Old Is Gold

La Maison du Chat-qui-peloteAu milieu de la rue Saint-Denis, presque au coin de la rue du Petit-Lion, existait nagure une de ces maisons prcieuses qui donnent aux historiens la facilit de reconstruire par analogie l'ancien Paris. Les murs menaants de cette bicoque semblaient avoir...

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873"I knew you would prick your ears up at the word. Well, I have found a legend among the people here about the original acquisition of Strasburg by the French. You know...

Waring's Peril"The devil it has! What do you mean, sir, by allowing me to sleep on in this shameless and unconscionable manner, when an indulgent government is suffering for my services? What sort of day is it, sir?" "Then go at once to Mr....

Peñas arribaHacia el ltimo tercio del borrador de este libro, hay una cruz y una fecha entre dos palabras de una cuartilla. Para la ordinaria curiosidad de los hombres, no tendran aquellos rojos signos gran importancia; y, sin embargo, Dios y yo sabemos que...

For the Master's Sake: A Story of the Days of Queen MaryThis is not a story which requires much preface. The tale speaks for itself. But it is only right to inform the reader, that the persons who play their parts in it (apart...

En RouteDuring the first week in November, the week within the Octave of All Souls, Durtal entered St. Sulpice, at eight o'clock in the evening. He often chose to turn into that church, because there was a trained choir, and because he could there...

Dr. Johnson and His CircleThe name of Samuel Johnson is, of course, not the greatest in English prose, but even to-day, when he has been dead more than a century and a quarter, it is still the most familiar. We live in an age...

Al primer vueloO tiene escape. Denme ustedes un aire puro, y yo les dar una sangre rica; denme una sangre rica, y yo les dar los humores bien equilibrados; denme los humores bien equilibrados, y yo les dar una salud de bronce; denme, finalmente,...

Un dilemmeDans la salle manger meuble d'un pole en faence, de chaises cannes pieds tors, d'un buffet en vieux chne, fabriqu Paris, rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine, et contenant, derrire les vitres de ses panneaux, des rchauds en ruolz, des fltes champagne, tout un service...

La fille de DosiaOn finissait de dner au mess des gardes cheval. Les jeunes officiers avaient clbr la fte de l'un d'entre eux, et la socit tait monte ce joyeux diapason qui suit les bons repas. La dernire tourne de vin de Champagne circulait...

The History of "Punch"The prevailing idea of the origin and history of Punch has hitherto rested mainly on three productions: the "Memories" of George Hodder, "Mr. Punch's Origin and Career," and Mr. Joseph Hatton's delightful but fragmentary papers, entitled "The True Story of Punch."...

A Engomadeira: Novela Vulgar LisboetaReli-a, e se bem que a accelerao das imagens seja por vezes atropelada, isto , mais expontaneamente impressionista do que premeditadamente, no desvia contudo, a minha intenso de expresso metal-synthetica Engomadeira, em todos os seus 12 capitulos onde interseccionei evidentes...

An Idyl of the East Side - 1891 In the matter of raising canary-birdsat once strong of body and of note, tamed to associate with humanity on rarely friendly terms, and taught to sing with a sweetness nothing short of heavenlyAndreas Stoffel was second...

A Romance of Tompkins Square - 1891 Whether the honey shall be brought to the boiling-point slowly or rapidly; whether it shall boil a long time or a short time; when and in what quantities the flour shall be added; how long the kneading...

The Uncle of an Angel - 1891 When Mr. Hutchinson. Port, a single gentleman who admitted that he was forty-seven years old and who actually was rising sixty, of strongly fixed personal habits, and with the most positive opinions upon every conceivable subject, came...

A Temporary Dead-Lock - 1891 Dear Mr. Markham,At a special meeting of the wardens and vestry of St. Jude's Church held this day, it was unanimously decided to grant your request for leave of absence from your duties as rector of this parish from...

For The Honor Of France - 1891 But yes. Monsieur is very good. It is that my husband would smoke. He is an old soldier. He smokes all the time. Ciel! They are like chimneys, these old soldiers. This man of mine regrets that...

Our Pirate Hoard - 1891 My great-great-great-uncle was one of the many sturdy, honest, high-spirited men to whom the early years of the last century gave birth. He was a brave man and a ready fighter, yet was he ever controlled in his actions...

A Border Ruffian - 1891 Throughout the whole of the habitable globe there nowhere is to be found more delightful or more invigorating air than that which every traveller through New Mexico, from Albuquerque, past Las Vegas, to the Raton Mountains, is free to...

The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 - Devoted To Literature And National PolicyThere are three classes of persons in the loyal States of this Union who proclaim the present civil war unnecessary, and clamor for peace at any price: first, a...