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Journeys Through Bookland Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the Journeys Through Bookland novel. A total of 424 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : Journeys Through Bookland.by Charles H. Sylvester.VOL 2.AESOP Many centuries ago, more t
Journeys Through Bookland.by Charles H. Sylvester.VOL 2.AESOP Many centuries ago, more than six hundred years before Christ was born, there lived in Greece a man by the name of Aesop. We do not know very much about him, and no one can tell exactly what he
- 301 DON QUIXOTE _By_ CERVANTES INTRODUCTORY NOTE Unlike many of his cla.s.s, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, the greatest of the old Spanish writers, was born to a changeful and busy life. The year 1547 marked his birth, and during the sixty-nine years of his l
- 302 He left the basin on the ground, with which Don Quixote contented himself, saying that the pagan had shown his discretion and imitated the beaver, which finding himself pressed by the hunters bites and cuts off with its teeth that for which by its natural
- 303 "What dost thou think of this, Sancho?" said Don Quixote. "Are there any enchantments that can prevail against true valor? The enchanters may be able to rob me of good fortune, but of fort.i.tude and courage they can not."Sancho paid the crowns, the c
- 304 "There is no occasion," said the Distressed One; "I will be bail for him, and I know that Malambruno has nothing tricky or treacherous about him; you may mount without any fear, Senor Don Quixote; on my head be it if any harm befalls you."Don Quixote
- 305 "As thou art in such a willing mood," said Don Quixote, "may heaven aid thee; lay on and I'll retire."Sancho returned to his task with so much resolution that he soon had the bark stripped off several trees, such was the severity with which he whippe
- 306 Journeys Through Bookland.Vol. 8.by Charles H. Sylvester.RINGROSE AND HIS BUCCANEERS[1-1]Just two days after we took possession of the town of Santa Maria, we departed thence on Sat.u.r.day, April 17th, 1680. We all embarked in thirty-five canoes, which w
- 307 For the next nine days, Crockett gives an account of their privations and sufferings, their brave and successful defense, and the marked execution they were able to make among the Mexicans who showed themselves within range. On the third of March they had
- 308 This time we sent Major Russell and Captain Evans with their companies to bring on the battle.When they got near the fort, they saw that the top of it was lined with friendly Indians crying out as loud as they could roar--"How-de-do, brothers! How-de-do!
- 309 THE RETREAT OF CORTES[63-*]_By_ WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT There was no longer any question as to the expediency of evacuating the capital. The only doubt was as to the time of doing so, and the route.The Spanish commander called a council of officers to deliber
- 310 THE BATTLE OF THERMOPYLAE For some time the Greeks had known that danger was threatening them, and in 480 B. C. they learned that it was well-nigh at their gates. Xerxes, the "Great King," whose heralds when announcing a decree began with the words, "A
- 311 The "little cliff," upon whose edge he had so carelessly thrown himself down to rest that the weightier portion of his body hung over it, while he was only kept from falling by the tenure of his elbow on its extreme and slippery edge--this "little clif
- 312 "I no longer hesitated what to do. I resolved to lash myself securely to the water-cask upon which I now held, to cut it loose from the counter, and to throw myself with it into the water. I attracted my brother's attention by signs, pointed to the floa
- 313 As they floated quietly down a clear and placid stream, conversing about the figures they had just pa.s.sed, they were interrupted by the sound of rapids before them; and a ma.s.s of floating timber, trunks and branches of trees, was swept from the mouth
- 314 [Ill.u.s.tration]THE FALL OF THE ALAMO Texas began its struggle for independence from Mexico in September, 1835, driven to it by the fact that under the rule of the new republic their treatment was little better than it had been while Mexico herself was u
- 315 In 1829 Was.h.i.+ngton Irving lived for some time within the walls of the Alhambra and studied its history and the legends of Spain.These he has embodied in a charming book, from which we draw a description of the Alhambra.We now found ourselves in a deep
- 316 Reach the mooring? Rather say, While rock stands or water runs, Not a s.h.i.+p will leave the bay!"Then was called a council straight.Brief and bitter the debate: "Here's the English at our heels; would you have them take in tow All that's left us of
- 317 A fortnight or more has pa.s.sed in severe toil;[180-3] but not more severe than they have endured many a time before. Bidding farewell once and forever to the green ocean of the eastern plains, they have crossed the Cordillera; they have taken a longing
- 318 Their arrival settled the matter. All the Spaniards fell but three or four, who scrambled down the crannies of the cliff."Let not one of them escape! Slay them as Israel slew Amalek!" cried Yeo, as he bent over; and ere the wretches could reach a place
- 319 "Free? Then you cannot be countrymen of mine! But pardon an old man, my son, if he has spoken too hastily in the bitterness of his own experience. But who and whence are you? And why are you bringing into this lonely wilderness that gold--for I know too
- 320 "Safe as yet, lads! Heave me a line, or he'll have me after all."But ere the brute reappeared, the old man was safe on board."The Lord has stood by me," panted he, as he shot the water from his ears. "We went down together: I knew the Indian trick,
- 321 The last two years of this time had been pa.s.sed in Europe, where he had been sent to recover his health; and it is safe to say that thoughts of his legal studies troubled young Irving but little during this interesting trip. If as a boy he had been thri
- 322 As yet his dreams and speculations had turned to little personal profit, and he was as much a lackland as ever. Still, he carried a high head in the community; if his sugar-loaf hat was rather the worse for wear, he set it off with a taller c.o.c.k's tai
- 323 WALTER THE DOUBTER It was in the year of our Lord 1629 that Mynheer Wouter Van Twiller was appointed governor of the province of Nieuw Nederlandts, under the commission and control of their High Mightinesses the Lords States General of the United Netherla
- 324 Nor did this magnanimous quality escape the discernment of the good people of Nieuw Nederlandts; on the contrary, so much were they struck with the independent will and vigorous resolution displayed on all occasions by their new governor that they univers
- 325 She replied, that she did not believe him,--that she knew he was longing to get at the combined fleets,--that he considered them as his own property--that he would be miserable if any man but himself did the business, and that he ought to have them, as th
- 326 "See," cried Nelson, pointing to the _Royal Sovereign_, as she steered right for the centre of the enemy's line, cut through it astern of the _Santa Anna_, three-decker, and engaged her at the muzzle of her guns on the starboard side: "
- 327 Once, amid his sufferings, Nelson had expressed a wish that he were dead; but immediately the spirit subdued the pains of death, and he wished to live a little longer; doubtless that he might hear the completion of the victory which he had seen so gloriou
- 328 Mrs. Browning's purpose in writing this little story in verse was to show us how suddenly and how rudely unpleasant facts can break in upon our dreams. Ellie could never show her lover the swan's nest, as she had planned; and we are left with th
- 329 XI The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of G.o.d on high; Or, Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek's ungracious progeny; Or how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heav'n's avenging
- 330 [324-37] _Chows her cood_ means _chews her cud_.[324-38] _Weel-hain'd_ means _carefully preserved_.[324-39] _Kebbuck_ is _cheese_.[324-40] This line, in English, would read _And often he is urged_ (to take more) _and often he calls it good_.[324-41]
- 331 And then I told how, when she came to die, her funeral was attended by a concourse of all the poor, and some of the gentry, too, of the neighborhood for many miles around, to show their respect for her memory, because she had been such a good and religiou
- 332 [338-10] The foliage of the yews is very dark, and because these trees are so often planted about cemeteries they give a hint of sadness to every one.[338-11] The gla.s.s house which protected the trees in the winter and hastened the ripening of the fruit
- 333 "Pardon me, dear master," said Ariel, ashamed to seem ungrateful; "I will obey your commands.""Do so," said Prospero, "and I will set you free." He then gave orders what further he would have him do; and away went A
- 334 THE TEMPEST _By_ WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE INTRODUCTORY NOTE Having read Lamb's version of the story, we are ready for the play as Shakespeare wrote it. To begin with, we will read it through from beginning to end with as little hesitation and delay as pos
- 335 _Sebas._ A pox o' your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!_Boats._ Work you, then._Anto._ Hang, cur, hang! you insolent noisemaker, we are less afraid to be drown'd than thou art._Gonza._ I'll warrant him for drowning,[368-1
- 336 _Mira._ O good sir, I do._Pros._ I pray thee, mark me.I thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness,[374-24] and the bettering of my mind With that which, but[374-25] by being so retired, O'er-prized all popular rate,[374-26] in my false
- 337 _Pros._ Dost thou forget From what a torment I did free thee?_Ari._ No._Pros._ Thou dost; and think'st it much to tread the ooze Of the salt deep; to run upon the sharp Wind of the North; to do me business in The veins o' the earth when it is ba
- 338 It sounds no more: and, sure, it waits upon Some G.o.d o' the island. Sitting on a bank, Weeping again the King my father's wreck, This music crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and my pa.s.sion[389-100]With its sweet air: then
- 339 SCENE I.--_Another part of the Island._ _Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO, ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and Others._ _GONZALO speaks._ Beseech you, sir, be merry: you have cause-- So have we all--of joy; for our escape Is much beyond our loss. Our hint of
- 340 _Gonza._ Not since widow Dido's time.[397-14]_Anto._ Widow? a pox o' that! How came that widow in? Widow Dido!_Sebas._ What if he had said widower aeneas too? Good Lord, how you take it!_Adri._ Widow Dido, said you? you make me study of that: sh
- 341 _Anto._ 'Twas you we laugh'd at._Gonza._ Who in this kind of merry fooling am nothing to you:[401-33] so you may continue, and laugh at nothing still._Anto._ What a blow was there given!_Sebas._ An it had not fallen flat-long.[401-34]_Gonza._ Yo
- 342 _Anto._ Ay, sir; and where lies that? if 'twere a kibe,[408-68]'Twould put me to my slipper: but I feel not This deity in my bosom: twenty consciences, That stand 'twixt me and Milan, candied[408-69] be they, And melt, ere they molest! Here
- 343 _Steph._ If thou be'st Trinculo, come forth: I'll pull thee by the lesser legs: if any be Trinculo's legs, these are they. [_Pulls TRINCULO out._] Thou art very Trinculo indeed! How earnest thou to be the siege[414-21] of this moon-calf?[41
- 344 _Ferd._ No, n.o.ble mistress; 'tis fresh morning with me When you are by at night. I do beseech you,-- Chiefly that I might set it in my prayers,-- What is your name?_Mira._ Miranda--O my father, I've broke your best to say so!_Ferd._ Admired Mi
- 345 _Steph._ That's most certain._Cal._ Thou shalt be lord of it, and I will serve thee._Steph._ How now shall this be compa.s.s'd?Canst thou bring me to the party?_Cal._ Yea, yea, my lord; I'll yield him thee asleep, Where thou mayst knock a n
- 346 _Alon._ Old lord, I cannot blame thee, Who am myself attach'd with[430-4] weariness, To th' dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.Even here I will put off my hope, and keep it No longer for my flatterer: he is drown'd Whom thus we stray
- 347 Each one, tripping on his toe, Will be here with mop[437-3] and mow.[437-4]Do you love me, master?--no? [_Exit._ _Pros._ Now come, my Ariel! bring a corollary,[437-5]Rather than want a spirit: appear, and pertly![437-6]No tongue; all eyes; be silent. [_So
- 348 _Cal._ Pray you, tread softly, that the blind mole may not Hear a foot fall: we now are near his cell._Steph._ Monster, your fairy, which you say is a harmless fairy, has done little better than play'd the Jack with us.[446-51]_Trin._ Monster, I do s
- 349 _Re-enter ARIEL: after him, ALONSO, with a frantic gesture, attended by GONZALO; SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO in like manner, attended by ADRIAN and FRANCISCO: they all enter the circle which PROSPERO has made, and there stand charmed; which PROSPERO observing,
- 350 _Alon._ [_To FERD. and MIRA._] Give me your hands: Let grief and sorrow still embrace his heart That doth not wish you joy!_Gonza._ Be't so! Amen!-- _Re-enter ARIEL, with the _Master_ and _Boatswain_ amazedly following._ O, look, sir, look, sir! here
- 351 FOOTNOTES: [366-1] _Good_ was often used in Shakespeare's time as we use the word _well_, to introduce a sentence.[366-2] _Fall to't yarely_ means _get to work briskly_.[366-3] Perhaps the line should read, "Blow till thou burst _thee_, win
- 352 [375-33] Shakespeare omits the word _for_ before _me_.[376-34] _So dry he was for sway_, might now be written as _so thirsty he was for power_.[376-35] Prospero bewails the fate of his princ.i.p.ality, Milan.[376-36] The meaning of the last seven lines is
- 353 [384-82] _Hests_ means _behests_ or _commands_.[384-83] The witch confined Ariel _in_ a cloven pine tree.[384-84] This line means _save for the son that was born here_.[384-85] _Correspondent_ means _obedient_.[385-86] _Miss_ means _spare_. [385-87] _When
- 354 [396-12] _Eye_ here means _tint_ or _shade_.[397-13] We would now say _for_ instead of _to_.[397-14] Tunis is near the supposed site of Carthage. The story of Dido and aeneas is told in Virgil's _aeneid_.[397-15] One of the stories of the G.o.d Mercu
- 355 [407-62] "_Measure us back_," etc., means the same as _Return to us_.[407-63] The word _others_ may be understood after _there be_.[407-64] A _chough_ is a bird of the jackdaw kind.[407-65] This clause means, _I myself could breed a bird to talk
- 356 [422-7] The flesh-fly is the blow-fly, which lays its eggs in meat and helps its decay.[422-8] _Hollowly_ here means _falsely_.[422-9] We would now say, "_Whatsoever_ else."[422-10] Instead of _to want_, we would say _from wanting_.[423-11] _Fel
- 357 [434-16] _Dowle_ means _down_, and the comparison means, _as cut off a single thread of down from my plumes_.[434-17] _Requit_ means here _revenged_.[434-18] _Whose_ refers to the word _powers_ six lines before. The meaning of the remainder of Ariel'
- 358 [444-41] _For breathing_ means _because it breathed_. In the next line, _for kissing_ means _because it kissed_.[444-42] _Unback'd_ means _unridden_.[444-43] _Advanced_ means _raised_.[445-44] The pool was mantled, or covered over, with filth.[445-45
- 359 [457-30] _Taste some subtilties_ means _feel some deceptions_.[457-31] _Justify you traitors_ means _prove that you are traitors_.[457-32] _Woe_ here means _sorry_.[458-33] _As late_ means _as recent_.[458-34] In this place _admire_ means _wonder_. [458-3
- 360 The story seems to have been original with Shakespeare; at least no satisfactory evidence has been given to show that he borrowed it. This is rather unusual, for Shakespeare showed a fine contempt for originality, and borrowed the plots of his plays from
- 361 When she first sees Ferdinand, she asks: "What is't? A spirit?Lord, how it looks about! Believe me, sir, It carries a brave form. But 'tis a spirit."Again: "I do not know One of my s.e.x; no woman's face remember, Save, from
- 362 Make a list of the incidents which to you seem unnecessary, which could be left out without injury to the real story. Make another list of incidents that could not be omitted without spoiling the story. Find two little plots that make complete stories in
- 363 Journeys Through Bookland.Vol. 10.by Charles Herbert Sylvester.CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Everyone who a.s.sociates with children becomes deeply interested in them.Their helplessness during their early years appeals warmly to sympathy; their acute desire to
- 364 VII. Two, at least, of the rhymes are of the "counting out" kind. Often children want to determine who is to be "It" in a game of tag, who is to be blinded in a game of hide-and-seek, or who takes the disagreeable part in some other pl
- 365 _f. An Application of the Foregoing Principles._ What has been said on this subject of judging a picture may be made clearer by an application to one of the pictures in _Journeys_. Let us take, for instance, the color plate facing page 304, in Volume VI.
- 366 2. _The details._ The man, and his wife sitting in the wheelbarrow; the cobbled street, the sidewalk, the houses on one side of the street, the arch-way with the house above it, and the street showing through the arch-way; the man in the distance. A shop
- 367 9. _Do not Preach._ Tell the story so the moral, if there is any, may be seen and felt without your striving to point it out.10. _Talk the Story Over Freely with Your Children._ Try to get their ideas, rather than to give your own. You can tell whether yo
- 368 Turning to his men, however, the brave king spoke: "Don't be alarmed if they do outnumber us ten to one. We have begun n.o.bly. Battles so bravely won as these we have fought, have always been lauded to the skies. Your fame shall never die. And
- 369 Much may be accomplished by correct teaching of good principles, but human nature is such that people learn even more through indirection than through instruction. By means of the study of literature the best direct instruction may be given, and wholesome
- 370 _On Receipt of My Mother's Picture_, VII, 331.Extract from _s...o...b..und_, VII, 388._The Cotter's Sat.u.r.day Night_, VIII, 319._Dream Children_, VIII, 335.2. Honesty and truthfulness are cardinal virtues; they are the foundation of every stro
- 371 _The Rainbow_, VI, 91._A Child's Thought of G.o.d_, VII, 418._Who Stole the Bird's Nest?_ The obvious purpose of these verses (Volume II, page 399), is to create a love for birds by making things appear uncomfortable for the boy who steals their
- 372 If the truths in this one selection are thoroughly embedded in the mind of a boy, if the traits of character here taught are made a part of him, he will be a sound man of business, a sensible head of a family and a valuable citizen in a community._Poor Ri
- 373 Unfortunately in too many cases the parents fail to realize the importance of this change of relations.h.i.+p and allow children to drift without any effort to stem the tide that is bearing their progeny away.Fathers are particularly blind. One would thin
- 374 In fact, you will find in every chapter of this volume something to help you in making your way into the thoughts and the hearts of your family, and we know that as the years pa.s.s away and manhood comes to your boys they will look back upon the hours sp
- 375 Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes may be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought. --Page 88.And when the arrows of sunset Lodged in the tree-tops bright, He fell, in his saint-like beauty, Asleep by the gates
- 376 That inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude. --Page 1.Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky. --Page 5.The bonny lark, companion meet, Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet Wi' spreckled breast, When upward springing
- 377 On the nature of the ideas presented will depend the character of the imagination.A vivid imagination fed with bad ideas is most destructive to human character. Good stories with high ideals can do no harm: but evil stories, particularly if attractive and
- 378 8. The beautiful gla.s.s slippers are provided.How real these incidents all seem! What art is shown in bringing in real things to give food to the imagination and to stimulate the interest that carries the little reader away from herself where she may rio
- 379 C. THE SCENES One of the benefits of good reading is that it fills the mind with beautiful pictures of places that we cannot visit or that live only in the eyes of the imagination. A powerful descriptive writer takes his reader with him, and by graphic wo
- 380 Is it not well for the parent to lead his child to see such things in literature, to search for them, and when they are found to treasure them and bring them for mutual enjoyment into the family circle?G. EMOTIONAL POWER Fiction appeals strongly to feelin
- 381 A. _The Plot._ The slow Tortoise and the speedy Hare ran a race. The Hare, full of conceit, loitered and slept by the way, while the Tortoise won in his plodding fas.h.i.+on.Incidents: 1. The Hare derides the Tortoise.2. The Tortoise challenges the Hare.3
- 382 A. That he was hungry; that he was greedy; that he meant to get the cheese.Q. When he began to flatter the Crow, what did you think of him?A. That he was sharp; that he was trying to fool the Crow.Q. What did you think of him when he said that her voice w
- 383 A. We must be sharp and know ourselves and what we really can do. Then we will know whether others are speaking the truth about us.F. _The Method and Style of the Author._ Question. What do you call a story like this?Answer. A fable.Q. Why is it a fable?
- 384 3, 4 and 5. The Three Giants were usually cruel but were afraid of the Drummer and so behaved very well.6. The Two Men were very unwise to quarrel and perhaps deserved to lose their saddle.7. The Witch was cruel, deceitful and always bad, deserving her aw
- 385 II. _Fact and Fancy._ The story begins with a vivid description of the little sweep and his master, and it is not till we have read several pages that we have reason to suspect that we are reading a fairy story.In fact the "poor Irishwoman" migh
- 386 VII. _Life-like Characters._ The great storyteller makes his characters seem like human beings. The reader can almost see them; at any rate, he feels that he knows them and that they are real, not merely life-like.It is hard to understand how the author a
- 387 "found Him in the s.h.i.+ning of the stars, Mark'd Him in the flowering of His fields."2. He is now discouraged. He has not found Him in His ways with men, and now it seems to him, "As if some lesser G.o.d had made the world, But had n
- 388 "Authority forgets a dying king.""An agony Of lamentation, like a wind that shrills All night in a waste land, where no one comes, Or hath come, since the making of the world."There never was a more beautiful comparison than the follow
- 389 Stanza XVI. "_All's Well_," the usual cry of a watchman, not the name of a song."Pigtail" was a kind of chewing tobacco much used by sailors. It was twisted in hard rolls._The Definition of a Gentleman_ (Volume IV, page 170) There
- 390 13. What is "Scotland's heart"? (The heart of Robert Bruce, so called because of the reverence in which he is held by the Scotch.) Where can you read about the great angel that calls the dead to rise?14. What is meant by "mark my rede&
- 391 "Braes" are hillsides or slopes. "Bonnie" is the Scotch way of spelling "bonny," which, here, means "beautiful.""Fa's" is the Scotch spelling of "falls.""Gie'd" is Scotch for
- 392 1. _Vehement._ This word is derived from two Latin words, meaning _to carry_ and _the mind_; hence a vehement speech is one that is supposed to carry the mind away by force. We use the word _furious_ when we wish to speak of anger or other pa.s.sions, but
- 393 Each year brings him nearer to the critic's position and he sees excellence and is touched by beauty in selections that before have been devoid of any interest. It is to aid this growth in power of comprehension, this refinement of taste, that one re
- 394 "In _the golden lightning_ Of the sunken sun."3 and 4. METONYMY AND SYNECDOCHE are nearly related and in this poem the examples are numerous. Here are a few: "Better than all _treasures_ That in books are found.""Teach me half the
- 395 "'O not in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came that day;'it was a young and beautiful Angel, not the hideous Death in black robes and hood scarce hiding his bony head, that "'visited the green earth, And took the flowers away.&
- 396 "Babes in the Wood"; an allusion to the old story of the children who were lost in the woods, and whom the robins covered with leaves to protect them."All-father"; G.o.d, the Father of all."Leaden"; gray and heavy, lead-color
- 397 "O'er me, like a regal tent, Cloudy-ribbed, the sunset bent, Purple-curtained, fringed with gold, Looped in many a wind-swing fold."_The Bugle Song_ (Volume VI, page 133) Among the many charming lyrics which Tennyson has written, there are
- 398 _Page 180, line 6._ "Wild white horses"; the breakers, where the waves are beaten into foam and flying spray._Line 7._ "Champ"; gnash their bits._Page 182, line 4._ "Stream." The ocean currents resemble streams of water on la
- 399 Who is the mother of the buds? In what way are they "rocked to rest"?How does the mother "dance about the sun"? Do you like the sound of the line, "I wield the flail of the las.h.i.+ng hail"? There are five "l's&quo
- 400 CHAPTER XII READING ALOUD Silent reading is selfish, while oral reading is for the benefit and pleasure of others. The ordinary individual in daily life reads but little aloud, and probably makes no attempt whatever to improve his style after he leaves th