by F. Hopkinson Smith I BABCOCK'S DISCOVERY Something worried Babcock. One could see that from the impatient gesture with which he turned away from the ferry window on learning he had half an hour to ...

William Shakespeare ACT I. SCENE I. Rome. Before the Capitol Flourish. Enter the TRIBUNES and SENATORS aloft; and then enter below SATURNINUS and his followers at one door, and BASSIANUS and his follo...

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L. FRANK BAUM To Louis F. Gottschalk, Whose sweet and dainty melodies breathe the true spirit of fairyland, this book is affectionately dedicated To My Readers The very marked success of my last year'...

Charles Dickens THE SIGNAL-MAN "Halloa! Below there!" When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole. One would...

Andrew Barton `Banjo' Paterson [Australian Poet, Reporter -- 1864-1941.] Three Elephant Power "Them things," said Alfred the chauffeur, tapping the speed indicator with his fingers, "them things are...

by Thomas Hart Benton "ON THE EXPUNGING RESOLUTION" Mr. President: It is now three years since the resolve was adopted by the Senate, which it is my present motion to expunge from the journal. At ...

Norman F. Joly. Prologue Thales of Miletus. Thales, who was born in 640 B.C., was a man of exceptional wisdom and one of the Seven Sages of Ancient Greece. He was the father of Greek, and consequently...

E. Phillips Oppenheim CHAPTER I "Never heard a sound," the younger of the afternoon callers admitted, getting rid of his empty cup and leaning forward in his low chair. "No more tea, thank you, Miss F...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, a...