BY EROS URIDES (A MARTIAN) DEDICATION To the millions of God's children on this earth enthralled in darkness, for whom the solicitude of the Father is now in evidence, this book is dedicated. May it b...

by Jack London The chief priests and rulers cry:- "O Lord and Master, not ours the guilt, We build but as our fathers built; Behold thine images how they stand Sovereign and sole through all our lan...

AGATHA CHRISTIE CHAPTER I. I GO TO STYLES The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided. Nevertheless, in view of the world-wi...

PREFACE This Essay first appeared in the ninth volume of the 'Journal of the Linnean Society,' published in 1865. It is here reproduced in a corrected and, I hope, clearer form, with some additional f...

BY STEWART EDWARD WHITE PREFACE The author has followed a true sequence of events practically in all particulars save in respect to the character of the Tenderfoot. He is in one sense fictitious; in a...

Julian Hawthorne PART I--DETECTIVE STORIES FROM REAL LIFE A Flight into Texas The flight and extradition of Charles F. Dodge unquestionably involved one of the most extraordinary battles with justice ...

Edgar Rice Burroughs 1 THE RIFT As he dropped the last grisly fragment of the dismembered and mutilated body into the small vat of nitric acid that was to devour every trace of the horrid evidence whi...

By Richard Harding Davis When Ainsley first moved to Lone Lake Farm all of his friends asked him the same question. They wanted to know, if the farmer who sold it to him had abandoned it as worthless,...

BY HONORE` DE BALZAC Translated By Ellen Marriage To M. le Marquis Damaso Pareto I have always longed to tell a simple and true story, which should strike terror into two young lovers, and drive t...

by WILLIAM J. CLAXTON PREFACE This book makes no pretence of going minutely into the technical and scientific sides of human flight: rather does it deal mainly with the real achievements of pioneers w...