PG Monthly Newsletter (2000-09-06)

by Michael Cook on September 6, 2000
Newsletters

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Subject: Project Gutenberg Newsletter
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: "Project Gutenberg mailing list" <gutnberg@listserv.unc.edu>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 14:52:50 -0500 (CDT)


This is Project Gutenberg's Newsletter of Wednesday, September 6, 2000
Etexts Readable By Both Humans and Computers Since Before The Internet
[Usually sent the first Wednesday of each month, delayed if by relay.]
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. . .So Far The New Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. . .
HAS NOT RECEIVED ONE SINGLE CENT. . .Please See Below For Details. . .

With 2870 eTexts online it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers
gaining a nominal value of $3.48 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 $3.55 when we had 2820 Etexts on August 16
This "cost" is down from $3.60 when we had 2775 Etexts on August 2
This "cost" is down from $3.70 when we had 2650 Etexts in July
This "cost" is down from $3.77 when we had 2650 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 52 cents???

There is no end to the great things we can accomplish
if we don't worry about who gets the credit.  - Anon.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor,
it cannot save the few who are rich.  John F. Kennedy

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein

Life is an open book exam,
with no particular time limit.
Michael S. Hart



Table of Contents:


Headline News

Requests For Assistance

Comments About Our New Files

Comments About Our Improved Files

Index Listings for Improved Files

Index Listings for the New Files

Notes from News Scan and Edupage


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Headline News

I hate to lead with this, but if Project Gutenberg is going to be able to
eventually survive when I am gone, we have to get some support coming in.

Please. . .help us get started. . .I am going to conferences in the states
of Washington, Hawaii and California. . .and it would be nice if we could
solicit contributions in the process, but it costs money to file the papers
required before we can do this.  We CAN accept outside U.S. contributions.

Presently, contributions are only being solicited from people in:
Texas, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, South Dakota,
Iowa, Indiana, and Vermont. As the requirements for other states
are met, additions to this list will be made and fund raising will
begin in the additional states. These donations should be made to
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Introducing our first three Etexts in Flemish!
Sep 2001 De Franse Pers, Heinrich Heine    [#3, in Flemish][fpersxxx.xxx]2840
Sep 2001 Franse Toestanden, Heinrich Heine [#2, in Flemish][ftoesxxx.xxx]2839
Sep 2001 De Beurs lacht, Heinrich Heine    [#1, in Flemish][fbeurxxx.xxx]2838

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We are forming a Hungarian Team, please let us know if you would like
to help us promote Etexts in Hungarian.

Hungarian Team
Drotos Laszlo <kondrot@gold.uni-miskolc.hu>
Hungarian Electronic Library
Cc: moldovan@oszk.hu
cc: hart@pobox.com

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We are forming a Movie Team to explore several libraries of movies,
let me know if you have enough bandwidth to download and work on a
few clips we can present.

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As you can see from the listings below, we are approaching Etext #3000.

We would very much like your suggestions for what to present for #3000.

We have tried to do something particularly interesting for such events,
such as:

Feb 2001 Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse [Our English Edition] [siddhxxx.xxx]2500
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

Dec 1999 Sonnets from the Portuguese, by E. B. Browning[#1][snprgxxx.xxx]2002
Dec 1999 [Reserved for 2001, by Arthur C. Clarke]          [     xxx.xxx]2001
Dec 1999 Don Quijote, by Cervantes in Spanish .txt & .htm  [2donqxxx.xxx]2000
Dec 1999 Crome Yellow, by Aldous Huxley [Aldous Huxley #1] [crmylxxx.xxx]1999
Dec 1999 Thus Spake Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche #1 [spzarxxx.xxx]1998
Dec 1999 Paradise, Divine Comedy, Dante, Tr. by Norton     [3ddcnxxx.xxx]1997
Dec 1999 Purgatory, Divine Comedy, Dante, Tr. by Norton    [2ddcnxxx.xxx]1996
Dec 1999 Hell/Inferno, Divine Comedy, Dante, Tr. by Norton [1ddcnxxx.xxx]1995

A public domain edition of Shakespeare for #1500-1548

Aug 1997 La Divina Commedia di Dante in Italian, 8-bit text[0ddc8xxx.xxx]1012
Aug 1997 Divina Commedia di Dante: Paradiso   [8-bit text] [3ddc8xxx.xxx]1011
Aug 1997 Divina Commedia di Dante: Purgatorio [8-bit text] [2ddc8xxx.xxx]1010
Aug 1997 Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno    [8-bit text] [1ddc8xxx.xxx]1009
Aug 1997 H. F. Cary's Translation of Dante, Entire Comedy  [0ddccxxx.xxx]1008
Aug 1997 H. F. Cary's Translation of Dante, Paradise       [3ddccxxx.xxx]1007
Aug 1997 H. F. Cary's Translation of Dante, Puragorty      [2ddccxxx.xxx]1006
Aug 1997 H. F. Cary's Translation of Dante, Hell           [1ddccxxx.xxx]1005
Aug 1997 Longfellow's Translation of Dante, Entire Comedy  [0ddclxxx.xxx]1004
Aug 1997 Longfellow's Translation of Dante  Paradise       [3ddclxxx.xxx]1003
Aug 1997 Longfellow's Translation of Dante, Purgatory      [2ddclxxx.xxx]1002
Aug 1997 Longfellow's Translation of Dante, Inferno        [1ddclxxx.xxx]1001
Aug 1997 La Divina Commedia di Dante in Italian, 7-bit text[0ddcdxxx.xxx]1000
Aug 1997 Divina Commedia di Dante: Paradiso, 7-bit Italian [3ddcdxxx.xxx] 999
Aug 1997 Divina Commedia di Dante: Purgatorio 7-bit Italian[2ddcdxxx.xxx] 998
Aug 1997 Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno, 7-bit Italian  [1ddcdxxx.xxx] 997

Dec 1996 The High History of the Holy Graal, Author Unknown[hhohgxxx.xxx] 750

Apr 1996 The Story of Doctor Dolittle, by Hugh Lofting     [dolitxxx.xxx] 501
Apr 1996 Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi/Lorenzini[pnocoxxx.xxx] 500
Apr 1996 Tom Swift / Land of Wonders, by Victor Appleton   [tom20xxx.xxx] 499
Apr 1996 Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm, by Kate Douglas Wiggin[snybkxxx.xxx] 498

and

Jan 1994 Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne[Verne2][80day10x.xxx] 103
Jan 1994 Pudd'n'head Wilson by Mark Twain [Twain #7]       [puddn10x.xxx] 102
Jan 1994 Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling                [hack10xx.xxx] 101C
Jan 1994 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [LOF]   [shaks10x.xxx] 100C
Jan 1994 Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass, a Slave [dugl210x.xxx]  99
Jan 1994 A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens [CD#1]   [2city10x.xxx]  98
Jan 1994 Flatland, by Edwin A. Abbott [Math in Fiction]    [flat10xx.xxx]  97
Jan 1994 The Monster Men, by Edgar Rice Burroughs          [monst10x.xxx]  96


So. . .if you have anything in mind, perhaps even not in English, we would
LOVE to hear from you.



Requests For Assistance


I am typing in the book "Defenders of Democracy" which is a collection of
letters written around the time of the US entrance into WWI.  These
letters are from heads of state, literature figures, etc. encouraging the
woman at home in the US to support their husbands, brothers, and sons who
are going to war in Europe.  Several of the letters are in French and an
English translation is also printed.  I have typed in two of the French
letters with their English translations, but the French letters need
proofing.  Please contact me at bfish@atlantech.net if you can perform
this type of proof reading and I'll send you the completed letters for
proofing and additional letters as I get to them in the book.  THANKS!
Brett Fishburne <Brett.Fishburne@fema.gov>

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Adrienne Forbes is a Mac user who would appreciate advice on preparing,
compressing and sending plain text files that can be read by most hardware
/software combinations.  She will be grateful for help from any Mac user
who can spare the time.  If you can help, please write to her at:
<dandaforbes@netmatters.co.uk>

***

Judy Boss has superscanner and Britannica for potential shipping to you
if you are in the US and would like to get into some VERY serious scanning.
Judith Boss <jeboss@home.com>

***

Also, is it still true that Canada has a life + 50 years copyright law?
If so, is there anyone who might like to post some Sabatini novels that
are not yet public domain in the states?  Sabatini died in 1950.
I will relay your email to one of our anonymous volunteers.

***

Software developer Bob Zwick would like to make reading
eText to be an enjoyable experience for everyone.
eBookIt automatically turns small or huge plain text documents
into documents that have resizable characters and audio, video
and Palm sync capabilities.  Broken into small easy to read pages
that can be bookmarked to hold your place.  Chunks that are small
enough to load chapter by chapter or page by page to any PalmOS
device to read anywhere.

eBookIt is a FREE windows based program that can be downloaded at:
http://www.cottagemicro.com/ebooks/

***

I can send the etext of The Sky Pilot,
by Ralph Connor, to anyone with a copy
of the book that has a clearable edition.
Don Lainson <charlie@idirect.com>



Comments About Our New Files

We have posted our first three Etexts in Flemish!

This month we have approximately 2/3 of the October, 2001 Etexts done,
along with about 50% of the November, 2001 Etexts, and we completed an
extraordinary set of works by Alexandre Dumas that was reserved on the
schedule for August, 2001, as well as a few other Etexts we worked for
several months on, including the Dumas collection listed below.

We have 8 Galsworthy titles, and 19 T. H. Huxley titles for November.
for a total of 27 November, 2001 Etexts, and about 33 October Etexts.
Thus we have hopefully exceeded our goal of 50 at this time.  While I
am writing this I am also posting these books. . .so it is kind of an
interesting race as to how many books I can post before I get totally
exhausted. . .this is also the reason I sometimes make silly mistakes
while writing the last few parts of the Newsletter. . . .     ;-)

I am also hoping to [officially] squeeze in 10 extra Etext into those
November, 2001 listings, before I leave on my speaking tour, so #3000
can be announced while I am giving my speech in Hawaii.


Comments About Our Improved Files

We always need more proofers for the files we posted some time ago,
in this case especially for The Count of Monte Cristo.


Index Listings for Improved Files

Rereleases:  [These are always version 11, except where otherwise indicated]:

Mon Year    Title and Author                               [filename.ext]####
*****A "C" Following a Project Gutenberg Etext Number Indicates Copyright****

Apr 1997 The Golden Sayings of Epictetus                   [epictxxx.xxx] 871
Feb 1999 The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas A Kempis       [mcrstxxx.xxx]1653
Jan 1998 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas[Pere][crstoxxx.xxx]1184
[We need more proofers on this, especially for the first 60 chapters.]


We have released version 10 of the following which were previously reserved:

May 2001 Du Cote de Chez Swann, Marcel Proust   [Proust #1][swannxxx.xxx]2650
[We are releasing this as both swann10.txt, swann10h.htm and their zip files]
[This of Volume One of Proust's "A La Recherche du Temps Perdu"]


We have also completed this Dumas collection reserved for August, 2001

Mon Year    Title and Author                               [filename.ext]####
*****A "C" Following a Project Gutenberg Etext Number Indicates Copyright****

Aug 2001 Reserved for Dumas Commentaries                   [     xxx.xxx]2760*
Aug 2001 The Man in the Iron Mask[The Novel]Dumas, Pere #28[ironmxxx.xxx]2759
[Full name:  Alexandre Dumas, Pere]
[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**

Aug 2001 Marquise de Ganges, by Alexander Dumas, Pere[# 27][gangexxx.xxx]2758
Aug 2001 Vaninka, by Alexander Dumas, Pere [Dumas, Pere 26][vaninxxx.xxx]2757
Aug 2001 Marquise Brinvillier, by Alexander[Dumas, Pere 25][brinvxxx.xxx]2756
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Aug 2001 Murat, by Alexander Dumas, Pere  [Dumas, Pere #24][muratxxx.xxx]2755
Aug 2001 Countess St. Geran, by Alexander Dumas, Pere [#23][geranxxx.xxx]2754
Aug 2001 Countess de Saint-Geran, by Alexander Dumas  [#23][geranxxx.xxx]2754
[Alternate spelling of title]
Aug 2001 Ali Pacha, by Alexander Dumas, Pere[Dumas Pere 22][alpacxxx.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]
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Aug 2001 Joan of Naples, by Alexander Dumas, Pere     [#19][jonapxxx.xxx]2750
Aug 2001 La Constantin, by Alexander Dumas, Pere      [#18][cnstnxxx.xxx]2749
Aug 2001 Derues, by Alexander Dumas, Pere             [#17][derusxxx.xxx]2748
Aug 2001 Nisida, by Alexander Dumas                   [#16][nisidxxx.xxx]2747
Aug 2001 Urbain Grandier, by Alexander Dumas, Pere    [#15][ugranxxx.xxx]2746
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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[cencixxx.xxx]2742
Aug 2001 The Borgias, by Alexander Dumas, Pere [Dumas, #10][gorgsxxx.xxx]2741


And now here are Etexts for November, 2001 and October, 2001:

The following 19 Etexts are a series of essays by Thomas Henry Huxley,
who's son, Leonard Huxley, was father of Julian Sorell Huxley (1887-1975),
winner of the Newdigate Prize for poetry 1908, biologist, and was first
director-general of UNESCO and a founder of the World Wildlife Fund
for Nature.  Julian was also father of, Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963)
author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception [from whom the band
The Doors took their name]. . .and also father of: Andrew Fielding Huxley
(1917-) half-brother of Julian and Aldous, Nobel Laureate 1963 in Medicine,
co-founder of modern biophysics of excitable tissue.


Mon Year    Title and Author                               [filename.ext]####
*****A "C" Following a Project Gutenberg Etext Number Indicates Copyright****

Nov 2001 The Circulation of the Blood, by T. H. Huxley[#29][thx19xxx.xxx]2939
[Full name: William Harvey and the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood]
Nov 2001 Yeast, Thomas Henry Huxley[Thomas Henry Huxley#28][thx18xxx.xxx]2938
Nov 2001 Coral and Coral Reefs, by T. H. Huxley       [#27][thx17xxx.xxx]2937
Nov 2001 Geological Contemporaneity, by T. H. Huxley  [#26][thx16xxx.xxx]2936
[Full title:  Geological Contemporaniety and Persistent Types of Life]
45
Nov 2001 On the Study of Zoology, by T. H. Huxley [THH #25][thx15xxx.xxx]2935
Nov 2001 Improving Natural Knowledge, by T. H. Huxley [#24][thx14xxx.xxx]2934
[On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge]
Nov 2001 On Some Fossil Remains of Man by T. H. Huxley[#23][thx13xxx.xxx]2933
Nov 2001 Relations of Man to Lower Animals, T H Huxley[#22][thx12xxx.xxx]2932
[Full title:  On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals]
Nov 2001 Man's Place in Nature, by Thomas Henry Huxley[#21][thx11xxx.xxx]2931
[Full title:  Evidence as to Man's Place In Nature]
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Nov 2001 Criticisms on Origin of Species, T.H. Huxley [#20][thx10xxx.xxx]2930
Nov 2001 The Origin of Species, by Thomas Henry Huxley[#19][thx09xxx.xxx]2929
Also see:
Dec 1999 Origin of Species, 6th Ed., by Charles Darwin [#5][otoos610.xxx]2009
Mar 1998 On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin   [#3][otoosxxx.xxx]1228
[Indexers take note:  filename was misspelled in some listings as otoof10.* ]

Nov 2001 Time and Life, by Thomas Henry Huxley    [THH #18][thx08xxx.xxx]2928
Nov 2001 The Darwinian Hypothesis, by Thomas H. Huxley[#17][thx07xxx.xxx]2927
Nov 2001 Examination of Origin of Species by TH Huxley[#16][thx06xxx.xxx]2926
  [A Critical Examination of the Position of Mr. Darwin's Work,
  "On the Origin of Species," In Relation to the Complete
  Theory of the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature]
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Nov 2001 The Conditions of Existence, by T. H. Huxley [#15][thx05xxx.xxx]2925
[The Conditions of Existence as Affecting the Perpetuation of Living Beings]
Nov 2001 The Perpetuation of Living Beings, by Huxley [#14][thx04xxx.xxx]2924
[The Perpetuation of Living Beings, Hereditary Transmission and Variation]
Nov 2001 The Origination of Living Beings, by T Huxley[#13][thx03xxx.xxx]2923
[The Method by which the Causes of the Present and Past Conditions of
Organic Nature Are to Be Discovered.--The Origination of LIving Beings
Nov 2001 Past Condition of Organic Nature, T. H. Huxley #12[thx02xxx.xxx]2922
[Full title: The Past Condition of Organic Nature, by Thomas Henry Huxley]
Nov 2001 Present Condition of Organic Nature, TH Huxley #11[thx01xxx.xxx]2921
[Full title: The Present Condition of Organic Nature, by Thomas Henry Huxley]


We have reserved a block of 20 Etexts for the following by John Galsworthy:
[The ones with an * have not yet been posted]

Nov 2001 Four Short Plays, by John Galsworthy      [JG #33][shplyxxx.xxx]2920*
Nov 2001 The Little Man, by John Galsworthy           [#32][ltmanxxx.xxx]2919*
Nov 2001 The First and Last, by John Galsworthy    [JG #31][flastxxx.xxx]2918*
Nov 2001 The Skin Game , by John Galsworthy[Galsworthy #30][skgamxxx.xxx]2917*
Nov 2001 The Foundations, by John Galsworthy       [JG #29][fndatxxx.xxx]2916*
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Nov 2001 A Bit O' Love, by John Galsworthy [Galsworthy #28][bolovxxx.xxx]2915*
Nov 2001 The Mob , by John Galsworthy  [John Galsworthy#27][glmobxxx.xxx]2914*
Nov 2001 The Pigeon, by John Galsworthy     [Galsworthy#26][pigonxxx.xxx]2913*
Nov 2001 The Fugitive, by John Galsworthy   [Galsworthy#25][fugtvxxx.xxx]2912*
Nov 2001 Justice, by John Galsworthy  [John Galsworthy #24][justcxxx.xxx]2911*
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Nov 2001 The Little Dream, by John Galsworthy      [JG #23][ldremxxx.xxx]2910*
Nov 2001 The Eldest Son, by John Galsworthy[Galsworthy #22][eldsnxxx.xxx]2909*
Nov 2001 Strife, by John Galsworthy   [John Galsworthy #21][strifxxx.xxx]2908
Nov 2001 Joy, by John Galsworthy      [John Galsworthy #20][gljoyxxx.xxx]2907
Nov 2001 The Silver Box , by John Galsworthy       [JG #19][silbxxxx.xxx]2906
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Nov 2001 The Burning Spear, by John Galsworthy     [JG #18][bsperxxx.xxx]2905
Nov 2001 Quality and Others, by John Galsworthy    [JG #17][qualtxxx.xxx]2904
Nov 2001 Inn of Tranquility et al, by John Galsworthy [#16][inntrxxx.xxx]2903
Contains:
INN OF TRANQUILITY
MAGPIE OVER THE HILL
SHEEP-SHEARING
EVOLUTION
RIDING IN THE MIST
THE PROCESSION
A CHRISTIAN
WIND IN THE ROCKS
MY DISTANT RELATIVE
THE BLACK GODMOTHER

Nov 2001 Concerning Letters, by John Galsworthy    [JG #15][cnlet10x.xxx]2902
Nov 2001 Censorship and Art, by John Galsworthy    [JG #14][cnart10x.xxx]2901

Those from 2874 to 2900 have not been reserved or posted yet.!!!


Oct 2001 The Prehistoric World, by E. A. Allen             [prehwxxx.xxx]2873
[Full title: The Prehistoric World: or, Vanished Races, by E. A. Allen]
[Released as prehw10.txt and prehw10.zip (plain text version),
also prehw10h.zip (HTML version with an extensive set of images).]

Oct 2001 Animals and Plants under Domestication V 2, Darwin[2vapdxxx.xxx]2872*
[Volume 1 is posted now, Volume 2 should be posted in a few weeks]
Oct 2001 Animals and Plants under Domestication V 1, Darwin[1vapdxxx.xxx]2871
[Full Title:  The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication]
[Author's full name:  Charles Darwin]

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Oct 2001 Washington Square, by Henry James[Henry James #40][wassqxxx.xxx]2870
Oct 2001 The Point of View, by Henry James[Henry James #39][pntvwxxx.xxx]2869
Oct 2001   *** Was A Large Volume of Huxley. . .           [     xxx.xxx]2868
is now in the Huxley set just posted for Nov, 2001. . .and wiill be replaced.
Oct 2001 A Sappho Of Green Springs, by Bret Harte  [BH #48][asogsxxx.xxx]2867
Contains:
A SAPPHO OF GREEN SPRINGS
THE CHATELAINE OF BURNT RIDGE
THE SANTA CLARA WHEAT
A MAECENAS OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE

Oct 2001 Windsor Castle, by William Harrison Ainsworth     [wndsrxxx.xxx]2866
was originally planned to be:
May 2001 Windsor Castle, by William Harrison Ainsworth     [wndsrxxx.xxx]2611
but somehow never made it into the Newsletter.
My apologies.

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Oct 2001 Otto of the Silver Hand, by Howard Pyle  [Pyle #4][ottosxxx.xxx]2865
Oct 2001 The Trumpet-Major, by Thomas Hardy[Thos Hardy #10][trpmjxxx.xxx]2864
Oct 2001 Satires of Circumstance etc. by Thomas Hardy[TH#9][satcrxxx.xxx]2863
[Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous Pieces]
Oct 2001 The Twins of Table Mountain, by Bret Harte[BH #47][ttotmxxx.xxx]2862
Oct 2001 The Sleuth of St. James Street, by M. D. Post     [sosjsxxx.xxx]2861
[Author's full name:  Melville Davisson Post]
polly
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Oct 2001 Framley Parsonage, by Anthony Trollope[Trollope#8][frmlyxxx.xxx]2860
Oct 2001 A Little Dinner at Timmins's, by Thackeray   [#26][aldatxxx.xxx]2859
[Author's full name:  William Makepeace Thackeray]
Oct 2001 Cressy, by Bret Harte             [Bret Harte #46][crssyxxx.xxx]2858
Oct 2001 The Yellow God, by H. Rider Haggard  [Haggard #27][ylwgdxxx.xxx]2857
Oct 2001 An Idol of Africa, by H. Rider Haggard   [HRH #27][ylwgdxxx.xxx]2857
[Alternate titles]
Oct 2001 Moon of Israel, by H. Rider Haggard  [Haggard #26][mnsrlxxx.xxx]2856
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Oct 2001 Elissa, by H. Rider Haggard [H. Rider Haggard #25][lissaxxx.xxx]2855
Oct 2001 Sir Francis Drake Revived, Philip Nichols, Editor [fdrvvxxx.xxx]2854
Oct 2001 Quo Vadis, The Time of Nero, by Henryk Sienkiewicz[quvdsxxx.xxx]2853
[Full Title:  Quo Vadis, A Narrative of the Time of Nero]
Oct 2001 The Hound of the Baskervilles by A. Conan Doyle 25[bskrvxxx.xxx]2852
Oct 2001 Sixes and Sevens, by O Henry    [O Henry #11]     [6sn7sxxx.xxx]2851
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Oct 2001 The Wars of The Jews, by Flavius Josephus         [warjexxx.xxx]2850
["The Wars of The Jews or the History of the Destruction of Jerusalem"]
Oct 2001 Against Apion, by Flavius Josephus[Tr. Wm. Whiston[agaapxxx.xxx]2849
Oct 2001 The Antiquities of the Jews, by Flavius Josephus  [taofjxxx.xxx]2848
Oct 2001 Josephus' Discourse to the Greeks Concerning Hades[hadesxxx.xxx]2847
["An Extract out of Josephus's Discourse to The Greeks Concerning Hades"]
Oct 2001 The Life of Flavius Josephus, Tr. by Wm. Whiston  [lfjosxxx.xxx]2846
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Oct 2001 Sir Nigel, by Arthur Conan Doyle [A. C. Doyle #24][nigelxxx.xxx]2845
Oct 2001 Fatal Boots, by William Makepeace Thackeray  [#25][fbootxxx.xxx]2844
Oct 2001 Little Travels and Roadside Sketches, by Thackeray[ltarsxxx.xxx]2843
Oct 2001 Black Heart and White Heart, by H. R. Haggard[#24][bwhrtxxx.xxx]2842
Oct 2001 The Ivory Child, by H. Rider Haggard [Haggard #23][ivoryxxx.xxx]2841



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Sep 2001 De Franse Pers, Heinrich Heine    [#3, in Flemish][fpersxxx.xxx]2840
Sep 2001 Franse Toestanden, Heinrich Heine [#2, in Flemish][ftoesxxx.xxx]2839
Sep 2001 De Beurs lacht, Heinrich Heine    [#1, in Flemish][fbeurxxx.xxx]2838

Sep 2001 Lendas do Sul, by J. Somoes Lopes Netto           [lendaxxx.xxx]2837
[Our First Etext in Portuguese!]
Luiz Antonio Gusmao <luizgusmao@bol.com.br>
Sep 2001 Abraham Lincoln and the Union, Nath'l W Stephenson[alatuxxx.xxx]2836
[Author's full name:  Nathaniel W. Stephenson]

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Sep 2001 The Canadian Dominion, by Oscar D. Skelton        [cndndxxx.xxx]2835
Sep 2001 The Portrait of a Lady, Vol 2, by Henry James[#37][2pldyxxx.xxx]2834
Sep 2001 The Portrait of a Lady, Vol 1, by Henry James[#36][1pldyxxx.xxx]2833
Sep 2001 Myth, Ritual, and Religion, V1, by Andrew Lang #28[1mrarxxx.xxx]2832



***


Notes from Edupage and Newsscan


BOEING PLANS IN-FLIGHT INTERNET SERVICES
Hoping to get a head start on its rivals, aircraft giant Boeing is
planning, to roll out an in-flight Internet and entertainment service to
air travelers by next year. The Connexion by Boeing service will be
delivered through a high-speed satellite wireless network that uses
specialized, phased array antennas to transmit data to laptop-toting
passengers who will pay $17.50 an hour for the privilege. Download rates
will be about 5 megabits per second, with upload speeds of 1.5 mps, or
about as fast as a T-1 line. Boeing is negotiating with various cable
channels, such as CNN, ESPN, Eurosport and Euronews, to fill the four
television channels that will be available on the system. "Trying to make
the time on the airplane more productive is really a tremendous feature
that will dramatically change the way people travel," says Boeing's P of
commercial information systems. (Los Angeles Times 28 Aug 2000)
http://www.latimes.com/business/20000828/t000080716.html

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IN U.S., DIGITAL HAVES OUTNUMBER HAVE-NOTS
The Internet continues to integrate itself into the day-to-day
routines of Americans, according to the results of a random
telephone survey of 65,000 Internet users by Nielsen NetRatings.
U.S. home Internet penetration reached 52 percent in July--the
first time more than half of all Americans had home Web access.
Home access rates jumped 35 percent from July 1999 to July of
this year, from 106.3 million home users to 144 million users.
Likewise, the time Internet users spend online is going up.  The
average Internet user spent 9 hours 41 minutes online this July
compared with 7 hours and 39 minutes last July, an increase
of 26 percent.  Internet users are also looking at fewer Web
sites, meaning that larger sites are successfully leveraging
their brand to hold users' attention.  Cheaper Web access is
enabling Americans to go online in ever-increasing numbers, says
NetRatings' Sean Kaldor. (Washington Post, August 24 2000)

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