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Reginald in Russia, and Other SketchesReginald in Russia, and Other SketchesHe is a delightful person. One would not like a rich and octogenarian uncle to suppose that Reginald was ones ideal of conduct and conversion. Yet there is sometimes reason in his paradoxical frivolities, and justice in his practical...
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The Man in Lower TenThe Man in Lower Ten McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business. I never liked it, and since the strange case of the man in lower ten, I have been a bit squeamish. Given a case like that, where you...
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Penelope's PostscriptsPenelope's PostscriptsSalemina and I were in Geneva. If you had ever travelled through Europe with a charming spinster who never sat down at a Continental table dhte without being asked by an American vis--vis whether she were one of the P.s of Salem, Massachusetts,...
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The Diary of a Goose GirlThe Diary of a Goose GirlIn alluding to myself as a Goose Girl, I am using only the most modest of my titles; for I am also a poultry-maid, a tender of Belgian hares and rabbits, and a shepherdess; but I particularly fancy the...
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North America — Volume 2North America — Volume 2The site of the present city of Washington was chosen with three special views; firstly, that being on the Potomac it might have the full advantage of water-carriage and a sea-port; secondly, that it might be so far removed from...
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North America — Volume 1North America — Volume 1It has been the ambition of my literary life to write a book about the United States, and I had made up my mind to visit the country with this object before the intestine troubles of the United States Government...
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Hero Tales from American HistoryHero Tales from American History To you we owe the suggestion of writing this book. Its purpose, as you know better than any one else, is to tell in simple fashion the story of some Americans who showed that they knew how to live...
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Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand CairoNotes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo On the 20th of August, 1844, the writer of this little book went to dine at theClub, quite unconscious of the wonderful events which Fate had in store for him. Mr. William was there, giving...
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Tartarin of TarasconTartarin of Tarascon MY first visit to Tartarin of Tarascon has remained a never-to-be-forgotten date in my life; although quite ten or a dozen years ago, I remember it better than yesterday. At that time the intrepid Tartarin lived in the third house on...
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An Old Town By the SeaAn Old Town By the Sea I CALL it an old town, but it is only relatively old. When one reflects on the countless centuries that have gone to the for-mation of this crust of earth on which we temporarily move, the most ancient...
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Westward Ho! Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the County of Devon, in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen ElizabethWestward Ho! Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the County of Devon, in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth By one who (unknown to them) has no other method of expressing his admiration and...
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The Works of Max BeerbohmThe Works of Max Beerbohm After some considerable experience in the field of bibliography I cannot plead as palliation for any imperfections that may be discovered in this, that it is the work of a 'prentice hand. Difficult as I found my self-imposed task...
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Plain Tales from the HillsPlain Tales from the Hills She was the daughter of Sonoo, a Hill-man, and Jadeh his wife. One year their maize failed, and two bears spent the night in their only poppy-field just above the Sutlej Valley on the Kotgarth side; so, next season,...
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Initials OnlyInitials Only It was not my husband speaking, but some passerby. However, I looked up at George with a smile, and found him looking down at me with much the same humour. We had often spoken of the odd phrases one hears in the...
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Cousin PonsCousin Pons Towards three oclock in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more than his actual age, was walking along the Boulevard des Italiens with his head bent...
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Ban and Arriere Ban: A Rally of Fugitive RhymesBan and Arriere Ban: A Rally of Fugitive Rhymesp. ixMany of the verses in this collection have appeared in Magazines: How they held the Bass was in Blackwoods Magazine; the Ballad of the Philanthropist in Punch; Calais Sands in The Magazine of Art (Messrs....
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Catherine De MediciCatherine De Medici There is a general cry of paradox when scholars, struck by some historical error, attempt to correct it; but, for whoever studies modern history to its depths, it is plain that historians are privileged liars, who lend their pen to popular...
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The ninth vibration and other storiesThe ninth vibration and other stories There is a place uplifted nine thousand feet in purest air where one of the most ancient tracks in the world runs from India into Tibet. It leaves Simla of the Imperial councils by a stately road; it...
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LucileLucile I dedicate to you a work, which is submitted to the public with a diffidence and hesitation proportioned to the novelty of the effort it represents. For in this poem I have abandoned those forms of verse with which I had most familiarized...
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The Woman in the AlcoveThe Woman in the Alcove I was, perhaps, the plainest girl in the room that night. I was also the happiestup to one oclock. Then my whole world crumbled, or, at least, suffered an eclipse. Why and how, I am about to relate. I...
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