ALICE was beginning to get very tired of sitting by hersister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she hadpeeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures orconversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice,...

t Is een vervolg op een vroeger werk, t Houwelick; "door eenvorigh Boeck" heeft hij "de gronden van een goet houwelyck geleyt,en een afkeer gepooght te maken van quade gangen die in soodanigengelegentheyt sigh openbaren"; en daarom heeft hij het "dienstigh...

Fleet swallows soared and darted Neath empty vaults of blue; Thick leaves close clung or parted To let the sunlight through; Each wild rose, honey-hearted, Bowed full of living dew.

There is a fading inward of the day, And all the pansy sunset hugs one star; To eastward dwindling all the land is gray, While barley meadows westward smoulder far.

Nevermore at doorways that are barken Shall the madcap wind knock and the noonlight; Nor the circle, which thou once didst darken, Shine with footsteps of the neighboring moonlight, Visitors for whom thou oft didst hearken.

A volume like the present hardly requires the formality of a preface. Itis the continuation of a series already published, and, like that, aimsat applying the highest standard of Morality and Religion to the phasesof every-day life.

The verses composing this volume have been selected by the author almostentirely from the five-volume edition of his poems published by theBobbs-Merrill Company in 1907. A number have been included from the threeor four volumes which have been published since the appearance of the...

Andy Carpenter was known far and wide around the town of Riverport as"Bristles," on account of the way in which his mop of hair stoodupright most of the time, much after the manner of the quills on afretful porcupine.

EMMETT L. AVERY, _State College of Washington_BENJAMIN BOYCE, _University of Nebraska_LOUIS I. BREDVOLD, _University of Michigan_CLEANTH BROOKS, _Yale University_JAMES L. CLIFFORD, _Columbia University_ARTHUR FRIEDMAN, _University of Chicago_...

It is very appropriate at this moment when radio has taken thecountry by storm, and aroused an enthusiasm never before equaled,that the possibilities for boys in this art should be brought outin the interesting and readable manner shown in the first book of...

Considering that under the existing conditions of humanity, disease,and decay, and death abound on every side, it is surprising that theword "immortality" obtained a place in systems of philosophy, theauthors of which must be supposed to have been unacquainted with divine...

A. MACHADO Y ALVAREZ. THE EARL BEAUCHAMP, F.S.A. EDWARD BRABROOK, F.S.A. DR. D. G. BRINTON JAMES BRITTEN, F.L.S. LOYS BRUEYRE. MISS C. S. BURNE. EDWARD CLODD. PROFESSOR D. COMPARETTI.

This is a very common question, usually put and answered with moreor less levity. We seldom hear of any one answering very favourablyas to the usage he experiences from the world. More generally, thequestioned seems to feel that his treatment is not, and never has...

One winter evening some years ago, I sat with a small circle offriends round the fire, in the house of a Polish gentleman, whom hisacquaintances agreed in calling Mr Charles, as the most pronounceableof his names.

Such was the pith of an invitation to dinner, to accept which Istarted on a pleasant summer Saturday on the top of a Kentish-townomnibus. My host was Happy Jack. Everybody called him Happy Jack: hecalled himself Happy Jack.

Three years ago, I received orders to proceed from Kurвchee to Roreeby the river route, for the purpose of joining the siege-train thenassembling for the reduction of Mooltan. Subsequent events caused myfinal destination to be changed to Sukkur.

The German Professor, his need of Educationfor Debate--Three Mistakes of GermanControversialists--The Multiplicity ofExcuses--Falsehood against Experience--Kultur preached by Unkultur--The Mistakeabout Bernard Shaw--German Lack of...

Some characters are a puzzle to history, and none is more so than thatof Robespierre. According to popular belief, this personage was ablood-thirsty monster, a vulgar tyrant, who committed the mostunheard-of enormities, with the basely selfish object of raising...

The Defences of which this volume is composed have appeared in _TheSpeaker_, and are here reprinted, after revision and amplification, bypermission of the Editor. Portions of The Defence of Publicityappeared in _The Daily News_.

Do you not find, in almost every company, one who pronouncesdecisively upon every matter which comes in question? His voice isloud and firm, his eye bold and confident, and his whole manneroracular.

History is said to be a series of reactions. Society, like a pendulum,first drives one way, and then swings back in the opposite direction.At present, we may be said to be returning at full speed towards ataste for everything old, neglected, and for ages despised.

It is said that everything is to be had in London. There is truthenough in the observation; indeed, rather too much. The convictionthat everything is to be had, whether you are in want of it or not, isforced upon you with a persistence that becomes oppressive; and you...

The maxim, that men may safely be left to seek their own interest, andare sure to find it, appears to require some slight qualification, fornothing can be more certain, than that men are often the better ofthings which have been forced upon them.

There is no occupation in life, be it ever so humble, which is justlyworthy of contempt, if by it a man is enabled to administer to hisnecessities without becoming a burden to others, or a plague to themby the parade of shoeless feet, fluttering rags, and a famished face.

Objection is often raised against realistic biography because it revealsso much that is important and even sacred about a mans life. The realobjection to it will rather be found in the fact that it reveals about aman the precise points which are unimportant.

Objection is often raised against realistic biography because it revealsso much that is important and even sacred about a mans life. The realobjection to it will rather be found in the fact that it reveals about aman the precise points which are unimportant.

The Editors wish to explain that this book is not put forward as anauthoritative history of Victorian literature. It is a free and personalstatement of views and impressions about the significance of Victorianliterature made by Mr.

It is with a feeling doubtless somewhat analogous to that of theangler, that the London shopkeeper from time to time regards themoneyless crowds who throng in gaping admiration around the temptingdisplay he makes in his window.

Returning with the circling year, and advancing _pari passu_ with themultitude of metropolitan musical attractions, comes the more silentreign of the picture exhibitions--those great art-gatherings fromthousands of studios, to undergo the ultimate test of public judgment...

We had lately occasion to proceed by an omnibus from a country town toa station on a railway, by which we were to return to the city wherewe have our customary abode. On arriving at the station, we learnedthat we should have to wait an hour for an _up_ train, the omnibus...

It is a pity that the present age is so completely absorbed inmaterialities, at a time when the facilities are so singularly greatfor a philosophy which would inquire into the constitution of ourmoral nature.

There was once a boy, named Gaspar, whose uncle made voyages to China,and brought him home chessmen, queer toys, porcelain vases,embroidered skullcaps, and all kinds of fine things.

Ever since that unfortunate affair in which the mother of mankind wasso prominently concerned, the female sex might say, with Shylock,Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. They are, in fact, anincarnation of the Passive Voice--no mistake about it.

A book belongs in a peculiar manner to the age and nation that produceit. It is an emanation of the thought of the time; and if it surviveto an after-time, it remains as a landmark of the progress of theimagination or the intellect.

Our new strain of Cyclamen is the finest in the world. Enormous flowers, delicate colors, superb foliage. Each bulb produces scores of flowers at once, and each flower keeps perfect about two months before fading.

The advocates of the diffusion of useful knowledge among the greatbody of the people, found one of their greatest difficulties to lie inan inability on the part of the people themselves to see what benefitthey were to derive from the knowledge proposed to be imparted.

I have been writing books for five-and-twenty years, novels of which Ibelieve myself to be the author, in spite of the fact that I have beenassured over and over again that they are not my own work.

The poorest and most unlucky dog in the world either has or had somesmall portion of money. No matter how small, how hardly, or howprecariously earned, he has seen, from time to time, a glimpse of thecolour of his own cash, and rejoiced accordingly as that colour was...

This lady will be ranked with the memorable persons of the age; herenthusiastic and ceaseless endeavours to do good, the discretion andintelligence with which she pursues her aims, and her remarkableself-sacrifices in the cause of humanity, placing her in the category...

The problem with which Dr. Chapple deals in this book is one of extremegravity. It is also one of pressing importance. The growth of theCriminal is one of the most ominous clouds on every national horizon.

We all know that there are certain conventional laws by which oursocial doings and seemings are regulated; but what is the power whichcompels the observance of these laws? There is no company police tokeep people moving on, no fines or other penalties; nobody but the...

1. Our knowledge of the stars is based on their _apparent_ attributes,obtained from the astronomical observations. The object of astronomy isto deduce herefrom the real or _absolute_ attributes of the stars, whichare their position in space, their movement, and their physical nature.

The many-headed public look out for nine days wonders, and speedilyallow one wonder to obliterate the remembrance of that which precededit. So it is with all newspaper topics, and so it has been in respectto the preserved-meat question.

On the 18th day of February 1850, Her Majestys steamship _Rattler_was lying at anchor about twenty miles to the northward of Ambriz, aslave depфt situated on the western coast of Africa.

Among the California Missions the southern group form a natural unit,just as does, geographically, Southern California itself--the regioncovered by the familiar California formula, "South of the Tehachapi.

She is neither your partner, nor ours, nor anybody elses inparticular. She is in general business, of which matrimony is only adepartment. How she came to be concerned in so many concerns, is amystery of nature, like the origin of the Poet--or rather of black...

Frederick Douglass lived so long, and played so conspicuous a part onthe worlds stage, that it would be impossible, in a work of thesize of this, to do more than touch upon the salient features of hiscareer, to suggest the respects in which he influenced the course of...

Maids of Paradise Outsiders Ashes of Empire A Young Man in a Hurry The Red Republic In Search of the Unknown The King in Yellow In the Quarter The Maker of Moons The Mystery of Choice Iole...

The garden of IVANOFFS country place. On the left is a terrace and thefacade of the house. One window is open. Below the terrace is a broadsemicircular lawn, from which paths lead to right and left into agarden.

This volume consists of notes, themes, and sketches for works whichAnton Chekhov intended to write, and are characteristic of the methodsof his artistic production. Among his papers was found a series ofsheets in a special cover with the inscription: "Themes, thoughts,...

_Жsop embodies an epigram not uncommon in human history; his fameis all the more deserved because he never deserved it. The firmfoundations of common sense, the shrewd shots at uncommon sense, thatcharacterise all the Fables, belong not him but to humanity.

This Tale originally appeared as a serial in _The Monthly Packet_,beginning in April, 1880. The writers intention was to embody in eachKnot (like the medicine so dexterously, but ineffectually, concealed inthe jam of our early childhood) one or more mathematical questions--in...

It is with a feeling doubtless somewhat analogous to that of theangler, that the London shopkeeper from time to time regards themoneyless crowds who throng in gaping admiration around the temptingdisplay he makes in his window.

Returning with the circling year, and advancing _pari passu_ with themultitude of metropolitan musical attractions, comes the more silentreign of the picture exhibitions--those great art-gatherings fromthousands of studios, to undergo the ultimate test of public judgment...

We had lately occasion to proceed by an omnibus from a country town toa station on a railway, by which we were to return to the city wherewe have our customary abode. On arriving at the station, we learnedthat we should have to wait an hour for an _up_ train, the omnibus...

It is a pity that the present age is so completely absorbed inmaterialities, at a time when the facilities are so singularly greatfor a philosophy which would inquire into the constitution of ourmoral nature.

Ever since that unfortunate affair in which the mother of mankind wasso prominently concerned, the female sex might say, with Shylock,Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. They are, in fact, anincarnation of the Passive Voice--no mistake about it.

A book belongs in a peculiar manner to the age and nation that produceit. It is an emanation of the thought of the time; and if it surviveto an after-time, it remains as a landmark of the progress of theimagination or the intellect.

The advocates of the diffusion of useful knowledge among the greatbody of the people, found one of their greatest difficulties to lie inan inability on the part of the people themselves to see what benefitthey were to derive from the knowledge proposed to be imparted.

The poorest and most unlucky dog in the world either has or had somesmall portion of money. No matter how small, how hardly, or howprecariously earned, he has seen, from time to time, a glimpse of thecolour of his own cash, and rejoiced accordingly as that colour was...

This lady will be ranked with the memorable persons of the age; herenthusiastic and ceaseless endeavours to do good, the discretion andintelligence with which she pursues her aims, and her remarkableself-sacrifices in the cause of humanity, placing her in the category...

We all know that there are certain conventional laws by which oursocial doings and seemings are regulated; but what is the power whichcompels the observance of these laws? There is no company police tokeep people moving on, no fines or other penalties; nobody but the...

The many-headed public look out for nine days wonders, and speedilyallow one wonder to obliterate the remembrance of that which precededit. So it is with all newspaper topics, and so it has been in respectto the preserved-meat question.

On the 18th day of February 1850, Her Majestys steamship _Rattler_was lying at anchor about twenty miles to the northward of Ambriz, aslave depфt situated on the western coast of Africa.

She is neither your partner, nor ours, nor anybody elses inparticular. She is in general business, of which matrimony is only adepartment. How she came to be concerned in so many concerns, is amystery of nature, like the origin of the Poet--or rather of black...

In 1813 Europe was busy watching the career of the CorsicanGiant--which was nearing its end. Having reached the summit of power,and put his foot on the neck of Europe, Napoleon was suddenly hurleddown from his dizzy height.

Da fдllt nun deine Schrift nach vielen Jahren Mir wieder in die Hand, und -- wundersam! -- Der Zeit gedenk ich, wo wir Freunde waren, Als erst die Welt uns in die Schule nahm.

Many editions of Gray have been published in the last fifty years,some of them very elegant, and some showing considerable editoriallabor, but not one, so far as I am aware, critically exact either intext or in notes.

This is a very common question, usually put and answered with moreor less levity. We seldom hear of any one answering very favourablyas to the usage he experiences from the world. More generally, thequestioned seems to feel that his treatment is not, and never has...

Should any reader of this History of my life at Tracks End wish towrite to me, to point out an error (if unhappily there shall prove tobe errors), or to ask for further facts, or for any other reason, heor she may do so by addressing the letter in the care of my...

One winter evening some years ago, I sat with a small circle offriends round the fire, in the house of a Polish gentleman, whom hisacquaintances agreed in calling Mr Charles, as the most pronounceableof his names.

Such was the pith of an invitation to dinner, to accept which Istarted on a pleasant summer Saturday on the top of a Kentish-townomnibus. My host was Happy Jack. Everybody called him Happy Jack: hecalled himself Happy Jack.

Three years ago, I received orders to proceed from Kurвchee to Roreeby the river route, for the purpose of joining the siege-train thenassembling for the reduction of Mooltan. Subsequent events caused myfinal destination to be changed to Sukkur.

Some characters are a puzzle to history, and none is more so than thatof Robespierre. According to popular belief, this personage was ablood-thirsty monster, a vulgar tyrant, who committed the mostunheard-of enormities, with the basely selfish object of raising...

_M. dAvezac, dont il faut toujours citer lingйnieuse et profondeйrudition lorsquil sagit de recherches sur lhistoire de lagйographie, se plaignait naguиre, et non sans raison, de lindiffйrenceque les Franзais avaient apportйe en tout temps а faire valoir leurs...

Aucun peuple ne semble avoir tenu aussi peu de compte que lesFranзais de la part lйgitime qui devait lui appartenir dans lhistoiredes dйcouvertes & de lexploration des contrйes lointaines; nul ne sestmontrй si peu soucieux de la renommйe que pourraient lui acquйrir ses...

Do you not find, in almost every company, one who pronouncesdecisively upon every matter which comes in question? His voice isloud and firm, his eye bold and confident, and his whole manneroracular.

History is said to be a series of reactions. Society, like a pendulum,first drives one way, and then swings back in the opposite direction.At present, we may be said to be returning at full speed towards ataste for everything old, neglected, and for ages despised.

The reader must remember that these articles were written beforethe war began. They are in a sense prophetic and show a remarkableunderstanding of the conditions which brought about the present greatwar in Europe.

Hazlitt says, one cannot "make an allegory go on all fours," it mustto a certain degree be obscure and shadowy, like the images which thetraveller in the desert sees mirrored on the heavens, wherein he cantrace but a dreamy resemblance to the reality beneath.

It is said that everything is to be had in London. There is truthenough in the observation; indeed, rather too much. The convictionthat everything is to be had, whether you are in want of it or not, isforced upon you with a persistence that becomes oppressive; and you...

MABELHEBESPRINGTHE BITTERNGONEBEATRICE DI TENDASERENADETHE EAGLEWHITHER?THE MORNING STARTHE DELECTABLE MOUNTAINSTHE DARK RIVERWYTHAM WOODSTHE STAR IN THE EASTUNDER THE SEAWINDA CHALLENGEAT PARTINGA WITHERED ROSE-BUDDE PROFUNDIS...

The maxim, that men may safely be left to seek their own interest, andare sure to find it, appears to require some slight qualification, fornothing can be more certain, than that men are often the better ofthings which have been forced upon them.

There is no occupation in life, be it ever so humble, which is justlyworthy of contempt, if by it a man is enabled to administer to hisnecessities without becoming a burden to others, or a plague to themby the parade of shoeless feet, fluttering rags, and a famished face.