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The Story of a Country TownSHOULD The Story of a Country Town find readers, it may be interesting to them to know that it was written entirely at night, after the writer had finished a hard days work as editor and publisher of a...

Dorian Grayn muotokuvaPersialaisen sohvansa nurkkauksesta, miss tapansa oli loikoilla ja poltella paperossi toisensa jlkeen, lordi Henry Wotton saattoi vilahdukselta nhd hunajalta tuoksuvan ja hunajanvrisen kultavihmapensaan, jonka taipuvat oksat vaivoin jaksoivat kantaa kullanhohteista taakkaansa. Sillointllin lentvien lintujen aaveentapaiset varjot kuvastuivat leveitten ikkunoiden silkkiuutimille, loihtien hetkeksi...

Sosialismi ja individualismiOscar Wilde (ua'ild), maailman kuulu englantilainen kirjailija, oli syntynyt Dublinissa v. 1856 irlantilaisista vanhemmista. Hnen isns oli kuuluisa silm- ja korvalkri William Wilde ja itins tunnettu runoilijatar ja lentolehtisten kirjoittajatar Jane Elgee, jolta hn lienee perinyt kirjalliset taipumuksensa. Harjoitettuaan opinnoita Dublinissa ja...

La vieja verde: Estudios al naturalHabia en una noche del invierno pasado en un caf de los ms concurridos de la imperial, coronada invicta villa y crte de Madrid, sentada una mesa en un rincon, y puesta la vidriera que daba la calle, acompaada...

Neæra: A Tale of Ancient RomeAnno Domini Twenty-six, Tiberius Caesar, the ruler of the world, left Rome, with a small retinue, never to return. In the following year he arrived at the island of Capreae, and there took up his permanent abode. It was...

Birds and Nature Vol. 11 No. 4 [April 1902] - Illustrated by Color PhotographyTo the ornithologist who may be so fortunate as to visit Southern California in the spring, when Nature has put on her holiday attire, and everything appears at its best, our...

Birds and Nature Vol. 11 No. 3 [March 1902] - Illustrated by Color PhotographyThe Winter Wren inhabits that part of North America east of the Rocky Mountains, breeding chiefly north of the United States and migrating at the approach of winter nearly or quite...

Birds and Nature Vol. 11 No. 2 [February 1902] - Illustrated by Color PhotographyThe Blue-headed Vireo, or its varieties, of which there are several, frequent nearly the whole of North America. The typical form of the species, that of our illustration, has a range...

Birds and Nature Vol. 11 No. 1 [January 1902] - Illustrated by Color PhotographyIn these pleasing words the poet speaks of the kinglets. Yet his words may hardly apply to the Golden-crowned Kinglet, except in the northernmost part of its range, for it winters...

Il Comento alla Divina Commedia, e gli altri scritti intorno a Dante, vol. 3Quel color, che vilt di fuor mi pinse, ecc. Continuasi lautore in questo canto al precedente in cotal guisa: egli ha dimostrato davanti come Virgilio, essendogli stata serrata la porta della...

Il Comento alla Divina Commedia, e gli altri scritti intorno a Dante, vol. 2Ruppemi lalto sonno nella testa, ecc. Nel principio del presente canto, s come usato lautore, alle cose dette nella fine del precedente si continua. Dissesi nella fine del precedente canto come...

Twilight LandI found myself in Twilight Land. How I ever got there I cannot tell, but there I was in Twilight Land. What is Twilight Land? It is a wonderful, wonderful place where no sun shines to scorch your back as you jog along...

Jim: The Story of a Backwoods Police DogJims mother was a big cross-bred bitch, half Newfoundland and half bloodhound, belonging to Black Saunders, one of the hands at the Brines Rip Mills. As the mills were always busy, Saunders was always busy, and it...

The Putnam Hall Encampment; or, The Secret of the Old MillMy Dear Boys: This story is complete in itself but forms the fifth volume in a line issued under the general title of Putnam Hall Series. As I have mentioned several times, this series...

Trelawny of The "Wells": A Comedietta in Four Acts THE FIRST ACT at Mr. and Mrs. Telfer's Lodgings in No. 2 Brydon Crescent, Clerkenwell. May NOTE:Bagnlgge (locally pronounced Bagnidge) Wells, formerly a popular mineral spring in Islington, London, situated not far from the better...

The Schoolmistress: A Farce in Three Acts When, during the season of 1885, the exceptional success of "The Magistrate" had revived the fortunes of the Court Theatre and included that house once again among the popular places of entertainment, the future policy of Messrs....

The Prude's Progress: A Comedy in Three Acts The scene represents a room high up in a Bloomsbury lodging-house. It is poorly, but not sordidly, furnished; and here and there are touches of taste, and some attempt at comfort. Nelly Morris, a young girl,...

Pen Pictures, of Eventful Scenes and Struggles of Life It is fashionable to preface what we have to say. Some men build a large portico in front of the edifice they erect. This may attract the eye of a stranger, but no real comfort...

The Wizard's Son, Vol. 3 (of 3)Was this then the conclusion of all thingsthat there was nothing so perfect that it was worth a man's while to struggle for it; that any officious interference with the recognised and existing was a mistake; that nothing...

The Wizard's Son, Vol. 2 (of 3)When Walter seated himself beside Oona in the boat, and Hamish pushed off from the beach, there fell upon both these young people a sensation of quiet and relief for which one of them at least found it...