item: #1 of 22 id: 11179 author: None title: Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2 date: None words: 52983 flesch: 70 summary: To say that one can count dozens of glaciers, that he can see fifty summits, that Monte Rosa, the Lyskamm, the Twins, the Breithorn, the Matterhorn, the Dent Blanche, the Weisshorn, with many other mountains of the Valais and Oberland form a complete circle of snow peaks, may establish the geography of the place but it does not convey any but the faintest picture of the sublime grandeur of the scene.... From the Schwarzsee (8,495 feet, where there is an excellent hotel), there is a fine survey of the Matterhorn, and also a splendid panorama, on three sides, one view up the glaciers toward the Monte Rosa, another over the valley to the Dent Blanche and other great peaks, and still another to the far distant Bernese Oberland. keywords: alps; ascent; away; blue; church; city; day; days; end; feet; footnote; geneva; glacier; good; green; half; high; house; ice; illustration; italian; lake; left; life; light; look; man; matterhorn; men; monte; morning; mountain; new; pass; past; peaks; people; place; point; road; rocks; snow; summer; summit; sun; switzerland; tho; time; town; trieste; valley; view; village; walls; water; way; white; women; work; world; years; zermatt cache: 11179.txt plain text: 11179.txt item: #2 of 22 id: 12404 author: None title: Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 5 Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Switzerland, Part 1 date: None words: 53323 flesch: 68 summary: The Norixberg theory will serve to illustrate the incredible quantity of misplaced ingenuity which both of old times and in the present has been wasted in trying to explain the inexplicable. Once more we have to cross the Pegnitz, whose banks are overhung by quaint old houses. keywords: air; architecture; art; berlin; bridge; building; castle; cathedral; century; charlemagne; church; city; country; day; days; dürer; effect; emperor; europe; feet; footnote; german; half; hall; history; house; hungary; illustration; king; left; life; light; look; marble; middle; mountains; new; nuremberg; parts; people; place; present; red; rhine; river; round; sea; second; stone; streets; tho; time; tower; town; trees; view; walk; walls; water; way; white; windows; work; world; years cache: 12404.txt plain text: 12404.txt item: #3 of 22 id: 13065 author: Beethoven, Ludwig van title: Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 1 date: None words: 59107 flesch: 77 summary: As to the future system of education, I can at all events congratulate myself on having done all that I could possibly effect at present _for the best_, and trust _that the future may be in accordance with it_. Do you mean to go post-haste to the devil, gentlemen, by proposing that I should write _such_ a _sonata_? keywords: archduke; art; beethoven; carl; come; concert; count; day; dear; doubt; ducats; farewell; florins; footnote; friend; good; great; herr; hope; kind; know; letter; life; ludwig; man; music; new; present; prince; ries; rudolph; sonata; symphony; think; time; van; van beethoven; vienna; von; wish; works; world; y.r.h; year; zmeskall cache: 13065.txt plain text: 13065.txt item: #4 of 22 id: 13272 author: Beethoven, Ludwig van title: Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 2 date: None words: 61908 flesch: 78 summary: The question now is whether Y.R.H. _is satisfied with the title_. the occasion of this note is thus related:--In 1825, a well-known artist and _dilettante_ in the composition of music published a book of waltzes, each of these being composed by the most popular and celebrated musicians of the day; as no one declined giving a musical contribution to the editor, the profits being intended to enable him to go to Carlsbad for the benefit of the waters there. keywords: archduke; baden; beethoven; brother; carl; court; day; days; dear; doubt; father; florins; footnote; friend; god; good; grand; health; herr; hope; house; kind; letter; london; ludwig; man; mass; money; morrow; music; nephew; new; pianoforte; place; present; prince; request; rudolph; schindler; society; son; subject; time; vienna; von; wish; work; write; y.r.h; year; yesterday cache: 13272.txt plain text: 13272.txt item: #5 of 22 id: 16070 author: Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) title: The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power date: None words: 167852 flesch: 64 summary: As emperor, Rhodolph could call the armies of the Germanic princes into the field; but these princes moved reluctantly, unless roused by some question of great moment to them all. Albert, with characteristic impulsiveness, declared that he was emperor by choice of the electors and not by ratification of the pope, and defiantly spurned the opposition of the pontiff. keywords: age; aid; albert; armies; arms; army; austria; battle; bavaria; bohemia; catholic; character; charles; church; city; court; crown; daughter; day; days; death; diet; duke; elector; emperor; empire; england; europe; father; ferdinand; field; force; france; frederic; french; general; germany; government; gustavus; hands; hungary; imperial; italy; king; kingdom; left; leopold; louis; march; maria; matthias; maximilian; men; miles; new; nobles; palace; peace; philip; poland; pope; possession; power; prague; prince; protestants; prussia; queen; rhodolph; son; sovereign; spain; spirit; states; terms; theresa; throne; time; treaty; troops; turks; vienna; war; years cache: 16070.txt plain text: 16070.txt item: #6 of 22 id: 18160 author: Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Ottokar Theobald Otto Maria, Graf title: In the World War date: None words: 134648 flesch: 59 summary: I told him that in my opinion Russia would propose a _general_ peace, and that we must of course accept this proposal. This is _an offer of peace_, for in fourteen points Mr. Wilson sets forth the principles upon which he seeks to establish a general peace. keywords: affairs; alliance; america; archduke; austria; austro; berlin; boat; brest; case; count; country; course; day; emperor; end; enemy; england; english; entente; fact; following; foreign; france; general; germany; government; great; hand; hungarian; hungary; idea; italy; king; london; matter; military; minister; moment; monarchy; opinion; order; party; peace; peace negotiations; people; point; poland; policy; polish; position; powers; present; question; right; roumania; russian; situation; state; time; tisza; ukrainian; vienna; view; war; warfare; way; world; world war; years cache: 18160.txt plain text: 18160.txt item: #7 of 22 id: 20997 author: Ouida title: The Nürnberg Stove date: None words: 19638 flesch: 83 summary: Little August saw all these things, as he saw everything with his two big bright eyes that had such curious lights and shadows in them; but he went heedfully on his way for the sake of the beer which a single slip of the foot would make him spill. So the stove had got to be called Hirschvogel in the family, as if it were a living creature, and little August was very proud because he had been named after that famous old dead German who had had the genius to make so glorious a thing. keywords: august; boy; children; cold; door; dorothea; father; hirschvogel; home; house; king; man; men; night; nürnberg; snow; stove; strehla; thing; thought; time; voice; work cache: 20997.txt plain text: 20997.txt item: #8 of 22 id: 34582 author: Tapper, Thomas title: Mozart : The story of a little boy and his sister who gave concerts date: None words: 1709 flesch: 88 summary: The violin was the instrument he liked best and little Mozart had daily lessons in his home. Little Mozart loved to hear his sister play. keywords: illustration; mozart; play cache: 34582.txt plain text: 34582.txt item: #9 of 22 id: 35070 author: Tapper, Thomas title: Franz Schubert : The Story of the Boy Who Wrote Beautiful Songs date: None words: 2128 flesch: 88 summary: [Illustration: No. 5] [Illustration: No. 7] [Illustration: No. 6] [Illustration: No. 8] [Illustration: No. 15] [Illustration: No. 21] [Illustration: No. 12] [Illustration: No. 2] [Illustration: No. 3] [Illustration: No. 9] [Illustration: No. 10] [Illustration: No. 13] [Illustration: No. 17] [Illustration: No. 11] Franz Schubert The Story of the Boy Who Wrote Beautiful Songs This Book was made by _____________________ Philadelphia Theodore Presser Co. Who taught Schubert harmony? 7. keywords: book; franz; illustration; schubert cache: 35070.txt plain text: 35070.txt item: #10 of 22 id: 36854 author: Franzos, Karl Emil title: The Chief Justice: A Novel date: None words: 68127 flesch: 82 summary: We beg you to keep this salt-cellar on your table, so that your heart may be always rejoiced by the gift of poor men whose benefactor you have been. Well then; I know your father; he is my best friend, a man so noble and good, so upright and full of heart, as are few men on this poor earth. keywords: berger; case; chief; child; court; day; death; door; duty; eyes; face; father; franz; friend; girl; good; hand; head; heart; house; judge; justice; life; look; man; matter; minister; moment; night; people; prison; sendlingen; thing; thought; time; victorine; voice; way; werner cache: 36854.txt plain text: 36854.txt item: #11 of 22 id: 37638 author: Anonymous title: Child of the Regiment date: None words: 3350 flesch: 69 summary: [Illustration] The old Guard then took little Mary to live with him, and she learned to sew and play with her doll, which he had bought for her; and delighted in filling his canteen with water, and polishing his epaulettes; she would also sing and dance with him; which pleased him very much, for he loved no body but her; as he was a great many miles from his home, and had marched all the way with the army. At length the regiment was ordered home, and took little Mary with them. keywords: guard; illustration; mary; regiment; rodolph cache: 37638.txt plain text: 37638.txt item: #12 of 22 id: 3788 author: Hadden, J. Cuthbert (James Cuthbert) title: Haydn date: None words: 63071 flesch: 69 summary: Wiener Musikzeitung ... 1843 J. Haydn in London, 1791 and 1792 Karajan Vienna, 1861 Joseph Haydn und sein Bruder Michael Wurzbach Vienna, 1861 Joseph Haydn Ludwig Nordhausen, 1867 Mozart and Haydn in London Pohl Vienna, 1867 Joseph Haydn. Pohl ... This, the first comprehensive biography of Haydn, was published --the first half of Vol. I. in 1875, the second half in 1882. Before leaving for London Haydn had a tiff with the King of Naples, Ferdinand IV, who was then in Vienna. keywords: beethoven; capellmeister; case; composer; compositions; concerts; creation; day; days; dear; death; eisenstadt; english; esterhazy; florins; frau; friend; genius; genzinger; god; good; handel; hands; haydn; herr; home; house; joseph haydn; kind; lady; letter; life; london; london haydn; love; man; master; mozart; music; new; opera; orchestra; order; performance; place; present; prince; return; salomon; score; second; symphonies; symphony; thomson; time; vienna; visit; way; wife; words; work; writing; years cache: 3788.txt plain text: 3788.txt item: #13 of 22 id: 40628 author: Schreiner, George Abel title: The Iron Ration: Three Years in Warring Central Europe date: None words: 98839 flesch: 76 summary: The fact that business relations in Central Europe are very often family and friendship affairs was to prove an almost insuperable obstacle in government food regulation. In times of war men may not think, because militarism is absolute. keywords: american; army; austria; authorities; berlin; bread; business; buy; case; central; central europe; children; class; coal; consumption; country; course; day; days; emperor; end; europe; european; fact; farmer; flour; food; food shark; general; german; good; government; government food; half; hand; home; hungarian; hungary; interest; labor; large; left; life; line; manner; means; military; mind; money; new; order; past; people; place; poor; population; potatoes; price; production; public; purpose; question; reason; regulation; right; shortage; small; sort; state; thing; thought; time; use; vienna; war; war loans; way; wheat; woman; work; years cache: 40628.txt plain text: 40628.txt item: #14 of 22 id: 43614 author: Busk, Rachel Harriette title: The Valleys of Tirol: Their traditions and customs and how to visit them date: None words: 124919 flesch: 68 summary: At other times he would earn his day's food by manual labour before he disclosed to his entertainers who he was, and then he would only partake of the same frugal fare, and the same hard lodging, as the peasants who received him. There are other churches in Hall; where that of S. Saviour now stands was once a group of crazy cottages; but one day, in the year 1406, in one of them a poor man lay dying, and the priest bore him the holy Viaticum, which knows no distinction between the palace and the hovel: the furniture was as rickety as the tenements themselves; the only table, on which the priest had deposited the sacred vessels, propped against the wall for support, gave way by some accident, and the Santissimo was thrown upon the floor. keywords: account; altar; austria; bank; bear; bishop; building; castle; century; chapel; chapter; character; charles; chief; children; christian; church; come; country; course; day; days; death; der; devotion; die; distance; earth; emperor; faith; family; father; favourite; feet; ferdinand; find; fire; following; form; french; german; god; gold; good; hall; hand; having; head; history; holy; home; honour; hour; house; innsbruck; interest; italian; italy; lake; left; legend; life; man; maria; maximilian; means; memory; men; mind; morning; mother; mountain; near; neighbourhood; neighbouring; night; north; number; occasion; order; pass; path; peasant; people; place; power; present; priest; remains; rest; return; road; rock; rome; round; saw; schwatz; set; son; south; spirit; spot; stone; story; tell; thought; time; tirol; tirolean; tirolese; town; traditions; trent; valley; village; visit; von; wall; water; way; wife; wild; work; world; wälsch; years cache: 43614.txt plain text: 43614.txt item: #15 of 22 id: 44461 author: Hodgson, Randolph Llewellyn title: Wanderings through unknown Austria date: None words: 23508 flesch: 79 summary: [Illustration: DUINO FROM THE SEA] The view from it is magnificent: before you the open sea; on both sides, extending in graceful curves, the coast, amethyst-hued; far on the left the white houses of Trieste, and rather nearer, the Imperial Castle of Miramar; on the right, just on the horizon, the tower of Aquileia, famous in Roman times; and in the dim distance the snow-clad Alps. From the land side the castle looks perhaps even more stern and severe, and like the fortress it was in old days. [Illustration: BOREAS] On the other door is an ancient knocker--interesting if you have a passion for old things. keywords: aquileia; blue; boy; castle; chapter; church; collaborator; country; dark; day; duino; good; host; house; illustration; lady; left; man; people; place; room; sea; sort; things; time; town; trees; way; white cache: 44461.txt plain text: 44461.txt item: #16 of 22 id: 44746 author: Busk, Rachel Harriette title: Household stories from the Land of Hofer; or, Popular Myths of Tirol date: None words: 101280 flesch: 78 summary: Said you not that the Wilder Jäger's domain was entirely among the tall dark trees? Said he so? answered the maiden, with intense earnestness; then my heart did not deceive me when I first heard your voice: you are indeed he with the thread of whose life mine is woven, and without whom I could not be set free. keywords: aennerl; baron; castle; day; days; devil; door; earth; eligio; father; fear; gold; good; hand; head; heart; help; home; jössl; king; klein; lareyn; left; life; look; maiden; man; men; mind; moment; mother; mountain; people; place; prince; princess; rest; right; rock; round; saw; set; son; theodoric; thing; thought; time; tirol; voice; way; wife; wilder; woman; word; work; young cache: 44746.txt plain text: 44746.txt item: #17 of 22 id: 45755 author: Zweig, Stefan title: The Burning Secret date: None words: 25256 flesch: 84 summary: Without a word of opposition Edgar went to his mother's toilet table and washed and combed himself. Edgar clung to the tree, his little body completely wrapped in obscurity, quiet as death. keywords: baron; boy; child; day; door; edgar; eyes; face; friend; life; man; moment; mother; room; secret; thought; time; voice; way; woman cache: 45755.txt plain text: 45755.txt item: #18 of 22 id: 45824 author: Denis, Hector title: Social Comptabilism The Cheque and Clearing Service in the Austrian Postal Savings Bank. Proposed Law laid before the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium date: None words: 33344 flesch: 60 summary: | fl. | * keywords: ----+-------+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+----+---+----+----+ |; = =; account; account book; book; cheque; cheque service; clearing; credit; deposit; deposit book; depositor; florins; interest; money; office savings; payment; post office; savings bank; savings service; service; value; | +; | der; | fl; | | cache: 45824.txt plain text: 45824.txt item: #19 of 22 id: 45895 author: Schnitzler, Arthur title: The Road to the Open date: None words: 136370 flesch: 84 summary: When George went Else accompanied him into the empty room. George felt thankful and relieved at this new departure. keywords: anna; baron; child; course; dark; day; days; dear; demeter; doctor; door; ehrenberg; evening; eyes; fact; father; felician; frau; garden; george; golowski; good; hand; head; heinrich; herr; home; house; idea; kind; leo; life; look; love; man; matter; men; mind; mother; nürnberger; open; people; place; rate; right; room; rosner; round; table; therese; things; thought; time; town; vienna; way; white; window; words; world; years; young cache: 45895.txt plain text: 45895.txt item: #20 of 22 id: 46230 author: Mendel, Florence Emma Voigt title: Our Little Austrian Cousin date: None words: 26348 flesch: 77 summary: The children were fascinated with the Community, where every one seemed so happy and well cared for; and they begged to be allowed to remain many days, but Herr Müller reminded them that Frau Müller would be awaiting them at Gratz. It was from Herr Runkel, stating he was obliged to make a visit to Dalmatia to see his younger brother Max on business, and if Herr Müller would care to make the trip with him, he would meet him at Villach in Carinthia the following Tuesday. keywords: 12mo; castle; child; children; city; cloth; cousin=; day; days; emperor; farm; father; ferdinand; frau; herr; herr müller; home; house; man; martin; men; mother; mountains; müller; night; room; runkel; teresa; time; tyrol; vienna; way cache: 46230.txt plain text: 46230.txt item: #21 of 22 id: 5307 author: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus title: The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 date: None words: 90633 flesch: 82 summary: I know already all that you write to me about Mannheim, but I never wish to say anything prematurely; all in good time. I don't, however, think that I shall close with the offer; I must take the advice of good friends on the subject. keywords: aria; augsburg; cannabich; cause; che; concert; count; day; days; dec; doubt; elector; father; footnote; friend; god; good; great; half; heart; herr; home; honor; hope; house; journey; kind; leave; left; letter; life; madame; madlle; mamma; mannheim; mean; milan; moment; morrow; mother; mozart; munich; music; new; nov; o'clock; opera; papa; paris; people; piano; place; play; pleasure; present; raaff; room; salzburg; second; sister; son; subject; thing; thought; time; voice; von; way; weber; wish; wolfgang; words; writing; yesterday; young cache: 5307.txt plain text: 5307.txt item: #22 of 22 id: 9955 author: Schnitzler, Arthur title: Bertha Garlan date: None words: 60111 flesch: 84 summary: Good evening, my little mortal!--he gazed away over Fritz's head as he said this--may I sit down for a moment beside you, Frau Bertha? He pronounced her name with an ironic inflection and, without waiting for her to reply, he sat down on the bench. Good evening, Frau Bertha, he said from across the road, and she could see in the darkness that he raised his hat. keywords: bertha; course; day; days; emil; evening; eyes; frau; frau rupius; good; hand; herr; home; husband; letter; man; mind; moment; room; rupius; things; thought; time; town; vienna; way; woman; years cache: 9955.txt plain text: 9955.txt