Old Is Gold

Memories and PortraitsThis volume of papers, unconnected as they are, it will be better to read through from the beginning, rather than dip into at random. A certain thread of meaning binds them. Memories of childhood and youth, portraits of those who have gone...

Worldly Ways & BywaysThere existed formerly, in diplomatic circles, a curious custom, since fallen into disuse, entitled the Ple Mle, contrived doubtless by some distracted Master of Ceremonies to quell the endless jealousies and quarrels for precedence between courtiers and diplomatists of contending pretensions....

Buttered Side Down: Stories Um-m-mmaybe. After the glamour had worn off, and the glass slippers were worn out, did the Prince never find Cinderella's manner redolent of the kitchen hearth; and was it never necessary that he remind her to be more careful of...

Robert Louis StevensonWhen a popular writer dies, the question it has become the fashion with a nervous generation to ask is the question, Will he live? There was no idler question, none more hopelessly impossible and unprofitable to answer. It is one of the...

The Burial of the Guns We do not keep Christmas now as we used to do in old Hanover. We have not time for it, and it does not seem like the same thing. Christmas, however, always brings up to me my cousin Fanny;...

The Mucker THE MUCKER: Originally published serially in All-Story Cavalier Weekly. Copyright (c) 1914, by The Frank A. Munsey Co. THE RETURN OF THE MUCKER: Sequel to THE MUCKER. Originally published serially in All-Story Weekly. Copyright (c) 1916, by The Frank A. Munsey Co....

Vida De Lazarillo De Tormes Y De Sus Fortunas Y AdversidadesYo por bien tengo que cosas tan sealadas, y por ventura nunca odas ni vistas, vengan a noticia de muchos y no se entierren en la sepultura del olvido, pues podra ser que alguno...

The Ways of MenIt is owing to his weakness in bestowing pompous cognomens on our embryo towns and villages that to-day names like Utica, Syracuse, and Ithaca, instead of evoking visions of historic pomp and circumstance, raise in the minds of most Americans the...

John Barleycorn It all came to me one election day. It was on a warm California afternoon, and I had ridden down into the Valley of the Moon from the ranch to the little village to vote Yes and No to a host of...

The Culprit Fay, and Other PoemsMy visual orbs are purged from film, and lo! Instead of Ansters turnip-bearing vales I see old fairy lands miraculous show! Her trees of tinsel kissed by freakish gales, Her Ouphs that, cloaked in leaf-gold, skim the breeze, And...

Bunner Sisters In the days when New York's traffic moved at the pace of the drooping horse-car, when society applauded Christine Nilsson at the Academy of Music and basked in the sunsets of the Hudson River School on the walls of the National Academy...

The Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales For the use of some of the following Tales I am indebted to the courtesy of the Proprietors of Cornhill, Temple Bar, Belgravia, London Society, Cassells, and The Boys Own Paper. September 11th.Lat. 81 degrees 40...

Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home We are about to relate a story of mingled fact and fancy. The facts are borrowed from the Russian author, Petjerski; the fancy is our own. Our task will chiefly be to soften the outlines of...

Main Street, and Other Poems The following biographical information is from the Occasional Notes to 'A Treasury of War Poetry', 1919, edited by George Herbert Clarke. Kilmer, Joyce. He was born in New Brunswick, N.J., December 6, 1886. He had first joined the Officers'...

Trees, and Other Poems The following biographical information is taken from the 1917 edition of Jessie B. Rittenhouse's anthology of Modern Verse. Kilmer, Joyce. Born at New Brunswick, New Jersey, December 6, 1886, and graduated at Columbia University in 1908. After a short period...

The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke I Rupert Brooke was both fair to see and winning in his ways. There was at the first contact both bloom and charm; and most of all there was life. To use the word his friends describe him...

Life on the Mississippi CHAPTER I. The Mississippi is Well worth Reading about.It is Remarkable. Instead of Widening towards its Mouth, it grows Narrower.It Empties four hundred and six million Tons of Mud.It was First Seen in 1542. It is Older than some Pages...

Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden...

My Bondage and My Freedom When a man raises himself from the lowest condition in society to the highest, mankind pay him the tribute of their admiration; when he accomplishes this elevation by native energy, guided by prudence and wisdom, their admiration is increased;...

Sense and Sensibility The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to...