Hall Of Mirrors
It is a tough decision to make whether to give up your life so you can live it over again! For an instant you think…
Arts
The Man Of The Crowd
“Ce grand malheur, de ne pouvoir tre seul,” ~Geoffroy de La Bruyre It was well said of a certain German book that “er lasst sich…
The Goose Girl And The Blue Gander
Once upon a time there was a goose girl who tended her flock in a green meadow. The meadow was dotted with forget-me-nots and yellow…
Landor’s Cottage
A Pendant to “The Domain of Arnheim” During A pedestrian trip last summer, through one or two of the river counties of New York, I…
The Tale Of Punchinello
There lived once long ago, in days of jesters and court fools and harlequins, a certain clown called Punchinello. This Punchinello, like all others of…
Hop-Frog
I never knew anyone so keenly alive to a joke as the king was. He seemed to live only for joking. To tell a good…
A Tale For Halloween
Babette and Antone were the children of a very poor woodcutter. They lived in a little cottage on the side of a steep mountain, and…
The Bell of Mugen
The Bell of Mugen (A Legend From Japan) Long ago, the people of the village of Mugen in Japan built a temple. When the time…
Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman
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…
Sweep And Little Sweep
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
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…
Four Beasts In One
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…
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