The Short Cut
... Zfhe Short Cut L IVilliam Cfreeman PETER MALLETT possessed one particular friend-- so many men have just one-- and to him he went on the dull and humid afternoon when the letter from the bank arrived ...
... Zfhe Short Cut L IVilliam Cfreeman PETER MALLETT possessed one particular friend-- so many men have just one-- and to him he went on the dull and humid afternoon when the letter from the bank arrived ...
... J2aclij Jfxtherington uaper Ohase Bg Oscar Qmij SOME men think all women are fair game. Often I have felt tempted to agree with them, but I discriminate; the trouble with Willie Taggart was that he di ...
... cnk Undying Veil. C/^ J. Veldt, 1 NOEL PENDENNIS closed his watch with a snap, his lips set in a thin, grim line. He had three minutes more to live. The train sped on, swiftly and smoothly. His one fe ...
... NINE TV- THREE BY VICTOR HUGO, AUTHOR OF LES MISiRABLES, LES TRAVAILLE.URS DE LA MER, ETC., ETC. PART THE THIRD-- IN VENDEE VI.-- The Crisis THE moment had come. The inexorable held the pitiless. ...
... late lordship had inherited large possessions, and had spent much money chiefly upon himself. He had never, indeed, denied himself anything that gold could purchase. Still, the family property had not ...
... MRS. ALFRED HUNT'S That Other Person (3 vols.: Chatto and Windus) calls for especial notice, as an example of sound and satis factory workmanship. If, as has often been suggested, by way of the jest ...
... YOUNG MUSGRAVE, by Mrs. Oliphant (3 vols.: Macmillan). --Considering Mrs. Oliphant's present rate of production, it is no wonder that her workmanship should exhibit signs of hurry and fatigue; the w ...
... THE KARON'S GLOVES A REMINISCENCE OE TO UK A I NE By MAX PEMBERTON AT the dusk of the day when the curtains are drawn and the lamp are lit and the blaze is ruddy upon the hearth, I speak to little Eve ...
... By CHARLES LEE I When, after forty years of faithful service at the harmonium up to Wesley Chapel, Benjie Dunstone resigned his office, said good bye to our little town, and went o ...
... NINETY- THREE BY VICTOR HUGO, AUTHOR OF LES MISitRABLES, LES TRAVAILLEURS DE LA MER, ETC., ETC. PART THE THIRD-- IN VENDEE BOOK THE THIRD THE MOTHER I. Death passes THAT same evening, the mother wh ...
... AN OPEN VERDICT, by the author of Lady Audley's Secret, &c. (3 vols. John Maxwell and Co.).-- Miss Braddon's new novel-- said to be her thirty-first-- is very much the best we have had from her fo ...
... LONELY CARLOTTA; a Crimson Bud of a Rose, by A. E. N. Bewick (3 vols.: Bentley).-- This is a story of unusual excellence throughout, rising in many places to real beauty. Lonely Carlotta, the chil ...