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• Includes a brief biography of the author.A series of eight short stories that follow the adventures of Prince Serge Renine and his assistant, Hortense Daniels, as they unravel eight perplexing mysteries. Arsène Lupin is gifted with a powerful imagination and is quite capable of attributing to himself adventures which are not his at all and of disowning those which are really his.

• Author Biography• Book ReviewFor several weeks I was not particularly interested in him.But as I continued to see more of him, and learned much about his life, my interest grew; for I soon perceived that he not only had led a typical thief's life, but was also a man of more than common natural intelligence, with a gift of vigorous expression.That this ex-convict, when a boy on the East Side of New York City, should have taken to the "graft" seemed to me, as he talked about it, the most natural thing in the world.

It was a great many years ago, in the time of the buffalo, that Sinopah was born, and it was on a warm, sunny day in June that he first saw the light of the sun, to which he was afterward to make many a prayer. The great camp of the Blackfeet was pitched on the Two Medicine River, one of the prettiest streams in all Montana. Only a few miles to the west of the camp the sharp peaks of the Rocky Mountains rose for thousands of feet into the clear blue air. To the north, and south, and east the great plains stretched away to the very edge of the horizon, and they were now green with the fresh grasses of spring.Those were wild days in which Sinopah was born. The plains were covered with buffalo and antelope; in the mountains and along the rivers were countless numbers of elk, deer, bighorn, moose, black and grizzly bears, wolves, and many smaller animals. So it was that the Blackfeet were very rich. They had always plenty of meat and berries, soft robes and furs, and with their many horses they roamed about on their great plains and hunted, and were happy.

Let's go and enlist!" "Perhaps they won't take us," was the reply. "Well, there 's nothing like trying," responded the first speaker. "Nothing ventured, nothing gained." "That's so," said the other. "And if we can't go for soldiers, perhaps they 'll find us useful about the camp for something else." This conversation took place between two boys of Dubuque, Iowa, one pleasant morning early in the year 1861. They were Jack Wilson and Harry Fulton, neither of whom had yet seen his sixteenth birthday. They were the sons of industrious and respectable parents, whose houses stood not far apart on one of the humbler streets of that ambitious city; they had known each other for ten years or more, had gone to school together, played together, and at the time of which we are writing they were working side by side in the same shop. The president issued a call for seventy-five thousand men to serve for three months, and the call was responded to with alacrity. And it was in the recruiting that formed a part of this response that our story opens. Jack and Harry went to the recruiting office, which was on one of the principal streets of Dubuque and easy to find. Over the doorway an immense flag—the flag of the nation—was waving in the morning breeze, and in front of the door was an excited group of men discussing the prospects for the future, and particularly the chances of war.

• Includes illustrations from the original text.George Edward Challenger is part of an expedition to a plateau in South America where prehistoric creatures, including dinosaurs, still survive. The novel also describes a war between indigenous people and a vicious tribe of ape-like creatures.This is the first of five Professor Challenger fantasy and science fiction stories by Arthur Conan Doyle.

They were running down one of the broad paths, when Bessie saw an old gentleman coming towards them with a pleasant smile on his face. She stood still to take a second look, and then called to her sister."Oh, Maggie, here's our dear friend, Mr. Hall!""Why, so it is!" said Maggie, in glad surprise, for this was a very unexpected pleasure.Mr. Hall lived but two or three doors from Mr. Bradford, and as he generally came for a walk in the park after his breakfast, Maggie and Bessie were almost sure to meet him when they were out in the morning. But he was not apt to be there in the afternoon, and so they had not looked for him at this time.It so happened that Mr. Hall had stepped out upon his front stoop just as Mrs. Bradford's little flock started for their walk; and there he saw them all going down the street. He put on his hat, took his gold-headed cane, and walked out after them."Mr. Hall, I am very pleased to see you," said Bessie."And so am I, Mr. Hall," said Maggie."And I am very much pleased to see you," said Mr. Hall; "but I should like to know what has become of two little granddaughters of mine, who went away to the sea-shore two months since. I thought I should find them in the park; but in their place I find two little strangers, who have no name for me but Mr. Hall.""Oh, I forgot,—Grandpapa Hall," said Maggie."Dear Grandpapa Hall," said Bessie, "please don't let your feelings be hurt, 'cause we only forgot for one moment. You know it's so long since we saw you.""And did you forget me while you were away?" asked Mr. Hall."Oh, no," said Bessie, "we thinked about you very often, and talked about you too."

• Illustrated• Includes a brief biography of the author When Sub-Lieutenant Seton, R.N., goes with his ship, H.M.T.B.D. Bolero, to convoy sertain tramps and hookers on the "Beef Trip", he does not foresee the tremendous experiences ahead of him.The Bolero is sunk by a German U-boat, and Seton is made prisoner and confined in a cell on the Mole at Zeebrugge, where he witneses the gigantic British storming attack which results in the "bottling up" of that harbour. In the thick of the fray he and a fellow-prisoner, a young R.A.F. piolot, escape from their cell, and jump into the sea, whence they are picked up by ML.4452,aboard which Seton finds an old school-chum, now Sub-Lieutenant Branscombe R.N.R.The chums share a love of adventure and vivid action, and manage to stowaway on the famous old Vindictive when she sets out on the mission to Ostend which ends in her glorious, voluntary sacrifice.The descriptions of these grand actions stir the blood; and the book will undoubtedly add to the reputation of one of our finest writers of sea stories.

In every port of the Orient the outposts of the restless, aggressive West touch the lines of the impassive East. Consuls, military and naval officers, merchants, missionaries force the ideas and ideals of the West upon the reluctant East. Many of these representatives of western civilization are true to the high standards of the nations and religions from which they come. Many others fall to the level, and below the level, of those they live among.This story is an attempt to picture this life where the East meets the West, in one small port and for the one short period covered by the Franco-Chinese War of 1884-85. Of the characters one, Dr. MacKay, is unhesitatingly called by his own name. Sergeant Gorman and one or two others of the subordinate figures are drawn from life. The rest, including the principal actors, are purely imaginary.