Old Is Gold

Auld Licht Idyls Early this morning I opened a window in my school-house in the glen of Quharity, awakened by the shivering of a starving sparrow against the frosted glass. As the snowy sash creaked in my hand, he made off to the waterspout...

Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey * * * * * * * * * * It is with a solemnized feeling that I enter on these Reminiscences. Except one, I have survived all the associates of my earlier days. The young,...

Une page d'amour Je me dcide joindre ce volume l'arbre gnalogique des Rougon-Macquart. Deux raisons me dterminent. La premire est que beaucoup de personnes m'ont demand cet arbre. Il doit, en effet, aider les lecteurs se retrouver, parmi les membres assez nombreux de la...

Le Docteur Pascal _A la Mmoire de et Dans la chaleur de l'ardente aprs-midi de juillet, la salle, aux volets soigneusement clos, tait pleine d'un grand calme. Il ne venait, des trois fentres, que de minces flches de lumire, par les fentes des vieilles...

Synge and the Ireland of His Time At times during Synge's last illness, Lady Gregory and I would speak of his work and always find some pleasure in the thought that unlike ourselves, who had made our experiments in public, he would leave to...

Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel It was in the last days of December, 1882, that the first volume of Henri Frdric Amiels Journal Intime was published at Geneva. The book, of which the general literary world knew nothing prior to its...

Les mains pleines de roses, pleines d'or et pleines de sangUn de nos amis, l'un des matres de tout journaliste qui tient une plume franaise: Jules Janin, nous a donn, pour nos trennes, un article sur ce brillant et fcond esprit, qui est la...

The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2The interval between the Sessions of 1883 and 1884 was critical for the question of electoral reform which interested Liberals beyond all other questions, but involved the risk of bringing dissensions in the...

A Touch of Sun, and Other Stories The Asgard Company owned a square league of prehistoric titles on the western slope of the foot-hills,land enough for the preservation of a natural park within its own boundaries where fire-lines were cleared, forest-trees respected, and roads...

Tales and Novels — Volume 10 - Helen There is Helen in the lime-walk, said Mrs. Collingwood to her husband, as she looked out of the window. The slight figure of a young person in deep mourning appeared between the trees,How slowly she walks!...

A Study of HawthorneThis book was not designed as a biography, but is rather a portrait. And, to speak more carefully still, it is not so much this, as my conception of what a portrait of Hawthorne should be. For I cannot write with...

L'Île Des PingouinsMalgr la diversit apparente des amusements qui semblent m'attirer, ma vie n'a qu'un objet. Elle est tendue tout entire vers l'accomplissement d'un grand dessein. J'cris l'histoire des Pingouins. J'y travaille assidument, sans me laisser rebuter par des difficults frquentes et qui, parfois,...

In Exile, and Other Stories Nicky Dyer and the schoolmistress sat upon the slope of a hill, one of a low range overlooking an arid Californian valley. These sunburnt slopes were traversed by many narrow footpaths, descending, ascending, winding among the tangle of poison-oak...

The King in YellowToward the end of the year 1920 the Government of the United States had practically completed the programme, adopted during the last months of President Winthrop's administration. The country was apparently tranquil. Everybody knows how the Tariff and Labour questions were...

Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge * * * * * It is nearly fifteen years since I was, for the first time, enabled to become a frequent and attentive visitor in Mr. Coleridge's domestic society. His exhibition of intellectual power...

Life on the Mississippi, Part 12.CHAPTER LX. The Head of Navigation.From Roses to Snow.Climatic Vaccination. A Long Ride.Bones of Poverty.The Pioneer of Civilization. Jug of Empire.Siamese Twins.The Sugar-bush.He Wins his Bride. The Mystery about the Blanket.A City that is always a Novelty. Home again....

Life on the Mississippi, Part 11.WE left for St. Louis in the 'City of Baton Rouge,' on a delightfully hot day, but with the main purpose of my visit but lamely accomplished. I had hoped to hunt up and talk with a hundred steamboatmen,...

Life on the Mississippi, Part 10.THE largest annual event in New Orleans is a something which we arrived too late to samplethe Mardi-Gras festivities. I saw the procession of the Mystic Crew of Comus there, twenty-four years agowith knights and nobles and so on,...

Life on the Mississippi, Part 9.THE approaches to New Orleans were familiar; general aspects were unchanged. When one goes flying through London along a railway propped in the air on tall arches, he may inspect miles of upper bedrooms through the open windows, but...

Life on the Mississippi, Part 8.CHAPTER XXXVI. The Professor Spins a Yarn.An Enthusiast in Cattle.He makes a Proposition.Loading Beeves at Acapulco.He was n't Raised to it. He is Roped In.His Dull Eyes Lit Up.Four Aces, you Ass! He does n't Care for the Gores....