By ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE 1922
CHAPTER I. The Derelict
Link Ferris was a fighter. Not by nature, nor by choice, but to keep
alive.
His battleground covered an area of forty acres--b...
by JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE
Translated By Curtis Hidden Page
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
Jean Baptiste Poquelin, better known by his stage name of Moliere,
stands without a rival at th...
Charles Darwin
INTRODUCTION.
The share which worms have taken in the formation of the layer of
vegetable mould, which covers the whole surface of the land in every
moderately humid...
by Honore de Balzac
Translated by Ellen Marriage
I.
EARLY MISTAKES
It was a Sunday morning in the beginning of April 1813, a morning which
gave promise of one of those bright day...
E. S. BROOKS
ZENOBIA OF PALMYRA:
THE GIRL OF THE SYRIAN DESERT.
[Afterward known as "Zenobia Augusta, Queen of the East."] A.D.
250.
MANY and many miles and many days' journey towa...