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...discouraging, and I, like hundreds of others, felt blue. Thus Chalkley J. Hambleton begins his pithy and engrossing tale of participation in the Pike's Peak gold rush. Four men in partnership hauled 24 tons of mining equipment by ox cart across the Great Plains from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Denver, Colorado. Hambleton vividly recounts their encounters with buffalo herds, I...

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...Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It is a collection of essays written by Louis Brandeis published as a book in 1914. The book attacked the use of investment funds to promote the consolidation of various industries under the co...

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...Trent's Last Case (US title The Woman in Black ) is actually the first novel in which gentleman sleuth Philip Trent appears. The novel is a whodunit whose unique place in the history of detective fiction is because it is at the sam...

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...Alexander Pope (1688-1744) is widely considered to be the best poet of the Augustan age, and perhaps English verse’s best satirist ever. Pope was mostly self-taught having been denied a formal protestant education because of his family’s Roman Catholic beliefs; he also suffered from the effects of Pott’s disease his entire life, which lef...

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...r judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. In Poets as true Genius is but rare, True Taste as seldom is the Critic’s share; Both must alike from Heav’n derive their light, These born to judge, as well as those to write. Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well; Authors are partial to their ...

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...Introduction Ode on Solitude A Paraphrase (On Thomas à Kempis) To the Author of a Poem Entitled Successio The First Book of Statius’s Thebais Imitation of Chaucer Imitation of Spenser: The Alley Imitation of Waller: On a Lady Singing to Her Lute Imitation of Waller: On a Fan of the Author’s Design Imitation of Abraham Cowley: The Garden Imitation of...

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...Apparently, there’s been an underground, cold war going on, not noticed much by humans, between “good” vampires—those who have altered their biological needs and can use synthetic blood—and “bad” vampires—Rogues who actively enjoy hunting, dra...

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... Me neither. What the hell happened? Someone making some crazy juice up there? Found any?” He glances back to me from the other screen, grimacing. He’s been in the cop business longer that I’ve been so my instincts were right—if it upsets him, it’s gotta be as bad as I thought it looked. I’m no fainting pansy myself but jeeze…I shudder. “Nope. Doc says no trace of drug...

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...The July-August-September, 2011 edition of Hinduism's flagship spiritual magazine, Hinduism Today, has been released in digital form and is now available for free on your desktop. This issue takes you on a wondrous adventure through time as well as culture showcasing nine hist...

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...rt and resources for the program • Set your expectations clear on CMMI Implementation • Be aware of the different aspects in Implementation How it’s different: • Written from practitioners’ point of view • Communicates the reality in practical implementation Word of Caution: • The book contains only samples and typical examples and they are not comprehensive and to ...

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...s various practical approaches followed by organizations as typical examples. Implementation of CMMI is not an activity for marketing and bidding, it’s more than that, its strengthening of your product development & Service delivery models to achieve your business results. Considering this you would want CMMI Implementation to bring in the real cultural change and value to...

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...Randall Clayton was surrounded by enemies. His father’s business partner had looked after him in the years since his father’s death. But Hugh Worthington’s motives were not altruistic – he had a secret to hide and a scheme to bring to fruition that would make him millions at Cla...

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...hey were a source of great satisfaction to him. After knocking at his aunt’s door and learning that she was indisposed, he had taken a walk about the ... ...n another place. He poked his alpenstock, lance-fashion, into Winterbourne’s bench and tried to crack the lump of sugar with his teeth. “Oh, blazes; i... ...bench and tried to crack the lump of sugar with his teeth. “Oh, blazes; it’s har-r-d!” he exclaimed, pronouncing the adjective in a peculiar manner. W... ...fterward. She said she’d slap me if any more came out. I can’t help it. It’s this old Europe. It’s the climate that makes them come out. In America th... ... the climate that makes them come out. In America they didn’t come out. It’s these hotels.” Winterbourne was much amused. “If you eat three lumps of s... ... three lumps of sugar, your mother will certainly slap you,” he said. “She’s got to give me some candy, then,” rejoined his young interlocutor. “I can... ...an’t get any candy here—any 6 Daisy Miller American candy. American candy’s the best candy.” “And are American little boys the best little boys?” ask... ... American man?” pursued this vivacious in- fant. And then, on Winterbourne’s affirmative reply— ”American men are the best,” he declared. His companio... ... about this age. “Here comes my sister!” cried the child in a moment. “She’s an American girl.” Winterbourne looked along the path and saw a beauti- f...

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...eads above the foggy sea, and especially that the great dome of Saint Paul’s seemed to die hard; but this was not perceivable in the streets at their ... ...rked into that passing likeness. Arrived at the house in which his master’ s chambers were on the second floor, Riah proceeded up the stairs, and paus... ...nd floor, Riah proceeded up the stairs, and paused at Fascination Fledgeby’s door. Making free with neither bell nor knocker, he struck upon the door ... ...ited with perfect patience. At length the door stood open, and Mr Fledgeby’s retreat- ing drapery plunged into bed again. Following it at a respect- f... ...ed to the influence of the warmth, and dozed. He was roused by Mr Fledgeby’s appearing erect at the foot of the bed, in T urkish slippers, rose-colour... ...ne up to eye it closely, ‘you haven’t been lightening any of these; but it’s a trade of your people’s, you know. Yo u understand what sweating a pound... ... sleeves, as he stood at the table, deferentially observant of the master’ s face. ‘May I take the liberty to say something?’ ‘Y ou may,’ Fledgeby gra... ...Fledgeby. ‘Not in generosity?’ ‘Jews and generosity!’ said Fledgeby. ‘That’s a good connexion! Bring out your vouchers, and don’t talk Jerusa- lem pal... ...lls are to be bought, and at what prices? Y ou have got your list of what’ s in the market?’ ‘Sir, a long list,’ replied Riah, taking out a pocket-boo...

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...every one of us can picture it in its Gallo- Grecian reality. The stranger’s hat, for instance, tipped to the back of his head so as to leave almost t... ...endency which is apt to degenerate into credulity. And yet, though the man’s ugliness was something almost ludicrous, it aroused not the slightest inc... ...n to laugh. The exceeding melancholy which found an outlet in the poor man’s faded eyes reached the mocker himself and froze the gibes on his lips; fo... ...leamed the edge of a red knitted under-jacket, to put you in mind of Garat’s five waistcoats. A huge white muslin stock with a conspicuous bow, invent... ...ite to charm “the charming sex” in 1809, projected so far above the wearer’s chin that the lower part of his face was lost, as it were, in a muslin ab... ...s in the demeanor that smacked of the school of David, that recalled Jacob’s spindle-legged furniture. At first sight, moreover, you set him down eith... ... who asks you for subscriptions to a charity, absorbs the whole of a month’s little surplus of pocket-money. If you had seen him that afternoon, you w... ... carrying some object (evidently precious) in his right hand with a mother’s care; concealing 7 Balzac it under the skirts of his coat to keep it fro... ...vering some piece of lost property, some modern equivalent of the marquise’s poodle; you would have recognized the assiduous gallantry of the “man of ...

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...ld palace on an out-of- the-way canal: this was the substance of my friend’s im- pression of them. She herself had been established in Venice for fift... ...as much to Mrs. Prest. She however replied with profundity, “Ah, but there’s all the difference: I went to confer a favor and you will go to ask one. ... ...ad to choose between that precious solution and a bundle of Jeffrey Aspern’s letters I knew indeed which would appear to me the greater boon. She pret... ...t of his genius, and I took no pains to defend him. One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense. Besides, today, after his long co... ...ght by which we walk. The most I said was that he was no doubt not a woman’s poet: to which she rejoined aptly enough that he had been at least Miss B... ...o which she rejoined aptly enough that he had been at least Miss Bordereau’s. The strange thing had been for me to discover in England that she was st... ...d been the only dark spot in his life, unless the papers in Miss Bordereau’s hands should perversely bring out oth- ers. There had been an impression ... ...lications, some of them grave, had not failed to arise. He was not a woman’s poet, as I had said to Mrs. Prest, in the modern phase of his reputation;... ...phase of his reputation; but the situation had been different when the man’s own voice was mingled with his song. That voice, by every testi- mony, wa...

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...The Harbor was written in 1915 by Ernest Poole. The novel is considered by many to be one of Poole’s best efforts even though his book, The Family won a Pulitzer Prize. The Harbor is a fictional account of life on a Brooklyn waterfront through the eyes of Billy as he is growing up. The novel starts with Billy the child, li...

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...e Carnival evening Maitre Cardot was entertaining guests at Mlle. T urquet’s house—Desroches the attorney, Bixiou of the caricatures, Lousteau the jou... ...h, alas! means a great descent in fortune likewise, had honored the notary’s little establishment with his presence. At dinner, in such a house, one d... ...position of magistrates and criminals hobnobbing together. A set of Bixiou’s drawings to illustrate life in the debtors’ prison, led the conversation ... ...never have twenty francs. One has a thou- sand francs, or one sends to one’s notary for five hundred; but twenty francs I have never had in my life. M... ...to the time of his marriage, his life was one continual war, like—Lousteau’s, 6 A Man of Business for instance. I was, and am still his solicitor.” “... ... virtue of this article of his particular code, Maxime regarded a creditor’s scheme for making him pay at once as a swindler’s trick. It was a long ti... ...g, as you know. His carriage and horses were jobbed; he lived in his valet’s house; and, by the way, he will be a hero to his valet to the end of the ... ...“For six or seven years this Claparon acted as man of straw, 7 Balzac cat’s paw, and scapegoat to two friends of ours, du Tillet and Nucingen; but in... ... lorette. “The same. Under the Restoration, between 1823 and 1827, Cerizet’s occupation consisted in first putting his name intrepidly to various para...

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... matter in this house the better. I am sure that that would be your father’s feeling.’ ‘I do not see that at all,’ said John. ‘Mr Crawley is not more ... ...ll,’ said John. ‘Mr Crawley is not more than any other man just because he’s a clergyman. I hate all that kind of clap-trap. There are a lot of people... ...ice as much as I have, John.’ But John had left the room before his sister’s words could reach him. 5 Anthony Trollope ‘Y ou know, mamma, it is quite... ...er.’ ‘I knew Grace very well—when she used to come first to Miss Prettyman’s school.’ ‘Poor girl. I pity her.’ ‘Pity her! Pity is no word for it, mamm... ...y the mother and daughter went on discussing the question of the clergyman’s guild in spite of Mrs Walker’s expressed desire that nothing more might b... ...e and sit down for a few minutes be- fore you dress. Mary, get your father’s slippers.’ Mary in- stantly ran to the door. ‘Thanks, my darling,’ said t... ...bout the man, and a manifest struggle to do his duty in spite of the world’s ill-usage, which had won its way even with the rough; so that Mr Crawley’... ... the alleged theft are stated, a word or two must be said as to Mr Crawley’s family. It is declared that a good wife is a crown to her husband, but Mr... ...undred and thirty pounds per annum—and a family. That had been Mrs Crawley’s luck in life, and of course she bore it. But she had also done much more ...

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...ion, because it flows from a divine source, as is shown in this the author’s naive confession. Certain evil-disposed people will still cry out at this... ..., through the deed of a man of T ours, of which the town and even the king’s court was never tired of speaking. As to the clergy, you will see by that... ...s needful to demon- strate abundantly the secret cause of this silversmith’s chastity. And, first remember that he came into the town on foot, poor as... ...men, and vagrants saw always a modest lamp shining through the silversmith’s window, and the good man tapping, sculpting, rounding, distilling, modeli... ..., and others gave him no reputation for knowledge, he knew well his mother’s Latin, and spoke it correctly without waiting to be asked. Latterly the P... ...y the rule of his revenues, not to let them take his leather to make other’s shoes, to trust no one farther then he could see them, never to say what ... ...shed at odd times. In short, Master Anseau was a thorough man, with a lion’s face, and under his eyebrows a glance that would melt his gold if the fir... ...itaph of the human race.” T o please all the relations, to tread on no one’s corns, to break no glasses, to waste no breath, to talk nonsense, to hold... ...ry one in the quarter will think of my wife and then of me, and say ‘There’s a happy man.’ Then the getting married, the bridal festivities, to fondle...

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...It’s a dreary February in post-World War I London when Mrs. Wilkins spots an advertisement in The Times for a small Italian castle for rent in April. She sees another member of her women’s club, Mrs. Arbuthnot, reading the same ...

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...One of James’s early novels, The American plunges right in to one of the writer’s most enduring subjects, that of the innocent, or at least inexperienced, American abroad, seeking to come to terms with the social customs and conventions o...