Old Is Gold

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day: Ten Christmas storiesThis is a collection of ten Christmas Stories, some of which have been published before. I have added a little essay, written on the occasion of the first Christmas celebrated by the King of Italy in Rome....

Über den Expressionismus in der Literatur und die neue DichtungNicht unsere Geburt in solcher Zeit, die uns heit, auf die Rechte der Jugend verzichten, die uns nimmt, was Generationen vor uns inbrnstig verfhrte: das Meer, die Welt ... die uns Eingeschlossenen diktiert, statt Lockungen...

Old Friends and New For a great many years it had been understood in Longfield that Miss Horatia Dane once had a lover, and that he had been lost at sea. By little and little, in one way and another, her acquaintances had found...

Graham's Magazine, Vol XXXIII, No. 6, December 1848Archibald Dundass was a rich Jamaica planter, whose estates were situated in one of the most delightful regions in that garden of the West India isles. His wife, an English lady, of great personal attractions and highly...

An Englishman in Paris: Notes and RecollectionsThe Quartier-Latin in the late thirties The difference between then and now A caricature on the walls of Paris I am anxious to be introduced to the quarter whence it emanated I am taken to "La Childebert," and...

A Letter to Lord Robert Bertie - Relating to His Conduct in the Mediterranean, and His Defence of Admiral ByngCharacters like yours, are regarded with impartial Attention by human Society, and the World will impatiently expect something in your Conduct suitable to your Rank...

The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 - Poetry - Volume 1All I had to say of my writings is contained in my preface to the first of these volumes, printed for J. Tonson, and B. Lintot in quarto and folio in the year...

Julio Diniz (Joaquim Guilherme Gomes Coelho) Esboço BiographicoAo cmoro do athleta, que cahiu fulminado pela morte, no deixaro d'ir, em piedosa romagem, com as flores da saudade, os que mais d'uma vez lhe viram lampejar as armas impollutas ao sol da gloria litteraria. um...

Vers IspahanQui veut venir avec moi voir Ispahan la saison des roses, consente au danger des chevauches par les sentiers mauvais o les btes tombent, et la promiscuit des caravansrails o l'on dort entasss dans une niche de terre battue, parmi les mouches et...

The Men of the Moss-Hags - Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway CHAPTER I. MY GOSSIP, MAISIE MAY CHAPTER II. GAY GARLAND CARRIES DOUBLE CHAPTER III. GAY GARLAND COMES HOME SADDLE EMPTY CHAPTER IV....

MadeleineC'tait la fte Saint-Cloud: je ne vous la dcrirai pas, parce que probablement vous y avez t, et que vous savez ce que c'est tout aussi bien que moi; si cependant, soit que vous n'habitiez pas Paris, ou soit que vos affaires vous y...

Melusine: Ein LiebesromanNach monatelangem Hungern war es Vidl Falk endlich gelungen, ein Stipendium von der Hochschule zu erhalten. Mehr hatte er nicht gewnscht. Er betrachtete sich als gemachten Mann und strebte, sich das Leben etwas gemchlicher einzurichten. Mit der ganzen Besitzesfreude eines Kapitalisten trug...

The Daltons; Or, Three Roads In Life. Volume II (of II) THE DALTONS; or, THREE ROADS IN LIFE CHAPTER I. A MORNING OF MISADVENTURES CHAPTER II. A SAD HOUSEHOLD CHAPTER III. A LAST SCENE CHAPTER IV. A PACKAGE OF LETTERS CHAPTER V. A HAPPY...

The Daltons; Or, Three Roads In Life. Volume I (of II) IF the original conception of this tale was owing to the story of an old and valued schoolfellow who took service in Austria, and rose to rank and honors there, all the rest...

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. AMONG THE KABYLES. A PADUAN HOLIDAY. A LAW UNTO HERSELF. A WISH. MADAME PATTERSON-BONAPARTE. A SUMMER EVENING'S DREAM. BRANDYWINE, 1777. A GREAT DAY. A VENETIAN OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. HEINE. THE MARQUIS OF...

Leonore Stubbs CHAPTER I. "She Has No Settlement, Damn It" CHAPTER II. On the Station Platform CHAPTER III. Speculations CHAPTER IV. A Dull Breakfast-Table CHAPTER V. Old Playmates Meet CHAPTER VI. A Revelation CHAPTER VII. "I have Lost Something that I Never Had" CHAPTER...

The Memoirs of Madame Vigée LebrunMadame Lebrun brought out her Memoirs at the suggestion of her friend, the Princess Dolgoruki, in 1835. The authoress was born in 1756, at Paris, where she died in 1842. She was the daughter of Louis Vige, an obscure...

The Next Step in Religion: An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance The purpose of this book is positive and constructive, although it may not at first appear such to the reader whose inherited beliefs are freely challenged. But let the reader ponder the fact...

Blooms of the Berry PROEM. I.BY WOLD AND WOOD. THE HOLLOW. BY WOLD AND WOOD. ANTICIPATION. A LAMENT. DISTANCE. ASPIRATION. SPRING TWILIGHT. FRAGMENTS. THE RAIN. TO S. McK. MORNING AND NIGHT. THE TOLL-MAN'S DAUGHTER. THE BERRIERS. HARVESTING. GOING FOR THE COWS. SONG OF THE...

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 10John Varey Nicholson was stupid; yet stupider men than he are now sprawling in Parliament, and lauding themselves as the authors of their own distinction. He was of a fat habit, even from boyhood,...