A Book of Remarkable Criminals

Contents in this ebook:

- The Life of Charles Peace

- The Career of Robert Butler

- M. Derues

- Dr. Castaing

- Professor Webster

- The Mysterious Mr. Holmes

- Partnership in Crime

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Lincoln's Personal Life

by Nathaniel Wright Stephenson


".......The brilliant Secretary, who so promptly began to influence the President had very sure foundations for that influence. He was inured to the role of great man; he had a rich experience of public life; while Lincoln, painfully conscious of his inexperience, was perhaps the humblest-minded ruler that ever took the helm of a ship of state in perilous times. Furthermore, Seward had some priceless qualities which, for Lincoln, were still to seek. First of all, he had audacity--personally, artistically, politically. Seward's instantaneous gift to Lincoln was by way of throwing wide the door of his gathering literary audacity. There is every reason to think that Seward's personal audacity went to Lincoln's heart at once. To be sure, he was not yet capable of going along with it. The basal contrast of the first month of his administration lies between the President's caution and the boldness of the Secretary. Nevertheless, to a sensitive mind, seeking guidance, surrounded by less original types of politicians, the splendid fearlessness of Seward, whether wise or foolish, must have rung like a trumpet peal soaring over the heads of a crowd whose teeth were chattering. While the rest of the Cabinet pressed their ears to the ground, Seward thought out a policy, made a forecast of the future, and offered to stake his head on the correctness of his reasoning. This may have been rashness; it may have been folly; but, intellectually at least, it was valor. Among Lincoln's other advisers, valor at that moment was lacking. Contrast, however, was not the sole, nor the surest basis of Seward's appeal to Lincoln......"

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The Complete Memoires of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

Because of him, we use 'casanova' for men who chasing girls. A good e-book to know about him until people around world mention his name.

....."I am sure that you love me," says she, "and be quite certain that I shall leave nothing undone to secure the constancy of your feelings." Even if she had said that she loved me as much as I adored her, she would not have been more eloquent, for her words expressed all that can be felt. My lips were pressed to her beautiful hands as the captain entered the room. He complimented us with perfect good faith, and I told him, my face beaming with happiness, that I was going to order the carriage. I left them together, and in a short time we were on our road, cheerful, pleased, and merry....."

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EDISON: HIS LIFE AND INVENTIONS

by FRANK LEWIS DYER, GENERAL COUNSEL FOR THE EDISON LABORATORY AND ALLIED INTERESTS and THOMAS COMMERFORD MARTIN, EX-PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS

Amazingly, because of him, there is light on this world....... Thomas Edison.

"....These volumes aim to be a biography rather than a history of electricity, but they have had to cover so much general ground in defining the relations and contributions of Edison to the electrical arts, that they serve to present a picture of the whole development effected in the last fifty years, the most fruitful that electricity has known. The effort has been made to avoid technique and abstruse phrases, but some degree of explanation has been absolutely necessary in regard to each group of inventions. The task of the authors has consisted largely in summarizing fairly the methods and processes employed by Edison; and some idea of the difficulties encountered by them in so doing may be realized from the fact that one brief chapter, for example,--that on ore milling-- covers nine years of most intense application and activity on the part of the inventor. It is something like exhibiting the geological eras of the earth in an outline lantern slide, to reduce an elaborate series of strenuous experiments and a vast variety of ingenious apparatus to the space of a few hundred words...."

Contents included:
The Age of Electricity
Edison's Pedigree
Boyhood at Port Huron, Michigan
The Young Telegraph Operator
Arduous Years in the Central West
Work and Invention in Boston
The Stock Ticker
Automatic, Duplex, and Quadruplex Telegraphy
The Telephone, Motorgraph, and Microphone
The Phonograph
The Invention of the Incandescent Lamp
Memories of Menlo Park
The World-Hunt for Filament Material
Inventing a Complete System of Lighting
Introduction of the Edison Electric Light
The First Edison Central Station
Other Early Stations - The Meter
The Electric Railway
Magnetic Ore Milling Work
Edison Portland Cement
Motion Pictures
The Development of the Edison Storage Battery
Miscellaneous Inventions
Edison's Method in Inventing
The Laboratory at Orange and and Staff
Edison in Commerce and Manufacture
The Value of Edison's Inventions to the World
The Black Flag
The Social Side of Edison

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The Autobiography of Charles Darwin

by Charles Darwin

"I was born at Shrewsbury on February 12th, 1809, and my earliest recollection goes back only to when I was a few months over four years old, when we went to near Abergele for sea-bathing, and I recollect some events and places there with some little distinctness.

My mother died in July 1817, when I was a little over eight years old, and it is odd that I can remember hardly anything about her except her death-bed, her black velvet gown, and her curiously constructed work-table. In the spring of this same year I was sent to a day-school in Shrewsbury, where I stayed a year. I have been told that I was much slower in learning than my younger sister Catherine, and I believe that I was in many ways a naughty boy...."

A great story of Charles Darwin written by himself.

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