By H. Rider Haggard The story which is narrated in the following pages came to me from the lips of my old friend Allan Quatermain, or Hunter Quatermain, as we used to call him in South Africa. He told...

by Thomas Holmes (Secretary of the Howard Association) (1912) * PREFACE I am hopeful that some of the experiences given in the following chapters may throw a little light upon some curious but ver...

A BOOK OF ESSAYS IN PROFITABLE IDLENESS by HENRY VAN DYKE "And suppose he takes nothing, yet he enjoyeth a delightful walk by pleasant Rivers, in sweet Pastures, amongst odoriferous Flowers, which gra...

By OWEN WISTER DEDICATION MY DEAR HARRY MERCER: When Lin McLean was only a hero in manuscript, he received his first welcome and chastening beneath your patient roof. By none so much as by you has he ...

By REV. P. POWER, M.R.I.A. INTRODUCTION "If thou hast the right, O Erin, to a champion of battle to aid thee thou hast the head of a hundred thousand, Declan of Ardmore" (Martyrology of Oengus). Five ...

By Andrew Lang PREFACE Sixteen of these Letters, which were written at the suggestion of the Editor of the "St. James's Gazette," appeared in that journal, from which they are now reprinted, by the Ed...

1846-1849 By Elizabeth Davis Bancroft LETTER: TO W.D.B. AND A.B. LIVERPOOL, October 26, 1846 My dear sons: Thank God with me that we are once more on TERRA FIRMA. We arrived yesterday morning at ten...

by Plato (see Appendix I) Translated by Benjamin Jowett APPENDIX I. It seems impossible to separate by any exact line the genuine writings of Plato from the spurious. The only external evidence to the...

by Adelaide Ann Proctor DEDICATION TO MATILDA M. HAYS. "Our tokens of love are for the most part barbarous. Cold and lifeless, because they do not represent our life. The only gift is a portion of thy...

by Adelaide Ann Proctor VERSE: A LEGEND OF PROVENCE The lights extinguished, by the hearth I leant, Half weary with a listless discontent. The flickering giant-shadows, gathering near, Closed round me...