NIGHT AND MOONLIGHT by Henry D. Thoreau

NIGHT AND MOONLIGHT by Henry D. Thoreau Chancing to take a memorable walk by moonlight some years ago, I resolved to take more such walks, and make acquaintance with another side of nature: I have done so. According to Pliny, there is a stone in Arabia called Selenites, ...

My First Typewriter Sucked by Mark Twain

THE FIRST WRITING-MACHINES (From My Unpublished Autobiography) by Mark Twain  Some days ago a correspondent sent in an old typewritten sheet, faded by age, containing the following letter over the signature of Mark Twain: "Hartford, March 10, 1875. "Please do not use my name in any way. Please do not ...

My Impressions of New York by Robert Louis Stevenson

NEW YORK As we drew near to New York I was at first amused, and then somewhat staggered, by the cautious and the grisly tales that went the round.  You would have thought we were to land upon a cannibal island.  You must speak to no ...

William Dean Howells’ Latest Books Are Boring! by Willa Cather

William Dean Howells' Latest Books Are Boring! by Willa Cather Certainly now in his old age Mr. Howells is selecting queer titles for his books. A while ago we had that feeble tale, “The Coast of Bohemia,” and now we have “My Literary Passions.” “Passions,” literary or ...

Review of Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening” by Willa Cather

Review of Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" by Willa Cather “THE AWAKENING.” Kate Chopin. $1.25. Chicago: H. S. Stone & Co. Pittsburg: J. R. Weldin & Co. A Creole “Bovary” is this little novel of Miss Chopin’s. Not that the heroine is a creole exactly, or that Miss ...