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...n Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills....

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...nsas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills. Main Street is the climax of civilizat... ...s and Jews and million- aire uplifters at the University Settlement in New York, and he had a beautiful white strong neck. He led a gig- gling class t... ...l over with red rubber stamps.” 16 Main Street “Don’t you get sick of the city?” “St. Paul? Why, don’t you like it? I don’t know of any lovelier view... ... something to say about run- ning Gopher Prairie, but you take it in a big city of two- three hundred thousand, and I’m just one flea on the dog’s bac... ...rejudiced, but I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association meet- ing, and I spent practicall... ...rican Medical Association meet- ing, and I spent practically a week in New York! But I never saw a town that had such up-and-coming people as Gopher P... ...spotted. Flat against the wall of the second story the signs of lodges—the Knights of Pythias, the Maccabees, the Woodmen, the Masons. Dahl & Oleson’s... ...ur dramatics and so on here?” “Oh yes! The town’s just full of talent. The Knights of Pythias put on a dandy minstrel show last year.” “It’s nice you’...

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... Grisly Grisell the place, all the grown-up persons of the establishment— knights, squires, grooms, scullions, and females of every de- gree—had thro... ...ree—had thronged round them, but parted at her approach, though one of the knights said, “Nay, Lady Countess, ’tis no sight for you. The poor little m... ...s accidental. The Lord of Whitburn himself was in Ireland with the Duke of York, while his lady was in atten- dance on the young Queen, and it was jud... ...r Madge, canst thou speak for him?” Madge was Edmund’s sister, Margaret of York, who stood trembling and crying by Grisell’s bed. 9 Charlotte M. Youn... ...f Somerset, the very bane of the King and the enemies of the noble Duke of York and Earl of Warwick. The story will be clearer if it is understood tha... ...d thy beads.” It was all in good humour, and Master Hall walked out to the city gate to speed his gad-about or pious wife, whichever he might call her... ...her halt for the night the travellers reached Lon- don, and learned at the city gate that the Earl and Countess of Salisbury were absent, but that the... ...untess. She was forced to put back her veil, and she saw some of the young knights and squires staring at her, then nudging one another and laughing. ... ...or she kept Grisell under her wing in the huge household, which was like a city in itself. There was a knight who acted as steward, with innumerable k...

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...n?’ exclaimed Hal with ea- ger interest. ‘Of course he doth! The Mother at York promised I should learn whatever became a damsel of high degree,’ said... ...esome.’ ‘Oh, no! It is a noble sport! I loved our tilt-yard at Bletso. Two knights could gallop at one another in the lists, as if they were out hunti... ...ailing folk, women and children in deadly fear of the cruel, bloody-minded York folk, and the Lord of March that is himself King Edward now, a murrain... ...h sharply, and too turbulent and unmanageable for the soberminded house at York. So there she was sent, with the deeply devout and strict Sister Schol... ...he time when Queen Margaret was making her attempt in the north, where the city of York was Lancastrian, as the Mother Abbess feared that her presence... ...ds. Tales of the Seven Champions of Christendom and of King Arthur and his Knights likewise had their share in the moulding of the youthful Lord Cliff... ...nsferred by Hal to his own bosom. Sir Giles Musgrave objected to Watch, in city or camp, and Hal was obliged to leave him to Goodwife Dolly and to Pie... ...marily in all sorts of horse furniture, but added thereto leather-work for knights and men-at-arms, and all that did not too closely touch the armoure... ...s- ter Lorimer, for even Sir Giles had only once in his life vis- ited the City, and no one else of the whole band from the north had ever been there....

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... was their love!) He sought proud Tarquin in his den, And freed full sixty knights; or when, 10 Marmion A sinful man, and unconfessed, He took the Sa... ... Although with them they led Galwegians, wild as ocean’s gale, And Lodon’s knights, all sheathed in mail, And the bold men of Teviotdale, Before hi... ...owing future conquests far, When our son’s sons wage northern war; A royal city, tower and spire, Reddened the midnight sky with fire, And shouting cr... ...branches made. “A pleasant path,” Fitz-Eustace said, “Such as where errant-knights might see Adventures of high chivalry; Might meet some damsel flyin... ..., as I lay at rest, While rose on breezes thin, The murmur of the city crowd, And, from his steeple jangling loud, Saint Giles’s min... ...lain below, The wandering eye could o’er it go, And mark the distant city glow With gloomy splendour red; For on the smoke-wreaths, hug... ...in every age to be Refuge of injured royalty; Since first, when conquering York arose, To Henry meek she gave repose, Till late, with wonder, grief, a... ... in its halls King James should come; But Nottingham has archers good, And Yorkshire-men are stern of mood; Northumbrian prickers wild and rude. On De...

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...s with stingy and sooted windows, wooden tenements col- ored like mud. The city was full of such grotesqueries, but the clean towers were thrusting th... ... the bridge curved a railroad, a maze of green and crimson lights. The New York Flyer boomed past, and twenty lines of polished steel leaped into the ... ...ut in greeting a chorus cheerful as the April dawn; the song of labor in a city built—it seemed—for giants. II There was nothing of the giant in the a... ...ettle- ment, Floral Heights, was on a rise; and though the cen- ter of the city was three miles away—Zenith had between three and four hundred thousan... ...ut this, say, this is corking! Beginning of the end for those fellows! New York Assembly has passed some bills that ought to completely outlaw the soc... ...tely outlaw the socialists! And there’s an elevator-runners’ strike in New York and a lot of college boys are taking their places. That’s the stuff! A... ...osters or the Rotarians or the Kiwanis, to the Elks or Moose or Red Men or Knights of Columbus or any one of a score of organiza- tions of good, jolly... ... the Oddfellows, Moose, Masons, Red Men, Woodmen, Owls, Eagles, Maccabees, Knights of Pythias, Knights of Columbus, and other secret orders characteri...

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...t moment we changed the program, for private reasons, and took the express-train. We made a short halt at Frankfort-on-the-Main, and found it an inter... ...ce of Gutenburg, but it could not be done, as no memo- randum of the site of the house has been kept. So we spent an hour in the Goethe mansion instea... ...over, and the army followed. So a great Frankish victory or defeat was gained or avoided; and in order to commemorate the epi- sode, Charlemagne comma... ...ted saloon, the clang- ing music invited to dance, and splendidly appeared the rich toilets and charms of the ladies, and the festively costumed Princ... ...l at last the Queen driven by curiosity, and vexed at the obstinate refusal; commanded him to open his Vizier. He opened it, and none of the high ladi... ...an even the black one had done. But he patiently fixed and refixed it until it was exactly right and lay precisely in the middle of the black carpet. ... ...est and most picturesque Middle-Age architecture. It has a massive portico and steps, before it, heavily balustraded, and adorned with life-sized rust... ...ving that we were not succeeding pretty well, they went and got their maps and things, and pointed out and ex- plained our course so clearly that even... ...nted German words here; now I tell you it’s awful good to lay it over a Christian word once more and kind of let the old taste soak it. I’m from weste...

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...The Pit A Story of Chicago By FRANK NORRIS NEW YO NEW YO NEW YO NEW YO NEW YORK RK RK RK RK 1903 1903 1903 1903 1903 Dedicated to My Brother Dedicated... ...the preparation of the following novel are due to Mr. G. D. Moulson of New York, Whose unwearied patience and untiring kindness helped him to the bett... ...ured obligation and gratitude to Her Who Helped the Most of All. F. N. NEW YORK June 4, 1901. 5 Frank Norris I I I I I AT EIGHT O’CLOCK in the inner ... ...e metropolitan, her keenness of appreciation a little lost by two years of city life and fashionable school- ing, tried to reassure her. “You won’t lo... ...n Chicago real estate. Some of his holdings in the business quarter of the city were enormous; Landry Court had told her about him. Jadwin, unlike Mr.... ...wo men. Evidently the collapse of the Helmick deal was in the air. All the city seemed interested. But from behind the heavy curtains that draped the ... ... her everything she wants in the world. He ought to serve her like the old knights— give up his whole life to satisfy some whim of hers; and it’s her ... ...t. That’s my idea of love.” “Yes, but they weren’t cold and proud to their knights after they’d promised to marry them,” urged Page. “They loved them ...

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...rch better than his crown’. Merchant of Venice. I The birth of the Prince and the Pauper n the ancient city of London, on a certain au tumn... ..., but with his thoughts busy with the shadowy splendours of his night’s dreams. He wandered here and there in the city, hardly noticing where he was g... ...heel in shining steel armour. At a respectful distance were many country folk, and 12 Mark Twain people from the city, waiting for any chance glimpse... ...full accou- trements, and with badges on their sleeves; then the Garter King-at-arms, in his tabard; then several Knights of the Bath, each with a whi... ...bled to witness and judge the conflict, the French champion appeared; but so redoubtable was he, that our English knights refused to measure weapons w... ...les in at the door, with a measured march. Let the chronicler speak again:— “First come Gentlemen, Barons, Earls, Knights of the Garter, all richly dr... ...he other. This was an historical pageant, representing the King’s im- mediate progenitors. There sat Elizabeth of York in the midst of an immense whit...

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...onfirms what is said of his treatment. Louis XIV. had bombarded the pirate city, and compelled the Dey to receive a consul and to liberate French pris... ...mtesse de Bourke and her daughter was published in the Catholic World, New York, July 1881. It exactly agrees with 6 A Modern Telemachus the narratio... ... And thus they glided on, spending a night in the great, busy, bewildering city of Lyon, already the centre of silk industry; but more interesting to ... ... though not spoken in such strong terms. Thus they drifted on till the old city of Avignon rose on the eyes of the travellers, a dark pile of building... ...aptain, and then the best that could betide ye wad be that a shot frae the Knights of Malta should make quick work wi’ ye. Or look at the dumbie there...

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... it, saw the Romans and the Saxons through, and for a time it was a Norman city. Now it is pasture for sheep. Latest as yet is Salisbury,— 84 The Sec... ...d travelling about Eu- rope. My father is rather a big business man in New York.” “The oil Grammont?” “He is rather deep in oil, I believe. He is comi... ...en bank there just coming into sight must be Old Sarum. The little ancient city that faded away when Salisbury lifted its spire into the world. We wil... ...completeness of Salisbury. From the very beginning it had been a cathedral city; it was essentially and purely that. The church at its best, in the fu... ...sgusted him. He fought against it as a possibility. Once some woman in New York had ventured to hint something to him of some fellow, some affair with... ...lked of Avalon and of that vanished legendary world of King Arthur and his knights, and in the early evening they came to Wells and a pleasant inn, wi... ...hat streak made me value the position of being a rich married woman in New York. That was why I became engaged to Lake. He seemed to be as good a man ...

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... some manner, not clearly under- stood by his friends, did business in the City. At the time with which we are now concerned Ferdinand Lopez was thirt... ...tle man, and moved freely enough; but never, at any moment,—going into the city or coming out of it, on horseback or on foot, at home over his book or... ...holiday, when on an unpleasant morning, Ferdinand Lopez travelled into the city by the Metropolitan railway from Westminster Bridge. It was his custom... ...d arm in arm down the broad pavement leading from Pall Mall to the Duke of York’s column. ‘I wish I could make out your father more clearly. He is alw... ...hief justice, or a commissioner a chairman, or a secretary a commissioner. Knights would fain be baronets, baronets barons, and barons earls. In one g... ...e has.’ Then they walked very slowly away towards the steps at the Duke of York’s column. Wharton regaining his strength as he went, but still able to... ...er years was the theory of the courage, and constancy, and loyalty, of the knights of those days. The beau ideal of a man which she then pictured to h... ... I’ll tell you what he is, Phineas, and how he is better than all the real knights of whom I have read in story. He is a man altogether without guile,...

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...mpromising: so very wide across the chest: so upright! A pecuniary Duke of York, my love, and nothing short of it!’ said Miss T ox. ‘That’s what I sho... ...URES THOUGH THE OFFICES of Dombey and Son were within the liberties of the City of London, and within hearing of Bow Bells, when their clashing voices... ...ed in a conspiracy against it on part of all the clocks and watches in the City, and even of the very Sun itself. Such as he was, such he had been in ... ...mpeach- able chronometer. The usual daily clearance has been making in the City for an hour or more; and the human tide is still rolling westward. ‘Th... ... that gentleman into his confidence; merely informing him that a friend in Yorkshire had written to him (Mr T oots) for his opinion on such a question... ...atural conjunction, and observant of it in their several expressions. Grim knights and warriors looked scowling on them. A churchman, with his hand up...

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...swell, need lessly and imperceptibly, the mighty flood of commerce at New York or Boston. On some such morning, when three or four vessels happen to ... ...ance in the wild and forest—bordered settle ment which has since become a city. And here his descen dants have been born and died, and have mingled ... ...lic edifices, ancient in date and quaint in architecture, of a continental city; where new life had awaited her, still in connexion with the misshapen... ..., or as if he had caught upon himself the distant shine of the celes tial city, while looking thitherward to see the triumphant pil grim pass within... ...ght to establish a kind of College of Arms, where, as in an association of Knights T emplars, they might learn the sci ence, and, so far as peaceful ...

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...al villages of the Indians are still called “castles” by the whites of New York. “Oneida castle” is no more than a scattered hamlet; but the name is i... ...lo. He ran down the shores of the lakes, and followed their outlet to the ‘city of cannon’ There he hunted and fished, till the people chased him agai... ... men to be found in the settle- ments, but you might travel many days in a city before you could meet one able to walk fifty miles without stopping to... ... my bosom friend, Duncan; and I’ll just give you a hearing, though all the knights of St. Louis were in a body at the sally-port, with the French sain... ...etokens military deference, as the other passed swiftly through the little city of tents, in the direction of William Henry. Whenever this unknown ind... ...n. But the true mocking-bird is not found so far north as the state of New York, where it has, however, two substitutes of inferior excellence, the ca...

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... -- 20 All Astir, 101 -- 21 Going Aboard, 104 -- 22 Merry Christmas, 107 -- 23 The Lee Shore, 111 -- 24 The Advocate, 113 -- 25 Postscript, 117 -- 26 Knights and Squires, 118...

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...tscript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 26 Knights and Squires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 iv... ...quires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 iv CONTENTS 27 Knights and Squires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 28 ... ... Pacific Ocean. ” By Owen Chase of Nantucket, first mate of said vessel. New York. 1821. “A mariner sat on the shrouds one night, The wind was piping fr... ...rly the same feelings towards the ocean with me. There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral re... ...ight of land. Look at the crowds of water gazers there. Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. Go from Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip,... ... under my arm, and started for Cape Horn and the Pacific. Quitting the good city of old Manhatto, Iduly arrived in New Bedford. It was on a Saturday ni... ...e whalemen supply your kings and queens with coronation stuff! Chapter 26 Knights and Squires T he chief mate of the Pequod was Starbuck, a native of... ...t jet is so often descried by passengers crossing the Atlantic, in the New York packet tracks. In the length he attains, and in his baleen, the Fin b... ... common cruising ground. If two strangers crossing the Pine Barrens in New York State, or the equally desolate Salisbury Plain in England; if casually...

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... never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts, either of ancient or modern times, has ever rivaled this astonishing metropolis in the grandeur of magnitude; and not many--if we except the cities of Greece, none at ...

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...n what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts, either of ancient... ...of London, we ought in all reason to say—the Nation of London, and not the City of London; but of Rome in her palmy days, nothing less could be said i... ... ground for such a classification; à fortiori, then, will it be- long to a city which counted from one horn to the other of its mighty suburbs not les... ...s, as it appeared by the event, that in this singular tumult, twenty Roman knights, 54 The Cæsars and as many mothers of families, were cudgelled to ... ...wards, by way of employing his armies, made war in Britain. At the city of York he died; and to his two sons, Geta and Caracalla, he bequeathed, as hi... ...xes, the first prince of this race, sent an embassy of four hundred select knights, enjoining the Roman emperor to content himself with Europe, and to...

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...Nibelungenlied, translated by Daniel B. Shumway (Houghton-Mifflin Co., New York, 1909). PREFACE This work has been undertaken in the belief that a lit... ...t needs lose his life. Well worth the loving was this win- some maid. Bold knights strove for her, none bare her hate. Her peerless body was beautiful... ...- ing, of race high-born, passing bold of strength were they, these chosen knights. Their realm hight Burgundy. Great marvels they wrought hereafter i... ...) land. At Worms (8) upon the Rhine they dwelt with all their power. Proud knights from out their lands served them with honor, until their end was co... ... the ancient “Borbetomagus”, which in the first century B.C. was the chief city of the German tribe of the “Vangioni.” In the fifth century it was the... ...er noted as the meeting-place of many imperial di- ets. It remained a free city till 1801. In the “Thidreksaga” the name is corrupted into “Wernize.” ... ...Many fair maids awaited them with joy. Ere the noble Rudeger rode from the city of Vienna to Bechelaren, all their clothes were placed upon the sumpte...

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...beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights.” —Shakespeare, Sonnet cvi. I.—W I.—W I.—W I.—W I.—WA A A A ACE CE ... ... thinketh to bite such beasts as he liketh. Arthur then called to his dear knights: ‘Advance we quickly, brave thanes! all together towards them; we a... ...’ Flew over the [fields] thirty thou sand shields, and smote on Colgrim’s knights, so that the earth shook again. Brake the broad spears, shivered sh... ...gow, 1894. H. MAYNADIER, The Arthur of the English Poets , Boston and New York, 1907. G. PARIS, Histoire littéraire de la France , Paris, 1888. J. R... .... SCHOFIELD, English Literature from the Norman Conquest to Chaucer , New York and London, 1906. B. TEN BRINK, Geschichte der Englischen Literatur ,... ... Strassburg, 1899. T ranslated into English, 1st ed, I., H.M. Kennedy, New York, 1888, II., i., W.C. Robinson, 1893, II., ii., L.D. Schmidt, 1896. Aut... ...ong and speedy, and riding swiftly to Gloucester, shut himself fast in his city and victualled tower. As to V ortigern, the Saxons would have slain hi... ...of youths and children was gathered before the gate at the entrance to the city, and the messengers stayed awhile to mark their play. Amongst those wh... ...oman of right holy life, and lodged in a convent within the walls of their city. When the messengers heard these tidings, they went swiftly to the war...

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...ael; the death of Bayard, sans peur et sans reproche; the driving out of the Knights Hospitallers from Rhodes by the Turks; and the placarding of the... ... the river and bade them a friendly farewell. On the rocks above the present city of Alton they found some rude and fantastic Indian paintings, which ... ...’ and visited an imposing Indian monarch in the Teche country, whose capital city was a substantial one of sun baked bricks mixed with straw—better ho... ... sun. The voyagers visited the Natchez Indians, near the site of the present city of that name, where they found a ‘religious and political despotism,... ... know it with absolute exactness. If you will take the longest street in New York, and travel up and down it, conning its features patiently until you... ... gan to undermine the wages, in order to get berths. Too late—apparently—the knights of the tiller perceived their mistake. Plainly, something had to ... ... and picturesque ness drop gradually out of it as one travels away from New York.” I find that among my notes. It makes no difference which direction... ...ities whose garments are all made by the best tailors and dressmakers of New York; yet this has no perceptible effect upon the grand fact: the educat... ...utlawed by the statute of limitations, than not paid at all; and most of the knights of the halo do not pay at all. Where you find one that pays—like ...

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...arged edition by David Masson. Edinburgh: A. and C. Black, 1889-1890. [New York: The Macmillan Co. 14 vols., with footnotes, a preface to each volume,... ...SM 4. D. MASSON. Thomas De Quincey. English Men of Let- ters. London. [New York: Harper. An excellent brief biogra- phy. This book, with a good volum... .... H. JAPP . Thomas De Quincey: His Life and Writ- ings. London, 1890. [New York: Scribner. First edition by “H. A. Page,” 1877. The standard life of D... ...island, and most of us disdained all coaches except his Majesty’s mail, no city out of London could pre- tend to so extensive a connexion with Mr. Pal... ...succession we are going to awake. Liberated from the embarrassments of the city, and issu- ing into the broad uncrowded avenues of the northern sub- u... ...t rode, and spread a golden light over the paths which we traversed. Every city, at the presence of the secret word, threw open its gates. The rivers ... ...tural detection of the dauphin (Charles VII) among three hundred lords and knights, I am surprised at the credulity which could ever lend itself to th... ... OF FEUDALISM, ETC.: The English yeomen at Crecy, overpowering the mounted knights of France, took from feudalism its chief support,—the superiority o... ...discontinuance at the Revolution this order was reinstated in 1814; but no knights have been created since 1830. “Chevalier” is the lowest rank in suc...