by Edward Bulwer Lytton
To the author of "Ion."
Whose genius and example have alike contributed towards the regeneration
of The National Drama,
This play is inscribed.
PREFACE.
An ...
MARGARET MAYO
To my Helper and Husband
CHAPTER I
Even in college Alfred Hardy was a young man of fixed ideas and high
ideals and proud of it.
His friend, Jimmy Jinks, had few ide...
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on
August 28, 1963 Five score years ago, a great American, in whose
symbolic shadow w...
BY LAURA LEE HOPE
CHAPTER I THE INVITATION
"There goes the bell! It's the letter carrier! Let me answer!" Freddie
exclaimed.
"Oh, let me! It's my turn this week!" cried Flossie.
"B...
by Frank R. Stockton
In the very olden time there lived a semi-barbaric king, whose ideas,
though somewhat polished and sharpened by the progressiveness of distant
Latin neighbors,...
Andrew Lang
LIST OF POETS TRANSLATED
CHARLES D'ORLEANS, who has sometimes, for no very obvious reason,
been styled the father of French lyric poetry, was born in
May, 1391. He w...