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The Junior Classics, Volume 1: Fairy and wonder talesThe purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, stories, and poems, both ancient and modern, suitable for boys and girls of from...

Human Nature, and Other SermonsJoseph Butler was born in 1692, youngest of eight children of a linendraper at Wantage, in Berkshire. His father was a Presbyterian, and after education at the Wantage Free Grammar School Joseph Butler was sent to be educated for the...

Marm LisaEden Place was a short street running at right angles with Eden Square, a most unattractive and infertile triangle of ground in a most unattractive but respectable quarter of a large city. It was called a square, not so much, probably, because it...

A Village StradivariusGoodfellow, Puck and goblins, Know more than any book. Down with your doleful problems, And court the sunny brook. The south-winds are quick-witted, The schools are sad and slow, The masters quite omitted The lore we care to know. One of Paggernyners...

A Summer in a Canyon: A California StoryIt was nine oclock one sunny California morning, and Geoffrey Strong stood under the live-oak trees in Las Flores Caon, with a pot of black paint in one hand and a huge brush in the other. He...

Two on a TowerThis slightly-built romance was the outcome of a wish to set the emotional history of two infinitesimal lives against the stupendous background of the stellar universe, and to impart to readers the sentiment that of these contrasting magnitudes the smaller might...

The Author of BeltraffioMuch as I wished to see him I had kept my letter of introduction three weeks in my pocket-book. I was nervous and timid about meeting himconscious of youth and ignorance, convinced that he was tormented by strangers, and especially by...

Froude's History of EnglandThere appeared a few years since a Comic History of England, duly caricaturing and falsifying all our great national events, and representing the English people, for many centuries back, as a mob of fools and knaves, led by the nose in...

Sir Walter Raleigh and His TimeTruth is stranger than fiction. A trite remark. We all say it again and again: but how few of us believe it! How few of us, when we read the history of heroical times and heroical men, take the...

Plays and PuritansThe British Isles have been ringing for the last few years with the word Art in its German sense; with High Art, Symbolic Art, Ecclesiastical Art, Dramatic Art, Tragic Art, and so forth; and every well-educated person is expected, nowadays, to know...

The Irish Race in the Past and the PresentCOUNT JOSEPH DE MAISTRE, in his "Principe Generateur des Constitutions Politiques" (Par. LXI.), says: "All nations manifest a particular and distinctive character, which deserves to be attentively considered." This thought of the great Catholic writer requires...

Idle Ideas in 1905Charmed. Very hot weather weve been having of lateI mean cold. Let me see, I did not quite catch your name just now. Thank you so much. Yes, it is a bit close. And a silence falls, neither of us being...

The Dove in the Eagle's NestIn sending forth this little book, I am inclined to add a few explanatory words as to the use I have made of historical personages. The origin of the whole story was probably Freytags first series of pictures of...

Ballades & Rhymes from Ballades in Blue China and Rhymes a la ModeThirty years have passed, like a watch in the night, since the earlier of the two sets of verses here reprinted, Ballades in Blue China, was published. At first there were but...

The Rise of Roscoe Paine I'm going up to the village, I told Dorinda, taking my cap from the hook behind the dining-room door. What for? asked Dorinda, pushing me to one side and reaching for the dust-cloth, which also was behind the door....

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley WarnerThirty years ago and more those who read and valued good books in this country made the acquaintance of Mr. Warner, and since the publication of "My Summer In a Garden" no work of his has...

My Summer in a Garden MY DEAR MR. FIELDS,I did promise to write an Introduction to these charming papers but an Introduction,what is it?a sort of pilaster, put upon the face of a building for looks' sake, and usually flat,very flat. Sometimes it may...

Backlog Studies The fire on the hearth has almost gone out in New England; the hearth has gone out; the family has lost its center; age ceases to be respected; sex is only distinguished by a difference between millinery bills and tailors' bills; there...

Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing It would be unfair to hold you responsible for these light sketches of a summer trip, which are now gathered into this little volume in response to the usual demand in such cases; yet you cannot escape altogether....

In the Wilderness So many conflicting accounts have appeared about my casual encounter with an Adirondack bear last summer that in justice to the public, to myself, and to the bear, it is necessary to make a plain statement of the facts. Besides, it...