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!Tention: A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular WarA sharp volley, which ran echoing along the ravine, then another, just as the faint bluish smoke from some hundred or two muskets floated up into the bright sunshine from amidst the scattered chestnuts and cork-trees...

"'Tis Sixty Years Since" - Address of Charles Francis Adams; Founders' Day, January 16, 1913In the single hour self-allotted for my part in this occasion there is much ground to cover,--the time is short, and I have far to go. Did I now, therefore,...

"1683-1920" - The Fourteen Points and What Became of Them—Foreign Propaganda in the Public Schools—Rewriting the History of the United States—The Espionage Act and How It Worked—"Illegal and Indefensible Blockade" of the Central Powers—1,000,000 Victims of Starvation—Our Debt to France and to Germany—The War...

"1812" Napoleon I in RussiaThe following pages are not offered to the reader as a history of the invasion of Russia by Napoleon. They are but the statement of the basis of observation on which M. Verestchagin has founded his great series of pictures...

"1914" Gods Prisoner Rising Fortunes Our Lady of Deliverance A Princess of Vascovy John of Gerisau Under the Iron Flail Bondman Free Mr. Joseph Scorer Barbe of Grand Bayou A Weaver of Webs Hearts in Exile The Gate of the Desert White Fire Giant...

"A Modern Hercules," the Tale of a SculptressHotel Vendome, } Leadville, Colo., October 31, 1899.} To the Public: This City, surrounded by snow-clad peaks pointing to and almost losing themselves in the bosom of the Supreme Intelligence, has inspired my effort. The volume is...

"A Most Unholy Trade," Being Letters on the Drama by Henry JamesThe four letters here printed for the first time are part of Henry Jamess informal correspondence with William Heinemann, the publisher. They are selected for their unity of subject, in that they concern...

"A Soldier Of The Empire" It was his greatest pride in life that he had been a soldiera soldier of the empire. (He was known simply as "The Soldier," and it is probable that there was not a man or woman, and certain that...

"Abe" Lincoln's Anecdotes and Stories - A Collection of the Best Stories Told by Lincoln Which Made Him Famous as America's Best Story TellerIt was once said of Shakespeare that the great mind that conceived the tragedies of "Hamlet," "Macbeth," etc., would have lost...

"About My Father's Business": Work Amidst the Sick, the Sad, and the SorrowingWould it not be useful to ask ourselves the question whether we are forgetting the true meaning of "charity" in the constant endeavour to take advantage of organized benevolent institutions, about the...

"All's not Gold that Glitters;" or, The Young CalifornianIn her last note of introduction to the Home circle, Cousin Alice partly promised to tell a story of Virginia life when she came to them again. She has to confess that she has not redeemed...

"All's Well"; or, Alice's VictoryTruly, Mistress, home to Staplehurst, and the fardel holdeth broadcloth for my lads new jerkins. The speakers were two women, both on the younger side of middle age, who met on the road between Staplehurst and Cranbrook, the former coming...

"America for Americans!" - The Typical American, Thanksgiving SermonDear Sir: The universal approval by every loyal, liberty-loving American citizen who listened to your Thanksgiving sermon yesterday, together with the philosophic and fearless manner with which the great themes therein discussed were treated, prompts a...

"And That's How It Was, Officer"No doubt, by this time, you and your boys are a pretty bewildered lot. You have all probably lost weight wondering what has been going on in Morton City; where all the gangsters went, and why the underworld has...

"And they thought we wouldn't fight"At this time, when you are returning to America, I wish to express to you my appreciation of the cordial cooperation and assistance you have always given us in your important work as correspondent of the Chicago Tribune in...

"Around the Circle": One Thousand Miles Through the Rocky MountainsTHE TOURIST in search of grand and beautiful scenery finds an embarrassment of riches in Colorado. Among so many attractions he is at a loss which to choose, and having made a choice, he is...

Sonnet 23The person or persons who have associated work with this document (the "Dedicator" or "Certifier") hereby either (a) certifies that, to the best of his knowledge, the work of authorship identified is in the public domain of the country from which the work...

"As Gold in the Furnace" : A College StoryRoy Henning was talking to a group of college boys of the upper classes in St. Cuthbert's yard. It was late September and still very warm. The little gathering of friends found the shade of a...

"Ask Mamma"; or, The Richest Commoner In England IT may be a recommendation to the lover of light literature to be told, that the following story does not involve the complication of a plot. It is a mere continuous narrative of an almost everyday...

"Back from Hell"When the old Chicago cut loose from her moorings in an Atlantic port it was a red letter day for me. She was a good sized craft, of the French Line, and was to carry a lot of other Americans, besides myself,...