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Two Slatterns and a King: A Moral InterludeTwo Slatterns and a King: A Moral InterludeTo meet the immensely increased demands of the play-reading public and those interested in the modern drama, Stewart Kidd are issuing under the general editorship of Frank Shay a series of plays from the pens of the...
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Haaksirikko: Suomalainen perustuskielinen TaruHaaksirikko: Suomalainen perustuskielinen TaruWuonna 18 kauniina, selkin kes aamuna lksi wenhet *** pappilan rannasta lehdin tekoon. Ilma oli raitis ja ihana, ja eteltr, joka wlittin lhetti lmpiit puuskauksiansa, nkyi iknkuin puoltawan nit wenhelisi, kosk' eiwt tarwinneet souta'kaan, waan, purjetta tuuleen sowitettua, makasiwat huoleta, soudatetut...
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Marie Corelli: The Writer and the WomanMarie Corelli: The Writer and the WomanMiss Marie Corellis unique personality has aroused interest and curiosity among all classes of society, and we are aware that the present work will be diligently searched for intimate information regarding the subject of these pages. It behooves...
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An Epic of Women, and Other PoemsAn Epic of Women, and Other Poems A COMMON folk I walk among; I speak dull things in their own tongue: But all the while within I hear A song I do not sing for fear How sweet, how different a thing! And when...
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Selected PoemsSelected Poems SHEPHERD, to yon tall poplars tune your flute: Let them pierce, keenly, subtly shrill, The slow blue rumour of the hill; Let the grass cry with an anguish of evening gold, And the great sky be mute. Then hearken how the poplar...
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Portraits and SpeculationsPortraits and SpeculationsOf the Essays in this book, Art for Lifes Sake appeared in The English Review; The Poetry of Yone Noguchi,1 Remy de Gourmont, and Aloysius Bertrand in The Fortnightly Review; Kinetic and Potential Speech, in The Oxford and Cambridge Review. The papers...
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Karjalan Osman nuoruus: Historiallinen kertomus yhdeksänneltä vuosisadaltaKarjalan Osman nuoruus: Historiallinen kertomus yhdeksänneltä vuosisadalta "On totta, ett ruusunhohde lep Pohjolan viikinkiajan yll, mutta jos varustamme silmmme historian nklasilla, niin huomaamme pian, ett tm ruusunhohde ei ole muuta kuin vrisekotus verest ja kyynelist." "Ei parempaa onnea ikn pyytmist!" virkkoi hn. "Ajatelkaas, kaikki...
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The Little Review, March 1915 (Vol. 2, No. 1)The Little Review, March 1915 (Vol. 2, No. 1) This is not man-to-man enmity, but there need be no quibble about it. For seventeen years I have studied T. R. as representative of that America which has consistently betrayed the finer aspirations of our...
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Joan, the CurateJoan, the CurateIt was soon after the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, in 1748, had put an inglorious end to an inglorious war, that the Government of the day began to give serious attention to an evil which had been suffered to grow while public attention...
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Our Irish Theatre: A chapter of autobiographyOur Irish Theatre: A chapter of autobiographyTo Richard Gregory.Little Grandson: When I go into the garden in the morning to find you a nectarine or tell you the names of flowers, Catalpa, Lovelies-bleeding, Balsam, Phlox, you ask me why I cannot stay but must...
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The Little Review, February 1915 (Vol. 1, No. 11)The Little Review, February 1915 (Vol. 1, No. 11) An interesting man said recently that the five qualities which go into the making of the great personalityof the genius, perhapsare (1) energy, (2) imagination, (3) character, (4) intellect, (5) and charm. I number them...
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BreadBreadMrs. Sturgis had a way of tapping the ivory keys of the piano with her pencil when she was counting the beat during a music lesson. It made her little pupils nervous and sometimes upset them completely. Now she abruptly interrupted herself and rapped...
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Madeleine: One of Love's JansenistsMadeleine: One of Love's JansenistsFictionto adapt a famous definition of lawis the meeting-point of Life and Art. Life is like a blind and limitless expanse of sky, for ever dividing into tiny drops of circumstances that rain down, thick and fast, on the just...
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Gladstonian GhostsGladstonian GhostsIf (with your permission) I dedicate this essay in political criticism to you, it is because I know that, though you parade it less, your interest in the science of politics is fully as keen as my own. In point of fact there...
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"Swat the Fly!": A One-Act Fantasy"Swat the Fly!": A One-Act Fantasy Copyrighted April 17, 1914, as a dramatic composition by Eleanor Gates. Copyrighted April, 1915, by The Arrow Publishing Company. All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian. This play may be publicly read...
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Ne engedjük a madarat... s más holmikNe engedjük a madarat... s más holmikElzetesen termszetesen bocsnat a mszrosipari segd uraktl, de nekik is jobban illett, mikor mg gy hvtk ket, hogy szkll-legny s olyan alkalmasak voltak a magyar csizmban, a melylyes fehr ktben, oldalukon a lnczon csng s srgarznyel fenvassal, hogy...
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The Rejuvenation of Miss Semaphore: A Farcical NovelThe Rejuvenation of Miss Semaphore: A Farcical NovelThe gong at 37, Beaconsfield Gardens, South Kensington, thundered under the vigorous strokes of the bow-legged German waiter. By one, by two, by three, the boarders trooped down to dinner, the more sensitive to noise stopping their...
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On the BorderlandOn the BorderlandCOPYRIGHT, 1923 BYDOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY IN THE UNITED STATES ANDGREAT BRITAIN COPYRIGHT, 1919, 1920, BY INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE CO. COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY...
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Baboe DalimaBaboe DalimaIn den avond van den 4den Februari 1885, had de schrijver dezer bladzijden in eene buitengewone vergadering van de Indologische Vereeniging te Delft eene lezing gehouden over de opium in Ned. Indi.1 Bij terugkeer naar s-Gravenhage evenwel betuigde een der hoorders zijn leedwezen,...
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The Little Review, January 1915 (Vol. 1, No. 10)The Little Review, January 1915 (Vol. 1, No. 10) Into the brazen, burnished sky the cry hurls itself. The zigzagging cry of hoarse throats, it floats against the hard winds, and binds the head of the serpent to its tail, the long snail-slow serpent...
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