A CHRISTMAS PARTY
BY CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON IN 188- the American Consul at Venice was occupying the second…
LOST IN THE FOG.
By Noah Brooks. “Down with your helm! you’ll have us hard and fast aground!” My…
LOVE IN OLD CLOATHES.
By Henry Cuyler Bunner. Ye worste of my ailment is this, yt it groweth not…
MISS GRIEF.
By Constance Fenimore Woolson. “A conceited fool” is a not uncommon expression. Now, I know…
ADVENTURES OF A NEW-YEAR’S EVE
By Heinrich Zschokke Mother Kate, the watchman’s wife, at nine o’clock on New Year’s Eve,…
THE CREMONA VIOLIN
BY E.T.A. HOFFMANN Councillor Krespel was one of the strangest, oddest men I ever met…
THE PHILOSOPHER’S PENDULUM
By Rudolph Lindau I. During many long years Hermann Fabricius had lost sight of his…
THE VIRGIN ANNA
By Gabriele D’Annunzio I Luca Minella, born in the year 1789 at Ortona in one…
THE SOUTH BREAKER.
BY HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD. Just a capful of wind, and Dan shook loose the linen,…
IRIS.
BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. FROM “THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST-TABLE.” I. told you that I…