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Maruja Morning was breaking on the high road to San Jose. The long lines of dusty, level track were beginning to extend their vanishing point in the growing light; on either side the awakening fields of wheat and oats were stretching out and broadening...

Unbeaten Tracks in JapanHaving been recommended to leave home, in April 1878, in order to recruit my health by means which had proved serviceable before, I decided to visit Japan, attracted less by the reputed excellence of its climate than by the certainty that...

Three Men on the Bummel Three men need changeAnecdote showing evil result of deceptionMoral cowardice of GeorgeHarris has ideasYarn of the Ancient Mariner and the Inexperienced YachtsmanA hearty crewDanger of sailing when the wind is off the landImpossibility of sailing when the wind is...

The Marble Faun; Or, The Romance of Monte Beni - Volume 2 It was in June that the sculptor, Kenyon, arrived on horseback at the gate of an ancient country house (which, from some of its features, might almost be called a castle) situated...

The Marble Faun; Or, The Romance of Monte Beni - Volume 1 Four individuals, in whose fortunes we should be glad to interest the reader, happened to be standing in one of the saloons of the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was...

In a Hollow of the Hills It was very dark, and the wind was increasing. The last gust had been preceded by an ominous roaring down the whole mountain-side, which continued for some time after the trees in the little valley had lapsed into...

Drift from Two Shores He lived beside a river that emptied into a great ocean. The narrow strip of land that lay between him and the estuary was covered at high tide by a shining film of water, at low tide with the cast-up...

By Shore and Sedge On October 10, 1856, about four hundred people were camped in Tasajara Valley, California. It could not have been for the prospect, since a more barren, dreary, monotonous, and uninviting landscape never stretched before human eye; it could not have...

Thankful Blossom It was bitterly cold. A northeasterly wind had been stiffening the mud of the morning's thaw into a rigid record of that day's wayfaring on the Baskingridge road. The hoof-prints of cavalry, the deep ruts left by baggage-wagons, and the deeper channels...

Seven Discourses on ArtIt is a happy memory that associates the foundation of our Royal Academy with the delivery of these inaugural discourses by Sir Joshua Reynolds, on the opening of the schools, and at the first annual meetings for the distribution of its...

You Never Can Tell In a dentist's operating room on a fine August morning in 1896. Not the usual tiny London den, but the best sitting room of a furnished lodging in a terrace on the sea front at a fashionable watering place. The...

Frau und Kindern auf der Spur**************************************************************** * Dieses Buch wurde uns freundlicherweise von der Verfasser zur* * Verfgung gestellt. * * * * This book was generously donated to us by the author. * **************************************************************** Please take a look at the important information in...

Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and SpeechesEdmund Burke was born at Dublin on the first of January, 1730. His father was an attorney, who had fifteen children, of whom all but four died in their youth. Edmund, the second son, being of delicate health...

That Mainwaring Affair The fierce sunlight of a sultry afternoon in the early part of July forced its way through every crevice and cranny of the closely drawn shutters in the luxurious private offices of Mainwaring & Co., Stock Brokers, and slender shafts of...

Brother Jacob Among the many fatalities attending the bloom of young desire, that of blindly taking to the confectionery line has not, perhaps, been sufficiently considered. How is the son of a British yeoman, who has been fed principally on salt pork and yeast...

Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 It was most reluctantly that I determined to suspend, during the last autumn, a work which is the business and the pleasure of my life, in order to prepare these Speeches for publication; and it is most...

Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 Francis Atterbury, a man who holds a conspicuous place in the political, ecclesiastical, and literary history of England, was born in the year 1662, at Middleton in Buckinghamshire, a parish of which his father was rector. Francis...

Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 The public voice has assigned to Dryden the first place in the second rank of our poets,no mean station in a table of intellectual precedency so rich in illustrious names. It is allowed that, even of the...

Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 Lord Macaulay always looked forward to a publication of his miscellaneous works, either by himself or by those who should represent him after his death. And latterly he expressly reserved, whenever the arrangements as to copyright made...

King Solomon's Mines Now that this book is printed, and about to be given to the world, a sense of its shortcomings both in style and contents, weighs very heavily upon me. As regards the latter, I can only say that it does not...