All of the tests used in Mousehold Words are public domain (non-copyrighted) texts, which means that you can forward, copy, print, or otherwise use and transform them in any way you see fit. All of the texts are based on the versions available at Project Gutenberg, except for the text of Charles Reade's Griffith Gaunt, which is used by kind permission of the digitizer, James Rusk, who maintains an excellent Reade web site. If for whatever reason you decide not to finish your subscription, you should be able to find the full text online for you to read at your leisure.
All of the novels included in Mousehold Words were originally published serially, and are sent to you using the same divisions as in the original serial publication.
To determine the serial breaks for The Federalist and for the works of John W. De Forest, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, H. Rider Haggard, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and Jules Verne, I examined the original serial issues or facsimiles of them.
The serial breaks for No Name are those given in the Penguin edition, edited by Mark Ford.
The serial breaks in the novels of William Harrison Ainsworth, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Wilkie Collins (other than No Name), Charles Dickens, Charles Reade, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope are those given in
J. Don Vann's Victorian novels in serial
