Old Is Gold

Victor Roy, a Masonic PoemAn anecdote appeared some time ago in the pages of "The Craftsman" which gave rise to the ideas embodied in "Victor Roy." It is not a story of profound depth. Its aim is not to soar to Alpine heights of...

Henry Fielding: a Memoir - Including Newly Discovered Letters and Records with Illustrations from Contemporary PrintsNew material alone could justify any attempt to supplement the Fielding of Mr Austin Dobson. Such material has now come to light, and together with reliable facts collected by...

TogetherShe stood before the minister who was to marry them, very tall and straight. With lips slightly parted she looked at him steadfastly, not at the man beside her who was about to become her husband. Her father, with a last gentle pressure of...

Ghosts The winter of 1879-80 Ibsen spent in Munich, and the greater part of the summer of 1880 at Berchtesgaden. November 1880 saw him back in Rome, and he passed the summer of 1881 at Sorrento. There, fourteen years earlier, he had written the...

Personal Recollections - Abridged, Chiefly in Parts Pertaining to Political and Other Controversies Prevalent at the Time in Great BritainI have given my best consideration to the arguments by which you support the demand for a few notices of events connected with my personal...

Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories So your carnations lie over there, a bit beyond this page, in a confusion of manuscripts. Sweet source of this idle letter and gentle memento of the house on Grant Street and of you! I fancy I catch their...

Literary and Social Essays The village of Concord, Massachusetts, lies an hour's ride from Boston, upon the Great Northern Railway. It is one of those quiet New England towns, whose few white houses, grouped upon the plain, make but a slight impression upon the...

Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches As a Slight Memorial of a College Friendship, prolonged through Manhood, and retaining all its Vitality in our Autumnal Years, I have not asked your consent, my dear General, to the foregoing inscription, because it would...

Pamela Giraud: A Play in Five Acts You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days...

The History of David Grieve'David, yo go for 't,' said the child addressed to a boy by her side, nodding her head insolently towards the speaker, a tall and bony woman, who stood on the steps the children had just descended, holding out a...

Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography In the course of a revised edition of my works I have come to a biographical sketch of Goldsmith, published several years since. It was written hastily, as introductory to a selection from his writings; and, though the facts contained...

Zur freundlichen ErinnerungWeit hatte es der Schlosser Peter Windel im Laufe einer beinahe zwanzigjhrigen Arbeitszeit bei der Motorenfabrik Jank gebracht. Als blutjunger Geselle trat er damals in den Dienst und heute war er erster Werkmeister. Seine stumpfe, schweigende Energie, sein fanatischer Lerneifer und seine...

A Traveller in Little ThingsIt is surely a rare experience for an unclassified man, past middle age, to hear himself accurately and aptly described for the first time in his life by a perfect stranger! This thing happened to me at Bristol, some time...

Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2Mr. Hope's Pamphlet on the Jerusalem BishopricHis Value for the Canon LawContinued Correspondence of Mr. Hope and Mr. Newman on the Jerusalem BishopricMr. Newman's Idea of a MonasteryMr. Newman writes from Littlemore, April 22,1842Dr. Pusey consults Mr. Hope...

The Jealousies of a Country TownThe two stories of /Les Rivalites/ are more closely connected than it was always Balzac's habit to connect the tales which he united under a common heading. Not only are both devoted to the society of Alencona town and...

Die Huldigung der KünsteDie Scene ist eine freie lndliche Gegend; in der Mitte ein Orangenbaum, mit Frchten beladen und mit Bndern geschmckt. Landleute sind eben beschftigt, ihn in die Erde zu pflanzen, indem die Mdchen und Kinder ihn zu beiden Seiten an Blumenketten halten....

The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth CenturyThe material in this volume originally appeared in The Bookman, 1917-1918. It is now published with much addition and revision. The Great War has had a stimulating effect on the production of poetry. Professional poets have...

Parisians in the Country I have sometimes wondered whether it was accident or intention which made Balzac so frequently combine early and late work in the same volume. The question is certainly insoluble, and perhaps not worth solving, but it presents itself once more...

Endymion It was a rich, warm night, at the beginning of August, when a gentleman enveloped in a cloak, for he was in evening dress, emerged from a club-house at the top of St. James Street, and descended that celebrated eminence. He had not...

Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time You are the children of Old Mother England, on both sides of the Atlantic; you form the majority of buyers and borrowers of novels; and you judge of works of fiction by certain inbred preferences,...