By Hubert Howe Bancroft Some Cities and San Francisco There had been some discussion as to improving and beautifying the city of San Francisco prior to the catastrophe of April 18th. Landscape archite...

by Jack London THE TASTE OF THE MEAT. I. In the beginning he was Christopher Bellew. By the time he was at college he had become Chris Bellew. Later, in the Bohemian crowd of San Francisco, he was cal...

Charles Dickens. AN URGENT REMONSTRANCE, &c TO THE GENTLEMEN OF ENGLAND, (BEING BACHELORS OR WIDOWERS,) THE REMONSTRANCE OF THEIR FAITHFUL FELLOW- SUBJECT, SHEWETH,- THAT Her Most Gracious Majesty...

PREFACE This poem, though new in the sense of being now for the first time printed, was written some four years ago, about the same date as the Hound of Heaven in my former volume. One image in the Pr...

Shakespeare DRAMATIS PERSONAE. Earl of SHREWSBURY. Earl of SURREY. Sir THOMAS PALMER. Sir ROGER CHOMLEY. Sir THOMAS MORE. Lord Mayor. Aldermen. SURESBY, a Justice. Other Justices. Sheriffs. Recorder...

ELECBOOK CLASSICS ELECBOOK CLASSICS ebc0024. George Eliot: Silas Marner This file is free for individual use only. It must not be altered or resold. Organisations wishing to use it must first o...

by George Eliot "A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." --WORDSWORTH. PART ONE CHAPTER I In the days when the...

by Mary Roberts Rinehart I The rather extraordinary story revealed by the experiments of the Neighborhood Club have been until now a matter only of private record. But it seems to me, as an active par...

Oscar Wilde PHRASES AND PHILOSOPHIES FOR THE USE OF THE YOUNG The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered. Wickedness is a myth inve...

Sydney Waterlow CHAPTER I Shelley and His Age In the case of most great writers our interest in them as persons is derived from out interest in them as writers; we are not very curious about them exce...