With this mild retort and civil salutation John Henry Overholt rose andwent towards the door, quite forgetting to shake hands with Mr.Burnside, though the latter made a motion to do so.  More...

ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of Virginia_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_...  More...

In "The Classic Point of View," published three years ago, I endeavoredto give a clear and definitive statement of the principles on which allmy criticism of art is based. The papers here gathered together, whetherearlier  More...

I am a poor paralysed fellow who, for many years past, has been confinedto a bed or a sofa. For the last six years I have occupied a small room,giving on to one of the  More...

The greater part of the contents of this little volume appearedoriginally in the _Daily Graphic_, in the form of a series of sixarticles written in criticism of Mr. Ernest Williams’s “Made inGermany.  More...

I dedicate this little book to the young idealists of this and othercountries, for several reasons. They must, obviously, be young, becausetheir older contemporaries, with a large amount of experience of earlierconditions, will hardly have  More...

It was so cold. Ah, so very cold! So thought the old raven as he hobbledup and down the terrace walk at the back of the house--the walk that wasso pleasant in summer, with its  More...

The blinds had been drawn down for some time in the back parlour behindMr. Fairchilds shop in Pier Street, the principal street in the littletown of Seacove. And the gas was lighted, though it was  More...

Dolf van Attema was op zijne wandeling na den eten aangegaan bij dezuster zijner vrouw, Cecile van Even, op den Scheveningschen weg, enhij wachtte in den kleinen voor-salon, wandelend tusschen de rozenhoutenmeubeltjes en de vieux  More...

It is new in the sense that until now it has been wrongly studied andin consequence wrongly understood; it is old because it dates fromthe appearance of man on the earth. In fact autosuggestion is  More...

To my American readers a special word of gratitude is due for theirgenerosity to this little book. I hope that it has given them as muchencouragement and help as they have given me.  More...

Lezer, ik meen, dat ik u zoo ongeveer het interessantste verteld heb vanmijn Spaansche indrukken. Zeker, ik zoы u nтg meer kunnen vertellen, ikzoы silhouetjes van Spaansche steden als Cadiz in het Zuiden, alsZaragoza in  More...

With the period immediately following the Second War with Great Britain,begins a series of events which indicate a purpose of the nation to makethe condition of the free man of color an inferior status socially  More...

From the primitive pine-torch to the paraffin candle, how wide aninterval! between them how vast a contrast! The means adopted by man toilluminate his home at night, stamp at once his position in the scale  More...

Mr. Crosbys article[1] on Shakespeares attitude toward the workingclasses suggested to me the idea of also expressing my ownlong-established opinion about the works of Shakespeare, in directopposition, as it is, to that established in all  More...

"Christmas and the Spirit of Democracy" appeared originally in _Everybodys Magazine_, the four other essays in the _Atlantic Monthly_. Acknowledgments are due to the editors of these periodicals for permission to reprint them here.  More...

The father of Frederick Locker Lampson (or Frederick Locker, according tothe name by which he is generally known) was Edward Hawke Locker, at onetime Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital.  More...

_The whole Forming a True Picture of London Life, Cadging Made Easy,the He-She Man, Doings of the Modern Greeks, Snoozing Kens Depicted,the Common Lodging-house Gallants, Lessons to Lovers of Dice, theGaming Table, etc.  More...

THE stories contained in this little book are only a small part of alarge collection of Indian folk-tales, made by Mr. Crooke in the courseof the Ethnological Survey of the North-West Provinces and Oudh.  More...

HUMANLY SPEAKING. AMONG FRIENDS. BY THE CHRISTMAS FIRE. THE PARDONERS WALLET. THE ENDLESS LIFE. THE GENTLE READER. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: THE AUTOCRAT AND HIS FELLOW BOARDERS.  More...

Twas the night before Christmas, and it was very quiet in Mrs. Muffetshouse,--altogether too quiet, thought little Miss Muffet, as she sattrying to eat her curds and whey. For Mrs.  More...

There is no need, I apprehend, that I should undertake to impress youwith a sense either of the need or of the importance of our assemblagehere to-day. The fact of your coming here is, of  More...

This book is intended for the use of those housekeepers and cooks whowish to know how to make the most wholesome and palatable dishes at theleast possible cost. In cookery this fact should be remembered  More...

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AUTHOR OF "THE COOKING MANUAL," "OUR HOUSEHOLD COUNCIL," "THE BILL OF FARE, WITH ACCOMPANYING RECEIPTS AND ESTIMATED COST," "A TEXT-BOOK FOR COOKING SCHOOLS," "FIFTEEN-CENT DINNERS FOR WORKINGMENS FAMILIES," ETC.  More...

"Well, it was this way: you see I was out after snakes and other naturalhistory specimens. I had a special order from a chap in New York forthree hundred snakes--he wanted some big rattlers.  More...

_While it is the purpose of this little book to emphasize the importanceof vocal culture in its relations to literary and general culture, it isnot its purpose, except incidentally, to impart elocutionaryinstruction.  More...

THE Author, emboldened by a Banking expe-rience of over forty years, offers this little workto the public in the hope that, elementary thoughit be, it may prove acceptable to many personsof both sexes.  More...

Yes--I have heard "Man overboard!" a good many times since I wasa boy, and once or twice I have seen the man go. There are moremen lost in that way than passengers on ocean steamers  More...