“So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, And just the art of being kind Is all the sad world needs.”

PREFACE This small volume, written as the first of a series, is meant to fill quite another place from the Short History of the Norman Conquest, by the same author.  That was a

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INTRODUCTORY NOTE Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was born at Marbach, Wurtemberg, Germany, November 10, 1759. His father had served both as surgeon and soldier in the

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Esther began the attack. "There are many letters on the display you have shown that are very different from the standards. The T's look very different." "What T?"

PREFACE A man of the first eminence, in whose day (fortunately perhaps for me) I was not destined to appear before the public, or to abide the Herculean crab-tree of his criti

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CONTENTS CHAPTER I For some reason the desert scene before Lucy Bostil awoke varying emotions—a sweet gratitude for the fullness of her life there at the

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SERGE PANINE By George Ohnet A man weeps with difficulty before a woman A uniform is the only garb which can hide poverty hono

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JACQUELINE By Therese Bentzon (Mme. Blanc) A familiarity which, had he known it, was not flattering A mother's geese are always sw

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A WOODLAND QUEEN By Andre Theuriet Accustomed to hide what I think Amusements they offered were either wearisome or repugnant

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