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Vendetta: A Story of One ForgottenVendetta: A Story of One Forgotten Lest those who read the following pages should deem this story at all improbable, it is perhaps necessary to say that its chief incidents are founded on an actual occurrence which took place in Naples during the last...
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Lombard Street: A Description of the Money MarketLombard Street: A Description of the Money MarketI venture to call this Essay 'Lombard Street,' and not the 'Money Market,' or any such phrase, because I wish to deal, and to show that I mean to deal, with concrete realities. A notion prevails that...
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The Sea FairiesThe Sea Fairies THE oceans are big and broad. I believe two-thirds of the earth's surface is covered with water. What people inhabit this water has always been a subject of curiosity to the inhabitants of the land. Strange creatures come from the seas...
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American Fairy TalesAmerican Fairy Tales No one intended to leave Martha alone that afternoon, but it happened that everyone was called away, for one reason or another. Mrs. McFarland was attending the weekly card party held by the Womens Anti-Gambling League. Sister Nells young man had...
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Sky IslandSky Island - Being the further exciting adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill after their visit to the sea fairies WITH "The Sea Fairies," my book for 1911, I ventured into a new field of fairy literature and to my delight the book was...
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David Crockett: His Life and AdventuresDavid Crockett: His Life and Adventures David Crockett certainly was not a model man. But he was a representative man. He was conspicuously one of a very numerous class, still existing, and which has heretofore exerted a very powerful influence over this republic. As...
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By the Ionian Sea: Notes of a Ramble in Southern ItalyBy the Ionian Sea: Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy To-morrow I shall leave by the Messina boat, which calls at Paola. It is now more than a twelvemonth since I began to think of Paola, and an image of the place has...
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Five Thousand an Hour: How Johnny Gamble Won the HeiressFive Thousand an Hour: How Johnny Gamble Won the Heiress About the time the winner of the Baltimore Handicap flashed under the wire, Johnny Gamble started to tear up a bundle of nice pink tickets on Lady S. Just then Ashley Loring came by...
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Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the ComicLaughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic This work, by Professor Bergson, has been revised in detail by the author himself, and the present translation is the only authorised one. For this ungrudging labour of revision, for the thoroughness with which it...
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The English ConstitutionThe English Constitution There is a great difficulty in the way of a writer who attempts to sketch a living Constitutiona Constitution that is in actual work and power. The difficulty is that the object is in constant change. An historical writer does not...
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Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political societyPhysics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society One peculiarity of this age is the sudden acquisition of much physical knowledge. There is scarcely a department of science or art which is the...
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Wisdom and DestinyWisdom and Destiny This essay on Wisdom and Destiny was to have been a thing of some twenty pages, the work of a fortnight; but the idea took root, others flocked to it, and the volume has occupied M. Maeterlinck continuously for more than...
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Poor, Dear Margaret KirbyPoor, Dear Margaret Kirby This book is Jim's,this page shall bear Its witness to my love for him. Best of small brothers anywhere, Who would not do as much for Jim? She did not say it aloud. The Kirbys had long ago given up...
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My Young Alcides: A Faded PhotographMy Young Alcides: A Faded Photograph But the Hercules myth did not seem to me to be like one of the fairy tales that we have seen so gracefully and quaintly modernised; and at the risk of seeming to travestie the Farnese statue in...
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The Effects of Cross and Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable KingdomThe Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom Various means which favour or determine the cross-fertilisation of plants.Benefits derived from cross-fertilisation.Self-fertilisation favourable to the propagation of the species.Brief history of the subject.Object of the experiments, and the manner in which they were...
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Sparrows: The Story of an Unprotected GirlSparrows: The Story of an Unprotected Girl Everyone at Melkbridge knew the Devitts: they lived in the new, pretentious-looking house, standing on the right, a few minutes after one left the town by the Bathminster road. It was a blustering, stare-one-in-the-face kind of house,...
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Marie a story of Russian loveMarie; a story of Russian love Alexander Pushkin, the most distinguished poet of Russia, was born at Saint Petersburg, 1799. When only twenty-one years of age he entered the civil service in the department of foreign affairs. Lord Byrons writings and efforts for Greek...
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How and When to Be Your Own DoctorHow and When to Be Your Own DoctorTis a gift to be simple Tis a gift to be free, Tis a gift to come down Where we ought to be. And when we find ourselves In a place just right, It will be in...
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Organic Gardener's CompostingOrganic Gardener's CompostingThis header should be the first thing seen when anyone starts to view the etext. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need to understand what they may...
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Mutual Aid: A Factor of EvolutionMutual Aid: A Factor of EvolutionTwo aspects of animal life impressed me most during the journeys which I made in my youth in Eastern Siberia and Northern Manchuria. One of them was the extreme severity of the struggle for existence which most species of...
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