Old Is Gold

The House by the RiverThere are still a few intimate corners in London where people, other than the poor, are positively acquainted with their neighbours. And Hammerton Chase is one of these. In heartless Kensington we know no more of our neighbour than we...

The Country House (with Designs)HITHERTO the Contributions have appeared in a small volume: but a friend having furnished me with the Manuscripts of the following Letters, in order to do justice to the beautiful designs, it has been necessary to increase the size of...

Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries During 1866-7A RECORD OF TRAVEL IN ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES DURING 1866-7. BY CHARLES WENTWORTH DILKE. TWO VOLUMES IN ONE. W I T H M A P S A N D I L L U S T...

The Magistrate: A Farce in Three ActsTHE MAGISTRATE is, after Sweet Lavender, perhaps the most popular of Mr. Pineros plays, and it is particularly interesting as being the first of his works in which his own individuality found absolutely independent expression, and emphatically and...

The Real Shelley. New Views of the Poet's Life. Vol. 2 (of 2)Mr. Kegan Pauls InaccuraciesGodwins Early StoryFrom Socinianism to DeismIn the Service of PublishersHack-WorkPolitical JusticeCaleb WilliamsTemperance and FrugalityGodwins two imprudent MarriagesHis consequent ImpoverishmentHis personal AppearanceHis Speech and MannerHis morbid VanityHis Sensitiveness for his...

The Real Shelley. New Views of the Poet's Life. Vol. 1 (of 2)Creators of The Romantic ShelleyClints Fanciful CompositionThe Poets Personal AppearanceHis Little Turn-up NoseHis Ancestral QualitySussexisms of his Speech and PoetryHis Phenomenal UntruthfulnessHis Temperance and IntemperanceA Victim of Domestic PersecutionWas The Necessity of...

Verbrüderung: Gedichte Gedruckt bei E. Haberland in Leipzig-R. Februar 1916 als fnfundzwanzigster Band der Bcherei Der jngste Tag. / Die Gedichte Verbrderung wurden in den Jahren 1915 und 1916 in Berlin geschrieben Sie sind meinen Freunden gewidmet Nicht da wir zrtlich-feig oft in die...

The Love Affairs of Lord ByronWhether a book is called The Love Affairs of Lord Byron or The Life of Lord Byron can make very little difference to the contents of its pages. Byrons love affairs were the principal incidents of his life, and...

Lays and Legends (Second Series)A priest tells how, in his youth, a church was built by the free labour of loveas was men's wont in those days; and how the stone and wood were paid for by one who had grown rich on usury...

KeatsWith the name of Keats that of his first biographer, the late Lord Houghton, must always justly remain associated. But while the sympathetic charm of Lord Houghtons work will keep it fresh, as a record of the poets life it can no longer be...

A Fool's Paradise: An Original Play in Three ActsAct I.On R. table: China Bowl, books in case, newspapers, photo views, three letters and newspaper through post. Book on sofa. Ready: Tennis ball to throw on from between C. doors and R.W. Tennis bat for...

The Laughing Mill, and Other StoriesWhat is called the human interest in fiction is doubtless more absorbing than any other, but other legitimate sources of interest exist. The marvellous always possesses a fascination, and justly; for while it is neither human nature nor fact,...

Lyre and Lancet: A Story in ScenesLady Culverin. So here you are, Rupert! Not very busy, are you? I won't keep you a moment. (She goes to a window.) Such a nuisance it's turning out wet, with all these people in the house, isn't...

Amerikanische Wald- und Strombilder. Zweiter Band.Amerika Urwald Indianer Tomahawk Scalpiren Schlingpflanzen Panther Oh, wer doch einmal im Urwald sein und das Alles so recht in der Nhe mit ansehen knnte ruft der entzckte Leser, whrend vor seinem inneren Auge eine wunderliebliche Camera obscura ihm...

The Orange GirlOn a certain afternoon in May, about four or five of the clock, I was standing at the open window of my room in that Palace to which Fortune leads her choicest favouritesthe College, or Prison, as some call it, of the...

BukfencMondhatnak brmit a rvidltk, akik csak a nyomtatott betket ismerik, de nem olvassk el tunyasgbl vagy ostobasgbl a sorok kz font szarkalbakat, amelyek a knyvek repknyei, mint a vrfalakon a trtnelem rkzldjei. Ebben a knyvben az ifjusg romlatlansga, egyedl dvzit tavasza s mindenekfltti ltjogosultsga...

The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.For a work of such scope as this, the first word of the author should be an apology for what is doubtless the too ambitious effort of a single writer. A quarter of a century in the...

SwiftThe chief materials for a life of Swift are to be found in his writings and correspondence. The best edition is the second of the two edited by Scott (1814 and 1824). In 1751 Lord Orrery published Remarks upon the Life and Writings of...

Freezing a Mother-in-Law; or, Suspended Animation: A farce in one act Scene.Mr. Watmuff's library. Entrances, R. and L. At L.C. a door opening to a cupboard. At R. table, with books and a bottle of water on it. A screen stands close to door,...

Dorothy Wordsworth: The Story of a Sister's LoveThis little book owes its origin to the fact that, with the exception of Professor Shairp's Sketch contained in the preface to the "Tour in Scotland," no biography or memoir of the subject of it has hitherto...