By JEAN WEBSTER
TO YOU
Blue Wednesday
The first Wednesday in every month was a Perfectly Awful Day--a day to
be awaited with dread, endured with courage and forgotten with haste.
Every floor must ...
William Shakespeare 1609
Dramatis Personae
CYMBELINE, King of Britain CLOTEN, son to the Queen by a former husband
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS, a gentleman, husband to Imogen BELARIUS, a banished
lord, disguis...
Shakespeare
ACT I.
SCENE I. Putney.The entrance of a smith's shop.
[Enter three Smiths, Hodge and two other, old Cromwell's men.]
HODGE. Come, masters, I think it be past five a clock; is it not time ...
CHAPTER I - OUR SOCIETY
IN the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the
holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple
come to settle in the town, somehow ...
William Shakespeare
1608
Dramatis Personae
CAIUS MARCIUS, afterwards CAIUS MARCIUS CORIOLANUS
Generals against the Volscians TITUS LARTIUS COMINIUS MENENIUS
AGRIPPA, friend to Coriolanus
Tribu...
by Charles Dickens
ANNOUNCEMENT IN "HOUSEHOLD WORDS"
After the appearance of the present concluding Number of Household
Words, this publication will merge into the new weekly publication, All
the Year...
by Irvin S. Cobb
Tummies
Dr. Woods Hutchinson says that fat people are happier than other people.
How does Dr. Woods Hutchinson know? Did he ever have to leave the two
top buttons of his vest unfasten...
by Jerome K. Jerome
There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong,
and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it; and there is the clock
that is always right--except when you ...
by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage
DEDICATION
To Marcelline Desbordes-Valmore, a daughter of Flanders, of whom these
modern days may well be proud, I dedicate this quaint legend of old...
HERBERT A. GILES, M.A., LL.D.
(Professor of Chinese in the University of Cambridge, and sometime
H.B.M. Consul at Ningpo.)
CHAPTER I
THE NU-CHENS AND KITANS
The Manchus are descended from a branch...