The following is a list of recently released ebooks from various Gutenberg projects, including Project Gutenberg US, PG Australia, Faded Page, and Standard Ebooks.
The Foreign Trade of Canada gives an overview of the foreign trade situation in the early part of the 20th century. Originally written in French, it was translated by Harold Adams Innis (1894-1952) and Alexander Hume Smith (1881-1947). The preface is written by Stephen Leacock (1869-1944).
Bishop Augustine of Hippo provides a defense of the Christian faith against its pagan critics, as well as explaining God’s work and purposes in world history, from beginning to end.
Bourget’s most important novel, Le Disciple (1889), heralded a marked change in his intellectual position. Prefaced by an appeal to youth to abide by traditional morality rather than modern scientific theory, the novel portrays the pernicious influence of a highly respected positivist philosopher and teacher on a young man. (...) Applying the philosopher’s teachings to life, the young man plays dangerous games with human emotions that end in a tragic crime.—Britannica
The Roman Way was the author’s second book, providing contrasts between ancient Rome and present-day life. Hamilton describes life as it existed according to ancient Roman poets such as Plautus, Virgil and Juvenal, interprets Roman thought and manners, and compares them to people’s lives in the twentieth century. She also suggests how Roman ideas can be applied to the modern world.
It's mid-19th century India, and Romulus Brook of the Tatta Lancers, illegitimate son of an English gentleman and a gypsy, accepted by the Lancers only because of his brother. He falls in love with Sukey Webb, daughter of the colonel, and they are to marry when Rom is betrayed into the hands of the Indian tribes who call him the Fox and have a price on his head. By his cunning, Rom talks himself out of a death sentence and into slavery and with his servant Hamyd, establishes evidence of his death for the benefit of Sukey and the betrayer, becomes a high power among the Moslems of India and Africa, and learns that his brother, Gerald, had been the informer and had married Sukey. Rom and Hamyd have their opportunity for revenge many years later when they take Gerald and Sukey on a game hunt in Africa, put Gerald through strenuous mental torture, secure his confession—and Sukey. A multi-patterned story, sufficiently strenuous to satisfy his audience.—Kirkus Reviews
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