Old Is Gold

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873So I said, reassuring myself, thirty years ago, when, as Paul Flemming the Blond, I was meditating the courageous change of cutting off my soap-locks, burning my edition of Bulwer and giving...

JacquesQue Jacques soit l'expression et le rsultat de penses tristes et de sentiments amers, il n'est pas besoin de le dire. C'est un livre douloureux et un dnoment dsespr. Les gens heureux, qui sont parfois fort intolrants, m'en ont blm. A-t-on le droit d'tre...

L'assassinat du pont-rougeDans une chambre claire, inonde des rayons du soleil d'avril, deux jeunes gens djeunaient et causaient. Le plus jeune, d'apparence frle, avec des cheveux blonds, des yeux extrmement vifs, une physionomie traits prononcs o se peignait un caractre ferme, faisait, ct de...

Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts: A Book of StoriesThe stories in this book are of revenants: persons who either in spirit or in body revisit old scenes, return upon old selves or old emotions, or relate a message from a world beyond perception. "Which?"...

Journaux intimesLamour peut driver dun sentiment gnreux: le got de la prostitution; mais il est bientt corrompu par le got de la proprit. Lamour veut sortir de soi, se confondre avec sa victime, comme le vainqueur avec le vaincu, et cependant conserver des privilges...

Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732), Author of "The Beggar's Opera" John Gay was a considerable figure in the literary and social circles of his day. He was loved by Pope; Swift cared for him more than for any other man, and the...

Lady Rose's DaughterSo saying--on a February evening a good many years ago--an elderly gentleman in evening dress flung himself out of his cab, which had just stopped before a house in Bruton Street, and hastily went to meet a young man who was at...

The Life of James Renwick - A Historical Sketch Of His Life, Labours And Martyrdom And AThe prophet's message to Eli, "Wherefore the Lord God of Israel said * * * THEM THAT HONOUR ME, I WILL HONOUR," (1 Sam. ii. 30,) declares a...

Aventures de Monsieur Pickwick, Vol. ILe premier jet de lumire qui convertit en une clart brillante les tnbres dont paraissait enveloppe l'apparition de l'immortel Pickwick sur l'horizon du monde savant, la premire mention officielle de cet homme prodigieux, se trouve dans les statuts insrs...

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 [pg 625] My first dinner in the avenue of Ettlingen followed upon the twelve-barreled bath, but was far from being so glacial a refreshment. As I descended, quite pink and glowing,...

IsidoraA Paris, 1845. C'tait une trs-belle personne, extraordinaire ment intelligente, et qui vint plusieurs fois verser son coeur mes pieds, disait-elle. Je vis parfaitement qu'elle posait devant moi et ne pensait pas un mot de ce qu'elle disait la plupart du temps. Elle et...

A Love Episode mile Zola was born in Paris, April 2, 1840. His father was Francois Zola, an Italian engineer, who constructed the Canal Zola in Provence. Zola passed his early youth in the south of France, continuing his studies at the Lyce St....

Mince PieMost of these sketches were first printed in the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger; others appeared in The Bookman, the Boston Evening Transcript, Life, and The Smart Set. To all these publications I am indebted for permission to reprint. If one asks what excuse...

Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed - (The Harvard Classics Series) Jean Froissart, the most representative of the chroniclers of the later Middle Ages, was born at Valenciennes in 1337. The Chronicle which, more than his poetry, has kept his fame alive, was undertaken...

The Unknown ErosTo this edition of The Unknown Eros are added all the other poems I have written, in what I venturebecause it has no other nameto call catalectic verse. Nearly all English metres owe their existence as metres to catalexis, or pause, for...

Le château des DésertesLe Chteau des Dsertes est une analyse de quelques ides d'art plutt qu'une analyse de sentiments. Ce roman m'a servi, une fois de plus, me confirmer dans la certitude que les choses relles, transportes dans le domaine de la fiction, n'y...

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.LXXXIII. Emerson. Concord, 29 April, 1843. Carlyle's star. Lectures on "New England" at Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York.Politics in Washington.Past and Present.Effect of cheap press in America.Reprint of the book.The Dial does not...

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876We have presented a feeble sketch of a century that stands out from its fellows, not as a mere continuation, or even intensification, of thema hundred annual circuits of the earth in...

Ida et CarmelitaM. Hector Malot qui a fait paratre, le 20 mai 1859, son premier roman LES AMANTS, va donner en octobre prochain son soixantime volume COMPLICES; le moment est donc venu de runir cette oeuvre considrable en une collection complte, qui par son...

Elle et luiMa chre Thrse, puisque vous me permettez de ne pas vous appeler mademoiselle, apprenez une nouvelle importante dans le monde des arts, comme dit notre ami Bernard. Tiens! a rime; mais ce qui n'a ni rime ni raison, c'est ce que je...