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Richard McGowan PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION "Violists" began to germinate early in December last, as Christmas approached. I originally intended that it be ready before the new year, but alas, it cam...

Richard Harding Davis Part I Happy in the hope that the news was "exclusive", the Despatch had thrown the name of Stephen Hallowell, his portrait, a picture of his house, and the words, "At Point of D...

William Shakespeare TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE HENRY WRIOTHESLEY, EARL OF SOUHAMPTON, AND BARON OF TICHFIELD. RIGHT HONOURABLE, I know not how I shall offend in dedicating my unpolished lines to your l...

HONORE DE BALZAC Translated By Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Puttinati, Milanese Sculptor. CHAPTER I PROLOGUE In the year 1800, toward the close of October, a foreigner, accompanied by a...

Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman Martha Summerhayes TO MY SON HARRY SUMMERHAYES WHO SHARED THE VICISSITUDES OF MY LIFE IN ARIZONA, THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED Preface I ...

Richard Harding Davis Her First Appearance It was at the end of the first act of the first night of "The Sultana," and every member of the Lester Comic Opera Company, from Lester himself down to the w...

Thomas More INTRODUCTION Sir Thomas More, son of Sir John More, a justice of the King's Bench, was born in 1478, in Milk Street, in the city of London. After his earlier education at St. Anthony's Sch...

Gilbert Keith Chesterton A SONG OF SWORDS "A drove of cattle came into a village called Swords; and was stopped by the rioters."--Daily Paper. In the place called Swords on the Irish road It is told f...

Robert Louis Stevenson DEDICATION THERE are men and classes of men that stand above the common herd: the soldier, the sailor and the shepherd not unfrequently; the artist rarely; rarely still, the cle...