by THOMAS DIXON TO GERTRUDE ATHERTON WITH GRATITUDE AND ADMIRATION CHAPTER I A FRIENDLY WARNING Mary Adams, you're a fool!" The single dimple in a smooth red cheek smiled in answer. "You're repeatin...

by KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN I A DIFFERENCE IN HEARTS "I DON'know as I cal'lated to be the makin' of any child," Miranda had said as she folded Aurelia's letter and laid it in the light- stand drawer. "I s'...

by H.G. Wells CHAPTER I Mr. Bedford Meets Mr. Cavor at Lympne As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine-leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality ...

BY HONORE DE BALZAC Translator James Waring TO MADAME ZULMA CARRAUD To whom, madame, but to you should I inscribe this work; to you whose lofty and candid intellect is a treasury to your friends; to y...

A SERIES OF LECTURES DELIVERED AT YALE UNIVERSITY ON THE SILLIMAN FOUNDATION IN APRIL, 1913 by WILLIAM OSLER THE SILLIMAN FOUNDATION IN the year 1883 a legacy of eighty thousand dollars was left to ...

By HENRY JAMES CHAPTER I A narrow grave-yard in the heart of a bustling, indifferent city, seen from the windows of a gloomy-looking inn, is at no time an object of enlivening suggestion; and the spec...

BY HORATIO ALGER, Jr., CHAPTER I. PHIL HAS A LITTLE DIFFICULTY. Phil Brent was plodding through the snow in the direction of the house where he lived with his step-mother and her son, when a snow-ball...

by William Congreve TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES MONTAGUE, ONE OF THE LORDS OF THE TREASURY. Sir,--I heartily wish this play were as perfect as I intended it, that it might be more worthy your acce...

by Thomas Troward ENTERING INTO THE SPIRIT OF IT INDIVIDUALITY THE NEW THOUGHT AND THE NEW ORDER THE LIPS OF THE SPIRIT ALPHA AND OMEGA THE CREATIVE POWER OF THOUGHT THE GREAT AFFIRMATIVE CHRIST THE F...

BY H. G. WELLS THE DOOR IN THE WALL I One confidential evening, not three months ago, Lionel Wallace told me this story of the Door in the Wall. And at the time I thought that so far as he was concern...