by Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS. Some dialogues of Plato are of so various a character that their relation to the other dialogues cannot be determined with any degre...

H.G. WELLS TO FREDERICK SODDY'S 'INTERPRETATION OF RADIUM' THIS STORY, WHICH OWES LONG PASSAGES TO THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER OF THAT BOOK, ACKNOWLEDGES AND INSCRIBES ITSELF PREFACE THE WORLD SET FREE was w...

By Mary Wilkins THE WIND IN THE ROSE-BUSH Ford Village has no railroad station, being on the other side of the river from Porter's Falls, and accessible only by the ford which gives it its name, and a...

by Herman Melville In the tumultuous business of cutting-in and attending to a whale, there is much running backwards and forwards among the crew. Now hands are wanted here, and then again hands are w...

BY FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT TO LIONEL "The stars come nightly to the sky; The tidal wave unto the sea; Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high Can keep my own away from me." CHAPTER I Perhaps the thing...

Anthony Trollope CHAPTER I Hiram's Hospital The Rev. Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed clergyman residing in the cathedral town of ---; let us call it Barchester. Were we to name We...

DANTE ALIGHIERI TRANSLATED BY THE REV. H. F. CARY, A.M. CANTO I O'er better waves to speed her rapid course The light bark of my genius lifts the sail, Well pleas'd to leave so cruel sea behind; And...

BY JOHN N. REYNOLDS ATCHISON, KANSAS. TO MY DEAR OLD MOTHER AND TO THE MEMORY OF MY SAINTED WIFE THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR. PREFACE The following pages treat of hell--A Kansa...

PREFACE The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, ...

BY ELBRIDGE S. BROOKS PREFACE. This "True Story of Christopher Columbus" is offered and inscribed to the boys and girls of America as the opening volume in a series especially designed for their readi...