Category: Short Stories
Worth and Wealth The Reefer of ’76 (continued) The Haunted Castle My Grandfather’s Story The Parsonage Gathering Leaves from a Lawyer’s Port-Folio A Descent into the Maelström May-Day Sports and Pastimes—Dog Breaking Review of New Books
“‘You see the square tower all covered with ivy that stands on the angle of that perpendicular rock. Did you ever notice how lonely it is; how small and high the windows are, an...
8. Part 8The exclamation of the criminal on discharging his pistol was accounted for by his having formerly been a clerk in the employment of Mr. Howard, who had turned him off on suspic...
9. Part 9“For some moments we were completely deluged, as I say, and all this time I held my breath, and clung to the bolt. When I could stand it no longer I raised myself upon my knees,...
2. Part 2I come! I come! with the song of the thrush, To wake with its sweetness the morning’s blush; To hang on the hawthorn my blossoms fair, And strew o’er each field my flowrets rare...
7. Part 7A few days brought the intelligence that Mr. Howard had died intestate, and that consequently his daughter was now his sole heir. His untimely fate had frustrated his design of...
10. Part 10Is there any thing so exquisite in the older poets as their habit of constantly alluding to the merry sports with which our English ancestors were accustomed to celebrate the fi...
1. Part 1Worth and Wealth The Reefer of ’76 (continued) The Haunted Castle My Grandfather’s Story The Parsonage Gathering Leaves from a Lawyer’s Port-Folio A Descent into the Maelström M...
5. Part 5And _the_ day at length arrived! A New Year’s sun enlivened the spirits of the villagers, (albeit, they knew nothing of fashionable “calls” on Time’s natal day,) and threw open...
6. Part 6Well—they met—once—twice—daily. It was a dream of bliss, but it could not last. Every time they saw each other their love grew stronger. Yet Ellen, although urged by her lover t...
11. Part 11There are some facts in the physical world which have a really wonderful analogy with others in the world of thought, and seem thus to give some color of truth to the (false) rh...
3. Part 3On the brow of a lofty and rugged hill, which overlooks the Rhine, stand the ruins of the ancient Castle of Ehlendorf. The ivy has clambered over its crumbling towers, as if to...
12. Part 12The “Shakspeare Ode” of Mr. Sprague is, after all, scarcely an exception to our general rule in this case. We may, perhaps, modify matters so as to admit that while all prize ar...