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Essays in LittleOf the following essays, five are new, and were written for this volume. They are the paper on Mr. R. L. Stevenson, the Letter to a Young Journalist, the study of Mr. Kipling, the note on Homer, and The Last Fashionable Novel....

How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers: A Manual of Flornithology for Beginners Title: How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers Subtitle: A Manual of Flornithology for Beginners Author: Robert Williams Wood Release Date: January 1, 1999 [EBook #1593] Language: English Credits:...

The Greatest English Classic - A Study of the King James Version of the Bible and Its Influence on Life and LiteraturePlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping...

Protagoras The Protagoras, like several of the Dialogues of Plato, is put into the mouth of Socrates, who describes a conversation which had taken place between himself and the great Sophist at the house of Callias'the man who had spent more upon the Sophists...

The Amazing Interlude The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting. It is furnished out with approximately the same things. Characters come, move about and make their final exits through long-familiar...

Tamburlaine the Great — Part 2 The square brackets, i.e. [ ] are copied from the printed book, without change, except that the stage directions usually do not have closing brackets. These have been added. For this E-Text version of the book, the footnotes...

A Rogue's Life In the original form of publication the Rogue was very favorably received. Year after year, I delayed the republication, proposing, at the suggestion of my old friend, Mr. Charles Reade, to enlarge the present sketch of the heros adventures in Australia....

The Black Robe When the medical advisers of a lady who has reached seventy years of age recommend the mild climate of the South of France, they mean in plain language that they have arrived at the end of their resources. Her ladyship gave...

Man and Wife ON a summers morning, between thirty and forty years ago, two girls were crying bitterly in the cabin of an East Indian passenger ship, bound outward, from Gravesend to Bombay. They were both of the same ageeighteen. They had both, from...

The Wrong Box Nothing like a little judicious levity, says Michael Finsbury in the text: nor can any better excuse be found for the volume in the readers hand. The authors can but add that one of them is old enough to be ashamed...

Laches Lysimachus, the son of Aristides the Just, and Melesias, the son of the elder Thucydides, two aged men who live together, are desirous of educating their sons in the best manner. Their own education, as often happens with the sons of great men,...

Options "The Rose of Dixie"; The Third Ingredient; The Hiding of Black Bill; Schools and Schools; Thimble, Thimble; Supply and Demand; Buried Treasure; To Him Who Waits; He Also Serves; The Moment of Victory; The Head-Hunter; No Story; The Higher Pragmatism; Best-Seller; Rus in...

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, New TestamentTreating of the causes vvhy this nevv Testament is translated according to the auncient vulgar Latin text. THE holy Bible long since translated by vs into English, and the old Testament lying by vs for lacke of good meanes to...

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete THE OLD TESTAMENT THE BOOK OF GENESIS THE BOOK OF EXODUS THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS THE BOOK OF NUMBERS THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY THE BOOK OF JOSUE THE BOOK OF JUDGES THE BOOK OF RUTH THE FIRST BOOK OF SAMUEL,...

Charmides The subject of the Charmides is Temperance or (Greek), a peculiarly Greek notion, which may also be rendered Moderation (Compare Cic. Tusc. '(Greek), quam soleo equidem tum temperantiam, tum moderationem appellare, nonnunquam etiam modestiam.'), Modesty, Discretion, Wisdom, without completely exhausting by all these...

Lysis No answer is given in the Lysis to the question, 'What is Friendship?' any more than in the Charmides to the question, 'What is Temperance?' There are several resemblances in the two Dialogues: the same youthfulness and sense of beauty pervades both of...

Aucassin and NicoleteThere is nothing in artistic poetry quite akin to Aucassin and Nicolete. By a rare piece of good fortune the one manuscript of the Song-Story has escaped those waves of time, which have wrecked the bark of Menander, and left of Sappho...

The Grey Room The piers of the main entrance of Chadlands were of red brick, and upon each reposed a mighty sphere of grey granite. Behind them stretched away the park, where forest trees, nearly shorn of their leaves at the edge of winter,...

A Unique Story of a Marvellous Career: Life of Hon. Phineas T. BarnumPlease 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...

The Foundations of PersonalityPlease 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 dollars...