by HONORE DE BALZAC "The whole show is dreadful," she cried coming out of the menagerie of M. Martin. She had just been looking at that daring speculator "working with his hyena,"--to speak in the sty...

by J. Walker McSpadden Preface Mr. H. G. Wells, in his "Outline of History," was of necessity forced to omit the narration of many of the chief events in the history of these United States. Such omiss...

By LUCY LARCOM PREFACE THE following sketch was written for the young, at the suggestion of friends. My audience is understood to be composed of girls of all ages, and of women who have not forgotten ...

By Elia Wilkinson Peattie To My best Friend, and kindest Critic, My Husband. IF Leroy Brainard had not had such a respect for literature, he would have written a book. As it was, he played at being ...

(for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick.) by Dr. Jonathan Swift. 1729 It is a melanch...

By G. K. CHESTERTON THE SUFFRAGIST Rightly or wrongly, it is certain that a man both liberal and chivalric, can and very often does feel a dis-ease and distrust touching those political women we call ...

by BRET HARTE PROLOGUE There was no mistake this time: he had struck gold at last! It had lain there before him a moment ago--a misshapen piece of brown-stained quartz, interspersed with dull yellow m...

William Shakespeare 1596 DRAMATIS PERSONAE THESEUS, Duke of Athens EGEUS, father to Hermia LYSANDER, in love with Hermia DEMETRIUS, in love with Hermia PHILOSTRATE, Master of the Revels to Theseus QUI...

By Charles Dickens I--THE VILLAGE "And a mighty sing'lar and pretty place it is, as ever I saw in all the days of my life!" said Captain Jorgan, looking up at it. Captain Jorgan had to look high to lo...

By Margaret Hill McCarter PREFACE In the old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are...