Category: Short Stories
PAGE. ALBUM, A FAMOUS WIGMAKER'S FAMOUS. By Gavin Macdonald. Illustrated by Facsimiles 356 BALLOON JOURNEY, A GIRL'S, OVER LONDON. By Gertrude Bacon. Illustrated by Photographs 400 BEAUTIES, IRISH. By Ignota. Illustrated by Photographs 484 BLOODHOUNDS, A MAN HUNT WITH. By Alfr...
PAGE. ALBUM, A FAMOUS WIGMAKER'S FAMOUS. By Gavin Macdonald. Illustrated by Facsimiles 356 BALLOON JOURNEY, A GIRL'S, OVER LONDON. By Gertrude Bacon. Illustrated by Photographs...
2. Part 2More noteworthy still, because of the absence of relationship between them, is the likeness of the present Postmaster-General, the Duke of Norfolk, and the veteran novelist, Mr....
3. Part 3When the curtain rose again the house instantly settled into silence, a sure sign that things were going well. Connie leaned forward with something of the eagerness of a child;...
4. Part 4A very mixed army it was. Stern-visaged men were there going through the exercises as seriously as if life itself depended on them; sprightly veterans taking again to regular ex...
5. Part 5At breakfast I observed that Auberthal, who had been very lively the previous evening, seemed silent and depressed. Siebach, too, looked rather yellower and thinner than usual....
6. Part 6The type is first set into columns by machinery, corrected and re-corrected; these columns are then made up into pages, which are again corrected, each page being tightly screwe...
7. Part 7"Oh, your fortune! I tell you I've wished a thousand times that every investment of yours went to smash, and you lost every penny of it! So there! I'll just leave you for awhile...
8. Part 8In the same storm the Lutheran church was lifted bodily from its foundations into the air, and fell, bottom upwards, on top of a new residence 100 feet away, as it appears in th...
9. Part 9Accordingly, one wet Thursday evening a short time ago, I made one of the congregation at evening service, curious to take part in such a service myself. I am never likely to fo...
10. Part 10Physically, the new, great man was short, and inclined to ponderosity. The entire absence of hair upon his face served to accentuate its peculiar characteristics. It was a squar...
11. Part 11"This evening--," the lady looked down; her voice dropped; thrusting the toe of her little shoe from under the hem of her skirt, she tapped it against the floor--"for becoming a...
12. Part 12The explanation came to me in a flash. In so sudden a flash that I turned in the same instant to the conductor and found his sidelong glance meeting mine.
13. Part 13"The Queen," says Mr. Byrne, "is one of the best sitters in the world, very rarely moving or spoiling a plate. That abomination of all studios, the head rest, is quite unnecessa...