English Literature
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Misrepresentative MenMisrepresentative MenMY verses in Your path I lay,[6] And do not deem me indiscreet, If I should say that surely they Could find no haven half so sweet As at Your feet. Unworthy little rhymes are these, Tread tenderly upon them, please! One single...
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The Problem of 'Edwin Drood': A Study in the Methods of DickensThe Problem of 'Edwin Drood': A Study in the Methods of DickensThe three mysteries of Edwin Drood are thus stated by Mr. Cuming Walters: The first mystery, partly solved by Dickens himself, is the fate of Edwin Drood. Was he murdered?if so, how and...
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Amenities of LiteratureAmenities of Literature - Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English LiteratureA history of our vernacular literature has occupied my studies for many years. It was my design not to furnish an arid narrative of books or of authors, but following the steps of...
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The Pastor's WifeThe Pastor's Wife "Tell me, Little One," he said when she rejoined him, "will you marry me?" Frontispiece "Then why," she asked, with the courage of curiosity, "are you a pastor?" "Will you not, Ingeborg," said Herr Dremmel, calling her for the first time...
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Piccadilly: A Fragment of Contemporary BiographyPiccadilly: A Fragment of Contemporary BiographyFive years have elapsed since the following pages were penned, and periodically issued, under an impulse which seemed at the time irresistible. I found myself unable, by any conscious act of volition, to control either the plot or the...
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The Age of TennysonThe Age of TennysonThe epoch of literature which opened about the year 1830 is perhaps best described, in the first place, by negatives. It is distinguished from the previous period, when the spirit which gave rise to the French Revolution was dominant, by the...
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The Fatal Falsehood: A Tragedy. In Five ActsThe Fatal Falsehood: A Tragedy. In Five ActsBer. What fools are serious melancholy villains! I play a surer game, and screen my heart With easy looks and undesigning smiles; And while my plots still spring from sober thought, My deeds appear th' effect of...
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The Inflexible Captive: A Tragedy, in Five ActsThe Inflexible Captive: A Tragedy, in Five ActsIt seems somewhat extraordinary that although with persons of great merit and delicacy no virtue stands in higher estimation than truth, yet, in such an address as the present, there would be some danger of offending them...
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Dorothy's Double. Volume 2 (of 3)Dorothy's Double. Volume 2 (of 3)'Thank you for coming,' Mr. Hawtrey said, as he shook hands with him; 'I think I am rather afraid of Levine by himself. Of course I know that he is the best adviser one can have in a business...
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Old KensingtonOld KensingtonTo some of these new friends I must dedicate my story. It was begun ten years ago, and is older than my god-daughter Margie herself, who is the oldest among them. She is playing with her sister and her little cousins in the...
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The Stolen Heiress or, The Salamanca Doctor Outplotted. A ComedyThe Stolen Heiress; or, The Salamanca Doctor Outplotted. A ComedyRosco. Yes, my Lord, with every Circumstance, the Time, the Place, and Manner of his Death; that 'tis believed, and told for Truth with as much Confidence, as if they had been Spectators of his...
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The Eulogy of Richard JefferiesThe Eulogy of Richard JefferiesIn the body of this work I have sufficiently explained the reasons why I was entrusted with the task of writing this memoir of Richard Jefferies. I have only here to express my thanks, first to the publishers, who have...
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The Boy with WingsThe Boy with WingsAgainst the iron railings of the ground the border of chairs was thronged with spectators; women and girls in summery frocks, men in light overcoats with field-glasses slung by a strap about them. The movement of this crowd was that of...
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Men, Women and GunsMen, Women and GunsUnder the influence of my deceased uncle's most excellent port I did so. Soothed and in that expansive frame of mind induced by the old and bold, I drew her a picturevivid, startling, wonderful. And when I had finished, the dear...
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Mirror of the MonthsMirror of the MonthsAs the first few pages of this little volume will sufficiently explain its purport, the reader would not have been troubled with any prefatory remarks, but that, since its commencement, two existing works have been pointed out to me, the plans...
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The Son of his FatherThe Son of his Father As the moments passed without producing any reply, he reached towards the cabinet at his elbow and helped himself to a large cigar. Without any scruple he tore the end off it with his strong teeth and struck a...
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That Little BeggarThat Little BeggarI looked anxiously at the station-master as I spoke. I was feeling tired, having had a very long journey; and now, to find that I had the prospect of a good walk before me was not pleasant. I looked round despairingly, first...
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Daisy Burns (Volume 2)Daisy Burns (Volume 2)It has chanced that for a week or more this narrative has been laid aside. This evening I thought I would resume it, and, before doing so, I looked back on what I had written. Alas, how long it takes us...
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Rachel Gray: A Tale Founded on FactRachel Gray: A Tale Founded on FactThis tale, as the title-page implies, is founded on fact. Its truth is its chief merit, and the Author claims no other share in it, than that of telling it to the best of her power. I do...
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Daisy Burns (Volume 1)Daisy Burns (Volume 1)As I sat alone this evening beneath the porch, the autumn wind rose and passed amongst the garden trees, then died away in the distance with a low murmuring. A strange thrill ran through me; the present with its aspects vanished;...
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