BY CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Chapter I
The Haunted Bookshop
If you are ever in Brooklyn, that borough of superb sunsets and
magnificent vistas of husband-propelled baby-carriages, it is t...
by Luther
Preface of Dr. Martin Luther.
Since Pope Paul III convoked a Council last year, to assemble at Mantua
about Whitsuntide, and afterwards transferred it from Mantua, so tha...
1846-1849
By Elizabeth Davis Bancroft
LETTER: TO W.D.B. AND A.B. LIVERPOOL, October 26, 1846
My dear sons: Thank God with me that we are once more on TERRA FIRMA. We
arrived yest...
by Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)
(after the edition of Chatto & Windus, London, 1879)
CHAPTER I
In the year 1860, the reputation of Doctor Wybrow as a London physician
reached its h...