Nothing could have been better than Mr. Emery Walker’s lecture on Letterpress Printing and Illustration, delivered last...
Classic Articles on Writing
Classic articles on writing art some of the most interesting and telling works by past authors. Here you will find articles from the past by authors that range from the famous to the obscure.
This is from this morning’s paper: Mark Twain Letter Sold. Written to Thomas Nast, it Proposed a...
August 8th.—To-night, as I was trying to keep cool, sitting by a wounded soldier in Armory-square, I...
An ancient and famous human institution is in pressing danger. Sir George Campbell has set his face...
(One Poe’s Birthday!) One does not feel, by any means, that the last word has been uttered...
TRANSITION FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM—A WANDERER IN NEW YORK—FEELINGS ON REACHING THAT CITY—AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE MET—UNFAVORABLE IMPRESSIONS—LONELINESS...
In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing...
Rudyard Kipling, “prophet of blood and vulgarity, prince of ephemerals and idol of the unelect”—as a Chicago...
As one enters Rome from the Via Ostiensis by the Porta San Paolo, the first object that...
Do the Phaedrus and the Symposium leave anything to be said on the relationship of love and...
A recently lecturing Englishman is reported to have noted the unenviable primacy of the United States among...
Silly Novels by Lady Novelists by George Elliot Silly Novels by Lady Novelists are a genus with...
The Artist and his Audience by A. Clutton-Brock According to Whistler art is not a social activity...
Michael Angelo is revealed by his sonnets. He wears the triple crown of painter, poet, and sculptor,...
There’s a dark window in a gable which looks out over my narrow slip of garden, where...
