Old Is Gold

GibbonEdward Gibbon[1] was born at Putney, near London, on 27th April in the year 1737. After the reformation of the calendar his birthday became the 8th of May. He was the eldest of a family of seven children; but his five brothers and only...

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 - Devoted to Literature and National PolicyIt is generally believed, even when the American rebellion should be suppressed, that there would be a great loss of wealth and resources on the part of the United...

Avril: Being Essays on the Poetry of the French RenaissanceWe have wondered together that a society so avid of experience and enlargement as is ours, should ignore the chief expression of its closest neighbour, its highest rival and its coheir in Europe: should ignore,...

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864When Thomas Chalmers, sixty years ago, lecturing at St. Andrews, ventured to announce his conviction that 'the writings of Moses do not fix the antiquity of the globe,' he startled and alarmed, to no small degree,...

Douze ans de séjour dans la Haute-ÉthiopieIl semble qu'en un temps comme le ntre, o tout procde si rapidement, il y ait peu d'opportunit offrir au public, comme je le fais, la relation d'un voyage en pays presque inconnu, longtemps aprs que ce voyage...

Recollections of the late William Beckford - of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, BathThe Manuscript of the following Letters, written by my Father, has been in my possession fifty years. He intended to publish it at the time of Mr. Beckfords death, in 1844, but...

Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists, Volume 3 of 3Ladies and Gentlemen,I have undertaken to speak to you this evening on what is called the Science of History. I fear it is a dry subject; and there seems, indeed, something incongruous in the very connection...

Green Valley TO ALL THE LITTLE ONE-HORSE TOWNS WHERE LIFE IS SWEET AND ROOMY AND OLD-FASHIONED; WHERE THE DAYS ARE FULL OF SUNSHINE AND RAIN AND WORK; WHERE NEIGHBORS REALLY NEIGHBOR AND MEN AND WOMEN ARE LIFE-SIZE This book was written to cure a...

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 2, No. 24, June 16, 1898 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and GirlsThese covers fit perfectly all sizes of books. They are all ready for useproperly gummedand do not have to...

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 2, No. 23, June 9, 1898 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls"It describes with artistic delicacy the transmission of that wonderful thing called life in both the plant and animal...

The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American Short StoryI was talking the other day to Alfred Coppard, who has steered more successfully than most English story writers away from the Scylla and Charybdis of the modern artist. He told...

Poignet-d'acier, Ou, Les ChippiouaisPlaisanter! le diable m'emporte si je plaisante! La belle existence que j'ai en perspective! l'hiver, un froid geler le mercure; l't une chaleur rtir tous les poissons de la baie d'Hudson. Pour compagnie, des sauvages abominables; pour distraction, des femmes monstres;...

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 2, No. 10, March 10, 1898 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and GirlsThe plates are about 15 21 inches, and were selected and prepared by Feodor Hoppe with the assistance of...

What Might Have Been ExpectedAunt Matilda was no relation of these children. She was an old colored woman, who lived in a cabin about a quarter of a mile from their house, but they considered her one of their best friends. Her old log...

ThackerayIn the foregoing volumes of this series of English Men of Letters, and in other works of a similar nature which have appeared lately as to the Ancient Classics and Foreign Classics, biography has naturally been, if not the leading, at any rate a...

The Swindler and Other StoriesThe stranger, smoking his cigarette in the lee of the deck-cabins, turned his head sharply in the direction of the voice. He encountered the wide, unembarrassed gaze of a girl's grey eyes. She had evidently just come up on deck....

The Victorian Age in LiteratureA section of a long and splendid literature can be most conveniently treated in one of two ways. It can be divided as one cuts a currant cake or a Gruyre cheese, taking the currants (or the holes) as they...

Notre-Dame-d'AmourZanette, c'tait son nom de Jeanne, de Jeannette, comme elle le prononait en zzayant, lorsqu'elle tait toute petite. Tel il lui tait rest. Ce qui, aussi, lui tait rest, c'tait sa grce d'enfance, on ne sait quoi de tout mignon, de plus jeune qu'elle-mme....

Contemporary American Literature - Bibliographies and Study OutlinesA number of typographical errors have been maintained in the current version of this book. They are marked and the corrected text is shown in the popup. A list of these errors is found at the end...

Le saucisson à pattes I - Fil-à-beurreEt si l'on s'touffait ainsi en plein milieu de Chartres, c'tait bien autre chose encore dans les faubourgs. Les entres de la cit taient pour ainsi dire barricades, tant taient nombreux les vhicules de toutes sortes qui avaient...