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Excerpt: Welcome to the third volume of the Best of Four. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we have enjoyed bringing it to you. The purpose of Best of Four is to bring the best writing produced in English 004 to the widest possible audience. Our students have important stories to tell and powerful voices to be heard. The students who read these essays will learn that they too have permission to state what is important to them in a public voice....

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Best of Four Table of Contents: The College Experience from Beginning to Beginning.................................................................... 6 Bead Girl ............................................................................................................................................ 8 Setting the Record Straight ............................................................................................................. 10 My Earliest Memory......................................................................................................................... 12 A Modest Proposal ............................................................................................................................ 14 A Stay in Greece ............................................................................................................................... 16 The Absence of Face to Face Communication ............................................................................... 18 Never Stop Believing ..................................................................................................................

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Excerpt: The First Epistle General of Peter, the Sixtieth Book of the King James Version of the Bible.

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Excerpt: This publication of ?The Constitution of the United States?.

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Excerpt: Numbers, the Fourth Book of the King James Version of the Bible.

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Excerpt: The Palimpsest Review is the student literary publication for the Pennsylvania State University campuses outside the University Park main campus. All the short stories and poems published herein are the products of students enrolled on those campuses during the academic year prior to the semester of publication....

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Contents From the Editor?s Desk............................................................................. 5 Jeff Worley (Poetry Judge) ?Tapping the Wellspring of Language? ......... 7 Ethan Elliott ?Send Your Film in This Envelope? .................................10 Stacy Clemmer ?Angel?s Awakening? ......................................................11 Craig McNees ?Sitting alongside the fire, facing the river? ...................12 Tara Howitt ?Sirens? Song? .....................................................................13 Terri Lynn Mohl ?Not Quite Black? ......................................................14 Nicolette Milholin ?The Lone Wolves? ..................................................15 Karon Rehrig ?Break Up? .......................................................................16 Brenda Berriker ?Queen for a Day? ........................................................17 Joe McGlone ?The Crack of Dawn? .......................................................18 Kelly Golub ?View from My Window? .................................................19 Karen Lacki ?Blue?............................................

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Excerpt: ACT I. An October night on the Syrian border of Egypt towards the end of the XXXIII Dynasty, in the year 706 by Roman computation, afterwards reckoned by Christian computation as 48 B.C. A great radiance of silver fire, the dawn of a moonlit night, is rising in the east. The stars and the cloudless sky are our own contemporaries, nineteen and a half centuries younger than we know them; but you would not guess that from their appearance. Below them are two notable drawbacks of civilization: a palace, and soldiers....

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Excerpt: It would appear that for inquirers into Foreign Literature, for all men anxious to see and understand the European world as it lies around them, a great problem is presented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant phenomenon, and now also means more or less complete for ascertaining its significance. A man of wonderful, nay, unexampled reputation and intellectual influence among forty millions of reflective, serious and cultivated men, invites us to study him; and to determine for ourselves, whether and how far such influence has been salutary, such reputation merited....

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Excerpt: The Book of Mormon.

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Excerpt: No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve....

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. They were all at Charing Cross to see Lilia off-- Philip, Harriet, Irma, Mrs. Herriton herself. Even Mrs. Theobald, squired by Mr. Kingcroft, had braved the journey from Yorkshire to bid her only daughter good-bye. Miss Abbott was likewise attended by numerous relatives, and the sight of so many people talking at once and saying such different things caused Lilia to break into ungovernable peals of laughter....

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Excerpt: Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw.

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Excerpt: War and Peace: Seven by Leo Tolstoy.

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Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two.

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Contents THE PURLOINED LETTER ...................................................................................................................................... 4 THE THOUSAND-AND-SECOND TALE OF SCHEHERAZADE......................................................................... 21 A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTR™M. ............................................................................................................... 39 VON KEMPELEN AND HIS DISCOVERY............................................................................................................. 54 MESMERIC REVELATION .................................................................................................................................... 61 THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR ................................................................................................... 70 THE BLACK CAT...................................................................................................................................................... 79 THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER ...................................................................................

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Excerpt: KING HENRY IV: So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Find we a time for frighted peace to pant, And breathe short-winded accents of new broils To be commenced in strands afar remote. No more the thirsty entrance of this soil Shall daub her lips with her own children?s blood; Nor more shall trenching war channel her fields, Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs Of hostile paces: those opposed eyes, Which, like the meteors of a troubled heaven, All of one nature, of one substance bred, Did lately meet in the intestine shock And furious close of civil butchery Shall now, in mutual well-beseeming ranks, March all one way and be no more opposed Against acquaintance, kindred and allies:...

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Excerpt: War and Peace: Book Fifteen by Leo Tolstoy.

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Excerpt: The Book of Nahum, the Thirty-fourth Book of the King James Version of the Bible.

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Excerpt: During an interval in the Melvinski trial in the large building of the Law Courts the members and public prosecutor met in Ivan Egorovich Shebek?s private room, where the conversation turned on the celebrated Krasovski case. Fedor Vasilievich warmly maintained that it was not subject to their jurisdiction, Ivan Egorovich maintained the contrary, while Peter Ivanovich, not having entered into the discussion at the start, took no part in it but looked through the Gazette which had just been handed in....

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Excerpt: The Ethics. Part I -- Concerning God by Benedict de Spinoza, translated by R.H.M. Elwes.

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Excerpt: Pillars of Society. A Play in Four Acts by Henrik Ibsen, translated by R. Farquharson Sharp.

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Excerpt: The Second Epistle General of Peter, the Sixty-first Book of the King James Version of the Bible.