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Excerpt from Jane S. Foote. What no soap? SO he died, and she very imprudently married the barber, ' chanted Jane, at the top of her exceedingly shrill ten-year-old voice. She was executing a curious sort of war dance in a syncopated rhythm which she deemed appropriate to the Classic which She was intoning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com Thi...

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

This book forms part of our 'Pook Press' imprint, celebrating the golden age of illustration in children's literature. Edited by Anna Alice Chapin, the author of 'Humpty Dumpty' and 'The Everyday Fairy Book', it contains classics of the genre. The Grimm's 'Snow White and the Magic Mirror' and 'Little Red Riding Hood' are included, as is Charles Perrault's 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'Sleeping Beauty' alongside Mme. D'Aulnoy's 'The Three Bears' ...

This book forms part of our 'Pook Press' imprint, celebrating the golden age of illustration in children's literature. Edited by Anna Alice Chapin, the author of 'Humpty Dumpty' and 'The Everyday Fairy Book', it contains classics of the genre. The Grimm's 'Snow White and the Magic Mirror' and 'Little Red Riding Hood' are included, as is Charles Perrault's 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'Sleeping Beauty' alongside Mme. D'Aulnoy's 'The Three Bears' ...

Excerpt from Mountain Madness Never a trail but strange it seems, When it crosses another trail: One a pathway of joys and dreams, One that leads through treacherous streams, One as frail as the moon's own beams, One where you conquer, one where you fail. Every trail runs a different way, To a million points is the Great Map laid, By the garden walk to the hills we stray, The mountain path leads home some day, But God be kind, is all...

Excerpt from Greenwich Village Tis an awkward thing to play with souls, and, to my mind, Greenwich Village has a very personal soul that requires very personal and very careful handling. This little foreword is to crave pardon humbly if my touch has not been light, or deft, or sure. There are so many things that I may have left out, so many ways in which I must have erred. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands ...

Excerpt from Wonder Tales From Wagner: Told for Young People "Hark! Gay fanfares from halts of old Romance Strike through the clouds of clamor: who be these That, paired in rich processional, advance From darkness.? Bright ladies and brave knights of Fatherland, Sad mariners no harbor e'er may hold, A swan soft floating towards a magic strand, Dim ghosts of earth, air, water, fire, steel, gold, Wind, grief, and love, a lewd and lurking ba...

Excerpt from The Heart of Music: The Story of the Violin Of what avail to spend four thousand years in evolving an instrument that a grasshopper carries about with him, and can perform upon simply by bending the shank of one hind leg? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books ...

Excerpt from The Story of the Rhinegold, (Der Ring Der Nibelungen): Told for Young PeopleThe motifs in Wagner's operas are, above all, descriptive. For example, note the Walhalla, Nibelung, and Giant motifs.The first of these, full of power, substance, and dignity, not only is descriptive of the great palace itself, but also represents the entire race of gods who inhabit it, seemingly secure in their conscious glory and sovereignty. To indicat...

Excerpt from Masters of Music: Their Lives and Works Italy, whose music had slept while her art had waked and had held the world spellbound, became ready for her great musical epoch in the sixteenth century. Raphael had been dead nine years when he was born who has since been termed "the Raphael of music." Palestrina, called of old Praeneste, is a small town southeast of Rome, and once upon a time, many years ago, a man and his wife lived the...

Excerpt from Makers of Song Now the Castle of Ventadour, in Limousin, Provence, was a goodly place and a fair. Indeed it would be hard to fancy a more rarely perfect spot in which to be born and to come to manhood, and its poetic loveliness spurred the inspiration, as it filled the daily life, of the boy Bernart. The hamlet of Moustier Ventadour may still be seen. A league and a half east of Egletons it is, and the ruins of the Castle are a ...

Excerpt from Discords "I Confess, " said the Distinguished Diplomat, smiling down the well-set table at his well-dressed guests, "I confess to a foolish and ill-balanced love of the romantic and the picturesque! It has carried me into all sorts of weaknesses and many real troubles, but I can't seem to outgrow it! Give me a romance, and I can forgive anything." His genial laugh, the laugh of a man whose autumn of life was as cheerful as most ...

Excerpt from The Eagle's Mate "Cousin Sally, do you put the spices first, or the salt?" "The salt, of course, child! Don't you know how to make pot-pourri yet? And be sure that the rose-leaves are as dry as dry." Silence again, broken only by the humming of many bees above Mrs. Breckenridge's rose garden, and the sharp whirring of grasshoppers out on the sunny lawn. In a little while another low note was added to the bees' song: Anemone had...

Excerpt from Wotan, Siegfried, and Brunnhilde The truths which he tells are simple and universal, expressing the philosophy of all thinkers who have, through the ages, reiterated the message of wis dom in the ears of humanity. His art is as great as his genius, for it is a part of it, and as such bewilders those who expect the visible polish of lesser craftsmen. Which must we reverence most: the genius which could create world-types such as ...

Tis an awkward thing to play with souls, - and, to my mind, Greenwich Village has a very personal soul that requires very personal and very careful handling. This little foreword is to crave pardon humbly if my touch has not been light, or deft, or sure. There are so many things that I may have left out, so many ways in which I must have erred. And I want to thank people too, - just here. So many people there are to thank! I cannot simply dism...