The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People. By Oscar Wilde.\nPleas enjoy this entertaining classic.

Literature & Fiction

Wilde, Óscar

Humor & Satire

Paper and Pen

Rip Van Winkle

INTRODUCTION\nThe following tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker, an old gentleman of New York, who was very curious in the Dutch history of the province, and the manners of the descendants from its primitive settlers. His historical researches, however, did not lie so much among books as among men; for the former are lamentably scanty on his favourite topics; whereas he found the old burghers, and still more their wives, rich in that legendary lore so invaluable to true history. Whenever, therefore, he happened upon a genuine Dutch family, snugly shut up in its low-roofed farmhouse, under a spreading sycamore, he looked upon it as a little clasped volume of black-letter, and studied it with the zeal of a book-worm.\nThe result of all these researches was a history of the province during the reign of the Dutch governors, which he published some years since. There have been various opinions as to the literary character of his work, and, to tell the truth, it is not a whit better than it should be. Its chief merit is its scrupulous accuracy, which indeed was a little questioned on its first appearance, but has since been completely established; and it is now admitted into all historical collections as a book of unquestionable authority.\nThe old gentleman died shortly after the publication of his work; and now that he is dead and gone, it cannot do much harm to his memory to say that his time might have been much better employed in weightier labours. He, however, was apt to ride his hobby in his own way; and though it did now and then kick up the dust a little in the eyes of his neighbours, and grieve the spirit of some friends, for whom he felt the truest deference and affection, yet his errors and follies are remembered "more in sorrow than anger," and it begins to be suspected that he never intended to injure or offend. But however his memory may be appreciated by critics, it is still held dear by many folks whose good opinion is well worth having; particularly by certain biscuit-bakers, who have gone so far as to imprint his likeness on their new-year cakes; and have thus given him a chance for immortality, almost equal to the being stamped on a Waterloo medal, or a Queen Anne's farthing.

Irving., Washington

Genre Fiction

The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes. By Arthur Conan Doyle.\nExcerpt from the book:\nMr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before. It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a "Penang lawyer." Just under the head was a broad silver band nearly an inch across. "To James Mortimer, M.R.C.S., from his friends of the C.C.H.," was engraved upon it, with the date "1884." It was just such a stick as the old-fashioned family practitioner used to carry-dignified, solid, and reassuring. 
"Well, Watson, what do you make of it?" 
Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had given him no sign of my occupation. 
"How did you know what I was doing? I believe you have eyes in the back of your head." 
"I have, at least, a well-polished, silver-plated coffee-pot in front of me," said he. "But, tell me, Watson, what do you make of our visitor's stick? Since we have been so unfortunate as to miss him and have no notion of his errand, this accidental souvenir becomes of importance. Let me hear you reconstruct the man by an examination of it."

The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes

Doyle, Conan

Classics

A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution

A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution. By Charles Dickens.\nTHE TABLE OF CONTENTS\nBook the First-Recalled to Life 
I. The Period 
II. The Mail 
III. The Night Shadows 
IV. The Preparation 
V. The Wine-shop 
VI. The Shoemaker\nBook the Second-the Golden Thread 
I. Five Years Later 
II. A Sight 
III. A Disappointment 
IV. Congratulatory 
V. The Jackal 
VI. Hundreds of People 
VII. Monseigneur in Town 
VIII. Monseigneur in the Country 
IX. The Gorgon's Head 
X. Two Promises 
XI. A Companion Picture 
XII. The Fellow of Delicacy 
XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy 
XIV. The Honest Tradesman 
XV. Knitting 
XVI. Still Knitting 
XVII. One Night 
XVIII. Nine Days 
XIX. An Opinion 
XX. A Plea 
XXI. Echoing Footsteps 
XXII. The Sea Still Rises 
XXIII. Fire Rises 
XXIV. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock\nBook the Third-the Track of a Storm 
I. In Secret 
II. The Grindstone 
III. The Shadow 
IV. Calm in Storm 
V. The Wood-Sawyer 
VI. Triumph 
VII. A Knock at the Door 
VIII. A Hand at Cards 
IX. The Game Made 
X. The Substance of the Shadow 
XI. Dusk 
XII. Darkness 
XIII. Fifty-two 
XIV. The Knitting Done 
XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever

DICKENS., CHARLES

Literary

It is the duty of Occult students to familiarize themselves with the subjects herein discussed. They should know the ideas of our ancestors regarding them and be familiar with their thought, in order to appreciate the sublime wisdom and knowledge of Nature as taught by them, otherwise we are sure to do them, as well as ourselves, great injustice. The history of Occultism bears out the fact that there is very little that is new to the present time.\nThe arrangement and classification of thought differs during each cycle of time on the different spirals, and, like the fruitage on lower rounds of Nature's progressive wheel of destiny, variety and quality are diverse, so, likewise, do we find the mental manifestations. This age, however, is blessed with a great variety and abundance of thought, in clear-cut language, that should enlighten the races of the Earth with Mother Nature's modus operandi in every department of human thought.\nWe hope these chapters will aid to this end, and doubtless many students will find in them the key to unlock the mysteries veiled in symbol and hieroglyphic by ancient writers. The author's object has been to make plain and easy of understanding these subjects. Much, however, has been left for private study and research, for many large volumes might be filled if a detailed description of each subject were entered upon, which task is left for those who feel so inclined. A rich reward is in store for those spiritual investigators who will follow out the paths and lines herein mapped out on Spiritual Astrology, Alchemy, and other subjects. Meditation and aspiration will open up hidden treasures that will prove a boon to Occult students, for Astrology and Alchemy are the two grand sciences that explain the why and reasons for what we see and experience on every plane of life. In this age there should be no concealing of these Divine truths. We cannot hide anything in the air, and for this reason the Sun in Aquarius will unearth and reveal to man all that the present cycle has to give during the Sun's passage through this airy sign.\nThe watery sign, Pisces, through which the Sun manifested during the past 2,160 years, gave up to man their secret powers and hidden attributes in steam as a motive power, which man has completely mastered. He will likewise master the airy forces during the present sub-cycle of the Sun in Aquarius. Already we see him using liquid air and compressed air as a motive power, which will gradually take the place of steam as the Sun gets farther into the sign, or constellation, of Aquarius. Men will become immensely wiser than they have been, and it is to be hoped they will leave the written record of their achievements in science and art to show to future races their status of mind on every subject for the edification and enlightenment of coming races.\nOur ancestors were denied this great privilege. Consequently their wisdom is only symbolized to us in a way that it is difficult to read and interpret correctly, yet we who have the key to their symbols can read accurately the truth they wish to convey, which stands out clearly to all capable of understanding and interpreting symbolism and correspondence correctly. History and Nature repeat themselves in every cycle of time; therefore these forces and potentialities are natural to the sign through which the Sun manifests. We can go backward or forward through the Sun's Zodiac and read correctly the history of the hoary past, as well as the present and future, by bearing in mind the sign and cycle in manifestation at any given period. When the proper time arrives, a work will be given to the world to prove to mankind the law of cycles.

The Light of Egypt: The Science of the Soul and the Stars

Religion & Spirituality

Burgoyne, Thomas

New Age & Spirituality

TABLE OF CONTENTS\nPreface 
Narrative 
Cure for the Evil of Slavery (by Charles Stearns) 
Footnotes\nNot for the purpose of administering to a prurient desire to "hear and see some new thing," nor to gratify any inclination on the part of the hero of the following story to be honored by man, is this simple and touching narrative of the perils of a seeker after the "boon of liberty," introduced to the public eye; but that the people of this country may be made acquainted with the horrid sufferings endured by one as, in a portable prison, shut out from the light of heaven, and nearly deprived of its balmy air, he pursued his fearful journey directly through the heart of a country making its boasts of liberty and freedom to all, and that thereby a chord of human sympathy may be touched in the hearts of those who listen to his plaintive tale, which may be the means of furthering the spread of those principles, which under God, shall yet prove "mighty to the pulling down of the strong-holds" of slavery.

Narrative of Henry Box Brown: Who escaped slavery enclosed in a box 3 feet long and 2 wide

BROWN, HENRY

Poetry

Shinto: The Ancient Religion of Japan

Aston, William

The Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne,Nathaniel

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