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Psmith, Journalist THE conditions of life in New York are so different from those of London that a story of this kind calls for a little explanation. There are several million inhabitants of New York. Not all of them eke out a precarious livelihood...

The Pigeon PieEarly in the September of the year 1651 the afternoon sun was shining pleasantly into the dining-hall of Forest Lea House. The sunshine came through a large bay-window, glazed in diamonds, and with long branches of a vine trailing across it, but...

Noto: An Unexplored Corner of JapanPlease 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...

The Longest Journey The cow is there, said Ansell, lighting a match and holding it out over the carpet. No one spoke. He waited till the end of the match fell off. Then he said again, She is there, the cow. There, now. I...

Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes "QUESTIONABLE Amusements and Worthy Substitutes" is a consideration of the "so-called questionable amusements," and an outlook for those forms of social, domestic, and personal practices which charm the life, secure the present, and build for the future. To take...

Queen Sheba's Ring Every one has read the monograph, I believe that is the right word, of my dear friend, Professor HiggsPtolemy Higgs to give him his full namedescriptive of the tableland of Mur in North Central Africa, of the ancient underground city in...

Heartsease; Or, The Brother's Wife The sun shone slanting over a spacious park, the undulating ground here turning a broad lawn towards the beams that silvered every blade of grass; there, curving away in banks of velvet green; shadowed by the trees; gnarled old...

War and Peace Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you dont tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that AntichristI...

Legends and Tales The cautious reader will detect a lack of authenticity in the following pages. I am not a cautious reader myself, yet I confess with some concern to the absence of much documentary evidence in support of the singular incident I am...

Urban Sketches As I glance across my table, I am somewhat distracted by the spectacle of a venerable head whose crown occasionally appears beyond, at about its level. The apparition of a very small handwhose fingers are bunchy and have the appearance of being...

Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories The sun was rising in the foot-hills. But for an hour the black mass of Sierra eastward of Angel's had been outlined with fire, and the conventional morning had come two hours before with the down coach from...

The Forsyte Saga, Volume III. - Awakening Through the massive skylight illuminating the hall at Robin Hill, the July sunlight at five o'clock fell just where the broad stairway turned; and in that radiant streak little Jon Forsyte stood, blue-linen-suited. His hair was shining,...

Ramsey Milholland The old man and the little boy, his grandson, sat together in the shade of the big walnut tree in the front yard, watching the Decoration Day Parade, as it passed up the long street; and when the last of the veterans...

The Forsyte Saga, Volume II. - Indian Summer of a Forsyte In the last day of May in the early nineties, about six oclock of the evening, old Jolyon Forsyte sat under the oak tree below the terrace of his house at Robin Hill....

The Life of Stephen A. DouglasPlease 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...

マルチン・ルターの小信仰問答書 You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days of receipt of the work. 1.F.3....

Grimms' Fairy Tales A certain king had a beautiful garden, and in the garden stood a tree which bore golden apples. These apples were always counted, and about the time when they began to grow ripe it was found that every night one of...

Guy ManneringThe Novel or Romance of WAVERLEY made its way to the public slowly, of course, at first, but afterwards with such accumulating popularity as to encourage the author to a second attempt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the...

The Experiences of a Bandmaster During eighteen years spent in playing music for the masses, twelve years in the service of the United States and six in that of the general public, many curious and interesting incidents have come under my observation. While conductor...

Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) For two years it had been notorious in the square that Saml Dickie was thinking of courting Tnowheads Bell, and that if Little Sanders Elshioner (which is the Thrums pronunciation of Alexander Alexander) went in for...