THE GOLD SICKLE; or, _Hena the Virgin of the Isle of Sen_. THE BRASS BELL; or, _The Chariot of Death_. THE IRON COLLAR; or, _Faustine and Syomara_. THE SILVER CROSS; or, _The Carpenter of Nazareth_.  More...

The death of Hon. HENRY WINTER DAVIS, for many years a distinguishedRepresentative of one of the Baltimore congressional districts, createda deep sensation among those who had been associated with him innational legislation, and they deemed it fitting to pay to his memory...  More...

The two stories by Mr. Crawford, presented in this volume, have been inprint before, having been originally written for two Christmas annualswhich were issued some years back. With the belief that the stories are,however, still unknown to the larger portion of Mr.  More...

When the train finally released its passengers they burst forth with theenthusiasm of escaping convicts. A great bustle ensued on the platformof the little mountain station. The idlers and philosophers from thevillage were present to examine the consignment of people from the city.  More...

_"We may all possess wisdom if we are willing to be persuaded thatthe experience of others is as useful as our own. Why give to oldage alone the privilege of wisdom? What would be thought of one whoprided himself on possessing bracelets when he had  More...

Hot Cross Buns!Hot Cross Buns!One a penny, two a penny,Hot Cross Buns!If you have no daughters,If you have no daughters,If you have no daughters,Pray give them to your sons;But if you have none of these little elves,Then you must eat them all yourselves.  More...

For this rhymed version of the Fables I have to thank my early friendand master W.J. LINTON, who kindly placed the MS. at my disposal. Ihave added a touch here and there, but the credit of this part of thebook still belongs to him.  More...

He trotted upstairs. Perhaps trotting is not quite the right word, but Icant find a better. It wasnt at all like a horse or pony trotting, forhe went one foot at a time, right foot first, and when right foot wassafely landed on a step,  More...

Auntie hesitated--she glanced up at as much of the sky as could be seenthrough the lace-shrouded windows of their pretty Paris _salon_--it wasalready beginning to grow dusky, for though only half-past three, it wasthe thirty-first of December, and a dull day--and then turned with...  More...

These Essays appeared originally in _The Westminster Gazette_, and haveonly been so far modified here as is necessary for purposes of volumepublication. They aim at being suggestive rather than exhaustive: Ishall be satisfied if I have provoked thought without following out each...  More...

"Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarise or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.  More...

An old book-keeper, who wears a white cravat and black trowsers in themorning, who rarely goes to the opera, and never dines out, is clearlya person of no fashion and of no superior sources of information.  More...

_Dear and Beloved Constance_,--What shall I say to you? Here I sit,in a strange room, in a strange land,--and my life lies behind me.It is close upon midnight, and very dark. I can see nothing out ofwindow.  More...

A rule of the Boy Scouts is every day to do some one a good turn. Notbecause the copy-books tell you it deserves another, but in spite ofthat pleasing possibility. If you are a true scout, until you haveperformed your act of kindness your day  More...

No matter how often one sets out, "for to admire, and for to see,for to behold this world so wide," he never quite gets over beingsurprised at the erratic manner in which "civilization" distributesitself; at the way it ignores one spot upon the earths surface,  More...

Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society Author of "Three Gringos inVenezuela and Central America," "The Princess Aline," "Gallegher," "VanBibber, and Others," "Dr. Jamesons Raiders," etc.  More...

The Californian loves his state because his state loves him. He returnsher love with a fierce affection that to men who do not know Californiais always a surprise.--David Starr Jordan in "California and theCalifornians.  More...

RICHARD HARDING DAVIS, as a friend and fellow author has written of him,was "youth incarnate," and there is probably nothing that he wrote ofwhich a boy would not some day come to feel the appeal.  More...

*** _The stories in this volume have appeared in Scribners Magazine,Harpers Magazine, Weekly, and Young People; and "The Reporter who MadeHimself King" also in a volume, the rest of which, however, addresseditself to younger readers.  More...

When Mr. Davis wrote the story of "The Deserter," he could notpossibly have foreseen that it was to be his last story--the lastof those short stories which gave him such eminence as ashort-story writer.  More...

I. THE GENIUS TO BE LOVED II. WHAT IS CHRISTIANITY? III. THE JUSTICE OF JESUS IV. LOVE IS JUSTICE V. LOVE AND FORGIVENESS VI. THE PRACTICE OF LOVE VII. LOVE AND JUDGMENT VIII.  More...

As to Tiger Number One, what he likes best is prowling and hunting. Hesnuffs at all the interesting and exciting smells there are on thebreeze; that dark breeze that tells him the secrets the jungle has hid:every nerve in his body is alert, every hair  More...

Transcribers Note: Possible typos and irregularities inindentation and word usage have been left as found in theoriginal. There are places where punctuation may not havebeen correctly picked up by the scanning software; please...  More...

_All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in anyform without permission in writing from the publisher, except by areviewer who may quote brief passages in a review to be printed in amagazine or newspaper.  More...

For a considerable number of years I had been a resident in London,which city I regarded alternately as my Paradise and my House ofBondage. I am by no means one of those who are always ready to flingopprobrious epithets at London, such as a pestilent  More...

Preface.Chapter I. Introductory.Chapter II. The Old Testament Canon From Its Beginning To Its Close.Chapter III. The Samaritan And Alexandrian Canons.Chapter IV. Number And Order Of The Separate Books.  More...

When the fourth volume of this series was published three years ago,many of the critics who had up till then, as Horace Walpole said of God,been the dearest creatures in the world to me, took another turn.  More...

_A Vindication of the Press_ is one of Defoes most characteristicpamphlets and for this reason as well as for its rarity deservesreprinting. Besides the New York Public Library copy, here reproduced,I know of but one copy, which is in the Indiana University Library.  More...

Tout le monde connait les _aventures de Robinson Crusoй_, malgrй lescharmantes imitations quon a fait de ce roman on revient toujours avecplaisir а loriginal; louvrage que je publie se compose de 150 gravures аleau forte et retouchйes au burin, toutes tirйes de cet ouvrage et...  More...

Emmett L. Avery, _State College of Washington_ Benjamin Boyce, _DukeUniversity_ Louis Bredvold, _University of Michigan_ John Butt,_University of Edinburgh_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A.  More...

He was the idol, not because he was good and gracious, not because hespared his soldiers or treated them as fellow-citizens, but because hehad led them to victory and made them famous.  More...

"A conceited fool" is a not uncommon expression. Now, I know that I amnot a fool, but I also know that I am conceited. But, candidly, can itbe helped if one happens to be young, well and strong, passablygood-looking, with some money that one has  More...

On or about the latter part of July, 1853, the following document wassent on, and shortly appeared in the columns of "FREDERICK DOUGLASSPAPER," Rochester, N.Y., and the "ALIENED AMERICAN," published andedited by William Howard Day, Esq.  More...

Thomas Dekker is believed to have been born in London around 1572,but nothing is known for certain about his youth. He embarked on acareer as a theatre writer early in his adult life, the first extanttext of his work being Old Fortunatus written around 1596,  More...