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ALICE was beginning to get very tired of sitting by hersister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she hadpeeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures orconversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice,...More...

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister onthe bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she hadpeeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had nopictures or conversations in it, and where is the use of a book,...More...

If--and the thing is wildly possible--the charge of writing nonsensewere ever brought against the author of this brief but instructive poem,it would be based, I feel convinced, on the line (in p.More...

I have a quantity of MS. in hand for Parts II and III, and hope to beable----should life, and health, and opportunity, be granted to me, topublish them in the course of the next few years.More...

This Tale originally appeared as a serial in _The Monthly Packet_,beginning in April, 1880. The writer's intention was to embody in eachKnot (like the medicine so dexterously, but ineffectually, concealed inthe jam of our early childhood) one or more mathematical questions--in...More...

The history of woman is the history of the world. Strait orthodoxy mayremind us that man preceded woman in the scheme of creation and thattherefore history does not begin with woman; but this is a speciousplea.More...

Notwithstanding all that is said in these ancient writings in the attempt to do her honor, we must conclude that the glory of the halo which beautifies the head of the real Mary is derived by reflection from the moral splendor of her Son.More...

Many editions of Gray have been published in the last fifty years,some of them very elegant, and some showing considerable editoriallabor, but not one, so far as I am aware, critically exact either intext or in notes.More...

Should any reader of this History of my life at Track's End wish towrite to me, to point out an error (if unhappily there shall prove tobe errors), or to ask for further facts, or for any other reason, heor she may do so by addressing the letter in the care of my...More...

_I have pleasure in acknowledging the courteous permission of the editors to reprint in this form such of these verses as were originally published in Harper's Magazine, The Century, Life, The Smart Set, The Saturday Evening Post, The Home Magazine, and the...More...

The offices of the Governor and the Lieutenant-Governor adjoined. Eachhad its ante-room, in which a private secretary wrote eternally at aroll-top desk, an excessively plain-featured stenographer rattled thekeys of his typewriter, and a smug-faced page yawned over a newspaper,...More...

Harper and Brothers and the Mark Twain Estate for _Dick Baker's Cat_,from _Roughing It_ (copyright 1871-1899 by the American Publishing Co.;copyright 1899 by Samuel L. Clemens; copyright 1913 by ClaraGabrilowitsch).More...

This book is somewhat in the nature of an autobiography, covering as itdoes almost the whole of the Author's life. The main portion of thevolume is devoted to cattle ranching in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.More...

"Somebody's gone and sneaked it on me, that's what. I'm the unluckiestfeller in the whole bunch, for havin' queer things happen to him. Justcan't lay a single thing I've got down anywhere, but what it disappearsin the most _remarkable_ way you ever heard of, and bobs up somewhere...More...

_M. d'Avezac, dont il faut toujours citer l'ingйnieuse et profondeйrudition lorsqu'il s'agit de recherches sur l'histoire de lagйographie, se plaignait naguиre, et non sans raison, de l'indiffйrenceque les Franзais avaient apportйe en tout temps а faire valoir leurs...More...

Aucun peuple ne semble avoir tenu aussi peu de compte que lesFranзais de la part lйgitime qui devait lui appartenir dans l'histoiredes dйcouvertes & de l'exploration des contrйes lointaines; nul ne s'estmontrй si peu soucieux de la renommйe que pourraient lui acquйrir ses...More...

In offering this work to the public the publishers wish to lay beforethose who sing or who are about to study singing, the simple,fundamental rules of the art based on common sense.More...

The scenery can be made very attractive by both historical accuracyand a display of Oriental luxury, but the drama may easily beperformed with simple means at a small cost without losing itsdramatic effect.More...

Of all writers of speculative philosophy, both ancient and modern, thereis probably no one who has attained so eminent a position as Plato. WhatHomer was to Epic poetry, what Cicero and Demosthenes were to oratory,and what Shakespeare was to the drama of England, Plato was to ancient...More...

The papers of which this volume is composed originally appeared in theLondon Magazine, between the years 1821 and 1824. It was the author'sintention to continue the series of Lives to a later period, but achange in the proprietorship of the Magazine prevented the completion of...More...

The reader must remember that these articles were written beforethe war began. They are in a sense prophetic and show a remarkableunderstanding of the conditions which brought about the present greatwar in Europe.More...

Hazlitt says, one cannot "make an allegory go on all fours," it mustto a certain degree be obscure and shadowy, like the images which thetraveller in the desert sees mirrored on the heavens, wherein he cantrace but a dreamy resemblance to the reality beneath.More...

MABELHEBESPRINGTHE BITTERNGONEBEATRICE DI TENDASERENADETHE EAGLEWHITHER?THE MORNING STARTHE DELECTABLE MOUNTAINSTHE DARK RIVERWYTHAM WOODSTHE STAR IN THE EASTUNDER THE SEAWINDA CHALLENGEAT PARTINGA WITHERED ROSE-BUDDE PROFUNDIS...More...

"You mout, and then again you moutn't. It aint everybody who can coaxone of them smart prowlers to stick his foot in a trap. If that was thecase, my neighbors would have had more sheep, and Elam Storm would beworth a bushel of dollars.More...

"Pull him along, Carlos! Pull him along!" shouted a young gentlemanabout sixteen years of age, as he danced about on the back porch of hisuncle's house, in a state of great excitement; "why don't you pull himalong?More...

The speaker was Colonel Brown, the commanding officer of Fort Lamoine.As he uttered these emphatic words he slammed a paper-weight down upon apile of reports which the adjutant had just brought in, and, settlingback in his chair, looked sharply at the officer who stood in front of...More...

The silvery tones of the little bell rang through the vessel, andimmediately there began a great noise and hubbub on the berth-deck,which, but a moment before, had been so quiet and orderly.More...

Table of Persons AddressedSt. Catherine of Siena as seen in her lettersChief Events in the life of St. CatherineBrief Outline of Contemporary Public EventsTo Monna Alessa dei SaraciniTo Benincasa her brother, when he was in Florence...More...

't Is een vervolg op een vroeger werk, 't Houwelick; "door eenvorigh Boeck" heeft hij "de gronden van een goet houwelyck geleyt,en een afkeer gepooght te maken van quade gangen die in soodanigengelegentheyt sigh openbaren"; en daarom heeft hij het "dienstigh...More...

The poem herewith presented was first published some ten years ago in a volume entitled _Days and Dreams_. The original verses have been re-written throughout and extensively added to, making it comparatively a new poem.More...

Fleet swallows soared and darted 'Neath empty vaults of blue; Thick leaves close clung or parted To let the sunlight through; Each wild rose, honey-hearted, Bowed full of living dew.More...

High on the world did our fathers of old, Under the stars and stripes, Blazon the name that we now must uphold, Under the stars and stripes. Vast in the past they have builded an arch Over which Freedom has lighted her torch.More...

_Long are the days, and three times long the nights.The weary hours are a heavy chainUpon the feet of all Earth's dear delights,Holding them ever prisoners to pain.What shall beguile me to believe againIn hope, that faith within her parable writes...More...

There is a fading inward of the day, And all the pansy sunset hugs one star; To eastward dwindling all the land is gray, While barley meadows westward smoulder far.More...

Nevermore at doorways that are barken Shall the madcap wind knock and the noonlight; Nor the circle, which thou once didst darken, Shine with footsteps of the neighboring moonlight, Visitors for whom thou oft didst hearken.More...

This collection of poems is entirely new with the exception of three orfour which appeared in two earlier volumes, published some ten yearsago. The reprinted poems have been carefully re-written, and so changedthroughout as to hardly bear any resemblance, except that of subject, to...More...

_There is no rhyme that is half so sweetAs the song of the wind in the rippling wheat;There is no metre that's half so fineAs the lilt of the brook under rock and vine;And the loveliest lyric I ever heardWas the wildwood strain of a forest bird.More...

The verses composing this volume have been selected by the author almostentirely from the five-volume edition of his poems published by theBobbs-Merrill Company in 1907. A number have been included from the threeor four volumes which have been published since the appearance of the...More...

_For permission to reprint most of the poems included in this volumethanks are due to the "Atlantic Monthly," "Harper's Magazine" and"Bazar," "Lippincott's," "Saturday Evening Post," "New EnglandMagazine," "Leslie's Monthly," "Smart Set," "Truth," "Outlook,"...More...

[Transcribers Note: This is a reprint of Caxton's 1474 original."Englifh" long s's which look very similar to f's have been transposedto s's for readability; yogh (looks like a mutated 3) has been renderedas a 3; thorn, ю, has been left as such and macrons over letters are...More...

EMMETT L. AVERY, _State College of Washington_BENJAMIN BOYCE, _University of Nebraska_LOUIS I. BREDVOLD, _University of Michigan_CLEANTH BROOKS, _Yale University_JAMES L. CLIFFORD, _Columbia University_ARTHUR FRIEDMAN, _University of Chicago_...More...

VIII-IX OF THE GOOD FORTUNE WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE HAD IN THE TERRIBLE AND UNDREAMT-OF ADVENTURE OF THE WINDMILLS, WITH OTHER OCCURRENCES WORTHY TO BE FITLY RECORDED, INCLUDING THE TERRIBLE BATTLE BETWEEN THE...More...

Dirijo б Vm. este Viage que hice al Parnaso, que no desdice б su edadflorida, ni б sus loables y estudiosos exercicios. Si Vm. le hace elacogimiento que yo espero de su condicion ilustre, йl quedarб famosoen el mundo, y mis deseos premiados.More...

extolls the Golden Age, 29; his requisites for a knight-errant, 35; at the interment of Chrysostom, 41; his adventure with a dead body, 51; captures Mambrino's helmet, 56; performs penance, 63; his views of knight-errantry, 76, 82;...More...

Considering that under the existing conditions of humanity, disease,and decay, and death abound on every side, it is surprising that theword "immortality" obtained a place in systems of philosophy, theauthors of which must be supposed to have been unacquainted with divine...More...

A. MACHADO Y ALVAREZ. THE EARL BEAUCHAMP, F.S.A. EDWARD BRABROOK, F.S.A. DR. D. G. BRINTON JAMES BRITTEN, F.L.S. LOYS BRUEYRE. MISS C. S. BURNE. EDWARD CLODD. PROFESSOR D. COMPARETTI.More...

Well, one day he went out in his boat to fish. But instead of catchingany fish, what do you think he caught? Why! a great big tortoise, witha hard shell and such a funny wrinkled old face and a tiny tail.More...

This is a very common question, usually put and answered with moreor less levity. We seldom hear of any one answering very favourablyas to the usage he experiences from the world. More generally, thequestioned seems to feel that his treatment is not, and never has...More...

One winter evening some years ago, I sat with a small circle offriends round the fire, in the house of a Polish gentleman, whom hisacquaintances agreed in calling Mr Charles, as the most pronounceableof his names.More...

Such was the pith of an invitation to dinner, to accept which Istarted on a pleasant summer Saturday on the top of a Kentish-townomnibus. My host was Happy Jack. Everybody called him 'Happy Jack:' hecalled himself 'Happy Jack.More...

Three years ago, I received orders to proceed from Kurвchee to Roreeby the river route, for the purpose of joining the siege-train thenassembling for the reduction of Mooltan. Subsequent events caused myfinal destination to be changed to Sukkur.More...

It seems to be the destiny of France to work out all sorts of problemsin state and social policy. It may be said to volunteer experiments ingovernment for the benefit of mankind. All kinds of forms it tries,one after the other: each, in turn, is supposed to be the right thing;...More...

Some characters are a puzzle to history, and none is more so than thatof Robespierre. According to popular belief, this personage was ablood-thirsty monster, a vulgar tyrant, who committed the mostunheard-of enormities, with the basely selfish object of raising...More...

The 'Mother Bunch' public-house stands modestly aside from the din,traffic, and turmoil of a leading London thoroughfare, and retires, likea bashful maiden, from the gaze of a crowd to the society of its ownselect circle.More...

In one of Webster's magnificent speeches, he remarks that so vast arethe possessions of England, that her morning drum-beat, following thesun and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with onecontinuous and unbroken strain of its martial airs.More...

The passing age is acknowledged to be remarkable in various respects.Great advances in matters of practical science; a vast development ofindividual enterprise, and general prosperity;--at the same time,strange retardations in things of social concern; a singular want of...More...

Do you not find, in almost every company, one who pronouncesdecisively upon every matter which comes in question? His voice isloud and firm, his eye bold and confident, and his whole manneroracular.More...

Everybody must have had some trouble in his time with imperfectrespectabilities. Nice, well-dressed, well-housed, civil, agreeablepeople are they. No fault to find with them but that there is somelittle flaw in their history, for which the very good (rigid) don't...More...

History is said to be a series of reactions. Society, like a pendulum,first drives one way, and then swings back in the opposite direction.At present, we may be said to be returning at full speed towards ataste for everything old, neglected, and for ages despised.More...

London is like a large company, where it is necessary for the masteror mistress of the house to introduce a great many people to eachother. Everybody in that overgrown metropolis has things within a fewdoors of his residence, which, if they were suddenly described to him,...More...

It is said that everything is to be had in London. There is truthenough in the observation; indeed, rather too much. The convictionthat everything is to be had, whether you are in want of it or not, isforced upon you with a persistence that becomes oppressive; and you...More...

The maxim, that men may safely be left to seek their own interest, andare sure to find it, appears to require some slight qualification, fornothing can be more certain, than that men are often the better ofthings which have been forced upon them.More...

'The English are not a musical people.' The dictum long stoodunquestioned, and, in general estimation, unquestionable. All theworld had agreed upon it. There could be no two opinions: we had nonational airs; no national taste; no national appreciation of sweet...More...

There is no occupation in life, be it ever so humble, which is justlyworthy of contempt, if by it a man is enabled to administer to hisnecessities without becoming a burden to others, or a plague to themby the parade of shoeless feet, fluttering rags, and a famished face.More...

The general notion is, that laughter is childish, and unworthy thegravity of adult life. Grown men, we say, have more to do than tolaugh; and the wiser sort of them leave such an unseemly contortion ofthe muscles to babes and blockheads.More...

A distinguished general-officer being appointed to a command in whichhe would be called on to discharge judicial as well as militaryduties, expressed to Lord Mansfield his apprehensions, that he wouldexecute his office but ill in the former respect, and that his...More...

The great flood which took place in the valley of Holmfirth inFebruary last, was in itself a deeply-interesting and awe-excitingincident. I was curious to visit the scene, while the results of thecatastrophe were still fresh, both on account of the sympathy I felt...More...

It is with a feeling doubtless somewhat analogous to that of theangler, that the London shopkeeper from time to time regards themoneyless crowds who throng in gaping admiration around the temptingdisplay he makes in his window.More...

The roaring pell-mell of the principal thoroughfares of London iscuriously contrasted with the calm seclusion which is often found atno great distance in certain lanes, courts, and passages, and theeffect is not a little heightened when in these by-places we light...More...

There are some phrases that convey only a vague and indefinitemeaning, that make an impression upon the mind so faint as to bescarcely resolvable into shape or character. Being associated,however, with the feeling of beauty or enjoyment, they are ever on our...More...

Returning with the circling year, and advancing _pari passu_ with themultitude of metropolitan musical attractions, comes the more silentreign of the picture exhibitions--those great art-gatherings fromthousands of studios, to undergo the ultimate test of public judgment...More...

We had lately occasion to proceed by an omnibus from a country town toa station on a railway, by which we were to return to the city wherewe have our customary abode. On arriving at the station, we learnedthat we should have to wait an hour for an _up_ train, the omnibus...More...

It is a pity that the present age is so completely absorbed inmaterialities, at a time when the facilities are so singularly greatfor a philosophy which would inquire into the constitution of ourmoral nature.More...

Ever since that unfortunate affair in which the mother of mankind wasso prominently concerned, the female sex might say, with Shylock,'Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.' They are, in fact, anincarnation of the Passive Voice--no mistake about it.More...

A book belongs in a peculiar manner to the age and nation that produceit. It is an emanation of the thought of the time; and if it surviveto an after-time, it remains as a landmark of the progress of theimagination or the intellect.More...

The sultan being one day rather out of sorts, sent for his Jewishphysician, a man very eminent for skill in his profession, and notless distinguished by his love of his own nation and his desperateenmity to the Christians.More...

The advocates of the diffusion of useful knowledge among the greatbody of the people, found one of their greatest difficulties to lie inan inability on the part of the people themselves to see what benefitthey were to derive from the knowledge proposed to be imparted.More...

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Frances Seymour had been left an orphan and an heiress very early inlife. Her mother had died in giving birth to a second child, which didnot survive its parent, so that Frances had neither brother norsister; and her father, an officer of rank and merit, was killed at...More...

Occupied as most of us are with our respective worldly concerns, andaccustomed to see the routine of common events going on smoothly fromage to age, we are little apt to reflect on natural events of atremendous character, which modern science shews might possibly...More...

The poorest and most unlucky dog in the world either has or had somesmall portion of money. No matter how small, how hardly, or howprecariously earned, he has seen, from time to time, a glimpse of thecolour of his own cash, and rejoiced accordingly as that colour was...More...

When lately making a pretty extensive continental excursion, we werein no small degree gratified with the progress made in theconstruction and operation of railways. These railways, from all thatcould be seen, were doing much to improve the countries traversed, and...More...

This lady will be ranked with the memorable persons of the age; herenthusiastic and ceaseless endeavours to do good, the discretion andintelligence with which she pursues her aims, and her remarkableself-sacrifices in the cause of humanity, placing her in the category...More...

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I have been all my life a sort of amphibious animal, having, like manyan old Roman, learned to swim long before I had learned to read. Thebounding backs of the billows were my only rocking-horse when I was achild, and dearly I loved to ride them when a fresh breeze was...More...

We all know that there are certain conventional laws by which oursocial doings and seemings are regulated; but what is the power whichcompels the observance of these laws? There is no company police tokeep people moving on, no fines or other penalties; nobody but the...More...

The many-headed public look out for 'nine days' wonders,' and speedilyallow one wonder to obliterate the remembrance of that which precededit. So it is with all newspaper topics, and so it has been in respectto the preserved-meat question.More...

On the 18th day of February 1850, Her Majesty's steamship _Rattler_was lying at anchor about twenty miles to the northward of Ambriz, aslave depфt situated on the western coast of Africa.More...

She is neither your partner, nor ours, nor anybody else's inparticular. She is in general business, of which matrimony is only adepartment. How she came to be concerned in so many concerns, is amystery of nature, like the origin of the Poet--or rather of black...More...

Really! Indeed! Impossible! 116 Recollections of a Police-Officer, 259 Rembrandt, Story of, 45 Reminiscences of an Attorney, 355 Remittances to and from Emigrants, 160 Robespierre, Account of, 129 Tales of the Coast-Guard, 210...More...

The mother said nothing. From moment to moment she turned her head onthe pillow and gazed down at her new daughter with a curious,questioning expression. She had never gazed at any of her otherchildren so uneasily.More...

_She understands._ _Where the dead headland flare_ _Mocks sea and sand;_ _Where death-lights shed their glare_ _On No-Man’s-Land._ _France takes her stand._ _Magnificently fair,_ _The Flaming Brand_ _Within her slender hand;_...More...

The Streets Of Ascalon Blue-Bird Weather Japonette The Adventures of a Modest Man The Danger Mark Special Messenger The Firing Line The Younger Set The Fighting Chance Some Ladies in Haste The Tree of Heaven The Tracer of Lost Persons...More...

His papers identified him and the young woman; and further theyrevealed the fact that the ambulance contained only a trunk and somehand luggage; and called upon all in authority to permit John HenryEstridge and Miss Palla Dumont to continue without hindrance the...More...

"Between earth and outer space--between Creator and created, confusingand confounding their identities,--a rushing darkness grew--thehurrying wrack of immemorial storms heralding whirlwinds through whichTruth alone survives.More...

Ghosts are the true immortals, and the dead grow more alive all thetime. Wraiths have a greater vitality to-day than ever before. They arefar more numerous than at any time in the past, and people are moreinterested in them.More...

The Cordon-bleu has set the pace With Goulash, Haggis, Bouillabaisse, Curry, Chop-suey, Kous-Kous Stew-- I can not offer these to you,-- Being a plain, old-fashioned cook,-- So pray accept this scrambled book.More...

_Winsome and wise, Subtle in maiden's lore, With wondrous eyes-- Alas for Baltimore, That grows this rose no more! As for Manhattan, that benign old vulture Wins one more prize in fancy horticulture.More...

Folly and Wisdom, Heavenly twins, Sons of the god Imagination,Heirs of the Virtues--which were Sins Till Transcendental ContemplationTransmogrified their outer skins-- Friend, do you follow me?More...

MY DEAR LE GRAND,--You and I were early drawn together by a common love of nature. Your researches into the natural history of the tree-toad, your observations upon the mud-turtles of Providence Township, your experiments with the...More...

Maids of Paradise Outsiders Ashes of Empire A Young Man in a Hurry The Red Republic In Search of the Unknown The King in Yellow In the Quarter The Maker of Moons The Mystery of Choice Iole...More...

Toward the end of the year 1920 the Government of the United States hadpractically completed the programme, adopted during the last months ofPresident Winthrop's administration. The country was apparently tranquil.More...

The author desires to acknowledge his indebtedness to the valuable volumes of Messrs. Victor Duruy, Archibald Forbes, Sir William Fraser, Dr. J. von Pflugk-Harttung, G. Tissandier, Comdt.More...

Distance dims the panorama; haze obscures the ragged gaps in the pageantuntil the long lines of victorious armies move smoothly across thehorizon, with never an abyss to check their triumph.More...

Concerning the German armored cruiser _Augusta_, the following are thefacts: About the middle of December she forced the blockade atWilhelmshafen and ran for Ireland, where, owing to the complaisance ofthe British authorities, she was permitted to coal.More...

Give me no gold nor palaces Nor quarts of gems in chalices Nor mention me in Who is Who I'd rather roam abroad with you Investigating sky and land, Volcanoes, lakes, and glacial sand I'd rather climb with all my legs...More...

The author's intention is to treat, in a series of four or fiveromances, that part of the war for independence which particularlyaffected the great landed families of northern New York: the Johnsons,represented by Sir William, Sir John, Guy Johnson, and Colonel Claus;...More...

The clothing of this regiment was a little out of the ordinary. Insteadof the usual campaign head gear the troopers wore forage caps strappedunder their chins, heavy visors turned down, and their officers wereconspicuous in fur-trimmed hussar tunics slung from the shoulders of...More...

He was thirty-three, agreeable to look at, equipped with as much cultureand intelligence as is tolerated east of Fifth Avenue and west ofMadison. He had a couple of elaborate rooms at the Lenox Club, a largerincome than seemed to be good for him, and no profession.More...

Suit-case in one hand, umbrella in the other, he sped along the corridorto the elevator-shaft, arriving in time to catch a glimpse of thelighted roof of the cage sliding into depths below.More...

My friends, have you read Elia? If so, follow me, walking in theshadow of his mild presence, while I recount to you my vision of theLost Ages. I am neither single nor unblessed with offspring, yet,like Charles Lamb, I have had my 'dream-children.More...

This is a very common question, usually put and answered with moreor less levity. We seldom hear of any one answering very favourablyas to the usage he experiences from the world. More generally, thequestioned seems to feel that his treatment is not, and never has...More...

One winter evening some years ago, I sat with a small circle offriends round the fire, in the house of a Polish gentleman, whom hisacquaintances agreed in calling Mr Charles, as the most pronounceableof his names.More...

Such was the pith of an invitation to dinner, to accept which Istarted on a pleasant summer Saturday on the top of a Kentish-townomnibus. My host was Happy Jack. Everybody called him 'Happy Jack:' hecalled himself 'Happy Jack.More...

Three years ago, I received orders to proceed from Kurвchee to Roreeby the river route, for the purpose of joining the siege-train thenassembling for the reduction of Mooltan. Subsequent events caused myfinal destination to be changed to Sukkur.More...

It seems to be the destiny of France to work out all sorts of problemsin state and social policy. It may be said to volunteer experiments ingovernment for the benefit of mankind. All kinds of forms it tries,one after the other: each, in turn, is supposed to be the right thing;...More...

Some characters are a puzzle to history, and none is more so than thatof Robespierre. According to popular belief, this personage was ablood-thirsty monster, a vulgar tyrant, who committed the mostunheard-of enormities, with the basely selfish object of raising...More...

The 'Mother Bunch' public-house stands modestly aside from the din,traffic, and turmoil of a leading London thoroughfare, and retires, likea bashful maiden, from the gaze of a crowd to the society of its ownselect circle.More...

In one of Webster's magnificent speeches, he remarks that so vast arethe possessions of England, that her morning drum-beat, following thesun and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with onecontinuous and unbroken strain of its martial airs.More...

The passing age is acknowledged to be remarkable in various respects.Great advances in matters of practical science; a vast development ofindividual enterprise, and general prosperity;--at the same time,strange retardations in things of social concern; a singular want of...More...

Do you not find, in almost every company, one who pronouncesdecisively upon every matter which comes in question? His voice isloud and firm, his eye bold and confident, and his whole manneroracular.More...

Everybody must have had some trouble in his time with imperfectrespectabilities. Nice, well-dressed, well-housed, civil, agreeablepeople are they. No fault to find with them but that there is somelittle flaw in their history, for which the very good (rigid) don't...More...

History is said to be a series of reactions. Society, like a pendulum,first drives one way, and then swings back in the opposite direction.At present, we may be said to be returning at full speed towards ataste for everything old, neglected, and for ages despised.More...

London is like a large company, where it is necessary for the masteror mistress of the house to introduce a great many people to eachother. Everybody in that overgrown metropolis has things within a fewdoors of his residence, which, if they were suddenly described to him,...More...

It is said that everything is to be had in London. There is truthenough in the observation; indeed, rather too much. The convictionthat everything is to be had, whether you are in want of it or not, isforced upon you with a persistence that becomes oppressive; and you...More...

The maxim, that men may safely be left to seek their own interest, andare sure to find it, appears to require some slight qualification, fornothing can be more certain, than that men are often the better ofthings which have been forced upon them.More...

'The English are not a musical people.' The dictum long stoodunquestioned, and, in general estimation, unquestionable. All theworld had agreed upon it. There could be no two opinions: we had nonational airs; no national taste; no national appreciation of sweet...More...

There is no occupation in life, be it ever so humble, which is justlyworthy of contempt, if by it a man is enabled to administer to hisnecessities without becoming a burden to others, or a plague to themby the parade of shoeless feet, fluttering rags, and a famished face.More...

The general notion is, that laughter is childish, and unworthy thegravity of adult life. Grown men, we say, have more to do than tolaugh; and the wiser sort of them leave such an unseemly contortion ofthe muscles to babes and blockheads.More...

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The great flood which took place in the valley of Holmfirth inFebruary last, was in itself a deeply-interesting and awe-excitingincident. I was curious to visit the scene, while the results of thecatastrophe were still fresh, both on account of the sympathy I felt...More...

It is with a feeling doubtless somewhat analogous to that of theangler, that the London shopkeeper from time to time regards themoneyless crowds who throng in gaping admiration around the temptingdisplay he makes in his window.More...

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Returning with the circling year, and advancing _pari passu_ with themultitude of metropolitan musical attractions, comes the more silentreign of the picture exhibitions--those great art-gatherings fromthousands of studios, to undergo the ultimate test of public judgment...More...

We had lately occasion to proceed by an omnibus from a country town toa station on a railway, by which we were to return to the city wherewe have our customary abode. On arriving at the station, we learnedthat we should have to wait an hour for an _up_ train, the omnibus...More...

It is a pity that the present age is so completely absorbed inmaterialities, at a time when the facilities are so singularly greatfor a philosophy which would inquire into the constitution of ourmoral nature.More...

Ever since that unfortunate affair in which the mother of mankind wasso prominently concerned, the female sex might say, with Shylock,'Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.' They are, in fact, anincarnation of the Passive Voice--no mistake about it.More...

A book belongs in a peculiar manner to the age and nation that produceit. It is an emanation of the thought of the time; and if it surviveto an after-time, it remains as a landmark of the progress of theimagination or the intellect.More...

The sultan being one day rather out of sorts, sent for his Jewishphysician, a man very eminent for skill in his profession, and notless distinguished by his love of his own nation and his desperateenmity to the Christians.More...

The advocates of the diffusion of useful knowledge among the greatbody of the people, found one of their greatest difficulties to lie inan inability on the part of the people themselves to see what benefitthey were to derive from the knowledge proposed to be imparted.More...

A contest of a very remarkable kind is now going on, one which ispregnant with important results in respect to commerce, to navalarchitecture, to geographical discovery, to colonisation, to thespread of intelligence, to the improvement of industrial art, and to...More...

Frances Seymour had been left an orphan and an heiress very early inlife. Her mother had died in giving birth to a second child, which didnot survive its parent, so that Frances had neither brother norsister; and her father, an officer of rank and merit, was killed at...More...

Occupied as most of us are with our respective worldly concerns, andaccustomed to see the routine of common events going on smoothly fromage to age, we are little apt to reflect on natural events of atremendous character, which modern science shews might possibly...More...

The poorest and most unlucky dog in the world either has or had somesmall portion of money. No matter how small, how hardly, or howprecariously earned, he has seen, from time to time, a glimpse of thecolour of his own cash, and rejoiced accordingly as that colour was...More...

When lately making a pretty extensive continental excursion, we werein no small degree gratified with the progress made in theconstruction and operation of railways. These railways, from all thatcould be seen, were doing much to improve the countries traversed, and...More...

This lady will be ranked with the memorable persons of the age; herenthusiastic and ceaseless endeavours to do good, the discretion andintelligence with which she pursues her aims, and her remarkableself-sacrifices in the cause of humanity, placing her in the category...More...

It is wonderfully exciting to read the adventures of a shipwreckedmariner; to find him cast away on a desert island, destitute ofeverything that before seemed necessary to his very existence; to seehim settling himself down in a strange and untried form of life,...More...

I have been all my life a sort of amphibious animal, having, like manyan old Roman, learned to swim long before I had learned to read. Thebounding backs of the billows were my only rocking-horse when I was achild, and dearly I loved to ride them when a fresh breeze was...More...

We all know that there are certain conventional laws by which oursocial doings and seemings are regulated; but what is the power whichcompels the observance of these laws? There is no company police tokeep people moving on, no fines or other penalties; nobody but the...More...

The many-headed public look out for 'nine days' wonders,' and speedilyallow one wonder to obliterate the remembrance of that which precededit. So it is with all newspaper topics, and so it has been in respectto the preserved-meat question.More...

On the 18th day of February 1850, Her Majesty's steamship _Rattler_was lying at anchor about twenty miles to the northward of Ambriz, aslave depфt situated on the western coast of Africa.More...

She is neither your partner, nor ours, nor anybody else's inparticular. She is in general business, of which matrimony is only adepartment. How she came to be concerned in so many concerns, is amystery of nature, like the origin of the Poet--or rather of black...More...

Really! Indeed! Impossible! 116 Recollections of a Police-Officer, 259 Rembrandt, Story of, 45 Reminiscences of an Attorney, 355 Remittances to and from Emigrants, 160 Robespierre, Account of, 129 Tales of the Coast-Guard, 210...More...

In 1813 Europe was busy watching the career of the CorsicanGiant--which was nearing its end. Having reached the summit of power,and put his foot on the neck of Europe, Napoleon was suddenly hurleddown from his dizzy height.More...

Da fдllt nun deine Schrift nach vielen Jahren Mir wieder in die Hand, und -- wundersam! -- Der Zeit gedenk' ich, wo wir Freunde waren, Als erst die Welt uns in die Schule nahm.More...

The labors and achievements of the navigators and explorers, who visitedour coasts between the last years of the fifteenth and the early years ofthe seventeenth centuries, were naturally enough not fully appreciated bytheir contemporaries, nor were their relations to the future growth of...More...

Champlain's edition of 1613 contains, in connection with the preliminarymatter, two pieces of poetry, one signed L'ANGE, Paris, the other MOTIN.They were contributed doubtless by some friend, intended to becomplimentary to the author, to embellish the volume and to give it a...More...

The present volume completes the work proposed by the Prince Society of atranslation into English of the VOYAGES OF CHAMPLAIN. It includes thejournals issued in 1604, 1613, and 1619, and covers fifteen years of hisresidence and explorations in New France.More...

Still unrivalled, after the lapse of four centuries the villas of thegreat cardinals of the Renaissance retain their supremacy over theirItalian sisters, not, as once, by reason of their prodigal magnificencebut in the appealing charm of their picturesque decay.More...

The aim of this little book is to tell in a simple and concise form thestory of the founding and development of the United States. The study ofthe history of one's own country is a serious matter, and should beentered upon by the text-book writer, by the teacher, and by the pupil...More...

A volume like the present hardly requires the formality of a preface. Itis the continuation of a series already published, and, like that, aimsat applying the highest standard of Morality and Religion to the phasesof every-day life.More...

_The rights of production of these plays are in every casereserved by the authors or their representatives. No play can begiven publicly without an individual arrangement. The law doesnot, of course, prevent their reading in classrooms or their...More...

THE HEROES OF THE SCHOOL NED WILDING'S DISAPPEARANCE FRANK ROSCOE'S SECRET FENN MASTERSON'S DISCOVERY BART KEENE'S HUNTING DAYS BART STIRLING'S ROAD TO SUCCESS WORKING HARD TO WIN BOUND TO SUCCEED THE YOUNG STOREKEEPER...More...

Andy Carpenter was known far and wide around the town of Riverport as"Bristles," on account of the way in which his mop of hair stoodupright most of the time, much after the manner of the quills on afretful porcupine.More...

Since this volume was written an epoch making invention has been announcedto the radio world. It is the super-regenerative system developed by E. H.Armstrong, the wizard of Columbia University.More...

It is very appropriate at this moment when radio has taken thecountry by storm, and aroused an enthusiasm never before equaled,that the possibilities for boys in this art should be brought outin the interesting and readable manner shown in the first book of...More...

Within a comparatively short time after this volume is published thehuman voice will be thrown across the Atlantic Ocean under conditionsthat will lead immediately to the establishment of permanent telephonecommunication with Europe by means of radio.More...

Old Martha wondered if the Poor Boy would have a smile for her. He hadhad so many in the old days, the baby days, the growing-up days, thecollege days, the "world so new and all" days.More...

In this volume an attempt is made for the first time to edit _BussyD'Ambois_ and _The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois_ in a manner suitable tothe requirements of modern scholarship. Of the relations of this editionto its predecessors some details are given in the Notes on the Text of...More...

Sir, we think not ourselves discharged of the duty we oweto our friend when we have brought the breathless body tothe earth; for, albeit the eye there taketh his ever-farewellof that beloved object, yet the impression of the man that...More...

Sir, we think not ourselves discharged of the duty we oweto our friend when we have brought the breathless body tothe earth; for, albeit the eye there taketh his ever-farewellof that beloved object, yet the impression of the man that...More...

"Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and...More...

_The margin of the Hudson at West Point. Fort Putnam and the Highlandsin the distance. A flag is fluttering on the fort. The orchestrarepresents the level of the river shore, upon which level the_ Chorus_will enter.More...

The problem with which Dr. Chapple deals in this book is one of extremegravity. It is also one of pressing importance. The growth of theCriminal is one of the most ominous clouds on every national horizon.More...

Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoeverthings are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things arelovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue,and if there be any praise, think on these things.More...

1. Our knowledge of the stars is based on their _apparent_ attributes,obtained from the astronomical observations. The object of astronomy isto deduce herefrom the real or _absolute_ attributes of the stars, whichare their position in space, their movement, and their physical nature.More...

YOUTH.--A grandmother--Unfashionable taste--A bereavement--Changes--Travels--Punctuality--Ocean scenery--False confidence--A storm--Wondersof the deep--Recklessness--An Arab steed--A fragment--Escapes--Housewifery--Nova Scotia--Indians--Cosmopolitanism--Home...More...

Among the California Missions the southern group form a natural unit,just as does, geographically, Southern California itself--the regioncovered by the familiar California formula, "South of the Tehachapi.More...

Thomas Chatterton was born in Bristol on the 20th of November 1752.His father--also Thomas--dead three months before his son's birth, hadbeen a subchaunter in Bristol Cathedral and had held the mastershipin a local free school.More...

There is no country in the world where the "study of character" is moreindulged in than in the United States of America. During my many visitsthere I could not help remarking how even the "hardest headed" businessmen used any form of this study that they could get hold of to help them...More...

Conceive the joy of a lover of nature who, leaving the art galleries,wanders out among the trees and wild flowers and birds that thepictures of the galleries have sentimentalised. It is some such joythat the man who truly loves the noblest in letters feels when tasting...More...

THE evening service was being celebrated on the eve of Palm Sundayin the Old Petrovsky Convent. When they began distributing the palmit was close upon ten o'clock, the candles were burning dimly, thewicks wanted snuffing; it was all in a sort of mist.More...

ONE day when she was younger and better-looking, and when her voicewas stronger, Nikolay Petrovitch Kolpakov, her adorer, was sittingin the outer room in her summer villa. It was intolerably hot andstifling.More...

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OLENKA, the daughter of the retired collegiate assessor, Plemyanniakov,was sitting in her back porch, lost in thought. It was hot, theflies were persistent and teasing, and it was pleasant to reflectthat it would soon be evening.More...

It was eight o'clock in the morning--the time when the officers,the local officials, and the visitors usually took their morningdip in the sea after the hot, stifling night, and then went intothe pavilion to drink tea or coffee.More...

THE PETCHENYEGA DEAD BODYA HAPPY ENDINGTHE LOOKING-GLASSOLD AGEDARKNESSTHE BEGGARA STORY WITHOUT A TITLEIN TROUBLEFROSTA SLANDERMINDS IN FERMENTGONE ASTRAYAN AVENGERTHE JEUNE PREMIERA DEFENCELESS CREATUREAN ENIGMATIC NATURE...More...

It happened nigh on seven years ago, when I was living in one of thedistricts of the J. province, on the estate of Bielokurov, a landowner,a young man who used to get up early, dress himself in a long overcoat,drink beer in the evenings, and all the while complain to me that he...More...

The garden of IVANOFF'S country place. On the left is a terrace and thefacade of the house. One window is open. Below the terrace is a broadsemicircular lawn, from which paths lead to right and left into agarden.More...

IT was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front: a ladywith a little dog. Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov, who had by then been afortnight at Yalta, and so was fairly at home there, had begun totake an interest in new arrivals.More...

LOVELIGHTSA STORY WITHOUT AN ENDMARI D'ELLEA LIVING CHATTELTHE DOCTORTOO EARLY!THE COSSACKABORIGINESAN INQUIRYMARTYRSTHE LION AND THE SUNA DAUGHTER OF ALBIONCHORISTERSNERVESA WORK OF ARTA JOKEA COUNTRY COTTAGEA BLUNDERFAT AND THIN...More...

This volume consists of notes, themes, and sketches for works whichAnton Chekhov intended to write, and are characteristic of the methodsof his artistic production. Among his papers was found a series ofsheets in a special cover with the inscription: "Themes, thoughts,...More...

AFTER the festive dinner with its eight courses and its endlessconversation, Olga Mihalovna, whose husband's name-day was beingcelebrated, went out into the garden. The duty of smiling and talkingincessantly, the clatter of the crockery, the stupidity of the...More...

The last few years have seen a large and generally unsystematic mass oftranslations from the Russian flung at the heads and hearts of Englishreaders. The ready acceptance of Chekhov has been one of the fewsuccessful features of this irresponsible output.More...

THE SCHOOLMASTERENEMIESTHE EXAMINING MAGISTRATEBETROTHEDFROM THE DIARY OF A VIOLENT-TEMPERED MANIN THE DARKA PLAYA MYSTERYSTRONG IMPRESSIONSDRUNKTHE MARSHAL'S WIDOWA BAD BUSINESSIN THE COURTBOOTSJOYLADIESA PECULIAR MANAT THE BARBER'S...More...

Sergey Kapitonlch Akhineyev, the teacher of calligraphy, gave hisdaughter Natalya in marriage to the teacher of history and geography,Ivan Petrovich Loshadinikh. The wedding feast went on swimmingly.More...

Were the events of this nether sphere governed by the calculus ofprobabilities, Count Abel Larinski and Mlle. Antoinette Moriaz wouldalmost unquestionably have arrived at the end of their respectivecareers without ever having met.More...

_To the great number of those who are seeking, in whatever manner ordegree, from near at hand or far away, to bring the forces ofenlightenment to bear upon the vexed problems which harass the South,this volume is inscribed, with the hope that it may contribute to the...More...

Frederick Douglass lived so long, and played so conspicuous a part onthe world's stage, that it would be impossible, in a work of thesize of this, to do more than touch upon the salient features of hiscareer, to suggest the respects in which he influenced the course of...More...

I. At Break of DayII. The Christening PartyIII. The Editor at WorkIV. Theodore FelixV. A Journey SouthwardVI. JanetVII. The OperationVIII. The Campaign dragsIX. A White Man's "Nigger"X.More...

Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932)--African-American educator,lawyer, and activist--was the most prominent black prose author ofhis day. In both his fiction and his essays, he addressed the thornyissues of the "color line" and racism in an outspoken way.More...

This volume does not aim to contain all "the best American humorousshort stories"; there are many other stories equally as good, Isuppose, in much the same vein, scattered through the range ofAmerican literature.More...

I A VERY BUSY YOUNG MAN II MR. TURNER PLUNGES III A MATTER OF DELICACY IV GREEK MEETS GREEK V MISS JOSEPHINE'S FATHER VI MARASCHINO CHOCOLATES VII A DANCE NUMBER VIII NOT SAM'S FAULT THIS TIME...More...

"I am profoundly convinced that my son is a fool," read the will ofold John Burnit. "I am, however, also convinced that I allowed him tobecome so by too much absorption in my own affairs and too little inhis, and, therefore, his being a fool is hereditary; consequently, I...More...

"A natural again!" exulted Jonathan Reuben Wix, as the dice boundedfrom his plump hand and came to rest upon the billiard-table inLeiniger's Select Cafй, with a five and a deuce showing.More...

Do you remember one immortal Lost moment out of time and space, What time we thought, who passed the portal Of that divine disastrous place Where Life was slain and Truth was slandered On that one holier hill than Rome,...More...

_Жsop embodies an epigram not uncommon in human history; his fameis all the more deserved because he never deserved it. The firmfoundations of common sense, the shrewd shots at uncommon sense, thatcharacterise all the Fables, belong not him but to humanity.More...

I cannot understand the people who take literature seriously; but I canlove them, and I do. Out of my love I warn them to keep clear of thisbook. It is a collection of crude and shapeless papers upon current orrather flying subjects; and they must be published pretty much as they...More...

Unless we are all mad, there is at the back of the most bewilderingbusiness a story: and if we are all mad, there is no such thing as madness.If I set a house on fire, it is quite true that I may illuminate many otherpeople's weaknesses as well as my own.More...

These papers were originally published as prefaces to the separate booksof Dickens in one of the most extensive of those cheap libraries of theclassics which are one of the real improvements of recent times.More...

I. A Discussion Somewhat in the Air II. The Religion of the Stipendiary Magistrate III. Some Old Curiosities IV. A Discussion at Dawn V. The Peacemaker VI. The Other Philosopher VII.More...

The German Professor, his need of Educationfor Debate--Three Mistakes of GermanControversialists--The Multiplicity ofExcuses--Falsehood against Experience--Kultur preached by Unkultur--The Mistakeabout Bernard Shaw--German Lack of...More...

The 'Defences' of which this volume is composed have appeared in _TheSpeaker_, and are here reprinted, after revision and amplification, bypermission of the Editor. Portions of 'The Defence of Publicity'appeared in _The Daily News_.More...

Though most of the conclusions, especially towards the end, areconceived with reference to recent events, the actual bulk ofpreliminary notes about the science of Eugenics were written beforethe war.More...

A peculiar difficulty arrests the writer of this rough study at the verystart. Many people know Mr. Bernard Shaw chiefly as a man who wouldwrite a very long preface even to a very short play.More...

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When I first met Belloc he remarked to the friend who introduced us thathe was in low spirits. His low spirits were and are much more uproariousand enlivening than anybody else's high spirits.More...

Between the silver ribbon of morning and the green glittering ribbon ofsea, the boat touched Harwich and let loose a swarm of folk like flies,among whom the man we must follow was by no means conspicuous--norwished to be.More...

_A distant voice, a woman's, is heard, half-singing, half-chanting, unintelligible words. The cloaked figure raises its head and listens with interest. The song draws nearer and_ PATRICIA CARLEON _enters.More...

_For every tiny town or place God made the stars especially; Babies look up with owlish face And see them tangled in a tree: You saw a moon from Sussex Downs, A Sussex moon, untravelled still, I saw a moon that was the town's,...More...

The only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to achallenge. Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel. Whensome time ago I published a series of hasty but sincere papers, underthe name of "Heretics," several critics for whose intellect I have a...More...

THE WISE MENTHE HOUSE OF CHRISTMASA SONG OF GIFTS TO GODTHE KINGDOM OF HEAVENA HYMN FOR THE CHURCH MILITANTTHE BEATIFIC VISIONTHE TRUCE OF CHRISTMASA HYMNA CHRISTMAS SONG FOR THREE GUILDSTHE NATIVITYA CHILD OF THE SNOWSA WORD...More...

On the subject of Browning's work innumerable things have been saidand remain to be said; of his life, considered as a narrative offacts, there is little or nothing to say. It was a lucid and publicand yet quiet life, which culminated in one great dramatic test of...More...

It will be very reasonably asked why I should consent, though upon asort of challenge, to write even a popular essay in English history, whomake no pretence to particular scholarship and am merely a member of thepublic.More...

These fleeting sketches are all republished by kind permission of theEditor of the DAILY NEWS, in which paper they appeared. They amountto no more than a sort of sporadic diary--a diary recording one day intwenty which happened to stick in the fancy--the only kind of diary the...More...

Objection is often raised against realistic biography because it revealsso much that is important and even sacred about a man's life. The realobjection to it will rather be found in the fact that it reveals about aman the precise points which are unimportant.More...

Objection is often raised against realistic biography because it revealsso much that is important and even sacred about a man's life. The realobjection to it will rather be found in the fact that it reveals about aman the precise points which are unimportant.More...

The Editors wish to explain that this book is not put forward as anauthoritative history of Victorian literature. It is a free and personalstatement of views and impressions about the significance of Victorianliterature made by Mr.More...

I have never managed to lose my old conviction that travel narrows themind. At least a man must make a double effort of moral humility andimaginative energy to prevent it from narrowing his mind.More...

My thanks are due to the Editors of the _Outlook_ and the _Speaker_ forthe kind permission they have given me to reprint a considerable numberof the following poems. They have been selected and arranged rather witha view to unity of spirit than to unity of time or value; many of them...More...

To my dear wife in whose poems are combined an ardent faith, anuniversal charity, and a simplicity of style which sometimes remindsme of the poet seer William Blake may she accept and enjoy theoffering and may a like happiness be my lot when the little volume...More...

Gabriele Chiabrera, sommo ornamento delle lettere ne' Vostri RealiDominj, confortato dal favore del Duca Carlo Emanuele, prese acelebrare con eroico poema quell'Amedeo che liberт col senno e collearmi l'Isola di Rodi.More...

"We have offended, Oh! my countrymen! We have offended very grievously, And been most tyrannous. From east to west A groan of accusation pierces Heaven! The wretched plead against us; multitudes, Countless and vehement, the sons of God,...More...

There was once a boy, named Gaspar, whose uncle made voyages to China,and brought him home chessmen, queer toys, porcelain vases,embroidered skullcaps, and all kinds of fine things.More...

The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The Power, the Beauty, and the Majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain. Or forest by slow stream, or pabbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths, all these have vanished--...More...

As I write, here in my surgeon's study, I ask myself that question.What's behind it? My neighbors? Then what do I know--really know--ofthem? After all, this wall which rises beyond my desk, the wall againstwhich my glass case of instruments rests, symbolizes the boundary of...More...

Our new strain of Cyclamen is the finest in the world. Enormous flowers, delicate colors, superb foliage. Each bulb produces scores of flowers at once, and each flower keeps perfect about two months before fading.More...

It is little more than ten years since I wrote my _Indian Unrest_. Butthey have been years that may well count for decades in the history ofthe world, and not least in the history of India.More...

The volume _The Evidence in the Case_ is based upon an article by theHon. James M. Beck, which came into print in the "New York Times" ofOctober 25th. The article in question made so deep an impression withthinking citizens on both sides of the Atlantic that it has been...More...

That is the question which Mrs. Ward, replying to some doubts and queriesof an American friend, has undertaken to answer in this series of letters,and every one who reads them will admit that her answer is as complete and...More...

I have been writing books for five-and-twenty years, novels of which Ibelieve myself to be the author, in spite of the fact that I have beenassured over and over again that they are not my own work.More...

Grim Fate was tender, contemplating you, And fairies brought their offerings at your birth; You take the rose-leaf pathway as your due, Your rightful meed the choicest gifts of earth.More...

"I will get out," said Hugh Scarlett to himself, seeing no bars, buthalf conscious of a cage. "I will get out," he repeated, as his hansomtook him swiftly from the house in Portman Square, where he had beendining, towards that other house in Carlton House Terrace, whither his...More...