PREFACE There are many of us in England who consider the crime which has been wrought in the Congo lands by King Leopold of Belgium and his followers to be the greatest which has ever been known in human annals. Personally I am strongly of that opinion. There have been great expropriations like that of the Normans in England or of the English in Ireland. There have been massacres of populations like that of the South Americans by the Spaniards or of subject nations by the Turks. But never before has there been such a mixture of wholesale expropriation and wholesale massacre all done under an...

I MR. ROBERT MONTGOMERY was seated at his desk, his head upon his hands, in a state of the blackest despondency. Before him was the open ledger with the long columns of Dr. Oldacre's prescriptions. At his elbow lay the wooden tray with the labels in various partitions, the cork box, the lumps of twisted sealing-wax, while in front a rank of empty bottles waited to be filled. But his spirits were too low for work. He sat in silence, with his fine shoulders bowed and his head upon his hands. Outside, through the grimy surgery window over a foreground of blackened brick and slate, a line of...

Published, Fortnightly Review, February 1913. This essay is of some interest, as it was written two years before the war, and was one of the first attempts to make the public realise the importance of Bernhardi's notorious book. The author follows it by an unpublished essay called -Afterthoughts, - in which he examines how far his reading of the future has been justified by the event. I am a member of the Anglo-German Society for the improvement of the relations between the two countries, and I have never seriously believed in the German menace. Frequently I have found myself alone in a...

PREFACE This book contains reproductions of the famous Cottingley photographs, and gives the whole of the evidence in connection with them. The diligent reader is in almost as good a position as I am to form a judgment upon the authenticity of the pictures. This narrative is not a special plea for that authenticity, but is simply a collection of facts the inferences from which may be accepted or rejected as the reader may think fit. I would warn the critic, however, not to be led away by the sophistry that because some professional trickster, apt at the game of deception, can produce a...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and featuring his famous private detective. The original book was illustrated by Sidney Paget. These are the first adventures of Sherlock Holmes. They were originally published in Strand Magazine between July 1891 and June 1892. The book was published in England on 14 October 1892 by publisher George Newnes Ldt. The initial circulation was 14,500 copies. The book was banned in the Soviet Union in 1929 for occultism even though the book shows no trace of such a theme. Summary: The king of...

An old man living his retirement in Paris in the middle of the 19th Century relates the adventures of his youth, when he was a dashing young Hussar in Napoleon's army. The finest swordsman, the bravest soldier, the greatest horseman and the most ardent of lovers - at least in his his own eyes - the vain Brigadier's exploits are the stuff of legend... a legend he is more than happy to tell... Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes and Professor Challenger, Brigadier Gerard's adventures mix action and humour and are rightly regarded as classics. How the Brigadier Came To...

Brigadier Gerard was once the finest swordsman in all of Napoleon's armies... as well as the bravest soldier, the greatest horseman and the most passionate of lovers... at least that is the reputation he is happy to embelish. Now an old man living his retirement in Paris in the middle of the 19th Century, Gerard relates the adventures of his youth, when he was a dashing young Hussar in Napoleon's army. Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes and Professor Challenger, Brigadier Gerard's adventures mix action and humour and are rightly regarded as classics. How Brigadier...

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.

In Sherlock Holmes' first short story, he must face his most wily adversary yet--Irene Adler, "The Woman." Contracted by a Bohemian king to retrieve a series of compromising photographs ahead of the royal wedding, Holmes is caught up in disguises, bluffs, marriages, double bluffs, smoke alarms and heartbreak. To this supposedly heartless detective, Irene Adler is in many ways the first and only love of Holmes'...

This tastefully produced box set collects Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories in six volumes. The drug-addled, anti-social sleuth has become one of the most iconic characters in fiction and the tales collected here will entertain readers today just as much as when they were first published in the late 19th Century.

Stories include:
1. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
2. The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear
3. His Last Bow
4. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
5. The Return of Sherlock Holmes
6. A Study in Scarlet & The Sign of Four

Detective Sherlock Holmes is called to action again to investigate the mysterious murder of Sir Charles Baskerville. Assisted by his faithful colleague, Dr. Watson, Sherlock Holmes investigates the unusual circumstances surrounding the death of Sir Baskerville. Nothing is what it appears to be in this fascinating tale, which ultimately results in an unforgettable climax.