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Audio: Ride Railroad Bill, by Roger McGuinn 10530C
[Recorded in September 2002.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/3/10530 ]
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Audio: I am a Pilgrim, by Roger McGuinn 10529C
[Recorded in November 2002.]
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Audio: I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, by Roger McGuinn 10528C
[Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (lyrics)]
[Author: John Baptiste Calkin (composer)]
[Recorded in December 2001]
[Note: Original title was "Christmas Bells"]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/2/10528 ]
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Audio: On the Banks of the Ohio, by Roger McGuinn 10527C
[Recorded in October 2003.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/2/10527 ]
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Audio: Nancy Whiskey, by Roger McGuinn 10526C
[Recorded in July 2001]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/2/10526 ]
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Audio: Michael Row the Boat Ashore, by Roger McGuinn 10525C
[Recorded in May 2002.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/2/10525 ]
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Audio: We Wish You a Merry Christmas, by Roger McGuinn 10524C
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/2/10524 ]
[Files: 10524-m-readme.txt; 10524-m-001.mp3; 10524.txt; 10524.zip; ]
Alcestis, by Euripides 10523
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/2/10523 ]
[Files: 10523.txt; 10523-8.txt]
Beacon Lights of History, Volume IV, by John Lord 10522
[Subtitle: Imperial Antiquity]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/2/10522 ]
[Files: 10522.txt; 10522.zip; 10522-8.txt; 10522-8.zip; 10522-h.htm;
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The Primadonna, by F. Marion Crawford 10521
[Subtitle: A Sequel to "Fair Margaret"]
[Zip files include one image.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/2/10521 ]
[Files: 10521.txt; 10521.zip; 10521-8.txt; 10521-8.zip; ]
The Compleat Cook, by Nath. Brook 10520
[Subtitle: Expertly Prescribing The Most Ready Wayes, Whether Italian,
Spanish Or French, For Dressing Of Flesh And Fish, Ordering Of Sauces
Or Making Of Pastry]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/2/10520 ]
[Files: 10520.txt]
Mercy Philbrick's Choice, by Helen Hunt Jackson 10519
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/1/10519 ]
[Files: 10519.txt; 10519-h.htm]
Poems, by John Hay 10518
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/1/10518 ]
[Files: 10518.txt; 10518-8.txt]
Government and Rebellion, by E. E. Adams 10517
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/1/10517 ]
[Files: 10517.txt; 10517-h.htm]
Bits About Home Matters, by Helen Hunt Jackson 10516
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/1/10516 ]
[Files: 10516.txt; 10516-8.txt; 10516-h.htm]
Rhymes of a Roughneck, by Pat O'Cotter 10515
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/1/10515 ]
[Files: 10515.txt; 10515.zip; 10515-8.txt; 10515-8.zip; 10515-h.htm;
10515-h.zip; ]
De jongere generatie, by E. D'Oliveira 10514
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/1/10514 ]
[Files: 10514.txt; 10514-8.txt]
On the Seashore, by R. Cadwallader Smith 10513
[Note: This is the Seventh Book of Cassell's "Eyes and No Eyes" Series]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/1/10513 ]
[Files: 10513.txt; 10513.zip; 10513-h.htm; 10513-h.zip; ]
Het portret van Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde 10512
[Translated by Mevr. Louis Couperus]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/1/10512 ]
[Files: 10512.txt; 10512-8.txt]
A Rogue by Compulsion, by Victor Bridges 10511
[Subtitle: An Affair of the Secret Service]
[Note: zip files include frontispiece illustration as jpg file]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/1/10511 ]
[Files: 10511.txt; 10511.zip; 10511-8.txt; 10511-8.zip; ]
Inaugural Presidential Address, by William Jefferson Clinton 10510
[Files: 10510.txt]
The Bars of Iron, by Ethel May Dell 10509
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/0/10509 ]
[Files: 10509.txt; 10509.zip; 10509-8.txt; 10509-8.zip; ]
The Sorrows of a Show Girl, by Kenneth McGaffey 10508
[Subtitle: A Story of the Great "White Way"]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/0/10508 ]
[Files: 10508.txt; 10508.zip; ]
Mary, Erzaehlung, by Bjornstjerne Bjornson 10507
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/0/10507 ]
[Files: 10507.txt; 10507-8.txt]
Romance de lobos, comedia barbara, by Ramon del Valle-Inclan 10506
[Language: Spanish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/0/10506 ]
[Files: 10506.txt; 10506-8.txt]
Audio: Waltzing Matilda, by Roger McGuinn 10505C
[Recorded in January 2002]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/0/10505 ]
[Files: 10505-m-readme.txt; 10505-m-001.mp3; 10505.txt; 10505.zip; ]
Audio: Liverpool Gals, by Roger McGuinn 10504C
[Recorded in June 1999]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/0/10504 ]
[Files: 10504-m-readme.txt; 10504-m-001.mp3; 10504.txt; 10504.zip; ]
Audio: John Henry, by Roger McGuinn 10503C
[Recorded in 1959, at 57 East Division St. in Chicago, Illinois on a
Pentron reel-to-reel recorder at 7-1/2 IPS]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/0/10503 ]
[Files: 10503-m-readme.txt; 10503.txt; 10503.zip; ]
Vecchie Storie, by Emilio De Marchi 10502
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/0/10502 ]
[Files: 10502.txt; 10502.zip; 10502-8.txt; 10502-8.zip; ]
Audio: The Whale Catchers, by Roger McGuinn 10501C
[Recorded in March 2001]
[Note: The banjo is tuned in open D-minor tuning and a 12-string guitar
plays melody]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/0/10501 ]
[Files: 10501-m-readme.txt; 10501-m-001.mp3; 10501.txt; 10501.zip; ]
Audio: Heave Away, by Roger McGuinn 10500C
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/0/10500 ]
[Files: 10500-m-readme.txt; 10500-m-001.mp3; 10500.txt; 10500.zip; ]
Audio: Delia's Gone, by Roger McGuinn 10499C
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/9/10499 ]
[Files: 10499-m-readme.txt; 10499-m-001.mp3; 10499.txt; 10499.zip; ]
Audio: Ain' No Mo' Cane on De Brazis, by Roger McGuinn 10498C
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/9/10498 ]
[Files: 10498-m-readme.txt; 10498-m-001.mp3; 10498.txt; 10498.zip; ]
Audio: Battle Hymn of the Republic, by Roger McGuinn 10497C
[Author: Julia War Howe (lyricist)]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/9/10497 ]
[Files: 10497-m-readme.txt; 10497-m-001.mp3; 10497.txt; 10497.zip; ]
Red Masquerade, by Louis Joseph Vance 10496
[Subtitle: Being the Story of the Lone Wolf's Daughter]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/9/10496 ]
[Files: 10496.txt; 10496.zip; 10496-8.txt; 10496-8.zip; 10496-h.htm;
10496-h.zip; ]
Under King Constantine, by Katrina Trask 10495
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/9/10495 ]
[Files: 10495.txt; 10495.zip; 10495-8.txt; 10495-8.zip; ]
Henry the Second, by Mrs. J. R. Green 10494
[Author AKA: Alice Stopford Green (1848-1929)]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/9/10494 ]
[Files: 10494.txt; 10494.zip; 10494-8.txt; 10494-8.zip; ]
The Old Bush Songs, by A. B. Paterson 10493
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/9/10493 ]
[Files: 10493-0.txt; 10493-h.htm]
Agnes, by Minna Canth 10492
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/9/10492 ]
[Files: 10492.txt; 10492-8.txt]
Practice Book, by Leland Powers 10491
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/9/10491 ]
[Files: 10491.txt; 10491-8.txt; 10491-h.htm]
The Golden Legend, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 10490
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/9/10490 ]
[Files: 10490.txt; 10490-8.txt; 10490-h.htm]
An English Garner, by Edited by Professor Arber and Thomas Sercombe 10489
[Subtitle: Critical Essays & Literary Fragments]
[Introduction by J. Churton Collins]
[Contents:
Extract from Thomas Wilson's _Art of Rhetoric_, 1554
Sir Philip Sidney's _Letter to his brother Robert_, 1580
Extract from Francis Meres's _Palladis Tamia_, 1598
Dryden's _Dedicatory Epistle to the Rival Ladies_, 1664
Sir Robert Howard's _Preface to four new Plays_, 1665
Dryden's _Essay of Dramatic Poesy_, 1668
Extract from Thomas Ellwood's _History of Himself_, describing
his relations with Milton, 1713
Bishop Copleston's Advice to a Young Reviewer, 1807
The Bickerstaff and Partridge Tracts, 1708
Gay's _Present State of Wit_, 1711
Tickell's Life of Addison, 1721
Steele's Dedicatory Epistle to Congreve, 1722
Extract from Chamberlayne's Angliae Notitia, 1669
Eachard's Grounds and Occasions of the Contempt of the Clergy
and of Religion, 1670
Bickerstaff's Miseries of the Domestic Chaplain, 1710
Franklin's Poor Richard Improved, 1757]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/8/10489 ]
[Files: 10489.txt; 10489-8.txt]
Audio: Away in a Manger, by Roger McGuinn 10488C
[Author: Anonymous (verses 1 and 2)]
[Author: John Thomas McFarland (verse 3)]
[Author: James Murray (composer)]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/8/10488 ]
[Files: 10488-m-readme.txt; 10488-m-001.mp3; 10488.txt; 10488.zip; ]
Audio: Alabama Bound, by Roger McGuinn 10487C
[Recorded in May 1999, on a 12-string guitar in "drop D" tuning, that is
with the low E string tuned down to D]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/8/10487 ]
[Files: 10487-m-readme.txt; 10487-m-001.mp3; 10487.txt; 10487.zip; ]
Audio: Twelve Gates to the City, by Roger McGuinn 10486C
[Recorded in May 2003]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/8/10486 ]
[Files: 10486-m-readme.txt; 10486-m-001.mp3; 10486.txt; 10486.zip; ]
Experiments in Government and the Essentials of the Constitution,by Root 10485
[Author: Elihu Root]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/8/10485 ]
[Files: 10485.txt; 10485.zip; 10485-h.htm; 10485-h.zip; ]
Beacon Lights of History, Volume III, by John Lord 10484
[Subtitle: Ancient Achievements]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/8/10484 ]
[Files: 10484.txt; 10484.zip; 10484-8.txt; 10484-8.zip; 10484-h.htm;
10484-h.zip; ]
Short Stories Old and New, Selected and Edited by C. Alphonso Smith 10483
[Contents:
Esther, From The Old Testament
The History Of Ali Baba And The Forty Robbers, From "The Arabian
Nights"
Rip Van Winkle, By Washington Irving
The Gold-Bug, By Edgar Allan Poe
A Christmas Carol, By Charles Dickens
The Great Stone Face, By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rab And His Friends, By Dr. John Brown
The Outcasts Of Poker Flat, By Bret Harte
Markheim, By Robert Louis Stevenson]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/8/10483 ]
[Files: 10483.txt; 10483-8.txt]
The Young Mother, by William A. Alcott 10482
[Subtitle: Management of Children in Regard to Health]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/8/10482 ]
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Roger McGuinn's Folkden Recordings
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recordings first started in 1997 by Roger McGuinn. Roger has set up a
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when we say new, we mean old. Roger's intention is to help preserve
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How much have we given away?
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GLOBAL INTERNET USE LIMITED BY LANGUAGE, ILLITERACY
According to the International Telecommunication Union, about 70% of the
world's Internet users live in countries that make up only 16% of the
world's population. To address the problem of population illiteracy,
South Africa is developing speech recognition, text-to-speech and
other voice technologies, starting with Zulu. Bulgaria, South Korea
are amongst many countries producing government sites in native
languages. The Canadian government is looking at adapting its
internal search engine to include materials in Inuktitut, the Inuit
language, as well as French and English.
(AP 19 Dec 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20031219/D7VH9OPO0.html
NORWEGIAN APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS ACQUITTAL
A Norwegian appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling acquitting
Jon Johansen of copyright violations. The seven-judge panel agreed
unanimously that Johansen did not violate copyright laws of Norway when
he broke the encryption for DVDs and then posted his code on the
Internet for others to use. The appeals court ruled that under
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than making copies of a book would be since DVDs can become scratched
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Reuters, 22 December 2003
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"The success of her little book entitled "Seventy-five Receipts in
Cakes, Pastry, and Sweetmeats." has encouraged the author to attempt a
larger and more miscellaneous work on the subject of cookery,
comprising as far as practicable whatever is most useful in its
various departments; and particularly adapted to the domestic economy
of her own country. Designing it as a manual of American housewifery,
she has avoided the insertion of any dishes
whose ingredients cannot be procured on our side of the Atlantic, and
which require for their preparation utensils that are rarely found
except in Europe. Also, she has omitted every thing which may not, by
the generality of tastes, be considered good of its kind, and well
worth the trouble and cost of preparing."
This text includes numerous recipes for beverages, including the
following selections:
EGG NOGG.
Beat separately the yolks and whites of six eggs. Stir the yolks into
a quart of rich milk, or thin cream, and add half a pound of
sugar. Then mix in half a pint of rum or brandy. Flavour it with a
grated nutmeg. Lastly, stir in gently the beaten white of an egg.
It should be mixed in a china bowl.
MULLED WINE.
Boil together in a pint of water two beaten nutmegs, a handful of
broken cinnamon, and a handful of cloves slightly pounded. When the
liquid is reduced to one half, strain it into a quart of port wine,
which must be set on hot coals, and taken off as soon as it comes to a
boil. Serve it up hot in a pitcher with little glass cups round it,
and a plate of fresh rusk.
PUNCH.
Roll twelve fine lemons under your hand on the table; then pare off
the yellow rind very thin, and boil it in a gallon of water till all
the flavour is drawn out. Break up into a large bowl, two pounds of
loaf-sugar, and squeeze the lemons over it. When the water has boiled
sufficiently, strain it from the lemon-peel, and mix it with the lemon
juice and sugar. Stir in a quart of rum or of the best whiskey.
And as a non-alcoholic choice, we offer the author's instructions on how
TO MAKE CHOCOLATE
To each square of a chocolate cake allow three jills, or a chocolate
cup and a half of boiling water. Scrape down the
chocolate with a knife, and mix it first to a paste with a small
quantity of the hot water; just enough to melt it in. Then put it into
a block tin pot with the remainder of the water; set it on hot coals;
cover it, and let it boil (stirring it twice) till the liquid is one
third reduced. Supply that third with cream or rich milk; stir it
again, and take it off the fire. Serve it up as hot as possible, with
dry toast, or dry rusk. It chills immediately. If you wish it frothed,
pour it into the cup, and twirl round in it the little wooden
instrument called a chocolate mill, till you have covered the top with
foam.
Tonya Allen
Project Gutenberg eBook, Two Centuries of Costume in America by Alice
Morse Earle
This is a book first posted to the PG Archive in November. It comes in
fourteen volumes and on the fascinating scale it hits a big ten. The
first volume is the explanation for the illustrations in the other
volumes giving the background and context for the illustrations
themselves as well as the costumes portrayed. Now, when it comes to
this kind of thing in museums, I am usually the person at the back
being Bart Simpson, you know, looking in the things you're not
supposed to touch and generally goofing around. This set of books
though is in a different realm, it really is interesting to see how
people used to dress and why. You can find the book at
http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/1/10115/10115-h/10115-h.htm#I
I think this is one case where the HTML version is essential.
Alice
Answers to the Christmas Quiz:
1. Christmas Banquet, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext05/haw5510.txt
"I have here attempted," said Roderick, unfolding a few sheets of
manuscript, as he sat with Rosina and the sculptor in the summer-
house,--"I have attempted to seize hold of a personage who glides
past me, occasionally, in my walk through life.
2. The Abbot's Ghost, Or Maurice Treherne's Temptation: A Christmas
Story, by A. M. Barnard [AKA: Louisa May Alcott]
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext05/8abgh10.txt
How goes it, Frank? Down first, as usual."
3. The Gift of the Magi, by O. Henry
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext92/magi10.txt
One dollar and eighty-seven cents.
4. Christmas Eve, by Robert Browning
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext04/chmsv10.txt
Out of the little chapel I burst into the fresh night-air again.
5. Snap-Dragons--A Tale of Christmas Eve, by Juliana H. Ewing
[In Junior Classics, V6, Edited by William Patten]
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext04/jrcl610.txt
Once upon a time there lived a certain family of the name of Skratdj.
6. Christian Gellert's Last Christmas, by Berthold Auerbach
[In Stories by Foreign Authors: German (V.2)]
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext04/s4fg210.txt
Three o'clock had just struck from the tower of St. Nicholas, Leipzig,
on the afternoon of December 22d, 1768, when a man, wrapped in a loose
overcoat, came out of the door of the University.
7. The First Christmas-Tree, by Henry Van Dyke
[In Short Stories for English Courses]
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext04/stngc10.txt
The day before Christmas, in the year of our Lord 722.
8. Beasley's Christmas Party, by Booth Tarkington
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext04/bslcp10.txt
The maple-bordered street was as still as a country Sunday; so quiet
that there seemed an echo to my footsteps.
9. Old Christmas, by Washington Irving
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext99/oxmas10.txt
There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell
over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and
rural games of former times.
10. The Birds' Christmas Carol, by Kate Douglas Wiggin
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext96/tbscc10.txt
It was very early Christmas morning, and in the stillness of the
dawn, with the soft snow falling on the housetops, a little child
was born in the Bird household.
11. A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext92/carol13.txt
Marley was dead: to begin with.
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Distributed Proofreaders Update for December 17, 2003
If you are reading this without your favorite beverage, stop right now
and go correct that situation. . . . Go on! This week we have a
smorgasbord of newsworthy topics to cover and if you care enough about
PG to be reading this newsletter at all, then I promise you an
interesting, little diversion for the DP segment this week. So go get
a big mug of coffee or tea, maybe a Guinness, whatever oils your
works. I'll be right here waiting when you get back.
Today, December 17th, we mark the 100th anniversary of the moment when a dream
of great significance was realized. A century ago two brothers with a
vibrant vision and a healthy dose of ingenuity set humanity free from
exile on the planet's surface. It is easy to conjecture that the
desire to fly as freely as the birds must follow our race down to the
earliest days of existence. Once it was clear that we could do more
than float up in a balloon, subject to the winds--that we could be
master in the air--the future of Humanity changed forever. A mere 66
years later, the flight that began on a little hill in North Carolina
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world. Do not let anyone ever tell you different, dreaming is a
wonderful occupation.
One day we may very well travel to other star systems, and on that
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humanity's aim above and beyond. As I reflected on that thought
earlier, I smiled broader still to realize that it was in this
potential future that our work in these projects is directly connected
to that day at Kitty Hawk. When our childrens' children take off
towards other worlds, it is a certainty that they will be bringing
legacies from home with them. Legacies that will survive to their
generations partly because of the work we do in the present.
What Michael Hart began thirty years ago, with the words: "We hold
these truths to be self evident..." has taken a trajectory not
dissimilar to that of the Wright brothers. More than 10,000 works have
followed the Declaration of Independence, and in years to come that
number will eventually reach 1,000,000.
Come fly with us! Yes, how appropriate indeed!
This is a good to look back upon the Gutenberg journey and forward to
the future. Over the past 48 hours those who gathered together in
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they were a week ago. We are distributed throughout the world, and we
get a great deal accomplished that way. However the infusion of
energy, innovation and inspiration that is generated by face to face
interaction in real time adds a whole new level of dynamism to our
collective efforts.
You have been and will continue to read accounts from those who were
there. I was not at the meetings, so my scope of intention will remain
with providing the news items of the events for you. One of 'flash'
items from the conference was the recognition of the significance of
the completion of the Copyright Renewals. If you have been with DP
more than a couple of months then you know what a 'piece of work'
these projects were to complete. Working from the trenches of the
proofing rounds, you may not be aware of the incredible worth of these
dry manifests. They are nothing short of golden in their value to the
public domain. In time we will look back and say: "Yes, I was there,
I worked on the renewals." And we will say it with deep pride.
One person who has provided material recognition of the present worth of
the Copyright Renewals is Brewster Kahle. To commemorate the successful
completion of DP's work on the CR's, Brewster kept a promise to donate
$10,000.00 to Project Gutenberg. Now 10K certainly does not alter the
destiny of PG. It is a significant gesture and a contribution that
proofers at DP can feel a true part of. Through the Internet Archive,
Brewster has long been a supporter of PG and DP. He also provided a
variety of support to see to the success of this week's conference.
When the CRs are incorporated into a searchable database they will
serve to verify the eligibility of thousands of publications for the
public domain. This is task is so tedious at present as to be nearly
unworthy of the effort involved. The easy availability of the
Copyright Renewals will change that forever, thus making available an
immeasurable wealth of cultural and historic content to the whole
world. On behalf of all who this accomplishment eventually touches,
let me voice a sincere and profound appreciation to all those who
worked on the many stages of the CR project!
What the conference provided on the whole, was the chance for many
people to get down to some serious discussion of the present state,
future directions and possible strategies for PG and all affiliated
projects. Topics included; sustaining and increasing the participation
levels of volunteers; innovations to the cataloguing system for the PG
library; initiation of an image library; increase of support to the
readers of e-books; incorporation of XML and the future availability
of format on demand features of PG titles; community development among
the readership; derivative content developments from existing texts
and much more.
Whether these all come to be and in what manner and time frame will be the
topic of future discussions and conferences on-line and off. As I
discuss these topics with those who were out in California, I will
share more details with you here in the weeks ahead. I know that many
people reading this will wish they could have been out there at the
conference. If it is any conciliation, I share your
feelings. But... let us remember what we are celebrating at DP in
December... the conclusion of what is surely the most productive and
successful year in the project's history, and the coming of what
promises to be the year which will--far and wide--supplant that title.
We have shared the journey through this wonderful year together and
have given the best of our efforts and intentions to PG/DP. In the
year ahead we will do the same and perhaps far more. There will be
more meetings and conferences in different regions and countries and
with each we will build upon what has begun in California. Look
forward then, and stay close to your newsletter in the weeks ahead. In
2004 we will fly...and no doubt, more than once or twice we will
glance up at the stars and smile, knowing there is a vast and wondrous
destiny aloft, which we are all a part of.
With my travels and personal time constraints over the past couple of
weeks it has been necessary to set down the continuation of our
exploration and profiles of the tools involved in the DP production
process. Today we will pick up where we left off and take a look at
the pair of tools developed by Steve Schulze aka: ThunderGnat to the
DP community. We also have a piece this week from Bill Keir about
those pesky little sprites that trip up the best proofreaders and go
by the name of Scannos.
The pair of tools known as GUIPrep and GUIGuts are much adored by the
content developers and post processors of DP. It is rather an
injustice to call them a "pair" of tools as they both perform a wide
range of processes that have come to be essential to efficient and
expedient production. From the beginning, we decided that the best way
to provide you with the latest and most informative background to the
tools is to let the developers speak for themselves. So without
further introduction I turn the mic over to Steve.
Musings on Guiguts
Guiguts came about because of my frustration with Proofreaders
Toolkit, an older, no longer supported toolkit that was used to
prepare texts for Distributed Proofreaders. Proofreaders Toolkit
(PRTK) has a GUI front end to gutcheck built into it. It works, but
there are several things about it that are sub-optimal.
Number 1. It was designed to work with an older version of gutcheck.
The command line options for gutcheck have changed slightly since the
PRTK was written, so it doesn't interface very well.
Number 2. An even bigger problem, every time you make an edit to the
file, the list of gutcheck errors becomes unsynchronized and it gets
hard to find subsequent errors that gutcheck reported.
I had previously written a preprocessing application called Prep to do
pre-proofing checks on texts before they were uploaded to the
site. After 8 versions of Prep, I added a Gui front end to it to make
it easier to select options for processing. (There were some 30 or so
options and the command line was getting out of hand. There's over 60
now.) When I added the front end, I changed the name to Guiprep to
differentiate it from command line Prep.
When the frustration level with PRTKs interface to Gutcheck grew too
much, I thought, "Heck, I could probably write something to do that."
and did so. When it came time to naming it, I thought "Well, I already
have Guiprep, a Gui front end to prep; this is a Gui front end to
gutcheck, I'll call it Guigutcheck. But that was too long, so I
shortened it to Guiguts. (which I found amusing anyway, so that was a
big plus too.)
Guiguts is written in Perl to take advantage of it's very powerful
text processing functions and cross platform support. It will run on
Windows and Linux platforms and could be easily modified to work on
Mac OSX, (but I don't have access to an OSX system to do development
and testing.) It unfortunately cannot be easily ported to Mac OS 9 and
earlier due to lack of some necessary Perl modules for those
OSes. Since it is written in Perl, the source is automatically
available for experimentation and hacking to anyone who is inclined to
do so. I also distribute a compiled windows executable version
(winguts.exe) for those who don't have a Perl interpreter on their
machine and just want to download and go.
Guiguts was originally intended just to be a front end to gutcheck. In
order to make it usable, I had to make it a fairly full featured text
editor so you would be able to make corrections to errors gutcheck
reported. So, since I already had a fairly decent text editor written,
I figured I'd add some other specialized functions that would come in
handy for some texts I was post processing. I think some of the first
functions I added were to do bulk change of case to selected
text. (Make it all uppercase, lowercase, whatever.) Not too unusual in
a decent text editor, but useful. Another thing I added early on was a
word frequency and comparison function. It would count all of the
words in a text and how many times they occurred, then let you display
them in various sort orders. (By frequency, by alphabetical order,
etc.) I wrote a function to help find "stealth scannos", words that
commonly mis-scanned but will pass a spellcheck, like "arid" for "and"
for instance.
As time went by, a core group of intrepid testers suggested new
functions and improvements to existing ones until it has become a
fairly powerful and comprehensive post processing toolkit on its own.
A partial list of functions and capabilities:
Search & Replace: Full search and replace functions, search for full
or partial words. Able to search using regular expressions with
variable extraction for replacement terms.
Stealth Scannos: Find words that were scanned incorrectly but will
pass spellcheck.
Spell check: Provides hooks to tie in Aspell or Ispell to do full
interactive spell checking.
Find Orphaned Brackets: Often brackets or parentheses are mismatched
in a text, it can be a real pain to find the unmatched ones, this
function makes it easy.
Case Adjustment: An array of bulk case adjustment functions, convert
to uppercase, convert to lowercase, convert to sentence case, convert
to title case.
Bulk indenting: Indent a selection of text in or out 1 space with each
press,preserves relative indenting.
Text Rewrap: Automatic rewrap of selected text. Adjustable rewrap
margin. Adjustable indent. Lots of options.
Word Frequency Analysis: Sort and count words in the text. Specialized
sub functions to find hyphenated words, words with accents, words with
mixed alphabetic and numeric characters, and several others.
Footnote Fixup: Functions to automate renumbering, moving and
reformatting footnotes.
HTML Fixup: Functions to work with HTML markup including finding
orphaned markup and auto generating a HTML version of a text.
ASCII Box Drawing: Automatically draw ASCII boxes around selected
text. Optionally rewrap and center or left or right justify the text
in the box.
A whole host of other specialized functions.
And oh yes, it provides a GUI interface to gutcheck.
Thank you, Steve! ... for the background and all the effort to develop
these powerful tools for the PG/DP community!
Now Big Bill is going to fill us in on the slippery bane of all post
processors, the dreaded Tasmanian Scanno. Okay, so they're not from
Tasmania, but Bill has doing his best to exile them there for the rest
of us.
=======================
Stealth Scannos by Bill Keir
=======================
In the late 19th century wasn't the telephone considered wonderful
modem technology? Or was it wonderful *modern* technology?
A standard step in preparing a text for PG is to spell-check it. Of
course that can only do so much, and while it will detect words that
have been OCRd as junk, it won't detect words that have been OCRd as
other words.
When "he" is OCRd as "fe", we have a scanno - analogous to typo - an
error. Spell-checkers will catch scannos that produce non-words;
that's what spell-checkers do, identify non-words.
But when "he" is OCRd as "lie", we have a scanno that a spell checker
will not blink at - a stealth scanno, that flies under the
spell-checker's radar.
Tonya was the first to publish a list of the most commonly occurring
scannos of this type, as part of her comprehensive PPing
checklist. Classics she cited included "arid" being produced for
"and", "yon" for "you" and "modem" for "modern". These occur so often,
and as the words appear so similar on the screen (unless you're using
a custom font, see below) are so often missed by human eyes as well as
spell-checkers, that Tonya suggested it was worthwhile searching your
text for "arid", as most of them were probably mis-scanned "and"s.
I named them and offered to be a central clearing house for reported
sightings. We now have hundreds of stealth scannos and more every
month. Various software tools make use of the listings, and once again
the cooperation of many individuals has led to improving the standards
of quality of our submitted texts.
Thank you, Bill! Next week we will profile two important tools that
Bill has developed; the Re-Wrap & Indent script and the Smooth
Proofing font. We will also go back to the original tools of the PG/DP
community: GutCheck and PRTK. As we wrap up the tool profiles you can
look forward to a special section on the PG newsletter site set aside
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3) Notes and Queries, Reviews and Features
Cookery Club, December 17
This week we consider a traditional Olde Englisshe Christmas
dinner. Looking into Dickens' A Christmas Carol (see this issue's
quiz!) we find the following list of seasonal luxuries in the
description of the Ghost of Christmas Present:
"Heaped up on the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys,
geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking-pigs, long
wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, barrels of oysters,
red-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious
pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch, that made
the chamber dim with their delicious steam."
In the same book, the Cratchits had to be content with "Goose ? [e]ked
out by apple-sauce and mashed potatoes."
We suggest something in between to capture the spirit of the olde-tyme
Christmas banquet. The ever-knowledgeable Mrs. Beeton remarks that
"The boar's head, in ancient times, formed the most important dish on
the table, and was invariably the first placed on the board upon
Christmas-day." Oh, for the good old days?.
Moving on to more modern times,
"The common turkey is a native of North America, and was thence
introduced to England, in the reign of Henry VIII. According to
Tusser's "Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry," about the year 1585
it begun to form a dish at our rural Christmas feasts."
However, the traditional favourite remains
ROAST GOOSE
which, as Mrs. Beeton tells us, is "seasonable from September to
March; but in perfection from Michaelmas to Christmas."
Thus, for our menu we propose:
Roast Goose *
Roast Potatoes
Red Cabbage
Mincemeat Pie *
Christmas Pudding + or,
Trifle ~
* [recipe in Domestic Cookery,
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext05/cookh10.txt]
+ [recipe in December 10 issue of the newsletter]
~ [recipe in What's Cooking ]
Tonya Allen
December 17, 2003
Christmas Quiz:
Match these Christmas titles with their first lines....
Titles:
1. Christmas Banquet, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext05/haw5510.txt
2. The Abbot's Ghost, Or Maurice Treherne's Temptation: A Christmas
Story, by A. M. Barnard [AKA: Louisa May Alcott]
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext05/8abgh10.txt
3. The Gift of the Magi, by O. Henry
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext92/magi10.txt
4. Christmas Eve, by Robert Browning
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext04/chmsv10.txt
5. Snap-Dragons--A Tale of Christmas Eve, by Juliana H. Ewing
[In Junior Classics, V6, Edited by William Patten]
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext04/jrcl610.txt
6. Christian Gellert's Last Christmas, by Berthold Auerbach
[In Stories by Foreign Authors: German (V.2)]
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext04/s4fg210.txt
7. The First Christmas-Tree, by Henry Van Dyke
[In Short Stories for English Courses]
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext04/stngc10.txt
8. Beasley's Christmas Party, by Booth Tarkington
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext04/bslcp10.txt
9. Old Christmas, by Washington Irving
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext99/oxmas10.txt
10. The Birds' Christmas Carol, by Kate Douglas Wiggin
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext96/tbscc10.txt
11. A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext92/carol13.txt
First Lines:
a. Out of the little chapel I burst into the fresh night-air again.
b. The day before Christmas, in the year of our Lord 722.
c. How goes it, Frank? Down first, as usual."
d. It was very early Christmas morning, and in the stillness of the
dawn, with the soft snow falling on the housetops, a little child
was born in the Bird household.
e. There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell
over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and
rural games of former times.
f. Marley was dead: to begin with.
g. One dollar and eighty-seven cents.
h. Three o'clock had just struck from the tower of St. Nicholas, Leipzig,
on the afternoon of December 22d, 1768, when a man, wrapped in a loose
overcoat, came out of the door of the University.
i. "I have here attempted," said Roderick, unfolding a few sheets of
manuscript, as he sat with Rosina and the sculptor in the summer-
house,--"I have attempted to seize hold of a personage who glides
past me, occasionally, in my walk through life.
j. The maple-bordered street was as still as a country Sunday; so quiet
that there seemed an echo to my footsteps.
k. Once upon a time there lived a certain family of the name of Skratdj.
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Answers to Quiz: From the First 100 Etexts
1. The Declaration of Independence (etext #1)
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext90/when12.txt
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for
one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected
them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the earth,
the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and
of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions
of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which
impel them to the separation.
2. The Gettysburg Address of Abraham Lincoln (etext #4)
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext90/getty11.txt
Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth
upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and
dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
3. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll (etext #11)
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext91/alice30.txt
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister
on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had
peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no
pictures or conversations in it, `and what is the use of a book,'
thought Alice `without pictures or conversation?'
4. Paradise Lost, by John Milton (etext #20)
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext91/plboss10.txt
Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit
Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast
Brought Death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of EDEN, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,
Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top
Of OREB, or of SINAI, didst inspire
That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed,
In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth
Rose out of CHAOS:
5. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (etext #23)
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext92/duglas11.txt
I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and
about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot county,
Maryland.
6. The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (etext #33)
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext92/scrlt12.txt
A throng of bearded men, in sad-coloured garments and grey
steeple-crowned hats, inter-mixed with women, some wearing hoods,
and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden
edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and
studded with iron spikes.
7. Song of the Lark, by Willa Cather (etext #44)
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext92/song10.txt
Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a
game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two travel-
ing men who happened to be staying overnight in Moon-
stone.
8. Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (etext #57)
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext93/alad10.txt
There once lived a poor tailor, who had a son called Aladdin,
a careless, idle boy who would do nothing but play all day long in
the streets with little idle boys like himself.
9. The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels (etext #61)
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext93/manif12.txt
A spectre is haunting Europe -- the spectre of Communism.
10. A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens (etext #98)
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext94/2city12.txt
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness,
it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair,
we had everything before us, we had nothing before us,
we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct
the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present
period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its
being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree
of comparison only.
Tonya Allen
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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VIII (4th edition) 10467
[Subtitle: Originally published by Robert Dodsley in the Year 1744, Now
first chronologically arranged, revised and enlarged with the Notes of
all the Commentators, and new Notes; 1876.]
[Author: Various]
[Editor: Robert Dodsley]
[Additional editor: W. Carew Hazlitt]
[Contents:
Summer's Last Will and Testament, by Thomas Nash
The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntington, by Anthony Munday
The Death of Robert Earl of Huntington, by Anthony Munday and
Henry Chettle
Contention between Liberality and Prodigality, by unknown
Grim the Collier of Croyden, by "I. T."]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/6/10467]
[Files: 10467.txt; 10467.zip; 10467-8.txt; 10467-8.zip; ]
Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories , by Frances Hodgson Burnett 10466
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/6/10466 ]
[Files: 10466.txt; 10466.zip; 10466-8.txt; 10466-8.zip; ]
The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale , by Laura Lee Hope 10465
[Subtitle: Camping and Tramping for Fun and Health]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/6/10465 ]
[Files: 10465.txt; 10465.zip; ]
A Child's Anti-Slavery Book, by Various 10464
[Subtitle: Containing A Few Words About American Slave Children
And Stories Of Slave-Life]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/6/10464 ]
[Files: 10464.txt]
The Little House in the Fairy Wood, by Ethel Cook Eliot 10463
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/6/10463 ]
[Files: 10463.txt]
Clarissa, Volume 4 (of 9), by Samuel Richardson 10462
[Subtitle: History Of A Young Lady]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/6/10462 ]
[Files: 10462.txt; 10462-8.txt]
Journals of Australian Explorations, by A C and F T Gregory 10461
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/6/10461 ]
[Files: 10461.txt; 10461-h.htm]
When Day is Done, by Edgar A. Guest 10460
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/6/10460 ]
[Files: 10460.txt]
The Celtic Twilight, by W. B. Yeats 10459
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/5/10459 ]
[Files: 10459.txt]
Three short works, by Gustave Flaubert 10458
[Subtitle: The Dance of Death, The Legend of Saint Julian the
Hospitaller, A Simple Soul]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/5/10458 ]
[Files: 10458.txt; 10458-8.txt]
The Lonely Dancer and Other Poems, by Richard Le Gallienne 10457
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/5/10457 ]
[Files: 10457.txt; 10457.zip; ]
Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 11, September, 1858, by Various 10456
[Subtitle: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/5/10456 ]
[Files: 10456.txt; 10456.zip; 10456-8.txt; 10456-8.zip; ]
A Golden Book of Venice, by Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull 10455
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/5/10455 ]
[Files: 10455.txt; 10455-8.txt]
Tales for Young and Old, by Various 10454
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/5/10454 ]
[Files: 10454.txt; 10454-8.txt]
A Practical Physiology, by Albert F. Blaisdell 10453
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/5/10453 ]
[Files: 10453.txt; 10453-8.txt; 10453-0.txt 10453-h.htm]
Peter's Mother, by Mrs. Henry De La Pasture 10452
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/5/10452 ]
[Files: 10452.txt; 10452-8.txt]
Life Of Johnson, Volume 5, by Boswell 10451
[Editor: Birkbeck Hill]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/5/10451 ]
[Files: 10451.txt; 10451-8.txt; 10451-h.htm]
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Aug. 22, 1917, by Various 10450
[Editor: Owen Seamen]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/5/10450 ]
[Files: 10450.txt; 10450.zip; 10450-8.txt; 10450-8.zip; 10450-h.htm;
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Burnham Breaker, by Homer Greene 10449
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/4/10449 ]
[Files: 10449.txt; 10449.zip; ]
The Anti-Slavery Harp, by Various 10448
[Subtitle: A Collection of Songs for Anti-Slavery Meetings]
[Editor: William W. Brown]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/4/10448 ]
[Files: 10448.txt; 10448.zip; ]
October Vagabonds , by Richard Le Gallienne 10447
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/4/10447 ]
[Files: 10447.txt; 10447.zip; 10447-8.txt; 10447-8.zip; ]
The Green Flag, by Arthur Conan Doyle 10446
[Subtitle: And Other Stories of War and Sport]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/4/10446 ]
[Files: 10446.txt; 10446.zip; ]
American Big Game in Its Haunts, by Various 10445
[Subtitle: The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club]
[Editor: George Bird Grinnell]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/4/10445 ]
[Files: 10445.txt; 10445.zip; 10445-8.txt; 10445-8.zip; ]
The Peace Negotiations, by Robert Lansing 10444
[Subtitle: A Personal Narrative]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/4/10444 ]
[Files: 10444.txt; 10444.zip; 10444-8.txt; 10444-8.zip; ]
The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation , by J. S. Fletcher 10443
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/4/10443 ]
[Files: 10443.txt; 10443.zip; 10443-8.txt; 10443-8.zip; ]
La comedie de la mort, by Theophile Gautier 10442
[Files: 10442.txt; 10442-8.txt]
[Language: French]
The Green Mouse, by Robert W. Chambers 10441
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/4/10441 ]
[Files: 10441.txt; 10441.zip; 10441-8.txt; 10441-8.zip; 10441-h.htm;
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[HTML version includes many lovely illustrations.]
Tutt and Mr. Tutt, by Arthur Train 10440
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/4/10440 ]
[Files: 10440.txt; 10440.zip; 10440-8.txt; 10440-8.zip; 10440-h.htm;
10440-h.zip; ]
From Yauco to Las Marias, by Karl Stephen Herrman 10439
[Subtitle: A Recent Campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular
Brigade under the Command of Brig. General Schwan]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/3/10439 ]
[Files: 10439.txt; 10439.zip; 10439-8.txt; 10439-8.zip; ]
Up the Hill and Over, by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay 10438
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/3/10438 ]
[Files: 10438.txt; 10438.zip; 10438-8.txt; 10438-8.zip; ]
Pulpit and Press (6th Edition), by Mary Baker Eddy 10437
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/3/10437 ]
[Files: 10437.txt; 10437.zip; 10437-8.txt; 10437-8.zip; ]
Erick and Sally, by Johanna Spyri 10436
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/3/10436 ]
[Files: 10436.txt; 10436.zip; 10436-8.txt; 10436-8.zip; 10436-h.htm;
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 12, October, 1858, by Various 10435
[Subtitle: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/3/10435 ]
[Files: 10435.txt; 10435.zip; 10435-8.txt; 10435-8.zip; ]
Wyandotte, by James Fenimore Cooper 10434
[Subtitle: or, The Hutted Knoll]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/3/10434 ]
[Files: 10434.txt; 10434.zip; 10434-8.txt; 10434-8.zip; 10434-h.htm;
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A Flock of Girls and Boys, by Nora Perry 10433
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/3/10433 ]
[Files: 10433.txt; 10433.zip; 10433-h.htm; 10433-h.zip; ]
[HTML version includes many fine illustrations]
Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West, by Edith Van Dyne 10432
[Author AKA: L. Frank Baum]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/3/10432 ]
[Files: 10432.txt; 10432.zip; ]
Thirty Years a Slave, by Louis Hughes 10431
[Subtitle: From Bondage to Freedom: The Institution of Slavery as Seen
on the Plantation and in the Home of the Planter: Autobiography of
Louis Hughes]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/3/10431 ]
[Files: 10431.txt; 10431.zip; ]
Trips to the Moon, by Lucian 10430
[Editor: Henry Morley]
[Translator: Thomas Francklin]
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[Files: 10430.txt; 10430.zip; 10430-h.htm; 10430-h.zip ]
Miss Lulu Bett, by Zona Gale 10429
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/2/10429 ]
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The Life of Lord Byron, by John Galt - 10421
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[Files: 10421.txt; 10421.zip; 10421-h.htm; 10421-h.zip ]
For those wishing to know: Scottish author John Galt (wrote Annals of the
Parish etc) met and became friends with Byron. This biography, whilst dealing
with the key events in Byron's life, aims more to paint a picture of the
development of Byron's mind.
Scientific Essays and Lectures, by Charles Kingsley 10427
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/4/2/10427 ]
[Files: 10427.txt; 10427.zip; 10427-h.htm; 10427-h.zip ]
For those wishing to know: a few odds and ends essays and lectures by Rev.
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generally and almost all of the essays cover these areas.
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this.
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3) Notes and Queries, Reviews and Features
Newsletter Cookery Club
Greetings again. Did anyone try one of those recipes from Simple
Italian Cookery? I tried the Chestnuts "Alla Lucifero." This was the
first time I ever deliberately set food on fire as part of the recipe
(we won't talk about those other times when I did it by
accident). Such a pretty blue flame. The taste was interesting, but I
think I prefer the traditional "roasted on an open fire" flavor.
Before proceeding to this week's menu, I would like to reply to the
comment made by a correspondent last week, summarized thus by the
editor in the previous issue:
"We received a note here this week about our starting the cookery
club. It was pointed out that we were perhaps, trying to achieve
something that is not possible, i.e. the recreation of dishes whose
recipes were published in some cases over 100 years ago, when tastes
and ingredients were completely different from today's instant tv
dinners."
My response: Of course we can not replicate exactly the dishes of one
or two hundred or more years ago, but it's fun to try, and in doing so
we learn a little bit about life back then. And there is certainly a
general interest in the cooking of times past, as evidenced by the
books of "Grandmother's Recipes" and the "Olde Englishe Fudge" and so
on that is for sale in America, Britain, and doubtless other countries
as well. The reason I like old recipes is exactly because they can be
so different from what we're used to, and because they give us a
window into the past. The older the recipe, the better I like it. So
what if my milk is pasteurized and my flour doesn't contain weevils
and I'm not going to kill the chicken myself. This way I can get a
taste of the past without all the inconvenience our grandmothers had
to put up with.
On to this week's menu. As we are exploring our current collection of
cookery books, it becomes clear that the range is a bit limited in
certain ways. For instance, we thought of doing a menu for Eid, or a
menu for Hanukkuh, but we just didn't find the recipes in our existing
cookery books. There's a hint to anyone who would like to enrich and
expand our cookery collection in a different direction!
So, the next few menus are going to be heavily
Christmas-oriented. This week we are sampling some Christmas sweets.
From 365 Foreign Dishes
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/0/0/1/10011/10011-h/10011-h.htm
Hungarian Spice Cakes.
[These are not labeled "Christmas" cakes, but were suggested as a
December recipe, and certainly contain the traditional Christmas
ingredients.]
Sift 1 pound of flour; beat the yolks of 4 eggs with 1 pound of sugar;
add 1/2 ounce cinnamon, 1/2 ounce of ginger, 1/4 teaspoonful of
cloves, some grated lemon peel and a pinch of salt. Make all into a
dough and roll into small cakes about an inch in diameter. Put on
well-buttered baking-plates, sprinkled with flour, and bake in a
moderate oven until a rich brown. Serve with wine.
From Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext06/8loc410.txt
FRUIT CAKE
3/4 c. raisins
1/2 c. milk
3/4 c. currants
2 c. flour
1/2 c. finely cut citron
1/2 tsp. Soda
1/2 c. butter
1 tsp. Cinnamon
3/4 c. sugar
1/2 tsp. Allspice
2 eggs
1/4 tsp. Nutmeg
1/2 c. molasses
1/4 tsp. cloves
First prepare the fruits for the cake. Cream the butter, stir in the
sugar gradually, add the eggs unbeaten, and continue beating. Add the
molasses, milk, and flour with which the soda and spices have been
sifted, and then fold the fruits, which have been prepared, into this
mixture. Another way of adding the fruit is to pour a layer of the
cake mixture into the cake pan, sprinkle this generously with the
fruit, then another layer of dough and another layer of fruit, and
finally a layer of dough with just a little fruit sprinkled on
top. Whichever plan is followed, prepare the pan by covering the
bottom with 1/2 inch of flour and then placing a piece of greased
paper over this. This heavy layer of flour prevents the cake from
burning. Put the cake in a very moderate oven and bake for about 2
hours. If a fruit cake without a heavy crust is desired, the mixture
may be steamed for 3 hours in an ordinary steamer and then placed in
the oven just long enough to dry the surface.
CHRISTMAS PUDDING
(Sufficient to Serve Twelve)
2-1/2 c. stale bread crumbs
1/2 c. milk
1 c. beef suet
1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. molasses
2 eggs
1 c. chopped raisins
1/2 c. chopped citron
1/2 c. chopped nuts
1 c. flour
1/2 tsp. Soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. Salt
1/3 c. fruit juice
Soak the bread crumbs in the milk. Work the suet with the hands until
it is creamy, and to it add the sugar, molasses, and well-beaten
eggs. Mix with the milk and bread crumbs, and add the fruit and
nuts. Mix the dry ingredients and sift them into the mixture. Add the
fruit juice, turn into a buttered mold, and steam for 3 hours. Serve
hot with hard sauce or any other desired sauce.
From Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry Cakes, and Sweetmeats, by Miss Leslie
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext04/svfvr10.txt
GINGERBREAD NUTS
Two pounds of flour, sifted.
One pound of fresh butter.
One quart of sugar-house molasses.
Two ounces of ginger, or more, if it is not very strong.
Twelve dozen grains of allspice, powdered and sifted
Six dozen cloves, powdered and sifted.
Half an ounce of cinnamon, powdered and sifted.
A half tea-spoonful of pearl-ash or salaeratus, dissolved in a little vinegar.
Cut up the butter in the flour, and mix it with the ginger and other
spice. Wet the whole with the molasses, and stir all well together
with a knife. Then add the dissolved pearl-ash or salaeratus. Throw
some flour on your paste-board, take the dough (a large handful at a
time) and knead it in separate cakes. Then put all together, and knead
It very hard for a long time, in one large lump. Cut the lump in half,
roll it out in two even sheets, about half an inch thick, and cut it
out in little cakes, with a very small tin, about the size of a
cent. Lay them in buttered pans, and bake them in a moderate oven,
taking care they do not scorch, as gingerbread is more liable to burn
than any other cake, You may, if you choose, shape the gingerbread
nuts, by putting flour in your hand, taking a very small piece of the
dough, and rolling it into a little round ball.
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a. There once lived a poor tailor, who had a son called Aladdin, a
careless, idle boy who would do nothing but play all day long in the
streets with little idle boys like himself.
b. Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit
Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast
Brought Death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of EDEN, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,
Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top
Of OREB, or of SINAI, didst inspire
That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed,
In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth
Rose out of CHAOS:
c. Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the
Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying
overnight in Moonstone.
d. Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this
continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal.
e. A throng of bearded men, in sad-coloured garments and grey
steeple-crowned hats, inter-mixed with women, some wearing hoods, and
others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the
door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron
spikes.
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the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped
into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or
conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice,
'without pictures or conversation?'
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of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief,
it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was
the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter
of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we
were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other
way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that
some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for
good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
h. When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one
people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with
another, and to assume, among the Powers of the earth, the separate
and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God
entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires
that they should declare the causes which impel them to the
separation.
i. A spectre is haunting Europe -- the spectre of Communism.
j. I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles
from Easton, in Talbot county, Maryland.
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[Author: Fritz Kreisler (composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
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Audio: Triplets, by George Hamilton Green 10423
[Subtitle: Fox Trot]
[Author: George Hamilton Green (composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded in October of 1919, in New York City.]
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Caesar Dies, by Talbot Mundy 10422
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The Life of Lord Byron, by John Galt 10421
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The Principles of Success in Literature, by George Henry Lewes 10420
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The Forest Monster of Oz, by Bob Evans 10419C
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[Subtitle: A Romance]
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Love, Life & Work, by Elbert Hubbard 10417
[Subtitle: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning
How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least
Possible Harm to Others]
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Audio: There's a Little Bit of Bad in Every Good Little Girl,Gladys Rice 10416
[Author: Fred Fischer (composer), Grant Clarke (composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded in September of 1916, in New York City.]
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[Subtitle: Waltz]
[Author: Eugene A. Jaudas (conductor)]
[Author: Charles W. Ancliffe (composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded January 5, 1914, in New York City.]
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Audio: I Love You, California, by Elizabeth Spencer 10414
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Author: The Knickerbocker Quartet]
[Author: A. E. Frankenstein (composer)]
[Subtitle: March Song]
[Recorded c. February 1914 in New York City]
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[Author: William B. Baines (composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded September 9, 1919 in New York City.]
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[Author: Manuel Sarrablo (composer)]
[Author: Eugene A. Jaudas (conductor)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded on December 29, 1913 in New York City]
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[Author: Harry Smith (lyricist)]
[Author: Francis Wheeler (lyricist)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded March 22, 1922 in New York City]
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The Powers and Maxine, by Charles Norris Williamson 10410
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The Crisis of the Naval War, by John Rushworth Jellicoe 10409
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[Subtitle: Foxtrot Medley]
[Author: Broadway Dance Orchestra]
[Author: Rudolf Friml (composer, "Bring...")]
[Author: Dave Stamper (composer, "Sally...")]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded June 28, 1921 in New York City]
[Note: Recorded in New York City]
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[Subtitle: Waltz]
[Author: Eugene A. Jaudas (conductor)]
[Author: Carrie Jacobs Bond (composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded January 23, 1917 in New York City.]
[Note: Recorded in New York City.]
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Audio: Heart Bowed Down, by William Tuson 10406
[Subtitle: The Bohemian Girl]
[Author: Michael William Balfe (composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. April 1903 in New York City]
[Note: Recorded in New York City]
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[Subtitle: One Step]
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[Author: Alcide "Yellow" Nunez (clarinet); Joe Cawley (Piano);
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Personal Memoir Of Daniel Drayton, by Daniel Drayton 10401
[Subtitle: For Four Years And Four Months A Prisoner (For Charity's Sake)
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Historie van Mejuffrouw Sara Burgerhart, by Wolff en Deken 10400
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Affairs of State, by Burton E. Stevenson 10397
[Subtitle: Being an Account of Certain Surprising Adventures Which
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Apr 2003 Entire Monsieur de Camors by Oct. Feuillet [IM#33][im33bxxx.xxx] 3946
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sophisticated enterprise resource planning (ERP) infrastructure to automate
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implementation of corporate edicts and the fulfillment of business orders.
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million eliminated in the last two years in the U.S. as companies
streamline processes and outsource functions to overseas workers. And
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in this new world, you'd better be doing something that benefits from a
digitized economy." (Fortune.com 4 Dec 2003)
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/04/fortune.ff.real.boom/index.html
NEGOTIATORS DRAFT GLOBAL INTERNET GROUND RULES
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differences on the issue of how best to expand the Internet, but remain
undecided as to whether rich nations should foot the entire bill.
"Unfortunately, we didn't settle everything, but one has to be realistic.
We're probably at 98%," says Marc Furrer, the Swiss official who brokered
the negotiations prior to the start of the three-day World Summit on the
Information Society on Wednesday. More than 60 heads of state will attend
the U.N.-sponsored meeting and the hope has been to have draft agreements
prepared ahead of time for approval. African nations are advocating the
creation of a special "digital solidarity fund" to pay for expanding
Internet access to remote villages, but the U.S., Japan and European
countries have suggested that existing development aid should be used to
accomplish that. Meanwhile, negotiators have agreed to include in their
proposals wording supporting the commitment to press freedom taken from the
U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and to maintain the status
quo on Internet governance, with the core systems based in the U.S. and
managed by ICANN. The declaration also calls on governments to work
together to combat spam and improve Internet security. (AP 8 Dec 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20031208/D7VA8D480.html
SUMMIT PARTICIPANTS FACE 500-FOOT-HIGH VIRTUAL BILLBOARD
Participants at this week's World Summit on the Information Society will be
greeted by a 500-foot-high laser-light display that will beam thousands of
SMS messages onto a wall of water formed by the shooting jets of Lake
Geneva's Jet d'Eau, the world's tallest fountain. Internet users will be
able to post their messages almost instantly onto the fountain display, or
onto the northern fagade of the U.N. building in New York, a mountain face
in Rio de Janiero, or the front of a Bombay skyscraper. It's all part of
the Helloworld Project, the brainchild of Swiss Web designer Johannes Gees,
and is similar to a smaller version he debuted at the 2001 World Economic
Forum in Davos. "The idea is to use the media to allow people to get their
message across to powerful people," says Gees. "With this project's
intervention into public space, I give people who don't have money the
power to be present in a big, visible way." Requests from governments to
edit the messages have been refused, although Gees says his 12 multilingual
editors will screen out messages with personal insults, commercial content,
racism or sexism. He's also discouraging people from sending "Hi,
Mom!"-type messages. (Wired.com 8 Dec 2003)
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The Department of Education has expanded the list of institutions
exempt from the 50-percent rule, which denies federal aid to students
of programs that teach more than half their courses at a distance or
enroll more than half of their students as distance students. The rule
was designed to discourage distance education programs that were not
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International University, National Technological University Inc., and
Northcentral University, bringing the total to 29. The demonstration
program will continue through 2005, though there are currently
proposals before Congress to permanently ease the 50-percent rule.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 8 December 2003 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v50/i16/16a03102.htm
TASK FORCE URGES BETTER FEDERAL INFORMATION SHARING
A report issued by the Markle Foundation calls on the federal
government to move away from the "Cold War" mentality of its current
approach to national security and open networks to a range of law
enforcement officials. The report, "Creating A Trusted Information
Network for Homeland Security," was written by a task force co-chaired
by James Barksdale, former CEO of Netscape. The task force argues that
the intense level of security applied by federal officials is no longer
appropriate for the risks of today. Rather than hiding information
inside its own networks, the federal government should share that
information with state and local governments. The report also
encourages cooperation with the private sector in sharing information
to protect national security, but cautions that such sharing would need
to protect civil liberties.
InformationWeek, 5 December 2003
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Apr 2003 The Entire M, Mme and Bebe, by Gustave Droz[IM#13][im13bxxx.xxx] 3926
Apr 2003 Monsieur, Mme, and Bebe, by Gustave Droz v3[IM#12][im12bxxx.xxx] 3925
Apr 2003 Monsieur, Mme, and Bebe, by Gustave Droz v2[IM#11][im11bxxx.xxx] 3924
Apr 2003 Monsieur, Mme, and Bebe, by Gustave Droz v1[IM#10][im10bxxx.xxx] 3923
[Title of the above: Monsieur, Madame, and Bebe]
Apr 2003 Entire The Red Lily, by Anatole France [IM#09][im09bxxx.xxx] 3922
Apr 2003 The Red Lily, by Anatole France, v3 [IM#08][im08bxxx.xxx] 3921
Apr 2003 The Red Lily, by Anatole France, v2 [IM#07][im07bxxx.xxx] 3920
Apr 2003 The Red Lily, by Anatole France, v1 [IM#06][im06bxxx.xxx] 3919
Apr 2003 The Entire Serge Panine, by Georges Ohnet [IM#05][im05bxxx.xxx] 3918
Apr 2003 Serge Panine, by Georges Ohnet, v4 [IM#04][im04bxxx.xxx] 3917
Apr 2003 Serge Panine, by Georges Ohnet, v3 [IM#03][im03bxxx.xxx] 3916
Apr 2003 Serge Panine, by Georges Ohnet, v2 [IM#02][im02bxxx.xxx] 3915
Apr 2003 Serge Panine, by Georges Ohnet, v1 [IM#01][im01bxxx.xxx] 3914
Apr 2003 Entire Confessions of J.J.Rousseau/Book 13 [JJ#13][jj13bxxx.xxx] 3913
. . .
Apr 2003 The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book 1 [JJ#01][jj01bxxx.xxx] 3901
[Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau]
Mar 2003 The Entire Court Memoirs of France Series [CM#63][cm63bxxx.xxx] 3900
Mar 2003 The Entire Memoirs of Court of St. Cloud [CM#62][cm62bxxx.xxx] 3899
Mar 2003 Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, v7 [CM#61][cm61bxxx.xxx] 3898
. . .
Mar 2003 Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, v1 [CM#55][cm55bxxx.xxx] 3892
Mar 2003 The Entire Marie Antoinette, by Campan [CM#54][cm54bxxx.xxx] 3891
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v7 [CM#53][cm53bxxx.xxx] 3890
. . .
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v1 [CM#47][cm47bxxx.xxx] 3884
Mar 2003 The Entire Louis XV/XVI, by Hausset [CM#46][cm46bxxx.xxx] 3883
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV/XVI, by Hausset, v7 [CM#45][cm45bxxx.xxx] 3882
. . .
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV/XVI, by Hausset, v1 [CM#39][cm39bxxx.xxx] 3876
Mar 2003 Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon[CM#38][cm38bxxx.xxx] 3875
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v15 [CM#37][cm37bxxx.xxx] 3874
. . .
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v1 [CM#23][cm23bxxx.xxx] 3860
Mar 2003 Entire Memoirs Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans[CM#22][cm22bxxx.xxx] 3859
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans, v4[CM#21][cm21bxxx.xxx] 3858
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans, v3[CM#20][cm20bxxx.xxx] 3857
Mar 2003 The Entire Memoirs of Madame de Montespan [CM#17][cm17bxxx.xxx] 3854
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, v7 [CM#16][cm16bxxx.xxx] 3853
. . .
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, v1 [CM#10][cm10bxxx.xxx] 3847
Mar 2003 The Entire Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz [CM#09][cm09bxxx.xxx] 3846
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, v4 [CM#08][cm08bxxx.xxx] 3845
. . .
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, v1 [CM#05][cm05bxxx.xxx] 3842
Mar 2003 The Entire Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois [CM#04][cm04bxxx.xxx] 3841
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, v3 [CM#03][cm03bxxx.xxx] 3840
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, v2 [CM#02][cm02bxxx.xxx] 3839
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, v1 [CM#01][cm01bxxx.xxx] 3838
[From: The Entire Court Memoirs of France Series]
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TALKING NEWSPAPERS SOUND ALMOST HUMAN
The British Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB) is teaming up with
Rhetorical Systems to provide partially sighted and blind people with
timely access to newspapers and magazines, using technology that "reads"
the stories in a very human-sounding voice. Rhetorical's rVoice
text-to-speech software is based on the voice files of real people and
sounds, and produces much more natural speech than traditional speech
synthesizers. Subscribers to the new service will receive a portable
AudioRead device that they can use to retrieve information from wherever
they happen to be. Unlike audiotapes used to deliver newspapers to the
visually impaired, AudioRead users can navigate the sections, skipping
between articles and sections as they choose. "We'll be able to produce 400
hours of audio in one hour," says RNIB technology expert Steve Tyler.
"The mainstay of our users who listen to books have never liked the idea of
synthetic speech, they've always wanted a real reader."
(BBC News 25 Nov 2003)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3233340.stm
THIS NUMBER'S READY FOR PRIME TIME
Michigan State University grad student Michael Shafer has succeeded in
identifying the largest known prime number to date, using a distributed
computer network of more than 200,000 computers located around the world.
The new number is 6,320,430 digits long and is only the 40th Mersenne prime
to have ever been discovered (Mersenne primes are an especially rare breed
that take the form of 2-to-the-power-of-P, where P is also a prime number).
Shafer was taking part in the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS)
project, when the new number popped up. "I had just finished meeting with
my advisor when I saw the computer had found a new prime. After a short
victory dance, I called up my wife and friends involved with GIMPS to share
the great news," said Shafer. (New Scientist 2 Dec 2003)
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994438
[We All Just Know Inside That RFIDs Are Going To Be Inserted In Our Pets,
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[Of Course, They Won't Be Put In THEIR Shoes. . . . Heaven Forbid That
Anyone Could Find A Rogue Government Agent. . .There Are Too Darn Many]
[Lifted from an anonymous source and paraphrased]
Sun Microsystems is opening a new center in Scotland to test
radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags, in a move that signals the
company's desire to expand beyond the back office. Up until now, Sun has
best been known as a maker of servers used to power corporate networks and
Web sites. Now the company is branching out, selling software designed for
office desktops, for tracking retail sales in stores, and for downloading
games and tunes to mobile phones. "This allows Sun to sell the whole
ecosystem whereas previously we played into only one portion,"
says John Loiacono, VP of Sun's operating platforms group.
(International Herald Tribune 3 Dec 20030
http://www.iht.com/articles/120022.html
[Napster Is Dead! Long Live The New Napsters!]
HP JOINS INTERNET MUSIC FRENZY
Hewlett-Packard is diving into the online music fray with a branded
Internet music store and a portable digital music player that will compete
with similar offerings from Apple and Dell. HP, which ranks No. 2 in PC
sales and No. 1 in printers, is the latest computer maker to aggressively
expand their consumer electronics business in the face of stagnant PC sales
and weakened corporate spending. In addition to the music venture, HP
recently indicated it would soon start selling flat screen TVs, following
in the footsteps of Gateway and Dell. (Financial Times 3 Dec 2003)
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=Sto
ryFT&cid=1069493676868
SPAMMERS TARGET ANTI-SPAM GROUPS WITH E-MAIL WORM
Virus experts say a new worm, dubbed W32/Mimail-L, has been unleashed by a
vengeful spammonger intent on paralyzing anti-spam groups via a crippling
barrage of data -- a so-called denial of service attack. "It's the third
Mimail variation to come after us, except this one is trying to do more,"
says Steve Linford, founder of the Spamhaus Project. The nasty worm comes
as an attachment to an e-mail from "Wendy" who describes an erotic
encounter and then offers photos. Clicking on the attachment launches the
worm. In a new twist, a follow-up e-mail is sent to the infected user
announcing that an order for a CD containing child pornography images will
be sent to their mailing address. Virus experts say the impact of this
latest worm has been minimal, compared with the problems caused by last
summer's plague of viruses, "but what this shows is that there is more
evidence that virus writers and spammers are now colluding," says Sophos
senior technology consultant Graham Cluley. (Reuters 2 Dec 2003)
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Headline News Mostly Avoided By The Major U.S. Media
Those of you who watch the evening news undoubtedly saw
a video tape made by some rebels in Iraq shooting a DHL
cargo plane with a shoulder fired SAM [Surface to Air Missle].
A U.S. helicopter can be seen cruising nearby in the tape.
The moment of the hit was edited out of all the American
media and they were sure to say that there was no evidence
that THIS missle was the cause of the damage to THAT plane.
The tape was received by a French journalist and then
relayed to the rest of the media. The entire length is
some 6 minutes, and even the BBC didn't show all of it,
but it didn't appear as if they edited it internally,
as did their U.S. counterparts.
[For those of you unfamiliar with DHL shipping, think of
"Airborne" in the U.S., a competitor to Fed-X, UPS, etc.
DHL is larger than any of them, and even owns Airborne.
There is a date stamp on the videtape, but not a time stamp,
so we can't easily tell over how many minutes it was taken.
I'm sure someone will analyze the sun's position and should
be able to say over how many minutes the video was taken.
[Apparently someone already thought of this, and confirmed
that the sun's angle is consistent with the time of day:
"At approximately 6:30 GMT this morning, a DHL aircraft,
an Airbus A300 freighter, departing from Baghdad to Bahrain,
had to return to Baghdad and effect an emergency landing,"
company spokeswoman Patricia Thomson said in Brussels."
I saw what appeared to be the entire segment of tape on the
BBC World News including the moment when the missle hit.
You can find copies of this online:
KEYWORDS: ATTACK; BAGHDAD; DHL; FRANCE; JAPAN; SAM; SHOULDER;
MISSILE; TERROR; TERRORISTS; VIDEO
I just used "dhl, missle, videotape"
Here are some URLs:
56k Stream:
http://www.bcast.co.jp/cgi-bin/yahoo/news.asx?cid=20031125-00000019-jn
n-int-movie-001&media=wm300k
300k Stream:
http://www.bcast.co.jp/cgi-bin/yahoo/news.asx?cid=20031125-00000019-jn
n-int-movie-001&media=wm56k
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ANTI-FREE TRADE AND GLOBALIZATION. . .ECONOMIC HOME FRONT WARFARE!!!
In a "Think Globally, Act Locally" sort of response to Globalization,
some counties started advertising campaigns to encourage residents to
"Think Locally, Buy Locally," to keep revenues inside their counties.
This was a response to the building of large "Mega-Malls" that traded
in the retail arena with residents of multiple surrounding counties.
Since then, the "Mega-Mall" counties have retorted with the very same
campaign ads, encouraging their own resident to shop at home, rather
than supporting the non-local economies, and tax bases, of any of the
nearby counties.
If this trend continues, perhaps neighborhood stores will return, and
put the malls out of business, eh?
***
MORE ECONOMIC WARFARE, ON AN EVEN MORE LOCAL FRONT
Recent reports show that 60% of American workers are
planning to quit their jobs and go elsewhere to work
in the next two years. [Source NPR]
Indeed, other reports show that when employers snoop
on employees' email, most of their spying effort is
searching for keywords such as: resume, job-search,
and other items that would indicate workers are not
satisfied with their current positions.
The reason for this may be that while only 25% are
willing to say they are dissatisfied with the job,
60% are searching for something else.
With this kind of transitional labor force, the U.S.
worker could easily become labeled as "part time,"
or "migrant". . .with most workers planning on the
move to a new job in two years. . . .
But isn't this exactly what U.S. businesses WANTED
to create?. . .a totally mobile workforce that will
move to a new location at the drop of a hat?
Of course, they ONLY wanted those workers to move
when and where they were told to, within the same
multi-national corporations, such as IBM, but it
was only a matter of time before such mobility
went outside the corporate walls with the advent
of a cannibalistic "headhunter" mentality. . . .
Just out:
(San Jose Mercury News 2 Dec, 2002)
About half the workers would switch jobs just to
get a signing bonus of $1,000 in stock! Or even
just a better chance at earning a yearly bonus.
Apparently employees are also now willing to
consider that having their company get to know them
is of increasing importance, as companies are now
being bought and sold left and right. . . .
An engineer who quit when his company was bought out
confirmed this was a growing issue:
"You've got to know your employees. If you don't have a
personal relationship with them, somebody else will."
***
CORRECTION:
Only 40 minutes of TV programming per hour?
I mentioned that TV shows have 6 commercial breaks per hour,
but a recent show I logged showed 7 commercial breaks:
at 8, 15, 23, 33, 43, 52 and 58 minutes. This seems opposite
to what I recall, as all 4 middle ones had about 10 minutes
between them, with only the first 2 and last 2 being shorter.
I recall that they used to get more often as the show went on,
with the first segment being the longest. . .I'll do more testing.
During the 7 breaks there were some 25 full length commericals,
3 or 4 to a break, along with about half as many promotional ads
for upcoming shows [some are as long as full length commericals].
The last break was an exception, as it contained only 2 full length
commercials, 2 promos, and the credits. My old statistics probably
need to be updated, as it appears commercials are now taking nearly
20 minutes out of each hour, leaving only 40 for programming. The
networks like to say that the shows have 45 minutes per hour, but I
think that may have changed recently, that's why I was checking.
By the way, the study that said we were generating half a million
Libraries of Congress worth of information yearly also said that:
Only 31 television hours out of every 123 are original, and thus
92 hours are reruns of something that has been seen before, either
on television or some other medium [including movies, I presume].
That's about 3/4 of everything on television has been shown before,
and only about 1/4 is actually something prepared for current showing.
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Have you seen this report:
"MPAA, RIAA seek permanent antitrust exemption"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/34191.html
Their latest solution to all those pesky antitrust suits:
buy a law which makes them exempt!
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NPR'S PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE BLUNDER
It seems that in a recent debate in which college students were
supposed to be asking the candidates questions, that some of the
questions were actually being fed to the students against their will.
It was basically a case of "Ask this question, or you don't get to
ask anything," at least in the case of the now infamous "Mac or PC"
question asked of the candidates. Only one used a Mac, but that
was higher than the national average of some 1 out of 20.
So far it would appear that NPR is keeping the name of the producer
who did this a secret.
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The Century Vocabulary Builder, by Greever & Bachelor 10073
[Author: Garland Greever and Joseph M. Bachelor]
The following has been re-posted to include previously missing chapters,
also in HTML format:
Apr 2005 Hide and Seek, but Wilkie Collins [chidexxx.xxx] 7893
[Plain text in chide10.txt/.zip; HTML in chide10h.htm/.zip]
The following is being re-indexed to clarify the entry, adding additional
and supplement title and author information, from:
Feb 1995 Tao/Dao Te/h King/Ching, by Lao Tzu [Hsuan Chiao] [taotexxx.xxx] 216
to:
Feb 1995 Tao Teh King, by Lao-Tse [Hsuan Chiao] [taotexxx.xxx] 216
[Title AKA: Dao te ching]
[Subtitle: The Tao and Its Characteristics]
[Author AKA: Lao Tzu; Laozi]
[Tr.: James Legge]
The following has been reposted in HTML format as indicated:
Dec 2005 Government By The Brewers?, by Adolph Keitel [bvbrwxxx.xxx] 9406
[HTML in bvbrw10h.htm; illustrated HTML in bvbrw10h.zip]
The following has been reposted in a greatly improved edition 13:
Oct 1995 Dracula, by Bram Stoker [dracuxxx.xxx] 345
The following is being re-indexed to correct the title, and add supplemental
title and author information:
Jan 2005 Lau-zi Dao de jing, by Lau-zi [?laujxxx.xxx] 7337
[Title AKA: Tao te ching]
[Author AKA: Lau-tzu; Laozi]
[Language: Chinese]
We have posted a revised 11th edition of:
Mar 2004 The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope [#36][wwlvnxxx.xxx] 5231
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American Indian stories, by Zitkala-Sa 10376
[Author AKA: Gertrude Bonnin]
[Files: 10376.txt; 10376-8.txt]
England's Antiphon, by George MacDonald 10375
[Files: 10375.txt; 10375-8.txt]
The Ramblin' Kid, by Earl Wayland Bowman 10374
[Files: 10374.txt; 10374-8.txt]
The Middle Temple Murder, by J.S. Fletcher 10373
[Files: 10373.txt; 10373-8.txt]
Bunch Grass, by Horace Annesley Vachell 10372
[Subtitle: A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch]
[Files: 10372.txt; 10372-8.txt]
The Cinema Murder, by E. Phillips Oppenheim 10371
Sustained honor, by John R. Musick 10370
[Subtitle: The Age of Liberty Established]
[Files: 10370.txt; 10370-h.htm]
Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel,John Yeardley 10369
[Files: 10369.txt; 10369-8.txt]
The Vizier of the Two-Horned Alexander, by Frank R. Stockton 10368
[Files: 10368.txt; 10368-h.htm]
Poems, by Sir John Carr 10367
[Files: 10367.txt; 10367-8.txt]
Freedom's Battle, by Mahatma Gandhi 10366
[Subtitle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches
on the Present Situation]
[Files: 10366.txt; 10366-h.htm]
Precaution, by James Fenimore Cooper 10365
[Files: 10365.txt; 10365-8.txt; 10365-h.htm]
Yeast: A Problem, by Charles Kingsley 10364
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/6/10364 ]
[Files: 10364.txt; 10364.zip; 10364-h.htm; 10364-h.zip ]
The Bravo, by J. Fenimore Cooper 10363
[Files: 10363.txt; 10363-8.txt; 10363-h.htm]
Sketches of the East Africa Campaign, by Robert Valentine Dolbey 10362
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/6/10362 ]
[Files: 10362.txt; 10362.zip; 10362-8.txt; 10362-8.zip; 10362-h.htm;
10362-h.zip; ]
The Creative Process in the Individual, by Thomas Troward 10361
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/6/10361 ]
[Files: 10361.txt; 10361.zip; 10361-8.txt; 10361-8.zip; 10361-h.htm;
10361-h.zip; ]
Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories, by Louisa M. Alcott 10360
[Author AKA: Louisa May Alcott]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/6/10360 ]
[Files: 10360.txt; 10360.zip; 10360-8.txt; 10360-8.zip; ]
Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville, by Edith Van Dyne 10359
[Author AKA: L. Frank Baum]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/5/10359 ]
[Files: 10359.txt; 10359.zip; ]
The Boss of Little Arcady, by Harry Leon Wilson 10358
[Files: 10358.txt; 10358-8.txt; 10358-h.htm]
Life Of Johnson, Volume 4 (of 6), by Boswell 10357
[Files: 10357.txt; 10357-8.txt; 10357-h.htm]
Travels in Morocco, Vol. 2., by James Richardson 10356
[Files: 10356.txt; 10356-8.txt]
Travels in Morocco, Vol. 1., by James Richardson 10355
[Files: 10355.txt; 10355-8.txt]
Die Laune des Verliebten, by J.W. Goethe 10354
[Language: German]
[Files: 10354.txt; 10354-8.txt]
Satyros oder Der Vergoetterte Waldteufel, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 10353
[Title AKA English: Goethe's Satyros and Prometheus]
[Language: German]
[Files: 10353.txt, 10353-8.txt, 10353.zip, 10353-8.zip]
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 11., by Samuel Johnson 10352
[Subtitle: Parliamentary Debates II.]
[Files: 10352.txt; 10352-8.txt; 10352-h.htm]
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 10., by Samuel Johnson 10351
[Subtitle: Parliamentary Debates I.]
[Files: 10351.txt; 10351-8.txt; 10351-h.htm]
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 6, by Samuel Johnson 10350
[Subtitle: Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons]
[Files: 10350.txt; 10350-8.txt; 10350-h.htm]
Naar het middelpunt der Aarde, by Jules Gabriel Verne 10349
[Language: Dutch]
[Files: 10349.txt; 10349-8.txt]
Audio: Bad Medicine, by Robert Sheckley 10347C
[Also see eBook #9055]
C'Etait ainsi..., by Cyriel Buysse 10346
[Language: French]
[Files: 10346.txt; 10346-8.txt]
Domestic Manners of the Americans, by Fanny Trollope 10345
[Author AKA: Frances Milton Trollope 1780-1863]
[Note: Mother of Anthony Trollope]
Autumn Anthem, by Joel A. Erickson (Musical score) 10344C
[Musical score in Sibelius' .sib format]
[Files: 10344-readme.txt 10344-h.htm 10344-sib.sib]
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2, by Charles Lamb 10343
[Subtitle: Elia; and The Last Essays of Elia]
[Editor: E. V. Lucas]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/4/10343 ]
[Files: 10343.txt; 10343.zip; 10343-8.txt; 10343-8.zip; ]
The Velvet Glove, by Henry Seton Merriman 10342
[Author AKA: Hugh Stowell Scott]
[Files: 10342.txt; 10342-8.txt; 10342-h.htm]
Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 21, Editor: Charles F. Horne 10341
[Subtitle: The Recent Days (1910-1914)]
[Files: 10341.txt; 10341-8.txt]
Dab Kinzer, by William O. Stoddard 10340
[Subtitle: A Story of a Growing Boy]
[Files: 10340.txt]
An Antarctic Mystery, by Jules Verne 10339
[Translator: Mrs. Cashel Hoey]
[Files: 10339-h.htm]
With the Turks in Palestine, by Alexander Aaronsohn 10338
[Files: 10338.txt; 10338-8.txt; 10338-h.htm]
Lady Into Fox, by David Garnett 10337
[HTML files include images.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/3/10337 ]
[Files: 10337.txt; 10337.zip; 10337-h.htm; 10337-h.zip; ]
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edn.), Various 10336
[Subtitle: Originally published by Robert Dodsley in the Year 1744, Now
first chronologically arranged, revised and enlarged with the Notes of
all the Commentators, and new Notes; 1876.]
[Editor: Robert Dodsley]
[Contents:
Tancred and Gismunda, by Gentlemen of the Inner Temple
The Wounds of Civil War, by Thomas Lodge, Gent.
Mucedorus, by author unknown
The Two Angry Women of Abington, by Henry Porter, Gent.
Look about You, by unknown]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/3/10336 ]
[Files: 10336.txt; 10336.zip; 10336-8.txt; 10336-8.zip; ]
Children's Rights, by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith 10335
[Ed.: Kate Douglas Wiggin]
[Contents:
The Rights Of The Child
Children's Plays
Children's Playthings
What Shall Children Read?
Children's Stories, by Nora A. Smith
The Relation Of The Kindergarten To Social Reform
How Shall We Govern Our Children?, by Nora A. Smith
The Magic Of "Together.", by Nora A. Smith
The Relation Of The Kindergarten To The Public School
Other People's Children]
[Files: 10335.txt; 10335-8.txt]
Van 't viooltje dat weten wilde, by Maria Catherina Metz-Koning 10334
[Files: 10334.txt; 10334-8.txt]
[Language: Dutch]
The European Anarchy, by G. Lowes Dickinson 10333
[Files: 10333.txt; 10333-8.txt]
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, by Various 10332
[Subtitle: Volume XII. F, No. 325, August 2, 1828.]
[Files: 10332.txt; 10332-8.txt; 10332-h.htm]
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, by Various 10331
[Subtitle: Volume XII., No. 324, July 26, 1828]
[Files: 10331.txt; 10331-8.txt; 10331-h.htm]
Fruitfulness, by Emile Zola 10330
[Original title: Fecondite]
[Translated by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly]
[Files: 10330.txt]
Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes, by Laura Rountree Smith 10329
[Files: 10329.txt]
Poems, by Walter R. Cassels 10328
[Files: 10328.txt; 10328-8.txt]
Alias The Lone Wolf, by Louis Joseph Vance 10327
[Files: 10327.txt; 10327-8.txt; 10327-h.htm]
David, by Charles Kingsley 10326
[Subtitle: Five Sermons]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/2/10326 ]
[Files: 10326.txt; 10326.zip; 10326-h.htm; 10326-h.zip]
The Gospel of the Pentateuch, by Charles Kingsley 10325
[Subtitle: A Set of Parish Sermons]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/2/10325 ]
[Files: 10325.txt; 10325.zip; 10325-h.htm; 10325-h.htm]
Bull Hunter, by Max Brand 10324
[Author AKA: Frederick Faust]
[Files: 10324.txt]
The Rover Boys at College, by Edward Stratemeyer 10323
[Files: 10323.txt]
Miss Prudence, by Jennie Maria (Drinkwater) Conklin 10322
[Subtitle: A Story of Two Girls' Lives.]
[Files: 10322.txt; 10322-8.txt]
Dragon's blood, by Henry Milner Rideout 10321
[Files: 10321.txt; 10321-8.txt; 10321-h.htm]
Dotty Dimple at Play, by Sophie May 10320
[Files: 10320.txt]
Dave Darrin's Third Year at Annapolis, by H. Irving Hancock 10319
[Subtitle: Leaders of the Second Class Midshipmen]
[Files: 10319.txt]
Damon and Delia, by William Godwin 10318
[Subtitle: A Tale]
[Files: 10318.txt; 10318-8.txt; 10318-h.htm]
Betty Gordon at Boarding School, by Alice Emerson 10317
[Subtitle: The Treasure of Indian Chasm]
[Files: 10317.txt; 10317-8.txt]
Roy Blakeley's Adventures in Camp, by Percy Keese Fitzhugh 10316
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/1/10316 ]
[Files: 10316.txt; 10316.zip; ]
Persian Literature, V1, The Shah Nameh, Rubaiyat, Divan, Gulistan 10315
[Title: Persian Literature, Volume 1, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The
Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan]
[Author: Anonymous; special introduction by Richard J. H. Gottheil]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/1/10315 ]
[Files: 10315.txt; 10315.zip; 10315-8.txt; 10315-8.zip; ]
Sonnets, by Michael Angelo Buonarroti & Tommaso Campanella 10314
[Translator: John Addington Symonds]
[Files: 10314.txt; 10314-8.txt]
Audio: The Fifth Regiment March, by Issler's Orchestra 10313
[Author: Walter H. Miller (technician)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. March 1889 in West Orange, New Jersey or local vicinity]
[NPS: EDIS 564]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/1/10313 ]
[Files: 10313-m-readme.txt; 10313-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: The Pattison Waltz, by Effie Stewart (vocal) 10312
[Author: Theo Wangemann (piano)]
[Author: Theo Wangemann (technician)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded Feb 25, 1889 at The Edison Laboratory, West Orange, New Jersey]
[NPS: EDIS 565]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/1/10312 ]
[Files: 10312-m-readme.txt; 10312-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Around the World on the Phonograph, by Thomas A. Edison 10311
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Note: believed to be the earliest existing recording of Thomas Edison's
voice.]
[Recorded c. late Oct 1888 at West Organge, New Jersey or local vicinity]
[NPS: EDIS 566]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/1/10311 ]
[Files: 10311-m-readme.txt; 10311-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: After Dinner Toast at Little Menlo, by Arthur Sullivan 10310
[Author: Col. George Gouraud (Introduction)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded October 5, 1888 at Little Menlo, London, England]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/1/10310 ]
[Files: 10310-m-readme.txt; 10310-m-001.mp3; 10310.txt; 10310.zip; ]
Audio: The Lost Chord, by Arthur Sullivan (Composer) 10309
[Author: Performers Unknown]
[Author: Col. George Gouraud (technician)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. August 1888 at London, England]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/0/10309 ]
[Files: 10309-m-readme.txt; 10309-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Handel Festival, by August Manns (conductor) 10308
[Subtitle: Israel in Egypt (excerpt)]
[Author: George Frideric Handel (composer)]
[Author: Col. George Gouraud (technician)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Note: earliest known recorded music in existence; A chorus of 4000
voices recorded with phonograph over 100 yards away.]
[Recorded June 29, 1888 at the Crystal Palace, London, England]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/0/10308 ]
[Files: 10308-m-readme.txt; 10308-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: At the Moving Picture Ball, by Maurice Burkhart 10307
[Author: Joseph H. Santly (composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. 1920]
[NPS: EDIS 75987]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/0/10307 ]
[Files: 10307-m-readme.txt; 10307-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Moonlight Bay, by The Premier Quartet 10306
[Author AKA: The American Quartet]
[Author: Percy Wenrich (Composer); Edward Madden (Lyricist)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Note: Recorded c. 1915]
[Note: Robert D. Amour or John Young (first tenor); Billy Murray (second
tenor); Steve Porter (baritone); William F. Hooley (bass)]
[NPS: EDIS 40555]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/0/10306 ]
[Files: 10306-m-readme.txt; 10306-m-001.mp3; ]
Sermons on Evil-Speaking, by Isaac Barrow 10274
[Editor: Henry Morley]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/7/10274 ]
[Files: 10274.txt; 10274.zip; 10274-h.htm, 10274-h.zip]
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