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King Antiochus, self-styled Epiphanes, the Glorious, was in a humor that ill-suited that title. He cursed his scribe who had just read to him a letter, kicked away the cushions where his royal and gouty feet had been resting, and strode about the chamber declaring that, by all the gods! he would make...

Who would be a chaperone? He would fling himself on his knees before her, never noticing the dog I left them at it He went with her and made himself ridiculous at the dressmaker's Why should we seek to explain away all the beautiful things of life? Are we so sure that art does elevate? The artist...

Stretched at full length, on the great divan of a studio, cigar in mouth, two friends—a poet and a painter—were talking together one evening after dinner. It was the hour of confidences and effusion. The lamp burned softly beneath its shade, limiting its circle of light to the intimacy of the...

"The Yacht Club" is the second volume of the Yacht Club Series, to which it gives a name; and like its predecessor, is an independent story. The hero has not before appeared, though some of the characters of "Little Bobtail" take part in the incidents: but each volume may be read understandingly without...

THE COCKATOUCAN WHEREYOUWANTOGOTO THE BLUE MOUNTAIN THE PRINCE, TWO MICE, AND SOME KITCHEN-MAIDS MELISANDE: OR LONG AND SHORT DIVISION FORTUNATUS REX AND CO THE SUMS THAT CAME RIGHT THE TOWN IN THE LIBRARY, IN THE TOWN IN THE LIBRARY THE PLUSH USURPER

Among the many wars by which, province by province, the Empire of India was won, few, if any, were more brilliant and hard fought than those which terminated in the annexation of the Punjaub. It is satisfactory to know that the conquest of the Sikhs—a brave and independent race—was not brought...

"Be sure to look us up when you come to the city." This invitation was extended with that delightful affectation of heartiness that a man can assume when he believes that the person invited will never avail himself of the courtesy. Fortunately for the purpose of this story, Master Philip Hayn, whom...

I find "Castle Blair" a bright, breezy story for children, most entertainingly told. The scenes are laid in Ireland. A bachelor uncle makes a home at Castle Blair for the children of his brother in India, in the English service, and for an orphaned niece from France, older than her cousins, who becomes...

Joel Chandler Harris, American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories, was born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years. He spent the majority of his adult life in Atlanta working as an...

There are always two ways of looking at a thing, frequently there are six or seven; but two ways of looking at a London fog are quite enough. When it is thick and yellow in the streets and stings a man's throat and lungs as he breathes it, an awakening in the early morning is either an unearthly and...

When Mrs. Greensleeve first laid eyes on her baby she knew it was different from the other children. "What is the matter with it?" she asked. The preoccupied physician replied that there was nothing the matter. In point of fact he had been admiring the newly born little girl when her mother asked...

The Fifth Day Of April, 1676 "He Is The King" Sir Jeoffry Wildairs "God Have Mercy On Its Evil Fortunes" My Lord Marquess Plunges Into The Thames "No; She Has Not Yet Come To Court" "'Tis Clo Wildairs, Man—All The County Knows The Vixen" In Which My Lady Betty Tantillion Writes Of A Scandal Sir...

Every one who knew Rome fifteen or twenty years ago must remember Miss Belmont. She lived in the Palazzo Sebastiani, a merry little old Englishwoman, the business, the passion, of whose existence it was to receive. All the rooms of her vast apartment on the piano nobile were arranged as reception-rooms,...

It was originally intended that this Work should consist of two volumes only; the subject has extended to three. The second volume, however, will conclude the account of the ancient architecture of Venice. The third will embrace the Early, the Roman, and the Grotesque Renaissance; and an Index, which,...