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In and About Drury Lane, and Other Papers, Vol. 2

In and About Drury Lane, and Other Papers, Vol. 2

by Dr. John Doran

But for Pepys and Evelyn we should know but little of the social life of the seventeenth century. A host of letter writers—Walpole, Mrs. Delany, and Mrs. Montagu, at the head of them—may be said to have photographed the next century for us. Lord Malmesbury, Lord Auckland, and some others succeeded; and now we are beginning to have revelations exclu..

Mountain Paths

Mountain Paths

by Maurice Maeterlinck

IN that curious little masterpiece A Beleagured City, Mrs. Oliphant shows us the dead of a provincial town suddenly waxing indignant over the conduct and the morals of those inhabiting the town which they founded. They rise up in rebellion, invest the houses, the streets, the market-places and, by the pressure of their innumerable multitude, all-po..

One Hundered Years a Republic. Our Show

One Hundered Years a Republic. Our Show

by Daisy Shortcut

A Humorous Account of the International Exposition in Honor of the Centennial Anniversary of American Independence, from Inception to Completion, Including Description of Buildings, Biographies of Managers, Receptions of Foreign Dignitaries, Opening Ceremonies, Poem, Oration, Amusing Survey of All Departments, Incidents, Etc., Etc...

The Pacifist, and other poems

The Pacifist, and other poems

by Howard Futhey Brinton

A collection of American poems by Howard Futhey Brinton.The Pacifist“Adam’s Apple”Mac’s (Psychologic) CigarBreaking InLa ReveSolThe Poor Man’s ClubRetrospectOn “Gungha Din”Why?BarneyCome, Little GirlI’ll Come, Little BoyChenowethYou WonderIn “Del’s”The Mother..

Ancient Rome and Modern America

Ancient Rome and Modern America

by Guglielmo Ferrero

The object of the essays collected in this volume, with the exception of three which recount three curious episodes in Roman history, is the investigation of the most important differences between the ancient world and the modern, between Europe and America; in what way and in what particulars the civilisations of the ancients and of Europe have be..

Broken Barriers

Broken Barriers

by Meredith Nicholson

Mrs. Durland lifted her head and called her older daughter’s name and from some remote place Ethel answered. Mrs. Durland was as dark as Grace, but cast in a larger mold, and while there were points of resemblance in their faces there was a masculine vigor in the mother that the girl lacked. Mrs. Durland’s iron-gray hair was brushed back smoothly f..

Dough or Dynamite

Dough or Dynamite

by W. C. Tuttle

Me and “Muley” Bowles and “Chuck” Warner are putting a saddle on a colt in the Cross J corral, when “Telescope” Tolliver enters the precincts of said ranch, and we gets our first glimpse of Archibald Ames.Archibald occupies a seat on the buckboard with Telescope, and they soon comes over and climbs on top of the corral fence. Archibald’s name fits ..

Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African

Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African

by Ignatius Sancho

The extraordinary Negro, whose Life I am about to write, was born A. D. 1729, on board a ship in the Slave trade, a few days after it had quitted the coast of Guinea for the Spanish West-Indies; and, at Carthagena, he received from the hand of the Bishop, Baptism, and the name of Ignatius.A disease of the new climate put an early period to his moth..