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Supper at My Casino With M. M. and M. de Bernis, the French Ambassador A Proposal from M. M.; I Accept It Consequences C. C. is Unfaithful to Me, and I Cannot Complain
Bottarelli A Letter from Pauline The Avenging Parrot Pocchini Guerra, the Venetian I Meet Sara Again; My Idea of Marrying Her and Settling in Switzerland The Hanoverians
He was working on the edge of the common, beyond the small brook that ran in the dip at the bottom of the garden, carrying the garden path in continuation from the plank bridge on to the common.He had cut the rough turf and bracken, leaving the grey, dryish soil bare....
A nice phrase:A People's Theatre. But what about it? There's no such thing in existence as a People's Theatre: or even on the way to existence, as far as we can tell. The name is chosen, the baby isn't even begotten: nay, the would-be parents aren't married, nor yet...
To Alessandro Manzoni, as to the Genius of the Place,
Lucretia; or, The Children of Night, was begun simultaneously with The Caxtons: a Family Picture. The two fictions were intended as pendants; both serving, amongst other collateral aims and objects, to show the influence of home education, of early circumstance and...
Original Short Stories Volume II
When writers are so different, it is queer that every age should have a distinguishing spirit. Each writer is as different in style as in look, and his words reveal him just as the body reveals the soul, blazoning its past or its future without possibility of...
The high, petulant voice rose shrilly through the steep, narrow stairway, and seemed to pierce the ears of the young girl who sat under the low, sloping roof, nearly bent double over the book in her lap.
SEVERAL YEARS had elapsed since I had found the op- portunity to do any big-game hunting; for at last I had my plans almost perfected for a return to my old stamping-grounds in northern Africa, where in other days I had had excellent sport in pursuit of the king of...
Once more 'King Foo-foo the First' was roving with the tramps an
Throughout a big shed, filled for the most part with huge pieces of machinery, echoed the voice of Professor Amos Henderson. He did not look up from a small engine over which he was bending.
WALLENSTEIN, Duke of Friedland, Generalissimo of the Imperial Forces i
God made the country and man made the town.
Four tales are, it is said, intended by the Author to be appropriate to theFour Seasons: the stern, grave Sintram, to winter; the tearful, smiling, fresh Undine, to Spring; the torrid deserts of the Two Captains, to summer; and the sunset gold of Aslauga's Knight, to...
On a march evening, at eight o'clock, Backhouse, the medium - a fast - rising star in the psychic world - was ushered into the study at Prolands, the Hampstead residence of Montague Faull. The room was illuminated only by the light of a blazing fire. The host, eying...
Sir Robert Aylward, Bart., M.P., sat in his office in the City of London. It was a very magnificent office, quite one of the finest that could be found within half a mile of the Mansion House. Its exterior was built of Aberdeen granite, a material calculated to impress...
Once upon a time, it matters little when, and in stalwart England, it matters little where, a fierce battle was fought. It was fought upon a long summer day when the waving grass was green. Many a wild flower formed by the Almighty Hand to be a perfumed goblet for the...
It was four o'clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive. There had been a crowd following all the way, owing to the exuberance of Marija Berczynskas. The occasion rested heavily upon Marija's broad shoulders - it was her task to see that all...
The interesting tale contained in this volume of romantic adventure in the forests of Canada, was much appreciated and enjoyed by a large circle of young readers when first published, under the title ofThe Canadian Crusoes. After being many years out of print, it will...
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