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In the Grip of the Hawk: A Story of the Maori Wars

In the Grip of the Hawk: A Story of the Maori Wars

Reginald Horsley | Fiction
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As the long struggle between Maori and Pakeha dragged to a close, a new interest was given to it by the perversion of numbers of Maoris of various tribes to a singular religion, styled by its founders Pai Marire—that is, 'good and peaceful.'

Down Among Men

Down Among Men

Will Levington Comfort | Fiction
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The town of Rosario was ahead. The cavalry expected to sup and sleep there. Chance of firing presently from the natives was pure routine. John Morning, back in the second troop, on the horse of a missing soldier, wondered if years of service and exploration would make him ever as great a...

The Time Spirit: A Romantic Tale

The Time Spirit: A Romantic Tale

J. C. Snaith | Fiction
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The fog of November in its descent upon Laxton, one of London’s busiest suburbs, had effaced the whole of Beaconsfield Villas, including the Number Five on the fanlight over the door of the last house but two in the row.

The Hope of Happiness

The Hope of Happiness

Meredith Nicholson | Fiction
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Bruce Storrs stood up tall and straight on a prostrate sycamore, the sunlight gleaming upon his lithe, vigorous body, and with a quick, assured lifting of the arms plunged into the cool depths of the river. He rose and swam with long, confident strokes the length of a pool formed by the curving...

Two Fares East

Two Fares East

W. C. Tuttle | Fiction
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The ranch-house of Uncle Hozie Wheeler’s Flying H outfit was ablaze with light. Two lanterns were suspended on the wide veranda which almost encircled the rambling old house; lanterns were hanging from the corral fence, where already many saddle-horses and buggy teams were tied. Lanterns hung...

Argonaut Stories

Argonaut Stories

Jerome Hart | Fiction
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John Claverhouse was a moon-faced man. You know the kind—cheek-bones wide apart, chin and forehead melting into the cheeks to complete the perfect round, and the nose, broad and pudgy, equidistant from the circumference, flattened against the very centre of the face like a dough-ball upon the...

Only a Farm Boy

Only a Farm Boy

Frank V. Webster | Fiction
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Dan had an ambition to be something more than a mere farm-hand. He was better educated than most boys in his circumstances, for his father had been a school teacher in a neighboring village, until failing health had caused him to resign his position.

Off Duty: A Dozen Yarns for Soldiers and Sailors

Off Duty: A Dozen Yarns for Soldiers and Sailors

Wilhelmina Harper | Fiction
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In my work here at Pelham Bay Camp with our wounded from abroad, with our sick boys who did not get “over there,” and with the well but often lonely men, who frequent our library, I have discovered a distinct need for some collection of the best stories, especially adapted to the “genus...

The War of the Carolinas

The War of the Carolinas

Meredith Nicholson | Fiction
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There was a daisy-meadow, that flowed brimming to the stone wall at the roadside, and on the wooded crest beyond a lamp twinkled in a house round which stole softly the unhurried, eddyless dusk. You stood at the gate, your arms folded on the top bar, your face uplifted, watching the stars and the...

The Cabala

The Cabala

Thornton Wilder | Fiction
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The train that first carried me into Rome was late, overcrowded and cold. There had been several unexplained waits in an open field, and midnight found us still moving slowly across the Campagna toward the faintly-colored clouds that hung above Rome. At intervals we stopped at platforms where...