Old Is Gold

The Princess of Bagdad: A Play In Three ActsA large and very elegant drawing-room, looking out on a garden. French window with balcony at the lower extremity to the right. To the left a conservatory. To the right a door opening into the apartment...

Aumolan emäntä: NovelliM:n pitj on kauniimpia Pohjanmaalla, jota, verraten Suomen muihin maakuntiin, mielitn moittia jonkinmoisesta yksitoikkoisuudesta. Valtava joki saarineen ja lisjokineen, sek pari isompaa mke, joista nkyala varsinki illoin ja aamusin on viehttv yli tuon laaksossa olevan kirkonkyln, antavat tlle paikkakunnalle vaihtelevaisuuden, jommoista ei...

Pan Michael: An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and TurkeyThe great struggle begun by the Cossacks, and, after the victory at Korsun, continued by them and the Russian population of the Commonwealth, is described in With Fire and Sword, from the ambush on...

Henry JamesI wish to acknowledge my indebtedness for help in compiling the bibliography to Mr James B. Pinker, Miss Wilma Meikle, and Messrs Constable; and to Messrs Macmillan for the loan of the New York Edition of the Novels and Tales of Henry James....

Susan Clegg and Her Love AffairsMrs. Lathrop sat on her front piazza, and Susan Clegg sat with her. Mrs. Lathrop was rocking, and Susan was just back from the Sewing Society. Neither Mrs. Lathrop nor Susan was materially altered since we saw them last....

Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth CenturyIn the green, southern land which today comprises the Commonwealth of Virginia, there flourished three centuries ago the fine art of architecture, and it is with that subjectthe art of building in good design, with sound construction, and for...

Hot corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated"Oh, pshaw," says pretty Miss Impulsive, "I hate prefaces." So do I. Nobody reads them; that is, nobody but a few old fellows with spectacles. I would not write one, only that some folks think a book...

Coelebs: The Love Story of a BachelorJohn Musgrave stood before the fire in his dining-room, a copy of the Daily Telegraph in his hands. He was not reading the paper; he was looking over the top of it at his new housemaid, as she...

The Black Poodle, and Other TalesThe Author begs to state that the stories which are collected in this volume made their first appearance in 'Belgravia,' the 'Cornhill Magazine,' the 'Graphic,' 'Longman's Magazine,' 'Mirth,' and 'Temple Bar,' respectively, and he takes this opportunity of expressing...

Obras Completas de Luis de Camões, Tomo IIIMantivemos a grafia usada na edio impressa, tendo sido corrigidos alguns pequenos erros tipogrficos evidentes, que no alteram a leitura do texto, e que por isso no considermos necessrio assinal-los. Mantivemos inclusivamente as eventuais incoerncias de grafia...

John Greenleaf Whittier: His Life, Genius, and WritingsWho does not admire and love John Greenleaf Whittier? And who does not delight to do him honor? He was a man raised up by Providence to meet an exigency in human history, and an exigency in...

La filleule de Lagardère; II - L'héritièreDans la matine du lendemain, un cavalier vtu d'un lgant nglig de sportsman pressait, travers la fort de Saint-Germain, le pas d'une jolie jument anglaise achete, la veille, chez l'un des principaux maquignons du quartier des Champs-Elyses. Ce...

La filleule de Lagardère; I - La saltimbanqueCe matin, la pointe du jour, les employs de la ligne de l'Ouest la gare Saint-Lazareont aperu une masse humaine tendue au bas de l'une des piles qui soutiennent le pont de l'Europe. Cette masse n'tait autre...

Limbo, and Other Essays; To which is now added Ariadne in MantuaIt may seem curious to begin with Dante and pass on to the Children's Rabbits' House; but I require both to explain what it is I mean by Limbo; no such easy matter...

Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other StoriesThe Publishers have the pleasure of offering to the many admirers of the writings of "Ouida," the present volume of Contributions, which have appeared from time to time in the leading Journals of Europe, and which...

Norston's RestAUTHOR of "BERTHA'S ENGAGEMENT," "FASHION AND FAMINE," "MABEL'S MISTAKE," "THE OLD COUNTESS," "RUBY GRAY'S STRATEGY," "THE REIGNING BELLE," "LORD HOPE'S CHOICE," "MARRIED IN HASTE," "THE SOLDIER'S ORPHANS," "WIVES AND WIDOWS; OR, THE BROKEN LIFE," "MARY DERWENT," "THE OLD HOMESTEAD," "A NOBLE WOMAN," "THE...

The Sixth Sense: A NovelThe old War Office, of course, was gone; some of the shops on the north side were being demolished; and the Automobile Club was new and unassimilated. In my day, too, the Athenum had not been painted Wedgwood-green. Compared, however,...

Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift (Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734)The shifting combinations of party, from the settlement of the constitution at the Revolution to a later period, is an attractive study to any who wish to find the origin of abuses which...

Canada, My Land; and Other Compositions in Verse More glorious records may adorn The annals of the past Than those which tell the rise and growth Of thy dominion vast; But I am proudest of the land In which my lot is cast, Canada,...

A Proposal Under Difficulties: A FarceThe scene is laid in a fashionable New York drawing-room. The time is late in October, and Wednesday afternoon. The curtain rising shows an empty room. A bell rings. After a pause the front-door is heard opening and closing....