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Over the Sliprails There were about a dozen of us jammed into the coach, on the box seat and hanging on to the roof and tailboard as best we could. We were shearers, bagmen, agents, a squatter, a cockatoo, the usual jokerand one or...

Selected Stories of Bret Harte The life of Bret Harte divides itself, without adventitious forcing, into four quite distinct parts. First, we have the precocious boyhood, with its eager response to the intellectual stimulation of cultured parents; young Bret Harte assimilated Greek with amazing...

If: A Play in Four Acts Wot's the worry? They don't give you better wages nor a dog, and then they thinks they can talk at yer and talk at yer, and say wot they likes, like. Wot about? I'll tell yer. Just coz...

The Annals of the Parish - Or, the Chronicle of Dalmailing During the Ministry of the Rev. Micah BalwhidderIn the same year, and on the same day of the same month, that his Sacred Majesty King George, the third of the name, came to...

The Spirit of Place, and Other EssaysWith mimicry, with praises, with echoes, or with answers, the poets have all but outsung the bells. The inarticulate bell has found too much interpretation, too many rhymes professing to close with her inaccessible utterance, and to agree...

A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte CourtisaneThe contents of this volume require some explanation of an historical nature. It is scarcely realised by the present generation that Wildes works on their first appearance, with the exception of De Profundis, were met with almost general condemnation...

The Magic Skin Towards the end of the month of October 1829 a young man entered the Palais-Royal just as the gaming-houses opened, agreeably to the law which protects a passion by its very nature easily excisable. He mounted the staircase of one of...

Seven Men [Excerpts] When a book about the literature of the eighteen-nineties was given by Mr. Holbrook Jackson to the world, I looked eagerly in the index for SOAMES, ENOCH. I had feared he would not be there. He was not there. But everybody...

The Ball at Sceaux The Comte de Fontaine, head of one of the oldest families in Poitou, had served the Bourbon cause with intelligence and bravery during the war in La Vendee against the Republic. After having escaped all the dangers which threatened the...

Bulchevy's Book of English VerseUnited States TradeMark law requires that a trademarked word is required to have a "generic equivalent," so that when a product is legally in the public domain another producer can make it in accordance with the generic name. . .i.e....

The Scapegoat Within sight of an English port, and within hail of English ships as they pass on to our empire in the East, there is a land where the ways of life are the same to-day as they were a thousand years ago;...

The Enemies of Books CHAPTER I. FIRE. Libraries destroyed by Fire.Alexandrian.St. Paul's destruction of MSS., Value of.Christian books destroyed by Heathens.Heathen books destroyed by Christians.Hebrew books burnt at Cremona.Arabic books at Grenada.Monastic libraries.Colton library.Birmingham riots.Dr. Priestley's library.Lord Mansfield's books.Cowper. Strasbourg library bombarded.Offor Collection burnt.Dutch...

The French Revolution: A History Diesem Ambos vergleich ich das Land, den Hammer dem Herscher; Und dem Volke das Blech, das in der Mitte sich krmmt. Wehe dem armen Blech, wenn nur willkrliche Schlge Ungewiss treffen, und nie fertig der Kessel erscheint! President Hnault,...

Riders of the Purple Sage Jane Withersteen gazed down the wide purple slope with dreamy and troubled eyes. A rider had just left her and it was his message that held her thoughtful and almost sad, awaiting the churchmen who were coming to resent...

The Heritage of the Sioux THE HERITAGE OF THE SIOUX CHAPTER I. WHEN GREEN GRASS COMES CHAPTER II. THE DAUGHTER OF A CHIEF CHAPTER III. TO THE VICTORS THE SPOILS CHAPTER IV. LOVE WORDS FOR ANNIE CHAPTER V. FOR THE GOOD OF THE COMPANY...

The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains Some of these pages you have seen, some you have praised, one stands new-written because you blamed it; and all, my dear critic, beg leave to remind you of their author's changeless admiration. Certain of the newspapers,...

The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of It Where were you previous to the eighth and immediately subsequent thereto? asked the city attorney. The prisoner looked sheepish and made no answer. A box car had been robbed on...

The ProvostDuring a recent visit to the West Country, among other old friends we paid our respects to Mrs Pawkie, the relict of the Provost of that name, who three several times enjoyed the honour of being chief magistrate in Gudetown. Since the death...

Ceres' Runaway, and Other EssaysOne can hardly be dull possessing the pleasant imaginary picture of a Municipality hot in chase of a wild cropat least while the charming quarry escapes, as it does in Rome. The Municipality does not exist that would be nimble...

The Firm of Nucingen You know how slight the partitions are between the private rooms of fashionable restaurants in Paris; Verys largest room, for instance, is cut in two by a removable screen. This Scene is not laid at Verys, but in snug quarters,...