The Grey Brethren
Some of the happiest remembrances of my childhood are of days spent in a
little Quaker colony on a high hill.
The walk was in itself a preparation, for the hill w...
BY J. S. ZERBE
INTRODUCTORY
In preparing this volume on Flying Machines the aim has been to present
the subject in such a manner as will appeal to boys, or beginners, in
this field...
Volume 1, Hell [The Inferno]
Dante Aligheri
Translated by Charles Eliot Norton
To JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.
It is a happiness for me to connect this volume with the memory of my
fr...
BY HONORE DE BALZAC
Translated By Katharine Prescott Wormeley
DEDICATION
To Madame Josephine Delannoy nee Doumerc.
Madame, may God grant that this, my book, may live longer than ...
THE HAPPY PRINCE
High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy
Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes
he had two bright sapph...
By Anne Bronte
CHAPTER I - THE PARSONAGE
ALL true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure
may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the...