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Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ###
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Jun 1997 Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe [#1][usherxxx.xxx] 932
Jun 1997 The Bab Ballads, by W. S. Gilbert [Gilbert #3] [2babbxxx.xxx] 931
Jun 1997 The Cook's Decameron, by Mrs. W. G. Water [ckdecxxx.xxx] 930
Jun 1997 The Cyberpunk Fakebook, by St. Jude & R.U. Sirius [fakebxxx.xxx] 929C
May 1997 Alice In Wonderland, HTML Version of 30th Edition [alicexxh.xxx] 928
May 1997 The Lamplighter, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #29] [lmpltxxx.xxx] 927
May 1997 10,000 Dreams Interpreted, Gustavus Hindman Miller[drmntxxx.xxx] 926
May 1997 United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches [uspisxxx.xxx] 925
May 1997 To Be Read At Dusk, by Charles Dickens[Dickens#28][rddskxxx.xxx] 924
May 1997 Life of Francis Marion #3, by William Dobein James[jjmarxxx.xxx] 923
May 1997 Sunday Under Three Heads by Charles Dickens[CD#27][suthsxxx.xxx] 922
May 1997 De Profundis, by Oscar Wilde [Oscar Wilde #13] [dprofxxx.xxx] 921
May 1997 Ethics, by Benedict de Spinoza/Elwes Part 2 [#2] [2spnexxx.xxx] 920
May 1997 Ethics, by Benedict de Spinoza/Elwes Part 1 [#1] [1spnexxx.xxx] 919
May 1997 Sketches of Young Gentlemen, by Dickens [CD #26] [skygmxxx.xxx] 918
May 1997 Barnaby Rudge, 80's Riots, by Charles Dickens[#25][rudgexxx.xxx] 917
May 1997 Sketches of Young Couples, by Charles Dickens[#24][yngcpxxx.xxx] 916
May 1997 Library Work with Children, by Alice I. Hazeltine [lwwchxxx.xxx] 915
May 1997 The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens[#23][unctrxxx.xxx] 914
May 1997 A Hero of Our Time, by M. Y. Lermontov [aheroxxx.xxx] 913
May 1997 Mudfog and Other Sketches, by Charles Dickens[#22][mdfogxxx.xxx] 912
May 1997 Tales of the Fish Patrol, by Jack London[London#8][totfpxxx.xxx] 911
White Fang, by Jack London 910
The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone, by John Filson 909
A Treatise on Parents and Children, by George Bernard Shaw 908
May 1997 Flying Machine, by W.J. Jackman & Thos. H. Russell[flymcxxx.xxx] 907
May 1997 Abraham Lincoln, by James Russell Lowell[Lowell#2][1lncnxxx.xxx] 906
May 1997 Within the Law, by Marvin Dana from Bayard Veiller[wnlawxxx.xxx] 905
May 1997 Her Father's Daughter, by Gene Stratton-Porter[#7][hfdtrxxx.xxx] 904
May 1997 The White Company, by Arthur Conan Doyle[Doyle#12][whtcoxxx.xxx] 903
May 1997 The Happy Prince & Other Tales by Oscar Wilde[#12][hpaotxxx.xxx] 902
May 1997 The Jew of Malta, by Christopher Marlowe [CM #3] [jmltaxxx.xxx] 901
May 1997 Decline/Fall Of The Roman Empire, by Gibbon, Folio[dfre310f.xxx] 900
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65,078,800
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At 19,046 eBooks in 34 Years and 09.00 Months We Averaged
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69 Per Week
300 Per Month
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Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment,
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districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that
all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details].
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By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population
estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations
of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population.
Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
[This one is getting a little out of date, as the US population
is obviously no longer 6% of the world. In fact, rounding to the
nearest percent, the US will soon fall from 5% to 4%.]
"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following. There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater]
1 would be 79 years old or more.
Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years,
but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure
to expire within that 63 year period.
I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.
I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.
If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.
I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.
BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.
This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.
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Tacitus on Germany, by Tacitus 2995
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Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World, by Francis Pretty 2991
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Garrison's Finish, by W. B. M. Ferguson 2989
[Subtitle: A Romance of the Race-Course]
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http://www.dolphinuk.co.uk or http://www.dolphinusa.com
*News From Other Sources
Sony eReader Delayed
Sony has announced a delay from Spring to mid-Summer for the
rollout of its new eBook reading device.
In addition, it has been announced that Sony and Borders are
to be the exclusive sellers of this $300-$400 product.
*
Print On Demand [POD] Case Reversed In Favor of Big Business
Amazon and Ingram, two of the giants in the bookselling world,
won a reversal of their conviction of patent infringement case
that evolved after they refused to licence POD technology from
patent holder Harvey Ross, the founder of On Demand.
In an interesting sidelight, the overturned royalty payment of
13% of sales is more than most authors' royalties.
See:
On Demand Machine Corp v Ingram Industries Inc
Case numbers: 05-1074, 05-1075 and 05-1100
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
*Headline News from Edupage
[PG Editor's Comments In Brackets]
IT SPENDING EXPECTED TO RISE
Results of a survey by Accenture indicate a likely increase in IT
spending over the next three years. The annual survey, which questions
IT managers at 300 large U.S. businesses, found that 60 percent expect
to increase spending, while just 13 percent anticipate that IT spending
will drop. Thirty-two percent of respondents said IT spending at their
companies was insufficient. The average forecast is for IT spending to
rise by 5.5 percent. Factors that are expected to spur new or increased
spending include new business initiatives, upgrading legacy systems,
and adopting new technologies. Other factors mentioned were integration
efforts following a merger or acquisition, regulatory compliance, and
security.
ZDNet, 31 March 2006
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6056393.html
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CASTS A WIDE NET FOR INFORMATION
Subpoenas obtained through the Freedom of Information Act indicate that
the U.S. Justice Department is seeking Internet usage data from at
least 35 companies in its efforts to defend the 1996 Child Online
Protection Act (COPA) against court challenges. One of the subpoenas
sparked a legal showdown between the government and Google, which
challenged the request for millions of records of Internet searches. In
that case, the government significantly scaled back its request, which
the judge ruled was allowable. Other companies that received similar
subpoenas are Comcast, EarthLink, AT&T, Cox Communications, Verizon
Communications, Symantec, and other makers of computer security
products. The Supreme Court has ruled twice that COPA is likely
unconstitutional, and the government will go to trial in October to
defend it. David McGuire, spokesman for the Center for Democracy and
Technology, expressed concerns echoed by other critics that the
government is seeking large amounts of information to defend a
questionable law.
Associated Press, 30 March 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060331/ap_on_hi_te/internet_blocking
ANOTHER PATENT THREATENS CAMPUS TECHNOLOGY
Another company has contacted a number of colleges and universities
about a technology patent they might be infringing, this time for
systems that transfer money across the Internet to campus cards. in
1998, JSA Technologies applied for a patent, which was granted in 2005,
that covers such transfers. Many institutions use campus cards for
student expenses such as books, food in snack bars, or campus fees. Jon
Gear, vice president of JSA, said the company has no intention of
forcing institutions to discontinue their funds-transfer systems. The
company, he said, is simply enforcing a patent that protects its
intellectual property. Gear said JSA contacted a number of schools,
though he declined to say how many or to name them, and will negotiate
licensing fees, which he said would be "negligible." Lowell Adkins,
executive director of the National Association of Campus Card Users,
said his organization is working to clarify the issue. "It's still
really unclear what the scope of the patent is," he said. "We need to
understand how they're going to exercise their rights."
Chronicle of Higher Education, 28 March 2006 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/03/2006032802n.htm
INITIATIVE AIMS TO HELP FIND TRUSTWORTHY INFORMATION ONLINE
A new Web site being developed by researchers at Syracuse University
and the University of Washington (UW) will provide users with tools and
tips for separating good online information from the vast amounts of
unreliable material. R. David Lankes, associate professor of
information studies at Syracuse, and Michael Eisenberg, professor in
the Information School at UW, are codirectors of the Credibility
Commons, which is funded by a $250,000 grant from the John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Lankes said that many users assess
the credibility of online information based on what a site looks like
or whether it tells users what they want to hear. The Credibility
Commons will gather computer programs--written by others and by the
organizers of the new site--that can help users find credible
information on the Web. The site will also solicit feedback from users
for how best to locate reliable, accurate information. The tools
developed by the Credibility Commons will be available as open source
applications, which users may download and modify provided they share
those changes with the site.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 29 March 2006 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/03/2006032901t.htm
BT CHARGING FOR HIGH BANDWIDTH USAGE
U.K. Internet service provider BT has sent letters to 3,200 subscribers
letting them know that their usage exceeds the 40GB per month download
limit to which they agreed in the terms of their service. The letters
inform customers that they must either pay a surcharge for the extra
usage or their service will be disconnected. The ISP does not have an
automatic shutoff for users who exceed the limit, and officials from BT
said they are willing to tolerate occasional violations. The users
contacted, however, are regularly downloading far more than the limit,
with some routinely downloading 200GB every month. Such a volume of
downloads corresponds to approximately 50,000 songs. A spokesperson
from BT said it would be fair to call these users "broadband hogs" and
noted, "You would have to be downloading pretty much all day, every
day, to manage that level of downloading." BT sent similar letters to
1,800 individuals in October, and while some users did agree to pay for
their usage, most were cut off from BT.
ZDNet, 27 March 2006
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6054223.html
PROFESSOR FORBIDS LAPTOPS, STUDENTS GRUMBLE
June Entman, a law professor at the University of Memphis, has banned
laptops from her classes for first-year law students, telling them they
must take notes with pen and paper. "The computers interfere with
making eye contact," said Entman. "You've got this picket fence
between you and the students." She said she wants her students to spend
less time taking down everything she says and spend time "thinking and
analyzing" instead. Students responded by circulating a petition to
have the decision overturned and by submitting a complaint to the
American Bar Association, which has since dismissed the complaint.
Student Jennifer Bellott said she worried that Entman's decision would
spawn a "snowball effect," prompting other professors to do the same.
Cory Winsett, another student at the university, said, "If we continue
without laptops, I'm out of here. I'm gone; I won't be able to keep
up." James Smoot, dean of the law school, said that Entman's decision
will stand but that the school will review technology policies.
USA Today, 21 March 2006
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-03-21-professor-laptop-ban_x.htm
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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
[As requested adding sources, etc., when possible.
Remember, the subject is not the article's subject,
the subject is the manipulation of the world news.]
*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
Congress is passing "Ironclad Ceilings On Spending"
with great public fanfare and media coverage as the
National Debt approaches $10 Trillion dollars: but
at the same time they have passed two amendments to
virtually unpass these "Ironclad Ceiling" bills.
One of these bills exempts Congress from the limit,
which is about half of national spending, such as a
continuing payment for the Iraq war, etc., with the
second bill exempting entitlement programs which is
the other half.
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
>From a reply to the announcement of specific brands of terabyte boxes at
Fry's this past week for $649. Other places have the same products from
the same brand[s] at $699.
Of course, if you are willing to simply buy 4 @ 250G drives for $99 each,
and put them in a less sophisticated box than previously mentioned, these
new terebytes can be added for ~$450 rather than the $649-$699 mentioned.
Add another $50 each time you want to add a serious feature.
However you want to count it, though, if you have been considering buying
a terabyte, the time is obviously coming when there will quite many wider
and wider ranges of selections, and you will likely see terabytes sold at
Best Buy, Circuit City, etc., for under $500 by next year's holidays.
If you want a top of the line terabyte box you can get one at about $1500
that includes rows of SCSI and GigE connectors, dual power supplies, etc.
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
This week's statistics come to you courtesy of the big flap
in the United States Congress in response to President Bush
making a felony issue out of being an illegal alien.
As previously mentioned in reference to the U.S. population
reaching 300 million shortly, the actual population is very
undercounted, as witnessed by the 5% push by Congresspeople
to get more representation based on such undercounts.
In addition, Congress is now citing numbers over 11 million
for undocumented workers in the U.S., including who knows a
total of how many children they have had while in the U.S.,
which makes those children legal citizens, under previously
enforces U.S. citizenship laws.
This is also bringing attention to labor unions.
Today unions represent under 1/12 of United States workers,
but rates approaching 1/2 exist in certain jobs, such as an
assortment of local government workers. Where do you think
AFSME gets all that money to advertize with?
AFSME = Association of Federal, State and Municipal Employees
The highest union rates across jobs are among men with less
than 9th grade educations.
It's not always the United States, the same cycle happens
with Canadian workers, as below.
In 1998 the average full time union worker received $19/hr,
as compared to $15.64 for full time non-union workers.
This is just over a 20% advantange for union workers.
However, the different among part time workers is greater--
$16.55/hr for unions, $9.71 for non-union workers. 70%+
In addition, unionized workers usually get more hours/week,
receiving weekly paychecks of $325.64 versus $161.92, which
is just over DOUBLE the paychecks of non-union workers.
*
Odd Statistic
Today at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00
. . .the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.
*
By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population
estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations
of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population.
Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
[This one is getting a little out of date, as the US population
is obviously no longer 6% of the world. In fact, rounding to the
nearest percent, the US will soon fall from 5% to 4%.]
"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following. There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater]
1 would be 79 years old or more.
Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years,
but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure
to expire within that 63 year period.
I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.
I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.
If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.
I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.
BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.
This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.
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Stories By English Authors: London, by Various 2135
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The Black Poodle, by F. Anstey
That Brute Simmons, by Arthur Morrison
A Rose Of The Ghetto, by I. Zangwill
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The Omnibus, by "Q" [Quiller-Couch]
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Stories By English Authors: Germany, by Various 2071
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Koosje: A Study Of Dutch Life, by John Strange Winter
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Long Odds, by H. Rider Haggard
King Memba's Point, by J. Landers
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Mary Musgrave, Anonymous
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Poets and Dreamers, by Lady Augusta Gregory and Others 18070
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A.S.C.E. Transactions, Paper No. 1152, by Alfred Noble 18065
[Title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers,
Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910]
[Subtitle: The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
The East River Division. Paper No. 1152]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/6/18065 ]
[Files: 18065.txt; 18065-8.txt; 18065-h.htm]
L'americaine, by Jules Claretie 18064
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/6/18064 ]
[Files: 18064-8.txt; 18064-h.htm]
Rabbi Saunderson, by Ian Maclaren 18063
[Author AKA: John Watson (1850-1907)]
[Ill.: A. S. Boyd]
[Ian Maclaren was the pen name of John Watson.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/6/18063 ]
[Files: 18063.txt; 18063-8.txt; 18063-h.htm; ]
Stories of Ships and the Sea, by Jack London 18062
[Subtitle: Little Blue Book #1169]
[Editor: E. Haldeman-Julius]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/6/18062 ]
[Files: 18062.txt; 18062-8.txt; 18062-h.htm]
Oeuvres poetiques Tome 1, by Christine de Pisan 18061
[Language: French]
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[Files: 18061-8.txt; 18061-h.htm]
The Good Comrade, by Una L. Silberrad 18060
[Illustrator: Anna Whelan Betts]
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[Files: 18060.txt; 18060-8.txt; 18060-h.htm]
L'abime, by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins 18059
[Translator: Madame Judith de la Comdie Franaise]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/5/18059 ]
[Files: 18059-8.txt; 18059-h.htm]
Elsie's Vacation and After Events, by Martha Finley 18058
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[Files: 18058.txt; 18058-8.txt; 18058-h.htm; ]
Flower of the Dusk, by Myrtle Reed 18057
[Ill.: Clinton Balmer]
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[Files: 18057.txt; 18057-8.txt; 18057-h.htm; ]
The Tin Soldier, by Temple Bailey 18056
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[Files: 18056.txt; 18056-8.txt; 18056-h.htm; ]
Journal des Goncourt (Troisieme serie, troisieme volume), by Goncourt 18055
[Subtitle: Memoires de la vie litteraire]
[Author: Edmond de Goncourt]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/5/18055 ]
[Files: 18055-8.txt; 18055-0.txt]
The Zeit-Geist, by Lily Dougall 18054
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/5/18054 ]
[Files: 18054.txt; 18054-h.htm]
Spanish Life in Town and Country, by L. Higgin and Eugene E. Street 18053
[Editor: William Harbutt Dawson]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/5/18053 ]
[Files: 18053.txt; 18053-8.txt; 18053-h.htm]
Medoline Selwyn's Work, by Mrs. J. J. Colter 18052
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[Files: 18052.txt; 18052-8.txt; 18052-h.htm]
Hilda, by Sarah Jeanette Duncan 18051
[Subtitle: A Story of Calcutta]
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[Files: 18051.txt; 18051-8.txt; 18051-h.htm]
The House Fly and How to Suppress It, by L. O. Howard and F. C. Bishopp 18050
[Subtitle: U. S. Department of Agriculture Farmers' Bulletin No. 1408]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/5/18050 ]
[Files: 18050.txt; 18050-8.txt; 18050-h.htm]
The Diary of an Ennuyee, by Anna Brownell Jameson 18049
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/4/18049 ]
[Files: 18049.txt; 18049-8.txt; 18049-h.htm]
Football Days, by William H. Edwards 18048
[Subtitle: Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/4/18048 ]
[Files: 18048.txt; 18048-8.txt; 18048-h.htm]
Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6), by Cassius Dio 18047
[Subtitle: An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during
the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus,
Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form]
[Tr.: Herbert Baldwin Foster]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/4/18047 ]
[Files: 18047.txt; 18047-8.txt; 18047-h.htm; ]
Una notte fatale, by R. A. Porati 18046
[Subtitle: ovvero il racconto dell'esiliato / bozzetti milanesi]
[Language: Italian]
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Rudyard Kipling, by John Palmer 18045
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/4/18045 ]
[Files: 18045.txt; 18045-8.txt; 18045-h.htm; ]
Wine, Women, and Song, by Various 18044
[Subtitle: Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into
English verse]
[Translator: John Addington Symonds]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/4/18044 ]
[Files: 18044.txt; 18044-8.txt; 18044-0.txt; 18044-h.htm]
Goteborgsflickor, by Sigge Stromberg 18043
[Subtitle: och andra historier]
[Language: Swedish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/4/18043 ]
[Files: 18043-8.txt; 18043-0.txt; 18043-h.htm]
A General Sketch of the European War, by Hilaire Belloc 18042
[Subtitle: The First Phase]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/4/18042 ]
[Files: 18042.txt; 18042-8.txt; 18042-0.txt; 18042-h.htm]
Celtic Religion, by Edward Anwyl 18041
[Subtitle: in Pre-Christian Times]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/4/18041 ]
[Files: 18041.txt; 18041-h.htm]
Thirty Years In Hell, by Bernard Fresenborg 18040
[Subtitle: Or, From Darkness to Light]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/4/18040 ]
[Files: 18040.txt; 18040-h.htm]
Manual of the Mother Church, by Mary Baker Eddy 18039
[Subtitle: The First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts]
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[Files: 18039.txt]
Days of the Discoverers, by L. Lamprey 18038
[Illustrator: Florence Choate]
[and Elizabeth Curtis]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/3/18038 ]
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The Story of Ida Pfeiffer, by Anonymous 18037
[Subtitle: and Her Travels in Many Lands]
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Uppingham by the Sea, by John Henry Skrine 18036
[Subtitle: a Narrative of the Year at Borth]
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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories, by Leo Tolstoi 689
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Phil the Fiddler, by Horatio Alger, Jr 671
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Paul the Peddler, by Horatio Alger, Jr 659
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[Subtitle: The Fortunes of a Young Street Merchant]
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Ponkapog Papers, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich 625
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Joe The Hotel Boy, by Horatio Alger Jr 528
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Ann Veronica, by H. G. Wells 524
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The Shuttle, by Frances Hodgson Burnett 506
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De Muis, by Wilhelm Busch 17637
[Subtitle: of de gestoorde nachtrust]
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[Translator: Braga Jr.]
[Language: Dutch]
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Marjorie at Seacote, by Carolyn Wells 18035
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/3/18035 ]
[Files: 18035.txt; 18035-8.txt; 18035-h.htm; ]
Les loups de Paris, by Jules Lermina 18034
[Subtitle: II. Les assises rouges]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/3/18034 ]
[Files: 18034-8.txt; 18034-h.htm]
The Boston Terrier and All About It, by Edward A. Axtell 18033
[Subtitle: A Practical, Scientific, and Up to Date Guide to the Breeding]
[of the American Dog]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/3/18033 ]
[Files: 18033.txt; 18033-h.htm; ]
The Canadian Commonwealth, by Agnes C. Laut 18032
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/3/18032 ]
[Files: 18032.txt; 18032-8.txt; ]
A Dweller in Mesopotamia, by Donald Maxwell 18031
[Subtitle: Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of
Eden]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/3/18031 ]
[Files: 18031.txt; 18031-8.txt; 18031-h.htm; ]
Tintta Jaakko, by Pietari Paivarinta 18030
[Subtitle: Kuvaelma kansan elamasta]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/3/18030 ]
[Files: 18030-8.txt]
Les derniers Iroquois, by Emile Chevalier 18029
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/2/18029 ]
[Files: 18029-8.txt; 18029-h.htm]
Le chevalier d'Harmental, by Alexandre Dumas 18028
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/2/18028 ]
[Files: 18028-8.txt; 18028-h.htm]
Les cotillons celebres, by Emile Gaboriau 18027
[Subtitle: Deuxieme Serie]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/2/18027 ]
[Files: 18027-8.txt; 18027-h.htm]
Chronica de el-rei D. Affonso Henriques, by Duarte Galvao 18026
[Language: Portuguese]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/2/18026 ]
[Files: 18026-8.txt]
The Story of Isaac Brock, by Walter R. Nursey 18025
[Subtitle: Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/2/18025 ]
[Files: 18025.txt; 18025-8.txt; 18025-h.htm]
Dictionnaire Argot-Franais, by Napoleon Hayard 18024
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/2/18024 ]
[Files: 18024-8.txt; 18024-h.htm]
In het Oerwoud en bij de Kannibalen op de Nieuwe Hebriden, Felix Speiser 18023
[Subtitle: De Aarde en haar Volken, 1918]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/2/18023 ]
[Files: 18023-8.txt; 18023-h.htm]
Betty at Fort Blizzard, by Molly Elliot Seawell 18022
[Illus.: Edmund Frederick]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/2/18022 ]
[Files: 18022.txt; 18022-8.txt; 18022-h.htm; ]
China and the Chinese, by Herbert Allen Giles 18021
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/2/18021 ]
[Files: 18021.txt; 18021-8.txt; 18021-0.txt; 18021-h.htm]
The Wits and Beaux of Society, by Grace Wharton and Philip Wharton 18020
[Subtitle: Volume 1]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/2/18020 ]
[Files: 18020.txt; 18020-8.txt; 18020-h.htm]
The Luckiest Girl in the School, by Angela Brazil 18019
[Illus.: Balliol Salmon]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/1/18019 ]
[Files: 18019.txt; 18019-8.txt; 18019-h.htm; ]
The Free Press, by Hilaire Belloc 18018
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/1/18018 ]
[Files: 18018.txt; 18018-8.txt; 18018-h.htm; ]
Om viljans frihet, by Frans von Scheele 18017
[Subtitle: Ett foredrag]
[Language: Swedish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/1/18017 ]
[Files: 18017-8.txt; 18017-h.htm]
In Het Rijk van Vulcaan, by R. A. van Sandick 18016
[Subtitle: de Uitbarsting van Krakatau en Hare Gevolgen]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/1/18016 ]
[Files: 18016-8.txt; 18016-h.htm]
Jean-nu-pieds, Vol. I, by Albert Delpit 18015
[Subtitle: chronique de 1832]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/1/18015 ]
[Files: 18015-8.txt; 18015-0.txt]
Pile et face, by Lucien Biart 18014
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/1/18014 ]
[Files: 18014-8.txt; 18014-0.txt]
Representation of Deities of the Maya Manuscripts, by Paul Schellhas 18013
[Subtitle: Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and
Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. 4, No. 1]
[Tr.: Selma Wesselhoeft and A. M. Parker]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/1/18013 ]
[Files: 18013.txt; 18013-8.txt; 18013-h.htm; ]
A.S.C.E. Transactions, Paper No. 1153, by E.B. Temple 18012
[Title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers,
Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910]
[Subtitle: Paper No. 1153, The New York Tunnel Extension of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Meadows Division and Harrison Transfer Yard]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/1/18012 ]
[Files: 18012.txt; 18012-8.txt; 18012-h.htm]
The Portion of Labor, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 18011
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/1/18011 ]
[Files: 18011.txt; 18011-8.txt; 18011-h.htm]
Marie Gourdon, by Maud Ogilvy 18010
[Subtitle: A Romance of the Lower St. Lawrence]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/1/18010 ]
[Files: 18010.txt; 18010-8.txt; 18010-h.htm; ]
Sagittulae, Random Verses, by E. W. Bowling 18009
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/0/18009 ]
[Files: 18009.txt; 18009-8.txt]
L'Amuleto, by Neera 18008
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/0/18008 ]
[Files: 18008-8.txt]
More Songs From Vagabondia, by Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey 18007
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/0/18007 ]
[Files: 18007.txt; 18007-8.txt; 18007-h.htm]
Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge, by Alexandre Dumas 18006
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/0/18006 ]
[Files: 18006-8.txt; 18006-h.htm]
Los pazos de Ulloa, by Emilia Pardo Bazan 18005
[Language: Spanish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/0/18005 ]
[Files: 18005-8.txt; 18005-h.htm]
Told in a French Garden, by Mildred Aldrich 18004
[Subtitle: August, 1914]
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The Awakening and Selected Short Stories, by Kate Chopin 160
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A Respectable Woman
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A Reflection
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George Sand, Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings, by Rene Doumic 138
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Maria, by Mary Wollstonecraft 134
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Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy 122
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Freckles, by Gene Stratton-Porter 111
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle 108
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The Adventure Of The Norwood Builder
The Adventure Of The Dancing Men
The Adventure Of The Solitary Cyclist
The Adventure Of The Priory School
The Adventure Of Black Peter
The Adventure Of Charles Augustus Milverton
The Adventure Of The Six Napoleons
The Adventure Of The Three Students
The Adventure Of The Golden Pince-Nez
The Adventure Of The Missing Three-Quarter
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The Adventure Of The Second Stain
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Alexander's Bridge and The Barrel Organ, Willa Cather and Alfred Noyes 94
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The Barrel Organ by Alfred Noyes
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The Scarlet Pimpernel, by Baroness Orczy 60
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Anne Of The Island, by Lucy Maud Montgomery 51
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The Oedipus Trilogy, by Sophocles 31
[Translator: F. Storr]
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Oedipus At Colonus
Antigone
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Dialogo, by Camillo Agrippa 17986
[Title: Dialogo sopra la generatione de venti, baleni, tuoni, fulgori,
fiumi, laghi, valli et montagne]
[Language: Italian]
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Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X, by Victor Appleton 17985
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L'illustre comedien, ou Le martyre de Sainct Genest, by Nicolas Mary 17984
[Language: French]
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Manon Lescaut, by Abbe Prevost 17983
[Language: French]
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Judy, by Temple Bailey 17982
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/8/17982 ]
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Under Handicap, by Jackson Gregory 17981
[Subtitle: A Novel]
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Les caracteres, by Jean de la Bruyere 17980
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/8/17980 ]
[Files: 17980-8.txt; 17980-h.htm]
The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 4, by William Curtis 17979
[Subtitle: Or, Flower-Garden Displayed]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/7/17979 ]
[Files: 17979.txt; 17979-8.txt; 17979-h.htm]
Leaves from a Field Note-Book, by J. H. Morgan 17978
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/7/17978 ]
[Files: 17978.txt; 17978-8.txt; 17978-h.htm]
Charles Lamb, by Walter Jerrold 17977
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/7/17977 ]
[Files: 17977.txt; 17977-8.txt; 17977-h.htm]
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, by Andrew Carnegie 17976
[Editor: John C. Van Dyke]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/7/17976 ]
[Files: 17976.txt; 17976-8.txt; 17976-h.htm]
Kuningas Lear arolla, by Ivan Turgenev 17975
[Translator: Samuli Suomalainen]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/7/17975 ]
[Files: 17975-8.txt]
Filosofia Fundamental, Volumen III, by Jaime Balmes 17974
[Language: Spanish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/7/17974 ]
[Files: 17974-8.txt; 17974-h.htm]
The World of Romance, by William Morris 17973
[Subtitle: Being Contributions to The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine 1856]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/7/17973 ]
[Files: 17973.txt; 17973-h.htm]
Round About the Carpathians, by Andrew F. Crosse 17972
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/7/17972 ]
[Files: 17972.txt; 17972-8.txt; 17972-0.txt; 17972-h.htm]
The Abolition of Slavery, by Various 17971
[Title: The Abolition Of Slavery The Right Of The Government Under The
War Power]
[Editor: William Lloyd Garrison]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/7/17971 ]
[Files: 17971.txt]
The Olden Time Series, Vol. 1, by Henry M. Brooks 17970
[Title: The Olden Time Series, Vol. 1: Curiosities of the Old Lottery]
[Subtitle: Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem,
Massachusetts]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/7/17970 ]
[Files: 17970.txt; 17970-8.txt; 17970-h.htm]
Mound-Builders, by William J. Smyth 17969
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/6/17969 ]
[Files: 17969.txt; 17969-8.txt; 17969-h.htm]
Boer Politics, by Yves Guyot 17968
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/6/17968 ]
[Files: 17968.txt; 17968-8.txt; 17968-h.htm]
Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns, by Halsey Davidson 17967
[Subtitle: Sinking the German U-Boats]
[Illus.: R. Emmett Owen]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/6/17967 ]
[Files: 17967.txt; 17967-8.txt; 17967-h.htm; ]
Life History of the Kangaroo Rat, by Charles T. Vorhies 17966
[Full author: Charles T. Vorhies]
[Walter P. Taylor]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/6/17966 ]
[Files: 17966.txt; 17966-8.txt; 17966-h.htm]
Boy Woodburn, by Alfred Ollivant 17965
[Subtitle: A Story of the Sussex Downs]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/6/17965 ]
[Files: 17965.txt; 17965-8.txt; 17965-h.htm]
Olympian Nights, by John Kendrick Bangs 17964
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/6/17964 ]
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Le chasseur noir, by Emile Chevalier 17963
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/6/17963 ]
[Files: 17963-8.txt]
Luar de Janeiro, by Augusto Gil 17962
[Language: Portuguese]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/6/17962 ]
[Files: 17962-8.txt]
Kindness to Animals, by Charlotte Elizabeth 17961
[Subtitle: Or, The Sin of Cruelty Exposed and Rebuked]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/6/17961 ]
[Files: 17961.txt; 17961-h.htm]
Giles Corey, Yeoman, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 17960
[Subtitle: A Play]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/6/17960 ]
[Files: 17960.txt; 17960-h.htm]
The Hand Of Fu-Manchu, by Sax Rohmer 17959
[Subtitle: Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil]
[Doctor]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/5/17959 ]
[Files: 17959.txt; 17959-8.txt; ]
Warlord of Kor, by Terry Gene Carr 17958
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/5/17958 ]
[Files: 17958.txt; 17958-8.txt; 17958-h.htm; ]
On the Sublime, by Longinus 17957
[Commentator: Andrew Lang]
[Translator: H. L. Havell]
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[Files: 17957.txt; 17957-8.txt; 17957-0.txt; 17957-h.htm]
Recreation, by Edward Grey 17956
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/5/17956 ]
[Files: 17956.txt; 17956-h.htm]
The Trials of the Soldier's Wife, by Alex St. Clair Abrams 17955
[Subtitle: A Tale of the Second American Revolution]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/5/17955 ]
[Files: 17955.txt; 17955-8.txt; 17955-h.htm]
Critical Miscellanies (Vol 3 of 3), by John Morley 17954
[Subtitle: The Life of George Eliot]
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The Haunters & The Haunted, ed. by Ernest Rhys 17953
[Subtitle: Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/5/17953 ]
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Great Possessions, by Mrs. Wilfrid Ward 17952
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/5/17952 ]
[Files: 17952.txt; 17952-8.txt; 17952-h.htm; ]
La guerre et la paix, Tome III, by Lon Tolstoi 17951
[Language: French]
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[Files: 17951-8.txt; 17951-h.htm]
La guerre et la paix, Tome II, by Lon Tolstoi 17950
[Language: French]
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[Files: 17950-8.txt; 17950-h.htm]
La guerre et la paix, Tome I, by Lon Tolstoi 17949
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/4/17949 ]
[Files: 17949-8.txt; 17949-h.htm]
The Vision of Sir Launfal, by James Russell Lowell 17948
[Subtitle: And Other Poems]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/4/17948 ]
[Files: 17948.txt; 17948-8.txt; 17948-h.htm]
Journal des Goncourt (Troisieme serie, deuxieme volume), by Goncourt 17947
[Subtitle: Memoires de la vie litteraire]
[Author: Edmond de Goncourt]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/4/17947 ]
[Files: 17947-8.txt; 17947-0.txt]
Eirik the Red's Saga, by Anonymous 17946
[Translator: John Sephton]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/4/17946 ]
[Files: 17946.txt; 17946-8.txt; 17946-0.txt; 17946-h.htm]
Mark Twain: Tri Noveloj, by Mark Twain 17945
[Translator: Edwin Grobe]
[Language: Esperanto]
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[Files: 17945.txt; 17945-0.txt; 17945-h.htm]
The House of Rimmon, by Henry Van Dyke 17944
[Subtitle: A Drama in Four Acts]
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[Files: 17944.txt; 17944-8.txt; 17944-h.htm; ]
Fians, Fairies and Picts, by David MacRitchie 17926
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The Observations of Henry, by Jerome K. Jerome 17943
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[Files: 17943.txt; 17943-h.htm]
Fables de La Fontaine, Tome Second, by Jean de La Fontaine 17942
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/4/17942 ]
[Files: 17942-8.txt; 17942-h.htm]
Fables de La Fontaine, Tome Premier, by Jean de La Fontaine 17941
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/4/17941 ]
[Files: 17941-8.txt; 17941-h.htm]
Eurimedon, by Nicolas Mary 17940
[Subtitle: L'illustre pirate]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/4/17940 ]
[Files: 17940-8.txt; 17940-h.htm]
A Statement: On the Future of This Church, by John Haynes Holmes 17939
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/3/17939 ]
[Files: 17939.txt]
Contrary Mary, by Temple Bailey 17938
[Illus.: Charles S. Corson]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/3/17938 ]
[Files: 17938.txt; 17938-8.txt; 17938-h.htm; ]
The Thin Santa Claus, by Ellis Parker Butler 17937
[Subtitle: The Chicken Yard That Was a Christmas Stocking]
[Illustrator: May Wilson Preston]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/3/17937 ]
[Files: 17937.txt; 17937-h.htm]
Poems, by Sophia M. Almon 17936
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/3/17936 ]
[Files: 17936.txt; 17936-h.htm]
French Polishing and Enamelling, by Richard Bitmead 17935
[Subtitle: A Practical Work of Instruction]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/3/17935 ]
[Files: 17935.txt; 17935-8.txt; 17935-h.htm]
A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females, by Harvey Newcomb 17934
[Subtitle: Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/3/17934 ]
[Files: 17934.txt; 17934-8.txt; 17934-h.htm]
Songs of Angus and More Songs of Angus, by Violet Jacob 17933
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/3/17933 ]
[Files: 17933.txt]
The Second Class Passenger, by Perceval Gibbon 17932
[Subtitle: Fifteen Stories]
Contents:
The Second-Class Passenger
The Sense of Climax
The Trader of Last Notch
The Murderer
The Victim
Between the Lights
The Master
"Parisienne"
Lola
The Poor in Heart
The Man Who Knew
The Hidden Way
The Strange Patient
The Captain's Arm
The Widower
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/3/17932 ]
[Files: 17932.txt; ]
Iltalampun aaressa II, by Aina 17931
[Subtitle: Uusia kertomuksia]
[Translator: Teuvo Pakkala]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/3/17931 ]
[Files: 17931-8.txt]
Le songe d'une nuit d'ete, by William Shakespeare 17930
[Translator: Franois Pierre Guillaume Guizot]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/3/17930 ]
[Files: 17930-8.txt; 17930-h.htm]
The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth, by Edward Osler 17929
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/2/17929 ]
[Files: 17929.txt; 17929-8.txt; 17929-h.htm]
The Influence of India and Persia, by Arthur F. J. Remy 17928
[Title: The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/2/17928 ]
[Files: 17928.txt; 17928-8.txt; 17928-0.txt; 17928-h.htm]
A Queda d'um Anjo, by Camilo Castelo Branco 17927
[Subtitle: Romance]
[Language: Portuguese]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/2/17927 ]
[Files: 17927-8.txt]
Pilven hattaroita II, by Matti Kurikka 17925
[Subtitle: Pieni kyhelmi]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/2/17925 ]
[Files: 17925-8.txt]
Iltalampun aaressa I, by Aina 17924
[Translator: Vihtori Peltonen]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/2/17924 ]
[Files: 17924-8.txt]
The Visions of England, by Francis T. Palgrave 17923
[Subtitle: Lyrics on leading men and events in English History]
[Editor: Henry Morley]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/2/17923 ]
[Files: 17923.txt; 17923-h.htm]
Visionaries, by James Huneker 17922
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/2/17922 ]
[Files: 17922.txt; 17922-8.txt; 17922-0.txt; 17922-h.htm]
Manual of Surgery, by Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles 17921
[Subtitle: Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/2/17921 ]
[Files: 17921.txt; 17921-8.txt; 17921-0.txt; 17921-h.htm]
The Number-System of Algebra (2nd edition), by Henry B. Fine 17920
[Subtitle: Treated Theoretically and Historically]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/2/17920 ]
[Files: 17920-t.tex; 17920-pdf.pdf]
The Story of Burnt Njal, by Anonymous 17919
[Subtitle: From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga]
[Trans. and Intro.: George Webbe Dasent]
[Preface: E.V. Lucas]
(See also: #597)
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/1/17919 ]
[Files: 17919.txt; 17919-8.txt; 17919-h.htm]
One Young Man, by Sir John Ernest Hodder-Williams 17918
[Subtitle: The simple and true story of a clerk who enlisted in 1914,
who fought on the western front for nearly two years, was severely
wounded at the battle of the Somme, and is now on his way back to
his desk.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/1/17918 ]
[Files: 17918.txt; 17918-8.txt; 17918-h.htm; ]
Secret Band of Brothers, by Jonathan Harrington Green 17917
[Subtitle: A Full and True Exposition of All the Various Crimes,
Villanies, and Misdeeds of This Powerful Organization in the United
States.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/1/17917 ]
[Files: 17917.txt; 17917-8.txt; 17917-h.htm; ]
Les vaines tendresses, by Sully Prudhomme 17916
[Subtitle: tudes et Portraits littraires, premier srie]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/1/17916 ]
[Files: 17916-8.txt; 17916-h.htm]
Les parisiennes de Paris, by Thodore de Banville 17915
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/1/17915 ]
[Files: 17915-8.txt]
Mistress Branican, by Jules Verne 17914
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/1/17914 ]
[Files: 17914-8.txt; 17914-r.rtf]
Clemence, by Retta Babcock 17913
[Subtitle: The Schoolmistress of Waveland]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/1/17913 ]
[Files: 17913.txt; 17913-h.htm]
Kommunistinen yhteiskunta vuonna 2000, by Richard Michaelis 17912
[Subtitle: Jatkoa ja vastaus Edward Bellamyn romaaniin "Vuonna 2000"]
[Translator: H. K.]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/1/17912 ]
[Files: 17912-8.txt]
Lgendes rustiques, by Georges Sand 17911
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/1/17911 ]
[Files: 17911-8.txt; 17911-0.txt]
The Mafulu, by Robert W. Williamson 17910
[Subtitle: Mountain People of British New Guinea]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/1/17910 ]
[Files: 17910.txt; 17910-8.txt; 17910-h.htm]
Le Amanti, by Matilde Serao 17909
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/0/17909 ]
[Files: 17909-8.txt]
Nel sogno, by Neera 17908
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/0/17908 ]
[Files: 17908-8.txt]
Tempesta e bonaccia, by Colombi, marchesa 17907
[Subtitle: Romanzo senza eroi]
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/0/17907 ]
[Files: 17907-8.txt]
Libro proibito, by Antonio Ghislanzoni 17906
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/0/17906 ]
[Files: 17906-8.txt]
Vecchie cadenze e nuove, by Emilio De Marchi 17905
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/0/17905 ]
[Files: 17905-8.txt]
Anna-Clara Och Hennes Broder, by Hasse Zetterstrom 17904
[Subtitle: En Bok om Barn]
[Illustrator: Eigil Schwab]
[Language: Swedish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/0/17904 ]
[Files: 17904-8.txt; 17904-h.htm]
Writing the Photoplay, by J. Berg Esenwein and Arthur Leeds 17903
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/0/17903 ]
[Files: 17903.txt; 17903-8.txt; 17903-h.htm; ]
Sunny Boy and His Playmates, by Ramy Allison White 17902
[Illustrator: Howard L. Hastings]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/0/17902 ]
[Files: 17902.txt; 17902-h.htm]
The Smiling Hill-Top, by Julia M. Sloane 17901
[Subtitle: And Other California Sketches]
[Illustrator: Carleton M. Winslow]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/0/17901 ]
[Files: 17901.txt; 17901-8.txt; 17901-h.htm]
Kotikuusen kuiskehia, by Theodolinda Hahnsson 17900
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/0/17900 ]
[Files: 17900-8.txt]
Poesies choisies de Andre. Chenier, by Andre Chenier 17899
[Editor: Jules Derocquigny]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/9/17899 ]
[Files: 17899-8.txt; 17899-h.htm]
Lyra Frivola, by A. D. Godley 17898
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/9/17898 ]
[Files: 17898.txt; 17898-8.txt]
Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae), Saint Thomas Aquinas 17897
[Subtitle: From the Complete American Edition]
[Tr.: Fathers of the English Dominican Province]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/9/17897 ]
[Files: 17897.txt; ]
Carta bollata, by Salvatore Farina 17896
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/9/17896 ]
[Files: 17896-8.txt]
Opsculos por Alexandre Herculano - Tomo V, by Alexandre Herculano 17895
[Language: Portuguese]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/9/17895 ]
[Files: 17895-8.txt]
Franco-Gallia, by Francis Hotoman 17894
[Subtitle: Or, An Account of the Ancient Free State of France, and
Most Other Parts of Europe, Before the Loss of Their Liberties]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/9/17894 ]
[Files: 17894.txt; 17894-8.txt; 17894-h.htm]
The Best Ghost Stories, by Various 17893
[Introduction: Arthur B. Reeve]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/9/17893 ]
[Files: 17893.txt; 17893-8.txt; 17893-h.htm; ]
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Mar 2006 Expedition in search of Burke and Wills, by Walker[060019xx.xxx] 0537A
[Author: Frederick Walker]
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Mar 2006 The Blind Man's House, by Hugh Walpole [060018xx.xxx] 0536A
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The Heart's Highway, by Mary E. Wilkins 4528
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[Files: 4528.txt]
Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert 2413
[Translator: Eleanor Marx-Aveling]
[Updated edition of: etext00/mbova11.txt]
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The Path of the Law, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 2373
[Updated edition of: etext00/pthlw10.txt]
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[Files: 2373.txt; 2373-h.htm]
His Own People, by Booth Tarkington 2326
[Updated edition of: etext00/ownpl10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/2/2326 ]
[Files: 2326.txt; 2326-h.htm]
The Marble Faun, Volume II., by Nathaniel Hawthorne 2182
[Subtitle: The Romance of Monte Beni]
[Updated edition of: etext00/2faun10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/8/2182 ]
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The Marble Faun, Volume I., by Nathaniel Hawthorne 2181
[Subtitle: The Romance of Monte Beni]
[Updated edition of: etext00/1faun10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/8/2181 ]
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The Bridge-Builders, by Rudyard Kipling 2163
[Updated edition of: etext00/brdgb10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/2163 ]
[Files: 2163.txt; 2163-h.htm]
An Account of Egypt, by Herodotus 2131
[Translator: G. C. Macaulay]
[Updated edition of: etext00/agypt10.txt]
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Waverley, by Sir Walter Scott 2034
[Updated edition of: etext00/wvrly10.txt]
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Monsieur Beaucaire, by Booth Tarkington 1983
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History Of The Britons (Historia Brittonum), by Nennius 1972
[Translator: J. A. Giles]
[Updated edition of: etext99/brtns10.txt]
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The Story of a Bad Boy, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1948
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On War, by Carl von Clausewitz 1946
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The Witch and Other Stories, by Anton Chekhov 1944
Contents:
The Witch
Peasant Wives
The Post
The New Villa
Dreams
The Pipe
Agafya
At Christmas Time
Gusev
The Student
In The Ravine
The Huntsman
Happiness
A Malefactor
Peasants
[Updated edition of: etext99/witch10.txt]
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The History of Samuel Titmarsh, by William Makepeace Thackeray 1933
[Subtitle: and the Great Hoggarty Diamond]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/1933 ]
[Files: 1933.txt; 1933-h.htm]
Penguin Island, by Anatole France 1930
[Updated edition of: etext99/pngwn10.txt]
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The Great Stone Face, by Nathaniel Hawthorne 1916
[Subtitle: And Other Tales Of The White Mountains]
Contents
Introduction
The Great Stone Face
The Ambitious Guest
The Great Carbuncle
Sketches From Memory
[Updated edition of: etext99/totwm10.txt]
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Concerning Christian Liberty, by Martin Luther 1911
[Subtitle: With Letter Of Martin Luther To Pope Leo X.]
[Updated edition of: etext99/clbty10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/1911 ]
[Files: 1911.txt; 1911-h.htm]
The Wife and Other Stories, by Anton Chekhov 1883
[Translator: Constance Garnett]
Contents:
The Wife
Difficult People
The Grasshopper
A Dreary Story
The Privy Councillor
The Man in Case
Gooseberries
About Love
The Lottery Ticket
[Updated edition of: etext99/twife10.txt]
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The Financier, by Theodore Dreiser 1840
[Updated edition of: etext99/tfncr10.txt]
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[Files: 1840.txt; 1840-h.htm]
The Sea-Gull, by Anton Checkov 1754
[Updated edition of: etext99/cgull10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/1754 ]
[Files: 1754.txt; 1754-h.htm]
Swan Song, by Anton Checkov 1753
[Trans. & Intro.: Marian Fell]
[Updated edition of: etext99/swnsg10.txt]
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[Files: 1753.txt; 1753-h.htm]
The Secret Places of the Heart, by H. G. Wells 1734
[Updated edition of: etext99/spoth10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/1734 ]
[Files: 1734.txt; 1734-h.htm]
The Schoolmistress and Other Stories, by Anton Chekhov 1732
Contents:
The Schoolmistress
A Nervous Breakdown
Misery
Champagne
After The Theatre
A Lady's Story
In Exile
The Cattle-Dealers
Sorrow
On Official Duty
The First-Class Passenger
A Tragic Actor
A Transgression
Small Fry
The Requiem
In The Coach-House
Panic Fears
The Bet
The Head-Gardener's Story
The Beauties
The Shoemaker And The Devil]
[Updated edition of: etext99/tschm10.txt]
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Lincoln, by Nathaniel Wright Stephenson 1713
[Subtitle: Lincoln; An Account of His Personal Life, Especially of Its
Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War]
[Updated edition of: etext99/lsplf10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/1713 ]
[Files: 1713.txt; 1713-h.htm]
The Pivot of Civilization, by Margaret Sanger 1689
[Updated edition of: etext99/pvcvl10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/1689 ]
[Files: 1689.txt; 1689-h.htm]
The Golden Asse, by Lucius Apuleius 1666
[Translator: William Adlington]
[Updated edition of: etext99/gldns10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1666 ]
[Files: 1666.txt; 1666-h.htm]
An Unsocial Socialist, by George Bernard Shaw 1654
[Updated edition of: etext99/unsoc10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/5/1654 ]
[Files: 1654.txt; 1654-h.htm]
A Book of Scoundrels, by Charles Whibley 1632
[Updated edition of: etext99/abkos10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/1632 ]
[Files: 1632.txt; 1632-8.txt; 1632-h.htm]
Seventeen, by Booth Tarkington 1611
[Subtitle: A Tale Of Youth And Summer Time And The Baxter Family
Especially William]
[Updated edition of: etext99/svntn10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/1611 ]
[Files: 1611.txt; 1611-h.htm]
Kenilworth, by Sir Walter Scott 1606
[Updated edition of: etext99/knlwt10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/1606 ]
[Files: 1606.txt; 1606-h.htm]
A Rogue's Life, by Wilkie Collins 1588
[Updated edition of: etext99/rgslf10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/1588 ]
[Files: 1588.txt; 1588-h.htm]
The Black Robe, by Wilkie Collins 1587
[Updated edition of: etext99/blkrb10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/1587 ]
[Files: 1587.txt; 1587-h.htm]
Man and Wife, by Wilkie Collins 1586
[Updated edition of: etext99/mandw10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/1586 ]
[Files: 1586.txt; 1586-h.htm]
The Wrong Box, by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne 1585
[Updated edition of: etext99/wrngb10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/1585 ]
[Files: 1585.txt; 1585-h.htm]
The Evolution of Modern Medicine, by William Osler 1566
[Subtitle: A Series Of Lectures Delivered At Yale University On The
Silliman Foundation In April, 1913]
[Updated edition of: etext98/teomm10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/6/1566 ]
[Files: 1566.txt; 1566-h.htm]
The Voice of the City, by O. Henry 1444
[Subtitle: Further Stories of the Four Million ]
[Updated edition of: etext98/vccty10.txt ]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/4/1444 ]
[Files: 1444.txt; 1444-8.txt; 1444-h.htm]
The Secret Agent, by Joseph Conrad 974
[Subtitle: A Simple Tale]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/9/7/974 ]
[Files: 974.txt; 974-h.htm]
Almayer's Folly, by Joseph Conrad 720
[Subtitle: A Story of an Eastern River]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/7/2/720 ]
[Files: 720.txt; 720-h.htm]
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson 120
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Honey-Sweet, by Edna Turpin 17892
[Illus.: Alice Beard]
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[Files: 17892.txt; 17892-8.txt; 17892-h.htm; ]
Evelina's Garden, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 17891
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/7/8/9/17981 ]
[Files: 17891.txt; 17891-h.htm; ]
When Wilderness Was King, by Randall Parrish 17890
[Subtitle: A Tale of the Illinois Country]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/9/17890 ]
[Files: 17890.txt; 17890-8.txt; ]
Libro allegro, by Antonio Ghislanzoni 17889
[Language: Italian]
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[Files: 17889-8.txt]
Comfort Pease and her Gold Ring, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 17888
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The Green Door, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 17887
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/8/17887 ]
[Files: 17887.txt; 17887-h.htm]
Jerome, A Poor Man, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 17886
[Subtitle: A Novel]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/8/17886 ]
[Files: 17886.txt; 17886-h.htm]
Madelon, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 17885
[Subtitle: A Novel]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/8/17885 ]
[Files: 17885.txt; 17885-h.htm]
Fifty years & Other Poems, by James Weldon Johnson 17884
[Intro.: Brander Matthews]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/8/17884 ]
[Files: 17884.txt; 17884-8.txt; 17884-h.htm]
Libro serio, by Antonio Ghislanzoni 17883
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/8/17883 ]
[Files: 17883-8.txt]
Consolations in Travel, by Humphrey Davy 17882
[Subtitle: or, the Last Days of a Philosopher]
[Editor: Henry Morley]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/8/17882 ]
[Files: 17882.txt; 17882-h.htm]
>From the Bottom Up, by Alexander Irvine 17881
[Subtitle: The Life Story of Alexander Irvine]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/8/17881 ]
[Files: 17881.txt; 17881-8.txt; 17881-h.htm; ]
Barnab Rudge, Tome II, by Charles Dickens 17880
[Translator: Mr Bonnomet]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/8/17880 ]
[Files: 17880-8.txt; 17880-r.rtf]
Barnab Rudge, Tome I, by Charles Dickens 17879
[Translator: Mr Bonnomet]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/7/17879 ]
[Files: 17879-8.txt; 17879-r.rtf]
Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue Giving a Show, by Laura Lee Hope 17878
[Illustrator: Walter S. Rogers]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/7/17878 ]
[Files: 17878.txt; 17878-h.htm]
South America, by W. H. Koebel 17877
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/7/17877 ]
[Files: 17877.txt; 17877-8.txt; 17877-h.htm]
Come le foglie, by Giuseppe Giacosa 17876
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/7/17876 ]
[Files: 17876-8.txt]
The American Prejudice Against Color, by William G. Allen 17875
[Subtitle: An Authentic Narrative, Showing How Easily The Nation Got
Into An Uproar.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/7/17875 ]
[Files: 17875.txt; 17875-8.txt; 17875-h.htm]
Tre racconti sentimentali, by Paolo Bettoni 17874
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/7/17874 ]
[Files: 17874-8.txt]
Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, by Michael Drayton 17873
[Editor: Cyril Brett]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/7/17873 ]
[Files: 17873.txt; 17873-8.txt; 17873-0.txt; 17873-h.htm]
Gifts of Genius, by Various 17872
[Subtitle: A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/7/17872 ]
[Files: 17872.txt; 17872-8.txt; 17872-h.htm]
A Slave Girl's Story, by Kate Drumgoold 17871
[Subtitle: Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgoold.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/7/17871 ]
[Files: 17871.txt; 17871-h.htm]
Operation Terror, by William Fitzgerald Jenkins 17870
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/7/17870 ]
[Files: 17870.txt; 17870-h.htm]
David Copperfield - Tome II, by Charles Dickens 17869
[Translator: P. Lorain]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/6/17869 ]
[Files: 17869-8.txt]
David Copperfield - Tome I, by Charles Dickens 17868
[Translator: P. Lorain]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/6/17868 ]
[Files: 17868-8.txt]
The Helpmate, by May Sinclair 17867
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/6/17867 ]
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Murder in the Gunroom, by Henry Beam Piper 17866
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/6/17866 ]
[Files: 17866.txt; 17866-8.txt; 17866-h.htm]
The Meadow-Brook Girls in the Hills, by Janet Aldridge 17865
[Subtitle: The Missing Pilot of the White Mountains]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/6/17865 ]
[Files: 17865.txt; 17865-h.htm; ]
Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days, by Annie L. Burton 17864
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/6/17864 ]
[Files: 17864.txt; 17864-8.txt; 17864-h.htm]
Blackbeard, by B. Barker 17863
[Subtitle: Or, The Pirate of Roanoke.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/6/17863 ]
[Files: 17863.txt; 17863-h.htm]
Dream Life, by Donald G. Mitchell 17862
[Subtitle: A Fable Of The Seasons]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/6/17862 ]
[Files: 17862.txt; 17862-8.txt; 17862-h.htm]
The Wrack of the Storm, by Maurice Maeterlinck 17861
[Translator: Alexander Teixeira de Mattos]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/6/17861 ]
[Files: 17861.txt; 17861-8.txt; 17861-h.htm]
Stories from Hans Andersen, by Hans Christian Anderson 17860
[Illustrator: Edmund Dulac]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/6/17860 ]
[Files: 17860.txt; 17860-8.txt; 17860-h.htm]
Colloquium heptaplomeres de rerum sublimium arcanis abditis, Jean Bodin 17859
[Language: Latin]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/5/17859 ]
[Files: 17859-8.txt; 17859-0.txt; 17859-h.htm]
Il ritratto del diavolo, by Anton Giulio Barrili 17858
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/5/17858 ]
[Files: 17858-8.txt]
Forgotten Books of the American Nursery, by Rosalie V. Halsey 17857
[Subtitle: A History of the Development of the American Story-Book]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/5/17857 ]
[Files: 17857.txt; 17857-8.txt; 17857-h.htm; ]
Prisoners of Chance, by Randall Parrish 17856
[Subtitle: The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman,
through His Love for a Lady of France]
[Illustrator: The Kinneys]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/5/17856 ]
[Files: 17856.txt; 17856-8.txt; 17856-h.htm]
Hemp Hurds as Paper-Making Material, by Dewey and Merrill 17855
[Subtitle: United States Department of Agriculture, Bulletin No. 404]
[Authors: Lyster H. Dewey and Jason L. Merrill]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/5/17855 ]
[Files: 17855.txt; 17855-8.txt; 17855-h.htm]
The Sport of the Gods, by Paul Laurence Dunbar 17854
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/5/17854 ]
[Files: 17854.txt; 17854-h.htm]
Ricordi di Parigi, by Edmondo De Amicis 17853
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/5/17853 ]
[Files: 17853-8.txt]
Senz'Amore, by La Marchesa Colombi 17852
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/5/17852 ]
[Files: 17852-8.txt]
The History of Mary Prince, by Mary Prince 17851
[Subtitle: A West Indian Slave]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/5/17851 ]
[Files: 17851.txt; 17851-8.txt; 17851-h.htm]
La pergamena distrutta, by Virginia Mulazzi 17850
[Subtitle: Romanzo del secolo XVI]
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/5/17850 ]
[Files: 17850-8.txt]
La contessa di Karolystria, by Antonio Ghislanzoni 17849
[Subtitle: Storia tragicomica]
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/4/17849 ]
[Files: 17849-8.txt]
Life in a Medieval City, by Edwin Benson 17848
[Subtitle: Illustrated by York in the XVth Century]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/4/17848 ]
[Files: 17848.txt; 17848-8.txt; 17848-h.htm; ]
Rime di Argia Sbolenfi, by Argia Sbolenfi 17847
[Subtitle: con prefazione di Lorenzo Stecchetti]
[Preface: Lorenzo Stecchetti]
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/4/17847 ]
[Files: 17847-8.txt]
Aseet pois!, by Bertha von Suttner and Alli Nissinen 17846
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/4/17846 ]
[Files: 17846-8.txt]
Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II, by Charles Upham 17845
[Subtitle: With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions
on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/4/17845 ]
[Files: 17845.txt; 17845-8.txt; 17845-h.htm]
Ben Blair, by Will Lillibridge 17844
[Subtitle: The Story of a Plainsman]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/4/17844 ]
[Files: 17844.txt; 17844-8.txt; 17844-h.htm]
The Mysterious Shin Shira, by George Edward Farrow 17843
[Illustrator: W.G. Easton]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/4/17843 ]
[Files: 17843.txt; 17843-h.htm]
Dead Man's Rock, by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 17842
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/4/17842 ]
[Files: 17842.txt; 17842-h.htm; ]
The Old Flute-Player, by Edward Marshall and Charles T. Dazey 17841
[Subtitle: A Romance of To-day]
[Illustrator: Clarence Rowe and J. Knowles Hare, Jr.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/4/17841 ]
[Files: 17841.txt; 17841-8.txt; 17841-h.htm]
De la telepathie, by Emile Hureau 17840
[Subtitle: tude sur la transmission de la pense]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/4/17840 ]
[Files: 17840-8.txt]
Oedipus The King, by Sophocles 17839
[Translator: Aristos Kampanis]
[Language: Greek]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/3/17839 ]
[Files: 17839-0.txt; 17839-8.txt; 17839-h.htm]
L'aeroplano del papa, by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti 17838
[Subtitle: Romanzo profetico in versi liberi]
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/3/17838 ]
[Files: 17838-8.txt]
Beatrice Cenci, by Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi 17837
[Subtitle: Storia del secolo XVI]
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/8/3/13837 ]
[Files: 13837-8.txt]
Nel paese dei dollari, by Adolfo Rossi 17836
[Subtitle: Tre anni a New-York]
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/3/17836 ]
[Files: 17836-8.txt]
Il pastor fido in lingua napolitana, by Giovanni Battista Guarini 17835
[Translator: Domenico Basile]
[Language: Neapolitan]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/3/17835 ]
[Files: 17835-0.txt]
La Zaffetta, by Lorenzo Veniero 17834
[Subtitle: Raccolta di rarissimi opuscoli italiani degli XV e XVI
secoli II]
[Language: Italian and French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/3/17834 ]
[Files: 17834-8.txt]
An Apologie for the Royal Party, by John Evelyn 17833
[Title: An Apologie for the Royal Party; and A Panegyric to
Charles the Second]
[Editor: Geoffrey Keynes]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/3/17833 ]
[Files: 17833.txt; 17833-8.txt; 17833-h.htm]
Une ville flottante, by Jules Verne 17832
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/3/17832 ]
[Files: 17832-8.txt; 17832-r.rtf]
La debecle, by Emile Zola 17831
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/3/17831 ]
[Files: 17831-8.txt; 17831-r.rtf]
Ruines et fantomes, by Jules Claretie 17830
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/3/17830 ]
[Files: 17830-8.txt]
The Trained Memory, by Warren Hilton 17829
[Subtitle: Being the Fourth of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the
Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and
Business Efficiency]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/2/17829 ]
[Files: 17829.txt; 17829-h.htm]
Excelsior, by Leonce de Larmandie 17828
[Subtitle: Roman parisien]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/2/17828 ]
[Files: 17828-8.txt; 17828-h.htm]
The Story of Mattie J. Jackson, by L. S. Thompson 17827
[Subtitle: Her Parentage--Experience of Eighteen years in
Slavery--Incidents during the War--Her Escape from Slavery]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/2/17827 ]
[Files: 17827.txt; 17827-h.htm]
Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman, by Anonymous 17826
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/2/17826 ]
[Files: 17826.txt; 17826-h.htm]
The Legend of the Bleeding-heart, by Annie Fellows Johnston 17825
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/2/17825 ]
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NEGROPONTE LEAVES MEDIA LAB
Nicholas Negroponte will step down from the chairmanship of MIT's
Media Lab, which he cofounded in 1985, to pursue his project of
supplying $100 laptops to developing countries. The United Nations has
endorsed the plan, which Negroponte says will be a boon to education
and development in the world's poorest nations. Negroponte has set up
a nonprofit called One Laptop Per Child to develop the laptop and work
for its implementation. In addition to Negroponte's departure, Walter
Bender, director of the Media Lab, will take a two-year leave of
absence to participate in the One Laptop Per Child program as president
for software and content development. Replacing Bender at the lab will
be Frank Moss, an entrepreneur who founded Tivoli Systems and
Bowstreet, which were bought by IBM. In a statement, MIT President
Susan Hockfield expressed her support for Moss, saying that his
experience and interests are a good match for the goals of the Media Lab.
ZDNet, 15 February 2006
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6039808.html
GOOGLE TO PROVIDE E-MAIL TO COLLEGE
[Will they still keep copies of all the email, and analyze them?]
Google will provide e-mail service for students of San Jose City
College under a new agreement just announced. The college, which is
part of the San Jose/Evergreen Community College District, has about
10,000 students, some of whom remain students for years while others
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of finance and administration. "It's quite daunting to administer
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Google will provide accounts and storage for students through its Gmail
service, though the addresses for those accounts will use the school's
domain, sjcc.edu. Faculty and staff will continue to use e-mail service
provided by the institution. The arrangement is similar to those
Microsoft has through its Hotmail University program. Google is
soliciting other colleges and universities to participate in its e-mail
offering.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 15 February 2006 (sub. req'd)
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Syracuse PBS stantion WCNY "membership drives" are the major
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are looking into producing programs as a source of income,
since they have alienated so many of their former membership
to the point where they worry that they are entering a spiral
of ever increasing pledge drives with ever decreasing results.
[Reported about public television [PBS] by public radio [NPR].
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Dead Man In Car Receives Three Tickets And Tow Away Sticker
"To Serve And Protect:" But who was there to help the man
in the back seat of an illegally parked Mercedes in Peoria?
Not too many details are available, but Decatur resident
Michael Hudson, reported missing two weeks ago, was left
to rot in his expensive coffin-on-wheels near the Peoria
Methodist Medical Center long enough to have been cited
three different times for the parking violation and then
a fourth time with a tow-away sticker.
Eventually someone just walking past the car notified the
authorities that there was someone in the back seat with
a foot up against the passenger window.
The ticket writer[s] remained anonymous.
[I guess there are worse places to be abandoned than in
back seat of a black Mercedes-Benz in Peoria, Illinois.]
*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
[As requested adding sources, etc., when possible.
Remember, the subject is not the article's subject,
the subject is the manipulation of the world news.]
Not going to get into details of what is now called:
"The Great Firewall of China" [Google/Yahoo censorship]
but you can find quite a bit at:
www.resourceshelf.com/2006/02/prepared-statements-from-google-yahoo.html
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Also not going to go into depth on Katrina
but you can find quite a bit at:
A Failure of Initiative: The Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee
to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina
Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the
Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina
http://katrina.house.gov/
*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
Los Angeles condemned a local furniture business via eminent domain
and paid $6,000,000 and is now offering it to yet another furniture
business for perhaps as low as $3,000,000, but certainly low enough
that the city will lose a minumum of $1,000,000 up to $3,000,000.
LA Public Safety Committee members are fighting about this option.
The committee chair, Jack Weiss says, "It's a multimillion-dollar
switcheroo for no reason at all. "The city could have saved millions
of dollars and it wouldn't have condemned an existing business."
Meanwhile, Councilman Parks, who has received contributions from
the potential buyers, is pushing for the sale, basing arguements
on the fact that the new owners will pay more in taxes than the
once proposed animal shelter that was ostensibly the cause for the
original eminent domain action.
[You force a furniture company out of business for animal shelters?
Really, who care about the location of an animal shelter. Of course
there have been other examples of forcing perfectly healthy business
and personal properties to be sold via eminent domain in Cleveland,
New Haven, and other locations, just to create higher tax brackets
for property taxes. "Sorry, you'll have to sell, so we can move in
someone with so much more money that they will build expensively and
then pay us more in property taxes."]
*STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK
Can't quote exactly, but court documents were unsealed that report
more about Scooter Libby's relationship to Vice President Cheney in
terms of the leaking of classified information. Cheney appears to
be claiming he and President Bush have the Executive Authority to
"declassify" information at will, and thus can't be charged with
leaking classified information about Valerie Plame and/or the
manufacture of "classified" information to invade Iraq.
[Sorry, I can't find direct quotes, but you can probably find
some in later searches. Try "Coos Bay World" "Pittsburgh Post
Gazette" Telegraph.co.uk, etc.] "Albuquerque Tribune"
"International Herald Tribune" and The Associated Press.
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
Olympics Coverage Will Have To Change
Given that NBC paid $3.5 Billion to cover the Olympics from
the 2000 summer Olympics to the 2008 summer games, and not
counting how much they spent on actual production, shows,
or on broadcasting/narrowcasting, it is pretty obvious that
things will have to change as ABC *stomped them flat* in a
crucial ratings period with twice as many people watching
Desperate Housewives and American Idol.
By the way, CBS paid $50,000 to cover the 1960 Squaw Valley
Winter Olympics, and spent and additional $450,000 on their
shows and broadcasting, including Walter Cronkite as anchor.
If you presume NBC is running at the same ratio of 10:1
for internal costs to how much paid to the Olympics,
that means their total costs are $35 billion for those
Olympics mentioned above.
However, given their low ratings, at least for broadcast,
they are going to have to either come up with some changes
or let someone else outbid them next time around.
[Personal note: I have seen similar competitions on TV
in Europe and they showed every minute of every skater,
from the worst to the best, and without nearly as many
commercials or as much yadda-yadda-yadda.]
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
The largest currency bills in the United States were printed
when there was no money during the Great Depression.
$100,000
There were much larger bills printed in other countries that
suffered hyperinflation, and you can buy German postage stamps
from that era for hundreds of millions of marks, but inflation
in the U.S. was very small, sometime even 0% or negative.
1940 2.3626%
1939 -1.5485%
1938 -1.5313%
1937 3.9665%
1936 0.0000%
1935 3.2815%
1934 8.9329%
1933 -2.6092%
1932 -11.5405%
1931 -8.4521%
1930 -2.7364%
1929 0.0000%
[I wonder if this was due to requests from the extremely rich
to make their money more portable if they left the country?]
[A little research says that banks actually used them to send
money to each other, with various discrepancies about dates
that say they were only printed for a few weeks in 1934 to
dates that run past World War II to 1946. Apparenty wars
have some bearing on this also, as paper money was created
in the U.S. during the Civil War, by both sides, in larger
denominations than are available today, up to $10,000 [1865].
Different larger bills were introduced again in 1929.
$500 William McKinley
$5,000 James Madison
$10,000 Salmon P. Chase
$100,000 Woodrow Wilson
Today large bills have been mostly taken out of circulation
in an effort to make it more difficult for drug dealers and
other criminals and ne'er-do-wells via executive order from
President Richard Nixon in 1969, his first year in office--
he later took the U.S. off the $35 per ounce gold standard,
which precipitated the inflationary spiral that followed to
President Ronald Reagan. [article on inflation available]
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The most recognizable smells in the U.S.?
#1 Coffee
#2 Peanut butter
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The most common food in the world?
Onions
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By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population
estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations
of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population.
Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
[This one is getting a little out of date, as the US population
is obviously no longer 6% of the world. In fact, rounding to the
nearest percent, the US will soon fall from 5% to 4%.]
"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
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it would look something like the following. There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater]
1 would be 79 years old or more.
Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years,
but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure
to expire within that 63 year period.
I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.
I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.
If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.
I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.
BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.
This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.
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You can try a new IPL service at:
http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum60.60.00/
It would appear that The Internet Public Library ended
its first incarnation with about 22,284 entries, which
has now been surpassed by the Online Books Page.
Still looking for more Internet Public Library info.
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Today Is Day #049 of 2006
This Completes Week #06 and Month #01.75 [364 days this year]
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1,280 Books To Go To #20,000
[Our production year begins/ends
1st Wednesday of the month/year]
82 Weekly Average in 2006
61 Weekly Average in 2005 [Counting 216 PGEu]
57 Weekly Average in 2005 [Not Counting PGEu]
78 Weekly Average in 2004
79 Weekly Average in 2003
47 Weekly Average in 2002
24 Weekly Average in 2001
45 Only ~45 Numbers Left On Our Reserved Numbers List
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Statistical Review
In the 07 weeks of this year, we have produced 578 new eBooks.
It took us from 07/71 to 05/96 to produce our FIRST 578 eBooks!!!
That's 07 WEEKS as Compared to ~25.0 YEARS!!!
FLASHBACK!
Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #578
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ###
A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright
[Note: books without month and year entries are now in new catalog format]
Jul 1996 Notes From The Underground/Fyodor Dostoyevsky[#1] [notunxxx.xxx]
600
Jul 1996 Vanity Fair, by William Thackeray [Thackeray #1] [vfairxxx.xxx]
599
Jul 1996 Heimskringla [Norwegian Kings], by Snorri Sturlson[hmskrxxx.xxx]
598
Njal's Saga, by Unknown Icelanders
597
Jul 1996 Rivers to the Sea, by Sara Teasdale [Teasdale #4] [rivsexxx.xxx]
596
Jul 1996 The Sisters' Tragedy, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich[#1][sistrxxx.xxx]
595
Jul 1996 Twilight Stories, by Various Authors [twilsxxx.xxx]
594
Jul 1996 Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant V. 1 [GEM1][swgemxxx.xxx]
593
Jul 1996 Chinese Nightingale, et al, by Vachel Lindsay [#4][ngalexxx.xxx]
592
Jul 1996 Flame and Shadow, by Sara Teasdale [Teasdale #3] [fshadxxx.xxx]
591
Jul 1996 Robert Louis Stevenson, A Memorial by A. H. Japp [rlsjpxxx.xxx]
590
Jul 1996 Catriona (Kidnapped2) by Robt L. Stevenson[RLS#25][ctrnaxxx.xxx]
589
Jul 1996 Master Humphrey's Clock, by Charles Dickens [CD#5][mhmphxxx.xxx]
588
Jul 1996 Danny's Own Story, by Don Marquis [Don Marquis #2][dsownxxx.xxx]
587
Jul 1996 Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, et al, Thomas Browne[rmedixxx.xxx]
586
Jul 1996 Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, the Crafts [runngxxx.xxx]
585
Jul 1996 Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson [ourngxxx.xxx]
584
Jul 1996 The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins [Collins #4] [wwhitxxx.xxx]
583
Jul 1996 A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories [BP#2] [bpstoxxx.xxx]
582
Jul 1996 Ginx's Baby, A Satire, by Edward Jenkins? [ginxbxxx.xxx]
581
Jul 1996 The Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens [CD #3-4] [pwprsxxx.xxx]
580
Jul 1996 The Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens [CD #3-4] [pwprsxxx.xxx]
580
Jul 1996 The Poems of Sidney Lanier [slanrxxx.xxx]
579
Jul 1996 Down With The Cities, by Tadashi NAKASHIMA [dwtctxxx.xxx]
578C
Jul 1996 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 4 of 16 [sjv04xxx.xxx]
577
Jun 1996 The Project Gutenberg Web Pages [pgwebxxx.xxx]
576
Jun 1996 Essays of Francis Bacon [Francis Bacon #1] [ebacnxxx.xxx]
575
Jun 1996 Poems of William Blake, by William Blake [Blake#1][pblakxxx.xxx]
574
Jun 1996 Tales from Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb [tshakxxx.xxx]
573
Jun 1996 The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter [BP #1] [gbtbpxxx.xxx]
572
Jun 1996 The 1995 CIA World Factbook [CIA Factbook #5][world95x.xxx]
571
Jun 1996 The Moravians in Georgia, by Adelaide L. Fries [mrvgaxxx.xxx]
570
Jun 1996 Brann The Iconoclast, William Cowper Brann [vol12][bti12xxx.xxx]
569
*
Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet?
If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of
6,499,127,318 that would be 18,720 x 64,991,273 = ~1.22 Trillion !!!
For those of you who keep track of such things, it is somewhat likely
that the world population will pass 6.5 billion while I am gone and a
bit less likely that the US population will pass 300 million.
With 18,720 eBooks online as of February 22, 2006 it now takes an average
of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.82 from each book.
[1% world population x #eBooks] 64,978,989 x 18,717 x $.82 = ~$1 Trillion
[Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.]
*
A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.53 Value Per Book To 100 Million
With 18,720 eBooks online as of February 22, 2006 it now takes an average
of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.53 from each book.
This "cost" is down from about $.64 when we had 15,530 eBooks a year ago.
Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population = ~100,000,000 people.
At 18,720 eBooks in 34 Years and 07.75 Months We Averaged
540 Per Year
45.0 Per Month
1.48 Per Day
At 578 eBooks Done In The 049 Days Of 2006 We Averaged
11.8 Per Day
82 Per Week
328 Per Month
If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S.
you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear,
are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope.
However, for those keeping track of how quickly the U.S. reaches a
300 million population level, and who noticed the passing of 298M,
just two weeks ago. . .the U.S. is already 1/6 the way to 299M, so
it will probably be 10 more weeks to 299M and 22 more to 300M.
Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment,
who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the
districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that
all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details].
*
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starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 4th was
the first Wednesday of 2006, and thus ended PG's production
year of 2005 and began the production year of 2006 at noon.
This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week.
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