FALSE LIGHTS: A LEGENDARY ROMANCE
... FALSE LIGHTS A LEGENDARY ROMANCE CHAPTER I. IT was Christmas Eve, in the olden days; the wind was sighing round the big house on the coast; the snow fell thickly and sadly; it was a hard, bitter winte ...
... FALSE LIGHTS A LEGENDARY ROMANCE CHAPTER I. IT was Christmas Eve, in the olden days; the wind was sighing round the big house on the coast; the snow fell thickly and sadly; it was a hard, bitter winte ...
... CHAPTER I. GREEN hills running down to a sea of bright blue, a smooth plain strewn with the broken columns of an old Roman town, orchards flushed with the blossom of the almond and ...
... MISS OR MRS.? J Christmas Storn, hi Cluclbc Irenes BY WILKIE COLLINS [71.' Aijhtif Tra*sfaiioH, ami all other Rights, are reserved by the Author] PERSONS OF THE STORY Sis Josmi Graybrooke (Knight) Ric ...
... A NEW work by Mrs. Macquoid is always welcome. Patty (2 vols. Macmillan and Co.) is one of the best. It is all the better, if only by way of a change, for having no complicated plot; the ...
... I. NOT least remarkable among the varied religious phenomena of the present day, is the sudden and widely spread revival of English monachism. For upwards of three hund ...
... I. NEGLECTFUL of England in the seasons of their prosperity, our lively neighbours on the other side of the Channel visit us in their hours of trouble, an ...
... I. THE most noticeable article in Fraser is that by Prof. Owen on Longevity. In a recently-published Commentary on the Bible, the Bishop of Ely had observed that the extreme l ...
... II. THE Monastery of St. Bernard is not by any means the kind of place likely to find favour in the eyes of those partial to a life of ease and pleasure. The discipline ...
... LIFE IN CHINA V. A CHINESE MARRIAGE THE marriage ceremony in China differs in many respects from that of our own and other countries. Love before marriage was never the fashion with the Chinese. A Chi ...
... that one gift she possessed by which she could call forth any emo tion that was not of the senses with it she could rouse a man to fierce rage, to wild impatience, to hatred and murderous impulses but ...
... she knew that the quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love. At any rate, the woman always desires that it may be so, and endeavours to reconcile the parted ones. You'll see him in London, Lady Chi ...
... NINE T Y- THREE. BY VICTOR HUGO, ATJTHOR OF t.ES MISfiRABLES, LES TRAVAILLEURS DE LA MER, ETC., ETC. PART THE FIRST-- AT SEA BOOK THE SECOND THE CORVETTE CLAYMORE'' I. England and France in Concer ...