A College Magazine by Robert Louis Stevenson I All through my boyhood and youth, I was known...
Historic Articles by Authors
Dear Smith,— You inform me that you desire to be a journalist, and you are kind enough...
Art and the Handicraftsman by Oscar Wilde PEOPLE often talk as if there was an opposition between...
What is ‘Popular Poetry’? by W. B. Yeats I think it was a Young Ireland Society that...
Reading by Henry David Thoreau With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all...
A New Point of View by Leo Tolstoy Katenka was with me in the britchka; her lovely...
Likely and more than evenly, unevenly and not unlikely, very much that and anyway more, this is...
About War Poetry by George Herbert Clarke (1917) Because man is both militant and pacific, he has...
I Rossetti in one of his letters numbers his favourite colours in the order of his favour,...
THE stage is more beholding to love, than the life of man. For as to the stage,...
—Cui mens divinior, atque os Magna sonaturum des nominis hujus honorem. Hor., Sat. i. 4, 43. On...
You have no doubt noticed that certain books produce a sort of physical effect on one—mostly an...
Of all persons who are objects of our charity, none move my compassion like those whom it...
In those early days duelling suddenly became a fashion in the new Territory of Nevada, and by...
Man is a blind, helpless creature. He looks back with pride upon his goodly heritage of the...
