E-Book/E-Text Announcements: May 2004 Archives

For our lawyers and the lawyerly inclined: BLACKSTONE'S COMENTARIES: WITH NOTES OF REFERENCE, TO THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS, OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES; AND OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA. IN FIVE VOLUMES. WITH AN APPENDIX TO EACH VOLUME, CONTAINING SHORT TRACTS UPON SUCH SUBJECTS AS APPEARED NECESSARY TO FORM A CONNECTED VIEW OF THE LAWS OF VIRGINIA,AS A MEMBER OF THE FEDERAL UNION. St. George Tucker, 1803.

Sax Rohmer's magnificent Brood of the Witch Queen (How could you possibly resist a title so lurid?

George du Maurier Trilby

George Du Maurier Peter Ibbetson

For the hopelessly recondite: Charles Bishko Portuguese and Spanish Monastic History 600-1300

And a searchable Douay-Rheims-Challoner Bible Not so fine as the King James, lacking some linguistic nuance and subtlety, but still a very nice translation. Also has a nice link to a searchable Latin Vulgate Bible.

For those interested in King Charles the First and the Anglo-Catholic view of him, you could do worse than to seek the library of documents at Project Canterbury.

G.K. Chesterton The Defendant See particularly the essays on humility and the detective story.

William Wordworth The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol III--which volume includes the autobiographical and exceedingly influential poem The Prelude (in fourteen books).

Jonathan Swift Prose Works of Jonathan Swift vol III--including the essay on abolishing Christianity in England.

Roy Chapman Andrews Camps and Trails in China Andrews is one of the first names in Dinosaur Paleontology and apparently natural history--a narrative of his sojourn in China.

Sir George Frazer Balder the Beautiful, Vol 1 a lesser-known anthropoogical work.

John Muir The Grand Canon of the Colorado by America's earliest conservationist/naturalist.

And now you can't say that I have never done anything for you--

A Treatise Of Daunses, Wherin it is Shewed, That They Are as it Were Accessories and Dependants (or Thynges Annexed) to Whoredome: Where Also by the Way is Touched and Proued, That Playes are Ioyned and Knit Togeather in a Rancke or Rowe With Them

What we might term one of the more progressive texts of its time.