The author of this series has made it his special object to confinehimself very strictly, even in the most minute details which herecords, to historic truth. The narratives are not tales founded uponhistory, but history itself, without any embellishment, or  More...

Le pиre Flambeur, un vieux capitaine au long cours de mon pays, lemeilleur homme de la terre, extrкmement rigolo (ce qui ne gвte rien),dйbarqua un jour а Paris, pour voir lExposition de 1889.  More...

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A Number of the tales and sketches here brought together appear now forthe first time between covers; others for the first time between coversin this country. All have been gathered from out-of-print volumes andold magazine files.  More...

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If I must tell more tales of Raffles, I can but go back to ourearliest days together, and fill in the blanks left by discretion inexisting annals. In so doing I may indeed fill some small part of aninfinitely greater  More...

The village of Concord, Massachusetts, lies an hours ride fromBoston, upon the Great Northern Railway. It is one of those quiet NewEngland towns, whose few white houses, grouped upon the plain, makebut a slight impression upon the mind of the  More...

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On the 10th of August, 1880, at that fabled hour of the setting sun sovaunted by the guide-books Joanne and Baedeker, an hermetic yellow fog,complicated with a flurry of snow in white spirals, enveloped the summitof the Rigi (_Regina monhum_)  More...

Ces bouts de phrases, presque inintelligibles au milieu des cris,des rires, des airs de danse d’une fкte travestie, s’йchangeaient-- une nuit de juin -- entre un _pifferaro_ et une femme fellahdans la serre de palmiers, de fougиres arborescentes, qui faisait...  More...

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In this volume appear two new appendices, which will also be addedto all others of our Series: (1) _Questionnaires_, which are not meantto usurp the teacher’s freedom in _viva voce_ practice of the language,but to select for attention certain questions,  More...

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"Yes, and how badly he waltzes," said Angila. "Mary Morton is toopretty a girl for such an awkward, ugly man. How lovely she lookedlast night. I hope its not an engagement, for I quite like her.  More...

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We went through the old gateway and I cast a glance over my shoulder.The noon sun was shining over the masonry, over the little saintseffigies, over the little fretted canopies, the grime and the whitestreaks of bird-dropping.  More...

From that evening when James Wait joined the ship--late for the musterof the crew--to the moment when he left us in the open sea, shrouded insailcloth, through the open port, I had much to do with him.  More...

Oli sunnuntaipдivд toukokuun lopulla vuonna 1867. Ei missддn nдkynytvielд kevддn esikoisia. Paksuina kinoksina peitti lumi Pohjanmaanlakeita vainioita. Sen lisдksi nujutti ja ryцpytti lunta, ajaen erддlleEtelд-Pohjanmaan kirkolle tulevat ihmiset etsimддn suojaa joko kirkosta...  More...

Les observateurs qui ont vu dun oeil curieux sйloigner du port unnavire emportant au loin sur les mers un йquipage sortant du cabaret,nont pas manquй de raconter, et les adieux du matelot а ses amis, etles baisers effusifs dont il  More...

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This little tale is scarcely worth a preface, and it is only necessaryto say, that it was written as a relaxation after exhausting toil. Ifits grotesque incidents beguile an otherwise weary hour with innocentlaughter, the writers ambition will have been  More...

Time and opportunity make men--and high talent in any profession orsphere of life is valueless unless called into action. This isstrikingly exemplified in the career of the person with whom we nowhave to do.  More...

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"THE LION OF FLANDERS,""COUNT HUGO OF CRAENHOVE,""WOODEN CLARA,""THE POOR GENTLEMAN,""RICKETICKETACK,""THE DEMON OF GOLD,""THE VILLAGE INN-KEEPER,""THE CONSCRIPT," "BLIND ROSA,""THE MISER,""THE FISHERMANS DAUGHTER," ETC.  More...

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Old Mam Henry, and her word may be taken, said that it was "Depowerfulles sehmont she ever had hyeahd in all huh bon days." Thatwas saying a good deal, for the old woman had lived many years on theStone place  More...

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"There was no need to invent conditions or imagine situations. Thelife of _any_ lad of Billy Topsails years up there is sufficientlyromantic. It is this skill in the portrayal of actual conditions thatlie ready to the hand of the intelligent  More...

A few hours before the sailing of the steamer _Polynesia_, from SanFrancisco to Japan, and while Captain Strathmore stood on deckwatching the bustle and hurry, he was approached by a nervous,well-dressed gentleman, who was leading a little girl by the  More...

"Suspicione si quis errabit sua, Et rapiet ad se, quod erit commune omnium, Stulte nudabit animi conscientiam Huic excusatum me velim nihilominus Neque enim notare singulos mens est mihi, Verum ipsam vitam et mores hominum ostendere"...  More...

One beautiful misummer night in 18-- a large, heavily laden steamer wasmaking her way swiftly up the Pacific coast, in the direction of SanFrancisco. She was opposite the California shore, only a days saildistant from the City of the Golden  More...

THE present volume is the second of the selected stories from HansAndersen. Together the books include what, out of a larger number, arethe best for childrens use. The story-telling activity of thisinimitable genius covered a period of more than forty  More...

Each gentleman was past three-score, but they were well preserved, ofrugged health, well to do and prosperous. They had got on for manyyears without so much as a shadow of difference between them.  More...

When he became big enough to sit on the porch of the humble little home,where he was born, and stare with his great round eyes at the world asit went by, that world, whether on horseback, in carriage, or on  More...

For many years I have been accustomed to make notes on random leaves ofthe things in Life and Thought which have chanced to strike my attention.Such records of personal reaction to the outer and inner world have beenhelpful to my  More...

Mon digne oncle Bernard Hertzog, le chroniqueur, coiffй de son grandchapeau а claque et de sa perruque grise, le bвton de montagnard аpointe de fer au poing, descendait un soir le sentier de Luppersberg,saluant chaque paysage dune exclamation enthousiaste.  More...

It has often been remarked, with perfect justice, that the eminent Frenchwriters, a translation of one of whose works is here attempted, aresingularly faithful in their adherence to historic truth.  More...

Instead of following "Madame Thйrиse" with stories celebrating thevictories of Napoleon and thus appealing to their compatriots love ofglory and military illusions, MM. Erckmann-Chatrian take up next thetragic and far more significant story of 1812-13.  More...

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The once famous Mrs. Anne Grant--known in literature as Mrs. Grant ofLaggan--spent part of her childhood in our New York Albany, then a townalmost wholly given to traffic with the aborigines.  More...

AS A PEBBLE CAST UPON A GREATCAIRN, THIS EDITION IS INSCRIBED TO THEMEMORY OF JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL,WHOSE CORDIAL ENCOURAGEMENT TO MYEARLY STUDIES OF AMERICAN DIALECT ISGRATEFULLY REMEMBERED.  More...

In undertaking to write these few chapters on the lives of thebook-collectors, we feel that we must move between lines that seemsomewhat narrow, having regard to the possible range of the subject.  More...

"This volume contains nearly all the pieces included in the POEMS andMAY-DAY of former editions. In 1876, Mr. Emerson published a selectionfrom his Poems, adding six new ones and omitting many[1].  More...

_Hans Andersen, der MГ¤rchendichter_, Nennt man ihn nur, landaus, landein; Da lachen strahlende Gesichter, Da jubeln Bub’ und MГ¤gdelein! Ihm sang und klang, ihm lebt’ und lachte, Was anderer Ohr und Auge tot, Das Seelenlose fГјhlt’ und dachte...  More...

The Hans Andersen Fairy Tales will be read in schools and homes as longas there are children who love to read. As a story-teller for childrenthe author has no rival in power to enlist the imagination and carry italong natural,  More...

Alvin Landon and Chester Haynes were having a merry time in the home ofMike Murphy, when a servant knocked and made known that a caller wasawaiting Alvin in the handsome bungalow belonging to his father.  More...

He was a native of the Lone Star State, where, until he was thirteenyears old, he attended the common school, held in a log cabin withinthree miles of his home, after which he went to live with his uncle,Captain Dohm  More...

The blood-red sun was sinking beyond the distant Geral Mountains, whena canoe, containing four white men and three natives, came to a halt athousand miles from the mighty Amazon, in the upper waters of the XinguRiver, near the great table-land  More...

Along the eastern bank a small Indian canoe, containing a singleindividual, was stealing its way--"hugging" the shore so as to takeadvantage of the narrow band of shadow that followed the winding of thestream.  More...

King Richard the Third, known commonly in history as Richard theUsurper, was perhaps as bad a man as the principle of hereditarysovereignty ever raised to the throne, or perhaps it should rather besaid, as the principle of hereditary sovereignty ever  More...

For the present volume over two thousand poems by Clare have beenconsidered and compared; of which over two-thirds have not beenpublished. Of those here given ninety are now first printed, and aredistinguished with asterisks in the contents: one or two  More...

On the edge of a prairie, in western Iowa, thirty years ago, stood acabin, covering quite a little ground, but only one story high. It washumble enough, but not more so than the early homes of some who havebecome great.  More...

En mкme temps toutes les йglises de la ville ouvrent leurs gosiers debronze et forcent leurs voix. Quelques-unes ont inconsidйrйment commencйde chanter avant la Cathйdrale; dautres ny vont pas si vite et sont enretard de quatre, de six coups sur  More...

This book does not claim to be a life of Cicero or a history of the lastdays of the Roman Republic. Still less does it pretend to come intocomparison with such a work as Bekkers _Gallus_, in which on a  More...

As the plan of these volumes does not encourage footnotes, I wish to saythat, besides the biographies prefixed to the various editions ofSpenser, there are two series of publications, which have been veryuseful to me.  More...

I had wished to say a few words as to the great difficulty oftransforming Livys ornate diction into the simple style I have hithertoadopted; but a stroke of illness has prevented my being able even tocorrect the proofs--a work which  More...

In presenting "Ben, the Luggage Boy," to the public, as the fifth of theRagged Dick Series, the author desires to say that it is in allessential points a true history; the particulars of the story havingbeen communicated to him, by  More...

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_Like popular tales in general, the original sources of stories ofsimpletons are for the most part not traceable. The old Greek jests ofthis class had doubtless been floating about among different peopleslong before they were reduced to writing.  More...

The main schoolroom in the Millville Academy was brilliantly lighted,and the various desks were occupied by boys and girls of different agesfrom ten to eighteen, all busily writing under the general direction ofProfessor George W.  More...

Concerning Bridget there was from the outset considerable difference ofopinion. Mark Driver, for instance, always showed a tendency tosomething more than tolerance, and even Carrissima Faversham, in spiteof a manifestly unfavourable bias, strove to hold the balance even.  More...

In 1837 I was a resident in Galata, one of the faubourgs of Constantinople,sufficiently near the scenes of death caused by the ravages of the plagueto be thoroughly acquainted with them, and yet to be separated from theTurkish part of  More...

The following article has been compiled from the different works of THOMASCARLYLE, and embodies all he has written, or at least published, aboutNapoleon Bonaparte. We offer it in the absence of a more elaborate work onthis subject, which we hope  More...

The dignity of the subject of this little Treatise, not any persuasionof its merits as a literary composition, encourages me to offer it toyour Lordships patronage. The cause of freedom has always been foundsufficient, in every age and country, to  More...

This question has often been asked but seldom answered satisfactorily.Newspaper editors and correspondents have frequently attempted a practicalelucidation of the mystery, by quoting from their own brains the rarestpiece of absurdity which they could imagine, and entitling it...  More...

The present series of volumes has been undertaken with the view ofsupplying the want of a class of books for children, of a vigorous,manly tone, combined with a plain and concise mode of narration.  More...

At that time, the title attached to these pages was strictly descriptiveof the state of the county, when my companion and I walked through it.But when, little more than a year afterwards, a second edition of thisvolume was called for,  More...

The articles included in this book have already appeared, those from theEast in the _Manchester Guardian_, those from America in the _EnglishReview_. In reprinting them, I have chosen a title which may serve alsoas an apology.  More...

How do the waves along the level shore Follow and fly in hurrying sheets of foam, For ever doing what they did before, For ever climbing what is never clomb! Is there an end to their perpetual haste, Their  More...

Charles Dickens was one of the greatest among the many story-writers of"the Victorian age;" that is, the middle and latter part of theNineteenth Century, when Victoria was Queen of Great Britain.  More...

Late Professor of Comparative Philology and Ancient Armenian at theImperial University of Kharkoff; Doctor of Oriental Languages of theUniversity of Louvain; Magistrand of the Oriental Faculty of the ImperialUniversity of St.  More...

[Transcribers Notes:For ease of navigation, this Table of Contents has been taken from thefull contents listing for the volume.Some entries were missing from the index. For completeness they havebeen added and marked with an asterisk.  More...

XI.--THE MIDNIGHT MESSENGER XII.--REPENTANCE XIII.--THE NEW WILL XIV.--THE SECRET SIN XV.--THE DISCOVERY XVI.--THE DEATH DREAM XVII.--REMORSE XVIII.--REPENTANCE XIX.  More...

For some reason, which may be either arrogance or apathy, the Britishare very slow to state their case to the world. At present the reasonsfor our actions and the methods which we have used are set forth in manyBlue-books, tracts,  More...

It is with something like a confession that I offer this second of mynature books to the public--a confession, and a hope; the confession of onewho for years hunted and killed before he learned that the wild offered amore thrilling  More...

At Point Fullerton, one thousand miles straight north of civilization,Sergeant William MacVeigh wrote with the stub end of a pencil betweenhis fingers the last words of his semi-annual report to theCommissioner of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police at Regina.  More...

Kazan lay mute and motionless, his gray nose between his forepaws, hiseyes half closed. A rock could have appeared scarcely less lifeless thanhe; not a muscle twitched; not a hair moved; not an eyelid quivered.  More...

The words came in a gentle whisper from the womans lips. One white,thin hand lifted itself weakly to the rough face of the man who waskneeling beside her bed, and the great dark eyes from which he hadhidden his own  More...

To the sweet-voiced, dark-eyed little half-Cree maidenat Lac-Bain, who is the Minnetaki of this story; and to "Teddy" Brown,guide and trapper, and loyal comrade of the author in many of hisadventures, this book is affectionately dedicated.  More...

This is a collection of ten Christmas Stories, some of which have beenpublished before. I have added a little essay, written on the occasionof the first Christmas celebrated by the King of Italy in Rome.  More...

Het doel van deze vertaling is den Nederlandschen lezer in kennis testellen met den volledigen inhoud van Dantes Gedicht. De vertalingis zooveel mogelijk woordelijk, kan dus ook als handleiding dienen bijhet lezen en bestudeeren van den oorspronkelijken, Italiaanschen tekst.  More...

It was raining when the ship was ready to sail; yet on the pier a largecrowd of people stood under dripping umbrellas, waving and shoutingfarewells to their friends on board. The departing passengers, most ofthem protected by an upper deck,  More...

The little old lady lived over the way, through a green gate thatshut with a click, and up three white steps. Every morning at eightoclock the church bell chimed for Morning Prayer--chim!  More...

The contents of this volume are republished in order to make the Editiona complete collection of Mrs. Ewings works, rather than because oftheir intrinsic worth. The fact that she did not republish the papersduring her life shows that she did  More...

I have often thought that the biggest bit of good luck (and I waslucky), which befell me on my outset into the world, was that the man Isat next to in the railway carriage was not a rogue.  More...

It is always a memorable era in a mothers life when she firstintroduces a daughter into society. Many things contribute to make itso; among which is the fact of the personal blessing to herself, inhaving been permitted to see the  More...

It is, I fear, fragmentary as a mere tale, and cannot even plead as anexcuse for this that it embodies any complete theory on the vexedquestion of the upbringing of girls. Indeed, I should like to say thatit contains no  More...

CHAPTER X. Of the Island of Cuba--Captain Morgan attempts to preserve the Isle of St. Catherine as a refuge to the nest of pirates; but fails of his design--He arrives at, and takes, the village of El Puerto del  More...

Mushrooms and their extensive and profitable culture should concernevery one. For home consumption they are a healthful and grateful food,and for market, when successfully grown, they become a most profitablecrop.  More...

Gentlemen,--I take this opportunity of forwarding to you, the _proofsheets_ of the unpublished Life of Hans Christian Andersen--translated from a copy transmitted to me for that purpose, by theAuthor.  More...

An apology is a sorry Preface to any book, however insignificant, andyet I am anxious to apologise for the title of this little tale. Thestory grew after the title had been (hastily) given, and so many otherincidents gathered round the  More...

AUTHOR OF "JAN OF THE WINDMILL," "SIX TO SIXTEEN," "A GREAT EMERGENCY," "WE AND THE WORLD," "JACKANAPES, AND OTHER TALES," "MELCHIORS DREAM, BROTHERS OF PITY, AND OTHER TALES," "LOB LIE-BY-THE-FIRE, THE BROWNIES, AND OTHER TALES," "MRS.  More...

It was particularly provoking, because we were so well prepared forevents--any events. Rupert prepared us. He had found a fat old book inthe garret, bound in yellow leather, at the end of which were"Directions how to act with presence of  More...

This volume--which it has been desired to make known to the great publicin the French language--in entering upon a question so complex and sovast as socialism, has but a single and definite aim.  More...

Its nine oclock in the evening, my dear friend, and you have justarrived from Germany. They hand you my letter, the post-mark of whichinforms you at once that I am absent from Paris.  More...

Det arv jag fГҐtt frГҐn min faders land av skogar och vilda snГҐr, Г¤r bara en bГ¶rda som tynger min rygg dГ¤r jag ensam och grubblande gГҐr. Men det blir vГ¤l en morgon pГҐ ofridens natt -- jag vill  More...

"Well cut, Saurin, well cut! Run it out! Four!" The ball wasdelivered again to the bowler, who meditated a shooter, but being alittle tired, failed in his amiable intention, and gave the chance of ahalf-volley, which the batsman timed accurately,  More...

JOY IN THE MORNING THE ETERNAL FEMININE AUGUST FIRST THE ETERNAL MASCULINE THE MILITANTS BOB AND THE GUIDES CROSSES OF WAR HER COUNTRY OLD GLORY THE COUNSEL ASSIGNED THE COURAGE OF THE COMMONPLACE THE LIFTED BANDAGE...  More...

One peculiarity of this age is the sudden acquisition of much physicalknowledge. There is scarcely a department of science or art which isthe same, or at all the same, as it was fifty years ago.  More...

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FRANCIS A. DURIVAGE, ESQ., As a small Token of Regard for HIS EXCELLENCE IN THOSE QUALITIES WHICH CONSTITUTE STERLING MANHOOD; AS A TRUE AND WORTHY FRIEND; AS A RIPE SCHOLAR, AND A GRACEFUL AUTHOR, This Volume...  More...

At a certain committee meeting held in the spring of 1916, it was agreedthat fourteen leading American authors, known to be extremely generousas well as gifted, should be asked to write a composite novel.  More...

The paramount design of this series of School Readers is to help youngpeople to acquire the art and the habit of reading well--that is, ofinterpreting the printed page in such manner as to give pleasure andinstruction to themselves and to  More...

This edition of Lodges "Rosalynde" has grown out of a need felt bythe editor for an example of Elizabethan prose suitable for use in ageneral survey course in English, designed for college freshmen.  More...

The old-fashioned ghost-story was always terrifying and ghastly;something that made people afraid to go to bed, or to look over theirshoulders, or to enter a room in the dark. It dealt with apparitionsin a white sheet, and clanking chains, and  More...

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I Almindelighed ordner man vel sine Vers efter deres Indhold ogSamhшrighed; sшrger saavidt muligt for, at det ene Digt ikke misklжderdet andet. Slige Hensyn er der ladet haant om i denne Udgave; her hvordet har vжret mig om at gjшre  More...

The author of this series has made it his special object to confinehimself very strictly, even in the most minute details which herecords, to historic truth. The narratives are not tales founded uponhistory, but history itself, without any embellishment or  More...

Sakari Topeliuksen talviteloiltaTaru Sakari TopeliuksestaLцnnrotin kuvaErдs epдsiveyden ja epдuskon apostoli»Suuri vainaja»Bergbomien jддhyvдisjuhlaMuutamia muistelmia Minna CanthistaVaihduksissaKдynti K.  More...

AN EVENING IN THE SITTING-ROOM. RETREATING AND ADVANCING. A GLANCE INTO NORDLAND. THE RETURN. THE HALLING. AASGAARDSREIJA. THE MOUNTAIN JOURNEY. THE AWAKENING. THE LAST STRIFE.  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  More...

The belief that the only solid foundation for the accurate study ofAmerican ethnology and linguistics must be in the productions of thenative mind in their original form has led me to the venturesomeundertaking of which this is the first issue.  More...

Viheriдisten peltojensa keskessд punoitti pieni pappila jдrven rannallapitkдn lahden pohjukassa. Ilta-auringon valaistessa nдkyivдt senvalkoiset ikkunanpielet kauas suurelle selдlle, jossa kulki isovaltavдylд etelдstд pohjoiseen.  More...

SIR DAVID BREWSTER, K.H. D.C.L., PRINCIPAL OF THE UNITED COLLEGE OF ST SALVATOR AND ST LEONARD, ST ANDREWS; FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON; VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH; CORRESPONDING MEMBER...  More...

The story of Margaret of Anjou forms a part of the history of England,for the lady, though of Continental origin, was the queen of one ofthe English kings, and England was the scene of her most remarkableadventures and exploits.  More...

I have deliberated a long time about coupling some of my sketches ofoutdoor nature with a few chapters of a more purely literary character,and thus confiding to my reader what absorbs and delights me inside myfour walls, as well as  More...

Nature chose the spring of the year for the time of John Burroughssbirth. A little before the day when the wake-robin shows itself, thatthe observer might be on hand for the sight, he was born in Roxbury,Delaware County, New York,  More...

The eight essays in this volume all deal with the home region oftheir author; for not only did Mr. Burroughs begin life in theCatskills, and dwell among them until early manhood, but, as hehimself declares, he has never taken root  More...

Our paths in life have been separated by a long interval. Whilstinclination led you to explore and tosurvey the wild wastes ofthe North, the Arctic shores and the Polar seas, with all theirhardships and horrors; my lot was cast in  More...

I Introductory II Reason Free (Greece And Rome) III Reason in Prison (The Middle Ages) IV Prospect of Deliverance (The Renaissance and the Reformation) V Religious Toleration VI The Growth of Rationalism (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries)...  More...

The charming and popular story of _El Capitбn Veneno_, the fire-eater,has been well edited several times, but, after using the text in classesmany times, the present editor believes that there is still room forpersonal preferences as to what should be  More...

There is no public chapel at Falkland, and the private chapel in thehouse is attended by a variety of priests, who usually come only fromSaturday to Monday. Lord Butes diary for the second week in August1892 contains the following entries:--...  More...

TOHIS ROYAL HIGHNESSTHE DUKE OF SUSSEX,THIS BIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNTOFONE OF THE MOST AMIABLE AND RESPECTABLE DEFENDERS OF THE NOBLE CAUSE OFCIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY,OF WHICHHIS ROYAL HIGHNESS HAS UNIFORMLY BEEN A CONSTANT AND POWERFUL ADVOCATE,...  More...

Eliph Hewlitt, book agent, seated in his weather-beaten top buggy,drove his horse, Irontail, carefully along the rough Iowa hill road thatleads from Jefferson to Clarence. The Horse, a rusty gray, tottered ina loose-jointed manner from side to side of the  More...

The chief, and almost sole, source of information concerning Crabbe isthe Memoir by his son prefixed to the collected edition of his poems in1834. Comparatively few letters of Crabbes have been preserved, but asmall and interesting series will be found  More...

This is mainly a book about the Birds, or more properly an invitationto the study of Ornithology, and the purpose of the author will becarried out in proportion as it awakens and stimulates the interest ofthe reader in this branch  More...

I HAVE all the more pleasure in calling my book after the title of the first chapter, "Pepacton," because this is the Indian name of my native stream. In its watershed I was born and passed my youth, and here  More...

I am aware that for the most part the title of my book is an allegoryrather than an actual description; but readers who have followed meheretofore, I trust, will not be puzzled or misled in the present caseby any want  More...