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Books and BookmenThe essays in this volume have, for the most part, already appeared in an American edition (Combes, New York, 1886). The Essays on Old French Title-Pages and Lady Book-Lovers take the place of Book Binding and Bookmen at Rome; Elzevirs and Some...

Sight Unseen The rather extraordinary story revealed by the experiments of the Neighborhood Club have been until now a matter only of private record. But it seems to me, as an active participant in the investigations, that they should be given to the public;...

The Crown of Thorns: A Token for the Sorrowing One of the discourses in this volume"The Mission of Little Children"was written just after the death of a dear son, and was published in pamphlet form. The edition having become exhausted sooner than the demand,...

Hermann and Dorothea There are few modern poems of any country so perfect in their kind as the "Hermann and Dorothea" of Goethe. In clearness of characterization, in unity of tone, in the adjustment of background and foreground, in the conduct of the narrative,...

Beatrix France, especially in Brittany, still possesses certain towns completely outside of the movement which gives to the nineteenth century its peculiar characteristics. For lack of quick and regular communication with Paris, scarcely connected by wretched roads with the sub-prefecture, or the chief city...

And Even Now I offer here some of the essays that I have written in the course of the past ten years. While I was collecting them and (quite patiently) reading them again, I found that a few of them were in direct reference...

The Darrow Enigma As the part I played in the events I am about to narrate was rather that of a passive observer than of an active participant, I need say little of myself. I am a graduate of a Western university and, by...

Colonel Chabert This exclamation was made by a lawyers clerk of the class called in French offices a gutter-jumpera messenger in factwho at this moment was eating a piece of dry bread with a hearty appetite. He pulled off a morsel of crumb to...

A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul Title: A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul Author: George MacDonald Release Date: November 1, 1999 [EBook #1953] Language: English Credits: Produced by...

The Yellow Wallpaper John is practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures. John is a physician,...

The Coming Race I am a native of _____, in the United States of America. My ancestors migrated from England in the reign of Charles II.; and my grandfather was not undistinguished in the War of Independence. My family, therefore, enjoyed a somewhat high...

A Woman of Thirty It was a Sunday morning in the beginning of April 1813, a morning which gave promise of one of those bright days when Parisians, for the first time in the year, behold dry pavements underfoot and a cloudless sky overhead....

On the Ruin of Britain1. Whatever in this my epistle I may write in my humble but well meaning manner, rather by way of lamentation than for display, let no one suppose that it springs from contempt of others or that I foolishly esteem...

The Story of a Bad Boy Chapter One In Which I Introduce Myself Chapter TwoIn Which I Entertain Peculiar Views Chapter ThreeOn Board the Typhoon Chapter FourRivermouth Chapter FiveThe Nutter House and the Nutter Family Chapter SixLights and Shadows Chapter SevenOne Memorable Night Chapter...

Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution SCARAMOUCHE BOOK I. CHAPTER I. THE REPUBLICAN CHAPTER II. THE ARISTOCRAT CHAPTER III. THE ELOQUENCE OF M. DE VILMORIN CHAPTER IV. THE HERITAGE CHAPTER V. THE LORD OF GAVRILLAC CHAPTER VI. THE WINDMILL CHAPTER VII. THE WIND...

On War The Germans interpret their new national coloursblack, red, and whiteby the saying, Durch Nacht und Blut zur licht. (Through night and blood to light), and no work yet written conveys to the thinker a clearer conception of all that the red streak...

Egmont In 1775, when Goethe was twenty-six, and before he went to Weimar, he began to write "Egmont" After working on it at intervals for twelve years, he finished it at Rome in 1787. The scene of the drama is laid in the Low...

The Witch, and Other Stories IT was approaching nightfall. The sexton, Savely Gykin, was lying in his huge bed in the hut adjoining the church. He was not asleep, though it was his habit to go to sleep at the same time as the...

Louis Lambert Louis Lambert was born at Montoire, a little town in the Vendomois, where his father owned a tannery of no great magnitude, and intended that his son should succeed him; but his precocious bent for study modified the paternal decision. For, indeed,...

Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau During winter nights noise never ceases in the Rue Saint-Honore except for a short interval. Kitchen-gardeners carrying their produce to market continue the stir of carriages returning from theatres and balls. Near the middle of this sustained pause...