...ntom ‘Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...ances of this mortal life” in the days when men drove from Calcutta to the Northwest. These bun- galows are objectionable places to put up in. They ar... ...rsquare sink of hu- manity where the strings of camels and horses from the North load and unload. All the nationalities of Central Asia may be found t... ...e was no virtue in books, he had talked of some desperate adventure of the Vikings, of Thorfin Karlsefne’s sailing to Wineland, which is America, in t... ...nture of the Vikings, of Thorfin Karlsefne’s sailing to Wineland, which is America, in the ninth or tenth century. The battle in the harbor he had see... ... never been written before, might tell the story of the first discovery of America, myself the discoverer. But I was en- tirely at Charlie’s mercy, an... ...e Lord He knows who these may or may not have been— came to trade with the Vikings, and ran away because they were frightened at the bellowing of the ... ...d no other guide,” quoth Charlie. He spoke of a land- ing on an island and explorations in its woods, where the crew killed three men whom they found ...

.......... 4 MY OWN TRUE GHOST STORY................................................................................................ 25 THE STRANGE RIDE OF MORROWBIE JUKES ................................................................... 33 THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING........................................................................................... 54 ?THE FINEST STO...

...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air 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 person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...nanas, unfamiliar nuts, grape fruits, mangoes. The motor-cars that went by northward and southward grew more and more powerful and efficient, whizzed ... ...paper and cane as Tom had done, but with a penny packet of Boys of England American ciga- rettes. His language shocked his father before he was twelve... ...r to allow the passage of the London and Antwerp shipping and the Hamburg- America liners. Then heavy motor-cars began to run about on only a couple ... ...n the University of London, and while working upon the auriferous rocks of North Wales, after a brief holiday spent in agitating for women’s suffrage,... ...if that was her? 51 H G Wells “Lord!” He mused for a time. He resumed his exploration of the Butteridge interior. It included a number of press cutti... ...e War 96 The War in the Air God, that terrible, trampling figure with the viking helmet and the scarlet cloak, wading through destruction, sword in h... ...stening of the shutter and had pres- ently this establishment open for his exploration. He found several sealed bottles of sterilized milk, much miner...

...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...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... ...– a country far more essentially different from England than many parts of America; for, in a sense, the first of these men re-created Scotland, and t... ... history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two Americans, Whitman and Thoreau, each is the type of some- thing not so much... ...nty shall minister to the highest wish of Benevolence, and where the chill north wind of Prudence shall never blow over the flowery field of Enjoyment... ...g of pain and disappointment, which is surely noble with the nobility of a viking, he would rather stoop to borrow than to accept money for these last... ...t: the needle did not tremble as with richer natures, but pointed steadily north; and as he saw duty and inclination in one, he turned all his strengt... .... It is still wonderful to the Japanese how far he contrived to push these explorations; a cultured gentleman of that land and period would leave a co...

...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...