Story

“O Mother-nature, kind in touch and tone. Act as we may, thou clearest to thine own” I don’t know that I should tell this story.…

There was a handful of clay in the bank of a river. It was only common clay, coarse and heavy; but it had high thoughts…

“The quick must haste to vengeance taste, For the time is on his head; But he can wait at the door of fate, Though the…

The Emperor, so they say, has sent a message, directly from his deathbed to you alone, his pathetic subject, a tiny shadow which has taken…

Prince Lotarno rose slowly to his feet, casting one malignant glance at the prisoner before him. “You have heard,” he said, “what is alleged against…

She was a woman of thirty-five, possessing something of youthfulness. It was not the bloom, the softness, nor delicacy of coloring which had once been…

She was best known for her holler….. “Hiioowweeewhooo,” she’d yell, and whenever people heard that sound, they shook their heads with wonder at the thought…

I am losing my interest in human beings; in the significance of their lives and their actions. Someone has said it is better to study…

Long ago in Germany there lived a group of the wisest men in the world. Kings and princes called upon these men of Schilda to…

A trestle burned down on the International Railroad. The south- bound from San Antonio was cut off for the next forty-eight hours. On that train…

Long ago, in a tiny Quebec village, a miller lived alone on the banks of the river. He did not like to mix with others.…

The fifteen nobles, who formed the Council of State for the Moselle Valley, stood in little groups in the Rittersaal of Winneburg’s Castle, situated on…