 2000, are among the dangers associated with the
beginning of the new millennium. A new "Trojan Horse" virus
appeared last week in the guise of an e-mail offering a free year
2000 countdown clock. Once activated, the virus enters the
computer's Internet connection to gain access to the user's
passwords and account numbers. The other virus appearing last
week, called W32/Fix2001, arrives as a note from the "system
administrator" and claims to provide software for fixing a Y2K
Internet problem. If launched, the virus will attach itself to
all future e-mail transmissions. Although experts say both
viruses are not considered major threats, future viruses could
be. (San Francisco Chronicle 09/20/99)
BRITISH PUBLISHER PUTS BOOKS ONLINE
Dorling Kindersley, a educational book and CD-ROM publisher, says it's
planning to put all of its material online, allowing customers to view
entire books online before they decide whether to purchase. The move signals
the bookseller's attempt to replicate the experience of shopping in a
bricks-and-mortar bookstore: "People want to be able to look inside books
just as they would in a store," says Alan Buckingham, managing director of
Dorling Kindersley Online. The company hopes to have 10% of its holdings
online by January. Executive Chairman Peter Kindersley acknowledges that
customers could print out the pages they need rather than buy the entire
text, but says that risk is small in comparison to the benefits of brand
awareness: "It is highly unlikely someone will print out a whole book
because the cost of printer cartridges is extremely high."
(Financial Times 15 Sep 99) http://www.ft.com/hippocampus/q15aeee6.htm
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I also have the following books that I will do:
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Tom Swift in the City of Gold
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Reposted Files:
Apr 1999 Our Legal Heritage, by S. A. Reilly [2nd Edition] [rlglhxxa.xxx]1694
The new version is rlglh10a.txt and .zip. . .in /etext99
This is direct from the author, the brand new edition, and pretty interesting
and
Jan 2000 Iphigenie auf Tauris, Johann von Goethe[#4] German[iphgnxxx.xxx]2054
Jul 1998 Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy/Tolstoi [Tolstoy #5][nkrnnxxx.xxx]1399
[A much improved version. . . .]
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New Files
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, X Chromosome [#23] [0xhgpxxx.xxx]2223
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 22 [22hgpxxx.xxx]2222
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 18 [18hgpxxx.xxx]2218
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 17 [17hgpxxx.xxx]2217
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 07 [07hgpxxx.xxx]2207
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 06 [06hgpxxx.xxx]2206
We have now posted 18 of the 24 chomosomes, should be done with the first
version of all 24 sometime this month.
And from May:
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*****A "C" Following a Project Gutenberg Etext Number Indicates Copyright****
May 2000 Seven Discourses on Art, by Joshua Reynolds [artdsxxx.xxx]2176
May 2000 You Never Can Tell, by [George] Bernard Shaw [#7] [nvrctxxx.xxx]2175
May 2000 Frau und Kindern auf der Spur, by Gerold K. Rohner[8spurxxx.xxx]2174C
May 2000 Frau und Kindern auf der Spur, by Gerold K. Rohner[7spurxxx.xxx]2174C
German/Two versions/7-bit version without accents/8-bit version with accents.*
May 2000 Thoughts on Present Discontents, etc., by Burke [thdscxxx.xxx]2173
May 2000 That Mainwaring Affair, by Maynard Barbour [mnwrnxxx.xxx]2172
May 2000 Brother Jacob, by George Eliot [George Eliot #5][brjcbxxx.xxx]2171
May 2000 Misc Writings and Speeches, Lord Macaulay V4 of 4[4mwsmxxx.xxx]2170*
May 2000 Misc Writings and Speeches, Lord Macaulay V3 of 4[3mwsmxxx.xxx]2169*
May 2000 Misc Writings and Speeches, Lord Macaulay V2 of 4[2mwsmxxx.xxx]2168*
May 2000 Misc Writings and Speeches, Lord Macaulay V1 of 4[1mwsmxxx.xxx]2167
[Only volume 1 is done right now, the other three are reserved for later..mh]
May 2000 King Solomon's Mines, by H. Rider Haggard [HRH #9][7kslmxxx.xxx]2166
May 2000 King Solomon's Mines, by H. Rider Haggard [HRH #9][8kslmxxx.xxx]2166
**Two versions, 7-bit version without accents, 8-bit version with accents.**
May 2000 The Lifted Veil, by George Eliot [George Eliot #4][lftvlxxx.xxx]2165
May 2000 The Lumley Autograph Susan Fenimore Cooper[SFC#2][lumlyxxx.xxx]2164
May 2000 The Bridge-Builders, by Mark Twain[Mark Twain #16][brdgbxxx.xxx]2163
And we have finally finished all the Etexts for April, 2000, all listed here:
Apr 2000 Anarchism and Other Essays, by Emma Goldman [nrcsmxxx.xxx]2162
Apr 2000 Song Book of Quong Lee of Limehouse, Thomas Burke [qunglxxx.xxx]2161
Apr 2000 The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Tobias Smollett[txohcxxx.xxx]2160
Apr 2000 A Little Tour In France, by Henry James[James #20][altifxxx.xxx]2159
Apr 2000 The Prime Minister, by Anthony Trollope[Trollope5][prmnsxxx.xxx]2158
Apr 2000 Female Suffrage, by Susan Fenimore Cooper [SFC #3][sffrgxxx.xxx]2157
Apr 2000 China and the Manchus, by Herbert A. Giles [#3][8mnchxxx.xxx]2156
Apr 2000 China and the Manchus, by Herbert A. Giles [#3][7mnchxxx.xxx]2156
7mnch is the 7-bit Plain Vanilla ASCII version/8mnch uses extended characters
Apr 2000 Phyllis of Philistia, by Frank Frankfort Moore [phophxxx.xxx]2155
Apr 2000 Around the World in 80 Days Jr. Ed. by Jules Verne[80dayxxa.xxx]2154
[A totally different edition than prevously released this = 80day10a.xxx]
Also see:
Jan 1994 Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne[Verne2][80day10x.xxx] 103
Apr 2000 Mary Barton, by Elizabeth Gaskell [Gaskell #4][mbrtnxxx.xxx]2153
Apr 2000 On the Makaloa Mat/Island Tales, Jack London 72-78[mklmtxxx.xxx]2152
[We stopped numbering the stories individually, but since these are close to
the last stories he ever wrote, we will finish Jack London this same way. mh]
Contains
Apr 2000 The Kanaka Surf, by Jack London [Jack London #78][mklmtxxx.xxx]2152
Apr 2000 The Tears of Ah Kim, by Jack London [London #77][mklmtxxx.xxx]2152
Apr 2000 The Water Baby, by Jack London [Jack London #76][mklmtxxx.xxx]2152
Apr 2000 Shin-Bones, by Jack London [Jack London #75][mklmtxxx.xxx]2152
Apr 2000 When Alice Told Her Soul, by Jack London [JL#74][mklmtxxx.xxx]2152
Apr 2000 The Bones of Kahekili, by Jack London [London #73][mklmtxxx.xxx]2152
Apr 2000 On the Makaloa Mat, by Jack London [London #72][mklmtxxx.xxx]2152
On the Makaloa Mat
The Bones of Kahekili
When Alice Told her Soul
Shin-Bones
The Water Baby
The Tears of Ah Kim
The Kanaka Surf
Apr 2000 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe V5[Raven Edition][10][poe5vxxx.xxx]2151
Contents
Philosophy of Furniture
A Tale of Jerusalem
The Sphinx
Hop Frog
The Man of the Crowd
Never Bet the Devill Your Head
Thou Art the Man
Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling
Bon-Bon
Some words with a Mummy
The Poetic Principle
Old English Poetry
and other poems including
The Raven, Lenore, and many others.
Apr 2000 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe V4[Raven Edition][#9][poe4vxxx.xxx]2150
Contents
The Devil in the Belfry
Lionizing
X-ing a Paragrab
Metzengerstein
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.
How to Write a Blackwood article
A Predicament
Mystification
Diddling
The Angel of the Odd
Mellonia Tauta
The Duc de l'Omlette
The Oblong Box
Loss of Breath
The Man That Was Used Up
The Business Man
The Landscape Garden
Maelzel's Chess-Player
The Power of Words
The Colloquy of Monas and Una
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
Shadow.--A Parable
Apr 2000 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe V3[Raven Edition][#8][poe3vxxx.xxx]2149
Contents
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym
Ligeia
Morella
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
The Spectacles
King Pest
Three Sundays in a Week
Apr 2000 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe V2[Raven Edition][#7][poe2vxxx.xxx]2148
Contents
The Purloined Letter
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherezade
A Descent into the Maelstrvm
Von Kempelen and his Discovery
Mesmeric Revelation
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The Black Cat
The Fall of the House of Usher
Silence -- a Fable
The Masque of the Red Death
The Cask of Amontillado
The Imp of the Perverse
The Island of the Fay
The Assignation
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Premature Burial
The Domain of Arnheim
Landor's Cottage
William Wilson
The Tell-Tale Heart
Berenice
Eleonora
Apr 2000 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe V1[Raven Edition][#6][poe1vxxx.xxx]2147
Contents
Edgar Allan Poe, An Appreciation
Life of Poe, by James Russell Lowell
Death of Poe, by N. P. Willis
The Unparalled Adventures of One Hans Pfall
The Gold Bug
Four Beasts in One
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Mystery of Marie Rogjt
The Balloon Hoax
MS. Found in a Bottle
The Oval Portrait
Apr 2000 Egmont, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[German] [#5][8gmntxxx.xxx]2146
Apr 2000 Egmont, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[German] [#5][7gmntxxx.xxx]2146
We produce two versions of each of our Etexts that have diacritic accents, an
8 bit version with the accents included, and a 7 bit version without them, so
all our readers can download a version they can read on whatever programs. mh
[The 8 bit version filenames begin with 8xxxx, and the 7 bit ones with 7xxxx]
Apr 2000 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, by Lew Wallace [benhrxxx.xxx]2145
Apr 2000 The Bible, in Danish, Old Testament, Copyrighted [bbldoxxx.xxx]2144C
Apr 2000 The Bible, in Danish, New Testament, Public Domain[bbldnxxx.xxx]2143
Apr 2000 Childhood, by Leo Tolstoy/Tolstoi [Leo Tolstoy #7][chldhxxx.xxx]2142
Apr 2000 Strictly Business[More 4 Million] by O Henry[OH#7][stbusxxx.xxx]2141
Contains:
STRICTLY BUSINESS
THE GOLD THAT GLITTERED
BABES IN THE JUNGLE
THE DAY RESURGENT
THE FIFTH WHEEL
THE POET AND THE PEASANT
THE ROBE OF PEACE
THE GIRL AND THE GRAFT
THE CALL OF THE TAME
THE UNKNOWN QUANTITY
THE THING'S THE PLAY
A RAMBLE IN APHASIA
A MUNICIPAL REPORT
PSYCHE AND THE PSKYSCRAPER
A BIRD OF BAGDAD
COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON
A NIGHT IN NEW ARABIA
THE GIRL AND THE HABIT
PROOF OF THE PUDDING
PAST ONE AT RODNEY'S
THE VENTURERS
THE DUEL
"WHAT YOU WANT"
Apr 2000 Extracts from the Diary of William Bray, by Bray [drbryxxx.xxx]2140
Apr 2000 Alvira, Heroine of Vesuvius, by A. J. O'Reilly [alvraxxx.xxx]2139
Apr 2000 The Day's Work - Part I, by Rudyard Kipling [RK#7][dywrkxxx.xxx]2138
Apr 2000 Rosamund, by Algernon Charles Swinburne [ACS #2][rsmndxxx.xxx]2137
Apr 2000 The Tale of Balen, by Algernon Charles Swinburne 1[balenxxx.xxx]2136
Apr 2000 Stories by English Authors in London, Scribners [sbealxxx.xxx]2135
Contains:
The Inconsiderate Waiter, by J. M. Barrie
The Black Poodle, by F. Anstry
That Brute Simmons, by Arthur Morrison
A Rose of the Ghetto, by I. Zangwill
The Omnibus, by "Q" [Quiller-Couch]
The Hired Baby, by Marie Correlli
Apr 2000 Utopia of Usurers, et al, by G. K. Chesterton[#14][uusryxxx.xxx]2134
Apr 2000 Chinese Sketches, by Herbert A. Giles [Giles #2][chnskxxx.xxx]2133
Apr 2000 The Daughter of an Empress, by Louise Muhlbach [dmprsxxx.xxx]2132
Apr 2000 An Account of Egypt, by Herodotus, Tr. by Macaulay[agyptxxx.xxx]2131
Apr 2000 Utopia, by Thomas More[Banned in his time][More#2][utopixxx.xxx]2130
Apr 2000 Murad the Unlucky, etc., by Maria Edgeworth[ME #3][muradxxx.xxx]2129
Apr 2000 Original Narratives of Early American History[var][mohwkxxx.xxx]2128
Apr 2000 Paul and Virginia, by Bernardin de Saint Pierre [pandvxxx.xxx]2127
And one from March
Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 11[11frdxxx.xxx]2111
[We still have 10 more to go in this series]
**
Notes from Edupage
NAVY OFFICIALS BACK OFF DIRE Y2K FORECAST [Under Duress]
The Navy issued a statement denying its earlier reports of
expected power failures resulting from the year 2000 (Y2K)
computer bug for nearly 60 Navy and Marine Corps installations.
The first Navy report found the probable and likely failure of
natural gas, electricity, water and sewer utility services in
communities near the installations. The Navy retracted the
statement, saying it now agrees with the White House assessment,
which states electrical failures will be unlikely in the new
year. Meanwhile, the Navy has not yet completed verifying Y2K
computer readiness for various Navy and Marine Corps communities.
The Navy posted its original findings on the Internet, but
removed them due to inaccurate and misleading information. Navy
officials say the database will be put back on the Internet,
accompanied with text explaining the findings.
(Washington Post 08/21/99)
[Here is the original report]
NAVY Y2K REPORT PREDICTS 'LIKELY' UTILITY OUTAGES IN SEVERAL CITIES
A recent updated Navy report predicts that electric utilities
serving nearly 60 of the approximately 400 Navy and Marine
facilities will probably suffer a power outage due to the year
2000 (Y2K) computer bug. The military report also expected power
failures in several cities, including Orlando and Ft. Lauderdale,
Fla.; as well as some midwinter natural gas failures in such
places as Fort Worth, Texas; Columbus, Ohio; and Albany, N.Y.
The Navy report is in sharp contrast to other predictions,
including conclusions from the White House. John
Koskinen--President Clinton's top Y2K advisor--said the Navy's
results were overly cautious and were based on the worst-case
scenario. (Washington Post 08/20/99)
WIRED ON CAMPUS E-LIFE
Many students are beginning to pick universities based on how
"wired" they are, according to a recent article in USA Today.
This is because students are performing more functions online,
from registering for classes and communicating with professors to
ordering take-out, than ever before. Of the 15 million students
currently attending a college, 60 percent say they go online
daily, and 85 percent of students own their own computers,
according to research firm Student Monitor. The company predicts
that university students will spend $700 million online during
the next school year, and over $4 billion online annually by
2002. (USA Today 08/19/99)
MICROSOFT-AOL WAR HEATS UP OVER NET ACCESS
Though America Online is on top of the online service provider
heap right now, Microsoft is aiming to knock it from its perch.
While AOL continues to charge for its service, Microsoft wishes
to move the market towards free or cheap access. The company has
tested a $9.95 price point for monthly access fees, and is
mulling over the idea of giving free access to consumers who
agree to spend a certain amount each month with some of
Microsoft's e-commerce partners. For its part, AOL says that
Microsoft's attempts to undercut monthly charges will ultimately
not be successful, as even deep-pocketed Microsoft cannot afford
to lose money on Internet access forever. Meanwhile, Microsoft
says its moves against AOL are protective in nature, believing
that in the near future AOL is planning to become an online
software platform to rival Microsoft's Windows.
(Wall Street Journal 08/05/99)
[More on the same subject]
ALTAVISTA OFFERING FREE INTERNET ACCESS
AltaVista Thursday launched a free Internet access service,
becoming the first major Internet site to do so. The company,
which owns one of the Web's 10 most visited sites, hopes to
attract more customers by providing free Internet access.
Although AltaVista will lose subscription revenues, the company
believes increased ad revenues will compensate for the loss.
AltaVista users will be required to begin their Web surfing from
the AltaVista home page, and will have an ad constantly in the
corner of their computer screens. In addition, a MicroPortal
will appear on the screen that contains banner ads as well as
links to shopping and search sites. Although AltaVista will not
sell consumer registration information, it will use the data to
customize ads to a user's interests, says AltaVista spokesperson
David Emmanuel. (USA Today 08/13/99)
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CLEVELAND FREE-NET CLOSES DOWN
Cleveland Free-Net, which was the nation's first free community computer
network, will shut down this Fall rather go through the effort and expense
of reprogramming the system to make it Y2K-compliant. One long-time user of
the Free-Net, which started in 1984 as an electronic bulletin board at Case
Western Reserve University, said: "It's just sad to see it go. It's an
institution." (AP/San Jose Mercury News 5 Aug 99)
http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/ap/docs/722931l.htm
CRYPTOGRAPHER DESIGNS SUPER-CODE-CRACKING COMPUTER
Cryptographer Adi Shamir of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel has
designed a computer that uses light-emitting diode technology to crack
512-bit encryption keys in just two or three days. A recent effort to crack
465-bit keys took hundreds of computers and several months. Twinkle, which
stands for The Weizmann Institute Key Locating Engine, measures the light
from the diodes to perform the mathematical calculations necessary to
decrypt the keys. The computer, if built, would cost about $2 million, and
could jeopardize the security of the majority of electronic commerce
underway today. Longer keys, with 1,024-bits, are now used for highly
sensitive documents, but the most popular browsers used for transactions
today are set for only 512 bits. (Wall Street Journal 16 Aug 99)
http://wsj.com/
TIPTOEING THROUGH THE WEB
Privada Inc. of San Jose, Calif., is offering a new service that allows
users to make all of their Internet activities - e-mail, online chats, Web
browsing and e-commerce transactions - completely anonymous. The Web
Incognito service encrypts the data flowing from the subscriber's Internet
service provider and masks its origins before sending it on to its intended
destination. The service, which can be switched on and off by the user,
also stores the subscriber's "cookies." Web Incognito differentiates itself
from other privacy products in that it covers all Internet activities - not
just Web browsing or e-mail - and has said it will share the identity of
users with law enforcement authorities who have appropriate warrants. "Our
service is for protecting the privacy of consumers, not for hiding criminals
or criminal activities," says Privada CEO Barbara Bellissimo. "We felt it
would be irresponsible not to give law enforcement agencies the information
if they have valid warrants." (New York Times 16 Aug 99)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/biztech/articles/16data.html
BROADCOM'S 10-IN-1 NETWORKING CHIP
Broadcom Corp. has developed a new networking chip that can perform tasks
now handled by up to 10 separate chips. The StrataSwitch chip boasts 60
million transistors and is capable of analyzing the content of data
transmissions and assigning higher priority to those packets containing
voice and video. "What this represents is basically the world's first true
switching system on a single chip," says the general manager of Broadcom's
networking business unit. (Reuters/San Jose Mercury News 16 Aug 99)
http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/086415.htm
SBC TO OFFER E-MAIL-ONLY PHONE SERVICE [Not only SBC. . .so news says]
SBC Communications plans a September launch for its new eMessage service --
designed for people who want to communicate online, but don't want to use a
computer to do it. The service will use a portable phone attachment that
includes a keyboard and screen. The e-mail-only service marks the first
time a major phone company has offered a service geared especially toward
the "Internet appliance" market. The eMessage service will cost about $10 a
month, and the device will sell for about $180 - about half the price of Web
phones. (Los Angeles Times 19 Aug 99)
http://www.latimes.com/HOME/BUSINESS/t000073861.html
NET ENEMIES LIST
Reporters Sans Frontiers, a Paris-based organization that promotes press
freedom, has compiled a Top-20 list of countries that severely restrict
citizens' access to information on the Internet. They are: Azerbaijan,
Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Libya, North
Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Tunisia,
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. Most of the countries named have
state-owned Internet service providers that filter and censor Web sites for
their citizens, and more repressive regimes, like Burma's, require computer
owners to register with the government. A few, like North Korea and Iraq,
have almost no Internet access at all. And in Saudi Arabia, the Internet is
viewed as "a harmful force for Westernizing people's minds." (Investor's
Business Daily 19 Aug 99)
http://www.investors.com/
INSTANT MESSAGING
Prodigy, Tribal Voice and PeopleLink have agreed to give their customers the
ability to instantly exchange notes with the 1.3 million users of the
Microsoft Network's instant message service. This accommodation with
Microsoft is in stark contrast to the position taken by America Online,
which has repeatedly counterattacked Microsoft's attempt to link its own
service with AOL's to allow instant communication between Microsoft and AOL
customers. (San Jose Mercury News 18 Aug 99)
http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/ap/docs/764802l.htm
JUDGE NIXES AOL TRADEMARK ATTEMPT
A federal judge has rejected America Online's attempt to prohibit AT&T from
using the terms "You have mail," "Buddy List," and "IM" on its WorldNet
service. AOL had claimed that the words and phrases were trademarked.
"We're pleased the court agreed that these terms are in the public domain -
available for all to use," says AT&T General Counsel Jim Cicconi. "AOL's
claim that it owns the everyday language of the Internet is another example
of AOL's attempt to monopolize all aspects of services over the Internet."
AOL says it will appeal the ruling and its general counsel is "confident
that the ruling will be reversed." (Bloomberg News/Los Angeles Times 17
Aug 99) http://www.latimes.com/HOME/BUSINESS/t000073171.html
PRIVACY ADVOCATES COMPLAIN ABOUT AMAZON'S "FUN FEATURE"
Amazon.com says its new "Purchase Circle" feature is "a fun way for people
to find out what others are buying yet maintain individual confidentiality,"
but privacy advocates think it's a step in the wrong direction. The feature
allows people to see what the most popular books are among Amazon patrons at
any large organization; for example, "Memories of a Geisha" is now No. 1 at
Charles Schwab, and "The End of Marketing As We Know It" at CocaCola. Web
design expert Jacob Nielsen says, "From a privacy perspective, it's very
scary. It's a true Big Brother phenomenon." The feature can not be used to
learn what individuals are reading; the company only makes public reading
profiles of groups that include at least several hundred individuals. [No
inferences are drawn from the popularity of particular books at particular
institutions.] David Sobel of the Electronic Privacy Information Center
says, "People don't like the idea that their purchases are being turned into
profiles, and they certainly don't like the idea that information is turned
over to third parties, even it it's not personally identifiable." (USA
Today 26 Aug 99) http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctf950.htm
ICANN AGAIN REJECTS REQUEST FOR INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIPS
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has for the
second time rejected a request for representation by a number of persons who
own Internet domain names as individuals rather than as corporations or
other organizations. ICANN, now meeting in Chile, has been accused of
letting its decision-making activities be biased in the interests of large
organizations that can afford to send their representatives all over the
world. (New York Times Cybertimes 26 Aug 99)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/cyber/articles/26domain.html
FORTY MOVIES ON A SINGLE DISK
Japan's Science & Technology Agency and Sharp Corp. have developed a 12-inch
(30.5 cm) memory disk that can store 200 gigabytes of data, which is enough
to store 40 times more data than a digital video disk (DVD), or the
equivalent of 40 two-hour movies. The new disk and disk drive will not be
available commercially for at least three years. (San Jose Mercury News 26
Aug 99) http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/011223.htm
PLAIN VANILLA INTERNET ACCESS
Swedish ISP BIP Bottnia Internet Provider is giving Internet service away
for free to customers who buy ice cream from Hemglass trucks. "All visitors
to the Hemglass trucks will be able to pick up a free Internet subscription
as a fun extra offer," says the head of marketing at Hemglass. The company's
200 trucks make 15,000 stops every day, reaching 90% of all Swedish
households. (Bloomberg News/Los Angeles Times 26 Aug 99)
http://www.latimes.com/HOME/BUSINESS/t000076061.html
LONDON FIRM CHALLENGES HACKERS
London-based Global Market is offering $50,000 to anyone who can crack its
high-security "1on1" service. The service includes a special feature called
autoshredder, which allows users to order an e-mail message to delete itself
from the recipient's computer at a specified time, leaving no trace. "There
are other companies offering security, not quite to the same extent as us,
and not to the same level of security. Nobody else offers the self-destruct
e-mail," says Steven James, the company's technical director.
(Reuters 26 Aug 99) http://www.msnbc.com/news/304583.asp
AOL LAUNCHES FREE UK INTERNET SERVICE
In an effort to squelch upstart British rival Freeserve, America Online has
launched its own subscription-free service in the U.K. Freeserve's free
Internet access model has been copied by about 200 other service providers
in the U.K. over the last year, causing British consumers to lose interest
in subscription-based ISPs. In a further attempt to clone the Freeserve
model, AOL Europe has linked with retail giant Kingfisher to distribute the
free service. Freeserve uses parent company Dixons' outlets to sell its
software. (Financial Times 25 Aug 99)
http://www.ft.com/hippocampus/q14310a.htm
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_Ken Ward in the Jungle_. New York: Harper, 1912.
Wells, H. G.
_The Passionate Friends_. New York: A. L. Burt, 1913.
_In the Fourth Year_. New York: Macmillan, 1918.
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New Files
We have a very interesting collection of Etext for you this August.
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And now, here are 43? Etexts from March, April and June, of year 2000.
Apr 2000 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe V5[Raven Edition][10][poe5vxxx.xxx]2151
Contents
Philosophy of Furniture
A Tale of Jerusalem
The Sphinx
Hop Frog
The Man of the Crowd
Never Bet the Devill Your Head
Thou Art the Man
Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling
Bon-Bon
Some words with a Mummy
The Poetic Principle
Old English Poetry
and other poems including
The Raven, Lenore, and many others.
Apr 2000 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe V4[Raven Edition][#9][poe4vxxx.xxx]2150
Contents
The Devil in the Belfry
Lionizing
X-ing a Paragrab
Metzengerstein
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.
How to Write a Blackwood article
A Predicament
Mystification
Diddling
The Angel of the Odd
Mellonia Tauta
The Duc de l'Omlette
The Oblong Box
Loss of Breath
The Man That Was Used Up
The Business Man
The Landscape Garden
Maelzel's Chess-Player
The Power of Words
The Colloquy of Monas and Una
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
Shadow.--A Parable
Apr 2000 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe V3[Raven Edition][#8][poe3vxxx.xxx]2149
Contents
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym
Ligeia
Morella
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
The Spectacles
King Pest
Three Sundays in a Week
Apr 2000 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe V2[Raven Edition][#7][poe2vxxx.xxx]2148
Contents
The Purloined Letter
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherezade
A Descent into the Maelstrvm
Von Kempelen and his Discovery
Mesmeric Revelation
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The Black Cat
The Fall of the House of Usher
Silence -- a Fable
The Masque of the Red Death
The Cask of Amontillado
The Imp of the Perverse
The Island of the Fay
The Assignation
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Premature Burial
The Domain of Arnheim
Landor's Cottage
William Wilson
The Tell-Tale Heart
Berenice
Eleonora
Apr 2000 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe V1[Raven Edition][#6][poe1vxxx.xxx]2147
Contents
Edgar Allan Poe, An Appreciation
Life of Poe, by James Russell Lowell
Death of Poe, by N. P. Willis
The Unparalled Adventures of One Hans Pfall
The Gold Bug
Four Beasts in One
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Mystery of Marie Rogjt
The Balloon Hoax
MS. Found in a Bottle
The Oval Portrait
Apr 2000 Egmont, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[German] [#5][8gmntxxx.xxx]2146
Apr 2000 Egmont, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[German] [#5][7gmntxxx.xxx]2146
We produce two versions of each of our Etexts that have diacritic accents, an
8 bit version with the accents included, and a 7 bit version without them, so
all our readers can download a version they can read on whatever programs. mh
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Apr 2000 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, by Lew Wallace [benhrxxx.xxx]2145
Apr 2000 The Bible, in Danish, Old Testament, Copyrighted [bbldoxxx.xxx]2144C
Apr 2000 The Bible, in Danish, New Testament, Public Domain[bbldnxxx.xxx]2143
Apr 2000 Childhood, by Leo Tolstoy/Tolstoi [Leo Tolstoy #7][chldhxxx.xxx]2142
Apr 2000 Strictly Business[More 4 Million] by O Henry[OH#7][stbusxxx.xxx]2141
Contains:
STRICTLY BUSINESS
THE GOLD THAT GLITTERED
BABES IN THE JUNGLE
THE DAY RESURGENT
THE FIFTH WHEEL
THE POET AND THE PEASANT
THE ROBE OF PEACE
THE GIRL AND THE GRAFT
THE CALL OF THE TAME
THE UNKNOWN QUANTITY
THE THING'S THE PLAY
A RAMBLE IN APHASIA
A MUNICIPAL REPORT
PSYCHE AND THE PSKYSCRAPER
A BIRD OF BAGDAD
COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON
A NIGHT IN NEW ARABIA
THE GIRL AND THE HABIT
PROOF OF THE PUDDING
PAST ONE AT RODNEY'S
THE VENTURERS
THE DUEL
"WHAT YOU WANT"
Apr 2000 Extracts from the Diary of William Bray, by Bray [drbryxxx.xxx]2140
Apr 2000 Alvira, Heroine of Vesuvius, by A. J. O'Reilly [alvraxxx.xxx]2139
Apr 2000 The Day's Work - Part I, by Rudyard Kipling [RK#7][dywrkxxx.xxx]2138
Apr 2000 Rosamund, by Algernon Charles Swinburne [ACS #2][rsmndxxx.xxx]2137
Apr 2000 The Tale of Balen, by Algernon Charles Swinburne 1[balenxxx.xxx]2136
Apr 2000 Stories by English Authors in London, Scribners [sbealxxx.xxx]2135
Apr 2000 Utopia of Usurers, et al, by G. K. Chesterton[#14][uusryxxx.xxx]2134
Apr 2000 Chinese Sketches, by Herbert A. Giles [Giles #2][chnskxxx.xxx]2133
Apr 2000 The Daughter of an Empress, by Louise Muhlbach [dmprsxxx.xxx]2132
Apr 2000 An Account of Egypt, by Herodotus, Tr. by Macaulay[agyptxxx.xxx]2131
Apr 2000 Utopia, by Thomas More[Banned in his time][More#2][utopixxx.xxx]2130
Apr 2000 Murad the Unlucky, etc., by Maria Edgeworth[ME #3][muradxxx.xxx]2129
Apr 2000 Original Narratives of Early American History[var][mohwkxxx.xxx]2128
Apr 2000 Paul and Virginia, by Bernardin de Saint Pierre [pandvxxx.xxx]2127
Mar 2000 The Quest of the Sacred Slipper, by Sax Rohmer[#6][qotssxxx.xxx]2126
Mar 2000 The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, Samuel W. Baker[niletxxx.xxx]2125
Mar 2000 Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms, by Fa-Hien[Legge#1][rbddhxxx.xxx]2124
Mar 2000 The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard by Anatole France 3[tcosbxxx.xxx]2123
Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 10[10frdxxx.xxx]2110
Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 9 [09frdxxx.xxx]2109
Mar 2000 The Bible, in Swedish, From Project Runeberg [biblsxxx.xxx]2100
Mar 2000 History of the Moravian Church, by J. E. Hutton [hotmcxxx.xxx]2099
Mar 2000 A Thief in the Night, by E. W. Hornung[Hornung #4][thfntxxx.xxx]2098
Mar 2000 The Sign of the Four, by Arthur Conan Doyle [#16][sign4xxx.xxx]2097
Mar 2000 A Smaller History of Greece, by William Smith [asmhgxxx.xxx]2096
Mar 2000 Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States, by Brown [clotlxxb.xxx]2095
and
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 20 [20hgpxxx.xxx]2220
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 14 [14hgpxxx.xxx]2214
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 12 [14hgpxxx.xxx]2212
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 11 [11hgpxxx.xxx]2211
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 05 [05hgpxxx.xxx]2205
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 04 [04hgpxxx.xxx]2204
Not all sites have the ??hgp10.txt file, due to size limitations.
Last month we failed to report properly the other characters in the
chromosome files besides ATGC. . .here they are:
? Meaning
a a; adenine
c c; cytosine
g g; guanine
t t; thymine in DNA; uracil in RNA
m a or c
r a or g
w a or t
s c or g
y c or t
k g or t
v a or c or g; not t
h a or c or t; not g
d a or g or t; not c
b c or g or t; not a
n a or c or g or t
AOL TO MICROSOFT: SORRY, BUT IT'S A PRIVATE PARTY
America Online is trying to block attempts by Microsoft's new MSN Messenger
Service to let Microsoft customers exchange messages instantly with AOL's
community of users. Charging Microsoft with trespassing on its system, AOL
has erected several software barriers to Microsoft's efforts, prompting
Microsoft to respond to each obstruction by developing an immediate
software workaround. Forrester Research analyst Tom Rhinelander sees the
argument as "kind of like a food fight, like a couple of juveniles saying
'You can't do this,' 'Yes I can,' 'You can't do this,' 'Yes I can.' ...
AOL will say 'we've got to be careful about security and scalability,' and
all these kinds of things. But they'll be forced to open up to the other
folks, there's no way around it." (San Jose Mercury News 27 Jul 99)
http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/indepth/docs/instan072799.htm
INTERNET FEVER SPREADS TO BRITAIN
With British ISP Freeserve PLC enjoying a 37% stock price increase on the
first day of public trading, Britain.is getting its first experience of the
wild Internet success stories now common in the U.S. Freeserve, which is
now the largest access provider in Britain, developed a business model that
gives customers free access -- and derives its revenue exclusively by
taking a share of phone revenue generated by the cost of the telephone
calls users place to Freeserve. Unlike the U.S., where phone customers in
most parts of the country can make unlimited local calls for a flat monthly
charge, European phone companies (at least for the present!) charge by
minutes of connect time. (New York Times 27 Jul 99)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/07/biztech/articles/27net.html
RUSSIAN ISP SAYS "NYET" TO SPYING
Russian Internet service provider Bayard-Slavia is refusing to obey a
directive that gives the country's Federal Security Service (FSB) the right
to examine private e-mail messages without a warrant. The System of
Efficient Research Measures 2directive also requires ISPs to pay for
surveillance equipment in their servers and for a link to FSB headquarters.
In retaliation for Bayard-Slavia's recalcitrance, the FSB has withdrawn the
ISP's license, frozen its bank account, and is challenging its right to
frequencies for its satellite link to Moscow. "We will never help the FSB
implement illegal shadowing," says Bayard-Slavia's director general. "We're
the first ISP to struggle against illegal information collection.
Unfortunately, we're also likely to become the first to be destroyed because
of insubordination." (Data Communications 26 Jul 99)
http://www.techweb.com/news/story/TWB19990726S0003
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INTERNET RIVALS ATTEMPT TO OPEN UP AOL'S INSTANT MESSAGE SYSTEM
A number of Internet service providers aim to establish open
access to America Online's exclusive instant messaging programs.
Instant messaging notifies users when their friends are online
and allows them to type messages to each other. It is an
increasingly popular form of communication, and with three
services and a total 80 million users, AOL dominates the market.
Yet Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Prodigy each attempted to change this
recently by creating rival services that can communicate with
users of AOL's services. AOL responded to this threat by
changing its communications protocols, effectively eliminating
the rival programs' access to its service. While Microsoft has
been able to adjust its software to access AOL, Yahoo! and
Prodigy have not. The three contend that AOL should open its
technology to facilitate interaction between users of all
services. Yet AOL argues that because access to its services
was unauthorized, the rival services have breached accepted
security standards. (Wall Street Journal 07/26/99)
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Subject: Project Gutenberg 28th Anniversary Newsletter
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:43:21 -0500 (CDT)
***This is Project Gutenberg's 29th Fourth of July on the Internet!***
**Help us celebrate by keeping us alive as a continuing institution!**
*This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for Wednesday, July 7, 1999*
Etexts Readable By Both Humans and Computers Since Before The Internet
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Main URL is promo.net Webmaster is Pietro di Miceli, of Rome, Italy
*Check out our Websites at promo.net, and ask me for our FTP servers.*
We have about 50 Etext releases for you in this Newsletter!
With so many entering the Etext field this year, we are one endangered
species I don't think the world can do as well without. . .everyone is
saying they can put a million Etexts online, but none of them actually
have DONE even a thousand. . .they mostly just copy from others. . .as
much as I *LIKE* having our files copied around the world. . .I do NOT
want that to be our undoing. . .if you can help, please read below!!!!
There are nearly 50 new Etexts listed below, all but one produced by a
volunteer corps at Project Gutenberg; you won't find that kind of text
production anywhere else, and we are now in our 29th year of doing it.
Etexts Readable By Both Humans and Computers Since Before The Internet
[Usually sent the first Wednesday of each month, delayed if by relay.]
Main URL is promo.net Webmaster is Pietro di Miceli, of Rome, Italy
Anniversary News Items:
1. More Languages [Japanese, Chinese, Swedish, Danish, DNA. . .more.]
2. The Human Genome Project [11% complete at 375 Megabytes]
3. We need help getting incorporated as a 501 (C) 3, need a lawyer.
[We had a volunteer lawyer, but lost email contact]
4. We need help getting major grants. . .grant writers needed!
5. We need help with Public Relations. . .I lost the address
of our new PR person in the big crash, please email me again!
6. New site at: www.instinct.org/gutenberg/
7. New source for Project Gutenberg CDROMs.
8. We have a new German/Fraktur Team. . .and we need volunteers.
9. We still need help finished up Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
*
But First. . .Current Requests for Assistance From Our Volunteers:
1. We still need PERL writers, and I lost my list of them in the crash.
2. The 1999 CIA World Factbook should be completed just about now;
if any of you can send me a copy, it would be greatly appreciated.
3. We may still need more proofers for Anna Karenina; will those
currently working on it please contact me.
4. We have a copy of Martin Luther's publication of the Bible,
in German fractur. . .and will need some serious help on it. . . .
I would LIKE to think there is already an Etext of it available,
if anyone can help us find it.
5. From: "Whiting, Jenifer" <jenifer.whiting@PTSEM.EDU>
A request for the text "The Flying Inn" by G.K. Chesterton
Most likely found in older editions in UK and Australia,
but any edition that credits its content as originally
from before 1923 will do just fine. Her copy was stolen,
along with lots of other things, in a car break in. . .mh
[I think we have a copy coming, but this was not confirmed]
6. I am working on a 4 volume collection of Samuel Adams' writings
(H. A. Cushing, ed., 1904). The collection covers the years 1764-1802.
I would like to thank Richard Fane and Daniel Moore for all their work
getting volume III done, and half of volume IV. We can still use several
scanners and especially proofreaders in order to be able to do volumes I
and II.
Even a few pages of proofreading would be helpful.
If you can help, please email me:
Regina Azucena <razucena@netway.com>
7. The Human Genome Project: we are going to need volunteers
to help us with this, unless we can find a way to FTP those 24
chromosomes directly into our /etext00 directories. . .*these*
files are large. . .more details below.
[Different Numbering System for Requests than other items]
8. Found an etext of The Golden Bowl by Henry James,
http://www.newpaltz.edu/~hathaway/goldenbowl1.html
If anyone can find a pre-1923 matching paper edition,
then we can post it.
*
1. More Languages [Japanese, Chinese, Swedish, Danish, DNA. . .more.]
1. We would LOVE to post one file in a language we have not worked
with before in each of the remaining months of 1999, and perhaps in
2000, if we can. No matter what format, we are willing to post it,
but would also like to post in the simplest possible format as well
. . .when this is possible. We may still need help with posting
our Swedish and Danish Bibles. . .just to make sure we haven't
mangled the files.
2. The Human Genome Project [11% complete at 375 Megabytes]
2. If you would like to join our Human Genome Project Team,
please email Eliana Brown at one of the following, and cc:me
Eliana Brown <eliana_b68@yahoo.com><brown12@students.uiuc.edu>
We need help getting them to prairienet.org, and perhaps with
putting the headers on them. . .the files are large. . .and we
don't have an easy internal way to get them there. . .thanks!
We have successfully downloaded our first chromosomes, and the
smallest one we could, the Y chromosome, is 3.5 Megabytes. We
have reserved 26 slots for June, 2000, for the 24 files and a
few instructions and commentaries on how to read and use them.
This will eventually total some 3.38 Gigabytes, so we could use
some programming help to create a compression program that would
take only 2 bits to store any of the GATC amino acids, and would
unpack them for our readers. . .otherwise this one item will at
least quadruple the size of Project Gutenberg. Zip is currently
compressing at 70%, I have not tried the higher compression zip
options yet. . . . However, even if we represented each character
with two bits, it would be hard to get much beyond 75%, unless we
used a particularly good algorithm. We tried one combination of
our own plus zip and got 77%. . .not sure if worth the hassle.
3. We need help getting incorporated as a 501 (C) 3, need a lawyer.
[We had a volunteer lawyer, but lost email contact]
This would probably be done in Illinois, and it is obvious we need
to do this, or we won't get the donations required to do more than
our original goal of 10,000 books. . .we are currently doing Etext
at a rate that will reach 3,333 by the end of 2001. . .not bad for
an unincorporated bunch of volunteers whose Executive Director has
not had any paychecks for 6 months and probably won't for the next
6 months, and went through this same situation only two years ago.
4. We need help getting major grants. . .grant writers needed!
We will get our 10,000 Etexts done, whether we receive any funding
of a major nature or not, but we could do 1,000,000 Etexts in just
20 more years, if we could get some 10 million dollar grants. The
truth is that if we are going to spend time on other than Etext, I
would prefer that we go all out in this direction.
5. We need help with Public Relations. . .I lost the address
of our new PR person in the big crash, please email me again!
We have an excellent opportunity to be the cover story on the
Sunday Supplement of a very major newspaper, very shortly. We
did the preliminary interview last weekend, and we should also
prepare a press release for our 2,000th Etext, Human Genome,
and our new language efforts. Which reminds me, we may still
need help with Swedish and Danish.
6. You may want to try our new site at: www.instinct.org/gutenberg/
7. From Daniel Meyers: Here's what I'm ready to offer.
The most up-to-date possible, full texts from Project
Gutenberg on a two CD set for $39.95 (+$5.00 S/H).
Interested parties should send e-mail to
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Project Gutenberg will receive $34.95 of the above amount.
Major credit cards and checks will be accepted.
8. We have a new German/Fraktur Team. . .and we need volunteers.
Mike Pullen <globaltraveler5565@yahoo.com> German and Fraktur Team
9. We still need help finished up Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
Please contact me if you can find any edition from before 1923.
***
This past, as in most months, we have made noticeable corrections to files:
Dec 1998 The Crystal Stopper, by Maurice LeBlanc [cstprxxx.xxx]1563
Dec 1998 Timaeus, by Plato, Benjamin Jowett, Translator #3 [tmeusxxx.xxx]1572
Feb 2000 Memoirs of the Comtesse du Barry by Lamothe-Langon[dbrryxxx.xxx]2082
Mar 1998 The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas [Pere #2][1muskxxx.xxx]1257
Mar 1998 Twenty Years After, by Alexandre Dumas [Pere #4][3muskxxx.xxx]1259
Jan 2000 Iphigenie auf Tauris, Johann von Goethe[#4] German[iphgnxxx.xxx]2054
Dec 1999 The Outlet, by Andy Adams [outltxxx.xxx]1987
Each of the above files has a version 11 now posted, our files get a higher #
when we have made enough corrections to call it a revised edition. . .if your
system supports FTP [File Transfer Protocol] you can find ALL our corrections
by just searching for filename ?????11.*, 12.*, 13,*, etc.
Here Are The New Etexts Presented On Our 28th Anniversary and Extras!!
Feb 2000 Tao Hua Yuan Ji, by Tao YuanMing [Chinese/English][peachxxx.xxx]2090
Feb 2000 Peach Blossom Shangri-la, by Tao YuanMing [short] [peachxxx.xxx]2090
Feb 2000 The Reception of the Origin of Species, T H Huxley[oroosxxx.xxx]2089
Feb 2000 Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II [#8][2llcdxxx.xxx]2088
2088 is Reserved for ^^^^^^^^
Feb 2000 Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume I [#7][1llcdxxx.xxx]2087
Feb 2000 The Slowcoach, by E. V. Lucas [slwchxxx.xxx]2086
mary starr <marystarr@earthlink.net>
Feb 2000 Cyropaedia, by Xenophon [Transl. H. G. Dakyns] #14[cyrusxxx.xxx]2085
Feb 2000 The Way of All Flesh, by Samuel Butler [Butler#3][wflshxxx.xxx]2084
Feb 2000 In Search of the Castaways, by Jules Verne [JV#11][cstwyxxx.xxx]2083
^^^This version includes some markup, need volunteers to unmark to plain text
Feb 2000 Memoirs of the Comtesse du Barry by Lamothe-Langon[dbrryxxx.xxx]2082
by Baron Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon, using a pseudonym*****
Version 10 is the binary version with French accents.
Version 11 is the Plain Vanilla ASCII version without accents.
Feb 2000 The Blithedale Romance, by Nathaniel Hawthorne[#7][blthdxxx.xxx]2081
Feb 2000 Later Poems, by Alice Meynell[2 books/1 file][#10][2almyxxx.xxx]2080
Feb 2000 Flower of the Mind, by Alice Meynell [Maynell #9][2almyxxx.xxx]2080
Feb 2000 Memoirs of a Minister of France, by Stanley Weyman[moamfxxx.xxx]2079
>From the Memoirs of a Minister of France, by Stanley Weyman [Weyman #4]
Feb 2000 Thais, by Anatole France, Trans. by Douglas [AF#2][thaisxxx.xxx]2078
Feb 2000 The Nabob, by Alphonse Daudet Transl. W. Blaydes [nabobxxx.xxx]2077
Feb 2000 The Civilization of China, by Herbert A. Giles [cvchnxxx.xxx]2076
Feb 2000 Crotchet Castle, by Thomas Love Peacock[Peacock#2][ccstlxxx.xxx]2075
Feb 2000 Civilization of Renaissance in Italy, J Burckhardt[coriixxx.xxx]2074
Feb 2000 The Valet's Tragedy et al, by Andrew Lang[Lang#22][vlttrxxx.xxx]2073
Contains stories about The Man In The Iron Mask, etc. . . .
Feb 2000 Michael, by E. F. Benson [mikelxxx.xxx]2072
Feb 2000 Stories by English Authors in Germany, Scribners [sbeagxxx.xxx]2071
Includes:
The Bird On Its Journey, by Beatrice Harraden
Koosje: A Study of Dutch Life, by John Strange Winter
A Dog of Flanders, by Ouida
Markheim, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Queen Tita's Wager, by William Black
Feb 2000 To The Last Man, by Zane Grey [Zane Grey #12][lstmnxxx.xxx]2070
Feb 2000 The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, by Pinches [xrbaaxxx.xxx]2069
^^^^Available as both 7-bit version 7rbaa10.* and 8-bit version 8rbaa10.*^^^^
Feb 2000 Keziah Coffin, by Joseph C. Lincoln [kziacxxx.xxx]2068
Feb 2000 Beasts, Men and Gods, by F. Ossendowski [bmgdsxxx.xxx]2067
Feb 2000 Wildfire, by Zane Grey [Zane Grey #11][wldfrxxx.xxx]2066
Feb 2000 Dick Hamiliton's Airship, by Howard R. Garis [arshpxxx.xxx]2065
Feb 2000 Journey Scotland's Western Isles, Saumeul Johnson [jwsctxxx.xxx]2064
[A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland [Johnson #3]] was listed as 2038
Feb 2000 The Trail of the White Mule, by B.M. Bower[BMB#11][tttwmxxx.xxx]2063
Feb 2000 All For Love, by John Dryden [John Dryden #1][al4lvxxx.xxx]2062
Feb 2000 Shorter Prose Pieces by Oscar Wilde[Oscar Wilde22][wldspxxx.xxx]2061
Feb 2000 The History of Caliph Vathek, by William Beckford [cvthkxxx.xxx]2060
Feb 2000 The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox Jr[lsokcxxx.xxx]2059
Feb 2000 Messer Marco Polo, by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne [mpoloxxx.xxx]2058
Feb 2000 The Last of the Plainsmen, by Zane Grey [Grey #10][plnsmxxx.xxx]2057
Feb 2000 Life of William Carey, by George Smith [wmcryxxx.xxx]2056
Feb 2000 Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana [2yb4mxxx.xxx]2055
**Extras From Future Collections We Will Be Posting In Coming Months**
We have posted the following Chromosomes from the Human Genome Project
Be advised, we have started with the smallest files, which will update
the most often, but we will probably update only every few months. In
our header is information on how to update the files yourself, if your
interest requires the very latest information. WARNING!!! Totals 36M
if you download both the .txt and .zip files of these 6 "small" files.
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Y Chromosome [#24] [0yhgpxxx.xxx]2224
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 10 [10hgpxxx.xxx]2210
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 09 [19hgpxxx.xxx]2209
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 08 [08hgpxxx.xxx]2208
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 03 [03hgpxxx.xxx]2203
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 02 [02hgpxxx.xxx]2202
[WARNING: These files are not complete, and have at least one error. . .that
being in chromosome 2. . .a sequence of NNN's around line 14975. . . .]
Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 8 [08frdxxx.xxx]2108
Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 7 [07frdxxx.xxx]2107
Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 6 [06frdxxx.xxx]2106
Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 5 [05frdxxx.xxx]2105
Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 4 [04frdxxx.xxx]2104
Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 3 [03frdxxx.xxx]2103
Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 2 [02frdxxx.xxx]2102
Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 1 [01frdxxx.xxx]2101
Mar 2000 A Thief in the Night, by E. W. Hornung[Hornung #4][thfntxxx.xxx]2098
Mar 2000 The Sign of the Four, by Arthur Conan Doyle [#16][sign4xxx.xxx]2097
Mar 2000 A Smaller History of Greece, by William Smith [asmhgxxx.xxx]2096
Mar 2000 Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States, by Brown [clotlxxb.xxx]2095
Jan 2000 Clotel; or, The President's Daughter, by Wm. Brown[clotlxxa.xxx]2046
Apr 1995 Clotelle; or The Colored Heroine by Wm Wells Brown[clotlxxx.xxx] 241
Also see our previous releases, based on a separate source editions^
TO TURN ELECTRONIC PAPER INTO COMMERCIAL PRODUCT
Though emphasizing "it won't be on the market in the next year," an
executive of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center says that Xerox and 3M have
signed a manufacturing agreement intended to turn electronic paper into a
commercial product, to be used in such applications as electronic
newspapers capable of adding late-breaking news as you read them. Like a
computer screen but not much thicker than ordinary paper and almost as
flexible, electronic paper uses "gyricon" display technology developed at
Xerox PARC about ten years ago. You'll (eventually) be able to write on it
with a wand or stylus or to put it through a computer printer.
(Reuters/San Jose Mercury News 29 Jun 99)
http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/065761.htm
"PC AS SIMPLE AS A TOASTER" - THE $199 iToaster
A personal computer called the iToaster (because its developers say it's as
simple to operate as a toaster) will use the BeOS operating system, rather
than Microsoft's Windows. Priced at $199 (without a monitor) and
manufactured by Microworkz.com in Seattle, the iToaster will offer word
processing, home finance, and Web browsing software, and will have a
graphical interface. The company is reportedly in talks with America
Online about potential cross-marketing arrangements. (MSNBC 21 Jun 99,
http://www.msnbc.com/news/282421.asp and USA Today 25 Jun 99
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctf470.htm )
THE FIGHT OVER INTERNET DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION
Those who want to see the business of domain name registration opened up to
competition will have to wait at least three weeks longer, as tensions
build among the three major players in the discussion. Those players are:
first, the Clinton Administration; second, Icann (Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers), the organization the Administration created to
assume responsibility for Internet administration; and, third, Network
Solutions Inc. (NSI), the private company which since 1993 has had the
exclusive worldwide right to assign all Internet addresses ending with the
suffixes .com, .net, or .org. NSI is refusing to sign the contract Icann
has developed, saying it gives more Icann more power than the
Administration had intended; in particular, NSI is claiming sole ownership
to the rights of its database of more than 5 million registered domain
names. Commerce Department staffer Becky Burr is optimistic that the
dispute will be resolved soon: "I believe it is in everybody's best
interest not to swing threats around." In the meantime, Icann interim
president Mike Roberts notes, "It's great political theater." (New York
Times 28 Jun 99)
IS THERE A SHORTAGE OF INFO TECH PROFESSIONALS?
A survey conducted on the Web site of Computer magazine to determine
attitudes about the shortage of information technology professionals found
that 54% of the 84 respondents believe that such a shortage indeed exists
and that liberal immigration policies are generally a good idea; 36% deny
that there's a shortage, and are convinced that corporate America is simply
claiming one so that it can import less expensive workers instead of
investing in the U.S. workforce. The rest of the respondents say that the
global economy has created a new and complex problem which requires new
kinds of solutions. (Computer May/Jun 99)
http://www.computer.org/computer/bcsummary.htm
"WHO WANTS TO KNOW?" (CUSTOMIZED HISTORY FROM ENCARTA)
Today's Wall Street Journal reports that the nine different editions of
Microsoft's Encarta multimedia encyclopedia sometimes give different
answers to the same question. For example, the U.S., U.K, and German
editions say the inventor of the telephone was Alexander Graham Bell,
whereas the Italian version says the inventor was the impoverished
Italian-American candle maker Antonio Meucci. Other editions vary on who
invented the electric light bulb, who discovered the virus that causes
AIDS, and other such things. Microsoft says its editorial teams are made
up of local experts, and company chief executive Bill Gates argued in 1997:
"In the long run, exposing people to worldwide perspectives should be
healthy. Americans benefit from a better understanding of the Asian or
European view of important cultural and scientific events, and vice versa."
TRACKING ANONYMOUS SPAM
If you hate getting all those "Make Money Fast At Home!!!" messages from
people who use hard-to-trace or false return addresses, you might want to
use the services of www.spamcop.net, a Web site that allows you to take
action against unsolicited junk e-mail messages sent out in bulk
quantities. Spam Cop is able to dissect the header information on such
messages, identify where they've come from, and send a message of complaint
to the network administer of the Internet service provider the spammer is
using. (New York Times Circuits Section 24 Jun 99)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/06/circuits/articles/24spam.html
Those were excerpts from: NewsScan <newsscan@newsscan.com>
www.newsscan.com/, and send us mail: John Gehl <gehl@NewsScan.com>
and Suzanne Douglas <douglas@NewsScan.com>, or call 770-590-1017.
THREE WEEK DELAY IN OPENING UP INTERNET NAME REGISTRATION
The process to open the registration of Internet domain names to
competition has been delayed three weeks due to continued
tensions between the Clinton administration, monopoly-holder
Network Solutions, and would-be overseer ICANN. Many have
accused ICANN of abusing its power, particularly by holding
closed meetings and by assigning a $1 annual fee to every domain
name registered. Many were also angered by ICANN's threat to
terminate Network Solutions' authority to register new Internet
addresses, although ICANN has since admitted that only the
Commerce Department holds that authority. Government officials
such as Virginia's Representative Thomas J. Bliley and Governor
James Gilmore, as well as lobbyists on behalf of Network
Solutions, have demanded investigations into the process of
choosing board members and ICANN's authority to charge the $1
fee. Other major issues to be resolved include the question of
ownership regarding Network Solutions' user database, the terms
of ICANN's authority, and the prices that businesses must pay
Network Systems to administer the central registry.
(New York Times 06/28/99)
TEXTBOOK PUBLISHER LAYS PLANS FOR AN INTERNET UNIVERSITY
Academic publishing house Harcourt General is joining the growing
business of distance education. It plans to expand its online
offerings with three ventures: Harcourt University; an Internet
high school for students planning to take high-school equivalency
exams; and an e-commerce site called Harcourt.com. Through its
university, Harcourt may become the first major publishing house
to offer accredited college degrees, pending approval from the
New England Association of Schools and Colleges. Yet Harcourt
faces much opposition, particularly from college professors
concerned that Internet-based education denies students the
personal interaction central to a traditional learning
experience. University bookstores and other traditional
distributors may also oppose the venture because it competes with
their sales. Last, Harcourt will face strong competition from
the companies and universities already providing online courses.
Harcourt maintains that its educational offerings will be unique.
Its university, which may begin to offer courses by September
2000, will teach a range of subjects in arts and sciences.
(Wall Street Journal 07/02/99)
U.S. EASES RESTRICTIONS ON SELLING FAST PCS TO RUSSIA AND CHINA
President Clinton significantly reduced restrictions on exports
of powerful computers, arguing that technological innovations
have made laptop and desktop PCs as powerful as the
supercomputers produced just a few years ago. Previously,
companies were required to obtain individual export licenses to
ship computers faster than 10,000 Mtops (Millions of theoretical
operations per second) to a group of countries which include most
of South America, South Korea, South Africa, and much of Southeast
Asia, but Clinton's order increased the limit to 20,000 Mtops.
The old laws also required companies shipping to a category of
countries deemed "proliferation risks" -- such as China and
Russia -- to obtain licenses to ship any computer faster than
2,000 Mtops to military users or 7,000 Mtops for civilian users.
In contrast, Intel's Pentium III chip is rated at about 1,300
Mtops, and versions due out later this year will hit about 2,000
Mtops. (New York Times 07/02/99)
Y2K SCARE LEADS TO LARGER ADVANCES [_I_ think this is just to
counter the fact that most people will NOT buy computers now,
and for the next 6 months, until the bug date has passed. . .
which will mean HUGE losses for the economy. . . . mh]
Experts say the Y2K bug may actually benefit companies and the
economy in general, as it forced many firms to completely
overhaul their computer systems and re-engineer their business
processes to become more efficient. Federal Reserve Governor
Alan Greenspan noted in his June 1 congressional testimony that
the American economy "is displaying a remarkable run of economic
growth that appears to have its roots in ongoing advances in
technology," and many experts say the Y2K bug is to blame. The
millennium bug gave senior management an urgent deadline for
assessing their computer systems as well as their entire business
processes, resulting in "a dramatic surge in buying" of ERP
systems, which reorganize and integrate a firm's accounting and
other business practices. Thus many companies' antiquated
business operations have been modernized, merged, and streamlined
to prepare for Y2K, producing benefits such as increased
productivity, improved customer responsiveness, reduced
inventory, and increased efficiency.
(Philadelphia Inquirer 07/01/99)
U.S. TO MARKET INFO-TECH WORK TO TEENS [This seesm to be more
PR aimed at "growing the economy" at the expense of the workers.
I know lots of people in this field, and I'm not sure ANY of the
people I hang out with on a daily basis are actually making the
$68,000 "average" salary mentioned in an earlier one of these.
However, it doesn't take too many Bill Gates to up the "average"
beyond any useful meaning. . .perhaps "median" would be better.]
The Department of Commerce next year is planning to launch a
major advertising campaign to convince teenagers to choose a
career in information technology. The marketing campaign is
intended to help ease the shortage of high-tech workers by
convincing teenagers that computers are "cool" and to dispel the
"negative 'geek' or 'nerd' stereotype of technical workers,"
according to Commerce Secretary William Daley. Analysts estimate
that the U.S. tech industry will need more than 1.3 million tech
workers between 1996 and 2000, with California, Texas, and
Virginia being areas that will need workers the most. Among the
steps the Department advises to ease the shortage are forging
closer links between schools and tech companies, improving
methods of teaching math and science in high schools, and
increasing pay for teachers in those fields, and giving tech
workers incentives to fill teaching positions and train older
workers. (Washington Post 07/01/99)
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Jul 1998 Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy/Tolstoi [Tolstoy #5][nkrnnxxx.xxx]1399
This file was never completed, and should have been released as version 09 as
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Apr 1999 The Survivors of the Chancellor, by Jules Verne #8[tsotcxxa.xxx]1698
This is from a different source than our previous edition [tsotcxxx.xxx]1652
[My apologies, I thought I posted this a long time ago, but it never made it]
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F|nfter Aufzug.
Erster Auftritt.
Thoas. Arkas.
Arkas.
Verwirrt mu_ ich gestehn, da_ ich nicht wei_,
Wohin ich meinen Argwohn richten soll.
Sind's die Gefangnen, die auf ihre Flucht
Verstohlen sinnen? Ist's die Priesterin,
Die ihnen hilft? Es mehrt sich das Ger|cht:
Das Schiff, das diese beiden hergebracht,
Sei irgend noch in einer Bucht versteckt.
Und jenes Mannes Wahnsinn, diese Weihe,
Der heil'ge Vorwand dieser Zvgrung, rufen
Den Argwohn lauter und die Vorsicht auf.
Thoas.
Es komme schnell die Priesterin herbei!
Dann geht, durchsucht das Ufer scharf und schnell
****And here are our 36 Etexts for January, 2000, and a few for February****
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
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Jan 2000 Iphigenie auf Tauris, Johann von Goethe[#4] German[iphgnxxx.xxx]2054
This is labelled as version iphgn09.txt and .zip, as we need some practice.
Jan 2000 The American Republic, by O. A. Brownson [amrepxxx.xxx]2053
Jan 2000 Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business, Defoe#8[ebdybxxx.xxx]2052
Jan 2000 Dickory Cronke, by Daniel Defoe [Daniel Defoe #7][dckcrxxx.xxx]2051
Jan 2000 Old John Brown, by Walter Hawkins [ojbrnxxx.xxx]2050
Jan 2000 Liber Amoris, or, The New Pygmalion, by Wm Hazlitt[nwpygxxx.xxx]2049
Jan 2000 The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by W. Irving #5[sbogcxxx.xxx]2048
Jan 2000 Stories of Modern French Novels: Scribners Ed. [sbmfaxxx.xxx]2047
This is part of Julian Hawthorne's Lock and Key Library
Contains:
Victor Cherbuliez
Count Kostia
Paul Bourget
Andre Cornelis
Anonymous
The Last of the Costellos
Lady Betty's Indiscretion
Jan 2000 Clotel; or, The President's Daughter, by Wm. Brown[clotlxxa.xxx]2046
Also see our previous release, based on a separate source edition: ^
Apr 1995 Clotelle; or The Colored Heroine by Wm Wells Brown[clotlxxx.xxx] 241
Jan 2000 My Memories of Eighty Years, by Chauncey M. Depew [depewxxx.xxx]2045
Jan 2000 The Education of Henry Adams, by Henry Adams [eduhaxxx.xxx]2044
Jan 2000 The Education of Henry Adams, by Henry Adams[HTML][eduhaxxh.xxx]2044
Jan 2000 Stories by Modern American Authors: Scribners Ed.[sbmaaxxx.xxx]2043
This is part of Julian Hawthorne's Lock and Key Library
Contains:
F. MARION CRAWFORD
By the Waters of Paradise
MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN
The Shadows on the Wall
MELVILLE D. POST
The Corpus Delicti
AMBROSE BIERCE
An Heiress from Redhorse
The Man and the Snake
EDGAR ALLAN POE
The Oblong Box
The Gold-Bug
WASHINGTON IRVING
Wolfert Webber, or Golden Dreams
Adventure of the Black Fisherman
CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN
Wieland's Madness
FITZJAMES O'BRIEN
The Golden Ingot
My Wife's Tempter
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
The Minister's Black Veil
ANONYMOUS
Horror: A True Tale
Jan 2000 Something New, by P.G. Wodehouse [P.G.Wodehouse#2][smtnwxxx.xxx]2042
Jan 2000 The House of the Wolf, by Stanley Weyman[Weyman#3][hwolfxxx.xxx]2041
Jan 2000 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, de Quincey [opiumxxx.xxx]2040
Jan 2000 Evangeline, by Henry W. Longfellow [Longfellow #6][vnglnxxx.xxx]2039
Jan 2000 Evangeline, by Henry W. Longfellow [With Accents] [vnglnxxi.xxx]2039
Also see:
Jun 1998 The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [cphwlxxx.xxx]1365
[A different version of Evangeline is in this collection]
Jan 2000 Stories by Modern English Authors: Scribners Ed. [sbmeaxxx.xxx]2038
This is part of Julian Hawthorne's Lock and Key Library
Contains:
RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-)
My Own True Ghost Story
The Sending of Dana Da
In the House of Suddhoo
His Wedded Wife
A. CONAN DOYLE (1859-)
A Case of Identity
A Scandal in Bohemia
The Red-Headed League
EGERTON CASTLE (1858-)
The Baron's Quarry
STANLEY J. WEYMAN (1855-)
The Fowl in the Pot
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-94)
The Pavilion on the Links
WILKIE COLLINS (1824-89)
The Dream Woman
ANONYMOUS
The Lost Duchess
The Minor Canon
The Pipe
The Puzzle
The Great Valdez Sapphire
Jan 2000 Journey Scotland's Western Isles, Saumeul Johnson [jwsctxxx.xxx]2038
[A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland [Johnson #3]]
Jan 2000 Novel Notes, by Jerome K. Jerome[JeromeKJerome#19][nvlntxxx.xxx]2037
Jan 2000 Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon, by Samuel Baker[8yearxxx.xxx]2036
Jan 2000 Stories by English Authors: Orient, Scribners Ed.[sbeaoxxx.xxx]2035
Contains:
The Man Who Would Be King, Rudyard Kipling
Tajima, Miss Mitford
A Chinces Girl Graduate, R. K. Douglas
The Revenge of Her Race, Mary Beaumont
King Billy of Ballarat, Morley Roberts
Thy Heart's Desire, Netta Syrett
Jan 2000 Waverley, by Walter Scott [Walter Scott #10][wvrlyxxx.xxx]2034
Jan 2000 The Unknown Guest, by Maurice Maeterlinck [ungstxxx.xxx]2033
Jan 2000 Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard/Eleanor Farjeon[mpnaoxxx.xxx]2032
Jan 2000 Lock and Key Library, Magic & Real Detectives [#2][2lckyxxx.xxx]2031
This is part of Julian Hawthorne's Lock and Key Library
Stories by several authors:
P. H. WOODWARD^M
Adventures in the Secret Service of the Post-Office Department
An Erring Shepherd
An Aspirant for Congress
The Fortune of Seth Savage
A Wish Unexpectedly Gratified
An Old Game Revived
A Formidable Weapon
ANDREW LANG
Saint-Germain the Deathless
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Legend
The Valet's History
The Valet's Master
Original Papers in the Case of Roux De Marsilly
M. ROBERT-HOUDIN [After whom Harry Houdini named himself]
A Conjurer's Confessions
Self-Training
"Second Sight"
The Magician Who Became an Ambassador
Facing the Arab's Pistol
DAVID P. ABBOTT
Fraudulent Spiritualism Unveiled
A Doctor of the Occult
How the Tricks Succeeded
The Name of the Dead
Mind Reading in Public
Some Famous Exposures
HEREWARD CARRINGTON
More Tricks of "Spiritualism"
"Matter through Matter"
Deception Explained by the Science of Psychology
ANONYMOUS
How Spirits Materialize
Jan 2000 Legends of Babylon and Egypt, by Leonard W. King [behebxxx.xxx]2030
[Etext 2030 contains extended ASCII characters and _I_ did not name the file]
Jan 2000 Lahoma, by John Breckinridge Ellis [lahomxxx.xxx]2029
Jan 2000 The Yellow Claw, by Sax Rohmer [Sax Rohmer #5][yclawxxx.xxx]2028
Jan 2000 Tartuffe, by Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere [#1] [trtffxxx.xxx]2027
Jan 2000 The Coming Conquest of England, by August Niemann [tccoexxx.xxx]2026
Jan 2000 My Lady Caprice, by Jeffrey Farnol [lcprcxxx.xxx]2025
Jan 2000 Diary of a Pilgrimage, by Jerome K. Jerome[JKJ#17][dypgmxxx.xxx]2024
Jan 2000 Malvina of Brittany, by Jerome K. Jerome [JKJ #16][mlvbtxxx.xxx]2023
Contains:
Malvina of Brittany
The Street of the Blank Wall
His Evening Out
The Lesson
Sylvia of the Letters
The Fawn Gloves
Jan 2000 Angling Sketches, by Andrew Lang [Andrew Lang #21][angskxxx.xxx]2022
Jan 2000 Nostromo, by Joseph Conrad [Joseph Conrad #24][nstrmxxx.xxx]2021
Jan 2000 Tarzan the Terrible, by Edgar R. Burroughs[TARZ#8][tzntrxxx.xxx]2020
Jan 2000 The Bat, by M. R. Rinehart & Avery Hopwood [MRR13][thbatxxx.xxx]2019
And a few for February, 2000
Feb 2000 All For Love, by John Dryden [John Dryden #1][al4lvxxx.xxx]2062
Feb 2000 Not Ready Yet [ xxx.xxx]2061
Feb 2000 Not Ready Yet [ xxx.xxx]2060
Feb 2000 The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox Jr[lsokcxxx.xxx]2059
Feb 2000 Messer Marco Polo, by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne [mpoloxxx.xxx]2058
Feb 2000 The Last of the Plainsmen, by Zane Grey [Grey #10][plnsmxxx.xxx]2057
Feb 2000 Life of William Carey, by George Smith [wmcryxxx.xxx]2056
Feb 2000 Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana [2yb4mxxx.xxx]2055
And from Edupage, etc. [Now two Newsletters, I will create
a new blurb for each of them. . .Michael]
PAPER GOES ELECTRIC
Researchers at Xerox and at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology have recently developed electronic ink and electronic
paper, which some analysts say may make traditional paper
obsolete. Electronic paper is easier on the eyes than a computer
screen because it has a higher contrast, and it can display
millions of different images in the same space. For example,
analysts say that a paper newspaper could easily fit onto
electronic paper, and information could be changed every morning
by deleting yesterday's news and downloading the current news
with no loss of print quality. Some former MIT students have
already created a company called E Ink, which has developed
electronic ink and paper products and is testing the prototypes
commercially. The company recently hung an electronic sign in a
Boston department store, where the display is controlled by a
computer from within the store's main office. These electronic
posters can have text changed instantaneously.
(New Scientist 05/15/99)
DISPUTES AND UNKNOWNS OF ELECTRONIC RIGHTS ROIL THE BOOK INDUSTRY
For all the hype surrounding electronic books, the fast-moving
industry is having trouble convincing the slow-moving book
industry to get on board. The Authors' Guild mailed warnings to
its 7,500 members last month criticizing current e-book contracts
as bad deals, saying the distribution fees for e-book
manufacturers are payment schemes that would deny publishers and
authors their rewards in the information age. Other literary
guilds are also advising authors to stay away from e-book
agreements unless they promise to revise the deals when e-books
become more popular. The book industry says it wants to see the
market grow, but wants the terms to be fair. Current e-book
deals give authors a share of just 4 percent of the book's list
price, compared to 15 percent for traditional book deals.
(New York Times 05/10/99)
COURT SAYS TEMPS DESERVE EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
A federal court of appeals has ruled that about 10,000 temporary workers at
Microsoft are entitled to take part in the discounted stock-option plan the
company offers to regular employees. Industry analyst Rob Enderle says,
"This is a broad decision, and it applies to all businesses. If you've got
a temp worker putting in 20-plus hours a week, you better start considering
him or her like you would a part-time worker" -- and provide employee
benefits. The ruling indicated that a temporary worker can be considered a
"common-law employee" if the person's work was controlled not by the
placement agency but by the company for which the work was being done.
Microsoft plans to appeal. (New York Times 14 May 99)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/05/biztech/articles/14soft.html
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT WANTS ISPs TO SPY
The European Parliament last Friday passed the Lawful Interception of
Communications council resolution on new technologies -- known as Enfopol --
which requires Internet service providers and telephone companies to provide
law-enforcement agencies with full-time, real-time access to Internet
transmissions, even those traversing along multiple networks. In addition,
wireless communications providers are required to provide geographical
location information on cell phone users, along with decoding of messages,
if encryption is provided as part of the service. The European Internet
Service Providers' Association has denounced the resolution. "Anyone who's
got half a clue about the Internet can easily see the Enfopol proposals are
unfeasible," says the chairman of U.K. ISP Linx. "The problem is it's a
bunch of law-enforcement people who have cooked this up in a vacuum without
public consultation." He also expressed concerns that the stringent
requirements would prompt Internet users from other countries to route
around Europe, damaging the European telecom industry's revenue. (TechWeb
14 May 99) http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990513S0009
PRIVACY PROPOSAL
A Clinton Administration proposal to protect individual financial and
medical records includes a request for more than $5 million to fund an
increase in online surveillance and to train law enforcement officials in
ways to combat security fraud. Congressman Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) explained
the problem to his colleagues by writing: "Do you believe your banking
transaction experiences are private? You may be surprised to learn that
with certain exceptions, financial institutions may legally share all of
the information about you and your bank account activity with affiliated
businesses or even third parties." (Washington Post 4 May 99)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/daily/may99/privacy4.htm
PC SALES UP, PROFITS DOWN
Unit sales of PCs rose 21% in April, but revenue declined 2.2% as prices
fell and sales of low-cost PCs surged. The average sales price of a PC was
$928, according to PC Data Corp. Sales of sub-$1,000 computers accounted
for 71% of all retail sales. (Bloomberg News/Los Angeles Times 20 May 99)
http://www.latimes.com/home/business/t000045210.html
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during the first half of the 19th century.
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We have had many requests for Henrik Ibsen, and done
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Apr 1998 Spoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters [sprvrxxx.xxx]1280
New version, sprvr11.txt and .zip, many corrections
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bet. It's certainly a lot simpler than all the auction nonsense, tho'
perhaps not as much fun. . . .
**** And here are the books to finish out the year 1999, and start 2000 *****
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
*****A "C" Following a Project Gutenberg Etext Number Indicates Copyright****
Dec 1999 The Library, by Andrew Lang [Andrew Lang #20][lbrryxxx.xxx]2018
Dec 1999 The Dhammapada, Translated by F. Max Muller [dhmpdxxx.xxx]2017
Dec 1999 The 1998 CIA World Factbook[CIA Factbook #8][No#7][world98x.xxx]2016
Dec 1999 A Miscellany of Men, by G. K. Chesterton [GKC #13][miscyxxx.xxx]2015
Dec 1999 The Lodger, by Marie Belloc Lowndes [tldgrxxx.xxx]2014
Dec 1999 The Pit Prop Syndicate, by Freeman Wills Croft [ptprpxxx.xxx]2013
Dec 1999 The Children, by Alice Meynell [Alice Meynell #8][chldnxxx.xxx]2012
Dec 1999 Rudder Grange, by Frank R. Stockton [Stockton #4][rgrngxxx.xxx]2011
Dec 1999 The Autobiography of Charles Darwin [Darwin #6][adrwnxxx.xxx]2010
Dec 1999 Origin of Species, 6th Ed., by Charles Darwin [#5][otoos610.xxx]2009
Dec 1999 Mazelli, and Other Poems, by George W. Sands[GS#1][mzllixxx.xxx]2008
Dec 1999 We Two, by Edna Lyall [wetwoxxx.xxx]2007
Dec 1999 A Fair Penitent, by Wilkie Collins [Collins #23][frpntxxx.xxx]2006
Dec 1999 Piccadilly Jim, by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse [#1][pccjmxxx.xxx]2005
Dec 1999 "Pigs is Pigs," by Ellis Parker Butler [pgpgsxxx.xxx]2004
Dec 1999 Spirits in Bondage [Lyrics Cycle], by C. S. Lewis [spbndxxx.xxx]2003
Dec 1999 Spirits in Bondage [Lyrics Cycle], Clive Hamilton [spbndxxx.xxx]2003
Dec 1999 Sonnets from the Portuguese, by E. B. Browning[#1][snprgxxx.xxx]2002
Dec 1999 [Reserved for 2001, by Arthur C. Clarke] [ xxx.xxx]2001
Dec 1999 Don Quijote, by Cervantes in Spanish .txt & .htm [2donqxxx.xxx]2000
Dec 1999 Crome Yellow, by Aldous Huxley [Aldous Huxley #1] [crmylxxx.xxx]1999
Dec 1999 Thus Spake Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche #1 [spzarxxx.xxx]1998
Dec 1999 Paradise, Divine Comedy, Dante, Tr. by Norton [3ddcnxxx.xxx]1997
Dec 1999 Purgatory, Divine Comedy, Dante, Tr. by Norton [2ddcnxxx.xxx]1996
Dec 1999 Hell/Inferno, Divine Comedy, Dante, Tr. by Norton [1ddcnxxx.xxx]1995
Dec 1999 Adventures among Books, by Andrew Lang [Lang #19][advbkxxx.xxx]1994
Dec 1999 Told After Supper, by Jerome K. Jerome [JKJ #15] [tldspxxx.xxx]1993
Dec 1999 Fragmenta Regalia, by Robert Naunton [Published] [trvfgxxx.xxx]1992
Dec 1999 Travels in England, by Paul Hentzner [as 1 Book] [trvfgxxx.xxx]1992
Dec 1999 Old Friends, Epistolary Parody, by Andrew Lang[18][oldfnxxx.xxx]1991
Dec 1999 The Bedford-Row Conspiracy, by Thackeray [WMT #11][bdfrcxxx.xxx]1990
Dec 1999 The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz [fldctxxx.xxx]1989
Dec 1999 History of Tom Thumb, etc. Edited by Henry Altemus[thumbxxx.xxx]1988
Includes: The Stories of the Cat and the Mouse [and] Fire! Fire! Burn Stick!
Dec 1999 The Outlet, by Andy Adams [outltxxx.xxx]1987
Dec 1999 Life and Death of Mr. Badman, by John Bunyan[JB#3][badmnxxx.xxx]1986
Dec 1999 Men's Wives, by William Makepeace Thackeray[WMT10][mnwvsxxx.xxx]1985
Dec 1999 [Reserved: George Orwell's 1984/Did it come true?][o1984xxx.xxx]1984
Dec 1999 Monsieur Beaucaire, by Booth Tarkington [BT #8] [mbeauxxx.xxx]1983
and
Jan 2000 Nostromo, by Joseph Conrad [Joseph Conrad #24][nstrmxxx.xxx]2021
Jan 2000 Tarzan the Terrible, by Edgar R. Burroughs[TARZ#8][tzntrxxx.xxx]2020
Jan 2000 The Bat, by M. R. Rinehart & Avery Hopwood [MRR13][thbatxxx.xxx]2019
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Copyright Extension Is Also Happening in the United States
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Public Domain, taking a million works out of the Public Domain, over
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And now here are the listings of our most recent Etexts, and July:
Dec 1999 Don Quijote, by Cervantes in Spanish .txt & .htm [2donqxxx.xxx]2000
Dec 1999 Chrome Yellow, by Aldous Huxley [Aldous Huxley #1][crmylxxx.xxx]1999
Dec 1999 Thus Spake Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche #1 [spzarxxx.xxx]1998
Dec 1999 Paradise, Divine Comedy, Dante, Tr. by Norton [3ddcnxxx.xxx]1997
Dec 1999 Purgatory, Divine Comedy, Dante, Tr. by Norton [2ddcnxxx.xxx]1996
Dec 1999 Hell/Inferno, Divine Comedy, Dante, Tr. by Norton [1ddcnxxx.xxx]1995
Dec 1999 Adventures among Books, by Andrew Lang [Lang #19][advbkxxx.xxx]1994
Dec 1999 Told After Supper, by Jerome K. Jerome [JKJ #15] [tldspxxx.xxx]1993
Dec 1999 Fragmenta Regalia, by Robert Nauton [Published] [trvfgxxx.xxx]1992
Dec 1999 Travels in England, by Paul Hentzner [as 1 Book] [trvfgxxx.xxx]1992
Dec 1999 Old Friends, Epistolary Parody, by Andrew Lang[18][oldfnxxx.xxx]1991
Dec 1999 The Bedford-Row Conspiracy, by Thackeray [WMT #11][bdfrcxxx.xxx]1990
Dec 1999 The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz [fldctxxx.xxx]1989
Dec 1999 History of Tom Thumb, etc. Edited by Henry Altemus[thumbxxx.xxx]1988
Includes: The Stories of the Cat and the Mouse [and] Fire! Fire! Burn Stick!
Dec 1999 The Outlet, by Andy Adams [outltxxx.xxx]1987
Dec 1999 Life and Death of Mr. Badman, by John Bunyan[JB#3][badmnxxx.xxx]1986
Dec 1999 Men's Wives, by William Makepeace Thackeray[WMT10][mnwvsxxx.xxx]1985
Dec 1999 [Reserved: George Orwell's 1984/Did it come true?][o1984xxx.xxx]1984*
Dec 1999 Monsieur Beaucaire, by Booth Tarkington [BT #8] [mbeauxxx.xxx]1983
and
Dec 1999 Origin of Species, 6th Ed., by Charles Darwin [#5][otoos610.xxx]2009
[Not Completed Interim Numbers 2004 to 2008, at this time]
Dec 1999 Spirits in Bondage [Lyrics Cycle], by C. S. Lewis [spbndxxx.xxx]2003
Dec 1999 Spirits in Bondage [Lyrics Cycle], Clive Hamilton [spbndxxx.xxx]2003
Dec 1999 Sonnets from the Portuguese, by E. B. Browning[#1][snprgxxx.xxx]2002
Dec 1999 [Reserved for 2001, by Arthur C. Clarke] [ xxx.xxx]2001
And please don't forget our last two Etexts from last month, take a look. . .
Nov 1999 Rashomon, by Akutagawa Ryunosuke [in Japanese] [rshmnxxx.xxx]1982
Nov 1999 The Right to Read, by Richard M. Stallman [of GNU][tychoxxx.xxx]1981C
This Etext is available as tycho10.txt or .zip and tycho10h.htm or .zip files
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1999, so we are including them here:
The first 5 Etexts are from:
JOE MULLER: DETECTIVE by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner
Being the Account of Some Adventures in the Professional
Experience of a Member of the Imperial Austrian Police
by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner
Each title actually starts with the phrase "The Case of The"
but we didn't have room to put that in the index each time.
Jul 1999 A New Voyage to Carolina, by John Lawson [nvycrxxx.xxx]1838
Jul 1999 The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Twain[Twain#14][prpprxxx.xxx]1837
Jul 1999 The Case of the Golden Bullet, by Colbrun & Groner[cotgbxxx.xxx]1836
Jul 1999 Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study/Colbrun/Groner[pbipsxxx.xxx]1835
Jul 1999 The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow, Colbrun&Groner[pdfisxxx.xxx]1834
Jul 1999 The Registered Letter by G.I. Colbron and A.Groner[rgstlxxx.xxx]1833
Jul 1999 The Lamp That Went Out, by Colbrun and Groner [tltwoxxx.xxx]1832
Jul 1999 The Lock and Key Library, Julian Hawthorne, Ed. [lckylxxx.xxx[1831
The Following 12 Etexts Are From:
The Lock and Key Library
Classic Mystery and Detective Stories - Old Time English
Edited by Julian Hawthorne
Jul 1999 The Haunted House, by Charles Dickens [lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 No. I Branch Line: The Signal Man, by Dickens [lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 The Haunted and the Haunters, by E G Bulwer-Lytton[lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 The House and the Brain, by Edward G Bulwer-Lytton[lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 The Incantation, by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton [lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 The Avenger, Thomas de Quincey [lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 Melmoth the Wanderer, by Charles Rober Maturin [lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 A Mystery with a Moral, Laurence Sterne [lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 On Being Found Out, by William Makepeace Thackeray[lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 The Notch on the Ax by William Makepeace Thackeray[lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 Bourgonef, by Anonymous [lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 The Closed Cabinet, by Anonymous [lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 Wyndham Towers, by Thomas B. Aldrich [Aldrich #5][wndhmxxx.xxx]1830
Jul 1999 Mae Madden, by Mary Murdoch Mason [mmmmmxxx.xxx]1829
Jul 1999 Chronicles of the Canongate, by Walter Scott [#9][cnngtxxx.xxx]1828
Jul 1999 Life of Charlotte Bronte, V1, by E. C. Gaskell[#3][1locbxxx.xxx]1827
Jul 1999 Sarrasine, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #71][srrsnxxx.xxx]1826
Jul 1999 Adventures of Reddy Fox by Thornton W. Burgess[#1][rdyfxxxx.xxx]1825
Jul 1999 Peace Manoeuvres, by Richard Harding Davis[RHD#28][pcmnvxxx.xxx]1824
Jul 1999 The Make-Believe Man, by Richard Harding Davis #27[mbmanxxx.xxx]1823
Jul 1999 The Amateur, by Richard Harding Davis [Davis #26][thmtrxxx.xxx]1822
Jul 1999 A Charmed Life, by Richard Harding Davis [RHD #25][chmlfxxx.xxx]1821
Jul 1999 A Wasted Day, by Richard Harding Davis [Davis #24][wstdyxxx.xxx]1820
Jul 1999 The Messengers, by Richard Harding Davis[Davis#23][msgrsxxx.xxx]1819
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