Literary Books

Iolaus

Edward Carpenter

The degree to which Friendship, in the early history of the world, has been recognised as an institution, and the dignity ascribed to it, are things hardly realized to-day. Yet a very slight examinati..

A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations

H. G. Adams

The favour with which our former compilation—the “Cyclopædia of Poetical Quotations”—was received, and the numerous calls which we had for an extension of the plan of that work, induced us to determin..

The Conquest

H. Bedford-Jones

Seven of those years were the happiest of all my life, perhaps. Ruth and I dwelt quiet at home, and between whiles of the work my mother taught us much that we had never known else. She was of good fa..

We Women and Our Authors

Laura Marholm

We German women are accustomed to look upon ourselves as an appendage to or a part of man. Up till now it has been the chief object and the pride of our existence to subordinate ourselves to him, and ..

A Peep Into the Past

Sir Max Beerbohm

The essay itself is one of the deftest and cleverest pieces of writing which Max Beerbohm has ever achieved. In it one can see how from the very beginning of his career Beerbohm was destined to be the..

Betty Alden: The first-born daughter of the Pilgrims

Jane G. Austin

But to me it seems a small matter, this question of the grave of Standish. He lived to be old and very infirm, and neither his old age, his infirmities, nor his final surrender to death are any part o..

The Oak Shade, or, Records of a Village Literary Association

Maurice Eugene

If it has been established as a precedent that every book should have a dedication, it has been more imperatively enjoined that none should make its appearance without a preface. These are matters of ..

Gleanings from Maeterlinck

Maurice Maeterlinck

In The Blue Bird we are shown that a man cannot die so long as he dwells in the memory of those who loved him. In his latest work Maeterlinck gives to the dead an objective existence. In part each gen..