AN OPEN LETTER TO THE REVEREND DR. HYDE OF HONOLULU SYDNEY, FEBRUARY 25, 1890. Sir, - It may probably occur to you that we have met, and visited, and conversed; on my side, with interest. You may reme...

BY HONORE DE BALZAC Translated By Clara Bell and others I once used to live in a little street which probably is not known to you--the Rue de Lesdiguieres. It is a turning out of the Rue Saint- Anto...

Translated from the original MS. by Mark Twain [NOTE.--I translated a portion of this diary some years ago, and a friend of mine printed a few copies in an incomplete form, but the public never got th...

by Jerome K. Jerome They look so dull and dowdy in the spring weather, when the snow drops and the crocuses are putting on their dainty frocks of white and mauve and yellow, and the baby-buds from eve...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voic...

Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION. In the Meno, Anytus had parted from Socrates with the significant words: 'That in any city, and particularly in the city of Athens, it is easier to ...

Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION. The Euthydemus, though apt to be regarded by us only as an elaborate jest, has also a very serious purpose. It may fairly claim to be the oldest tre...

Chris. Evans PREFACE. In "Eurasia" the author describes an ideal republic where many of the problems that confront us are worked out. The book describes in an interesting and readable way how governme...

PART V: Of the Power of the Understanding, or of Human Freedom Benedict de Spinoza Translated by R. H. M. Elwes PREFACE At length I pass to the remaining portion of my Ethics, which is concerned w...

PART IV: Of Human Bondage, or the Strength of the Emotions Benedict de Spinoza Translated by R. H. M. Elwes PREFACE Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage: for, whe...