A Look at Poets and Poetry of the 1800s from 1888 by William Davenport Adams The succession...
Alpine Diversions by Robert Louis Stevenson There will be no lack of diversion in an Alpine sanitarium. ...
Literary Composition H. P. Lovecraft In a former article our readers have been shewn the fundamental sources...
“Me, already, as the tragic poet would say, the voice of fate calls. Soon I must drink...
Speaking of homes, I am building one now, and I venture to assert that very few homes...
THE REAL WAR WILL NEVER GET IN THE BOOKS by Walt Whitman And so good-bye to the...
The Death of My Wife by Mark Twain To-morrow will be the thirty-sixth anniversary of our marriage....
English Poetesses by Oscar Wilde (Queen, December 8, 1888.) England has given to the world one great...
Ovid, Met. i. 355. We two are a multitude. One would think that the larger the company...
MR. HOOD. SIR,— The Constitution is going at last! You needn’t laugh, Mr. Hood. I am aware...
CHICAGO by Rudyard Kipling “I know thy cunning and thy greed, Thy hard high lust and...
The Literary Regimen by H. G. Wells At the risk of offending the young beginner’s illusions, he...
We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. Maugre all the selfishness that chills...
When I Knew Stephen Crane by Willa Cather It was, I think, in the spring of ’94...
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau I heartily accept the motto,—”That government...