English Chatacter set encoding: US-ASCII ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AUNT JANE'S NIECES*** E-text prepared by Afra Ullah, Josephine Paolucci, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team AUNT JANE'S NIECES By EDITH VAN DYNE 1906 A LIST OF CHAPTERS CHAPTER

*** E-text prepared by Afra Ullah, Josephine Paolucci, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team AUNT JANE'S NIECES AND UNCLE JOHN BY EDITH VAN DYNE AUTHOR OF "AUNT JANE'S NIECES," "AUNT JANE'S NIECES ABROAD," "AUNT JANE'S NIECES AT MILLVILLE," "AUNT JANE'S NIECES AT WORK."

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[eBook #10485] Language: English Character set encoding: US-ASCII ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EXPERIMENTS IN GOVERNMENT AND THE ESSENTIALS OF THE CONSTITUTION*** E-text prepared by Afra Ullah, Lazar Liveanu, David King, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team EXPERIMENTS IN GOVERNMENT AND THE ESSENTIALS OF THE CONSTITUTION BY ELIHU ROOT 1913 PREFACE

ULRIC AND AFRA, AUGSBURG MONASTERY OF MÖLK ON THE DANUBE ABOVE VIENNA MEMORIAL TABLET AND ROAD IN THE IRON GATE OF THE DANUBE

[Illustration: THE MONASTERY OF ST. ULRIC AND AFRA, AT AUGSBURG IN BAVARIA]

Many books, written for temporary effect, had run through six or seven editions, and had then been gathered to the novels of Afra Behn, and the epic poems of Sir Richard Blackmore.

[Footnote 1: 'Behn:' Afra, a popular but obscure novelist and play-wright.]

After their quarrel became desperate, Dryden resumed his prologue, and adapted it to a play by Afra Behn, called the "Widow Ranter, or Bacon in Virginia.

BEHN, AFRA, a licentious writer, born in Kent, for whom, for her free and easy ways, Charles II. took a liking; sent by him as a spy to Holland, and through her discovered the intention of the Dutch to burn the shipping in the Thames.

Here was a cathedral, containing twenty-four chapels; and an abbey or monastery (of Saints Ulric and Afra) which had no rival in Bavaria for the size of its structure and the wealth of its possessions.

Ulric and Afra.