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RESERVED/PENDING count: 44 =-=-=-=[ CORRECTIONS, REVISIONS AND NEW FORMATS ]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= :: During the past week the following ebooks were manually updated and reposted with the indicated filenames and transferred into the corresponding new directories: Put Yourself in His Place, by Charles Reade 2497 [Updated edition of: etext01/pyihp10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/4/9/2497 ] [Files: 2497.txt; 2497-h.htm] Susy, A Story of the Plains, by Bret Harte 2495 [Updated edition of: etext01/susy10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/4/9/2495 ] [Files: 2495.txt; 2495-h.htm] Mary-'Gusta, by Joseph C. Lincoln 2473 [Updated edition of: etext01/mrygt10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/4/7/2473 ] [Files: 2473.txt; 2473-h.htm] White Lies, by Charles Reade 2472 [Updated edition of: etext01/whtls10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/4/7/2472 ] [Files: 2472.txt; 2472-h.htm] The Crusade of the Excelsior, by Bret Harte 2471 [Updated edition of: etext01/tcote10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/4/7/2471 ] [Files: 2471.txt; 2471-h.htm] Trent's Trust and Other Stories, by Bret Harte 2459 [Contents:] [Trent's Trust] [Mr. Macglowrie's Widow] [A Ward Of Colonel Starbottle] [Prosper's "Old Mother"] [The Convalescence Of Jack Hamlin] [A Pupil Of Chestnut Ridge] [Dick Boyle's Business Card] [Updated edition of: etext01/ttaos10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/4/5/2459 ] [Files: 2459.txt; 2459-h.htm] The Woman-Haters, by Joseph C. Lincoln 2372 [Updated edition of: etext00/wmnhr10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/7/2372 ] [Files: 2372.txt; 2372-h.htm] In the Carquinez Woods, by Bret Harte 2310 [Updated edition of: etext00/crqnz10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/1/2310 ] [Files: 2310.txt; 2310-h.htm] The Depot Master, by Joseph C. Lincoln 2307 [Updated edition of: etext00/dpmst10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/0/2307 ] [Files: 2307.txt; 2307-h.htm] A Simpleton, by Charles Reade 2301 [Updated edition of: etext00/smptn10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/0/2301 ] [Files: 2301.txt; 2301-h.htm] Snow-Bound at Eagle's, by Bret Harte 2297 [Updated edition of: etext00/sbdae10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/9/2297 ] [Files: 2297.txt; 2297-h.htm] Devil's Ford, by Bret Harte 2286 [Updated edition of: etext00/dvlfd10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/8/2286 ] [Files: 2286.txt; 2286-h.htm] A Waif of the Plains, by Bret Harte 2279 [Updated edition of: etext00/awotp10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/7/2279 ] [Files: 2279.txt; 2279-h.htm] Michael, by E. F. Benson 2072 [Updated edition of: etext00/mikel10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/7/2072 ] [Files: 2072.txt; 2072-h.htm] Keziah Coffin, by Joseph C. Lincoln 2068 [Updated edition of: etext00/kziac10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/2068 ] [Files: 2068.txt; 2068-h.htm] Beasts, Men and Gods, by Ferdinand Ossendowski 2067 [Translator: Lewis Stanton Palen] [Updated edition of: etext00/bmgds10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/2067 ] [Files: 2067.txt; 2067-h.htm] The Yellow Claw, by Sax Rohmer 2028 [Updated edition of: etext00/yclaw10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/2/2028 ] [Files: 2028.txt; 2028-h.htm] The Coming Conquest of England, by August Niemann 2026 [Translator: J. H. Freese] [Updated edition of: etext00/tccoe10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/2/2026 ] [Files: 2026.txt; 2026-h.htm] Westward Ho!, by Charles Kingsley 1860 [Updated edition of: etext99/wstho10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/1860 ] [Files: 1860.txt; 1860-h.htm] Old Christmas, by Washington Irving 1850 [Updated edition of: etext99/oxmas10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/1850 ] [Files: 1850.txt; 1850-h.htm] Montezuma's Daughter, by H. Rider Haggard 1848 [Updated edition of: etext99/mzdtr10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/1848 ] [Files: 1848.txt; 1848-h.htm] Mae Madden, by Mary Murdoch Mason 1829 [Updated edition of: etext99/mmmmm10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/2/1829 ] [Files: 1829.txt; 1829-h.htm] Peace Manoeuvres, by Richard Harding Davis 1824 [Updated edition of: etext99/pcmnv10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/2/1824 ] [Files: 1824.txt; 1824-h.htm] The Amateur, by Richard Harding Davis 1822 [Updated edition of: etext99/thmtr10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/2/1822 ] [Files: 1822.txt; 1822-h.htm] A Charmed Life, by Richard Harding Davis 1821 [Updated edition of: etext99/chmlf10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/2/1821 ] [Files: 1821.txt; 1821-h.htm] A Wasted Day, by Richard Harding Davis 1820 [Updated edition of: etext99/wstdy10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/2/1820 ] [Files: 1820.txt; 1820-h.htm] The Messengers, by Richard Harding Davis 1819 [Updated edition of: etext99/msgrs10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/1/1819 ] [Files: 1819.txt; 1819-h.htm] The Spy, by Richard Harding Davis 1818 [Updated edition of: etext99/thspy10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/1/1818 ] [Files: 1818.txt; 1818-h.htm] A Question of Latitude, by Richard Harding Davis 1817 [Updated edition of: etext99/qlttd10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/1/1817 ] [Files: 1817.txt; 1817-h.htm] Life of Johnson, by James Boswell 1564 [Subtitle: Abridged and Edited] [Editor and Intro.: Charles Grosvenor Osgood] [Updated edition of: etext98/ljnsn10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/6/1564 ] [Files: 1564.txt; 1564-h.htm] Little Rivers, by Henry van Dyke 1562 [Subtitle: A Book Of Essays In Profitable Idleness] [Contents:] [Little Rivers] [A Leaf Of Spearmint] [Ampersand] [A Handful Of Heather] [The Ristigouche From A Horse-Yacht] [Alpenrosen And Goat's Milk] [Au Large] [Trout-Fishing In The Traun] [At The Sign Of The Balsam Bough] [A Song After Sundown] [Updated edition of: etext98/ltrvs10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/6/1562 ] [Files: 1562.txt; 1562-h.htm] :: Please note the following additional changes, corrections, improvements: Correct auhtor's name (Ewell, not Newell): The Harvest of Years, by Martha Lewis Beckwith Ewell 18332 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/3/18332 ] [Files: 18332.txt; 18332-8.txt; 18332-h.htm] Correct author's name (not Kleiser Grenville): The Training of a Public Speaker, by Grenville Kleiser 18277 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/2/7/18277 ] [Files: 18277.txt; 18277-8.txt; 18277-h.htm] -=-=-=-=[ 45 NEW U.S. EBOOKS ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The Land of Promise, by D. Torbett 18410 [This is a novelization of W. Somerset Maugham's Play.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/1/18410 ] [Files: 18410.txt; 18410-8.txt; 18410-h.htm; ] By the Roadside, by Katherine M. Yates 18409 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/0/18409 ] [Files: 18409.txt; 18409-h.htm; ] American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910, by Clarke 18408 [Full title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers,] [vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910] [Full author: George C. Clarke] [Subtitle: The Site of the Terminal Station. Paper No. 1157] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/0/18408 ] [Files: 18408.txt; 18408-8.txt; 18408-h.htm] En chine, by Judith Gautier 18407 [Subtitle: Merveilleuses histoires] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/0/18407 ] [Files: 18407-8.txt; 18407-0.txt; 18407-h.htm] Maroessia, by Mrs. Mariya Oleksandrivna Vilinska 18406 [Subtitle: De Ukraineesche Jeanne D'Arc] [Editor: P.J. Stahl] [Illustrator: Th. Schuler] [Translator: A.C. Slop] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/0/18406 ] [Files: 18406-8.txt; 18406-h.htm] Great Sea Stories, by Various 18405 [Editor: Joseph Lewis French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/0/18405 ] [Files: 18405.txt; 18405-8.txt; 18405-h.htm] Le gibet, by mile Chevalier 18404 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/0/18404 ] [Files: 18404-8.txt] La fille du pirate, by mile Chevalier 18403 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/0/18403 ] [Files: 18403-8.txt] La San-Felice, Tome III, by Alexandre Dumas 18402 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/0/18402 ] [Files: 18402-8.txt; 18402-h.htm] La San-Felice, Tome II, by Alexandre Dumas 18401 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/0/18401 ] [Files: 18401-8.txt; 18401-h.htm] The Shipwreck, by Joseph Spillman 18399 [Subtitle: A Story for the Young] [Tr.: Mary Richards Gray] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/9/18399 ] [Files: 18399.txt; ] Diary Written in the Provincial Lunatic Asylum,by Mary Huestis Pengilly 18398 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/9/18398 ] [Files: 18398.txt; 18398-h.htm] Socialism and Modern Science (Darwin, Spencer, Marx), by Enrico Ferri 18397 [Translator: Robert La Monte] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/9/18397 ] [Files: 18397.txt; 18397-8.txt; 18397-h.htm] The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I, by Various 18396 [Subtitle: The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] [Ed.: Charles Rogers] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/9/18396 ] [Files: 18396.txt; 18396-8.txt; 18396-0.txt; 18396-h.htm] The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886, by Various 18395 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/9/18395 ] [Files: 18395.txt; 18395-8.txt; 18395-h.htm] Cheerfulness as a Life Power, by Orison Swett Marden 18394 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/9/18394 ] [Files: 18394.txt; 18394-8.txt; 18394-h.htm] Haapakoskelaiset, by Jac. Ahrenberg 18393 [Subtitle: Romaani Ita-Suomesta] [Translator: Aatto S.] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/9/18393 ] [Files: 18393-8.txt] Thoughts I Met on the Highway, by Ralph Waldo Trine 18392 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/9/18392 ] [Files: 18392.txt; 18392-h.htm] The Moravians in Labrador, by Anonymous 18391 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/9/18391 ] [Files: 18391.txt; 18391-8.txt; 18391-h.htm; ] Letters from France, by C. E. W. Bean 18390 [Author AKA: Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean (1879-1968)] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/9/18390 ] [Files: 18390.txt; 18390-8.txt; 18390-h.htm; ] Thuringen, by Anoymous 18389 [Subtitle: De Aarde en haar Volken, 1873] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/8/18389 ] [Files: 18389-8.txt; 18389-h.htm] Robert Burns, by William Allan Neilson 18388 [Subtitle: How To Know Him] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/8/18388 ] [Files: 18388.txt; 18388-8.txt; 18388-h.htm] The Days of Bruce, Vol 1, by Grace Aguilar 18387 [Subtitle: A Story from Scottish History] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/8/18387 ] [Files: 18387.txt; 18387-8.txt; 18387-h.htm] Masakim, by Andres Pascual 18386 [Language: Tagalog] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/8/18386 ] [Files: 18386-8.txt; 18386-h.htm] Vera Nevill, by Mrs. H. Lovett Cameron 18385 [Subtitle: Poor Wisdom's Chance] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/8/18385 ] [Files: 18385.txt; 18385-8.txt; 18385-h.htm] Studies in Early Victorian Literature, by Frederic Harrison 18384 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/8/18384 ] [Files: 18384.txt; 18384-8.txt; ] Anecdotes of Painters and Others, by S. Spooner 18383 [Full title: Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects] [and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3)] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/8/18383 ] [Files: 18383.txt; 18383-8.txt; 18383-h.htm] Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, Vol. 17 New Series, No. 433, Apr 17, 1852 18382 [Editor: Robert Chambers and William Chambers] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/8/18382 ] [Files: 18382.txt; 18382-8.txt; 18382-h.htm] De Lotgevallen van Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain 18381 [Illustrator: Johan Braakensiek] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/8/18381 ] [Files: 18381-8.txt; 18381-h.htm] The War After the War, by Isaac Frederick Marcosson 18380 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/8/18380 ] [Files: 18380.txt; 18380-8.txt; 18380-h.htm] Abraham Lincoln, by Lord Charnwood 18379 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/7/18379 ] [Files: 18379.txt; 18379-8.txt] Catholic Problems in Western Canada, by George Thomas Daly 18378 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/7/18378 ] [Files: 18378.txt; 18378-8.txt] The Arian Controversy, by H. M. Gwatkin 18377 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/7/18377 ] [Files: 18377.txt; 18377-8.txt; 18377-h.htm] A Lecture on the Preservation of Health, by Thomas Garnett, M.D 18376 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/7/18376 ] [Files: 18376.txt] The Argosy, Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891, ed. by Charles W. Woods 18375 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/7/18375 ] [Files: 18375.txt; 18375-8.txt; 18375-h.htm] The Argosy, Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891, ed. by Charles W. Woods 18374 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/7/18374 ] [Files: 18374.txt; 18374-8.txt; 18374-h.htm] The Argosy, Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891, ed. by Charles W. Woods 18373 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/7/18373 ] [Files: 18373.txt; 18373-8.txt; 18373-h.htm] The Argosy, Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891, ed. by Charles W. Woods 18372 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/7/18372 ] [Files: 18372.txt; 18372-8.txt; 18372-h.htm] Giotto and his works in Padua, by John Ruskin 18371 [Subtitle: An Explanatory Notice of the Series of Woodcuts Executed for the Arundel Society After the Frescoes in the Arena Chapel] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/7/18371 ] [Files: 18371.txt; 18371-8.txt; 18371-h.htm] Manhood Perfectly Restored, by Unknown 18370 [Subtitle: Prof. Jean Civiale's Soluble Urethral Crayons as a Quick, Painless, and Certain Cure for Impotence, Etc.] [Contributor: Civiale Remedial Agency] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/7/18370 ] [Files: 18370.txt; 18370-8.txt; 18370-h.htm] Westminster Sermons, by Charles Kingsley 18369 [Subtitle: with a Preface] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/6/18369 ] [Files: 18369.txt; 18369-h.htm] Contes, Tome II, by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy 18368 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/6/18368 ] [Files: 18368-8.txt; 18368-h.htm] Contes, Tome I, by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy 18367 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/6/18367 ] [Files: 18367-8.txt; 18367-h.htm] The Challenge of the North, by James Hendryx 18366 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/6/18366 ] [Files: 18366.txt] Az arany szalamandra, by Ferenc Donszy 18365 [Language: Hungarian] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/6/18365 ] [Files: 18365-8.txt; 18365-0.txt; 18365-h.htm] Heldensagen en Legenden van de Serviers, by Woislav M. Petrovitch 18363 [Commentator: Chedo Miyatovich] [Illustrator: William Sewell and Gilbert James] [Translator: J.P. Wesselink-Van Rossum] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/6/18363 ] [Files: 18363-8.txt; 18363-h.htm] -=-=-=-=[ 5 NEW EBOOKS AT PROJECT GUTENBERG OF AUSTRALIA ]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= May 2006 An Historical Collection, by Alexander Dalrymple [060062xx.xxx] 0580A http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600621h.html ] [Title: An Historical Collection of the Several Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean] May 2006 A Chronological History of Voyages,by James Burney[060061xx.xxx] 0579A [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600611.txt or .zip] [and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600611h.html ] [Title: A Chronological History of the Voyages and Discoveries in the South Sea] May 2006 Doomsday, by Warwick Deeping [060060xx.xxx] 0578A [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600601.txt or .zip] [and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600601h.html ] May 2006 Skeleton Men of Jupiter, by Edgar Rice Burroughs [060059xx.xxx] 0577A [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600591.txt or .zip] May 2006 John Carter and the Giant of Mars,by E R Burroughs[060058xx.xxx] 0576A [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600581.txt or .zip] [Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs] eBooks are posted in uncompressed and/or compressed formats. 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