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An Introductory Course of Quantitative Chemical Analysis With Explanatory NotesTalbot, Henry P.en2004-06-30
La Légende des SièclesHugo, Victor, 1802-1885Introductory material, notes and bibliography in English.2004-04-01
Wilhelm TellSchiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805enSee also PG#2782 with Introductory NoteMartin, Theodore, 1816-1909 [Translator]2004-12-08
Doctor and PatientMitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914enIntroductory -- The physician -- Convalescence -- Pain and the opium habit -- The moral management of sick or invalid children -- Nervousness and its influence on character -- Out-door and camp-life for women.Medicine; Physician and patient2005-02-09
The House of Cobwebs and Other StoriesGissing, George, 1857-1903enThe work of George Gissing : An introductory survey -- The house of cobwebs -- A capitalist -- Christopherson -- Humplebee -- The scrupulous father -- A poor gentleman -- Miss Rodney's leisure -- A charming family -- A daughter of the lodge -- The riding-whip -- Fate and the apothecary -- Topham's chance -- A lodger in maze pond -- The salt of the earth -- The pig and whistle.2004-03-01
Letters on LiteratureLang, Andrew, 1844-1912enIntroductory: of modern English poetry -- Of modern English poetry -- Fielding -- Longfellow -- A friend of Keats -- On Virgil -- Aucassin and Nicolette -- Plotinus (200-262 A.D.) -- Lucretius -- To a young American bookhunter -- Rochefoucauld -- Of vers de société -- On vers de société -- Richardson -- Gérard de Nerval -- On books about red men.1998-07-01
The Curious Republic of Gondour, and Other Whimsical SketchesTwain, Mark, 1835-1910enThe curious republic of Gondour -- A memory -- Introductory to "Memoranda" -- About smells -- A couple of sad experiences -- Dan Murphy -- The "Tournament" in A.D. 1870 -- Curious relic for sale -- A reminiscence of the back settlements -- A royal compliment -- The approaching epidemic -- The tone imparting committee -- Our precious lunatic -- The European war -- The wild man interviewed -- Last words of great men.Essays; Short stories2004-09-17
Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short StoriesBallantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael), 1825-1894enIntroductory -- Life in the Bell Rock lighthouse -- Nights with the fire bridgade -- A war of mercy -- Descent into the Cornish mines -- The land of the vikings -- The burglars and the parson -- Jim Greeley, the North Sea skipper -- A northern waif -- How to make the best of life: from a young man's standpoint -- Forgive and forget: a lifeboat story -- "Rescue the perishing" -- A knotty question -- Two remarkable dreams.Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael), 1825-1894 -- Anecdotes; Authorship; Short stories2007-06-07
Gossip in a LibraryGosse, Edmund, 1849-1928enIntroductory -- Camden's "Britannia" -- A mirror for magistrates -- A poet in prison -- Death's duel -- Gerard's Herbal -- Pharamond -- A volume of old plays -- A censor of poets -- Lady Winchilsea's poems -- Amasia -- Love and business -- What Ann Lang read -- Cats -- Smart's poems -- Pompey the Little -- The life of John Buncle -- Beau Nash -- The natural history of Selborne -- The diary of a lover of literature -- Peter Bell and his tormentors -- The fancy -- Ultra-crepidarius -- The Duke of Rutland's poems -- Ionica -- The shaving of Shagpat.2004-03-01
HereticsChesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936enIntroductory remarks on the importance of orthodoxy -- On the negative spirit -- On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and making the world small -- Mr. Bernard Shaw -- Mr. H.G. Wells and the giants -- Christmas and the aesthetes -- Omar and the sacred vine -- The mildness of the yellow press -- The moods of Mr. George Moore -- On sandals and simplicity -- Science and the savages -- Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson -- Celts and celtophiles -- On certain modern writers and the institution of the family -- On smart novelists and the smart set -- On Mr. McCabe and a divine frivolity -- On the wit of Whistler -- The fallacy of the young nation -- Slum novelists and the slums -- Concluding remarks on the importance of orthodoxy.Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936; Apologetics1996-03-01




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