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Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 2 (of 2)Sunday, August 28th.We were desirous to have crossed the mountains above Glengyle to Glenfalloch, at the head of Loch Lomond, but it rained so heavily that it was impossible, so the ferryman engaged to row us to...

Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)A few fragments from her Grasmere Journal were included by the late Bishop of Lincoln in the Memoirs of his uncle, published in 1850. The Recollections of a Tour made in Scotland in 1803, were edited in...

The Maine Woods - The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 03 (of 20)The Maine Woods was the second volume collected from his writings after Thoreaus death. Of the material which composed it, the first two divisions were already in print. Ktaadn and the...

Literary Celebrities of the English Lake-DistrictTHIS is neither a handbook nor a guide to the haunts of our Lake Celebrities. Yet it may, perhaps, serve in some sort the purposes of both. It is not the result of any fresh or original research. I...

Semblanzas literarias LEGO la reimpresin de estas semblanzas, escritas y publicadas treinta aos ha, con la curiosidad burlona y tambin con el enternecimiento con que descubrimos en el desvn de nuestra casa el caballo de cartn que hemos montado en la niez. Oh cielos,...

The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 2Some corrections were made where printers errors were most likely, as described in the Note at the end of the text. Other than those corrections, no changes to spelling have been made. Hyphenation of words at...

The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 1In the course of the preparation of these volumes there was gradually accumulated so great a number of the letters written by Lafcadio Hearn during twenty-five years of his life, and these letters proved of so...

The Ordeal of Mark Twain"What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason."Marginal note...

The Silver PoppyIt was a warm, humid evening of early September, and every window and skylight of Repellier's huge studio was open its widest. Between the muffled rhythm and beat of an orchestra the sound of laughter and merriment, and the murmur of many...

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 4 (of 10)XXV. The "Flitting" to Abbotsford. Plantations. George Thomson. Rokeby and Triermain in Progress. Excursion to Flodden. Bishop-Auckland, and Rokeby Park. Correspondence with Crabbe. Life of Patrick Carey, etc. Publication of Rokeby, and of...

Cyrano de Bergerac: An Heroic Comedy in Five ActsThe author of this translation trusts that he is not presuming too much if, despite his aversion for anything akin to offensive thought and mention of self, he claims the privilege of prefacing the result here...

Hermann Lauscher Auf den Wunsch einiger Freunde, namentlich aber auf die Aufforderung Wilhelm Schfers hin, soll der verstorbene Hermann Lauscher wieder ausgegraben und noch einmal unter die Leute geschickt werden. Da bin ich denn eine Erklrung und Rechenschaft schuldig, zumindest eine bibliographische. Hinterlassene Schriften...

Theodore Watts-Dunton: Poet, Novelist, CriticAlthough in the inner circle of English letters this study of a living writer will need no apology, it may be well to explain for the general reader the reasons which moved me to undertake it. Some time ago a...

The City of Beautiful NonsenseIt was half-past seven in the evening. At half-past seven it is dark, the lamps are lighted, the houses huddle together in groups. They have secrets to tell as soon as it is dark. Ah! If you knew the secrets...

SwiftThe chief materials for a life of Swift are to be found in his writings and correspondence. The best edition is the second of the two edited by Scott (1814 and 1824). In 1751 Lord Orrery published Remarks upon the Life and Writings of...

Dorothy Wordsworth: The Story of a Sister's LoveThis little book owes its origin to the fact that, with the exception of Professor Shairp's Sketch contained in the preface to the "Tour in Scotland," no biography or memoir of the subject of it has hitherto...

AddisonOf the four English men of letters whose writings most fully embody the spirit of the eighteenth century, the one who provides the biographer with the scantiest materials is Addison. In his Journal to Stella, his social verses, and his letters to his friends,...

Miss Eden's LettersIN the autumn of 1913 a Life of Lord Clarendon[1] was published, and among many of his letters were a few written to him by an old friend, Miss Eden. It was thought that a further selection of Emily Edens letters might...

May Iverson's Career1 The Commencement exercises at St. Catharine's were over, and everybody in the big assembly-hall was looking relieved and grateful. Mabel Muriel Murphy had welcomed our parents and friends to the convent shades in an extemporaneous speech we had overheard her practising...

The Friendly Club and Other PortraitsCitation of authorities, except so far as they appear in the text, has been considered inappropriate in the case of such informal articles as these. It would be ungracious, however, to omit mention of the writer's indebtedness in connection...