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Parish PapersThis question refers to a matter of fact. I do not ask whether the Christian religion is true, but only, What is the Christian religion? What is that religion which has existed for eighteen centuries; which is professed by Christendom; and which has...

Old and New MastersMr. George Moore once summed up Crime and Punishment as "Gaboriau with psychological sauce." He afterwards apologized for the epigram, but he insisted that all the same there is a certain amount of truth in it. And so there is. Dostoevsky's...

Elbow-Room: A Novel Without a PlotIf every book that contains nothing but nonsense confessed that fact in its preface, the world would have been saved a vast amount of dreary reading. Most of such volumes, however, are believed by their authors to be full...

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 08 - Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into EnglishThis volume, containing chiefly masterpieces of the Novel of Provincial Life, is illustrated by the principal works of one of the foremost painters of German peasant...

Contes, Nouvelles et RecitsIl ne faut rien ngliger, sitt que l'on exerce avec un certain zle la profession des belles-lettres. Tout sert, ou du moins tout peut servir. Qui dirait que, dans un vieux recueil de sermons en latin, sans date, mais qui sent...

Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920)The American Novel, published last year, undertook to trace the progress of a literary type in the United States from its beginnings to the end of the nineteenth century; Contemporary American Novelists undertakes to study the type as it has existed...

The Tragedy of the KoroskoTHE public may possibly wonder why it is that they have never heard in the papers of the fate of the passengers of the Korosko. In these days of universal press agencies, responsive to the slightest stimulus, it may well...

The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54It having been noted in the Athenaeum, June 9, 1888, that rumours were afloat doubting the authenticity of these letters, and that these rumours would sink to rest if the history of the originals...

Le péché de Monsieur Antoine, Tome 2 * * * * * Mais, aprs avoir dormi douze heures, Galuchet n'avait plus qu'un souvenir fort confus des vnements de la veille, et, lorsque M. Cardonnet le fit appeler, il ne lui restait qu'un vague ressentiment...

The Three BridesCome, Baby Charles, dont you take to being cynical and satirical, said the mother. It would be more to the purpose to consider of the bringing them home. Let me see, Raymond and his Cecil will be at Holfords Gate at 5.30....

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 - Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty VolumesThe history of German literature makes mention of few men more self-centered and at the same time more unreserved than Heinrich Heine. It...

Bataille de dames"BATAILLE DE DAMES" bears on its title-page the names of two authors, Scribe and Legouv; and as we can determine the nature of their collaboration from internal evidence alone, it is necessary to examine somewhat the works and characteristics of each. Eugne...

What I Remember, Volume 2No! as I said at the end of the last chapter but one, before I was led away by the circumstances of that time to give the world the benefit of my magnetic reminiscencesvaleat quantum!I was not yet bitten, despite...

France at War: On the Frontier of CivilizationPoem: France I. On the Frontier of Civilization II. The Nation's Spirit and a New Inheritance III. Battle Spectacle and a Review IV. The Spirit of the People V. Life in Trenches on the Mountain Side VI....

Histoire de St. Louis, Roi de France * * * * * Louis VIII, roi de France, pre de saint Louis, tait dans la quarantime anne de son ge, et la troisime de son rgne, lorsque, revenant Paris, aprs le sige de la ville...

Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation: 1838-1839The following diary was kept in the winter and spring of 1838-9, on an estate consisting of rice and cotton plantations, in the islands at the entrance of the Altamaha, on the coast of Georgia. The...

Contes et nouvellesPar une froide et humide matine de novembre, une pauvre femme, misrablement vtue, tait assise auprs du lit de son enfant malade. On tait en 1818; l'anne avait t rude, la guerre civile avait ensanglant les rues de Paris: Georges, le mari...

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 3 (of 8) The Poem Advertisement The following Poem was commenced in the beginning of the year 1799, and completed in the summer of 1805. The design and occasion of the work are described by the...

Le péché de Monsieur Antoine, Tome 1J'ai crit le Pch de monsieur Antoine la campagne, dans une phase de calme extrieur et intrieur, comme il s'en rencontre peu dans la vie des individus. C'tait en 1845, poque o la critique de la socit relle...

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 - Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty VolumesTRANSLATED BY J. LOEWENBERG, PH.D. Assistant in Philosophy, Harvard University The appropriate expression for our subject is the "Philosophy of Art," or, more...