The above is a picture of the bronze statue of the late United StatesSenator John F. Dryden, Founder of The Prudential and Pioneer ofIndustrial insurance in America, erected by the John F.  Read more...

LIVRE PREMIERChapitre IChapitre IIChapitre IIIChapitre IVChapitre VChapitre VIChapitre VIILIVRE DEUXIИMEChapitre IChapitre IIChapitre IIIChapitre IVChapitre VLIVRE TROISIИMEChapitre IChapitre IIChapitre IIIChapitre IVChapitre V...  Read more...

The tale of Tartarin de Tarascon was written by Alphonse Daudet in 1872,and was one of the many works which he produced. In it he pokes gentlefun at a type of Frenchman who comes from the Midi, the area where  Read more...

En skцn torsdagsmorgon i juli mеnad strцmmade mycket folk fцrbiRiddarholmskyrkan i Stockholm, och skyndade utfцr backen emellanKammarrдtten och Statskontoret, fцr att i rдttan tid hinna ned tillMдlarstranden, dдr еngbеtarna lеg.  Read more...

Herr Kreutzer was a mystery to his companions in the little Londonorchestra in which he played, and he kept his daughter, Anna, in suchsevere seclusion that they little more than knew that she existed andwas beautiful.  Read more...

All at once the stump-dotted, rocky hillside became clamorous andanimated. From the little shacks sheathed with tarred paper, from thesodded huts, from burrows sunk into the hillside men suddenly camepopping out with shrill cries.  Read more...

EDITORS Charles L. Batten, _University of California, Los Angeles_ George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Thomas Wright, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_...  Read more...

I hope the time is come at last when the voice of moderate principlesmay be heard. Hitherto the noise has been so great, and the prejudicesand passions of men so strong, that it had been but in vain to offer  Read more...

H. R. H. the Princess Aline of Hohenwald came into the life of MortonCarlton--or "Morney" Carlton, as men called him--of New York city, whenthat young gentlemans affairs and affections were best suited toreceive her.  Read more...

Marie Gessler, known as Marie Chaumontel, Jeanne dAvrechy, the CountessdAurillac, was German. Her father, who served through theFranco-Prussian War, was a German spy. It was from her mother shelearned to speak French sufficiently well to satisfy even an Academician...  Read more...

This book was written during the three last months of 1915 and the firstmonth of this year in the form of letters from France, Greece, Serbia,and England. The writer visited ten of the twelve sectors of the Frenchfront, seeing most  Read more...

_The Brass Bell_; or, _The Chariot of Death_ is the second of EugeneSues monumental serial known under the collective title of _TheMysteries of the People; or History of a Proletarian Family Across theAges_.  Read more...

Eugene Sue wrote in French a monumental work: "The Mysteries of thePeople," or "History of a Proletarian Family." It is a "work offiction;" yet it is the best universal history extant: better than anywork, avowedly on history, it graphically traces  Read more...

The Age of Charlemagne is the watershed of the history of the presentera. The rough barbarian flood that poured over Western Europe reachesin that age a turning point of which Charlemagne is eminently theincarnation.  Read more...

Author of _The Curse of the Village_, _The Happiness of Being Rich_,_Veva_, _The Lion of Flanders_, _Count Hugo of Craenhove_, _WoodenClara_, _Ricketicketack_, _The Demon of Gold_, _The Village Inn-Keeper_,_The Conscript_, _Blind Rosa_, _The Amulet_, _The Miser_, _The...  Read more...

Certain individualities grow into fame through their vices and theirvirtues, or simply by their actions, which may have a temporaryimportance; and then they become forgotten. The names of a few leadersalone survive the end of armed strife and are further  Read more...

"Now since mine even is come at last,--For I have been the sport of steel,And hot life ebbeth from me fast,And I in saddle roll and reel,--Come bind me, bind me on my steed!Of fingering leech I have no need!  Read more...

I am informed that in criticizing that literature which preys onstrange people and prowls in far-off countries, under the shade ofpalms, in the unsheltered glare of sunbeaten beaches, amongst honestcannibals and the more sophisticated pioneers of our glorious virtues, a...  Read more...

Napoleon the First, whose career had the quality of a duel against thewhole of Europe, disliked duelling between the officers of his army. Thegreat military emperor was not a swashbuckler, and had little respectfor tradition.  Read more...

Almayers Folly  Read more...

Lady, receive a tributary lay From one who cringeth not to titled state Conventional, and lacketh will to prate Of comeliness--though thine, to which did pay The haughty Childe his tuneful homage, may No minstrel deem a harp-theme derogate.  Read more...

James Fenimore Cooper was born in Burlington, N. J., in 1789--the yearin which George Washington was inaugurated first President of theUnited States. His boyhood was passed at Cooperstown, N.  Read more...

The _conte_ is a form of fiction in which the French have alwaysdelighted and in which they have always excelled, from the days of the_jongleurs_ and the _trouvиres_, past the periods of La Fontaine andVoltaire, down to the present.  Read more...

Robert Burns was born on 25th January 1759, and died at Dumfries on 21stJuly 1796, in the 37th year of his age, and, on the 26th, was interred inSt Michaels Churchyard. Eighteen years afterwards, a Mausoleum waserected by subscription to  Read more...

_The following collection of verses_, _written at various times andplaces_, _principally after the author’s final departure from England in_1887, _was sent home by him for publication some months before hisdeath_.  Read more...

More than one hundred years have passed away since, in 1789, theMarquis de Condorcet wrote his “_Esquisse sur l’Admission des Femmesau Droit de CitГ©_,” and yet the problem of women’s enfranchisementstill awaits an equitable solution.  Read more...

The Old English _Physiologus_, or _Bestiary_, is a series of three briefpoems, dealing with the mythical traits of a land-animal, a sea-beast,and a bird respectively, and deducing from them certain moral orreligious lessons.  Read more...

Daniels sonnet series has been by many regarded as the prototype ofShakespeares. It is true that several of Daniels themes are repeatedin the cycle composed by the greater poet.  Read more...

ACRES OF DIAMONDS HIS LIFE AND ACHIEVEMENTS I. THE STORY OF THE SWORD II. THE BEGINNING AT OLD LEXINGTON III. STORY OF THE FIFTY-SEVEN CENTS IV. HIS POWER AS ORATOR AND PREACHER V.  Read more...

Among the manuscript books of George Washington, preserved in the StateArchives at Washington City, the earliest bears the date, written in itby himself, 1745. Washington was born February 11, 1731 O.  Read more...

"Born half-way between the mountains and the sea--that young George of Castelfranco--of the Brave Castle: Stout George they called him, George of Georges, so goodly a boy he was--Giorgione.  Read more...

There are certain fundamental principles of sound community life whichcannot be stated too emphatically or too often. Few public men of to-dayhave shown a finer combination of right feeling and clear thinking aboutthese principles, with a gift for the pithy  Read more...

DIRECTIONSFor Navigating on Part of theSouth Coast of Newfoundland,WITHA CHART thereof,Including the ISLANDS ofSt. PETERs and MIQUELON,And a particular ACCOUNT of theBays, Harbours, Rocks, Land-Marks, Depths of Water,Latitudes, Bearings, and Distances from Place to Place,...  Read more...

Jacob Jones was clerk in a commission store at a salary of fivehundred dollars a year. He was just twenty-two, and had been receivingthis salary for two years. Jacob had no one to care for but himself;but, somehow or other,  Read more...

He put this question emphatically, with an energetic blow of his glovedhand upon his knee, and seemed very desirous of receiving an answer,although he was jogging along alone in his comfortable brougham.  Read more...