The Twelve Months
Translator: Emily J. Harding There was once a widow who had two daughters, Helen, her own child by her dead husband, and Marouckla, his daughter by his first wife. She loved Helen, but hated the poor...
View ArticleThe Sun Or The Three Golden Hairs Of The Old Man Vsevede
Translator: Emily J. Harding Can this be a true story? It is said that once there was a king who was exceedingly fond of hunting the wild beasts in his forests. One day he followed a stag so far and so...
View ArticleThe Sovereign Of The Mineral Kingdom
Translator: Emily J. Harding Once upon a time, and a long long time ago it was, there lived a widow who had a very pretty daughter. The mother, good honest woman, was quite content with her station in...
View ArticleThe Grand Inquisitor
[Dedicated by the Translator to those sceptics who clamour so loudly, both in print and private letters--"Show us the wonder- working 'Brothers,' let them come out publicly--and we will believe in...
View ArticleThe Maid With Hair Of Gold
Translator: Emily J. Harding There was once a king so wise and clever that he understood the language of all animals. You shall hear how he gained this power. One day an old woman came to the palace...
View ArticleThe Journey To The Sun And The Moon
Translator: Emily J. Harding There were once two young people who loved each other dearly. The young man was called Jean, the girl, Annette. In her sweetness she was like unto a dove, in her strength...
View ArticleLove Is The Whole
A STORY FOR CHILDREN. This is a story about some children who were living together in a Western State, in a little house on the prairie, nearly two miles from any other. There were three boys and three...
View ArticleChristmas And Rome
The first Christmas this in which a Roman Senate has sat in Rome since the old-fashioned Roman Senates went under,–or since they “went up,” if we take the expressive language of our Chicago friends....
View ArticleThe Same Christmas In Old England And New
The first Christmas in New England was celebrated by some people who tried as hard as they could not to celebrate it at all. But looking back on that year 1620, the first year when Christmas was...
View ArticleThe Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse
Johnny Town-mouse was born in a cupboard. Timmy Willie was born in a garden. Timmy Willie was a little country mouse who went to town by mistake in a hamper. The gardener sent vegetables to town once a...
View ArticleTime And The Kings Of The Elements
Translator: Emily J. Harding There was once a married pair who loved each other tenderly. The husband would not have given up his wife for all the riches in the world, while her first thought was how...
View ArticleThey Saw A Great Light
CHAPTER I. ANOTHER GENERATION. “Here he comes! here he comes!” “He” was the “post-rider,” an institution now almost of the past. He rode by the house and threw off a copy of the “Boston Gazette.” Now...
View ArticleAlice’s Christmas-Tree
CHAPTER I. Alice MacNeil had made the plan of this Christmas-tree, all by herself and for herself. She had a due estimate of those manufactured trees which hard-worked “Sabbath Schools” get up for...
View ArticleDaily Bread
I. A QUESTION OF NOURISHMENT. “And how is he?” said Robert, as he came in from his day’s work, in every moment of which he had thought of his child. He spoke in a whisper to his wife, who met him in...
View ArticleStand And Wait
I. CHRISTMAS EVE. “They’ve come! they’ve come!” This was the cry of little Herbert as he ran in from the square stone which made the large doorstep of the house. Here he had been watching, a...
View ArticleThe Two Princes
A STORY FOR CHILDREN. I. There was a King of Hungary whose name was Adelbert. When he lived at home, which was not often, it was in a castle of many towers and many halls and many stairways, in the...
View ArticleThe Story Of Oello
Once upon a time there was a young girl, who had the pretty name of Oello. I say, once upon a time, because I do not know when the time was,–nor do I know what the place was,–though my story, in the...
View ArticleBlackbeard; Or, The Pirate Of Roanoke
CHAPTER I. The Island of Trinidad. Landing of the Earl of Derwentwater and his party upon the Isle–Its Enchanted Scenery. Unnatural Sounds. Sudden appearance of the Notorious Pirate Blackbeard....
View ArticleKing Candaules
Translator: Lafcadio Hearn CHAPTER I Five hundred years before the Trojan war, and seventeen hundred and fifteen years before our own era, there was a grand festival at Sardes. King Candaules was going...
View ArticleJohn Mccrae: An Essay In Character
I. In Flanders Fields “In Flanders Fields”, the piece of verse from which this little book takes its title, first appeared in ‘Punch’ in the issue of December 8th, 1915. At the time I was living in...
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