Arms and the Man
To the irreverent—and which of us will claim entire exemption from that comfortable classification?—there is something very amusing in the attitude of...
Drawchill app
FAUST
It is twenty years since I first determined to attempt the translation of Faust, in the original metres. At that time, although more than a score of E...
Comparative Religion
Over the chancel-arch of the church at South Leigh, a few miles west of Oxford, is a fresco of the Last Judgment and the Resurrection, of the type wel...
The Life of Olaudah Equiano
I believe it is difficult for those who publish their own memoirs to escape the imputation of vanity; nor is this the only disadvantage under which th...
SECRET SERVICE
ABOUT twelve years ago there was an election anticipated in the Borough of N——. It was a notorious place for bribery, as I, who have been professional...
Shirley
Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the north of England: they lie very thick on the hills; every parish has one or more of th...
The Crime of the Congo
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known as the creator of fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, but he was also a physician, humanitarian, and successful ...
THE VAMPYRE
"I breathe freely in the neighbourhood of this lake; the ground upon which I tread has been subdued from the earliest ages; the principal objects whic...
The Open Boat
None of them knew the colour of the sky. Their eyes glanced level, and were fastened upon the waves that swept toward them. These waves were of the hu...
SOPHIST
The dramatic power of the dialogues of Plato appears to diminish as the metaphysical interest of them increases (compare Introd. to the Philebus). The...