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The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The Odyssey is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second-oldest extant work of Western literature; the Iliad is the oldest. Scholars believe the Odyssey was composed near the end of the 8th century BC, somewhere in Ionia, the Greek coastal region of Anatolia.

“THE subject of the following digest is not, as may be hastily imagined, a matter of mere curiosity or antiquarian research. The officer of whom it treats exercises his function in many parts of the kingdom, in its fullest extent, at this day; though the attention requisite in certain branches of his duty may in some places, no doubt, have induced him to neglect them.” -Preface

The very word magic has an alluring sound, and its practice as an art will probably never lose its attractiveness for people’s minds. But we must remember that there is a difference between the old magic and the new, and that both are separated by a deep chasm, which is a kind of color line, for though the latter develops from the former in a gradual and natural course of evolution, they are radically different in principle, and the new magic is irredeemably opposed to the assumptions upon which the old magic rests.

At one of the discussions in Council on the Ways and Means for the coming year, I ventured to inquire whether the pass duty for Malwa and Ahmedabad opium could not be raised beyond Rs. 600.. It was replied that Bombay and the Central India Agency had both objected to any enhancement, and declared the trade unequal to bear it.

Paul Mario was sufficiently distinguished in appearance to have been a person of no importance. His virile, curling black hair had the raven’s-wing sheen betraying remote Italian forebears, and for that matter there was in his entire cast of countenance and the poise of his fine head something statuesquely Roman, Southern, exotic. His large but deep-set eyes were of so dark a blue as very generally to pass for “black”; and whilst in some moods they were soft and dreamy, in others, notably in moments of enthusiasm, they burnt darkly fierce in his pale olive face. In profile there was a certain resemblance to the Vatican head of Julius Caesar, save for the mouth, which had more gentle curves, and which was not unlike that of Dante; but seen full-face, and allowing for the fact that Paul Mario was clean-shaven, the likeness of feature to the traditional Christ was startling. This resemblance is equally notable in the face of Shakespeare.

Rather above medium height, well but slightly proportioned, the uneasy spirit of the man ever looking out of those arresting eyes so wholly dominated him as to create a false impression of fragility, of a casket too frail to confine the burning, eager soul within. His emotions were dynamic, and in his every mannerism there was distinction. The vein of femininity which is found in all creative artists betrayed itself in one item of Mario’s attire: a white French knot, which slightly overlay the lapels of his well-worn Norfolk jacket.

This short novella ‘The Orchid’ can be read as Robert Grant’s commentary on the hypocrisy of American society in the garb of an amusing light novel. Written in 1905, this novel is about a headstrong young woman, who marries for money and divorces for love. She then sells her infant daughter back to her former husband to secure a two million dollar fortune.

Darwin’s theory of evolution is still considered to be the best account ever given pertaining to the living being as an evolved species. Despite several modifications and rebukes, the hold of his book has not diminished. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin was published by Fingerprint Publishing in 2013. It is available in paperback.
Key Features: The Origin of Species includes several examples and accounts that led to this Darwinian school of thought besides the theory itself.

These volumes have been compiled from the standing-point of a hearty and reverent believer in Historical Christianity. No one can be greater completely conscious of their imperfections and incompleteness than the Editor; for the topics below consideration occupy such a large field, that their cure at increased size would have mostly improved the bulk of the volumes, and indefinitely postponed their publication.
The data and data set forth (and throughout, the Editor has dealt with facts, as a substitute than with theories) have been gathered from time to time at some point of the previous twenty years, as nicely from regular historic narrations as from the private facts of countless pals and buddies involved in the subject-matter of the book.

The High Street consists of two rows of one-storeyed hovels, squeezed close one against another; old hovels with leaning walls and crooked windows, with dilapidated roofs, disfigured by time, patched with shingles, and overgrown with moss; here and there above them rise tall poles surmounted with starling houses, whilst the roofs are shaded by the dusty green of pollard willows and elder bushes, the sole miserable vegetation of suburbs where dwell the poorest classes.

The windows of these hovels, their glass stained green with age, seem to watch each other with the shifty, cowardly glance of thieves. Up the middle of the street crawls a winding channel passing between deep holes, washed out by the heavy rain; here and there lie heaps of old, broken bricks and stones overgrown with weeds, the remains of the various attempts made from time to time by the inhabitants to build dwellings; but these attempts have been rendered useless by the torrents of stormwater sweeping down from the town above. On the hill nestle, amongst the luxuriant green of gardens, magnificent stone-built houses; the steeples of churches rise proudly towards the blue heavens, their golden crosses glittering in the sun.

This essay appeared originally in the Atlantic Monthly for May, 1883. During the thirty years which have elapsed since it was written the manifestations of the colonial spirit then apparent in the United States have not only altered in character but, I am glad to say, have weakened, diminished, and become less noticeable. Since 1883, also, there has been much achieved by Americans in Art and Literature, in painting, in sculpture, in music, and particularly in architecture. Success in all these fields has, with few exceptions, been won by men working in the spirit which is not colonial, but which it was the purpose of this essay to inculcate as the true one to which alone we could look for fine and enduring achievement. I have called attention to the date at which the essay was written in order that those who read it may remember that it applies in certain points to the conditions of thirty years ago and not to those of the present day.

On this point, the present rebellion brought our republic to a severe test, and the Presidential election, occurring in regular course during the rebellion, added not a little to the strain…. The strife of the election is but human nature practically applied to the facts in the case. What has occurred in this case must ever occur in similar cases. Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged…. From this book

Regarding our Congress case here, you were right in thinking that I would support the candidate. Neither Baker nor, though, that man, but Hardin, as far as I can judge from current appearances. We will not have any division or problem regarding this matter; All the harmony will be in relation to “upcoming events” in which Butler had written to you, I had not heard a word before receiving your letter; But I have so much confidence in Butler’s decision that I want to think about this that there may be some reality in it. From this Book

He called it Popular Sovereignty. What does that mean? It means the sovereignty of the people on their own affairs-in other words, the right to the people Did Judge Douglas invent this? Not quite The idea of ​​popular sovereignty was floating about several ages before the author of the Nebraska Bill was born-indeed, before Columbus set foot on this continent. In the year 1776 it took form in the noble words which you are interested in: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men were created equal,” etc. from this book

In conformity with this law, Captain David G. Farragut was nominated to the Senate for continuance as the flag-officer in Command of the squadron which was recently rendered such a vital service to the Union by his successful operations on the Lower Mississippi and the New Orleans of Capture .

Believing that no occasion could arise which would be more fully corresponded with the intention of the law or the pregnant with happy influence as an example, I cordially recommended that Captain DG Farragut received a vote of thanks for his services and gallantry displayed in the capture since 21st December, 1861, of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, the city of New Orleans, and the destruction of various rebel gunboats, rams, etc ….. from this book

The foregoing is a synoptical statement of the evidence, together with the judge-advocate-general’s conclusions. The disaster, when it came, was a surprise to all. It was very well known to Generals Shenck and Milroy for some time before. From this Book

I looked around upon the world, and saw that it was shadowed by sorrow and scorched by the fierce fires of suffering. And I looked for the cause. I looked around, but could not find it; I looked in books, but could not find it; I looked within, and found there both the cause and the self-made nature of that cause. I looked again, and deeper, and found the remedy.

“In the town they tell the story of the great pearl – how it was found and how it was lost again. They tell of Kino, the fisherman, and of his wife, Juana, and of the baby, Coyotito. And because the story has been told so often, it has taken root in every man’s mind. And, as with all retold tales that are in people’s hearts, there are only good and bad things and black and white things and good and evil things and no in-between anywhere.
If this story is a parable, perhaps everyone takes his own meaning from it and reads his own life into it. In any case, they say in the town that…”

The sun had disappeared behind the snowy peaks of the Cordilleras; but the beautiful Peruvian sky long retains, through the transparent veil of night, the reflection of his rays; the atmosphere is impregnated with a refreshing coolness, which in these burning latitudes affords freedom of breath; it is the hour in which one can live a European life, and seek without on the verandas some cooling gentle zephyr; it seems as if a metallic roof was then interposed between the sun and the earth, which, retaining the heat and suffering only the light to pass, offers beneath its shelter a reparative repose.

The renowned Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw’s philosophical commentary on German theatre director Richard Wagner’s ‘The Niblung’s Ring’. This essay+review was first published in the year 1898.

I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided between pleasure and regret—pleasure in the achievement of a long design, regret in the separation from many companions—that I am in danger of wearying the reader whom I love, with personal confidences, and private emotions.

First published in the year 1888, the present book ‘The Phantom ‘Rickshaw, and Other Ghost Stories’ is a collection of eerie short stories written by Rudyard Kipling.

As “Filipinas dentro de Cien Años”, this article was originally published serially in the Filipino fortnightly review “La Solidaridad”, of Madrid, running through the issues from September, 1889, to January, 1890.

It supplements Rizal’s great novel “Noli Me Tangere” and its sequel “El Filibusterismo”, and the translation here given is fortunately by Mr. Charles Derbyshire who in his “The Social Cancer” and “The Reign of Greed” has so happily rendered into English those masterpieces of Rizal.

The pleasure and profit which the translator has received from the great work here presented, have induced him to lay it before his fellow-teachers and students of Mathematics in a more accessible form than that in which it has hitherto appeared. The want of a comprehensive map of the wide region of mathematical science—a bird’s-eye view of its leading features, and of the true bearings and relations of all its parts—is felt by every thoughtful student. He is like the visitor to a great city, who gets no just idea of its extent and situation till he has seen it from some commanding eminence. To have a panoramic view of the whole district—presenting at one glance all the parts in due co-ordination, and the darkest nooks clearly shown—is invaluable to either traveller or student. It is this which has been most perfectly accomplished for mathematical science by the author whose work is here presented.

A compendium of tall tales, wild adventures, and satire, ‘The Picaroons’ follows the adventures of a band of down-and-outers in San Francisco. Staked by a sympathetic cockney restaurateur named Coffee John to the most meager of working capital, each adventurer sets out to make his fortune via a get-rich-quick scheme, each more audacious than the next. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. We believe this work is culturally important. We appreciate your understanding and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

First pblished in the year 1837, the present novel ‘The Pickwick Papers’ was the famous Victorian realist novelist Charles Dickens’s first novel. It was published in the serialized form following the success of his ‘Sketches by Boz’, under his pseudonym Boz.

The Picture of Dorian Gray’ is a philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published in the July 1890. The plot of the novel varies between each of the published versions. The summary below deals with the longest version, the 1891 novel. However, certain episodes described—in particular Dorian’s encounter with, and murder of, James Vane—do not appear in the version originally submitted by Wilde to Lippincott’s.

A historical drama novel by famous writer Sir Walter Scott, ‘The Pirate’ was first published in the year 1822. The story is based on the life of John Gow or Captain Cleveland in the novel, and is set in the southern tip of the main island of Shetland in 18th century.

Malta, which I have selected as the opening scene of the following story, is, from its historical recollections, its fine climate, and brilliant skies, a very interesting spot; although, for such beauty as its scenery possesses, it must be acknowledged that it is indebted very much more to art than to nature. Notwithstanding, however, the noise it has made in the world, and will, I suspect, should we ever be driven into a war with our vivacious continental neighbour, again make, it is but a rock some twenty miles long, and twelve broad, in the middle of the Mediterranean, with a smaller rock, Gozo, to the north of it, and was, probably, at one time of this planet’s existence, merely a continuation of Sicily or Italy’s toe, or a lump, as it were, kicked off into the middle of the sea. If, also, report speaks true, the very soil which gives verdure to its valleys, and nourishes its sweet-scented orange-groves, was imported from richer lands; yet, notwithstanding this, a larger number of inhabitants of every religion, colour, and costume, continue to exist on its surface, than on any similar-sized portion of the globe. But in its capital, Valetta, with its magnificent fortifications, and superb harbour, are centred its chief attractions, and which have gained for it a name imperishable on the page of history as the bulwark of Christendom, against the pagan hosts of the Saracens.

First published in the year 1928, the present novel ‘The Pirate Woman’ is a fictional romantic-adventure novel by one of the most acclaimed writers Aylward Edward Dingle. This novel is an unique, on of its kind, fiction which depicts a ferocious Pirate woman as the main character of it.