A spacious, handsome, and tastefully furnished drawing room, decorated in dark colours. In the back, a wide doorway with curtains drawn back, leading into a smaller room decorated in the same style as the drawing-room. In the right-hand wall of the front room, a folding door leading out to the hall...

I seem sixty and married, but these effects are due to my condition and sufferings, for I am a bachelor, and only forty-one. It will be hard for you to believe that I, who am now but a shadow, was a hale, hearty man two short years ago, a man of iron, a very athlete!--yet such is the simple truth. But stranger still than this fact is the way in which I lost my health...

The Famous Tragedy of The Rich Iew of Malta. As it was playd before the King and Qveene, in His Majesties Theatre at White- Hall, by her Majesties Servants at the Cock-pit. Written by Christopher Marlo...

"Every one asks me what I ’think’ of everything," said Spencer Brydon; "and I make answer as I can--begging or dodging the question, putting them off with any nonsense. It wouldn’t matter to any of them really," he went on, "for, even were it possible to meet in that stand-and-deliver way so silly a demand on so big a subject, my ’thoughts’ would still be almost altogether about something that concerns only myself...

PERSONS REPRESENTED JULIUS CAESAROCTAVIUS CAESAR, Triumvir after his death.MARCUS ANTONIUS, " " "M. AEMIL...

’NOW, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life...

O ye who tread the Narrow WayBy Tophet-flare to judgment Day,Be gentle when ’the heathen’ prayTo Buddha at Kamakura! Buddha at Kamakura. He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher - the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that ’fire-breathing dragon’, hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror’s loot...

PERSONS REPRESENTED KING JOHN.PRINCE HENRY, his son; afterwards KING HENRY III.ARTHUR, Duke of Bretagne, son to GEFFREY, late Duke of Bretagne,the elder brother to King John...

And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness. Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will...

It was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation unsmirched during three generations, and was prouder of it than of any other of its possessions...