One remembered the young curate and the Saint’s Tragedy; the chartist parson and Alton Locke; the happy poet and the Sands of Dee; the brilliant novel-writer and Hypatia and Westward-Ho; the Rector of Eversley and his Village Sermons; the ...

This is my step-brother, Bob Caldwell, fifteen years and eleven months,” the grey-eyed boy announced gravely. “Proud to meet you, sir,” Bob bowed, then added. “I’m almost as old as he is.” “Well, go ahead, get along with the ...

In the case of a philosophical work it seems not only superfluous, but, in view of the nature of philosophy, even inappropriate and misleading to begin, as writers usually do in a preface, by explaining the end the author had in mind, the ...

“I will tell you a fairy tale,” said the Devil, “on one condition: you must not ask me the moral.

PALEY’S Natural Theology though not by any means an epoch-making may perhaps be called an epoch-marking book.

Chiefs], and Churches, and Provinces are in this book. I pray you find out who has got this book, and send it to me, for in my country my people will not obey my orders without it.

"Good news, Augustus," my mother exclaimed upon reading the message she'd just received from a friend in Dieppe.

History knows nothing of her infancy.

In the middle ages the Jews rendered service to the healing art, and had a large share in the scientific work connected with the Arab domination of Spain.