This was the Fortnightly Poetry for November 10, 2013.William McKendree Carleton was an American poet, best known for his poems about his ru…
An historical account of the settlement of Upper and Lower Canada, with notes about the indigenous inhabitants of those areas of Eastern Can…
Harper's Young People is an illustrated weekly publication for children that includes short stories, tales from history, natural history, po…
From the author's preface:I wished to do something for my country, and chose this method of doing it. The literature of this country is in i…
A man of refined taste, who caught the tone of the French sentiment of his time, has, of course, pleased French critics, and has been transl…
Harper's Young People is an illustrated weekly publication for children that includes short stories, tales from history, natural history, po…
Mr. Pinero holds that farce should treat of probable people placed in possible circumstances, but regarded from a point of view which exagge…
A comic dialogue written in John Collier's idiosyncratic version of the 18th century South Lancashire dialect together with a collection of …
Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 63 features essays on a variety of topics: t…
This precursor to The New Yorker magazine features several Algonquin Roundtable regulars, including Broun, Woolcott, and Morley. Editor is J…
These are three lectures (numbers 8, 9, 10) excerpted from the author’s 1920 book On The Art Of Reading. The lectures were delivered to stu…
