William Shakespeare ACT I. SCENE I. Padua. A public place Enter LUCENTIO and his man TRANIO LUCENTIO. Tranio, since for the great desire I had To see fair Padua, nursery of arts, I am arriv'd for frui...

Algernon Charles Swinburne DEDICATION TO MY MOTHER Love that holds life and death in fee, Deep as the clear unsounded sea And sweet as life or death can be, Lays here my hope, my heart, and me Before ...

by Jack London THE STRENGTH OF THE STRONG "Parables don't lie, but liars will parable." - Lip-King. Old Long-Beard paused in his narrative, licked his greasy fingers, and wiped them on his naked sides...

with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda. INTRODUCTION It would seem fitting for a Northern folk, deriving the greater and better part of their speech, laws, and customs from a Northern root, that the North...

by E. Nesbit TO Dr Wallis Budge of the British Museum as a small token of gratitude for his unfailing kindness and help in the making of it CHAPTER 1 THE PSAMMEAD There were once four children who spe...

By Thomas Bailey Aldrich CHAPTER One In Which I Introduce Myself This is the story of a bad boy. Well, not such a very bad, but a pretty bad boy; and I ought to know, for I am, or rather I was, that b...

FLORENCE CONVERSE ALMA MATER To Alma Mater, Wellesley's daughters, All together join and sing. Thro' all her wealth of woods and water Let your happy voices ring; In every changing mood we love her, L...

By Helen Bannerman PREFACE. There is very little to say about the story of LITTLE BLACK SAMBO. Once upon a time there was an English lady in India, where black children abound and tigers are everyday ...

by Xenophon Translation by H. G. Dakyns Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land and propert...

by Alice Meynell THE SPIRIT OF PLACE With mimicry, with praises, with echoes, or with answers, the poets have all but outsung the bells. The inarticulate bell has found too much interpretation, too ma...