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A Dissertation on HorsesA Dissertation on Horses - Wherein It is Demonstrated, by Matters of Fact, as Well as from the Principles of Philosophy, That Innate Qualities Do Not Exist, and That the Excellence of This Animal is Altogether Mechanical and Not in the BloodSummary: Osmer shows...
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La VendéeLa Vendée The history of France in 1792 has been too fully written, and too generally read to leave the novelist any excuse for describing the state of Paris at the close of the summer of that year. It is known to every one...
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Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont, Viscountess of BellaiseStray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise No one can be more aware than the author that the construction of this tale is defective. The state of French society, and the strange scenes of the Fronde, beguiled me into a tale...
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The Boy Scout AviatorsThe Boy Scout Aviators"I'd be angry, Dick," he said, finally, "if that wasn't so Englishand so funny! Still, I suppose that's one reason you Britishers are as big an empire as you are. You think it's sort of funny and a bit of a...
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Time and ChangeTime and Change I suspect that in this volume my reader will feel that I have given him a stone when he asked for bread, and his feeling in this respect will need no apology. I fear there is more of the matter of...
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The Queen of Sheba, and My Cousin the ColonelThe Queen of Sheba, and My Cousin the ColonelIn the month of June, 1872, Mr. Edward Lynde, the assistant cashier and bookkeeper of the Nautilus Bank at Rivermouth, found himself in a position to execute a plan which he had long meditated in secret....
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The Physiology of Marriage, Part 1The Physiology of Marriage, Part 1 The woman who may be induced by the title of this book to open it, can save herself the trouble; she has already read the work without knowing it. A man, however malicious he may possibly be, can...
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The Lord of Death and the Queen of LifeThe Lord of Death and the Queen of LifeThe geologist, who had held down the lower end of a quartet in his university days, growled an accompaniment under his breath as he blithely peeled the potatoes. Occasionally a high-pitched note or two came from...
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Masters of the GuildMasters of the Guild Nothing would do but that they all should go immediately to see what had come to light A siffle of indrawn breath was heard in the crowd as he carried it to the fire (in colors) It was a great...
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Sleepy-Time TalesThe Tale of Fatty CoonFatty Coon was so fat and round that he looked like a ball of fur, with a plumelike tail for a handle. But if you looked at him closely you would have seen a pair of very bright eyes watching...
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Love and Life: An Old Story in Eighteenth Century CostumeLove and Life: An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume The first edition of this tale was put forth without explaining the old fable on which it was foundeda fable recurring again and again in fairy myths, though not traceable in the classic world...
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The EmancipatrixThe EmancipatrixThe geologist showed no surprise. Instead, he frowned severely at the end of his cigar, and carefully seated himself on the corner of the table. When he spoke there was a certain rigor in his voice, which told the doctor that his friend...
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Fanny's First PlayFanny's First Play Fanny's First Play, being but a potboiler, needs no preface. But its lesson is not, I am sorry to say, unneeded. Mere morality, or the substitution of custom for conscience was once accounted a shameful and cynical thing: people talked of...
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Tales of ChinatownTales of Chinatown In the saloon bar of a public-house, situated only a few hundred yards from the official frontier of Chinatown, two men sat at a small table in a corner, engaged in earnest conversation. They afforded a sharp contrast. One was a...
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A Yankee Girl at Fort SumterA Yankee Girl at Fort SumterSylvia Fulton, a little Boston girl, was staying with her father and mother in the beautiful city of Charleston, South Carolina, just before the opening of the Civil War. She had become deeply attached to her new friends, and...
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Jim Cummings Or, The Great Adams Express RobberyJim Cummings; Or, The Great Adams Express RobberyIn the rear room of a small frame building, the front of which was occupied as a coal office, located on West Lake street, Chicago, three men were seated around a square pine table. The curtains of...
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The Harvard Classics Volume 38The Harvard Classics Volume 38 - Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)Our misfortunes inspired me with the idea of these researches. I undertook them immediately after the war of 1870, and have since continued them without interruption, with the determination of perfecting them, and...
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The Innocents Abroad — Volume 06The Innocents Abroad — Volume 06 "After we were in the saddle, we rode down to the spring to have a last look at the women of Nazareth, who were, as a class, much the prettiest that we had seen in the East. As...
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The Innocents Abroad — Volume 05The Innocents Abroad — Volume 05 "Rode to-day, altogether, thirteen hours, through deserts, partly, and partly over barren, unsightly hills, and latterly through wild, rocky scenery, and camped at about eleven o'clock at night on the banks of a limpid stream, near a Syrian...
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The Innocents Abroad — Volume 04The Innocents Abroad — Volume 04 "Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given up to idolatry. "Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons,...
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