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English Critical Essays: Nineteenth CenturyThe essays here brought together are meant to illustrate English literary criticism during the nineteenth century. A companion volume representative of Renaissance and Neo-classic criticism will, it is hoped, be issued at a future date. Meanwhile this volume may well...

English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. - How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times.At last we have a treatise upon our caricaturists and comic draughtsmen worthy of the great subject.... An entertaining history of caricature, and consequently of the events, political...

The Monster and Other StoriesLittle Jim was, for the time, engine Number 36, and he was making the run between Syracuse and Rochester. He was fourteen minutes behind time, and the throttle was wide open. In consequence, when he swung around the curve at...

The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 THE AZTECS AT THE SOCIETY LIBRARY. A DAY AT CHATSWORTH. MEN AND WOMEN OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. A MODEL TRAVELLER. A MYSTERIOUS HISTORY. EDWARD EVERETT AND DANIEL WEBSTER. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. THE HAPPINESS OF OYSTERS....

Le Blé qui lèveNote de transcription: Les erreurs clairement introduites par le typographe ont t corriges. L'orthographe d'origine a t conserve et n'a pas t harmonise. Les numros des pages blanches n'ont pas t repris dans cette version et la page annonant d'autres vres...

The German Classics, v. 20 - Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into EnglishThis, the last volume of THE GERMAN CLASSICS, was intended to be devoted to the contemporary drama exclusively. But the harvest of the contemporary German Short Story is so rich that an...

Ludwig Tieck's Schriften. Achter BandSchon im Jahre 1804 machte ich in Schlesien Ihre Bekanntschaft. Als ich zwei Jahre spter aus Italien zurck kam, fand ich Sie in jener Einsamkeit des Landes, die damals meine Heimath war, und seitdem sind wir als Freunde verbunden geblieben....

La clique doréeAu premier tage, avaient plant leur tente deux familles de rentiers, gens paisibles s'il en fut, aussi simples de murs que d'esprit. Un receveur de rentes, quelque peu courtier-marron, avait au deuxime son appartement et ses bureaux. Le troisime tait lou un...

Le chemin qui descendAssise sur le rebord de la fentre large ouverte, le vent de mer soulevant les boucles courtes autour de son front, Claude, la tte un peu penche, lisait la lettre dont l'enveloppe tait tombe par terre, ses pieds. Alors, enfant, c'est...

The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume 4This poem contains the impressions of the writer upon events in Tuscany of which she was a witness. From a window, the critic may demur. She bows to the objection in the very title of her...

Il re dei re, vol. 2 - Convoglio diretto nell'XI secolo Scosse Roma a' sacri allori, Tenne l'orbe setto i pi, E di un branco di pastori Fece un popolo di re. Il 22 marzo 1073 papa Alessandro II si moriva, e tre giorni...

De varios coloresNo todas las flores son frescas y bonitas; tambin las hay mustias y feas. No se me culpe, pues, de presumido, si valindome de una figura retrica llamo flores de mi pobre y agostado ingenio a los cuentos que siguen. Y suponiendo...

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19The last two volumes of this comprehensive publication are devoted to the living, the writers of the present who sow the seed from which shall grow the future of...

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 12Here is a tale which extends over many years and travels into many countries. By a peculiar fitness of circumstance the writer began, continued it, and concluded it among distant and diverse scenes. Above...

A mulher; Os Portuguezes em TangerPouco versado nas lides da litteratura, no posso dedicar-lhe uma obra digna do seu bom nome, mas o desejo que tenho de testemunhar a minha gratido pelos obsequios de que lhe sou devedor, anima-me a proseguir na empresa encetada....

George Borrow - Times Literary Supplement, 10th July 1903It is a singular coincidence, perhaps, that during one and the same summer we should be celebrating centenaries of Samuel Pepys and George Borrow. Pepys died in the early summer of 1703; Borrow was born in...

Il re dei re, vol. 1 - Convoglio diretto nell'XI secolo Ben m'accorsi ch'egli era del ciel messo, E volsimi al maestro, e quei fe' segno Ch'io stessi cheto ed inchinassi ad esso. Ah! quanto mi parea pien di disdegno! Giunse alla porta e...

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 11It is the fate of sequels to disappoint those who have waited for them; and my David, having been left to kick his heels for more than a lustre in the British Linen Companys...

Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of LogicNo adequate definition is possible till the properties of the thing to be defined are known. Previously we can define only the scope of the inquiry. Now, Logic has been considered as both the science of reasoning, i.e....

Ashton-Kirk, CriminologistIt is always a task of much difficulty to select an experience of Ashton-Kirk's from among the many which have been set down in the records under his name. A maze of episodes in these records attracts the mind, and one finds there...