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The Mahogany TreeWilliam Makepeace Thackeray The Mahogany Tree The Mahogany Tree"Some years since" said Thackeray in a public speech, "when I was younger, and used to frequent jolly assemblies, I wrote a Bacchanalian song to be chanted after dinner;" and a contemporary record has preserved a note...

Mary ErskineJacob Abbott Mary Erskine PREFACE The development of the moral sentiments in the human heart, in early life,—and every thing in fact which relates to the formation of character,—is determined in a far greater degree by sympathy, and by the influence of example, than by formal precepts...

Sacred Books of the EastVEDIC HYMNSINTRODUCTION VEDIC HYMNSTO THE UNKNOWN GOD TO THE MARUTS1 TO THE MARUTS AND INDRA TO INDRA AND THE MARUTS TO AGNI AND THE MARUTS5 TO RUDRA6 TO RUDRA TO AGNI AND THE MARUTS TO VÂYU TO VÂYU INDRA AND AGASTYA: A DIALOGUE7 TO SOMA AND RUDRA TO RUDRA TO VÂTA TO VÂTA ...

Our Friend the CharlatanGeorge Gissing Our Friend the Charlatan CHAPTER I As he waited for his breakfast, never served to time, Mr. Lashmar drummed upon the window-pane, and seemed to watch a blackbird lunching with much gusto about the moist lawn of Alverholme Vicarage. But his gaze was absent a...

Mr. Punch's History of Modern England. Volume 3 of 4.—1874-1892Charles L. Graves Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 3 (of 4).—1874-1892 PART I THE NATIONAL OUTLOOK HIGH POLITICS The pageant of the Victorian age reached its grand climacteric in the period on which we now enter. As a "drum...

Christ, Christianity and the BibleI. M. Haldeman Christ, Christianity and the Bible Christ IF NOT GOD – NOT GOOD BY I. M. HALDEMAN, D.D“Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is God” (Matthew 9:17). THE world has accepted Jesus Christ as a good man.The evidences of his goodnes...

Seeing France with Uncle JohnAnne Warner Seeing France with Uncle John I YVONNE TO HER MOTHER Second day out at sea.Dear Mama: We did get off at last, about four in the afternoon, but you never imagined anything like the day we had with Uncle John. It was awful, and, as luck would have it, he jus...

Sunshine JaneWarner Anne Sunshine Jane CHAPTER I GENERAL IGNORANCE THERE was something pathetic in the serene unconsciousness of the little village as the stage came lumbering down the hillside, bearing its freight of portent. So many things were going to be changed forever after, – and no one kn...

Cynthia's ChauffeurTracy Louis Cynthia's Chauffeur CHAPTER I THE HIRED CAR Derby Day fell that year on the first Wednesday in June. By a whim of the British climate, the weather was fine; in fact, no rain had fallen on southern England since the previous Sunday. Wise after the event, the newspape...

Sir Harry Hotspur of HumblethwaiteTrollope Anthony Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite CHAPTER I SIR HARRY HOTSPUR Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite was a mighty person in Cumberland, and one who well understood of what nature were the duties, and of what sort the magnificence, which his position...