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Excerpt from The Sphinx's Children and Other People'sOnce to all things comes their hour. The black column of basalt quivers to its heart with one keen lightning thrill that vindicates its kin to the electric ¿ash without, the granite cli¿' loses one atom from its bald front, and every other atom quails before the dumb shiver of gravitation and shifts its place, the breathing, breathless marble, which a sculptor has rescued from its primeval s...

Excerpt from Happy Dodd: Or She Hath Done What She CouldSo they were, but I mean that last: She hath done what she could.' It always seemed to me such a comfort. We can't all do great things for our Master, but something we can all do. Poor Mary! She had nothing better than her box of precious ointment, knew no other way to show her love to her forgiving Saviour than to lavish the best and costliest thing in her possession upon his tired feet....

Happy Dodd is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1878.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books an...

Excerpt from Huckleberries Gathered From New England HillsI have called this latest collection of New Eng land stories by the name of a Wild berry that has always seemed to me typical of the New England character.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techno...

The Sphinx's Children and other People's is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1886. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks...

Huckleberries Gathered from New England Hills is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hanse...

Huckleberries Gathered from New England Hills is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hanse...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

Steadfast: the story of a Saint and a Sinner is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1889. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hanseb...

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Excerpt from Steadfast: The Story of a Saint and a Sinner I also desire to express here my obligations to the history of Wallingford, Connecticut, by Dr. Charles H. S. Davis, from which I have drawn the aforesaid facts, and Copied the manifestoes of the consociations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important...

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Excerpt from Happy Dodd: Or She Hath Done What She Could So they were, but I mean that last: She hath done what she could.' It always seemed to me such a comfort. We can't all do great things for our Master, but something we can all do. Poor Mary! She had nothing better than her box of precious ointment, knew no other way to show her love to her forgiving Saviour than to lavish the best and costliest thing in her possession upon his tired fee...

Excerpt from The Deacon's Week and What Deacon Baxter Said The communion service of January was just over in the church at Sugar Hollow, and people were waiting for Mr. Parkes to give out the hymn, but he did not give it out, he laid his book down on the table, and looked about on his church. He was a man of simplicity and sincerity, fully in earnest to do his Lord's work, and do it with all his might, but he did sometimes feel discouraged. ...

Excerpt from Poems In asking the kindly consideration of the public for this small book which is gathered from many years of literary work, I have to acknowledge various friendly expressions of feeling and encouragement, already accorded to these poems, in which I have obeyed the command - or the advice: "Look into thine own heart and write." And having done so, I borrow the words, - somewhat changed to suit the situation, - of the world-know...

Excerpt from Somebody's Neighbors The large tropical moon rose in full majesty over the Gulf of Mexico, that beneath it rolled a weltering surge of silver, which broke upon the level sand of the beach with a low, sullen roar, prophetic of stems to come. To-night a south wind was heavily blowing over gulf and prairie, laden with salt odors of weed and grass, now and then crossed by a strain of such perfume as only tropic breezes know, a breath...