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The Civilisation of the Renaissance in ItalyThe Civilisation of the Renaissance in ItalyDR. Burckhardts work on the Renaissance in Italy is too well known, not only to students of the period, but now to a wider circle of readers, for any introduction to be necessary. The increased interest which has...
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The Valet's Tragedy, and Other StudiesThe Valet's Tragedy, and Other Studies These studies in secret history follow no chronological order. The affair of James de la Cloche only attracted the authors attention after most of the volume was in print. But any reader curious in the veiled intrigues of...
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MichaelMichael Though there was nothing visibly graceful about Michael Comber, he apparently had the art of giving gracefully. He had already told his cousin Francis, who sat on the arm of the sofa by his table, that there was no earthly excuse for his...
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Stories by English Authors: Germany (Selected by Scribners)Stories by English Authors: Germany (Selected by Scribners) It was about four in the afternoon when a young girl came into the salon of the little hotel at C in Switzerland, and drew her chair up to the fire. You are soaked through, said...
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To the Last ManTo the Last Man It was inevitable that in my efforts to write romantic history of the great West I should at length come to the story of a feud. For long I have steered clear of this rock. But at last I have...
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The Religion of Babylonia and AssyriaThe Religion of Babylonia and Assyria The original text contains a number of characters that are not available even in 8-bit Windows text, such as H with a breve below it in Hammurabi, S with a breve, S and T with a dot below...
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Keziah CoffinKeziah Coffin CHAPTER I -- IN WHICH KEZIAH HEARS TWO PROPOSALS AND THE BEGINNING OF A THIRD CHAPTER II -- IN WHICH KEZIAH UNEARTHS A PROWLER CHAPTER III -- IN WHICH KEZIAH ASSUMES A GUARDIANSHIP CHAPTER IV -- IN WHICH KEZIAH'S PARSON DECIDES TO...
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Beasts, Men and GodsBeasts, Men and Gods When one of the leading publicists in America, Dr. Albert Shaw of the Review of Reviews, after reading the manuscript of Part I of this volume, characterized the author as The Robinson Crusoe of the Twentieth Century, he touched the...
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WildfireWildfire For some reason the desert scene before Lucy Bostil awoke varying emotionsa sweet gratitude for the fullness of her life there at the Ford, yet a haunting remorse that she could not be wholly contenta vague loneliness of soula thrill and a fear...
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Dick Hamilton's Airship Or, A Young Millionaire in the CloudsDick Hamilton's Airship; Or, A Young Millionaire in the Clouds "Glad you like her, fellows," replied Dick Hamilton, to the remarks of his chums, Paul Drew and Innis Beeby, as he turned the wheel of a new motor-boat and sent the craft about in...
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A Journey to the Western Islands of ScotlandA Journey to the Western Islands of ScotlandI had desired to visit the Hebrides, or Western Islands of Scotland, so long, that I scarcely remember how the wish was originally excited; and was in the Autumn of the year 1773 induced to undertake the...
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The Trail of the White MuleThe Trail of the White Mule Casey Ryan, hunched behind the wheel of a large, dark blue touring car with a kinked front fender and the glass gone from the left headlight, slid out from the halted traffic, shied sharply away from a hysterically...
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All for Love Or, The World Well Lost: A TragedyAll for Love; Or, The World Well Lost: A TragedyThe age of Elizabeth, memorable for so many reasons in the history of England, was especially brilliant in literature, and, within literature, in the drama. With some falling off in spontaneity, the impulse to great...
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Shorter Prose PiecesShorter Prose PiecesIt is only in the best Greek gems, on the silver coins of Syracuse, or among the marble figures of the Parthenon frieze, that one can find the ideal representation of the marvellous beauty of that face which laughed through the leaves...
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The History of Caliph VathekThe History of Caliph VathekWilliam Beckford, born in 1759, the year before the accession of King George the Third, was the son of an Alderman who became twice Lord Mayor of London. His family, originally of Gloucestershire, had thriven by the plantations in Jamaica;...
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The Little Shepherd of Kingdom ComeThe Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come The days of that April had been days of mist and rain. Sometimes, for hours, there would come a miracle of blue sky, white cloud, and yellow light, but always between dark and dark the rain would fall...
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Messer Marco PoloMesser Marco Polo So Celtic in feeling and atmosphere are the stories of Donn Byrne that many of his devotees have come to believe that he never lived anywhere but in Ireland. Actually, Donn Byrne was born in New York City. Shortly after his...
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The Last of the PlainsmenThe Last of the Plainsmen He was born sixty-two years ago on the Illinois prairie, and he has devoted practically all of his life to the pursuit of wild animals. It has been a pursuit which owed its unflagging energy and indomitable purpose to...
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The Life of William Carey, Shoemaker & MissionaryThe Life of William Carey, Shoemaker & Missionary {Note from the preparer of this etext: I have had to insert a view comments mainly in regards to adjustments to fonts to allow for some of the characters in the Indian names; you will find...
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Two Years Before the MastTwo Years Before the Mast Crowded in the rank and narrow ship, Housed on the wild sea with wild usages, Whate'er in the inland dales the land conceals Of fair and exquisite, O! nothing, nothing, Do we behold of that in our rude voyage....
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