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Editorial
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A small note from Michael Hart
I've been reading.
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Well. . .it's not just WHAT I've been reading,
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Distributed Proofreaders Update for December 17, 2003
If you are reading this without your favorite beverage, stop right now
and go correct that situation. . . . Go on! This week we have a
smorgasbord of newsworthy topics to cover and if you care enough about
PG to be reading this newsletter at all, then I promise you an
interesting, little diversion for the DP segment this week. So go get
a big mug of coffee or tea, maybe a Guinness, whatever oils your
works. I'll be right here waiting when you get back.
Today, December 17th, we mark the 100th anniversary of the moment when a dream
of great significance was realized. A century ago two brothers with a
vibrant vision and a healthy dose of ingenuity set humanity free from
exile on the planet's surface. It is easy to conjecture that the
desire to fly as freely as the birds must follow our race down to the
earliest days of existence. Once it was clear that we could do more
than float up in a balloon, subject to the winds--that we could be
master in the air--the future of Humanity changed forever. A mere 66
years later, the flight that began on a little hill in North Carolina
reached all the way to the moon. 100 years on and our visions now look
to the unlimited vastness of the Universe itself.
When I logged into DP earlier, after several days away, I smiled
broadly to see these words greeting me on my return:
"Today we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Wright
brothers' first flight with some specially selected 'aviation'
material. Come fly with us!"
I smiled as I thought that if there ever was an appropriate slogan for
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All dreams are 'lofty' things. Out of the airy invisible, a rare
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this earth to the rare breed of people who we call "dreamers." Go
ahead and try to touch anything in the room around you, including the
room itself, that was not once an idea in the mind of one
individual. That is who we are and that is how we make things on this
world. Do not let anyone ever tell you different, dreaming is a
wonderful occupation.
One day we may very well travel to other star systems, and on that
journey will be two spirits who on this day 100 years ago raised
humanity's aim above and beyond. As I reflected on that thought
earlier, I smiled broader still to realize that it was in this
potential future that our work in these projects is directly connected
to that day at Kitty Hawk. When our childrens' children take off
towards other worlds, it is a certainty that they will be bringing
legacies from home with them. Legacies that will survive to their
generations partly because of the work we do in the present.
What Michael Hart began thirty years ago, with the words: "We hold
these truths to be self evident..." has taken a trajectory not
dissimilar to that of the Wright brothers. More than 10,000 works have
followed the Declaration of Independence, and in years to come that
number will eventually reach 1,000,000.
Come fly with us! Yes, how appropriate indeed!
This is a good to look back upon the Gutenberg journey and forward to
the future. Over the past 48 hours those who gathered together in
California have returned home and begun settling back into their daily
routines. It is a safe bet that no one who participated in the
meetings and discussions of the past several days is quite the same as
they were a week ago. We are distributed throughout the world, and we
get a great deal accomplished that way. However the infusion of
energy, innovation and inspiration that is generated by face to face
interaction in real time adds a whole new level of dynamism to our
collective efforts.
You have been and will continue to read accounts from those who were
there. I was not at the meetings, so my scope of intention will remain
with providing the news items of the events for you. One of 'flash'
items from the conference was the recognition of the significance of
the completion of the Copyright Renewals. If you have been with DP
more than a couple of months then you know what a 'piece of work'
these projects were to complete. Working from the trenches of the
proofing rounds, you may not be aware of the incredible worth of these
dry manifests. They are nothing short of golden in their value to the
public domain. In time we will look back and say: "Yes, I was there,
I worked on the renewals." And we will say it with deep pride.
One person who has provided material recognition of the present worth of
the Copyright Renewals is Brewster Kahle. To commemorate the successful
completion of DP's work on the CR's, Brewster kept a promise to donate
$10,000.00 to Project Gutenberg. Now 10K certainly does not alter the
destiny of PG. It is a significant gesture and a contribution that
proofers at DP can feel a true part of. Through the Internet Archive,
Brewster has long been a supporter of PG and DP. He also provided a
variety of support to see to the success of this week's conference.
When the CRs are incorporated into a searchable database they will
serve to verify the eligibility of thousands of publications for the
public domain. This is task is so tedious at present as to be nearly
unworthy of the effort involved. The easy availability of the
Copyright Renewals will change that forever, thus making available an
immeasurable wealth of cultural and historic content to the whole
world. On behalf of all who this accomplishment eventually touches,
let me voice a sincere and profound appreciation to all those who
worked on the many stages of the CR project!
What the conference provided on the whole, was the chance for many
people to get down to some serious discussion of the present state,
future directions and possible strategies for PG and all affiliated
projects. Topics included; sustaining and increasing the participation
levels of volunteers; innovations to the cataloguing system for the PG
library; initiation of an image library; increase of support to the
readers of e-books; incorporation of XML and the future availability
of format on demand features of PG titles; community development among
the readership; derivative content developments from existing texts
and much more.
Whether these all come to be and in what manner and time frame will be the
topic of future discussions and conferences on-line and off. As I
discuss these topics with those who were out in California, I will
share more details with you here in the weeks ahead. I know that many
people reading this will wish they could have been out there at the
conference. If it is any conciliation, I share your
feelings. But... let us remember what we are celebrating at DP in
December... the conclusion of what is surely the most productive and
successful year in the project's history, and the coming of what
promises to be the year which will--far and wide--supplant that title.
We have shared the journey through this wonderful year together and
have given the best of our efforts and intentions to PG/DP. In the
year ahead we will do the same and perhaps far more. There will be
more meetings and conferences in different regions and countries and
with each we will build upon what has begun in California. Look
forward then, and stay close to your newsletter in the weeks ahead. In
2004 we will fly...and no doubt, more than once or twice we will
glance up at the stars and smile, knowing there is a vast and wondrous
destiny aloft, which we are all a part of.
With my travels and personal time constraints over the past couple of
weeks it has been necessary to set down the continuation of our
exploration and profiles of the tools involved in the DP production
process. Today we will pick up where we left off and take a look at
the pair of tools developed by Steve Schulze aka: ThunderGnat to the
DP community. We also have a piece this week from Bill Keir about
those pesky little sprites that trip up the best proofreaders and go
by the name of Scannos.
The pair of tools known as GUIPrep and GUIGuts are much adored by the
content developers and post processors of DP. It is rather an
injustice to call them a "pair" of tools as they both perform a wide
range of processes that have come to be essential to efficient and
expedient production. From the beginning, we decided that the best way
to provide you with the latest and most informative background to the
tools is to let the developers speak for themselves. So without
further introduction I turn the mic over to Steve.
Musings on Guiguts
Guiguts came about because of my frustration with Proofreaders
Toolkit, an older, no longer supported toolkit that was used to
prepare texts for Distributed Proofreaders. Proofreaders Toolkit
(PRTK) has a GUI front end to gutcheck built into it. It works, but
there are several things about it that are sub-optimal.
Number 1. It was designed to work with an older version of gutcheck.
The command line options for gutcheck have changed slightly since the
PRTK was written, so it doesn't interface very well.
Number 2. An even bigger problem, every time you make an edit to the
file, the list of gutcheck errors becomes unsynchronized and it gets
hard to find subsequent errors that gutcheck reported.
I had previously written a preprocessing application called Prep to do
pre-proofing checks on texts before they were uploaded to the
site. After 8 versions of Prep, I added a Gui front end to it to make
it easier to select options for processing. (There were some 30 or so
options and the command line was getting out of hand. There's over 60
now.) When I added the front end, I changed the name to Guiprep to
differentiate it from command line Prep.
When the frustration level with PRTKs interface to Gutcheck grew too
much, I thought, "Heck, I could probably write something to do that."
and did so. When it came time to naming it, I thought "Well, I already
have Guiprep, a Gui front end to prep; this is a Gui front end to
gutcheck, I'll call it Guigutcheck. But that was too long, so I
shortened it to Guiguts. (which I found amusing anyway, so that was a
big plus too.)
Guiguts is written in Perl to take advantage of it's very powerful
text processing functions and cross platform support. It will run on
Windows and Linux platforms and could be easily modified to work on
Mac OSX, (but I don't have access to an OSX system to do development
and testing.) It unfortunately cannot be easily ported to Mac OS 9 and
earlier due to lack of some necessary Perl modules for those
OSes. Since it is written in Perl, the source is automatically
available for experimentation and hacking to anyone who is inclined to
do so. I also distribute a compiled windows executable version
(winguts.exe) for those who don't have a Perl interpreter on their
machine and just want to download and go.
Guiguts was originally intended just to be a front end to gutcheck. In
order to make it usable, I had to make it a fairly full featured text
editor so you would be able to make corrections to errors gutcheck
reported. So, since I already had a fairly decent text editor written,
I figured I'd add some other specialized functions that would come in
handy for some texts I was post processing. I think some of the first
functions I added were to do bulk change of case to selected
text. (Make it all uppercase, lowercase, whatever.) Not too unusual in
a decent text editor, but useful. Another thing I added early on was a
word frequency and comparison function. It would count all of the
words in a text and how many times they occurred, then let you display
them in various sort orders. (By frequency, by alphabetical order,
etc.) I wrote a function to help find "stealth scannos", words that
commonly mis-scanned but will pass a spellcheck, like "arid" for "and"
for instance.
As time went by, a core group of intrepid testers suggested new
functions and improvements to existing ones until it has become a
fairly powerful and comprehensive post processing toolkit on its own.
A partial list of functions and capabilities:
Search & Replace: Full search and replace functions, search for full
or partial words. Able to search using regular expressions with
variable extraction for replacement terms.
Stealth Scannos: Find words that were scanned incorrectly but will
pass spellcheck.
Spell check: Provides hooks to tie in Aspell or Ispell to do full
interactive spell checking.
Find Orphaned Brackets: Often brackets or parentheses are mismatched
in a text, it can be a real pain to find the unmatched ones, this
function makes it easy.
Case Adjustment: An array of bulk case adjustment functions, convert
to uppercase, convert to lowercase, convert to sentence case, convert
to title case.
Bulk indenting: Indent a selection of text in or out 1 space with each
press,preserves relative indenting.
Text Rewrap: Automatic rewrap of selected text. Adjustable rewrap
margin. Adjustable indent. Lots of options.
Word Frequency Analysis: Sort and count words in the text. Specialized
sub functions to find hyphenated words, words with accents, words with
mixed alphabetic and numeric characters, and several others.
Footnote Fixup: Functions to automate renumbering, moving and
reformatting footnotes.
HTML Fixup: Functions to work with HTML markup including finding
orphaned markup and auto generating a HTML version of a text.
ASCII Box Drawing: Automatically draw ASCII boxes around selected
text. Optionally rewrap and center or left or right justify the text
in the box.
A whole host of other specialized functions.
And oh yes, it provides a GUI interface to gutcheck.
Thank you, Steve! ... for the background and all the effort to develop
these powerful tools for the PG/DP community!
Now Big Bill is going to fill us in on the slippery bane of all post
processors, the dreaded Tasmanian Scanno. Okay, so they're not from
Tasmania, but Bill has doing his best to exile them there for the rest
of us.
=======================
Stealth Scannos by Bill Keir
=======================
In the late 19th century wasn't the telephone considered wonderful
modem technology? Or was it wonderful *modern* technology?
A standard step in preparing a text for PG is to spell-check it. Of
course that can only do so much, and while it will detect words that
have been OCRd as junk, it won't detect words that have been OCRd as
other words.
When "he" is OCRd as "fe", we have a scanno - analogous to typo - an
error. Spell-checkers will catch scannos that produce non-words;
that's what spell-checkers do, identify non-words.
But when "he" is OCRd as "lie", we have a scanno that a spell checker
will not blink at - a stealth scanno, that flies under the
spell-checker's radar.
Tonya was the first to publish a list of the most commonly occurring
scannos of this type, as part of her comprehensive PPing
checklist. Classics she cited included "arid" being produced for
"and", "yon" for "you" and "modem" for "modern". These occur so often,
and as the words appear so similar on the screen (unless you're using
a custom font, see below) are so often missed by human eyes as well as
spell-checkers, that Tonya suggested it was worthwhile searching your
text for "arid", as most of them were probably mis-scanned "and"s.
I named them and offered to be a central clearing house for reported
sightings. We now have hundreds of stealth scannos and more every
month. Various software tools make use of the listings, and once again
the cooperation of many individuals has led to improving the standards
of quality of our submitted texts.
Thank you, Bill! Next week we will profile two important tools that
Bill has developed; the Re-Wrap & Indent script and the Smooth
Proofing font. We will also go back to the original tools of the PG/DP
community: GutCheck and PRTK. As we wrap up the tool profiles you can
look forward to a special section on the PG newsletter site set aside
specifically for information on all the tools as well as links to
download the latest versions, whether you work within the DP site or
develop texts for PG independently.
Finally this week, be aware that we have a new feature to the DP
masthead. Where we used to count down the number of titles until
10,000 at PG, we now provide the current total works contributed to
Project Gutenberg by DP. At time of writing, the figure stands at
2,851 books posted. Watch this space around the first week of January
as we reach 3,000.
Until next week, enjoy your holiday preparations as well as the
continued celebrations at DP. This year promises to go out in a grand
style. Keep giving your best and the same will return to fill the
hours of your days.
For now...
Thierry Alberto
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3) Notes and Queries, Reviews and Features
Cookery Club, December 17
This week we consider a traditional Olde Englisshe Christmas
dinner. Looking into Dickens' A Christmas Carol (see this issue's
quiz!) we find the following list of seasonal luxuries in the
description of the Ghost of Christmas Present:
"Heaped up on the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys,
geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking-pigs, long
wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, barrels of oysters,
red-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious
pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch, that made
the chamber dim with their delicious steam."
In the same book, the Cratchits had to be content with "Goose ? [e]ked
out by apple-sauce and mashed potatoes."
We suggest something in between to capture the spirit of the olde-tyme
Christmas banquet. The ever-knowledgeable Mrs. Beeton remarks that
"The boar's head, in ancient times, formed the most important dish on
the table, and was invariably the first placed on the board upon
Christmas-day." Oh, for the good old days?.
Moving on to more modern times,
"The common turkey is a native of North America, and was thence
introduced to England, in the reign of Henry VIII. According to
Tusser's "Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry," about the year 1585
it begun to form a dish at our rural Christmas feasts."
However, the traditional favourite remains
ROAST GOOSE
which, as Mrs. Beeton tells us, is "seasonable from September to
March; but in perfection from Michaelmas to Christmas."
Thus, for our menu we propose:
Roast Goose *
Roast Potatoes
Red Cabbage
Mincemeat Pie *
Christmas Pudding + or,
Trifle ~
* [recipe in Domestic Cookery,
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext05/cookh10.txt]
+ [recipe in December 10 issue of the newsletter]
~ [recipe in What's Cooking ]
Tonya Allen
December 17, 2003
Christmas Quiz:
Match these Christmas titles with their first lines....
Titles:
1. Christmas Banquet, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext05/haw5510.txt
2. The Abbot's Ghost, Or Maurice Treherne's Temptation: A Christmas
Story, by A. M. Barnard [AKA: Louisa May Alcott]
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext05/8abgh10.txt
3. The Gift of the Magi, by O. Henry
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext92/magi10.txt
4. Christmas Eve, by Robert Browning
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext04/chmsv10.txt
5. Snap-Dragons--A Tale of Christmas Eve, by Juliana H. Ewing
[In Junior Classics, V6, Edited by William Patten]
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext04/jrcl610.txt
6. Christian Gellert's Last Christmas, by Berthold Auerbach
[In Stories by Foreign Authors: German (V.2)]
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext04/s4fg210.txt
7. The First Christmas-Tree, by Henry Van Dyke
[In Short Stories for English Courses]
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext04/stngc10.txt
8. Beasley's Christmas Party, by Booth Tarkington
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext04/bslcp10.txt
9. Old Christmas, by Washington Irving
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext99/oxmas10.txt
10. The Birds' Christmas Carol, by Kate Douglas Wiggin
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext96/tbscc10.txt
11. A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext92/carol13.txt
First Lines:
a. Out of the little chapel I burst into the fresh night-air again.
b. The day before Christmas, in the year of our Lord 722.
c. How goes it, Frank? Down first, as usual."
d. It was very early Christmas morning, and in the stillness of the
dawn, with the soft snow falling on the housetops, a little child
was born in the Bird household.
e. There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell
over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and
rural games of former times.
f. Marley was dead: to begin with.
g. One dollar and eighty-seven cents.
h. Three o'clock had just struck from the tower of St. Nicholas, Leipzig,
on the afternoon of December 22d, 1768, when a man, wrapped in a loose
overcoat, came out of the door of the University.
i. "I have here attempted," said Roderick, unfolding a few sheets of
manuscript, as he sat with Rosina and the sculptor in the summer-
house,--"I have attempted to seize hold of a personage who glides
past me, occasionally, in my walk through life.
j. The maple-bordered street was as still as a country Sunday; so quiet
that there seemed an echo to my footsteps.
k. Once upon a time there lived a certain family of the name of Skratdj.
===============
Answers to Quiz: From the First 100 Etexts
1. The Declaration of Independence (etext #1)
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext90/when12.txt
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for
one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected
them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the earth,
the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and
of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions
of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which
impel them to the separation.
2. The Gettysburg Address of Abraham Lincoln (etext #4)
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext90/getty11.txt
Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth
upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and
dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
3. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll (etext #11)
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext91/alice30.txt
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister
on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had
peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no
pictures or conversations in it, `and what is the use of a book,'
thought Alice `without pictures or conversation?'
4. Paradise Lost, by John Milton (etext #20)
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext91/plboss10.txt
Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit
Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast
Brought Death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of EDEN, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,
Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top
Of OREB, or of SINAI, didst inspire
That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed,
In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth
Rose out of CHAOS:
5. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (etext #23)
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext92/duglas11.txt
I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and
about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot county,
Maryland.
6. The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (etext #33)
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext92/scrlt12.txt
A throng of bearded men, in sad-coloured garments and grey
steeple-crowned hats, inter-mixed with women, some wearing hoods,
and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden
edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and
studded with iron spikes.
7. Song of the Lark, by Willa Cather (etext #44)
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext92/song10.txt
Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a
game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two travel-
ing men who happened to be staying overnight in Moon-
stone.
8. Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (etext #57)
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext93/alad10.txt
There once lived a poor tailor, who had a son called Aladdin,
a careless, idle boy who would do nothing but play all day long in
the streets with little idle boys like himself.
9. The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels (etext #61)
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext93/manif12.txt
A spectre is haunting Europe -- the spectre of Communism.
10. A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens (etext #98)
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext94/2city12.txt
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness,
it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair,
we had everything before us, we had nothing before us,
we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct
the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present
period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its
being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree
of comparison only.
Tonya Allen
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Kauppa-Lopo, by Minna Canth 10480
[Language: Finnish]
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Our Churches and Chapels, by Atticus 10479
[Author AKA: A. Hewitson]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/7/10479 ]
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Beacon Lights of History, Volume II, by John Lord 10478
[Subtitle: Jewish Heroes and Prophets]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/7/10478 ]
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Beacon Lights of History, Volume I, by John Lord 10477
[Subtitle: The Old Pagan Civilizations]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/7/10477 ]
[Files: 10477.txt; 10477.zip; 10477-8.txt; 10477-8.zip; 10477-h.htm;
10477-h.zip; ]
The Vanishing Man, by R. Austin Freeman 10476
[Subtitle: A Detective Romance]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/7/10476 ]
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12, Issue 326 10475
[Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12,
Issue 326, August 9, 1828]
[Author: Various]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/7/10475 ]
[Files: 10475.txt; 10475.zip; 10475-8.txt; 10475-8.zip; 10475-h.htm;
10475-h.zip; ]
The Lost Naval Papers, by Bennet Copplestone 10474
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/7/10474 ]
[Files: 10474.txt; 10474-8.txt]
The Heart of the Range, by William Patterson White 10473
[Files: 10473.txt; 10473-8.txt]
Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut, by Wace 10472
[Translated by Eugene Mason]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/7/10472 ]
[Files: 10472.txt; 10472-8.txt]
The World's Greatest Books, Vol. I, by Various 10471
[Editors: Arthur Mee and J. A. Hammerton]
[Comment: This volume contains short excerpts from or abridgements of
literary works.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/7/10471 ]
[Files: 10471.txt; 10471.zip; 10471-8.txt; 10471-8.zip; 10471-h.htm;
10471-h.zip; ]
Audio: Nine Hundred Miles, by Roger McGuinn 10470C
[Note: Recorded in February 1999.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/7/10470 ]
[Files: 10470-m-readme.txt; 10470-m-001.mp3; 10470.txt; 10470.zip; ]
Johnny Crow's Garden, by L. Leslie Brooke 10469
[Subtitle: A Picture Book]
[HTML version includes many lovely illustrations.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/6/10469 ]
[Files: 10469.txt; 10469.zip; 10469-h.htm; 10469-h.zip; ]
Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society, by Edith Van Dyne 10468
[Author AKA: L. Frank Baum]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/6/10468 ]
[Files: 10468.txt; 10468.zip; 10468-8.txt; 10468-8.zip; 10468-h.htm;
10468-h.zip; ]
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VIII (4th edition) 10467
[Subtitle: Originally published by Robert Dodsley in the Year 1744, Now
first chronologically arranged, revised and enlarged with the Notes of
all the Commentators, and new Notes; 1876.]
[Author: Various]
[Editor: Robert Dodsley]
[Additional editor: W. Carew Hazlitt]
[Contents:
Summer's Last Will and Testament, by Thomas Nash
The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntington, by Anthony Munday
The Death of Robert Earl of Huntington, by Anthony Munday and
Henry Chettle
Contention between Liberality and Prodigality, by unknown
Grim the Collier of Croyden, by "I. T."]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/6/10467]
[Files: 10467.txt; 10467.zip; 10467-8.txt; 10467-8.zip; ]
Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories , by Frances Hodgson Burnett 10466
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/6/10466 ]
[Files: 10466.txt; 10466.zip; 10466-8.txt; 10466-8.zip; ]
The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale , by Laura Lee Hope 10465
[Subtitle: Camping and Tramping for Fun and Health]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/6/10465 ]
[Files: 10465.txt; 10465.zip; ]
A Child's Anti-Slavery Book, by Various 10464
[Subtitle: Containing A Few Words About American Slave Children
And Stories Of Slave-Life]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/6/10464 ]
[Files: 10464.txt]
The Little House in the Fairy Wood, by Ethel Cook Eliot 10463
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/6/10463 ]
[Files: 10463.txt]
Clarissa, Volume 4 (of 9), by Samuel Richardson 10462
[Subtitle: History Of A Young Lady]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/6/10462 ]
[Files: 10462.txt; 10462-8.txt]
Journals of Australian Explorations, by A C and F T Gregory 10461
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/6/10461 ]
[Files: 10461.txt; 10461-h.htm]
When Day is Done, by Edgar A. Guest 10460
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/6/10460 ]
[Files: 10460.txt]
The Celtic Twilight, by W. B. Yeats 10459
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/5/10459 ]
[Files: 10459.txt]
Three short works, by Gustave Flaubert 10458
[Subtitle: The Dance of Death, The Legend of Saint Julian the
Hospitaller, A Simple Soul]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/5/10458 ]
[Files: 10458.txt; 10458-8.txt]
The Lonely Dancer and Other Poems, by Richard Le Gallienne 10457
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/5/10457 ]
[Files: 10457.txt; 10457.zip; ]
Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 11, September, 1858, by Various 10456
[Subtitle: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/5/10456 ]
[Files: 10456.txt; 10456.zip; 10456-8.txt; 10456-8.zip; ]
A Golden Book of Venice, by Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull 10455
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/5/10455 ]
[Files: 10455.txt; 10455-8.txt]
Tales for Young and Old, by Various 10454
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/5/10454 ]
[Files: 10454.txt; 10454-8.txt]
A Practical Physiology, by Albert F. Blaisdell 10453
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/5/10453 ]
[Files: 10453.txt; 10453-8.txt; 10453-0.txt 10453-h.htm]
Peter's Mother, by Mrs. Henry De La Pasture 10452
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/5/10452 ]
[Files: 10452.txt; 10452-8.txt]
Life Of Johnson, Volume 5, by Boswell 10451
[Editor: Birkbeck Hill]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/5/10451 ]
[Files: 10451.txt; 10451-8.txt; 10451-h.htm]
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Aug. 22, 1917, by Various 10450
[Editor: Owen Seamen]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/5/10450 ]
[Files: 10450.txt; 10450.zip; 10450-8.txt; 10450-8.zip; 10450-h.htm;
10450-h.zip; ]
Burnham Breaker, by Homer Greene 10449
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/4/10449 ]
[Files: 10449.txt; 10449.zip; ]
The Anti-Slavery Harp, by Various 10448
[Subtitle: A Collection of Songs for Anti-Slavery Meetings]
[Editor: William W. Brown]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/4/10448 ]
[Files: 10448.txt; 10448.zip; ]
October Vagabonds , by Richard Le Gallienne 10447
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/4/10447 ]
[Files: 10447.txt; 10447.zip; 10447-8.txt; 10447-8.zip; ]
The Green Flag, by Arthur Conan Doyle 10446
[Subtitle: And Other Stories of War and Sport]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/4/10446 ]
[Files: 10446.txt; 10446.zip; ]
American Big Game in Its Haunts, by Various 10445
[Subtitle: The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club]
[Editor: George Bird Grinnell]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/4/10445 ]
[Files: 10445.txt; 10445.zip; 10445-8.txt; 10445-8.zip; ]
The Peace Negotiations, by Robert Lansing 10444
[Subtitle: A Personal Narrative]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/4/10444 ]
[Files: 10444.txt; 10444.zip; 10444-8.txt; 10444-8.zip; ]
The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation , by J. S. Fletcher 10443
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/4/10443 ]
[Files: 10443.txt; 10443.zip; 10443-8.txt; 10443-8.zip; ]
La comedie de la mort, by Theophile Gautier 10442
[Files: 10442.txt; 10442-8.txt]
[Language: French]
The Green Mouse, by Robert W. Chambers 10441
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/4/10441 ]
[Files: 10441.txt; 10441.zip; 10441-8.txt; 10441-8.zip; 10441-h.htm;
10441-h.zip; ]
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Tutt and Mr. Tutt, by Arthur Train 10440
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/4/10440 ]
[Files: 10440.txt; 10440.zip; 10440-8.txt; 10440-8.zip; 10440-h.htm;
10440-h.zip; ]
From Yauco to Las Marias, by Karl Stephen Herrman 10439
[Subtitle: A Recent Campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular
Brigade under the Command of Brig. General Schwan]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/3/10439 ]
[Files: 10439.txt; 10439.zip; 10439-8.txt; 10439-8.zip; ]
Up the Hill and Over, by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay 10438
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/3/10438 ]
[Files: 10438.txt; 10438.zip; 10438-8.txt; 10438-8.zip; ]
Pulpit and Press (6th Edition), by Mary Baker Eddy 10437
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/3/10437 ]
[Files: 10437.txt; 10437.zip; 10437-8.txt; 10437-8.zip; ]
Erick and Sally, by Johanna Spyri 10436
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/3/10436 ]
[Files: 10436.txt; 10436.zip; 10436-8.txt; 10436-8.zip; 10436-h.htm;
10436-h.zip; ]
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 12, October, 1858, by Various 10435
[Subtitle: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/3/10435 ]
[Files: 10435.txt; 10435.zip; 10435-8.txt; 10435-8.zip; ]
Wyandotte, by James Fenimore Cooper 10434
[Subtitle: or, The Hutted Knoll]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/3/10434 ]
[Files: 10434.txt; 10434.zip; 10434-8.txt; 10434-8.zip; 10434-h.htm;
10434-h.zip; ]
A Flock of Girls and Boys, by Nora Perry 10433
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/3/10433 ]
[Files: 10433.txt; 10433.zip; 10433-h.htm; 10433-h.zip; ]
[HTML version includes many fine illustrations]
Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West, by Edith Van Dyne 10432
[Author AKA: L. Frank Baum]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/3/10432 ]
[Files: 10432.txt; 10432.zip; ]
Thirty Years a Slave, by Louis Hughes 10431
[Subtitle: From Bondage to Freedom: The Institution of Slavery as Seen
on the Plantation and in the Home of the Planter: Autobiography of
Louis Hughes]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/3/10431 ]
[Files: 10431.txt; 10431.zip; ]
Trips to the Moon, by Lucian 10430
[Editor: Henry Morley]
[Translator: Thomas Francklin]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/3/10430 ]
[Files: 10430.txt; 10430.zip; 10430-h.htm; 10430-h.zip ]
Miss Lulu Bett, by Zona Gale 10429
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/2/10429 ]
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10429-h.zip; ]
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development of Byron's mind.
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Newsletter Cookery Club
Greetings again. Did anyone try one of those recipes from Simple
Italian Cookery? I tried the Chestnuts "Alla Lucifero." This was the
first time I ever deliberately set food on fire as part of the recipe
(we won't talk about those other times when I did it by
accident). Such a pretty blue flame. The taste was interesting, but I
think I prefer the traditional "roasted on an open fire" flavor.
Before proceeding to this week's menu, I would like to reply to the
comment made by a correspondent last week, summarized thus by the
editor in the previous issue:
"We received a note here this week about our starting the cookery
club. It was pointed out that we were perhaps, trying to achieve
something that is not possible, i.e. the recreation of dishes whose
recipes were published in some cases over 100 years ago, when tastes
and ingredients were completely different from today's instant tv
dinners."
My response: Of course we can not replicate exactly the dishes of one
or two hundred or more years ago, but it's fun to try, and in doing so
we learn a little bit about life back then. And there is certainly a
general interest in the cooking of times past, as evidenced by the
books of "Grandmother's Recipes" and the "Olde Englishe Fudge" and so
on that is for sale in America, Britain, and doubtless other countries
as well. The reason I like old recipes is exactly because they can be
so different from what we're used to, and because they give us a
window into the past. The older the recipe, the better I like it. So
what if my milk is pasteurized and my flour doesn't contain weevils
and I'm not going to kill the chicken myself. This way I can get a
taste of the past without all the inconvenience our grandmothers had
to put up with.
On to this week's menu. As we are exploring our current collection of
cookery books, it becomes clear that the range is a bit limited in
certain ways. For instance, we thought of doing a menu for Eid, or a
menu for Hanukkuh, but we just didn't find the recipes in our existing
cookery books. There's a hint to anyone who would like to enrich and
expand our cookery collection in a different direction!
So, the next few menus are going to be heavily
Christmas-oriented. This week we are sampling some Christmas sweets.
From 365 Foreign Dishes
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/0/0/1/10011/10011-h/10011-h.htm
Hungarian Spice Cakes.
[These are not labeled "Christmas" cakes, but were suggested as a
December recipe, and certainly contain the traditional Christmas
ingredients.]
Sift 1 pound of flour; beat the yolks of 4 eggs with 1 pound of sugar;
add 1/2 ounce cinnamon, 1/2 ounce of ginger, 1/4 teaspoonful of
cloves, some grated lemon peel and a pinch of salt. Make all into a
dough and roll into small cakes about an inch in diameter. Put on
well-buttered baking-plates, sprinkled with flour, and bake in a
moderate oven until a rich brown. Serve with wine.
From Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext06/8loc410.txt
FRUIT CAKE
3/4 c. raisins
1/2 c. milk
3/4 c. currants
2 c. flour
1/2 c. finely cut citron
1/2 tsp. Soda
1/2 c. butter
1 tsp. Cinnamon
3/4 c. sugar
1/2 tsp. Allspice
2 eggs
1/4 tsp. Nutmeg
1/2 c. molasses
1/4 tsp. cloves
First prepare the fruits for the cake. Cream the butter, stir in the
sugar gradually, add the eggs unbeaten, and continue beating. Add the
molasses, milk, and flour with which the soda and spices have been
sifted, and then fold the fruits, which have been prepared, into this
mixture. Another way of adding the fruit is to pour a layer of the
cake mixture into the cake pan, sprinkle this generously with the
fruit, then another layer of dough and another layer of fruit, and
finally a layer of dough with just a little fruit sprinkled on
top. Whichever plan is followed, prepare the pan by covering the
bottom with 1/2 inch of flour and then placing a piece of greased
paper over this. This heavy layer of flour prevents the cake from
burning. Put the cake in a very moderate oven and bake for about 2
hours. If a fruit cake without a heavy crust is desired, the mixture
may be steamed for 3 hours in an ordinary steamer and then placed in
the oven just long enough to dry the surface.
CHRISTMAS PUDDING
(Sufficient to Serve Twelve)
2-1/2 c. stale bread crumbs
1/2 c. milk
1 c. beef suet
1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. molasses
2 eggs
1 c. chopped raisins
1/2 c. chopped citron
1/2 c. chopped nuts
1 c. flour
1/2 tsp. Soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. Salt
1/3 c. fruit juice
Soak the bread crumbs in the milk. Work the suet with the hands until
it is creamy, and to it add the sugar, molasses, and well-beaten
eggs. Mix with the milk and bread crumbs, and add the fruit and
nuts. Mix the dry ingredients and sift them into the mixture. Add the
fruit juice, turn into a buttered mold, and steam for 3 hours. Serve
hot with hard sauce or any other desired sauce.
From Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry Cakes, and Sweetmeats, by Miss Leslie
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext04/svfvr10.txt
GINGERBREAD NUTS
Two pounds of flour, sifted.
One pound of fresh butter.
One quart of sugar-house molasses.
Two ounces of ginger, or more, if it is not very strong.
Twelve dozen grains of allspice, powdered and sifted
Six dozen cloves, powdered and sifted.
Half an ounce of cinnamon, powdered and sifted.
A half tea-spoonful of pearl-ash or salaeratus, dissolved in a little vinegar.
Cut up the butter in the flour, and mix it with the ginger and other
spice. Wet the whole with the molasses, and stir all well together
with a knife. Then add the dissolved pearl-ash or salaeratus. Throw
some flour on your paste-board, take the dough (a large handful at a
time) and knead it in separate cakes. Then put all together, and knead
It very hard for a long time, in one large lump. Cut the lump in half,
roll it out in two even sheets, about half an inch thick, and cut it
out in little cakes, with a very small tin, about the size of a
cent. Lay them in buttered pans, and bake them in a moderate oven,
taking care they do not scorch, as gingerbread is more liable to burn
than any other cake, You may, if you choose, shape the gingerbread
nuts, by putting flour in your hand, taking a very small piece of the
dough, and rolling it into a little round ball.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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10. A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens (etext #98)
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First Lines:
a. There once lived a poor tailor, who had a son called Aladdin, a
careless, idle boy who would do nothing but play all day long in the
streets with little idle boys like himself.
b. Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit
Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast
Brought Death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of EDEN, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,
Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top
Of OREB, or of SINAI, didst inspire
That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed,
In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth
Rose out of CHAOS:
c. Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the
Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying
overnight in Moonstone.
d. Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this
continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal.
e. A throng of bearded men, in sad-coloured garments and grey
steeple-crowned hats, inter-mixed with women, some wearing hoods, and
others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the
door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron
spikes.
f. Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on
the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped
into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or
conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice,
'without pictures or conversation?'
g. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age
of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief,
it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was
the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter
of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we
were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other
way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that
some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for
good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
h. When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one
people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with
another, and to assume, among the Powers of the earth, the separate
and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God
entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires
that they should declare the causes which impel them to the
separation.
i. A spectre is haunting Europe -- the spectre of Communism.
j. I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles
from Easton, in Talbot county, Maryland.
Tonya Allen
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