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The most valuable thing which ever comes into a life is that experience, that book, that sermon, that person, that incident, that emergency, that accident, that catastrophe – that something which touches the springs of a man’s inner nature.

People have forgotten the gospel of service. The producing power per man has fallen off from fifteen to twenty percent. We have all been keen on developing consumption. We have devoted nine-tenths of our thought, energy and effort to developing consumption. This message is to beg of every reader to give more thought to developing production, to the reviving of a desire to produce and the realization of joy in production. –Foreword

Futuria Fantasia, Summer 1939′ is Ray Bradbury’s classic science fiction story. It is fantasy fiction that involves a lot of science and time travel related elements in it’s plot.

John Masefield’s present book ‘Gallipoli’ was first published in the year 1916. This book is a detailed description of the American Australian war. “A little while ago, during a short visit to America, I was often questioned about the Dardanelles Campaign. People asked me why that attempt had been made, why it had been made in that particular manner, why other courses had not been taken, why this had been done and that either neglected or forgotten, and whether a little more persistence, here or there, would not have given us the victory.” -an excerpt

As soon as the shops were lighted up and the dusk seemed to him black enough, he went out into the square in front of the Palais Royal, but as a man anxious not to be recognized; for he kept close under the houses as far as the fountain, screened by the hackney cab stand, till he reached the Rue Froid Manteau, a dirty, poky, disreputable street a sort of sewer tolerated by the police close to the purified purlieus of the Palais Royal, as an Italian major domo allows a careless servant to leave the sweepings of the rooms in a corner of the staircase.

This small book does not lay claims to being comprehensive or exhaustive. It is meant only to serve as an introduction, particularly to benefit children and beginners, and to inspire them to make a deeper study, and to instil the desire to know more, and to benefit from the life and message of Mahatma Gandhi.

The limited first edition of the book was designed and produced as a presentation to Dr. R.R. Diwakar, Chairman of the Foundation, on his seventieth birthday. The present edition is a considerable revised and enlarged one, and is in many ways a more unified volume of studies. Some of the new material had first appeared in the pages of Gandhi Marg, the quarterly journal of the Foundation.

Rama Nama made him so fearless that, later he showed the forty crore Indians and also the whole humanity, the way to live fearlessly. Even at the last moment of his life, Rama Nama was there on his lips.

This is the first pictorial biography of Gandhi in which the narrative-concise, readable and incisive is illustrated with contemporary photographs and facsimiles of letters, newspaper reports and cartoons, adding up to a fascinating flash-back on the life of Mahatma Gandhi and the struggle for Indian freedom led by him. There is a skilful matching in this book of text and illustrations, of description and analysis and of concrete detail and large perspective. This pictorial biography will revive many memories in those who have lived through the Gandhian era; it should also be of interest to the post-independence generation.

It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my numerous experiments with truth, and as my life consists of nothing but those experiments, it is true that the story will take the shape of an autobiography. But I shall not mind, if every page of it speaks only of my experiments.

The satyagraha struggle of the Indians in South Africa lasted eight years. The term satyagraha was invented and employed in connection therewith. I had long entertained a desire to write a history of that struggle myself. Some things only I could write. Only the general who conducts a campaign can know the objective of each particular move. and as this was the first attempt to apply the principle of satyagraha to politics on a large scale, it is necessary any day that the public should have an idea of its development.
—M. K. GANDHI

The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais, which tells of the adventures of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel.

Nothing is so boundless as the sea, nothing so patient. On its broad back it bears, like a good-natured elephant, the tiny mannikins which tread the earth; and in its vast cool depths it has place for all mortal woes. It is not true that the sea is faithless, for it has never promised anything; without claim, without obligation, free, pure, and genuine beats the mighty heart, the last sound one in an ailing world. And while the mannikins strain their eyes over it, the sea sings its old song. Many understand it scarce at all, but never two understand it in the same manner, for the sea has a distinct word for each one that sets himself face to face with it

It is not impossible that in the minds of some persons the idea of employing gentle measures in the management and training of children may seem to imply the abandonment of the principle of authority, as the basis of the parental government, and the substitution of some weak and inefficient system of artifice and manoeuvring in its place. To suppose that the object of this work is to aid in effecting such a substitution as that, is entirely to mistake its nature and design. The only government of the parent over the child that is worthy of the name is one of authority—complete, absolute, unquestioned authority. The object of this work is, accordingly, not to show how the gentle methods which will be brought to view can be employed as a substitute for such authority, but how they can be made to aid in establishing and maintaining it.

Harry Castlemon is the pseudoname of Charles Austin Fosdick. His series of adventure and action written for boys got famous in the 19th century. The present book is story of George Ackerman, who is a sturdy, broad-shouldered youth, about fifteen years of age. He was one of the boys introduced in the concluding volume of the “Boy Trapper Series,” who was known for his adventures and exploits. We find him now at his home in Texas, sitting on the porch in front of the house in which he lived, busily engaged in mending a broken bridle with an awl and a piece of waxed-end.

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The request to provide a concise account of German romanticism for the collection “From the world of nature and the mind”, seeks the following attempt to do their utmost. Within the prescribed narrow limits, the whole richness of romantic thought and poetry could not be manifested. Research in this field is so zealously active at the moment that contrasts of scientific observation have been manifold. To substantiate the point of view which the author takes, much more detail had to be expounded than was good for the economy of the book. In the course of time, it is true that the image of Romanticism is executed here more in terms of the intellectual than the artistic-creative side, As much has been said of the theoretical views of early Romanticism as of the poetic achievements of the younger Romantics, so grateful would be the reverse procedure, especially in the case of a dispute that turns to wider circles. Yet, in the field of Romanticism, the problem of the moment may first lie in the task of drawing the lines of communication that extend from the very beginning to the last foothills. The in-depth consideration of early romanticism given to us in recent decades has given a new appreciation to the older Romantic generation, making it considerably more valuable than was previously thought. At the same time, the gap that exists between her and her younger comrades seemed to grow into something unmistakable. Today there is a danger that the concept of Romanticism will not fall into disrepair at all, and that in the future only disjointed representatives of German intellectual life and German art will speak in the age of 1795-1830. It is the author’s conviction that a purposeless work of destruction would be accomplished in such division and separation. As he himself sees it, it seeks[S. vi]he at least hint at it here. The attempt to draw the main features of the early Romantic view of life and the arts occupies most of the explanations; but it is only intended to serve as a basis for the discussion of the problem of how the rich ideas of early Romanticism give rise to the artistic formations of the younger Romantic period. Hopefully, what romantic poetry has created on its own and without the help of theory will not be neglected. The idea on which the whole presentation rests is considered from another point of view in the essay “Goethe and the problem of Faustian nature” (International Weekly 1908, No. 35). To draw lines of development was quite attempted.

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A comedy play by the renowned playwright George Bernard Shaw, ‘

An integration of two words, ‘Git’ and ‘Anjali,’ meaning song and offering respectively, the literal meaning of the word is ‘offering of songs.’ and because of the strong devotional tone and subliminal spiritual incitation, the book can be said to have devotion to god as its theme. It highlights the poet’s intense response to the magnificence of the universe or rather an affirmation of life with all its abundance, mystery and diversity.

This is a wonderful collection of Lafcadio Hearn’s essays on Buddhism, Japan, and Japanese folklore. Chapters include: A Living God; Out Of The Street; Notes Of A Trip To Kyôto; Dust; About Faces In Japanese Art; Ningyô-No-Haka; In Ôsaka; Buddhist Allusions In Japanese Folk-Song; Nirvana, A Study In Synthetic Buddhism; The Rebirth Of Katsugorô; and, Within The Circle.

Securing a lodging where a destitute woman could be accommodated, and providing cleansing and dress, she has steadily taken in through a period of six years every case of complete destitution that came to her, willing to undergo remedial treatment. The work grew; accommodation for four was provided, with two paid helpers. The small cottage used acts as a social microscope, every case being personally investigated as to past life, history, and present need, and dealt with accordingly. The writer, as Secretary to the Ladies’ Committee of Oldham Workhouse, next became personally acquainted with the working of the Poor-law and studied it by means of books also.