Old Is Gold

The Twins of Table Mountain, and Other Stories They lived on the verge of a vast stony level, upheaved so far above the surrounding country that its vague outlines, viewed from the nearest valley, seemed a mere cloud-streak resting upon the lesser hills. The...

The Sleuth of St. James's Square THE first confirmatory evidence of the thing, Excellency, was the print of a woman's bare foot. He was an immense creature. He sat in an upright chair that seemed to have been provided especially for him. The great...

A Little Dinner at Timmins's Mr. and Mrs. Fitzroy Timmins live in Lilliput Street, that neat little street which runs at right angles with the Park and Brobdingnag Gardens. It is a very genteel neighborhood, and I need not say they are of a...

Cressy As the master of the Indian Spring school emerged from the pine woods into the little clearing before the schoolhouse, he stopped whistling, put his hat less jauntily on his head, threw away some wild flowers he had gathered on his way, and...

Sixes and Sevens Inexorably Sam Galloway saddled his pony. He was going away from the Rancho Altito at the end of a three-months visit. It is not to be expected that a guest should put up with wheat coffee and biscuits yellow-streaked with saleratus...

The Fatal Boots Some poet has observed, that if any man would write down what has really happened to him in this mortal life, he would be sure to make a good book, though he never had met with a single adventure from his...

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London in 1731Don Manoel Gonzales is the assumed name of the writer of a Voyage to Great Britain, containing an Account of England and Scotland, which was first printed in the first of the two folio volumes of A Collection of Voyages and Travels,...

The Queen of the Pirate Isle I first knew her as the Queen of the Pirate Isle. To the best of my recollection she had no reasonable right to that title. She was only nine years old, inclined to plumpness and good humor, deprecated...

The Wolves and the Lamb Scene.MILLIKEN'S villa at Richmond; two drawing-rooms opening into one another. The late MRS. MILLIKEN'S portrait over the mantel-piece; bookcases, writing-tables, piano, newspapers, a handsomely furnished saloon. The back-room opens, with very large windows, on the lawn and pleasure-ground; gate,...

Found at Blazing Star The rain had only ceased with the gray streaks of morning at Blazing Star, and the settlement awoke to a moral sense of cleanliness, and the finding of forgotten knives, tin cups, and smaller camp utensils, where the heavy showers...

Flip: A California Romance Just where the track of the Los Gatos road streams on and upward like the sinuous trail of a fiery rocket until it is extinguished in the blue shadows of the Coast Range, there is an embayed terrace near the...

My Ten Years' ImprisonmentHave I penned these memorials, let me ask myself, from any paltry vanity, or desire to talk about that self? I hope this is not the case, and forasmuch as one may be able to judge in ones own cause, I...

Essays and TalesThe sixty-fourth volume of this Library contains those papers from the Tatler which were especially associated with the imagined character of Isaac Bickerstaff, who was the central figure in that series; and in the twenty-ninth volume there is a similar collection of...

My Life and My EffortsKarl May, born in 1842 under the name Carl Friedrich May, published the first volume of his autobiography in November of 1910. He never found the time to write the planned second volume or any of the other future works...

Mein Leben und StrebenWenn man von der Erde aus drei Monate lang geraden Weges nach der Sonne geht und dann in derselben Richtung noch drei Monate lang ber die Sonne hinaus, so kommt man an einen Stern, welcher Sitara heit. Sitara ist ein persarabisches...

Fraternity In the afternoon of the last day of April, 190-, a billowy sea of little broken clouds crowned the thin air above High Street, Kensington. This soft tumult of vapours, covering nearly all the firmament, was in onslaught round a patch of blue...

The Country House The year was 1891, the month October, the day Monday. In the dark outside the railway-station at Worsted Skeynes Mr. Horace Pendyce's omnibus, his brougham, his luggage-cart, monopolised space. The face of Mr. Horace Pendyce's coachman monopolised the light of the...

Ballads CONTENTS BALLADS. THE CHRONICLE OF THE DRUM ABD-EL-KADER AT TOULON. THE KING OF BRENTFORD'S TESTAMENT. THE WHITE SQUALL. PEG OF LIMAVADDY. MAY-DAY ODE. THE BALLAD OF BOUILLABAISSE. THE MAHOGANY TREE. THE YANKEE VOLUNTEERS. THE PEN AND THE ALBUM. MRS. KATHERINE'S LANTERN. LUCY'S BIRTHDAY....