Old Is Gold

Auld Licht Idylls This is the only American edition of my books produced with my sanction, and I have special reasons for thanking Messrs. Scribner for its publication; they let it be seen, by this edition, what are my books, for I know not...

A Window in Thrums When the English publishers read "A Window in Thrums" in manuscript they thought it unbearably sad and begged me to alter the end. They warned me that the public do not like sad books. Well, the older I grow and...

The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 - Devoted to Literature and National PolicyNo other nation was ever convulsed by an internal struggle so tremendous as that which now rends our own unhappy country. No mere rebellion has ever before spread...

Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'AmboisThe group of Chapman's plays based upon recent French history, to which Bussy D'Ambois and its sequel belong, forms one of the most unique memorials of the Elizabethan drama. The playwrights of the period were profoundly interested...

FrédéricComme auteur, je devrois remercier le public de la faveur avec laquelle il a accueilli mon roman de la Dot de Suzette; comme Franois, j'aime mieux lui faire compliment d'avoir trouv du mrite un ouvrage aussi simple: cela peut encourager les bons crivains, en...

The Best Short Stories of 1917, and the Yearbook of the American Short StoryA year ago, in the introduction to "The Best Short Stories of 1916," I pointed out that the American short story cannot be reduced to a literary formula, because the art...

The Cricket on the HearthThe combined qualities of the realist and the idealist which Dickens possessed to a remarkable degree, together with his naturally jovial attitude toward life in general, seem to have given him a remarkably happy feeling toward Christmas, though the privations...

The Home; Or, Life in Sweden"My sweet friend," said Judge Frank, in a tone of vexation, "it is not worth while reading aloud to you if you keep yawning incessantly, and looking about, first to the right and then to the left;" and with...

An Outcast; Or, Virtue and FaithWhen reason and conscience are a man's true guides to what he undertakes, and he acts strictly in obedience to them, he has little to fear from what the unthinking may say. You cannot, I hold, mistake a man...

O May I Join the Choir Invisible! and Other Favorite PoemsO may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn...

Humoresques A L'AUBERGE Quelle heure est-il? Le coq du voisin S'gosille Et dame dinde s'esclaffe; Un oiseau pos sans doute sur le fil Du tlgraphe Fait un trille; Ai-je dormi si tard ce matin? Il est huit heures; J'entends l'horloge de l'auberge Qui sonne,...

Études sur la Littérature française au XIXe siècle - Tome 1 - Madame de Staël, ChateaubriandDe la Littrature de l'Empire. Une nuance de ridicule s'attache, dans bien des esprits, ces mots: la Littrature de l'Empire. Cette impression s'explique, si elle ne se justifie pas....

Northanger AbbeyKara Shallenberg, Patricia Oakley, Vlooi, travelbratd, Inka, Cori Samuel, Gesine, Sage, Kristin Luoma, Heather Barnett, Acrobatty, wolvrin, Nocturna, Asaf Bartov, Kristen McQuillin, Vicki Barbour, Beth Dudek, Leo Vegoda The person or persons who have associated work with this document (the "Dedicator" or "Certifier")...

The Oahu College at the Sandwich IslandsIn the year 1841, a school was commenced, for the children of missionaries, at Punahou, near Honolulu, Sandwich Islands. Five year ago, it was opened to others besides the children of missionaries. The number of pupils has varied...

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy.The death of Henry Thomas Buckle, at this period of his career, is no ordinary calamity to the literary and philosophical world. Others have been cut short in the...

Liederkranz - Dem Andenken der verstorbenen Frau Herzogin Dorothea von Kurland geweiht[A] Das bey der letzten Anwesenheit der Frau Herzogin von Kurland im Jahre 1817 verfate Gedicht, nach einem Bilde der Erinnerung in einem mehrere Gemlde enthaltenden Cahier, scheint wie in der Vorahnung geschrieben...

The Sleeping Bard; Or, Visions of the World, Death, and HellThe Sleeping Bard was originally written in the Welsh language, and was published about the year 1720. The author of it, Elis Wyn, was a clergyman of the Cambro Anglican Church, and a native...

Mademoiselle de CérignanJe venais de passer avec mon grade de chef de demi-brigade, nous disons aujourd'hui colonel, dans le 3e rgiment de dragons, lorsque, vers la fin d'avril 1798 (floral an VI), je reus du gnral Desaix, qui commandait notre division, l'ordre de quitter...

Sermons on Biblical Characters"Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came." Did you notice the name of this man who was missing? Who was it when the little company met after the crucifixion that was not there? There...

La Folle Journée ou le Mariage de FigaroPar un abus punissable, on a envoy Amsterdam un prtendu manuscrit de cette pice, tir de mmoire et dfigur, plein de lacunes, de contre-sens et d'absurdits. On l'a imprim et vendu en y mettant le nom de...