(Or Winning New Laurels on the Tanbark) Edgar B. P. Darlington CHAPTER I THE BOYS HEAR GOOD NEWS "You never can guess it--you never can guess the news, Teddy," cried Phil Forrest, rushing into the gym...

(Or Afloat with the Big Show on the Big River) EDGAR B. P. DARLINGTON CHAPTER I MAKING A LIVELY START "Have you had any trouble with Diaz, Teddy?" "Who's he?" "The new Spanish clown." "Oh!" Teddy ...

CHAPTER I - First Quarter. HERE are not many people - and as it is desirable that a story- teller and a story-reader should establish a mutual understanding as soon as possible, I beg it to be noticed...

By Xenophon Translation by H. G. Dakyns Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land and property ...

By Aristotle Translated by E. M. Edghill Section 1 Part 1 Things are said to be named 'equivocally' when, though they have a common name, the definition corresponding with the name differs for each. T...

by Horace Walpole PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. THE following work was found in the library of an ancient Catholic family in the north of England. It was printed at Naples, in the black letter, in the...

BY Horatio Alger, Jr. PREFACE ``The Cash Boy,'' by Horatio Alger, Jr., as the name implies, is a story about a boy and for boys. Through some conspiracy, the hero of the story when a baby, was taken f...

by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner INTRODUCTION TO JOE MULLER Joseph Muller, Secret Service detective of the Imperial Austrian police, is one of the great experts in his profession. In persona...

by Jack London CHAPTER I Into the Primitive "Old longings nomadic leap, Chafing at custom's chain; Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ferine strain." Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would ...

THE ECLOGUES Virgil ECLOGUE I MELIBOEUS TITYRUS MELIBOEUS You, Tityrus, 'neath a broad beech-canopy Reclining, on the slender oat rehearse Your silvan ditties: I from my sweet fields, And home's famil...