Classicly

My Young Alcides - A Faded Photograph

Charlotte M. Yonge

Ideas have a tyrannous power of insisting on being worked out, even when one fears they may be leading in a track already worthily preoccupied. But the Hercules myth did not seem to me to be like one ..

Friarswood Post Office

Charlotte M. Yonge

The room was not a sad-looking one.  There were spotless white dimity curtains round the lattice window; and the little bed, and the walnut of the great chest, and of the doors of the press-bed o..

A Modern Telemachus

Charlotte M. Yonge

The idea of this tale was taken from The Mariners’ Chronicle, compiled by a person named Scott early in the last century—a curious book of narratives of maritime adventures, with exceedingly quaint il..