...The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper is a publicatio... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... Fenimore Cooper, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ... writer, since he has an interest in the individual in question that falls little short of reality. It is not an easy task, however, to introduce the ... ... must be the “end” that will “crown the work.” The Indian character has so little variety, that it has been my object to avoid dwelling on it too much... ...he more pow- erful and the largest. But there is no end to conceit in this world: for a fellow who never saw salt water often fancies he knows more th... ...an actually get that of the other.” “And yet we sailors, who run about the world so much, say there is but one nature, whether it be in the Chinaman o... ...large about it? Didn’t Jasper himself confess that it was only some twenty leagues from shore to shore?” “But, uncle,” interposed Mabel, “no land is t... ...bank of the lake? and aren’t there trees in thou- sands? and aren’t twenty leagues narrow enough of all con- science? Who the devil ever heard of the ...

...ast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...War by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Documen... ... who will.” It is surely as interesting that presently some founder of the World Republic, some obstinate opponent of militarism or legalism, or the m... ...nue to be a prelude. The prophetic type will steadfastly refuse to see the world as a museum; it will insist that here is a stage set for a drama that... ...r brightest young men. It is fairly safe to assume that there will be very little new furniture on the stage of the world for some considerable time; ... ... passion—and certain other restraining and qualifying forces. There can be little doubt that, if one could canvass all mankind and ask them whether th... ...imate confederation of the nations of the earth. Because, in the face of a league of the Central European Powers attempting recuperation, cherishing r... ...t there will be a gravita- tion of all other arrangements, all empires and leagues and 104 What Is Coming? what not, towards this rational and natura...

...BEAUCHAMP’S CAREER By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith is a publication ... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ... a part she had to play in the composition of a singular people. She did a little mischief by dropping on the stock-markets; in other respects she was... ...m a curtain of volunteers and go to sleep again behind them; for they cost little in proportion to the much they pretend to be to him. Patriotic taxpa... ...is comparative subjugation (on the whole, it seems complete) of the animal world. By-and-by the struggle is transferred to higher ground, and we begin... ...lf-a-dozen crescent lines cunningly turned, sketched her figure before the world, and the reflection for one ready to die upholding her was that the p... ...build a cathedral of sound in the organ,’ said Dr. Shrapnel, casting out a league of leg as he sat beside his only 96 Beauchamp’s Career half-persuad... ...aeval style of our caricaturists:—Shrapnel stretched at his length, half a league, in slashed yellows and blacks, with his bauble be- side him, and pr...

...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observations of ours upon their sovereign, threatening Africa?s fires and savagery....

...e de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marria... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ns. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Do... ...ion. “Your hat, sir, if you please?” a thin, querulous voice called out. A little old man, crouching in the darkness behind a railing, suddenly rose a... ...t the brim, showed clearly enough that his mind was yet untainted; and the little old man, who had wallowed from his youth up in the furious pleasures... ...s own brother’s instance. After all, is there a less pleasing thing in the world than a house of pleasure? Singular question! Man is always at strife ... ...his mind to die at night so as to bequeath an unrec- ognizable corpse to a world which had disregarded the great- ness of life. He began his wandering... ... Is it nothing to sit enthroned in a room, at a distance of thirty million leagues from the sun?” “Let us once more take a broad view of civilization,... ...ed,” came in the deep tones of Aquilina’s voice. “She never went a hundred leagues to drink in one look and a denial with untold raptures. She has not...

...e gambling hells distinguished by the number 36, without too much deliberation. ?Your hat, sir, if you please?? a thin, querulous voice called out. A little old man, crouching in the darkness behind a railing, suddenly rose and exhibited his features, carved after a mean design....