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Certain Diversities of American LifeThis is a very interesting age. Within the memory of men not yet come to middle life the time of the trotting horse has been reduced from two minutes forty seconds to two minutes eight and a quarter seconds. During...

The American NewspaperOur theme for the hour is the American Newspaper. It is a subject in which everybody is interested, and about which it is not polite to say that anybody is not well informed; for, although there are scattered through the land many...

Fashions in LiteratureThirty years ago and more those who read and valued good books in this country made the acquaintance of Mr. Warner, and since the publication of "My Summer In a Garden" no work of his has needed any other introduction than the...

Nine Short EssaysIt was in the time of the Second Empire. To be exact, it was the night of the 18th of June, 1868; I remember the date, because, contrary to the astronomical theory of short nights at this season, this was the longest...

As We GoWe are so much accustomed to kings and queens and other privileged persons of that sort in this world that it is only on reflection that we wonder how they became so. The mystery is not their continuance, but how did they...

As We Were SayingThe Drawer will still bet on the rose. This is not a wager, but only a strong expression of opinion. The rose will win. It does not look so now. To all appearances, this is the age of the chrysanthemum. What...

That Fortune On a summer day, long gone among the summer days that come but to go, a lad of twelve years was idly and recklessly swinging in the top of a tall hickory, the advance picket of a mountain forest. The tree was...

The Golden House It was near midnight: The company gathered in a famous city studio were under the impression, diligently diffused in the world, that the end of the century is a time of license if not of decadence. The situation had its own...

A Little Journey in the World The title naturally suggested for this story was A Dead Soul, but it was discarded because of the similarity to that of the famous novel by Nikolai GogolDead Soulsthough the motive has nothing in common with that used...

Their Pilgrimage I. FORTRESS MONROE II. CAPE MAY, ATLANTIC CITY III. THE CATSKILLS IV. NEWPORT V. NARRAGANSETT PIER AND NEWPORT AGAIN; MARTHA'S VINEYARD AND PLYMOUTH VI. MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA, ISLES OF SHOALS VII. BAR HARBOR VIII. NATURAL BRIDGE, WHITE SULFUR IX. OLD SWEET AND WHITE SULFUR...

Washington Irving EDITOR'S NOTE WASHINGTON IRVING I. PRELIMINARY II. BOYHOOD III. MANHOODFIRST VISIT TO EUROPE IV. SOCIETY AND SALMAGUNDI V. THE KNICKERBOCKER PERIOD VI. LIFE IN EUROPELITERARY ACTIVITY VII. IN SPAIN VIII. RETURN TO AMERICASUNNYSIDETHE MISSION TO MADRID IX. THE CHARACTERISTIC WORKS X. LAST...

The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes - (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1In a few places I have substituted the character forms available in the Big 5 character set for rare or (what are now considered)...

The Old Merchant Marine: A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors The story of American ships and sailors is an epic of blue water which seems singularly remote, almost unreal, to the later generations. A people with a native genius for seafaring won and...

The Paths of Inland Commerce; A Chronicle of Trail, Road, and Waterway If the great American novel is ever written, I hazard the guess that its plot will be woven around the theme of American transportation, for that has been the vital factor in...

The Wanderer's Necklace In memory of Oodnadatta and many wanderings oversea I offer these pictures from the past, my dear Vincent, to you, a lover of the present if an aspirant who can look upon the future with more of hope than fear. Your...

Beatrice Oh, kind is Death that Lifes long trouble closes, Yet at Deaths coming Life shrinks back affright; It sees the dark hand,not that it encloses A cup of light. So oft the Spirit seeing Love draw nigh As neath the shadow of destruction,...

The Lady of the ShroudA strange story comes from the Adriatic. It appears that on the night of the 9th, as the Italia Steamship Companys vessel Victorine was passing a little before midnight the point known as the Spear of Ivan, on the coast...

Red Eve For five long but not unhappy years, seated or journeying side by side, we have striven as Royal Commissioners to find a means whereby our coasts may be protected from the outrageous flowing surges of the sea (I quote the jurists of...

The Eve of the Revolution; A Chronicle of the Breach with England In this brief sketch I have chiefly endeavored to convey to the reader, not a record of what men did, but a sense of how they thought and felt about what they...

The Conquest of New France; A Chronicle of the Colonial Wars Title: The Conquest of New France A Chronicle of the Colonial Wars, Volume 10 In The Chronicles Of America Series Author: George M. Wrong Editor: Allen Johnson Release Date: January 23, 2009 [EBook...