Non-fiction Books

Mountain Paths

Maurice Maeterlinck

We shall live henceforward under their laws, which will be more just but not more severe nor more cheerless than ours; for it is a mistake to suppose that the dead love nothing but gloom: they love on..

The Klan Unmasked

W. J. Simmons

Various representatives of the press, as well as many of my colleagues in the organization of which I have the honor to be the Founder and head, have repeatedly asked me to make a public statement, de..

The Yale Literary Magazine (Vol. I, No. 4, June 1836)

Students of Yale

In metaphysics are many points equally indeterminable. Here a man’s own mind is the field of observation, in every part of which the most rigid, extensive, and patient scrutiny, and the most careful c..

The Yale Literary Magazine (Vol. I, No. 5, July 1836)

Students of Yale

Thus such an one will exultingly go forth in the full pride of scientific attainment, esteeming all things as certain when he has ascribed them to the laws of nature; not thinking of the mysterious ag..

A fragment of the prison experiences

Emma Goldman

Twenty-six years ago, in 1893, I paid the first toll for my opinions in the State of New York with a year’s free residence in the Blackwell’s Island Penitentiary. I found the cells small, dark, and fi..

The Building in Japan

Teijiro Takagi

The incessant work of ten of the carpenters for two months has so progressed that every pole and railing is properly planed and skillfully shaped, measured and holed so that each piece fits the other ..

The Yale Literary Magazine (Vol. I, No. 3, April 1836)

Students of Yale

This is, indeed, but the brief outline of a theory; and like all other theories, it requires great modification in its application to the world. Man in his progress to civilization is not always influ..

Wireless Possibilities

A. M. Low

A few lines of history are desirable here. I do not mean the history controlled by the fact that William the Conqueror made many important appointments in A.D. 1066 or that Stephen was particularly bu..