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The Flirt Valentine Corliss walked up Corliss Street the hottest afternoon of that hot August, a year ago, wearing a suit of white serge which attracted a little attention from those observers who were able to observe anything except the heat. The coat was...

The Cash Boy The Cash Boy, by Horatio Alger, Jr., as the name implies, is a story about a boy and for boys. Through some conspiracy, the hero of the story when a baby, was taken from his relatives and given into the care...

The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1 You ought to buy it, said my host; its just the place for a solitary-minded devil like you. And it would be rather worth while to own the most romantic house in Brittany. The...

The Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales For the use of some of the following Tales I am indebted to the courtesy of the Proprietors of Cornhill, Temple Bar, Belgravia, London Society, Cassells, and The Boys Own Paper. September 11th.Lat. 81 degrees 40...

Paul Prescott's Charge PAUL PRESCOTT'S CHARGE is presented to the public as the second volume of the Campaign Series. Though wholly unlike the first volume, it is written in furtherance of the same main idea, that every boy's life is a campaign, more or...

Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home We are about to relate a story of mingled fact and fancy. The facts are borrowed from the Russian author, Petjerski; the fancy is our own. Our task will chiefly be to soften the outlines of...

The Golden Age 'T IS OPPORTUNE TO LOOK BACK UPON OLD TIMES, AND CONTEMPLATE OUR FOREFATHERS. GREAT EXAMPLES GROW THIN, AND TO BE FETCHED FROM THE PASSED WORLD. SIMPLICITY FLIES AWAY, AND INIQUITY COMES AT LONG STRIDES UPON US." SIR THOMAS BROWNE Looking back...

The Stark Munro Letters - Being series of twelve letters written by J. Stark Munro, M.B., to his friend and former fellow-student, Herbert Swanborough, of Lowell, Massachusetts, during the years 1881-1884 The letters of my friend Mr. Stark Munro appear to me to form...

The Wind in the Willows The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust...

The Certain Hour (Dizain des Poëtes) "Criticism, whatever may be its pretensions, never does more than to define the impression which is made upon it at a certain moment by a work wherein the writer himself noted the impression of the world which he...

Remember the Alamo CHAPTER I. THE CITY IN THE WILDERNESS. CHAPTER II. ANTONIA AND ISABEL. CHAPTER III. BUILDERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH. CHAPTER IV. THE SHINING BANDS OF LOVE. CHAPTER V. A FAMOUS BARBECUE. CHAPTER VI. ROBERT WORTH IS DISARMED. CHAPTER VII. A MEETING AT...

Laddie: A True Blue Story LADDIE, Who Loved and Asked No Questions. THE PRINCESS, From the House of Mystery. LEON, Our Angel Child. LITTLE SISTER, Who Tells What Happened. MR. and MRS. STANTON, Who Faced Life Shoulder to Shoulder. SALLY and PETER, Who Married...

The Lost Continent We were both of us not a little stiff as the result of sleeping out in the open all that night, for even in Grand Canary the dew-fall and the comparative chill of darkness are not to be trifled with. For...

The House of MirthIt was a Monday in early September, and he was returning to his work from a hurried dip into the country; but what was Miss Bart doing in town at that season? If she had appeared to be catching a train,...

The Reef All the way from Charing Cross to Dover the train had hammered the words of the telegram into George Darrows ears, ringing every change of irony on its commonplace syllables: rattling them out like a discharge of musketry, letting them, one by...

Eothen; Or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the EastAt Semlin I still was encompassed by the scenes and the sounds of familiar life; the din of a busy world still vexed and cheered me; the unveiled faces of women still shone in the...

Father Damien: An Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of HonoluluSir,It may probably occur to you that we have met, and visited, and conversed; on my side, with interest. You may remember that you have done me several courtesies, for which I was...

Records of a Family of EngineersFrom the thirteenth century onwards, the name, under the various disguises of Stevinstoun, Stevensoun, Stevensonne, Stenesone, and Stewinsoune, spread across Scotland from the mouth of the Firth of Forth to the mouth of the Firth of Clyde. Four times...

Photos and Maps of Trinity (Atomic Test) Site 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...

Trinity Site: 1945-1995. - A National Historic Landmark, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico "The effects could well be called unprecedented, magnificent, beautiful, stupendous, and terrifying. No man-made phenomenon of such tremendous power had ever occurred before. The lighting effects beggared description. The whole...