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“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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 (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 (An American Legend) Near the banks of the Hudson River, in a lush, drowsy valley, sits a dreamy little…

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 (A Tale From France) One morning Renard the fox woke with a resolution. “I’m going to change,” he said. “All my life…

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…

Sredni Vashtar by H.H. Munro (SAKI) Conradin was ten years old, and the doctor had pronounced his professional opinion that the boy would not live…