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Scenes and Characters from the Works of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens
There is one question upon which the critics and lovers of Dickens seem never able to get into agreement, and that is the question of the original illustrations to his works. To the thorough-going enthusiast Phiz and Dickens seem inseparable, and no edition which does not contain the old, familiar grotesques of Hablot Browne’s imagination, or, in the earlier volume, the equally abnormal lineaments portrayed by Cruikshank or Seymour, would be deemed worthy of a place upon his bookshelf. But a younger generation is growing up, for whom the time-honoured pictures have not the charm of long association, and among them it is common to hear the complaint that the natural humour and pathos of the author’s best works are spoiled to modern fancy by the violent caricatures of the illustrator. “Let us abolish these pictures altogether,” they say: “and illustrate the books with pretty conventionalities by more fashionable artists.” At the opposite pole stands yet another group of critics—the “Superior People” who have made up their minds that Dickens himself was a caricaturist, and that therefore the early illustrations, even if they do a little emphasise his exaggerations, are only conceived in fitting harmony with a world of fancy which drowns itself in excesses of the grotesque. Among so many doctors, and all so emphatic, who shall decide? It is, at any rate, no easy task.
Science & Education: Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley
In view of the recent attempt to disturb the compromise about the teaching of dogmatic theology, solemnly agreed to by the first School Board for London, the fifteenth Essay; and, more particularly, the note on p 338, may be found interesting.
—From this book
Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
A book introduces new thoughts, but it cannot make them speedily understood. It is the task of the sturdypioneer to hew the tall oak and to cut the rough granite. Future ages must declare what the pioneer has accomplished.
Science and hypothesis by Henri Poincaré
It is to be hoped that, as a consequence of the present active scrutiny of our educational aims and methods, and of the resulting encouragement of the study of modern languages, we shall not remain, as a nation, so much isolated from ideas and tendencies in continental thought and literature as we have been in the past. As things
are, however, the translation of this book is doubtless required; at any rate, it brings vividly before us an instructive point of view.
Science in the Kitchen by E. E. Kellogg
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Scientific Culture, and Other Essays by Jr. Josiah P. Cooke
The essays collected in this volume, although written for special occasions without reference to each other, have all a bearing on the subject selected as the title of the volume, and the college students to physical science teaching in a somewhat larger experience of a result. Thirty years ago, when the writer started his work at Cambridge, the instruction in the experimental sciences was given in our American colleges solely by lectures and recitations. From This Book
Scrap Book of Mormon Literature, Volume 2 (of 2) by Various
“Josiah Quincy, from whose “Figures of the Past” we quote, was born in Boston in 1802. He was the Mayor of Boston from 1845 to 1849. He was graduated from Harvard in 1821 and took his master’s degree in 1824. He died in 1882, soon after he wrote “Figures of the Past.” The work was taken from his diary and from letters written at the time of his visit to Nauvoo.” -an excerpt
Sea and Sardinia by D H Lawrence
Sea and Sardinia is a travel book by the English writer D. H. Lawrence. It describes a brief excursion undertaken in January 1921 by Lawrence and his wife Frieda, a.k.a. Queen Bee, from Taormina in Sicily to the interior of Sardinia. They visited Cagliari, Mandas, Sorgono, and Nuoro.
Searchlights on Health: The Science of Eugenics by B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols
The old maxim, that “Knowledge is power,” is a true one, but there is still a greater truth: “KNOWLEDGE IS SAFETY.” Safety amid physical ills that beset mankind, and safety amid the moral pitfalls that surround so many young people, is the great crying demand of the age.
Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
Second Treatise of Government’ is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The First Treatise attacks patriarchalism in the form of sentence-by-sentence refutation of Robert Filmer’s Patriarcha, while the Second Treatise outlines Locke’s ideas for a more civilized society based on natural rights and contract theory.
Second Variety by Philip K. Dick
Second Variety’ is a short story by Philip K. Dick. It got published in 1953 in Space Science Fiction magazine. A nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the West has reduced much of the world to a barren wasteland. However, the war continues among the scattered remains of humanity. The Western forces have developed “claws”, which are autonomous self-replicating robots to fight on their side. It is one of Dick’s many stories in which nuclear war has rendered the Earth’s surface uninhabitable.
Secret History by Leonora Sansay
I am fearful of having been led into an error by my friends, when taught by them to believe that I could write something which would interest and please; and it was chiefly with a view to ascertain what confidence I might place in their kind assurances on this subject, that I collected and consented, though reluctantly, to the publication of these letters.
Secret Service by Cyrus Townsend Brady and William Gillette
The present novel titled ‘Secret Service’ is an adaptation of William Gillette’s play into a novel by Cyrus Townsend Brady. It was first published in the year 1912.
Secrets of Earth and Sea by Sir E. Ray Lankester
Secrets of Earth and Sea is a collection of interesting facts about nature.
Seen and Unseen by E. Katherine Bates
Under these rather trying conditions I can remember getting a good deal of amusement out of the companions in the special boat which proved to be my fate. Our host, being a clever and interesting man himself, had collected clever and interesting people round him, on the “Birds of a Feather” principle, and I happened to sit between two ladies, one the wife (now, alas! the widow) of a man who was to become later on one of our most famous bishops; the other—her bosom friend and deadly rival—the wife of an equally distinguished Oxford don.
Selected Poems by Robert Frost
I’m going out to clean the pasture spring;
I’ll only stop to rake the leaves away
(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):
I shan’t be gone long.—You come too.
Selected Stories of Dostoyevsky by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
his collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky’s key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in his longer works, these small masterpieces move from the tender and romantic White Nights, an archetypal nineteenth-century morality tale of pathos and loss, to the famous Notes from the Underground, a story of guilt, ineffectiveness, and uncompromising cynicism, and the first major work of existential literature.
Selected Writings of Mahatma Gandhi by Ronald Duncan
A word is now necessary to explain the arrangement followed in the presentation of the selections. The foundation of Gandhiji’s life was formed by his living and growing faith in God, and in the oneness of the whole human family. So his ideas about God have been given the first place in the first chapter. The discipline which every man should follow in order to realize his highest ideal, whether we call it God, or Truth, or Humanity, is common to all; and it comes in the second chapter. The third contains a summary of Gandhiji’s views on various philosophical, social and political questions, and may thus be regarded as practically a summary of the rest of the book. In fact, this is why a few passages occurring elsewhere, have also found place in this chapter on fundamental ideas. —From the Book
Selections From Gandhi by N. K. Bose
The book thus covers, in brief, a wide range of subjects and as one progresses in its study, one is often left with a thirst for fuller information on the subject of his interest. The Navjivan Publishing House has been issuing, for sometime past, a series of volumes, each containing Gandhiji’s writings on one specific topic or another; and the interested reader must turn to them for fuller information, when the files of the young India or the Harijan are not available to him. The present selection does not pretend to do anything more than a glimpse of what he can gather if he ventures through the forest of writings contained in those two journals.
Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany by Lord Dunsany
Lady Wilde once told me that when she was a young girl she was stopped in some Dublin street by a great crowd and turned into a shop to escape from it. She stayed there some time and the crowd still passed. She asked the shopman what it was, and he said, ‘the funeral of Thomas Davis, a poet.’ She had never heard of Davis; but because she thought a country that so honoured a poet must be worth something, she became interested in Ireland and was soon a famous patriotic poet herself, being, as she once said to me half in mockery, an eagle in her youth.
Self Help: with Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance by Samuel Smiles
It has been objected to the book that too much notice is taken in it of men who have succeeded in life by helping themselves, and too little of the multitude of men who have failed. Although its chief objective unquestionably is to stimulate youths to apply themselves diligently to right pursuits.
Self-Determining Haiti by James Weldon Johnson
The articles and documents in this pamphlet were printed in The Nation during the summer of 1920. They revealed for the first time to the world the nature of the United States’ imperialistic venture in Haiti. While, owing to the censorship, the full story of this fundamental departure from American traditions has not yet been told, it appears at the time of this writing, October, 1920, that “pitiless publicity” for our sandbagging of a friendly and inoffensive neighbor has been achieved. The report of Major-General George Barnett, commandant of the Marine Corps during the first four years of the Haitian occupation, just issued, strikingly confirms the facts set forth by The Nation and refutes the denials of administration officials and their newspaper apologists. It is in the hope that by spreading broadly the truth about what has happened in Haiti under five years of American occupation The Nation may further contribute toward removing a dark blot from the American escutcheon, that this pamphlet is issued.
Self-Development and the Way to Power by L. W. Rogers
Happiness is the product of wisdom. To attain perfect wisdom, to comprehend fully the purpose of life, to realize completely the relationship of human beings to each other, is to put an end to all suffering, to escape every ill and evil that afflicts us. Perfect wisdom is unshadowed joy.
Self-Healing by Thought Force by William Walker Atkinson
From the first chapter: ‘In taking up the question of Self-Healing I should say first, that to me all the various methods of healing by the power of the mind are but different forms of applying the same force. I think that the several practitioners of Suggestive Therapeutics, Mental Science, Christian Science, Faith Cure and all the rest, are using the same great force, the only difference being in the method of application.’
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility’ is a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1811. It tells the story of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, both of age to marry. The novel follows the young women to their new home with their widowed mother, a meagre cottage on the property of a distant relative, where they experience love, romance and heartbreak.
Sentimental Education Vol–1 by Flaubert, Gustave
Sentimental Education is considered the most influential of the nineteenth century novel he describes the life of a young man and his love for an older woman during the revolution of 1848 and the founding of the Second French Empire.
Sentimental Education Vol–2 by Flaubert, Gustave
Frederick passed the whole of the next day in brooding over his anger and humiliation. He reproached himself for not having given a slap in the face to Cisy. As for the Marechale, he swore not to see her again. Others as good-looking could be easily found; and, as money would be required in order to possess these women, he would speculate on the Bourse with the purchase-money of his farm. He would get rich; he would crush the Marechale and everyone else with his luxury.
Sentimental Tommy by J. M. Barrie
First published in the year 1895, the present novel ‘Sentimental Tommy’ by J. M. Barrie is about a celebrity boy named Tommy. “The celebrated Tommy first comes into view on a dirty London stair, and he was in sexless garments, which were all he had, and he was five, and so though we are looking at him, we must do it sideways, lest he sit down hurriedly to hide them. That inscrutable face, which made the clubmen of his later days uneasy and even puzzled the ladies while he was making love to them, was already his, except when he smiled at one of his pretty thoughts or stopped at an open door to sniff a potful.” -an excerpt
Septimius Felton by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Septimius Felton; or, The Elixir of Life, by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Sermons Preached At The Church of St. Paul the Apostle, New York, During the Year 1861. by Anonymous
Let us look at him first during the early part of his career, and see how this earnestness of character displays itself in one whose mind is misguided, by religious error. In the first place, then, St. Paul before his conversion was distinguished by an earnest and ardent love of truth, and consequently, a strong attachment to what he deemed to be the truth. I have already read to you in the Epistle what he says of his own early life: “I made progress in the Jews’ religion above many of my equals in my own nation, being more abundantly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.” This earnestness of his sprang from a deep love of truth, and it made him what he afterward became, the foremost champion of the true faith. The human mind is created for truth, is naturally attracted to the truth when fairly presented, and if not led away by a corrupted heart, embraces it with joy. Truth comes readily to those that love it, and therefore there is, after all, nothing unnatural in this conversion of a Hebrew zealot into a Christian evangelist; for if he loved error at first, it was only because in good faith he mistook it for the truth, and if he hated the truth, it was only because he did not see it in its true colors, but misrepresented and perverted.
Serpent-Worship and Other Essays by C. Staniland Wake
The lines of development of the religious faiths of mankind have been aptly termed by Major-General Forlong “Rivers of Life.” The streams of faiths are marvellously depicted by this writer in a chart which shows “the rise and fall of the various religious ideas, mythologies, and rites which have at any time prevailed among nations.” This chart ingeniously shows, moreover, “the degrees of intensity manifested at stated periods by any particular wave of doctrine or worship, and the mode in which the tributary streams of mythological or theological thought become in turn absorbed in the central River of Life.” The views adopted by General Forlong have much in common with those embodied in the works of Godfrey Higgins and some later writers, but they have a special value as being based on personal observation.
Seven Icelandic Short Stories by Ásgeir Pétursson and Steingrímur J. Þorsteinsson
Of the seven Icelandic short stories which appear here, the first was probably written early in the thirteenth century, while the rest all date from the early twentieth century. It might therefore be supposed that the earliest of these stories was written in a language more or less unintelligible to modern Icelanders, and that there was a gap of many centuries in the literary production of the nation. This, however, is not the case.
The Norsemen who colonized Iceland in the last quarter of the ninth century brought with than the language then spoken throughout the whole of Scandinavia. This ancestor of the modern Scandinavian tongues has been preserved in Iceland so little changed that every Icelander still understands, without the aid of explanatory commentaries, the oldest preserved prose written in their country 850 years ago. The principal reasons for this were probably limited communications between Iceland and other countries, frequent migrations inside the island, and, not least important, a long and uninterrupted literary tradition. As a consequence, Icelandic has not developed any dialects in the ordinary sense.
Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner
Seven Little Australians is a classic Australian children’s literature novel by Ethel Turner, published in 1894.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence
Because it seems almost impossible that one man can be this brilliant and do so much. A masterpiece of autobiography.
Seventeen by Booth Tarkington
William Sylvanus Baxter paused for a moment of thought in front of the drug-store at the corner of Washington Street and Central Avenue. He had an internal question to settle before he entered the store: he wished to allow the young man at the soda-fountain no excuse for saying, “Well, make up your mind what it’s goin’ to be, can’t you?” Rudeness of this kind, especially in the presence of girls and women, was hard to bear, and though William Sylvanus Baxter had borne it upon occasion, he had reached an age when he found it intolerable. Therefore, to avoid offering opportunity for anything of the kind, he decided upon chocolate and strawberry, mixed, before approaching the fountain. Once there, however, and a large glass of these flavors and diluted ice-cream proving merely provocative, he said, languidly—an affectation, for he could have disposed of half a dozen with gusto: “Well, now I’m here, I might as well go one more. Fill ‘er up again. Same.”
Shackleton’s Last Voyage by Frank Wild
Sir Ernest Shackleton died suddenly; so suddenly that he said no word at all with regard to the future of the expedition. But I know that had he foreseen his death and been able to communicate to me his wishes, they would have been summed up in the two words, “Carry on!”
Perhaps the most difficult part of my task has been the recording of the work of the expedition. It has been to me a very sad duty, and one which I would gladly have avoided had it been possible. The demand, however, for the complete story of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s last expedition has been so widespread and insistent that I could no longer withhold it.
Shadows in the Moonlight by Robert E. Howard
A swift crashing of horses through the tall reeds; a heavy fall, a despairing cry. From the dying steed there staggered up its rider, a slender girl in sandals and girdled tunic. Her dark hair fell over her white shoulders, her eyes were those of a trapped animal. She did not look at the jungle of reeds that hemmed in the little clearing, nor at the blue waters that lapped the low shore behind her. Her wide-eyed gaze was fixed in agonized intensity on the horseman who pushed through the reedy screen and dismounted before her.
He was a tall man, slender, but hard as steel. From head to heel he was clad in light silvered mesh-mail that fitted his supple form like a glove. From under the dome-shaped, gold-chased helmet his brown eyes regarded her mockingly.
Shadows in Zamboula by Robert E. Howard
Peril hides in the house of Aram Baksh!’
The speaker’s voice quivered with earnestness and his lean, black-nailed fingers clawed at Conan’s mightily muscled arm as he croaked his warning. He was a wiry, sun-burnt man with a straggling black beard, and his ragged garments proclaimed him a nomad. He looked smaller and meaner than ever in contrast to the giant Cimmerian with his black brows, broad chest, and powerful limbs. They stood in a corner of the Sword-Makers’ Bazar, and on either side of them flowed past the many-tongued, many-colored stream of the Zamboula streets, which is exotic, hybrid, flamboyant and clamorous.
Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather
Shadows on the Rock’ is a novel by the American writer Willa Cather. It was first published in 1931. The novel covers one year of the lives of two French colonists in Quebec – Cecile Auclair and her father Euclide. Like many of Cather’s books, the story is driven by detailed portraits of the characters, rather than a narrative plot.
Shakespeare the Boy by W. J. Rolfe
Written by American Shakespearean scholar and educator W. J. Rolfe, ‘Shakespeare the Boy’ was first published in the year 1896.