======== Subject: August Project Gutenberg Newsletter From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org> To: "Project Gutenberg mailing list" <gutnberg@listserv.unc.edu> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 16:29:56 -0500 (CDT) *This is Project Gutenberg's Newsletter for Wednesday, August 2, 2001* Etexts Readable By Both Humans and Computers Since Before The Internet [Usually sent the first Wednesday of each month, delayed if by relay.] Main URL is promo.net Webmaster is Pietro di Miceli, of Rome, Italy *Check out our Websites at promo.net, and ask me for our FTP servers.* This Newsletter has gotten so large that we are breaking in two pieces as we have done several times before. . .the next portion should go by August 15th. . .it looks as if we have about 81 new Etexts this month! With 2775 eTexts online it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $3.60 from each book, for Project Gutenberg to have given away $1,000,000,000,000 [One Trillion Dollars] in books. *100,000,000 readers is one to two percent of the world's population!* This "cost" is down from $3.70 when we had 2650 Etexts in July This "cost" is down from $3.77 when we had 2600 Etexts in June This "cost" is down from $3.92 when we had 2550 Etexts in May This "cost" is down from $4.00 when we had 2500 Etexts in April Can you imagine each one of thousands of books reduced by 40 cents??? And given to one hundred million people!?!?!? There is no end to the great things we can accomplish if we don't worry about who gets the credit. - Anon. Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. "Only wimps use backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on FTP, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)" - Linus Torvalds "It's all well and good for us to lay life down on the operating table and cut out the bad parts, but we have to be sure at the same time to keep life alive. . .By Living It." "It's all well and good for us to lay life down on the operating table and cut out the bad parts, but at the same time some of us have to keep life alive . . .By Living It." Dr. Yuri Zhivago to his brother, General Yevgav Zhivago. . . . If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. John F. Kennedy "Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." George Bernard Shaw "Life is an open book exam, with no particular time limit." "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." (Albert Einstein) Table of Contents: Headline News Requests For Assistance Comments About Our New Files Index Listings for the New Files Notes from News Scan and Edupage *** Headline News I, Michael S. Hart, am now forming my own TWO teams of assistants, one just for Project Gutenberg work, one for anything else I need help with. . .probably research, web searches, etc. Please email me directly. For these teams you don't have to be an expert on a lot of things, I am hoping the law of large numbers will help get me answers to the questions I will be sending out. THE EX-CLASSICS WEB SITE Gutenberg volunteer Donal O' Danachair kodak_seaside@hotmail.com has set up this e-books resource at http://indigo.ie/~odanachd/default.htm It is dedicated to making available books that were once important and influential but are now unjustly forgotten. The books will be in readable HTML with illustrations etc., and will, he hopes, spark interest in these neglected masterpieces. Samuel Butler's HUDIBRAS is already available, and the following are in the pipeline. Gil Blas, by A-R LeSage, Trans. Tobias Smollett The Poems of Ossian, By MacPherson The Martyrdom of Man, by Winwood Reade Knocknagow, by Charles Kickham Requests For Assistance We need more proofing than usual this month, if you would care to run a spellchecker on any of those from #2799 to #2822, I would certainly appreciate it, as I posted all of those in a huge rush yesterday, and did not get a chance to do as much as I would like. Of course, ALL the Etexts really need some proofreading, so if you care to do any of the others, that would be great!!! Rosana Actis <efeijooactis@interlink.com.ar> Would like to do Argentinian Etexts, please contact her, and cc:me. We are forming a Mac Team to help our Mac users with FTP, hard returns, and the like. . .please email me. . . . I will have a Mac at this desk now, and should be able to help more with this. Thanks to a non-Beatle. . . . We have a volunteer in Madison whose scanner broke down. Would you be interested in helping find one to work with while this one is being replaced? J9mklain@cs.com [Wisc] We have a volunteer who need help with either WS_FTP or CuteFTP Hollis Ramsey <holliser@ev1.net> Please cc:me so we can write up an FAQ. Those of you interested in doing Eight Cousins might look at this: http://www.bibliomania.com/Fiction/alcott/Cousins/ Eight Cousins by Louisa M. Alcott 8cous10.txt P.C.Mager <enojos@worldshare.net> Want to continue 11th ed of Britannica Please contact him, and cc:me We need volunteers who are physically in the following states: Nevada Idaho Montana Wyoming Colorado Iowa South Dakota Texas Indiana Vermont Comments About Our New Files Our August listings start off with our first Etext in Bulgarian!!! Lots of Alexandre Dumas, Pere, this month! We have started on Cicero. More of our new English translation of Siddhartha. More of Kipling, Thackeray, Louisa May Alcott, and Darwin. New sites in Bulgaria and India: www.liternet.revolta.com/publish/sgil/gutenberg.htm Snezhina Gileva <snezhina_g@yahoo.com> http://pg.indiaone.com Chandigarh, India Harpreet Giani <harpreet@agni.org> Index Listings for the New Files Here are the new Etexts. . .no, there aren't as many as it looks like, when you get down further in the list you'll see a number are reserved for later posting. We probably really have only about 2,775 right now. Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]#### *****A "C" Following a Project Gutenberg Etext Number Indicates Copyright**** Feb 2001 Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse [In 8-bit German] [8siddxxx.xxx]2499 Feb 2001 Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse [In 7-bit German] [7siddxxx.xxx]2499 For those of you interested in our Etext 2500, an original English translation of Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse. . .we have posted version 02, which you will find a substantial improvement, in both quality and quantity, over version 01. In addition, we have posted improved versions of the original German edition. May 2001 Confiscation, An Outline, by William Greenwood [cnfscxxx.xxx]2611 Apr 2001 The Small Catechism of Martin Luther [in Japanese][smctjxxx.xxx]2592 [Mr. Yuki sent this to me several times. . .my apologies for taking so long!] Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]#### *****A "C" Following a Project Gutenberg Etext Number Indicates Copyright**** Sep 2001 A Bundle of Ballads, by Henry Morley [bndbaxxx.xxx]2831 40 Sep 2001 Reginald, by Saki (H. H. Munro) [Saki HH Munro #5][rgnldxxx.xxx]2830 Sep 2001 Fanny and the Servant Problem, by Jerome K. Jerome[fnyspxxx.xxx]2829 Sep 2001 Under the Deodars, by Rudyard Kipling[Kipling #19][undeoxxx.xxx]2828 Contains: The Education of Otis Yeere At the Pit's Mouth A Wayside Comedy The Hill of Illusion A Second-rate Woman Only a Subaltern In the Matter of a Private The Enlightenments of Pagett. M. P. Sep 2001 Reserved: Friedrich de la Motte Fouque #4 [ xxx.xxx]2827* Sep 2001 Reserved: Friedrich de la Motte Fouque #3 [ xxx.xxx]2826* 35 Sep 2001 Undine, by Friedrich de la Motte Fouque[Fouque #2][undinxxx.xxx]2825 Sep 2001 Sintram and His Companions, by Friedrich Fouque #1[sntrmxxx.xxx]2824 [Author's full name: Friedrich de la Motte Fouque] Sep 2001 The Fitz-Boodle Papers/William Makepeace Thackeray[fitzbxxx.xxx]2823 Sep 2001 London in 1731, Don Manoel Gonzales [londnxxx.xxx]2822 Sep 2001 The Story of the Gadsby, by Rudyard Kipling[RK#18][tsotgxxx.xxx]2821 30 Sep 2001 La Fin des Livres by Octave Uzanne & Albert Robida[endbkxxh.zip]2820 Sep 2001 The End of Books, by Octave Uzanne &Albert Robida [endbkxxh.zip]2820 [This is available ONLY as a .zip file that unzip into a set of HTML files.] Sep 2001 Barrack-Room Ballads, by Rudyard Kipling [RK #17][barbaxxx.xxx]2819 Sep 2001 Beautiful Joe, by Marshall Saunders [beajoxxx.xxx]2818 Sep 2001 Chamber Music, by James Joyce [James Joyce #2][chamuxxx.xxx]2817 Sep 2001 The City of the Sun, by Tommaso Campanells [tcotsxxx.xxx]2816 25 Sep 2001 Democracy An American Novel, by Henry Adams[HA #2][demamxxx.xxx]2815 [double blank spaces] Sep 2001 Dubliners, by James Joyce [James Joyce #1] [dblnrxxx.xxx]2814 Sep 2001 The Grand Babylon Hotel, by Arnold Bennett [grbahxxx.xxx]2813 double blank spaces Sep 2001 Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero [Cicero #2] [letcixxx.xxx]2812 [Translated by E. S. Shuckburgh] Sep 2001 Letters of Pliny the Younger, Tr. William Melmoth [ltplnxxx.xxx]2811 [revised by F. C. T. Bosanquet] 20 Sep 2001 Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, by Plunkitt and Riordan [plnthxxx.xxx]2110 [by George Washington Plunkitt, Recorded by William L. Riordon] Sep 2001 Main-Travelled Roads, by Hamlin Garland [matraxxx.xxx]2809 Sep 2001 Treatises on Friendship and Old Age, by Cicero [tfroaxxx.xxx]2808 [Author's Full Name: Marcus Tullius Cicero: translated by E. S. Shuckburgh] Sep 2001 To Have and To Hold: by Mary Johnston [thathxxx.xxx]2807 Sep 2001 Phantom 'Rickshaw & Other Ghost Stories by Kipling[phricxxx.xxx]2806 [Full Title The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories by Rudyard Kipling] 15 Sep 2001 With Lee in Virginia [US Civil War], by G.A. Henty[leeivxxx.xxx]2805 Sep 2001 Rose in Bloom, by Louisa May Alcott [Alcott #7] [rsblmxxx.xxx]2804 [This is the sequel to Eight Cousins, [Alcott #3][8csnsxxx.xxx]2726] Sep 2001 The Rise of David Levinsky, by Abraham Cahan [lvnskxxx.xxx]2803 Sep 2001 Ramona, by Helen Hunt Jackson [rmonaxxx.xxx]2802 Sep 2001 The Commonwealth of Oceana, by James Harrington [oceanxxx.xxx]2801 10 Sep 2001 Reserved [ xxx.xxx]2800* Sep 2001 Eben Holden, by Irving Bacheller [bnhldxxx.xxx]2799 [Full Title: Eben Holden a Tale of the North Country] Sep 2001 The Queen Of The Pirate Isle, by Bret Harte[BH#45][qotpixxx.xxx]2798 Sep 2001 The Wolves and the Lamb, by William M Thackeray 22[wlvlmxxx.xxx]2797 [Author's full name: William Makepeace Thackeray] Sep 2001 The Yellowplush Papers, by Wm. M. Thackeray WMT#21[yloplxxx.xxx]2796 Sep 2001 Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush by Thackeray[yloplxxx.xxx]2796 [Same book, two titles. Author's full name: William Makepeace Thackeray] Contents: MISS SHUM'S HUSBAND THE AMOURS OF MR. DEUCEACE FORING PARTS MR. DEUCEACE AT PARIS MR. YELLOWPLUSH'S AJEW SKIMMINGS FROM "THE DAIRY OF GEORGE IV." EPISTLES TO THE LITERATI 5 Sep 2001 Bob Son of Battle, by Alfred Ollivant [bsonbxxx.xxx]2795 Sep 2001 Found At Blazing Star, by Bret Harte [Harte #44][fabstxxx.xxx]2794 Sep 2001 Flip: A California Romance, by Bret Harte [BH #43][flpcrxxx.xxx]2793 Sep 2001 My Ten Years' Imprisonment by Silvio Pellico [mytenxxx.xxx]2792 Sep 2001 Essays and Tales, by Joseph Addison [Addison #1] [etaddxxx.xxx]2791 Contains: Public Credit Household Superstitions Opera Lions Women and Wives The Italian Opera Lampoons True and False Humour Sa Ga Yean Qua Rash Tow's Impressions of London The Vision of Marraton Six Papers on Wit Friendship Chevy-Chase (Two Papers) A Dream of the Painters Spare Time (Two Papers) Censure The English Language The Vision of Mirza Genius Theodosius and Constantia Good Nature A Grinning Match Trust in God Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]#### *****A "C" Following a Project Gutenberg Etext Number Indicates Copyright**** 50 Aug 2001 The Poems of Hristo Botev/Our First Bulgarian Book[botevxxx.xxx]2790 [Variant spellings are Khristo and Christo] [Readers should try Cyrillic Windows 1251 Encoding on thier browsers] or Timok, Hebar, Times New Roman Cyrillic, Courier New Cyrillic, Arial Cyrillic. We Times New Roman Cyrillic] Contains: On Parting (in 1868) To My First Love Sharing Elegy To My Mother To My Brother In the Tavern Hadji Dimitar My Prayer A Cloud of Darkness has Appeared Stranger Eloped The Struggle St. George^Rs Day A Patriot To Her Haidouks (Father and Son) Why am I not...? A Message The Hanging of Vassil Levski This file was prepared by Snezhina Gileva, Varna, Bulgaria. email: snezhina_g@yahoo.com Aug 2001 The Motor Girls on A Tour, by Margaret Penrose [tmgotxxx.xxx]2789 Aug 2001 Little Men, by Louisa May Alcott [L. M. Alcott #6][ltlmnxxx.xxx]2788 Aug 2001 An Old-fashioned Girl, by Louisa May Alcott[LMA#5][ofgrlxxx.xxx]2787 Aug 2001 Jack and Jill, by Louisa May Alcott [LM Alcott #4][jandjxxx.xxx]2786 45 Aug 2001 The Elusive Pimpernel, by Baroness Orczy[Orczy #3][lsvpmxxx.xxx]2785 [Author's full name: Baroness Emmuska Orczy] Aug 2001 Colonel Starbottle's Client, by Bret Harte[BH #42][strbtxxx.xxx]2784 CONTAINS: COLONEL STARBOTTLE'S CLIENT THE POSTMISTRESS OF LAUREL RUN A NIGHT AT "HAYS" JOHNSON'S "OLD WOMAN" THE NEW ASSISTANT AT PINE CLEARING SCHOOL IN A PIONEER RESTAURANT A TREASURE OF THE GALLEON OUT OF A PIONEER'S TRUNK THE GHOSTS OF STUKELEY CASTLE Aug 2001 The Trampling of the Lilies, by Rafael Sabatini #9[ttotlxxx.xxx]2783 Aug 2001 Wilhelm Tell, by Johann Friedrich von Schiller [wtellxxx.xxx]2782 Aug 2001 William Tell, by Johann Friedrich von Schiller [wtellxxx.xxx]2782 [Author's full name: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller] Aug 2001 Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling [Kipling #15][jusssxxx.xxx]2781 Contains: HOW THE WHALE GOT HIS THROAT HOW THE CAMEL GOT HIS HUMP HOW THE RHINOCEROS GOT IS SKIN HOW THE LEOPARD GOT HIS SPOTS THE ELEPHANT'S CHILD THE SING-SONG OF OLD MAN KANGAROO THE BEGINNING OF THE ARMADILLOS HOW THE FIRST LETTER WAS WRITTEN HOW THE ALPHABET WAS MADE THE CRAB THAT PLAYED WITH THE SEA THE CAT THAT WALKED BY HIMSELF THE BUTTERFLY THAT STAMPED 40 Aug 2001 My Life and My Efforts, Autobiography by Karl May [kmlaexxx.xxx]2780C Aug 2001 Mein Leben und Streben, Autobiography by Karl May [kmlaexxx.xxx]2780C Aug 2001 Mein Leben und Streben, Autobiography by Karl May [kmlusxxx.xxx]2779 Aug 2001 My Life and My Efforts, Autobiography by Karl May [kmlusxxx.xxx]2779 [There are six files. . .three in English three in German, each has a version that is 7 bit and 8 and HTML. . .7 bit files end in "a", 8 bit files in "i", and the HTML files in "h". The orginals are public domain, the translation expressly made for Project Gutenberg was copyrighted by Gunther Olesch. The originals are in German, as #2799, the translation into English, as #2780C.] The current filenames are: kmlae10a.txt English Plain Text kmlae10h.htm English HTML kmlae10i.txt English 8-bit Text kmlus10a.txt German Plain Text kmlus10h.htm German HTML kmlus10i.txt German 8-bit Text Updates will be from version 10 to version 11. Aug 2001 Jewel, by Clara Louise Burnham [jewelxxx.xxx]2778 Aug 2001 Cabbages and Kings, by O Henry [O Henry #10][ckngsxxx.xxx]2777 Aug 2001 The Four Million, by O Henry [O Henry #9] [4millnxx.xxx]2776 35 Aug 2001 The Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford [gsldrxxx.xxx]2775 Aug 2001 The Patrician, by John Galsworthy [Galsworthy #13][ptrcn10x.xxx]2774 Aug 2001 Fraternity, by John Galsworthy[John Galsworthy#12][frtrn10x.xxx]2773 Aug 2001 The Country House, by John Galsworthy [John G #11][chousxxx.xxx]2772 Aug 2001 The Island Pharisees, by John Galsworthy[J.G. #10][ipharxxx.xxx]2771 30 Aug 2001 Five Little Peppers And How They Grew, by Sidney [5lpepxxx.xxx]2770 [Author's full name: Margaret Sidney] Aug 2001 Cleopatra, by H. Rider Haggard [H. R. Haggard #22][clptrxxx.xxx]2769 Aug 2001 The Paris Sketch Book, by W. M. Thackeray[WMT #21][xtpsbxxx.xxx]2768 [We are posting two versions, 8 bit with accents, 7 bit plain standard text-- These are 8tpsb10.txt and .zip and 7tpsb10.txt and .zip, respectively. . . .] Aug 2001 The Devil's Paw, by E. Phillips Oppenheim[EPH #10][dspawxxx.xxx]2767 Aug 2001 The Red Acorn, by John McElroy [rdcrnxxx.xxx]2766 25 Aug 2001 The Lady From The Sea, by Henrik Ibsen [Ibsen #7] [ldysexxx.xxx]2765 Aug 2001 The Mahatma and the Hare, by H. Rider Haggard[#21][tmathxxx.xxx]2764 Aug 2001 The World's Desire, by Rider [#20], and Lang [#27][wldsrxxx.xxx]2763 [by H. Rider Haggard and Andrew Lang] Aug 2001 The Brethren, by H. Rider Haggard [HR Haggard #19][brthnxxx.xxx]2762 Aug 2001 Benita, by H. Rider Haggard [H. Rider Haggard #18][bnitaxxx.xxx]2761 [Full Title: Benita, An African Romance] 20 Aug 2001 Reserved for Dumas Commentaries [ xxx.xxx]2760* Aug 2001 Reserved for The Man in the Iron Mask [The Novel] [ xxx.xxx]2759* Aug 2001 The Man in the Iron Mask[The Novel]Dumas, Pere #28[nmaskxxx.xxx]2759* [This is the novel entitled The Man in the Iron Mask, not the essay, #2751] **The 18 volumes listed below comprise "Celebrated Crimes" by Dumas, Pere** [At this time we have posted about half of these, the others marked with *'s] Aug 2001 Marquise de Ganges, by Alexander Dumas, Pere[# 27][ xxx.xxx]2758* Aug 2001 Vanika, by Alexander Dumas, Pere [Dumas, Pere 26][ xxx.xxx]2757* Aug 2001 Marquise Brinvillier, by Alexander[Dumas, Pere 25][ xxx.xxx]2756* 15 Aug 2001 Murat, by Alexander Dumas, Pere [Dumas, Pere #24][ xxx.xxx]2755* Aug 2001 Countess St. Germain, by Alexander Dumas, Pere 23][ xxx.xxx]2754* Aug 2001 Ali Pacha, by Alexander Dumas, Pere[Dumas Pere 22][ xxx.xxx]2753* Aug 2001 Martin Guerre, by Alexander Dumas, Pere [Dumas 21][mguerxxx.xxx]2752 Aug 2001 Man in the Iron Mask, by Alexander Dumas, Pere 20 [emaskxxx.xxx]2751 [This is the essay entitled The Man in the Iron Mask, not the novel] 10 Aug 2001 Joan of Naples, by Alexander Dumas, Pere [#19][jonapxxx.xxx]2750 Aug 2001 La Constantin, by Alexander Dumas, Pere [#18][ xxx.xxx]2749* Aug 2001 Derues, by Alexander Dumas, Pere [#17][ xxx.xxx]2748* Aug 2001 Nisida, by Alexander Dumas [#16][nisidxxx.xxx]2747 Aug 2001 Urbain Grandier, by Alexander Dumas, Pere [#15][ugranxxx.xxx]2746 5 Aug 2001 Karl Ludwig Sand, by Alexander Dumas, Pere [#14][ksandxxx.xxx]2745 Aug 2001 Mary Stuart, by Alexander Dumas, Pere[Dumas/P #13][marysxxx.xxx]2744 Aug 2001 Massacres of the South, by Alex. Dumas, Pere [#12][mssthxxx.xxx]2743 Aug 2001 The Cenci, by Alexander Dumas, Pere/Dumas, Pere 11[ xxx.xxx]2742* Aug 2001 Gorgias, by Alexander Dumas, Pere[Dumas, Pere #10][ xxx.xxx]2741* Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]#### *****A "C" Following a Project Gutenberg Etext Number Indicates Copyright**** Jul 2001 More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II[Darwin13][2mlcdxxx.xxx]2740 Jul 2001 More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume I[Darwin#12][1mlcdxxx.xxx]2739 Jul 2001 Reserved for Lakshana [ xxx.xxx]2738C Jul 2001 A Grandpa's Notebook. by Meyer Moldeven (C)2000 [grnpaxxx.xxx]2737C Jul 2001 The Champdoce Mystery, by Emile Gaboriau[Emile #6][cmpdcxxx.xxx]2736 Sequel to: Jan 2001 Caught In The Net, by Emile Gaboriau [Gaboriau #5][cnnetxxx.xxx]2451 Jul 2001 The Golden Dog, by William Kirby [7ggldxxx.xxx]2735 Jul 2001 The Golden Dog, by William Kirby [8ggldxxx.xxx]2735 Jul 2001 Le Chien d'Or, by William Kirby [7ggldxxx.xxx]2735 Jul 2001 Le Chien d'Or, by William Kirby [8ggldxxx.xxx]2735 [We are posting two versions, 8 bit with accents, 7 bit plain standard text.] Notes from News Scan and Edupage I will include those in the next portion. 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