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A Tragic Idyl

Paul Bourget

The group of three persons who had been compelled to choose a corner of this mundane caravansary for that romantic conspiracy was composed of a young man and two women. The young man appeared to be th..

Labour and the Popular Welfare

W. H. Mallock

The enormous increase in our national income and our national capital is doubted or denied by no one. Now let us express the increase in income as a supposed increase in the average height of the room..

Learning and Other Essays

John Jay Chapman

An expert on Greek Art chanced to describe in my hearing one of the engraved gems in the Metropolitan Museum. He spoke of it as ‘certainly one of the great gems of the world,’ and there was something ..

Poems

Lionel Johnson

Lionel Johnson poems compiled with below titles.TO A TRAVELLERIN MEMORY OF M. B.HAWTHORNEGLORIESLINES TO A LADY UPON HER THIRD BIRTHDAYCELTIC SPEECHWAYS OF WARTHE COMING OF WARIRELAND'S DEADHARMONIEST..

The Passing of Morocco

Frederick F. Moore

It was not, however, till July of last year that events assumed sufficient importance to make it worth the while of a correspondent to go to Morocco. Then, as fortune would have it, when the news came..

The Power of Music

Anonymous

Stradella, the celebrated composer, having carried off the mistress of a Venetian musician, and retired with her to Rome, the Venetian hired three desperadoes to assassinate him; but, fortunately for ..

Benton's Venture

Ralph Henry Barbour

That ought to have settled the matter; but, although Tom, refusing comfort from his mother, went to bed telling himself that it was going to be the paper mill after all, somehow the next morning broug..

Joan Haste

H. Rider Haggard

Her troubles were vulgar enough, poor girl: a scolding and coarse-minded aunt, a suitor toward whom she had no longings, the constant jar of the talk and jest of the ale-house where she lived, and the..