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This is the story of a beautiful, motherless young girl whose father married, for the second time, a haughty and proud widow who had two daughters of her own, both vain and selfish. No sooner was the wedding over than the wicked woman began to show herself in her true colors. She could not bear the...

EXTRAIT: Une des marques de la déchéance intellectuelle de l’état-major catholique, c’est son instinctive aversion pour tout écrivain original et vigoureux, sa complète inintelligence de l’Art moderne. Le talent est suspect aux christicoles : sans doute, ils le détestent chez...

EXTRAIT: … et avec des rythmes instinctifs, je me flattai d’inventer un verbe poétique accessible, un jour ou l’autre, à tous les sens. Je réservais la traduction. (A. R.) Un liminaire de M. Paul Verlaine veut renseigner sur Arthur Rimbaud : ce disparu voguerait en Asie,...

EXTRAIT: « Le noir Lion de la Défense, accroupi, plus énorme dans la brume faible, ses gros muscles vernissés par une condensation de vapeur, rêvait là sur son piédestal. La tristesse du firmament était suave. 

EXTRAIT: Ce couple était une ambulante antithèse. D’une longueur infinie, anguleux, le parchemin du visage zigzagué d’inextricables rides, face glabre et jaunâtre, front soucieux, tel était M. de Lansalumey. Perpétuellement occupé à résoudre mille questions d’une érudition...

EXTRAIT: « Il faut s’habituer, disait récemment M. Pierre Laffitte, à regarder la croyance en Dieu comme incompatible avec toute fonction politique. » — Mais pour avoir des hommes réalisant ce desideratum, il est indispensable de bouleverser de fond en comble les méthodes actuelles d’éducation.

It is believed that the scene of this tale, and most of the information necessary to understand its allusions, are rendered sufficiently obvious to the reader in the text itself, or in the accompanying notes. Still there is so much obscurity in the Indian traditions, and so much confusion in the Indian...

First published in French as a serial in 1909, The Phantom of the Opera is a riveting story that revolves around the young, Swedish Christine Daaé. Her father, a famous musician, dies, and she is raised in the Paris Opera House with his dying promise of a protective angel of music to guide her. After...

THE verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to what Emerson long since called "the Poetry of the Portfolio,"-something produced absolutely without the thought of publication, and solely by way of expression of the writer's own mind. Such verse must inevitably forfeit whatever advantage...

It would be difficult to assign any good reason why the author of Ivanhoe, after using, in that work, all the art he possessed to remove the personages, action, and manners of the tale, to a distance from his own country, should choose for the scene of his next attempt the celebrated ruins of Melrose,...

The spirit of nationalism that swept over the small peoples of Europe in the early nineteenth century touched faraway Finland and started the Finns on the quest of the Finnish. There as elsewhere scholars who were also patriots found that the native tongue, lost to the educated and the well-to-do,...

Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with his name have descended to modern times through a number of sources and continue to...

A Norwegian brig is driven out of her course on the homeward voyage, and near the rockbound Norwegian Coast meets with the phantom ship of the "Flying Dutchman." Daland, the captain of the Norwegian vessel, enters into a compact with the "Flying Dutchman" whose identity, however,...

THE narrative to which this note is introductory was found among the papers of the late Professor S. Erastus Larrabee, and, as an acquaintance of the gentleman to whom they were bequeathed, I was requested to prepare it for publication. This turned out a very easy task, for the document proved of...