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Ginger-SnapsFanny Fern. [Pg 9] GINGER-SNAPS. And now, what are these fine dinners? Just this: a pleasant gleam of silver and china; a lovely disposition of fruit and flowers; a great deal of dress, or undress, on the part of the ladies; much swallow-tail, and...

Curiosities of CivilizationThe following Essays have been reprinted from the pages of the Quarterly and Edinburgh Reviews, with the kind permission of their proprietors. It may be necessary, however, to state that, with the exception of the paper on the Mortality in Trades and...

Black Star's Campaign: A Detective StorySheriff Kowen looked up from his desk in amazement as the stenographer ushered in the woman. The name on her card had told him nothing, and he had expected to be confronted by some middle-aged, washed-out, tired wife and...

These TwainIn the year 1892 Bleakridge, residential suburb of Bursley, was still most plainly divided into old and new,--that is to say, into the dull red or dull yellow with stone facings, and the bright red with terra cotta gimcrackery. Like incompatible liquids congealed...

A Day with the Poet Tennyson TENNYSON was no recluse. He shunned society in the ordinary London sense, but he welcomed kindred spirits to his beautiful home, with large-hearted cordiality. To be acquainted with Farringford was in itself a liberal education. Farringford was an...

Dickens and His Illustrators - Cruikshank, Seymour, Buss, "Phiz," Cattermole, Leech, Doyle, Stanfield, Maclise, Tenniel, Frank Stone, Landseer, Palmer, Topham, Marcus Stone, and Luke Fildes In the matter of pictorial embellishment, the writings of Charles Dickens may be regarded as occupying a unique position....

A Devotee: An Episode in the Life of a ButterflyThe cathedral was crammed. The tall slender arches seemed to spring out of a vast sea of human heads. The orchestra and chorus had gradually merged into one person: one shout of praise, one voice...

Mary Seaham: A Novel. Volume 3 of 3Six months from the point at which we left our story, a party of gentlemen, who on their way to the Highland Moors, had stopped in Edinburgh for the night, strolled together in the public gardens of...

Mary Seaham: A Novel. Volume 2 of 3The meeting between the intended brothers-in-law was cordial enough to satisfy even Mary's anxious wishes on the occasion, and she was delighted to sit by Eugene's side and hear the two converse together with the ease and...

Mary Seaham: A Novel. Volume 1 of 3The wedding feast was cleared away, the guests had departed, and the last joy peal with its varied chimes, and crashing cannons from the old church tower was sounding musically through the mountain valley. The very servants,...

Studies of Christianity; Or, Timely Thoughts for Religious ThinkersThe American Unitarian Association in 1835 reprinted from the English edition, among their Tracts, a Sermon on "The Existing State of Theology as an Intellectual Pursuit and of Religion, as a Moral Influence." Its rare merits...

Poems, 1916-1918[Transcriber's note: the above errata have been applied to this etext. The word "Lybia" was also on page 32, and was corrected as above. Similarly, "tyrranous" was also on page 86, and was corrected.] PROTHALAMION TESTAMENT LOCHANILAUN LETTERMORE LAMENT THE LEMON-TREE PHTHONOS EASTER...

The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth CenturyAny one who turns over the Statutes and State Papers of the sixteenth century will be aware that statesmen were much exercised with an agrarian problem, which they thought to be comparatively new, and any one who follows...

Die Brücke Von unsern Wnschen zu ihrer Erfllung fhrt eine Brcke, die Brcke der Schmerzen. Ihre Bogen schnellt sie ber den ewigen Flu des Geschehens und ihre Pfeiler wurzeln in den abgrndigen Tiefen des Flusses. Die Menschen wandern ber die Brcke mit dunkeln, kummervollen...

Die SpurRichard Dehmel: Nehmen Sie meinen besten Glckwunsch zu Ihrem Buch. Was mich vor allem fesselte, ist die Lebenskunst, die aus Ihrer Dichtkunst spricht. Gerade heute entstehen wenig Bcher, die in hohem Sinne epikureisch sind. Ich glaube, Ihr Jngling kann auch reifen Mnnern eine...

Memorie di un vecchio carbonaro ravegnano A queste Memorie di un vecchio Carbonaro che Primo Uccellini compose nell'onorata vecchiezza, s per ricordare a s stesso e agli altri i casi avventurosi e dolorosi della sua lunga vita di patriota, s per lasciare ai giovani...

Junge Pferde! Junge Pferde! FRHJAHR Die ganze Nacht durch kamen Wanderungen Wie auf der Flucht, in sohlenloses Schreiten Vermummt. Am Morgen bargen es die Weiten: Nur Sturm schwimmt durch die dunkelen Waldungen. Als wre allem Licht ein Tor gesprungen, Will es sich in die...

L'élite: écrivains, orateurs sacrés, peintres, sculpteursEn effet, il est surprenant de penser qu'on le conteste encore, que les critiques le dnaturent, que les anthologies le ngligent, qu'on le tient tout au plus pour un pote trange, malsain, strile en tout cas. Mais l'opinion finale...

Folly as It Flies; Hit at by Fanny Fern WISH every husband would copy into his memorandum book this sentence, from a recently published work: "Women must be constituted very differently from men. A word said, a line written, and we are happy; omitted,...

Gedichte Frankfurter Zeitung: Welch ein Anschauen, welche Leidenschaft bildlicher Gestaltung! Ewige Helligkeit, unbarmherziges Licht breitet er ber jede Erscheinung der Wirklichkeit u. der Trume, ber Leben u. Sterben, Schrecken und Beruhigung. Georg Heym war ein Dichter. Es gibt in der deutschen Lyrik keinen, dem...