English Literature
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Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign: A Book of AppreciationsWomen Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign: A Book of AppreciationsHaving been concerned for many years in the publication of works of fiction by feminine writers, it has occurred to us to offer, as our contribution to the celebration of "the longest Reign," a volume...
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A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'When any one has survived the allotted age of man, there is a long past to remember, and a short future to expect; and it is the period of youth which is then found most clearly recorded on...
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A Book of GhostsA Book of GhostsSome of the stories in this volume have already appeared in print. "The Red-haired Girl" in The Windsor Magazine; "Colonel Halifax's Ghost Story" in The Illustrated English Magazine; "Glmr" I told in my Iceland: Its Scenes and Sagas, published in 1863,...
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Dorrien of CranstonDorrien of CranstonHe is a handsome man, with severe, regular features; a man of whom his dependents would certainly stand in awe, and his family would fear more than love. There is sternness in the glance of his keen eyes, in the cut of...
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Inkle and Yarico: An opera, in three actsInkle and Yarico: An opera, in three acts This is a drama, which might remove from Mr. Wilberforce his aversion to theatrical exhibitions, and convince him, that the teaching of moral duty is not confined to particular spots of ground; for, in those places,...
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Adventures of Working Men. From the Notebook of a Working SurgeonAdventures of Working Men. From the Notebook of a Working SurgeonI have had patients enough in a busy life as a working surgeon, you may be sure, but of all that I have had, young or old, give me your genuine, simple-hearted working man;...
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The Three Hills, and Other PoemsThe Three Hills, and Other Poems CONTENTS ANTINOMIES ON A RAILWAY STATION THE THREE HILLS A CHANT ARTEMIS ALTERA STARLIGHT FLORIAN'S SONG DIALOGUE CREPUSCULAR AT NIGHT FOR MUSIC THE ROOF TREETOPS IN THE PARK SONG TOWN A MEMORIAL FRIENDSHIP'S GARLANDI II III LINES ON...
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The Surrender of Calais: A Play, in Three ActsThe Surrender of Calais: A Play, in Three Acts In this drama are comprised tragedy, comedy, opera, and some degree of farceyet so happily is the variety blended, that one scene never diminishes the interest of another, but they all combine to produce a...
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The White SquawThe White SquawThe last golden gleams of the setting sun sparkled across the translucent waters of Tampa Bay. This fading light fell upon shores fringed with groves of oak and magnolia, whose evergreen leaves became gradually darkened by the purple twilight. A profound silence,...
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The Sirdar's Oath: A Tale of the North-West FrontierThe Sirdar's Oath: A Tale of the North-West FrontierThe latter, though clad in the frock-coat of European civilisation, was obviously an Oriental. He was a man of fine presence, tall and dignified, handsome in the aquiline-featured type, and wearing a full beard just turning...
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The Ruby Sword: A Romance of BaluchistanThe Ruby Sword: A Romance of Baluchistan We love to roam, the wide world our home, As the rushing whirlwind free; Oer sea and land, and foreign strand, Who would not a wanderer be! To the far off scenes of our youthful dreams With...
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The Yellow ChiefThe Yellow ChiefThe words were spoken in a tone of command, earnest and angry. They were addressed to the overseer of a cotton-plantation not far from Vicksburg, in the State of Mississippi, the speaker being Blount Blackadder, a youth aged eighteen, and son to...
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Tales from the VeldTales from the VeldThe tales here set forth are, subject to a generous allowance for Uncle Abes gift of imagination, true to the animal life and the scenery of a district in the Cape occupied by the British Settlers of 1820a tract rich in...
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A Vendetta of the DesertA Vendetta of the DesertOld Tyardt van der Walt, head of the family of that name, came of good Netherlands stock. His grandfather had emigrated from Holland with his family in the middle of the Eighteenth Century and settled at the Cape. He bought...
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Golden Face: A Tale of the Wild WestGolden Face: A Tale of the Wild WestAn impression prevails in this country that for many years past the Red men of the American Continent have represented a subdued and generally deteriorated race. No idea can be more erroneous. Debased, to a certain extent,...
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The Golden RockThe Golden RockNot that he was really old when he died, but he had lived a life that had robbed him of his youth at one end and cut off the slow decline on the other. At fifteen he began the career of trader...
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Fordham's FeudFordham's FeudThe fine vessel was a brave sight as she sped arrowlike over the turquoise breast of Lake Lman, her straight stem shearing up a great scintillating blade of water on either side, her powerful paddles lashing up a long line of creaming rollers,...
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The Fire Trumpet: A Romance of the Cape FrontierThe Fire Trumpet: A Romance of the Cape FrontierHe to whom this announcement was made could not repress a start of surprise. The only other occupant of the room paused and laid down the document from which he had been reading. The room was...
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The Red DerelictThe Red DerelictThe word was breathed rather than uttered, and its intonation conveyed a sense of the most perfect, even ecstatic, contentment. The vivid green of early summer woods piled as it were in great cloud masses to the clear, unbroken blue, rolling up...
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A Claim on Klondyke: A Romance of the Arctic El DoradoA Claim on Klondyke: A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado Somewhere near midnight in January 1897, a manimportant to this little historystood on an expanse of glittering snow, amidst low forest-covered hills and rugged mountains which were draped in the same white garb....
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