Mark Twain The least that Findlayson, of the Public Works Department, expected was a C.I.E.; he dreamed of a C.S.I. Indeed, his friends told him that he deserved more. For three years he had endured h...

Helen Nicolay A PRESIDENT'S CHILDHOOD Abraham Lincoln's forefathers were pioneers--men who left their homes to open up the wilderness and make the way plain for others to follow them. For one hundred ...

An Incident of the Indian War of 1695 by John Greenleaf Whittier THE township of Haverhill, even as late as the close of the seventeenth century, was a frontier settlement, occupying an advanced posit...

by Kakuzo Okakura The Cup of Humanity Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth c...

LAURA LEE HOPE CHAPTER I A CIRCUS TRAIN "MAMMA, how much longer have we got to ride?" asked Nan Bobbsey, turning in her seat in the railroad car, to look at her parents, who sat behind her. "Are you g...

H. de Vere Stacpoole BOOK I PART I CHAPTER I WHERE THE SLUSH LAMP BURNS Mr Button was seated on a sea-chest with a fiddle under his left ear. He was playing the "Shan van vaught," and accompanying the...

HENRY VAN DYKE The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion for something afar From the sphere of our sorrow. --SHELLEY. To THE DEAR MEMORY OF BERNARD VAN DYKE 1887-1...

by Marian Keith CHAPTER I. SPLITTING ROOKS Up in the stony pasture-field behind the barn the boys had been working all the long afternoon. Nearly all, that is, for, being boys, they had managed to mix...

Walter Scott, Bart. TALES OF MY LANDLORD COLLECTED AND REPORTED BY JEDEDIAH CLEISHBOTHAM, SCHOOLMASTER AND PARISH-CLERK OF GANDERCLEUGH. INTRODUCTION. As I may, without vanity, presume that the name a...

J.F.C. Hecke INTRODUCTION Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker was one of three generations of distinguished professors of medicine. His father, August Friedrich Hecker, a most industrious writer, first pract...