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The Lair of the White Worm

Bram Stoker

1860, I am close on eighty years of age, and though we have beena long-lived race, the span of life ...

Le Horla (French)

Guy de Maupassant

nt jusqu'à moi leur doux etlointain bourdonnement de fer, leur chantd'airain que la brise m'apporte...

The Monk: A Romance

M. G. Lewis

wn,Your leaves shall be the Book-worm’s prey;Or sent to Chandler-Shop away,And doomed to suffer pu...

The Monkey's Paw

W. W. Jacobs

it doesn’t matter.”“Never mind, dear,” said his wife, soothingly; “perhaps you’ll win t...

Mosses from an old manse

Nathaniel Hawthorne

d an old white horse who had his own living to pick upalong the roadside. The glimmering shadows tha...

The World of Romance

William Morris

. In this magazine Morris first found his strength as a writer, and thoughhis subsequent literary a...

Unhappy Far-Off Things

Lord Dunsany

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The Ruby of Kishmoor

Howard Pyle

ed, fairlya-glitter with gold and jewels, so that, what with such personaladornments that the Queen ...

The Jewel Merchants: A Comedy in One Act

James Branch Cabell

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The Mirror of Kong Ho

Ernest Bramah

lthough it is not to be deniedthat here or there he may, perchance, have misunderstood an involved a...

The Hollow Land

William Morris

another unhappy; in bitterest misunderstanding of our brothers' hearts, making those sad whom God ha...

The Certain Hour (Dizain des Poëtes)

James Branch Cabell

he that visions God, of mankind gathers One manlike trait alone, And reverently imputes to Him a f...

Twilight Land

Howard Pyle

ng their good-night song, and the little frogs were piping “peet, peet.” The sky overhead w...

Tales of Wonder

Lord Dunsany

me back again and bloom as of old, allthe more radiantly for this terrible ploughing, as the flowers...

The Wallet of Kai Lung

Ernest Bramah

elforest which stretched almost to his destination. No person of consequence evermade the journey un...

Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice

James Branch Cabell

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Robin Hood

J. Walker McSpadden

reatest of royal preserves was Sherwood and Barnesdale forests near the two towns of Nottingham...

The Mabinogion

y, and withdiffidence, that I trespass beyond the acknowledged province of atranslator.In the twelft...

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Howard Pyle

sour temper and a grim look—the worshipful, the Sheriff of Nottingham. And here, above all, ...

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum

s and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimmand Andersen have brought more happiness to chil...

The Eight Strokes of the Clock

Maurice Leblanc

ed."Well, I had a great argument with my uncle and aunt last night. Theyabsolutely refuse to sign th...

Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman

E. W. Hornung

as a disgrace, qualifiedby an adjective which seemed to me another. I had made my bed, and I could g...

Three New Beavers from Utah

Stephen David Durrant and Harold S. Crane

ah, accumulated in thecollections of the Museum of Zoölogy, University of Utah, proves theseanimals...

Distribution of Some Nebraskan Mammals

J. Knox Jones

ollection of the United States National Museum(USBS), the Hastings Museum (HM), the Nebraska Game,Fo...

A New Hylid Frog from Eastern Mexico.

Edward Harrison Taylor

um sized member of the genus with known maximumlength of male, 57 mm. Canthus rostralis well defined...

Birds Found on the Arctic Slope of Northern Alaska

James W. Bee

    University of KansasLawrence1958    [Pg 163] University of Kansas PublicationsMuseum o...

Taxonomy of the Chipmunks, Eutamias quadrivittatus and Eutamias umbrinus

John A. White

of the same species, differ markedlyin color and in size and shape of parts of the skeleton; compara...

New West Indian Spiders

Nathan Banks

nd near tip; rest of legs paler. Eyesin two groups, three each side (subequal in size) on a distinct...

The Baculum in the Chipmunks of Western North America

John A. White

27E. bulleri627Figures 1-19. Lateral views of bacula629Discussion630Literature Cited631 Introduction...

A Check-List of the Birds of Idaho

M. Dale Arvey

of, the list. It is, admittedly, a beginning.Material for the present article was obtained from pers...