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The Education of Henry AdamsTHIS volume, written in 1905 as a sequel to the same author's "Mont Saint Michel and Chartres," was privately printed, to the number of one hundred copies, in 1906, and sent to the persons interested, for their assent, correction, or...

The Lock and Key Library: The most interesting stories of all nations: AmericanPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do...

Something NewThe sunshine of a fair Spring morning fell graciously on London town. Out in Piccadilly its heartening warmth seemed to infuse into traffic and pedestrians alike a novel jauntiness, so that bus drivers jested and even the lips of chauffeurs uncurled into not...

The House of the Wolf: A Romance The following is a modern English version of a curious French memoir, or fragment of autobiography, apparently written about the year 1620 by Anne, Vicomte de Caylus, and brought to this countryif, in fact, the original ever...

Confessions of an English Opium-EaterI here present you, courteous reader, with the record of a remarkable period in my life: according to my application of it, I trust that it will prove not merely an interesting record, but in a considerable degree useful and...

Evangeline: A Tale of AcadieTHIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest...

The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern EnglishSomewhere in the Other World, where there are books and pictures and plays and shop windows to look at, and thousands of men who spend their lives in building up all four, lives...

Novel NotesYears ago, when I was very small, we lived in a great house in a long, straight, brown-coloured street, in the east end of London. It was a noisy, crowded street in the daytime; but a silent, lonesome street at night, when the...

Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon Task CompletedThe Mountain-topChange in the Face of NatureOriginal Importance of Newera Ellia"The Path of a Thousand Princes"Vestiges of Former PopulationMountainsThe Highlands of OuvaAncient Methods of IrrigationRemains of AqueductsThe Vale of RubiesAncient OphirDiscovery of Gold-Mineral ResourcesNative Blacksmiths. Poverty of SoilCeylon...

Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners) The Law, as quoted, lays down a fair conduct of life, and one not easy to follow. I have been fellow to a beggar again and again under circumstances which prevented either of us finding...

Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since The plan of this Edition leads me to insert in this place some account of the incidents on which the Novel of WAVERLEY is founded. They have been already given to the public, by my late lamented friend,...

The Unknown Guest1 My Essay on Death[1] led me to make a conscientious enquiry into the present position of the great mystery, an enquiry which I have endeavoured to render as complete as possible. I had hoped that a single volume would be able...

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard I have been asked to introduce Miss Farjeon to the American public, and although I believe that introductions of this kind often do more harm than good, I have consented in this case because the instance is rare...

The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations: Real LifePlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers....

Legends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew Tradition The beginning of the text is wanting, and the earliest lines preserved of the First Column open with the closing sentences of a speech, probably by the chief of the four creating deities, who...

Lahoma "Then if I must die," Gledware cried, his voice, in its shrill excitement, dominating the ferocious insults of the ruffians, "don't kill the childyou see she is asleepand she's so youngonly five. Even if she were awake, she wouldn't know how to tell...

The Yellow Claw I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII XIX XX XXI XXII XXIII XXIV XXV XXVI XXVII XXVIII XXIX XXX XXXI XXXII XXXIII XXXIV XXXV XXXVI XXXVII XXXVIII XXXIX XL XLI...

Tartuffe; Or, The HypocriteJean Baptiste Poquelin, better known by his stage name of Moliere, stands without a rival at the head of French comedy. Born at Paris in January, 1622, where his father held a position in the royal household, he was educated at...

The Coming Conquest of England I recall to mind a British colonel, who said to me in Calcutta: This is the third time that I have been sent to India. Twenty-five years ago, as lieutenant, and then the Russians were some fifteen hundred miles...

My Lady Caprice I sat fishing. I had not caught anything, of courseI rarely do, nor am I fond of fishing in the very smallest degree, but I fished assiduously all the same, because circumstances demanded it. It had all come about through Lady...