Literature

Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman (An American Legend) Near the banks of the Hudson River, in a lush, drowsy valley, sits a dreamy little…

I Once upon a time, in days long ago, there lived a Chimney Sweep and a little Crossing Sweeper. This Chimney Sweep was called “Sweep.”…

Renard’s Brief Resolution (A Tale From France) One morning Renard the fox woke with a resolution. “I’m going to change,” he said. “All my life…

Antiochus Epiphanes is very generally looked upon as the Gog of the prophet Ezekiel. This honor is, however, more properly attributable to Cambyses, the son…

Sredni Vashtar by H.H. Munro (SAKI) Conradin was ten years old, and the doctor had pronounced his professional opinion that the boy would not live…

“What a number of bond robberies there have been lately,” I observed one morning, laying aside the newspaper. “Poirot, let us forsake the science of…

The Schartz-Metterklume Method by H.H. Munro (SAKI) Lady Carlotta stepped out on to the platform of the small wayside station and took a turn or…

Quand un bon vin meuble mon estomac Je suis plus savant que Balzac- Plus sage que Pibrac; Mon brass seul faisant l’attaque De la nation…

A few words (they must be few for lack of space) may usefully be added, by way of advice, to persons proposing to choose a…

OINOS. Pardon, Agathos, the weakness of a spirit new-fledged with immortality! AGATHOS. You have spoken nothing, my Oinos, for which pardon is to be demanded.…

I “What our country needs most in its treatment of the race problem,” observed Mr. Cicero Clayton at one of the monthly meetings of the…

In speaking of the Poetic Principle, I have no design to be either thorough or profound. While discussing, very much at random, the essentiality of…