WHITMAN MASSACRE
In the spring of 1844 we started to make the journey across the plains with ox teams. I was born in 1839, October 16th, near St. Joseph, Mo., which wa...
Drawchill app
Engraving
The author of "La Gravure," of which work the present volume is a translation, has devoted so little attention to English Engraving, that it has been ...
KILLARNEY
Killarney—in Irish “the Church of the Sloes”—though but a small town, is, owing to its position, the centre from which the wondrously lovely scenery o...
Emma
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; an...
The Masque of the Red Death
The "Red Death" had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal—the redness an...
Lady Audley s Secret
It lay down in a hollow, rich with fine old timber and luxuriant pastures; and you came upon it through an avenue of limes, bordered on either side by...
RIDERS TO THE SEA
It must have been on Synge's second visit to the Aran Islands that he had the experience out of which was wrought what many believe to be his grea...
RAGGED DICK
"Ragged Dick" was contributed as a serial story to the pages of the Schoolmate, a well-known juvenile magazine, during the year 1867. While in course ...
THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN
The object of this Essay is to explain as clearly as I am able, the grounds of an opinion which I have held from the very earliest period when I had f...
Marriage
The recognition of human rights may be said to be of modern growth, and even yet they are but very imperfectly understood. Liberty used to be regarded...