"The black kiss by Robert Bloch and Henry Kuttner" is a horror short story written in the early 20th century. Set on the California coast, it follows an artist haunted by planned, escalating sea-dreams tied to an ancestral legend, drawing him toward a supernatural act of possession. An artist, Graham Dean, inherits an old San Pedro house once occupied by Morella Godolfo, a figure of sinister local legend said to consort with unearthly sea-dwellers. As Graham’s seascape dreams intensify into vivid visions of green depths and shadowy swimmers, he learns from an occult-wise ally, Doctor Yamada, that such beings can steal human bodies through a kiss, and that Morella herself was once a sea-thing inhabiting a human shell. Lured to a coastal cave, Graham is kissed again and finds his mind trapped in the pale, scaly body of the creature, while his human body is taken by Morella. After swimming with the monsters to a wreck and witnessing their predation on drowning men, he returns to the cave, confronts his stolen human form, and restrains it as Yamada and Graham’s uncle arrive. In a final act of self-sacrifice, Graham ensures the sea-creature in his body cannot escape, dying as Yamada fires and as he himself delivers a fatal bite, breaking the possession and atoning for the black kiss. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Ihinen ja peto by Samuel Scoville is a collection of animal adventure stories written in the early 20th century. Set largely in southern Africa, it blends vivid natural-history detail with fast-paced, often perilous encounters between predators, prey, and people. The tales spotlight cunning, survival, and the uneasy ties between the wild and the human world, featuring memorable figures like a bold jackal and a devoted baboon alongside frontier railwaymen and hunters. The opening of the work first follows Punainen Rooi, a red-backed jackal who kills a deadly viper, feeds and trains his litter, escapes a hunters’ raid with a clever earth-burrow trick, and graduates from small antelope hunts to shadowing a black-maned lion for scraps—outwitting the big cat until he astonishingly slays a massive rock python with a precise neck bite, winning a wary female’s respect. The narrative then shifts to a frame told by Red Swope, who recounts a vast troop of baboons braving a flood; he rescues an abandoned infant, Jok, which an amputee stationman, Jim Tully, raises and trains to run signals and chores with uncanny skill and strength. After defending Jim and becoming his constant companion, Jok vanishes into the bush carrying Jim’s body when the old man dies suddenly, leaving the new stationmaster sensing the unseen presence around the siding. The section closes with the station bracing for a late-night special, the atmosphere tense and expectant. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

The children by Edith Wharton is a novel written in the early 20th century. It follows Martin Boyne, a middle‑aged engineer, who becomes entangled with the glamorous yet chaotic Wheater clan—especially teen caretaker Judith, her delicate twin Terry, and a volatile mix of full-, half-, and step‑siblings—while their wealthy parents drift between yachts and hotels. The story explores modern divorce and remarriage and the cost of adult caprice on children who are determined to keep themselves together. The opening of the novel finds Boyne on a cruise from Algiers, where he notices Judith minding a baby and a swarm of children and ends up sharing a cabin with her twin, Terry. Through Judith and the governess, Miss Scope, he learns the family tangle: the Wheater parents split and remarried disastrously (to a movie star and an Italian prince), then reunited; the brood now includes “steps” Bun, Beechy, and Zinnie alongside Judith, Terry, and Blanca, with baby Chip adored by the parents. A day trip to Monreale shows Judith’s flair for mothering even as high art leaves her cold, deepening Boyne’s interest. When Terry begs for an education, Boyne agrees to help, stays on to meet the parents in Venice, and secures a cultivated tutor, Gerald Ormerod. Over breakfast at the modest pension where the children stay, Judith refuses school for herself, vowing never to leave the tribe, and hints that Joyce may prefer to keep the tutor in Venice for her own amusement. The section closes with Boyne uncomfortably aware of adult currents swirling around the children he has begun to care about. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

"Slighted love : or, At her heart's expense" by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller is a novel written in the late 19th century. It follows Italy Vale, a striking young woman determined to clear her mother’s name after her father’s murder, as she enters her wealthy kinsman’s New England home and confronts old scandals, dangerous secrets, and fraught romances. The story weaves melodrama and mystery around inheritance, social stigma, and the hazards of love, with key figures including the reserved heir Francis Murray, the charming Percy Seabright, and the volatile Mrs. Dunn. The opening of the story reveals Italy’s mother confessing that Italy’s father was murdered and that she herself was tried and acquitted, yet condemned by public opinion; years later, after her mother’s death, Italy goes to Francis Murray’s seaside estate, The Lodge, suspecting him because he benefited from the entail. Tension rises as Italy somnambulates into his library in search of her father’s missing diary, Francis confronts her motives, and she flees to Boston to seek her mother’s old lawyer. There she is deceived by a clerk, Craig Severn, lured to a private house, and nearly assaulted before a mysterious shot kills him; found later walking in her sleep, she is retrieved by Francis and brought back. She meets Percy Seabright—her father’s friend—and faints; newspapers soon report Severn’s body found with a bullet wound. Emmett Harlow gently courts Italy and is refused, while jealous Alys Audenreid and her aunt Mrs. Dunn bristle; during a yacht outing Italy is pushed overboard, rescued by Ralph Allen and Francis, and Mrs. Dunn spitefully accuses Emmett before Francis quells the charge. These chapters set the central quest—finding the truth behind the murder and the missing diary—amid simmering jealousy, peril, and uncertain loyalties. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

"The Last Dragon" by Dan Totheroh is a children's fantasy novel written in the early 20th century. It follows siblings Johnathan, Janet Jane, and Peter Baxter, their intrepid Grandma, and two dogs as they befriend a gentle, blue‑eyed dragon—the last of his kind—and ride him back into the Dark Ages. The tale sets up a quest to save the enchanted Princess Silver Toes from the rival dragon Dallahan, aided by a prickly cave-gnome named Crubby. The opening of this story finds the Baxter children staging Arthurian games in a meadow beside a mysterious woodlot, where six-year-old Peter wanders into a cave and awakens a kindly green dragon who calls himself the last in the world. After the children warm to him (and Grandma welcomes him), their mother drives him away, and their father can’t see him at all; but before dawn the dragon taps at the nursery window and carries Johnathan, Janet Jane, Peter, the dogs, and Grandma (who floats down in her rocking chair) on a headlong ride “backwards” through history. They pass scenes from the past, reach a volcano so the dragon can “eat fire,” and retire to his vast cave home, where they meet the tiny, bossy Crubby. He reveals that the dragon’s enchanted companion, Princess Silver Toes, has been stolen, prompting the dragon to tell her backstory—from silver-dipped toes to a witch’s spell and a storm-swept escape. Learning that the kidnapper is Dallahan, the Irish dragon, the group resolves to rescue her and hurries to an armorer on the king’s highway, where Grandma, the children, and even the dogs are fitted with mail and swords, setting the quest in motion. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

"Newton's Principia: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy" by Isaac Newton is a three-volume work first published in 1687. Written in Latin, it presents Newton's laws of motion and universal gravitation, creating a mathematical foundation for classical mechanics. The work explains planetary motion, estimates celestial masses, accounts for tides and Earth's shape, and addresses comets' orbits. Considered among history's greatest scientific achievements, it transformed scattered observations into systematic sciences of physics and astronomy, fundamentally altering humanity's understanding of the natural world. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

"Provença : Poems selected from Personae, Exultations, and Canzoniere of Ezra…" by Ezra Pound is a collection of poetry compiled in the early 20th century. The book brings together dramatic monologues, lyrics, and formal experiments that channel medieval Provence and Italy through modernist craft. Its likely topic is the renewal of old songs and courtly themes—love, war, piety, and fame—through vivid personae and finely wrought forms. The volume is arranged in three parts. Personae stages bold voices—troubadours, mystics, warriors, and wanderers—speaking from settings that range from Provençal courts and Italian roads to ash woods, sea caves, and modern London; poems like “La Fraisne,” “Cino,” “Na Audiart,” “Sestina: Altaforte,” “Ballad of the Goodly Fere,” and “Piccadilly” show desire, revolt, and spiritual hunger in archaic yet urgent diction. Exultations mixes litany and flare—Venetian night prayers, martial exultation, portraits of artists, poetic self-possession in “Histrion,” and visionary pieces like “Paracelsus in Excelsis,” alongside adaptations (Lope de Vega’s lullaby, a Greek epigram) and laments and albas in Provençal manner. Canzoniere presents strict studies in form—octaves, sonnets, ballate, and canzoni modeled on Arnaut Daniel, Dante, and Cavalcanti—where light, sea, angels, and the “Lady” organize longing and praise, culminating in an epilogue to Guido Cavalcanti and notes that gloss the medieval sources. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

"The way of a man: a story of the new woman" by Thomas Dixon Jr. is a novel written in the early 20th century. It follows Ellen West, a brilliant New York feminist editor whose attacks on marriage and advocacy of female independence collide with the allure of love and power as she attracts the author Randolph Field, the millionaire Edwin Brown, and the young journalist Ralph Manning. The book probes the clash between the New Woman’s ideals—sexual, economic, and spiritual autonomy—and the old order’s claims of romance, marriage, and possession. The opening of the novel finds Ellen hosting a triumphant Fifth Avenue reception after her election as a reform club’s president, where her manifesto against marriage and for “sex freedom” sets the tone. Field, her realist neighbor, confesses love on the roof and is coolly refused. Brown arrives uninvited; in a candid rooftop interview he first offers a lavish “free alliance,” then marriage, and is rejected on both counts. Ellen is then unexpectedly smitten with Manning, her friend’s Southern nephew, whose earnest ambition and freshness disarm her skepticism. As they meet nightly, she falls hard, while he wins a newspaper post and returns with a ring fashioned from his mother’s earrings, proposing ardently on the starlit roof. She reciprocates his love but refuses marriage on principle, arguing for a free, self-directed union, and their debate over love, freedom, and the “home” swells into a tense impasse as the opening section ends. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

"Where the Battle Was Fought" by Charles Egbert Craddock is a novel written in the late 19th century. Set on a haunted Tennessee battlefield during Reconstruction, it follows the proud but ruined General Vayne and his lively daughter Marcia as their isolated, mortgaged household intersects with Captain John Estwicke, a Union officer unsettled by the ground’s grim memories. In parallel, a financier, Maurice Brennett, and his improvident associate Travis scheme around an inheritance tied to Antoinette St. Pierre, stirring legal and moral peril. Expect a blend of Gothic atmosphere, postwar social tension, and intrigue over identity, honor, and property. The opening of the novel lingers on a ghost-rumored battlefield and a shattered mansion where General Vayne, Marcia, and Aunt Kirby receive Estwicke, whose uneasy reaction to “Fort Despair” hints at a hidden past; a ferryman later mistakes him for a dead Confederate officer who once burned the bridge there. In town, Estwicke befriends a young lawyer, Meredith, then catches a card-sharp cheating during a poker game at a hotel; with an unloaded pistol he forces the cheat to disgorge the winnings, only to reject the money in disgust. Meanwhile Brennett, captivated by Estwicke’s fierce presence, turns to urgent business: his partner Travis has been cut out of expected funds by a codicil favoring Antoinette St. Pierre, so they plot to regain value by pressing her to swap her city houses (clouded by a remainder-man’s title, John Doane Fortescue) for Travis’s plantations, or even to marry her, sweetening the approach with a storied family heirloom. These threads set a mood of ruin and calculation, establishing the central characters, tensions, and schemes without yet resolving them. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

"English ways and by-ways : Being the letters of John and Ruth Dobson written…." by Leighton Parks is a humorous epistolary travelogue written in the early 20th century. Framed as lively letters from two young Americans touring England before the Great War, it blends motoring adventures with sharp, affectionate sketches of English society, religion, and class. The likely focus is a light, witty comparison of English and American ways, aiming to entertain while gently promoting mutual understanding. The opening of this travelogue follows John, an overworked American clergyman, and his wife Ruth as a small inheritance prompts a long-dreamed European holiday—by motorcar. John endures a comic, hair‑raising driving “education,” they buy a “fool‑proof” Frontenac with a self-starter, sail on a German liner (complete with a Sunday service and reflections on national rivalries), and receive the car at Tilbury amid talk of docks and durability. Their journey up the Great North Road brings wrong-side-of-the-road blunders, a crumpled mudguard, cathedral visits, and literary musings, before a Yorkshire stay lets Ruth contrast smooth-running English households, nannies, and dinner rituals with American habits. A near-fatal downhill dash (caused by grabbing the fourth-speed lever instead of the brake) yields a key tip—use engine braking on descents—while Sunday brings an offended exit from a sermon on Jael and redemption in a tender evensong. The section closes with a Tory defense of the Established Church and a radiant slice of rural England: a huntsman “walking” hounds, a Derby-bred mount, a sheepdog at work, and irresistible cottages and gardens. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

"Fairy dreams; or, Wanderings in Elf-land" by Jane G. Austin is a collection of fairy tales written in the mid-19th century. The tales weave quests, enchantments, and nature spirits into moral, gently romantic adventures, following characters like Prince Rudolf, Mabel the charcoal-burner’s daughter, the solitary Ernest, and the picture-dreaming Claude as they seek love, truth, and wonder. The opening of the collection presents four standalone stories. In Prince Rudolf’s adventure, a sage equips him with a pure veil and a diamond-tipped spear to test enchanted “flower” maidens; false splendor (tulip, cactus, lily) collapses under the veil, until the true rose maiden, revealed and awakened by the spear, becomes his companion. König Tolv’s Bride follows Mabel of the Hartz mountains, whose midsummer-night yearning leads to a supposed elf-king; with a hermit’s blessing the “king” proves a noble count, and she weds into a loving human home as her grim father vanishes. The Gray Cat and the Cave of the Winds tells of Ernest, who shelters a gray cat that transforms at midnight into Princess Phelia; he steals a magic flute from the Four Winds, lulls gnomes, recovers her stolen crown, and restores her, winning her hand. At the start of The Frost-Maiden, Claude grows up entranced by winter’s window pictures of a distant palace and a lone girl beneath a fir; as a man he ranges the world toward the far north, determined to reach the Frost-King’s realm, where the excerpt breaks with him stepping into the deadly cold in pursuit of his vision. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

"Pig iron : Short stories by Dudrea Parker" is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. The book turns on love, temptation, conscience, and the costs of choice, following characters who collide with desire and duty in modern American life. In An Ephemeral Love, Baltimore lumberman Walter Gary risks everything on a clever shipping plan, wins prosperity, and plans to marry Betty, who is simultaneously drawn to the magnetic Jack; on the brink of betrayal, the influenza epidemic claims Walter, and Betty, seared by loss, renounces her infatuation and holds fast to his memory. The White Petal shifts to a gothic rescue: John Constable returns to find young Ellen, daughter of his lost friends, imprisoned by her predatory uncle Albert, escapes with her through the night after a chilling “thirteenth” stroke of the clock, and witnesses Albert’s self-destruction; Constable becomes her guardian, and their bond blossoms into love. The Reporter follows a novice journalist who intrudes on Professor Symonds after his wife’s elopement ends in double tragedy; moved by his candor and pain, she refuses to exploit the scandal, and their shared integrity leads to a tender, restorative marriage. Across the three tales, Parker traces how crisis burns away illusion, revealing character, compassion, and the possibility of redeemed love. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

"The Movie Boys in Peril: or, Strenuous Days Along the Panama Canal" by Victor Appleton is a juvenile adventure novel written in the early 20th century. It follows moving-picture operators Blake Stewart and Joe Duncan as they head to the Panama Canal to capture dramatic scenes—especially the feared Culebra Cut landslides—while a courteous but puzzling Spanish companion, Vigues Alcando, joins them to learn the trade. Expect travel, engineering spectacle, and light intrigue woven into brisk, boyish action. The opening of the book finds Blake and Joe on vacation when they spot a runaway horse and buggy headed for a broken bridge; after a high-speed chase on their new motorcycle, they pull the wrecked carriage back from the brink, saving driver Hank Duryee and a young Spaniard, Vigues Alcando. A delayed special-delivery letter from their employer, Mr. Hadley, reveals plans for the boys to film the Canal and a possibly imminent big slide at Culebra Cut, and Alcando—eager to learn moviemaking—asks to accompany them. In New York the boys get instructions from Hadley and Ringold, while Alcando’s behavior occasionally raises questions (a windblown note mentioning “big guns,” a secretive visitor, and a brass-bound ticking “alarm clock” he won’t explain). The trio sails for Colon; after a voyage marked by small suspicions and Alcando’s insistence on gratitude and helpfulness, they arrive in Panama and prepare to begin their filming. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

The movie boys at Seaside Park : or, The rival photo houses of the boardwalk by Victor Appleton is a juvenile adventure novel written in the early 20th century. It follows three enterprising boys—Frank Durham, Randy Powell, and Pepper “Pep” Smith—who try to launch a first-class motion picture playhouse at a bustling seaside resort, balancing daring rescues, business savvy, and looming rivalry. The opening of the novel finds the boys scouting Seaside Park’s boardwalk, spotting a prime vacant building, and impressing the landlord after Frank leads a swift rescue of passengers from a burning motorboat. Their brave act brings them to the attention of wealthy Mrs. Carrington, whose offered backing—arranged through her attorney—solves their funding hurdle, while her feckless nephew Peter proves a nuisance and potential rival. Old ally Ben Jolly arrives (with ventriloquist Hal Vincent in tow), helps set up frugal living quarters, and the team splits duties: Frank and Vincent go to New York for films and equipment, Jolly to Fairlands for their old gear, and Randy and Pep prepare the venue. A final incident sees Pep heroically saving a runaway baby carriage, injuring his wrist, and being whisked by a millionaire motorist to a Brenton mansion for expert care, while Randy tracks him down—leaving the show’s launch underway but not yet open. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

"Blind mice" by C. Kay-Scott is a novel written in the early 20th century. It appears to be a domestic social drama about an idealistic young architect, John Winter, his practical partner Jim Sprague, and John’s steady wife Lucy, whose household is unsettled by the arrival of Lucy’s self-dramatizing mother, “Nannie” Merwent. Themes of art versus money, marital loyalty, class pretensions, and a young woman’s self-determination run through the story. The opening of the novel follows John and Jim on a rainy suburban commute to Lucy and their little boy Dimmie, where talk of work and money contrasts with John’s artistic ambitions and Lucy’s quiet good sense. The next morning John fetches Lucy’s mother, Nannie, whose flirtatious charm and needy vanity quickly win John’s attention while eroding Lucy’s place at her own table. The narrative then shifts to Nannie’s past—her spoiled Southern upbringing, manipulative marriage to Arthur Merwent, and Lucy’s difficult childhood—culminating in Lucy’s refusal to be maneuvered into a wealthy match and her decision to leave for Chicago to learn bookbinding, supported by her father. It closes on Nannie’s vicious outburst as Lucy departs, clarifying the emotional stakes and the fractures now shaping the Winters’ future. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

The Breach of Trust; or, The Professor and Possessor of Piety by Madeline Leslie is a moral domestic novel written in the late 19th century. It contrasts hollow “professions” of religion with genuine Christian character through the fortunes of siblings Helen and Frank Edmond, who fall under the guardianship of the vain, self-promoting merchant Monson P. Tracy. The story probes hypocrisy, charity, and fiduciary abuse, set against New England parsonage life and a tender, emerging attachment within the pastor’s family. The opening of the novel introduces Monson P. Tracy, a self-assured “professor of religion” who craves public praise yet withholds kindness, and contrasts him with his dying benefactor, the truly pious Roswell Edmond, who entrusts his children to Tracy’s care. A retrospective traces Tracy’s rise from destitute boy aided by Edmond to ambitious merchant, while the present follows Helen’s growing alarm at Tracy’s hypocrisy and his son Roswell’s calculated pursuit, alongside her compassion for a poor seamstress, Sarah Barrows, whom Tracy had wronged. With help from allies like the pastor Mr. Knowles and the merchant McKinstry, Helen raises funds to rescue Sarah, rebuffs Tracy’s interference in her visitors, and ultimately rejects Roswell’s proposal, after which she and Frank resettle near their country home. There they find calmer footing under the pastor’s wing, deepen ties with his son Frederic, take up study and charity among mill families, and the section closes on a dramatic rescue as Frederic saves Helen from a mad dog. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

"The Roman Hat Mystery: A Problem in Deduction" by Ellery Queen is a detective novel written in the early 20th century. It presents a classic closed-circle murder set in a Broadway theatre, where Inspector Richard Queen and his son Ellery investigate the poisoning of a notorious lawyer during a performance. The case hinges on rigorous deduction, suspiciously empty seats, and a missing tophat that turns into the puzzle’s signature clue. The opening of the novel frames the story with a foreword by a friend who recounts retrieving Ellery’s manuscript and sketches the father–son team’s complementary talents. The scene then shifts to the Roman Theatre during the gangster play “Gunplay,” where a commotion reveals an audience member—Monte Field—dead in his seat. Officer Doyle locks down the house; Inspector Queen and Ellery arrive, establish a tight time window (last seen alive around 9:25, found dead about 9:55), and note seven sold-but-empty nearby seats and a conspicuously missing top hat. Early inquiries produce a half-empty ginger-ale bottle (procured by orangeade boy Jess Lynch for Field), a flask, evidence pointing to fast-acting poison, and no gun or stab wound. Usher and doorman accounts suggest no straightforward comings and goings, while a known crook, “Parson” Johnny Cazzanelli, is caught trying to slip out, and Field’s former partner Benjamin Morgan is identified in the audience. The police begin collecting names and ticket stubs, order a painstaking search, and flag the missing hat as a critical lead, with a lexicon of characters and a theatre map signaling a fair-play, clue-driven investigation. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

"El Toro : A motor car story of interior Cuba" by E. Ralph Estep is an adventure travelogue written in the early 20th century. It recounts a small American team’s bid to drive a Packard across Cuba’s roadless interior, turning a business errand into a hard-bitten overland expedition. Led by Sidney D. Waldon with companions Edwin S. George, Fred Crebbin, the narrator, and their Cuban interpreter Rogelio, they confront stone trails, swamps, rivers, and mountain passes while sketching lively portraits of rural Cuban people and places far from tourist Havana. The opening of this travelogue follows the party from Havana’s smooth boulevard into a brutal landscape of rocks, ruts, and bridgeless rivers, where they camp in the open, bargain for food in palm‑thatched huts, and learn to hack paths and build makeshift brush causeways. They inch from Camp Solitude past Benavides and Tosca, pick up Rogelio at Matanzas, and thread sugar fields, dry riverbeds, and ox‑cart ruts, often fording streams and jacking the car over stone steps. After a swamp traps them at dusk, locals help lever the car free and christen it “El Toro,” and the crew roars triumphantly into Santa Clara by night. Misled toward Camajuani and caught in driving rain, they claw over the Santa Fe passes, corduroy bogs with palm trunks, and wade rivers before reaching Camajuani, then slog on via Placetas through mill yards jammed with bull‑drawn cane carts. Nights bring flea‑ridden cots, a balcony bunk, and finally hammocks in a pig shed at Casa Cinco. At last an old Spanish road delivers them over stone bridges into Sancti Spiritus, where crowds cheer—after which the climactic push ends quietly as they load El Toro onto a flatcar and leave by rail. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

"From Vermont to Damascus : Returning by way of Beyrout, Smyrna, Ephesus,…." by Adna Brown is a travelogue written in the late 19th century. It compiles a Vermonter’s letters from an “Oriental tour,” blending vivid on-the-spot observations with practical travel advice and illustrations. The likely focus is a guided journey through Italy, Egypt, the Holy Land, and parts of Europe, narrated with Protestant-American sensibilities and an eye for history, scenery, and everyday customs. The opening of the book traces Brown’s decision to escape a harsh Vermont winter by joining Dr. A. E. Dunning’s organized tour, the departure from New York on the steamship Normannia, and a lively Atlantic crossing via the Azores to Gibraltar and Algiers. It then covers first impressions of Naples and its environs (museums, the royal palace, Sorrento, Pompeii, Vesuvius), followed by Rome and Tivoli (St. Peter’s, the Vatican, the Pantheon, the Forum and Palatine ruins), and a rail run to Brindisi. From there the party sails to Alexandria, notes the shock of North African street life, and rides to Cairo to embark on the Nile steamer Memphis. A brisk sequence of Nile stops ensues—donkey rides to Memphis and Beni-Hassan, a night visit to a vast sugar works, Assiout’s mission service, irrigation methods, the temple at Denderah, and extended days amid the ruins of Luxor/Thebes—continuing upriver to Esneh, Edfu, Assouan, and Philæ. Returning to Cairo, Brown sketches modern and old quarters, mosques and bazaars, social and religious customs, the pyramids, a call on a wealthy sheik, the howling dervishes, the museum, and preparations to move on toward Palestine. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

"Ikuinen rakastaja" by Edgar Rice Burroughs is a novel written in the early 20th century. It entwines prehistoric adventure with colonial‑era African romance as a Stone Age hunter and a modern woman become mysteriously linked across time. The story centers on the caveman Nu and the fearless Victoria Custer (with her brother Barney), alongside Lord and Lady Greystoke in the African frame. Expect swift hunts, peril, and a simmering cross‑time love thread. The opening of the story follows Nu, a prehistoric hunter who slays a sabertooth to win his beloved Nat‑ul, only to be trapped by a cataclysmic quake in the beast’s cave. The scene shifts to Africa, where Victoria Custer, visiting the Greystokes, reveals an intense fear of earthquakes and recurring dreams of a powerful, ancient lover; when William Curtiss proposes, a sudden tremor interrupts and she faints. After the quake, a sealed mountain cave bursts open and Nu awakens into a changed world, emerging with his spear and the trophy head, repairing his weapon, and killing a zebra. A hunting party (including Greystoke) finds the kill and deduces a human spearman at work, while Nu shadows them to the bungalow, fascinated by these strange people and drawn by an elusive, alluring scent. (This is an automatically generated summary.)