Old Is Gold

No ThoroughfareThe person or persons who have associated work with this document (the "Dedicator" or "Certifier") hereby either (a) certifies that, to the best of his knowledge, the work of authorship identified is in the public domain of the country from which the work...

The King in Yellow, Part 2The person or persons who have associated work with this document (the "Dedicator" or "Certifier") hereby either (a) certifies that, to the best of his knowledge, the work of authorship identified is in the public domain of the country...

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873A fact need not be a fixed fact to be a very positive one; and Kabylia, a region to whose outline no geographer could give precision, has long existed as the most...

Kritik des Herzens [1] Es wohnen die hohen Gedanken In einem hohen Haus. Ich klopfte, doch immer hie es: Die Herrschaft fuhr eben aus! Nun klopf ich ganz bescheiden Bei kleineren Leuten an. Ein Stckel Brod, ein Groschen Ernhren auch ihren Mann. [2] Sei...

The Chief End of ManThe chief end of man,to define it anew, and cite the witness of the ages, may seem an audacious attempt, likely to issue in failure or in commonplace. By the scholar this work must often be judged as crude, to...

L'hérésiarque et CieLorsqu' la gare je m'enquis de la consigne, afin d'y dposer ma valise, l'employ me la prit; puis, tirant de sa poche un billet depuis longtemps utilis et graisseux, il le dchira en deux et m'en donna une moiti en m'invitant la...

Schelmuffskys wahrhaftige, kuriöse und sehr gefährliche Reisebeschreibung zu Wasser und zu Lande[7] Der Leipziger Student Christian Reuter, der im Jahre 1696 Schelmuffskys wahrhaftige, curise und sehr gefhrliche Reisebeschreibung zu Wasser und Lande anonym erscheinen lie, ist als der Verfasser eines der lustigsten Bcher unserer...

A Daughter of the Middle BorderThis book in this edition won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Literature in the Biography or Autobiography category. As such, every attempt has been made to reproduce it exactly as it was printed and as it won the award....

Oldtown Fireside Stories Come, Sam, tell us a story, said I, as Harry and I crept to his knees, in the glow of the bright evening firelight; while Aunt Lois was busily rattling the tea-things, and grandmamma, at the other end of the fireplace,...

Crocker's Hole - From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore The Culm, which rises in Somersetshire, and hastening into a fairer land (as the border waters wisely do) falls into the Exe near Killerton, formerly was a lovely trout stream, such as...

George Bowring - A Tale Of Cader Idris - From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore When I was a young man, and full of spirits, some forty years ago or more, I lost my best and truest friend in a very...

Frida; or, the lover's leap: a legend of the West Country - From "Slain by the Doones" by R. D. Blackmore On the very day when Charles I. was crowned with due rejoicingsCandlemasday, in the year of our Lord 1626a loyalty, quite as deep...

Slain By The Doones To hear people talking about North Devon, and the savage part called Exmoor, you might almost think that there never was any place in the world so beautiful, or any living men so wonderful. It is not my intention to...

Personality in LiteratureThe Illustrated London News says: "Mr. Martin Secker's series of critical studies does justice to the publisher's sense of pleasant format. The volumes are a delight to eye and hand, and make a welcome addition to the bookshelf." Some time ago I...

Robert Louis StevensonIn so small a volume it would be somewhat hopeless to attempt an exhaustive notice of R. L. Stevenson, nor would it be desirable. The only possible full biography of him will be the Life in preparation by his intimate friend Mr...

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, September, 1878 OUR VISIT TO THE DESERT. MODERN KASHMIR. "FOR PERCIVAL." THE BOY ON A HILL-FARM. THE VISION OF THE TARN. THROUGH WINDING WAYS. PERSONAL SKETCHES OF SOME FRENCH LITTRATEURS. HIS GREAT DEED. A DAY...

My ReminiscencesThese Reminiscences were written and published by the Author in his fiftieth year, shortly before he started on a trip to Europe and America for his failing health in 1912. It was in the course of this trip that he wrote for the...

The Making Of A Novelist - An Experiment In Autobiography Every man who writes about himself is, on the face of the matter, obnoxious to the suspicion which haunts the daily pathway of the Bore. To talk of self and not be offensive demands...

My Contemporaries In Fiction When these essays were originally printed (they appeared simultaneously in many newspapers), I expected to make some enemies. So far, I have been most agreeably disappointed in that regard; but I can affirm that they have made me many friends,...

Recollections - With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of I remember that in a fit of petulance at some childish misdemeanour, my mother once told me that I came into the world on the unlucky day of the fool's month. It...