Literature

I LACODIE stayed longer than was his custom in Mamzelle Fleurette’s little store that evening. He had been tempted by the vapid utterances of a…

Long ago atop a hill near Tipperary, a farmer grazed his cattle. The land was lush and green, and the cattle grazed contentedly. One night,…

Mrs. Baroda was a little provoked to learn that her husband expected his friend, Gouvernail, up to spend a week or two on the plantation.…

O one, looking into Silas Hickler’s cheerful round face, beaming with benevolence and wreathed in perpetual smiles, would have imagined him to be a criminal.…

Some people are born with vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish…

Little Mrs. Sommers one day found herself the unexpected possessor of fifteen dollars. It seemed to her a very large amount of money and the…

Of all the gods on Mount Olympus, Hermes was the most playful. Son of Zeus, the king of the gods, and of Maia, a Titan’s…

The “urgent call” the instant, peremptory summons to professional duty is an experience that appertains to the medical rather than to the legal practitioner; and…

Once upon a time, a boy named Lars lived with his sister. She worked all day long, cooking and cleaning and harvesting the fields. Lars…

To Carson Chalmers, in his apartment near the square, Phillips brought the evening mail. Beside the routine correspondence there were two items bearing the same…

“I see,” remarked the tall gentleman in the frock coat and black slouch hat, “that another street car motorman in your city has narrowly excaped…

I mentioned to Rivington that I was in search of characteristic New York scenes and incidents something typical, I told him, without necessarily having to…