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The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races Difficulties of the subjectLesson to be learnedThe pursuit of knowledgeRecent AdvancesPrehistoric past of the Old WorldOf the NewOf Mexico and the SouthThe Isles of the PacificSimilar nature of the relicsThe wonders of the present ageHistory of popular Opinion...

The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2Please take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove...

The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1During the seven years which have elapsed since the publication in 1868 of the first edition of this Work, I have continued to attend to the same subjects, as far as lay in my...

Washington SquareDuring a portion of the first half of the present century, and more particularly during the latter part of it, there flourished and practised in the city of New York a physician who enjoyed perhaps an exceptional share of the consideration which, in...

The Point of View. . . My dear child, the bromide of sodium (if thats what you call it) proved perfectly useless. I dont mean that it did me no good, but that I never had occasion to take the bottle out of my...

The Green Mummy THE GREEN MUMMY CHAPTER I. THE LOVERS CHAPTER II. PROFESSOR BRADDOCK CHAPTER III. A MYSTERIOUS TOMB CHAPTER IV. THE UNEXPECTED CHAPTER V. MYSTERY CHAPTER VI. THE INQUEST CHAPTER VII. THE CAPTAIN OF THE DIVER CHAPTER VIII. THE BARONET CHAPTER IX. MRS....

A Sappho of Green Springs The door of the editorial room of the Excelsior Magazine began to creak painfully under the hesitating pressure of an uncertain and unfamiliar hand. This continued until with a start of irritation the editor faced directly about, throwing his...

Windsor Castle In the twentieth year of the reign of the right high and puissant King Henry the Eighth, namely, in 1529, on the 21st of April, and on one of the loveliest evenings that ever fell on the loveliest district in England, a...

Otto of the Silver Hand FOREWORD. I. The Dragons House. II. How the Baron went Forth to Shear. III. How the Baron came Home Shorn. IV. The White Cross on the Hill. V. How Otto Dwelt at St. Michaelsburg. VI. How Otto Lived in...

The Trumpet-MajorThe present tale is founded more largely on testimonyoral and writtenthan any other in this series. The external incidents which direct its course are mostly an unexaggerated reproduction of the recollections of old persons well known to the author in childhood, but now...

Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous PiecesPlunging and labouring on in a tide of visions, Dolorous and dear, Forward I pushed my way as amid waste waters Stretching around, Through whose eddies there glimmered the customed landscape Yonder and near, O they...

The Twins of Table Mountain, and Other Stories They lived on the verge of a vast stony level, upheaved so far above the surrounding country that its vague outlines, viewed from the nearest valley, seemed a mere cloud-streak resting upon the lesser hills. The...

The Sleuth of St. James's Square THE first confirmatory evidence of the thing, Excellency, was the print of a woman's bare foot. He was an immense creature. He sat in an upright chair that seemed to have been provided especially for him. The great...

Framley ParsonageWhen young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with so excellent a disposition. This father was...

A Little Dinner at Timmins's Mr. and Mrs. Fitzroy Timmins live in Lilliput Street, that neat little street which runs at right angles with the Park and Brobdingnag Gardens. It is a very genteel neighborhood, and I need not say they are of a...

Cressy As the master of the Indian Spring school emerged from the pine woods into the little clearing before the schoolhouse, he stopped whistling, put his hat less jauntily on his head, threw away some wild flowers he had gathered on his way, and...

A Yellow God: An Idol of Africa Sir Robert Aylward, Bart., M.P., sat in his office in the City of London. It was a very magnificent office, quite one of the finest that could be found within half a mile of the Mansion House....

Moon of Israel: A Tale of the Exodus AUTHORS NOTE This book suggests that the real Pharaoh of the Exodus was not Meneptah or Merenptah, son of Rameses the Great, but the mysterious usurper, Amenmeses, who for a year or two occupied the throne...

Elissa; Or, The Doom of Zimbabwe who bound all to her and, while her father cut his way through the hordes of the Ingobo Regiment, perished of the hardships of war at Buluwao on 19th May, 1896, I dedicate these talesand more particularly the...

Sir Francis Drake Revived Sir Francis Drake, the greatest of the naval adventurers of England of the time of Elizabeth, was born in Devonshire about 1540. He went to sea early, was sailing to the Spanish Main by 1565, and commanded a ship under...