Old Is Gold

Read-Aloud PlaysThe first two or three of these "plays" (I retain the word for lack of a better one) began themselves as short stories, but in each case I found that the dramatic element, speech, tended to absorb the impersonal element of comment and...

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 44, September 9, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and GirlsAlbert Ross Parsons, President, American College of Musicians, writes concerning his son, aged 10: "The bound volume of the...

A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth CenturyThe present volume is a sequel to "A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century" (New York; Henry Holt & Co., 1899). References in the footnotes to "Volume I." are to that work. The difficulties...

The Vehement FlameTogether, so many years agoseven, I think, or eightyou and I planned this story. The first chapters had the help of your criticism ... then, I had to go on alone, urged by the memory of your interest. But all the blunders...

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 42, August 26, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and GirlsScientific kite flying has attracted the attention of the world. This kite is the invention of H.H. Clayton, Chief...

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 41, August 19, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and GirlsHas improved rotary shutter and set of three stops for lens. The slides for changing stops and for time...

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 40, August 12, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and GirlsHas improved rotary shutter and set of three stops for lens. The slides for changing stops and for time...

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 39, August 5, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and GirlsHas improved rotary shutter and set of three stops for lens. The slides for changing stops and for time...

Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop The first four chapters of "Susan Clegg and her Friend Mrs. Lathrop" appeared in "The Century Magazine" as separate stories during the past year. They have been revised and partly rewritten for book publication, and "The Minister's...

Les pilotes de l'IroiseUn jour que la brume d'automne, chasse par un vent d'Ouest assez fort, commenait s'tendre sur les flots qui s'agitent presque continuellement entre l'le d'Ouessant et le terrible Raz-des-Saints, une petite barque de pilote, surmonte d'une misaine et d'un taille-vent, tournoyait...

Mon amie NaneL'illustre M. de Balzac a fait cette remarque que les enfants des dieux sont ternels pour la meilleure moiti, qui est de ne point finir. Mais quand je songe la gloire de votre maison, dont l'origine se confond, pour ainsi dire, avec...

The Stepmother, A Drama in Five ActsComte de Grandchamp, a Napoleonic General Eugene Ramel, a State's Attorney Ferdinand Marcandal Doctor Vernon Godard An Investigating Magistrate Felix, servant to General de Grandchamp Champagne, a foreman Baudrillon, a druggist Napoleon, son to General de Grandchamp by...

Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885In the following article I propose to give some account of a typical tobacco-plantation in Virginia and the life of its negro laborers as I have observed it from day to day and season to season. Although it is restricted to...

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girlsare made of the strongest and best book-cover paper obtainable. This paper is made in large quantities especially for...

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 34, July 1, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and GirlsHas improved rotary shutter and set of three stops for lens. The slides for changing stops and for time...

La fabrique de crimesVoici dj plusieurs annes que les fabricants de crimes ne livrent rien. Depuis que l'on a invent le naturalisme et le ralisme, le public honnte autant qu'intelligent crve de faim, car, au dire des marchands, la France compte un ou deux...

Les tendres ménagesSylvre Nol de Ribes avait, entre autres choses, apport en dot au baron de Mariolles-Sainte-Mary, son rcent poux, un bien assez vaste, mi-chteau, mi-ferme, sis l'ombre des Pyrnes, parmi des arbres noirs, des sources brusques et froides. Mariolles, qui avait de bonnes...

Le serment des hommes rouges: Aventures d'un enfant de ParisOr mame Toinon tait une jolie brune, accorte et souriante, qui n'avait gure plus de trente-quatre ans, en paraissait vingt-huit tous les soirs, et tait la coqueluche de son quartier. Mame Toinon tait veuve; elle...

Folk Lore - Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century The doctrine taught concerning Satan, his motives and influence in the beginning of this century, supplied the popular mind with reasons to account for almost all the evils, public and private,...

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 36, July 15, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girlsare made of the strongest and best book-cover paper obtainable. This paper is made in large quantities especially for...