by Bret Harte CHAPTER I For some moments profound silence and darkness had accompanied a Sierran stage-coach towards the summit. The huge, dim bulk of the vehicle, swaying noiselessly on its straps, g...

TO THE YOUNG LADIES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND; ALSO THE YOUNG LADIES OF THE PRINCIPALITY OF WALES, AND LIKEWISE THE YOUNG LADIES RESIDENT IN THE ISLES OF GUERNSEY, JERSEY, ALD...

by Francis Thompson The Church, which was once the mother of poets no less than of saints, during the last two centuries has relinquished to aliens the chief glories of poetry, if the chief glories of...

by OLIVER GOLDSMITH A COMEDY. To SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. Dear Sir,--By inscribing this slight performance to you, I do not mean so much to compliment you as myself. It may do me some honour to infor...

BY VICTOR MacCLURE Being a Series of Accounts of the Lives and Deeds of Notorious Women, Murderesses, Cheats, Cozeners, on whom Justice was Executed, and of others who, Accused of Crimes, were Acquitt...

by Sir Joshua Reynolds INTRODUCTION It is a happy memory that associates the foundation of our Royal Academy with the delivery of these inaugural discourses by Sir Joshua Reynolds, on the opening of t...

by Hugh Latimer INTRODUCTION. Hugh Latimer, a farmer's son, was born about the year 1491, at Thurcaston, in Leicestershire. He was an only son, with six sisters, who were all well cared for at home. H...

BY HONORE DE BALZAC Translated By Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Madame Eveline de Hanska, nee Comtesse Rzewuska. Madame,--Here is the work which you asked of me. I am happy, in thus dedi...

BY WILLIAM J. LONG PREFACE This little book is but another chapter in the shy 'wild life of the fields and woods' of which "Ways of Wood Folk" and "Wilderness Ways " were the beginning. It is given gl...

by Oscar Wilde PERSONNES HERODE ANTIPAS, Tetrarque de Judee IOKANAAN, le prophete LE JEUNE SYRIEN, capitaine de la garde TIGELLIN, un jeune Romain UN CAPPADOCIEN UN NUBIEN PREMIER SOLDAT SECOND SOLD...