| title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
| The Man with Two Left Feet
And Other Stories | Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975 | en | | Bill the Bloodhound -- Extricating Young Gussie -- Wilton's Holiday -- The Mixer (I) -- The Mixer (II) -- Crowned Heads -- At Geisenheimer's -- The Making of Mac's -- One Touch of Nature -- Black for Luck -- The Romance of an Ugly Policeman -- A Sea of Troubles -- The Man with Two Left Feet. | | Humorous stories, English; Short stories | 2005-02-01 |
| Hortus Vitae
Essays on the Gardening of Life | Lee, Vernon, 1856-1935 | en | | Dedication -- The garden of life -- In praise of governesses -- On going to the play -- Reading books -- Hearing music -- Receiving letters -- New friends and old -- Other friendships -- A hotel sitting-room -- In praise of courtship -- Knowing one's mind -- Against talking -- In praise of silence -- The blame of portraits -- Sere and yellow -- A stage jewel -- My bicycle and I -- Puzzles of the past -- Making presents -- Going away -- Coming back -- Losing one's train -- The hanging gardens. | | | 2008-10-07 |
| The Gentle Art of Making Enemies | Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 | en | | | | Painting; Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 | 2008-02-19 |
| The Making Of A Novelist
An Experiment In Autobiography | Murray, David Christie, 1847-1907 | en | | | | Murray, David Christie, 1847-1907; Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography | 2007-08-01 |
| The Art of Making Whiskey
So As to Obtain a Better, Purer, Cheaper and Greater
Quantity of Spirit, From a Given Quantity of Grain | Boucherie, Anthony | en | | | | Whiskey; Gin | 2007-05-24 |
| The Auburndale Watch Company
First American Attempt Toward the Dollar Watch | Battison, Edwin A. | en | | | | Auburndale Watch Company (Auburndale, Mass.); Clock and watch making -- United States | 2009-09-08 |
| Side Show Studies | Metcalfe, Francis | en | | The liberty of Franz and the rebellion of Fuzzy Wuzzy -- The bite of a rattler and the sad fate of Big Pete -- The amorous baboon -- Feeding the serpents and a grand transformation -- The lioness skirt dance and the inconsiderate python -- The animal barometer and the eternal feminine -- Making a star lion and an interrupted temperance meeting -- Kalsomining an elephant -- The hypnotic bear and the sentimental lecturer -- The tragedy of the tigers and the power of hypnotism. | Herford, Oliver, 1863-1935 [Illustrator] | | 2007-11-19 |
| Personal Reminiscences in Book Making
and Some Short Stories | Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael), 1825-1894 | en | | Introductory -- 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 stories | 2007-06-07 |
| Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby | Norris, Kathleen Thompson, 1880-1966 | en | | Poor, dear Margaret Kirby -- Bridging the years -- The tide-marsh -- What happened to Alanna -- The friendship of Alanna -- "S is for shiftless Susanna" -- The last Carolan -- Making allowances for mamma -- The measure of Margaret Coppered -- Miss Mix, kidnapper -- Shandon Waters -- Gayley the troubadour -- Dr. Bates and Miss Sally -- The gay deceiver -- The rainbow's end -- Rosemary's stepmother -- Austin's girl -- Rising water. | | American fiction -- 20th century; Short stories | 2003-08-01 |
| The Little Tea Book | | en | | The origin of tea -- Tea [poem] / by Francis Saltus Saltus -- little cups of Chinese and Japanese tea -- On tea [poem] / by Edmund Waller -- Some English tea history -- O tea! [poem] / Arthur Gray -- Tea terms (Japanese. Chinese) -- Tea leaves / by John Ernest McCann -- Wit, wisdom and humor of tea -- Fate / Churchill -- Tea making and taking in Japan and China -- Tea-drinking in other lands -- The tea-table -- Ladies, literature and tea -- On our English poetry and this poem upon tea / R. B. -- To the author on his poem upon tea / T. W. -- Poems from J. Roberts pamphlet (London, 1700) -- Dr. Johnson's affinity -- Earliest mention of tea -- Australian tea -- Five o'clock tea -- Tea in ladies' novels -- Sydney Smith -- Dr. Johnson again -- A cup of tea [poem] / Helen Gray Cone. | | | 2006-09-27 |
| The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened | Digby, Kenelm, 1603-1665 | en | | Introduction
The Closet Of Sir Kenelm Digby Opened: Title Page Of The First Edition
To The Reader
Receipts For Mead, Metheglin, And Other Drinks
Cookery Receipts
The Table
Appendix
I. Some Additional Receipts
II. The Powder Of Sympathy
III. List Of The Herbs, Flowers, &c., Referred To In The Text
Notes
Glossary
Index Of Receipts | MacDonell, Anne [Editor] | Liquors; Wine and wine making -- Early works to 1800; Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665; Cooking -- Early works to 1800 | 2005-08-05 |
| Heretics | Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 | en | | Introductory 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; Apologetics | 1996-03-01 |
| The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million | Henry, O., 1862-1910 | en | | The trimmed lamp -- A Madison Square Arabian night -- The Rubaiyat of a Scotch highball -- The pendulum -- Two Thanksgiving day gentlemen -- The assessor of success -- The buyer from Cactus City -- The badge of policeman O'Roon -- Brickdust Row -- The making of a New Yorker -- Vanity and some sables -- The social triangle -- The purple dress -- The foreign policy of Company 99 -- The lost blend -- A Harlem tragedy -- "The guilty party"--An East side tragedy -- According to their lights -- A midsummer knight's dream -- The last leaf -- The count and the wedding guest -- The county of elusion -- The ferry of unfulfilment -- The tale of a tainted tenner -- Elsie in New York. | | Short stories; New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 2003-02-01 |
| The Call Of The South
1908 | Becke, Louis, 1855-1913 | en | | Paul the diver -- The old sea life -- The blind man of Admiralty Island -- Nisân Island: a tale of the old trading days -- Mutinies -- "Mâni" -- At night -- The cranks of the Julia brig -- "Dandy", the ship's Dingo -- Kala-Hoi, the netmaker -- The kanaka labour trade in the Pacific -- My friends, the Anthropophagi -- On the "joys" of recruiting "blackbirds" -- Making a fortune in the South Seas -- The story of Tokolmé -- "Lano-Tô" -- "Ombre Chevalier" -- A recluse of the bush -- Te-Bari, the outlaw -- "The dandiest boy that ever stood up in a boat" -- The pit of Maotâ -- Vanâki, the strong swimmer -- Two Pacific Islands birds -- A night run across Fâgaloa Bay -- A bit of good luck -- Modern pirates -- Pautôe -- The man who knew everything -- The pattering of the mullet. | | | 2008-03-22 |
| Yorkshire Ditties, First Series
To Which Is Added The Cream Of Wit And Humour From His Popular Writings | Hartley, John, 1839-1915 | en | | Bite Bigger -- To th' Swallow -- Plenty o' Brass -- Th' Little Stranger -- Babby Burds -- Wayvin Mewsic -- That's a Fact -- Stop at Hooam -- The Short Timer -- Th' First o'th' Soart -- Lines on Finding a Butterfly in a Weaving Shed -- Uncle Ben -- The New Year's Resolve -- The Old Bachelor's Story -- Aght o' Wark -- Another Babby -- The Little Black Hand -- Lily's Gooan -- My Native Twang -- Shoo's thi' Sister -- Persevere -- To a Roadside Flower -- The New Year -- Valentine Day -- March Winds -- April Fooils -- Policeman's Scrape -- Information -- Watterin' Places -- Flaar Shows -- October Ale -- Force of Example -- Gunpaader Plot -- Th' Last Month -- Meditated Strike -- New Year's Parties -- Smiles, Tears, Getting on -- Mysterious Disappearance -- Sam it up -- Fooils -- Cleanin' Daan Month -- Hay-making -- Hollingworth Lake -- Plagues -- End o'th' Year -- Scientific -- Valentine Dream | | | 2006-01-06 |
| The Literary World Seventh Reader | | en | | Rip Van Winkle, by Irving -- The Great Stone Face, by Hawthorne -- The Courtship of Miles Standish, by Longfellow -- The Friendship of Nantaquas, by Johnston -- Harry Esmond's Boyhood, by Thackeray -- The Family Holds Its Head Up, by Goldsmith -- The Little Boy in the Balcony, by Grady -- Ariel's Triumph, by Tarkington -- The Cloud, by Shelley -- New England Weather, by Twain -- The First Snowfall, by Lowell -- Old Ephraim, by Roosevelt -- Midwinter, by Trowbridge -- A Georgia Fox Hunt, by Harris -- Rain and Wind, by Cawein -- The Southern Sky, by Maury -- Daffodils, by Wordsworth -- Dawn, by Everett -- Spring, by Timrod -- Among the Cliffs, by Craddock -- A Deal in Bears, by Hyne -- Lochinvar, by Scott -- In Labrador, by Wells -- The Bugle Song, by Tennyson -- The Siege of the Castle, by Scott -- Sea Fever, by Masefield -- A Greyport Legend, by Harte -- A Hunt Beneath The Ocean, by Verne -- Under Seas, by Tolstoi -- A Voyage to the Moon, by Poe -- The Great Stone of Sardis, by Stockton -- A Stop At Suzanne's, by Clover -- The Making of a Man, by Locke -- In Flanders Fields, by McCrae -- In Flanders Fields (An Answer), by Galbraith -- A Ballad Of Heroes, by Dobson. | | | 2006-11-05 |
| Children of the Tenements | Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914 | en | | The rent baby -- A story of Bleecker Street -- The kid hangs up his stocking -- The slipper-maker's fast -- Death comes to Cat Alley -- A proposal on the elevated -- Little Will's message -- Lost children -- Paolo's awakening -- The little dollar's Christmas journey -- The kid -- When the letter came -- The cat took the kosher meat -- Nibsy's Christmas -- In the children's hospital -- Nigger Martha's wake -- What the Christmas sun saw in the tenements -- Midwinter in New York -- A chip from the maelstrom -- Sarah Joyce's husbands -- Merry Christmas in the tenements -- Abe's game of jacks -- A little picture -- A dream of the woods -- 'Twas 'Liza's doings -- Heroes who fight fire -- John Gavin, misfit -- A heathen baby -- The christening in Bottle Alley -- In the Mulberry Street court -- Difficulties of a deacon -- Fire in the barracks -- War on the goats -- He kept his tryst -- Rover's last fight -- How Jim went to the war -- A backwoods hero -- Jack's sermon -- Skippy of Scrabble Alley -- Making a way out of the slum. | Relyea, C. M. (Charles Mark), 1863-1932 [Illustrator] | Short stories, American; Tenement houses -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction | 2007-05-23 |