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The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 50, October 21, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and GirlsNo sooner was her decision known than a report was circulated that Weyler had sent in his resignation; it...

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 49, October 14, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and GirlsAt the British Foreign Office, which is the department of the Government that has the charge of such matters,...

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 48, October 7, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and GirlsOn the 18th of September, after a conference of three hours, the ambassadors and Tewfik Pasha signed their names...

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 47, September 30, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and GirlsIt is said that the Sultan of Turkey has at last made up his mind to do something for...

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 46, September 23, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and GirlsThe Afridis are reported to have held a council of war, and have decided to return to their homes...

Le grillon du foyerLa Bouilloire fit entendre son premier cri! Ne me dites pas ce que mistress Peerybingle disait. Je le sais mieux qu'elle. Mistress Peerybingle peut laisser croire jusqu' la fin des temps qu'elle ne saurait dire lequel des deux commena crier; mais...

Deephaven and Selected Stories & SketchesThis book is not wholly new, several of the chapters having already been published in the "Atlantic Monthly." It has so often been asked if Deephaven may not be found on the map of New England under another name,...

Washington IrvingIt is over twenty years since the death of Washington Irving removed that personal presence which is always a powerful, and sometimes the sole, stimulus to the sale of an author's books, and which strongly affects the contemporary judgment of their merits. It...

Read-Aloud PlaysThe first two or three of these "plays" (I retain the word for lack of a better one) began themselves as short stories, but in each case I found that the dramatic element, speech, tended to absorb the impersonal element of comment and...

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 44, September 9, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and GirlsAlbert Ross Parsons, President, American College of Musicians, writes concerning his son, aged 10: "The bound volume of the...

A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth CenturyThe present volume is a sequel to "A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century" (New York; Henry Holt & Co., 1899). References in the footnotes to "Volume I." are to that work. The difficulties...

The Vehement FlameTogether, so many years agoseven, I think, or eightyou and I planned this story. The first chapters had the help of your criticism ... then, I had to go on alone, urged by the memory of your interest. But all the blunders...

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 42, August 26, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and GirlsScientific kite flying has attracted the attention of the world. This kite is the invention of H.H. Clayton, Chief...

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 41, August 19, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and GirlsHas improved rotary shutter and set of three stops for lens. The slides for changing stops and for time...

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 40, August 12, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and GirlsHas improved rotary shutter and set of three stops for lens. The slides for changing stops and for time...

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 39, August 5, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and GirlsHas improved rotary shutter and set of three stops for lens. The slides for changing stops and for time...

Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop The first four chapters of "Susan Clegg and her Friend Mrs. Lathrop" appeared in "The Century Magazine" as separate stories during the past year. They have been revised and partly rewritten for book publication, and "The Minister's...

Les pilotes de l'IroiseUn jour que la brume d'automne, chasse par un vent d'Ouest assez fort, commenait s'tendre sur les flots qui s'agitent presque continuellement entre l'le d'Ouessant et le terrible Raz-des-Saints, une petite barque de pilote, surmonte d'une misaine et d'un taille-vent, tournoyait...

Mon amie NaneL'illustre M. de Balzac a fait cette remarque que les enfants des dieux sont ternels pour la meilleure moiti, qui est de ne point finir. Mais quand je songe la gloire de votre maison, dont l'origine se confond, pour ainsi dire, avec...

The Stepmother, A Drama in Five ActsComte de Grandchamp, a Napoleonic General Eugene Ramel, a State's Attorney Ferdinand Marcandal Doctor Vernon Godard An Investigating Magistrate Felix, servant to General de Grandchamp Champagne, a foreman Baudrillon, a druggist Napoleon, son to General de Grandchamp by...