Arts

The Rabbi’s Rubles (A Jewish Folktale) Once upon a time, in a tiny Russian village, there lived a poor cobbler whose name was Abraham. He…

YEVGRAF IVANOVITCH SHIRYAEV, a small farmer, whose father, a parish priest, now deceased, had received a gift of three hundred acres of land from Madame…

Each with his favorite hunting pig on a stout string, a band of the leading citizens of Montpont moved in dignified procession down the Rue…

I It was ten o’clock in the evening and the full moon was shining over the garden. In the Shumins’ house an evening service celebrated…

“And so, dear,” said Mrs. Waring to her beautiful niece, Fanny Lovering, “you are about becoming a bride.” The aunt spoke tenderly, and with a…

A PIANO-TUNER called Murkin, a close-shaven man with a yellow face, with a nose stained with snuff, and cotton-wool in his ears, came out of…

Cat and Mouse (An English Fable) Long ago, atop a mountain, stood a huge monastery. Inside the monks prayed and worked and ate and slept.…

I “You promised,” I reminded Mr. Patton, “to play with cards on the table.” “My dear young lady,” he replied, “I have no cards! I…

Louisa May Alcott: A Child’s Biography As much as seventy years ago, in the city of Boston, there lived a small girl who had the…

Big raindrops were pattering on the dark windows. It was one of those disgusting summer holiday rains which, when they have begun, last a long…

The Death of a Government Clerk by Anton Chekhov One fine evening, a no less fine government clerk called Ivan Dmitritch Tchervyakov was sitting in…

In a miserable old house, in Commerce street, north of Pratt street Baltimore, there are fine stores there now lived a shoemaker, whose wife took…