This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for May, 1997

Etext #900 is the Folio version [.nfo] of "The History
of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire."

This file is currently drfr310.nfo but will be changed
to dcfre10.nfo when the connections allow us to do it.

Another 98 days and we should be posting several etext
versions of Dante's Divine Comedy, in both Italian and
in English, to get us to Etext #1,000.


As of May 4, we had posted Etext #900, though we still
have a problem with the filenames that need sorting in
or out or whichever way we end up sorting it.

For now, the information is all there but the indexing
still probably needs some going over:

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
is available in three formats:  .txt   .htm  and  .nfo,
which is the Folio format.  You can get a free Folio to
read this with on a temporary trial basis at:

http://www.folio.com

#900's filename is dfre310.nfo and dfre310.zip has the
.nfo file in it, along with dfre310.htm, which is Vol.
3 of the 6 volumes in HTML format, which versions will
be #890 to #895 as volumes 1 to 6.  The .txt versions,
#731-#736, were released last November.

Because there were two file extensions that both used
the same first portions [dfre310] that meant the .zip
files for both files used the same name [dfre310.zip]
so for now both files share the same .zip file.  This
will mean you will get both the .nfo file and the Vol
3 HTML file when you download dfre310.zip.  I tried a
few times to get something together in a hurry to fix
this, but, as many of you well know, I think it is so
much more important to get the CONTENT out there, and
then worry about the FORM later, and I had promised a
lot of people this Newsletter would go out today.

This should give our new indexing systems fits, until
we manage to sort things in, out, up down or. . . .

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Please forgive me if this Newsletter sounds rushed in
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and ab-used, by the powerful to make themselves more,
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"A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste."

[If we measure humanness by what is in our minds. . .
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And now, here is this month's index of files getting
us up to #900.


Mon Year    Title and Author  [# of PG books by the author][filename.ext] ###


May 1997 Decline/Fall Of The Roman Empire, by Gibbon, Folio[dfr310xx.xxx] 900
May 1997 Wonderful Balloon Ascents, by F. (Fulgence) Marion[wonbaxxx.xxx] 899
May 1997 The Lesson of the Master, by Henry James[James#13][tlotmxxx.xxx] 898
May 1997 The Rose and the Ring, by Thackeray [Thackeray #2][rsrngxxx.xxx] 897

Apr 1997 Orations, by John Quincy Adams, [April 30, 1839]  [objqaxxx.xxx] 896
Apr 1997 Decline/Fall Of The Roman Empire, by Gibbon V6 htm[dfre6xxx.xxx] 895
Apr 1997 Decline/Fall Of The Roman Empire, by Gibbon V5 htm[dfre5xxx.xxx] 894
Apr 1997 Decline/Fall Of The Roman Empire, by Gibbon V4 htm[dfre4xxx.xxx] 893

Apr 1997 Decline/Fall Of The Roman Empire, by Gibbon V3 htm[dfre3xxx.xxx] 892
Apr 1997 Decline/Fall Of The Roman Empire, by Gibbon V2 htm[dfre2xxx.xxx] 891
Apr 1997 Decline/Fall Of The Roman Empire, by Gibbon V1 htm[dfre1xxx.xxx] 890
Apr 1997 Two Years in the Forbidden City, Princess Der Ling[tyifcxxx.xxx] 889

Apr 1997 Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by Dickens [#23][lttiaxxx.xxx] 888
Apr 1997 Intentions, by Oscar Wilde  [Oscar Wilde #11]     [ntntnxxx.xxx] 887
Apr 1997 Letters from the Cape, by Lady Duff Gordon        [lddfgxxx.xxx] 886
Apr 1997 An Ideal Husband, by Oscar Wilde [Oscar Wilde #10][ihsbnxxx.xxx] 885

Apr 1997 Memoirs of Popular Delusions V3, by Charles MacKay[3ppdlxxx.xxx] 884
Apr 1997 Our Mutual Friend, by Charles Dickens [Dickens#22][mfrndxxx.xxx] 883
Apr 1997 Sketches by Boz, pseudonym of Charles [Dickens#21][sbbozxxx.xxx] 882

*The following five entries are acknowledged to be shorter entries than usual.

Apr 1997 Lemorne Versus Huell, by Elizabeth Drew Stoddard  [lvsshxxx.xxx] 881

Apr 1997 My Garden Acquaintance, James Russell Lowell [#1] [mgacqxxx.xxx] 880
Apr 1997 The Boy Captives, by John Greenleaf Whittier [#2] [bcptvxxx.xxx] 879
Apr 1997 Yankee Gypsies, by John Greenleaf Whittier [#1]   [ynkgpxxx.xxx] 878
Apr 1997 Little Britain, by Washington Irving [Irving #2]  [lbritxxx.xxx] 877

Apr 1997 Life in the Iron-Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis #2[ironmxxx.xxx] 876
Apr 1997 The Duchess of Padua, by Oscar Wilde  [Wilde #9]  [dpduaxxx.xxx] 875
Apr 1997 A History of Aeronautics, by E. Charles Vivian    [haeroxxx.xxx] 874
Apr 1997 A House of Pomegranates, by Oscar Wilde [Wilde #8][hpomgxxx.xxx] 873

Apr 1997 Reprinted Pieces, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #20][cdrprxxx.xxx] 872
Apr 1997 The Golden Sayings of Epictetus                   [epictxxx.xxx] 871
Apr 1997 The Love of Ulrich Nebendahl, Jerome K. Jerome[12][jjulrxxx.xxx] 870
Apr 1997 The Soul of Nicholas Snyders, Jerome K. Jerome[11][jjsnyxxx.xxx] 869

Apr 1997 The Philosopher's Joke, Jerome K. Jerome [JKJ#10] [jjphjxxx.xxx] 868
Apr 1997 Mrs. Korner Sins Her Mercies, by JK Jerome [JKJ#9][jjkorxxx.xxx] 867
Apr 1997 The Cost of Kindness, by Jerome K. Jerome [JKJ#8] [jjkndxxx.xxx] 866
Apr 1997 Passing of the Third Floor Back, by JK Jerome [#7][jjp3bxxx.xxx] 865


And, since there were two more days to get us to the first Tuesday of May:

May 1997 The Happy Prince & Other Tales by Oscar Wilde[#12][hpaotxxx.xxx] 902
May 1997 The Jew of Malta, by Christopher Marlowe  [CM #3] [jmltaxxx.xxx] 901


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