Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
IT is an old, very old, timeworn greeting, this of the friendly “Merry Christmas to you!” and there are some folks among us in these days who profess to hate the very sound of it. It came into use when England was known as “Merrie England,” an appellation which seems more than...
IT is an old, very old, timeworn greeting, this of the friendly “Merry Christmas to you!” and there are some folks among us in these days who profess to hate the very sound of i...
2. Part 2Long live our Emperor-King and Empress-Queen! God save them from all evils near or far! May golden years of happiest peace serene Make bright the sway of their Imperial star! Be...
3. Part 3It ought to be quite easy for you to come to a clear understanding with yourselves. Take down the New Testament and read it. Read it as closely and carefully as you read your ch...
4. Part 4Not CHRISTIANITY, my lord Cardinal!--for that is above all “settling,”--save with its Founder--but that the next Session may open the way to a more complete Roman Catholic domin...
5. Part 5“Quite as much as was good for me, or for any of us,” replied the Ghost of the Old-Fashioned Girl. “We stayed in the dear old homes of our childhood content to make them happy b...
6. Part 6“All the world in such haste to die!” he cried. “All the world gone mad with the craze of movement! Up in the air, down on the earth--all turned to whirling, flying, tossing ato...
7. Part 7One morning I came upon an odd “care-taker” in a pretty house near Kensington Gardens. It was a “he” this time,--a placid, cunning, bent little old man with the air of the respe...
8. Part 8If so, you can say You met me to-night: Tell her I went my way Despising her trumpery slight: Man, after all, is king-- He can laugh at the little sting Of a woman’s scorn, when...
9. Part 9“Ah! That makes it all the more interesting! Now _do_ go home and finish ‘Tommy’s Gal.’ My recitation of it will quite take the colour of the Marquise Dégagée’s ‘Fancye Faire’!”
10. Part 10O THOU Especial Little God of Parliaments and Electors, with whom the greater God of the Universe has nothing whatever to do!--I beseech Thee to look upon me, Thy chosen servant...
11. Part 11Loud cheers responded to the King’s speech, and then the marriage ceremony commenced. The venerable Archbishop Ivy, glorious in his glossy green sleeves and quaintly twisted bro...
12. Part 12“What an experience!” they said to themselves--“Oh, how much better to be ducks than shoes! Surely no happy duck in a pond ever witnessed such scenes! The life of a duck in a po...