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Harper's Round Table, February 16, 1897When I was a boy I belonged to a small company of young fellows, all under fourteen, who had banded themselves together for the purpose of practising archery. Our company owed its name to our great admiration for Major...

Särjetyt jumalat: RunojaMuut' ihanaista ei taivahan alla. Minut velho vietteli venheeseen. Kodittoman kalleus. Sa nt minut yksin. Min olin luotu vain yht varten. Mun elmni on niin tyhj. Sarastaa harmaa, kalpea aamu. Olet nhnyt mun. On sydmeeni viritetty. Min katselen iltahan autioon. Turhaan kukkii....

Uhriliekki: Runoja Maailmat vaipuvat jalkojes juureen ja taivaan kaikkeudet, ihanuudestas heijastuvaiset. Kiitetty ollos, suot levon, tuomitset vaivaan, kuiluihin paistaa silmsi seijastuvaiset. Sovun mielt kerran vannoin, taiston tielt miekan kannoin rauhan kotiin. Vsyin sotiin, plyyn, sauhuun, kuolon kauhuun, miss miesi miest vastaan seista tiesi, ainoastaan...

Pâques d'IslandeRoch-Vlen (la Roche-Jaune) est un hameau de quelques maisons basses parses sur les deux flancs dun ravin, lentre de la rivire de Trguier. Des petites fentres bordure de granit, fleuries en t de glycines, de tournesols et dhortensias, on a vue sur lestuaire,...

Baboe Dalima; or, The Opium FiendA violent storm from the north-west was raging along the northern coast of Java. The wind howled and roared as though a legion of fiends were holding Sabbath in the black mass of clouds which were driving along. The...

Death and resurrection from the point of view of the cell-theoryJohan Gustaf Bjrklund was born the tenth of November, in the year 1846. His parents were farmers in very small circumstances. His father seems to have been endowed with a good business head and,...

A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf John Muir, Earth-planet, Universe.These words are written on the inside cover of the notebook from which the contents of this volume have been taken. They reflect the mood in which the late author and explorer undertook his thousand-mile...

Nacha Regules: NovelaEl criterio utilizado para llevar a cabo esta transcripcin ha sido el de respetar las reglas de ortografa vigentes al momento de la publicacin de la obra. Slo errores evidentes de ortografa, impresin y/o puntuacin, han sido corregidos. Noche de Agosto. Buenos...

The Little Red BagAbout an hour out of San Francisco on the flight to Los Angeles, I made the discovery. I had finished reading the Chronicle, folded and put it beside me, turned and looked out the window, expecting to see the San Joaquin...

Le capitaine FracasseSur le revers dune de ces collines dcharnes qui bossuent les Landes, entre Dax et Mont-de-Marsan, slevait, sous le rgne de Louis XIII, une de ces gentilhommires si communes en Gascogne, et que les villageois dcorent du nom de chteau. Deux tours...

The Autumn After NextThe spell the Free'l were casting ought to have drawn the moon down from the heavens, made water run uphill, and inverted the order of the seasons. But, since they had got broor's blood instead of newt's, were using alganon instead...

The Footprints of Time - And a Complete Analysis of Our American System of Government, with a Concise History of the Original Colonies and of the United States, in Chronological OrderIt is our happiness to live in an age whose master-pieces of accomplishment, in...

Cultural ExchangeI couldn't help listening to the big spaceman sitting alone at the corner table. He wasn't speaking to methat was certainnor was his flat, curiously uninflected voice directed at anyone else. With some surprise I realized that he was talking to himself. People...

Wongo and the Wise Old CrowA SUDDEN gust of cold wind swept along the mountain side and rattled the dry leaves and dead branches of some jack-oak bushes that stood at the entrance of a snug little cave. Its sole occupant, awakened by the...

Jenny: A NovelThe firm of Gyldendal [Gyldendalske Boghandel Nordisk Forlag] is the oldest and greatest publishing house in Scandinavia, and has been responsible, since its inception in 1770, for giving to the world some of the greatest Danish and Norwegian writers of three centuries....

The Steam-Shovel ManA stout, elderly man stepped from a streetcar on the water-front of New York and hastened toward the nearest wharf at a lumbering trot. He held in one hand a large suit-case which must have been insecurely fastened, for, as he dodged...

La négresse blonde - Cinquième hypostase, avec soixante-quinze Tatouages de Lucien Métivet{6} LA NGRESSE BLONDE de GEORGES FOUREST, parat dans sa cinquiesme hypostase avec 75 tatouages de LUCIEN MTIVET, LA CONNAISSANCE qui dite sous son enseigne, 9, Galerie de la Madeleine, PARIS (8). Le...

Un mystérieux amourA une poque o le ralisme fleurit, o lon sent dans la moindre nouvelle, dans le plus banal feuilleton, la prtention doffrir un document humain, tout romancier qui se respecte crit plus ou moins ouvertement en tte de son livre: Ceci nest...

To Each His OwnThe sleek metal belly of the ship touched feather-light upon the asphalt "X" of Broadway and Seventh Avenue, and stubby stabilizing legs extended from ports along the sides of the hull, bracing the ship's mass against dangerous rolling, leaving it hulking...

History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 5This volume deals with the History of the Church from May 3, 1842, to 31st of August, 1843. It, therefore, covers a period of about sixteen months. The main external events may be...