BY SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE PART THE FIRST. It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. "By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me? "The Bridegroom's doors a...

The Old Time Journalist will tell you that the best reporter is the one who works his way up. He holds that the only way to start is as a printer's devil or as an office boy, to learn in time to set t...

by Natalie Sumner Lincoln CHAPTER I IN THE POLICE COURT Te Assistant District Attorney glanced down at the papers in his hand and then up at the well-dressed, stockily built man occupying the witness ...

by Jack London THE RED ONE THERE it was! The abrupt liberation of sound! As he timed it with his watch, Bassett likened it to the trump of an archangel. Walls of cities, he meditated, might well fall ...

BY HONORE DE BALZAC Translated By Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Monsieur le Marquis de Custine. THE RED INN In I know not what year a Parisian banker, who had very extensive commerci...

BY RICHARD HARDING DAVIS WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GOUVERNEUR MORRIS INTRODUCTION "And they rise to their feet as he passes, gentlemen unafraid." He was almost too good to be true. In addition, the go...

BY HONORE DE BALZAC Translated By Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To my dear Albert Marchand de la Ribellerie. THE RECRUIT At times they saw him, by a phenomenon of vision or locomotion...

by E. Nesbit To my dear son Paul Bland, behind whose knowledge of railways my ignorance confidently shelters. CHAPTER I. The beginning of things. They were not railway children to begin with. I don't ...

BY RICHARD LE GALLIENNE TO PRIOR AND LOUISE CHRISTIAN, WITH AFFECTION. Gennem de Mange til En! BOOK I CHAPTER I AN OLD HOUSE AND ITS BACHELOR When the knell of my thirtieth birthday sounded, I suddenl...

BY SYLVESTER MOWRY, U. S. A., DELEGATE ELECT. WASHINGTON: HENRY POLKINHORN, PRINTER. 1857. "The NEW TERRITORY of ARIZONA, better known as the GADSDEN PURCHASE, lies between the thirty-first and th...