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The Berkeleys and Their Neighbors

The Berkeleys and Their Neighbors

Molly Elliot Seawell | Fiction
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A provincial Virginia race-course is an excellent place to observe a people which has preserved its distinctiveness as well as the Virginians. So far, they have escaped that general and fatiguing likeness which prevails in most of the universe these days.

The Squaw Spy

The Squaw Spy

T. C. Harbaugh | Fiction
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For upon the morning of that eventful day, a reconnoitering party under command of the gallant Captain Evan Thomas, of Battery H, Fourth Artillery, left General Gillem’s camp and proceeded in the direction of the Modoc stronghold. The little command reached the foot of the high bluffs south of...

The call of Cthulhu

The call of Cthulhu

H. P. Lovecraft | Fiction
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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have...

Ruth of the U. S. A.

Ruth of the U. S. A.

Edwin Balmer | Fiction
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It was the day for great destinies. Germany was starving; yet German armies, stronger and better prepared than ever before, were about to annihilate the British and the French. Austria, crumbling, was secretly suing for peace; yet Austria was awaiting only the melting of snow in the mountain...

The Phantom Tracker

The Phantom Tracker

Frederick H. Dewey | Fiction
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It was a sultry, scorching day, on the banks of the river Gila—very sultry and silent. The sun in the zenith looked whitely down, and the yellow banks reflected its rays fiercely on the sluggishly-creeping, warm river. Away over the flat, glistening plain reigned the utmost silence. As far as...

Flower o' the lily: A Romance of old Cambray

Flower o' the lily: A Romance of old Cambray

Baroness Emmuska Orczy | Fiction
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When Gilles de Crohin, Sire de Froidmont, received that sabre-cut upon his wrist—a cut, by the way, which had been dealt with such efficacy that it very nearly severed his left hand from his arm—he swore, so I understand, both lustily and comprehensively. I have not a faithful record of what...

The Rover Boys on Sunset Trail

The Rover Boys on Sunset Trail

Arthur M. Winfield | Fiction
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My Dear Boys: This book is a complete story in itself, but forms the ninth volume in a line issued under the general title, “The Second Rover Boys Series for Young Americans.”

The Princess Athura: A Romance of Iran

The Princess Athura: A Romance of Iran

Samuel W. Odell | Fiction
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IT was morning on the plains of Asia. Long-legged herons stood in the shallows of the yellow Jaxartes, bathing their feet in its sluggish flood and warming their bodies in the first rays of the sun. They were silently and uneasily watching a host of armed men drawn out in long battle-lines across...

Sir John Dering: A Romantic Comedy

Sir John Dering: A Romantic Comedy

Jeffery Farnol | Fiction
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The light of guttering candles fell upon the two small-swords where they lay, the one glittering brightly, the other its murderous steel horribly bent and dimmed; and no sound to hear except a whisper of stirring leaves beyond the open window and the ominous murmur of hushed voices from the inner...

In the Volcano's Mouth

In the Volcano's Mouth

Frank Sheridan | Fiction
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One night Max took Jocko and dressed him in a lady’s nightcap, which he had obtained from a stewardess, and told Jocko he must lie in a certain bed.