by Jerome K. Jerome HARACTERS IN THE PLAY GEOFFREY CHILVERS, M.P. [President Men's League for the Extension of the Franchise to Women] A loving husband, and (would-be) affectionate father. Like many o...

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By Gilbert K. Chesterton CHAPTER I. THE FACE IN THE TARGET Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and commons, the horizon of whi...

by Richard Harding Davis The Carters had married in haste and refused to repent at leisure. So blindly were they in love, that they considered their marriage their greatest asset. The rest of the worl...

by William Dean Howells I I think that every man ought to work for his living, without exception, and that when he has once avouched his willingness to work, society should provide him with work and w...

by E. Phillips Oppenheim Book I A SOCIETY SCANDAL Tall and burly, with features and skin hardened by exposure to the sun and winds of many climates, he looked like a man ready to face all hardships, e...

By Richard Harding Davis I I had made up my mind that when my vacation came I would spend it seeking adventures. I have always wished for adventures, but, though I am old enough--I was twenty-five las...

by Henry James We had been talking about the masters who had achieved but a single masterpiece--the artists and poets who but once in their lives had known the divine afflatus and touched the high l...

By B. M. Bower CHAPTER I IN SEARCH OF THE WESTERN TONE "What do you care, anyway?" asked Reeve-Howard philosophically. "It isn't as if you depended on the work for a living. Why worry over the fact th...

by Susan Fenimore Cooper THE LUMLEY AUTOGRAPH. BY THE AUTHOR OF "RURAL HOURS," ETC. The month of November of the year sixteen hundred and -- was cheerless and dark, as November has never failed to...