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Yellow Butterflies
by Mary S AndrewsThroughout this story there are sentences and paragraphs quoted, taken bodily from a press account of the coming of the American Unknown Soldier. If other sentences or phrases occur for which proper credit has not been given, it is because the story-teller’s mind was so saturated with the beauty of this account that its wording seemed the inevitabl..
Poems
by Lionel JohnsonA collection of poems written by Lionel Johnson.WINCHESTERTO MORFYDDPLATO IN LONDONIN FALMOUTH HARBOURA FRIENDA BURDEN OF EASTER VIGILBY THE STATUE OF KING CHARLES AT CHARING CROSSLALEHAMOUR LADY OF FRANCEIN MEMORYTHE PRECEPT OF SILENCEHILL AND VALEGWYNEDDA CORNISH NIGHTMYSTIC AND CAVALIERPARNELL..
Farewell
by F. W. HarveyIn spite of all the soulful utterances of people comfortably off, economic independence remains the first condition of happiness. This is not to say that people aren’t great fools for preferring law to literature. It is rather to imply that a poet who can do both is a fool if he does not...
Legends of Old Honolulu
by W. D. WesterveltThe legends of a people are of interest to the scholar, the thinker, and the poet. The legends tell us of the struggles, the triumphs, and the wanderings of the people, of their thoughts, their aspirations; in short, they give us a twilight history of the race.As the geologist finds in the rocks the dim records of the beginnings of life on our plan..
Tolstoy's interpretation of money and property
by Milivoy Stoyan StanoyevichAssuming that our society may exist without positive laws it could also exist without money. The Russian reformer, Leo N. Tolstoy, is consistent with his doctrine of social reform. According to him enacted law is violence, private property is evil, and subsequently “money as a centre around which economic science clusters” cannot be anything else, ..
The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900
by Arthur Quiller-CouchFor this Anthology I have tried to range over the whole field of English Verse from the beginning, or from the Thirteenth Century to this closing year of the Nineteenth, and to choose the best. Glosses of archaic and otherwise difficult words are given at the foot of the page: but the text has not been disfigured with reference-marks. And rather th..
Byliny Book - Hero Tales of Russia
by Marion Chilton HarrisonThis is a Byliny Book. What does “Byliny” mean? It is a Russian word, and it means stories about What-has-Been, what happened in Russia in the old days long ago. We all read about the Greek heroes Jason and Perseus and Theseus and Heracles. The Russians had splendid heroes too, who met with wonderful adventures. Russia and France and Italy and Engl..
Poems
by Arthur Hugh CloughA collection of poems written by Poems.It was but some few nights agoI wandered down this quiet lane;I pray that I may never knowThe feelings then I felt, again.The leaves were shining all about,You might almost have seen them springing;I heard the cuckoo’s simple shout,And all the little birds were singing.It was not dull, the air was clear,A..