The Night Horseman

By Brand, Max

Book Id: WPLBN0000209027
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Night Horseman
Author:	Brand, Max
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection
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Publisher:	World Ebook Library


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Excerpt
AT THE AGE of six Randall Byrne could name and bound every state in the Union and give the date of its admission; at nine he was conversant with Homeric Greek and Caesar; at twelve he read Aristophanes with perfect understanding of the allusions of the day and divided his leisure between Ovid and Horace; at fifteen, wearied by the simplicity of Old English and Thirteenth Century Italian, he dipped into the history of Philosophy and passed from that, naturally, into calculus and the higher mathematics; at eighteen he took an A.B. from Harvard and while idling away a pleasant summer with Hebrew and Sanscrit he delved lightly into biology and its kindred sciences, having reached the conclusion that Truth is greater than Goodness or Beauty, because it comprises both, and the whole is greater than any of its parts; at twenty-one he pocketed his Ph.D. and was touched with the fever of his first practical enthusiasm—surgery. At twenty-four he was an M.D. and a distinguished diagnostician, though he preferred work in his laboratory in his endeavor to resolve the elements into simpler forms; also he published at this time a work on anthropology whose circulation was limited to two hundred copies, and he received in return two hundred letters of congratulation from great men who had tried to read his book; at twenty-seven he collapsed one fine spring day on the floor of his laboratory. That afternoon he was carried into the presence of a great physician who was also a very vulgar man. The great physician felt his pulse and looked into his dim eyes.

Table of Contents
· 1. THE SCHOLAR · 2. WORDS AND BULLETS · 3. THE DOCTOR RIDES · 4. THE CHAIN · 5. THE WAITING · 6. THE MISSION STARTS · 7. JERRY STRANN · 8. THE GIFT-HORSE · 9. BATTLE LIGHT · 10. SWEET ADELINE · 11. THE BUZZARD · 12. FINESSE · 13. THE THREE · 14. MUSIC FOR OLD NICK · 15. OLD GARY PETERS · 16. THE COMING OF NIGHT · 17. BUCK MAKES HIS GETAWAY · 18. DOCTOR BYRNE ANALYZES · 19. SUSPENSE · 20. THE COMING · 21. MAC STRANN DECIDES TO KEEP THE LAW · 22. PATIENCE · 23. HOW MAC STRANN KEPT THE LAW · 24. DOCTOR BYRNE LOOKS INTO THE PAST · 25. WEREWOLF · 26. THE BATTLE · 27. THE CONQUEST · 28. THE TRAIL · 29. TALK · 30. THE VOICE OF BLACK BART · 31. THE MESSAGE · 32. VICTORY · 33. DOCTOR BYRNE SHOWS THE TRUTH · 34. THE ACID TEST · 35. PALE ANNIE