GLORIA MUNDI
By Harold Frederic
1899
CONTENTS
THE YOUNG EMPEROR,
WILLIAM II OF GERMANY
A Study In Character Development On A Throne
By Harold Frederic
1891
CONTENTS
THE YOUNG EMPEROR, WILLIAM II OF GERMANY
CHAPTER I.—THE SUPREMACY OF THE HOHENZOLLERNS.
CHAPTER III.—UNDER CHANGED INFLUENCES AT BONN
CHAPTER IV.—THE TIDINGS OF FREDERIC’S DOOM
CHAPTER V.—THROUGH THE SHADOWS TO THE THRONE
CHAPTER VI.—UNDER THE SWAY OF THE BISMARCKS
CHAPTER VII.—THE BEGINNINGS OF A BENEFICENT CHANGE
CHAPTER VIII.—A YEAR OF EXPERIMENTAL ABSOLUTISM
CHAPTER IX.—A YEAR OF HELPFUL LESSONS
CHAPTER X.—THE FALL OF THE BISMARCKS
CHAPTER XI—A YEAR WITHOUT BISMARCK
CHAPTER XII.—PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS
THE LAWTON GIRL
By Harold Frederic
1890
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.—“AND YET YOU KNEW!”
CHAPTER II.—CONFRONTING THE ORDEAL.
CHAPTER III.—YOUNG MR. BOYCE’S MEDITATIONS.
CHAPTER VI.—THANKSGIVING AT THE MINSTERS’.
CHAPTER VII.—THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER’S WELCOME.
CHAPTER VIII.—THANKSGIVING AT THE LAWTONS’.
CHAPTER X.—MR. SCHUYLER TENNEY.
CHAPTER XI.—MRS. MINSTER’S NEW LEGAL ADVISER.
CHAPTER XII.—THE THESSALY CITIZENS’ CLUB.
CHAPTER XIII.—=THE DAUGHTER OF THE MILLIONS.
CHAPTER XIV.—HORACE EMBARKS UPON THE ADVENTURE.
CHAPTER XV.—THE LAWTON GIRL’S WORK.
CHAPTER XVI.—A GRACIOUS FRIEND RAISED UP.
CHAPTER XVII.—TRACY HEARS STRANGE THINGS.
CHAPTER XVIII.—A SIMPLE BUSINESS TRANSACTION.
CHAPTER XIX.—NO MESSAGE FOR MAMMA.
CHAPTER XX.—THE MAN FROM NEW YORK.
CHAPTER XXI.—REUBEN’S MOMENTOUS FIRST VISIT.
CHAPTER XXII.—“SAY THAT THERE IS NO ANSWER.”
CHAPTER XXIII.—HORACE’S PATH BECOMES TORTUOUS.
CHAPTER XXIV.—A VEHEMENT RESOLVE.
CHAPTER XXV.—A VISITATION OF ANGELS.
CHAPTER XXVI.—OVERWHELMING DISCOMFITURE.
CHAPTER XXVIII.—IN THE ROBBER’S CAVE.
CHAPTER XXIX.—THE MISTS CLEARING AWAY.
CHAPTER XXX.—JESSICA’S GREAT DESPAIR.
CHAPTER XXXI.—A STRANGE ENCOUNTER.
CHAPTER XXXII.—THE ALARM AT THE FARMHOUSE.
CHAPTER XXXIII.—PACING TOWARD THE REDDENED SKY.
CHAPTER XXXIV.—THE CONQUEST OF THE MOB.
CHAPTER XXXV.—THE SHINING REWARD.
CHAPTER XXXVI.—“I TELL YOU I HAVE LIVED IT DOWN!”
IN THE VALLEY
Harold Frederic
Contents.
Chapter I. "The
French Are in the Valley!"
Chapter II. Setting
Forth How the Girl Child Was Brought to Us.
Chapter III. Master
Philip Makes His Bow--And Behaves Badly
Chapter IV. In Which I
Become the Son of the House.
Chapter V. How a
Stately Name Was Shortened and Sweetened.
Chapter VI. Within
Sound of the Shouting Waters.
Chapter VII. Through
Happy Youth to Man's Estate.
Chapter VIII. Enter My
Lady Berenicia Cross.
Chapter IX. I See My
Sweet Sister Dressed in Strange Attire.
Chapter X. The
Masquerade Brings Me Nothing but Pain.
Chapter XI. As I Make
My Adieux Mr. Philip Comes In.
Chapter XII. Old-Time
Politics Pondered under the Starlight.
Chapter XIII. To the Far
Lake Country and Home Again.
Chapter XIV. How I Seem
to Feel a Wanting Note in the Chorus of Welcome.
Chapter XV. The Rude
Awakening from My Dream.
Chapter XVI. Tulp Gets
a Broken Head to Match My Heart.
Chapter XVII. I Perforce
Say Farewell to My Old Home.
Chapter XVIII. The Fair
Beginning of a New Life in Ancient Albany.
Chapter XIX. I Go to a
Famous Gathering at the Patroon's Manor House.
Chapter XX. A Foolish
and Vexatious Quarrel Is Thrust upon Me.
Chapter XXI. Containing
Other News Besides that from Bunker Hill.
Chapter XXII. The Master
and Mistress of Cairncross.
Chapter XXIII. How Philip
in Wrath, Daisy in Anguish, Fly Their Home.
Chapter XXIV. The Night
Attack Upon Quebec--And My Share in It.
Chapter XXV. A
Crestfallen Return to Albany.
Chapter XXVI. I See
Daisy and the Old Home Once More.
Chapter XXVII. The Arrest
of Poor Lady Johnson.
Chapter XXVIII. An Old
Acquaintance Turns Up in Manacles.
Chapter XXIX. The
Message Sent Ahead from the Invading Army.
Chapter XXX. From the
Scythe and Reaper to the Musket.
Chapter XXXI. The
Rendezvous of Fighting Men at Fort Dayton.
Chapter XXXII. "The Blood
Be on Your Heads."
Chapter XXXIII. The
Fearsome Death-Struggle in the Forest.
Chapter XXXIV. Alone at
Last with My Enemy.
Chapter XXXV. The
Strange Uses to Which Revenge May Be Put.
Chapter XXXVI. A Final
Scene in the Gulf which My Eyes Are Mercifully Spared.
Chapter
XXXVII. The
Peaceful Ending of It All.
THE DESERTER AND OTHER STORIES
BY HAROLD FREDERIC
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| THE DESERTER. | ||
| I. | Discoveries in the Barn | 3 |
| II. | A Sudden Departure | 20 |
| III. | Father and Son | 42 |
| IV. | The "Meanest Word" | 60 |
| V. | The Deputy Marshal | 80 |
| VI. | A Home in the Woods | 98 |
| VII. | Another Chase after Mose | 117 |
| A DAY IN THE WILDERNESS. | ||
| I. | The Valley of Death | 139 |
| II. | Lafe reconnoitres the Valley | 157 |
| III. | The Bounty-Jumper | 177 |
| IV. | Red Pete in Captivity | 198 |
| V. | Lafe rescues an Officer, and finds his Cousin | 216 |
| HOW DICKON CAME BY HIS NAME. | ||
| I. | The Making of a Soldier | 239 |
| II. | A Burst for Freedom | 260 |
| III. | A Strange Christmas Eve | 279 |
| IV. | Up in the World | 299 |
| WHERE AVON INTO SEVERN FLOWS. | ||
| I. | Hugh the Writer | 319 |
| II. | Sir Hereward's Ring | 350 |
| III. | How Hugh met the Prince | 381 |
ILLUSTRATIONS.
| "'I'll unlock it bimeby—maybe'" | Frontispiece |
| PAGE | |
| "'Sh-h! Talk Lower!'" | 27 |
| "'Gimme that Gun!'" | 61 |
| "'Drop it—you!'" | 175 |
| Lafe and the Bounty-Jumper | 195 |
| "'I'm Steve Hornbeck's Son!'" | 231 |
| "Sir Watty came stalking down" | 249 |
| "'Whose Blood is this?'" | 285 |
| "He advanced and kissed the Lady's Hand" | 357 |
| "Two Dozen Pike-Heads clashed down as by a Single Touch" | 385 |