Category： Short Stories Author：novel
I desire to express grateful thanks to my researchers, Mr. James Nicholson of Kirkcudbright, who examined on my behalf all the local records bearing upon the period and upon the persons treated of in this book; and to the Reverend John Anderson of the Edinburgh University Library, who brought to light from among the Earlstoun Papers an...
Category： Short Stories Author：novel
Though there is no period at which the ancients do not seem to have believed in a future life, continual confusion prevails when they come to picture the existence led by man in the other world, as we see from the sixth book of the ?neid. Combined with the elaborate mythology of Greece, we are confronted with the primitive belief of It...
Category： Short Stories Author：novel
One beautiful evening, Yoritomo-Tashi was strolling in the gardens of his master, Lang-Ho, listening to the wise counsels which he knew so well how to give in all attractiveness of allegory, when, suddenly, he paused to describe a part of the land where the gardener\'s industry was less apparent.
Category： Short Stories Author：novel
I trust I need not offer this audience, gathered in the noble hall of this historic Inn—of \"old Purpulei, Britain\'s ornament\"—any apology for challenging its attention in this and two succeeding addresses to the genesis, formulation, and the fundamental political philosophy of the Constitution of the United States. The occasion gi...
Category： Short Stories Author：novel
\"Now, Tom dear, don\'t you do another single thing for me; I\'m sure I shall be all right, and Cousin Anna will meet me at the train in Boston and then everything will be smooth sailing. You\'ll miss your train if you wait another moment and blame me for it ever after, so good-by; I\'ll write you as soon as I\'m comfortably settled wi...
