Category: Short Stories
I am lying at full length on a broken-down haircloth sofa that has been placed near the cobwebby window of an old garret in a country farm-house. It is near the close of a rainy day, and all the afternoon I have listened to the pattering of the heavy drops on the shingled roof...
I am lying at full length on a broken-down haircloth sofa that has been placed near the cobwebby window of an old garret in a country farm-house. It is near the close of a rainy...
4. CHAPTER II.A quarter of a century hence, perhaps, one of those arbiters of taste to whom poetastry owes its very existence will lecture before the intellectual and artistic circles of that...
5. CHAPTER III.“Bonner is down on stepmothers!” “All _Ledger_ horses must be called Dobbin, and there is a heavy fine for driving them through a poem or serial faster than a walk, or, at best,...
6. CHAPTER IV.When, near the close of the year 1870, Dr. J. G. Holland started _Scribner’s Monthly_, American letters entered upon a new stage of its development. The literary field was then...
7. CHAPTER V.The Holland age of letters may be said to have extended over the eighth decade of this century, and that it was an era of change and progress can be readily seen by a glance at...
8. CHAPTER VI.When the good Dr. Holland passed away, his mantle descended upon the shoulders of Mr. R. U. Johnson, the foremost of his disciples, and one who had literally sat at the feet of...
9. CHAPTER VII.It seems to me that so long as a literary man can hold a pen in his hand there is no danger of his going to the poorhouse; for when he becomes too old to give satisfaction as a...
10. CHAPTER VIII.My dear boy, I never said I could write one--in fact, I am very sure I couldn’t; it’s all I can do to read them after the other people have written them. That is an infirmity wh...
11. CHAPTER IX.Let us return to my imaginary young friend from Park Row, to whom I have referred in a previous chapter, and let us picture him at a small social gathering in the drawing-room o...
12. CHAPTER X.One summer evening not very long ago, I saw, to my intense surprise, Mr. Richard Watson Gilder crawl cautiously through the barbed-wire fence which was long ago stretched, with...
13. CHAPTER XI.Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter. But first of all let us think of the many mercies for which we have to be thankful, and then let us be just as well as generous;...
14. ACT I.SPARKLE MCINTYRE (_entering through gate_). Well, this is a pretty state of affairs! Rosanna Harefoot lived only for me until that theatrical troupe came to town; but now she’s...
15. ACT II.SPARKLE. I invited all that theatrical company to spend the evening with me; but I’m afraid they won’t come. I just wanted to surprise them with that new song and dance of mine....
16. ACT III.ROSANNA. This is the very garden where I used to meet my own true Sparkle. In fact, it’s right here that he used to _spark_ me. Well, while I’m feeling so downhearted, I’ll do a...