Category： Short Stories Author：novel
A distinguished Positivist friend of mine, who is in most matters a practical man of the world, astonished me greatly the other day at Venice, by the grave remark that Italian was destined to be the language of the future. I found on inquiry he had inherited the notion direct from Auguste Comte, who justified it on the purely sentiment...
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Category： Short Stories Author：novel
It may sound odd to say so, but the very earliest fact that impressed itself on my memory was a scene that took place—so I was told—when I was eighteen years old, in my father’s house, The Grange, at Woodbury.
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Category： Short Stories Author：novel
These essays deal for the most part with Science in Arcady. \'Tis my native country: for I am not of those who \'praise the busy town.\' On the contrary, in the words of the great poet who has just departed to join Milton and Shelley in a place of high collateral glory, I \'love to rail against it still,\' with a naturalist\'s bitterness.
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Category： Short Stories Author：novel
It is with some little trepidation that I venture to submit to the critical world this small collection of short stories. I feel that in doing so I owe some apology both to my readers and to the regular story-tellers. Being by trade a psychologist and scientific journeyman, I have been bold enough at times to stray surreptitiously and ...
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Category： Short Stories Author：novel
I had promised to take Mrs. Latham and Irene to see the French plays which were then being acted by Marie Leroux\'s celebrated Palais Royal company. I wasn\'t at the time exactly engaged to poor Irene: it has always been a comfort to me that I wasn\'t engaged to her, though I knew Irene herself considered it practically equivalent to a...
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