Essays in miniature

MERRY TALES. BY MARK TWAIN. THE GERMAN EMPEROR AND HIS EASTERN NEIGHBORS. BY POULTNEY BIGELOW. PADDLES AND POLITICS DOWN THE DANUBE. BY POULTNEY BIGELOW. SELECTED POEMS. BY WALT...

All these annoyances, however, prickly though they appear, are but trifles in comparison with the extraordinary demands made upon Murray as a publisher. Impecunious playwrights,...

It may be, however, that there are people who really like to be instructed in this manner, just as there are people who like to go to lectures and to organ recitals. It may even...

It is pleasant to know that the ruthless butcher was promptly pursued and slain for his crime, but it is finer still to realize that brief moment of bitterness and shame. I have...

There is nothing finer in the story than this, perhaps nothing quite so good, though all of Pensieri-Vani’s journeys are fruitful in minute incidents of a pleasant and picturesq...

Ever since the first printers with misguided zeal dipped an innocent world in ink, those books have been truly popular which reflected faithfully and enthusiastically the foible...

This sounds disarming, and at the same time strikes a popular note respecting these fortunate little people, who, after having been considered for many years as unworthy of the...

Not without grave faults, though, it would seem, for a little later we hear of a morning coat which is much too light to please Jane’s critical eye. She cannot possibly give her...

Almost as pathetic, and quite as musical as this melancholy dirge, are some of the epigrams to be found in that charming volume of translations from the Greek Anthology, which L...

As for _Nada the Lily_, its incidents are too monotonously painful to do more than distress the reader. I am inclined to think that a greater number of people die in the course...