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The Love That Prevailed The old church ways be good enough for me, said Miller Pendelly as he placed on the table a capacious jug of cider, laying a friendly left hand on the shoulder of Jake Pullsford, the carrier, as he bent across...

The Plunderers: A Novel ON the day before Christmas a man of middle age, middle height, and middle weight, smooth-shaven, dressed in black and wearing black gloves, walked into the business office of the New York Herald. He approached the first Advertisements window, looked...

According to Plato No one who has not been bankrupt at least twice could afford to be so careful about his dress as Mr. Richmond is, said Josephine. It certainly is the shortest way to distinction, said Josephine. Bankruptcys a sort of English Legion...

The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, Volume 2 (of 2) His Shipwreck near the South Pole; his wonderful Passage thro' a subterraneous Cavern into a kind of new World; his there meeting with a Gawry or flying woman, whose Life he preserv'd, and...

The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, Complete (Volumes 1 and 2) It might be looked upon as impertinent in me, who am about to give the life of another, to trouble the reader with any of my own concerns, or th+e affairs that...

The Last Penny THOMAS LEIGH, ex-boy, considered the dozen neckties before him a long time, and finally decided to wait until after breakfast. It was his second day at home and his third day out of college. Already his undergraduate life seemed far away....

Pawned A HANSOM cab, somewhat woebegone in appearance, threaded its way in a curiously dejected manner through the heart of New York's East Side. A fine drizzle fell, through which the street lamps showed as through a mist; and, with the pavements slippery, the...

A Georgian Pageant THE greater number of the papers in this series, dealing with some well-known persons and incidents of the latter half of the Eighteenth Century, are the practical result of a long conversation which the writer had with the late Professor J....

The Other World This Other World is indeed not so far distant from our own that is ruled by the sunne and moon. Therein the Prince of the Power of the Air hath his dominion, whose servants are the Witch and the Warlock,... the...

Bill Nye's Sparks THE interchange of letters of introduction between old friends, by which valuable acquaintances are added to the list, is a great blessing, and in good hands these letters have, no doubt, been the beginning of many a warm friendship; but, like...

Bill Nye's Chestnuts Old and New Why Bill favors the Claims of Bill ShakespeareHis Handwriting skillfully touched uponIts Likeness to Horace Greeley'sDifference between Shakespeare and BaconA kind Lift for the Yeomanry. Trusting that it will not in any way impair the sale of Mr....

The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments, of Great Britain - Second Edition, RevisedThe undiminished interest taken by many archologists in the subject to which this book relates seems to justify me in again placing it before the public, though in an extended and...

Bill Nye and Boomerang - Or, The Tale of a Meek-Eyed Mule, and Some Other Literary Gems Whose bright smile haunts me still, and whose low, mellow notes are ever sounding in my ears, to whom I owe all that I am as a...

The Mountain School-Teacher THERE had once been a path along the backbone of the mountain, but the wilderness had undertaken to remove it, and had almost succeeded. The wind had gathered bits of moss, twigs and dead stuff into the slight depression. The great...

Tales from a Rolltop Desk I take the liberty of dedicating these little stories to you, with affection and respect. They have all grown, in one mood or another, out of the various life of Grub Street, suggested by adventures with publishers, booksellers, magazine...

The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason THE teller of strange tales is not the least among benefactors of men. His cup of Lethe is welcome at times even to the strongest, when the tdium vito of the commonplace is in its meridian. To the...

The Man of Last Resort; Or, The Clients of Randolph Mason IN this fin-de-scle time, society has grown liberal, it is said, and yet he who thrusts a lever under sage customs, or he who points out the vice of institutions long established, may...

A Man: His Mark. A Romance - Second Edition One forenoon, in the winter of the great storms that swept the Pacific States, Adrian Wilder, a tall, slender, dark young man, stood in front of his stone hut on a shoulder of Mt. Shasta...

The Manager of the B. & A.: A Novel OAKLEY was alone in the bare general offices of the Huckleberry line-as the Buckhom and Antioch Railroad was commonly called by the public, which it betrayed in the matter of meals and connections. He was...

A Journalist's Note-Book Odd lots of journalismRespectability and its relation to journalismThe abuse of the journalThe laudation of the journalistAbuse the consequence of popularityPopularity the consequence of abuseDrain-work and grey hairsDont neglect your reading for the sake of reviewingReading for pleasure or to criticiseLiteratureDeteriorationThe...