Verena in the Midst: A Kind of a Story

DEAREST VERENA, I quite understand your nervousness about this new doctor, but I think you should be more of a gambler over it all. You should be more trustful of your star, whi...

Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie: Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: _Here he lies whe...

The League of Nations continues to engage attention; but if I were building a house I should build it underground. War can never be eliminated, and it is certain in the future t...

O World, be nobler, for her sake! If she but knew thee what thou art, What wrongs are borne, what deeds are done In thee, beneath thy daily sun, Know’st thou not that her tender...

Having had one or two letters to you returned as “gone away” I have sent this to your home address to be forwarded. I hope you did not think that I should let you go, having onc...

I recollect a nurse called Ann Who carried me about the grass, And one fine day a fair young man Came up and kissed the pretty lass. She did not make the least objection, Thinks...

All that is needed is a small sum sufficient to manufacture a thousand or so and to pay the patent-fee. We can then see how it goes and arrange for further supplies. I expect it...

I have been wondering if alms-houses for the rich are not more important than for the poor. On all sides I hear of old widowed ladies who, needing homes, or companions, spend th...

Kington has grown very little. There are new houses near the station and we have a municipal park! That is about all. But it isn’t what it was—probably no English town is since...

I once read somewhere that clever women always tell men that they look overworked. Yesterday I made the discovery of a form of words even more soothing when proceeding from femi...

ADVENTURES AND ENTHUSIASMS CLOUD AND SILVER A BOSWELL OF BAGHDAD TWIXT EAGLE AND DOVE THE PHANTOM JOURNAL LOITERER’S HARVEST ONE DAY AND ANOTHER FIRESIDE AND SUNSHINE CHARACTER...

DEAR NICO,—No, please, do not come. After all the years that have passed, and the eight months and more that I have been thinking doubly—having so little else to do and believin...