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Gems Gathered in Haste, by Anonymous 11150
[Subtitle: A New Year's Gift for Sunday Schools]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/5/11150 ]
[Files: 11150.txt; 11150-h.htm]
Little Folded Hands, by Anonymous 11149
[Subtitle: Prayers for Children]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/4/11149 ]
[Files: 11149.txt; 11149-h.htm]
Aunt Harding's Keepsakes, Anonymous 11148
[Subtitle: The Two Bibles]
[Revised by Daniel P. Kidder]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/4/11148 ]
[Files: 11148.txt; 11148-h.htm]
Phebe, The Blackberry Girl, by Edward Livermore 11147
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/4/11147 ]
[Files: 11147.txt]
The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate, by Houghton 11146
[Full author: Eliza Poor Donner Houghton]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/4/11146 ]
[Files: 11146.txt; 11146-8.txt; 11146-h.htm]
The Discovery of Yellowstone Park, by Nathaniel Pitt Langford 11145
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/4/11145 ]
[Files: 11145.txt; 11145-8.txt; 11145-h.htm]
Somewhere in France and Other Stories, by Richard Harding Davis 11144
Contents:
"Somewhere In France"
Playing Dead
The Card-Sharp
Billy And The Big Stick
The Boy Scout
The Frame-Up
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/4/11144 ]
[Files: 11144.txt; 11144-8.txt; 11144-h.htm]
Mary Marie, by Eleanor H. Porter 11143
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/4/11143 ]
[Files: 11143.txt]
Unitarianism, by W.G. Tarrant 11142
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/4/11142 ]
[Files: 11142.txt; 11142-8.txt]
A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life., by Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney 11141
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/4/11141 ]
[Files: 11141.txt; 11141-8.txt; 11141-h.htm]
Rollo at Play, by Jacob Abbott 11140
[Subtitle: Safe Amusements]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/4/11140 ]
[Files: 11140.txt; 11140-h.htm]
Haablose Slaegter, by Herman Bang 11139
[Language: Danish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/3/11139 ]
[Files: 11139-8.txt]
Comic History of England, by Bill Nye 11138
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/3/11138 ]
[Files: 11138.txt; 11138-8.txt]
Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman, by Austin Steward 11137
[Subtitle: Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years,
While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/3/11137 ]
[Files: 11137.txt]
Origin And Foundation Of The Inequality Among Mankind, by Rousseau 11136
[Full title: A Discourse Upon The Origin And The Foundation
Of The Inequality Among Mankind]
[Full author: Jean Jacques Rousseau]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/3/11136 ]
[Files: 11136.txt]
Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, by Ernest Thompson Seton 11135
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/3/11135 ]
[Files: 11135.txt; 11135.zip; 11135-h.htm; 11135-h.zip; ]
Atlantic Monthly, Volume 7, Issue 41, March, 1861, by Various 11134
[Subtitle: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/3/11134 ]
[Files: 11134.txt; 11134.zip; 11134-8.txt; 11134-8.zip; ]
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Jan. 8, 1919, by Various 11133
[Editor: Owen Seamen]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/3/11133 ]
[Files: 11133.txt; 11133.zip; 11133-8.txt; 11133-8.zip; 11133-h.htm;
11133-h.zip; ]
Robert Ier et Raoul de Bourgogne, rois de France (923-936),by Ph. Lauer 11132
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/3/11132 ]
[Files: 11132.txt; 11132-8.txt]
Pierre et Jean, by Guy de Maupassant 11131
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/3/11131 ]
[Files: 11131.txt; 11131-8.txt; 11131-h.htm]
Greek in a Nutshell, by James Strong 11130
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/3/11130 ]
[Files: 11131-0.txt; 11130-h.htm]
No and Other Stories Compiled by Uncle Humphrey, by Various 11129
[Book cover title: "Uncle Humphrey's Stories"]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/2/11129 ]
[Files: 11129.txt; 11129.zip; 11129-h.htm; 11129-h.zip; ]
The Red Thumb Mark, by R. Austin Freeman 11128
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/2/11128 ]
[Files: 11128.txt; 11128-8.txt; 11128-h.htm]
The Case of Jennie Brice, by Mary Roberts Rinehart 11127
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/2/11127 ]
[Files: 11127.txt; 11127-8.txt; 11127-h.htm]
Ten Girls from Dickens, by Kate Dickinson Sweetser 11126
[Illustrated by George Alfred Williams]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/2/11126 ]
[Files: 11126.txt; 11126.zip; 11126-h.htm; 11126-h.zip; ]
Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Franklin Pierce, by Richardson 11125
[Title: A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents,
Section 3 (of 4) of Vol. 5, Franklin Pierce]
[Edited by James D. Richardson]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/2/11125 ]
[Files: 11125.txt; 11125-8.txt; 11125-h.htm]
Northumberland Yesterday and To-day, by Jean F. Terry 11124
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/2/11124 ]
[Files: 11124.txt; 11124-8.txt; 11124-h.htm]
The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. I. 11123
[Subtitle: Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English.
In Twenty Volumes.]
[Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/2/11123 ]
[Files: 11123.txt; 11123-8.txt]
Choice Specimens of American Literature, And Literary Reader, by Martin 11122
[Full author: Benj. N. Martin]
[Subtitle: Being Selections from the Chief American Writers]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/2/11122 ]
[Files: 11122.txt; 11122-8.txt]
The Bracelets, by Maria Edgeworth 11121
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/2/11121 ]
[Files: 11121.txt; 11121-h.htm]
Hurrah for New England!, by Louisa C. Tuthill 11120
[Subtitle: The Virginia Boy's Vacation]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/2/11120 ]
[Files: 11120.txt; 11120-h.htm]
Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes, by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 11119
[Full title: Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years
With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/1/11119 ]
[Files: 11119.txt; 11119-8.txt; 11119-h.htm]
Atlantic Monthly Volume 7, No. 39, January, 1861, by Various 11118
[Subtitle: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/1/11118 ]
[Files: 11118.txt; 11118.zip; 11118-8.txt; 11118-8.zip; ]
Atlantic Monthly Volume 7, No. 40, February, 1861, by Various 11117
[Subtitle: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/1/11117 ]
[Files: 11117.txt; 11117.zip; 11117-8.txt; 11117-8.zip; ]
The Wonderful Bed, by Gertrude Knevels 11116
[Illustrated by Emily Hall Chamberlin]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/1/11116 ]
[Files: 11116.txt; 11116.zip; 11116-h.htm; 11116-h.zip; ]
Frank Merriwell at Yale, by Burt L. Standish 11115
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/1/11115 ]
[Files: 11115.txt; 11115-8.txt; 11115-h.htm]
Debate On Woman Suffrage In The Senate, by Henry W. Blair et al. 11114
[Full title: Debate On Woman Suffrage In The Senate Of The United States,
2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, And January 25, 1887]
[Additional authors: J.E. Brown, J.N. Dolph, G.G. Vest, Geo. F. Hoar.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/1/11114 ]
[Files: 11114.txt; 11114-8.txt; 11114-h.htm]
Principal Cairns, by John Cairns 11113
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/1/11113 ]
[Files: 11113.txt; 11113-8.txt; 11113-h.htm]
Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 351, by Various 11112
[Subtitle: Volume 13, Saturday, January 10, 1829]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/1/11112 ]
[Files: 11112.txt; 11112-8.txt; 11112-h.htm]
Only An Irish Boy, by Horatio Alger, Jr 11111
[Subtitle: Andy Burke's Fortunes]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/1/11111 ]
[Files: 11111.txt]
A Countess from Canada, by Bessie Marchant 11110
[Subtitle: A Story of Life in the Backwoods]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/1/11110 ]
[Files: 11110.txt]
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Feb. 12, 1919, by Various 11109
[Editor: Owen Seamen]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/0/11109 ]
[Files: 11109.txt; 11109.zip; 11109-8.txt; 11109-8.zip; 11109-h.htm;
11109-h.zip; ]
Aus dem Durchschnitt, by Gustav Falke 11108
[Subtitle: Roman]
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/0/11108 ]
[Files: 11108.txt; 11108.zip; 11108-8.txt; 11108-8.zip; ]
Theobald, The Iron-Hearted, by Anonymous 11107
[Subtitle: Love to Enemies]
[From the French Of Rev. Cesar Malan]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/0/11107 ]
[Files: 11107.txt; 11107-h.htm]
The Girl at Cobhurst, by Stockton, Frank Richard 11106
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/0/11106 ]
[Files: 11106.txt; 11106-8.txt]
Jack Mason, The Old Sailor, by Theodore Thinker 11105
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/0/11105 ]
[Files: 11105.txt; 11105-h.htm]
In Morocco, by Edith Wharton 11104
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/0/11104 ]
[Files: 11104.txt; 11104.zip; 11104-8.txt; 11104-8.zip; ]
Atlantic Monthly Volume 6, No. 37, November, 1860, by Various 11103
[Subtitle: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/0/11103 ]
[Files: 11103.txt; 11103.zip; 11103-8.txt; 11103-8.zip; ]
History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, Edward A. Johnson 11102
[Full title: History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War,
and Other Items of Interest]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/0/11102 ]
[Files: 11102.txt; 11102-8.txt; 11102-h.htm]
Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 11101
[Edited by Frederick H. Sykes]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/0/11101 ]
[Files: 11101.txt; 11101-8.txt]
History Of Modern Philosophy, by Richard Falckenberg 11100
[Subtitle: From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/1/0/11100 ]
[Files: 11100.txt; 11100-8.txt]
More Seeds of Knowledge; Or, Another Peep at Charles, by Julia Corner 11099
[Subtitle: Being, an Account of Charles's Progress in Learning. About
Black Slaves; a Conversation on History; and Missionaries.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/9/11099 ]
[Files: 11099.txt; 11099.zip; 11099-h.htm; 11099-h.zip; ]
Happy and Gay Marching Away, by Unknown 11098
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/9/11098 ]
[Files: 11098.txt; 11098.zip; 11098-h.htm; 11098-h.zip; ]
Young Robin Hood, by G. Manville Fenn 11097
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/9/11097 ]
[Files: 11097.txt]
Tales of Ind, by T. Ramakrishna 11096
[Subtitle: And Other Poems]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/9/11096 ]
[Files: 11096.txt; 11096-8.txt; 11096-h.htm]
Fun and Nonsense, by Willard Bonte 11095
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/9/11095 ]
[Files: 11095.txt; 11095-h.htm]
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, March 12, 1919, by Various 11094
[Editor: Owen Seamen]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/9/11094 ]
[Files: 11094.txt; 11094.zip; 11094-8.txt; 11094-8.zip; 11094-h.htm;
11094-h.zip; ]
Trailin'!, by Max Brand 11093
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/9/11093 ]
[Files: 11093.txt; 11093-8.txt]
The History Of Tom Thumb and Other Stories, by Anonymous 11092
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/9/11092 ]
[Files: 11092.txt; 11092-h.htm]
Poems, by John L. Stoddard 11091
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/9/11091 ]
[Files: 11091.txt; 11091-8.txt]
Industrial Progress and Human Economics, by James Hartness 11090
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/9/11090 ]
[Files: 11090.txt; 11090-h.htm]
The Education Of The Negro Prior To 1861, by Carter Godwin Woodson 11089
[Subtitle: A History of the Education of the Colored People of the
United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/8/11089 ]
[Files: 11089.txt; 11089-8.txt]
English Men of Letters: Crabbe, by Alfred Ainger 11088
[English Men of Letters Series: George Crabbe]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/8/11088 ]
[Files: 11088.txt; 11088-8.txt; 11088-h.htm]
Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, Issue 35, September, 1860, by Various 11087
[Subtitle: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/8/11087 ]
[Files: 11087.txt; 11087.zip; 11087-8.txt; 11087-8.zip; ]
A Surgeon in Belgium, by Henry Sessions Souttar 11086
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/8/11086 ]
[Files: 11086.txt; 11086.zip; 11086-h.htm; 11086-h.zip; ]
M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur.", by G.J. Whyte-Melville 11085
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/8/11085 ]
[Files: 11085.txt; 11085-8.txt; 11085-h.htm]
Sonny, A Christmas Guest, by Ruth McEnery Stuart 11084
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/8/11084 ]
[Files: 11084.txt; 11084-h.htm]
The Parables Of The Saviour, by Anonymous 11083
[Subtitle: The Good Child's Library, Tenth Book]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/8/11083 ]
[Files: 11083.txt; 11083-h.htm]
Old Saint Paul's, by William Harrison Ainsworth 11082
[Subtitle: A Tale of the Plague and the Fire]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/8/11082 ]
[Files: 11082.txt; 11082-8.txt]
Book of the Mutsun Language, by Father Felipe Arroyo de la Cuesta 11081
[Full title: A Vocabulary or Phrase Book of the Mutsun Language,
Spoken at the Mission of San Juan Bautista, Alta California]
[Shea's Library of American Linguistics, Volume IV.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/8/11081 ]
[Files: 11081.txt; 11081-8.txt; 11081-h.htm]
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4, by Cicero 11080
[Translated by C.D. Yonge]
Contains: The Fourteen Orations Against Marcus Antonius (Called
Philippics); To Which Are Appended The Treatise On Rhetorical Invention;
The Orator; Topics; On Rhetorical Partitions, Etc.
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/8/11080 ]
[Files: 11080.txt; 11080-8.txt]
Essays in Rebellion, by Henry W. Nevinson 11079
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/7/11079 ]
[Files: 11079.txt; 11079-8.txt; 11079-h.htm]
What Dress Makes of Us, by Dorothy Quigley 11078
[Illustrations by Annie Blakeslee]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/7/11078 ]
[Files: 11078.txt; 11078-8.txt; 11078-h.htm]
Ebooks: Neither E, Nor Books, by Cory Doctorow 11077
[Subtitle: Paper for the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference, 2004]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/7/11077 ] [Files: 11077.txt]
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Oct. 24, 1917, by Various 11076
[Editor: Owen Seamen]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/7/11076 ]
[Files: 11076.txt; 11076.zip; 11076-8.txt; 11076-8.zip; 11076-h.htm;
11076-h.zip; ]
Der Mann im Nebel, by Gustav Falke 11075
[Subtitle: Roman]
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/7/11075 ]
[Files: 11075.txt; 11075.zip; 11075-8.txt; 11075-8.zip; ]
The Damned, by Algernon Blackwood 11074
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/7/11074 ]
[Files: 11074.txt]
The Illustrated Alphabet of Birds, by Unknown 11073
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/7/11073 ]
[Files: 11073.txt; 11073.zip; 11073-h.htm; 11073-h.zip; ]
Jumalainen naeytelmae: Kiirastuli, by Dante 11072
[Subtitle: Divina Commedia: (Purgatory)]
[Translated by Eino Leino]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/7/11072 ]
[Files: 11072-8.txt]
Naufragios de Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca 11071
[Language: Spanish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/7/11071 ]
[Files: 11071.txt; 11071-8.txt]
La Fontana de Oro, by Benito Perez Galdos 11070
[Language: Spanish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/7/11070 ]
[Files: 11070.txt; 11070-8.txt]
Squinty the Comical Pig, by Richard Barnum 11069
[Subtitle: His Many Adventures]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/6/11069 ]
[Files: 11069.txt; 11069-h.htm]
The Spirit of the Age, by William Hazlitt 11068
[Subtitle: Contemporary Portraits]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/6/11068 ]
[Files: 11068.txt; 11068-8.txt]
Reform Cookery Book (4th edition), by Mrs. Mill 11067
[Subtitle: Up-To-Date Health Cookery for the Twentieth Century.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/6/11067 ]
[Files: 11067.txt]
Graf von Loeben and the Legend of Lorelei, by Allen Wilson Porterfield 11066
[Subtitle: from "Modern Philology" vol. 13 (1915)]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/6/11066 ]
[Files: 11066.txt; 11066.zip; 11066-8.txt; 11066-8.zip; ]
Aunt Mary's Primer, by Anonymous 11065
[Subtitle: Adorned with a Hundred and Twenty Pretty Pictures]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/6/11065 ]
[Files: 11065.txt; 11065.zip; 11065-h.htm; 11065-h.zip; ]
Andromeda and Other Poems, by Charles Kingsley 11064
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/6/11064 ]
[Files: 11064.txt; 11064.zip; 11064-h.htm; 11064-h.zip]
A Man of Mark, by Anthony Hope 11063
[Author AKA: Anthony Hope Hawkins]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/6/11063 ]
[Files: 11063.txt; 11063.zip; 11063-8.txt; 11063-8.zip; ]
The Dozen from Lakerim, by Rupert Hughes 11062
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/6/11062 ]
[Files: 11062.txt; 11062.zip; 11062-8.txt; 11062-8.zip; ]
Atlantic Monthly Volume 6, No. 34, August, 1860, by Various 11061
[Subtitle: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/6/11061 ]
[Files: 11061.txt; 11061.zip; 11061-8.txt; 11061-8.zip; ]
The Aspirations of Jean Servien, by Anatole France 11060
[Original Title: Les Desirs De Jean Servien]
[Translated by Alfred Allinson]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/6/11060 ]
[Files: 11060.txt; 11060-8.txt]
The Sylphs of the Season with Other Poems, by Washington Allston 11059
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/5/11059 ]
[Files: 11059.txt; 11059-8.txt; 11059-h.htm]
Jack Archer, by G. A. Henty 11058
[Subtitle: A Tale of the Crimea]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/5/11058 ]
[Files: 11058.txt; 11058.zip; 11058-8.txt; 11058-8.zip; 11058-h.htm;
11058-h.zip; ]
The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected 11057
[Title: The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and
Selected Essays]
[Author: Charles Waddell Chesnutt]
[Author: Introduction by Suzanne Shell]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/5/11057 ]
[Files: 11057.txt; 11057.zip; 11057-8.txt; 11057-8.zip; ]
Trial and Triumph, by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 11056
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/5/11056 ]
[Files: 11056.txt]
Lord Dolphin, by Harriet A. Cheever 11055
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/5/11055 ]
[Files: 11055.txt; 11055-8.txt; 11055-h.htm]
Poems (1786), Volume I., by Helen Maria Williams 11054
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/5/11054 ]
[Files: 11054.txt; 11054-8.txt]
Minnie's Sacrifice, by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 11053
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/5/11053 ]
[Files: 11053.txt]
The Custom of the Country, by Edith Wharton 11052
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/5/11052 ]
[Files: 11052.txt; 11052-8.txt]
The Cruise of the Dazzler, by Jack London 11051
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/5/11051 ]
[Files: 11051.txt; 11051-8.txt; 11051-h.htm]
Taquisara, by F. Marion Crawford 11050
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/5/11050 ]
[Files: 11050.txt; 11050-8.txt]
Eugenie Grandet, by Honore de Balzac 11049
[Language: French]
[Files: 11049.txt; 11049-8.txt]
La Presse Clandestine dans la Belgique Occupee, by Jean Massart 11048
[Language: French]
[Files: 11048.txt; 11048-8.txt; 11048-h.htm]
Libro segundo de lectura, by Ellen M. Cyr 11047
[Files: 11047.txt; 11047-8.txt; 11047-h.htm]
La vie d'Ernest Psichari, by Henri Massis 11046
[Language: French]
[Files: 11046.txt; 11046-8.txt; 11046-h.htm]
The Ghost Ship, by Richard Middleton 11045
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/4/11045 ]
[Files: 11045.txt; 11045-8.txt]
Midnight, by Octavus Roy Cohen 11043
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/4/11043 ]
[Files: 11043.txt; 11043.zip; 11043-8.txt; 11043-8.zip; ]
Isabelle, by Andre Gide 11042
[Language: French]
[Files: 11042.txt; 11042-8.txt; 11042-h.htm]
The Half-Back, by Ralph Henry Barbour 11041
[Subtitle: A Story of School, Football, and Golf]
[Illustrated by B. West Clinedinst]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/4/11041 ]
[Files: 11041.txt; 11041.zip; 11041-8.txt; 11041-8.zip; 11041-h.htm;
11041-h.zip; ]
Le passage suivi de Transfiguration (Nouvelle), by Sibilla Aleramo 11040
[Trad. de l'Italien par Pierre-Paul Plan]
[Language: French]
[Files: 11040-h.htm]
A Woman's Journey Round the World, by Ida Pfeiffer 11039
[Subtitle: from Vienna to Brazil, Chili, Tahiti, China, Hindostan,
Persia and Asia Minor]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/3/11039 ]
[Files: 11039.txt; 11039.zip; 11039-h.htm; 11039-h.zip ]
En ballon! Pendant le siege de Paris, by Gaston Tissandier 11038
[Language: French]
[Files: 11038.txt; 11038-8.txt; 11038-h.htm]
La veille d'armes, by Claude Farrere et Lucien Nepoty 11037
[Language: French]
[Files: 11037.txt; 11037-8.txt]
Legendes Normandes, by Gaston Lavalley 11036
[Language: French]
[Files: 11036.txt; 11036-8.txt]
Aziyade, by Pierre Loti 11035
[Subtitle: Extrait des notes et lettres d'un lieutenant de la marine
anglaise entre au service de la Turquie le 10 mai 1876 tue dans les
murs de Kars, le 27 octobre 1877]
[Language: French]
[Files: 11035.txt; 11035-8.txt]
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As mentioned in part 2 of this weeks newsletter:
Phaethon, by Charles Kingsley 11025
[Subtitle: Loose Thoughts for Loose Thinkers]
For those wishing to know: the Rev. Charles Kingsley wrote this fictional
account of Socrates and the youth Phaethon to counter what he saw as a
drift away from traditional church teaching that was taking place in his
age (i.e. the English Victorian era). Like a number of Kingsley's works
it caused trouble when first published with critics attacking it.
Literary and General Lectures and Essays, by Charles Kingsley 11026
For those wishing to know: another volume from Macmillan and Co.'s Works
of Charles Kingsley. Odds and ends essays and a tribute to Rev. Frederick
Denison Maurice. Kingsley was probably the best known of Maurice's
"disciples" and many of Kingsley's famous works seek to expand Maurice's
teachings via the medium of the novel.
O+F, by John Moncure Wetterau 11005C
Possibly our shortest title ever
Celebrating Prishan
Prishan has become this week the our first Distributed Proofreader to
have proofed 100,000 pages. On behalf of Project Gutenberg and
everyone here at the newsletter.
Congratulations!
Prishan has had a forum thread dedicated to this momentous occasion and from
there we reproduce the words of Juliet Sutherland,
"I'd like to take this occasion to recognize not only all the careful work
that this milestone represents, but also your contributions to our community.
You've kept us thinking, amused, and always learning. We've watched you
become ever more fluent in English. We've learned about all sorts of holidays
and traditions from India. And you've shared some very poetic and mystic
moments with us."
Well done Prishan, from all of us who dare to follow in your proofing steps.
Distributed Proofreaders Update for February 11, 2004
At this time last week the total of Gold texts at DP stood at
3,175. This hour--since we do need to count by the hour now--the total
has reached 3,260. That amounts to 85 projects completed and ready for
posting to PG. The previous week matches that figure near to
exactly. To set this into the context of where the column needs to go
I will share with you my own perspective on how important an
accomplishment 85 completed projects a week is. Bear with me for this
ride? We have somewhere to get to today.
This past Sunday was a rounded year since I joined up with Distributed
Proofreaders. On that day in 2003 the total of Gold texts for the
previous month was 119. February's total would match that number,
evidencing a slight up-tick by doing so in 28 days. In only a year's
time we have witnessed a month's total production being achieved in
little over a week's time. How did DP manage this? Well, the answer to
that is a little more elusive than we might like it to be. Simply put,
it is true enough to say that this result rests upon a broad
combination of factors and innovations. As there is much to be gained
from a finer analysis of this success, we are going to looking into
the facts of DP's production efficiency through the rest of this
month. That the site coders and admin's have provided us with some new
tools for deciphering this progress will make the investigation all
the more interesting.
But before we start exploring this study, it is important that we step
back a little ways from the day to day work which brings us all
together. Numbers are what we use to measure our progress and they are
essential guides to steady improvement. What numbers alone cannot do
is inform us of an eventual value of the product of our collective
labors. Today is the 11th of February, halfway through the day DP has
posted 125 books to PG. So for every day this month DP has transmitted
10 unique books into a form that allows them to be freely distributed
throughout the world. If the present rate of production were to lock
steady from now until New Year's eve, we will enrich the digital
public domain by over 3,650 individual volumes in 2004.
I stress that to the point of obvious redundancy for a specific
reason; to remind us all of the central plot to this tale which we
have all become players in. As a lifelongstudent of history it has
long stood out to me that one of Humanities most costly flaws is that
we forget. Forgetfulness seems to be hard wired into us. Yet I
believe, in my more optimistic moments, that this might just be a
saving grace and not the eventual cause of our doom. What saves us,
quite often in the most critical moments, is each other. What I may
forget you can easily refresh in my memory. This act of common
humanity is so very essential to survival and progress. When it comes
to the great social issues of our time there is no doubt to the
imperative nature of this mutual care and exchange. The contextual
question is whether or not such significance can be equally accepted
within the PG/DP communities. I believe that this is not merely a
possibility, but a necessity.
What you are now reading is a second version of this week's DP
Update. More than halfway through writing the first edition--which I
must say, was 'quite good'--I deleted it. This was not an accident but
a very firm intention. The path I was writing along was simply a wrong
turn and I needed to go back to the fork in the road and take a
completely different journey. If you are still reading, I assume that
you want to come along? Good. I'm in the mood for noble company today.
The heart of my unease with the initial version was that I was
completely omitting any reference to the recent developments in
Australia. This is really not such a hard thing to for a DPer who does
not hail from 'Down Under.' It could almost be forgivable, just as the
low murmur of a response to the Free Trade Agreement in the DP
forums. See, the thing is we do not and can not work on the texts
which are produced for PG Australia. So, for 95%+ of the DP community
... "Out of sight is out of mind." as far as this issue is
concerned. For my part, recognizing that Alice would be covering the
PGAU news front, I blissfully turned to all the upbeat, positive news
of this week, for there is plenty of it. "After all, it is PGAU not
DPAU, right?" . . .
Wrong! And on that 'wrong' my index finger tapped the Delete key.
To put it succinctly I will lift a quote from the recent thread in the
DP forum about PGAU: "Apathy is illiterate--it would not care if the
public domain were to go extinct. .... So it is on those who actively
create with the PD to start making a loud noise. .... If people are
not outraged by the present lock down on the PD it is not always their
fault. It may be as simple as ... they just do not know about it." -
Henry Craig
Now I have known Henry for ten years, and in that time I have listened
to that view repeated in many ways. Perhaps this is why the words kept
nagging at me as I started writing earlier. If so, that would make my
decision no less valid. Henry's right. If we care enough to commit our
time, talents and creative energy to enriching the fields of the
Public Domain, then we should be willing to stand up and defend that
field when it comes under challenge.
Now, let me be clear with you ... I am not talking about radicalism
here. I am not endorsing anything different than what we already do;
apply ingenuity to collective effort for a cause we all believe in
which benefits people throughout the world. The distinction I propose
is that we raise our perspectives just a little higher on the
horizon. By this, I mean that our concern and care for a book project
extends beyond the time when it is posted to PG.
At the present level of production DP masters the means to produce
over 3,600 books a year for Project Gutenberg. That is 3,600 books for
everyone in the world with access to the Internet. If you go digging
around in the basement of the forums you will find within my earliest
posts, a call to embrace the historic significance of DP. This was
itemized on several levels. We have used a decent amount of ink in
past columns for the uniqueness of DP among distributed projects. The
foundation of this distinction rests upon the fact that DP is
'distributed' through people, not electronic processors. This truly is
historic, and it is not possible to know from today the long term
utilization borne from the fruits of this 'proof of concept.' The
recent decision to incorporate the DP model within the Rastko archive
network of Europe is assuredly only the first of many innovative
examples to come.
The other historic development unfolding at DP is what needs a little
more attention in light of recent events. The changes to trade agreed
to this week in Australia are likely to have a profound impact on the
network of Project Gutenberg archives. How we deal with this as a
distributed community will depend a great deal upon our self concept
and the estimation of our strength and influence within this age and
for ages to come.
We produce 10-12 books a day, every day for the education, enrichment
and simple entertainment of the world public. Who else presently is
doing that? I don't see anyone out there coming close. As impressive
as this is, I say 'hold on a minute' and raise your eyes up. Expand
your sense of who we are. Add to what DP produces, all the works by
the Independent developers allied to PG. Take also into consideration
the work of PG Australia, and the work now beginning at PG
Europe. Combine this with the vast enrichment that is already being
added through DPEU by the advent of character sets beyond Latin1. Look
higher still and see the ever-increasing support of the National
libraries and international cultural organizations along with the
contributions by contemporary authors. Consider all of this, the next
time you use the word "community" to describe what we are building at
DP. Consider all of this ... because this is the DP community.
The next time you are in a library and you come across a book that
strikes you as a great addition to the PG archive ... think about what
you are doing for a few moments. The next time you are scanning some
pages, running some OCR, or uploading 25 megs of .png files ... think
for a few moments. The next time you are proofing a page ... running
GUIGuts or Verifying a finished project ... think about the countless
individuals your work will be touching. Most importantly, the next
time you download a completed text from PG ... think. Yes, at every
point of contact and participation in this wonderful endeavor we
should all pause for some moments, lift our eyes beyond the day's
horizon and consider the enormous range of Humanity that we are
connecting with.
The work of Project Gutenberg IS unique to our time, and it is
historic in nature. From the spark of inspiration that landed on
Hart's shoulder some thirty years ago ... to the retired grandmother
of six who will log on tonight in North London to proof a few pages of
Wordsworth on DP ... to her great great grandson, not yet born who
will carry the entire PG library in a hand held device on a summer
vacation to the Moon some year ... we are all connected. And should it
come to pass, like a shadow out of Mordor, that the work of PG
Australia is removed from the public domain ...then too shall we all
be connected.
That day has not come yet. What has been agreed to on paper, is not
yet law. Think about it ... that's all I ask. I did, and it changed
every word you have read today. Think about it ... because thoughts do
change things--they change us. If we change, then the world can
change. We learnt this week that the future is no longer what it used
to be. What it might now be leaves a heavy feeling in many hearts of
those who are close to us in this work. What can we do about that?
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin once wrote, "The future belongs in the
hands of those who can give tomorrow's generations valid reasons to
live and hope." I tend to believe we fit that role. I don't feel that
to be a boastful claim, but rather an acceptance of responsibility.
Do what you will with the time that is yours then. Just be assured of
one thing ... you won't be alone. The rest of us will be right here
with you. Very often the best choice of action is to do exactly what
you already are doing. If your heart leads you to participate in one
or more of the projects which support Project Gutenberg then you are
likely already doing what you should to help make this vision a
sustaining reality. We all matter. Every task we take on from
proofing a page to writing a column makes a worthy difference and
counts for the long term. If you feel an urge to go an extra length
sometime, consider the power in thinking about the larger context of
the work which today places in your hands. When you come to your own
realization of the significance of that work try reminding others
close to you in subtle ways just how significant their share
is. Simply then, let us not forget why we are here together. We all
love most is what we hold cherished memories of and we tend to
preserve what we love. Refreshing our memory from time to time then is
very closely related to this line of work. That's my piece for now.
February is the shortest month, but you will not know it from how full
the next two newsletters are going to be. As we start our in-depth
exploration of what makes DP purrrr so finely, we will discover
together many wondrous details never before published anywhere. You
can expect the secrets of the DP masters to be revealed in these very
pages!
How does Jon Ingram scan like that--does he really have four arms?
Where did Big Bill actually get the magic proofing font from and what
manner of ciphers are hidden within its unusually shaped characters.
Have Curtis and Dave truly discerned the identity of the figure on the
'grassy knoll?'
How in the world did Prishan manage to proof the equivalent of twenty
years of the Encyclopaedia Britannica at the same time as he
shepherded 35 books through Post? Are the rumors true? ... does he
actually belong to a secret Guild of free & associated Post Processors?
All this and more will be revealed by month's end. Don't miss a word! ...
stay right here and I promise to make up some true stuff for you.
Really, stay close by. This is an important month for all of us. We
may need some extra hands on staff at the newsletter, and I am sure to
keep everyone up way past their normal bedtime, but we'll see that you
stay informed. There are many developments going on for DPEU and PGEU
this week. It is an exciting week across the continent, I am doing my
best to keep up with all the latest tips. It is going to take a
special issue to cover all the news as MH wraps up his tour of
Europe. We will be working time and half to bring you all the details
as we get word of them. In the meantime check in at the forums of DPEU
to keep up on the progress of events. While you're there lay down some
support and take on a few pages. After all, that's how we make history
around here ...
one page at a time.
Until next week, all the best in the world for you!
Thierry Alberto
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3) Notes and Queries, Reviews and Features
Romantic Love Literature: Short Essay and Shorter Quiz
By Tonya Allen
Romantic love has been a strong theme in literature from its
beginning. Two of my favorite love stories are among the oldest--the
story of Pyramus and Thisbe, and the story of Baucis and Philemon,
which can both be found in PG's etext of Bulfinch's The Age of Fable.*
PG's collection includes many love stories; a quick search reveals
dozens of titles or subtitles containing the magic word "love". Some
of the latest additions include The Love Affairs of Great Musicians,
Vol. 1 (Vol. 2 will appear shortly), with a lovely HTML edition; The
Garden of Bright Waters: One Hundred and Twenty Asiatic Love Poems;
The Elegies of Tibullus: Being The Consolations Of A Roman Lover Done
In English Verse; A Love Story, by A Bushman; and Literary
Love-Letters, by Robert Herrick.
For those who find all this hopelessly sentimental, may I recommend
The Dog: A Nineteenth-Century Dog-Lovers' Manual, a Combination of the
Essential and the Esoteric; The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing
The Loves of the Plants; or Aphra Behn's Love-Letters Between a
Nobleman and His Sister. Let's not forget The Love Sonnets of a Car
Conductor, and The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum, both by Wallace
Irwin. Or how about Malignant Self Love, or Narcissism Book of Quotes,
both by Sam Vaknin.
Sadly, another of my favorite love stories, Pushkin's Yevgeny Onegin,
is not in PG..... yet. For now, one can read the original Russian and
the English translation side by side at this site:
http://www.pushkins-poems.com/Yev001.htm
OK, here comes the quiz, shorter than usual but I hope you enjoy
it. Just match the quotation with the title. It's multiple choice this
time.
1. It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear
a) The Song of Solomon b) Othello c) Romeo and Juliet d) Love for Love e) India's Love Lyrics
2. He got on to the bed, and wrenched open the lattice, bursting, as
he pulled at it, into an uncontrollable passion of tears. 'Come
in! come in!' he sobbed. 'Cathy, do come. Oh, do - ONCE more! Oh!
my heart's darling! hear me THIS time, Catherine, at last!' The
spectre showed a spectre's ordinary caprice: it gave no sign of
being; but the snow and wind whirled wildly through, even reaching
my station, and blowing out the light.
a) The Love-Tiff b) Wuthering Heights c) A Phantom Lover d) Love Among the Chickens
3. The moon was high and magnificent in the August night. Mrs. Morel,
seared with passion, shivered to find herself out there in a great
white light, that fell cold on her, and gave a shock to her
inflamed soul.
a) The Love Affairs Of A Bibliomaniac b) Women in Love c) Sons and Lovers d) Love at Second Sight
4. Et elle restait seduite pourtant, elle songeait invinciblement au
chevalier Ivanhoe, si passionnement aime de deux femmes, Rebecca,
la belle juive, et la noble lady Rowena.
a) Une page d'amour b) Strates amoureuses c) Amour d) Ivanhoe
5. Und liebt mich meine Luise noch? Mein Herz ist das gestrige, ist's
auch das deine noch?
a) Nina Balatka b) Die Laune des Verliebten c) Kritik der reinen Vernunft d) Kabale und Liebe
*(All the titles mentioned here are, of course, in the PG collection,
and can be found using the wonderful new search on this page:
http://www.gutenberg.net/find.shtml).
A to Z - 'X'
Following Tonya's piece on romance (xxxxxxx), you might expect that
Project Gutenberg probably doesn't have much that fits into this
category. There are three authors in the catalogue Xueqin Cao and Xun
Yue, both of whom are Chinese and Xenophon, 431-355 BC.
Greek historian, essayist, and soldier, the author of Anabasis Kyrou
(The Persian Expedition), a tale Greek mercenaries who fought their
way back from the gates of Babylon to the Euxine (Black Sea). Among
Xenophon's other works are Hellenica, a continuation of Thucydides'
history of Greek affairs from 411 to 362 B.C., the Memorabilia of
Socrates, and the Cyropedia (Education of Cyrus), a historical novel
about Cyrus the Elder, the founder of the Persian empire.
Xenophon was born in Attica and grew up during the war between Athens
and Sparta (431-404 B.C.). At an early age Xenophon become a friend of
Socrates, whom his father Gryllus defended. In his own writings
Xenophon focused mostly on practical subjects or history, without
showing much enthusiasm for philosophical speculations. In the
Memorabilia he gives much lighter version of Socrates' teachings than
Plato, who was also his contemporary. Xenophon portayed Socrates as a
cheerful, down-to-earth character, who, like Aesop, solves moral
problems with pragmatic attitude.
Although Xenophon was an Athenian, he spent much of his life in
Sparta. When democracy was reestablished in Athens in 401, Xenophon, a
man of right-wing political opinions, turned his back on its new
leaders and went to abroad. He joined, with ten thousand Greek
mercenaries, the expedition (anabasis, march up country) of Cyrus the
younger into the hinterland of Asia Minor. However, Cyrus's real aim
was to oust his brother King Artaxerxes II of Persia. His plan failed
- Cyrus lost his life in the battle of Cunaxa. The mercenaries were
left leaderless on the plains between the Tigris and the Euphrates,
over 1,600 kilometers (about 1,000 miles) from home. Xenophon was
elected one of the generals. In this role he took the principal part
in the struggle of the Greeks to return home through the "barbarian"
world of Persia. Less than 6,000 mercenaries survived. The Anabasis
become not only an account of the expedition but a tale of military
virtues, discipline, leadership, and courage.
After "the march of the 10,000" Xenophon entered the service of the
Tracian king Seuthes and in 396-394 he served the Spartan king
Agesilaus II, who defeated a coalition of Greek states at the Battle
of Coronea in 394. About 365 Xenophon returned home, and settled with
his wife Philesia and two sons at Scillus in Elis. There, during the
following two decades, he probably composed most of his
works. Xenophon's experiences in cavalry and love of horses prompted
two books, Hipparchikos (Cavalry Officer) and Peri hippikes (On
Horsemanship), the oldest surviving complete manual on this
subject. Xenophon starts the latter work by explaining, how to avoid
being cheated when buying a horse. In Hieron, a fictitious discussion
between King Hiero I of Syracuse and the poet Simonides of Ceos,
Xenophon presented ideas how an autocrat can secure his subjects'
loyalty.
Xenophon died in Corinth. His last book was probably Poroi e peri
prosodon (Ways and Means), in which he suggested methods for
improvement of Athenian public finance and advocated a policy of
peace.
A Hilltop on the Marne by Mildred Aldrich
This was brought to my attention this week as it was posted by Joe
Loewenstein. Joe states that 'The author had a successful career as a
journalist in the U.S. in the late 19th century, then retired to
France about the turn of the 20th century. After living in Paris a
number of years, she moved to a house in the countryside just before
the outbreak of World War I. This book is a collection of letters she
wrote during the early months of the war. Her style and command of
language are excellent, and it's hard to stop reading once one
starts. The html version includes some illustrations.'
Mildred Aldrich, was born in Providence, Rhode Island and was raised
in Boston, Massachusetts. She began her career as a journalist with
the Boston Home Journal, and later worked for the Boston Journal and
the Boston Herald. In January 1892 she founded The Mahogany Tree,
which she edited until December 1892, when the magazine
folded. Published weekly, The Mahogany Tree contained editorials,
fiction, poetry, and drama and book reviews.
In 1898 she travelled to Paris, and subsequently settled there. Whilst
living in France, she became a close friend of Gertrude Stein and Alice
B. Toklas, and was a member of their social circle. She worked as a
foreign correspondent, translated plays from French into English, and
negotiated the rights to the works of French playwrights for
production in the United States. In 1914 she retired to "Hilltop" ("La
Creste"), her cottage in Huiry, a village on the outskirts of
Paris. While at "La Creste" she published four collections of her
letters: Hilltop On the Marne (1915), On the Edge of the War Zone
(1917), Peak of the Load (1918), and When Johnny Comes Marching Home
(1919). She also published a novel, Told In A French Garden (1916). In
her later years she was supported largely by a fund that had been
established for her by Stein and Toklas in 1924. She died at "La
Creste" on February 19, 1928.
The book that has been posted encompassess 'Letters Written
June 3-September 8, 1914', and it is interesting to see an eye-witness
of the American Civil War begin to describe the events of The Great
War of Europe, how she finds this thrilling and yet tragic within the
same sentence. The author goes on to describe events within her
commune which is sited very close to the corner of Belgium, France and
Germany, as day to day living goes on. This is a book which would have
illuminated my History O'level in a way I only dreamt about all those
years ago. If only text books were as compulsive reading as this.
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The Algebra of Logic, by Louis Couturat 10836
[Translator: Lydia Gillingham Robinson]
[Preface by Philip E. B. Jourdain]
[Files: 10836-t.tex; 10836-pdf.pdf]
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The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Religion, A Dialogue, Etc. 10833
[Author: Arthur Schopenhauer]
[Tr.: T. Bailey Saunders]
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Cinderella, by Henry W. Hewet (Engraver and Printer) 10830
(From: Hewet's Illuminated Household Stories For Little Folks, Vol. I)
(Illustrated by W. H. Thwaite)
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/8/3/10830 ]
[Files: 10830.txt; 10830-8.txt; 10830-h.htm]
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Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4., by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 10801
[Collected and Edited by HENRY NELSON COLERIDGE]
The following is being re-indexed to include additional attribution:
It Can Be Done, by Joseph Morris, et al. 10763
[Subtitle: Poems of Inspiration]
[Collected by Joseph Morris and St. Clair Adams]
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[Subtitle: or, The Day Julia & Cecil the Cat Faced a Fate Worse Than Death]
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A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Richardson 11034
[Subtitle: Section 2 (of 2) of Volume 3: Martin Van Buren]
[Author: James D. Richardson]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/3/11034 ]
[Files: 11034.txt; 11034-8.txt; 11034-h.htm]
The Angel Over the Right Shoulder, by Elizabeth Wooster Stuart Phelps 11033
[Subtitle: The Beginning of a New Year]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/3/11033 ]
[Files: 11033.txt; 11033-h.htm]
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XXIII., by Various 11032
[Revised by Alexander Leighton]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/3/11032 ]
[Files: 11032.txt; 11032-8.txt]
Samuel Johnson, by Leslie Stephen 11031
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/3/11031 ]
[Files: 11031.txt; 11031-8.txt]
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs (AKA Linda Brent) 11030
[Subtitle: Written by Herself]
[Edited By L. Maria Child]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/3/11030 ]
[Files: 11030.txt]
American Hero-Myths, by Daniel G. Brinton 11029
[Subtitle: A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/2/11029 ]
[Files: 11029.txt; 11029-8.txt; 11029-h.htm]
Philippine Folk-Tales, by Bayliss et al. 11028
[Author: Carla Kern Bayliss, Berton L. Maxfield, W. H. Millington,
Fletcher Gardner, Laura Watson Bendict]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/2/11028 ]
[Files: 11028.txt; 11028-8.txt]
Grimm's Fairy Stories, by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm 11027
[Illustrated by John B. Gruelle and R. Emmett Owen]
[Contents:
The Goose-Girl
The Little Brother and Sister
Hansel and Grethel
Oh, If I Could But Shiver!
Dummling and the Three Feathers
Little Snow-White
Catherine and Frederick
The Valiant Little Tailor
Little Red-Cap
The Golden Goose
Bearskin
Cinderella
Faithful John
The Water of Life
Thumbling
Briar Rose
The Six Swans
Rapunzel
Mother Holle
The Frog Prince
The Travels of Tom Thumb
Snow-White and Rose-Red
The Three Little Men in the Wood
Rumpelstiltskin
Little One-Eye, Two-Eyes and Three-Eyes]
(See also: #5314 and #2591)
[Files: 11027.txt; 11027.zip; 11027-h.htm; 11027-h.zip]
Literary and General Lectures and Essays, by Charles Kingsley 11026
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/2/11026 ]
[Files: 11026.txt; 11026.zip; 11026-h.htm; 11026-h.zip ]
Phaethon, by Charles Kingsley 11025
[Subtitle: Loose Thoughts for Loose Thinkers]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/2/11025 ]
[Files: 11025.txt; 11025.zip; 11025-h.htm; 11025-h.zip ]
Max Havelaar, by Multatuli 11024
[Language: Dutch]
[Files: 11024.txt; 11024-8.txt]
Gems of Poetry, for Girls and Boys, by Unknown 11023
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/2/11023 ]
[Files: 11023.txt; 11023.zip; 11023-h.htm; 11023-h.zip; ]
Sowing and Reaping, by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 11022
[Subtitle: A Temperance Story]
[Editor: Frances Smith Foster]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/2/11022 ]
[Files: 11022.txt; 11022.zip; ]
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Richardson 11021
[Subtitle: Section 4 (of 4) of Volume 5: James Buchanan]
[Author: James D. Richardson]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/2/11021 ]
[Files: 11021.txt; 11021-8.txt; 11021-h.htm]
Angels & Ministers, by Laurence Housman 11020
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/2/11020 ]
[Files: 11020.txt; 11020-8.txt]
Van Bibber and Others, by Richard Harding Davis 11019
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/1/11019 ]
[Files: 11019.txt; 11019-8.txt; 11019-h.htm]
Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals, by Samuel F. B. Morse 11018
[Subtitle: in Two Volumes, Volume II]
[Edited and supplemented by his son, Edward Lind Morse]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/1/11018 ]
[Files: 11018.txt; 11018-8.txt]
Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals, by Samuel F. B. Morse 11017
[Subtitle: In Two Volumes, Volume I.]
[Edited and supplemented by his son, Edward Lind Morse]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/1/11017 ]
[Files: 11017.txt; 11017-8.txt]
Port of Adventure, by Charles N. Williamson and Alice M. Williamson 11016
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/1/11016 ]
[Files: 11016.txt; 11016-8.txt; 11016-h.htm]
Pantheism, Its Story and Significance, by J. Allanson Picton 11015
[Subtitle: Religions Ancient And Modern]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/1/11015 ]
[Files: 11015.txt; 11015-8.txt; 11015-h.htm]
Christmas in Legend and Story, by Elva S. Smith 11014
[Subtitle: A Book for Boys and Girls]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/1/11014 ]
[Files: 11014.txt; 11014-8.txt]
Letters of a Traveller, by William Cullen Bryant 11013
[Subtitle: Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/1/11013 ]
[Files: 11013.txt; 11013-8.txt; 11013-h.htm]
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, by James Weldon Johnson 11012
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/1/11012 ]
[Files: 11012.txt; 11012-8.txt]
A Hilltop on the Marne, by Mildred Aldrich 11011
[Subtitle: Being Letters Written June 3-September 8, 1914]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/1/11011 ]
[Files: 11011.txt; 11011.zip; 11011-h.htm; 11011-h.zip; ]
The Spectator, Volume 2., by Addison and Steele 11010
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/1/11010 ]
[Files: 11010.txt; 11010-8.txt; 11010-h.htm]
Labor's Martyrs, by Vito Marcantonio 11009
[Introduction by William Z. Foster]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/0/11009 ]
[Files: 11009.txt; 11009-h.htm]
Antwerp to Gallipoli, by Arthur Ruhl 11008
[Subtitle: A Year of the War on Many Fronts--and Behind Them]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/0/11008 ]
[Files: 11008.txt; 11008-8.txt]
Jemmy Stubbins, or The Nailer Boy, Anonymous 11007
[Subtitle: Illustrations Of The Law Of Kindness]
[Edited by Elihu Burritt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/0/11007 ]
[Files: 11007.txt; 11007-h.htm]
The Book With The Yellow Cover, by John Moncure Wetterau 11006C
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/0/11006 ]
[Files: 11006.txt]
O+F, by John Moncure Wetterau 11005C
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/0/11005 ]
[Files: 11005.txt]
Joe Burke's Last Stand, by John Moncure Wetterau 11004C
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/0/11004 ]
[Files: 11004.txt]
Michelangelo's Shoulder, by John Moncure Wetterau 11003C
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/0/11003 ]
[Files: 11003.txt]
String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Opus 95, by Ludwig von Beethoven 11002
[Musical score in Finale .MUS format]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/0/11002 ]
[Files: 11002-mus.zip ]
String Quartet No. 5 Opus 18, by Ludwig von Beethoven 11001
[Musical score in Sibelius format]
[Files: 11001-sib.zip]
Tales of Bengal, by S. B. Banerjea 10999
[Editor: Francis Henry Skrine]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/9/10999 ]
[Files: 10999.txt; 10999-8.txt]
A Catechism of the Steam Engine, by John Bourne 10998
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/9/10998 ]
[Files: 10998.txt; 10998-8.txt; 10998-h.htm]
The World of Waters, by Mrs. David Osbourne 10997
[Subtitle: A Peaceful Progress o'er the Unpathed Sea]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/9/10997 ]
[Files: 10997.txt; 10997-8.txt; 10997-h.htm]
Whig Against Tory, Anonymous 10996
[Subtitle: The Military Adventures of a Shoemaker, A Tale Of The Revolution]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/9/10996 ] [Files: 10996.txt;
10996-h.htm]
Two Years Ago, Volume II., by Charles Kingsley 10995
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/9/10995 ]
[Files: 10995.txt; 10995-8.txt]
The Good Resolution, Anonymous 10994
[Revised by D.P. Kidder]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/9/10994 ]
[Files: 10994.txt; 10994-h.htm]
World's Greatest Books, Volume V.,by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds 10993
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/9/10993 ]
[Files: 10993.txt; 10993-8.txt; 10993-h.htm]
Cleopatra, by Jacob Abbott 10992
[This book (or similar books by this author) was also published
under the titles "History of Cleopatra" and "Cleopatra, Queen
of Egypt."]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/9/10992 ]
[Files: 10992.txt; 10992.zip; 10992-8.txt; 10992-8.zip; ]
Dogs and All About Them, by Robert Leighton 10991
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/9/10991 ]
[Files: 10991.txt]
Selected Speeches on British Foreign Policy 1738-1914, by Edgar Jones 10990
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/9/10990 ]
[Files: 10990.txt; 10990.zip; 10990-8.txt; 10990-8.zip; ]
Our Saviour, Anonymous 10989
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/8/10989 ]
[Files: 10989.txt; 10989-h.htm]
The Devil's Admiral, by Frederick Ferdinand Moore 10988
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/8/10988 ]
[Files: 10988.txt; 10988-8.txt]
The Adventures of Little Bewildered Henry, Anonymous 10987
[Subtitle: The Extraordinary Adventures Of Poor Little Bewildered Henry,
Who was shut up in an Old Abbey for Three Weeks: A Story Founded On Fact]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/8/10987 ]
[Files: 10987.txt; 10987-h.htm]
Frederick Douglass, by Charles Waddell Chesnutt 10986
[Subtitle: A Biography]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/8/10986 ]
[Files: 10986.txt; 10986-8.txt]
The Infant System, by Samuel Wilderspin 10985
[Subtitle: For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers
of all Children, from One to Seven years of Age]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/8/10985 ]
[Files: 10985.txt; 10985-8.txt]
Growth of the Soil, by Knut Hamsun 10984
[Original Title "Markens Grode"]
[Translated by W.W. Worster]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/8/10984 ]
[Files: 10984.txt; 10984-8.txt]
The Young Captives, Anonymous 10983
[Subtitle: A Narrative of The Shipwreck and Suffering of
John and William Doyley]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/8/10983 ]
[Files: 10983.txt; 10983-h.htm]
La tentation de Saint Antoine, by Gustave Flaubert 10982
[Language: French]
[Files: 10982.txt; 10982-8.txt]
Child's New Story Book, Anonymous 10981
[Subtitle: Tales and Dialogues for Little Folks]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/8/10981 ]
[Files: 10981.txt; 10981-h.htm]
Lady John Russell, by Desmond MacCarthy and Agatha Russell 10980
[Subtitle: A Memoir with Selections from Her Diaries and Correspondence]
[Editors: Desmond MacCarthy and Agatha Russell]
[Lady John Russel (1815-1898) was born Frances Anna Marie Elliot,
daughter of the Earl and Countess of Minto.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/8/10980 ]
[Files: 10980.txt; 10980.zip; 10980-8.txt; 10980-8.zip; 10980-h.htm;
10980-h.zip; ]
Footsteps on the Road to Learning, by Anonymous 10979
[Subtitle: The Alphabet in Rhyme]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/7/10979 ]
[Files: 10979.txt; 10979-h.htm]
Hidden Creek, by Katharine Newlin Burt 10978
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/7/10978 ]
[Files: 10978.txt; 10978.zip; 10978-8.txt; 10978-8.zip; ]
The Grizzly King, by James Oliver Curwood 10977
[Subtitle: A Romance of the Wild]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/7/10977 ]
[Files: 10977.txt; 10977.zip; 10977-8.txt; 10977-8.zip; 10977-h.htm;
10977-h.zip; ]
The Apricot Tree, by Unknown 10976
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/7/10976 ]
[Files: 10976.txt; 10976-h.htm]
Vitaulium: Hofwyck en Spaansche Wijsheit, by Constantijn Huygens 10975
[Language: Dutch]
[Files: 10975.txt; 10975-8.txt]
A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistan, by Harry De Windt 10974
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/7/10974 ]
[Files: 10974.txt; 10974-8.txt]
The Late Mrs. Null, by Frank Richard Stockton 10973
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/7/10973 ]
[Files: 10973.txt; 10973-8.txt]
With the "Die-Hards" in Siberia, by John Ward 10972
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/7/10972 ]
[Files: 10972.txt; 10972.zip; 10972-8.txt; 10972-8.zip; 10972-h.htm;
10972-h.zip; ]
De Zoon van Dik Trom, by C. Joh. Kieviet 10971
[Language: Dutch]
[Files: 10971.txt; 10971-8.txt]
Pragmatism, by D.L. Murray 10970
[Preface by Dr. F.C.S. Schiller]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/7/10970 ]
[Files: 10970.txt; 10970-8.txt; 10970-h.htm]
Ski-running, by Katharine Symonds Furse 10969
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/6/10969 ]
[Files: 10969.txt; 10969-8.txt]
A Century of Negro Migration, by Carter G. Woodson 10968
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/6/10968 ]
[Files: 10968.txt; 10968-8.txt]
Four Weeks in the Trenches, by Fritz Kreisler 10967
[Subtitle: The War Story of a Violinist]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/6/10967 ]
[Files: 10967.txt; plus an images file with photographs]
The Ghost Pirates, by William Hope Hodgson 10966
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/6/10966 ]
[Files: 10966.txt]
The World Turned Upside Down, by Anonymous 10965
[Subtitle: No News, and Strange News]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/6/10965 ]
[Files: 10965.txt; 10965-h.htm]
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Jan. 1, 1919, by Various 10964
[Editor: Owen Seamen]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/6/10964 ]
[Files: 10964.txt; 10964.zip; 10964-8.txt; 10964-8.zip; 10964-h.htm;
10964-h.zip; ]
The Grip of Desire, by Hector France 10963
[Author: Afterword by Charles Carrington]
[Subtitle: The Story Of A Parish-Priest]
[Translated into English from the original French; Translator unknown]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/6/10963 ]
[Files: 10963.txt; 10963.zip; 10963-8.txt; 10963-8.zip; ]
Concerning Animals and Other Matters, E.H. Aitken (AKA Edward Hamilton) 10962
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/6/10962 ]
[Files: 10962.txt; 10962-8.txt; 10962-h.htm]
Lawn Tennis for Ladies, by Mrs. Lambert Chambers 10961
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/6/10961 ]
[Files: 10961.txt; 10961-8.txt; 10961-h.htm]
Vergil, by Tenney Frank 10960
[Subtitle: A Biography]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/6/10960 ]
[Files: 10960.txt; 10960-8.txt]
The Visits of Elizabeth, by Elinor Glyn 10959
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/5/10959 ]
[Files: 10959.txt; 10959-8.txt; 10959-h.htm]
An Unwilling Maid, by Jeanie Gould Lincoln 10958
[Subtitle: Being the History of Certain Episodes during the American
Revolution in the Early Life of Mistress Betty Yorke, born Wolcott]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/5/10958 ]
[Files: 10958.txt; 10958-8.txt; 10958-h.htm]
The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1, by Rupert Hughes 10957
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/5/10957 ]
[Files: 10957.txt; 10957-8.txt; 10957-h.htm]
Indian speeches (1907-1909), by John Morley (AKA Viscount Morley) 10956
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/5/10956 ]
[Files: 10956.txt]
The Gospels in the Second Century, by William Sanday 10955
[Subtitle: An Examination of the Critical Part of a Work
Entitled 'Supernatural Religion']
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/5/10955 ]
[Files: 10955.txt; 10955-8.txt]
The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise, by Margaret Burnham 10954
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/5/10954 ]
[Files: 10954.txt; 10954-8.txt; 10954-h.htm]
Histoire de la Revolution francaise, Tome Cinquieme, by Adolphe Thiers 10953
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/5/10953 ]
[Files: 10953.txt; 10953-8.txt; 10953-h.htm]
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Jan. 15, 1919, by Various 10952
[Editor: Owen Seamen]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/5/10952 ]
[Files: 10952.txt; 10952.zip; 10952-8.txt; 10952-8.zip; 10952-h.htm;
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A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume V, Pa 10951
[Title: A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents,
Volume V, Part 1; Presidents Taylor and Fillmore]
[Author: James D. Richardson]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/5/10951 ]
[Files: 10951.txt; 10951.zip; 10951-8.txt; 10951-8.zip; 10951-h.htm;
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, by Various 10950
[Subtitle: Vol. 13, No. 355., Saturday, February 7, 1829]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/5/10950 ]
[Files: 10950.txt; 10950-8.txt; 10950-h.htm]
The Romance of Zion Chapel [3d ed.], by Richard Le Gallienne 10949
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/4/10949 ]
[Files: 10949.txt; 10949-8.txt; 10949-h.htm]
The Stories of the Three Burglars, by Frank Richard Stockton 10948
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/4/10948 ]
[Files: 10948.txt; 10948-8.txt; 10948-h.htm]
The Best American Humorous Short Stories, by Various 10947
[Edited by Alexander Jessup]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/4/10947 ]
[Files: 10947.txt; 10947-8.txt]
Three Frenchmen in Bengal, by S.C. Hill 10946
[Subtitle: The Commercial Ruin of the French Settlements in 1757]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/4/10946 ]
[Files: 10946.txt; 10946-8.txt; 10946-h.htm]
Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems, by W.E. Aytoun 10945
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/4/10945 ]
[Files: 10945.txt; 10945-8.txt; 10945-h.htm]
>From a Bench in Our Square, by Samuel Hopkins Adams 10944
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/4/10944 ]
[Files: 10944.txt; 10944-8.txt]
Elusive Isabel, by Jacques Futrelle 10943
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/4/10943 ]
[Files: 10943.txt; 10943-8.txt; 10943-h.htm]
The Claim Jumpers, by Stewart Edward White 10942
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/4/10942 ]
[Files: 10942.txt; 10942-8.txt; 10942-h.htm]
Jumalainen naeytelmae: Helvetti, by Dante 10941
[Translated by Eino Leino]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/4/10941 ]
[Files: 10941-8.txt]
Manners, Custom and Dress During the Middle Ages, by Paul Lacroix 10940
[Full title: Manners, Custom and Dress During the Middle Ages
and During the Renaissance Period]
[Illustrated by F. Kellerhoven]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/4/10940 ]
[Files: 10940.txt; 10940-8.txt; 10940-h.htm]
After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819, by Frye 10939
[Full author: Major W. E Frye]
[Edited with a Preface and Notes by Salomon Reinach]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/3/10939 ]
[Files: 10939.txt; 10939-8.txt]
The Headsman, by James Fenimore Cooper 10938
[Subtitle: The Abbaye des Vignerons]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/3/10938 ]
[Files: 10938.txt; 10938-8.txt; 10938-h.htm]
The Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore, by Saint Mochuda 10937
[Irish Manuscript transcribed by John Murphy,
Translated with Introduction by Patrick Power]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/9/3/10937 ]
[Files: 10937.txt]
Un tournoi a Romans en 1484, by Ulysse Chevalier 10824
[Language: French]
[Files: 10824.txt; 10824-8.txt; 10824-h.htm]
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Distributed Proofreaders Update
So how has 2004 been for you, so far? It is hard to believe that New
Year's eve was more than a month ago, but here we are two steps into
February. For the record, I like this year. It has an expressively
expansive quality to it--exciting but with a clearly intentional
creativity. Sometimes a new year starts off at a slow pace. The
weeks following the holidays find many people a little disoriented and
often in need of well earned recuperation. This is not one of those years.
January left the gate like Sea Biscuit and never looked back or seemed
to recognize anything to its side. As if to herald the pace of the
year ahead, one of the first moves of the new month was to seal the
count on another 1,000 completed book projects. Sound familiar? It
should. In January, DP put the finishing touches on the 3,000th text,
which as reported to that time was 'The Anatomy of Melancholy.' I
emphasize this item again today, looking back at January, because it
deserves attention within the larger context of DP's accelerating
development and efficiency. It was only last September that DP
celebrated the 2,000th Gold text. It took three years to achieve that
accomplishment. In a little over three months that followed, half that
number again was delivered to PG. At the present pace--nearly 3,175
complete at present--it is clear that the pace of production is
sustaining. Near to the Ides of March, DP will complete the 4,000th
project.
What January has revealed, to those who are tuned in to such things,
is that DP hassecured a stabilized production model that delivers the
goods. If you were watching closely through 2003, then you are
familiar with the many growing pains and trials the project passed
through on the way to this plateau. Granted, it takes a little bit of
objectivity to appreciate the vista of events which prove this
conclusion. If you step back a few paces you will recognize the
evidence soon enough.
Perhaps the biggest news event of January is the implementation of the
Distributed Proofreaders code base by a respected network of
international archives, known now and hereafter as DPEU. It is
justified that this significant and historic development is well
celebrated and we will do just this a little later. In truth though,
the initiation of the DPEU's pre and public test phases augments the
ongoing enlargement and enhancement of DP it does not define it. The
embrace of the DP model magnifies the validity of the past year's
decisions and the overall course set in place by Charles and DP
administrators. All the more worthy of 2004's initial promise is the
manner in which DPEU has not simply utilized the existing code and
model, but with wide open arms welcomed the DP community into their
own. Each day that passes reveals more the exciting path which awaits
us all up ahead. And if you will allow me to quote Rick Blaine, "I
think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
While the spotlight was upon the European camp as it mustered forces
and set up the perimeters, many developments were unfolding back at
the home foundry. As much of this activity has been taking place
behind the scenery, you may be wondering "what activity?" Well, that's
why they pay me 12 year Scotch here, to keep you 'up on the latest and
tastiest.' The initiatives employed in January and carrying on into
this month will have profound influence upon the year ahead and for
this reason alone you should be aware of them if you plan on sticking
around for the mid-term future.
Does anyone remember the California conference all the way back there
in December? This was no mere social gathering, but a well planed
coordination of some of the most prominent minds working towards the
enrichment of the public domain on and off the Internet. Nor was this
a singular event. This was the first of what will be many and regular
such conferences. The California meet produced a bounty of benefits to
DP, some of these began cooking away even before everyone returned
home from the conference and continue to do so. Other plans and
initiatives have begun to be implemented and will become more and more
evident with te passing of time.
To frame these roughly, I will set them into three tiers: 1) Network
Architecture 2) Administration & Community 3) Production enhancement.
Time and space does not allow me to go into great depth, so I will
explain briefly what these are. If I am worth my measure their
significance to the course of DP through 2004 shall be self
evident. The network architecture is pretty much that; an enhanced
edifice for DP to live and work within. A new and independent server
will soon house the entire structure of the site, with the exception
of archival material. The primary reason for this is allow more
personal and immediate management of the heart and soul of the
machine, so to speak. As the actual moves draws closer we will take a
deeper look into the significance of this step and how it benefits the
future growth of DP.
The administration and community is actually the body of Distributed
Proofreaders. Without these two essential components we would be
little more than a loosely organized endeavor towards a good
cause. The awareness of this truth has been the motivation for an
extensive process of careful planning, dedicated effort and thoughtful
consideration and selection. The building of community within DP
began with earnest sometime last summer. We have all seen the result
of this over the past several months, and we have each felt its value
in our hearts. This is not an effort that can be invested once and
sustained indefinitely, nor is it a labor that can be entrusted to any
group of individuals. Community building and growth is an ongoing
process, which is only ever enriched and enhanced by the participation
and care of the many, not the few. There are enough of us who having
experienced the worth of what DP's community offers, will not let this
effort falter. Over the past month I have been working with a wide
range of participants from all corners of DP to discuss areas of
future development and inclusion into the cultural landscape being
defined by the journey of this project. Stay tuned to future columns
and forum posts as these exchanges take on more concrete forms.
A healthy community like a healthy project stays that way through the
attentive and loyal work of a core team of people willing to take on
the responsibility of direction and administration. Adding to this
team is an important and well weighed process. For the most of us,
coming to DP is an option. If we feel like dropping off the site for
an extended length of time, we do. After all, it is a volunteer
endeavor. To 'step up' and accept one of the caretaking roles of the
project requires a greater level of commitment than most of us are
willing to take on. From the other side of the process, there is the
challenge of presenting the offer to members. If someone feels that
such is role is not desirable for any reason, you don't want them to
feel any different about the project because they are quite
comfortable contributing as they presently do.
Every page proofed counts at DP. "Preserving History One Page at a
Time" is far more than a catch slogan. From my perspective, which I
have heard echoed by many others, a big part of what makes DP so
important to our age is the openness for an individual to participate
an do something that really matters--even if all they have to spare
are are a few free minutes in a day or week. A larger role in the
daily workings of DP is not for everyone, nor should it be. At the
same time, there is something very special that needs to be said for
and about those who make that commitment to become part of a steady
and sustaining tier of guidance on this project. The promise of future
growth would remain just that, a promise, without an expanded team to
see to the care of its fulfillment.
Through January we witnessed the definition of roles which have long
existed without name yet with great respect for a long time. While
there are thousands of us who proof, a few dozen who manage projects
and a few dozen more who work in post processing, there are but a rare
and special number working in that crucial stage between a completed
text at DP and a posted text at PG. It is quite hard to express in
word the esteem and affection many of us in the PG/DP community hold
for Tonya and David. As wordy as you all know I am, this column will
not be expanded by my efforts to succeed at such an expression. Titles
may not do justice to the depth of their contribution either, but they
are still denoted with a great respect. Post Processing & Verification
Coordinator is a challenge to fit on a door plaque, but a full name
for a full role was essential.
If you have been active in the forums recently, you may have by now
recognized that DP has a new Site Administrator these past weeks;
Pourlean. Now I know she has been testing her wings so far, but as an
supporter for a long time, I am putting a deserved spotlight where it
belongs, on one of DPs hidden assets. My faith in DP's future is
greatly strengthened with such dedicated hands added to the helm.
This brings us to the other important enhancement to DP's management,
the creation of an entirely new branch of navigators. To allow the
Site Administrators more freedom to focus upon ... well
administration, a new role has been created to manage the many and
varied needs of active texts; the Project Facilitators. The work of
the PFs is to assist and expand the powers and labors of the Project
Managers and where need to liaison between proofers and post
processors to assure a greater quality and expediency to the entire
on-site production process. Stepping up to the task of right at the
start are four well known and adored (certainly adored by me) members
of the DP regulars; DMKazoo, Francisca, Papeters and VelkVelk.
Congratulations to the new administrative branch of DP! ... and also
to you Big Bill, I envy you...up there like Apollo on Helicon
surrounded by so many Muses.
Finally then, the third initiative, presently underway, the production
enhancement.We are just weeks away from the open test phase of a new
code foundation, perhaps one of the grandest yet. While I cannot
reveal the details just yet, I can assure you that possibilities for
innovation and extended utility have been well planned and
addressed. The actual coordination for the test phase is closely
associated with the implementation of the new server structure for
DP. The underlying strategy to all of the current initiatives is well
planned coordination. The ground has been secured, the intended
structure mapped out, a well exercised and dedicated set of teams are
in place. From here on out across 2004 what we are going to witness is
steady and impressive growth. You have been a part of this venture
until now, helping to make this very day possible ... stay then, and
help assure the reality of a truly wondrous future.
Speaking of that wondrous future, let's take at the happenings on the
outskirts of the DP Empire, over in Europe. It was just around the
middle of January that an announcement appeared in the forums,
inviting experienced members to sign up over at a whole new, but
different DP to participate in a vigorous pre-test phase of site
establishment and de-bugging. Little by little with each passing day,
more and curious veterans made the pilgrimage. Within a week's time
the results of this collaboration lead DPEU's directors to declare the
project ready for public testing. Today, the idea of archives
associated with, yet distinct of PG utilizing the DP system full scale
is a reality, and an impressive one.
The utilization of the DP code by Project Rastko' alliance of library
archives has illuminated the ground of future possibilities for
expansive implementation. Through the next three weeks of the public
test phase the atmosphere across both sites is certain to be charged
with ideas and inspirations. Having had close involvement with the
initial test phase, what stays with me constantly is a resurgence of
that exciting and kinetic perception of the Web back when Mosaic first
appeared, and all things seemed possible. I can state that I am not at
all alone in this experience. Over the weeks and months ahead, I
believe very strongly that we are going to witness a wide revival of
those idealistic and creatively charged days throughout both sites...
and where better for this spirit of our age to rise again on-line than
within communities allied to Project Gutenberg?
Over 200 members have signed up to help establish DPEU and work out
all the bugs and bumps during the test phase. And these are no mere
onlookers. Long standing members of the Rastko community of archives
side by side with the most prominent figures of Distributed
Proofreaders have rolled up their sleeves and given a strong and
dedicated effort to see that everything comes together for the
best. In the words of Project Rastko's president, Zoran Stefanovic,
"This achievement is far advanced of our initial plans and well above
our highest expectations."
One of the key features incorporated into the DPEU test phase is the
ability to work with texts in the UTF8 character set. This is
essential for the realizing of producing texts in the range of
language groups that the Rastko archives will be processing though
DPEU. Here, to my eyes is the most exciting event to witness each day,
as the projects stands more and more upon its legs; the varied array
of languages entering and moving through the proofing rounds.
The localization of the system is another wonder to watch come to
life.. The personal page, proofing interface and forums are being
translated into Bulgarian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German,
Italian, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish,
Swedish, and Ukrainian. Over 40 projects from amongst these languages
are within the system. Some of them are already ready for posting to
PG. The total pages proofed so far is nearing 10,000 ("Ten times more
than expected.")
As the testing period commences I will be participating and staying
close with the directors of the project. Stay close to the newsletter
for all the latest news ... or if you want more--and I hope you do, or
I am falling down on the job--then sign up at http://dp.rastko.net/
is you have not already and be a part of the beginning of something
historic within your own time.
So that was January. As you can see now, the shape of the remaining
months of '04 have already been outlined by these initial
developments. And if you wonder, what might be happening to the 'bread
and butter' work of DP while all this is going on, do not give it
another thought. January was also the most productive proofing month
in DP's history. In the first 31 days of the year, we proofed 224,230
pages together.
Fasten your seat belts, everyone! This ride's just gettin' under way.
Stay then, on into this exciting year, and give from the yearnings of your heart!
The best in ourselves for the world!
The best in the world for ourselves!
Until next week...
Thierry Alberto
[Readers should note the conditions under which Thierry puts out this
column each time. Thierry writes some of the best prose you could ever
hope to read, and each time he does it with the newsletter editor
almost continuously mailing him for the finished article. It's amazing
he ever writes a word!]
Radio Gutenberg Update
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channel 1 - Sherlock Holmes "The Sign of Four"
channel 2 - Robert Sheckley's "Bad Medicine"
Both are high quality live readings from the collection.
Testing of Radio Gutenberg audio books on demand is currently taking
place.
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3) Notes and Queries, Reviews and Features
Pg A to Z
This week - 'Y'
The second stop on our A to Z journey finds us wandering around the
jungle that is Y. Authors for Y include Yan Zhitui with seven volumes
of Yan Shi Jia Xun written in Chinese. A great many volumes by
W. B. Yeats, see below for more information. Other authors to mention
include C.H. Yarrow, with An Introduction to the mortuary customs of
the North American Indians; Charles Duke and Charlotte Mary Yonge who
between them have 50 books in the Project Gutenberg library. We also
have Filson Young's eight volumes about Christopher Columbus'
discoveries.
In the world of book titles we have many volumes written with
children in mind. Young Canada's Nursery Rhymes; Young Folks' History
Of England; Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene to name but
three. Particularly appealing to myself are three volumes about the
countryside just outside my front door: Yorkshire and Yorkshire Coast
& Moorland Scenes by Gordon Home, and Yorkshire Dialect Poems
(1673-1915) and traditional poems by F. W. Moorman.
Also, under 'Y' we have another example of the diversification of
Project Gutenberg - Yiddish. So far we are limited to one audio file:
I. J. Hochman's Yiddisher Orchester, Mazel Tov; so here we include a
note from Keren Vergon - "I have several things I'd like to put
through. My guess is that within the next year I'll have 10-15 books
in Yiddish and as many or more in Hebrew put through DP. At least
that's my goal. I'd love to link up with other PG or DPers who have an
interest in Yiddish and/or Hebrew. There's lots of great stuff out
there waiting for PG; but to go ahead and proof them is a little
difficult if we don't have folks to PP them. It would be great to
gather a team together so that we would know we have a few proofers
and PPers ready to go when DP goes live with UTF8.(See Thierry's post
above for more details)". If you want to contact Keren about helping
with this project, please email: tvergon AT tampabay .rr .com
And finally, Y is for YOU, the volunteer without whom this project
wouldn't be what it is.
W. B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939).
Irish poet, dramatist and prose writer, considered to be one of the
greatest English-language poets of the 20th century. Yeats received
the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923 (You can find out more about
this at Project Gutenberg of Australia). In his early career Yeats
studied William Blake's poems, Emanuel Swedenborg's writings and other
visionaries. Later he expressed his disillusionment with the reality
of his native country. A central theme in Yeats's poems is Ireland,
its bitter history, folklore, and contemporary public life.
William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin into an Irish Protestant
family. His early years were spent in London and Sligo, on the west
coast of Ireland. In 1881 the family returned to Dublin. While
studying at the Metropolitan School of Art, Yeats met George
Russell. He was interested in mysticism, and his search inspired also
Yeats. In 1886 Yeats formed the Dublin Lodge of the Hermetic Society
and took the magical name Daemon est Deus Inversus. The occult order
also attracted Aleister Crowley.
As a writer Yeats made his debut in 1885, when he published his first
poems in The Dublin University Review. In 1889 Yeats met his great
love, Maud Gonne (1866-1953), an an actress and Irish revolutionary
who became a major landmark in the poets life and imagination. She
married Major John MacBride in 1903, and this episode inspired Yeats's
poem 'No Second Troy'. MacBride was later executed by the British.
Through Maud's influence Yeats joined the revolutionary organization
Irish Republican Brotherhood. Maud had devoted herself to political
struggle but Keats viewed with suspicion her world full of
intrigues. He was more interested in folktales as a part of an
exploration of national heritage and for the revival of Celtic
identity. His study with George Russell and Douglas Hyde of Irish
legends and tales was published in 1888 under the name Fairy and Folk
Tales of the Irish Peasantry. Yeats assembled for children a less
detailed version, IRIS FAIRY TALES, which appeared in 1892. THE
WANDERINGS OF OISIN AND OTHER POEMS (1889), filled with sad longings,
took its subject from Irish mythology.
In 1896 Yeats reformed the Irish Literary Society, and then the
National Literary Society in Dublin, which aimed to promote the New
Irish Library. Lady Gregory first saw W.B. Yeats in 1894 .Their
relationship started in 1897 and led to the founding of the Irish
Literary Theatre, which became the Irish National Theatre Society and
moved in 1904 into the new Abbey Theatre, named after the Dublin
street in which it stood. Yeats worked as a director of the theater,
writing several plays for it. Another director was the dramatist John
Synge (1871-1909), Yeats's close friend, whose masterpiece The Playboy
of the Western World (1907) was greeted with riots. Yeats's most
famous dramas were CATHLEEN NI HOULIHAN (1902), in which Maud Gonne
gained great acclaim in the title role, and THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE
(1894). Yeats did not have in the beginning much confidence in Lady
Gregory's literary skills, but after seeing her translation of the
ancient Irish Cuchulain sagas he changed his mind. Cathleen ni
Houlihan has been cretied to Yeats but now it is considered to be
written by Lady Gregory.
In 1917, he married Georgie Hyde-Lee, who was 26. Although Keats first
had his doubts, the marriage was happy and they had two
children. During their honeymoon Yeats's wife demonstrated her gift
for automatic writing. Their collaborative notebooks formed the basis
of A VISION (1925), a book of marriage therapy spiced with
occultism. A change from suggestive, beautiful lyricism toward the
spare and tragic bitterness was marked in Yeats poem 'September 1913'
in which he stated: "Romantic Ireland's dead and gone."
In 1932 Yeats founded the Irish Academy of Letters and in 1933 he was
briefly involved with the fascist Blueshirts in Dublin. In his final
years Yeats worked on the last version of A VISION, which attempted to
present a theory of the variation of human personality, and published
THE OXFORD BOOK OF VERSE (1936) and NEW POEMS (1938). Yeats died in
1939 at the H�tel Id�al S�jour, in Menton, France.
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Credits
Thanks this week to Brett and George for the numbers and the
booklists. Thierry, Greg, Michael and Larry Wall. Entertainment for
the workers provided as usual by BBC 6Music and Andrew Collins. Extra
entertainment by my cat trying to sleep on my bicycle pannier rack!