Old Is Gold

A Positive Romance - 1898 My friend Hammond is a bachelor, and lives in chambers in New York. Whenever we meet on my occasional visits to the city, he insists on my spending the night with him. On one of these occasions we had...

Potts's Painless Cure - 1898 Pouting lips and delicate brows fretted in pretty importunity over the troubled eyes enforced the pleading tones, and yet the young man to whom they were addressed found strength to reply: I 'm afraid I can't get rid of...

Two Days' Solitary Imprisonment - 1898 Mr. Joseph Kilgore was suffering from one of those spring influenzas which make a man feel as if he were his own grandfather. His nose had acquired the shape of a turnip and the complexion of a beet....

A Summer Evening's Dream - 1898 It is a village street, with great elms on either side, while along the middle stands another row set in a narrow strip of grassy common, so that the street and roadway are in reality double. The dwellings...

To Whom This May Come - 1898 It is now about a year since I took passage at Calcutta in the ship Adelaide for New York. We had baffling weather till New Amsterdam Island was sighted, where we took a new point of departure....

Hooking Watermelons - 1898 The train slackened, a brakeman thrust his head in at the door and shouted Bah,a mysterious formality observed on American trains as they enter towns,and an elderly lady, two drummers, and a young man with a satchel got out, followed...

An Echo Of Antietam - 1898 The air was tremulous with farewells. The regiment, recruited within sight of the steeples of Waterville, and for three months in camp just outside the city, was to march the next morning. A series of great battles had...

The Blindman's World - 1898 The narrative to which this note is introductory was found among the papers of the late Professor S. Erastus Larrabee, and, as an acquaintance of the gentleman to whom they were bequeathed, I was requested to prepare it for...

The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 EDMUND BURKE. POEMS BY S. G. GOODRICH RICHARD B. KIMBALL. THE BISHOP OF JAMAICA. ENCOURAGEMENT OF LITERATURE. CLASSICAL NOVELS. SLIDING SCALE OF THE INCONSOLABLES. A NEW SERIES OF TALES BY MISS MARTINEAU. ON THE ATTEMPTS...

Poems of To-Day: an Anthology Page numbers in this book are indicated by numbers enclosed in curly braces, e.g. {99}. They have been located where page breaks occurred in the original book. This book has been compiled in order that boys and girls, already...

The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems First Edition, Bell & Daldy, 1858 Reprinted, 1875, for Ellis & White, and Subsequently for Reeves & Turner Kelmscott Press Edition (revised by the Author), 1892 Transferred to Longmans, Green, & Co., 1896 New Edition corrected by...

L'InnocenteMILANOFRATELLI TREVES, EDITORIMILANO Via Palermo, 2, e Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, 64 e 66. ROMA: Corso, 383.NAPOLI; Via Roma (gi Toledo), 34. BOLOGNA: presso la Libreria Treves, di L. Beltrami, angolo Via Farini. TRIESTE: presso Giuseppe Schubart. LIPSIA, VIENNA e BERLINO: presso A. F. Brockhaus....

Aves MigradorasMas tu s minha amiga, balbuciava a creatura querendo tomar-lhe as mos n'uma supplica desolada. Devias ter d d'esta fatalidade que me leva ao encontro de Ruy. Oh, tu no sabes! A ida d'elle tira-me o somno, embebeda-me, convulsiona-me, vai commigo a toda...

La Vie de M. de Molière - Réimpression de l'édition originale (Paris, 1705) et des pièces annexesDe tous les biographes de Molire, Grimarest se trouve encore avoir le plus fait pour sa mmoire. Si son uvre, pendant plus d'un sicle et demi, a figur,...

Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters: A Family RecordSome further correspondence, and many incidents in the careers of two of her brothers, may be read in Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers, by J. H. Hubback and Edith C. Hubback; while Miss Constance Hill has been...

La crisi: commedia in tre attiQuesta commedia fu rappresentata per la prima volta la sera del 14 ottobre 1904 al Teatro Alfieri di Torino, interpreti le signore Virginia Reiter e Lydia Gauthier, e i signori Luigi Carini e Ugo Piperno. Riservati tutti i diritti.La...

My Mark TwainThe person or persons who have associated work with this document (the "Dedicator" or "Certifier") hereby either (a) certifies that, to the best of his knowledge, the work of authorship identified is in the public domain of the country from which the...

No ThoroughfareThe person or persons who have associated work with this document (the "Dedicator" or "Certifier") hereby either (a) certifies that, to the best of his knowledge, the work of authorship identified is in the public domain of the country from which the work...

The King in Yellow, Part 2The person or persons who have associated work with this document (the "Dedicator" or "Certifier") hereby either (a) certifies that, to the best of his knowledge, the work of authorship identified is in the public domain of the country...

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873A fact need not be a fixed fact to be a very positive one; and Kabylia, a region to whose outline no geographer could give precision, has long existed as the most...