...iiXfl* 56fforoj VOL. XXI WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 ... ...AMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th... ...ED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Ora... ...nd 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands an... ...eries, Table Del- icacies, Etc. Fancy Crackers and Everything for Lunches. Orders taken for Cut P'lowcri Nextdoor to post office Spring Str««t COLLEGE... ... Sovernl nieii rushed at Lang, nnd the crowd followed on to the floor, hut order was soon restored by the upporclasHmen |)resent. Lnng was then ruled ... ...church is unable to do—develope resolute, valiant men, worthy to be called knights. The Christian world is in need of men of chivalry, who, believing ... ...ear '07 Largo—New World Symphony by A. d' Vorals Phantasie in E flat by C. Saint-Satus A. D. BAST I EN PKOPHIBTOK or TMB WilliamsHairOrssslngParlors U... ... organi- zation which could persuade the college to found an "Order of the Knights of the Snowshovel, " whicii would supplant the primi- tive j)low, w...

...The longest running independent newspaper at Williams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed ...

...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent n... ...COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett acco... ...s, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time int... ...der Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five re... ...e published book’s ISBN, which is ISBN 978-0-6151-4120-6 or you can order the book online through R Barnes & Noble: http://search.barnesa... ...take care of him, myself.” “I’ll not go! I intend to see you home!” And I ordered the servants to sepa- rate them and leave me with Alcaeus. Mumblin... ...they are as much at log- gerheads as pope and duke. Serfs, beggars, greed, knights, fools—pathos. At Vaprio, I sometimes ate with a farmer and his wi... ...uch kindness, such classic renderings in stone and bronze. We revered his Saint John, his serenity in stone. We exhibited his sculpture in every co... ...while playing chess, I imagine there are no pawns; I imagine there are no knights; the good bishop has vanished; the castle has gone; there is no st...

...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of...

...illis Barnstone 3 SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 5 CHRIST’S JOURNAL 155 LEONARDO DA VINCI’S JOURNAL 221 SHAKESPEARE’S JOURNAL 343 LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 511 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 621 COLOPHON 625...

... by Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pulication The Dove In The Eagle’s Nest by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the ... ...ation The Dove In The Eagle’s Nest by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ketches. The return of the squire with the tidings of the death of the two knights was vividly depicted in sleep; and, though without local habitation... ...the adventures. The time could only be before the taming and bringing into order of the empire, when the Imperial cities were in their greatest splend... ...n and again; and he has ranged under each head, in entire contempt of real order of time, the perils he thinks owing to each foe. Furwitz most justly ... ... face; here a majestic head of an apostle or prophet; here a lovely virgin saint, seeming to play smilingly with the instrument of her martyrdom; here... ... as one of the thickwitted giants meant to be food for the heroism of good knights of ro- mance. Except that he was fairly conversant with the use of ...

...Introduction: In sending forth this little book, I am inclined to add a few explanatory words as to the use I have made of historical personages. The origin of the whole story was probably Freytag?s first series of pictures of German Life: probably, I say, for its first commencement was a dream, dreamt some weeks after read...

... Classics Series Publication Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...assics Series Publication Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ..., but composed of mate- rials much finer than those which the rule of that order ad- mitted. His mantle and hood were of the best Flanders cloth, and ... ...ith a golden 13 Sir Walter Scott clasp, and the whole dress proper to his order as much refined upon and ornamented, as that of a quaker beauty of th... ...the Saracens for the recovery of the Holy Sepulchre; he is of the order of Knights T emplars, whom you may have heard of; he is half a monk, half a so... ...ht Brian de Bois-Guilbert, commander of the valiant and venerable order of Knights Templars, with a small retinue, requested hospitality and lodging f... ...hort, if we may presume to say so, of her glo- rious namesake, the blessed Saint Hilda of Whitby, God be gracious to her soul!” When the Prior had cea...

...Excerpt: In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster. ...

...Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ... Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... was their love!) He sought proud Tarquin in his den, And freed full sixty knights; or when, 10 Marmion A sinful man, and unconfessed, He took the Sa... ...ck again the western blaze, In lines of dazzling light. 12 Marmion II. Saint George’s banner, broad and gay, Now faded, as the fading ray Less ... ...weary way. IX. ’Tis meet that I should tell you now, How fairly armed, and ordered how, The soldiers of the guard, With musket, pike, and morion, T... ...ing chorus rose: Down to the haven of the isle The monks and nuns in order file, From Cuthbert’s cloisters grim; Banner, and cross, and relic... ... Although with them they led Galwegians, wild as ocean’s gale, And Lodon’s knights, all sheathed in mail, And the bold men of Teviotdale, Before hi...

...Excerpt: Introduction to Canto First. November?s sky is chill and drear, November?s leaf is red and sear: Late, gazing down the steepy linn That hems our little garden in, Low in its dark and narrow glen You scarce the rivulet might ken, So thick the tangled greenwood grew....

...ens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...on A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... which belonged to Cassivellaunus, and which was probably near what is now Saint Albans, in Hertfordshire. However, brave Cassivellaunus had the worst... ...r property by the Romans who were settled in England, she was scourged, by order of Catus a Roman officer; and her two daughters were shamefully insu... ... with her. My opinion is, that the cunning Hengist meant him to do so, in order that the Saxons might have greater influence with him; and that the f... ...the eye, was nearly blind. His brothers were already killed. Twenty Norman Knights, whose battered armour had flashed fiery and golden in the sun shi... ...n the moonlight, dashed forward to seize the Royal banner from the English Knights and soldiers, still faithfully collected round their blinded King. ...

...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Irela...

...Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................. 18 CHAPTER III ENGLAND UNDER THE GOOD SAXON, ALFRED......................

...POEMS POEMS IN TWO VOLUMES, VOL. I. BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AUTHOR OF THE LYRICAL BALLADS. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication... ...POEMS POEMS IN TWO VOLUMES, VOL. I. BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AUTHOR OF THE LYRICAL BALLADS. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication P... ... Poems in T wo Volumes, Volume One by William Wordsworth is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...oems in T wo Volumes, Volume One by William Wordsworth is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ... 10 Who the first with pointed rays, (Workman worthy to be sainted) Set the Sign-board in a blaze, When the risen sun he painted, ... ...stace sounded was the last. With his lance Sir Eustace pointed, And to Hubert thus said he, “What I speak this Horn shall witness For thy bett... ...a Brother’s name, 100 And by all the saints in heaven; And of Eustace was forgiv’n: Then in a Convent went t... ...s eyes. His words came feebly, from a feeble chest, Yet each in solemn order follow’d each, 100 With something of a lofty utte... ... good Be lost for ever. In our Halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old: We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shake...

...Contents TO THE DAISY............................................................................................................................................................. 5 LOUISA.....................................................

...s Publication A Modern T elemachus by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ublication A Modern T elemachus by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...rancois Comelin, Philemon de la Motte, et Joseph Bernard, de l’Ordre de la Sainte T rinite, dit Mathurine. This Order was established by Jean Matha fo... ..., et Joseph Bernard, de l’Ordre de la Sainte T rinite, dit Mathurine. This Order was established by Jean Matha for the ransom and rescue of prisoners ... ...ive-and-twenty, had received the ton- sure, and had been admitted to minor Orders, but there was no necessity for him to proceed any farther unless hi... ...em- selves with gestures of despair, screaming out vows to the Madonna and saints, and shouting imprecations. The skip- per came to speak to her. ‘Mad... ...aptain, and then the best that could betide ye wad be that a shot frae the Knights of Malta should make quick work wi’ ye. Or look at the dumbie there...

...et Free by H.G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ad their beginnings. Men specialised for fighting and rule as soldiers and knights. Later, as ships grew seaworthy, the Mediterranean which had been a... ...found them annoying and ill-treated them, or was seized with fear and made saints and sorcerers and warlocks of them, or with covetousness and enterta... ...ng engine, the steam-engine and the steam-boat, followed one another in an order that had a kind of logical necessity. It is the most interesting and ... ...tific dis- covery was still rather a procession of happy accidents than an orderly conquest of nature? Y et the spirit of seeking was spreading steadi... ...sphere of enthusiasm. He went through the streets with a rapt face, like a saint who sees visions. He had arms disproportionately long, and ridiculous...

Excerpt: The World Set Free by H. G. Wells.

...tt, Bart. Edited with Notes by William J. Rolfe, A.M. Formerly Head Master of the High School, Cambridge, Mass. Boston 1883 A Penn State Electronic Cl... ... Bart. Edited with Notes by William J. Rolfe, A.M. Formerly Head Master of the High School, Cambridge, Mass. Boston 1883 A Penn State Electronic Class... ...ge, Mass. Boston 1883 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott, ed. William J. Rolfe, A.M. is a p... ... Boston 1883 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott, ed. William J. Rolfe, A.M. is a publicatio... ...f the North! that mouldering long hast hung On the witch-elm that shades Saint Fillan’s spring And down the fitful breeze thy numbers flung, Till ... ...ar from tower and town. We stem the flood, we ride the blast, On wandering knights our spells we cast; While viewless minstrels touch the string, ’Tis... ...Percy’s Norman pennon, won In bloody field, before me shone, And twice ten knights, the least a name As mighty as yon Chief may claim, Gracing my pomp... ... opportunity of reading to him the first canto of The Lady of the Lake, in order to ascertain the effect the poem was likely to produce upon a person ... ...mall thick bush of wood. There were first some rows of trees laid down, in order to level the floor for a habi- tation; and as the place was steep, th...

...Preface: When I first saw Mr. Osgood?s beautiful illustrated edition of The Lady of the Lake, I asked him to let me use some of the cuts in a cheaper annotated edition for school and household use; and the present volume is the result. The text of the poem has given me unexpected trouble. When...

...By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Little Duke by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...Series Publication The Little Duke by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ce I have had the wish, I have had no time to learn as you have now.” “But Knights and Nobles never learn,” said Richard. “And do you think it a reaso... ...e Centeville bade Richard sit upright and not look weary, and then all the Knights held back while the little Duke rode alone a little in advance of t... ...he Duke of Normandy. 21 Yo n g e Thus, they proceeded, in slow and solemn order, till they came to the church of our Lady. The clergy were there al- ... ...Eric de Centeville on each side of him, and all his other vas- sals in due order, in the Choir. After the beautiful chant of the hymn was ended, the s... ...it the Duke to the cloister:- Dun ne t’a Deus mis e pose Prince gardain de sainte iglise E cur tenir leial justise. 25 Yo n g e Jumieges, and the Cou...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. On a bright Autumn day, as long ago as the year 943, there was a great bustle in the Castle of Bayeux in Normandy. The hall was large and low, the roof arched, and supported on thick short columns, almost like the crypt of a Cathedral; the walls were thick, and th...

... BY CHARLOTTE M.YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsyl... ...E M.YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...blished facts, even if striking events have to be sacrificed, and that the order of time must be preserved. In Shakespeare’s days, or even in Scott’s,... ...y everywhere that it was a gift from the King of England to the bravest of knights. The precious heirlooms were scarcely held with the respect due to ... ...de for the Chevalier’s disappointed heir in some commandery of a religious order of knighthood. The Baron’s wife was English. He had, when on a visit ... ...ed. The reaction that half a century later filled the Gallican Church with saintliness had not set in; her ecclesi- astics were the tools of a wicked ... ...imb. She knew where she was now. She had heard of the old Refectory of the Knights T emplars. Partly demolished by the hatred of the people upon the a...

...Preface: It is the fashion to call every story controversial that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by...

...The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed fo... ...The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of... ...E CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of the Aldus Society London, 1903 A Penn State Electronic Class... ... 1903 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau, trans. S. W. Orson is a publica... ...ght upon the public mind by the advent of ‘La Nouvelle Heloise’. Julie and Saint-Preux became names to conjure with; their ill-starred amours were eve... ...ed his closing years will not be out of place here. On quitting the Ile de Saint-Pierre he travelled to Strasbourg, where he was warmly received, and ... ... who was an insolent, ungenerous man, hap- pening to bleed at the nose, in order to be revenged, accused my father of having drawn his sword on him in... ...d the root, each held the tree with one hand, singing songs of triumph. In order to water it with more effect, they formed a kind of luson around its ... ...light embrace which resembled the accolade which the king gives to newmade knights. I was stupefied with surprise: I knew not what to say; not a word ...

...Introduction: Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutis...

...Out by Virginia Woolf A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...sics Series Publication The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...together with her sober black dress, showed that she belonged to the lower orders; neverthe- less she took up a rock-like position, looking about her ... ...ins to torment me!” he cried, stopping dead. “Did I come on this voyage in order to catch rheumatism and pneumonia? Really one might have credited Vin... ...he people of England must be shaped in the body like the kings and queens, knights and pawns of the chessboard, so strange were their differences, so ... ...quickly; and then another; they could almost hear it twist and roar. “Some Saint’s day, I suppose,” said a voice. The rush and embrace of the rockets ... ...enance in the cold moonlight, and worshipped old brown pictures and carved saints which stood with upraised hands of blessing in the hollows in the wa...

Excerpt: The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf.

...ics Series Publication Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... Series Publication Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...The Red Sword, The Black Helmet, 10 Ann Veronica The Purple Robe, also in order “to distract his mind.” He read it in winter in the evening after din... ...t do you know of the place and the gath- ering?” “And it’s entirely out of order; it isn’t right, it isn’t correct; it’s impossible for you to stay in... ... afford it, WE can’t. We can’t afford to turn our women, our Madonnas, our Saint Catherines, our Mona Lisas, our goddesses and angels and fairy prince... ...d altogether when I speak of you. “ ‘A Song of Ladies and My Lady “ ‘Saintly white and a lily is Mary, Margaret’s violets, sweet and shy; ... ...approve of the profession.” “Oh!” said Ann V eronica. “I thought they made knights of actors?” “They may of Hal some day,” said Gwen. “But it’s a long...

...Excerpt: Part 1. One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her father that very evening. She had trembled on the verge of such a resolution before, but this time quite definitely she made it. A crisis had been reached, a...

...ies Publication Dombey & Son Volume 1 by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ... Publication Dombey & Son Volume 1 by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...s being with much ceremony invested with the Dombey baby, as if it were an Order, resigned her own, with many tears and kisses, to Jemima. Glasses of ... ...hick, ‘why, the very best of everything will be at your disposal. You will order your little dinner every day; and anything you take a fancy to, I’m s... ...lt, not to say like Richard Whittington—that is a tame comparison—but like Saint George of England, with the dragon lying dead before him. ‘Don’t cry,... ...t book, and from the Greek T estament, the first chapter of the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Ephesians. We will resume our studies, Mr Feeder, in half... ...atural conjunction, and observant of it in their several expressions. Grim knights and warriors looked scowling on them. A churchman, with his hand up...

...Excerpt: Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his con...

...ssics Series Publication Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...cs Series Publication Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...s being with much ceremony invested with the Dombey baby, as if it were an Order, resigned her own, with many tears and kisses, to Jemima. Glasses of ... ...hick, ‘why, the very best of everything will be at your disposal. You will order your little dinner every day; and anything you take a fancy to, I’m s... ...lt, not to say like Richard Whittington—that is a tame comparison—but like Saint George of England, with the dragon lying dead before him. ‘Don’t cry,... ...atural conjunction, and observant of it in their several expressions. Grim knights and warriors looked scowling on them. A churchman, with his hand up... ...s, and those who are desolate and oppressed, in very spite of aldermen and knights to boot: at whose sage nod—and how they nod!— the rolling world sta...

...Excerpt: Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his con...

...te M. Yonge A Penn State Classics Series Publication Young Folks’ History of England by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ... Young Folks’ History of England by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... used to build their abbeys by some forest or marsh, and bring it all into order, turning the wild place into fields, full of wheat. Others used to co... ... the Confessor, which is a word for good men not great enough to be called saints. He was too good- natured, as you will say when you hear that one da... ...e even more unruly than the English, and only his strong hand kept them in order. They rode about in ar- mor—helmets on their heads, a shirt of mail, ... ...ds—and thus they could bear down all before them. They called them- selves knights, and were always made to take an oath to be- friend the weak, and p... ... snow was on the ground. One night, Maude dressed herself and three of her knights all in white, and they were, one by one, let down by ropes from the...

Excerpt: Young Folks? History of England by Charlotte M. Yonge.

...Contents Young Folks? History of England ..................................... 6 CHAPTER I JULIUS CAESAR. B.C. 55 ........................................................................................ 6 CHAPTER II THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN. A.D. 41?418........

...y Charlotte M. Y onge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of th... ...onge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ... a small child in one hand and a dress- ing-case in the other, and awaited orders. There was a clinging to the Major by all the children, only ended b... ...attempt to make acquaintance with him; Francis was demanding, “Where’s the orderly?” and Conrade looking brimful of wrath at any one who made his moth... ... as strong as ever! Ailie, don’t tell Colin about this; but to-morrow is a saint’s day, and would you see Mr. Touchett, and try to arrange for me to g... ..., both being different ways of viewing the same truth. These may, like the knights in the old fable, find that both were right about the shield, both ... ...lose one minute of gladness in sleep. Oh, Colin, Colin, truest of all true knights, what an achievement yours has been!” “August 4th. “That was a craz...

...Excerpt: ?IT IS VERY KIND in the dear mother.? ?But--what, Rachel? Don?t you like it! She so enjoyed choosing it for you.? ?Oh yes, it is a perfect thing in its way. Don?t say a word to her; but if you are consulted for my next birthday present, Grace, c...