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The Compleat AnglerThe Complete Angler 1653 The "first edition" has been a favourite theme for the scorn of those who love it not. "The first editionand the worst!" gibes a modern poet, and many are the true lovers of literature entirely insensitive to the accessory, historical...
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English VillagesEnglish Villages Eleven years ago my little book on the antiquities of English villages was published. Its object was to interest our rustic neighbours in their surroundings, to record the social life of the people at various timestheir feasts and fairs, sports and pastimes,...
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The Clockmaker Or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of SlickvilleThe Clockmaker; Or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of SlickvilleThe name "Sam Slick" has passed into popular use as standing for a somewhat conventional Yankee, in whom sharpness and verdancy are combined in curious proportions; but the book which gave rise to...
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The Slave of the LampThe Slave of the Lamp Henry Seton Merriman published his first novel, Young Mistley, in 1888, when he was twenty-six years old. Messrs. Bentley's reader, in his critique on the book, spoke of its powerful situations and unconventionality of treatment: and, while dwelling at...
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The Second DelugeThe Second DelugeWhat is here set down is the fruit of long and careful research among disjointed records left by survivors of the terrible events described. The writer wishes frankly to say that, in some instances, he has followed the course which all historians...
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The Angel of Lonesome Hill A Story of a PresidentThe Angel of Lonesome Hill; A Story of a PresidentIt was a handful of people in the countrya simple-hearted handful. There was no railroadonly a stage which creaked through the gullies and was late. Once it had a hot-box, and the place drifted through...
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The Channings: A StoryThe Channings: A Story The sweet bells of Helstonleigh Cathedral were ringing out in the summers afternoon. Groups of people lined the streets, in greater number than the ordinary business of the day would have brought forth; some pacing with idle steps, some halting...
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Stephen Archer, and Other TalesStephen Archer, and Other Tales Stephen Archer was a stationer, bookseller, and newsmonger in one of the suburbs of London. The newspapers hung in a sort of rack at his door, as if for the convenience of the public to help themselves in passing....
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The Greater InclinationThe Greater Inclination Danyers afterwards liked to fancy that he had recognized Mrs. Anerton at once; but that, of course, was absurd, since he had seen no portrait of hershe affected a strict anonymity, refusing even her photograph to the most privilegedand from Mrs....
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Henry Dunbar: A NovelHenry Dunbar: A Novel The house of Dunbar, Dunbar, and Balderby, East India bankers, was one of the richest firms in the city of Londonso rich that it would be quite in vain to endeavour to describe the amount of its wealth. It was...
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Aboriginal American AuthorsAboriginal American AuthorsThe present memoir is an enlargement of a paper which I laid before the Congres International des Americanistes, when acting as a delegate to its recent session in Copenhagen, August, 1883. The changes are material, the whole of the text having been...
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Minna von BarnhelmMinna von BarnhelmJust Schurke von einem Wirte! Du, uns?Frisch, Bruder!Schlag zu, Bruder! (Er holt aus und erwacht durch die Bewegung.) Heda! schon wieder? Ich mache kein Auge zu, so schlage ich mich mit ihm herum. Htte er nur erst die Hlfte von allen den...
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Nathan der Weise: Ein Dramatisches Gedicht, in fünf AufzügenNathan der Weise: Ein Dramatisches Gedicht, in fünf AufzügenSultan Saladin Sittah, dessen Schwester Nathan, ein reicher Jude in Jerusalem Recha, dessen angenommene Tochter Daja, eine Christin, aber in dem Hause des Juden, als Gesellschafterin der Recha Ein junger Tempelherr Ein Derwisch Der Patriarch von...
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The Mystery of Murray Davenport: A Story of New York at the Present DayThe Mystery of Murray Davenport: A Story of New York at the Present Day The night set in with heavy and unceasing rain, and, though the month was August, winter itself could not have made the streets less inviting than they looked to Thomas...
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The Spirit of St. Francis de SalesThe Spirit of St. Francis de SalesThe Spirit of a Saint we may, perhaps, regard as the underlying characteristic which pervades all his thoughts, words, and acts. It is the note which sounds throughout the constant persevering harmony which makes the holiness of his...
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Wilfrid CumbermedeWilfrid Cumbermede I amI will not say how old, but well past middle age. This much I feel compelled to mention, because it has long been my opinion that no man should attempt a history of himself until he has set foot upon the...
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VilletteVillette My godmother lived in a handsome house in the clean and ancient town of Bretton. Her husbands family had been residents there for generations, and bore, indeed, the name of their birthplaceBretton of Bretton: whether by coincidence, or because some remote ancestor had...
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Die AhnfrauDie AhnfrauGotische Halle. Im Hintergrunde zwei Tren. An beiden Seitenwnden, links und rechts, ebenfalls eine Tre. An einer Kulisse des Vorgrundes hngt ein verrosteter Dolch in seiner Scheide. Spter Winterabend. Licht auf dem Tische. Der Graf (am Tische sitzend und auf einen Brief hinstarrend,...
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Life of Johnson, Volume 3Life of Johnson, Volume 3 - 1776-1780Having left Ashbourne in the evening, we stopped to change horses at Derby, and availed ourselves of a moment to enjoy the conversation of my countryman, Dr. Butter, then physician there. He was in great indignation because Lord...
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The Bride of the MistletoeThe Bride of the Mistletoe Any one about to read this work of fiction might properly be apprised beforehand that it is not a novel: it has neither the structure nor the purpose of The Novel. It is a story. There are two charactersa...
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