by Edwin L. Arnold
CHAPTER I
Dare I say it? Dare I say that I, a plain, prosaic lieutenant in the
republican service have done the incredible things here set out for the
love of a ...
By Hubert Howe Bancroft
Some Cities and San Francisco
There had been some discussion as to improving and beautifying the city
of San Francisco prior to the catastrophe of April 18t...
Translated from Pali by F. Max Muller
From: The Sacred Books of the East Translated by Various Oriental
Scholars Edited by F. Max Muller Volume X Part I
Chapter I The Twin-Verses
...
by Wilkie Collins
INTRODUCTORY WORDS.
The following pages were written more than twenty years since, and were
then published periodically in _Household Words._
In the original form...
by Honore de Balzac
Translated by Clara Bell and James Waring
DEDICATION
To Monsieur le Marquis de Belloy
It was sitting by the fire, in a mysterious and magnificent
retreat,...
by Thackeray
ON SOME CARP AT SANS
SOUCI
We have lately made the acquaintance of an old lady of ninety, who has
passed the last twenty-five years of her old life in a great
metropol...