BY ELBERT HUBBARD
LITTLE JOURNEYS
Victor Hugo says, ``When you open a school, you close a prison.''
This seems to require a little explanation. Victor Hugo did not have in
mind...
By HENRY JAMES
CHAPTER I
A narrow grave-yard in the heart of a bustling, indifferent city, seen
from the windows of a gloomy-looking inn, is at no time an object of
enlivening sugg...
by Honore de Balzac Translated by James Waring
DEDICATION
To Monsieur le Comte Ferdinand de Gramont.
MY DEAR FERDINAND,--If the chances of the world of literature--
/habent sua f...
William Shakespeare.
THE PROLOGUE.
The doubtful Title (Gentlemen) prefixt Upon the Argument we have in
hand, May breed suspence, and wrongfully disturb The peaceful quiet of
your s...
A SERIES OF LECTURES DELIVERED AT YALE UNIVERSITY ON THE SILLIMAN
FOUNDATION IN APRIL, 1913
by WILLIAM OSLER
THE SILLIMAN FOUNDATION
IN the year 1883 a legacy of eighty thousand ...
PREFACE
The New McGuffey First Reader has been prepared in conformity with the
latest and most approved ideas regarding the teaching of reading, and
its lessons embody and illustra...