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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-02-21)

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Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775, Abraham Tomlinson  20636
   [Subtitle: With Numerous Illustrative Notes]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/3/20636 ]
   [Files: 20636.txt; 20636-8.txt; 20636-h.htm]

Une fête de Noël sous Jacques Cartier, by Ernest Myrand                  20635
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/3/20635 ]
   [Files: 20635-8.txt; 20635-h.htm]

The Sleeping Bard, by Ellis Wynne                                        20634
   [Subtitle: or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell]
   [Tr.: George Borrow]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/3/20634 ]
   [Files: 20634.txt; 20634-h.htm]

Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels, by Stephen Leacock         20633
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/3/20633 ]
  [Files: 20633.txt; 20633-8.txt; 20633-h.htm]

Molly Brown's Orchard Home, by Nell Speed                                20632
  [Author AKA: Emma Speed Sampson]
  [This is one for the indexers to ponder. This is the 6th of the 8
    books of the Molly Brown series. The first 4 books were written
    by Nell Speed.
    After her death, her sister, Emma Speed Sampson, wrote the last 4
    books of the series (including this book) using her dead sister's
    name.]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/3/20632 ]
  [Files: 20632.txt; 20632-8.txt; 20632-h.htm; ]
  [Clearance: 20060821183510speed]

Chosen Peoples, by Israel Zangwill                                       20631
  [Subtitle: Being the First "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" delivered
   before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on
    Easter-Passover Sunday, 1918/5678]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/3/20631 ]
  [Files: 20631.txt; 20631-8.txt; 20631-h.htm; ]
  [Clearance: 20060713200156zangwill]

The Borough Treasurer, by Joseph Smith Fletcher                          20630
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/3/20630 ]
  [Files: 20630.txt; 20630-8.txt; 20630-h.htm]

Torchy As A Pa, by Sewell Ford                                           20629
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/2/20629 ]
  [Files: 20629.txt; 20629-h.htm]

Torchy and Vee, by Sewell Ford                                           20628
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/2/20628 ]
  [Files: 20628.txt; 20628-8.txt; 20628-h.htm]

Torchy, Private Sec., by Sewell Ford                                     20627
  [Illustrator: F. Foster Lincoln]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/2/20627 ]
  [Files: 20627.txt; 20627-8.txt; 20627-h.htm]

Torchy, by Sewell Ford                                                   20626
  [Illustrator: George Brehm]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/2/20626 ]
  [Files: 20626.txt; 20626-8.txt; 20626-h.htm]

Young Americans Abroad, by Various                                       20625
  [Subtitle: Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland,
       Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland]
  [Editor: J.O. Choules]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/2/20625 ]
  [Files: 20625.txt; 20625-8.txt; 20625-0.txt; 20625-h.htm]

Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance, by Various                    20624
  [Subtitle: Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series]
  [Editor: Frank Sidgwick]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/2/20624 ]
  [Files: 20624.txt; 20624-8.txt; 20624-h.htm]

Mademoiselle de Cérignan, by Maurice Sand                                20623
  [Language: French]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/2/20623 ]
  [Files: 20623-8.txt; 20623-0.txt; 20623-h.htm]

The Kentucky Ranger, by Edward T. Curnick                                20622
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/2/20622 ]
  [Files: 20622.txt; 20622-h.htm]

Novelleja I, by Samuli Suomalainen                                       20621
  [Language: Finnish]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/2/20621 ]
  [Files: 20621-8.txt]

Rosemary, by Josephine Lawrence                                          20620
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/2/20620 ]
  [Files: 20620.txt; 20620-8.txt; 20620-h.htm]

General Gordon, by J. Wardle                                             20619
   [Subtitle: Saint and Soldier]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/1/20619 ]
   [Files: 20619.txt; 20619-h.htm]

The Boy Land Boomer, by Ralph Bonehill                                   20618
   [Subtitle: Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma]
   [Illustrator: W. H. Fry]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/1/20618 ]
   [Files: 20618.txt; 20618-h.htm]

Young Wild West at "Forbidden Pass", by An Old Scout                     20617
   [Subtitle: and, How Arietta Paid the Toll]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/1/20617 ]
   [Files: 20617.txt; 20617-h.htm]

The Old Front Line, by John Masefield                                    20616
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/1/20616 ]
   [Files: 20616.txt; 20616-8.txt; 20616-h.htm]

The Master-Knot of Human Fate, by Ellis Meredith                         20615
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/1/20615 ]
  [Files: 20615.txt; 20615-8.txt; 20615-h.htm; ]
  [Clearance: 20060715165627meredith]

The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns, by Finlay          20614
  [Author: Roger Thompson Finlay]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/1/20614 ]
  [Files: 20614.txt; 20614-8.txt; 20614-h.htm; ]
  [Clearance: 20060603131150finlay]

Über Psychoanalyse, by Sigmund Freud                                     20613
  [Subtitle: Fünf Vorlesungen]
  [Language: German]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/1/20613 ]
  [Files: 20613-8.txt; 20613-h.htm]

Fort Amity, by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch                               20612
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/1/20612 ]
  [Files: 20612.txt; 20612-h.htm]

Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo, by E. Phillips Oppenheim                        20611
   [Illustrator: Will Grefé]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/1/20611 ]
   [Files: 20611.txt; 20611-8.txt; 20611-h.htm]

Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper, Martin Farquhar Tupper   20610
  [Editor: W. C.  Armstrong]
  [Contents:
     The Crock Of Gold
     The Twins
     An Author's Mind
     Heart
     Probabilities]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/1/20610 ]
  [Files: 20610.txt; 20610-8.txt; 20610-h.htm]

The Voyageur and Other Poems, by William Henry Drummond                  20609
   [Illustrator: Frederick Simpson Coburn]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/0/20609 ]
   [Files: 20609.txt; 20609-8.txt; 20609-h.htm]

How to Get on in the World, by Major A.R. Calhoon                        20608
  [Subtitle: A Ladder to Practical Success]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/0/20608 ]
  [Files: 20608.txt]

Rembrandt, by Josef Israels                                              20607
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/0/20607 ]
   [Files: 20607.txt; 20607-8.txt; 20607-h.htm]

The Magic City, by Edith Nesbit                                          20606
   [Illustrator: H. R. Millar]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/0/20606 ]
   [Files: 20606.txt; 20606-h.htm]

Audio: Christmas Short Works Collection 2006 by Various                  20605
    [Audio reading by Sean McKinley, Douglas Nathaniel Williams, Susan Denney,
          Alan Davis-Drake, Judy Bieber, acclivity, Esther, Ezwa, Henry Figon,
          Kristin Hughes, Kara Shallenberg, Simon Taylor, Matthew Walton,
          Betsie Bush, David Barnes, William Coon, Karen Savage, Jemma Blythe,
          Dave Ranson, Linda Wilcox, Dan Threetrees, Laura M.D., Fernashes,
          Ellen King, The Two Bears ]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/0/20605 ]
  [Files: 20605.txt; 20605-mp3.mp3; 20605-ogg.ogg; 20605-m4b.m4b; 20605-spx.spx]

Audio: Christmas Poetry and Hymn Collection by Various                   20604
    [Audio reading by Douglas D. Anderson ]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/0/20604 ]
  [Files: 20604.txt; 20604-mp3.mp3; 20604-ogg.ogg; 20604-m4b.m4b; 20604-spx.spx]

Audio: Christmas Carol Collection 2006 by Various                        20603
    [Audio reading by Karen Savage, Kara Shallenberg, Diyan, Alan Drake and
          Irene Takiris with Friends, Claire Goget, Kim Butler, Kristin Hughes,
          SKVE ]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/0/20603 ]
  [Files: 20603.txt; 20603-mp3.mp3; 20603-ogg.ogg; 20603-m4b.m4b; 20603-spx.spx]

Audio: Cobb's Anatomy by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb                           20602
    [Audio reading by Carl Vonnoh, III ]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/0/20602 ]
  [Files: 20602.txt; 20602-mp3.mp3; 20602-ogg.ogg; 20602-m4b.m4b; 20602-spx.spx]

Audio: Chamber Music by James Joyce                                      20601
    [Audio reading by Annie Coleman ]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/0/20601 ]
  [Files: 20601.txt; 20601-mp3.mp3; 20601-ogg.ogg; 20601-m4b.m4b; 20601-spx.spx]

Audio: The Card by Arnold Bennett                                        20600
    [Audio reading by Andy Minter ]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/0/20600 ]
  [Files: 20600.txt; 20600-mp3.mp3; 20600-ogg.ogg; 20600-m4b.m4b; 20600-spx.spx]

Audio: The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde                              20599
    [Audio reading by David Barnes ]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/9/20599 ]
  [Files: 20599.txt; 20599-mp3.mp3; 20599-ogg.ogg; 20599-m4b.m4b; 20599-spx.spx]

Audio: Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts by Frank Richard Stockton    20598
    [Audio reading by Denny Sayers, Esther, Kevin McAsh, Sandra in
          Wales, United Kingdom, Gesine, Aaron Teiser, Kara Shallenberg,
          Bruce Stafford, Michelle Crandall, Linda Wilcox, Cori Samuel,
          Claire Goget ]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/9/20598 ]
  [Files: 20598.txt; 20598-mp3.mp3; 20598-ogg.ogg; 20598-m4b.m4b; 20598-spx.spx]

Audio: The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde                         20597
    [Audio reading by Linda Leu ]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/9/20597 ]
  [Files: 20597.txt; 20597-mp3.mp3; 20597-ogg.ogg; 20597-m4b.m4b; 20597-spx.spx]

Audio: The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde                         20596
    [Audio reading by John Gonzalez ]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/9/20596 ]
  [Files: 20596.txt; 20596-mp3.mp3; 20596-ogg.ogg; 20596-m4b.m4b; 20596-spx.spx]

Audio: The Awful German Language by Mark Twain                           20595
    [Audio reading by Rainer ]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/9/20595 ]
  [Files: 20595.txt; 20595-mp3.mp3; 20595-ogg.ogg; 20595-m4b.m4b; 20595-spx.spx]

Audio: The Art of War by Sun Tzu                                         20594
    [Audio reading by Moira Fogarty ]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/9/20594 ]
  [Files: 20594.txt; 20594-mp3.mp3; 20594-ogg.ogg; 20594-m4b.m4b; 20594-spx.spx]

Audio: Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery                      20593
    [Audio reading by rachelellen ]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/9/20593 ]
  [Files: 20593.txt; 20593-mp3.mp3; 20593-ogg.ogg; 20593-m4b.m4b; 20593-spx.spx]

Audio: The Amateur Cracksman by E.W. Hornung                             20592
    [Audio reading by Kristin Hughes ]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/9/20592 ]
  [Files: 20592.txt; 20592-mp3.mp3; 20592-ogg.ogg; 20592-m4b.m4b; 20592-spx.spx]

Audio: Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven                              20591
    by William Butler Yeats
    [Audio reading by Alan Davis-Drake, Annie Coleman, Betsie Bush, Diyan, Ezwa,
          Glen Hallstrom, Justin Barrett, Lizzie Driver, Rebecca Dekker ]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/9/20591 ]
  [Files: 20591.txt; 20591-mp3.mp3; 20591-ogg.ogg; 20591-m4b.m4b; 20591-spx.spx]

Letters and Lettering, by Frank Chouteau Brown                           20590
  [Subtitle: A Treatise With 200 Examples]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/9/20590 ]
  [Files: 20590.txt; 20590-8.txt; 20590-h.htm]

Edgar Allan Poe, by Hanns Heinz Ewers                                    20589
  [Subtitle: Die Dichtung, Band XLII]
  [Language: German]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/8/20589 ]
  [Files: 20589-8.txt; 20589-0.txt; 20589-h.htm]

The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island, by Roger Thompson Finlay   20588
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/8/20588 ]
  [Files: 20588.txt; 20588-h.htm; ]
  [Clearance: 20060603093816finlay]

Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965, by Morris J. MacGregor Jr.   20587
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/8/20587 ]
  [Files: 20587.txt; 20587-8.txt; 20587-h.htm]

In The Yule-Log Glow--Book 3, by Various                                 20586
  [Subtitle: Christmas Poems from 'round the World]
  [Editor: Harrison S. Morris]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/8/20586 ]
  [Files: 20586.txt; 20586-8.txt; 20586-h.htm]

Sartor Resartus, and  On Heroes, by Thomas Carlyle                       20585
  [Full title: Sartor Resartus, and  On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the
                Heroic in History]
  [Contributor: W. H. Hudson]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/8/20585 ]
  [Files: 20585.txt; 20585-8.txt; 20585-h.htm]

Tribes and Castes, Central India--Vol. I (of IV), by R.V. Russell        20583
  [Full title: The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of
                India--Volume I (of IV)]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/8/20583 ]
  [Files: 20583.txt; 20583-8.txt; 20583-h.htm]

You Should Worry Says John Henry, by George V. Hobart                    20584
  [Author AKA: George Vere Hobart (1867-1926)]
  [Ill.: Edward Carey]
  [George Vere Hobart (1867-1926) also wrote under the pseudonym
   Hugh McHugh. There are several works in the PG library listed for
   Hugh McHugh.]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/8/20584 ]
  [Files: 20584.txt; 20584-8.txt; 20584-h.htm; ]
  [Clearance: 20061001070511hobart]

Garatujas, by Joaquim de Melo Freitas                                    20582
   [Language: Portuguese]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/8/20582 ]
   [Files: 20582-8.txt]

Trovas do Bandarra, by Gonçalo Anes Bandarra                             20581
   [Subtitle: natural da Villa de Trancoso, Nova ed.]
   [Language: Portuguese]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/8/20581 ]
   [Files: 20581-8.txt]


---------[   2 NEW PG AUSTRALIA EBOOK(S) ]--------------------------------------

Feb 2007 The Crimson Circle, Edgar Wallace                 [070024xx.xxx] 1477A
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700241.txt or .zip
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Feb 2007 You Can't Go Home Again, Thomas Wolfe             [070023xx.xxx] 1476A
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700231.txt or .zip
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Steinbeck sale sets new world record

A rare edition of John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath has sold for $47,800 (£24,380), doubling the estimated price and setting what is believed to be a world record for a book by the Nobel Prize-winning author.

The sale was part of an auction of first editions previously owned by Steinbeck’s sister, Elizabeth Steinbeck Ainsworth, who died in 1992. Most of the books carried personal inscriptions, raising their value as sought-after “association copies” and providing valuable nuggets of information for Steinbeck scholars. A copy of Tortilla Flat, a tale of the paisano polulation of Monterey, California, bore the inscription “For my dear sister Elizabeth, without whom I should never have known the people about whom this book is written.”

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Trench on Words – A Review c.1928

Recently Brett Fishburne was going through some donated books and came across a copy of “Trench on Words”, which is already in the PG collection (text #6480), that had a newspaper review glued to the front.

The newspaper title from which the review was printed was not in the information that was glued to the front of the book. He believes that the newspaper was from Buffalo, New York and the review to have been written in 1928. Parts of the review were torn and lost, but thinks he was able to accurately fill in the words (placed in square brackets) that were missing. He believes with some certainty that this review did not come from the New York Times as he researched their archives thoroughly.

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-02-14)

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As a result there will be some differences in the numbers previously recorded
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new yearly statistics for each year since 2001.

Notes of interest include;

* 3,042 is the starting figure for 2001 (previously thought to be 3,100)
* Almost all of the DP-EU books have been posted to the PG site. These
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==============================[ PROGRESS REPORT ]===============================

Year: 2007
This Completes - Day: #042/364 | Week: #06 | Month: #01.50
322 days / 46 weeks of the year remaining.

GRAND TOTALS

20,537 [+ 40] PG U.S.
 1,475 [+  3] PG Australia
   422 [+  0] PG Europe | 68 [+ 0] Unique
   381 [+  0] PG PrePrints
============
22,461 [+ 43] GRAND TOTAL [Using PG-EU Unique Count Only]

    43 - Reserved/Pending

 7,539 to go to 30,000 eBooks.

  ~75% of the way to 30,000
  ~24% of the way from 20,000 to 30,000

 1,881 [+ 0] eBooks REposted to the new filing system since 18 May 2004.


STATISTICS FOR 2007

  322 PG U.S.
   21 PG Australian
   14 PG Europe | 3 Unique
    0 PG PrePrints
=====
  346 TOTAL [2007] [Using PG-EU Unique Count Only]

   13 eBooks REposted to the new filing system.

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    * 43 new eBooks last week
    * 85 new eBooks this month [Feb]

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HISTORICAL COMPARISONS

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   * 57 per week in 2007
   * 80 per week in 2006
   * 58 per week in 2005
   * 78 per week in 2004
   * 79 per week in 2003
   * 47 per week in 2002
   * 24 per week in 2001

Monthly Averages:

   * 229 per month in 2007
   * 346 per month in 2006
   * 251 per month in 2005
   * 338 per month in 2004
   * 348 per month in 2003
   * 203 per month in 2002
   * 104 per month in 2001

Yearly Totals:

   *  346 new eBooks in 2007
   * 4146 new eBooks in 2006
   * 3017 new eBooks in 2005
   * 4058 new eBooks in 2004
   * 4176 new eBooks in 2003
   * 2432 new eBooks in 2002
   * 1244 new eBooks in 2001


   * 3042 eBooks posted from 1971-2000

19,419 new eBooks since the start of 2001. ~264 eBooks p/m for 73.50 months.


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'posted' listings found in the Newsletter Archives. For PG-EU the website
listing was used. All these statistics were then entered into a speadsheet.

DP-EU is currently concentrating on U.S. copyright clearable eBooks and
therefore many of these are posted to both the PG and PG-EU sites, although
there are some non U.S. clearable books posted to PG-EU only. At the end of
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Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts, Blackmask Online,
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The Rosetta Project, Swami Center, Dr Widger Library

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27,000 eBooks via The Online Books Page. [as of 01-December-2006]

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current PG standards where practicable).

---------[   0 REPOSTED TO NEW DIRECTORY SYSTEM ]-------------------------------

The following eBooks have been manually updated and reposted with the
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---------[   2 CHANGES/CORRECTIONS/IMPROVEMENTS ]-------------------------------

Corrected to include the volume number.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1, by William Painter                     20241
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/2/4/20241 ]
  [Files: 20241.txt; 20241-8.txt; 20241-0.txt; 20241-h.htm]

Corrected and an html file has been provided.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Churches of Coventry, by Frederic W.  Woodhouse   11403
  [Subtitle: A Short History of the City and Its Medieval Remains]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/1/4/0/11403 ]
  [Files: 11403.txt; 11403-8.txt; 11403-h.htm]


---------[  40 NEW PG EBOOK(S) ]----------------------------------------------

Napoleon the Little, by Victor Hugo                                      20580
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/8/20580 ]
  [Files: 20580.txt; 20580-8.txt; 20580-h.htm]

The Frog Who Would A Wooing Go, by Charles Bennett                       20579
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/7/20579 ]
  [Files: 20579.txt; 20579-h.htm]

Sermons on Biblical Characters, by Clovis G. Chappell                    20578
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/7/20578 ]
   [Files: 20578.txt]

La Folle Journée, by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais               20577
  [Full title: La Folle Journée ou le Marriage de Figaro]
  [Language: French]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/7/20577 ]
  [Files: 20577-8.txt; 20577-0.txt; 20577-h.htm]

Two Suffolk Friends, by Francis Hindes Groome                            20576
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/7/20576 ]
   [Files: 20576.txt; 20576-h.htm]

My Dog Tray, by Unknown                                                  20575
   [Illustrator: H. W. Petherick]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/7/20575 ]
   [Files: 20575.txt; 20575-h.htm]

O Mysterio da Estrada de Cintra, by Queiroz and Ortigão                  20574
  [Full author: José Maria Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão]
  [Subtitle: Cartas ao Diário de Noticias, terceira edição]
  [Language: Portuguese]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/7/20574 ]
  [Files: 20574-8.txt]

Lalli, by Evald Ferdinand Jahnsson                                       20573
  [Subtitle: Murhenäytelmä viidessä näytöksessä]
  [Language: Finnish]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/7/20573 ]
  [Files: 20573-8.txt]

Marie Claire, by Marguerite Audoux                                       20572
  [Translator: John N.  Raphael]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/7/20572 ]
  [Files: 20572.txt; 20572-8.txt; 20572-h.htm]

Woman's Work in Music, by Arthur Elson                                   20571
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/7/20571 ]
  [Files: 20571.txt; 20571-8.txt; 20571-h.htm]

A penalidade na India segundo o Código de Manu, by A. C. de Figueiredo   20570
  [Full author: António Cândido de Figueiredo]
  [Language: Portuguese]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/7/20570 ]
  [Files: 20570-8.txt]

Dulcibel, by Henry Peterson                                              20569
  [Subtitle: A Tale of Old Salem]
  [Illustrator: Howard Pyle]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/6/20569 ]
  [Files: 20569.txt; 20569-8.txt; 20569-h.htm]

Hombres, by Paul Verlaine                                                20568
  [Subtitle: (Hommes)]
  [Language: French]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/6/20568 ]
  [Files: 20568-8.txt]

The Pigeon Tale, by Virginia Bennett                                     20567
  [Illustrator: E. Stuart Hardy]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/6/20567 ]
  [Files: 20567.txt; 20567-8.txt; 20567-h.htm]

Rogers-isms, the Cowboy Philosopher on the Peace Conference, Will Rogers 20566
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/6/20566 ]
  [Files: 20566.txt; 20566-h.htm]

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2,  August, 1864, by Various         20565
  [Subtitle: Devoted to Literature and National Policy]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/6/20565 ]
  [Files: 20565.txt; 20565-8.txt; 20565-h.htm]

La Confession de Talleyrand, V. 1-5, by Talleyrand                       20564
  [Full author: Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord]
  [Subtitle: Mémoires du Prince de Talleyrand]
  [Editor: Albert de Broglie]
  [Language: French]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/6/20564 ]
  [Files: 20564-8.txt; 20564-h.htm]

Terry, by Charles Goff Thomson                                           20563
  [Subtitle: A Tale of the Hill People]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/6/20563 ]
  [Files: 20563.txt; 20563-8.txt; 20563-h.htm]

Voyages, by Théodore Aynard                                              20562
  [Language: French]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/6/20562 ]
  [Files: 20562-8.txt; 20562-h.htm]

Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends, by Fanny Fern                   20561
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/6/20561 ]
  [Files: 20561.txt; 20561-h.htm]

Letters to His Friends, by Forbes Robinson                               20560
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/6/20560 ]
  [Files: 20560.txt; 20560-8.txt; 20560-h.htm]

R. Holmes & Co., by John Kendrick Bangs                                  20559
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/5/20559 ]
  [Files: 20559.txt; 20559-8.txt]

The Merry-Thought, Part 1, by Johnson                                    20558
  [Full title: The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House
                Miscellany. Part 1]
  [Full author: Samuel Johnson [AKA Hurlo Thrumbo]]
  [Commentator: George R. Guffey]
  [Contributor: James Roberts]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/5/20558 ]
  [Files: 20558.txt; 20558-h.htm]

Ontario Teachers' Manuals, by Ministry of Education Ontario              20557
  [Full title: Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural
                Schools]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/5/20557 ]
  [Files: 20557.txt; 20557-8.txt; 20557-h.htm]

Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution, by Alpheus Spring Packard             20556
  [Subtitle: His Life and Work]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/5/20556 ]
  [Files: 20556.txt; 20556-8.txt; 20556-h.htm]

What Is and What Might Be, by Edmond Holmes                              20555
   [Subtitle: A Study of Education in General and Elementary
              Education in Particular]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/5/20555 ]
   [Files: 20555.txt; 20555-8.txt; 20555-h.htm]

Nos Hommes et Notre Histoire, by Rodolphe Lucien Desdunes                20554
   [Subtitle: Notices biographiques accompagnées de reflexions et de
              souvenirs personnels]
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/5/20554 ]
   [Files: 20554-8.txt; 20554-h.htm]

Out Around Rigel, by Robert H. Wilson                                    20553
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/5/20553 ]
   [Files: 20553.txt; 20553-h.htm]

Roumanian Fairy Tales, by Various                                        20552
   [Compiler: Mite Kremnitz]
   [Editor: J. M. Percival]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/5/20552 ]
   [Files: 20552.txt; 20552-h.htm]

The White Invaders, by Raymond King Cummings                             20551
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/5/20551 ]
   [Files: 20551.txt; 20551-h.htm]

Presten som ikke kunde brukes, by Carl Edin Nordberg                     20550
  [Commentator: Paul Winther]
  [Language: Norwegian]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/5/20550 ]
  [Files: 20550-8.txt; 20550-0.txt; 20550-h.htm]

Historical Tales, Vol. 9 (of 15), by Charles Morris                      20549
  [Subtitle: The Romance of Reality. Scandinavian.]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/4/20549 ]
  [Files: 20549.txt; 20549-8.txt; 20549-h.htm]

The Secret of the Storm Country, by Grace Miller White                   20548
  [Illustrator: Lucius W. Hitchcock]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/4/20548 ]
  [Files: 20548.txt; 20548-h.htm]

Stories of Birds, by Lenore Elizabeth Mulets                             20547
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/4/20547 ]
  [Files: 20547.txt; 20547-h.htm]

The Hand in the Dark, by Arthur J. Rees                                  20546
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/4/20546 ]
  [Files: 20546.txt; 20546-8.txt; 20546-h.htm]

Pukkisen pidot, by Robert Kiljander                                      20545
  [Subtitle: Kaksinäytöksinen huvinäytelmä]
  [Language: Finnish]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/4/20545 ]
  [Files: 20545-8.txt]

The Little Skipper, by George Manville Fenn                              20544
  [Subtitle: A Son of a Sailor]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/4/20544 ]
  [Files: 20544.txt; 20544-h.htm]

Edward FitzGerald and "Posh", by James Blyth                             20543
   [Subtitle: "Herring Merchants"]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/4/20543 ]
   [Files: 20543.txt; 20543-h.htm]

Het Leven der Dieren, by A. E. Brehm                                     20542
  [Subtitle: Hoofdstuk 8: De Tandeloozen; Hoofdstuk 9: De Slurfdieren;
              Hoofdstuk 10: De Onevenvingerigen]
  [Language: Dutch]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/4/20542 ]
  [Files: 20542-8.txt; 20542-h.htm]

The Rocky Island, by Samuel Wilberforce                                  20541
   [Subtitle: and Other Similitudes]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/4/20541 ]
   [Files: 20541.txt; 20541-h.htm]


---------[   3 NEW PG AUSTRALIA EBOOK(S) ]--------------------------------------

Feb 2007 The Charwoman's Daughter, James Stephens          [070022xx.xxx] 1475A
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700221.txt or .zip
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700221h.html

Feb 2007 My Apprenticeship Vol 2, Beatrice Webb            [070021xx.xxx] 1474A
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700211.txt or .zip
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700211h.html

Feb 2007 My Apprenticeship Vol 1, Beatrice Webb            [070020xx.xxx] 1473A
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700201.txt or .zip
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Major Update of Project Gutenberg Newsletter Statistics

For sometime I’ve been working through the Newsletter Archives doing a manual count on all the ‘posted’ listings, then entering the results into a spreadsheet. I wanted to confirm that all the statistics added up correctly. There was some inconsistencies but I believe that now it is a much more accurate week-by-week, year-by-year account.

As a result there will be some differences in the numbers previously recorded in the newsletters. Therefore I have put together this article to show these new yearly statistics for each year since 2001.

Notes of interest include;

This is neither a fully accurate nor definitive count, but it certainly brings us another step closer to that goal.

Read more…

PG Reserved / Pending List

The following is a listing of all the entries on the Project Gutenberg Reserved/Pending list. These numbers have been reserved for various reason and at present there is no date as to when they will get posted.

Reserved / Pending
gbnewby                                              20000
Reserved            "The Road Leads On, by Knut Hamsun"                   7536
Reserved            "The Arabian Nights Entertainments Volume 2, Anon."   5613
Reserved / Pending  Unknown                                               3018
Reserved / Pending  Unknown                                               2879
Reserved            "Added Upon a Story, by Nephi Anderson"               2877
Reserved / Pending  Unknown                                               2738
Reserved            "The Home Book of Verse, by Burton E. Stevenson V8"   2626
Reserved            "The Home Book of Verse, by Burton E. Stevenson V7"   2625
Reserved            "The Home Book of Verse, by Burton E. Stevenson V6"   2624
Reserved            "The Home Book of Verse, by Burton E. Stevenson V5"   2623
Reserved            "Human Genome Project, About the Human Genome Files"  2200
Reserved            "The Original Writings of Samuel Adams, Volume 1"     2091
Reserved            "2001, by Arthur C. Clarke"                           2001
Reserved            "1984, by George Orwell (Did it come true?)"          1984
Reserved            Pietro di Miceli (former PG Webmaster )               1964
Reserved            Reserved for WWI                                      1914
Reserved            "Twelfth-Night, by William Shakespeare"           WL  1789
Reserved            Reserved for Shakespeare                          WL  1767
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Reserved            "I Have A Dream, Martin Luther King, Jr."             1691
Pending             Unfilled                                              1648
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