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When She Came Home from CollegeWELL, this is cheerful! cried the Infant, as she stepped briskly into the room where the rest of the Set were dejectedly assembled. What if this is the last night of college! What if our diplomas are all concealed...

Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 5, November 1850The mythologies, in which the faiths, philosophies and fancies of the world have taken form, have such truth and use in them that they endure, under corresponding changes, through the reformations of creeds and modifications of ceremony...

Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 4, October 1850I was botanizing lately in the woods of Luciennes, with one of my friends, a distinguished Orientalist and renowned botanist, who had, a few years since, traveled six thousand miles, and risked his life twenty times, in...

Ben o' Bill's, the Luddite: A Yorkshire TaleD F E Sykes was a gifted scholar, solicitor, local politician, and newspaper proprietor. He listed his own patrimony as Fred o Neds o Ben o Billys o the Knowle a reference to Holme village above Slaithwaite...

Historical Record of the Twenty-first Regiment, or the Royal North British Fusiliers - Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1678, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1849The natives of Britain have, at all periods, been celebrated for innate courage and...

Three Heroines of New England Romance - Their true stories herein set forth by Mrs Harriet Spoffard, Miss Louise Imogen Guiney, and Miss Alice BrownI OFTEN fancy John Alden, and others, too, among his companions of kindly fame, wandering down the long Plymouth beach...

Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. - Translated from the Bengali by a Native.I present The Indigo Planting Mirror to the Indigo Planters hands; now, let every one of them, having observed his face, erase the freckle of the stain of...

Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 3, September 1850The reader who has not considered the subject in Ulricis point of view, will, perhaps, scarcely be prepared, at first sight, to believe that the two plays of Macbeth and the Merchant of Venice, have the same...

The Writer's Desk Book - Being a Reference Volume upon Questions of Punctuation, Capitalization, Spelling, Division of Words, Indention, Spacing, Italics, Abbreviations, Accents, Numerals, Faulty Diction, Letter Writing, Postal Regulations, Etc. Being a Reference Volume upon Questions of Punctuation, Capitalization, Spelling, Division of Words,...

Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 2, August 1850It were much too vast a labor to commence an inquiry into the subject of this essay, with a dissertation on the origin of music. Posterity may be enabled, by the aid of advanced wisdom, to explain...

Cambridge PapersThis volume contains papers on some questions of local history put together, mostly for undergraduate societies and magazines, at various times during the last twenty-five years. I have included a memoir, written for a London Society, on Newtons Principia, a work that profoundly...

Dorothy Dale in the WestYesm! More boys! chuckled Tavia. It is June. The bridal-wreath is in bloom. If In spring the young mans fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love, cant our girls fancies turn in June to thoughts of white lace veils, shoes...

Dorothy Dale's PromiseThe train started a second after the two almost breathless girls entered the half-empty chair car. They came in with a rush, and barely found their seats and got settled in them before the easily rolling train had pulled clear of the...

Journal de Eugène Delacroix, Tome 1 (de 3) - 1823-1850Le Journal d'Eugne Delacroix se compose de notes prises au jour le jour, crites btons rompus, o le grand artiste jetait chaque soir au courant de la plume, sans ordre, sans plan, sans transitions, toutes...

Farthest North - The Life and Explorations of Lieutenant James Booth Lockwood, of the Greely Arctic ExpeditionIt is believed that this book, with its true but none the less stirring adventures, will be of much interest to the general public, as well as gratifying...

FarmingtonI begin this story with the personal pronoun. To begin it in any other way would be only a commonplace assumption of a modesty that I do not really have. It is most natural that the personal pronoun should stand as the first word...

Two Women, 1862; a PoemMiss Constance Fenimore Woolsons poem, Two Women, begun in the January and finished in the February number of Appletons Journal, is of such remarkable quality as to deserve a wider reading than it is likely to have. To read it...

In Search of Treasure Chapter I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI, XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX, XXX, XXXI, XXXII, XXXIII, XXXIV, XXXV, XXXVI, XXXVII, XXXVIII. Certainly,...

ArtistenlevenJe behoefde bijvoorbeeld niet eerst n dubbele belegering van zware portires door, vr je je compliment afstak bij mevrouw in den salon (trouwens t woord salon kenden de Henkemans, meen k, alleen uit afleveringen-romans, welke zij verslond; hij veegde er enkel zn pennemes aan...

The Merchant Prince of Cornville: A ComedyPrompted by the interest which has arisen since the publication of former editions of this comedy, the author takes occasion to state that The Merchant Prince of Cornville was written between the years 1875 and 1879. It was...