Mystification
Slid, if these be your “passados” and “montantes,” I’ll have none o’ them. Ned Knowles. THE BARON RITZNER VON JUNG was a noble Hungarian family,…
Literature
Miss McMillan
“Come hop, come skip, fair children all, Old Father Time is in the hall. He’ll take you on his knee, and stroke Your golden hair…
A Tale Of Jerusalem
“Let us hurry to the walls,” said Abel-Phittim to Buzi-Ben-Levi and Simeon the Pharisee, “on the tenth day of the month Thammuz, in the year…
Purification
Eugene Caspilier sat at one of the metal tables of the Cafe Egalite, allowing the water from the carafe to filter slowly through a lump…
The Philosophy Of Composition
CHARLES DICKENS, in a note now lying before me, alluding to an examination I once made of the mechanism of Barnaby Rudge, says “By the…
Two Florentine Balconies
Prince Padema sat desolately on his lofty balcony at Florence, and cursed things generally. Fate had indeed dealt hardly with the young man. The Prince…
Showandasee
Showandasee (An Ojibwa Indian Legend) Long ago, when summer came, Showandasee drifted, heavy and drowsy. Showandasee was the name the Ojibwa people gave to the…
Darkness Comes Into the World
Darkness Comes Into the World (A Tale From West Africa) Long ago, when the world was new, there was no darkness. The Supreme Being made…
The Key To Grief
I. They were doing their work very badly. They got the rope around his neck, and tied his wrists with moose-bush withes, but again he…
The Veteran
The Veteran by Stephen Crane Out of the low window could be seen three hickory trees placed irregularly in a meadow that was resplendent in…
The Log
The Log by Guy de Maupassant The drawing-room was small, full of heavy draperies and discreetly fragrant. A large fire burned in the grate and…
The Bowmen
It was during the Retreat of the Eighty Thousand, and the authority of the Censorship is sufficient excuse for not being more explicit. But it…
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