McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908

"'Oh, ye wasn't?' I says to him. 'Ye're a liar,' I says to mesilf, 'ye was, and they's something queerer about ye than ye look, which is sayin' a good deal.' But I give the susp...

The covering on the ten-cent bed was changed once a month; if a man wanted toilet accommodations, he paid for them elsewhere. The Bismarck never had a bath, nor a wash-basin.

I renewed my acquaintance with "Henry VIII" in 1902, when I played Queen Katherine for Mr. Benson during the Shakespeare Memorial performances in April. I was pretty miserable a...

The following Sunday, at our meeting, he had an awakening which reminded me of the account of Paul's conversion on the way to Damascus. It revolutionized his mental processes, a...

"Well, Mary Ann," said Selina, coming to Jane's rescue, "there's not a particle of use shutting your eyes to plain facts. Ma's in a serious condition, and if anything happens to...

After that she tried to make the best of her position, to keep her mind fixed upon the advantages of her defeat. But the persistent image of Larry, the memory of his thousand wa...

"If that be indeed so," said the man whom he addressed, and who, for the first time, was beginning to feel himself shaken in his belief, nay, in his absolute knowledge, that the...

It is impossible to study the evidence for and against the so-called Christian Science cures without crossing the track of many an incapable doctor. Indeed, there can be no cand...

The woman--many people would have said the very fortunate young woman--who was so soon to become Mrs. Theodore Carden would not possess such a husband as Thomas Carden had been...

A long time passed, however, without sign of the enemy in her remoter walks; and she had come to feel secure once more and let her dog range along unleashed, when one day, nothi...

At the other end of the village, overlooking the main street, stood a new house, fruit of what seemed now and then to some one the most singularly successful research in vulgar...

As if we had been confidential chums all our lives, he gave me, with apparently the completest abandon and exuberant vivacity, inside views of the famous "conflict" period betwe...

There is growing throughout the land to-day a conviction--which has its core of truth--that many people eat too much meat; and not a few see a remedy in vegetarianism and Fletch...

Mrs. Colquhoun let her eyelids close and forgot all about it. When she opened them again, Mary Ann stood before her arrayed in the velvet dress. The radiant vision seemed part o...

"'Lemme go in, Mis' Simons! Please lemme go in!' he keep on whisperin', like he cyan't sea'cely breve. 'Dey's after me, Mis' Simons! Dey's gwine git me! An' yer knows I ain't do...

"Eight men they killed by rending, and of the others, some sixty, there was not one but had his wound--some bite to the bone, some gash where iron fingers had clutched and torn...

Borissoff shipped on a Russian boat from Newcastle for the Murman Coast--Russian territory adjoining Norway--and from there sailed to Nova Zembla. On the frozen island of the Ar...

PAGE A DISCLOSURE OF THE SECRET POLICIES OF RUSSIA. By General Kuropatkin. 363 TALKS WITH BISMARCK. By Carl Schurz. 367 THE FOREHANDED COLQUHOUNS. By Margaret Wilson. 378 LAST Y...

I spoiled three ties in tying, I was sceptical of my clothes having been pressed, while Felicia proceeded unerringly, even with a certain pleasure, through the intricacies of he...