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Within a small area in the West Country may be found the principal places mentioned in the written chronicles of King Arthur—places with strange long histories and of natural charm. In these pages an impressionist view is given of the region once called Cameliard and Lyonnesse. We have ventured...

Wedding Morn Kisses in the Train Cruelty and Love Cherry Robbers Lilies in the Fire Coldness in Love End of another Home-Holiday Reminder Bei Hennef Lightning Song-Day in Autumn Aware A Pang of Reminiscence A White Blossom Red Moon-Rise Return The Appeal Repulsed Dream-Confused Corot Morning Work...

The Outer Gate Rain Best-Loved The Rose Between Two Rains The Message By the Hospital Oh, Dryad Thoughts Music in the Pavilion Rebuke In Camp The Nymph Vivisection The Stranger The Constant Ones Instinct San Francisco, New Year's, 1907 The Poppy Field You Just a Dog Mirage Dusk The Spanish Girl—Part...

At the southern part of Ohio, where the river of that name swerves from its south-western course, and makes a sweeping bend toward the north-west, many years ago stood a large and imposing dwelling. Its character, so different and superior to others found here and there along the Ohio, showed that...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it: In Forma Pauperis, Corpus Delicti, Sub Judice, In Loco Parentis, De Motu Proprio, Pacta Conventa, Flos Veneris, Mille Modi Veneris, Non Sequitur, Compos Mentis, Quod...

Concerning Two Gentlemen from Long Island, Destiny, and a Pot of Black Paint A Chapter Depicting a Rather Garrulous Reunion Trouble for Two Wherein a Modest Man Is Bullied and a Literary Man Practices Style Dreamland Soul and Body The Biter, the Bitten, and the Un-bitten A Matter of Pronunciation...

Close confinement to mercantile business for a dozen or more years brought on a feeling of discontent with the monotonous routine, that I at length tried to drive away by taking a little recreation on a bicycle. The machine, I found, was not only a source of great enjoyment, but it soon became a thing...

THE UNBIDDEN GUEST. CHAPTER I.—THE GIRL FROM HOME. CHAPTER II.—A BAD BEGINNING. CHAPTER III.—AU REVOIR. CHAPTER IV.—A MATTER OF TWENTY POUNDS. CHAPTER V.—A WATCH AND A PIPE. CHAPTER VI.—THE WAYS OF SOCIETY. CHAPTER VII.—MOONLIGHT SPORT. CHAPTER VIII.—THE SAVING OF ARABELLA. CHAPTER...

The Runaway Car The "White Shark" A Wonderful Craft More Strange Discoveries A Wild Chase Jack Makes a Promise The Launching of the Model Jupe Battles with a Water Monster Off on the Strangest Craft on Record In Dire Danger Tom's Plan for Rescue A British Skipper An Important Telegram The Voice in...

A Squad-room Misunderstanding On the Great Summer Hike Soldier Hal Marches as a Prisoner The Joking Scout The Corporal With the Sheepish Grin Raynes Finds a Patriotic Ally Bears and Other Troubles In the Midst of the "Hostiles" Planning for the Night Attack Trappers and Trapped That C Company Corporal...

Alma Mater Home The Theory of Philosophy The Practice The "Idgit" The Duchess "The Falling out of Faithful Friends" Applied Philanthropy "Without" The Vegetable Man's Daughter Real Trouble The End of the Interregnum

Along with Irving's companion piece "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity, especially during Halloween. The story is set in 1790 in the countryside around the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town - historical Tarrytown,...

When this book first came to my mind it came as a history and theory of the building of Magic Cities on tables, with bricks and toys and little things such as a child may find and use. But as I kept the thought by me it grew and changed, as thoughts will do, until at last it took shape as an attempt...

What Happened at Quasi is the story of a Carolina Cruise with the stories about Interstate Chumming, The Story of Quasi, A Programme Subject to Circumstances, Tom Fights it Out, A Rather Bad Night, A Little Sport by the Way, An Enemy in Camp, Cal Begins to Do Things, A Fancy Shot, Tom's Discoveries,...