Short plays about famous authors,

Introduction.--A mistake at the manor ["based on an incident in the early life of Oliver Goldsmith"]--When Heine was twenty-one.--Miss Burney at court.--A Christmas eve with Charles Dickens.--The fairies' plea; an interlude for Shakespeare day. Adapted from Thomas Hood's "Plea of the midsummer fairies."

Famous American authors /

Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Washington Irving -- William Hicklin Prescott -- Nathaniel Hawthorne and his family -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- James Russell Lowell -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson -- Richard Henry Stoddard -- Edmund Clarence Stedman -- William Dean Howells -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- Richard Watson Gilder -- Will Carleton -- George W. Cable -- Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) -- Charles Dudley Warner.

Short stories by present-day authors,

- Stories of plot. (a) Dramatic incident:The red mark, John Russell. The Chink and the child, Thomas Burke. (b) Detective and mystery: The Doomdorf mystery, Melville Davisson Post. (c) Ingenuity and surprise: How it happened, A. Conan Doyle. (D) Problem: A jury of her peers, Susan Glaspell.- Stories of character. (a) Individual: Humoresque, Fannie Hurst. The game of life and death, Lincoln Colcord. (b) Psychological: The belled buzzard, Irvin Cobb.- Stories of setting. (a) Local color: The conversion of Elviny...

Hymns and songs: selected from various authors, for the primary associations of the children of Zion.

Mode of access: Internet.

The practical elocutionist : a collection of recitations, chiefly from modern authors ... a number of original pieces ... /

Note by Bertram Dobell asserting that the author's real name was Church.

The complete works of Michael de Montaigne : comprising the essays (translated by Cotton), the letters, the journey into Germany and Italy : now first translated : a life, by the editor : notes from all the commentators : the critical opinions of eminent authors on Montaigne : the Éloges of MM. Jay and Villemain : a bibliographical notice of all the editions, and copious indexes /

Added illustrated half title page: The works of Montaigne.

A voyage to Abyssinia, and travels into the interior of that country, executed under the orders of the British government, in the years 1809 and 1810; in which are included, an account of the Portuguese settlements on the east coast of Africa, visited in the course of the voyage; a concise narrative of late events in Arabia Felix; and some particulars respecting the aboriginal African tribes, extending from Mosambique to the borders of Egypt; together with vocabularies of their respective languages.

Mode of access: Internet.

The believer's defence : or, the doctrine of the trinity of God and atonement of Christ defended against Unitarianism, compiled from various authors /

Mode of access: Internet.

Fifty years' recollections of an old bookseller; consisting of anecdotes, characteristic sketches, and original traits and eccentricities, of authors, artists, actors, books, booksellers, and of the periodical press for the last half century, with appropriate selections;

"Fifty years' recollections of an old bookseller ... " first issued Cork, 1830; reissued Cork, 1835; London, 1837. One edition only of "Three hundred and fifty years retrospection ..."

A classical dictionary ; containing a copious account of all the proper names mentioned in ancient authors; with the value of coins, weights and measures, used among the Greeks and Romans; and a chronological table.

Mode of access: Internet.

An introduction to the making of Latin. Comprising, after an easy, compendious method, the substance of the Latin syntax: with proper English examples, most of them translations from the classic authors, in one column, and the Latin words in another.

Mode of access: Internet.

Narrationes excerptae ex Latinis scriptoribus servato temporum ordine dispositae; or Select narrations, taken from the best Latin authors: Justin, Quintus Curtius, Caesar, Cicero, Titus Livius, Sallust, Suetonius, and Tacitus...

Mode of access: Internet.

Adam's Latin grammar : with some improvements, and the following additions: rules for the right pronunciation of the Latin language; a metrical key to the odes of Horace; a list of Latin authors arranged according to the different ages of Roman literature; tables, showing the value of the various coins, weights, and measures, used among the Romans /

Spine title : Latin grammar.

A concise system of grammatical punctuation, selected from various authors, for the use of students,

Mode of access: Internet.

The flowers of literature; consisting of selections from history, biography, poetry, and romance; jeux d'esprit, traditionary relics, and essays, with translations from approved authors.

"Though the present edition ... retains, in the title-page, the name of the original editor, it varies considerably from the first edition, and may, indeed, almost be regarded as a new selection - Advertisement.