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Amelia Barr

The Measure of a ManAmelia E. Barr The Measure of a Man PREFACE My Friends:I had a purpose in writing this novel. It was to honor and magnify the sweetness and dignity of the condition of Motherhood, and of those womanly virtues and graces, which make the Home the cornerstone of the Nation. For i...

A Daughter of FifeAmelia E. Barr A Daughter of Fife CHAPTER I THE BEACHING OF THE BOAT "Thou old gray sea, Thou broad briny water, With thy ripple and thy plash, And thy waves as they lash The old gray rocks on the shore. With thy tempests as they roar, And thy crested billows hoar, And thy tide ...

The Hallam SuccessionAmelia E. Barr The Hallam Succession CHAPTER I "The changing guests, each in a different mood,Sit at the road-side table and arise:And every life among them in likewiseIs a soul's board set daily with new food. "May not this ancient room thou sitt'st in dwellIn separate livin...

The Maid of Maiden LaneAmelia E. Barr The Maid of Maiden Lane CHAPTER I THE HOME OF CORNELIA MORAN Never, in all its history, was the proud and opulent city of New York more glad and gay than in the bright spring days of Seventeen-Hundred-and-Ninety-One. It had put out of sight every trace of Bri...

The Man Between: An International RomanceAmelia E. Barr The Man Between: An International Romance PART FIRST – O LOVE WILL VENTURE IN! CHAPTER I THE thing that I know least about is my beginning. For it is possible to introduce Ethel Rawdon in so many picturesque ways that the choice is embarrass...

Remember the AlamoAmelia E. Barr Remember the Alamo CHAPTER I. THE CITY IN THE WILDERNESS “What, are you stepping westward?” “Yea.” Yet who would stop or fear to advance, Though home or shelter there was none, With such a sky to lead him on!” —WORDSWORTH. “Ah! cool night wind, tremulous stars, Ah...

A Knight of the NetsAmelia E. Barr A Knight of the Nets Grey sky, brown waters: as a bird that flies My heart flits forth to these;Back to the winter rose of Northern skies, Back to the Northern seas. CHAPTER I THE WORLD SHE LIVED IN It would be easy to walk many a time through "Fife and all the ...

Winter Evening TalesAmelia E. Barr Winter Evening Tales PREFACE In these "Winter Evening Tales," Mrs. Barr has spread before her readers a feast that will afford the rarest enjoyment for many a leisure hour. There are few writers of the present day whose genius has such a luminous quality, and th...

The Squire of Sandal-Side: A Pastoral RomanceAmelia E. Barr The Squire of Sandal-Side: A Pastoral Romance CHAPTER I. SEAT-SANDAL "This happy breed of men, this little world." "To knowThat which before us lies in daily lifeIs the prime wisdom." "All that are lovers of virtue … be quiet, and go a-a...

Scottish sketchesAmelia E. Barr Scottish sketches CRAWFORD'S SAIR STRAIT CHAPTER I Alexander Crawford sat reading a book which he studied frequently with a profound interest. Not the Bible: that volume had indeed its place of honor in the room, but the book Crawford read was a smaller one; it was...