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Openings in the Old TrailOpenings in the Old Trail It was high hot noon on the Casket Ridge. Its very scant shade was restricted to a few dwarf Scotch firs, and was so perpendicularly cast that Leonidas Boone, seeking shelter from the heat, was obliged to draw himself...
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Eugene PickeringEugene PickeringIt was at Homburg, several years ago, before the gaming had been suppressed. The evening was very warm, and all the world was gathered on the terrace of the Kursaal and the esplanade below it to listen to the excellent orchestra; or half...
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Round the SofaRound the Sofa Long ago I was placed by my parents under the medical treatment of a certain Mr. Dawson, a surgeon in Edinburgh, who had obtained a reputation for the cure of a particular class of diseases. I was sent with my governess...
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The Half-BrothersThe Half-Brothers My mother was twice married. She never spoke of her first husband, and it is only from other people that I have learnt what little I know about him. I believe she was scarcely seventeen when she was married to him: and...
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An Accursed RaceAn Accursed Race We have our prejudices in England. Or, if that assertion offends any of my readers, I will modify it: we have had our prejudices in England. We have tortured Jews; we have burnt Catholics and Protestants, to say nothing of a...
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The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 - The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature My readers will naturally ask why I have delayed writing this book for six years after my return;...
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The Analysis of MindThe Analysis of Mind This book has grown out of an attempt to harmonize two different tendencies, one in psychology, the other in physics, with both of which I find myself in sympathy, although at first sight they might seem inconsistent. On the one...
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The Women of the French SalonsThe Women of the French Salons It has been a labor of love with many distinguished Frenchmen to recall the memories of the women who have made their society so illustrious, and to retouch with sympathetic insight the features which time was beginning to...
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The Sorrows of Young WertherThe Sorrows of Young Werther I have carefully collected whatever I have been able to learn of the story of poor Werther, and here present it to you, knowing that you will thank me for it. To his spirit and character you cannot refuse...
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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Book of the Spiritual ManThe Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man The third book of the Sutras has fairly completed the history of the birth and growth of the spiritual man, and the enumeration of his powers; at least so far as concerns that...
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John Ingerfield, and Other StoriesJohn Ingerfield, and Other StoriesOnce upon a time, I wrote a little story of a woman who was crushed to death by a python. A day or two after its publication, a friend stopped me in the street. Charming little story of yours, he...
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My Lady LudlowMy Lady Ludlow I am an old woman now, and things are very different to what they were in my youth. Then we, who travelled, travelled in coaches, carrying six inside, and making a two days journey out of what people now go over...
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The Memoirs of Victor HugoThe Memoirs of Victor Hugo This volume of memoirs has a double characterhistorical and intimate. The life of a period, the XIX Century, is bound up in the life of a man, VICTOR HUGO. As we follow the events set forth we get the...
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A Dark Night's WorkA Dark Night's WorkThe certain shire was but a small county, and the principal town in it contained only about four thousand inhabitants; so in saying that Mr. Wilkins was the principal lawyer in Hamley, I say very little, unless I add that he...
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Lizzie LeighLizzie LeighWhen Death is present in a household on a Christmas Day, the very contrast between the time as it now is, and the day as it has often been, gives a poignancy to sorrowa more utter blankness to the desolation. James Leigh died...
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The ManThe ManThe voice of the speaker sounded clearly through the hawthorn tree. The young man and the young girl who sat together on the low tombstone looked at each other. They had heard the voices of the two children talking, but had not noticed...
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A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its TributariesA Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries - And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864It has been my object in this work to give as clear an account as I was able of tracts of...
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The Hungry Stones, and Other StoriesThe Hungry Stones, and Other Stories The stories contained in this volume were translated by several hands. The version of The Victory is the author's own work. The seven stories which follow were translated by Mr. C. F. Andrews, with the help of the...
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Lincoln's Yarns and StoriesLincoln's Yarns and Stories - A Complete Collection of the Funny and Witty Anecdotes That Made Lincoln Famous as America's Greatest Story Teller Dean Swift said that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before serves well of his...
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Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth CenturyRedgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century The Jacobite enthusiasm of the eighteenth century, particularly during the rebellion of 1745, afforded a theme, perhaps the finest that could be selected for fictitious composition, founded upon real or probable incident. This civil war and its...
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