Project Gutenberg #7

• The Home Book of Verse, edited by Burton Egbert Stevenson
  • Volume 1
  • Volume 2
  • Volume 3
  • Volume 4

Also by Mr Stevenson: Poems of American History at Google.

Where's a map when you need one?

I'd like to see the trail of laws, amendments and court decisions that led to this from this:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Happy birthday!

Around here it's pretty much always someone's birthday or half-birthday or name day or whatnot. Today it's our youngest child's turn - she turns five today. Here's my wife:

My baby is five! That's right. Today Quinta, my youngest child, turns five years old. I spent six months on bedrest to get this child full-term. She was worth every minute. I had a caesarean section to deliver her. She was worth every anxiety. There were complications with her delivery and I ended up with a hysterectomy. She is greater than my wishes for more children.

This sweet child on her fifth birthday is a bright shining jewel: a tremendous blessing from God. She fills our lives with laughter and dancing. I am more grateful than she can know for her very being and her being in OUR family. I love you, Sugar. Happy Birthday, Baby!

She's requested a chocolate heart-shaped cake with pink icing (to be delivered by Mamaw), and a birthday menu: oatmeal for breakfast, McDonald's for lunch, and biscuits and sausage gravy for supper. Her favorite Sodor engine, Hiro, is among her gifts and Mamaw and Papaw are on their way have arrived from Indiana.

Project Gutenberg #6

• Essays in English Literature: 1780-1860, George Saintsbury, 1890
• Through Russian Snows: A Story of Napoleon's Retreat From Moscow, G.A. Henty, 1902
• Astounding Stories magazine, April 1931

Nameplate fun

I've spend odd moments working on a blog redesign in drupal. Here's a possible nameplate centered on a funny bird I found in an old book at Project Gutenberg; the font is Windsor, which I discovered via the inimitable Andrew Cusack. The notion of putting a large thingamajig between the words came from Mr Cusack's own blog design and his note about the International Herald Tribune's evolving dingbat.

A taste for books

Bibliomania at Project Gutenberg: a resource page.

Project Gutenberg #5

• Canned Fruit, Preserves, and Jellies: Household Methods of Preparation - US Department of Agriculture, 1917
• Bulfinch's Mythology - an 1881 compilation of three earlier works by Thomas Bulfinch:
  • The Age of Fable
  • The Age of Chivalry
  • Legends of Charlemagne

Project Gutenberg #4

• Rhymes Old and New, 1900
• The Talisman (a Waverly novel) - Sir Walter Scott

Project Gutenberg #3

• How to form a library, 1886
• Riders of the purple sage, 1912, Zane Grey
• Traditional nursery songs of England, with illustrations, 1843