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The Little Dream: An Allegory in Six Scenes It is just after sunset of an August evening. The scene is a room in a mountain hut, furnished only with a table, benches. and a low broad window seat. Through this window three rocky peaks...

The Eldest Son The scene is a well-lighted, and large, oak-panelled hall, with an air of being lived in, and a broad, oak staircase. The dining-room, drawing-room, billiard-room, all open into it; and under the staircase a door leads to the servants' quarters. In...

Strife: A Drama in Three Acts The action takes place on February 7th between the hours of noon and six in the afternoon, close to the Trenartha Tin Plate Works, on the borders of England and Wales, where a strike has been in progress...

Joy: A Play on the Letter "I" TIME: The present. The action passes throughout midsummer day on the lawn of Colonel Hope's house, near the Thames above Oxford. The time is morning, and the scene a level lawn, beyond which the river is running...

The Silver Box: A Comedy in Three Acts TIME: The present. The action of the first two Acts takes place on Easter Tuesday; the action of the third on Easter Wednesday week. SCENE I. The Jones's lodgings, Merthyr Street. SCENE II. John Barthwick's dining-room....

The Burning Spear: Being the Experiences of Mr. John Lavender in the Time of War [NOTE: John Galsworthy said of this work: 'The Burning Spear' was revenge of the nerves. It was bad enough to have to bear the dreads and strains and griefs...

Studies and Essays: Quality, and OthersI knew him from the days of my extreme youth, because he made my father's boots; inhabiting with his elder brother two little shops let into one, in a small by-street-now no more, but then most fashionably placed in...

Studies and Essays: The Inn of Tranquility, and OthersUnder a burning blue sky, among the pine-trees and junipers, the cypresses and olives of that Odyssean coast, we came one afternoon on a pink house bearing the legend: "Osteria di Tranquillita,"; and, partly because of...

Studies and Essays: Concerning LettersOnce upon a time the Prince of Felicitas had occasion to set forth on a journey. It was a late autumn evening with few pale stars and a moon no larger than the paring of a finger-nail. And as he...

Studies and Essays: Censorship and ArtSince, time and again, it has been proved, in this country of free institutions, that the great majority of our fellow-countrymen consider the only Censorship that now obtains amongst us, namely the Censorship of Plays, a bulwark for the...

The Age of Invention: A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest This volume is not intended to be a complete record of inventive genius and mechanical progress in the United States. A bare catalogue of notable American inventions in the nineteenth century alone could not be...

The Agrarian Crusade: A Chronicle of the Farmer in Politics Rapid growth accompanied by a somewhat painful readjustment has been one of the leading characteristics of the history of the United States during the last half century. In the West the change has been...

Pioneers of the Old South: A Chronicle of English Colonial Beginnings PIONEERS OF THE OLD SOUTH CHAPTER I. THE THREE SHIPS SAIL CHAPTER II. THE ADVENTURERS CHAPTER III. JAMESTOWN CHAPTER IV. JOHN SMITH CHAPTER V. THE "SEA ADVENTURE" CHAPTER VI. SIR THOMAS DALE CHAPTER...

The Sequel of Appomattox: A Chronicle of the Reunion of the States Title: The Sequel of Appomattox A Chronicle of the Reunion of the States Author: Walter Lynwood Fleming Release Date: January 2, 2009 [EBook #2897] Last Updated: August 26, 2017 Character set encoding:...

Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909This should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need about...

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World The PartyAcross America to VancouverOn Board the WarrimoSteamer ChairsThe CaptainGoing Home under a CloudA Gritty PurserThe Brightest PassengerRemedy for Bad HabitsThe Doctor and the LumbagoA Moral PauperLimited SmokingRemittance-men. Change of CostumeFish, Snake, and Boomerang StoriesTests of...

Short Stories O, tempora! O, mores! , , : , ; - , : , , , ? , , , , , , ? , , , , ? - - , ? , ( ) , , , , e , ....

The Wizard who bound all to her and, while her father cut his way through the hordes of the Ingobo Regiment, perished of the hardships of war at Buluwayo on 19th May, 1896, I dedicate these talesand more particularly the last, that of a...

Irish Fairy TalesFinnian, the Abbott of Moville, went southwards and eastwards in great haste. News had come to him in Donegal that there were yet people in his own province who believed in gods that he did not approve of, and the gods that...

Howards EndDearest Meg, It isn't going to be what we expected. It is old and little, and altogether delightful--red brick. We can scarcely pack in as it is, and the dear knows what will happen when Paul (younger son) arrives tomorrow. From hall you...