WHAT IS POETRY?      If you were to ask twenty intelligent people, "What is the Thames?" the answer due to you from each would be—"a river." And yet this w

Contents CHAPTER I. IN SEARCH OF THE WESTERN TONE CHAPTER II. LOCAL COLOR IN THE RAW CHAPTER III.

THE LUMLEY AUTOGRAPH by Susan Fenimore Cooper {by Susan Fenimore Cooper (1813-1894), daughter of James Fenimore Cooper. "The Lumley Autograph" was pub

PUBLISHERS’ NOTE In 1882, it was felt to be desirable that Mr. Harte’s scattered work should be brought together in convenient form, and the result was a

Wallace Irwin With an Introduction by Gelett Burgess Showing how Vanity is still on Deck, & humble Virtue gets it in the Neck! "A L

By Wallace Irwin Author of The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Junior Etc. With a harmless and instructive Introduction

By Jerome K. Jerome Author of "Paul Kelver," "Three Men in a Boat," etc., etc. NEW YORK DODD, MEAD & COMPANY 1909

E. C. THOMAS "TAKE THOU A BOOK INTO THINE HANDS AS SIMON THE JUST TOOK THE CHILD JESUS INTO HIS ARMS TO CARRY HIM AND KISS HIM. AND WHEN THOU HAST FINISHED READING, C

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THE LOVE-CHASE. DRAMATIS PERSONÆ (AS ORIGINALLY PERFORMED AT THE HAYMARKET, IN l837.) Sir William Fondlove, an old Baronet Mr. Strickland. Waller, in love wi

EUGENE FIELD Introduction The determination to found a story or a series of sketches on the delights, adventures, and misadventures connected with bibliomania di

CHAPTER I Lord Loudwater was paying attention neither to his breakfast nor to the cat Melchisidec. Absorbed in a leader in The Times newspaper, now and again he tugged at his

THE LOST WORLD I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who's half a man, Or the man who's half

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To My Readers Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me. Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of

CONTENTS I   The New Lodgers at No. 7 Philibert Place II   A Young Citizen of the World III   The Legend of the Lost Prince IV   The Rat

I It was a dull day at the chancellery. His Excellency the American Ambassador was absent in Scotland, unveiling a bust to Bobby Burns, paid for by the

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CHAPTER I. Since earliest childhood I have been strangely fascinated by the mystery surrounding the history of the last days of twentieth century Europe. My interest is keenes

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By M. P. Shiel CONTENTS I. — THE EXODUS II. — THE FEZ III. — THE HUNTING-CROP IV. — THE SWOON V. — REID'S VI.

I THE SKY CUBE The doctor, who was easily the most musical of the four men, sang in a cheerful baritone: "The owl and the pussy-cat went to sea In a beautiful, pea-green b

I “The cow is there,” said Ansell, lighting a match and holding it out over the carpet. No one spoke. He waited till the end of the match fell off.