The Foreigner: A Tale of Saskatchewanby Ralph ConnorPREFACEIn Western Canada there is to be seen to-day that most fascinating of all human phenomena, the making of a nation. Out of breeds diverse in traditions, in ideals, in speech, and in manner of life, Saxon and Slav, Teuton, Celt and Gaul, one people is being made. The blood strains of great races will mingle in the blood of a race greater than the greatest of them all.It would be our wisdom to grip these peoples to us with living hooks o
The Rivermanby Stewart Edward WhiteIThe time was the year 1872, and the place a bend in the river abovea long pond terminating in a dam. Beyond this dam, and on a flatlower than it, stood a two-story mill structure. Save for a small,stump-dotted clearing, and the road that led from it, all else wasforest. Here in the bottom-lands, following the course of thestream, the hardwoods grew dense, their uppermost branches just...
Treatises on Friendship and Old Ageby Marcus Tullius CiceroTranslated by E S ShuckburghINTRODUCTORY NOTEMARCUS TULLIUS CICERO, the greatest of Roman orators andthe chief master of Latin prose style, was born at Arpinum, Jan.3,106 B.C. His father, who was a man of property and belongedto the class of the "Knights," moved to Rome when Cicero was achild; and the future statesman received an elaborate education inrhetoric, law, and philosophy, studying and practising under some...
RECOLLECTIONS OF THE PRIVATE LIFE OF NAPOLEON, V3BY CONSTANTPREMIER VALET DE CHAMBRETRANSLATED BY WALTER CLARKCONTENTS:CHAPTER XIII. to CHAPTER XXII.CHAPTER XIII.The First Consul left Boulogne to return to Paris, in order to be presentat the marriage of one of his sisters. Prince Camille Borghese,descendant of the noblest family of Rome, had already arrived at Paristomarry Madame Pauline Bonaparte, widow of General Leclerc, who haddied of yellow fever in San Domingo. I recollect having seen
Child of Stormby H. Rider HaggardDEDICATIONDear Mr. Stuart,For twenty years, I believe I am right in saying, you, as AssistantSecretary for Native Affairs in Natal, and in other offices, have beenintimately acquainted with the Zulu people. Moreover, you are one ofthe few living men who have made a deep and scientific study of theirlanguage, their customs and their history. So I confess that I was themore pleased after you were so good as to read this talethe second...
第一场:一个名叫彼得的独生子站在自己新西兰的家外面,这是一幢平静的、俯瞰着大海的房子。有一天,小男孩借了父母的家用摄影机,拿着它在花园里四处跑,想像着自己是一架飞机。在厌倦了自家的花园之后,彼得闲逛到邻居的地下室,在那儿他发现了一个旧茶叶箱,里面是一些由毡布包裹的锈迹斑斑的金属盒,盒子之间用线连接着。彼得把盒子拿回到父亲在地下室的工作间,打算修好这个东西。修理中他发现,在其中一个盒子的已被腐蚀的金属表面上印着一行字——“第四款——杰拉尔丁,1916年6月”。而此时,在工作台的一头,家猫莱昂纳尔正坐在自己的篮子里好奇地关注着全过程。彼得给机器插上电源,其中一个盒子立即发出一束炽热的白光。彼得转过头来,惊讶地发现莱昂纳尔已经变成一滩绿色的液态泥浆,然后迅速地凝结起来。...
The Iron Puddlerby James J. DavisMY LIFE IN THE ROLLING MILLS AND WHAT CAME OF ITIntroduction by JOSEPH G. CANNONThe man whose life story is here presented between book covers is at the time of writing only forty-eight years old. When I met him many years ago he was a young man full of enthusiasm. I remember saying to him then, "With your enthusiasm and the sparkle which you have in your eyes I am sure you will make good."Why should so young a man, one so recently elevated to official prominenc
The French Revolution, Volume 1.The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 2by Hippolyte A. TaineCONTENTS:ANARCHYPREFACEBOOK FIRST. Spontaneous Anarchy.CHAPTER I. The Beginnings of AnarchyCHAPTER II. Paris up to the 14th of JulyCHAPTER III. Anarchy from July 14th to October 6th, 1789CHAPTER IV. PARISBOOK SECOND. The constituent Assembly, and the Result of its Labors...
第一辑 半小时的故事毒不死的狗青山从田畈里回来时,见院子里躺了一地的死鸡,心疼得针扎一样。又是村长那条狼狗!以往,村长那条狼狗只咬死一两只鸡,这回好,他家十几只下蛋的母鸡全让它咬死了。青山气得脸红脖子粗,哧哧地喘着粗气。女人回来时,见了一地的死鸡,腿一软,就瘫在地上了。青山把女人扶起来,叹着气说,伤心有啥用?自认倒霉!女人说,这口气我咽不下。女人把死鸡装进蛇皮袋里,拖着袋子就出门。青山说,你干啥?女人说,我要找村长评理。青山把女人拉进屋,你吃了豹子胆?你如和村长吵翻了,我们还有好日子过?女人说,我管不了那么多,村长欺人太甚了。青山说,有啥办法,有气往肚子里咽,谁叫它是村长的狗。再说,村长这条狼狗不只咬死了我们的鸡,村里哪家的鸡,那狼狗没咬死过?他们不找村长吵,我们为啥找村长吵?村里人都希望我们去跟村长吵呢。女人说,那我们家的鸡就白白让村长的狗咬死?青山说,你说咋办...
第一部分 爱情在升温序言和很多人一样,我曾经在一所名为清X大的学校里生活了四年。清X大是一所略有些灰色的学校,里面的绝大部分建筑都要有四五十年的历史,当然也有崭新的高楼林立,古老和现代呈现出对立的态势,却并不怎么和谐。对于这些崭新的高楼我没有太多发言权,因为它们几乎不属于我们这样的本科生,那是精英们的世界。你可以在任何大学找到清X大的影子,你也可以在清X大找到任何大学的影子。很多人因为是一名清X大的学生而感到自豪,也有很多人因为是清X大的学生抱憾终生。这里有奋发向上的学生,也有名满天下的教授,他们甚至可以走在世界的前沿,这里也有更多的被无聊的情绪所笼罩的学生,他们一起混过四年,拿到一张清X大的毕业证书,然后寂然地离开,不会给这里留下什么。...
FAIRY TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSENTHE BISHOP OF BORGLUM AND HIS WARRIORSby Hans Christian AndersenOUR scene is laid in Northern Jutland, in the so-called "wildmoor." We hear what is called the "Wester-wow-wow"- the peculiarroar of the North Sea as it breaks against the western coast ofJutland. It rolls and thunders with a sound that penetrates formiles into the land; and we are quite near the roaring. Before us...
几乎任何一天,在普鲁托里亚街或那附近一带,你都可以看见小个子史比利金斯先生和他的四个高高的儿子走在一起——他们的年纪差不多和他一样大。说确切一点,史比利金斯先生现年二十四岁,而鲍勃——那些男孩中最大的那个——至少也有二十岁了。这些孩子的年纪已不得而知,因为一次可怕的意外使他们的母亲把这一切全忘了。当时孩子们正呆在田纳西山间那所由威肯姆先生创办的特殊青年学院;而他们的母亲艾瓦莱夫人则在里维耶拉过冬,并且她觉得为了孩子们好,她必须忍痛不让他们跟她呆在一起。 不过现在,既然艾瓦莱夫人再婚了,成了艾瓦莱一史比利金斯夫人,当然也就再没有必要让他们呆在威肯姆先生的学院里了。史比利金斯先生有能力照看他们的。史比利金斯先生一般都戴着一顶高顶礼帽,穿着一件英国式晨礼服。那几个男孩则穿着童装短上衣和黑裤子,按他们的母亲的心愿,他们的衣服总是要短小那么一点点的。这是因为艾瓦莱一...