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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
[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
*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
gutenberg@monogames.com and they will be notified
when and where they can order on-line.
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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and. . .for those who have read this far, some of our support
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Jul 1998 Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy/Tolstoi [Tolstoy #5][nkrnnxxx.xxx]1399
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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
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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
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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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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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More Detailed Information
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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
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aged 16 and over, as per the 1994 US Literacy Report.
You can subscribe to a listserver on copyright extension at:
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or go to web sites on the subject at:
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http://davinci.marc.gatech.edu/~tad/dennis/no-cense.htm
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other do better on others.
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for our first release, which is usually raised to 99.95% before the
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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
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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
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each internal paragraph gets only an opening quote.]
Our proofreading is a never-ending story. . .we run spell-checkers,
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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, 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
and in French HTML as tycho10f.htm and tycho10f.zip
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Many people have reported they never received the listings for July,
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
Jul 1999 The Spy, by Richard Harding Davis[R. H. Davis #22][thspyxxx.xxx]1818
Jul 1999 A Question of Latitude, by Richard H.Davis[RHD#21][qlttdxxx.xxx]1817
Jul 1999 Tattine, by Ruth Ogden [Mrs. Charles W. Ide] [tttnexxx.xxx]1816
Jul 1999 The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln by Helen Nicolay[bloalxxx.xxx]1815
Jul 1999 The Agony Column, by Earl Derr Biggers [gnyclxxx.xxx]1814
Jul 1999 A Man of Business, by Honore de Balzac[Balzac #70][mnbusxxx.xxx]1813
Jul 1999 A Prince of Bohemia, by Honore de Balzac [HdB #69][prbhmxxx.xxx]1812
Jul 1999 Massimilla Doni, by Honore de Balzac[de Balzac#68][msmdnxxx.xxx]1811
Jul 1999 A Second Home, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #67][2ndhmxxx.xxx]1810
Jul 1999 Bucky O'Connor, by William MacLeod Raine[Raine #2][bkcnrxxx.xxx]1809
Jul 1999 The Log of the Jolly Polly, by R H Davis[Davis#20][jlplyxxx.xxx]1808
Jul 1999 The Lost House, by Richard Harding Davis[Davis#19][lsthsxxx.xxx]1807
Jul 1999 The Frame Up, by Richard Harding Davis [Davis #18][frmupxxx.xxx]1806
Jul 1999 The Gentle Grafter, by O. Henry [O Henry #6][grftrxxx.xxx]1805
Jul 1999 War and the Future, by H. G. Wells[H.G. Wells #18][wrftrxxx.xxx]1804
Jul 1999 Wyoming, Story of Outdoor West, by William M Raine[wymngxxx.xxx]1803
Jul 1999 King Henry VIII, by Shakespeare [1ws4211x.xxx]1802
Jul 1999 The Tempest, by Shakespeare [1ws4111x.xxx]1801
and
Sep 1999 La Tulipe Noire, by Alexandre Dumas[Pere#6/French][tlpnrxxx.xxx]1910
This is an abridged edition in French; also see our full length English Etext
Jul 1997 The Black Tulip, by Alexandre Dumas[Pere][Dumas#1][tbtlpxxx.xxx] 965
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From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 11:51:06 -0500 (CDT)
This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter, for Wednesday, April 7, 1999
Etexts Readable By Both Humans and Computers Since Before The Internet
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This month we have Etexts in English, French and Japanese as well as a
few translations into English from the French, German and Greek. I am
hopeful we can continue even more in a wide variety of languages.
Several new Project Gutenberg sites listed below and more than a whole
month's worth of new Etexts. . .we finished all of November in March--
so we are 8 months ahead of schedule, instead of our usual 1 month. I
hope we can finish all the December Etexts in the next 28 days. . . .
Lots of things in this Newsletter, not the least of which is that this
month the Newsletter goes out on the last possible day since the first
Wednesday is April 7th, which will gave us a very long month to get up
to completing the November Etexts, but will leave us with less time to
do the December Etexts, a time that is already overloaded with these:
1. Every April and October we request new volunteers, before everyone
leaves for the summer, and when they are firmly back in the fall.
2. This year we are creating a support system for new our volunteers,
which will be thoroughly tested this month. This is a BIG project
and will take some effort to complete. If you would be willing to
help some of our new volunteers get started, please let me know.
[more below on this, probably the most important thing right now]
3. We are releasing our first Etext without ASCII characters, and the
hopes are we will be able to interest many of you in looking at an
Etext of Rashomon, in Japanese, as well as in translation. So far
the translation is not yet complete, but we are working on it. In
Japanese, it is the first file in the list below.
4. We are gearing up for our first official public relations effort--
if you can help us get some extra media coverage for Etext #2000--
that would be GREATLY APPRECIATED. . .now is the time to start and
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this would be more appreciated than you can imagine.
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Requests:
For May 16, 1999 [Please forward this to Balzac interests. . . .]
In honor of the bicentennial of the birth of Honore de Balzac (1799 -
- 1850) Project Gutenberg is proud to present English translations of the
entire "Human Comedy." Portraying over two thousand characters and with
immense attention to detail, this massive collection of just under one
hundred novels and shorter works brings to life the social history of France
during the first half of the 19th century.
Team Balzac is seeking a qualifying biography of Honore de Balzac and any
non-Human Comedy works. Except for The Human Comedy and Droll Tales we have
been unable to locate any qualifying editions. If anyone is able to assist,
please email Dagny at dagnyj@hotmail.com
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I use a scanner to enter raw manuscript material and a software
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moderately ornate and stylized font has gone out of style since 1945,
but many of the older German originals are available ONLY in this
mode. Examples of this style can be viewed on the Internet at the web
site http://www.waldenfont.com/gutenberg2 and many others (use the
word fraktur with your favorite web search engine).
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If you can get a pre-1923 copy of Swiss Family Robinson,
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*
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Don Quixote
If anyone is a student at Boston University, their library
system has a 1910-1913 and a 1922-1923 edition which
apparently are circulating, so that would be even better.
*
We need a copy of this because we made an Etext,
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The Jewel of Seven Stars, by Bram Stoker
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You probably already know about this, but I have found Ebay to be a good
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1921 (in titles and descriptions) and found quite a number of books with
a copyright of 1921 (some even with a scan of the copyright page) So you
might suggest to volunteers looking for a cheap book to contribute to
look at http://www.ebay.com
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Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
*****A "C" Following a Project Gutenberg Etext Number Indicates Copyright****
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
and in French HTML as tycho10f.htm and tycho10f.zip
Nov 1999 Stories by English Authors in Africa, Scribners Ed[sbeaaxxx.xxx]1980
Contains:
The Mystery of Sasassa Valley by A. Conan Doyle
Long Odds, by H. Rider Haggard
King Memba's Point, by J. Landers
Ghamba, by W. C. Scully
Mary Musgrave, Anonymous
Gregorio, by Percy Hemingway
Nov 1999 The Perdue Chicken Cookbook, by Mitzi Perdue [mitzixxx.xxx]1979C
Nov 1999 Buttercup Gold, et. al., by Ellen Robena Field [btrcpxxx.xxx]1978
Nov 1999 Phaedra, by Jean Baptiste Racine, RB Boswell, Tr. [phrdrxxx.xxx]1977
Nov 1999 Peter Ruff and the Double Four, by Oppenheim[EPO8][rff44xxx.xxx]1976
Nov 1999 The Legacy of Cain, by Wilkie Collins [Collins#22][lcainxxx.xxx]1975
Nov 1999 Poetics, by Aristotle, Tr. SH Butcher[Aristotle#1][poetcxxx.xxx]1974
Nov 1999 Tales of Troy, by Andrew Lang [Andrew Lang #17][tltryxxx.xxx]1973
Nov 1999 History Of The Britons, by Nennius [brtnsxxx.xxx]1972
Nov 1999 Erewhon Revisited, by Samuel Butler [S. Butler #2][ervstxxx.xxx]1971
Nov 1999 A Poor Wise Man, by Mary Roberts Rinehart[MRR #12][pwsmnxxx.xxx]1970
Nov 1999 Catherine: A Story, by William Thackeray[W.M.T.#9][cthrnxxx.xxx]1969
Nov 1999 The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix[#91][hciaaxxx.xxx]1968
Nov 1999 The Brotherhood of Consolation, by Balzac[HdB #90][brcnsxxx.xxx]1967
Nov 1999 The Path of the King, by John Buchan [Buchan #6][tpotkxxx.xxx]1966
Nov 1999 Captain Blood, by Rafael Sabatini [R. Sabatini #3][cpbldxxx.xxx]1965
Nov 1999 [Reserved for Pietro di Miceli, PG Webmaster] [ xxx.xxx]1964
Nov 1999 The Confession, by Mary Roberts Rinehart [MRR #11][cnfsnxxx.xxx]1963
Nov 1999 A Defence of Poesie and Poems, by Philip Sidney [dfncpxxx.xxx]1962
Nov 1999 Books and Bookmen, by Andrew Lang[Andrew Lang #16][bkbkmxxx.xxx]1961
Nov 1999 Sight Unseen, by Mary Roberts Rinehart[Rinehart10][stnsnxxx.xxx]1960
Nov 1999 The Crown of Thorns, by E. H. Chapin [thrnsxxx.xxx]1959
Nov 1999 Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[handdxxx.xxx]1958
Nov 1999 Beatrix, by Honore de Balzac[Honore de Balzac #89][btrixxxx.xxx]1957
Nov 1999 And Even Now, by Max Beerbohm [Max Beerbohm #7][evnowxxx.xxx]1956
Nov 1999 The Darrow Enigma, by Melvin L. Severy [dngmaxxx.xxx]1955
Nov 1999 Colonel Chabert, by Honore de Balzac[de Balzac#88][chbrtxxx.xxx]1954
Nov 1999 The Diary of an Old Soul, by George MacDonald [#6][doaosxxx.xxx]1953
Nov 1999 The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman2[ylwlpxxx.xxx]1952
Nov 1999 The Coming Race, by Edward Bulwer Lytton[Lytton#5][cmgrcxxx.xxx]1951
Nov 1999 A Woman of Thirty, by Honore de Balzac[Balzac #87][thrtyxxx.xxx]1950
Nov 1999 On The Ruin of Britain, by Gildas Sapiens [otrobxxx.xxx]1949
Nov 1999 The Story of a Bad Boy, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich 7[soabbxxx.xxx]1948
Nov 1999 Scaramouche, by Rafael Sabatini[Rafael Sabatini#2][scmshxxx.xxx]1947
Oct 1999 On War, by Carl von Clausewitz [Volume 1] [CvC #1][1onwrxxx.xxx]1946
Oct 1999 Egmont, by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe [Goethe #2][egmntxxx.xxx]1945
Oct 1999 The Witch, et. al, by Anton Chekhov[Chekhov#14-28][witchxxx.xxx]1944
The stories contained in addition are:
28 THE WITCH
27 PEASANT WIVES
26 THE POST
25 THE NEW VILLA
24 DREAMS
23 THE PIPE
22 AGAFYA
21 AT CHRISTMAS TIME
20 GUSEV
19 THE STUDENT
18 IN THE RAVINE
17 THE HUNTSMAN
16 HAPPINESS
15 A MALEFACTOR
14 PEASANTS
Oct 1999 Louis Lambert, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #86][lmbrtxxx.xxx]1943
Oct 1999 Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau, by Balzac[HdB85][rfbrtxxx.xxx]1942
Oct 1999 Letters of Two Brides, by Honore de Balzac[HdB#84][l2brdxxx.xxx]1941
Oct 1999 Christ in Flanders, by Honore de Balzac[Balzac#83][flndrxxx.xxx]1940
Oct 1999 A Gentleman of France, by Stanley Weyman[Weyman#2][gntfrxxx.xxx]1939
Oct 1999 Resurrection, by Leo Tolstoy [Leo Tolstoi] [LT #6][resurxxx.xxx]1938
and two from December, leaving us 34 more to do in the next 28 days. . . .
Dec 1999 Origin of Species, 6th Ed., by Charles Darwin [#5][otoos610.xxx]2009
Dec 1999 Monsieur Beaucaire, by Booth Tarkington [BT #8] [mbeauxxx.xxx]1983
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From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 11:00:06 -0600 (CST)
This is a resend of yesterday's Newsletter. . .due to rebooting, a few
things went wrong with the header and most copies did not go out. The
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2. Project Gutenberg Etexts Now Available Via FTPMail. . . .
3. Requests for Rafael Sabatini
The Sea-Hawk, Captain Blood, or Banner of the Bull, pre-1923 books.
4 New This Month. . .besides the month's Etexts, more Shakespeare of
the apocryphal nature, a new edition Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
It looks like we are going to need some VERY serious people to help on
doing Etexts in other languages. . .I am not willing to give up on the
other languages. . .but I now realize just how important it is to have
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A. Don Quixote in Spanish
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Jun 1999 Sir John Oldcastle, Shakespeare [Apocryphal] [1ws5110x.xxx]1788
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Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [XZ][pgwxzxxx.xxx] 670
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [TW][pgwtwxxx.xxx] 669
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [S] [pgwsxxxx.xxx] 668
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [R] [pgwrxxxx.xxx] 667
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [PQ][pgwpqxxx.xxx] 666
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [MO][pgwmoxxx.xxx] 665
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [IL][pgwilxxx.xxx] 664
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [FH][pgwfhxxx.xxx] 663
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [DE][pgwdexxx.xxx] 662
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Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [AB][pgwabxxx.xxx] 660
and here are 36 new listings since we reached #1900 last month.
One from November already:
Nov 1999 Scaramouche, by Rafael Sabatini[Rafael Sabatini#2][scmshxxx.xxx]1947
and
Oct 1999 The Second Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling [RK #6][2jngbxxx.xxx]1937
Oct 1999 Letters from England, by Elizabeth Davis Bancroft [ltengxxx.xxx]1936
Oct 1999 Adventures of Major Gahagan, by Thackaray[W.M.T.8][majghxxx.xxx]1935
Oct 1999 Songs of Innocence and Experience, by Wm. Blake[2][sinexxxx.xxx]1934
Oct 1999 The Great Hoggarty Diamond, by Thackeray [W.M.T.7][gthgdxxx.xxx]1933
Oct 1999 Early Kings of Norway, by Thomas Carlyle [T.C. #6][knrwyxxx.xxx]1932
Oct 1999 The Zeppelin's Passenger, by E. Phillips Oppenheim[zplnpxxx.xxx]1931
Oct 1999 Penguin Island, by Anatole France [pngwnxxx.xxx]1930
Oct 1999 School For Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan [scndlxxx.xxx]1929
Oct 1999 Elinor Wyllys, by Susan Fenimore Cooper[Volume 2] [1wyllxxx.xxx]1928
Oct 1999 Elinor Wyllys, by Susan Fenimore Cooper[Volume 1] [1wyllxxx.xxx]1927
Oct 1999 Elinor Wyllys, by Amabel Penfeather [Volume 2] [2wyllxxx.xxx]1928
Oct 1999 Elinor Wyllys, by Amabel Penfeather [Volume 1] [1wyllxxx.xxx]1927
Oct 1999 Grandfather's Chair, by Nathaniel Hawthorne[NH #8][gfchrxxx.xxx]1926
Oct 1999 Droll Stories [V. 1], by Honore de Balzac[HdB #82][1drllxxx.xxx]1925
Oct 1999 Many Voices, by E. Nesbit [Poems] [E. Nesbit #8][mnyvcxxx.xxx]1924
Oct 1999 The Poisoned Pen by, Arthur B. Reeve [tppenxxx.xxx]1923
Oct 1999 Deirdre of the Sorrows, by J. M. Synge [Synge #7][drdrexxx.xxx]1922
[This one is a play, and is in markup format, need a volunteer to unmark it.]
Oct 1999 The Chouans, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #81] [chounxxx.xxx]1921
Oct 1999 Billy Baxter's Letters, By William J. Kountz, Jr. [bbxtlxxx.xxx]1920
Oct 1999 Ballads, by Horatio Alger, Jr. [H. Alger Jr. #10][blldsxxx.xxx]1919
Oct 1999 Long Odds, by H. Rider Haggard [H. R. Haggard #8][loddsxxx.xxx]1918
Oct 1999 The Queen of Hearts, by Wilkie Collins[Collins#21][qnhrtxxx.xxx]1917
Oct 1999 The Great Stone Face, et. al. Nathaniel Hawthorne [totwmxxx.xxx]1916
Includes The Great Stone Face and other Tales from the White Mountains>>>
Oct 1999 Sketches From Memory, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#7] [totwmxxx.xxx]1916
Oct 1999 The Great Carbuncle, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#6] [totwmxxx.xxx]1916
Oct 1999 The Ambitious Guest, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#5] [totwmxxx.xxx]1916
Oct 1999 The Great Stone Face, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#4] [totwmxxx.xxx]1916
Oct 1999 Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow, by Jerome [#14][scthkxxx.xxx]1915
Oct 1999 [Reserved for The Titanic [ xxx.xxx]1914*
Oct 1999 The Drums Of Jeopardy, by Harold MacGrath [jprdyxxx.xxx]1913
Oct 1999 The Muse of the Department, by de Balzac [HdB #80][msdptxxx.xxx]1912
Oct 1999 Concerning Christian Liberty, by Martin Luther[#6][clbtyxxx.xxx]1911
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
Sep 1999 [Reserved for La Tulipe Noire] [ xxx.xxx]1910
Sep 1999 [Reserved for Darwin] [ xxx.xxx]1909
Sep 1999 Her Prairie Knight, by B. M. Bower[B.M. Bower #10][hrprkxxx.xxx]1908
Sep 1999 Rowdy of the Cross L, by B. M. Bower [BM Bower #9][rowdyxxx.xxx]1907
Sep 1999 Erewhon (Revised Edition), by Samuel Butler [erwhnxxx.xxx]1906
Sep 1999 The Governess [Female Academy], by Sarah Fielding [gvrnsxxx.xxx]1905
Sep 1999 Life & Perambulations of a Mouse by Dorothy Kilner[lpoamxxx.xxx]1904
Sep 1999 Everybody's Guide to Money Matters, by Wm. Cotton [egtmmxxx.xxx]1903
Sep 1999 The Old Peabody Pew by Kate Douglas Wiggin[KDW#13][oldpwxxx.xxx]1902
Sep 1999 Secret of the Woods, by William J. Long [sctwdxxx.xxx]1901
Sep 1999 Typee, by Herman Melville [Herman Melville #2][typeexxx.xxx]1900
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AND VIEWERS FIGHT BACK AGAINST WEB AD OVERLOAD
Meanwhile, Web surfers weary of enduring the "pulsating, candy-colored wave
of advertising that has spread across the Internet," increasingly are
turning to ad-blocking software to speed up their download times. "They are
a symbol of people saying, 'I'm not going to take it anymore,'" says Jakob
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OPEN UNIVERSITY OFFERS FIRST ONLINE COURSE
Britain's Open University, one of the oldest distance education institutions
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Computer and the Net." The course, which is designed for students with
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(Financial Times 1 Mar 99)
PREPARE FOR Y2K THE WAY YOU'D PREPARE FOR A THREE-DAY BLOW
Senator Chris Dodd's advice for getting ready for Y2K is: "What you ought
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regard to the airways, nuclear weapons, or the nation's power grids. (AP 1
Mar 99)
HALF OF U.S. CLASSROOMS ARE NOW WIRED
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1997 and only 3% in 1994). Smaller and poorer schools are now just as
likely to have Internet connections as larger and wealthier schools.
(Reuters/San Jose Mercury News 1 Mar 99)
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From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: "Project Gutenberg Volunteers' List" <gutvol-l@listserv.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 11:29:40 -0600 (CST)
This is Project Gutenberg's Volunteers' Newsletter for February, 1999
We are redoing Pride and Prejudice. . .if anyone is interested in new
work on this, please let me know. . .we could possibly use some help.
We are also going to need some serious help if we are going to get to
Don Quixote in Spanish for our Etext #2000, which is only now some 90
Etexts away. . .and we have not had much luck in finding editions the
copyright has obviously gone out of. . . . We need to find editions,
from any country, that were published before 1923. . . .
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I have a bunch of books available for scanning. For
list, please see:
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Michael Oltz <mdo1@cornell.edu>
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Things have gone pretty slowly since the holidays, the last 45 days
might be first time I can remember that we have not actually made a
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Subject: Project Gutenberg Newsletter, January, 1999
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 16:38:43 -0600 (CST)
This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter of Wednesday, January 6, 1999
[Usually sent the first Wednesday of each month, delayed if by relay.]
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As you may recall from past years, we usually do not send this out the
first Wednesday of the year, so it won't get lost in your mailbox when
you return from the holidays, but this year is just going to be so hot
with potential that I thought we should get a head start.
More about all of the 1999 project and deadlines shortly.
Right now we just need to get more xeroxes in from pre-1923 editions,
so we can get your copyright research done.
We have more interest than ever in getting all languages on line; this
will take an ENORMOUS effort, and we will need some very energetic and
patient volunteers to coordinate these efforts. We would like to find
at least two or three volunteers willing to be Team Leader for various
language teams we will be forming. . .this is going to take some work!
We will be notifying all those who volunteered to work on Spanish. . !
Here are some examples of other interests:
From: Leonidas Hatzinikolaou <leonidas@hatzinikolaou.org>
I write to you, Michael, with the following proposal: I'm volunteering
to undertake the task of coordinating a collective effort in my country
to digitally publish Greek books in the public domain, both in the Greek
language and translations of them (wherever they can be found) in
English, under the auspices of the GUTENBERG PROJECT. The formats and
all rules of submissions of the e-texts will be according to the rules
established by the GUTENBERG PROJECT. I will try to spread the message
all over Greece asking for more volunteers to help in our task. I will
check-out the texts, their copyright status, etc. Currently I have a web
site under development (http://www.hatzinikolaou.org), where I can host
the Greek e-texts (which require Greek fonts, etc.), which, of course, I
will forward as soon as I receive them to the GUTENBERG PROJECT.
and. . .
Can we work on a few pieces of art, or more music?
Is it possible to, for example, generate a nice
image of the Mona Lisa? Or a few more MIDI files
of the great classics? Maybe some of DaVinci's neat
graphics.
It's not text, but would be nice to spice things
up. What I don't know about are the copyright problems
for art and how to get a high-rez image....I could
visit France and take my own photos...
For suggested books (I'm not volunteering, but in
case you want ideas to pass on);
Principia mathematica, by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand
Russell. (1910)
also Newton's Principia (don't know how old an English translation we can
find...
****
And. . .a piece of good news for you who buying new computers:
Current PC sales at the end of 1998:
$1,000 is the current average price--
$800 - $1200 accounts for 67% of all:
1 computer out of 6 costs over $1200:
1 computer out of 6 costs under $800.
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And now here are the usual 36 Etexts we provide in each Newsletter. . . .
28 are officially for release in August, 1999, and 8 or 9 more in
June, 1999. . .you MAY want to replace the listing we sent to you
for June two months ago, as it will be easier than pasting in.
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
Aug 1999 North America, Vol. 2, by Anthony Trollope [AT #4][2noamxxx.xxx]1866
Aug 1999 North America, Vol. 1, by Anthony Trollope [AT #3][1noamxxx.xxx]1865
Aug 1999 Hero Tales From American History, Lodge/Roosevelt [htfahxxx.xxx]1864
Aug 1999 From Cornhill to Grand Cairo by Thackeray [WMT #6][crhcrxxx.xxx]1863
Aug 1999 Tartarin of Tarascon, by Alphonse Daudet [trtrnxxx.xxx]1862
Aug 1999 An Old Town By The Sea by Thomas Bailey Aldrich #6[ldtwnxxx.xxx]1861
Aug 1999 Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley[Chas Kingsley #8][wsthoxxx.xxx]1860
Aug 1999 The Works of Max Beerbohm, by Max Beerbohm[Max #6][twombxxx.xxx]1859
Aug 1999 Plain Tales from the Hills, by Rudyard Kipling[#5][ptfthxxx.xxx]1858
Aug 1999 Initials Only, by Anna Katharine Green [Green #3][ionlyxxx.xxx]1857
Aug 1999 Cousin Pons, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #74][cspnsxxx.xxx]1856
Aug 1999 Ban and Arriere Ban, by Andrew Lang[Andr. Lang#15][bnabnxxx.xxx]1855
Aug 1999 Catherine de Medici, by Honore de Balzac/Balzac#73[ctdmdxxx.xxx]1854
Aug 1999 The Ninth Vibration, et. al., by L. Adams Beck #8 [9thvbxxx.xxx]1853
Aug 1999 The Interpreter, by L. Adams Beck [LAB #7][9thvbxxx.xxx]1853
Aug 1999 The Incomparable Lady, by L. Adams Beck [LAB #6][9thvbxxx.xxx]1853
Aug 1999 The Hatred of the Queen, by L. Adams Beck [LAB #5][9thvbxxx.xxx]1853
Aug 1999 The Fire of Beauty, by L. Adams Beck [LAB #4][9thvbxxx.xxx]1853
Aug 1999 The Building of the Taj Majal, by L. Adams Beck #3[9thvbxxx.xxx]1853
Aug 1999 How Great is the Glory of Kwannon! by L Adams Beck[9thvbxxx.xxx]1853
Aug 1999 The Round-Faced Beauty, by L. Adams Beck [LAB#1] [9thvbxxx.xxx]1853
Aug 1999 Lucile, by Owen Meredith [lucilxxx.xxx]1852
Aug 1999 The Woman in the Alcove by Anna Katharine Green #2[wintaxxx.xxx]1851
Aug 1999 Old Christmas, by Washington Irving [Irving #5][oxmasxxx.xxx]1850
Aug 1999 The Yellow Crayon, by E. Phillips Oppenheim[EPO#5][ycrynxxx.xxx]1849
Aug 1999 Montezuma's Daughter, by H. Rider Haggard [HRH #7][mzdtrxxx.xxx]1848
Aug 1999 Songs, Merry and Sad, by John Charles McNeill [sngmsxxx.xxx]1847
Aug 1999 The Vision Splendid, by William MacLeod Raine [#3][vspldxxx.xxx]1846
Aug 1999 The Vision Spendid, by William MacLeod Raine [#3][vspldxxx.xxx]1846
Aug 1999 Zuleika Dobson, by Max Beerbohm [Max Beerbohm #5][zdbsnxxx.xxx]1845
Aug 1999 The Scholemaster, by Roger Ascham [In Markup] [smstrxxx.xxx]1844
Aug 1999 The Schoolmaster, by Roger Ascham [In Markup] [smstrxxx.xxx]1844
Aug 1999 Vera, The Medium, by Richard Harding Davis[RHD#29][veramxxx.xxx]1843
Aug 1999 Michael Strogoff, by Jules Verne [Jules Verne #9][strgfxxx.xxx]1842
Aug 1999 Z. Marcas, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #72][zmrcsxxx.xxx]1841
Aug 1999 The Financier, by Theodore Dreiser [tfncrxxx.xxx]1840
Aug 1999 Other Things Being Equal, by Emma Wolf [otbeqxxx.xxx]1839
May 1999 Laws, by Plato [#29 and last of this Plato series][plawsxxx.xxx]1750
[We would love to do more tranlations of Plato, if you are have any. Michael]
And here is a more complete and more organized listing for June, 1999
Etexts #1765 thru #1802 are mosly corrected Shakespeare.
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
Jun 1999 The Winter's Tale, by Shakespeare [1ws4011x.xxx]1800
Jun 1999 Cymbeline, by Shakespeare [1ws3911x.xxx]1799
Jun 1999 Timon of Athens, by Shakespeare [1ws3711x.xxx]1798
Jun 1999 Coriolanus, by Shakespeare [1ws3611x.xxx]1797
Jun 1999 Antony and Cleopatra, by Shakespeare [1ws3511x.xxx]1796
Jun 1999 Macbeth, by William Shakespeare [1ws34xxx.xxx]1795
Jun 1999 King Lear, by Shakespeare [1ws3311x.xxx]1794
Jun 1999 Othello, by William Shakespeare [1ws32xxx.xxx]1793
Jun 1999 Measure for Measure, by William Shakespeare [1ws31xxx.xxx]1792
Jun 1999 All's Well That Ends Well, by Shakespeare [1ws3011x.xxx]1791
Jun 1999 Troilus and Cressida, by Shakespeare [1ws2911x.xxx]1790
Jun 1999 RESERVED for More Shakepeare or Apocrypha [ x.xxx]1789
RESERVED: 1788 will be "Sir John Oldcastle" coming from Tony Adam
Jun 1999 Hamlet, by Shakespeare [1ws2611x.xxx]1787
Jun 1999 As You Like It, by Shakespeare [1ws2511x.xxx]1786
Jun 1999 Julius Caesar, by Shakespeare [1ws2411x.xxx]1785
Jun 1999 King Henry V, by Shakespeare [1ws2311x.xxx]1784
Jun 1999 Much Ado About Nothing, by Shakespeare [1ws2211x.xxx]1783
Jun 1999 King Henry IV, Part 2, by Shakespeare [1ws2111x.xxx]1782
Jun 1999 The Merry Wives of Windsor, by Shakespeare [1ws2011x.xxx]1781
Jun 1999 King Henry IV, Part 1, by Shakespeare [1ws1911x.xxx]1780
Jun 1999 The Merchant of Venice, by Shakespeare [1ws1811x.xxx]1779
Jun 1999 A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Skakespeare [1ws17xxx.xxx]1778
Jun 1999 Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare [1ws16xxx.xxx]1777
Jun 1999 King Richard II, by Shakespeare [1ws1511x.xxx]1776
Jun 1999 King John, by Shakespeare [1ws1411x.xxx]1775
Jun 1999 Love's Labour's Lost, by Shakespeare [1ws1211x.xxx]1774
Jun 1999 Two Gentlemen of Verona, by Shakespeare [1ws1111x.xxx]1773
Jun 1999 The Taming of the Shrew, by Shakespeare [1ws1011x.xxx]1772
Jun 1999 Titus Andronicus, by William Shakespeare [1ws09xxx.xxx]1771
Jun 1999 King Edward III, Shakespeare Apocrypha [1ws50xxx.xxx]1770
Jun 1999 The Comedy of Errors, by Shakespeare [1ws0611x.xxx]1769
Jun 1999 King Richard III, by Shakespeare [1ws0411x.xxx]1768
Jun 1999 RESERVED for More Shakepeare or Apocrypha [ xxx.xxx]1767
Jun 1999 RESERVED for More Shakepeare or Apocrypha [ xxx.xxx]1766
Jun 1999 Henry VI Part 1, by William Shakespeare [1ws01xxx.xxx]1765
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LIBRARY REMOVES SOFTWARE FILTERS
Responding to a federal court's ruling that the Loudoun County (VA.)
library's use of software filters to screen out sexually explicit material
on the Internet was unconstitutional (Edupage 24 Nov 98), the Library Board
has removed filters from some of its computers and left them on others;
adults will decide whether they want to use a computer with a filter or one
without, and parents of minors will be asked to sign a statement specifying
whether or not they want their child to have unfiltered Internet access.
Library patron Becky Montcastle-Jones urged the library board to appeal the
court's ruling, saying: "We have not had pornographic or salacious material
in our library. Why, just because we have new technology to get to it very
quickly, should we have any different policy? In the video section, you
can't go in there and get a pornographic movie. Librarians throughout
history have had to make choices about what will be in the library. That's
not censorship -- that's choice." But board member Marc Leepson expressed
the view of 6 out of the 8 board members: "I'm completely comfortable with
the new policy. It's constitutional, and it still protects children."
(Washington Post 3 Dec 98)
NBC ACQUIRES PART OF "WOMEN'S CONTENT" SITE
Noting that women "happen to be the fastest-growing element on the
Internet," an executive of the NBC television network has announced it will
promote the iVillage Internet service, which he described as "the leading
women's content site." NBC, in turn, will receive an ownership stake in
that service, which now also provides information about parenting, families
and health for special sites on Snap -- an ad-supported Web site owned by
NBC and C/NET. (USA Today 30 Nov 98)
NADER GROUP CHALLENGES AOL-NETSCAPE MERGER
Washington, D.C.-based Consumer Project, a group run by long-time consumer
advocate Ralph Nader, says it will vigorously oppose the merger between
America Online and Netscape. "We feel this will harm competition in the ISP
market," says director James Love. "ISPs will have to go to Netscape or
Microsoft for browser software. They compete against both and if they have
to go to them to get software, it creates all kinds of problems." Love says
his group plans to ask the Justice Department or the Federal Trade
Commission to nix the merger. "We don't care if Netscape sells its company
to anybody else but AOL or Microsoft." (TechWeb 25 Nov 98)
DOD FALSIFIED Y2K DATA BUT HAS "GOOD FEELING" ABOUT FUTURE
A Department of Defense inspector-general report says that the Defense
Special Weapons Agency never conducted required tests on three of five
"mission critical" computer systems it had certified as Y2K-compliant. The
military officer assigned to correct the agency's Year 2000 problems says he
agrees with the report but that the systems in question will be "100% in
compliance" by April 1999: "I have a good feeling about Y2K in this
agency." (USA Today 27-29 Nov 98)
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Subject: Project Gutenberg Newsletter, 37 More Etexts
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 10:54:57 -0600 (CST)
**The Project Gutenberg Newsletter for Wednesday, December 16, 1998***
Main URL is promo.net Webmaster is Pietro di Miceli, of Rome, Italy
We would LOVE to have more work to do over the holiday break. . .if it
is possible, please send us your suggestions for books, copyright work
that needs to be done, etc. For anyone who asked me to do something I
didn't have time for, now is the time to ask again. Happy Holidays!!!
If you would care to send us any donations over the holidays see end.
We are now nearly 7 months ahead of schedule. . .about 1800 Etexts . .
Some Shakespeare's from June are not completed yet. . .
We have managed to complete another month's Etexts. . .here they are!!
Jul 1999 Title Author [filename.ext ####
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 The Case of the Golden Bullet, by Colbrun & Groner[cotgbxxx.xxx]1838
Jul 1999 Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study/Colbrun/Groner[pbipsxxx.xxx]1837
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
Jul 1999 The Spy, by Richard Harding Davis[R. H. Davis #22][thspyxxx.xxx]1818
Jul 1999 A Question of Latitude, by Richard H.Davis[RHD#21][qlttdxxx.xxx]1817
Jul 1999 Tattine, by Ruth Ogden [Mrs. Charles W. Ide] [tttnexxx.xxx]1816
Jul 1999 The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln by Helen Nicolay[bloalxxx.xxx]1815
Jul 1999 The Agony Column, by Earl Derr Biggers [gnyclxxx.xxx]1814
Jul 1999 A Man of Business, by Honore de Balzac[Balzac #70][mnbusxxx.xxx]1813
Jul 1999 A Prince of Bohemia, by Honore de Balzac [HdB #69][prbhmxxx.xxx]1812
Jul 1999 Massimilla Doni, by Honore de Balzac[de Balzac#68][msmdnxxx.xxx]1811
Jul 1999 A Second Home, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #67][2ndhmxxx.xxx]1810
Jul 1999 Bucky O'Connor, by William MacLeod Raine[Raine #2][bkcnrxxx.xxx]1809
Jul 1999 The Log of the Jolly Polly, by R H Davis[Davis#20][jlplyxxx.xxx]1808
Jul 1999 The Lost House, by Richard Harding Davis[Davis#19][lsthsxxx.xxx]1807
Jul 1999 The Frame Up, by Richard Harding Davis [Davis #18][frmupxxx.xxx]1806
Jul 1999 The Gentle Grafter, by O. Henry [O Henry #6][grftrxxx.xxx]1805
Jul 1999 War and the Future, by H. G. Wells[H.G. Wells #18][wrftrxxx.xxx]1804
Jul 1999 Wyoming, Story of Outdoor West, by William M Raine[wymngxxx.xxx]1803
Jul 1999 King Henry VIII, by Shakespeare [1ws4211x.xxx]1802
Jul 1999 The Tempest, by Shakespeare [1ws4111x.xxx]1801
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Subject: December 10th Project Gutenberg Newsletter
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 19:59:36 -0600 (CST)
This is Project Gutenberg's Newsletter for Thursday, December 19, 1998
[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
We have the 36 Etext for May, 1999 pretty much ready for you, and some
new Shakespeare files, though BEWARE!. . .the filenames or numbers may
change over the next month or so. . .I haven't quite yet figured out a
whole strategy for working with what the mice played with while I went
on vacation. . .a vacation I am certainly glad to be back from. It is
odd to say, but everything when pretty much the opposite as expected--
I had a great time in LA accepting the WIRED 25 "Oscar" on behalf of a
thousand Project Gutenberg volunteers, and did all I was asked to do &
and bit more at the party. . .[I was indeed the "life of the party."]
As I often try to do, we have managed some new Shakespeare to honor my
father, who died 9 years ago today, and for whom I try to do some work
on this day each year, as well as to light a candle for him. I have a
GREAT BIG THANK YOU to our Shakespeare Team for getting this ready for
today, you will see THOUSANDS of corrections in these new files!!! My
father was a great Shakespeare professor, who instilled in me and many
others a great feeling for the classics, in literature, music and art.
This one's for you, Dad!
***
A note from our US Director of Production, Dianne Bean:
Working on a reasonable-sized-print book, water damaged at the bottom:
Testing Omnipage 9 on it and there's a HUGE difference between this and
Textbridge--they improved the OCR so it's better by a mile than
Textbridge, no longer even close...I'm only picking up 1 or 2 errors on a
page; where the pages are a little warped at the bottom, TB was making an
awful garble, but OP sails right through! And it hasn't crashed yet.
***
I will be meeting with Lawrence Lessig of Harvard, who apparently is the
one the Supreme Court of the US chose to teach them about computers, and
about the Internet. We will be planning the lawsuit to challenge all of
the new copyright extensions we tried so hard to keep from becoming law.
He has asked for some serious volunteers who would also like to sue; the
cases are more secure when there are several plaintiffs, not just one.
Just email me if you are interested. I meet with him Monday. We should
also like to receive any points you would like included in the suit, and
we would like these whether or not you are willing to be a plaintiff.
***
And here are the books!
May 1999 Billy and the Big Stick, by R. H. Davis [#17][bbstkxxx.xxx]1764
May 1999 The Nature Faker, by Richard Harding Davis [#16][ntrfkxxx.xxx]1763
May 1999 The Consul, by Richard Harding Davis [RH Davis#15][tcnslxxx.xxx]1762
May 1999 My Buried Treasure, by Richard Harding Davis [#14][mbtrsxxx.xxx]1761
May 1999 The Man Who Could Not Lose, by R. H. Davis [#13][mwcnlxxx.xxx]1760
May 1999 The Black-Bearded Barbarian, by Marian Keith [bbbrb09x.xxx]1759
May 1999 Majorie Daw, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich [Aldrich #4][mjdawxxx.xxx]1758
May 1999 Cruise of the Dolphin by Thomas Bailey Aldrich[#3][dlphnxxx.xxx]1757
May 1999 Uncle Vanya, by Anton Chekhov [Checkov #5][vanyaxxx.xxx]1756
May 1999 Ivanoff, by Anton Chekhov [Checkov #4][vanofxxx.xxx]1755
May 1999 The Sea-Gull, by Anton Chekhov [Checkov #3][cgullxxx.xxx]1754
May 1999 Swan Song [& Intro], by Anton Chekhov [Checkov #2][swnsgxxx.xxx]1753
May 1999 El Dorado, by Baroness Orczy [More Pimpernell][#2][ldrdoxxx.xxx]1752
May 1999 Twilight Land, by Howard Pyle [Howard Pyle #3][twlndxxx.xxx]1751
May 1999 [Reserved for Plato] ******** [ xxx.xxx]1750
May 1999 Cousin Betty, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #66] [cbttyxxx.xxx]1749
May 1999 Other People's Money, by Emile Gaboriau [E.G. #2][opmnyxxx.xxx]1748
May 1999 The Red Seal, by Natalie Sumner Lincoln [redslxxx.xxx]1747
May 1999 New Collected Rhymes, by Andrew Lang [Lang #14][nwclrxxx.xxx]1746
May 1999 Poetical Works, by John Milton [pmsjmxxx.xxx]1745
May 1999 Philebus, by Plato [More of Socrates][Plato #28][philbxxx.xxx]1744
May 1999 Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells[HGW#17][12sadxxx.xxx]1743
May 1999 Miss Civilization, by Richard Harding Davis [#12][miscvxxx.xxx]1742
May 1999 The White Moll, by Frank L. Packard [Packard #2][wtmolxxx.xxx]1741
May 1999 The Flying U's Last Stand, by B. M. Bower [BMB #8][fuslsxxx.xxx]1740
May 1999 The Black Death/The Dancing Mania, by J.F.C. Hecker[bdadm10.txt]1739
May 1999 Statesman, by Plato [Plato #27][sttsmxxx.xxx]1738
May 1999 Facino Cane, by Honore de Balzac [H. de Balzac#65][fcanexxx.xxx]1737
May 1999 Cromwell, Shakespeare Apocrypha [1ws49xxx.xxx]1736*
May 1999 Sophist, by Plato [More of Socrates][Plato #26][sophtxxx.xxx]1735
May 1999 Secret Places of the Heart, by H.G. Wells[HGW #16][spothxxx.xxx]1734
May 1999 The Red Cross Girl, by Richard Harding Davis [#11][rdcrgxxx.xxx]1733
May 1999 The Schoolmistress, et al, by Anton Chekhov [AC#1][tschmxxx.xxx]1732
May 1999 Sister Songs, by Francis Thompson [F. Thompson #3][ssngsxxx.xxx]1731
May 1999 Michael, Brother of Jerry, by Jack London [JL #71][mcjerxxx.xxx]1730
May 1999 The Deserted Woman, by Honore de Balzac[Balzac#64][dswmnxxx.xxx]1729
and:
Most of these Shakespeare files are vastly improved versions from our
original Complete works of Shakespeare [Etext #100] but some are new.
We had so many requests to post Shakespeare as individual files, that
we decided a whole new version was worth the effort, and here it is!!
Note: We don't have new versions for all the works yet. . .but will.
Jul 1999 King Henry VIII, by Shakespeare [1ws4211x.xxx]1802
Jul 1999 The Tempest, by Shakespeare [1ws4111x.xxx]1801
Jun 1999 The Winter's Tale, by Shakespeare [1ws4011x.xxx]1800
Jun 1999 Cymbeline, by Shakespeare [1ws3911x.xxx]1799
Jun 1999 Timon of Athens, by Shakespeare [1ws3711x.xxx]1798
Jun 1999 Coriolanus, by Shakespeare [1ws3611x.xxx]1797
Jun 1999 Antony and Cleopatra, by Shakespeare [1ws3511x.xxx]1796
Jun 1999 King Lear, by Shakespeare [1ws3311x.xxx]1794
Jun 1999 All's Well That Ends Well, by Shakespeare [1ws3011x.xxx]1791
Jun 1999 Troilus and Cressida, by Shakespeare [1ws2911x.xxx]1790
Jun 1999 Hamlet, by Shakespeare [1ws2611x.xxx]1787
Jun 1999 As You Like It, by Shakespeare [1ws2511x.xxx]1786
Jun 1999 Julius Caesar, by Shakespeare [1ws2411x.xxx]1785
Jun 1999 King Henry V, by Shakespeare [1ws2311x.xxx]1784
Jun 1999 Much Ado About Nothing, by Shakespeare [1ws2211x.xxx]1783
Jun 1999 King Henry IV, Part 2, by Shakespeare [1ws2111x.xxx]1782
Jun 1999 The Merry Wives of Windsor, by Shakespeare [1ws2011x.xxx]1781
Jun 1999 King Henry IV, Part 1, by Shakespeare [1ws1911x.xxx]1780
Jun 1999 The Merchant of Venice, by Shakespeare [1ws1811x.xxx]1779
Jun 1999 King Richard II, by Shakespeare [1ws1511x.xxx]1776
Jun 1999 King John, by Shakespeare [1ws1411x.xxx]1775
Jun 1999 Love's Labour's Lost, by Shakespeare [1ws1211x.xxx]1774
Jun 1999 Two Gentlemen of Verona, by Shakespeare [1ws1111x.xxx]1773
Jun 1999 The Taming of the Shrew, by Shakespeare [1ws1011x.xxx]1772
Jun 1999 The Comedy of Errors, by Shakespeare [1ws0611x.xxx]1769
Jun 1999 King Richard III, by Shakespeare [1ws0411x.xxx]1768
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