By Henry Lawson
Preface
Most of the verses contained in this volume were first published in the
Sydney `Bulletin'; others in the Brisbane `Boomerang', Sydney
`Freeman's Journal', `...
BY DON MARQUIS
CHAPTER I
A BRIGHT BLADE LEAPS FROM A RUSTY SCABBARD
On an evening in April, 191-, Clement J. Cleggett walked sedately into
the news room of the New York Enterpr...
AN INTERNATIONAL ROMANCE
By AMELIA E. BARR
PART FIRST
O LOVE WILL VENTURE IN!
CHAPTER I
THE thing that I know least about is my beginning. For it is possible to
introduce Ethel...
Richard Harding Davis
Had the Wilmot Electric Light people remained content only to make
light, had they not, as a by-product, attempted to make money, they need
not have left Hayt...
By William Congreve
TO THE HONOURED AND WORTHILY ESTEEM'D MRS. KATHARINE LEVESON.
Madam,
A Clear Wit, sound Judgment and a Merciful Disposition, are things so
rarely united, th...