by Mr. And Mrs. Haldeman-Julius I THE DUST IS STIRRED DUST was piled in thick, velvety folds on the weeds and grass of the open Kansas prairie; it lay, a thin veil on the scrawny black horses and the ...

THIRD TEN TALES HONORE DE BALZAC PROLOGUE Certain persons have interrogated the author as to why there was such a demand for these tales that no year passes without his giving an instalment of them,...

HONORE DE BALZAC TRANSLATORS PREFACE When, in March, 1832, the first volume of the now famous Contes Drolatiques was published by Gosselin of Paris, Balzac, in a short preface, written in the publishe...

by Jerome K. Jerome The most extraordinary dream I ever had was one in which I fancied that, as I was going into a theater, the cloak-room attendant stopped me in the lobby and insisted on my leaving ...

By Jerome K. Jerome THE LOST JOY. All day, where the sunlight played on the sea-shore, Life sat. All day the soft wind played with her hair, and the young, young face looked out across the water. She ...

by Olive Schreiner Author of "The Story of an African Farm" and "Dreams" Dedication. To My Brother Fred, For whose little school magazine the first of these tiny stories-- one of the first I e...

by L. Frank Baum To My Readers It's no use; no use at all. The children won't let me stop telling tales of the Land of Oz. I know lots of other stories, and I hope to tell them, some time or another; ...

By Jerome K. Jerome PREFACE Said a friend of mine to me some months ago: "Well now, why don't you write a SENSIBLE book? I should like to see you make people think." "Do you believe it can be done, th...

by Rene Descartes PREFATORY NOTE BY THE AUTHOR If this Discourse appear too long to be read at once, it may be divided into six Parts: and, in the first, will be found various considerations touchin...

by Edna Lyall Chapter I. 'Nothing fills a child's mind like a large old mansion; better if un- or partially occupied; peopled with the spirits of deceased members of the county and Justices of the Quo...