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Westward Ho! Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the County of Devon, in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth By one who (unknown to them) has no other method of expressing his admiration and...

The Works of Max Beerbohm After some considerable experience in the field of bibliography I cannot plead as palliation for any imperfections that may be discovered in this, that it is the work of a 'prentice hand. Difficult as I found my self-imposed task...

Plain Tales from the Hills She was the daughter of Sonoo, a Hill-man, and Jadeh his wife. One year their maize failed, and two bears spent the night in their only poppy-field just above the Sutlej Valley on the Kotgarth side; so, next season,...

Initials Only It was not my husband speaking, but some passerby. However, I looked up at George with a smile, and found him looking down at me with much the same humour. We had often spoken of the odd phrases one hears in the...

Cousin Pons Towards three oclock in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more than his actual age, was walking along the Boulevard des Italiens with his head bent...

Ban and Arriere Ban: A Rally of Fugitive Rhymesp. ixMany of the verses in this collection have appeared in Magazines: How they held the Bass was in Blackwoods Magazine; the Ballad of the Philanthropist in Punch; Calais Sands in The Magazine of Art (Messrs....

Catherine De Medici There is a general cry of paradox when scholars, struck by some historical error, attempt to correct it; but, for whoever studies modern history to its depths, it is plain that historians are privileged liars, who lend their pen to popular...

The ninth vibration and other stories There is a place uplifted nine thousand feet in purest air where one of the most ancient tracks in the world runs from India into Tibet. It leaves Simla of the Imperial councils by a stately road; it...

Lucile I dedicate to you a work, which is submitted to the public with a diffidence and hesitation proportioned to the novelty of the effort it represents. For in this poem I have abandoned those forms of verse with which I had most familiarized...

The Woman in the Alcove I was, perhaps, the plainest girl in the room that night. I was also the happiestup to one oclock. Then my whole world crumbled, or, at least, suffered an eclipse. Why and how, I am about to relate. I...

Old Christmas But is old, old, good old Christmas gone? Nothing but the hair of his good, gray, old head and beard left? Well, I will have that, seeing that I cannot have more of him. There is nothing in England that exercises a...

The Yellow Crayon It was late summer-time, and the perfume of flowers stole into the darkened room through the half-opened window. The sunlight forced its way through a chink in the blind, and stretched across the floor in strange zigzag fashion. From without came...

Montezuma's Daughter Strange as were the adventures and escapes of Thomas Wingfield, once of this parish, whereof these pages tell, your own can almost equal them in these latter days, and, since a fellow feeling makes us kind, you at least they may move...

Songs, Merry and Sad John Charles McNeill was born in Scotland County, near Laurinburg, North Carolina, on 26 July 1874, and died on 17 October 1907 (when he was 33 years old). He only produced this one volume before he died, though he planned...

The Vision Splendid Of all the remote streams of influence that pour both before and after birth into the channel of our being, what an insignificant fewand these only the more obviousare traceable at all. We swim in a sea of environment and heredity,...

Zuleika Dobson; Or, An Oxford Love Story That old bell, presage of a train, had just sounded through Oxford station; and the undergraduates who were waiting there, gay figures in tweed or flannel, moved to the margin of the platform and gazed idly up...

The Scholemaster[Transcriber's Note: I have omitted signature designations, have transcribed Greek characters but not italicized them, and have expanded the usual Renaissance contractions for "m" and "n" as well as the abbreviation for Latin terminal "que"; marginalia are separated from textual line by //...

Vera, the Medium Happy in the hope that the news was exclusive, the Despatch had thrown the name of Stephen Hallowell, his portrait, a picture of his house, and the words, At Point of Death! across three columns. The announcement was heavy, lachrymose, bristling...

Michael Strogoff; Or, The Courier of the Czar BOOK I. CHAPTER I. A FTE AT THE NEW PALACE CHAPTER II. RUSSIANS AND TARTARS CHAPTER III. MICHAEL STROGOFF MEETS THE CZAR CHAPTER IV. FROM MOSCOW TO NIJNI-NOVGOROD CHAPTER V. THE TWO ANNOUNCEMENTS CHAPTER VI. BROTHER...

Z. Marcas I never saw anybody, not even among the most remarkable men of the day, whose appearance was so striking as this mans; the study of his countenance at first gave me a feeling of great melancholy, and at last produced an almost...