BY EUGENE FIELD Introduction The determination to found a story or a series of sketches on the delights, adventures, and misadventures connected with bibliomania did not come impulsively to my brother...

Edgar Rice Burroughs 1 Since earliest childhood I have been strangely fascinated by the mystery surrounding the history of the last days of twentieth century Europe. My interest is keenest, perhaps, n...

BY JOSEPH E. BADGER, JR. CHAPTER I. NATURE IN TRAVAIL. "I say, professor?" "Very well, Waldo; proceed." "Wonder if this isn't a portion of the glorious climate, broken loose from its native Californ...

By R H Davis Temptation came to me when I was in the worst possible position to resist it. It is a way temptation has. Whenever I swear off drinking invariably I am invited to an ushers' dinner. Whene...

BY J.M. BARRIE I David and I Set Forth Upon a Journey Sometimes the little boy who calls me father brings me an invitation from his mother: "I shall be so pleased if you will come and see me," and I a...

by RICHARD HARDING DAVIS IN MEMORY OF MANY HOT DAYS AND SOME HOT CORNERS THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO LT.-COL. ARTHUR H. LEE, R.A. British Military Attache with the United States Army Prentiss had a long...

GEORGE MACDONALD What! No Children? Once upon a time, so long ago that I have quite forgotten the date, there lived a king and queen who had no children. And the king said to himself, "All the queens ...

by George Eliot [Mary Anne Evans] CHAPTER I The time of my end approaches. I have lately been subject to attacks of angina pectoris; and in the ordinary course of things, my physician tells me, I may ...

By J. Henri Fabre CHAPTER I: THE BLACK- BELLIED TARANTULA The Spider has a bad name: to most of us, she represents an odious, noxious animal, which every one hastens to crush under foot. Against this ...

by EDWARD EVERETT HALE PREFACE. This book contains a life of Columbus, written with the hope of interesting all classes of readers. His life has often been written, and it has sometimes been well writ...