APRIL 1999

This is the PG Newsletter, for Wednesday, April 7, 1999

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

This month we have Etexts in English, French and Japanese as well as a few translations into English from the French, German and Greek. I am hopeful we can continue even more in a wide variety of languages.

Several new PG sites listed below and more than a whole month's worth of new Etexts. . .we finished all of November in March— so we are 8 months ahead of schedule, instead of our usual 1 month. I hope we can finish all the December Etexts in the next 28 days. . . .

Lots of things in this Newsletter, not the least of which is that this month the Newsletter goes out on the last possible day since the first Wednesday is April 7th, which will gave us a very long month to get up to completing the November Etexts, but will leave us with less time to do the December Etexts, a time that is already overloaded with these:

1. Every April and October we request new volunteers, before everyone leaves for the summer, and when they are firmly back in the fall.

2. This year we are creating a support system for new our volunteers, which will be thoroughly tested this month. This is a BIG project and will take some effort to complete. If you would be willing to help some of our new volunteers get started, please let me know. [more below on this, probably the most important thing right now]

3. We are releasing our first Etext without ASCII characters, and the hopes are we will be able to interest many of you in looking at an Etext of Rashomon, in Japanese, as well as in translation. So far the translation is not yet complete, but we are working on it. In Japanese, it is the first file in the list below.

4. We are gearing up for our first official public relations effort— if you can help us get some extra media coverage for Etext #2000— that would be GREATLY APPRECIATED. . .now is the time to start and we will continue right through the official release date of #2000.

5. We will probably have to get incorporated in the year 2000, so the lawyers who can help us with that will also be very appreciated.

6. The Visually Impaired Team of PG Volunteers: Jay Mendham , temporary Team Leader. This is a team of visually impaired volunteers who create a set of general Etexts for the PG audience.

7. The next PG message you are likely to receive will be a request for volunteers and donations. . .if you do not want to read it, feel free to just delete it. . . . The Volunteers' List will receive one more message beforehand.

From: webmaster@promo.net [Pietro di Miceli] There is a new PG Volunteers' Board available at: http://promo.net/pg/vol/wwwboard/ Please use and peruse it and send me any suggestions, corrections, etc. Also see: http://promo.net/pg/volunteer.html

8. We are still VERY interested in doing more languages, if you can do even ONE Etext, however short, in various languages— this would be more appreciated than you can imagine.

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Requests:

For May 16, 1999 [Please forward this to Balzac interests. . . .]

In honor of the bicentennial of the birth of Honore de Balzac (1799 - - 1850) PG is proud to present English translations of the entire "Human Comedy." Portraying over two thousand characters and with immense attention to detail, this massive collection of just under one hundred novels and shorter works brings to life the social history of France during the first half of the 19th century.

Team Balzac is seeking a qualifying biography of Honore de Balzac and any non-Human Comedy works. Except for The Human Comedy and Droll Tales we have been unable to locate any qualifying editions. If anyone is able to assist, please email Dagny at dagnyj@hotmail.com

From: Michael Pullen

Request for assistance/information: Gothic German typeface

I use a scanner to enter raw manuscript material and a software package for interpreting into e-text. While the software (Visioneer ProOCR 100) offers a decent German dictionary for spell checking, it does not recognize the old German scripts called Fraktur. This moderately ornate and stylized font has gone out of style since 1945, but many of the older German originals are available ONLY in this mode. Examples of this style can be viewed on the Internet at the web site http://www.waldenfont.com/gutenberg2 and many others (use the word fraktur with your favorite web search engine).

Do you know of, or can suggest, any means of scanning/parsing this older typeface? If you have any information, please contact the Gutenberg Project office or myself (globaltraveler5565@yahoo.com). Your assistance will be greatly appreciated in accelerating several projects.

If you can get a pre-1923 copy of Swiss Family Robinson, AnneWing@aol.com would either like to borrow it or have you do some proofing of an Etext she has. . .thanks. mh

I have my own personal request. . .someone good with FTP to help me post books when I am away from my desk. mh

Don Quixote If anyone is a student at Boston University, their library system has a 1910-1913 and a 1922-1923 edition which apparently are circulating, so that would be even better.

We need a copy of this because we made an Etext, then lost contact with the person we sent it to. Actually we don't really need to HAVE the copy, if you are willing to do some proofreading. The Jewel of Seven Stars, by Bram Stoker Please contact [and cc: hart@pobox.com]: Aaron Cannon

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1Notess:

You probably already know about this, but I have found Ebay to be a good source of books older than 1921. I did a search in the book category for 1921 (in titles and descriptions) and found quite a number of books with a copyright of 1921 (some even with a scan of the copyright page) So you might suggest to volunteers looking for a cheap book to contribute to look at http://www.ebay.com

About our Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

Some people thought the filenames would be

pgws05*.txt and .zip

however. . .in this case the volunteer added an extra 0, I know not why, and the location of the number part changed, so the files you want are:

pgw050xz.txt pgw050tw.txt pgw050s.txt pgw050r.txt pgw050pq.txt pgw050mo.txt pgw050il.txt pgw050fh.txt pgw050de.txt pgw050c.txt pgw050ab.txt and readme.web

Sorry for the confusion, will add to next newsletter. . . .

Newer versions just add one. . .next will be 060. . . .

But most start with versions 10, 11, 12, etc. Only those we know will be "in progress" for some time before they are up to our standard, but are too important not to post immediately get numbers lower than 10, as an indicator of "not yet ready for prime time."

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Here is a list of our newest sites:

California Lutheran University centrigma.dhs.org/pg or, if a problem, use: 199.107.218.247/pg David Linstad

Mexico Universidad Jesuita (Instituto Tecnolsgico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente at Guadalajara) ftp://ftp.iteso.mx/pub/etext/

From Webmaster Sergey V. Malina Center Informika, Ministry of Education of Russia New URL for PG at Ministry of Education /www.informika.ru/text/books/gutenb/

DataCanyon Enterprises of Tucson, Arizona ftp://ftp.datacanyon.com/pub/gutenberg/ and http://www.datacanyon.com/mirrors/gutenberg/ The server is a dual processor Sparc 20, 512 megs RAM, 150GB+ disk, sitting on two fractional DS3's totaling 16 megabit of full-duplex bandwidth.

ftp://ftp.is.co.za/text/project-gutenburg/ Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa This site is FTP only, which most new browsers can handle. If you need help working with this particular site, email: 'The Internet Solution FTP admin' (ftp-admin@is.co.za)

* Austria gd.tuwien.ac.at/soc/gutenberg/

A list of our sites can be accessed at promo.net

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And here, finally, is our list of some 45+ new Etexts:

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

Nov 1999 Rashomon, by Akutagawa Ryunosuke [in Japanese] [rshmnxxx.xxx]1982

Nov 1999 The Right to Read, by Richard M. Stallman [of GNU][tychoxxx.xxx]1981C This Etext is available as tycho10.txt or .zip and tycho10h.htm or .zip files and in French HTML as tycho10f.htm and tycho10f.zip

Nov 1999 Stories by English Authors in Africa, Scribners Ed[sbeaaxxx.xxx]1980

Contains: The Mystery of Sasassa Valley by A. Conan Doyle Long Odds, by H. Rider Haggard King Memba's Point, by J. Landers Ghamba, by W. C. Scully Mary Musgrave, Anonymous Gregorio, by Percy Hemingway

Nov 1999 The Perdue Chicken Cookbook, by Mitzi Perdue [mitzixxx.xxx]1979C

Nov 1999 Buttercup Gold, et. al., by Ellen Robena Field [btrcpxxx.xxx]1978

Nov 1999 Phaedra, by Jean Baptiste Racine, RB Boswell, Tr. [phrdrxxx.xxx]1977

Nov 1999 Peter Ruff and the Double Four, by Oppenheim[EPO8][rff44xxx.xxx]1976

Nov 1999 The Legacy of Cain, by Wilkie Collins [Collins#22][lcainxxx.xxx]1975

Nov 1999 Poetics, by Aristotle, Tr. SH Butcher[Aristotle#1][poetcxxx.xxx]1974

Nov 1999 Tales of Troy, by Andrew Lang [Andrew Lang #17][tltryxxx.xxx]1973

Nov 1999 History Of The Britons, by Nennius [brtnsxxx.xxx]1972

Nov 1999 Erewhon Revisited, by Samuel Butler [S. Butler #2][ervstxxx.xxx]1971

Nov 1999 A Poor Wise Man, by Mary Roberts Rinehart[MRR #12][pwsmnxxx.xxx]1970

Nov 1999 Catherine: A Story, by William Thackeray[W.M.T.#9][cthrnxxx.xxx]1969

Nov 1999 The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix[#91][hciaaxxx.xxx]1968

Nov 1999 The Brotherhood of Consolation, by Balzac[HdB #90][brcnsxxx.xxx]1967

Nov 1999 The Path of the King, by John Buchan [Buchan #6][tpotkxxx.xxx]1966

Nov 1999 Captain Blood, by Rafael Sabatini [R. Sabatini #3][cpbldxxx.xxx]1965

Nov 1999 [Reserved for Pietro di Miceli, PG Webmaster] [ xxx.xxx]1964

Nov 1999 The Confession, by Mary Roberts Rinehart [MRR #11][cnfsnxxx.xxx]1963

Nov 1999 A Defence of Poesie and Poems, by Philip Sidney [dfncpxxx.xxx]1962

Nov 1999 Books and Bookmen, by Andrew Lang[Andrew Lang #16][bkbkmxxx.xxx]1961

Nov 1999 Sight Unseen, by Mary Roberts Rinehart[Rinehart10][stnsnxxx.xxx]1960

Nov 1999 The Crown of Thorns, by E. H. Chapin [thrnsxxx.xxx]1959

Nov 1999 Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[handdxxx.xxx]1958

Nov 1999 Beatrix, by Honore de Balzac[Honore de Balzac #89][btrixxxx.xxx]1957

Nov 1999 And Even Now, by Max Beerbohm [Max Beerbohm #7][evnowxxx.xxx]1956

Nov 1999 The Darrow Enigma, by Melvin L. Severy [dngmaxxx.xxx]1955

Nov 1999 Colonel Chabert, by Honore de Balzac[de Balzac#88][chbrtxxx.xxx]1954

Nov 1999 The Diary of an Old Soul, by George MacDonald [#6][doaosxxx.xxx]1953

Nov 1999 The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman2[ylwlpxxx.xxx]1952

Nov 1999 The Coming Race, by Edward Bulwer Lytton[Lytton#5][cmgrcxxx.xxx]1951

Nov 1999 A Woman of Thirty, by Honore de Balzac[Balzac #87][thrtyxxx.xxx]1950

Nov 1999 On The Ruin of Britain, by Gildas Sapiens [otrobxxx.xxx]1949

Nov 1999 The Story of a Bad Boy, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich 7[soabbxxx.xxx]1948

Nov 1999 Scaramouche, by Rafael Sabatini[Rafael Sabatini#2][scmshxxx.xxx]1947

Oct 1999 On War, by Carl von Clausewitz [Volume 1] [CvC #1][1onwrxxx.xxx]1946

Oct 1999 Egmont, by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe [Goethe #2][egmntxxx.xxx]1945

Oct 1999 The Witch, et. al, by Anton Chekhov[Chekhov#14-28][witchxxx.xxx]1944

The stories contained in addition are: 28 THE WITCH 27 PEASANT WIVES 26 THE POST 25 THE NEW VILLA 24 DREAMS 23 THE PIPE 22 AGAFYA 21 AT CHRISTMAS TIME 20 GUSEV 19 THE STUDENT 18 IN THE RAVINE 17 THE HUNTSMAN 16 HAPPINESS 15 A MALEFACTOR 14 PEASANTS

Oct 1999 Louis Lambert, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #86][lmbrtxxx.xxx]1943

Oct 1999 Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau, by Balzac[HdB85][rfbrtxxx.xxx]1942

Oct 1999 Letters of Two Brides, by Honore de Balzac[HdB#84][l2brdxxx.xxx]1941

Oct 1999 Christ in Flanders, by Honore de Balzac[Balzac#83][flndrxxx.xxx]1940

Oct 1999 A Gentleman of France, by Stanley Weyman[Weyman#2][gntfrxxx.xxx]1939

Oct 1999 Resurrection, by Leo Tolstoy [Leo Tolstoi] [LT #6][resurxxx.xxx]1938

and two from December, leaving us 34 more to do in the next 28 days. . . .

Dec 1999 Origin of Species, 6th Ed., by Charles Darwin [#5][otoos610.xxx]2009

Dec 1999 Monsieur Beaucaire, by Booth Tarkington [BT #8] [mbeauxxx.xxx]1983

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From Edupage:

MICROSOFT RESPONDS TO PRIVACY ISSUE Reacting to a controversy started when a programmer in Brookline, Mass., discovered Windows 98 generates a unique serial number that is implanted in every electronic document and that can be used to trace the identity of its author, Microsoft said it will create a software tool to allow customers to remove the number, which was created to help support specialists diagnose problems for customers who call with questions. Jason Catlett, who lobbies on privacy issues, says, "This is going to be a cleanup job larger than the Exxon Valdez oil spill. There are billions of tattooed documents out there." (AP 8 Mar 99)

IBM ACTION ENCOURAGES WEB SITES TO POST CLEAR PRIVACY POLICIES IBM, which is the second-biggest advertiser on the Internet, has decided to refrain from advertising on any Web sites that do not post clear policies explaining to visitors of those sites such things as what information about them is being collected and how it will be used, sold, or otherwise disseminated for marketing purposes. IBM is the first large company to link advertising and privacy policy in this way. (Wall Street Journal 31 Mar 99)

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*This is the PG Newsletter for *Wednesday, May 5, 1999* 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

Well, we managed to finish the 1999 Etexts 8 months ahead of schedule, though it has been a struggle to do 36 Etexts each month of 1999 after doing 72 a month for the last half of 1998. This is somewhat replying to those who have asked why don't we make a more difficult schedule in the year 2000. . .right now there is no way we could be doing more for each month than we are. . .we are barely getting the 36 Etexts done in time for the Newsletter each month, which often gives us a few days of extra time, which we are glad to take advantage of.

We hope you will take the opportunity to volunteer to do your favorite book[s] from before 1923, and to look over our new volunteers' site at promo.net, which should make volunteering much more effortless. Also, you can email me and the other PG Directors listed. . .

***Announcement***

May 16, 1799

***Requests***

We have had many requests for Henrik Ibsen, and done the copyright research for several editions, but we have never completed any. . .anyone interested??

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Apr 1998 Spoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters [sprvrxxx.xxx]1280

New version, sprvr11.txt and .zip, many corrections

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New index of PG Etexts in Australia All Etexts to date available, give them a shout... www.library.adelaide.edu.au/catalogs/adelaide.html

The University of Adelaide Library, which hosts a mirror of Project Gutenberg, has added entries to all Etexts to its online Catalogue. The Catalogue may be accessed by Telnet or through the Web ... details are at http://www.library.adelaide.edu.au/catalogs/adelaide.html The Web catalogue (WebPAC) allows the user to download etexts with a mouse click. Using a keyword search, one can easily find Etexts by including "Gutenberg" as a key word.

* New PG site under construction in Germany. . .please test for the next week, then let me know of anything still not going. ftp://ftp.pandemonium.de/mirrors/gutenberg/ http://www.pandemonium.de/gutenberg/

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We are interested in finding out if there are people at the University of Texas at Austin and the Harry Ransom Center who are currently involved in the Gutenberg Project, or thinking of making a contribution to it. Our specific interest would be in French and Italian texts and public domain English translations of these texts. To discuss possibilities, please email me at: Philippe Dambournet — c/o ssalade@jump.net"

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>You probably already know about this, but I have found Ebay to be a good >source of books older than 1921. . . .

Yes indeed, but for most books I think http://www.abebooks.com/ is a better bet. It's certainly a lot simpler than all the auction nonsense, tho' perhaps not as much fun. . . .

**** And here are the books to finish out the year 1999, and start 2000 *****

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

Dec 1999 The Library, by Andrew Lang [Andrew Lang #20][lbrryxxx.xxx]2018

Dec 1999 The Dhammapada, Translated by F. Max Muller [dhmpdxxx.xxx]2017

Dec 1999 The 1998 CIA World Factbook[CIA Factbook #8][No#7][world98x.xxx]2016

Dec 1999 A Miscellany of Men, by G. K. Chesterton [GKC #13][miscyxxx.xxx]2015

Dec 1999 The Lodger, by Marie Belloc Lowndes [tldgrxxx.xxx]2014

Dec 1999 The Pit Prop Syndicate, by Freeman Wills Croft [ptprpxxx.xxx]2013

Dec 1999 The Children, by Alice Meynell [Alice Meynell #8][chldnxxx.xxx]2012

Dec 1999 Rudder Grange, by Frank R. Stockton [Stockton #4][rgrngxxx.xxx]2011

Dec 1999 The Autobiography of Charles Darwin [Darwin #6][adrwnxxx.xxx]2010

Dec 1999 Origin of Species, 6th Ed., by Charles Darwin [#5][otoos610.xxx]2009

Dec 1999 Mazelli, and Other Poems, by George W. Sands[GS#1][mzllixxx.xxx]2008

Dec 1999 We Two, by Edna Lyall [wetwoxxx.xxx]2007

Dec 1999 A Fair Penitent, by Wilkie Collins [Collins #23][frpntxxx.xxx]2006

Dec 1999 Piccadilly Jim, by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse [#1][pccjmxxx.xxx]2005

Dec 1999 "Pigs is Pigs," by Ellis Parker Butler [pgpgsxxx.xxx]2004

Dec 1999 Spirits in Bondage [Lyrics Cycle], by C. S. Lewis [spbndxxx.xxx]2003

Dec 1999 Spirits in Bondage [Lyrics Cycle], Clive Hamilton [spbndxxx.xxx]2003

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

Dec 1999 Adventures among Books, by Andrew Lang [Lang #19][advbkxxx.xxx]1994

Dec 1999 Told After Supper, by Jerome K. Jerome [JKJ #15] [tldspxxx.xxx]1993

Dec 1999 Fragmenta Regalia, by Robert Naunton [Published] [trvfgxxx.xxx]1992

Dec 1999 Travels in England, by Paul Hentzner [as 1 Book] [trvfgxxx.xxx]1992

Dec 1999 Old Friends, Epistolary Parody, by Andrew Lang 18 [oldfnxxx.xxx]1991

Dec 1999 The Bedford-Row Conspiracy, by Thackeray [WMT #11][bdfrcxxx.xxx]1990

Dec 1999 The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz [fldctxxx.xxx]1989

Dec 1999 History of Tom Thumb, etc. Edited by Henry Altemus[thumbxxx.xxx]1988

Includes: The Stories of the Cat and the Mouse [and] Fire! Fire! Burn Stick! Dec 1999 The Outlet, by Andy Adams [outltxxx.xxx]1987

Dec 1999 Life and Death of Mr. Badman, by John Bunyan[JB#3][badmnxxx.xxx]1986

Dec 1999 Men's Wives, by William Makepeace Thackeray[WMT10][mnwvsxxx.xxx]1985

Dec 1999 [Reserved: George Orwell's 1984/Did it come true?][o1984xxx.xxx]1984

Dec 1999 Monsieur Beaucaire, by Booth Tarkington [BT #8] [mbeauxxx.xxx]1983

and

Jan 2000 Nostromo, by Joseph Conrad [Joseph Conrad #24][nstrmxxx.xxx]2021

Jan 2000 Tarzan the Terrible, by Edgar R. Burroughs[TARZ#8][tzntrxxx.xxx]2020

Jan 2000 The Bat, by M. R. Rinehart & Avery Hopwood [MRR13][thbatxxx.xxx]2019

*This is the PG Newsletter for Wednesday, June 2, 1999* 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

New and reposted files:

Jul 1998 Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy/Tolstoi [Tolstoy #5][nkrnnxxx.xxx]1399

This file was never completed, and should have been released as version 09 as it is now named, and the completed file [now spellchecked] is version 10. We also hope to have a version 11 with an even more thorough proofreading, soon.

Apr 1999 The Survivors of the Chancellor, by Jules Verne #8[tsotcxxa.xxx]1698

This is from a different source than our previous edition [tsotcxxx.xxx]1652

[My apologies, I thought I posted this a long time ago, but it never made it]

****Requests for Assistance from our Volunteers****

We need a pre-1923 edition of the Velveteen Rabbit, or one that SAYS in it that it is a reprint of one.

Below is a sample from a German play by Goethe, Iphigenie auf Taurus. This material in its entirety will be available shortly and will need a German-speaking proofreader. I am requesting a volunteer to take on the challenge and assist in the final phase of this project. Kindly contact me (globaltraveler5565@yahoo.com) if you can offer aid. Thanks! Mike Pullen

F|nfter Aufzug.

Erster Auftritt.

Thoas. Arkas.

Arkas. Verwirrt mu ich gestehn, da ich nicht wei, Wohin ich meinen Argwohn richten soll. Sind's die Gefangnen, die auf ihre Flucht Verstohlen sinnen? Ist's die Priesterin, Die ihnen hilft? Es mehrt sich das Ger|cht: Das Schiff, das diese beiden hergebracht, Sei irgend noch in einer Bucht versteckt. Und jenes Mannes Wahnsinn, diese Weihe, Der heil'ge Vorwand dieser Zvgrung, rufen Den Argwohn lauter und die Vorsicht auf.

Thoas. Es komme schnell die Priesterin herbei! Dann geht, durchsucht das Ufer scharf und schnell

****And here are our 36 Etexts for January, 2000, and a few for February****

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

Jan 2000 Iphigenie auf Tauris, Johann von Goethe[#4] German[iphgnxxx.xxx]2054

This is labelled as version iphgn09.txt and .zip, as we need some practice. Jan 2000 The American Republic, by O. A. Brownson [amrepxxx.xxx]2053

Jan 2000 Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business, Defoe#8[ebdybxxx.xxx]2052

Jan 2000 Dickory Cronke, by Daniel Defoe [Daniel Defoe #7][dckcrxxx.xxx]2051

Jan 2000 Old John Brown, by Walter Hawkins [ojbrnxxx.xxx]2050

Jan 2000 Liber Amoris, or, The New Pygmalion, by Wm Hazlitt[nwpygxxx.xxx]2049

Jan 2000 The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by W. Irving #5[sbogcxxx.xxx]2048

Jan 2000 Stories of Modern French Novels: Scribners Ed. [sbmfaxxx.xxx]2047

This is part of Julian Hawthorne's Lock and Key Library Contains: Victor Cherbuliez Count Kostia

Paul Bourget Andre Cornelis

Anonymous The Last of the Costellos Lady Betty's Indiscretion

Jan 2000 Clotel; or, The President's Daughter, by Wm. Brown[clotlxxa.xxx]2046

Also see our previous release, based on a separate source edition: ^ Apr 1995 Clotelle; or The Colored Heroine by Wm Wells Brown[clotlxxx.xxx] 241 Jan 2000 My Memories of Eighty Years, by Chauncey M. Depew [depewxxx.xxx]2045

Jan 2000 The Education of Henry Adams, by Henry Adams [eduhaxxx.xxx]2044

Jan 2000 The Education of Henry Adams, by Henry Adams[HTML][eduhaxxh.xxx]2044

Jan 2000 Stories by Modern American Authors: Scribners Ed.[sbmaaxxx.xxx]2043

This is part of Julian Hawthorne's Lock and Key Library Contains: F. MARION CRAWFORD By the Waters of Paradise

MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN The Shadows on the Wall

MELVILLE D. POST The Corpus Delicti

AMBROSE BIERCE An Heiress from Redhorse The Man and the Snake

EDGAR ALLAN POE The Oblong Box The Gold-Bug

WASHINGTON IRVING Wolfert Webber, or Golden Dreams Adventure of the Black Fisherman

CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN Wieland's Madness

FITZJAMES O'BRIEN The Golden Ingot My Wife's Tempter

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE The Minister's Black Veil

ANONYMOUS Horror: A True Tale

Jan 2000 Something New, by P.G. Wodehouse [P.G.Wodehouse#2][smtnwxxx.xxx]2042

Jan 2000 The House of the Wolf, by Stanley Weyman[Weyman#3][hwolfxxx.xxx]2041

Jan 2000 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, de Quincey [opiumxxx.xxx]2040

Jan 2000 Evangeline, by Henry W. Longfellow [Longfellow #6][vnglnxxx.xxx]2039

Jan 2000 Evangeline, by Henry W. Longfellow [With Accents] [vnglnxxi.xxx]2039

Also see: Jun 1998 The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [cphwlxxx.xxx]1365

[A different version of Evangeline is in this collection] Jan 2000 Stories by Modern English Authors: Scribners Ed. [sbmeaxxx.xxx]2038

This is part of Julian Hawthorne's Lock and Key Library Contains: RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-) My Own True Ghost Story The Sending of Dana Da In the House of Suddhoo His Wedded Wife

A. CONAN DOYLE (1859-) A Case of Identity A Scandal in Bohemia The Red-Headed League

EGERTON CASTLE (1858-) The Baron's Quarry

STANLEY J. WEYMAN (1855-) The Fowl in the Pot

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-94) The Pavilion on the Links

WILKIE COLLINS (1824-89) The Dream Woman

ANONYMOUS The Lost Duchess The Minor Canon The Pipe The Puzzle The Great Valdez Sapphire

Jan 2000 Journey Scotland's Western Isles, Saumeul Johnson [jwsctxxx.xxx]2038

[A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland [Johnson #3]] Jan 2000 Novel 1Notess, by Jerome K. Jerome[JeromeKJerome#19][nvlntxxx.xxx]2037

Jan 2000 Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon, by Samuel Baker[8yearxxx.xxx]2036

Jan 2000 Stories by English Authors: Orient, Scribners Ed.[sbeaoxxx.xxx]2035

Contains: The Man Who Would Be King, Rudyard Kipling Tajima, Miss Mitford A Chinces Girl Graduate, R. K. Douglas The Revenge of Her Race, Mary Beaumont King Billy of Ballarat, Morley Roberts Thy Heart's Desire, Netta Syrett

Jan 2000 Waverley, by Walter Scott [Walter Scott #10][wvrlyxxx.xxx]2034

Jan 2000 The Unknown Guest, by Maurice Maeterlinck [ungstxxx.xxx]2033

Jan 2000 Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard/Eleanor Farjeon[mpnaoxxx.xxx]2032

Jan 2000 Lock and Key Library, Magic & Real Detectives [#2][2lckyxxx.xxx]2031

This is part of Julian Hawthorne's Lock and Key Library Stories by several authors: P. H. WOODWARD^M Adventures in the Secret Service of the Post-Office Department An Erring Shepherd An Aspirant for Congress The Fortune of Seth Savage A Wish Unexpectedly Gratified An Old Game Revived A Formidable Weapon

ANDREW LANG Saint-Germain the Deathless The Man in the Iron Mask The Legend The Valet's History The Valet's Master Original Papers in the Case of Roux De Marsilly

M. ROBERT-HOUDIN [After whom Harry Houdini named himself] A Conjurer's Confessions Self-Training "Second Sight" The Magician Who Became an Ambassador Facing the Arab's Pistol

DAVID P. ABBOTT Fraudulent Spiritualism Unveiled A Doctor of the Occult How the Tricks Succeeded The Name of the Dead Mind Reading in Public Some Famous Exposures

HEREWARD CARRINGTON More Tricks of "Spiritualism"

"Matter through Matter" Deception Explained by the Science of Psychology

ANONYMOUS How Spirits Materialize

Jan 2000 Legends of Babylon and Egypt, by Leonard W. King [behebxxx.xxx]2030

[Etext 2030 contains extended ASCII characters and I did not name the file] Jan 2000 Lahoma, by John Breckinridge Ellis [lahomxxx.xxx]2029

Jan 2000 The Yellow Claw, by Sax Rohmer [Sax Rohmer #5][yclawxxx.xxx]2028

Jan 2000 Tartuffe, by Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere [#1] [trtffxxx.xxx]2027

Jan 2000 The Coming Conquest of England, by August Niemann [tccoexxx.xxx]2026

Jan 2000 My Lady Caprice, by Jeffrey Farnol [lcprcxxx.xxx]2025

Jan 2000 Diary of a Pilgrimage, by Jerome K. Jerome[JKJ#17][dypgmxxx.xxx]2024

Jan 2000 Malvina of Brittany, by Jerome K. Jerome [JKJ #16][mlvbtxxx.xxx]2023

Contains: Malvina of Brittany The Street of the Blank Wall His Evening Out The Lesson Sylvia of the Letters The Fawn Gloves

Jan 2000 Angling Sketches, by Andrew Lang [Andrew Lang #21][angskxxx.xxx]2022

Jan 2000 Nostromo, by Joseph Conrad [Joseph Conrad #24][nstrmxxx.xxx]2021

Jan 2000 Tarzan the Terrible, by Edgar R. Burroughs[TARZ#8][tzntrxxx.xxx]2020

Jan 2000 The Bat, by M. R. Rinehart & Avery Hopwood [MRR13][thbatxxx.xxx]2019

And a few for February, 2000

Feb 2000 All For Love, by John Dryden [John Dryden #1][al4lvxxx.xxx]2062

Feb 2000 Not Ready Yet [ xxx.xxx]2061

Feb 2000 Not Ready Yet [ xxx.xxx]2060

Feb 2000 The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox Jr[lsokcxxx.xxx]2059

Feb 2000 Messer Marco Polo, by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne [mpoloxxx.xxx]2058

Feb 2000 The Last of the Plainsmen, by Zane Grey [Grey #10][plnsmxxx.xxx]2057

Feb 2000 Life of William Carey, by George Smith [wmcryxxx.xxx]2056

Feb 2000 Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana [2yb4mxxx.xxx]2055

And from Edupage, etc. [Now two Newsletters, I will create a new blurb for each of them. . .Michael]

PAPER GOES ELECTRIC Researchers at Xerox and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have recently developed electronic ink and electronic paper, which some analysts say may make traditional paper obsolete. Electronic paper is easier on the eyes than a computer screen because it has a higher contrast, and it can display millions of different images in the same space. For example, analysts say that a paper newspaper could easily fit onto electronic paper, and information could be changed every morning by deleting yesterday's news and downloading the current news with no loss of print quality. Some former MIT students have already created a company called E Ink, which has developed electronic ink and paper products and is testing the prototypes commercially. The company recently hung an electronic sign in a Boston department store, where the display is controlled by a computer from within the store's main office. These electronic posters can have text changed instantaneously. (New Scientist 05/15/99)

DISPUTES AND UNKNOWNS OF ELECTRONIC RIGHTS ROIL THE BOOK INDUSTRY For all the hype surrounding electronic books, the fast-moving industry is having trouble convincing the slow-moving book industry to get on board. The Authors' Guild mailed warnings to its 7,500 members last month criticizing current e-book contracts as bad deals, saying the distribution fees for e-book manufacturers are payment schemes that would deny publishers and authors their rewards in the information age. Other literary guilds are also advising authors to stay away from e-book agreements unless they promise to revise the deals when e-books become more popular. The book industry says it wants to see the market grow, but wants the terms to be fair. Current e-book deals give authors a share of just 4 percent of the book's list price, compared to 15 percent for traditional book deals. (New York Times 05/10/99)

COURT SAYS TEMPS DESERVE EMPLOYEE BENEFITS A federal court of appeals has ruled that about 10,000 temporary workers at Microsoft are entitled to take part in the discounted stock-option plan the company offers to regular employees. Industry analyst Rob Enderle says, "This is a broad decision, and it applies to all businesses. If you've got a temp worker putting in 20-plus hours a week, you better start considering him or her like you would a part-time worker" — and provide employee benefits. The ruling indicated that a temporary worker can be considered a "common-law employee" if the person's work was controlled not by the placement agency but by the company for which the work was being done. Microsoft plans to appeal. (New York Times 14 May 99) http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/05/biztech/articles/14soft.html

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT WANTS ISPs TO SPY The European Parliament last Friday passed the Lawful Interception of Communications council resolution on new technologies — known as Enfopol — which requires Internet service providers and telephone companies to provide law-enforcement agencies with full-time, real-time access to Internet transmissions, even those traversing along multiple networks. In addition, wireless communications providers are required to provide geographical location information on cell phone users, along with decoding of messages, if encryption is provided as part of the service. The European Internet Service Providers' Association has denounced the resolution. "Anyone who's got half a clue about the Internet can easily see the Enfopol proposals are unfeasible," says the chairman of U.K. ISP Linx. "The problem is it's a bunch of law-enforcement people who have cooked this up in a vacuum without public consultation." He also expressed concerns that the stringent requirements would prompt Internet users from other countries to route around Europe, damaging the European telecom industry's revenue. (TechWeb 14 May 99) http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990513S0009

PRIVACY PROPOSAL A Clinton Administration proposal to protect individual financial and medical records includes a request for more than $5 million to fund an increase in online surveillance and to train law enforcement officials in ways to combat security fraud. Congressman Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) explained the problem to his colleagues by writing: "Do you believe your banking transaction experiences are private? You may be surprised to learn that with certain exceptions, financial institutions may legally share all of the information about you and your bank account activity with affiliated businesses or even third parties." (Washington Post 4 May 99) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/daily/may99/privacy4.htm

PC SALES UP, PROFITS DOWN Unit sales of PCs rose 21% in April, but revenue declined 2.2% as prices fell and sales of low-cost PCs surged. The average sales price of a PC was $928, according to PC Data Corp. Sales of sub-$1,000 computers accounted for 71% of all retail sales. (Bloomberg News/Los Angeles Times 20 May 99) http://www.latimes.com/home/business/t000045210.html

Test blurbs for the new ways these are reaching us:

These are excerpts from: NewsScan www.newsscan.com/, and send us mail: John Gehl and Suzanne Douglas , or call 770-590-1017.

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