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The Egoist: A Comedy in NarrativeThe Egoist: A Comedy in NarrativeComedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent...
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HonorineHonorine If the French have as great an aversion for traveling as the English have a propensity for it, both English and French have perhaps sufficient reasons. Something better than England is everywhere to be found; whereas it is excessively difficult to find the...
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MenexenusMenexenus The Menexenus has more the character of a rhetorical exercise than any other of the Platonic works. The writer seems to have wished to emulate Thucydides, and the far slighter work of Lysias. In his rivalry with the latter, to whom in the...
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EryxiasEryxias Much cannot be said in praise of the style or conception of the Eryxias. It is frequently obscure; like the exercise of a student, it is full of small imitations of Plato:Phaeax returning from an expedition to Sicily (compare Socrates in the Charmides...
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At the Sign of the Cat and RacketAt the Sign of the Cat and Racket Half-way down the Rue Saint-Denis, almost at the corner of the Rue du Petit-Lion, there stood formerly one of those delightful houses which enable historians to reconstruct old Paris by analogy. The threatening walls of this...
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Hiram the Young FarmerHiram the Young Farmer CHAPTER I. THE CALL OF SPRING CHAPTER II. AT MRS. ATTERSON'S CHAPTER III. A DREARY DAY CHAPTER IV. THE LOST CARD CHAPTER V. THE COMMOTION AT MOTHER ATTERSON'S CHAPTER VI. THIS DIDN'T GET BY HIRAM CHAPTER VII. HOW HIRAM LEFT...
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An Historical Mystery (The Gondreville Mystery)An Historical Mystery (The Gondreville Mystery) The autumn of the year 1803 was one of the finest in the early part of that period of the present century which we now call Empire. Rain had refreshed the earth during the month of October, so...
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Alcibiades IIAlcibiades II The two dialogues which are translated in the second appendix are not mentioned by Aristotle, or by any early authority, and have no claim to be ascribed to Plato. They are examples of Platonic dialogues to be assigned probably to the second...
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Alcibiades IAlcibiades I The First Alcibiades is a conversation between Socrates and Alcibiades. Socrates is represented in the character which he attributes to himself in the Apology of a know-nothing who detects the conceit of knowledge in others. The two have met already in the...
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New Forces in Old China: An Inevitable AwakeningNew Forces in Old China: An Inevitable AwakeningPlease 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 not remove this. We produce...
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The Narrative of Sojourner TruthThe Narrative of Sojourner TruthPlease 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 not remove this. We produce about two million...
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Lesser HippiasLesser Hippias The Lesser Hippias may be compared with the earlier dialogues of Plato, in which the contrast of Socrates and the Sophists is most strongly exhibited. Hippias, like Protagoras and Gorgias, though civil, is vain and boastful: he knows all things; he can...
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GorgiasGorgias In several of the dialogues of Plato, doubts have arisen among his interpreters as to which of the various subjects discussed in them is the main thesis. The speakers have the freedom of conversation; no severe rules of art restrict them, and sometimes...
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When a Man MarriesWhen a Man Marries Chapter I. AT LEAST I MEANT WELL Chapter II. THE WAY IT BEGAN Chapter III. I MIGHT HAVE KNOWN IT Chapter IV. THE DOOR WAS CLOSED Chapter V. FROM THE TREE OF LOVE Chapter VI. A MIGHTY POOR JOKE Chapter...
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Luther's Little Instruction Book: The Small Catechism of Martin LutherLuther's Little Instruction Book: The Small Catechism of Martin LutherWe must fear and love God, so that we will not use His name to curse, swear, cast a spell, lie or deceive, but will use it to call upon Him, pray to Him, praise...
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The Human DriftThe Human DriftThe Human Drift Small-Boat Sailing Four Horses and a Sailor Nothing that Ever Came to Anything That Dead Men Rise up Never A Classic of the Sea A Wicked Woman (Curtain Raiser) The Birth Mark (Sketch) The history of civilisation is a...
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The Tapestried Chamber, and Death of the Laird's JockThe Tapestried Chamber, and Death of the Laird's Jock This is another little story from The Keepsake of 1828. It was told to me many years ago by the late Miss Anna Seward, who, among other accomplishments that rendered her an amusing inmate in...
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My Aunt Margaret's MirrorMy Aunt Margaret's Mirror The species of publication which has come to be generally known by the title of ANNUAL, being a miscellany of prose and verse, equipped with numerous engravings, and put forth every year about Christmas, had flourished for a long while...
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The Golden AsseThe Golden Asse And unto the Readers of this Book That I to thee some joyous jests may show in gentle gloze, And frankly feed thy bended eares with passing pleasant prose: So that thou daine in seemly sort this wanton booke to view,...
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Derrick Vaughan, NovelistDerrick Vaughan, Novelist Nothing fills a childs mind like a large old mansion; better if un- or partially occupied; peopled with the spirits of deceased members of the county and Justices of the Quorum. Would I were buried in the peopled solitude of one,...
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