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(By the himself) THIS Book shews to the initiated knowledge, but intensifies the ignorance of the vulgar. It is of honouring, increasing riches, and of the needy, putting to flight poverty. It is of confidence and truth, full of counsel for kings and of teaching for prelates, a book useful for sainted men, who wish to live unspotted of sin; a se...

TO THE ENGLISH EDITION. THE HERMETIC MUSEUM RESTORED AND ENLARGED was published in Latin at Frankfort, in the year 1678, and, as its title implies, it was an enlarged form of an anterior work which, appearing in 1625, is more scarce, but, intrinsically, of less value. Its design was apparently to supply in a compact form a representative collect...

Rob And Kill That night, the sounds that came from the metal stamping plant of Weedham Industries, Incorporated, might have been prophetic of the immediate and ugly future, for they were like the rattle of machine guns. But Joseph, keeper of the south gate, was blissfully ignorant of a Thompson gun and its deadly chatter, so that he drew no such...

The plan of this book excludes epic and the drama, and in general so much of Roman poetry as could be included only by a licence of excerpt mostly dangerous and in poetry of any architectonic pretensions intolerable. If any one remarks as inconsistent with this plan the inclusion of the more considerable fragments of Ennius and the early tragedi...

DER WAHLSTREIT Ich saz ûf eime steine und dahte bein mit beine, dar ûf sast' ich den ellenbogen; ich hete in mîne hant gesmogen mîn kinne und ein mîn wange. dô dâhte ich mir vil ange,wes man zer werlte solte leben. dekeinen rât kond' ich gegeben, wie man driu dinc erwurbe,der keines niht verdurbe.diu zwei sint êre und varnde guot, daz dicke ein ...

How many of us are conscious of the subtle melodies, ""through which the myriad lispings of the earth find perfect speech""? Our poets are listeners; their ears are tuned to the magic call of secret voices that we who are not singers may never hear. They capture the ""Melody"" in chalices of song, and their message is: that whosoever will bend h...

To those who have contributed to this volume their memories of my father, criticisms of his work, or records of his friends, I owe a deep debt of gratitude. Three of the writers, Henry Butcher, Sir Alfred Lyall, and Graham Dakyns, have lately, to my great loss, passed away-into that fuller ""light of friendship""-

The following essays are the substance of a course of lectures delivered at a Summer School at the Woodbrooke Settlement, near Birmingham, in August 1915. The general purpose of the course will be apparent from the essays themselves. No forced or mechanical uniformity of view was aimed at. The writers will be found, very naturally and properly, ...

GOLFERS AS I 'AVE KNOWN"" (By a Caddie) Mr. Punch bows. I. Golfers I divides in me own mind into three clarses; them as 'its the ball, them as skratches it, and them as neither 'its nor skratches the blooming ball but turns rarnd and wants to 'it or skratch anyone as is small and 'andy. The first clars is very rare, the second is dreadfull plent...

THE FASCINATION OF THE GHOST STORY Arthur B. Reeve What is the fascination we feel for the mystery of the ghost story? Is it of the same nature as the fascination which we feel for the mystery of the detective story? Of the latter fascination, the late Paul Armstrong used to say that it was because we are all as full of crime as Sing Sing-only w...