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The experiences of an Oxford undergraduate. There was a sequel, Little Mr Bouncer and his friend Verdant Green. Tales of College Life (often bound with it), introduces the character of Mr Affable Canary. The celebrated illustrations to the Verdant Green books were the work of the author.

Whatever you do, whatever folly you commit, never, never be tempted to take a sea voyage. It is quite the nastiest thing you can take—I have had three days of it now, so I know. When I wrote to you on Saturday I had an uneasy feeling that in the near future all would not be well with me,...

THE nineteenth century was still very young; its eventful day—that day whose sunset we have yet to see—had but lately dawned upon the world. There were regions, even in Europe, where, for any illumination brought them by the age, the hand of time might have been put back for centuries. In the...

Comédies,Théâtre de Shakespeare.

OUTSIDE a gilt-lettered door on the seventeenth floor of a New York office building, a tall young man in a fur-lined coat stood shivering. Why did he shiver in that coat? He shivered because he was fussed, poor chap. Because he was rattled, from the soles of his custom-made boots to the apex...

Philip Mortlake stood near the gangway of the Rockhampton, and watched with languid attention the passengers who were to be his companions for the next six weeks. He had come early on board, and alone—a weary and world-worn man, the wrong side of forty, disappointed with life, disillusioned, prematurely...

Any creature will follow a truth as long as he thinks that it will lead to something which he can approve. And what he will approve will depend on the accidents of his evolution. He alone attains to the true dignity of man, who follows reverently in his thought whatever in practice he most...

The Spider is another villain that McCulley created. He is injured as a youth and confined to a wheelchair, but he uses his intellect to be a criminal mastermind and oversees a complex network of organized crime. John Warwick, in addition to being one of the criminal kingpin’s most trusted agents,...

POEMS BY EDWARD THOMAS,English poets,Lieut., Royal Garrison Artillery during World War 1

BECAUSE man is both militant and pacific, he has expressed in literature, as indeed in the other forms of art, his pacific and militant moods. Nor are these moods, of necessity, incompatible. War may become the price of peace, and peace may so decay as inevitably to bring about war. Of the dully unresponsive...

While visiting Paris in 1908, upper class Lord Burnstead loses his butler playing poker. Egbert and Effie Floud bring Ruggles back to Red Gap, Washington. Effie wants to take advantage of Ruggles' upper class background to influence Egbert's hick lifestyle. However, Egbert is more interested in partying...

— Finissez donc ce bruit ! finissez donc ! finissez ! vociféra Hans Vanderbum, cramoisi de fureur ; mais voyez donc ! Ils ne m’écoutent seulement pas ! Cette scène orageuse d’intérieur se passait au fond d’une forêt vierge de l’Ohio, à peu de distance de la rivière Miami. Dans...

Il faisait nuit dans le désert ! une nuit de tempête, de sombre horreur ! une nuit de mort ! C’était aux époques légendaires de la jeune Amérique antérieurement à ses luttes glorieuses pour l’Indépendance ; bien avant que la civilisation eût abordé les profondeurs de ses forêts...

Train created the popular character of Mr. Ephraim Tutt, a wily old lawyer who supported the common man and always had a trick up his sleeve to right the law's injustices. Train wrote dozens of stories about Tutt in the Saturday Evening Post. The fictional Ephraim Tutt became "the best known lawyer in America."