Arts

A Tale Containing an Allegory. The gods do bear and will allow in kings The things which they abhor in rascal routes. Buckhurst’s Tragedy of…

Mars had gifts to offer and Earth had much in return if delivery could be arranged! Dhar Ry sat alone in his room, meditating. From…

The chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night…

Here is a brace of vignettes by the Old Vignette Master… short and sharp …like a hypodermic! Experiment “The first time machine, gentlemen,” Professor Johnson…

The Dog’s Life (Based on a Fable by Aesop) One day in midsummer, as the sun began to set, the heat of the day waned…

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction. These the mere…

The Sea King (A Finnish Tale From the Kalevala) Long ago a fisherman and his wife lived on a tiny island known as Ahtola. Matte…

Hodja’s Fine Coat (A Tale From Turkey) Long ago Nasreddin Hodja, the famous preacher, was beloved by everyone in Turkey, especially the people of Akshehir.…

With no more room left on Earth, and with Mars hanging up there empty of life, somebody hit on the plan of starting a colony…

The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh by H.H. Munro (SAKI) In the first-class carriage of a train speeding Balkanward across the flat, green Hungarian plain two…

Some years ago, I engaged passage from Charleston, S. C, to the city of New York, in the fine packet-ship “Independence,” Captain Hardy. We were…

What Christmas Is As We Grow Older by Charles Dickens Time was, with most of us, when Christmas Day encircling all our limited world like…